343 Industries - The Halo Franchise Killer 

I’ve loved Halo for a long time and it holds a special place in my heart but it pains me to see it being plagued by modern day ideals that are tearing apart the game that I used to play

My mom pointed out “The color palettes look like eyeshadow palettes with names that are often used for nail polish.” I feel like halo is more of a dress up fashion show more than a actual arcade shooter.

I think the problem with 343 is just how it was founded in the most inorganic way a game company ever could. imagine an amazing as hell pizza place that all the staff leave and go somewhere else, so you hire people from every kind of restaurants except pizza places, and expect them to make pizza and not some horrid mistake of food. That's 343 with Halo.

Halo succeeded and inspired entire generations for the same reasons Star Wars did the same, they were both fantastic examples of classical storytelling in an age where everyone was trying to be as experimental as possible, and failing in their storytelling. In an age where classical elements of storytelling is looked down upon, I believe this is the reason why Halo is still so nostalgic to people and why it is still actively played today. "Folks need heroes Chief, to give 'em hope"

I've never seen a developer so insecure about their IP. It's like that SpongeBob episode where he tries to rebrand himself and fails. Only to make a patty and everyone is like "That's what we've been waiting for!" People can criticize and argue about Bungie's gameplay changes, but with Bungie it felt like they put some thought into it and wanted to keep improving while being as true to Halo as could be. Plus Reach had a bunch of experimental army tech so it makes sense for armor abilities to about. Bungie was also clearly passionate about their product and wanted to make the games bigger and better on a technical level. Halo 2 laid the foundation for Xbox Live, Halo 3 created theatre mode (a hugely innovative way to share gameplay in a space efficient way) and introduced a ton of community features. ODST added Firefight and a semi-open environment. And then there was Reach. Think about it: In 2010 the franchise was at its peak and they were making their last game. They could have phoned it in. Yet they proceeded to push the boundaries and do things that nobody ever expected the Xbox 360 to be capable of. Reach had... 1. A massively improved graphics engine 2. Massively expanded player customization that applied to the full game 3. Improved firefight with full customization including CUSTOM SKULLS 4. An expanded theatre 5. Even more expanded community features 6. The best damn UI in the series 7. Every gametype except VIP from 3. New gametypes! Like a reworked Juggernaut, INVASION, Stockpile, Headhunter, RACE FROM HALO 1 8. A massively improved Forge. Tons of new objects, better controls, normal/fixed/phased, FORGE WORLD, using other objects as objectives, spawn zones, kill zones, etc. 9. A brand new progression system 10. A brand new challenge system as a SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITION TO THE BASE SYSTEM 11. The Arena ranking system 12. MEGALO SCRIPT. For those who don't know, they wrote a brand new scripting engine for custom games. Every game variant has a full script of the Gametype instead of it being built into the game. Halo 4 kept using it as well. This let them tweak gametype behavior to fix exploits and create entirely new gametypes without ever having to patch the game. HaloBall, Halo Chess, Power Slayer, Bro Slayer, Speed flag, Speedpile, Flag Slayer, and more were created post launch using this without ever having to patch the game! The community ran wild and created some amazing customs, arguably the best in the series. They also used it to tweak gametypes after feedback, for example they updated Invasion and Assault to make it so you couldn't armor lock next to a bomb to arm it while invincible. The community eventually reverse engineered it and has made entirely new game modes out of it like Gun Game, Sharpshooter, Prop Hunt, Mini Slayer, Search and Destroy, etc. They also used it to create almost all the gametypes missing from Halo 4 (I personally did Classic CTF) I went on for a while, but the point is that Bungie set crazy high expectations for themselves and met them because they truly loved Halo.

