Was Halo Infinite's Campaign A Disappointment for Lore Fans? 

FYI for those who see the title and instantly comment, Halo Infinite's Campaign was not a disappointment for me :)

Disappointment for lore fans is an *understatement*! We’re on Zeta Halo! No reference or relics of ancient humans, hardly any for the Flood, Bias, Tower of Pain. Ugh, completely gone.

don't know if it just me but i know infinite was supossed to be a more "down to earth" campaign but i really do miss the large space battles, watching the infinite scene at the start really makes me wonder what could have been especially with that clean Mac cannon on high power

Being a “Halo 2 is the best Halo” cult member, all I wanna say is: The Arbiter not being present in the campaign REALY hurt my soul. During Halo 5’s ending, I was so excited to see what happened next when Chief and the Arbiter met again. So disappointed to not see it in a game 😭 And on a related note, the lack of Lasky, Halsey, or even Blue Team was weird. Shoving all these new in-game characters in our face in Halo 4/5 and then not having them reappear in Infinite AT ALL is just weird to me

I personally felt that it was too empty, and it just never touched up on the Infinite's crew besides the audio logs. I would've thought that Chief's first priority is to find survivors and the Captain and have them regroup. Like CE's Alpha Base

the story felt like one massive loop of chief chasing around enemies who kept twirling their mustache's at him and a weird bug alien lady who's apparently worse than the flood yet got killed by bullets, honestly that is just the entire story in general lol summed it up for ya'll.

How on Earth is the campaign anything but a giant let down? We just walked around a barren, empty northern Scotland type environment for a while and beat up some "bosses". It was absurd, and we can't even replay it! I'm still shocked the community praises the campaign to the extent it does. There was no lore to speak of?!

Campaign was great IMO I was pleasantly surprised, the other part of the game is where I expected 343 to 343 it up lol Also, you ever get the strong feeling that 343 never brings in the flood when they can because they don't just want to ride on Bungies coattails? But in an effort to not do that, they ignore the fans of the game and what they want. Then they try to come up with their own "Big bad" that just falls so short, its a letdown every time. Its clear 343 is trying to recapture lightning in a bottle again when it comes to that twist that elevates it to ridiculous levels rather than just make a good game that people enjoy. I think that's what is letting everyone down. If they would just go for it and make a good game and not worry about being THE halo developer, they would probably have done the trilogy a lot better.

Halo Infinites campaign was a disappointment for me mainly because it feels like nothing happens. At the end of the game the Banished are still on zeta halo and the UNSC are still scattered across the ring. You don’t re-unify the UNSC, and you don’t even get to reunite with any other characters from previous games like Palmer or Lasky. Yes, sure at the end of the game the endless are released but why should anyone care. There are no stakes associated with them like there was with the flood. We only know that the endless are dangerous because characters throughout the game say that they are. If 343 really wanted us to know how dangerous the endless really were they should have let us fight them like we got to do with the flood in CE. I honestly do not understand what the point is with hyping up an enemy throughout the game and not even being able to fight them. As for gameplay, it was also extremely disappointing to have been limited to one environment throughout the entire game. It would have been cool to visit like a desert or snow environment but instead were limited to just 1.

What I was disappointed in with infinite is that the missions are quite repetitive. None of them stand out particularly - think how each mission in Halo 1, 2, 3 and reach all have a unique setting, atmosphere, playstyle etc. For instance how Assault on the Control room feels very different to the library, which feels different to 343 guilty spark. Sadly we see very little of this with Infinite.

Although I loved it, I thought the campaign was waaaaay too safe. Like it felt empty fighting in the same biome and fighting the same faction. For example, Halo' s immersion was awesome with it's faction vs faction fights like the covenant and the flood. Why not have it in Halo Infinite? I was so confused why the sentinels were siding with the Banished when the Banished were also the ones invading the ring and drilling and destroying the environment. I know it was about repairing the ring and all, but it still felt off. It made no sense. Even after the monitor found out the Harbinger was bad, the sentinels after the campaign still sided with the Banished for some reason, The Sentinels / Forerunners shouldn't be picking sides. It would make the open world more immersive if we encounter sentinel vs banished fights since the flood is not in the story.

