Halo Infinite

I think chief is still in cryo after h3. He is just having endless nightmares about microtransactions popping up in his visor.

There's this really good skit in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the during a game, the gang challenges Frank Reynolds "to eat a cake." Frank is enthused as all the challenges up to this point have been effectively torture. His glee quickly turns to dismay as the crew elaborates he has to actually "eat the ingredients of a cake." Needless to say he ends up ill from consuming raw eggs, flour and the like. That is what Halo Infinite is to me. 343 had the best ingredients to bake a proverbial cake (Core Gameplay, Artstyle, Solid Campaign) and yet they are just that: Raw ingredients. You can have the best ingredients but if you don't give the cake the love & oven time the recipe calls for, you'll just end up with salmonella and crushing dissapointment at what could have been. The only difference between my cake allegory and Halo Infinite is that all of Infinite's eggs are a year past their expiration date and 343 slipped dish soap into the flour by reneging on splitscreen.

"We hired people who hate Halo to make Halo."

Dear humanity, we regret releasing Halo: Infinite Desync. We regret turning it into a live service game and implementing microtransactions through out it. We regret ditching split-screen co-op to pursue gamemodes you didn't ask for. And we most definitely regret that you had to play this unfinished mess that we over hyped for years. - 343 P.S. Thanks for helping this die harder than Anthem.

Imagine paying for colors that used to be free for almost 20 years.