VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "Halo Infinite does often corner me into praising it "in spite of x faults", rather than the "because of y positives" that I'm used to; that said, it's hard to mind when I'm so thoroughly engaged with what's on offer. It's true the delayed content (Forge/Campaign Co-op) and the live-service approach dampen my enthusiasm, but it shows how much still spills over with what's already here. It's the first time in a decade I felt happily subsumed in the Halo universe once again and I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. After a couple of confused sequels and a botched remaster launch, it's nice to see this team act like proper custodians of the series."
Details regarding the 10-year content plan for Xbox Game Studios and 343 Industries' Halo Infinite have allegedly been revealed.
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"The story would have been expanded through yearly campaign DLC, so players would not have to wait for another mainline Halo title." ~ this seldom works
But I still think, they should've tried 1 last Halo sequel based on that slipspace engine, that they invested so much on but made for current gen only, before going all in on UE5.
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The biggest voices of Xbox’s Halo franchise have been told nothing about the multiple new games in development.
Call me a cynic. But it seems that not even the people working in the studio know what’s the status of Halo.
They were going to add a BR mode, which then got cancelled, but now it’s a sequel to infinite, but may be a reboot of the first game?
It may be normal for development to be like this as super Mario galaxy started as cut content from Mario 128, which then became a tech demo, which became pikmin, which eventually became Mario galaxy.
But 343 or whatever they are called now-certainly don’t have a good track record so it makes me wonder what’s happening.
I'd be much more comfortable with the future of Halo if "343" or whatever they call themselves now were no longer in charge of the series.
Halo Infinite now has a functional bowling alley thanks to this amazing Forge map available for free on Xbox and PC.
WTF!!!? Can we add Tic-Tac-Toe, maybe Connect 4? How bout the card game Go Fish? Microsoft should shelve the Halo Franchise for 10 to 20yrs or sell it clearly they have no new ideas to take Halo forward and putting a "Hey gamer finish the game for us" mode and we can make more money off it and we can fire some more game Developers that we really don't even care about.......Microsoft is done even trying to make Halo a game worthy of even a little bit of our time.
MT GaaS are great as long as MS makes them? I know Sony will make some eventually and I won’t like them either if they are modeled with expensive MTs and Battle Passes . I just don’t want a flood of them instead of what makes PS great to begin with.
Of course some of these games can fit into every platform but I don’t understand how people hate them so much but when MS makes one it’s great now? The MTs are pricey and battle passes are going to be prevalent so why love it ?
I know if/when Sony makes a game like this and it’s a money sink I won’t buy it . I don’t hate MP (some are good from time to time ) But I do hate GaaS because of the monetization . 70$ games are hated on but people spend a lot more $$$ on these free to play games with battle passes and MTs and XP boosters and stupid crap like that . I personally prefer a one time fee , it’s mine , that’s it .
I do hate GoTY editions though . They are the one problem I have with full priced games . They should give early adopters the option to upgrade for cheaper . Bethesda is clearly the worst offender for GoTY editions of but others do it too
. I hate GaaS and MTs and don’t get why people think it’s ok for the most popular franchises to go this route ??? Especially with stupid expensive MTs /Rant off
Just finish the Campaing....Best Campaing of the year for me!