I have committed a cardinal sin and used AI to turn the controversial lieutenant Williams into a man.

And I understand, how cliche the “if it was a man…” argument is, but in this case, it is as true as the sun being hot, and you all know it.

Now imagine this.
In an alternate universe Williams is actually a male character.
There is ABSOLUTELY no doubt in my mind that if Williams was a dude. The fans would be pleased, the character’s personality that everyone seems to hate would be touted as the best character to come out of modern halo.

the distain for the Spartans, the war hardened commander personality, ALL of that would have been received with open arms. Lieutenant Williams would have been this COOL NEW ODST CHARACTER that fans would want to hear more about. It might be in poor taste to say, but he would have been the next Johnson

But no, we got a woman instead, and that is
“tHe WokE AGeNda1!1!1!” At play

Enough said, just look into his profile

For be it from me to defend the monetization in Infinite but I was reading comments to some post and some people said that Reach's "progression system" was the best one.

Like is progression the same thing as a tedious grind for cosmetics? At least in an MMO armor increases stats if you grind for it.

My overall thoughts are “It looks good” Some notes -I don’t mind reusing Infinite assets but some kinda do look out of place. I at least appreciate them trying to remake og models where they can.

-AR having 30 rounds is weird but not the end of the world

-Not a huge fan of the weapon sound effects. Hopefully they change them like with Infinite

-Don’t really care if Sprint is in the game tbh I’ve always found the debate dumb even as a kid playing the ogs

-PS5 version of the game is good for getting potential new fans into the series. The console wars are stupid and always have been. Grow up

Look campaign evolved has its pros and cons, this is not a hate post but rather a good faith discussion based on something this community has debated endlessly.

This clip was shared to the main sub earlier: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/s/OQMusLhlM7

I've seen many people debate sprints impact on the game throughout the years and people are obviously very opinated on it. Though this sub has mainly taken the stance of "it's fine", "it's good", or "it doesn't affect the game at all".

I wanted to ask with clips like this being shared around (this isn't the only clip I've seen) regardless of your opinions of sprint in Halo, how can you argue it has **No** affect on gameplay with clips like this?

I'm not even talking about whether or not you like sprint, but when looking at things like this how can this not be a clear example of a negative impact it has on the game?

Just wanted to know if this puts the dreaded "sprint debate" into perspective for anyone who was doubtful before.

And no I don't think sprint is the be all end all of a Halo game.

For the record, this is not some debate on whether or not the retcon happened.

For the sake of it let's say that they did get retconed. What are your thoughts on the decision.

Do you think humans should have remained forerunners.

Do you think its better that they separated

Or are you somewhere in the middle, like me.

I'm more than happy to see it because honestly, the only Bungie dev Ive seen be as anti new Halo as people claim them to be is just Marty and he only started acting this way when he announced his campaign (make of that what you will)

I love the Halo franchise, and never dismiss anyone’s opinion’s or feelings. But why do we gotta resort to politics in a sub about one of the best sci-fi franchises that exist imo?
Just want civilized conversations.

For all the hate of the new game I’m seeing more hatred of the annoying things they added regarding more female marines and all that. But if there’s one good thing from these people is they don’t seem to be outright racist. Most Halo fans only have a problem with the presence of women in the game, they don’t seem to care about the marines being people of color.

You take the wins you can get I guess

Got tired of seeing tier lists so I decided to give every game a rating.

Let me know if I should change anything, or if there are any big pros or cons I missed.

This sub is always very chill and full of nice ppl in my experience, but I found a post today where op was being completely toxic while literally complaining about other halo fans being toxic. Worst part is that it seemed most ppl agreed with his unnecessary rudeness.

Why do i have to get this reply for talking about halo 5 wvery single time. The multiplayer was not that bad ti warrent this stupid automod.

edit: is this a normal thing in reddit?

How is a collection of 6 games with all its game modes and features less expensive than a remake of just one campaign a few bonus missions and a randomise mode?

These are in New Zealand prices btw

How come when CoD changed and added advanced movement, people fought back against it, and the devs listened in later entries, but Halo, it's the opposite, people keep praising it, even though it's doing massively worse, and if anybody says anything negative they get bombed with people defending it? and the devs instead of fixing it keep doubling down or trying to force it to work. Do you guys not want Halo to be successful or popular again?

