Halo Infinite's Campaign Is 343's Best
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- So, Halo Infinite's Campaign is out. After the mixed opinions on Halo 4 and the near critical failure of Halo 5's story, has 343 managed to stick the landing with their latest endeavour?
Twitter: / laperlarden
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:28 Gameplay and Open World
5:25 The Soundtrack (Brief)
6:05 Story Analysis
9:35 Chief's Humanity
10:55 The Banished
12:39 Cortana (End of an Era)
14:38 The Negatives/Nitpicks
18:35 In Conclusion
20:31 But wait, there's more!
Music Credit
-The End by EVA - joshlis.bandcamp.com
Promoted by @RoyaltyFreePlanet - royaltyfreeplanet.com
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-Halo Infinite Campaign OST
-Halo: Combat Evolved Soundtrack
-Halo 3 Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2
-Halo 4 Soundtrack Volume 1
#Halo #HaloInfinite #Xbox20 - Ігри
That podcast idea sounds pretty good
I wonder who could've came up with that...? 🤔
“How . . . how can you trust me?”
“I don’t . . . but I want to.”
Goddamnit, that’s got to be my favorite dialogue exchange through the entire story. The fact the writers of Infinite managed to give Cortana a fitting send off AFTER Halo 5 just blows my mind.
And for better or worse, it gives me hope Locke can get a similar treatment. Assuming if that one Brute using his helmet as a shoulder pad didn’t kill him of course. I was really let down when Halo 5 arrived and Locke wasn’t the “badass anti-hero assassin” type of character he was depicted as in the marketing, so who’s to say if it’ll happen in a future story DLC?
Oh its right fucking there for him to be redeemed, what better character to be jega's anti-thesis of a character
SPOILER: This game's story did what it needed to do it closed off the past games and opened up for a new era with tons of potential. Regarding the legendary ending it is apparent atriox is willing to free the endless to use their time manipulating ability to restore his home planet that was destroyed by cortana. Also from HiddenXperia's video it is very likely the endless are a subspeices or simmilar to the precursors and were the ones origionally chosen to bear the mantle. Anyways this game opens up potential for 343 to do a TON of cool stuff in Halo: The Endless
I was very impressed with Escharum and Atriox was even better.
Very well said!
@@JohnFromAccounting Escharum is my spirit animal
SPOILER: If they do atriox right with him willing to free the endless to restore his home planet he could become one of Halo's best characters just depends how they handle his character arc
I know a lot of people are going to comment on that little edit during the Fernando-Chief scene but some of the fade transitions you did during the section talking about Cortana, especially the shot of her and Chief standing opposite each other in each of the games was so well done. Made me shed a manly tear.
Keep up the content. You’ve got talent for this dude.
"There will be no more sadness, no more anger, no more envy" was the graveminds logic spilling into her
Definitely seems a bit like that.
@@LaperLarden or just a reference
The open world was great to me, I never went more than 5 minutes without running into something that made me say "ooooh what's this?" or "what the hell happened here?" There was once where I found a tower that when you stand on it, it plays the Combat Evolved menu music. There was another time where I accidentally missed a jump/grapple and I fell onto a pillar and found a hidden skull. There was also another time where I was looking for audio logs and I stumbled upon a giant sandwich. Just the fact that I can have stories like this made this game so much fun for me
Being able to kind of relax abit doing some side stuff before going straight into the main missions makes this is game even more enjoyable. (Untill it's on legendary and I'm now in 1966 Vietnam and hiding from sniper jackles in the trees).
I really enjoyed watching this review! There are some pretty memorable missions in the campaign in the forerunner environments but I do agree that some are repetitive. What keeps me remembering those missions are the fantastic cutscenes and story parts of that mission that make me remember it and the boss fights. I feel like this was an attempt by them to make the missions that were repetitive more rememorable. This kinda reminds me of what happened with 2016 with it's missions getting repetitive.
The cutscenes are so well done, they're really what kept me engaged most of the time.
@@LaperLarden exactly I love this game, is it the best no, but it is one of the best Halo games imo. We also need a new game plus system!!!!