One thing I'd like to point out is 343s lack of INTERACTABILITY. Some of the best halo multiplayer maps, especially in Halo 3, have some type of interactable button or switch which opens or connects two parts of a map. Though most of these where gates or bridges, they gave character to the map. Even popable flood blisters on a map is a nice characteristic. Hell the ability to break glass is amazing. Ontop of that, movable crates, pallets, barrels is a good characteristic. I feel Halo maps now are too focused on balance without actually making a map. There making a focused arena then a interesting map that has memorable character.

Having watched 343 fail at almost every single thing since Bungie passed on the franchise to them including the MCC PC launch, Halo Infinite was the last straw for me. I gave it a chance, put in like 100 hours, and after realizing the launch was another disaster I just gave up on Halo completely. The franchise is no longer the same thing that we remember it as from Halo 1-3. It's now just a brand that will continue to be milked until it's no longer financially viable just like the rest of the successful IPs that came out between 2000-2012 like Gears, Battlefield, CoD, etc. The people that created these games in the first place are now long gone and working on other projects so we will never really have a chance to go back to the golden period of any of these IPs. There's no point in endlessly hoping Halo will go back to the way it was as clearly that's not 343's intention and likely will never be.

My friend is a contractor for Halo Infinite (still is). Not like this comes to a surprise but he said the game was definitely rushed. He couldn’t tell me much, but he said they ended up having to cut a bunch of really cool features in forge mode which he’s currently working on.

This is so depressingly spot on. We need to support MCC because that is the real future of Halo. We can't expect any new games that are also good from 343i

“Change for the sake of change is never a good thing” Say it louder for the idiots in the back, please. We’re not “afraid of change”, we want good changes, not just change for the sake of it. Not just trying to kill everything the series once was just to make it their own franchise. 343 was given a franchise to keep going, and they decided “no we don’t want it like this we want to make our own game, so we’ll just change halo into our own game instead”

I'll never not stop thinking that 343's mentality is simply "if it ain't broke, fix it".

man i remember playing the first three halos with my dad and absolutely loved it and me and my dad tried out the newer 343 games and we were disappointed knowing that the franchise we used to love is nothing like how it used to be

Let's be real, this video could honestly just be called "everything wrong with mainstream/big AAA gaming" Smaller studios are the life blood of modern gaming at this point. The reason why this keeps happening for big studios is because people keep buying their things, as well as a combination of MTX with whales and people who are being taken advantage of making more money a healthy community would ever give them. Smaller studios have more to lose, so they actually try Mainstream gaming is no longer about longevity; devs shit one out and go

The major problem 343 has is that they thought that by acquiring halo they would just be on top even by changing the game they thought it would not fail and by them doing this they did not realize what they were doing wrong

This. This is it. This is what everyone at 343 should be watching

shout out to 343 for slowly running an incredible gaming franchise into the ground. geez.

Thank you for mentioning the 10 years of missing playable elites. Honestly how the company’s incompetence has lead to what we have now is beyond me especially considering Halo is supposed to be the xbox flagship franchise. keep up the great work man :)

Must be sad forcing new trends into a already great game and failing miserably while old brands like Doom embrace everything that always made them great and succeed massively

Finally someone talks about FIREFIGHT. It was my favorite game mode in Reach, accounting for nearly 60% of my time in that game, and it counted towards unlocking armor. I loved playing with friends with our our cool personalized Spartans.

I've left halo. Purely because of 343. 😔

You think 343 don't know what makes halo special? I think 343 doesn't know what makes video games special. Great points throughout 👏

Halo 4 is a guilty pleasure of mine and having the MCC on PC is genuinely great. But other than that, yes. 343 is the embodiment of the phrase 1 step forward, 90 steps back.

another main problem with 343 in particular is that they can't seem to keep the same team working on a single task for more than a few months. I've seen online reviews of working at 343 and it's not good, company morale is very low

3 steps forward, 43 steps back

Halo is so special to me. Some of my earliest gaming memories are playing split screen co-op with my brother and local multiplayer with friends on Halo CE. I fucking LOVE this franchise. And to see the way its going is genuinely so disheartening.

