Thought the speech was pretty cool. Humans called you savior, Covenant called you demon, Banished calls you prey.
Yeah how exactly did Cortana just "lose" and that's that. Like come on I was legitimately wondering a lot of it and was hoping we'd see it.
But it's such empty posturing. We, the player, know being called "prey" is an empty threat; 343i wants to convince us this new villain is Thanos-level powerful or whatever.
Galaxy is big, I still expect the created to be around and Cortana to have control of them. I just think that the first few hours of the game are vs the banished before they introduce the other threats, like the inevitable flood.
Thank god. I know there are big Halo fans out there who have delved into the lore and the books, and all of that - but it was just ridiculous at times in Halo 4/Halo 5. People who have played through the mainline Halo games shouldn't be confused about the key details of the narrative in your game.
This is what peak Grunt performance looks like, you may not like it but that's what it is.
Feeling pretty confident that harbinger is cortana. Looks like the created/ promethean + banished absolutely wrecked the unsc. But what's interesting is that brute mentioned something along the lines of they did it to honour Atriax. Probably because he is somewhere else doing something else, but it could also mean that he had died prior to the game, or at least presumed dead. I'm kind of theorising that Atriax might have been overthrown by this new brute and he is using Atriax's name to keep control of the banished. Could be sick seeing chief and Atriax teaming up to put an end to cortana and her forces now that he is (presumed) to be all on his own.
I hope that happens because that cliffhanger in 5 left so many questions that need to be answered. Even if this is sort of a soft reboot leaving all the Cortana stuff like "oh she just disappeared" seems like a kick in the balls to Halo Lore fans.
Then again, Halo 5's plot was a Saturday morning cartoon tonally. I get why they rebooted that crap.
Yeah, but still the devs saying technically it is in the same timeline makes it all the more weirder if they do not answer what the hell happened.
Yeah this is exactly how I feel. Both games after 4 feel like an extreme reaction to the previous one based on fanbase reception. Still I'm happier with the approach they're taking with infinite, I can deal with just going back to regular old Halo.
Yeah,I read that,it is still not sound like it is going to be the focus of Infinite,from the interview it seems like they really want to be done with it,and I don't think it respects the universe and deep lore of Halo.
While also being a "spiritual reboot" and conclusion to the Forerunner Trilogy? Idk, the direction of the narrative feels so strange. Feels like Rise of Skywalker.