The main problem of the endless is they were all "tell" and no "show." As soon as we played Halo 1 we see Covenant running away in fear out of the "weapon storage facility" and see no elites during that level. We then see the Jenkins cutscene and Witness the Flood slaughter Keyes's team before actually having to fight them. Even in that game we *see* the threat they pose. In Infinite, Despondent Pyre and Cortana can't keep going on about how dangerous the Endless are, and that they can't be released at any cost. The final cutscene shows that Atroix is trying to recruit them. Do you know what's scarier? *Something that cannot be reasoned with and only seeks out death, and is more than capable than doing it.* Now we know that the Harbinger is a member of the Endless and probably is just as scary as the rest of them. I wasn't scared fighting them and neither was Chief. The only way they can salvage this whole Endless nonsense is to either connect them directly to the Precursors or show them as a worthy threat that can rival the Flood. This could be done by doing little things such as a Reaper style indoctrination effect they can have on Banished forces (making them either able to bend other species's to their will, or completely control their minds) and/or have the explanation for the existence of Skimmers to be that they were once Human marines that got tortured, mentally broken and then transformed into expendable Thrall used as canon fodder (seriously though, they just introduced a brand new enemy type and gave them 0 lore). They could also have larger story significance in the form of being direct creations of the Precursors and having the Xaladin Species being a harbinger race for their return (which would also signal the inevitable return of the Flood which would eradicate all threats from anyone until they have been dealt with, running us into our original problem). I just hate how the Endless are being built up as this super big bad problem that not even Halo's can kill, and I just care more about Dee Bradley Baker having a good plant monster voice. Still good game though, 8/10 overall

I personally was incredibly disappointed in the campaign. It’s still like an objective 7.5/10 at least, but it wasn’t what I wanted from Infinite. I come to Halo for the large scale battles and humanity saving adventures, and I go to Star Wars when I want deep personal stories with characters. Of course Infinite should absolutely have character development, but I wish they would’ve done it like Halo 4 where Chief does indeed progress as a character, but not at the cost of being one of the ONLY three humans he talks to personally throughout the entire game. I wanted to play through the Infinity’s destruction, build an actual resistance on the ring rather than just get some unlock-able Marines, I wanted to storm Escharum’s facility with the remnants of the UNSC.. not solo. It was so unbelievably small scale from what it could’ve been, and that disappointed me more than anything in my entire life so far. Dead serious. I slept outside of a Best Buy on the concrete for 10 hours waiting to get the limited edition series x on launch, and what the actual game entailed was heartbreaking.

Heavily disappointed infinites timeline in general. At the end of halo 5, we’re cornered by cortana and her control over the promethians, we have the Arbiter, Chief, and Halsey meeting up to figure out how to strike back against this issue. But then we jump into halo infinite, everything is ok now and we’re just fighting the banished? What happened when chief and arbiter met up? Every other character besides Chief and cortana were erased from the universe. Everything from the story was erased.

One other point that was a major disappointment for me was that they never directly explained WHY Cortana turned evil. Some of the echoes seemed to imply that it was the logic plague, but that could easily be up for interpretation. That was the biggest issue I had with Halo 5’s campaign.

After beating the campaign I genuinely thought the writing was lazy 343 should have stuck to their guns and did a cortona game for halo 6 then deal with the banished in the next game. It really feels they didn’t want to deal halo fives story and to me that definitely killed it for me.

Totally honest opinion- I really tried to love Infinite… but I don’t. Once you’ve played one open world game you’ve played them all. And after a short honeymoon period, you realise this was just another formulaic open world game with collectible audio logs, pointless objectives and optional bosses instead of a fine tuned Halo game experience… I can’t remember any memorable set pieces, vehicle sections or moments that got me up in my seat. I think it speaks volumes when a simpler game from 2000 makes me feel more emotions than a cutting edge AAA 2021 game… I think infinite looks stunning and the art style is great but I wasn’t really attached to any characters, didn’t feel like the Banished were a real threat or very interesting. They didn’t compel me and after replaying the game twice, I still have no idea what they were doing while master chief went around destroying all of their little bases. The map felt empty and without character and the vehicle sandbox was non existant. I hate to be negative guys… I really wanted to like this game, no hate for those who do love it but I can’t help but see it as a bit of a cash grab with more damage control than passion.

