Halo Infinite Deep Dive | 2. Introducing The Endless

[@BenPlaysGames]

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[@eliavita]

I think the open world works at it's best when it's blended in the story missions, like sequence and pellican down

[@BenPlaysGames]

They're probably about as good as it gets, I agree - Pelican Down is decent fun for sure.

[@TheJoviLovi]

Pelican Down and the Sequence was a big patience for me. Took me over 3-4 hours to beat both missions

[@Christian-o8t9n]

24:30 Even with the knowledge get in logs, non-game material, and the legendary ending, the Endless do not appear to be worse than the Flood. All they did was survive Halo. That's it.

[@MrNobleSix]

Reallllllly wanted/want to see a cheeky banished scarab or two in the campaign.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Me too dude, scarabs in the open world would have been great fun to take down.

[@Aredel]

Remember when CE only needed a single mission to introduce the Flood? How they took 15-20 minutes to establish what a colossal threat they pose to the galaxy at large?

[@BenPlaysGames]

But the Endless are terrifying. Worse than the Flood in fact. Cortana says it and you hear it in an audio diary too. Is that not enough for you?!

[@Aredel]

@@BenPlaysGames I think the biggest joke about that conversation is the fact that it takes place on a Halo ring

[@BenPlaysGames]

@@Aredel Agreed haha.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@Aredel but you know what’s really bad? The Forerunners putting the Flood on Halo Rings AT ALL. Like it’s the stupidest choice in the entirety of Halo. They nearly destroyed the Galaxy, so let’s put them in some cheap glass boxes and hope nothing goes wrong while our limbless robot goes crazy watching them. At least the Endless were contained much more properly, put in Cylixes they can’t just break out of, in a sealed glass-less room nobody can find. As for the Harbinger? Eh. Must have been packed away by the same guy who chose to preserve the Flood.

[@FlipFlab]

@@jakespacepiratee3740lmfao chill you’re ruining Halo lore 😂

[@Adam_Crockford]

Thanks for another Banger Ben. It’s always a pleasant surprise seeing a new one of your videos pop up in my recommended because there aren’t many KZbinrs who create such genuine content like you do. Thanks!

[@BenPlaysGames]

No worries Adam, always appreciate you taking the time to check them out mate! Good to hear there showing in your recommended too, struggling for views at the moment and I think KZbin has stopped recommending me even to a lot of my subscribers 🙈

[@ajackass5950]

The antagonists of this game are probably the least intimidating and least compelling halo villains ever. They all feel like characters from a lego game. All talk but they do literally nothing.

[@BenPlaysGames]

100% agree. Escharum does his best but none of the Banished villains have much depth and the Harbinger is just very meh as we don't find out much at all about the Endless. Give me the Covenant any day of the week.

[@michaelguernsey1206]

“Bassus is deadus” lol good one. I agree with everything pretty much. The game really suffers from a lack of diversity and like you said, imagination. The lack of different biomes hurts it a lot. The lack of variety in enemy types, like silent shadow at night, special elites hunting you down, vehicle patrols, really hurt it as well. The side objectives seem very… thin. Lackin substance. I think that having enemies do things across the map in real time at random (and UNSC forces doing the same to truly flesh out the fact that this is a war, and that you are inspiring hope the more you help the unsc) like establishing bases, retacking bases you capture, staging assaults on marines, and stuff like that, would go a long way in making the world feel ALIVE. This is stuff that would pry be added in future updates and dlc, but it sucks it’s not here now where it should be. I also am very much against this whole “endless” story. You simply cannot replace the flood as a new big enemy. And I did not like the harbinger. Her dialogue was cheesy, repetitive, corny, stereotypical, and just boring. And like you said, we learn nothing about her and the endless. And yea there will be future content expanding the story, but it doesn’t matter because this is all we have rn to base our opinions of this new story on. However I must say that overall, this game is a massive improvement coming off of halo 5. Great video dude!

