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I liked it when they killed Atriox then replaced him with Atriox. I also liked it when they killed Cortana and then replaced her with Cortana. At this rate we might see Master Chief die off-screen only to be replaced with Master Chief.
I mean… he was floating in space for 6 months and had to be defribillated back to life, one could say they already did just that lol
They didn't even make it seem like chief floating around in space for half a year wasn't even a big deal 😂
Off screening chief would be peak 343i 😂
It better not be John Halo...
John dies of cringe and Noble 6 replaces him bc funni
Cortana snapped her fingers to translate the Prophet of Regret's sermon in Halo 2. Not a recurring thing but she did do it before.
In this one she does it like every 2 minutes lol
yeah it's almost like they purposefully exaggerated it so the reveal would be obvious to even the most oblivious knuckledraggers out there.
I think she does it more in the books but it's been forever since i read them so yea
Maybe 343 didnt know that.
@@capthavic I've heard this a lot about the twist being blatantly obvious and all, and that's true, but the scene is not meant to be a twist to us. We don't always need an unexpected turn of events to drive a story and keep us entertained. I mean, just look at Star Wars Ep 8 and 9 which had too many random and neck breaking twists, but I digress. The scene is moreso a twist for the Weapon and the spark of the moment which starts an internal conflict within her about if she will become like Cortana, especially with how she was acting when she stopped Chief from deleting her. I like to think the real twist and the part that keeps us interested is right after she asks to be deleted, and Chief decided to give her a chance to live, even if he doesn't trust her, but he wants to.
I will actually say one thing in defense of the Brute Chopper: stealing it off the Brute boss and running his ass over with it (especially on legendary) is incredibly satisfying.
How the fuck did he not two shot you with his sniper on legendary? That happened to my ass everytime
@@bombomos He did get me on the first attempt, on the second I was able to wheel around and get him right between the wheels and just boosted into him until he died. Fun fact: the brute chopper will show up in the cutscene if you drive it up to the pelican...with the characters walking through it as though it isn't there.
i call bullshit, the chieftans either one shot you or they outright keep the chopper from going further when they shoot you on legendary
@@bombomos and survive the ghosts, other boss etc. I got it took one ghost out and scrapped it.
@@kay_keik7842 it's how I beat it on legendary the first time, kicked him off and boosted into him, other guy with the turret was too far to help
In sin 6, although it is never explicitly stated in any of the games, Chief's suit has a fusion reactor in it. The little power in the pelican restarted the fusion reactor and that powered up the pelican.
The one foretold in the prophecy has arrived
How much stuff is packed into the suit? I think it has more stuff in it than a tank.
@@ollilaine6763 in the fall of reach book, the MKII is described as a walking tank, so, you aren't far wrong.
So what you’re saying is that Chief’s suit was like an electric car running on high efficiency batteries, needed a jumpstart to get the car running again, and let its excess power go to the Pelican?
A fusion reactor wtf, what book was that in? Wouldn't be surprised if it was a newer one.
I kinda wish they had kept the Weapon’s finger snapping as a personal trait It’s kinda fun
I liked it too. My thinking would go straight to John de Lancie's TNG Q and I got a giggle out of it every time.
@@Lasershadow omg i never thought it about it that way “Oh Jean Luc, what would James T Kirk think of that?”
@@thechroniclegamer4285 Yeah its kinda stupid that she stopped doing it just because the original Cortana did it. Hitler was Vegetarian. This doesnt make all vegetarians evil.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 yet Weapon is basically the mentality of a puppy tho It makes her fun
@@thechroniclegamer4285 makes her cringe
All the twists in the story were really predictable, but I have to say the worst sin of the story was introducing what you'd assume was the antagonist at the very beginning of the game, hyping you up for revenge and then never giving you the option to redeem Master Chief. Why replace Atriox with the other guy if they were gonna have an identical purpose/personality? God, even the fight against him was lame.
U gotta slowly build up Atriox my guy. Atriox one of da most dangerous mfs u will ever meet. You see his face your dead
The only reasons I can come up with for the laser handcuffs, and this is all speculation, is that they can be made bigger and smaller for different races. And/or they are more deadly to try and resist, for example if you have a race that can easily crush metals.
Different metals have different properties.
In Star Wars they have some cuffs that get smaller when you try and resist so the more you struggle the more your wrist will hurt. That being said that was done with metal looking cuffs so...idk lol Maybe there's something like that here?
The Forerunners according to the books would routinely imprison defeated foes, rather than outright killing them, so, yes, the Forerunners left a lot of prisons around the galaxy. Earth was one such prison, where devolved humans were allowed to rebuild their species. More than likely, the Precursor gravemind is the buried threat on Zeta.
The precursor gravemind was killed by the second didact. The buried threat on the ring is the stupid ass Xalanyn or "The endless".
@@Sichunter95 how are they stupid? I think bringing in a new faction that is immune to the Halo arrray would add a great twist to the whole story
@@ladslounge2698 Not a bad idea, but probably should've happened during the first game of the trilogy - not at the tail end of the last one.
@@ladslounge2698 You ever play that game as kids where you have a pretend fight and people start saying they have impenetrable forcefields? And then the next person says they have something that breaks forcefields? Neither fun nor creative. That is exactly what "The Endless" are. Neither fun, nor creative.
@@witherwolf3316 it is actually pretty creative, given the fact that The Harbinger has the symbol of the Reclaimer on her head piece. If you know the lore the you will have an appreciation for this, if you don't well too bad for you.
As lore nerd I honestly have no clue how he even survived being in space for six months
Doesn’t mjolnir armor supply the Spartan with food and help them get rid of waste?
