Due to a lot of requests for this and at the time lacking another clip to upload (as well as the fact that someone took the time to timestamp all the moments I talked about it in the last stream), I’ve decided to put together the Halo rant for your enjoyment, which should be a bit of a fun since EFAP’s coverage of Halo Season 2 should be coming soon. However, I do want to stress that I will not be regularly putting clips from my bi-weekly live streams here, as this channel is dedicated to EFAP content. In the future, if there are more requests for clips from my personal streams, I'll make another channel to upload those to so as not to confuse or clutter the channel. In the meantime, I'm hard at work polishing up new clips, and the regular schedule will resume this Sunday!

@bethcail976

2 ай бұрын

thanks for this and everything you do Wolf you massive

@vaultguy8011

2 ай бұрын

wait they really got another season through ?

@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917

2 ай бұрын

Bring back Wolf to EFAP. Kick Rags.

@thecornfieldiii2069

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for eating into the mic

@nicks7835

2 ай бұрын

I miss the days of good Halo games 😩 I remember replaying Halo CE campaign over and over again with my friends. It was great. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish Halo 5 story and never even gave Halo Infinite a chance. Thanks for your rant trashing 343 Wolf, it was very cathartic.

I think we can all agree that it's a good thing Sergeant Johnson died in Halo 3 so that 343 couldnt ruin his character.

@zachgilbert3815

2 ай бұрын

“I’ve died before”

@AdamC_465

2 ай бұрын

“Somehow Sgt Johnson returned”

@soulsearcher9620

2 ай бұрын

@@AdamC_465 Somehow Sgt Johnsons secret twin returned.

@Mangaka-ml6xo

2 ай бұрын

@@soulsearcher9620 If you take the legendary difficulty ending of the first Halo as cannon, he already came back from the dead!

@lacidar3752

2 ай бұрын

He did. His death was meaningless because both the lightbulb and flood are still around.

343 is now 3 for 3 with failed games

@ThunderClapClide

2 ай бұрын

They have fulfilled the prophecy.

@digduck9463

2 ай бұрын

Strike out!

@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@ThunderClapClide and depressed millions…..can we say psy ops? It seems silly but I could rant for like 30 minutes about it. Like they had to try….and something came out about a group that engage in malicious sabotage in other games….and I was thinking about it months before it came out.

@itsdw2323

2 ай бұрын

You stole that from another video

@CJ-dk5xj

2 ай бұрын

Incredible comment

The 343 trilogy is almost as incoherent and contradictory as the Star Wars sequels

@vDullahan

2 ай бұрын

Even suffers the same issues almost exactly in each entry. Halo 4 = Force Awakens. New beginning that ultimately repeats story beats from the start of the previous trilogy but sets up some potential for good story telling if committed to. Halo 5 = Last Jedi An absolute mess that squanders a lot of the previous entry and ultimately goes nowhere. Halo Infinite = Rise of Skywalker A soft retcon of the previous entry by either directly changing or glossing over the most controversial points whilst still falling into its own issues.

@PoopaChallupa

2 ай бұрын

I only played 1-3 Haven't played the others.

@ryan_1099

2 ай бұрын

Nowhere near that level of oof tho

@dearcastiel4667

2 ай бұрын

It's less coherent than the SW sequels. At the very least the SW movies have somewhat of a main antagonist and the same characters from movie to movie. The 343 Halo games, appart from Chief (not even Cortana, 4 has Cortana, 5 has a different character called Cortana and 6 kills H5 Cortana and has a new AI that looks like Cortana), every single character from one game is removed in the following game, the whole stake of one game is 100% gone in the next one and a different threat is introduced, to be totaly changed in the next one. They truely have nothing linking them appart sharing Chief as main character. The 343 trilogy is as much of a trilogy as 3 Zelda games taken at random.

@epicrotfl7017

2 ай бұрын

It’s honestly worse than Star Wars.

Halo 3 managed to compete against CoD 4, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops at the same time and still came out on top. What a giant fucking impact it had.

@andrewmeyer3599

2 ай бұрын

Dont forget it was the *first* Game series to ever hit number 1 sales in entertainment, movies included

@seamusmcknight3656

2 ай бұрын

and halo infinite was completing with call of duty vanguard and battlefield 2042 and still failed.

@Willie_Pete_Was_Here

2 ай бұрын

Thinking back to those times when Halo 2 and 3 (as well as contemporary launches like MW2) launched, and people would wait outside game stores on midnight to buy their copy as soon as the date changed. Digital has unfortunately rendered that obsolete.

@SentinelEnforcer

2 ай бұрын

It's hilarious when 343 apologists claim that "HaLo hAd No comPetiTion" when Halo 3/Reach had to put up with the likes of Modern Warfare 1/2, Black ops, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3. No 343's Halo is irrelevant not because of competition. 343 just made trash games.

@alexschneider8494

2 ай бұрын

Lol I love Halo, but what world are you living in where you think Halo 3 came out on top of MW2 and Black Ops?

Also never forget: - Death of Rookie in random book - Black Team getting the worst deaths in a random comic - Character assissination of Cortana in Halo 5 and Infinite - The tv show

@AresHoax_9

Ай бұрын

The tv show is not acknowledged

@archdornan3694

Ай бұрын

@@AresHoax_9REACH CITY

@scythez_

Ай бұрын

Fuckin Black Team getting murked liked that was disrespectful af makes me so upset

@EvilPhoenix007

Ай бұрын

You forgot that 343 brought back 343 Guilty Spark in a book too.

@MrDoBaKflips

Ай бұрын

Don’t even know what all these are tbh

Halo Infinite felt like it was directed by J.J. Abrams. Constantly teasing at a story in the making, without ever providing one in the present. Thank you Wolf, for finally saying what no one else will dare to say.

@NateO123

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great way to sum up the JJ style. Ever since lost I’ve had a big chip on my shoulder for the guy his stuff feels like a scam.

@Willie_Pete_Was_Here

2 ай бұрын

And trying to fix the problems of the previous entry, like JJ trying to fix what Rian Johnson did

@overkilled653

2 ай бұрын

@@Willie_Pete_Was_Here Which is quite the paradox when you think about it. JJ couldn’t fix the problem cause JJ created the problem.

@scutumfidelis1436

2 ай бұрын

​@@Willie_Pete_Was_HereRian was absolutely based for screwing him over.

@andrewmeyer3599

2 ай бұрын

@@scutumfidelis1436 Yeah... he was soo based for helping to dismantle Star Wars

You are not being too negative. You are being appropriately negative. You're not responsible for 343 putting you in the position to have to say these things BUT THESE THINGS NEED TO BE SAID. BECAUSE YOU'RE *NOT* THE ONLY ONE THINKING THIS WAY.