The MCC was basically gift wrapped by bungie, all 343 had to do was put the games in a bundle and they still managed to fuck it up

you are my hero, you perfectly summed up all my complaints ive had over all these years with words i could never find, thank you so much

I feel incredibly bad for those who never moved on after Bungie left.

On the topic of playable elites. The funniest thing to me is that if they really cause so many balancing issues (mainly in competitive and wherever they're not wanted), then just disable them from those modes. Bungie did that in Reach and 343i can do so too - they have that within their power. But instead, they throw their hands in the air, "ah geez, idk man" and give some half-assed shit about multiplayer being canon spartan story-time. And now they're adding some spartan points to the MCC. Spartan this, spartan that - the word's leaking through my ears at this point.

The issue is that 343 is not really innovating the halo gameplay. Remember in the old bungie vidocs with the global battles and naval combat? Imagine if halo expanded on the massive battles and social features. Its not even that hard to do. We don't need this constant focus on competitive play and having lack luster maps for gamemodes. The constant focus on Spartans in the story have also made many things of the halo franchise feel obsolete, ODSTs and Marines barley exist anymore (Infinite doesn't really count cause you can't even bring them into missions with you) , Elites are just generic monsters now, and the military feel is gone. It feels like every other futuristic shooter on the market. 343 in general just feels like a corporate company that just wants to make halo into this MCU like e sports game instead of halo. They only seem to care about profits and attention rather then gameplay or story. They seem to only care about what THEY want, instead of what halo fans want. Since they refuse to add back legacy features for no reason other then they just don't like the halo audience and consider us a roadblock. The fact that we still have had 4 failed launches and Microsoft has done nothing to clean house at 343 tells me where never gonna get a good halo game ever again. Which is a hard pill to swallow. I haven't even gone into the shady shit that has been going on with the higher ups either, But all I will say that it looks like activison/blizzard 2.0 and it explains alot to why 343 has been so incompetent with this franchise over the years.

Rest in peace Halo

@3:08 - 3:30 You nailed the core issue with Halo under 343, and the show actually as well. Actually, I would argue your statement applies to Reach, where Bungie made many changes that didn't really add to the game.

I was genuinely happy when I found out Halo was continuing after Reach. I was a dumb little kid who wasn’t spurned by big companies owning my favorite entertainment yet so I had faith in them. Then Halo 4 came out and while I liked it on my first play through i hated it on my legendary and further play throughs. The story is written in a way Bungie would have saved for a spin-off rather than a main number Halo game. 5 was way easier to read being a bad game at launch. Both games I dropped within months. MCC was super disappointing and is only good now because they fixed the worst issues, but other than that it’s a collection of mostly Bungie’s work and not 343’s. Infinite for all its flaws was the first game in a decade that almost felt like a true Halo game and a genuine sequel to Halo 3, BUT it was missing so much core content you can hardly even call it a Halo games. 343 has a habit of shitting the bed, and then seeking praise for cleaning up the bed after getting yelled at for doing it over and over again. I hope that now the ex-Bungie devs from the classic Halo days are coming back we can see improvements, but that’s up to Microsoft and the 343 leads/devs hired because they hated classic Halo. Their fans enable them to keep doing the same mistakes and then get mad at us for calling out shitty business practices.

343i\Microsoft needs to see this video. Halo isn’t the problem, you two are.

I love playing as an Elite. I also love playing as an ODST Trooper. I think this video will be enough for 343 to listen.

Love this video. You’re saying everything I’ve been saying. I just love how people still defend 343 and let them off the hook.

What 343 did right was the cutscene where cortana leaves John in halo 5. Perfectly shows how it feels when bungie left us. Also the art style of 4 and 5 I dislike so much mainly because now a days when halo gets mention it's always the awful 4 and 5 version compare to the beautiful bungie era art style. And people seem to think 4 and 5 art style is good just because of Cortana design which is really dumb and hilarious at the same time. And plus no one seems to remember how beautiful the bungie games who and deserve more focus and more part of the modern times. And no one even remembers how beautiful halo 3 odst and reach were that weren't good because of a female design. I play halo rarely now mostly MCC.

