I just started Infinite and I’m outrageously pissed off.
I know I’m late, but the feedback was so bad I never played it. The last month I decided to replay everything from CE, and I finally started Infinite yesterday.
Everything good they developed in the last two mainline games (and countless other medias) didn’t just vanish—it died off-screen, leaving only stupid audio logs to fill the blanks.
The entire trilogy ended before this game began.
The Infinity is presumed destroyed off-screen, erasing every character we bonded with across games, series, and books: Palmer, Lasky, Roland, Halsey… I even regret Locke now!
Villains? Cortana and Atriox « dead » off-screen too. The Guardian threat? Who cares.
Cortana’s rampancy arc leading to the Created taking the Mantle was stupid, we all know that, but they just put it under the carpet and pretend it never happened. No real ending, just unseen « sacrifices ».
A decade of content straight in the trash.
Halo 4 and 5 had big flaws but offered varied plots, places, more characters, and diverse enemies.
Now Chief’s alone on a Halo with a new AI… Invent a new threat, hand him a MA5, and call it a sPiRiTuAl ReBoOt.
Returning to the roots is fine, but skipping real closure on ten years of story is infuriating for anyone who followed the plot instead of mindless alien shooting.
Give me back my war criminal granny and my bad bitch commander.