Was Halo Infinite's Campaign Better Than I Remember? 

My main problem with 343’s games is that it just doesn’t feel like a trilogy. Bungie’s games felt like they were ramping up with each new game, whereas 343 just feels like they’re starting over again with each new game because their previous one was badly received. There isn’t an overarching story because each game immediately skips past whatever the previous game set up at the end and replaces it with a new storyline that will also be skipped over in the next game

Personally, my thoughts on halo infinite are as follows: Trash because no arbiter Trash because no arbiter Trash because no arbiter

I love how, in the opening cutscene, Chief is so gentle with the human bodies. Shows how human he really is deep down.

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The campaign was good, the biggest flaw was the repetiveness of the biomes, most of the levels don’t stand out from the rest with a few exceptions. Also video is great, comedy is funny as always, overall very entertaining video, keep up the good work.

It was cool, and I think with the addition of the grapple hook it was one of the more engaging campaigns for me with the movement. I also enjoyed the revival of boss fights, it brought back some Halo 2 nostalgia. With the storytelling and variety it might be a bit weaker in my eyes, the gameplay is top notch.

The game feels like one continuous mission which is a plus in my opinion! Movement/combat is perfect and a lot of fun. The art style and visuals are incredible, especially the Forerunner architecture. Right up there with my favorite campaigns in the series

Another reason why I love the cutscene at 2:00 that I don’t see a lot of people say is that the pilot only has one bullet left, which he was likely saving for himself, and it makes you wonder how close he was to doing it if he hadn’t found chief.

1:59 its also really cool that he throws the dead covenant around while he is gentle with the dead marines

I actually liked most of the boss fights not going to lie they gave more more of a sense of accomplishment that the other games didnt really give me except for when i was fighting bigger enemies like hunters, but that can get a bit old the variety of boss fights kinda kept that from happening for me. boss fights and the grapple shot are definitely the main 2 mechanics id like to see return.

Honestly I just have to say I really appreciate your positivity, it's refreshing in a sea of "halo infinite is WORSE than HITLER and SATAN" or "halo infinite has KILLED THE FRANCHISE FOREVER" Not that i've played the game or particularly care about 343 halo, but like. Come on. It's a video game, calm down.

You're right about the Escharum boss fight being annoying on Legendary but the Blademaster fight is actually pretty easy if you're willing to cheese it a bit! There's a square hole right in front of you when the boss starts, if you stand directly in front of it, he tries to jump the gap and you can just punch him down. He then tries to jump up repeatedly and you can just keep pushing him back into the hole. Rinse and repeat until dead :) It's really funny listening to him monologue about how he can smell your fear and how he gutted your allies while you push him into a locker like a school bully.

The gameplay is actually really good. The story directors need to pick a direction and stick with it and fire the guy who thought we want to pay for customization

I enjoyed it for the most part but I just thought the entire campaign was forgettable if I’m honest. The only mission I really remember was the one where we fight Jega and Escharum

“A couple years later” my brain cannot handle this

I have played the campaign so many times and I wish the open world had secret underground forunner stuff for me to do stuff in or different biomes

Personally, I was disappointed. Everything looked/felt the same. Story didn’t really go anywhere until the end. Felt like wasted opportunity. Villain just monologues

It's my 3rd fav campaign, but I can see why some would hate it. There had been a lot of cut content until its launch; some of which you can still find in the game files.

The handling of Cortana in the campaign will never be seen as okay to me. Halo 5 made some odd choices for Cortana but halo infinite ruined her with that horrible offscreen death. Basically her entire character’s legacy is tarnished as she didn’t even go out in a respectable way. The writers were so desperate to replace her that they didn’t care what happened to her. It was rushed and forced. Chief and Cortana never even get to interact. This was the first campaign I finished genuinely feeling pissed off. Halo 5 at least was left open ended with nobody dead meaning anything could happen. Halo infinite had potential but unless they retcon Cortana’s death in some way in the future than I’m never going to be able to enjoy this one.

100% agree with this, especially the verdict at the end. Campaign is great but it's just meant to be the beginning of more and it feels hollow without more coming to it. And multiplayer can be fun but it just isn't a substitute for a good campaign

My first playthrough was on legendary and I loved it. I'm so disappointed that the game won't receive anymore campaign content.