@@LaperLarden The cutscenes are well directed and feel very personal, but I missed the big moments we had in previous games.
@@LaperLarden maybe its me, but the graphics seem raw and unfinished and H4 & H5 look better with HW2 & H2A looking the best
>separate video for the soundtrack
As someone who asked my parents to get me the original trilogy's soundtracks for Christmas when I was younger (much to their bewilderment lol), I am beyond stoked to hear people talk about this game's music. Just like my first foray into the franchise, there were times when I would stop and just let the ambient tracks play in the background while I took in the visuals, and it was beyond amazing to hear tracks like "A Walk in the Woods" or "Under Cover of Night" faithfully remade. There are moments in this game where I was back to being an 12 year old, with all of the wonder and curiosity that brings.
Regarding main missions I do feel some were lacking level design I LOVED mission 1 and 2 and I also feel the last 3 are also pretty great but some of the missions in the middle did not have a lot of intresting encounters or situations they put you in
If I could show this to everyone at 343 I would because it perfectly describes my feelings about the game and the future of the franchise, well done, this video was well made
Don't worry brother you're not alone, I also teared up a bit during the Fernando meltdown scene. Chief kneeling next to him has been my wallpaper since that day.
This video was recommended to me for months and I always said I’d go back to watch it. So happy I did because you added perspective on things like the Cortana dialogue and Chiefs humanity that I didn’t take in on my two play throughs. Great analysis Lapen
that reference to harvest in the intro tho, keep up the awesome content bruv, your videos have become the highlight of my fuckin week, rock on
Excellent review! I just waited an entire year to play the campaign with my best friend, and I do think it lives up to my expectations. I enjoyed it, and this review made me appreciate the story even more, the comparisons to Halo’s 2 and 4 really made me feel the connection across the series. Wish you talked about the music more though, I really want to hear your thoughts, and I can’t find a separate video for that like you mentioned, so it looks like you haven’t made it quite yet, but hopefully one day soon. Once again, thanks for the review
Best, most honest review as of yet. I felt generally the same about all this. Keep up the great work!
One note though: Blue Team and Lasky's fate are discovered in the audio logs. And... Escharum's fate... that hit harder than I expected.
You have no idea how relieved I was to hear Laskey's voice and know he was still alive.
Great video. Excited for that podcast
Chief's short but powerful motivation boost to Fernando is my favorite moment in the game
Underrated aspect of infnite all the scenes are shot in just one Camara shot like god of war
Anyone know what the name is of the specific OST at 10:20?
The track is "What Makes Us Human" From Halo Infinite's OST mixed partially with "Green and Blue" from Halo 4.
Love your content, man!
Hey man quick question where did you get all the lil clips of chief when he is young and sees the other Spartans around him die great video btw
Most of that was from the Fall of Reach animated film!
@@LaperLarden thanks a lot
can we all agree the bosses were pretty great especially vs what we had in the past. BTW fuck the brute cheiftan in the harbinger fight
Duuuuuude, F that guy. Lunging like 200 metres to hit me.
Compared to Tartarus, they were great boss fights. Each boss had a character to them. No Scarabs was a shame.
SPOILER: BTW from footage we have seen it seems clear act 2 of the campaign had already been developed in 2020 so it is possible Halo: the endless comes in a year or two
I always love the content you put out, it feels like you go more into detail about the things you speak about regarding Halo. Wether it’s positive or negatives. Great video man
I actually really liked the infinite campaign. However one thing that bugged me was this big set up for the endless just to leave it for future content updates that didn’t end up happening. Also I feel like the endless even being a thing and not the flood is because it’s rated T for team
I really enjoyed the characters and dialogue in infinite! the characterization is great. the characters are very dynamic with each other. I'm also looking forward to see other characters return! arbiter, Lasky, Buck, blue team, and more would be rad to return.