I was extremely disappointed by the lack of story in this game, sure it was nice to focus on Chief, but that’s all the game did, it left too many questions unanswered, and in my opinion has too many plot holes and was not worthy of its cliffhanger in the slightest. I had fun playing the campaign on legendary, but the more I think about the game, the more I start to develop a hate for it after waiting so many years for it

To me the events in the campaign seemed just somewhat non-important. Wrestling a small part of delta halo from the banished and fighting some random new enemy, it’s cute but it’s not the typical epic, high stakes, grandiose plot that I’m used to in halo games.

I laughed when the game told me the endless were more dangerous than the flood. They're a joke, I killed The Harbinger on heroic with ease after I clapped that chieftain. Squid alien teleport oh no halo doesn't kill it. Incredibly unintimidating. Hopefully they end up actually being terrifying. What we got in infinite just didn't feel like an actual threat except when the Harbinger quoted the grave mind.

It wasn’t bad. It lacked replay-ability. And there wasn’t enough from the story. No Arbiter was disappointing, no Atriox fight, no flood. This campaign felt more like a starting point. And I would hate to wait for 10 years for what’s needed.

I honestly feel the Campaign was certainly very fantastic especially after the disaster that was Halo 5. While there are many things that did bug me, the most significant one is the fact that the campaign was trimmed down by a good amount and what we are apparently getting now is just a small but a very amazing part of it. It would certainly be interesting for the nerd in me to see what directions they take it in especially after the spine chilling reveal of Offensive Bias in the end.

Honestly, this game actually got me to pay attention to the lore. Your channel was the other amazing thing it brought with it!

I appreciate them stepping back from a massive scope because since 3 it seems like each game was becoming more and more of a spectacle Now that this intimate story is out of the way and things are set up for the future it can expand

I entirely agree with point 6 being misinterpreted. Slip space feels like it’s almost instant in the games simply because we can’t have a level where we spend 2 weeks on a ship doing nothing

From a distance, I don't like the stuff that was so vague. Like getting rid of Cortana Off Screen, and kinda-sorta-not-really getting rid of Atriox off screen. Also the abandonment of the Halo 5 storyline, I know it was bad but I was hoping the writers would instead of saying fuck it it basically never happened, but instead tried to make it work. It's more impressive to clean up your mess than snap it out of existence. Also, the constant problem of "show don't tell" I feel like Cortana destroying the Brute homeworld should've been presented a lot better. That should've been the equivalent of the firing of the Death Star, emotional weight and horror and all. Instead we got "spooky machines go brr" But what do I know, I only watched the campaign

I think you are giving 343 too much credit, we are getting time travel to shoe horn around their old narrative that they abandoned.

Honestly, has any Campaign from 343 been able to be better than its predecessor? ODST included and I’ve felt more in that dlc of a game than Halo 4, 5 & Infinite. Yea, from a technical aspect I’d say the games have been fine but narratively Id say they’ve scaled from mediocre at best to bad.

I found the lack of flood and primordial a huge waste. There was such an amazing opportunity to have this massive story-driven Halo map, and up to a point you explore a seemingly harmless containment facility to end up releasing a flood outbreak with the remnants of the primordial. And since then, all map starts to change and new enemies spawn in all of the map facilities. Like vanished outposts have turned into a complete mess, like an all-out war between 3 factions: the vanished, the flood, and you. Those were my hopes when I read Halo Infinite was set in Zeta Halo: the comeback of the flood. This was honestly not only a huge disappointment, but also a waste by 343i and probably as close to a statement as we are going to get that they want to set the story appart from the past. Given this game is not even trying to link with Halo 5, it feels like 343i do not even know what they aim for narrative-wise. Simply terrible.

I think 343 want the endless to be a faction that is controlable and that it enables multiple storyes to flow with others because the flood lets be honest the moment they are free you must drop all the plot points that you where doing and the flood must be dealt with fast and the flood mostly works as the final boss they arent athreat at first but only when they grow to be a galactic threat The endless might solve this

Luc: I’m gonna start making non-Halo content Luc once again: Ok so more Halo

Imagine Terminals were in Halo Infinite - that would be seriously crazy. I wish they did that because it would deepen the amazing lore of Zeta Halo ( giving a reason to believe they the endless stronger ). But man i really dont like that they're apparently stronger than the flood. It really contradicts and plays down stakes of the original trilogy.

Way to fix Endless and Harbinger is to say they're Precursor creations meant to survive and carry on their legacy if/when they lost war and Forerunners caught on and imprisoned them before Endless could do so. Endless are like if Marvel dropped Galactus out of nowhere in movies without any build up and say he's greater threat than Thanos.