Storywise and aesthetics/art style are honestly the best parts of the campaign for me, music was pretty damn good as well, but as you said the lack of environment variety really hurts the appeal of it all in the long run. I would have *loved* to see small mission packs added that explore other areas or environments on the ring and allowed for that more tailored campaign experience that the other games were able to provide. In the unlikely event that you make a comparison, I would love to see your thoughts on this game's open world vs ODST's hub level, even though the latter is a comparatively smaller part of the game

I couldn't argue with any opinion you have about this game, you really hit the nail on the head once again. Great video.

Heya. Been binging your vids for 2 days now. I just love your vibe and commentary. I love halo with all my heart, and seeing you play through them is so chill. Perfect before bedtime! Can’t wait to watch the next vid YT will recommend from u

I played this game on legendary and absolutely had a blast. Forced me to use all equipment and my environment to my advantage

I didn’t hate the campaign, there was some parts that was really fun but it felt like there was a lot of corridor shooting in the actual levels. The open world had some really cool Easter eggs and exploring was kinda fun but needed more variety in the environment. And after playing it on legendary, the vehicles are absolute garbage especially the wasp, they have such a far engagement range and so many enemies can emp you within a second

I'm really looking forward to the rumored Forge Campaign AI update. Would be great to make new levels using Infinites core gameplay!

I love the way you just end your videos. No outro or winding down to lengthen the video. Really cool to see

Bro aside from your great review that picture of Marty in the @MartyGigachad comment that you kept in your thumbnails for Halo 5 and Infinite are hilarious lmao.

I got 100% on Infinite. I played the hell out of campaign. I was just not blown away by the campaign. There’s no levels I wanna go back and play again where as every other halo has missions I enjoy going back to. Even with halo 4. Infinite I don’t see myself going back anytime soon. I do play infinite multiplayer everyday though. I really enjoy

I felt it only started to get good story wise (apart from the intro) after pelican down. They could of had the different islands you unlock as different biomes and more variety by far in the fobs and marine missions. Think dlc could of sorted a lot out. Think 343 have one more chance to build on infinite with the next campaign or they will be out

halo infinite was the best 343 campaign imo followed by 4, not as good as 1-3 odst or reach but solid and definitely enjoyable to me. It had some really memorable dialogue to me such as the start gbrakkon mission like you said, the talk between Esparza and Chief about failing and when he first meets the weapon and says "the missions change, they always do"

343 wasn't kidding when they said Halo Infinite was going to be a spiritual reboot

The intro is so good, the problem was the repetitive parts and "ubisoft" kind of camps which doesn't have any kind of love. And the main biome doesn't make the engine look as good as it is in the multiplayer maps. Sadly it won't have any dlcs for the story so we end up with what it feels like a part of a bigger game

I loved the campaign, loved the exploration part, even when there was not too much variety on the scenarios like those seen in Halo 1 or 3, I have to say it offered a decent open world for a game attempting to gabble into that mechanic. The grunt towers, the bosses, the cores, the combat, even the history were really enjoyable and fun and I would say with no fear that with the time, this game will be considered to have one of the best campaigns ever made on the entire saga.

I grew up with the games and i still think infinite has a chance to be the best halo game (overall) in the coming months. Best forge, best customs settings, best gameplay loop, campaign was good not the best, multiplayer is fun. With the addition of firefight and new gamemodes coming it will have by far the most content of any game. It just took too long which sucks

Halo Infinites campaign on legendary was the most fun I've had on a halo game since halo 3.

It always looked like normal halo to me, didn't understand the hate.