@@Bowielicius yea but not with oxygen
@@Bowielicius not for six months…
The only way it would make sense is if the new GEN 3 Mjolnir is capable of putting Spartans in suspended animation/cryosleep when in survival mode.
@@darkshotgun209 oh okay, i though that thing was basically a life support suit
I can't be the only one who kept referring to Escharum as "bearded Thanos" every time he shows up he gives a veiled threat and sends a boss after you. His boss fight was indeed tough (f that grav hammer) but it feels lackluster when you realize you are fighting some dude with essentially Brute lung cancer
Not Tartartus. Not Cortana. Not the Covenant. This game is just a poor imitation of what was good before
@@manz7860 Grapling hook was a fun new addition but it made every boss fight piss easy and ruined the Atriax fight. Once you get In the rhythm of grappling downwards to get a huge speed boost and grappling up and shooting mid air it's pretty hard to lose encounters I died 4 times in this game. 3 of which were because I didn't notice there was an ignited canister next to me and it blew me up amd one was because I didn't notice that the map doesn't pause the game lmao
I think of Escharum as Halo’s vocal-fryer. He’s so annoying whenever he speaks. He taaalks liiiike thiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssss aaaat loooowwww piiiiiiitch! It is so freaking annoying!
@@Henlak- that’s what happens when you play on easy
@@cameronmacleod3028 *Heroic That's what happens when ur good at the game :)
To be fair to the developers, It's the Navy's job to give Marines a ride to the place they're supposed to fuck up. Points for realism.
When I read this my first thought was "Fuck up" meant fail, but then i thought it might mean to Fuck them up. Either way its funny.
@@vergilthefallen9 lol thank you
Yes. Even in some way Halo is a military themed game. Originally it was Military RTS game. Yes of course Halo doesn't need to be a Milsim game. But Bungie was researched military stuff. From Halo 1 to Reach it was believeable what could humanity would use in the future it was natural how the UNSC Looked.
@@trooperodst6880 I agree. I served in the US Navy and was attached to USMC units, hence the joke. They did a pretty good job with the lore overall.
@@docwhiskey996 I took it you where a Corpsman or Hospital medic? I don't know the USN well. But still US Navy Corpsman are awesome.
Sin 48 - Context is king. She was expecting to be deleted before this. NOW, Chief had been partnered up with her, working together ever since, and giving the impression that she would actually get to survive. That gives good reason for her to be upset this time.
Halo infinite's problem lies exactly within the story. Theres so much off-screen hand waving and "I hope you read X book" that its a travesty of story telling. Halo 5 had its issues with its story of course; something they clearly learned NOTHING from among other game elements, but to pull a kishimoto and give Cortana the Madara treatment ("Oh shit we made her too powerful, we gotta kill her off somehow and give our hero a way to succeed") and make the banished this absurdly sized threat of being able to somehow take on cortana. Not only is this bad writing, but we basically gloss over the fact that the spirit of fire was the one attacking the banished in halo wars 2 all the way till the end, and then.... poof we just forgot about them and now they can take on the INFINITY of all things. 343 gave the banished WAY too much credit. Im interested in the little references they made in certain sections of the story, especially the ending, to the forerunner trilogy. This raises questions that i doubt 343 will answer properly.
Finally, someone who actually has read the books complains about the books. Usually its people who are too lazy to read them are the ones who complain about them. My problem with the books is that they dont actually set up game that follow them like people think they do. Did pre-Halo 5 Books set up an AI Uprising? No, it set up the Chief VS Locke Rivalry that never happened. Did pre-Halo Infinite books set up the Banished Curbstomp of the UNSC? No, it set up the threat of the Created Faction, a fight we never get to play.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Even the buildup for locke as a character was just "Man thinks being a fucking Narc is a personality trait, other assholes LOVE him for it". I didnt get to read the pre infinite books because they just came in today as i ordered them for myself recently. Good to know how useless they are. At least the Halo 4 era of stuff was pretty solid, even the filler stuff that was like slightly pre 4 to just after was good too. Everything else leading up to and after 5 was just a slow burn of a wreck with ideas that never got realized. Hell, my personal favorite side trilogy, the Kilo-5 trilogy was a big waste because what did it amount to? Mark 7 was built up as this incredible prototype armor that could do whatever is necessary in a physical standpoint and now its just some mainline trash.
@@Sichunter95 Despite how everyone likes to talk about how 343 never listens to criticism, and in certain ways they dont, in other ways, the OVERREACT to criticism, especially in regards to their Halo story. People didnt like Didact? Kill him off. People didnt like Jul'Mdama's Storm Covenant? Kill him off. People didnt like the Created? Kill them off. ...wait, people liked the Banished? Quick, toss out what we had before and make them the focus of Halo Infinite, while also setting up another poorly-considered existential threat, the Endless! I swear, if enough people dont like the Endless, we WILL see their death-knell in a book.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Oh dont forget that the didact was truly ended in a comic lmaooo. I felt so disappointed even though it was completely badass. Mdama dying in the OPENING SCENE of halo 5 after being the most elusive mf to kill and being a real threat, only to be murdered effortlessly by rando-scrando locke and co was the stupidest shit. Hell the concept of the endless is already dumb enough, and its allegedly only one planets worth of a civilization. They should be absolutely ZERO threat compared to the forerunners, the flood, and the covenant.
You don’t have to read the book to understand the story given to you. At best you just need to listen to the audio logs, and even then that’s only if you’re interested. Everything that’s necessary to the story is told to you in this game. Savor the Harbinger stuff, but that’s teased for the sequel expansion anyway. I don’t read the books, I had questions about literally nothing
I think a sin is most of the action packed stuff happens in the 6 months before the game starts.