But yeah, one of my favorite parts in the game is chief and the pilot. chief is an absolute badass, but also quite human this time around. chief had some great moments anf i feel they got him down perfectly. you can really hear him mourne and express how emotional he is this time around. one of the most powerful parts for me was a bit of dialogue over the radio with the pilot:
paraphrasing
pilot: chief you got anyone back home to get back to?
chief: no
pilot: then why do you keep fighting?
chief: it's all I know...
absolutely powerful and very sad for the big guy. I loved the gamplay, atmosphere, music, and characters! I'm looking foward to where this story will go in the future! ❤😁👍🏻
That's a like and subscribe from me, dude. I discovered your channel with the Halo 4 video, but now I'm really seeing how much effort you put in. If I could snap my fingers and multiply your sub count x10, I'd do it. In particular I really love creators who are able to go in-depth with complex thematic and storytelling elements, it's refreshing in a world where most story reviews boil down to basic personal opinions about the characters.
On mechanics, I would have liked the equipment to not have an upgraded form, but be better from the beginning.
On the open world, I think it's a very good open world as far as they go. It didn't feel dialed in. There were lots of landmarks, and the Banished outposts weren't recycled like Far Cry content. I would have preferred more biomes like snow, desert, canyons and swamp. Maybe we're getting that later?
The gameplay was excellent, and the best we've ever had in Halo, but the sameness of the map, the lack of big set-pieces and the lack of huge events happening during the story was disappointing. Not bad, just disappointing.
You have some well made vids. Keep it up. I can see you being a big youtuber in future
17:39 Do you play on PC? If so, when you turn the “geometry quality” setting up to ultra, there’s almost no pop-in.
I normally do, but that clip was taken from my first playthrough on Series X.
Leh goooo another video
To me halo infinite is the best game since reach this version of chief is the best blend of 3/4 but. I’m doing my second play through on legendary and a lot of the side objects don’t matter and it feels like filler and you only looking for Spartan cores to upgrade your equipment.
The semi opened world as much as I like it it gets kinda boring after the 8 hour mark because it’s all the same biome and the minute I got a wasp or banshee I didn’t bother with any other vehicle. And I think wildlife on the map would definitely of helped.
But the combat and weapons are really good fun to use. Even tho the sandbox is smaller it’s solid gameplay and the equipment with the guns it just works. the boss battle are good but if you do all the other boss they kinda start blending together sometimes and I think they should be 10 boss fights not 20 but that’s my opinion.
The story is very good but this is definitely made for the fans and I think a lot of casual players aren’t going to like this game because they won’t understand what’s going on it might hurt the game more because of this but it’s no where near as bad as 5 was when you need to watch 3 tv shows, podcast, read 5 book/ comics to understand the bloody story. But I honestly think if 343 do this game the right way In 3 years time this could be the best game in the franchise.
Still waiting for the Halo Infinite’s music break down. Keep up the good work mate 🙌🏻
I think a "Halo's Music and Why We Love It Part 2" might be in order.
Great video, mate.
This was an awesome video. Dude, you need more subs. You put out quality content!
Great content mate good stuff 👏 keep it up
This is the most I've enjoyed a Halo campaign since Halo 3. Reach and ODST have a different feel for me so I'm not really comparing those to Infinite. But I definitely like Infinite more that 4 and 5. I started my first playthrough on Heroic and it felt great.
This campaign video overview/ review and dive is better than the Act Man's. By far in my opinion. Well done Laper, well done.
Your style of narration and editing are on point. You should feel proud of the videos you make.
What an amazing review man 🙌
1:33 Good choice for first song. The most hype part of Infinite's soundtrack. I love Under Cover of Night so much.
Great vid
While I disagree on some points (Boss Fights and Repetition in main missions) it was a really solid and fun review
I'm commenting this at exactly 1:17 A.M. right now. 15:19 lol😂 Wonderful review, man. "...the best in years...", couldn't have said it better myself.👍 Never forget.