In my opinion it's a great campaign but a very disappointing HALO campaign. Halo has so much more story and lore to utilize and the whole time I felt like I didn't know what I was doing and why. The banished don't feel like a legitimate threat compared to the covenant and the endless don't feel like anything compared to the flood. It lacks the depth and creativity of a Halo story. I will say the gameplay is fantastic though which is probably the only reason why it is praised so highly.

It just felt painfully short. Not extremely short but far less than what I expected. I’m still playing elden ring and am amazed by the biomes and wildlife. It’s what I wanted in halo since seeing the reveal trailer with the space rhinos and deer. Elden ring is an example of a real $60 game. I tried justifying halo because I liked the campaign a lot and was just hyped. The side missions like saving marines got boring quickly, it didn’t feel open world. Witcher 3 and elden ring set the standard

I really liked the campaign myself, but I would also say my main expectations were a good story and game-play, which it easily met, not lore. I do have two concerns with the possible outcomes of the implementation of the Endless in future Halo projects 1. Gamplay-story disconnect: Their built up as a big threat, but they are a rather easy enemy type in actual gameplay. We don't know yet, but other games, both Halo and otherwise, have made this mistake. 2. I don't think 343 would do it, but I would hope that the endless are not made retroactively the "masterminds" of everything that has happened in the Halo universe. Every time I have seen a story do that, it feels like the "mastermind" antagonist(s) is basically going, "I meant to do that," as their plan hits a snag. That could just be my experiences. Maybe stories anyone else here has seen have done it well.

I'm really just hoping they'll pick the Created back up for original Multiplayer modes--having Prometheans and Sentinels for some of the new things we've seen datamines/rumors about, for one. Imagine needing to fight for control of some kind of Created-aligned AI's forces, or destroy its cores, or something else. Having the Banished for Multiplayer would also be great, but I kind of want them to stay more as a Campaign thing whilst the Created/Prometheans are Multiplayer--you could eventually introduce both of them into the other modes, and definitely having a sort of Firefight/Warzone mode with multiple factions.

It's pretty safe to say this campaign was setting up a fresh start for the story. I fully expect the lore and overall state of the universe to be fleshed out in future expansions now that it has a good foundation to build off again

Steve Downs, the voice of master chief, is going to be at megacon at Orlando, Florida sometime in May. If you want to go to it there will be a lot of people there. And if you do see you there!

A description of what makes halo enemy encounters good that I’ll borrow from latenightgaming is that they never feel like the enemies are just “waiting around for you to get to them” or only existing for the purpose of level design. They really feel like you’re stumbling across something where the enemies are in the middle of something. Halo Infinite really suffered from that, where every enemy encounter felt like they were just waiting around statically for you to get to them, like a theme park. That’s why the world felt so dead and empty while you finish the fight

I generally liked the campaign, although a few pieces that were less fleshed out than I liked, but that's mostly due to time constraints i think. I wish there was some more explanation of what zeta halo really is/ more direct explanation of what each halo's specific purpose is other than being a part of the array.

It was fun but a missed opportunity. I'm waiting to see what they do with campaign DLC, but the current state of campaign feels like an introduction to a larger story. Hope they follow through with it

I feel you big time on the Rudolph cosplay, my skins pretty clean but every so often I’ll get one super noticeable pimple and it’s so annoying, but tbh I didn’t notice until you pointed it out lol

Campaign was a lot of fun, but yes, I was expecting more connection to existing story/history. I hope the story DLC chapters include a lot of this, are released regularly (annually?) and are reasonably priced. The base campaign was a great foundation, but there is so much more to do: Where is Lasky and the Infinity crash site, where are the other Spartans, what's going on with the Flood, what is Atriox really up to, are the Endless and the Precusors related, what's going on with the rest of the UNSC/Earth, what's going on with the Guardians now that Cortana is gone?

Not necessarily a disappointment…. More accurately it was *a portion of greatness.* What’s in the campaign can be great at times, but their are points in the game when exploring the map where you notice just how much was taken away. The lack of space rhinos… which the Craig song on top of the tower actually does address. Seems like The campaign could’ve been much grander in scale than the isolated feeling it gave off. You can explore the ring, but you never unite with living Spartans or construct your own fireteam of marines. Its not terrible, but Infinites campaign could’ve had more to offer.