I replayed the game recently and I'm feeling fairly positive. My opinions haven't really changed other than, now after reading the Rubicon Protocol, holding an even stronger position that the game absolutely should've been rated M. Having more of Chief connecting with Marines and fighting alongside them, more blood, more brutal visuals around the Banished bases like human corpses lined up and desecrated outside the walls, torture chambers that actually looked like torture chambers and not just zappy restraint fields, and in general a bit more of a bleak tone when focused on the human characters. Humanity is at its weakest since the fall of Reach, and for the people on the ring it's absolutely the worst experience of their lives. Being hunted by packs of feral starving Brutes and Jackals, equipment and weapons constantly failing, pretty much everyone suffering injuries after 6 months of being hunted, starved, everyone knowing they're completely lost in space with no hope of rescue, this should be by far the darkest story in the Halo series and instead it's got the lightest tone based on dark subject material. I don't at all feel the 6 months of hell between the opening cutscene and the third mission. Gameplay is top notch. Movement is the best it's ever been, very fast and snappy if you take full advantage of it and the equipment but if you want you can play just like a classic Halo game. You can ignore all that and just use vehicles and maybe a little sprint to get around, and it doesn't negatively affect the game much at all other than being a little slower obviously. Gunplay as well is pretty much at its best here imo, though the game could've benefited greatly from a bugger sandbox and some Brute classics like the Brute Shot, Spiker, Shroud, Terror Wraith etc, all of which are mentioned as being present in abundance on Zeta Halo in The Rubicon Protocol. The art style has peaked in some ways, in others it's beaten by Reach and HW2. The UNSC look great, finally ditching the goofy Nerf gear and actually looking like a futuristic military, and look very worn. Something HW2 Excelled at and I can't express how glad I am to see it back in the main games. Dirt on their faces, scuffed up, dirty armor, some being stripped straight down to their BDUs. Not as much variety as Halo Reach which had us fighting alongside pretty much every branch of the UNSC, but they look great. The Forerunners are at their best. Finally back to the brutalist style that clashes well with the UNSC, Covenant, and Banished. Lots of golds, bronzes, silvers, greys, blues, and rose golds, and all very old and dirty. You love to see it. Gone are the pristine chrome super sci fi structures with intensely harsh lighting and lense flares everywhere. Sorry to anyone who liked that style but it just doesn't belong. The Banished are where I have some real issues. Almost nothing is carried over directly from HW2. You might think that makes perfect sense given that that part of the Banished has been outside the galaxy for a while but the Halo Wars weapons and vehicles are almost all mentioned in the Rubicon Protocol which means most of those designs are present on the ring. I've seen some people say the reason is that it wouldn't work, translating an RTS design to an FPS, but I can really only describe thst argument as stupid. There's no nice way to put it, that argument is just nonsensical, false, and dumb. There's nothing stopping soneone from recreating a HW2 model with more polygons and putting it in an FPS Halo game, modders have been doing it for years. 343 just chose not to and now we've got this Covenant/Banished hybrid that is cool but has far less of a unique visual personality. The story itself was a bit lacking but the presentation is what really stands out. My main issue is something that wouldn't be an issue if the series wasn't on death's door thanks mostly to the last decade of 343 dicking around, that being there's a lot of unanswered questions and the story is left off with some very serious consequences. And of course it's in the first mainline Halo game since Halo 3 to actually get me excited for a sequel, so now we've got to sit with these questions and the very real possibility that they'll never be answered officially. Very unfortunate. I found the map was adequately varied in terrain but putting more snow on the mountains, making part of the map a desert, having rain and fog(we've had random weather in open world games for like 20 years, come on), and having an actually dark nighttime that necessitated the use of the flashlight and threat sensor would've helped the atmosphere and visuals a ton. As a result the whole game just feels like one long mission and it never feels like you're getting anywhere. The map is something like 5x8km cut in half diagonally and most of it looks the same. Enhancing that feeling of the game all being one single mission is the cutscene style and lack of UNSC presence. Almost every cutscene is just Chief and the Weapon talking, great for that personal aspect but bad for giving a Halo campaign the proper scale it should have. At least they're showing us the antagonists perspective again. Half the gameplay revolves around you retaking bases and rallying Marines, yet they're nowhere to be found in the main missions. And you can only receive reinforcements from a FOB terminal, despite having a personal chauffeur one call away for the whole game. It's very isolated when if you think about it this story should be every bit about the remaining UNSC survivors as it is about the Chief. As far as they know the few hundred UNSC on the ring could he the last of humanity, there should be all kinds of instances of them connecting and planning out how they're going to beat this war against the Banished together, but instead it's just Chief against the world. Last somewhat major criticism is the Harbinger and Endless came out of nowhere. They kinda salvaged it by having the whole Forerunner coverup part which is intriguing and brings back some of the Forerunner mystery after 343 tried to make an entire decade of Halo about them, but that's another thing we can't explore unless we get DLC. Another aspect of the game that's not necessarily bad at the moment, but if it's never addressed for whatever reason then it'll leave a permanent mark on the game and how we view it. That's pretty much all my criticisms. Everything else was handled pretty well. Like most of Infinite there's not much I would change about what's there, I just would've liked more of what's there. More Brute focused weapons and vehicles, more elaboration on the Endless, more UNSC characters, more representation of Spartan IVs as actual soldiers, more of Chief connecting with humanity in their darkest hour, more biomes, you get the idea. I really hope the multiplayer team can salvage the game's reputation and that'll potentially revitalize Microsoft's interest in the campaign because it deserves it. After Halo 4 and 5 I didn't think it was possible, let alone that we'd get it from the very same studio thst made those games, but Halo Infinite's campaign is almost up there with the Bungie games. I wouldn't give it a seat at the cool kid's table with ODST and the holy trilogy, but it can chill with Reach and the Halo Wars games at the cool but a little weird table. For anyone who read all that, sorry for the whole ass novel.

