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Very long time Halo fan here. Played the first game in 2001 when I was young, got Halo 2 right after launch, followed the entire series (books, graphics novels, official site info dumps) up until right after Halo 5. I did play Infinite, though, which I didn't hate. Anyways, here's mine.
Halo 5, when it turned out a fragment of Cortana survived. Making the entire sacrifice at the end of 4 to feel almost a waste of tears. Then she turns evil and is the new big threat. Kind of just went, "Welp. Wonder where tf they'll go with this now."
Not only made me feel ripped off from Halo 4, but 5 as well.
Then Infinite came out. Where is Cortana, you wonder???
Oh, she died. Yeah, for real this time. Off screen. Oh, but don't worry, an echo or some bull crap tells you everything that happened, and you can see a reenactment of when she, I guess, made herself explode???
Kind of ruined three games worth of Story for me. Don't get me wrong, each one has positive features of the stories, they just all feel entirely soured by the Supernatural-esqe die, live, die stuff.
Yeah, this was mine. I wasn’t a huge fan of Cortana becoming the new main villain at the end of 5, but hey I was ready for the ride to find out how it ended, I mean especially after such a cliffhanger ending. Then Infinite came out and basically completely ignores what the entire point of the 343 era was trying to instill. They tripped over themselves imo. I still haven’t finished Infinite’s campaign. I feel like they should have just rebooted the series or something. They clearly want that battle royale money but didn’t make a battle royale game. I guess if it were up to me I would’ve made Halo 6, just like the 5 before it, finish the story, wrap it all up in a nice neat bow and then made an open world follow up like Infinite.