@jasonleveck8546

2 ай бұрын

Definitely not the only one, haha.

The best possible thing I can say about 343 is that they simply seem incompetent, rather than malicious, unlike so many others who ruin once beloved IP’s.

@AceGold-hp8jv

2 ай бұрын

It's really quite sad that mass incompetence is seen as a step up in the world of modern entertainment.

@josephkerrigan733

2 ай бұрын

@@AceGold-hp8jv Yeah I mean, when some games & movies have the developers/directors saying stuff like "Yeah we hated the old thing that everyone liked so we knew when doing this sequel that we were going to change everything to make it more INCLUSIVE", I'll take what I can get with some incompetent morons who at least publicly claimed to like the pervious product.

@hopelessedgelord

2 ай бұрын

I don't know the whole desgin ethos of halo four was changing it to be there's. The same way other companies change things for themselves.

@AceGold-hp8jv

2 ай бұрын

@@josephkerrigan733 I understand where your coming from, and i actually agree with your point. What i was trying to say, however, is that neither should be the standard for any industry and yet unfortunately are.

@josephkerrigan733

2 ай бұрын

@@AceGold-hp8jv Yeah I understood what you meant. I agree with you, it's a damn shame that this is the timeline we got.

Didn't they also say The Endless were supposed to be worse then the Flood? They seemed to forget that the Flood was so bad that the Forerunners built the Halo rings to wipe out all life that could be eaten by the Flood. So you expect me to believe there's something worse now?

@Valkyrae123

2 ай бұрын

The only way the endless can be worse than the flood is if they are immune to the firing of the halo rings or if they are in fact the precursors

@Kurai_69420

2 ай бұрын

Worse than the Flood but the entire species got captured and put in a jar by what little of the Forerunners was left after firing the Halo rings.

@skywardsoul1178

2 ай бұрын

Feels like a fanfic written by a barely literate 10 year old. You know the BIG BAD? Well these are BADDER. Why? They just ARE.

@hyperc6455

2 ай бұрын

And that is what I believe is called tell don't show! they don't think why, they just say it!

@AzayBae

Ай бұрын

@@Kurai_69420 This is my exact problem. Like if the Endless are dangerous they must also be gullible idiots if they could get trapped like that.

Don't forget Halo 5 was the one that included microtransactions "single use item packs" that literally made the multiplayer pay to win.

@Connordaboss45

2 ай бұрын

It made the non arena "pay to win" took 1 game to get 1 pack. Made it super easy to get them all

@AnonTDegenerate

2 ай бұрын

And somehow that one was a better system than Infinite's lol

@keshonhend2047

2 ай бұрын

I never spent anything on Halo 5 after purchase and I had more sniper rifles and rocket launchers than I could have hoped to use in Warzone.

@nobodykayaks1041

2 ай бұрын

I would take halo 5 req pack system over i finites system any day

@keshonhend2047

2 ай бұрын

@@nobodykayaks1041 Warzone was fun

Halo and Star Wars were my childhood. Thanks to Disney and 343i, I've completely lost interest in both franchises.

“Do not blame the developers, only blame management and corporations,” is the same flavour as the statement as “do not blame writers and creatives, blame studios.” In reality, neither is eternally fallible pr infallible. This theory of labour is so strange. I understand being pro-writer or pro-development (fair pay, working against harassment in places such as Activision, etc.) but beyond that, it becomes sycophantic.

@imjust_a

2 ай бұрын

Developer who worked for a shovelware studio here. A lot of devs -- programmers at least -- don't really get a say in the decisions and can see the iceberg approaching from miles away. 343 also had a huge issue with a constantly revolving door of contractors who would get let go after a few months during the development of Infinite, meaning by the time they got comfortable with the framework and tools they were being let go. Now, of course this isn't always the case. Sometimes there are bad devs who make stupid decisions and ruin things. But there usually is a chain of command and a lot of programmers sit at the bottom of that.

@viddykhaos2896

2 ай бұрын

@@imjust_a I can understand that, completely. There are certainly situations wherein upper management and/or the suited people have the say and the actual on-ground workers who have the skills are not able to voice disagreement. But generally, I never assume the better of anyone automatically. Sometimes it is one party, sometimes it is the other, and sometimes you can see a pattern begin to emerge. I do think that the new tends to lean towards putting the fault on shoulders of studios or management because of their fame, social footprint and power, as well as the likelihood that there are more cases where the upper people have the power than those working as developers.

@imjust_a

2 ай бұрын

@@viddykhaos2896 Yeah that's fair! I'm certain there are plenty of devs who've ruined their own games out of hubris.

@drdickqueso

2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry but if the the seed is bad the tree is bad. There is nothing more annoying than a modern “creative” 😂 you are a loser

@TheObscuran

2 ай бұрын

Yes! On top of that it is an inconsequential statement. We know! There's always good and bad people in every facet of life. Honestly, it sounds more like a deflection: "You don't like 343? But you don't mean the poor little ant worker is bad, right? they are only taking orders, let's talk about how good they are instead".

"Stop hitting it! It's already dead!"

@Secret_Takodachi

2 ай бұрын

"Let him keep going, it's cathartic for all of us" 😂

@alfaone5452

Ай бұрын

“You want what it’s having?” “no” “That’s what I thought. JUSTICE!!! For HALOOO!!!!”

I will never forgive 343 for what they've done. I highly recommend checking out We WERE Forerunner by c3 Sabertooth. Guy does a lot of research and really breaks down exactly how not only 343 fucked over the lore of humans being forerunner, but how Frank specifically made sure to piss on everything he was given. Guy was an incompetent hack, and it's shameful he was ever even considered for the position. It shows clear Microsoft never gave a shit, and was hoping to simply milk the golden cow dry.

@Connordaboss45

2 ай бұрын

Bungie made the humans forerunners not 343. They did it in a book.

@theriveracis5172

2 ай бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 Yes, I know. 343 fucked over that lore.

@devildolphin2102

2 ай бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 Yeah, that’s in the Video he’s detailing Joseph Staten in charge of Halo CE-Reach the BIG cheese of Bungie said humans are Forunners. Joseph also wrote Contact Harvest and clarified EVERY human being is a Forunner in the reliquary. Frank O’Connor ignored Joseph’s lore, and re-wrote it for 343 when he took over in the Judas style reorganization of halo. So 343 decided humans were at war with Forunners because the Irony of the covenant killing there gods was to Nuanced for Bonny and Franky

@TheBiddofslayer58

2 ай бұрын

@@devildolphin2102halo 3 literally distinguishes that humanity and forerunners are separate Halo point of light fully explains the connection.

@devildolphin2102

2 ай бұрын

@@TheBiddofslayer58 What. 343 Guilty Spark says VERBATIM. You Are Forunner. But this ring is Mine. God you 343 Shills have never even played Halo 3 it’s so pathetic.