I like in tht cut scene how he's realy careful with the bodies of the marines and just kinda tosses the banished around

New subscriber here. And ur edits and review was amazing.

It doesn’t help the pain we experienced when they showed off literal different biomes in the 2018 E3 Tech Demo.

this was my fav, very good story and the best gameplay. not to mention the soundtrack =)

Was Halo Infinite's Campaign Better Than I Remember? probably not

One of the things I liked the most about this campaign was the feeling I had of rebuilding the unsc and restoring hope

I think the reason the Endless are worse than the Flood is they have an immunity to the effect of the Halo rings, at least this is speculation. The Flood starve and die, but the Endless continue living. I think this makes them scary or worse than the Flood bc imagine if they were infected by the Flood too. It’d be really bad for the universe, so that’s why they’re imprisoned on Zeta Halo

For anyone who finished the main game without doing all the side stuff I highly recommend going back and loading up a Razerback 5 five marines a OP weapon and doing a few side quests, its fun as hell. 5 Arcane Sentinel Beam works best, it just melts dudes instantly, if you get under a Phantom you will kill it before it has time drops its troops. If you get board of that the Pinpoint Needler is awesome too, Brutes pop almost the instant the marines start shooting them. Guided Rocket Launchers or Sniper Rifles is always fun. Don't try the S7 Flexfire Sniper Rifle it is shit, it does half damage but fires faster. Weapon variants that do more damage but have less ammo work the best because the marines get unlimited ammo.

I liked the art style and boss fights in Infinite. The rest of it, I have nothing but complaints. Most of it you covered, but the samey environments really dragged the game down for me. Can’t believe that the Marine squad AI didn’t come in until after Joe Staten took over to get this game across the finish line. Also I think it says a lot that every game in 343’s so called “Reclaimer Trilogy” has had to soft reboot the story because people disliked the previous games plot so much.

The videos keep on getting better

I really enjoyed infinite’s campaign. I actually loved how you moved about he open world. Felt creative and fun. Gameplay was fun. Repetitive in its environments though. I had more fun playing this than any song game since ratchet future series.

I really like this campaign, and I have a lot of fun with it. And funny you say that about boss fights, I actually think this game actually did *right* what every other single Halo game had struggled with: Boss fights. In here, they focus on giving the bosses personality, avoid making them one-hit KO's for the most part, and give you extra abilities so you can continuously improve and be creative on them. The gameplay is solid, although I agree on the points you mentioned regarding the need for a greater diversity of biomes, the Endless being sold as a greater threat than the Flood somehow and with little information, and the fact the story doesn't get to say much. Other than that, I really enjoy the Infinite campaign.

Blademaster fight was my favorite in Infinite just because it frustrated me so much that I just stopped using game mechanics to beat him and just listened for his foot steps. I even closed my eyes like some crazy samurai master god and whooped his ass immediately.

The only play through of this game i did on Legendary on day one. The bosses are so much damn difficult that the final boss took me 3…3 damn hours.