I personally enjoy the story, but I can't help but feel that parts of the game was all told, not shown. The stuff that Escharum tells us, a majority of it was told, not shown. Except for Leonidas destroying the spartan facility and the attack of Infinity. But for the ladder, I would've love it that there was an actual mission given the audio logs as you said in one of your videos. I would've love to see more of the Banished stuff much like the Covenant in Halo 2. The Endless as the "next big bad" is a huge bad sign if that happens, like what you said on the CoD zombies. However, I'm still under the belief of your theory of the Endless being connected to the Flood, like being an evolved form. Well see. And the backstory on the Harbinger and Skimmers are very minimum, and would've love a little more story on them from the writers. I do wish to see other characters as well like Arbiter, the Infinity crew, Blue Team, etc. I'm personally ok with the Pilot and Weapon in Chief's story, but I would've love it to see more then just those three, not counting the Banished, Endless, and ForeRunner machines. The mystery was glossed over on the Ring's history and Flood containment facility and no terminals of some sort, aside the audio logs. It's not perfect, mind you but I understand 343 wanting to take the main campaign slow and steady for future DLC campaigns. But whatever is going on right now, they need to get their priorities in check.

“Retroactively increasing the stakes” is a perfect way to sum up what 343 is trying to do. Retconning only works well when there is either ambiguity present in the narrative’s history, or played as a direct plot point in the narrative at present. Not setting up some future “big bad” just for the sake of it.

Hey luc ... I hope you are well I enjoyed the content you delivered as always bro keep it up ! I need to ask you something…this is completely topic off the video but do you know when those two legendary stances that are supposed to be in the campaign be released into the campaign? Or could you possibly tweet it out to 343 because it’s been a good while now since the game has been released and no one has been able to get it and I’m sure many of us want to get our hands on it . Thanks in advance

Gameplay-wise, the campaign was great. But for atmosphere and all that for one of the most notorious Rings to ever exist, it was a major, significant disappointment. I do not like these new enemies, the Endless, as it just feels like something that shouldn't exist in the first place. 343 should have left Halo and the Halo Universe as it was and built it up from there. But instead, they cut a whole slew of content that would have made all us OG fans squeal with delight just for deadlines created by the money-milking company of Microsoft. And on the subject kf the Flood ever coming to Infinite via Campaign DLC, all of the gore, grotesque and terrifying aspects that makes the Flood a horrifying opponent, will be removed to make it more "child-friendly" and adhere to the T rating. I'm a very disappointed with 343 and how they handled the story and expanded universe of Halo. The franchise really should have ended at Halo Reach and let the fans do their own thing.

I feel it was but not from a lore perspective. from Halo 5 to infinite it felt like it went from A to Z while making the Z another A. I wanted to see more of the fight against cortana. But sadly that will now be in books and maybe in videos of somesort.

Hey Luc, remember that video you made on the "mysterious outbreak on delta halo"? There you mentioned the meddlers playing a part in it. Do you think the endless could be the very same meddlers that the containment A.I mentioned?

Also, Thank You for mentioning the slipspace travel time at the end. It has been pissing me off to world's end and back how people kept saying Chief time travelled, but the Pillar of Autumn fleeing Reach took 2 weeks to arrive at Alpha Halo. It was just a different version of the rings teleportation system grid, being that it's older. Not like Alpha Halo when Cortana or Guilty Spark transports Chief, but even then, some time in minutes or hours clearly passes with each portal Chief goes through.

Infinites campaign is LAME. Glossing over the fall of the Infinity, the battles on the Halo and reducing them to just audio logs, the boring random new aliens, and leaving on ANOTHER cliffhanger.

I doubt I will get any positive reaction to this, but as a Lore fan I appreciate 343's attempts to escape the Flood. Im saying this as someone who was obsessed with the Flood as the kid, but the more I got older the more overdone they felt. They have been used 5 times now, and in the exact same way, we release them, they infect a lot of people, Humans blow something up to kill lots of them but they come back, rinse wash repeat. The Didact, the Created, and now the Endless has all been 343's attempts to escape and do something less repetitive. Also i dont want the Created to just die off in a book, that would make Halo 5 a massive waste. It was interesting on its own. There is SO MUCH they could have done with Human AI's having full control of Forerunner technology, they could have created things like the Engineers, reshape worlds, adapt Forerunner technology to stuff we have never imagine before, introduce Forerunner tech we have never seen...all that potential wasted. Im saying this as someone who used to hate Halo 5

