GR - "A screw up on Microsoft's end allowed thousands of users to download Halo 4's newest DLC for free."
In Halo 4, 5, and Infinite, Master Chief became a more nuanced, human character.
In spite of the Halo series’ struggles, 343 deserves praise for adding nuance and characterisation to the ever-beating heart of Halo - The Master Chief. Playing through Infinite, it's abundantly clear that the events of the current and previous trilogies have irrevocably changed the iconic hero. He’s no longer the ‘blank slate’ that was previously presented by Bungie. He’s a fatigued, damaged and fallible protagonist, and one who is meandering through currents of grief, while reveling in his newfound agency. Giving the Chief a compelling and meaningful voice was no small feat, and 343 should be proud of that victory.
This article completely misses part of the appeal of the original iteration of character in the original game trilogy. It was the Chief and Cortana vs an entire alien collective. The blank slate Bungie displayed in their games was genius, he was an mysterious hero a wide audience could identify with because he wasn't as clearly defined as most characters.
The books added a lot of lore and backstory but most Halo players just want a fun game with exposition that doesn't get in the way of gameplay, it's why the Cortana level in Halo 3 was derided.
Not every character has to be a damaged soyboy, a soldier has to suck it up and do his duty.
The 343i Master Chief has is based on the books. However, in Halo 4-Infinite, the Master Chief overtime become. gradually becomes more willing to show some emotion.
It’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for straying too far from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your Dragon Age II, Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over time, the initial specter of negativity will forever hover it. Microsoft’s Halo is no exception, except that negative specter hasn’t hovered over one particular game, but one whole studio.
Halo 4 released 10 years ago today, and its disappointing reception was just an omen of things to come with 343 Industries at the helm.
Halo 4 and infinite have a 87 on metacritic and five a 84🤣. 343i need contents and everything else will play it self out.
Halo 4-6 are like the Star Wars sequel trilogy
They all just seem like a brand new games with small connections to the last one but no solid arc connecting them, you’re just told stuff that happened off screen in between the games and nothing makes sense
It’s like they didn’t plan a new trilogy out
I'm getting a good gaming laptop soon and i'm finally going to play through the Halo franchise again plus Infinite but i never played Halo 4 before .. can anyone tell me how's the campaign in comparison to the games before it and compared to Halo 5 ?
Can they even charge people for the mess Microsoft made for itself?
How can they? I downloaded it from the the halo 4 menu. I connected to xbox live from there and it said 0 ms points. I could understand if it said 800 ms points then it charged me nothing.
Still works. At this point i think they either don't care or they're doing it intentionally. It shouldn't take THIS long to fix it, especially now that they know what the exact problem is. They haven't made any announcements or anything either.
But it iss shitty for people who paid. They should get some kind of reward.
I wouldn't cross my fingers for the next 2 DLC packs to be free like this. This was without a doubt an error, but it's surprising to see that it hasn't been repaired in over 12 hours.
Good luck charging me MS since I don't have a credit card on my account and only have 200 MS points currently. At best they can attempt to remove it, although again, highly doubtful they will do that. Those MS chat reps don't really ever have a clue wtf is going on, so I'm inclined to believe someone else over them. They also must have some weird translation service which shows you that they are probably way out of the loop or know for that matter.
They can't ban you- this is their mistake and they agreed to give this to you for 0 when you confirmed your download. Transaction complete. Worst case scenario they release a statement and retract the maps. No harm, no foul.
I got it while it was free because i was not sure when us season pass players would get access to the maps