MOTM
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If that’s your main concern don’t worry you’ll have a blast with the game, just like IGN did.
edit: just like everybody did.
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Halo Infinite - Review Thread
- Thread starter Craig of War
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edit: just like everybody did.
mcjmetroid
Member
Well here's hoping. I'll play is likely when they add coop in. I feel it's a game for multiplayer
Lucifers Beard
Member
Looks awesome and the ACG review was all I needed to cement that download.
Stuart360
Member
Well if you read some of the Cyberpunk 9 and 10 reviews you would swear the game would get a 6 or 7. Sometimes reviewers think the 'overall package' is good enough to overcome a games shortcomings. Sometimes great gameplay can overcome evreything,as it should do imo. Although i hope Halo Infinite is nothing like Cyberpunk though lol.
The biomes thing is a little dissapointing, especially after 343 confirmed multiple biomes, but the environment looks great to me from the review vids, and we know there are plenty of caves and indoor areas on top of the open world.
Plus with the '10 year plan', i'm sure 343 will be adding new areas to the game for years to come.
I was already bored of that environment from watching trailers, knowing that it never changes has put me off completely. Gameplay finally steps up but art direction completely takes its foot off the gas, they conflated all the whining about returning to classic halo gameplay with aesthetics, exclusively returning to a single halo 1 mission, a 20 year old featureless landscape with a nice skybox. Its starwars all over again.
Iced Arcade
Member
Reviews are great so far.
LOL some of the predictable comments lol post history are a thing.
LOL some of the predictable comments lol post history are a thing.
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LeftThumbstick
Member
Let’s just put it out there, Xbox have absolutely crushed the first year of the series consoles and smashed 2021.
Looking forward to E3 2022 and what lies beyond at this point.
Looking forward to E3 2022 and what lies beyond at this point.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
oh, objectivity absolutely exists in my world, but in the world of art it doesn't.
Therefore I will end this with the following. There is no authority in judging the quality of art. Yes, there are artists that have more experience than others. There is art that is liked by many people and there is art liked by few people. There is art that is 'professional' and there is art that isn't. And yes, you can absolutely learn from other experienced artists, especially as a beginner, but point is, there aren't absolutes in art. It's not even empirical. There is no right or wrong in art. At all. And lastly, every person that puts himself into a position to define if art is objectively good or bad, doesn't understand art whatsoever.
Stuart360
Member
Man the Series S version look way more detailed, with way better lighting.
Series S now has a 60fps mode and has higher settings as well as running at a more solid framerate than One X. Looks a big improvement over the previous code.
It looks like when you take a modern PC game and go from Ultra down to medium, with a bit of low thrown in.
abacab driver
Banned
Trying to stay dark on this game (I heard spoilers are out) but I'm not surprised at all to see the game has reviewed well.
Well done, 343.
Well done, 343.
KaiserBecks
Member
It's funny you should say that, the absolute best time I've had in Halo (besides playing Halo:CE at launch in Coop.....that was phenomenal) was Firefight in ODST. Like I said, to me Halo's gameplay is ace and I never cared for its characters and story.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Chief is back
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Negotiator101
Member
Great stuff 
343 have delivered on what was one of the most troubled development cycles in recent memory. 87mc and would have been an easy 90+ if it had more content MP and co-op Campaign. All is coming though and that's great for the future of this game.
343 have delivered on what was one of the most troubled development cycles in recent memory. 87mc and would have been an easy 90+ if it had more content MP and co-op Campaign. All is coming though and that's great for the future of this game.
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SpongebobSquaredance
Unconfirmed Member
a new debate lord was born today.
kyoji
Member
I wonder did they recoup development costs, ill await your expert analysis
JackMcGunns
Member
People wanting so badly for Halo Infinite to be bad… The thread
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
The ACG review is pretty damn awesome. Can't wait to jump in, it's gonna be hype.
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Halo is a gift to the world from MS, free to all (with a gamepass sub).I wonder did they recoup development costs, ill await your expert analysis
RafterXL
Member
Are you retarded? An 87 is not "low 80s". Forza Horizon is a 92, MFS is a 91. Psychonauts 2 is an 89. Microsoft is doing great and all you gotta do to prove it is look at the competitions scores, they are virtually identical.
GTFO with your bullshit.
He's an idiot that you guys are giving too much attention. Anyone who is even remotely interested in a games story isn't going to read the script beforehand. The fact he claims to have already done so says everything about his actual interest and why he's being as stupid in this thread as he is.
a new debate lord was born today.
Halo Infinite being good has broken a lot of these clowns.
Thaedolus
Member
Fuck if I know, I’m just saying it shouldn’t be a difficult feat if a developer chooses to do it.