Personally speaking, I feel like the change in direction and trying to appeal to mass audiences is more of a marketing tactic Microsoft pushed on 343 in order to get more sales. While I don’t know if this is the case I would appreciate if someone could correct me.

Give Halo to iD Software, From Software or Santa Monica Studios, they respect their IP's! Or change everything about 343 Industries from the ground up and axe the name 343 Industries from Halo entirely, even if 343 makes the next Halo installments!

People have been complaining on the scorpion tank keyboard controls for the PC version of Halo anniversary, and what happened was that halo 2, 3, reach and 4 came out with the exact same controls. All this despite the fact that Gearbox had made the scorpion with good controls on Halo custom edition, which was itself the base used to make anniversary for both xbox and pc. They also never fixed any of the issues with anniversary campaign since the original 2010 release, they released the xbone, xbone x and pc versions without any changes.

Fire all upper management, all of them. Rename the studio "The Covenant" Scrap all the 343 cannon, start by making something like "Halo 4 Alternative" . I'd keep most of Infinite artists, 3D artists, sound designers, community managers, etc. But put them all under a clear vision: "We're starting from where Bungie Left, we're making a Halo 4 that feels like a natural progression of Halo 3, and I mean, i want a campaign that can be played by up to 4 people, all the classic elements for multiplayer, we're taking Halo 3 and improving from it. Not changing it! " Also, BAN to talk with "pros" or other competitive scene clowns, bring in sample groups for beta testing, both old school players and casual gamers, see how much fun both groups have by playing for a few days. Then take feedback. Keyword: FUN.

Thank you for this. So much has been fucked up that it’s hard to keep track haha.

Its funny how we have heard the term "the halo killer" over the year. Whether it's doom, call of duty, etc, none of them killed halo. As it turns out, the true halo killer was a team of people hired specifically to produce new halo products... its sad in an ironic way

Well done. This video was spot on and it's kind of sad where the state of Halo is now.

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It’s not until I thought about it of just how many things are missing from the multiplayer in Halo Infinite. Just look at the MCC for pc as an example. It’s quite remarkable how much stuff they packed into it and continue to. Now they’re adding in cut vehicles in forge mode. Yet there isn’t even a forge mode in Halo Infinite for Christ sake!

This video right here, Excellent points you've touched and and you did an amazing job with being thorough!

almost a year later and nothing has changed that just hurts, love your videos

Thank you for saying what I've be feeling for the last 10 years.

Dude, i literally feel like i’m in an echo chamber listening to this video. You’re 100% correct with everything, and anyone who actually trusts this company anymore is beyond naïve

"343 has had the franchise longer than bungie did, and has done less with it" That kinda fucked me up a little, ngl. Never thought about that before.

i think i was too kind with 343i, you opened up my eyes. As a first fan of Halo franchise (2005 when i was 3 years old wtf) i can say that i dont get what i want, and when i see videos like these, i think im not alone to think like that. Seriously, i dont know how we can have a good halo state from now on.

Honestly for as much as I've enjoyed Infinite's multiplayer, I agree with everything you said here. I feel like 343 has been nothing but reactionary instead of trying to innovate, on top of making all these amazing armors only to slap them behind a paywall and restricting the ability to really mix-and-match pieces. I have no grief with Infinite's style of equipment-based advanced movement, I love the Grappleshot, but I could definitely say they need to do more, like maybe an MP game mode with unlimited grappling and some kind of 'floor is lava' gimmick? The latest round of Entrenched and the shop-only BRODIE armor seem to be the breaking point from what I've seen (Also how fucking dare you paywall my precious brodie helmet 343). It really does hurt to see how even with all that time Halo Infinite still came out barely treading the line of being the next Duke Nukem Forever. :(

Haven’t even completed the halo infinite campaign, I rather play MCC then halo infinite

The Halo games that Bungie made were stellar space operas. Everything about Bungie’s Halo games were iconic. The music, main menu, gameplay, storyline, characters, enemies, weapons, etc. After Reach, Halo while still popular but it lost its way. A franchise that once revolutionized the FPS genre eventually became a trend follower.

