MatrixReloaded101
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You can't even order a regular Series X from the Xbox store right now much less a Halo Series X.
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Halo Infinite - Review Thread
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Some people see what they want to. Have you played the MP? If you like how that feels to play, which is imo incredibly fun, I would expect the SP will feel much the same. Just watching it would not be the same.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Heroic is how Halo is always meant to be played.Normal or Herioc is the question?
the game was balanced around normal this time around, but it still seems like heroic is the way to go based on how most reviewers played that mode
Starcheif
Member
Yeah I read about that so I guess I will go with Heroic and see how it goes.
Joke's on you, VG247's rating system is 1-101lmaoooo
Topher
Gold Member
lmaoooo
Where did you get the idea that a top score means perfection?
LordBlodgett
Member
Yep, guy who doesn't really like Halo doesn't like the new version. Not all that surprising
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
I agree, no game even at a 100 could be perfection, every game will have some flaws.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
his complaints echo Skill Up too
basically the sandbox gameplay is old school fun, but everything else is really half baked and kind of a mess from what I gleaned from both reviews
Iced Arcade
Member
Yeah for sure. They pretty much stated it was a game that was constantly going to be added to
RoboFu
One of the green rats
It was up for a few mins.
lmaoooo
I'm going to asume you're joking and not this dense.
ViolentP
Member
Basic math.
TidusYuna
Member
lmaoooo
Topher
Gold Member
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ViolentP
Member
Agreed.Reviews are not equations
SenjutsuSage
Banned
lmaoooo
A game with a perfect score doesn't mean it's without flaws or issues. If it got a perfect score it means the overall quality of the experience that you had with the game was just that damn good, easily eclipsing the minor things. Sometimes the things you love and consider perfect experiences aren't perfect in all things. There's always something you maybe wished it did different or better. That's how it is. Final Fantasy VII back in the PS1 days wasn't what I would label perfect, but it was an unbelievable experience for me, enough for me to look past any issue I had at the time. Lost Odyssey wasn't perfect, but that would have gotten a perfect score from me also, Blue Dragon would have been another perfect score for me. Quantum Break would have been a perfect score from me. South Park: The Stick of Truth would have also gotten a perfect score. Halo 4 would have also. Splinter Cell Conviction? Another perfect score from me. Loved that fucking game.
Every game that has gotten a perfect score anywhere has issues and flaws. None of them are truly ever 100% flawless if we're being totally honest, although there are games I feel that do achieve that. Did people love the weapon degrade system in Breath of the Wild? I sure as hell didn't, and yet it would get a perfect score from me. It just wasn't enough of a problem to degrade the game from a perfect score. Lots of people gave the last metal gear perfect scores. Was that perfect? I sure as hell think not.
A perfect score even when someone acknowledges issues is a sign that the game's strengths are just that fucking strong in the eyes of the reviewer. God of War 2018 isn't perfect, neither was Spider-man, Ghosts of Tsushima, but they all got perfect scores from someone. The best game out of those 3 by far is God of War. It's easily better than Ghosts of Tsushima and Spider-Man PS4. I think the one game among Sony's recent games that's actually on God of War 2018's level is The Last of Us 2, but some would disagree with that. Last of Us 2 and God of War 2018 would get perfect scores from me, the rest, including Horizon Zero Dawn, would not.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
We have seen this song and dance before….Eh. 343 Halos always review well. Halo 4 is at 87 and Halo 5 Guardians got 84 on metacritic.
Halo 5: Guardians
Peace has been devastated as colony worlds are unexpectedly attacked. What's more, when humanity's greatest hero goes missing, a new Spartan is assigned the task of hunting the Master Chief and solving a mystery that threatens the whole of the galaxy.www.metacritic.com
Halo 4
Master Chief re-emerges to battle an ancient evil force determined to wreak vengeance and annihilation. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe won't ever be the same. Enlist aboard the Infinity to experience Halo's original multiplayer (with...
Neither game connected with me. Halo 4 was mediocre albeit competent. Halo 5 was just a slog. Locke was the original Abby. Just a bad campaign. Reminded me of those Ubisoft and Activision campaigns. Lets hope this is better.
We get close to a Big game release and reviewers/influencer hype the game up and give it high scores than the public actually gets the game and we hear a different story….
Neither way, I am a Halo fan and I planned to play this no matter what score it got.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Actually this is nothing like that. Halo Infinite wasn't just given to any old reviewers, it was given to content creators that barely have 8k subscribers, and some that have zero subscribers lol. If you did something that attracted 343's attention you likely got access to this game. They've had more than a month to review this campaign, many people. How often does any such thing even occur? There were even people playing the base Xbox One version over a month out. This isn't a Cyberpunk 2077 situation, which btw is an amazing fucking game, and has been polished up big time this year, and will only be even better when the next gen release drops.