I replayed the game multiples times on legendary and I love the bosses. Some (like that spartan hunter duo) suck major balls but the rest are a lot of fun to fight

This fight 10:48 was a major let down for me. I had brought a turret gun and that stun locked him until he died... It was only afterwards I found out people thought he was hard.

as an avid Halo fan who's also a huge NFL fan, I was most pleasantly surprised by Elvis Grbac making an appearance in this video

I really enjoyed it at the time. I was feckin' gasping for a new Halo campaign, and would agree the core gameplay is addictive. But you picked up on my main grievance with it; while the open world had it's upsides, we completely lost one of the best things about Halo: distinct and memorable levels. I also HATE 343s trait of throwing us into a story halfway through, and the Infinite campaign absolutely needs at least two DLCs to book-end the story, although it wouldn't surprise me at all if 343 have no idea what to do with the Endless going forward. But ye, IDGAF about multiplayer, so unless something big comes along, I won't touch Infinite for a while.

Leaving a like for the "couldn't care less what arbiterfan420 thinks" bit

7:10 its widely theorized that the endless are the precursors, who have been in the halo lore since bungie and are literally alien gods and most likely way worse than the flood (the flood is "corrupted" remains of the precursors), it makes complete sense in lore and the precursors are something everyone wants to see in the games for the longest time

Pretty much the only way I can play the campaign is if I blitz through all the main missions and ignore side content because otherwise I would just get really bored. Despite how much I like the weapon sandbox and enemies (up there with Halo Reach in my opinion), it’s so formulaic and repetitive when it comes to the design of encounters and the environments you fight in.

Hope you get 100k subs bro

The Sequence is the mission most harmed by the Grappleshot and air vehicle availability. With those it's extremely bland, but if you play it without the Grappleshot and only using ground vehicles it's probably the best mission in the game with a real Tsavo Highway feeling as it routes you through a nice mix of side missions to reach the towers.

Going to what you said about playing on Legendary, and yeah, the bosses are pretty tough, but they're doable. It's the easiest Legendary in the series for me, the one thing I really struggled with was the two red hunters in that small room. That was tough.

Halo infinite felt pretty good for the story part and it was fun at times to mess around in different ways

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Its my 3rd favorite, the closest thing we will probably have to CE.

I still maintain that this campaign could have been GREAT if instead of ignoring it to focus on multiplayer, we got new segments of the ring opened up over time and updates that brought in old characters and weapons. It may take longer for the updates but like can you imagine an update that brought back the arbiter, covenant weapons that were missing from infinite, give us a swampy area somewhat akin to the first flood mission from halo 1 and then a new swamp map to multiplayer? Or snow capped mountains like assault on the control room, bringing back lasky and palmer and giving us the classic halo magnum and shotgun? And as the game continued the ring would have slowly been fleshed out to the point where you have all the environments the first halo game had, but you could visit them at will. And explore them with your friends.

I’m playing through it again to see what I think. I loved the linear sections like foundation and the tower for example but didn’t like the open world idea as it’s just far cry. On the art style I wish they had made it more gritty like reach because everything looks shiny and plastic like.

My first play through was on legendary and I genuinely had a good time the jackals weren’t as bad as halo 2 but were around halo 3 level maybe even a little less none the less I found it about more or less challenging than halo 3 and I was quite happy with that, that and the art style filled me with joy honestly I don’t have much complaints for infinite just wish I had more people to play it with

If we'd gotten short, high-frequency DLC after this, all of these problems could have been resolved! - Not enough biome diversity? Include desert missions in the DLC taking place where we left of with Chief. - Not enough linear missions? Make the DLC all linear missions, maybe with a few expansions to the original openworld. Such a great foundation, but...

Infinite's campaign was awesome. Only complaint was how the linear levels (non open world levels) reused a lot of the same rooms, were mostly indoors and the open world had no variety in biomes. All that aside Infinite's campaign is a god damn slapper imo and it's a damn shame they decided against doing DLC. It really felt like the begining of a new arch for Halo's story and now it will be years before we ever see any kind of continuation

Oh playing this game on legendary is HARD. Tank gun usage aside, it’s one of, it not the only halo game where personally, I found it almost as difficult without skulls than with skulls. Once you know skips it becomes a lot easier but doing it as intended was a time consuming experience. The blood blade elite on legendary still gives me nightmares to this day: on my first legendary playthrough it took me two days just to beat it. Definitely not as hard as halo 1, 2 and 4, but I’d arguably put it next to those in terms of legendary difficulty, if played the intended way.