Thank you for making this.

what went wrong is they got the license to halo aha they dk the game or the people that play it

Couldn't have said it better myself. You should watch jerasunders video he made on this topic as well.

Also Mods and Just Fan made stuff will never let a franchise be forgotten

You are one of the ONLY content creators to honestly mention the fact that 343 changed the lore regarding the forerunners, which fundamentally shifted the entire driving narrative of what halo was. They turned them from mysterious, ethereal race that drove the series to vapid, shallow A holes that actually didn’t die so we can continue the story. I was so angered at the changes 343 made, and even more from the people that defended it in denied that they changed anything. Thank you for being honest about this. My opinion on halo is controversial but simple, if Bungie didn’t make it, it’s not Halo.

The employee thing hits home for me. Recently I went to an interview for a hotel chain in a region. Part of the job literally includes transporting money between hotels. The rest being important tasks. You wanna know what the pay was for the job? $16.49 with maybe a raise to $17 in 14 months to 2 years, with a 0.25 cent raise every year. After the interview as I was driving home I was thinking “you fuckers are BEGGING to be robbed.” For a high end (or at least they claim they are) hotel chain. Wish I looked at the employee reviews as they said what’d you expect, including high turnover. Just look at Radio Shack at what happens when a company gets greedy cheap on their employees. They go boom bust.

343 has some of the most talented artists and passionate people who WANT to do good, but is consistently stifled by 1. Microsoft's contractual 18 month deadline and of course 2. horrible management

Everything this man said is true, if 343 doesn’t learn anything before it’s too late Halo will wither away and be a forgotten franchise like many others before it, but it will live on through the memories of the players and the community surrounding it, if they don’t wither along with it. Let’s just hope Halo will return back to the greatest and a blast of a game as we remembered it

What's surprising to me is that 343 has done such a phenomenal job with the Master Chief collection. Arguably the best addition was the custom games browser, and now they've announced they're going to be adding cut content from the CE pre-release days. Seems like they are able to roll out more content for a 20 year old game than for the one they are working on right now. Absolutely wild.

343 is the most utterly incompetent development team in existence. They have an almost unlimited budget yet can't release a finished product with half a decade of development time

I love you Finally, somebody in the halo community not afraid to callout bs number company has done for the past 12 years What a terrible company. The BattleRoyale will be good since it’s not made by 343. I’ll die on this hill

I've never seen a video that needs as much attention as possible in my life! 343 needs to see this!!