The more I play the campaign over again. I believe my hype and my praise of the campaign came from lack of new halo content. Now it’s like 😕

Cortana dying off screen will always feel wrong to me. Incredibly wrong

I am disappointed by 343’s lack of doing stories about the covenant species. They have so much potential for greatness and bringing some new a different perspective on halo that has never been seen before. For example, a story about a Kig-yar has never been done before (to my knowledge) and if we got a story about a T’vaoan Spartan Killer in the banished… it would be so awesome. I am disappointed in Halo Infinite’s campaign because all it is, is another Master Chief story. I wanted somethign different, something unique and fresh. I wanted variety. That is not what Halo Infinite was. But don’t get me wrong, it was a good story but, lacking to me. It had so much potential…

i thought the campaign was mediocre as fuck honestly there was zero pay back for atriox seemingly easily killing chief.. like since when does chief just get bitch slapped and pretty much killed right at the beginning of a campaign like how does that help or build up anythingif we dont even fight atriox after we learn better about how to take him on.. and i think the weapon is just a "safe" replacement for cortana cuz they tried to kill her off but changed their mind and i just really dont like her and i didnt like the escherum guy second banana in place of atriox who was the real villain and the bosses were just 9versheild bullet sponge regular enemies except the last new enemy and the cinematic camera never cutting from chiefs perspective was not nearly as good story telling as traditional cut scenes showing more perspectives than just one character i just dont like it honestly i dont even care to replay it anytime soon i legitimately liked Halo 5's campaign more

It honestly felt like a blend of ODST and Halo CE since the environment was open, but at the same time it had memorable moments like Halo 3 did. By far, a better overall campaign compared to Halo 4 and 5. If 343i came back to the game later on and included DLC to the campaign and took us into the story of his the Endless came to be and expanded on the universe, that'd seem like an ideal route.

The Campaign was refreshing reintroduction into Halo that I needed. I feel like it's lack of connections to previous lore is purposeful in it's design. I'd say this campaign serves to set the stage for far cooler things down the line.

I need DLC now. 😩

for me, it was the worst campaign.

An awesome DLC would be a DLC about the arbiter called the fall of sanghelios, like it shows the end of halo 5, giving us the backstory behind how chief and arbiter met up, where the story went from there and they could show how chief got his new armour, and how sanghelios dealt with the guardian sent there.

So I kind of love and hate the endless, the idea of a species capable of surviving the halo array… but when I thought about it if they can’t be killed by the halo rings they also can’t be infected by the flood as they must not have a nervous system to be be destroyed or infected. Basically ruined my theory that the flood could return as a threat or that the flood infecting the endless could be a disaster because it literally can’t happen. 343 NEEDS to find some way to make the flood dangerous again because their defeat by the banished made them seem so tame in wars 2. My biggest problem with the endless is their goal isn’t something I’m jumping out of my seat to stop, especially compared to a universe controlled by a living amalgamation of corpses it’s just not even close. hell for all we know the halo universe might actually of been held back by the forerunners because if the endless had their way they could actually defeat the flood for good with no consequences and the universe would be a lot safer? I don’t know it’s just weird they went in this direction and the more I think about it the more I love it and hate it.

Nothing interesting happened in the campaign.... It was so bland and uninteresting. No new factions, no flood, no infighting, a bland antagonist who just talked shit over a microphone like a coward, side characters like the red blade elite who had absolutely no character development or anything about him other then "hes badguy with red sword you fight later". It was just master chief shooting some covenant in repetitive looking areas and some repetitive ubisoft type side-objectives sprinkled in. The gameplay itself was alright... but the writing was absolutely awful and the content was pretty barren. Mentioning people via logs and cutscenes and not actually having any interaction with them DOES NOT COUNT.

According to this video, the main Lore disappointment people have with Halo Infinite is just the Endless' existence. Poor things. Oppressed by the Forerunners and now oppressed by the fans.

Are you going to be doing breakdowns or discussions of the series as episodes come out? Kinda like the Halo blog post videos.