Agree with you on everything except the idea that the endless cant be worse than the flood. Its established in the camoaign that they're worse in the sense that theyre naturally immune to the halo rings which means if they were to be infected with the flood then they would create a flood type that is also immune to the halos and would also not starve the flood of food. Otherwise, awesome video, got yourself a sub 👍

Never thought I'd find a video that feels the exact same way as I do on the campaign. Infinite's multiplayer is the last and only game's PvP I can even stand playing, and enjoy every so often since drifting further and further away from PvP overall. But yeah, the main reason I kinda dread replaying the campaign overall, on normal like I always do, is because the non-monitor boss fights were so freaking hard.

Halo Infinite feels like the least passionate Halo game, the one that reeks the most of "corporate focus group checklist". Its like the devs were sat down and went "okay, we have to bring back vehicles, the covenant aliens need to come back, classic art style emulation, etc etc" but didnt stop to actually think about WHY those things were necessary and present initially. If Halo Infinite was a standalone game with no famous IP attached to it, nobody on the dev team would even THINK of adding something as redundant as vehicles or a sprint button when you already have a grapplehook that renders both of them useless, especially in a big empty open world that sucks to drive around in and traverse.

The whole game is just a deluxe version of Silent Cartographer.

I agree with everything in this video! I was always bothered by the northeast region of the map. I understand the Scorpion road level was kind of a finale to the over-world. Just hope for a DLC for the north most part of it.

Love your Elvis Grbac reference.

I honestly hope the next halo campaign is open world. They did good the first time now they can improve on it in the next game to fix all these issues mentioned

I really like it, actually I think it was too short! So many questions unanswered

I absolutely love the fsct that your being real with your opinions and not just saying stuff to get views. Ofcourse the entire point of the channel is ti get ciews, but you aren't trying to be a simp for views snd that attitude is really refreshing and known to take people far. Atriox never died, he just went to the ark and got beat by Jerome and Captain Cutter! Fyi, this game allowed us to finally solve the halo 3 sandtrap mystery! Also, you're supposed to use the shotgun to kill the red elite? I always use the commando, threst sensor, and thruster. I do agree eith your assessment of the lack of biomes. It makes sense considering how small the entire map is, but I really would have appreciated seing more scorched ground, maybe some glasses ground, a desert biome like in the end cutscene, and a winter biome espy considering outpost tremonious is above a flood containment facility. I do with that they would add the repulsir to the campaign. It's my favorite equipment to use and I think they needed to make the brutes more terrifying by finding their marine leftovers. It would add some urgency to the open world and some horror.

My first playthrough was pretty awesome, the story to me was solid enough to enjoy with enough fanservice for me to seem like the game WANTED to be a Halo game, instead of seeming like it was just dragging the name along with it whilst wanting to be something else like H5's story. I teared up at some music moments, mainly Luck, since it felt like going home again, it was pretty great to feel those emotions for Halo again, and that's how I'd describe it, I was feeling the right emotions I should when playing a Halo campaign. Buuut, a big factor missing here is that the campaign is trying, but I think it could've afforded to try more, and be more ambitious, like something to compete with fighting Scarabs in H3, or the first and last Warthog Run, or even just the variety in biomes in all previous games, there just doesn't feel like there's enough spectacle to the adventure, and with the story going between the Banished perspective and the Chief perspective, it looked like they were trying to capture H2's scale in storytelling, but again, both the gameplay, and the story, don't go far enough in my opinion.

The Grapple hook was a fun feature. Wish there was a Scarab though

I actually still liked the boss fights and the gameplay is awesome. I agree with you that there needed to be more biomes and variety. I feel like they set the foundation with plans to expand the biomes with DLC content but that obviously never happened. I hope the next game keeps the character designs in tack and the gameplay because that is the one part that they nailed with infinite. It felt like halo again. I also liked the banished faction with atroix so I hope they keep that going. Need multiplayer in campaign though. Would be fun to tag team a boss.