[@dizzymoosic]

Agree with all of this. Infinite made me sad. I miss the bungie days man

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers Michael, hope all's good with you mate. And yeh, everything is done to absolute death and there's barely anything I can think of in the game that is just a 'one and done' awesome moment. Previous titles. even 343's to an extent' were packed full of amazing set pieces, while in Infinite there's basically nothing. The Endless is just... bizzare. How can they introduce a brand new enemy but say absolutely nothing about them, it's so odd. Whole game is strange as it feels like a reboot due to the dropping of the previously Cortana storyline but then also feels like a prequel to a reboot at the same time as it doesn't really introduce anything much.

[@michaelguernsey1206]

@@BenPlaysGames I can think of a few interesting set pieces and memorable moments, but like you said, there are high points, and a lot of low points. The first time around, going and killing random patrols of grunts and stuff was super fun, but now I think about it and know that it’s always the same enemies, in the same patterns, in mostly the same environments, and it’s not as exciting. And yup I’m doing alright man.

[@hctaz]

I gotta say, your concept for ascending the tower sounds really interesting. I do think it would have also injected a bit of variety into the scenery. Instead of being one samey looking tower, each level you go up could have had a different method of torture that they specialized in. It almost feels like, "Why make this place a torture tower if the tower itself plays no meaning?" and it makes the tower aspect feel like it was merely there to make the level last longer. They could have gone with the aforementioned option alluding to various methods of torture with each level being worse and worse until you get to the torturer's personal chamber. You don't even necessarily need to show dead bodies littering the floor as you ascend either. Simply have less and less living marines. Maybe the first level you find a squad of remaining guys asking you to find the rest of their team further up the tower. As you climb, you find a few survivors who talk about their fallen comrades on the same level. Then, you suddenly stop finding ANY marines left alive. The idea being that each level is more brutal and leaves less survivors, and the story being that the people stubborn enough to keep their secrets get sent up higher and higher until they break one way or another. That would definitely paint a better idea of exactly what the Spartan at the top had gone through, and it would also put a bit more emphasis on how strong a Spartan truly is with him being the lone survivor at the top of the tower where normal humans wouldn't have even made it that far before falling.

[@henryboy3656]

Always a good day to see you Ben!

[@BenPlaysGames]

Thanks Henry, going to try and upload a little more frequently again now, been a slowpoke the last few months 🙈

[@ianhall6614]

The video ends at the same place where I realized that nothing all that interesting gameplay wise was going to happen, I still had hope and intrigue to where the story was going, but it really felt like the campaign had been given a quick once over and that was it, no iteration or variation whatsoever. I'd say the highlight gameplay wise was Pelican Down, I really enjoyed that section because it was something new and in hindsight it's obvious why they showed it off in the trailers so much. I know I say this every time, but, another great video Ben! You have a certain je ne sais quoi that puts your videos far above other channels with much more subscribers and longer tenure on KZbin. Whatever you are doing, you're doing it right! Can't wait for the next one.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Thanks Ian and apologies for the slow response! I agree with you that Pelican Down is about as good as it gets, although even that is just another 'go to three places and do stuff' mission. I don't mind the boss fight with the two brutes after either, that's pretty fun too.

[@burge117]

Ben my man, another great video. Speaking such much truth too! Yeah, the pilot really does grind on you. Also looking forward to your thoughts on the Weapon in the next video. Both as somewhat questionable support characters. Not bad, have their moments...but leave a lot to be desired. I think the worst offence from 343, which is hard when there is so much to choose from is definitely trivialising the Flood...something worse.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers Burge! The treatment of the Endless and by extension the downplaying of the Flood is perhaps my least favourite thing about the game's story. The plot is already close enough to Combat Evolved what with you fighting off essentially the covenant again on another ring, but for goodness sake, surely they could have come up with something other than "and then halfway through the game or so a new galaxy ending enemy is introduced". Especially when they then fail to show that enemy at all during the campaign 🙈

[@omarchehab7452]

Awesome review, Ben. I for one really enjoyed the campaign, but your points all definitely stand. We waited 6 years for essentially a part 1 of 5. It feels like this game was trying to reboot Halo CE by making the story really simple and not explaining the characters much, which I feel just doesn’t work in the modern setting. However, I think that if the campaign DLC gives use the amount of expansion that Halo 2 and 3 gave us, we might one day look back on this campaign in a better light. As it stands though, it should have been more than a Chief-Cortana story with top notch gameplay. Just my opinion of course.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers Omar! As you say, the story really isn't up to snuff. It doesn't tie up the loose ends from 5 at all well and also doesn't really create anything new and engaging. Needs less story hidden away in audio logs, replaced instead by proper world building!

