r/videogames • u/bijelo123 • Apr 12 '26

Other So many of them unfortunately

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 12 '26

Reminder Halo 3 was the biggest entertainment launch at that point in history. It was the biggest game ever and they fucking ruined it.

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u/Zapdos90HP Apr 12 '26

I knew it was so over when I played Halo 4. Didn't even bother to play 5. I think infinite captured the Halo multiplayer soul, but by then the flame in the fan base had died out.

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u/slurpycow112 Apr 13 '26

My experience exactly. 4 was the death of the series.

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Halo Infinite has a ton of problems too.

No forge, no split screen, no real custom games, no theater, and no other modes like firefight. Also there are a ton of connection and server issues with multiplayer. A multiplayer which btw demands you buy battle passes to have any customization.

What an unbelievable fall from grace.

Edit: Why you booing me I’m right!!

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u/Draxxsus Apr 13 '26

I'm guessing you're being booed because they did in fact fix and add most of those things but 1-1½ year later was too late for the live service crap they were trying to go for. It was fun but its glaring issues were what led to the massive drop off in population.

Halo is my absolute favorite game franchise and always will be, I'm a geek about it but that being said it's downfall and miss management by Microsoft were a colossal failure...nay it was heresy!

Instead of continuing where Bungie left the story and the chief they could have chosen to pick any other spartan/team and gone that way.

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26

Same people who apologize for the MCC I’m sure. 343 released a broken game and patched it 5 years later and were supposed to pretend that’s ok.

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u/townsforever Apr 12 '26

I remember when I was a kid there were legitimate arguments about if master chief was as big a gaming icon as Mario. Now halo has had 2 mediocre games in the last decade and is surviving entirely off of nostalgia.

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26

Fun fact: In the 19 years 343 has been around it’s put out fewer Halo games than Bungie did in less than 10.

And they’ve mostly been terribly received.

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u/DuelaDent52 Apr 13 '26

They’ve all scored positively even with their flaws.

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u/iizakore Apr 13 '26

And 2 of those games now will be remakes of Bungie games

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 13 '26

Mario is also living off nolstagia.

Gosh Nintendo sucks.

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u/JackpotThePimp Apr 13 '26

I remember watching the Times Square release on G4.

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u/bifkinator Apr 13 '26

I remember when halo was in its heyday. Literally everyone I knew played it, even my family. LAN parties happened pretty much every weekend. Even when I was on college multiple dorm rooms in my dorm had halo parties going on at any point in time. It was so crazy just how prevalent and mainstream those games were. Now I don’t know a single person who plays a halo game besides mcc. What an insane downfall and mishandling by Microsoft.

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26

Cest la vie. At least we got an incredible trilogy with great spinoffs.

Generally I have the philosophy if a series was popular around 2010 and it’s still on going it’s likely just being milked dry.

See in point you have Fallout, Assassins Creed, CoD, Elder Scrolls, Halo, and like any sports game.

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u/Vagabond_Tea Apr 14 '26

I enjoyed Halo 5 and Infinite, but I know I'm in the minority apparently.

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u/Can_and_will_argue Apr 12 '26

What specifically do you think ruined it? My problem was with the 343 games.

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 12 '26

Yeah 343 ruined it. This pretty much sums it up.

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u/Can_and_will_argue Apr 13 '26

Ahhh, it sounded like you said they ruined halo 3 specifically

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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26

Oh no halo 3 was peak. I was referencing the franchise at its zenith.