In all honesty, I wasn't a fan of how they structured the campaign. The first cinematic, while interesting, gave off Fortnite animation vibes when Chief jump-twirl-punched Atriox. It took me out of the game completely. Meanwhile, the OTS shots of Chief and The Weapon, while fun, wasn't that exciting. I wanted to see cut scenes like in Halo 3/Reach. The campaign was interesting, but lacked the epic scale Halo titles are known to have. But it's Halo Infinite, it's lacking a lot of other stuff too... I'm just happy we have the Brute enemy class back.

Having played the campaign 3x now, it gets a 7/10. I didn't really mind too much about no ancient human history or anything as that can still be done, but I was a lil disappointed that there was Absolutely nothing. No Flood. No Lasky. A soft reboot of Halo 5. No Halsey. The introduction of the Endless, whoever they are, is just against their own lore they've created. The Flood will Always remain the most heinous beings in the Universe to me, and they weren't even seen in game. We have a infiltration A.I that can't open random Forerunner doors in the open world to discover these Easter egg facilities. Can't go back to the islet that houses the Tower or the Silent Auditorium. No lore cutscenes to showcase what's happened since Halo 5 and other characters. No silent cartographer. Getting control of the control room. Harbinger more useless than letting a Marine drive in Halo CE. No Forerunner lore, terminals, catalogues etc. It's just a large map with nout much to do once you've done everything.

Halo infinite is unfortunately pretty much a huge disappointment to every halo fan all around in every aspect imaginable other than core gameplay. …

The campaign was a really really good, sure some things could have been improved but the story and gameplay was really fun and refreshing, since playing halo from the beginning, and reading lore, if they can mend the endless and precursors together, it would be really good, but I was disappointed that there was no flood or mention of the precursor, I would have loved if they delved deeper into the precursors

They had a prefect setup for a Warhol run like mendicant bias could have spawned a warthog and then you would be racing through the ring that would have been cool

Playing through on legendary now, definitely enjoying it more than I did on normal. I think the campaign is pretty good. It definitely captures the feeling of "Halo" at many times.

19:01 I don’t understand so was it not a disappointment for the content or because of the potential it has? Massive disappointment. Everyone says better the Halo 5, I say it was worse. STORY wise and gameplay wise. The hook is fun but we got to see a lot in halo 5 and I don’t like the movement abilities in multiplayer but in the campaign it felt epic (well kinda). Deeper lore kinda equal but slight edge to Halo Infinite. Hyped the floods return up for years to not bring the back and dropped there threat level in… talk. Nice. Completely makes halo 4 and 5 story pointless with the whole human aspect of Cheif and the character progression in those area with Cheif Cortana and there relationship (not romance weirdos)

When you mention MW2, it reminded me of a thought that I have had for about a year. Does anyone have their own head canon that puts other franchises into Halo’s lore? For example, my head canon is that the 3 MW games (2007,2009,2011) happened in Halo lore, mostly because I love these stories and it doesn’t break existing halo lore

Anyone knows the the soundtrack used in point 1 when talking about Offensive Bias? I have been looking for the sound but cant seem to find it. I would love it if I didn't have to listen to all the other game soundtracks to find.

As someone whose been a huge fan of the games and it’s lore since Halo CE. I certainly enjoyed my time playing Halo Infinite on both Heroic and Legendary difficulty. But that’s just me. Lol

It was disappointing for anyone with half a brain… 6 years 1 biome and every mission had the same exact architecture… you’re lying to stay in 343s good graces

The only reason we all liked halo infinite as a whole was because we hadn't had any new halo content for a long time if you don't count Mcc , at first I loved halos campaign and when I tried replaying the campaign I just couldn't enjoy the replayablity compared to other titles, later on people are gonna start criticizing halo not because of lack of content but because of how the whole game at launch felt underperformed , its like feeding someone who hasn't eaten in days and you feed them a cracker, ofc its gonna taste good because of the lack of. Thats why infinite felt so good

Regarding the Endless & time travel - I agree. I don't think they can _literally_ time travel, but I think they exist _out of time,_ which is why Halo does not affect them.

Hidden I love the idea of you branching out. I also came to love Halo lore by loving Zombies lore. But I want to hear your opinion. Do you think the vibe around infinite has been damaged because of the current negatives? People are starting to just not have fun anymore if you know what I mean.

I binge played every single halo game in 2 weeks and at the same time I watched all of your lore videos. I'm very new to the series, but I know a lot from your videos, the lore halo guy, and actually playing the game.