[@nicholaspita7791]

“Once bassus is deadus” 🤣

[@BenPlaysGames]

Someone told me in a comment I need to be funnier. That was my single attempt haha.

[@ThinsofWheat]

Bungie simply nailed feel and environmental variety. You rattled off the Halo 3 missions and each of them feels different and has a different color palette. That is what makes each mission feel distinct and gives each their "mission". The problem with Infinite is that it all seems the same. Every mission/area feels the same in Infinite.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Spot on Wheat. That's exactly why I brought up 3 - I think its peak Halo in terms of variety, it's constantly changing and it makes for an absolute rollercoaster of a campaign.

[@underscore_5450]

343 definitely could've spiced up the open world with different biomes and made the excuse that the ring rebuilding itself has caused certain systems to malfunction, which would explain why there could be a desert, swamp, and snow area all next to eachother. The one biome we get is cool, but doesn't really do enough to keep it from getting stale.

[@thisisthisis542]

I remember getting this game. I remember playing through the campaign and being like “ok this mission has got to be the one where everything is explained” and it just never happened

[@S3ntinal5]

an Interesting detail i noticed that i'm pretty sure many would've missed especially if you don't use a controller, is that when the cutscene of griffins death plays your controller vibrates as it actually represents his heartbeat and it slowly grows weaker and weaker. its a detail I'm sure a lot of people myself included are at first missed as if you don't play with vibration on or simply use a keyboard/mouse setup it can very easily be missed.

[@seapanda-117]

How did Bassus sneak up on Chief? Where was he hiding? Why didn’t he jump Chief the first time Chief was up there? Made no sense.

[@BenPlaysGames]

"But it's a cool boss battle, no one will think about it too hard right?! If we lazily throw enough of them in the game, they'll not have the time to fixate on any of them for too long." - 343 probably.

[@Oronjalllo]

He is honorable and wanted a good fight. Didn't want to just murder chief but defeat him. It would have made him glorious in the eyes of the banished

[@spat3305]

Most of the halo games had these sorts of events. Like Halo Reach, when Jorge stupidly destroys the super carrier, and a group of covenant super-carriers enter slip space immediately after. That pointless sacrifice made no sense. Also in ODST why were we only fighting brutes ? The events of ODST took place before the great schism, so there should’ve been elites on Mombasa too. That made no sense.

[@argo9721]

@@BenPlaysGames I mean yeah? No one really cares it was a cool entrance

[@TheVentrexian]

I hope you are this thorough in life lol you act like this for every little detail when you get cheated on? lmao

[@ramblingrenegade6346]

Gonna be completely honest I didn't even realise Tremonius was a standalone mission. Guess it's 343's homage to Halo 2's tendency to put missions in pairs

[@strongnsilent]

14:05 I have to play infinite on like >70 resolution scale to reach playable frame rates on all medium graphics so all the red smoke demolished my visibility in that section. On legendary, I died a fair few times to enemies I couldn’t even see

[@BenPlaysGames]

I've a laptop with a 1660ti, which isn't amazing nowadays but still packs a fair amount of punch, and can play most games at 1080p near highest settings. Halo Infinite runs dreadfully at 1080p even with everything near low, which is crazy as I can play the Witcher 3 with everything near max, which looks a million times better.

[@markmulder9845]

I agree with everything you said here. Damn that hits home. Was it good? Yeah. Good, but not great. You had fun but there was a feeling of something missing. Could it have been way better with just a few simple additions? HELL YES! Honestly though, I kinda liked excavation site... then again... I ran through it with a hog full of marines.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Excavation site is definitely one of the better missions as it least tried to do something different, and there's a section during the middle of the game that isn't too bad either, around the mission Pelican Down. Just wish there more scripted moments and set pieces to supplement at all, having played Reach a bit recently for the last video, it's crazy how much more cinematic that game is in comparison.

