What went wrong?

That first level on Halo 4 when they give you the warthog with no one to man it. That very moment is when I knew these guys had no idea what they were doing.

You could tell it was gonna be shit when they named themselves after that gay monitor.

If they wanted to give you a vehicle it should have been a ghost or at least a fucking moongose

The monitor that that pretends to be good and and actually fucks you over
Seems a bit familiar doesn’t it

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A better question would be what didn't go wrong?
I can't think of a single fucking thing this pathetic excuse for a studio has done right.

5's forge is hands down the best iteration, I will give it that.

>>Covenant redesigns are all awful
Why...?

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>supposed to be rag-tag fringe extremist hold outs with little to no support and aging equipment
ok cool
>are basically just the covenant but go sleeveless
343's visual vomit design theory doesn't help either. I swear someone on their art team is terrified of "empty" space and is compelled to fill every square inch of something with lines, lights and greebles.

Ugly bulky shit
>super stealthy warriors
>his armour doubles his profile
>his feet were replaced with an elephants

>opening minutes of Halo 4
>Halsey is getting grilled on the Spartan program by ONI/The UNSC which makes no sense as she works for them and they actually repeated the use of child soldiers without her involvement a second time
>flashback shows armor that looks nothing like MJOLNIR SIV, Elites are all look like they have Down's syndrome
>Forward Unto Dawn may as well be a completely different ship
>Chief is wearing the same armor the flashback Spartans were wearing, it was actually supposed to be MK VI which didn't exist back then and still looks nothing like MK VI
>in an interview, a lead states that it's actually a unique post-Covenant war version of MK VI that Cortana put on Chief while he was frozen somehow
>never mentioned in game, no one mentions how Chief's armor looks different
right off the bat they demonstrate that they will refuse to put any effort into the most basic shit

>Lets make the artsyle shit
>Lets make all the weapons shit
>Lets have you fight a new covenant out of nowhere
>Lets make a new class of enemies that is shit
>Lets do a fake marketing campaign about the chief going evil
>Lets kill cortana so we can bring her back in the next game
What a bunch of hacks

Everything in 343 Halo seems much more bulkier too for some reason. Bungie Halo was really slick in comparison. The newer stuff always looks etiher really overdesigned (e.g redesigns of already existing weapons/enemies/vehicles) or it looks like they barely put any effort in it (e.g basically any brand new design like Promethean weapons or the new UNSC ones from Inifnite)
No idea why they decided to make the Elites fuckugly either

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I still don't get why they didn't just keep everything faithful to H3 until infinity shows up if they really wanted to redesign everything.

>Dummy thicc elites are in canon
>Instead we get Halo 4 variants

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>never mentioned in game
Don’t worry there’s the line “I re-wrote your suits firmware while you were out” which clearly dismisses all confusion and explains everything

People never stopped pretending Halo was ever good, and in the end the truth came out

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this lmao, it's such an obvious decision to do and it would make the moment you transition to the newer stuff much more impactful
It's like vydia storytelling 101 how the hell you can even manage to fuck it up is beyond me

made cortana dummy thicc

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It's not a question of what went wrong, it was wrong from the very beginning. 343i have never made a good game and never will.
pic somewhat related dont know why they show bungie Halos.

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>Named the company after trilogy antagonist
What'd they mean by this?

How was the reaction to Cortana being a villain now? I've not touched 5 but it just seems like such an asspull and completely against her character to make her think she should have the Mantle, coupled with the millions she has killed.

I mean that character can't be redeemed, surely.

For me, it's the Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes Cortana

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Female boss who only got the job due to her vagina instead of actual merit

Nobody liked it and everyone said it was dumb.

Cortana being alive and the villain completely ruins halo 4s ending so it now has no impact and also makes no sense since there’s no way she can be alive

It would've been completely fine if it went full Marathon and leaned completely into Cortana's rampancy and desperate desire to cling onto life, but they decided to ruin it by making it some "hurr dis is for the greater good" comic book garbage

muh domain and cuck eternal

It is honestly impressive how can a company with pretty much unlimited funding cant make a fucking good game to save their lives

It's already in the planning, new Cortana will replace her while Didact may replace evil Cortana as the leader of the Forerunners.

Too much outsourcing, poor management as shown by them firing their second creative director so far, and lack of direction caused by the first two.

I hate 343's storytelling so god damn much. I hate what they're doing with Chief and Cortana and making it seem like they're the most important people in the whole universe. Do people in general even like Cortana that much for them to always keep giving her such a large role in the later games? At least Halo Infinite seemed like it would just be Chief alone doing his usual thing but that game is gonna be trash too so who cares

>It would've been completely fine if it went full Marathon and leaned completely into Cortana's rampancy and desperate desire to cling onto life
this also would have worked better if, you know, she hadn't died.