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Is the Halo Infinite campaign worth it at 50% off?
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Topher
Gold Member
That's really the best way to go. Take advantage of the $1 deal, play the campaign and see for yourself.
Hayabusa83
Member
I quite enjoyed it; however, many of the criticisms are legitimate. Campaign is rather short if you play it on Normal or Easy. There is a lack of biomes/environments throughout the world. I did many of the side missions to increase the length of the game, but even these are copy and paste assassinations. Overall I would give it a 6.5 or 7 out of 10. The original trilogy, Reach, and ODST remain the standards in this series.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Different strokes. My experience regarding the combat and the grappling hook were night and day different than yours. The mobility and verticality it allows makes the combat feel very fresh. Plus the wide variety of shit you can set up by throwing shit around. It really is more of a sandbox than any Halo before it. The combat is as fun as you want it to be.
Lucifers Beard
Member
If you like Halo then yes, absolutely. It’s a bloody great time. Probably my favourite Halo campaign since Halo 3.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
As did I. But what does the OP want to hear? My opinion based on concessions or a more truthful objective view of my experience?
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Hayabusa83
Member
Better than Reach?
No, Reach is the pinnacle of Halo. Long Night of Solace was the single greatest Halo mission in the entire series.
Balducci30
Member
The campaign is very fun imo - do not get the hate
analog_future
Member
Game isn't getting enough credit here.
Yeah, the world isn't truly "open world" in size, and the single biome is disappointing, but 343 expanded the Halo formula in novel ways (and the majority of the changes really work), the visuals are really solid, the music is exquisite, the game tries to do more with Master Chief as a character than ever before, but most importantly...
The gameplay. The combat and gameplay loop is the best ever put in a console first person shooter this side of DOOM or Titanfall 2. The gameplay loop itself reminds me a lot of Spider-Man on PS4/PS5. Repetitive but in all the right ways, where you get into this groove/zone of clearing areas and you just feel like a complete badass. Also like DOOM or Spider-Man, the combat starts to feel like a choreographed ballet as you level up and gain more abilities to use during encounters. It's so fun.
It's one of the best first person shooter campaigns ever when talking strictly from a gameplay perspective.
Yeah, the world isn't truly "open world" in size, and the single biome is disappointing, but 343 expanded the Halo formula in novel ways (and the majority of the changes really work), the visuals are really solid, the music is exquisite, the game tries to do more with Master Chief as a character than ever before, but most importantly...
The gameplay. The combat and gameplay loop is the best ever put in a console first person shooter this side of DOOM or Titanfall 2. The gameplay loop itself reminds me a lot of Spider-Man on PS4/PS5. Repetitive but in all the right ways, where you get into this groove/zone of clearing areas and you just feel like a complete badass. Also like DOOM or Spider-Man, the combat starts to feel like a choreographed ballet as you level up and gain more abilities to use during encounters. It's so fun.
It's one of the best first person shooter campaigns ever when talking strictly from a gameplay perspective.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
Fun << >> Hate
There are myriads of reasons for both sides. Objectively AND subjectively.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
Yeah, the 2021 GAF Game of the Year is not getting enough credit on GAF.
analog_future
Member
Since I’m commenting in this thread, I’m obviously talking about the poll results of this thread. Try to keep up.
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
MP rocks.
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
Yeah Dick. Try to keep up /s
Dick Jones
Gold Member
For you, I'll try to keep it up
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
Topher
Gold Member
Is this trying to balance out the perceived lack of credit with far too much?
For you, I'll try to keep it up
I think he just wanted to call you "Dick"
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bentanchorbolt
Banned
bentanchorbolt
Banned
You can set your Xbox to update in the background when you are at work or sleeping.
cireza
Member
When I am not in front of my console, it is turned off. No reason to waste energy.
22•22
Doesnt need recognition
Yeah never has this ass an issue.
Infinite gets a lot of shit for its story, but I'd love to see someone try to summarise the "plot" of Reach.Better than Reach?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Pretty concise summary here,
Halo Reach - An Emotionally Driven Origin Story
Halo Reach, originally released on Xbox 360, sets the narrative stage for one of the most prolific video game franchises.