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kyoji
Member
Thats alot of pay for in game add-ons to recoup then. Im sure you’ll do your part
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BbMajor7th
Gold Member
Honestly, I don't entirely disagree with the sentiment (though I don't think the tone is likely to win people over). Internet debate doesn't do shades of grey (because it's more about one-upmanship than anything else), but it doesn't change the fact that they exist. Good opinions are about 90% objective in that they make logical, contextual deductions from fact (in much the same way as theory and observation work in science) and shitty opinions are about 90% subjective in that they beg and borrow evidence as necessary to substantiate a subjective persuasion (as politicians do with statistics).
Any good review should be mostly objective (at least in substance) and the subjective should either be caveated (mileage may vary, newcomers may be put off, etc.) or at least be in context (compared with prior entries, in a crowded genre, etc.). I think most sensible people know this and it shouldn't need spelling out, but being that reductionism is the first recourse of people desperate to win an argument on the internet, it often feels necessary.
Anyway, I'm waffling... everyone can go back to talking about biomes now.
It's hard to say, but I'd imagine most last gen games that already run 4K/60 on current gen could do a 1080/120 mode with the proper optimisations. It's just hard to tell because the market for open world games isn't generally crying out for those modes so developers aren't doing them. It's mostly fast-paced competitive shooters like Call of Duty and DOOM Eternal. Halo Infinite's campaign is occupying a slightly weird space in being a fast-paced open world shooter. Far Cry 6 is a good shout and probably would be possible with same sort of compromises we see in Halo, but clearly they didn't see a reason to try (probably because they put visuals ahead of performance).
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JackMcGunns
Member
Show us on this doll where MS hurt you.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
What development costs? The 500 million one made up by Xbox dynasty, that was debunked by Frank O'Conor but still conveniently used as console war fodder?I wonder did they recoup development costs, ill await your expert analysis
Sakura
Member
It's 3AM on the 9th for me.
The most sense would be a digital release that lines up with a physical release.
Gonna have guys getting the physical release at midnight who already finished the campaign by the time us digital peasants get to play it.
Leyasu
Banned
Listen, it is rare that games have amazing stories. We all know this.
It’s not like a film which is passive entertainment, the story only makes up a part of the game because you are supposed to be entertained by the interactive part of the package
azertydu91
Hard to Kill
Hey I had the same discussion with someone here about subjectivity and objectivity in reviews and the manicheanism in debates online.I think that agreat movie adressing those topics is "Thank you for smoking".
Anyway back n topic it is great that the game is reviewing well, honestly I had little hope that they could pull it off but it seems that they did congrats and thank god it had a year delay.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
80 or above is considered good to great.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
Do you apply this logic in every review thread or is it reserved for the companies you don’t like?
Every.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Good on you then. Only opinion that matters is your own when it comes to media.
anthony2690
Banned
We already know we have redfall, deathloop and starfield next year.
And deathloop was really well received on ps5, looking forward to seeing what other games come out next year, that we don't even know about yet.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Microsoft playing to win the game.
marjo
Member
Don't be mean. It must be hard for him to accept that MS's two big exclusives this year have a higher average metacritic score (92 and 87) than Sony's two big titles (88 and 85).
Or, he could stop being a wanker and just accept that both systems have great games.
kyoji
Member
Are you his mum? Stay in your lane, where did i say 500mil? Are you implying it cost nothing to make infinite? I realize halo is holy ground for sensitive people like yourself but warnen knows what im referring to. Take your dog whistling elsewhere
digoutyoursoul
Member
Duchess
Member
I don't think that's Cortana? Isn't it some new chick this time around? Does she even have a name..?
Interfectum
Member
Sounds great. Can't wait to play the campaign this week.
They seem to nail core gameplay n finally put A. I. as a priority as it was with the original trilogy... N then shit em selfs with everything else...
Well...
Congrats to 343 on finally making a good beta version of a good Halo game, now patch in all the missing features n go make a great Halo game cos u seem to finally being able to do it.
N do not take a fucking decade to develop it this time
Well...
Congrats to 343 on finally making a good beta version of a good Halo game, now patch in all the missing features n go make a great Halo game cos u seem to finally being able to do it.
N do not take a fucking decade to develop it this time
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Shmunter
Member
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
What value are posts like this adding to this forum? Serious question.
Krappadizzle
Member
This is the perfect summary of all your posts in this thread so far.
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nightmare-slain
Member
it's not Cortana. her name is "The Weapon". she only resembles Cortana. as far as i know Cortana is still a rogue AI
Helghan
Member
The Weapon
nightmare-slain
Member
they don't add any value. low effort shit posting.