Halo Infinite: A Critique & Analysis

[@finghinmccarthy5021]

i walked around jaegers boss room for a solid half hour thinking i broke the game before realising that echos message thing was on the floor and not playing over comms. i felt so embarrassed when i finally picked it up

[@sableaura7517]

Same

[@castielffboi]

Yep. Also a victim of this embarrassment.

[@RantRadio]

Bruh. I thought it was just me.

[@thelordnazgul76]

Welcome in the 12 IQ club.

[@picolotight2def]

Took me a couple minutes too. I followed the beeping noise until I finally found it. Lol

[@Brickbroslegosrule]

I think the Atriox being “dead” is important for a few reasons. First, it further differentiates the Banished from the Covenant, seeing as they fight on after their leader has been destroyed because they actually believe in the goals of the Banished. Second, it deepens Escharum by showing that he truly was loyal to Atriox’s vision and is trying to do his best for the Banished, while also knowing his days are numbered and sort of selfishly using the Banished’s resources so he can die in a legendary battle against Master Chief.

[@LazerzZ]

Yo that’s a good point, I still don’t know if I think it was done in the most compelling way, because after all they did just fake his death, but I definitely see your point

[@charlesmartiniii1405]

Yea. But... like what are the banished even trying to do in the game

[@ratchetchico]

This is all true but also, the game didn't really give me any good reasons to care about Escharum in the first place. Since he was introduced I thought he was either a weak second-in-command, or some random banished leader because I thought Atriox was going to be the main villain but they decided to "kill" him off screen which was disappointing. We also find out the Escharum was already dying so it didn't even feel like a fair fight to begin with. They should've just stuck with Atriox imo

[@karakas9905]

@@ratchetchico This campaign is just a prologue for the real story to come where Atriox is the real villian.

[@karakas9905]

@@charlesmartiniii1405 Repair the ring and hold the galaxy ransom with it.

[@SonicHedgehog1991]

Imagine killing Cortana in Halo 4, bring her back off-screen in Halo 5 and killing her off-screen in Halo 6.

[@Fizhy]

Big old bit of Halo

[@abhiramboralkar5782]

Your hefty video about Mass Effect is what made me buy the game on steam. I’m gonna play it soon. Also, my condolences about Dennis. He will be missed.

[@rhysdaniell1161]

Im the first to comment on your first video of 2022. I win

[@LazerzZ]

Epic style

[@hrthrhs]

Yeah wow you actually did win. Holy sh*t.

[@ArkMagician]

Holy shit you won

[@LimySilver2]

That double boss fight was pretty tough on Heroic but man once I hijacked the special chopper it was a piece of cake. Just a small detail: the pilot gives the master chief a pistol with a single round in it both as a nod to the pistol the chief receives from Captain Keyes, and to show that in a moment of desperation the pilot would have likely used it on himself.

[@mlproplayer171]

where'd the other bullets go?

[@ReedGarzone]

49:00 bro I'm sorry that grunting brute in the background just took me out 😂 "It's what makes us human" ARRRGGHH HUHARRRH HUHUAHAHA ARGGHHHGGHHH

[@TylerHarff]

Been playing the infinite campaign on pc. I’m just blown away at how fun and interesting the open world is

[@sardinee4564]

oops

[@mallerschwab980]

I truly admire you on making all of these

[@vinaykrishnan4729]

Now that halo 3 and reach's 360 servers are gone and with the release of infinite and the hope for a great future for the halo series, I just want to say Remember Reach

[@gavykanrepublic6699]

So I'm going to attempt to win you over in regards to Escharum's death scene. Okay so Chief says "He was just a soldier, wondering if he'd done thew right thing" which is the part that even had me confused at first as well. Upon my second play through, that scene hit a little different and here's why. The Banished were formed from those that no longer wanted to be controlled by religious zealots and used as cannon fodder for the great journey. Instead they split off to to become the only thing they've ever been known, warriors. So Escharum being both a brute and banished, he would no doubt see his only path in life as one of glory and combat. You often see him boasting to chief and even other banished about his accomplishments as all he has ever desired was to be viewed as a champion, a warrior. At this point in his life, he is old, worn out, and exhausted. He finds shame in this and wants to show others his strength to the chief and most importantly, the banished. He feels that he has no value unless he is strong and aims to prove that he still is by defeating humanity's champion. You even see that when he learns of chiefs survival, he is borderline excited. This is the show of strength that he so desperately craved. His actions towards the end are not of malicious intent in my opinion, but that of desperation. He most desperately wants to fight the chief and decides, after many failed attempts to lure him, that kidnapping the pilot is his last chance. So I believe that Escharum chooses to be so horrible and violent because it is quite literally all he knows and his life depends on how strong he is. That roar he lets out right before the fight always gives me chills because of the music kicking in, and it encompasses everything that I've said in this comment. I do think the writing could've conveyed this better most definitely but this is what I gathered (and btw I could be completely wrong but it's a neat way to look at it)