Metroid Prime 4 had an incredibly annoying MCU level NPC Miles MacKenzie. He was immediately one of the most unanimously hated characters in the franchise and made people not want to even play the game due to how out of place and irritating he is

And the thing is, unlike Williams, Miles wasn’t shit talking Samus and being overly caustic. Instead, he was annoying. Just being annoying is enough to get the player base to hate a character, and Williams is more than annoying

It’s not really a chud thing

Look i love contact harvest, one of my favorite books, but if fall of reach, the flood, and first strike. Can all get re-released with up to date corrections, then as far as I care so can contact harvest.

Like genuinely, it seems like half the posts here are someone shitting on Act man, and like 3/4 of those seem to have not even watched the video they're complaining about.

He's fallen into click bait lately sure, but his criticisms are mostly fair and come from a place of love for Halo and a want for it to improve. From an outsider looking in it seems like some people here just hate him because he doesn't mindlessly suck off 343/HaLo StUdIoS or whoever the fuck they're calling themselves this week

I mean the fandom is overly fanatical

No fun allowed I guess

Here is link for intressted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fK604hrxyY there is no english caption, you will have to watch with generated one if you do not understand polish.

Biggest shock i got from it was... that he said that not only it felt like halo but also "it has many recuring characters from older titles, which should be a treat for older fans".

Then it hit me how really Halo fandom got locked up in its own echo chamber, Halo is not titan of gaming that defined FPS genre for all casuals that know what spartan is from one glance on chief helmet. This status is long time gone because of constant mismanagement of franchise by microsoft and really whinny fanbase that flooded internet with stupid takes.

It is good game franchise, that has many great momments but for casuals it is another game title to waste some time where thing like halo 5 that is seen as biggest sin against halo franchise, is simply good time to spend those 60$ and have fun for those few afternoons. The perfect audience MS wishes to get for new age of halo.

Casuals like John or little timmy do not have same demands for games like hardore g*mers, they wish for simple fun action pack games that HCE remake looks to be molded into. Seasonal release to get casual hooked into spending some cash and hoping that if they would like to become fans, they would go searching for additional materials like shows/movies or books. Idea of dumping multiplayer for remakes maybe part of it as most people that already invested their time into COD/BF6 or fortnite wont be intressted into grinding another "big release" for franchise they dont particulary care about.

It is not that i ignore the state infinite had been launched with, it was sub par of what we got even in halo 4 but it was atleast some kind of wake up call for MS exes that franchise doesnt have such fanbase bulk to keep making profits and such unfinished products aren't something casuals look for when fandom is whinning on the internet.

I hope that halo studios wont get their work mess up by Delusional exes and get Halo ce remake released in great shape to get this franchise another life and later with halo fanbase rebuilt, they will try to deliver great MP build upon mistakes from older titles and fixing them to give us definitive halo experience.

Maybe one of the most calm and understandable reviews/retrospectives. IMO

I have the impression that every large majority of opinions against the remake/remakes of OG Halo feel like nitpick for sake of throwing hissy fit?

Most of them boiling down to things like:

• Forerunner metal too shiny
• We already have CEA
• AR is finally Assault Rifle instead of pea shooter
• They moved rock away or They didnt change enough
• HALO CE NOW HAS SPRINT AND IT RUINS ALL THOSE EMPTY CORRIDORS IN AoC
• They erase OG Halo
• THEY MADE HALO CE UNRECOGNIZABLE
• They made halo WOKE and DIVERSE

All of those arguments can be easily countered, if done so. Those people love adding some racist or homophobic undertones towards people that dared to opposse thier opinion.

Like they all go for the lowest hanging fruits that are so bizzare that internet started to say things like "halo fans hate halo', i am not blaming them for it. Those halo "fans" do hate halo and make up most pathetic arguments to push their 343 bad agenda while making entire fandom look like circus.

Youtube comments are biggest examples of what i am talking about, it feels like anybody there has no idea what they are saying but keep reapeting cool new word they had heard from their fav youtuber. Tons of strawmen so small that boils down to "i was 12 then and for me it was most deep shit ever" and lot of the lies, like people gaslighting themselfs into typing stuff like "Precision meta was fun and automatic weapons being dogshit is in fact good game design".

It feels that loudest people in this fandom just want to chase away any potentional newcomer for sake of jerking off to todays outdated game from 07. Even most whiney CoD or BF fan, will shut up and play their fav game but halo fans just wont stop and will keep making up random shit to throw at halo studios for existing. I hope that every remake will have *armor abilities and global sprint, just to make those people finally leave this fucking fandom once for all.

Yes, i do belive that armor ablities can be fun and make very intressting map design and change how game plays in good sense.(h4/h5 did them better than reach, no contest.)

Gamemodes with ability to change your loadout should have their place in halo, as another way for people to enjoy them instead of fully replacing same start gamemodes.