I hate that we don't even learn Fernando's name until the penultimate cutscene.
Fun fact; Nicolas Roye (Fernando’s actor) named the character himself after two of his best friends from childhood.
Halo was a big part of my childhood. And it seems like with a lot of things from my childhood companies just won’t let them die. Gotta bring it back to cash in on that nostalgia
Yes with half the work and twice the micro transactions
The sad thing is the Reclaimer trilogy could have been great, as there was so much untapped potential in terms of a good story to tell. But to date 343 have largely mucked up due to poor forward planning and organisational. They need to actually follow up on the stories they start. Not just change the course of the story Willy Nilly and introduce new characters for the sake of new faces. I’ve seen extras with more personality then Osiris had.
but Halo Infinite seems to prove that they do care about people like you.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 They’re not doing this for people my man, they’re doing this for profit
Jack Everton - I really wish that was the case. If profit was the driving factor that would be a motive to actually deliver a good reliable series of games on a regular timeline that appeal to as many people as possible. Right now 343 seem to be treating the Halo franchise as a pampered pooch. Changing their mind every game where the story should be going without any concern to what the lack of followup will do to the long term profitability of their main product. Say what you want about Call of Duty. But for every 2 bad games they release, you can find a relatively good one. And it’s those you remember.
Weirdly was just hoping you'd do this game soon 😁👌 "Press e to insert waifu" Had me in stitches 🤣
They did good on realeasing the game this year and betting on some other game being worse than this. Battlefield didnt disappoint them.
If half finished Infinite is getting so much love from critics, I can’t even imagine how lackluster Call of Duty and Battlefield must be.
@@residentevilclone the bar doesnt seem to be very high, critics are just payed
Halos player base still dropped by more then 60 % on steam. Although it has a free to play Multiplayer. I played it by myself because it was free and I had to uninstall it.
@@61f757r34m i can agree on that.
The bar is so low we’re accepting AAA devs backed by trillion dollar companies releasing unfinished glorified early access games while they look us in the face and tell us it’s unfinished, on top of some of the most predatory monetization since lootboxes
That dash armor ability is really useful when Bandana Skull is on. Jetting around a Brute Chieftain while vicisiously mocking him.
Seriously, the original Halo had the best story cause it kept it simple. Allowing the player to build the lore based on small details. This made it more interesting. Halo is like Doom, when try to add too much to the story, you will fail.
Halo is not Doom, it has never been Doom, stop comparing 2 things that have never been alike. Even the first game is about stopping a massive alien superweapon from wiping out the entire galaxy - totally not a space opera.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I think you missed my point. All of that happened with little character and little story and yet it is still better than the recent outings trying to expand both, because in Halo's case it's best to keep it simple. Want another comparison since the Doom analogy bothers you so much? Kingdom Hearts. All things considered, the first game was pretty simple (and clean). But as the series progressed they tried to make it bigger than it was and that made it more confusing, convoluted and bad. Same thing with Halo. They just keep adding shit which doesn't make it feel more nuanced, just needlessly big.
What do you mean? Even Doom 3 (the game you are probably referring to) was well received.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 yeah, stop comparing two games that are both first person shooters. Stop comparing DOOM and Halo, even though they both have otherworldly threats. Stop comparing DOOM and Halo, even though they both feature one man facing an entire army. Stop comparing DOOM and Halo, even though they’re both long running series. Stop comparing DOOM and Halo, even though both protagonists have an AI helper.
@@channel45853 You're too hung up on the Doom comparison. The point I am makiing is that a game like Halo is best kept as simple as possible.
Sin 55, the Energy Handcuff question. I've got a couple potential answers. One, since it isn't made of a solid, it would be significantly harder to break. If it's just metal, a particular green super soldier could easily snap it open, and have a freed hostage. Another, you know how the Banished are keen to torture, why wouldn't they have a set of cuffs that can shock the hostage at will? Shock, burn, whatever hurts.
I also thought about that, like when a big part of your forces are comprised by 2 races with super strength (brutes and elites), it is probably best to avoid using metal to cuff them.
I'll also say this looked a lot easier to model/create materials for, whereas a pair of cuffs probably would have needed a more intricate physics model for a chain, or changes to Brohammer's arm position. its easier and quicker.
3:35 I think it's chief's armor reactor charging up the pelican's subsistems. The Mjolnir suits are said to have power sources that can run virtually indefinitely. The power input from the pilot must've taken his suit off of life support mode and into normal operational order.
Sin 54: No it makes perfect sense in Halo , not for humans but for spartans, elites and brutes. After all they could just snap regular ones , so it makes sense to have these unbreakable handcuffs.
How did I go my entire... Well, KZhead's entire life without ever finding this gold mine of a channel until literally 45 minutes ago? I can't wait to binge the shit out of these videos now!
17:50 The point was preventing her from falling into enemy hands, not that she would go rampant.
Probably what he meant
In a way, I kinda like that it feels like a smaller more personal story. No big battle accross cities with many marines and many invasion ships. But when you think about it, still WAY too much happens for such a secluded story. like in the span of 24 hours more or less story wise, in a small portion of the ring. you kill A bunch of Generals, commander, powerful cheiftains. You easily dispatch of a dozen of vicious soldiers who apparently could defeat entire squads of ODST/spartans or Marine, and they just chill on the plains like they are on vacations. (if at least each HVTs were linked to a fort it would make more sense). All this with just master chief himself, and maybe a handful of marine, so they don't feel like very strong ennemies. (but i did enjoy playing this game, its fun and can be relaxing sometimes, even in legendary).