Hi I really enjoy your content it amazing,also I was wondering if I could use your silent elite intro as pfp

For me I was expecting to see more lore about the Flood and precursors but I was happy with what we got in the campaign as a whole.

I don't think so, not for me at least, I really loved that campaign so much it's hard to say I was disappointed by anything. But with that said I hope they do more justice to delta Halo's history in the future expansions

I genuinely hope you’re right that it’s all misinterpretations about time travel, but I’m not so sure. There are multiple points that have to be misinterpreted and the writers chose to construct each one of them in a way that evokes time travel. Seems a bit too coincidental. But again, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong.

I was currently watching your Halo Infinite story EXPLAINED video and then BOOM. Like the Lord our savior was conmecting us, you released this video just now. So... I'll finish the explained story and then move to this one, cannot wait dude. Thank you for your effort in putting iconic Halo content out.

Dude THIS is my favorite kind of content from you: lore discussions. Thanks for publishing 👍

Whenever I read about how slipspace works in universe i've always gotten the impression that since slipspace is an alternate dimension the travel time in slipspace doesn't necessarily equate to real world travel time. For example: the pillar of autumn jump from reach was like a month for humans but only 2 weeks or something for the covenant because the covenant drive were more efficient, and yet they still arrive at relatively the same time. OR the examples of ships appearing at the destination before they've left the origin because they caught a slipspace "wave" and rode it through the dimension faster than if they were going "against the current." There's also the menachite crystals that a few others have mentioned, that actually brought chief and halsey through time. I think there's a lot of credence to the time travel theory and I don't think it should be dismissed quite so easily.

I want to know what happened to the Spirit of Fire. As all know, The legendary ending showed a halo ring moving through slip space as well as a guardians appearance. Many were under the impression from the story of halo wars that the Infinity would find the Spirit at the Ark and face Atriox. But like the guardians it was swept under the table.

Thank you for making this video. This video should've been released after the first week/month. The writing was on the wall before the release, & please never stop making these.

To be honest, yeah, lore-wise and story-wise it wasn’t perfect, but it gave me hope for Halo’s campaign. I also appreciate what they did with Cortana, and the steps they took to try going in a new direction that didn’t involve resurrecting more Forerunners. Even if they didn’t lean on already pre-established lore, I really like what they DID do EDIT: Ah... it would have been really cool to see more Easter eggs in the environment though Edit2: Problem is though, unless I’m remembering it wrong the Lekgolo weren’t wiped out by the Halo array either...

Halo infinite felt good but it was missing so much such as the flood,more weapons,different areas such as snow desert and even under water, a warthog run a banished scarb,animals just so much missed opportunities.

I got super hyped from the trailers. I just find it funny management changed so much for the game. The devs definitely wanted something special and it got brushed aside for a little beta, a short and simple campaign and tons of stuff to do repetitively. It felt like I was playing a subpar Combat Evolved. I'm hoping we get free dlc or at least an apology or explanation to what happened

A good thing about hiddenxperia is he’s always understanding a situation He’s not thinking about one or the other It seems like he egnolages both sides Yes I know I spelt egknowlage or whatever wrong

The campaign was amazing but I feel like it will get better in time with dlcs I really hope they add the flood back to the main story I feel like they should of added more to the lore with the flood manicant bias I hope this stuff makes it in dlc I also want more bieoms in the game I can't wait for dlcs I'm excited for this games future I don't see arbiter being a book only character no way they would do that to many ppl like the arbiter I can see them maybe doing that with spartan Locke

I don’t think it was completely wasted potential, but it definitely feels like they cut out a decent chunk of the story they wanted to tell in order to get the game out in time. It feels like it’s setting something interesting up, but we’re still left up in the air on where things are going.

For sure. I loved it at first, but as time goes on I realize that was just because the classic Halo gameplay was brought back and expanded upon spectacularly. The story was a lot of nothing, the only good bits were Cortana's whisper sections.

You know I had a really fun time during the only time I played it . Never brought myself to deleting the data and starting over again. So far it’s been the only halo campaign I haven’t played more than 5x nonetheless once .. maybe in a year or two when they add co-op I’ll play it again

Was glad to see to see the Banished in the campaign, and regarding gameplay my only complaint is that we didn’t see more of the Banished’s vehicle arsenal, can you imagine using the Reaver to cross gaps across the ring? Or tormenting Banshees in the sky? Good shtuff.