I've seen YouTube videos about people saying how 343 Industries "ruined" the Halo series and that Halo Infinite was an insult, at least to my knowledge. And that bugs me and left a sour taste in my mouth since I played Halo 4 and 5 and they weren't even bad, in all honesty, and I enjoyed Infinite. So I don't see what all the hate is about. Here are videos I mentioned:
Are 343's Halo games bad?
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Here's an article that I believe aptly describes the Halo communities disdain for 343 Industries.
www.tomsguide.com
343 Industries can no longer be trusted with Halo — it needs to go
Microsoft needs to give the franchise to another studio
www.tomsguide.com
Halo 1, 2, 3 and reach we’re good. The rest went too far off and didn’t feel right, Especially infinite. I suggest playing Halo 1 through reach but leave the rest out probably.
Something to remember is that multiplayer is a huge part of the Halo fanbase. Tons of people got into the series because they played against friends in Combat Evolved and Halo 2. Friends screwing around in multiplayer is even how the series Red vs Blue started. Casual players going through the campaign aren't going to notice just how deeply the changes have hurt the multiplayer experience. 343's games have had huge bug problems and tons of missing features when compared to Bungie's games, which is crazy when you realize that they already had a blueprint for what to do. There's also been a "dumbing down" of multiplayer that the more competitive fans dislike. It used to be that weapons spawned at specific points of maps and the best Halo players knew the location and interval of these spawns. Halo 4 also introduced a lot of features common in Call of Duty multiplayer that made it much easier for less competitive players to do well. Since Halo's competitive multiplayer was fairly unique before this the changes were not welcome among hardcore fans.
That's not to say there weren't people dissatisfied with the campaign. Personally I hate the changes to the lore. In the Bungie games the Forerunners were a mysterious ancient civilization and the Flood were an intergalactic parasite. In the 343 games, humans were just as powerful as the Forerunners until the Forerunners turned themselves into gray dust that became the Flood. It's an incredibly stupid retcon that didn't need to happen. Then there's all the bs they put Cortana through which I could spend all day complaining about.
If you liked the campaign of 4 and 5, and you're fine with them trampling on Cortana's character, you'll probably enjoy Infinite. But the multiplayer of Infinite was an insult to long term and hardcore fans of the series. It may very well be the death of Halo.
That's not to say there weren't people dissatisfied with the campaign. Personally I hate the changes to the lore. In the Bungie games the Forerunners were a mysterious ancient civilization and the Flood were an intergalactic parasite. In the 343 games, humans were just as powerful as the Forerunners until the Forerunners turned themselves into gray dust that became the Flood. It's an incredibly stupid retcon that didn't need to happen. Then there's all the bs they put Cortana through which I could spend all day complaining about.
If you liked the campaign of 4 and 5, and you're fine with them trampling on Cortana's character, you'll probably enjoy Infinite. But the multiplayer of Infinite was an insult to long term and hardcore fans of the series. It may very well be the death of Halo.