[@Vuer89]

Holy hell this is fantastic. They you for all of the work you put into this! This was a great watch

[@karakas9905]

I guess it is hard to understand the moment between Escharum and Master Chief if you are a civilian or don't have a martial background. Not only are they both soldiers. They are raised warriors, fighting since childhood, their lives being those of war. Not respecting Escharum because he wasn't to your standards of Human civilian morality loses any point when you consider Master Chief is absolutely immoral. He killed Humans and Aliens in thousands, killed fleeing Grunts, beat an old crippled guy to death with his fists (Regret). Neither Master Chief nor Escharum are moral, they aren't good. They are good warriors which what they were created to be and so they respected each other simply because they fought well.

[@LazerzZ]

You definitely raise a good point there. Although I still don’t know if the game itself conveys that entirely well in of itself

[@dsbdsb6637]

Well said, it is part of war & warrior mentality.

[@MegaCygnusX1]

Well this aged like milk lmfao

[@BGLNZ]

I’ve always been on PlayStation and not gonna lie seeing halo infinite come out and the hype around it, especially when the multiplayer initially dropped got me hyped af and I’ve never even played a halo!! At some point down the line I would love to be able to get a x box or something and play them because I watched infinite and was hooked and loved watching it! So I could only imagine how I would love one like halo 3 considering infinite isn’t even considered the top of the top of the series! Great video man, love your video essay style vids!

[@RantRadio]

I'm here to tell you now: If you stream your journey, we will watch it.

[@karakas9905]

Get a PC. Having PS5 and a PC is the perfect gaming experience.

[@SJSharkByte]

Meh...no co-op, no forge, custom games are barebones, no file browser, theater mode sucks, BTB has been broken for like 2 months, desync issues, cheaters, boring and forgettable campaign, no firefight, absurdly priced cosmetics in the store, lack of old gamemodes and playlists (where's infection, King of the Hill, and Assault?) The gameplay and sandbox is awesome. So that's nice that they got the important part down...now for literally everything else. Can someone tell me why games from 12 to 15 years ago were able to get all those amazing features in but 343 can't with modern game engines and technology? $0 or $60, why have we accepted this lack of content as standard? How far AAA gaming has fallen...

[@ChefandTheArbistor]

The reason the warthog run doesn't work because it's meant to be done with a slow scorpion. The amount of people who missed the scorpion is mind blowing.

[@sampathsaicharan244]

Just to let you know You did a good job and this video will get the views it deserves

[@LazerzZ]

Appreciate it!

[@SanToroPlays]

I actually loved the escharum death scene. It hit for me tbh. There are a lot of subtleties about his character in cutscenes and audio logs. I wish the game did delve deeper into his character. Throughout the game you can tell he is definitely a menace, as are most brutes, but hes been tasked with handling the entire faction, and with his time limited, as evident by his breathing difficulties, he feels that his time is being wasted. With Atriox thought to be dead, he doesnt know exactly how hes going to handle the banished goals, and doesnt know if hell have the impact the banished need. That is until the chief arrives. This gives him new vitality, as the master chief is humaities last hope and regardless of their battle win or lose, he believes his battle with will inspire the banished to keep fighting and will have a lasting impact on their movement. I found that chief shower him respect because throughout the game in his own brutish way he was showing chief respect, by proclaiming him as such a meaningful foe.

[@shaggydestroyerofworlds2208]

Well british man, I think you've done it yet again- *You've made another Masterpiece.*

[@Vuer89]

Well done, sir!