Wish they had brought back lasky he was actually a pretty decent character
21:22 While it was seldomly depicted beyond it, the finger-snapping was picked up directly from the Regret chapter of Halo 2. And since this game does make a number of callbacks to games both from Bungie's development and 343i, it should be a connection that players made early on. 22:06 Also, roll credits.
Whenever the forerunners did somthing stupid, I just remember they had politicians too.
Sin 77: How does a wrist mounted grappling hook have the gear system and strength to hold a 1000 pound spartan and let him glide through the air with ease? Also, why wouldn't the chief just use a vastly more efficient jump pack/ jet pack for rapid mobility for traversing the ring?
I just assumed it was a matter of reverse-engineering Forerunner tech, to explain how the UNSC managed to make any crazy science experiment happen. As for why not use the thruster packs and jetpacks from the previous games… maybe in the lore they wanted something that would not require constant refuels? From my extremely limited knowledge on real life grappling hook tech, I would presume Chief’s would use some kind of motor, which would probably be powered by the battery in the suit. And this would make the grappleshot very reusable. And the grappleshot, in game, seems to make Chief ascend to heights faster than the jetpack ever could. And the thruster pack was better for evasive maneuvers rather than height boosts.
@@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight A jet pack or a new jump pack(not the thruster pack) would have made more sense then a grappling hook. Plus the grappling hook is a over used and not really an innovative mechanic. Jet packs have more utility and flexibility, they can made in different ways depending on the game. The grappling hook was a ridiculous idea and was only added to follow the grappling hook trend in games before it.
@@aarayfett8349 I’d have to agree with you somewhat. The grappleshot is rather out of place to have in Halo, given how low-tech it is compared to all the other equipment. But I would not bring the exact jetpack from Reach for the Infinite campaign because it was kinda unreliable with its short bursts of “flight” (I admit bias here because I wasn’t particularly good at using it to stay alive in New Alexandria’s falcon segment). Given that the UNSC Infinity existed to demonstrate the UNSC’s technological advancement between Halo 3 and 4, I honestly would have wanted an improved jetpack in the campaign, that would let me fly higher and for longer, possibly a rehash on antigravity packs that the Covenant use. But the multiplayer’s version could be just like Reach’s for balancing, because it was alright back then in that context.
It’s in the future so it can and grappling hooks are funner than jet packs
@@Stupididiot67 You can do more with a jet pack than you can with a grappling hook and I'd bet more people would enjoy a maneuverable, long flight time jet pack than a grappling hook.
Already, in the first 2 minutes this is a perfect summary of Halo Infinite and even Halo as a whole.
“You still have sprint and aim down sights which feels out of place” I’m not sure I even need to argue why a genetically engineered super soldier can run really fast, or that the last bungie game added sprint. But Chief has been able to smart zoom through weapons since halo 1. It’s been part of the lore forever that weapons connect directly into the spartans headset so they can see targets without directly “aiming” it. The problem some people had with halo 5 is that spartans DID aim it in that game. These aren’t “343 additions”
sprint in reach had a con though. you had to make a choice to have it or have something in else in its place. sprint kills the flow that halo originally had. again zoom was only one weapons that had a scope or the pistol. not the AR or any non scope gun. thats why he calls it out.
@@kay_keik7842 sprint was going to be in halo 2 before they ran out of time to implement it due to the worst development hell in history. It’s still in the game’s files so that’s redundant. Sprint has been in halo longer than was out of it, also making that redundant. If you want the flow halo originally had, halo 1-3’s multiplayer are all in the MCC. Everyone else who’s moved out of 2007 can play the other ones. Really simple solution. As far as him complaining the “multiplayer weapons suck” that’s just straight up him being bad. Halo 5 made all the weapons good and people whined. Halo Infinite made almost all the weapons serviceable but not too overbearing and now people are complaining the weapons suck. If 343 never listened to any feedback again I wouldn’t even blame them at this point. People have zero idea what they want,
The sprint was like just 10% faster and no hip fire while sprinting anyway. Not even sure if it worth it.
@@varshard0 why in the hell would the game let you hip fire while SPRINTING? Now that’s breaking halo’s balance for sure. This ain’t doom 3
@@TeryonTheHuman it's not Titanfall either, short of the grapple hook
2:36 lmao I am not getting over your interpretation of "Cliche plot armor of main character no die-ey die-ey."
I’ve heard you say the Metro Last Light sin every time in past videos, but you’ve never done a sin video on the Metro games, please do a video on Metro: Exodus.
Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach all needs one of their own. This guy does a pretty good job. I’d watch more but don’t want to spoil myself.
The Halo trilogy and Reach are above criticism you cretan
8:48 I think it fits for one reason the weapon is shown to be a bit more naive in comparison to Cortana and much more ready to follow regulation
"Show. Don't tell." 343: Yeah fuck that. Vague allusions all the way.
You didn't mention the eerie ultra close-up of Weapon's badly rendered teeth during one of the cut scene. That's one of the biggest sins imo.
17:38 this sin makes no sense bc at this point in the game she’s fully invested to help Chief stop whatever is going on thus to believe that he wouldn’t try to delete her or anything that could possibly hurt her saying that they were a team
A lot of the sins don’t make sense if you want to be like that. But yeah, you’re right
I chalk it up to increased self-awareness. The Weapon was originally blindly obeying her programming, but now that she has talked to Chief enough, she quickly learned how to think for herself. It’s also part of Chief’s own advice about “the missions change; they always do”, so she must adapt herself to the new mission. This adaptation is to not want to be deleted, and to stay alive to help Chief as much as she can.
Great work as always, and I would vote life is strange, seems full of sins
1:51 This question perfectly applies to Capcom's *Resident Evil* franchise.
Halos have artificial gravity generators, they don’t work it centrifugal force. That Game Theory video is wrong.
