• Omega@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Halo 5 had a lot of problems. Bit it’s a damned masterpiece compared to Infinite.

    Halo 5 had great gunplay, Warzone Firefight was a blast, the Guardians were a great stand-in for the Halo rings, Cortana was an intimidating enemy by the end of the game, the lootboxes were actually better than the armor cores and marketplace from Infinite.

    There are A LOT of negatives in there too. But a lot of positives. Infinite is just a shitshow from the beginning.

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      9 hours ago

      Them just retconning Cortana was such a letdown. Honestly while 5 wasn’t great, it did set up infinite to be really really good. Then they went with a really boring alternative.

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        4 hours ago

        This is my biggest complaint. Halo 6 was set up to be an amazing game. Then Infinite ended up with zero story. The most interesting stuff in Infinite were the little flashback sequences that bridge 5 to Infinite.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s in a more or less acceptable state now and I play it, but it sure doesn’t live up to the original 10 year live service promise.

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          1 hour ago

          As far as I recall, Infinite has had online co-op, just not local/split screen co-op.

          But don’t quote me on that!

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            1 hour ago

            It did not release with co-op. I think they had to figure out how to make it work with the open world map and zip lining. When I had finished it, it still didn’t have it. When they added it, they also announced that they had stopped trying to make local co-op work.

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                52 minutes ago

                As far as I know, they gave up on assassinations too. To be honest, by the time I finished the game, the missing features were at the bottom of the list of problems I had with it.

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        12 hours ago

        I have a lot of problems with it. Between the “story” and the copy-paste map. I would rather the game didn’t exist, because at least then they could make a follow up to 5’s end.

        I really don’t want to spoil your fun if you’re enjoying it though. A lot of the gameplay elements are fun to play around with.