I genuinely couldn't find anything to really critique or offer an alternative opinion in this video (in regards to campaign specific content). Overall, a great review, and I can't wait for the podcast, I'll be there
Wow, that's a first! I'm gonna miss the back and fourth banter and discussion! But thanks for tuning in! And yeah, we've got a couple episodes roughly planned out and some potential *guests* ... I'll leave it at that.
fernando in halo infinite is perfect as it shows the consiquences for those soldeirs dead he is one of the people they saved
To me... This is the first actual halo game for 11 years.
Halo 4 was definitely a new game named halo with characters out of the halo universe but 343i just changed too many things at once. Jackal design is a good comparison. They completely thrown away what jackals looked like in the past. And they did not only with jackals or enemy design or design at all but also with story. They have thrown away bungies backstory and explained everything what didn't need to be explained.
But that's just a little of my complaints about what 343i did in the past.
Coming forward to infinite... Its a pleasure to see what 343i did here. They are on the right tracks. Still much work to do and they still don't have the vision bungie back in the days had, but it's good.
Let's go
Wow, another excellent vid
Thank you sir!
Great review, I agree with virtually all of your points.
The banished are awesome honestly, i do wish you didn’t have to kill them though cause they are awesome characters
It’s a good game
my dude u deserve more sub
Excellent video to watch as i take a break from my LASO run, keep up the good content, you're starting to blow up my fellow penal colony member
LASO? Yiiiiikes. Good luck with that one, chief.
@@LaperLarden I’m about 80% done so far, it’s by far the easiest LASO I’ve done but the indoor areas are up there for h2 LASO.
I stopped playing the multiplayer after the campaign was released. I'll just wait for 343 to fix the multiplayer in a year or so. I don't know; they did so well with MCC. I'm sure they can pull it off with Infinite.
The story would have been better if donkey Kong had not kept skyping me every ten minutes.
Trinston was here ..
The only issue I had was how it was kinda clunky swapping between equipment on the fly.
Yeah, I think that was something I glossed over in this review for the sake of time, but you're absolutely right. It is very rough.
@@LaperLarden The worst is the drop wall, because you hardly ever use it, until you absolutely need it. I usually get killed in the time it takes to toggle select and deploy it.
I love your channel! I discovered it after watching your analysis video on halos music. I’ve been a lifelong halo fan, specifically the original trilogy. I’ve not enjoyed what 343 has done with the franchise, starting with the very unsafe for halo anniversary to the disappointing halo five. I’ve had mixed feelings leading up to the release of infinite, but I did buy it day one, however my PC couldn’t handle it very well so I’m waiting to buy a new graphics card before I play the campaign (which is strange, because I can run games like Cyberpunk and red dead two fine…)
This review confirmed many things I was very concerned about but also gave me enough intrigue to still want to play through it. The only thing that I may differentiate with you on is your love for Halo 4s story, so when I heard infinite takes some ques from the emotional emphasis of 4 I was like ehhhhh. But still, thanks for the review and for the awesome videos. You’re very very good at what you do
Feels like the biomes issue is because they're saving each biome for each dlc lol
Yeah, that's probably what they're doing, unfortunately.
@@LaperLarden Unfortunate but intriguing, Feels like the next dlc will be desert biome based off truth and reconciliation/silent cartographer
@@Spartan-sz7km that is so stupid why tf are biomes locked through dlc, potentially paid dlc, it should be in the game day one
Maybe it's cos I've just seen Spiderman and I'm a little emotional, but the ending got me. We *are* the Master Chief, we've lived through his adventures through his eyes and as tough as the events of Halo 4/5 were for him, they were also tough for us but for different reasons. I think this is the start of something good.
I didn't like the story because it was an apology for the last two games. Apology accepted, but I would have rather had a great story like 2 and 3.