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bentanchorbolt
Banned
Energy is a small price to pay to now have my time wasted by sitting through an update that could have happened days ago without be taking part, but to each his own.
GHG
Member
Maybe I should have mentioned this in my OP but gamepass is not a route I'm going down for just this game. Would rather save the $1 offer (if it even exists for me since I'd be a returning subscriber) for when I have a whole bunch of games I want to try - that's likely to be at some point next year if all goes to plan in terms of the release schedule.
I have the money to spend and I want to spend it on something that's going to be worthwhile in terms of my time. I'll wait until its cheaper and then will reassess.
Going to go for Far Cry 6 instead and using the steam wallet money I have for Neon White and Supraland six inches under. Someone else mentioned far cry in this thread and it makes sense in terms of the structures of the 2 games. Should be a decent enough showcase for my recently upgraded hardware as well.
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It's not even a problem of the story itself for Infinite. Pretty much all the game is going in another forerunner base to watch Chief watching holograms as the camera is traveling around him to look like God of War, never seen a narrative that bad in a long time.
After the intro the game is just plain austerity. Never seen a game where the devs just don't give anything to make you excited at any moment. Even games deemed as repetitive have their moments.
People talk about the only biome but that's just a part of the problem. It's not like there is anything interesting to see in that one little biome. Even if some content was cut, let's assume it was meant to be one third of the content, it would have been a bad third anyway.
The fact they nailed the gameplay perfectly makes it all the more frustrating.
After the intro the game is just plain austerity. Never seen a game where the devs just don't give anything to make you excited at any moment. Even games deemed as repetitive have their moments.
People talk about the only biome but that's just a part of the problem. It's not like there is anything interesting to see in that one little biome. Even if some content was cut, let's assume it was meant to be one third of the content, it would have been a bad third anyway.
The fact they nailed the gameplay perfectly makes it all the more frustrating.
That's the premise, not what actually happens during the missions. Out of 11 missions, the last 2 have some form of meaningful objective of preserving a Cortana fragment. For the rest I think you'll struggle to remember what the point of anything was, or what exactly was achieved.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That is due to the outcomes not changing anything leading up to CE. Humans get fucked is the premise.
I will still take that game's premise and structure over the angry murder ape yelling at me at every rinse and repeat checkpoint and some weird "love story" in Infinite. Murder ape is the dullest and most uninspiring baddy in Halo history.
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JerryinSoCal
Member
Honestly I wouldn't buy it, it's too bad they don't have short weekly GP memberships so you could just sign up for $3 and finish it. It's short, the story is almost non existent and after about 10 minutes or so of gameplay you've basically seen the entire world. It's all the same metal dungeon or the same ground, rocks and trees. The gameplay is great but everything else? it really does seem like a game that had a ton of things cut from it just to get out the door. It didn't deserve the reviews it got, it's a 6 at best as an overall package with the gameplay being 9 and everything else being average at best.
cireza
Member
Energy is the highest price to pay, along other things we waste without second thought.
Well designed games don't need 60 GB updates every 2 weeks.
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Fredrik
Member
Edit: not needed, sorry GHG.
Yeah I played it through Gamepass, and I’m glad I didn’t buy it. The grappling hook was cool, the combat was tight, but it felt samey and boring for me, not enough exploration rewards, mostly similar enemy bases spread out on an otherwise empty map with no real biome differences.
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bentanchorbolt
Banned
bentanchorbolt
Banned
I guess I'm spoiled then since my energy prices are amongst the cheapest in the US, and I also don't worry about update size and timing in regards to how I view the quality of a game.
LordOfChaos
Member
It's pretty good as a standalone game. The only real big flaw to me is that it's the third game in a row where it kind of just discards everything the last game set up and resolves it mostly offscreen, but the plot Guardians set up was sort of garbage anyway.
the_master
Member
It is a grear campaign worth the full price.
Should be better for a main Halo game, but it is still great. Especially fun and engaging in legendary.
Buy it!
Should be better for a main Halo game, but it is still great. Especially fun and engaging in legendary.
Buy it!
