‘Halo Infinite’ should have been delayed again. Season 2 is proof.

Longtime Halo fans have understood this since launch: “Halo Infinite” needed more than a year’s delay.

[Jin_Sakai]

Delaying the game over and over isn’t going to fix the problem when 343i are the problem.

[porkChop]

Yup. Great gameplay but the content rollout has been excruciatingly slow. 343 just doesn't have what it takes to pull something like this off.

[Eonjay]

Something made a point that you want to delay a game to avoid a cyberpunk situation then someone noted that cyberpunk was delayed 4 times. So point taken.

[kayoss]

This is what happens when you put a AAA game like halo on Gamepass. 343i is not making money, so there is no need to rush out more content.

[Jin_Sakai]

“This is what happens when you put a AAA game like halo on Gamepass.”

Here we go again. It’s 343i that’s the problem. Halo 4 MP sucked, Halo 5 campaign sucked, Halo Infinite content sucks.

Halo Infinite was in bad shape before it was even revealed. They lost 2 game directors and delayed the game a year and still launched with the least maps of any Halo game to date.

[S2Killinit]

@Jin
Yes, They sucked because the incentive is lacking.

[Orbilator]

Got to agree game felt pretty lifeless to me, I really struggled to finish the campaign as I just didn't care half way through.
And multiplayer was ok but became stagnant so quick. I was really disappointed. 343i are the problem

[northpaws]

When your boss tell you to do something, you do it, it is your job.

Phil in the other hand needs to be responsible for this, he has to foresee the problem, either pull the plug, steer it to the right direction, give them more resources, or find a different studio.

Finding the wrong team for a project, is no one but Phil's fault.

[-Foxtrot]

Phil can’t do no wrong

He’s a God

Haven’t you heard

/s

[LOGICWINS]

Halo: Infinite will be dead once the entire COD back catalog comes to Game Pass. I suspect 343 knows this, so they have little incentive to rush out content.

Microsoft needs to give Halo to Machine Games or ID Software. 343 needs to be shut down immediately.

[neutralgamer1992]

Jin

Couldn't agree more

[1Victor]

The developer aren’t the only ones to blame it’s easy to blame them when stuff goes horribly wrong the studio had a hard set deadline(console launch no matter what is sacrificed) and the game got delayed because it didn’t had the visuals quality that was expected of a next gen console compared with their competitor launch games. Is it a bad game not by a mile according to the hardcore fans here did it needed more time that is obvious as the time the developer would had to make “extra content “ was used up to polish the game to the point it is.

Microsoft got as much or more to be blamed and I don’t see anyone saying anything just blaming the developer for poor upper management decisions and lies.

[frostypants]

NEXT time will be different! /s

They keep making the same mistake: trusting this half baked studio. Strip the franchise from them already.

[annoyedgamer]

Delay Halo, Delay Gears (Of War) 5. Delay Crackdown 3, just delay everything...

[Orbilator]

Actually that's all they have delays and promises. Nothing out worth talking about.

Just Phil promising on what's to come.

Billions of investment and zip to show for it.

[awiseman]

Well they use that money to hire people based on politics and not talent. This is the result.

[Father__Merrin]

Uninstalled campaign very flat the open world doesn't suit halo. Multiplayer is pretty good though

[Pocahontas]

Campaign was awesome

[ChubbyBlade]

Campaign was a sanitized mess. Violence was toned down for kids, the villains were Saturday morning cartoon characters, no blood, marines are basically invincible, no dread, no biome diversity, vehicles are useless and not fun, etc.

[northpaws]

I think they needed to stop from scratch... with a different studio, it is beyond repairs

A Halo with co-op is not a Halo.

Live services is not the answer to everything. I hope other highly anticipated games don't become live service shit.

[franwex]

They were correct to release it when they did. Let’s look at the meltdown regarding the Bethesda delay. Microsoft has a severe drought of games after all, and people will still buy it anyway.

[FlavorLav01]

I respectfully disagree. They should’ve delayed the console launch all together until they had one or two games in the chamber to start the new gen. Going an entire year before a single 1st party team was ready with a single product was just foolish. But instead it was more about racing out door for market share’s sake, PR’ing us to death about gamepass, and more promises about a future that still seems pretty far off.

[MizHDTV]

Means a lot coming from the WashingtonCompost

[rakentaja]

It's not all negative. In terms of gameplay and sound effects, 343 has surpassed itself for sure.

[Godmars290]

Wonder what, if from the beginning, it had been a Series X only release.

[moriarty1889]

Seems like almost every MS exclusive lately is either delayed or severely underwhelming.

[FlavorLav01]

It’s been that way since ever since the decent start of xbox one days with Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive, Ryse: Son of Rome… ever since, variety and quality in AAA games or IPs outside of their tentpole 3…Halo, Gears, and Forza has been nowhere to be found. Everything else has been mediocre (recore, state of decay) or downright nauseating gas lighting overhype (crackdown3)

[moriarty1889]

Very true and well said.

[Crows90]

A turd is a turd no matter how much polish. Campaign is enormously forgettableand the multiplayer can't keep up with content. MTX is some of the worst I've seen lately.

Gunplay is as solid as halo has been in the past.

[RosweeSon]

To be honest they should have probably delayed their entire next gen for a year but 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

[isarai]

Or how about not making it a GAAS model to start with, i dunno just a thought

[moriarty1889]

Yes. GAAS has ruined the quality of games. The results speak for,themselves.

[jonivtec]

I did play the game mostly solo....it was awesome ...good old Halo feel with some modern twist . Was looking goos on my pc to.(solid rig indeed)

[jznrpg]

Everyone blames 343 , but 343 was created by MS . This problem with games is MS Xbox divisions fault . Xbox is good at failing . It’s been like this for almost 15 years .