4:02 infintie doesn't have aiming down sights and sprint was introduced in reach if i remember correctly, also other equipment is very much useful on higher difficulities, especially on legendary
@C1SUMKR3M its a slight zoom, not ads, you use it only sometimes and also old halos had it too if i remember correctly
@C1SUMKR3M so?
@C1SUMKR3M but why would you, the weapons are accurate without it
@C1SUMKR3M Halo Infinite doesn't have ADS. All you get is a slight zoom. You don't get a different sight picture, decreased bloom or decreased recoil.
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The Brute villain was soo boring, either heee taaaalked like thiiiiiiiiiiis veeeery slooooowly giving you meaningless threats while hiding behind people he sent after you, while also pretending he was the honourable warrior cliché, or just simping for Daddy "ATRIOIX!!!" via his collectable audio logs/other dialogue.
9:04 you can only fire all of them from ark you can just fire one halo ring from the ring itself i assume the banished wanna fire it to wipe out humanity
Regarding Sin 31: 12:20 No, the Multiplayer is still canon, and there are hundreds upon thousands of Spartans inside their isolated training Academies, and even in Bungie-era, Master Chief being the "last Spartan" was only ever mentioned in Halo CE, the only Halo game you respect. Bungie Halo books made liberal use of other Spartans in a respectful manner.
Yes. In Halo 4 in a chapter where you fly a pelican there is small easter egg or reference to War Games in Infinity.
@@trooperodst6880 Yep, because Halo 4 was the first Halo game to canonize multiplayer, as the state of the world allowed it.
It might’ve also been in Halo 3. The disc copy had a little book for controls and some lore tidbits, one at the beginning like a Prologue being “The story so far…” and if I recall mentions “The last surviving spartan”, EVEN THOUGH within the books, between Halo CE, between 2 and 3, between 3 and Four, blue team had stuff going on, the SIIIs had stuff going on around doing their thing on Onyx
“You’ll need industrial solvent to peel that suit from him” alright, that got me. Funny!
Eh, at least the ancient enemy sealed this time is _wildly_ different compared to the Flood. Seriously, about the only thing the Flood has in common with the Endless is the whole 'enemy of the Forerunner' thing. Being able to manipulate time is a very frightening ability to have... I mean, just look at *_every single enemy in the JoJo series that has a time-based ability!_*
By way before knocking the other abilities it’s whole different story on Legendary. You will need all of them to survive. While on LASO you actually wind up using the grapple the least. Only to get around vertical obstacles actually.
12:41 the drones are not from Halo reach they are from Halo 2
16:30 Fernando importance is reminding the master chief to keep going and of his humanity. Cortana used to tell him that he is not a machine. When asked in the campaign why do you keep you doing this? Chiefs response was "this is all I know". Win or lose soldiers need reasons to keep fighting.
Small correction. He said “I don’t know. Maybe it’s my programming.”
Still God awful writing.
Sin #32 This is my Halo OC. I name the Endless and they are totally more powerful than the Forerunners and humanity but will beaten by a guy with a gun because plot demands it. Whoever created this species I hope is the main villain of the next John Wick movie.
The Doom Slayer would have beat Atriox with little to no problems.
On legendary the equipment is more useful and you'll be using more then just the grapple shot a lot
Not really, Halo Infinite’s Legendary Diffuculty is the easiest one to beat out of all of the Halo Games, The Grappleshot is by far the best equipment for it, and you’d only use the Threat Sensor a couple times against invisible elites like Chak ‘Lok and Jega 'Rdomnai or just to scout out area’s. The Drop Wall when it’s maxed out is the only thing that’s actually worth maxing out on Legendary. (apart from the shield core) and the Thruster is basically useless for most of the game with only a tiny boost forward and even when you max it out the invisibility only lasts 4 seconds and that’s only going to come in handy a very small amount of times.
Cap, honestly i was caught in situations where i had to use the other equipment and others have experienced the same things especially when facing a tough enemy bullet sponge in a small room
But due to the more open paths and options u have in the game even when it comes to what weapon u have leads to different experiences, i actually had to use the fully upgraded thrusters to get out if situations i literally couldn't with the grapple bc the active camouflage may only last 4 seconds if u thrust twice it's technically 8 and it was more then enough to recharge my shields and get the attention of the enemy's off off me
No, I never used a single equipment outside of the grapple shot on legendary. Didn’t even bother to take the time to learn which buttons to press to switch to different equipment
@@bluespartan-6628 Like I said, It's only going to come in handy a very small amount of times. You're still going to use the Grappleshot for most of the game since it's the most viable in combat situations, and I managed to 100% Halo Infinite's Campaign on Legendary (Beating the Campaign and collecting all Area's Collectibles) in just over 10 hours. You're not going to be using any of the other equipment's because their useless most of the time. And I probably could've finished it in under 5 hours if I got the Portable Scorpion Tank from Outpost Tremonious and took the Pelican from Echo-216.
Honestly they should have brought back the Prometheans for the sake of variety. The parts of the game where you fight nothing but Sentinels stand out as places that the Prometheans really, really should have appeared. Despite its problems, Halo 5 improved the gameplay of the Prometheans a lot, and if they just did some touch-ups and an art-style change I think a lot more people would like them. But no, lets beg them for the Flood back, despite the fact that old Halo fans will remember how annoying and boring people found the Flood back when they did appear.
Probably future dlc the created are not gone yet
@@spartanx9293 Hopefully. 343's recent Canon Fodder made passing mention of "Lingering Created affiliates" so its possible.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I hope so while I was not the biggest fan of the Prometheans I would like to see the created and their story wrapped up
@@spartanx9293 Me too, Halo Infinite did not wrap up, conclude, or even continue the Created Conflict, more like side-stepped it to start a new one with the Banished and Endless. In order to make the Created a lot more tolerable, I think they should incorporate the usual organic aliens into their armies, like how the Didact made use of the Storm Covenant.
