I have always maintained that Infinite would have made SO much more sense if it’d followed on directly from 3.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago4/5 made soo much accumulated story baggage though.
Infinite would have been better if 4/5 and whatever requisite novels didn’t exist.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How much baggage do you have to address? Evil Cortana, Guardians, and Prometheans. The rest can be managed around.
If Infinite didn’t have to wrap up the previous games, it wouldn’t have that stink on it. But then it would have had even less substance. And the shitty open world wouldn’t have been any better.
It would have been better if they just used Cortana and the Guardians to wrap up the Promethean saga. But then they’d still have to write a decent story, which apparently they are incapable of.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s more that they wrote themselves into a corner with Cortana’s state/loss, all the forerunner lore being out in the open now, the weird Guardians stuff…
Infinite could have been a much more subtle expansion on the forerunners, keeping them enigmatic like the trilogy, and kept Cortana. That’s much more straightforward and “Halo”
The open world stuff wasn’t awful. I loved the marine encounters. But yeah, it felt half baked.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Watched a recent video on magic and writing and it applies for scifi too. Every time you add to the lore you now have to remember and support it forever. 4 just added so much that they clearly didn’t think through like that. Bungie dishes out lore in small bits from 1-3, and it was so exciting when you got just the small tiny bit of backstory. 4 and 5 then just dumped in on your plate in healing portions.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes exactly! Same with the characters.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Librarian, Didact, people they didn’t even take the time to introduce well and we were supposed to just jump on board with it. Buck was literally the only saving grace for Halo 5 in my opinion - and they introduced him in ODST
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ODST was lovely. Halo needs “side stories” like that.