Doomslayer has the meat hook tho… [spoiler]Close enough lol[/spoiler]

I think that grappling hooks are a good idea, but often fall short. The only grapple hook that I like is the TF2 one, I love how you preserve your momentum. You don’t need to worry about the Halo Infinite grapple, the way it looks is that it is an equipment. Like an early bubble shield. The Apex Pathfinder grapple is sad, you move so slowly and you can’t really swing around. TF2 is such a good game, I wish it’s physics and concepts would be taken and actually implemented well into new games.

I liked the yo-yo in Lost Planet.

Too many grappling hooks, not enough Batropes and Batarangs.

Yeah even a game I really like, ultra kill, has one. Granted it’s only really used in one mission so far for parkour but it really seems unnecessary. The only uses for parkour are limited to grappling to green orbs. The only other use I could come up with is grappling a stone face to get up close with the shotgun to get the parry bonus damage on it Most people who I see play don’t use it almost at all, except if they get knocked off an arena and don’t have dashes which is really rare. It’s still a great game though

Pathfinder has a grappling hook, don’t shame him.

[i]Tenchu[/i] made great use of the grappling hook.

It’s an overused feature yeah, most games aren’t even creative about using it. Infinite is like the last recent game I know about but halos been chasing trends or being like CoD for years and years now so I’m not surprised halos taking another feature like that.

My favorite grappling hook was in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. As far as platforming went, it was pretty standard. You know, latch onto a wall, get pulled to wall. Very creative. But, the grappling hook’s main purpose in this game wasn’t to assist in platforming, it was to assist in combat. Latching onto any enemy would trigger the game’s dodge, where you swing around the whole field behind the baddie. On top of that, though, there were several grapple-based attacks, ranging from a charge attack, pulling the enemies towards you, swinging them over your head and painfully into the ground, and inflicting status effects. There were probably more, too, it’s been a while. It was a blast, swinging around enemies, launching them into eachother, etc. The one in Risk of Rain 2 isn’t bad, either. It belongs to the Loader, who has no other movement abilities*, and is pretty slow, making effective grappling the only good way to get around. There’s also the one in Sundered, which was really fun—upgraded to uts eldritch form and every grapple also gave you an omni-directional air dash. Those are the only three I can really think of that I’ve enjoyed, though. Aside from that, grapples have never really appealed to me that much. At best it’s kinda just there, and at worst I usually find it annoying. I think the big issue is for a grappling hook to [i]really[/i] be fun, the character needs to be built around it. Sakuna’s grappling hook is her main weapon, your example of Titanfall had it as a key part of the moveset, and Loader as I mentioned has it as their only movement ability. In many games, like Ori & the Will of the Wisps, the grappling hook feels more like an afterthought. It’s not something they built the game around, it’s just something they put in ‘cause they’re popular. But eh, it’s whatever. Rarely is the addition of a grappling hook something I despise. Most of the time it’s just there, so, like, whatever. I want to play Sakuna now. I wish it had more of a post-game. [spoiler]*Loader [i]technically[/i] has a second movement ability in their charge punch, but it’s not very reliable.[/spoiler]

From what I've heard of people who played the game, Infinite's Grapple hook felt refreshing to use, compared to other games. I wouldn't know for myself, but I hope that's the case.