Actually about 90% of Halo fans won’t shut up about how much they want the flood back.
You really summed up all my gripes with the game lmao. It's a step forward but there are so many stupid, and little story choices that make ZERO sense. Sooo many "get out of jail free" cards, missing characters, and ignored things. Blue team was shadow written off screen and are only mentioned once by Lasky who NEVER appears in game. Locke is clearly dead, that IS his helmet on one of the Spartan killers shoulder. Palmer is just Thanos Snapped out of existence. Heck, I don't think Halsey is even mentioned besides your few Cortana flashbacks. The vehicles all have that goofy "glow red and make noise then blow up", animation. We ALL know that if your warthog is on fire, it's not gonna last much longer. Even the scorpion is pathetically weak. And air dropping the scorpion is pointless because the open world is NOT scorpion friendly. And then Endless pose 0 threat to humanity. Harbinger even says she doesn't care about us and doesn't wanna fight us. It all baflles me.
"Locke is clearly dead, that IS his helmet on one of the Spartan killers shoulder. " If true, Locke will be one of Halo's biggest wasted characters.
@@machine1685 He was as soon as he was made. It's unfortunate, I liked him in Nightfall but 343 messed up so bad with making him the lead character of Halo 5 that they've literally killed him off screen and not a single character cares. And every single fan is happy lol.
This was my first Halo game ever and while it pretends to be a newcomers-friendly it actually never explains some things for you. I mean from the start - what is the ring, where's humanity, is it destroyed, who are these funny little aliens etc. It does explain things with Cortana and makes the status quo the same, which will be good for me in the future but it would be awesome if they spelled the lore for newbies.
Unfortunately this is one of these titles where you kind of have to play through it accordingly, its the equivalent to starting Star wars, or Lord of the rings. mind you, the starting 3 games Bungie release are considered the Holy Trinity of gaming, Right behind most Call of duty titles (Mw, MW2, WAW)
The first game doesn't really start out explaining any of those either, really only explaining what the Halo is as you go along, leaving the rest to be explained in later games, particularly 2 and Reach.
@@ljawshl I figured that I have to play the Master chief Collection at least. Actually I got Halo 5 when I bought the Xbox One S, but I never cared for it and just played game pass.
Wow it's almost like you came in to a series after 8 main games, 20 books, 6 spinoff games, and like 4 shows/movies. "Newcomer-friendly" doesn't mean the 8th game in the main series needs to waste 60 hours to explain to you what's going on with the lore.
@@GhstSecurity I agree, but bro that's kinda aggressive. Yeesh he just wants to know basics.
and Rico Rodriguez taught Doomguy and Cheif to Grapple Hooking
Hopefully he gets around to teaching Samus Aran before Prime 4 comes out.
My personal favorite is, that Chief can order an endless amount of forces, but only one vehicle and a handful of marines at once. 😂
I'm playing it currently. In my eyes, it's just a chain of MP maps. They tried hard to you not giving a shit about the story, characters, physics, and the past and the future of Halo, and they tried even harder to get you addicted to MP features in the campaign. For the records, it just doesn't work. The driving is shittier than ever in a Halo, but the gameplay is solid, and the new weapons are fun. The game is really okay for some quick and mindless action after a hard day. But this game is a clear indicator that they have no clue what to do with the series if it's not about milking the whales in the MP. But nowadays, nobody has an idea what to do with any brand. Fallout, TES, Mass Effect, Rage, Prey, Wolfenstein, GTA, Saints Row... Every brand I once loved is worthless nowadays, and who gives a shit about new ones like Cybercrap. They spend hundreds of millions for their shitty games and a viral marketing campaign, but nobody has ever the idea to at least contract you to write a better story than "I am so evil, and I will crush you!". I mean, the story of this game is like a Twitter thread.
I enjoyed everything about the campaign. From the story to gameplay.
Think you were too kind to this game with only 76 sins 😂
2:58 im 90% sure spartans still need air so master chief surviving foesnt make much sense to me, but there is an in lore reason the spartans never have to eat or drink, that being the mjoulnir armour recycling bodily fluids and stuff like that to keep them hydrated and kept with the nutrients they need n junk
Not that they never have to, that they can go for slightly longer periods without needing to do so. However the amount of time spent in space is far fetched as hell even for lore.
@@Sichunter95 I believe it was because of his upgraded armor, it put him basically into the same thing as cryo sleep (survival mode)
@@flixytip4571 I havent read the lead up books so i dont know whats up with his armor. Too much of infinite is off-screening and "Did you read this book?"
@@Sichunter95 well the pilot says that chief triggerd survival mode, which must be like low battery mode in a way, still on but consumes less energy and can last literally days of not weeks of you barely use it.
Woo. Been waiting for this one :D
Well the guardians aren't mentioned but there is a crashed one on the ring
Vaporize enemies before they even spawned lmao why so accurate 😂 A phantom spawned over my Razorback and all I saw was the pink sky from the explosion 💥
Sonic has more than 3-4 good games: * Sonic 2 * Sonic 3 & Knuckles * Sonic 3D Blast * Sonic Adventure * Sonic Adventure 2 * Sonic Generations * Sonic Mania That's 7; one for each Chaos Emerald. I also enjoyed Sonic Spinball, but I understand why it doesn't belong on this list.
There’s more than that, too. Like, I know these videos aren’t to be taken 100% seriously, but there are so many people in the general gaming audience that think this way.
It is actually C++. C+ isn't a programming language.
