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.

[–] BestTestInTheWest@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Do people not like infinite? A mate and I are playing coop currently and I'm really enjoying it.

[–] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Infinite has coop now??

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jeez, no wonder Infinite has always had such a bad reputation then!

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Master Chief Collection doesn't have split screen campaigns on PC

So fucking upsetting getting it all set up only to be told it's online only. It's fucking Halo!!!!

[–] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Then even more pissed off that it's in the console version. Why cut features between the two??

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can really tell that campaign took a back seat in the game. A shame because the open world was honestly a lot of fun, it was just empty and hollow because of such of a lame story. You could have been jumping between worlds fighting Cortana for the survival of the human race. Instead.... we're lost on a ring again, and we're fighting a brute guy we don't care about, while desperate for any actual story about what the hell happened

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Halo 5 is still the worst Halo game.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I STRONGLY disagree. 5 was a letdown with some bright spots. Infinite is offensively bad with no redeeming value.

Even if you remove Infinite, 5's combat is better than 4's in every single way. I would split second worst between those two depending on what aspects you're comparing.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

5's combat is better than 4's in every single way

Halo 5 has ADS and Halo 4 does not. This alone makes Halo 5 combat worse.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I played Halo 5 Forge on PC no scratch the Halo itch when MCC wasnt even announced yet (I felt so cool for knowing that exists).
If I could choose, I'd play Halo 5 Forge over Infinite. But I like the gadgets more than the booster feature.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Infinite is good now with the netcode having been re worked. It has a few poor maps and bad choices regarding forge and split screen. Ut actually playing the game is fun in most cases.