[@Bencozens]

Another great video Ben, appreciate the effort you put into these. Hope all is well with your personal life

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers Ben. I'm all good mate, flying off to Ireland today with the Mrs for a break. Hope all's good with you?

[@hollowsteel]

It’s so weird that I can only really come up of two parts of levels that don’t end up being entirely overused, and those are: the banished red foreunner hallway on foundations, and the blue acid/plasma/fuel on the banished warship escape sequence... I feel like the list of things that aren’t overused being that short says more about halo infinite’s repetition than I ever could.

[@acey6991]

I'm excited for this one!

[@BenPlaysGames]

Hope you enjoy Acey my man!

[@DragonActual]

25:12 One of the grunts offering to trade stuff in the middle of a fight? I never heard that line before.

[@arbiter5519]

Good video,love all of theses

[@BenPlaysGames]

Thanks for checking them out dude, glad you're enjoying them!

[@Viper3]

Excited for this one!

[@BenPlaysGames]

Hope you enjoyed it Viper mate!

[@sandman8993]

My biggest criticism of the open world idea is it feels like far cry 2 searching for diamonds was the same thing as Spartan cores and armour. But I felt as though I already knew this before going in so I wasn’t surprised in the end. The trouble with 343 is they follow trends instead of setting them like bungie used to 😪

[@BenPlaysGames]

Exactly! 343 seem to have no desire to innovate or even simply iterate on the Halo formula. The cores are basically diamonds too, you're right. I still remember trying to get into Far Cry 2 back when it came out as the world was pretty interesting, but beyond that there just wasn't enough going on. Plus the malaria pills - worst mechanic ever.

[@sandman8993]

@@BenPlaysGames I absolutely loved far cry 2 when it came out! I haven’t enjoyed far cry since tbh I feel like 2 was the high point

[@Oronjalllo]

You're wrong about the abilities. I found no trouble with switching abilities. I play know controller too. Each one has its use. Granted drop wall the least but still useful when needed. Evade was huge against chieftains and hunters. Sensor good at seeing hidden snipers and invisible elites. I beat the game on legendary. Have yet to do LASO tho

[@sandman8993]

@K it’s very fiddly at first and the icon’s are way too small

[@themasterseye]

Even on legendary there is really very little reason to use anything but grappling hook.

[@sandman8993]

Still don’t know what the endless ere 😆 I loved the tower and taking down the AA GUNS. Those two missions stood out to me.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Who bloody knows mate, some time manipulating alien thing possibly maybe haha. And yeh, they're probably the two best missions, which I'm not sure is saying too much honestly 😂

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@BenPlaysGames The new Halo Encyclopedia says that they have a “particular attunement to aspects of Living Time” - it’s not so much time travel, and more like foresight, and seeing the ‘narrative of the universe’ Now my question is, was any of that impossible to reveal in-game??

[@cryantheharpguy2737]

The whole prison concept you brought up for the TOWER mission made me think of H2's last mission right before you meet up with Johnson in the Scarab. So yeah if H2 could do it then surely a game made nearly two decades later could also do it and even possibly expand on the too short lived section of H2.

[@clooterus4456]

I know this is probably a wrong opinion. But I'm super glad that none of the enemies from halo 4/5 came back to this game. I'd rather fight the flood in every mission that have to play against the Prometheans again. They are too boring to fight.

[@zp9898]

Great video!

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers for checking it out zp mate!

[@ryanelliott71698]

Now switching between the utility items I had no issue with. Switching between guns and grenades were annoying.

[@BenPlaysGames]

I couldn't handle it but perhaps I'm just old and slow! I think things needed to be displayed better visually, especially things like grenade as it's really difficult to get to what you want.

[@clayre839]

I would love to see future Seasons introduced a covenant City ship. kind of like new Mombasa but with a covenant flare seeing different sectors devoted to each species

[@AllenGarvin]

"Hudson Griffin, the man with the most American name I've ever heard" you must have missed Corporal Bobson Dugnutt in Halo CE.

