343 is okay at making gameplay, but they are not good at making Halo gameplay. I mean, Halo 4 was just Call of Duty with Halo window dressing. And it makes sense because 343 was so proud to announce that they hired people who hate Halo to work on Halo. Well look how that turned out.
343 just sucks at making good halo stories, great gameplay (on infinite atleast), but they just don’t know where to take the story. I was disappointed in 4 skipped 5 and infinite was another halfbaked story that just felt empty.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They capitulate too much.
As the other reply said, half the (H4) game was good. But they listened to the haters and changed up H5 dropping or rehashing the majority of things from H4. Then they capitulated again and threw everything out for H6 and gave us essentially H7 in all but name.
Years spent bringing everything to a head for 6 with Cortana, the Guardians, even Halo Wars. Then it’s all confined to audio logs.
I want to finish that damn story 343. Not whatever the fuck Infinite was.
Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yea infinite was strange because the whole thing was like a prologue
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve said before, Infinite feels like the DLC to a Halo 6 game that was never released.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that true of all Halo games though? I’ve only played 1 and 2, but the writing in those was just not good at all. I can’t imagine subsequent games being even worse.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Half of Halo 4 was the best Halo story. The other half of it was the worst Halo story.