Your feelings toward Halo are exactly how my friends and I feel. We were die hard Halo fans during the Bungie era, and now, we're completely apathetic towards it because of 343s mishandling of the franchise. During the MCC debacle, there was a review I saw that put it best: "343 didn't earn this, and that's why they don't give a shit."

If Helldivers2 ever comes to xbox... the halo population that currently exists would get even smaller..

@Adamesstro.

2 ай бұрын

it did we moved to pc or PlayStation to fill the void

@Valkyrae123

2 ай бұрын

Some of us will stay dedicated to halo (at least bungies)

@Adamesstro.

2 ай бұрын

@Valkyrae123 I did and still do play Halo quite a lot, but I just played different games recently, beginning on 2024

@DaKdawg

2 ай бұрын

They'd just migrate to Helldivers. Lots of the tight gunplay that is very Halo-esque.

@AnonTDegenerate

Ай бұрын

Sadly I doubt that'll happen now. Besides, most are. Basically every person I know who played xbox is on pc now. Apart from 1 guy who's more into retro than pc gaming (he's cool)

Every time I hear about modern Halo, it makes me glad I stopped buying Halo games after Reach. Just couldn't muster the interest and it seems like I lucked out.

@BLUESHYGUY8000

2 ай бұрын

what halo games after Reach?

@jimmyjohnson501

2 ай бұрын

I played 4 because it was already in the MCC, and it wasn't just bad story, but the gameplay was wack too. Almost every fight is at long range with the two DMRs somehow. You made the right call.

@Willie_Pete_Was_Here

2 ай бұрын

I’m glad I didn’t buy the Xbox One. No or extremely limited backwards compatibility, terrible exclusives, and a requirement to install games to play them.

@soulsearcher9620

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmyjohnson501 4 was meh but at least gave an end to the story for Chief and Cortana. I can forgive some of the middling design in 4 for the sake of the ending putting the series to rest. A sendoff with finality to Chief and Cortana rather than 3's ending with Chief and Cortana sleeping in deep space .

@DaKdawg

2 ай бұрын

We are on the same boat. Reach was the peak of Halo for me. It had it all. I played as much of it as I could before my beloved 360 died. After that I just couldn't be motivated to buy a new one, especially with how...4 and 5 went. Brutal stuff, but a nice silver lining. Like chief, we were just lucky enough.

The fact that all of Infinite is one biome is infuriating, I honestly couldn't believe how devoid of anything that world was.

@sophiasfavorite9646

2 ай бұрын

It was supposed to just be the opening act. We were supposed to get ANNUAL story DLC, not just new seasons of irrelevant multiplayer. Then they realized their in-house, "let's not pay the Unreal people" engine was borderline unusable and had to kill that.

@LordGlacier7

7 күн бұрын

​@@sophiasfavorite9646 Even if it was supposed to get story dlc's it still doesn't excuse the single biome. It doesn't help that every single location looks so much the same they probably just copy and paste every location, if you seen one banish's base then you seen them all and the same goes for both of the forerunner's building and UNSC's outpost. It feels like they didn't care to put any time or effort into the campaign both the world and the story was only given the bare minimum.

You just didn't read the 16 shit books that would have made the plot make sense.

@reallifewalrus9775

2 ай бұрын

Which is made worse because some of the books are pretty cool. Ghosts of Onyx is still a favorite of mine

@badman5852

2 ай бұрын

Ok, and Rey was so powerful because she downloaded knowledge from Kylo. You should never have to read a separate book to understand a story.

@reallifewalrus9775

2 ай бұрын

@badman5852 I don't even mean it in that way. Some of the best Halo books have nothing to do with the main story. Ghosts is about the Spartan IIIs and their training, which is cool but not necessary to understand Reach or anything. As far as I remember, no one on Noble Team is even mentioned. Like Wolf said, the best thing Halo could have done is expand out from the story of Chief, like ODST did.

@ryan_1099

2 ай бұрын

Most of the books are bangers. Played Halo all my life and Rubicon Protocol is possibly my favorite novel in the series

@ORLY911

2 ай бұрын

Also the Didact was killed in a sidestory comic book no one read. Whee.

If you had told me a couple of years ago, that I wouldn't care about Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek or Game of Thrones anymore, I would have called you crazy. Well, here we are.

@revolverswitch

2 ай бұрын

Only a couple years?

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

2 ай бұрын

Two years ago all of these were already ruined. Take it 2012.

@devildolphin2102

2 ай бұрын

Well house of the dragon hopefully will be a Redemption arc. Just hope D&D never remember about the Series

@Slender_Man_186

2 ай бұрын

@@devildolphin2102i’m pretty sure those two chuckle fucks have been black listed, as for House of the Dragon Season 1 was great and Season 2 looks pretty good.

@KeytarArgonian

Ай бұрын

There is some hope for course correction. See: Mass Effect.

We’re now making highlights of the highlights, how advanced! Hope you’re doing well, Wo- Mr. EFAP Highlights man!

Halo went from extreme cultural significance to insignificance almost as fast as game of thrones did.

I remember playing through Halo 4 and thinking that the ending sucked, but the community seemed to really like that ending at the time. It's like The Force Awakens for Halo.

@jonathandear4914

2 ай бұрын

its more how it handled cortana's death mainly though how they handled it afterwords.....its a big mess.

@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917

2 ай бұрын

​@@jonathandear4914 Even on first watch I thought it was cringe how Cortana lightly brushed Chief's armor before her death. "There. I touched you. Goodbye." Then, that final line of "She said that once. About not being a machine," really made me roll my eyes because the writer probably thought that was so profound and would earn them a BAFTA or something.

@andrewmeyer3599

2 ай бұрын

@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 That was the most disappointing christmas for 14 year old me

@Wolf_ManJack

2 ай бұрын

​@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Chief never even had a problem relating to "being a machine", he had a duty he was enrolled to under hideous immoral circumstances and he rolled with it, accepting the necessity of a warrior like him in times like these. If anything he always came across with a subtle wit, like he says cool things through military jargon but his vocal acting makes it clear he knows that he's either understating something or being stoic in the face of outrageous odds. If they wanted to give Chief an arc, it should have been about his fear of not having a fight anymore, like peacetime is close and he realizes that when there's no battle, he doesn't have a place in the world besides being a mentor to other Spartans and his friendship with others in the military. You could have John say a soft "...Confirmed." for example when somebody else happily opines that the threat is nearly dealt with, because he's an older man seeing the most important arc of his life ending. There's plenty you can do with Chief, but forcing the machine connection between him and Cortana, two deeply human characters with plenty of pathos already, is fucking cringe.