[@remi2317]

While Halo 2 is my favorite Halo campaign and is the opposite of an open world, I still really enjoyed Infinite. If 343 had added more biomes, variety, better side missions, and added several missions in a row, it would be much better. AC4 is a good example of what I mean. Add side missions with cutscenes people care about, and dont allow for exploration in tense areas. When tension is high but you can go explore and do whatever you want, it kinda takes away from the experience. I feel like most of its issues is bc a lot had to be cut when Staten joined and cleaned it up

[@griml0ck917]

How can something be more dangerous than the flood which took the entire death of the universe to beat?

[@BenPlaysGames]

This is it, it's so lazy 🙈

[@Aredel]

They say this while standing on a Halo ring

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@Aredel Which shouldn’t even have Flood on it to begin with. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. Among other things, the Endless didn’t die to the Halos, and the Harbinger has the ‘Reclaimer’ symbol on her helmet and back, and that could certainly become important.

[@curlyfry2047]

When I first played I thought the "Endless" was the Flood

[@BenPlaysGames]

Nope, just some unexplained baddie we know bugger all about after an entire game. Much better (imagine those two words to be marinated in sarcasm).

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@BenPlaysGames To be fair, as much as I wanted to learn more, I feel like the reason why 343 revealed jack shit on the Endless is because they were afraid people won’t like them if they laid them on thick, they must have thought a gradual reveal would lead to less backlash. In my opinion, more is more. The trademarked “Halo: the Endless” has a lot to fulfill on. Hopefully Joseph Staten is writing it.

[@Thedj-fl4ig]

The lack of unique level design really does cause boring multiple playthrough syndrome. It's banished interior, forerunner structure, and banished base on rocky forest terrain. Im not saying Halo couldn't work as an open world game but I dont think 343 properly executed it. The world just isn't as alive as it could be. It doesn't help that the entire open world is pretty much the same biome. The forerunner structures are a vast improvement over the design of previous games but still I find myself getting bored with the forerunner interior missions the most. Every other mission takes place in the dark ominous corridors of Zeta Halo. Maybe being outside is more interesting because of the increased freedom but its a slog to have to dive into yet another dark blue forerunner corridor. A vehicle section or a even air vehicle section inside would've been neat to help keep it more interesting. Also, the lack of ally characters leaves the game feeling empty. A character similar to Sgt Johnson or Buck leading the marines at Outpost Tremonious giving quips and one liners would help balance the optimist-pessimist dynamic between Weapon and Echo. The marines in the game are just kinda there and it's really weird to not have them be acknowledged with cutscenes or be in the story at all really.

[@BenPlaysGames]

I find the repetitiveness a huge same in particular, because a lot of the forerunner structures and similar are designed well and work beautifully with the equipment you're given (of course, the grappling hook in particular). If 343 had managed to take that level design but varied environments and generally made it a bit more like traditional Halo, they could have been on to a real winner.

[@symondsjoshua95]

Wait, artillery strikes?

[@TheJoviLovi]

Campaign is still good, that's my opinion so no one can take it from me

[@BenPlaysGames]

To be fair, I didn't mind it on the first playthrough as I think the gameplay is so exceptional that it does a lot of the heavy lifting propping the entire thing up. But compared to previous games and on repeat playthroughs, I find myself much less enamoured with it.

[@sandman8993]

@@BenPlaysGames I’m amazed you have played through it three times! I’ve just done it once on legendary. It’ll be a good while before I try again

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

I entered the Tower from...The top of the tower haha I found both Escherum (spelling?) And The Weapon's dialogue actually really grating, like, I was unnaturally bothered every time they opened their mouths. I happened to have a hammer when I fought Bassus and I got him deaddus in like 3 seconds. The Weapon's irritating "omg watch me do hacking magic with my signature Cortana click" is just...The worst. Nailed it with your description of the equipment selection controls, just ughhh. I used the hook exclusively due to this. The Endless are apparently just the same race as what'shername, Harbinger. So no, shoddy threat concept. Agreed, Cortama went from biggest threat in the galaxy with the damn Guardians under her control, to dead, forgiven, onto the new thing in the space of...? What exactly. Is it just me or are there like, hardly any actual missions in this game? You covered most of the game here, and I felt like after meeting The Harbinger and going to the first Spire directly after, the game just goes speedrun mode right to the ending, you are constantly right in front of your next objective, constantly on the imaginary clock of urgency after this point. The stuff with the middle island was a nice departure, but it still felt really rushed and I did it all in a single sitting. Looking forward to part 3 :)