This is the best campaign in the series since Halo 4.
that says absolutely nothing
it's definitely the best campaign since halo 3 (imo)
Spoilers ahead: Eh didnt like it didnt hate it. The world felt hollow, copypaste landscape. "Infinite possibilities" after few days of gameplay turns into "not so infinite it seems". The endless seem like a T rating friendly attempt of replacing the flood. Escharum is a monologue villain gives me PTSD of destinys Dominus Ghaul. I was very hyped for this game and it just wasnt it chief. Maybe I got too hyped and expected something better but bulletsponge bosses that dont really have unique behaviour wasnt what I was expecting. I liked the chief and pilot story arc. But that was literally the only one. Atriox was cool for the cameo that he was in the game and I cant say enough how it pisses me off that you bring cortana back from a good death make her a space dictator to a second death that doesnt feel NEARLY as impactful as the one in 4. But atleast I had fun while playing for a while. *edit: almost forgot to mention that the game is missing the Brothers in arms moment. The marines play no part in main missions which bothers me a shitload. They will accompany you to the door but then stay out. Where is my Rush the beach with the bois moment? Wheres my "were going in" moment. I know you can ride in the world with a razorback full of marines but thats it? Closest thing is rushing escherums tower with a scorpion with 2 marines. Better than 0 marines I guess.
I really liked the gameplay and combat design, however the environment got tiresome for me. The story felt like I was just trying to watch cool things I wanted to be a part of. I really disliked a lot of the dalogue coming from weapon. The Brute antagonist was horribly boring and really dislike the whole "Perfectly timed hologram projection that monologues at you" form of delivering exposition.
Cortana just randomly acting normal at the end when sacrificing herself just felt weird. Like, it did not match up with how she was acting in 5 and other convenient hologram plot deliveries. It's clearly just them trying to tie off Halo wars 2 and 4-5 stuff to now settle on a new vision.
As a mainline halo player, it just felt really odd to have a faction unceremoniously introduced and yet another super old timey talking ancient evil enemy that hates humanity....again. I just really had almost no stake in what was happening and was just going through motions.
No to mention how Cortana used her not-Reapers to destroy an entire planet and subjugate an entire planet, but then (1) doesn't even notice Atrox walk up to her on the Halo she has taken over, and (2) she can't defeat the Banished for no reason...........when she still has said Reapers. So somehow Atriox just arbitrarily takes over Zeta Halo and Cortana toaster baths herself because "oh no, I made a boo boo, I'm going to bet everything on long odds and plot convenience!" instead of taking initiative and ending the threat against humanity. This is the same AI that has the ENTIRE GALAXY under her thumb! I could keep going but....
THANK YOU! I don't understand why people like this game, it makes so many of the same mistakes of the previous games, games the community SHIT ON for it, and if anything its the most guilty in the series. How the FUCK were they able to somehow trap her with just a copy of herself? Why was she here basically alone? Where are her Guardians? Her Promethians? I actually like the conflict established between her and Atriox but that shouldn't have been told in fucking hologram replays of off-screen conflicts. Fuck this story.
@@chunkblaster I think there are lore die hards who just want more stuff included, and don't care how it gets there. Like, they'll seemingly clap for any expanded Halo universe inclusion.
@@chunkblaster exactlyyy the story sucks bro how tf are these people hyping it because of ONE mention of someone in the legendary ending, the story is literally incomplete and there's so much crap in it, they neglected halo 5s story and just told everything through dlc which is so lazy and I don't like halo 5 but they can't just ignore the story like it didn't happen, the story is so disconnected and the cast isn't anywhere near as good as the previous games. The weapon just makes corny jokes all day or just contradicts herself, one minute she's asking to die and then after she's getting mad because chief is fulfilling her wishes. The pilot just constantly complains or does nothing in his pelican and his development is that he has hope and stops complaining, how is that good writing to people?? Escharum just constantly sucks off the chief and has no villain goal and the harbinger is just a filler villain for the endless and THERE'S ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER ENDING. I can't believe this mediocre game is being hyped up as if it's one of the greats in the halo franchise
Very insightful. Great editing, and well thought out video. But I disagree with a few small points, so: shit take, 0/10 stars
The duality of man.
Halo Infinite is the first Halo game from 343, and the direct sequel to Halo 3 (and ODST). Buuut there's a serious lack of environemetn diversity and Sentinel variants.