And besides, it's HTML. Chief's that old.
Good video, and man that is a tough choice..but imma have to go with House of Ashes
So even the upgrade system is stolen from DOOM.
Can't steal if you literally own the company that made it
Probably a worthy note that during the reflection of griffin’s death in master chiefs visor, you can’t see a single frame of him speaking, let alone blinking or shirking his body as he passes. One of the other flaws I noticed and it continues through other engagements.
It’s because it’s not a real time reflection
It is meant after his death
Turn your controller vibration on during that scene
@0100101 010101 entirely different circumstances and plot.
@0100101 010101 yeah except griffins made sense and Johnson’s was half assed
So, so glad that you had the exact same issues I had with the game. I got so frustrated being told the Endless returning was a bad thing without being told WHY; the Harbinger outright tells the master chief that they aren't enemies... and then attacks him, because uh... the plot demands it? Only ones sins i would have added are. 1. People need to close their mouths! I got so used to seeing the pilots teeth that my own started to feel dry. 2. Someone needs to turn off Palpetine mode for the holograms; it kind of makes sense for Escharum, since he's looking down at his table, but even when you're looking at projections of the chief's own memories he's twice life size. It makes him look like he has an ego complex. 3. Enemies need to stop acting like the Master Chief is new to this; he's beaten the Flood, Covenenant and the Prometheans. Yet the Banish keep talking like he's some overeager upstart, while he's beating them!
For the third point, the banished are about exploitation of weakness. Ruthlessness. So dismissing an opponent’s achievements as being nothing, while touting yourself as better, more accomplished - as if those things Chief did doesn’t phase them, very IDGAF attitude, “an unbreakable resolve within the Banished” makes more for a psychological tactic than anything, and I like it. It’s kind of annoying, but, that’s how that is. That’s how ruthless people operate, if you can see through it without getting emotional it’s easy, but the tactic is meant to hit the ego, which then dissolves the mind’s ability to reason with it. It’s a method of tactically inserting self doubt into the enemy. If you read art of war though, one key “rule” is that when one sovereign has already declared victory, they’ve lost. All tactics get seen for what they are, tactics, and become moot. The five pillars or laws of this, one being Heavenly Law, I think, is akin to seeing everything detached from oneself and assessing the situation as if you were God witnessing War. God would be a monster at war, he sees it all, it’s easier to understand stratagem from this view point. It works if you understand concepts before hand, but to those that don’t read that sort of thing, it comes of as annoying. As it is. Because its a bugger tactic, but a tactic none the less. It all depends on those 5 pillars within a mindset. Lose your composure, lose sight of them, and you lose. These tactics are designed to make an opponent do just that. Sorry for geeking out
@@flavourruling2162 Oh I got that; they're hyper aggressive and see any kind of admission of weakness as tantamount to admitting defeat. It just got annoying when even late game bosses still kept acting like the Master Chief was fresh out of bootcamp, after he'd demolished everything in his path. At the very least I'd have hoped to see more caution from them.
Sim 46 - Cortana shouldn't have even been aware. It was stated in the comics that the Cortana in 5/Infinite was fragments of her that had found the Domain. The bit that said goodbye to Chief faded away with that hardlight box. She should have no recollection of those events.
Dart sup told u I would watch this after the stream
The game seems interesting. Too bad Cortana got Didacted, specially after Halo 5's ending where it seemed she was going to be the next bad bitch...
Nobody sane wanted SKYNET Cortana
In regards to sin 3, the only explanation 343 can give that would satisfy is that his suit has a built in cryo-mode; which is just my headcanon.
Finally someone acknowledge the real problem with Halo series
Rq I saw you did the guardians of the galaxy game a while ago Is that on hiatus or just axed altogether?
At the end of halo 2 cortana was left with the gravemind after that she started going rampant I think that's the failure chief is talking about
The Grave Mind physically and psychologically tortured her. It was pretty evil.
@@disturbedone8731 Physically and psychologically torturing an AI? What?
Ok the endless weren't even acknowledged by the forerunners the rings went off and the monitors discovered the endless and how they are immune to the rings and by extension the flood the forerunners we're already dead
I’ve been saying forever that the story of this trilogy was doomed when 343 Studios decided they needed to solve a problem that literally didn’t exist: Cortana. Of all the things to try to destroy why would they go after her? Rampancy was a concept they pulled out of their ass and decided to kill her off at the end of Halo 4 only to retcon that and resurrect her as the main villain in Halo 5 only to retcon that in Halo Infinite in the most ridiculous way possible so that we wind up with Cortana 2.0 which we wouldn’t even have needed if they hadn’t fucked her up for no reason in Halo 4. Also if she destroyed Brutes home world why didn’t she just blow up Earth instead of just Sydney?? And finally why oh why does Halo 4 look so much better than Halo Infinite? Sexiness aside Halo 4’s Cortana looks like the one that’s next gen while Infinite’s Cortana and Weapon look like they could have been rendered by the Xbox 360 …
Oh you mean Chief rose again after 3 days in a series dripping with biblical themes?
I'd argue that locking the only door forward until the villain has completed whatever uninteresting message they sent to you is just as annoying as forcing your movement to 1% like the Gravemind does in the Cortana level of Halo 3
Cortana only snapped her fingers twice in halo2 to translate the prophets secret message so it was a small hidden detail they would bring back for infinite.
Great video as always! One vote for Life is Strange please!
Awww, forgiveness? How about writing a good story WITHOUT HAVING TO READ A DAMN BOOK!?