You hit the nails on the head with this video. My love for Halo started back in elementary school/middle school, when the first game came out. I didn’t own an XBOX at the time, but when I went to friends and family members’ houses who did, I’d play Halo. Eventually, I got an XBOX and I played Halo to my hearts content. When 343 took over, I didn’t have too many negative criticisms for Halo 4 aside from the art style, the lack luster armor abilities, and not being able to play as an elite. Then Halo 5 came and I started to notice it’s problems more. Lack of diverse customization options, no playable elites, no Invasion, playing more as Osiris than Blue Team, micro transaction (particularly for Warzone which is a fun but also stressful game type that is pay to win), Cortana being the villain, and lack of Covenant. I will admit that I like the variety of weapons and their vehicles, including their variants. Then Halo Infinite came. The campaign had a weak story. Esharum was more of a hype man. Boss battles were cool. The Endless are worse than the Flood? They’re an enemy that had no building up references in previous games. Basically they came out of 343’s ass. It would’ve made more sense, to me at least, if Cortana did try to recruit Atriox, but because he refused, she destroyed his world, and he retaliated by vowing to wipe out humans, especially Chief, and him not “dying” off screen. The variety of weapons in Infinite is a joke. They took away the classic Shotgun, Fuel Rod, DMR, Plasma Pistol ability to emp vehicles, the Spartan Laser, the Plasma Rifle, Covenant Carbine, and replaced them with horrible weapons (Commando, Disruptor, Pulse Carbine, Disruptor, and Ravager). The Banshee is the worst. Vehicles don’t explode like they used to. The Rocket Hog is horrible. Then, as you mentioned, the customization is the worst it’s been, having a huge variety that’s blocked by a pay wall and armor cores. Plus the color selection. Another problem is the leveling up system. Halo Reach and Halo MCC had the best leveling up system and customization options, and yet did away with that. And again, no playable elites when they look much better than Halo 4 and 5 and no Firefight. It’s taking too long for 343 to fix its problems. As you said, the management needs to be changed, but keep those that work hard. Or hand Halo to another company. Whatever they do, in the time that they have, they should be able to make changes in the slip space engine as well with leveling up, customization, and menu options. Maybe more medals, too. Destiny understood what the fans want. And keep making progress. While Gears 5 had a rocky start with the campaign and multiplayer, overtime, they were able to make improvements. Are there aspects of the game that could still be improved, yes, but it’s better than it was before. 343 needs to jump on the bandwagon.

343 sole purpose is to make Halo games. They can't even get that right lmao.

I don’t get why 343 keeps trying to “appeal to a bigger audience”. Like bro, its HALO you can’t really get much bigger than that.

Thank you for making this, more people need to realize being a halo fan doesn’t mean you have to blindly support 343

I absolutely love Halo but you hit the nail squarely on the head. Great video!

joe is king, make him head of 343

It hurts how accurate this entire vid was. People probably aren’t gonna like this one, but it’s the hard truth we all gotta face

It took 8 months to get 2 maps. Let that sink in *real* good

Thank you so much for this video

I’ve always loved halo since I was young and to see a company screw up one of my favourite games to the point of it being boring makes me feel sad. I hope we can make a change

The 343 cycle: fuck up the game from the beginning, then fix the issues they themselves made so shills will praise how awesome they are. Everything 343 does right is them just fixing things that were obvious they shouldn't have done.

Liked and subbed bro, loved the video!

Such great points around 6:00 bro as a long time halo fan i respect that so much. I always feel like my voice is unheard but to know others understand these details like i do is very comforting. Id like to add one of my many other notices, Bungie only had 1 or 2 maps in each game that were too big, like Sandtrap, Boneyard, Spire, etc because they knew not everyone liked oversized maps, they understood Valhalla was a perfect size. In halo 4 everyone hated big team maps because they were all oversized, its like they were built for 32 players. 343 actually responded well and made smaller, better maps for halo 4 dlc which was amazing. However halo 5 returned with… incredibly large big team maps and warzone that nobody wanted… Halo infinite has 3 incredibly large big team maps that nobody likes…

You should do the evolution of weapons and vehicle's. Maybe even the evolution of forerunner artifacts. Would love to see your take on a lot of these.

Halo fans: We are in an abusive relationship Paper Mario fans: First time?

Its July 2022 and im still waiting for the millions of ways to customize my spartan at launch like they promised

Right on bro! Just shared this video with all of my buddies, let’s band together and save Halo!

I've completely dropped Halo at this point and have gone to Deep Rock Galactic. It's amazing to compare the two. Both DRG and Infinite have their Season 2 within a week of each other and the team of

I really agree with you man. Something has to be done and it has to be drastic

EBR constantly cutting to Quinn DelHoyo is very on-point. As the Sandbox lead, a lot of Infinite's suck is on his hands.

