Everyone's praising Halo Infinite and I don't get it. I've said this elsewhere, but to me the plot felt like The Rise of Skywalker of Halo games. Most of the plot was cleaning up after Halo 5, but with two side stories involving Generic Old Warrior Guy Who Likes Fighting and Didact 2.0. The open world is just the standard Ubisoft formula, hence the super clever title, minus crafting and hunting because they couldn't fit the wildlife into the game. Aside from the single ship, everything else takes place in forested mountain and Forerunner buildings. Even Halo CE had more variety with Snow, Swamp, a Beach Episode, and even some of the Forerunner facilities felt unique until they start reusing them. Hell, Halo 5 had more variety. I didn't time it, but the campaign minus open world filler felt a lot shorter than Halo 5. Take that with a grain of salt though. Or a pile if you wanna interpret all of this as seething rage, you do you. The weapons are kinds bleh. - Power Weapons felt too weak for the low ammo they hold compared to just using a BR. - Idk why they replaced so many older weapons with strictly worse versions: Commando/DMR, Ravager/Bruteshot, Not Mauler/Mauler, and whatever that new Covy rifle is that isn't the Needle Rifle or Beam Rifle. - Why the Disrupter? What even is it? Vehicles are still made of plastic and bounce from hitting any pixel, then explode. Why the Wasp? 1v1 against a Banshee you'll win just spinning like a top and shooting marshmallows for a few minutes, but Banshees usually come in pairs and they are EVERYWHERE. I'd leave a base and they'd just spawn right in front of me. After the Hornet and Falcon, it felt terrible. Speaking of the Falcon dude that would've made the Open World so much more fun. Just load that up with marines, flying over bases, add coop to the mix and you could have a pair covering from above... man I -blam!- loved the Falcon. Boss fights sucked. They're just bullet sponges that can kill you faster. The pilot was kinda annoying. Kept going on about how alone we were but we've got like six bases full of marine squads we rescued. And continuing on from that point, I kinda think the Open World stuff was an after thought. - Most of the story everyone's going on about how it's up to us 3 alone, with nobody else, everyone's dead, ignore those marines, they're just dust and echoes. - There's like one mission involving a vehicle and you get a tank. The Wasp has one seat, and there's a Mongoose with guns. - Actual story missions don't include marines ever. They only exist for open world. Obligatory Multiplayer Rant. Everyone's praising 343 for listening to the community, but that's not what's going on. They made the monetization as awful as they did to see how far they'd have to dial it back and look like heroes for doing it. But it's still Halo. It's still Microsoft. They coulda just released it as a $60 shooter like the old days, all that customization included, and the shareholders would still be bathing in pools of cash and the fans would praise them as the Saviors of Triple A Shooter Gaming. Honestly the whole thing just feels like an amalgamation of everything wrong in the industry. I dunno. I like Weapon. And hey, it wasn't totally infested with bugs and unplayable, which is impressive by today's incredibly low standards! Alright, I spewed thoughts into words, I piss off now.