@Mate397

2 ай бұрын

I dunno, plenty of people said Force awakens sucked, I sure thought it was crap after seeing it. Same with Halo 4.

I seem to remember a lot of gaming journalists throwing out 'linear' as a blanket criticism without elaborating on it all the time. That might explain the drive to make every game open world. Never mind games like the original Halo trilogy, Doom, Half Life, Resident evil 4, Dead Space, and more I haven't thought of. If you want to use linear as a criticism, you have to justify why it's bad for the game in question.

@Willie_Pete_Was_Here

2 ай бұрын

I remember that coming up a lot in game discussions when Call of Duty was at its peak, probably because the single player campaigns would make use of linear level design and scripting to put players in scripted spectacles.

@Loathsome_Lynx

2 ай бұрын

​@@Willie_Pete_Was_Heretrue. The problem with cod was never its linearity, but rather its lack of depth and innovation as the years went on.

@Lampoluke

2 ай бұрын

Honestly in the 2005-2010 games were becoming terribly linear, and then farcry, elder scrolls and xenoblade(this last one less than the other) showed the world that open world could be deep, then indie games showed up with sandbox and I can see why people liked open world. Now it's the opposite with open world being so dispersive that smaller sized games need to be brought back

@MundaneThingsBackwards

2 ай бұрын

The journalists in this rare case are merely echoing player sentiment thats been around for a very long time. Linearity and game length (regardless of quality...) have been sticking points for a very long time. Long equals value for money, open world equals more freedom...right?

@seamusmcknight3656

2 ай бұрын

@@Willie_Pete_Was_Here I feel like modern games still have that problem despite being open world.

The only good thing 343 has done is make the original Halo games more accessible. But they should have never have tried to add to the story after Halo 3.

@nagger8216

2 ай бұрын

That took like 5-6 years to fix and fucking *still* has issues, let's not give away too much credit here.

@Gandwarf213

2 ай бұрын

@@nagger8216 That's a fair point. Still better than having no MCC on PC

@GhostLink92

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, Bungie did include the Legendary Ending in Halo 3. We all knew back then that Chief was going to crash land on a Forerunner planet. But 343 fumbled the ball big time with Halo 4 and Spartan Ops' stories. I remember being pissed when Requiem ended up being destroyed at the end of SO. Like, we spent 5 years speculating what the Legendary planet was, where it was, who was there, what was going to happen to Chief. And it gets destroyed a couple months after it's introduced. Wasting of potential will always be what kills a series.

@sophiasfavorite9646

2 ай бұрын

@@GhostLink92 And then they killed off Jul 'Mdama in the first mission of 5. Which annoyed me and I'm apparently the only person who thought 5 was better than 4 (faint praise, to be sure).

@nagger8216

2 ай бұрын

@@GhostLink92 That planet was absolutely going to be Onyx from the books, not gay ass Requiem.

Martin O'Donnell the Halo composer is running for congress so that's cool.

@MarkusRomtaah3061

2 ай бұрын

I hope he gets to be a president one day.

@superbrainz2357

2 ай бұрын

Make Halo great again.

@TheObscuran

2 ай бұрын

This is bad, it means we don't get Marty to return to the franchise, and was not only the composer but very influential in the story of the original game.

@anthonychase6906

2 ай бұрын

He was never returning in the first place man, if they didn't use him in infinite, the game where they finally return to using a lot of the classic motifs ​in the ost, he is never coming back @@TheObscuran

@DaKdawg

2 ай бұрын

@@anthonychase6906 Sad and true.

Act Man gives the safest fence sitting takes on literally any media.

@BlastingBigLoads2

2 ай бұрын

Trolls remorse hit act maam hard

@dragovin08

2 ай бұрын

Act man is a grifter and a shill, an egregious one at that

@DonVigaDeFierro

2 ай бұрын

ACK Ma'am

@Vergil666.

2 ай бұрын

Has six video where he does nothing but shts on halo 5, had 3 videos where he does nothing but sht on star wars battlefront, has two videos where he says how much he hates other gamers, says he doesn't like infinite overall. But noooo our Lord and master dishonored btch (man doesn't even have the balls to come back to KZread) said something slightly disagreeable about him, so now he's a "fence sitter" idiots.....

@thefakebriskeh

2 ай бұрын

​@BlastingBigLoads2 it did?

I will never forgive 343 for killing the Rookie off screen and using Buck in 5. Add that he's the comic relief type character...

“I need to stop talking about Halo.” 9 minutes into a 30 minute video.

@suspectnutria

2 ай бұрын

Ironic how this has been something nostalgia-blinded “fans” have been doing for over a dozen years since 2012

On AI, Bungie's Marathon trilogy also has amazing portrayals of AIs, including greater discussion of how and why they go rogue.

Remember, never "pass the torch," it is almost always better to end a story instead of trying to tell the same story for infinite time. Sure, we lose James Bond and a lot of superheroes this way, but we gain Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Halo, The Simpsons, The Twilight Zone, Terminator, Indiana Jones, He-Man, Thundercats, Willow, Mass Effect,...

@BlakesGamez

2 ай бұрын

Bungie tried to end it but Microsoft said no

@Maverick2736

Ай бұрын

"never pass the torch" the problem with that lesson is that we're talking about licensed gaming properties, which are part of a world dominated by mediocre capitalist junkies that failed upwards in a system that allows it, calling the shots for profit at the top, incapable of learning lessons unless they somehow end up in the streets (in a system that sets them for life with billion-dollar-bonus emergency parachutes if their careers or companies end up burning). _The people who make the games and art you love are not the ones with the power over those games and art you love._

Master chief is still floating in space, period.

Halo was absolutely a foundational game for me. Combat Evolved was the first game I ever played on the original Xbox, right at the start. I was six years old, I think, and I played it all the time with my dad. We loved it so much, and by the time Halo 2 came out, I was hooked for good. Then Halo 3, one of my favorite stories and one of the most emotional endings in all of gaming history. I too tear up when I watch that beautiful, downright poetic scene. ODST was clearly one of the best reasons I ever had to be alive, having absolutely loved the ODSTs in the previous games, and it lived up to that and then some. Reach was flawed in certain ways, but the story still hits like a train filled with trucks filled with bricks, and I shed tears over that ending too. Then 343 came along, and fucked everything up. From the Halo 4 teaser trailer, I knew things were off, wrong. Turned out to be worse than even I imagined, yet I saw so many fall in love with that garbage and call it the deepest story Halo ever told. To this day, I'm disgusted by that. Halo 5 (Guardians... lol) seemed to turn a lot of people around, and they finally saw the light. Glad to say I never even bought that one, just played it when a friend and I shared games on Xbox One. Infinite eventually comes along, after so many fuck-ups that I couldn't be bothered to care anymore, and promised to be a return to form and feel. It was neither, and made it all even worse. Never bought it, never played it, barely managed to sit through watching the story once, and I'll go back to forgetting it exists after this. Paramount's Halo show... the less said about that dumpster fire, the better we all are. The fact that show exists is proof we are indeed in the worst possible timeline/universe, and I refuse to acknowledge it except to shit on everything it is. They decided they didn't get enough joy out of destroying the franchise that already existed, to sequel trilogy levels. Now, they wanted to tell their own version, worse than ever and only vaguely related to anything we all knew and loved. Halo is dead, and has been since Reach. Everything 343 has made does not exist in my world. The Halo franchise now consists only of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo Wars, and the novels, The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Contact Harvest, and The Cole Protocol.

