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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.
Halo: CE started off as one of the best games of all-time, then the Flood were introduced and it started recycling whole levels and the game went into the toilet.
Failing to stick the landing is par for the course either this franchise. I enjoy Halo PvP and I enjoy fighting the Covenant but just about every game has something holding it back.
The flood was the whole reason the halo rings even existed, and the gravemind is one of my favorite antagonists of all time. And I did and still do consider the original Halo trilogy my favorite franchise.