Sentinel have the most variants since halo 2
Lol
Aah I'm too scared to do campaign, I'm bad at open world games because they allow you run away from your problems
Edit: Imma wait for co op so someone can suffer with me
Thankfully you can get away with just doing the main missions fairly easily. The game does a good job of directing you to where you need to go. It's definitely the most approachable open world game I've played.
Nah, I thought I finished ransom keep, used the tank to save squad Carrera, tried to fast travel with a vehicle (doesn't work) and got stuck with a fricking mongoose against reinforcements at ransom keep and the tank on the other side of ransom keep, just thinking of ransom keep makes my heart rate spike
You're not showered with map icons and collectibles like in other open world games. It feels very deliberate instead of phoned in.
Update: Finished Ransom Keep, I feel better
Try explaining it to the naysayers.
It's the only one in years lol
Also, very true 🤣
Personally I found infinite to be the weakest story. And I found h5 story to be ok
Halo 5 was praised when it came out and now it's suddenly the worst. And now i feel the same is happening with Infinite. It's quite fascinating how people can so deluded by hype and the masses.
I mean... Was Halo 5 *really* praised? Everyone I talked to about the game (myself included) thought it was dog water.
@@LaperLarden I think he meant that halo 5 was praised by the critics (game journalists)
@@TheBasedDepartment. Well... We all know what gaming journalists are like.
Honestly, I wasn't really a fan of the story, especially the beginning. I know that virtually everyone (including myself) hated the end of Halo 5, but I still hate how 343i just swept everything under the rug. Imagine if after Halo 2's cliffhanger ending, the beginning of Halo 3 revealed that in-between games and off-screen, the Covenant and Flood were both defeated, the Arbiter and the Elites were defeated by some new faction, and the whole plot of this game is now Master Chief fighting alone against this new faction on the Ark.
It doesn't matter whether the previous ending was well-received or not. Throwing away all the setup and characters from the previous game and replacing things with a completely new plot is lazy writing.
Ummm Does halo infinite look better than halo 5? We can all admit halo infinite production value is well below quality compared to other halo games, there no amazing cut scenes or not many action set pieces in halo infinite. Just compare Halo infinite to others in the series and you can admit it’s nowhere close to those games.
It baffles me to see that people seem to actually like the campaign, *so much had to happen offscreen* to move the plot to a point where this plot could even REMOTELY happen, and they further milk the Chief-Cortana relationship, almost as much as they did in Halo 4. I thought you guys didn't like Halo 4??? This game is even more guilty of retconning the previous title than Halo 5 was. Personally while I think the story in a vacuum was passable, the amount of bullshit they had to set up & the amount of characters they killed off screen is simply unconsciousable and unacceptable. It's a really cheep shot that they just soft-unkill Cortana so that they can just do it again. There's just so much lazy writing in this game
Bro halo isn't what it used to be unfortunately, it's a trend chaser, halo infinites story isn't good because most of the story is saved for dlc, these halo fanboys are just desperate for anything halo so a game like infinite which is decent at best is godlike to them, it's sad that halo fans just don't see reality and understand that infinite isn't amazing as they make it out to be
There's a lot of issues with the game that I have. But the main fun I've had was the parts where you fight on the rings surface. All the indoor parts were boring and tbh the story wasn't what I wanted.
Yeah they had to distance that from the fuck up that was halo 5 but honestly, I think cortana and chiefs story arc was finished, at halo 3.
We couldce done cool anthology games taking place during different key conflicts.
I am still waiting for a level like the h2 e3 demo. The closest we got to that in spirit was h3 odst and halo reachs exodus mission.
I wasn't interested at all in the endless, and esharum talked way too damn much. Dude acted like a prophet more than a brute, like stfu and square up.
SPOLIER ALERT
UNPOPULAR OPINION
The banished and especially esharum are not compelling villains in this game. The entire time I played the campaign I kept thinking to myself that esharum was weak sauce atriox and it made 0 narrative sense for atriox to be dead. It was only until I killed esharum that his character developed any redeemable qualities and I found out that atriox was alive playing the long con that I appreciated that aspect of the story. I think that the cortana side of the story is good but has Halo 3 levels of melodrama, the whole game does actually. I would have preferred cortana to have been infected with the logic plague and she came here to lose her shit and release the flood and it would be revealed that cortana wasn't actually bad she was just being manipulated by the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known. The flood. I'm not a writer tho so...