[@magnabeast88]

After waiting 6 years of waiting only too be disappoint with a short campaign and subpar graphics and many problems other people have. If I understand correctly that they will work and develope the game for 10 years, I would have rather wait 10 more years for a complete finished game rather than what we got. This is only my opinion

[@jaredbaxter7584]

Whew boy I have some comments. Yes I love Halo, mainly the original trilogy, Reach, and ODST. 5 was terrible, totally agree. The only thing I liked was the Sanghelios section and seeing Buck again. 4 did feel off for a Halo game but was ok. As far as gameplay and enemies go I fully agree. Fantastic. Graphics and art style. Fantastic. However the plot, setting, and characters were awful in my opinion. Overall Infinite is tied with 4 for me but getting the reverse wrong. Combine the good parts of both and I think you got a great game. Now back to criticism. Love going back to a ring but you mentioned it, the set variety is bad. Main story missions aren’t great, except the first. Throw back to the first Halo mission with a cool exploding ship set piece. The open world is pretty empty and the rest of the missions are pretty similar. It’s hard to get a good story when time jumping, fixing what they did in 5 and having the character problems I’ll mention next. There are 4 characters barely. The Chief which they did a great job with including his interactions and growth. Esharem was just annoying. Intro Atriox then kill him off screen. I know he’s back at the end but you don’t know that till after. Esharem just taunts and belittles you as you continually kick the Banished’s tail throughout the game and I agree that it’s weird that Chief shows him respect after the fight. Guy was an evil tool. I would feel bad about the UNSC getting beat but we weren’t there for it except the starting cutscene and that was Atriox. All the dead Spartans and marines we meet are nobodies we’ve never met or talk to. The best thing about Brohammer is that one interaction with Chief because of Chief, and his meme name cause it references Phohammer. The pacing of the open world aspect ruins him. I played slowly doing everything thing and very often forget he exists and on a second play through did just campaign his interactions and personality change so quick it’s weird and doesn’t feel right. The timeline is pretty jacked up I think. Then the weapon is at least there and I do like some of the interactions but she really isn’t Cortana. She pretty different from Combat evolved Cortana and even the infinite cutscene where you met the OG Cortana. Doesn’t have the same confidence, sassiness? I guess. New Cortana is kinda bubbly and airheaded to me. Also she’s upset Chief tries to delete her as she’s being hack and on multiple occasions expressed that she should be deleted. I get she doesn’t like that Chief didn’t trust her but come on. Also I don’t like insinuation that sees better than Cortana because she was willing to sacrifice herself so Chief could trust her. I think that moment just reminded Chief that was the reason he did trust Cortana, that was always a part of her and had just been skewed, thanks 5. Overall I felt alone playing with the weapon as a tag along that actually annoyed me if I put off the next mission too long. Hated the blade master boss fight. Was cheap, easy and tedious. Multiplayer the gameplay is pretty good but everything else is pretty terrible. I only like 2 maps but that’s just personal taste. Game ranking goes 3, 2, Reach, ODST, Combat evolve, 4, Infinite, Roblocks, 5.

[@jaredbaxter7584]

Crap, forgot. Great video love your stuff. Just wanted to rant about this game cause I love Halo and I agreed with a lot of your sentiments but diverged on some. Your passion inspired me to rant.

[@sidmonge5762]

I just finished the story I love how grounded this game feels I feel like it was the only way to get halo back on track

[@darinbarman9994]

Sorry james...missed your premiere... Love your reviews..

[@optiTHOMAS]

I feel infinite has some huge potential! I love most of it overall. Need more! I want to see where halo goes with the story and I hope to see more varied biomes and locations! Well said! Good stuff! 👍🏻 ❤ :')

[@LostSoulNo301281]

My biggest issue with Infinite is the overall map. There was just no variety and it "blew its load early". You should have started off on a section of the ring that was completely intact, with the broken portion off in the distance and used as a final location. Also, there should have been multiple types of terrain, ranging from fields and trees to snowy tundra to a desert. The starting area should have been as is in terms of its biome. Fields, trees etc., and still kept as an open map, but one that was about 1/4 to 1/3 the size of what we actually got. Then after progressing to a certain point you're taken to the interior of the ring for a more linear section. These actually being something of a transition level taking you to the next area with a new terrain. Once back outside on the surface you'd be presented with either a snowy or desert terrain open map to explore, and one that is a little closer to the broken section, before progressing enough to go back underground. Upon emerging again you'd be back in a new biome of either snow or desert, and again a little loser to the broken section. Rinse and repeat to get back to the underground transition where you'd end up at the broken section for the final area and final boss fights. In this way it'd feel like you've explored more of the ring and not just been stuck on one section with a single biome with no variety.

