So I've been digging through what little info we have for Infinite and the term "spiritual reboot" intrigued me. That must mean that more than one significant aspect of the game getting overhauled. From what we've seen the art/music are a definite throwback but they hardly necessitate the term imo.
I'm paraphrasing a quote from a 343 dev that says "This story will mark a new chapter and challenge for the Chief while respecting and continuing threads that led to this point" and also that iInfinite is the "beginning of the next 10 years of Halo."
From this quote, I'm assuming the spiritual reboot is talking more about the story than anything else. My question is what storythreads do you think are gonna get left behind/resolved in favour of new ones? What are the new ones?
My opinion: Maybe we're going back to the flood (rhino, deer flood forms?) Or even the precursors? (although they are all dead..) I really don't like prometheans as an enemy type. They just don't have any character to em. The covenant are alright. Fighting the covenant felt like fighting real intelligent beings with feelings instead of zombie/robots. Although their AI could go back to Reach or CE, but we need something new. We "finished the fight" in Halo 3...it doesn't make sense we keep fighting fringe forces of the covenant just so we can have them in the game. Atriox is good but he's not a galactic threat imo. Humanity defeated the covenant and then a forerunner commander. Atriox feels like a step down. Atriox could be a good antagonist for a spin off ODST game. But for Chief we need someone more epic. I feel Didact could be a really good antagonist. But that would mean he would be back from being composed and bring along the boring prometheans. Or Evil Cortana (ughh 👎) creates a new enemy type. Like a billion wardens. 😉
Note: I'm leaving gameplay mechanics out of this because that's just a rabbit hole and we all know the community is divided on this. Theres really nothing new to add.
I'm paraphrasing a quote from a 343 dev that says "This story will mark a new chapter and challenge for the Chief while respecting and continuing threads that led to this point" and also that iInfinite is the "beginning of the next 10 years of Halo."
From this quote, I'm assuming the spiritual reboot is talking more about the story than anything else. My question is what storythreads do you think are gonna get left behind/resolved in favour of new ones? What are the new ones?
My opinion: Maybe we're going back to the flood (rhino, deer flood forms?) Or even the precursors? (although they are all dead..) I really don't like prometheans as an enemy type. They just don't have any character to em. The covenant are alright. Fighting the covenant felt like fighting real intelligent beings with feelings instead of zombie/robots. Although their AI could go back to Reach or CE, but we need something new. We "finished the fight" in Halo 3...it doesn't make sense we keep fighting fringe forces of the covenant just so we can have them in the game. Atriox is good but he's not a galactic threat imo. Humanity defeated the covenant and then a forerunner commander. Atriox feels like a step down. Atriox could be a good antagonist for a spin off ODST game. But for Chief we need someone more epic. I feel Didact could be a really good antagonist. But that would mean he would be back from being composed and bring along the boring prometheans. Or Evil Cortana (ughh 👎) creates a new enemy type. Like a billion wardens. 😉
Note: I'm leaving gameplay mechanics out of this because that's just a rabbit hole and we all know the community is divided on this. Theres really nothing new to add.