Cyberpunk 2077 ain't dead, far from it. That is one of the most badass games I've played in a long time. When that polish is there with a next gen upgrade, I'm right back into that awesome world.
JackMcGunns
Member
Here’s something interesting that I noticed and not sure what to think of it, a couple of reviews have pointed out during their review that they’re strictly talking about Halo Infinite’s campaign, essentially treating the campaign and multiplayer as two different games.
How does that affect the overall score of the game? I mean several reviews contributing to the meta are giving these scores solely on the campaign and not as an overall package. This is sort of a unique situation given that Halo’s multiplayer was always part of the Halo experience as a package.
How does that affect the overall score of the game? I mean several reviews contributing to the meta are giving these scores solely on the campaign and not as an overall package. This is sort of a unique situation given that Halo’s multiplayer was always part of the Halo experience as a package.
JLB
Banned
Forza Horizon was always open world.
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
its a joke...hence the lmaooo...its just funny.
Topher
Gold Member
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Dude...its a joke. It was on twitter and it was funny. You made some good points which I already agree with.
Kacho
Member
Jeff Gerstmann touched on this in his Halo review on Giant Bomb. It’s a good read.
remember_spinal
Banned
Either way its kind of microsofts fault for splitting them into two and releasing them months apart.
There’s gonna be no way to truly know at this point
strange how, with over 70 reviews, some of you seems to have magically zeroed in on the two most critical reviews. And one of them from a reviewer who already disliked Halo.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Probably because I tend to like reviews that are more critical than the standard media echo chamber that's all about appeasing corporate mega hype interests. We've seen this with every Halo game it seems, especially from the 343 era. I'm not as trusting based on this history.
And Skill Up really liked Halo Infinite! But his complaints were enough to really turn me off from it - but to him the core sandbox was enough.
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remember_spinal
Banned
I mean if you’re already a gamepass subscriber i can’t see a good reason why you wouldn’t just try to game anyway, you gotta get your moneys worth.
I honestly don’t trust anything Jez or Jeff says when it comes to games at this point though.
I honestly don’t trust anything Jez or Jeff says when it comes to games at this point though.
Fredrik
Member
I don’t think a single post in this thread is strange, people are as transparent as ever, it’s all about having a platform preference and seeing what you want to see. Goes for positive and negative posts. I don’t think it’s anything strange about it, or even wrong, it’s human nature and it would be the same thing in a Playstation or Nintendo 1st party game thread where 10s are popping up.
Personally I can’t wait to jump in on the campaign after seeing the double 10s from two of the veteran game critics in my country!
Mercenary09
Member
Yet he said he agreed with their 9/10 score for it and it's what he would've gave it. Game had a trash campaign and he basically said "eh, yeah a 9 sounds about right."
Mercenary09
Member
It's only certain media mainly a lot of the US based ones. The game has around 40 8's or lower scores so while they say it's good, many reviewers don't think it's great.
Bogroll
Likes moldy games
It's like me reviewing a Souls game. I try to like them but I just don't that much but I appreciate why some people do like them. I'd score them a 5/10 but would just be a waste of time me reviewing the games and of no use to the fans whatsoever.
nemiroff
Gold Member
A review can often be useless if you have nothing in common with the reviewers taste in games. Doesn't mean the reviewer isn't entitled to his/hers subjective opinion.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
I just want it to be better then reach and 4
If it achieves this i am happy.
The indoor footage i have seen so far looks rather stale. I hope the campaign starts ramp up like hivebusters dlc from gears (that dlc was fucking awesome)
But he does earn money with clicks
Negotiator101
Member
The MP is better than 4, I'd like more content and modes before I'd say its better than Reach though. Campaign is pretty much taking the reviews on the chin (reviews are counting the Campaign as a separate entity) and its come out with a very impressive 87 making it one of the best games this year.
Kagey K
Banned
They are upset Xbox has games again.
All the releases this year shows they don't give a fuck what the other guys are doing.
The other guys are upset about this.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
As long as him and I don't bump elbows in the process
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
yeah i never liked the MP from 4 was more talking about campaign modes. If it's better then reach i would be very happy!
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
VPN trick New Zealand? than it should be around 12 gmt or so
GymWolf
Member
I don't really use vpn tricks.
Hopefully they are not gonna do like many games that unlock at 6pm instead of the beginning of the day.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Been reading through this thread and I've come to one conclusion. A lot of you are really, really dumb lol.