@jasonleveck8546

2 ай бұрын

Remember how awesome the graphics looked to us on the original XBox? Then by #3 we couldn't believe how bad it looked, haha.

@ODST_Parker

2 ай бұрын

@@jasonleveck8546 I don't know about that. It got significantly better each time, and all three looked great for the era they came out.

@jasonleveck8546

2 ай бұрын

@@ODST_Parker The first was amazing, but by the 3rd, I had watched a comparison and didn't realize how badly outdated the first looked since I hadn't played since beating it.

Wolf, if you ever decide to make that video, we’re all here for it.

@thejerk4478

10 күн бұрын

I miss his channel. I wish he didn't delete everything

Not worse than the forerunners, worse than the FLOOD! Yeah, you know, the parasite that can wipe out an entire planet with one spore, the creature so terrifying and evil that the Covenant couldn't cover up their existence and simply relegated them to a similar if not worse level of demon than Spartans, a force so power, so terrifying that it literally put into motion the entire Halo Universe's story by wiping out the most advanced race (or most advanced human state) imaginable. Yeah, something we've never heard of until now is worse than the flood. Great writing 343!

We as halo fans should just pretend the 343 made lore is fan fiction and never happened. The story of chief ended after halo 3 he’s found he returns home and he chills in reserve. In my opinion future halo games should have been spin offs like reach and odst where we explore the universe outside of chiefs feet.

@cosmictreason2242

2 ай бұрын

I call it corpfic or antifanfic

@Valkyrae123

2 ай бұрын

Well it technically isnt canon to begin with so realistically 343 halos are pretty much fan fiction

@cosmictreason2242

2 ай бұрын

@@Valkyrae123 corpfic. Corporate fiction. There's no fans involved in any of it.

Humanity ARE the forerunners. You know it, I know it, Marty O’Donnell knows it. 343 just seems to not give a brutes codpiece about the franchise. I always wanted to blame 343 but quite honestly Microsoft has so much responsibility to take in the way things worked out. I’m done with the franchise that got me through school, college and my early career. It hurts.

@Slender_Man_186

2 ай бұрын

Shit, Joe Staten confirmed it twice in-universe.

@WastedPot

2 ай бұрын

@@Slender_Man_186 Joe coming back and working with 343 has thrown my reverence of him into question. My reverence of Marty remains.

@Slender_Man_186

2 ай бұрын

@@WastedPot eh, Microsoft seems to have just thrown him into 343 last minute as a fall guy, notice how he was the one apologizing for everything Bonnie had promised years ago? Any time they had bad news they threw him up on stage to announce it.

@WastedPot

2 ай бұрын

@@Slender_Man_186 They did and I respect that he had to deal with that. Having said that he did take the role, and proceeded to be Microsoft’s fall guy for his entire tenure. Like I said my reverence of him has faded.

@Slender_Man_186

2 ай бұрын

@@WastedPot how likely do you think it was that he was given the ultimatum of “save Halo Infinite or you’ll be leaving Microsoft publishing,” because he was let go from Microsoft shortly after they pulled him off of Halo. I doubt he had much of a choice.

Frank O'Connor got fired in March also was the main reason why 343's lore, stories, and games Fucking Suck.

There was absolutely no excuse for MCC to not have splitscreen on PC.

Honestly, seeing this video made my day. 100% agree with almost everything you said in regards to the story, I seriously couldn't believe it when the same people that called out Cortana's treatment in Halo 5 and said it was disgusting and unacceptable turned around and praised her nuking a city filled with millions of innocent people and blowing up Doisac just to torture Atriox for not capitulating to a fascist dictatorship. And then you had people like Act Man saying Chief's character writing was better than Bungie's writing for him, even though he tried to kill his best friend in cold blood to mildly inconvenience the Harbinger when he needs her to save the human race and they confirm this explicitly. Easily the worst thing I've ever seen in my life, hope we get more people criticizing it in the future.

Wolf, it's great to hear you being so passionate about our modern day myths, and the incompetence that destroys them. Keep up the great work.

Bonnie Ross was Kathleen Kennedy before it was cool

@darkspark5854

2 ай бұрын

Nah Bonne left when it was time. Kathleen won’t let Star Wars go

@looinrims

2 ай бұрын

@@darkspark5854 did she leave or was she forced out? I guess she doesn’t know about exploitation of children like Kennedy most certainly does

@sovietsnake2729

Ай бұрын

*got forced into retirement

I've always said there is legitimate reason to believe the core leadership of 343 (most are thankfully gone...but not all) wanted to destroy Halo. You have to wonder why they chose the name 343. That character deceives and betrays Master Chief. Then, 343 the company deceives and betrays both Halo and us the customers...over and over again. Always possible it's just a coincidence, but naming yourself after that character seems very intentional and I wish I had a better explanation for the "why?" but I don't. If it was their goal, they certainly succeeded, and it would eliminated the bizarre amount of what we all assume to be "incompetence".

With regards to the Forerunners just being more advanced humans, that was always so genius to me as well because The Covenant were completely oblivious to it and were ironically in the process of genociding the exact race that they needed to access the Forerunner tech and fulfill all their religious shit. Like, per their religion, the Covenant probably should have been worshiping the humans? I dunno, either way I liked it

@reffa2858

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it was divine irony at its finest. But the Prophets had already waged war and subjugated the Elites, Jackals, Grunts, and Hunters on the basis of the great Journey. They knew who the forerunners were but by that point, they were in too deep.

Halo infinite is so much like rise of Skywalker where they tried to bait everyone back with nostalgia bait and just ignoring the past atrocities

Yeah. I gave up on Halo after Halo 4. I was a teen when that game came out and it just didn't feel right. The art was wrong, the story was wrong, the lore, the gameplay... And it took me a few years to realize exactly what it was. It was 343 not understanding what made Halo itself. For my own love of the universe, I stop acknowledging the games after Reach. I'll never forgive 343 for taking away the poetry of Humanity being Forerunner. The grand mystery of our own ancient cosmic history... UGH.