[@BenPlaysGames]

Once you get past Pelican Down and the two brute boss fight, the campaign really dips in quality. Not that it was amazing to begin with either. There's bugger all explanation of anything and it's hard to get invested as a result.

[@pasu_teru]

Ya see I know you cringe when “flying octopus monkeys” but it’s the best line in the game because of “flying octopus monkeys”

[@BenPlaysGames]

Fair play 😂

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I thought they looked kinda cute.

[@williamashbless7904]

I detest boss battles. Always have. Infinite seems to have them on every mission. The grenade situation is cumbersome. The added abilities almost as bad. The grapple shot is really fun and ended up my default setting for nearly the entire play through. The essence of Combat Evolved was SIMPLICITY. You had two weapons, two grenade types, and a melee attack. Once these basics were understood, mastering them came naturally. Infinite, while a beautiful game with good weapons play, is not so simple.

[@Alex-ws8ic]

It took over Twenty minutes for me to hear about what the video's namesake is.... prior to that I got a "let's play" of Halo Infinite's start of the campaign. There was little to no relevance as to what Outpist Tremonius's gameplay/level design has to do with The Endless. Like, I am 95% you merely drafted this video the way you did to pad out run time for the partner program and whatnot. Edit: thankfully, the rest of your contents' structure doesn't feel like this video, but I am 100% gonna avoid Parts 1 and 3 to this Infinite series since I'm gonna assume that they're structured similarly. I don't even know what they're titled lol, I'm just gonna assume as much

[@SeanSmith-gw5ko]

You can set the Endless up to be absolute badasses and bad news. But “worse than the flood” is a very bold claim to make, the Forerunners were forced to build galactic super weapons and wipe the galaxy free of all life just to starve the flood because they could not be stopped with conventional warfare, only slowed. So you cannot just drop the line “we both know there are worse things than the flood on this ring” without A: showing us what they are B: using gameplay to make us, the player, fear them more than the flood

[@Hitsvcards]

It bugged me that we never found any other alive Spartans lol just marines. 😂

[@Xokzu]

Remember when Halo was actually good and alive?

[@spizyofficial]

EVERYTHING WILL FALL TO BASSUS, EVENTUALLY. IT'S THEIR DESTINY 😂😂😂

[@BenPlaysGames]

😂😂😂

[@ghostplasma5590]

After this video I come to a conclusion that I'm the only person who likes 343's halo's. Eh.....not the first time I like something people hate but still. Sad.

[@spat3305]

I also like 343’s halo’s.

[@ghostplasma5590]

@K I'd take 343 over Bungie making halo 4-6 with pay 2 win mindset any day. And tbh I enjoyed halo 4 and 6 more than CE and ODST :)

[@themasterseye]

Im curious, are you able to explain what you like about them? Where do you place them in comparison to Bungie's? I'd like to try to understand your perspective because I pretty much viscerally dislike every direction 343 has gone (not that I think Bungie was perfect in all their games)

[@ghostplasma5590]

@@themasterseye sure. 10. Halo 5 (I agree with everyone that this is indeed the worst halo game. The biggest problems being Cortana back from the dead,Warden Eternal being overused,lying in the trailers and rushed story. I believe that most of these could have been fixed by simply splitting the game into 2. Story wouldn't be rushed,we would get to know the characters without having to read millions of books and comics,trailers wouldnt have to lie,Warden wouldn't need to be overused. But that's just a wet dream) 9. Halo:Combat Evolved (a classic. I respect it BIG TIME for what it did to FPS genre and kickstarting Halo franchise. But it does feel dated compared to other games especially the story. That being said it is not a BAD HALO GAME. Only Halo 5 deserves this title) 8. Halo Wars (played it safe in almost every regard and I do respect that becouse sometimes it's better to play it safe and do it right.) 7. Halo 3: ODST (Controvertial but I really didn't love it that much. Story was ok and open world was done really good but.....idk it would work better as a dlc for Halo 3) 6. Halo 2 (its story is AMAZING. But gameplay wise it's difficulty makes it a chore to play through. And 2nd half is definetly weaker than the first) 5. Halo: Infinite (It played it a bit safe and with story DLC's it would be AMAZING. The first game to do Halo bosses right and open world was amazing) To be continued in another comment couse its lagging on mobile with long comments