[@L0RDD4RKH34RT]

Compelling narrative, where? I can't see it.

[@saintjimmy_ajh]

*Saving Progress*

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

for this to be a ''after the hype'' review, i expected you were mostly going to talk about negatives but was pleasently surpised

[@LazerzZ]

Glad to hear! I feel for the most part the campaign holds up after the hype, it's the multiplayer where things really fall apart

[@SyphonAudio]

Great video, apart from the lack of biomes my biggest gripe was the level design on the harbinger boss fight which gives you pretty much no cover, making it very difficult to complete on legendary. The rest of the game was fun on legendary but that was just annoying

[@karakas9905]

A hard and frustrating fight is something I expect and need in Halo after Halo 2 so I was glad.

[@Jojo-nq3bp]

that 117 music slaps

[@minecraftgravityguy]

What a GREAT FUCKING REVIEW/CRITIQUE! You just got another subscriber, this was fantastic.

[@LazerzZ]

Thank you so much!

[@vladmarmelad_131]

Chief just a soldier who hopes he doing the right thing, but he monster (demon to be sure) for those he fight.

[@ZakWilson117]

I'm back for a hit (yes at 2am on a sunday night)

[@playalot86]

I thought the Harbinger WAS a Precursor, and I was really excited, haha. I loved the Forerunner Trilogy of books.

[@maineman5757]

Finally It's here.

[@BiomechanicalBrick]

Started watching from the middle at first... Damn it was a mistake to rewind to the beginning

[@Shadowfire204]

The one thing I can say about the one continuous camera shot for Chief being the transition from third to first person being pretty seamless especially since other games in the past couple of years do that and just jankily have the camera clip through the back of a character's head. As for omitted weapons being added later, I doubt it to some extent just due to the "meta" of weapons in games I've been hearing about lately. For instance of the old shotgun was added and you had the option and it would turn into, "why waste my time with this one when the other is better?". A problem some, including speedrunners, have with the hidden "scorpion gun" because its so overpowered. When it comes to the open world being justified I don't agree. It just feels dead and empty at times, not to say there's nothing to do or nothing fun there, but most activities and collectables like you said are boring. I keep hearing people upset about that double Brute boss fight. I literally killed them fairly quick, never leaving the ghost I rode in on. The Blade master fight I also walked into with an Rpg and used the ammo pick ups to continuously refill on rockets. That with a combo of those motion tracker things made the fight underwhelming and no where near as intense and awesome as everyone else makes it out to be. That was my experience with it on my first playthrough though. Maybe I played both in a very uninteresting way but those options are there to trivialize them even if it's not the "right way". The only "value" I can see in Atriox not being around is if they do some sort of live-service type dlc or are for some reason saving him for a sequel

[@elevatedmeance6807]

they are 100% doing DLC, in December "Halo: the endless" got trademarked by MS. And under US law, you have to use the trademark within 6 months. and when does season 2 start? May. almost 6 months after the trademark

[@fabp82]

It is just Halo CE with nice makeup and without the Flood, without any really interesting characters... Poor killed Spartans, their armour parts would have been a good storyline, but... Never happened. It is a game for people who like to shoot only. Atriox plus Cortana probably would have been a good evil pair, but this... Storyline... Is like a family series from the 90's. Nothing happens on screen, we are not part of it. As someone wrote... A Far Cry MC edition.

[@braxler4207]

I hope that was an intentional weeknd reference at the start lol

[@boydstallings6004]

I didn't like the shield upgrades. You need them on the higher difficulties, but all they do is increase your shield. Emagine if they were different active recovery options. (And the last one was a Stat increase) emagine what active shield recovery options would have done for this game.

[@abhiramboralkar5782]

Funny how all retrospective/analysis videos by the Four Pillars decide what game I’m gonna play next 😁

[@LazerzZ]

Love to hear it!