@AzayBae

Ай бұрын

In my opinion the only media from 343 that is safe to be canon are the novels Silent Storm and Oblivion. They cover how young John and the Spartan-IIs first missions fighting the Covenant. We also get to see Johnson working with the Spartans and earning their respect. Early Covenant War was always a cool time period for me. Also a Halo Legends Spartan has a tiny cameo and I loved being able to see them. If only for a sentence or two. I have played the games after 4 though so if there are lore violations I didn't notice them. No mention of forerunners or anything.

While Kiki Wolfkill and Frank O'Connor are both gone, that doesn't fix the cultural problems in 343 that will result in more games like Infinite, 5, and 4. Halo had a perfect ending with 3, and there was no reason to continue the franchise, especially with Chief. Reach and ODST showed that you can do Halo without Chief. If Halo is going to move forward, they need to do a Disney-retcon and remove everything that's post Halo 3-timeline wise, retcon everything that's not a game, and give it to a different studio like ID or Machine Games or something. Then, return to the roots - Halo 3's gameplay is still solid and DOOM 2016 and Eternal showed you can iterate on a game like it and have it be successful. Story-wise, more games during the war, before Reach or something after in dealing with the remaining Flood somehow and political tensions between Earth and the disparate and leaderless races. But above all, the writing has to be good. 343's games failed because the writing in all of them are abysmal.

@revolverswitch

2 ай бұрын

Halo Wars 2 was a small step in the right direction, if only they didn't change course afterwards.

@sophiasfavorite9646

2 ай бұрын

@@revolverswitch Halo Wars 2 introduced the single worst thing about Infinite: the Banished.

@Slender_Man_186

2 ай бұрын

@@revolverswitchHalo Wars 2 has some pretty massive issues, mainly when it comes to the Ark apparently keeping a nearly finished ring in its forges at all times, the lack of any major damage on the Ark, and High Charity still being intact, all of which combine to almost completely retcon Halo 3’s ending. I’m all for reusing ideas from Wars 2, like the Spirit of Fire making a return and The Banished (although they would need to be altered since the idea of them rivaling the covenant before the schism is a little nuts).

@cosmictreason2242

2 ай бұрын

Amen. Reboot and start over with the next game to follow halo 3's events

@AzayBae

Ай бұрын

@@Slender_Man_186 I agree. I'd almost like if the Banished were scaled down to be a threat like the Jackals in Cole Protocol. They could even be some aliens working with Innies or something so they would have a good motive to try to scavenge what Forerunner tech was left to fight the UNSC. The Banished are such a goofy idea imo. Like the secret empire in SWTOR.

I liked Halo 4, but yeah with Halo 5... they just destroyed alot of their own work they put into Halo 4. I mean... "killing" the Didact offscreen in a comic? What the fuck.

@thegodofalldragons

2 ай бұрын

The most weird thing about that was that I thought he just died in the game. Which I was perfectly fine with, btw. I thought having a one-off standalone villain was neat. Then I hear a comic retconned him back to life... then killed him again. Huh?

@Nighterac

28 күн бұрын

He died, then they brought him back, then killed off again, then brought him back... in a colouring book. So pathetic, lmao

One thing that is unforgivable is they tried to replace the announcer, Jeff Steitzer and replace him with the boring DEI Spartan announcer in Big Team Battle. They also don't even tell him what voice lines they'll use. 343 is an evil company

The fight's been finished since Reach. The rest has just been one big monument to all our sins.

Regarding which franchise fell harder I see it like this. Star Wars died in blazing train wreck of a fire that continues to burn. A crowd still watches, some lament as more burned away, some claim “it’s not so bad”, some try to put out the flames to no avail, and more continue to walk away but occasionally check on the fire to see if it still burns. Halo on the other hand I saw as more of a slow burn in which fans gradually left until the general sentiment was apathetic. To put it simply, Star Wars died with an explosion, Halo died with a whimper.

21:31 I think he means "There's a new alien race worse than the Flood" Which is hilarious 343 went with that narrative since The Flood are literally the whole and only reason the Halo rings were created.

THANK YOU! This is all shit I’ve wanted other KZreadrs who talk about Halo to talk about. Feels good to finally hear someone else rant about the things I’ve ranted about for a while now.

@dio2076

2 ай бұрын

You should look up Wolf's old videos and check out Act man on Halo 5

@RonS1018

2 ай бұрын

@@dio2076 I have. But both have never talked about things like the change to the forerunners not making sense. I haven't watched Wolf's vids since he took the off YT so maybe I'm missing remembering with him. Plus, Infinite came out after Wolf left YT. And if I remember correctly, Act Man liked the story of Infinite for the most part. It felt good to hear someone talk about how Cortana made no sense and was ruined in that game. Because most of other people (Act Man included) thought she was redeemed.

@dio2076

2 ай бұрын

@@RonS1018 I said Act Man's video on 5 .....Not infinite. The whole point of the forerunners were they were humans. Not a separate race. Something even Marty O Donnell confirmed. Act man not addressing was indeed a problem. I agree with you on that 100%. And yeah I agree. Cortana's character arc should've ended at 4. Bringing her back in 5 and then killing her off again in Infinite was beyond stupid. She's not redeemed......at all..... infinite was a nostalgia bait shit show.

@RonS1018

2 ай бұрын

@@dio2076 Yeah, I love that Cortana's explanation for her actions was "I shouldn't have tried to go out on my own. Because we work better as a team." As if that explains blowing up on entire plan and spartan base. Then she tells Chief and the Weapon, "You can learn from my mistakes." 🤣

@nagger8216

2 ай бұрын

You'd love Andy - The Bunker Dweller's videos on Halo 4 and Infinite then. That dude really hits the nail on the head on most of the issues, especially the Forerunners, and doesn't pull any punches, it's incredibly refreshing. He actually reminded me a lot of Wolf's old videos. If you want an hour long video on the topic, C3 Sabertooth also made an incredible video detailing the Forerunner retcon and what they were like before 343, going all the way back to the Halo 3 terminals, IRIS and even Halo 2's original cut ending. I'd highly recommend that one too if you're curious on the topic.

343 have absolutely destroyed our franchise.

It’s weird to realize I spent my childhood as the gaming equivalent of a Star Wars fanboy in Halo, and yet I never think about it now because everything after reach is so shit.

@thehypest6118

2 ай бұрын

I rarely think about it but when it comes up I feel offended and angry because Halo 1 through Reach was such a critical part of my escapism as a child, I was abused horribly from a young age but when I got to go round my mates house and split screen Halo I was okay and everything was okay for a few hours and 343 have taken that from me and perverted it and mangled it and turned it into abuse

I stopped after Halo 4. I knew 343 weren’t going to do a good job continuing on and I feel very vindicated in doing so. The bungie era Halo games is where I start and stop, personally.