[@ghostplasma5590]

@@themasterseye 4. Halo 3 (Pretty much a perfect conclusion to the trilogy. The only criticism I could give it is the last 2 misions which are.....not great gameplay wise) 3. Halo:Reach (my favourite bungie game. Story was awesome,characters were great,gameplay was great. It's great) 2. Halo Wars 2 (above Reach becouse im a fan of strategy games and this is the PERFECT console strategy game. Banished and Atriox are AWESOME. The only fault being the cliffhanger at the end making the story kinda unfinished) 1. Halo 4 (my favourite halo game. I LOVED to see this conflict inside Chief. Him struggling with being what humanity needs him to be and him being human. Didact gets a lot of hate but I like him really much. Prometheans I will defend to death. Gameplay wise they are not perfect but lore wise and design wise they are AWESOME so are their weapons. I think 343 did amazing with Halo 4 and Im salty Halo 5 undid pretty much all of it)

[@spartanq7781]

This mission sucked all of the hype I could have had with a open world Halo game. I knew going in that the game does nothing to shake things up with level design and biomes. There needed to be different regions with digital biomes. As well as for the love of God a greater variety in things to do on Zeta Halo. It really feels tacked on despite being the premise. It should have got better from here but it never really does. All the cool biomes and wildlife were just in the trailers. It also really doesn't help that the interior locations are also copy and pasted. Enjoyment wise this campaign is the worst one in the series for me. It's always the same thing over and over again.

[@TheJoviLovi]

I'd like to see you develop Halo lol

[@spartanq7781]

@@TheJoviLovi I hate when people do that. Criticizing something is not the same as claiming to do better.

[@TheJoviLovi]

@@spartanq7781 yet you didn't know the awful development hell

[@spartanq7781]

@@TheJoviLovi I don't care. Criticism is to help the developers learn.

[@TheJoviLovi]

@@spartanq7781 that's .. Very satire of you

[@eazion1958]

Nice videos, and yeah, the writing and dialogue at times makes me cringe and facepalm, Infinite at best is at best a barely decent Campaign that's so bland its forgettable pretty much, hopefully the DLC will be an improvement but I don't even expect much at this point

[@BenPlaysGames]

Cheers Eazion! That's my hope too dude, maybe the DLC will improve things. Not holding my breath though...

[@tylerasweet]

Real disappointed with everything in this campaign except for the grapple hook, art style, and classic halo tone… oh yeah and the single cam, no cut cinematic style wears out it’s welcome almost instantly.. there is just a total lack of stakes felt in the story

[@crunchybombed2614]

The open world is shit and like far cry. They shoulda done semi open world like destiny cuz too much action, missions, and story was sacrificed

[@BenPlaysGames]

I remember watching some KZbinrs who got to play the first six hours or so early saying "that it's definitely not like Far Cry" while the footage on screen showed a game that looked exactly like Far Cry 😂

[@Oronjalllo]

I love the videos, but man, your gunplay and aim are so weird to watch, lol.

[@BenPlaysGames]

Haha in my defence, I'm a Diamond 6 on ranked, so I can definitely aim when I really try, promise!

[@LostShipMate]

Its not a great sign when I can't even make myself beat the game. Its just boring, I think I made more progress in Halo 5, which was also terrible(never beat either). I only played through Halo 4 three times as well, 2 times because a friend wanted to beat it on legendary & Legendary LASO. Its like watching the series go on a downward slope over the course of a decade.

[@odstsoldier6252]

Yaaaaay clickbait