[@Drewe223]

I don't actually like Halo 4 very much, but it does one thing that I really really like, and that is making Chief an actual character. One thing I've always disagreed with most of the community with is the idea that Chief needs to be this hollow shell for the player to inhabit. I genuinely loved what Halo 4 did with it's expanding on Chief and Cortana's relationship and I feel that their sort of semi romance is actually natural and compelling. Chief isn't a character in the original trilogy and I think that's to the series detriment. I enjoy where 343 have gone with his character, I just absolutely hated everything else they did. Luckily Infinite fixed a lot of the issues I had with the gameplay and art style. I see infinite as a disappointment, but it's the first time I felt like It was playing Halo since Reach. Infinite is a great base, they just need to make an actually good story with that base.

[@AntiJewluminatiDwarf]

What's really funny to me is people actually bash halo 4 for not being diverse when in actuality if you compare it to 5 it's like comparing all the different sets of LoTR to the sets of the first Saw movie...... But if you question them you normally get a defensive or desperate "but they're gonna support it for 10 years!" Like they're trying to convince themselves

[@TheDarkAdventure]

I hated the Jackles. Those snipers are so annoying, but it did make it more challenging. There weren't even a lot of them, they were just well placed. I kept expecting to get invisibility since all the enemies use it. I was sad it wasn't one of the upgrades. Same with the Fuel Rod Cannon. That's what the Hunter's use right? There were a lot of Hunters, I don't know why the gun wasn't there.

[@karakas9905]

There is invisibility, it is tied to the dash. Fuel Rod Cannon is carried by Grunts and is not in the game, the one Hunters use is always attached to them.

[@VaccaVanni]

I’m in the same boat as the girl in the camera thinking “please shut up I’m trying to watch this”😂

[@5thar]

Regarding the last Esirum Scene; No but power and control are what he thinks is right - That how he was breed and raised, how the covenant and later banished forced him to be to survive. That nauce that the most evil soldier still thinks they're doing good, was the best written bit in the game😅

[@soundclock2939]

meanwhile the girl beside him looked like she wished she could be anywhere else

[@theogreenaway7401]

I didnt know you played halo and definetly didnt expect a review but very glad you made one im the 12 comment i lose

[@reffa2858]

343 has fumbled this franchise. 😑

[@zacharybecker8228]

3 games and they still can't get it right it hurts to see and idk why cus they did good with halo wars 2 story wise. Infinite feels like I should be playing as red team fighting banished not chief in a 6 month time skip with almost no other characters

[@tobsmonster2]

It feels like lots of good ideas get cooked up at 343, but no one has the balls or leadership to see them to fruition. And in the end they deliver the same focus group influenced, trend chasing nonsense with Halo's themes and characters slapped on like a coat of paint.

[@bullex7759]

That cutscene was beautiful but I was sitting here wondering why tf it included the sounds of brutes fucking in the background! So I'm very glad you mentioned it

[@karakas9905]

The cutscenes are all in-game, so you can hear the Brutes because they are just there. If you kill them first, they wouldn't.

[@bullex7759]

@@karakas9905 Ye I guessed that. Just found it pretty funny

[@karakas9905]

@@bullex7759 I like it a lot, you can push marines into the places where they'll then be in the cutscenes.

[@willmelucci2989]

First is the Worst Second Comment is the best (No offense to the first commenter)

[@rhysdaniell1161]

Damn i didn't think of that

[@eyeofthebeholder8886]

A reason to explore? It is a vast, empty barren, semi open world m8, seriously, did we play the same game?

[@Ibrahim-wr5fs]

Exactly lmao, I think this was just recency bias, he did the same thing with ac Valhalla and praised it but changed his opinion on it later on. I think he’ll do the same with this game

[@pvtspartan]

The Tank area is a Warthog run? Okay.

[@darklonewolf_0311]

The Brutes in this game remind me of Ologs from Shadow of War for obvious reasons 😂

[@_fabus]

I remember arriving at the empty checkpoint base thinking the game didn't load anything and then getting flanked by a dozen cloaked elites

[@hrthrhs]