Halo 4 felt like fan fiction

@cosmictreason2242

2 ай бұрын

Frankie's, specifically

@jaredbryant8297

Ай бұрын

@@cosmictreason2242definitely Franks fanfiction

@Dommie222

Ай бұрын

No, because to write fanfics, you need to be a fan in the first place; Halo 4 is just shitty story written by incompetent non-fans...

@cosmictreason2242

Ай бұрын

@@Dommie222 antifan-fiction. Corpfic, corporate fiction

@Nighterac

28 күн бұрын

​@@jaredbryant8297You can tell because they still refuse to kill off his Star Wars OC, lmao

On the "multiple options" scenario, I found out that on the mission The Covenant, when you fight the two Scarabs, if you hop onto the passenger seat of a Hornet, the Marine will fly you to a Scarab, drop you off, and when you destroy the power core the Marine will come back and pick you up. Amazing little detail.

It is simple, Halo infinite was a soft reboot when it should have been a hard reboot. There's no coming back from H5. Halo needs to start over.

@TheBlueMan117

2 ай бұрын

let it die. it was meant to finish at 3, humans are forerunner

Remember when we were worried about the Forward unto Dawn show? Seems so much better by comparison

343 missed a huge opportunity to make a Elite focused game. Make a story of you fighting along side your Sangheili brothers and the other Covenant races that turned to your side. Hell maybe make a smaller stakes campaign like ODST or Fireteams, just doing operations or fighting on the frontlines of a larger conflict.

@E55666

Ай бұрын

Especially a game that focuses on the Arbiter. Something like his backstory or something that happens after Halo 3 would be perfect... but 343 are simply too stupid to conceive the idea.

@AzayBae

Ай бұрын

I remember hearing that after Halo 5 failed they were torn between making a Halo 5.5 that filled in the obvious blanks or a ODST 2 type story with an ODST and Elite fireteam. 343 are kids flushing diamonds down the drain, I swear

@Nighterac

28 күн бұрын

They're so fucking obsessed with Spartan shit because they want their own Marvel superheroes. I really like what Joe Staten did with Shadow of Intent. A game based around that would have been perfect

@theia1653

26 күн бұрын

That spinoff game ("Halo: Shadow of Intent?") could be an Elite deploying to the Ark and the Foundry up until Halo is fired with references and appearances of the Arbiter, Truth, Chief, Gravemind, Guilty Spark, Mendicant Bias, and even Tragic Solitude. The goal is to expand on what people are famliar with and love and to keep the arcane, esoteric, dangerous mystique of Halo. Multiplayer will feel like Halo 3's meshed with Reach.

@lorenzozinna4700

15 күн бұрын

A spec ops elite focused game would have been cool af and a good mirror to odst, but we are talking about 343

Halo 3’s themes are called “Never Forget” and “Remember.” Poignant.

My halo sequel would be the most important event we never saw: the battle for earth. It’s crazy 343 didn’t just make a trilogy about everything else going on while chief in off in space. Would’ve been easy, so much material to cover.

The whole human/forerunner retcon was so contrived. I can't imagine how they ever managed to justify it to themselves. The original forerunner lore was so cool and mysterious. What we ended up getting from 343 is just...weird.

No other studio in gaming history has ever been handed such a powerful IP only to absolutely destroy it and its legacy in every possible way so masterfully. Their slaughtering of MCC alone and subsequent burial to save face was enough to declare them incompetent to run this franchise

I had no idea Wolf was still around in some presence, I've missed that voice immensely.

@patchmoulton5438

2 ай бұрын

He has been editing EFAP for a bit and fully runs the highlight channel.

16:50 I totally agree, I’m so sick of the open world fetish, everyone (like raycevick) whines about ‘linear this linear that’ and I’m like ‘what’s wrong with being linear?’ It’s so much better, frankly

@4TheWinQuinn

28 күн бұрын

Rayecevick has had sooo many terrible cuck opinions frankly

I forgot how much I missed you Wolf, I fucking hate 343 and what they have done to Halo. It brings me solace hearing these words from your lips.

I like the idea or Cortana going rampant (since she was starting to in halo 3, and its a threat to all AI), but from the sounds of it, they likely didn't do it well. (I didn't play halo 4 or beyond).

@prufan

2 ай бұрын

They did it well in Halo 4, afterwards is when 343 screwed it all up.

@sophiasfavorite9646

2 ай бұрын

@@prufan Halo 5 at least went with "rampancy is mostly megalomania" like in Marathon. Halo 4 instead decided to have it mostly be whiny Lifetime Original Movie cancer-patient scenes.

@reffa2858

Ай бұрын

In the lore, rampancy was due to A.I becoming sentient which would've really been cool for Cortana's progression as a character. But then in Halo 4 it was retconned that Rampancy is what happens to A.I. begins to die.

The 343 Halo games are objectively bad as well as subjectively bad The level design is atrocious, the art design provides gameplay issues, the AI of the original game was better than the ones the 343 games had, gunplay was painful It's not just writing, it's holistic. 343 Halo games are just bad

@4TheWinQuinn

28 күн бұрын

Exactly. Literally objectively bad writing as well.

Listening to people shit on 343 is very therapeutic. Most incompetent triple A devs that ever existed.

Halo 3 was such a great ending for Chief. And Reach was a great wrap up for the series as a whole. I played less than an hour of Four before deciding I was done with Halo. I think I made the right choice.

Halo ended with 3

The smartest thing 343 should’ve done after halo reach’s story was to wait a least another year and make a spinoff game. But of course the leadership at the time were making it well-known that THEY were making halo games. Personally I didn’t mind halo 4’s story but in my opinion, I think Halo 3 was the perfect way to end Master Chief’s story.

Ironically someone should get Halo & Retcon everything after Halo 3. Aka retcon all the 343 Trash

I think the concept of Cortana becoming a villain was a good idea. The idea that AIs become crazy after a certain number of years and putting Master Chief in this position where he has to surrender the life of his closest ally is a very good story hook. They just didn't stick the landing. They didn't commit to the idea and rushed one story beat to the next as if they didn't know if they were going to continue the story.

It's great to hear Wolf again, and I'm glad he's doing better. Now, let's undo the recovery by bullying him into talking about the current state of Halo!

@patchmoulton5438

2 ай бұрын

I still kinda want to know why he didn't like the Republic Commando novels.

Halo Infinite gives us a great story in the opening cutscene, then skips over all of the exciting moments of that story in a fade-to-black, and then has us play a much less interesting story with entirely different character that takes place AFTER all the cool shit has happened and you're just kind of cleaning up the mess

@PatrixBest

2 ай бұрын

Who doesn't want to participate in a ruthless battle for survival on the Ark trying to save as many UNSC forces as you can while the brutes bear down on us?