One issue that no one except the ones who study film are the cutscenes. I have two issues with them. They do the boring one take thing God of War does that doesn't work. Even if you never die and play in one run, accessing the menus still cuts. And making it all in one take makes the cinematography visually bland. There's not a lot of interesting shots. The in engine cutscenes has really bland cinematography because of the aspect ratio. They're made for wide-screen and ultrawide screen. This is called shoot to protect where shots are made for both ratios. Unfortunately this also means they can't utilise the fool potential of either ratio. Is this all nitpicky? Yes. But both of these does require a lot more effort to put in compared to making cutscenes with cuts and made for one ratio. We all know everyone on 343 worked their butts off, and trying to do these thing makes them worse but requires more work just to cater to gamers. Cause gamers are their own worst enemies who don't know what makes something good

The only real flaw of infinite campaign, was 343s lack of support for it. You can definitely tell multiplayer is there bread and butter, because they gave absolutely zero love to campaign players.

Just finished it for the first time, and it feels like year 2 Josh Allen, raw, mistakes are blatant, but man is there potential for something potentially great in the making.

Sequence is a level thats fun if you actually use the unlocks you get from completing side adjectives ussing marines and a razor back to storm on of the objectivs and then using a scropion the next

10:12 Those damn videos 😭

Halo infinite is just a massive "what could've been." Everything we got was just missed potential

He is a frog. A frog for us all. An infinite frog, even.

On ur last livestream i said that next vid be like: Was Halo infinite better than i remember. Now look where we are.

The thing I notice the most about 343's campaigns is that they're mostly trying to be the first game, it's like they're testing the waters to see what the community wants to see. Like in Halo 4 they wanted to see if the community would be okay with the master chief being more human. With Halo 5 it was Locke... we don't talk about Locke. With Halo Infinite it is obviously a back to form but it became a first game again because they figured out that the whole Cortana thing in Halo 5 was pretty bad. I like to see where Infinite's story is heading and really wish they ship it as dlc instead of a entirely new game. I think the idea of open world is cool but they should try to hide levels in a way like how ODST did with their "open world" so that they can add a variety of biomes in the levels

The entire campaign team was let go shortly after release so that probably ended any plans for dlc

11:08 Halo Infinite was the first Halo I played, and yes I played it on legendary the first time, loads of fun at the expense of my mental health whenever I fought a boss, but I'm overly competitive and way too stubborn to realise when my mental health is at risk because of a virtual game therefore I did not lower difficulty. Then I played legendary REACH as my first MCC game and had a literal breakdown. I will forever be greatfull to legendary ODST being easy and allowing my brain to rest.

Beat it on legendary 2 years ago. Just got game pass so I could go back & get 100% since they added stance rewards for it. I’m so glad I didn’t have to replay the missions, the story is meh & I just ran through them for the skulls. After spending many hours exploring every nook & cranny of the world though, I think it has a charm to it. I overall enjoyed putting on some lofi & enjoying the brisk nature. It just needed some biome variety, & a better story taking place in it. More enemy variety too. Having the flood roaming around, maybe even an underground flood hive biome, would’ve really been cool

The only redeeming quality with Infinite for me is the gameplay. I honestly found the campaign underwhelming. It was exciting for the first hours but as you continue playing and noticing how everything feels and looks the same, it starts to become boring. I can't even recall any set pieces or memorable levels here. Really hope that 343 goes back into the linear format instead of pursing this open world idea.

It needed more main mission variety, hve varied mission design like other campaigns and a more banished centric backdrop, easily the best campaign

The mechanics were great. Grappling hook was a stellar addition. It was fun wreaking havoc on the Banished. That being said, they could have done the open world thing and still made the missions much cooler and included different biomes. Big let down on the environment and level design front. Edit: Also it's nice having marines actually be useful for once. I forget the name of the vehicle but the one that fits like six people inside, roll up to an outpost after giving some marines rocket launchers. By the time the base is captured most of them area dead, true, but they keep the heat off of you for a lot longer and can get some kills in. Edit2: Finally a really good assault rifle too.

Halo 5 and Infinite were the only campaigns I wasn’t prompted to replay right after finishing the final mission