This video is disturbingly underrated

Finally another person that wants firefight also your idea was good and I want it to have customizable waves etc

I too keep saying this series feels like coming back to an abusive relationship. I am saying it now. This was their last chance and I have hung up Infinite for good. I didn't make it to S2. Years of lies, poor choices, and a lack of understanding of what the fans want is just too much. 10 original maps at launch, forge, slit-screen co-op, functional theatre, no armor cores, customizable elites, and a concluding story is what we needed. Each season after the launch would be based on Bungie's old games. S1, Halo CE. Adds the OG shotgun and magnum with Blood Gulch and Chill Out. S2, Halo 2 adds SMG and Brute Shot with Hedlong and Ivory Tower. S3, brings the Spartan Laser and all the old power items with Sandbox and Foundry. S4, Halo: Reach with the DMR and Needle Rifle with Countdown and Boneyard. There's your first ENTIRE year. Each season comes with cosmetics related to the each game. Year 2 would be be two seasons. S1, Firefight with four maps and cosmetics galore. S2, Battle Royale with an extended version of Forge World and the City of New Mombasa's streets and rooftops. Boom. Two years of content and payable cosmetics to keep cash flowing, earning 343i some respect, and it would have been a king among BF2042 and Vanguard. Their whole communities would have flocked over just to play a functional game with steady content. Feel free to hire me 343i, I got more ideas if you want em. I'll take 50k and some benefits for the next for years as your head.

Mega Construx has been singlehandedly keeping the halo fandom alive

Thankfully now 343 decided to give us a lot of cut content to halo 2 and ce for mcc

This whole 343 story reads like an experience I had in a high school drama class. The assignment was to take a monologue from any of the scripts we had studied up until that point and perform 60 seconds of it. If the monologue was too long to be performed within 60 seconds (which mine was), I was free to choose where to start and end. I felt awkward because no matter where I tried to place my start and end point, I couldn’t get my performance to deliver the same impact as the original work because the monologue was meant to be performed in its entirety. So, I decided - thinking I was being clever - to write in an extra line at the end of my performance to mitigate the fact that I was cutting the monologue short. Fast forward to the day I give my performance and my teacher was not happy. The first word out of his mouth after I finished was: why? And he wasn’t even trying to hide the fact that he was asking a rhetorical question. What followed was the longest two minutes of my life where my teacher basically told me that I missed the point of the assignment and was delusional in thinking that I could somehow rewrite a professional script as a teenager who frankly doesn’t know what he’s doing. Don’t change something before you understand what it is. Don’t lose sight of what you’re supposed to do. Don’t think you’re being clever just because you’re colouring outside the lines.

What went wrong? Microsoft. When establishing 343, Microsoft purposefully hired developers from rival franchises in order to make Halo more similar to those rival franchises. 343 therefore makes games not in the spirit of halo - 343 are not a Halo developer, they are an anti-Halo developer

You did miss something very important. The SBMM/Team Average MMR matching they use prevents me from finding social matches with friends. It’s been this way since launch because my mmr is high.

The forerunners never were set in stone, for instance cortana deciphers her name in the second mission of CE and the covenant refer to them as such which meant they had that name already. We didn't know anything about their society organization or culture other than the ark terminals (where the didact and librarian appear first) and with no context anyone can make the same argument whenever an enemy faction is developed. H2: "they turned the covenant from being foreign and mysterious into an extremist church run by monkeys where they talk like bad 6th grade shakesperean play actors" and as a side note I don't understand what making halsey a monster means, pretty much the moral ambiguity (if not leaning to her being compassionate) was the entire point of the prologue.

Halo should always be rated M.

I agree with everything i am kinda burnt out on playing halo infinite as a whole halo ce-reach where better then halo 4-inf

Wake up babe, another "Behind the scenes of 343" video

They didn't spend 6 years. They spent 6 years making a team-based shooter. That's most likely why there's things like the grapple shot(which imo is the best thing in a while).