The Eshram death scene confused me as well. Great review. Very well put together. I do disagree with your praise over the story, I feel it is the worst aspect of the campaign and one of the worst in the series - there was so little to it. At least Halo 4 and 5 were bold and had a sense of urgency. Infinite was more an emotional story, which is so not Halo, and 343 lean too much into making the relationship between Chief and Cortana beyond one between soldiers and friends. I mean you could replace either The Weapon or Cortana in Infinite with an actual female and they would all behave in the same way - which doesn't make sense. They are A.I. after all, in that they have been designed, and a military A.I. shouldn't behave like an emotional human. The Weapon was oddly naive in her behaviour, for a military A.I. also. The emotional talks, flashbacks and images were too forced for me and too reoccurring I thought. The story beyond the emotional one between Chief and the A.I.s, was mostly empty. Escharum, who seemingly does absolutely nothing but talk in his room, is following Atriox, and Atriox hates humans because of Cortana. That's it. Not that having your planet blow-up is a small issue, but it must have taken 20 seconds to come up with that motivation for why the Banished are fighting the humans. One side did something bad to the other, so that side wants to do bad in return. After a while Escharum just felt like another alien sh*t talking the Chief, like thousands of others had before the Chief ended them. And the Harbinger was even less useful. The somewhat cryptic reveal at the start of campaign, of her being released, was wasted as she did nothing throughout the game just for the Chief to end her also. Going back to my point about urgency, all the other Halos had a crescendo to the end from the first mission. Infinite just didn't have that at all - if Chief napped for a few days, then nothing bad would have happened. Can't say that about the other Halos. Again it was more an emotional build to the end. I wonder if this is the downside of an open world Halo. A linear mission system can build tension and drama more easily I feel than an open world one, as there is no break between missions in a linear system where as in an open world one you can toddle off to complete a side mission or get a collectable, which breaks the drama and urgency the game story otherwise could have built. Think of pausing a movie every 20 mins to walk in your backyard. It may a be a very nice backyard, but it's breaking whatever drama the movie was building. We'll see what future plans 343 has and maybe the story I am criticising here might make more sense why it was designed the way it was. I was surprised with how much I agreed with you in the vid, so maybe there is something about the story I am missing.

[@ZakWilson117]

I come back to watch this at least twice a month.

[@LazerzZ]

I thank you John Marston, you’re single-handedly keeping this video alive

[@ZakWilson117]

@@LazerzZ No probz I just think it's expertly done👍🏻

[@I_am_a_cat_]

The footage of you watching the e3 announcement was kinda cringy lol. I guess we were all like that though... it LOOKED perfect, and it feels great to play... but 343 just can't seem to write a good story

[@chancechamberlain1583]

I'm the 8th person to comment on your first 2022 video. I win

[@picolotight2def]

I like how you can hear the brute having an asthma attack the entire time during the emotion pelican down scene. I parked a warthog and the front hook was clipping through Chief's crotch the entire time. This is why in-game cutscenes are undefeated! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpTIhH9jrZpppMU

[@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95]

Couldn't disagree more with Halo 4. I think Halo 4 was the perfect sequel to the original series. The problem was that they then fucked it ALL up with Halo 5s story.

[@LazerzZ]

Nah, Halo 4 was a disaster, terrible level design, boring story, really generic art design and soundtrack, just a dead game.

[@ZakWilson117]

@@LazerzZ Gonna have to disagree aswell , I think the story added some much needed weight and depth to john and cortana and i rly liked aspects of 343s artstyle the game was beautiful , not saying it was better than bungies because it definitely wasn't but I still enjoyed the good things 343 brought to the table it felt fresh.

[@jonathandear4914]

@@LazerzZ I feel Halo 4 suffers from Halo 5 narrtively in the same manner TFA suffers from TLJ, what 4 set up had potential, but how 343 handled it resulted in a sequel that felt very disconnected from 4, like so many things had happened between the two games (and killed off/put on ice the Didact in a side story)

[@Ibrahim-wr5fs]

@@LazerzZ bro halo 4s story is way better than infinites

[@st.paddymad7085]

I thought this was a good critique, I thought it felt a bit more positive than some of the other “critiques”, personally.

[@LazerzZ]

Appreciate it, it is probably a tad more positive, but I felt quite positive about it

[@st.paddymad7085]

@@LazerzZ I’m glad peeps are still a good bit positive bout Halo Infinite despite its flaws. I checked out some of the other “critiques” and I thought they were just too negative for my taste, so I’m glad this one ended on a more positive note of sorts.