@thegodofalldragons

2 ай бұрын

Sonic Unleashed 🤝 Halo Infinite "The opening cutscene was the best part of the game."

@gringolikeme3564

2 ай бұрын

yeah the book Rubicon protocol is all about the fighting on zeta halo that happened while chief was floating in space for 6 months and its a solid read I think

27:00 Not to mention: In the background of that exact image, we see a forerunner-esc ship with people in it. Implying that humanity (reclaimers) are have reclaimed their ancestors technology and are restoring prosperity to the universe. Seeing that combined with your (at that point) ancient war helmet laying in the ground, a reminder of the sacrifice humanity gave to bring humanity back to their golden era, its emotionally potent man. It's perfect. And it only works in Bungies original lore, that the Forerunners are ancient humans. Within 343's lore, that final shot of halo reach literally means nothing

I will never get tired of 343 bashing, but the real fault ultimately resides in their supporters. I've never seen a consumer base which such low standers, lack of pattern recognition, and awful taste in general. It's just insane to watch them.

Halo 4, they kill cortana, halo 5 they bring her back and turn her evil, halo infinite, they kill her again and bring her back again but good, least cohesive trilogy ever

The books/media had a huge detriment to the games. Before the media followed the games, with 343 the games followed the media. They relied too much on material most ppl didn’t know or care about & tried fit the games around them.

The fact that a majority of people working on Halo Infinite were independent contractors asked to work on an engine they have no experience with just to fire them and hire new contractors in the same cycle to avoid paying benefits. That is how Microsoft operates the studios they acquire, that’s why they have no problem shutting them down even if they make a good game, because the talent is already long gone

I hate that people act like Halo 4 is a blessing for Halo's storytelling when it critically redirects the series away from more payoff coming from what Bungie intended and injects a bunch of nonsense in its place. Master Chief being sad doesn't mean he has emotional depth just because they show him being sad. The setup for it is unbelievable based on how Master Chief has been up until that point and the timeskip doesn't explain anything since he's effectively the same person he was prior to being frozen, so he comes across as dejected for no reason because if he were acting in a more consistent manner he would be looking for a practical solution to Cortana's problem and to the problem with the Didact at hand even at the cost of insubordination which he didn't even have a problem with doing just moments before that scene and which he ultimately does anyway that has no consequences for him because the antagonistic Captain is relieved. In other words, he has the solution to his problem right in front of him but takes a break to get emotional despite that not being ever reflected in his actions before and then the conflict he has doesn't even make a difference. Furthermore, there is a plot point that is completely dropped without any exposition or discussion in that Master Chief and Cortana decide the solution to Cortana's rampancy is to get to Dr. Halsey for a probably fix. Obviously the digitization of humanity by the Didact takes priority, but the game just forgets about it instead of highlighting the possibility and showing Master Chief's conflict between accomplishing the mission and saving who is approximately his closest friend, which is literally the easiest thing the writers could have done to explain Master Chief's emotions and simply did not. And there's a ton of other problems along the way, like how the Infinity was there at the same time as the door to the shield world was opened, how Master Chief is the chosen one which hinges upon an unreasonable amount of generational convenience, how a single Archer missile destroyed a Covenant destroyer, how the large gun on top of the big tank needed a target locater from the ground in order to fire at a big ball in the sky, how Cortana wasn't able to just beam herself into Master Chief's suit (or anywhere for that matter) despite being able to project herself in hardlight to "touch" him because "most of her is down there" even though she's a computer program and the Bungie books have her doing the same thing multiple times with ease, or how humans were obviously setup to be the descendants of the Forerunners by Bungie but now they were always a separate species and they're being handed the keys to the old empire for no reason and much much more. 343's story telling is a mess in general, and it all started with just how garbage Halo 4 was to start with.

Halo infinite staring at wolf like the green goblin mask

As Rich Evans so elegantly put: "How does it feel to live long enough to see all your favorite franchises go down in flames?"

Not just worse than forerunners, they claimed it was “worse than the flood”. It’s like they’re entirely incapable of grasping or understanding the lore of the game series they took over and actively destroyed.

How anyone can be excited for Halo with 343 at the helm for the past decade is crazy

Halo 4, 5, Infinite? a Halo tv show? what are you talking about. Halo Reach was the last Halo game made.

@massid3774

Ай бұрын

He’s talking about the shitty fan fiction

No, you're absolutely correct, the negativity has been earned, and it needs to be said. I keep seeing people praising Infinite and how 343 has 'corrected course' and learned the errors of their ways. No they haven't. Awful reception forced them to go back to just copying what was proven to work before, at best, and keeping the players who haven't gotten fed up with them hooked on 'member berries. No matter how much they try to pretend their abortion of a trilogy didn't happen, that doesn't mean it didn't, and Infinite's dog water story shows they still haven't learned. Even if by some miracle they manage to breath life back into the corpse they've made, it'll always be at best a zombie.

I appreciate you creating this supercut of this rant. ❤ I hope my timestamps helped

Reach to this day is my personal favorite. I liked the immersion. You felt a part of something beyond the scope of "I'm hero, the save world" but an elite group that shows more then tells why they are the tip of the spear. They risk life and limb constantly, use superior knowledge and tactics to undermine the Covenant at every turn. At the time i wasn't sure if what Halsey gave to Noble 6 was alien tech AI or what, I wasn't into Halo lore then. It made sense because you wouldn't explain to a hammer why it drives the nail, it just does. Once again, immersion.

Hey Wolf, enjoyed your content since your old dishonored wolf channel glad to hear from you again.

The one good thing about the enshittification of Halo is that it has inspired me out of pure spite to begin working on my own indie game that is a sort of spiritual successor/love-letter to the original Halo trilogy; Halo CE in particular.

doing a halo retrospective has been an idea thats been boiling around in my head. compare how good bungie halo was to how bad 343 halo is. my biggest gripe was how they changed Chief and Cortana's relationship.

@4TheWinQuinn

28 күн бұрын

About their relationship you’re so correct. All of a sudden 343 made it embarrassingly cringe, over the top emotional and just … way too gushy. When before it was always stoic and flirty. AND actually written in a way that was thematically COOL. Honestly the whole thing can be summed up by that clip from the Halo 4 days where the female dev sniffing her own farts says “masterchief isn’t a machine, he’s a human with emotions and we need to explore those.” Just UGHHHhh.

Halo has to get out of both 343 and Microsoft's hands to have any chance

I was genuinely shocked when I recognized Wolf's voice, glad he's better health.

soon as Chief started talking outside of cutscenes in Halo 4 I knew I wasn't playing a true Halo game

Let's not forget that 343 basically threw a tantrum when Helldivers 2 came out and decided to blame Microsoft for not allowing 343 to have side projects, which they probably aren't allowed to cus their mainline games are ass