@HAWK9600: If you were talking about Halo 5, i'd wholeheartedly agree.
Halo Inf. MP on the other hand, is an absolute blast and i haven't had such fun in a shooter MP in a very, very long time. It's free to play, but the micro-transactions are non prohibitive or Pay-Win mechanised. It's being very highly praised by the community (mostly) and 343 have been extremely transparent along the development path. Couldn't ask for more of them.
Also addendum, the Campaign looks rock solid so far too.
@andrew_ribbons: i dont want a battle royale halo. but i also don't want a 2001 game in the year 2021.
Well that's fine, if it's not what you want don't play it. They are responding to overwhelming feedback that the game needs some re-rooting back to origins, it had deviated too far from the successful ingredients that made the game fun and enjoyable and special.
Everyone who wants a bit of the more classic style of shooter action formula will enjoy it however, of which there are many people apparently. There are plenty of new and differing aspects to Infinite that make it a completely modern updated version of said 2001 influence, it's no carbon copy whatsoever.
Studios can't please everyone and not everyone knows the best thing for a franchise, otherwise we WOULD just be playing Battle Royale everything, gross.
If you change something too much it stops being the thing entirely.
And i most likely won't purchase anything, other than the game itself including Campaign. I will play the multiplayer but i don't care about cosmetic anything. It's meaningless customisation that has no relevancy to gameplay or enjoyment for me. I usually set and forget how my spartan looks.
@bloodborneloreFair enough. I just have a real flea in my ear about people buying into Apple's brainwashy marketing spins without actually being aware of what the company does. TLDR: They're no better than any other major tech firm.:
Uh yes? Ok sure, but maybe you might want to look up what Apple does with searches via Safari? A nice little sum of $12bn was paid to Apple last year by Google, for routing searchs VIA GOOGLE done by default on Safari. All that user search data, nomnomnom straight to Google and Apple profits for that indirect data collection, on the sneak of course as is always their way. Apple is a collosal hypocrite for this stuff.
By the time it hits major news media outlets, i'd expect it to be patched, the point is that there's no such thing as unhackable software, especially always-online devices with no air gapping. Pretending any connected software in 2021 isn't capturing and sending back user data is the absolute height of hubris and ignorance on the user's front.
Good cybersecurity awareness and good user habits such as 2FA and use of secure protocols are far, far more important than "buying a 'secure' device".
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