[@LegacyDrummer]

I disagree with the sprint and slide takes. I still prefer multi-player without them. But I wish it was a little more substantial in campaign

[@zacharybecker8228]

I do have to disagree entirely with you about the open world

[@LazerzZ]

That’s fair. It’s definitely not something that will work for everyone

[@ViolenVaymire]

Grew up with halo aswell. However halo 4 I hold in extremely high regard. infinite tho... The direct gameplay was great... Everything else was the worst ive ever seen. No setpiece story, openworld syndrome etc.

[@cobbysfuneral]

nice

[@zacharybecker8228]

I would have rather them finish off the created storyline they started with 4 and 5 instead of this soft reboot crap that is the worst halo story out of the games

[@simshadows]

How can Infinte have the worst Halo story? It doesn't have one! But seriously, gameplay is fun, but a year after playing it, I can't even remember what the story is about.

[@DogCheese420]

Honestly I couldn’t disagree with you more. As someone who has played these game since the original Xbox release this is the laziest halo ever made. It’s all nostalgia and no substance. I am so disappointed with this game and honestly I don’t think 343 should make anymore games after this. Such a let down in atmosphere and story telling. I love the first two games and this game just feels like a barebones mess with decent combat.

[@ZakWilson117]

perfect review.

[@bepkororoti8019]

Idk, Halo seems to be a pure nostalgia thing to me, played it on PC Gamepass, I don't get it at all, just feels floaty and was pretty bored. To be fair, it's the same with Doom Eternal, so not for me but glad people like it

[@spartanq7781]

Damn I'm seven months late and I saw when it was uploaded. I just never clicked on it for whatever reason. It is mind boggling how beoken and unfinished this game is. Even more so that 343 and/or Microsoft thought it was ok to launch a game devoid of any multiplayer content and a shallow campaign. I do not understand the praise the latter gets. Even graphically it looks worse than Halo 3 a game 14 years prior. What the hell happened with this game?

[@senpaisniper2796]

I agree soo much! I find the campaign bland and contrived in terms of visual quality and story. I honestly can't help but chuckle a bit at some of the bad writing too, like the escharum death scene. I have a lot I don't like about this game, I think it just tries a bit too hard to be a compelling experience.

[@kusovia1148]

I love that your mrs is like mine, she’ll sit with me but she does not care lol

[@holohearthfire7138]

The girl was soo dis-interested in the halo 4 reveal lmao. also, finally. Halo4 was never good. Halo 5 brought in non halo people that enjoyed the game. infinite tried both to copy reach and halo 5. no amount of content would have saved it for me. I hate it.

[@SPG8989]

This aged poorly. Yes the campaign is pretty good but boy they dropped the ball yet again on multiplayer.

[@AgniFirePunch]

Some of the Halo Infinite music sounds like generic war film music and it bothers me more than it should. The tone is just wrong. They really should have got Marty O'donell to do it

[@williamcahill2743]

algorithm comment

[@LazerzZ]

🙌🏻

[@williamcahill2743]

@@LazerzZ great video by the way

[@DemonicGoddess]

Halo meets far cry,

[@Hiihtopipa]

They are not perfect:D they are really good really really good but not perfect let's be honest.

[@grizzledwarchiefescharum]

Turn your gamma down littul jobber

[@i5m5bob]

Spiderman game.

[@ChrisConwayinthestudio]

Multiplayer sucks. Un playable and completely un enjoyable.

[@AndyLaRue11]

Unsubbedscribd.

[@justenbenally522]

The ridiculous exaggerations of how good the original trilogy was lmao

[@spartanq7781]

Exaggerations? Yea sure keep believing your delusions.

[@senpaisniper2796]

Better than this piece of vapid shite, halo infinite has no substance.

[@justenbenally522]

@@ymck7246 I don't know who you're arguing with. I don't care about Halo 4 or 5. I don't care about halo at all, so why would you make it a point to give me permission to enjoy Halo 4 or Infinite? Your first paragraph is entirely comprised of argumentum ad populum. "Backed up by player numbers" (ad populum) "Impact on culture" (ad populum) "General support to this day" (ad populum) This way of thinking is scientifically proven to be stupid. My only point is that Halo was never that great. It was simply the first of its kind in the console market, and now it's obsolete; the original trilogy included.

[@cobain2261]

Yikes. This didnt age well.

[@LazerzZ]

Maybe

[@IfYouKnewYouKnow]

Infinite had hype?😆😔🙏

[@combed4342]

42nd comment let's goooo

[@SourRobo8364]

343 has killed the franchise.