Halo wars 2 bud Edit:also in the halo wars 2 it is shown that atriox can smash through spartan armor as he does with Douglas so he had no reason to not kill john
From what I seen they were using older model armor with no shields if I remember correctly from the lore
@@aw7215 first model of armor
This is effin brilliant and so on point with all the shortcomings of Halo Infinite and I hope 343 Studios take everything to heart onwards👍
Yeah, 343's worst sin since they took over is being terrified to stick with a threat long enough to develop them such that they'll be considered a good villain. Didact or Cortana could either have been good enemies long term. Instead, we've been treading ground, on the third game of a trilogy and STILL no long term threat to make it into a trilogy.... Super frustrating.
That’s not a bad thing, all you would be doing is just retreading the covenant again in the end. I’m not saying we can’t have an over arching force but having episodic villains here helps keep this universe more alive and gives the writers more room to try things. In Halo 4, Chief killed the Didact, there is no real need for the Prometheans to come back without him since he was the leader of that cult, so it’s over. Halo 5, we fought Cortana and lost, We had a plan to stop her but plot twist, the Banished showed up. The overarching through line here is simply just this being the personal journey of Master Chief and Cortana (now the Weapon), and their adventures in this galaxy. Every game in 343 has been about how these battles affect Chief and Cortana and how things aren’t as simple as they used to be. Now is this also 343 covering their own fuck ups? Yes, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t make something cool out of it
@@jaketylenol If they were being intentional with how they did it, sure. But in this case, each one has been poorly received, and so the writers room backtracked out of a given new faction being the actual threat. I'm not asking for another covenant or whatever. I'm just asking for consistency of intent, because that episodic thing is pretty clearly not what they were intending when they put 4, or even Guardians, out.
@@pyrosianheir it doesn’t matter if it was poorly received what matters is the outcome. Every Star Wars movie the plot was changed last second because the writers didn’t plan in advance what they were going to do, they just had loose ideas and concepts, and luckily it just made one coherent story everyone enjoyed. Hell that’s how Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were written and those anime’s are classics. Same here, minus the enjoyment part for the first 2 games. The narrative as it stands is, Master Chief and Cortana vs the Galaxy, Which if you follow the flow of all 3 games, you realize, that it’s not that big of a deal they keep switching threats. None of the threats get dropped abruptly without serving a story purpose in universe. For instance the Promethean plot led to Cortana learning about the Mantle, the Mantle plot as well for her deep seated hatred for humans and how they treated her and other AI’s (aside from John) led to her taking over the Galaxy, which led to the Banish’s rise to power because Cortana thought she knew what was best for everyone when she really didn’t and nearly got everyone killed, which leads to Master Chief developing trust issues, which without a real friend to help him through it, forced him to face his humanity finally as Cortana wanted him to do back in Halo 4. See? None of this was intentional from the start, but you still have a coherent narrative
I don’t agree with the notion that Halo has never had good individual villains before. Truth, Gravemind, and Tartarus we’re all effective villains that compelled me to defeat them. Hell even the Didactic had potential. The problem is that 343 didn’t do ANYTHING with him! The only interesting villain aside from Atriox that they’ve created and they just have him composed in a tie-in comic?! SERIOUSLY?!!
I missed your sweet sweet voice. Been a minute since the last sin video I wanted to watch
it's actually never said that it's possible in neither books nor anything else. its plot armour.
Sin #6: I would agree with this sin, if it had failed to power chiefs suit. If I recall, his suit is powered by a nuclear fusion reactor, meaning it would take a shit ton of power just to turn it on and run for a minute.
Not all of the Spartans are dead. It mentions other Spartans in audio logs
I would be freaking angry if the work of my life , Halo 4, Halo Wars 2 and Halo 5 were suddenly tossed to the trash bin and start a new arc ignoring every aspect you were building on previous Halos for the sake of bringing a new audience but then I remember the fiasco 343i did last year with the Halo 5 demo I am surprised they still a working Studio. Now Master Chief feels "old" with thse new young and hiperactive sidekicks so now feels like a soft reboot of the series since everything got freaking destroyed and humanity have to start from scratch again. which was much NEEDED because the UNSC was dominating any other species since Halo 4
Halo 4’s story was done the moment Chief and Cortana killed the Didact. Everyone hated Halo 5’s story and the franchise was walking on egg shells so why wouldn’t they change it. And halo wars 2’s story wasn’t thrown out the trash in fact it was promoted to the front seat as the main villain of that game was given so much clout he kicked The Master fucking Chiefs ass and defeated Cortana, the 2 deadliest characters in the verse; all in the prologue
Hey...any chance you would cover the Halo tv show? That thing is ripe for an ep-by-ep Game Sins series
Dude in this game master chief shows more emotions than Halo 4
17:00 “Spartans are tough, but they’ve been beaten by superior numbers” try telling that to the Master Chief.
Finger clicking sin: First used in the original release of Halo 2 Made a lot more obvious in the Halo 2 Remaster But - it was rarely used before Infinite where it got its usage upped to the point of a plot device.
Did it ever explain how Infinity was found? Also THERE'S A WASP?
Yes there is.
1:28 - 2:00 Thank you for this. I'm probably gonna get flack for this but I thought Halo 5's campaign wasn't all that bad. (Perhaps it's because by the time I played it, I already heard about the contraversey regarding how the whole marketing of "Locke VS Chief" was a lie. So I didn't really have much expectations going into Halo 5) But I was actually looking forward to the next Halo game. I was expecting that there was gonna be this epic battle where we would have to fight the Guardians and there was going to be this emotional showdown between Chief and Cortana. But then all this shit happens before the game even begins. It would be cool if they made a prequel (or prequels) game that dealt with Cortana, her Guardians and her Prometheans. But you are probably right in that they will rather write a book detailing these events.
Another wonderful sins video! My vote for the next one is House of Ashes!