Overall I thought Infinite campaign was overly safe and it could have played more to what made halo 2 and 3 so good instead of what I feel is halo 4 playing dress up as combat evolved.
It's acceptable. Good writing but get real. This still falls very short of the writing we witnessed from CE to Reach. Everyone is so hyped that a Halo game LOOKS and feels a bit like an actual Halo game that they forget how much is lacking. It isn't wise to take your foot off the gas when it comes to 343.
It's just fanboys who fall for nostalgia bait, this game just constantly tries to pander to the older halo fans by just reusing the lines and music from the older games, the game is decent but it's not great as they're making it out to be, it's sad that halo is just a trend chaser now instead of the amazing trend maker it used to be
@@Ibrahim-wr5fs still better than the mess 5 made
Man watching this review it ALMOST makes me think the story was GREAT...of course i already played the game and well.......
Boys and Girls in the comments, go into the story with the lowest of expectations and you might be able to enjoy it. Its not halo 5 terrible, but the story that i played and the one this guy did are clearly not the same.
You have been warned.
I need a justification of the statement that "this is for people who like the second level of Halo CE". This is simply false. Halo CE had 0 exploration elements besides the ones you created, and those exploration elements were about getting to places you weren't supposed to get to, and launching warthogs in funny ways, not hunting and pecking in an overworld only to find a random dead marine laying next to a stack of commandos.
Level 2 of CE was not exploration. There is no where to go, and there is nothing to find. You can complete the 3 objectives in any order you wish, but you have to complete them, and they are not copy pasta objectives. 1 has you fighting waves of dropships, one has you clearing a base and 1 far away drop ship, and the final one has you investigating an underground structure. It isn't "open world" and there's nowhere to explore. In you first few runs with the warthog you will likely have seen every square inch of that map without meaning to explore just because you couldn't remember where the next thing is, or that those blue lights are signaling to you where to go.
This idea that classic halo games was EVER about exploration is just patently false, and is a retcon made by Halo youtubers with nothing better to do than hype up a game that was mediocre in comparison to the originals in an effort to garner more regular viewers, building false hope so the audience continues to watch their content about an average title.
The justification essentially comes down to: the second level of Halo CE gave the player some semblance of freedom with regards to how they want to approach their objectives (which order that is), and Infinite is an expansion of that (and more) thanks to its open world. But yes, there does seem to be a narrative floating around that CE introduced the series' first exploration elements, which in reality isn't true. Although an argument can be made for the Silent Cartographer.
I'll admit that CE is in no way the open, expansive game that many people give it credit for. Asides from a few missions like Halo, Silent Cartographer and parts of Assault on the Control Room, the game feels very linear and typical corridor-shooty at times. I think the spirit of that second mission in CE's campaign is there. And maybe exploring these missions wasn't the intention of the devs at first, but you can't expect people not to on maps that big. Even with the games like Halo's 2 and 3 that were arguably more linear than CE, there's a lot of stuff you can do to get outside the playable spaces and explore stuff that was intentionally added there by the devs with no kill boundaries to stop you (there are hundreds of videos talking about this). That's the kind of thing I think 343 were going for in this game, but instead they made it a core part of the game.
@@LaperLarden I'm impressed that you can walk on the opposite mountain sides across the lake on the levels delta halo and regret. Halo 2 is very conservative with invisible barriers and kill barriers. Usually only using them during flying sections like on the great journey.
Missions are copy and paste, the open world is bland and lifeless, the story is underwhelming, abrupt and retcons halo 4/5. Yes 6 years for this disappointment...
What does it retcon from H4/5? Pretty sure those games are still the same as they were in the story, this game doesn't retroactively go back and change anything about them (EG. A retcon).
@@harrybee5924 he is a h5 fanboy pissed that his locke wasnt playable