Bold - The Studio Head of Double Fine would disagree with you, Lol.

He is on the record saying that Microsoft helped a lot, they were running low on funds and had to cut a lot of content (including the praised boss fights), Microsoft acquired them in 2019 and P2 released in 2021 which is 2 years of development under Microsoft, definitely not "at the last minute" and the extra funding and time allowed them to add back the cut content, including boss fights.

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"With Psychonauts 2, we could see the end of our budget coming up, and so we had cut a lot of stuff," Schafer explains. "We had cut our boss fights. Now we are able to put those back in, and we're like 'we think people would have noticed if we didn't have those boss fights'. Being able to complete the game in the way that it was meant to be was very important.

Oh no. I must be the first person to coment on a game I havent played. My gamer badge must be taken away.

Not really. Those games are in average what the previous entrys got. MS had nothing to do with psychonaughts. They just bought the studio at the last minute.

Of course complainimg works. Did you not read the thread? The devs droped the nft on this game after people complained. Our voices and our wallets are what dictate what these companies do. Gamers already lost the lootboxes and cosmetics fights cuz they just keep buying them and saying its not important. Lets please stand now. 

I have played Halo Infinite campaign, finished it already. It's great at what it does but I prefer the variety and pacing of Halo 4's campaign which I played through twice. I have no intention anymore to play Infinite's campaign in co-op when it arrives.

Whether it's gamepass' influence or because everything has to be open world nowadays I don't know, probably a bit of both. It launched unfinished (no co-op, no mission replay, no weather, rather short campaign without the open world padding)

I don't know what exactly is going on with the multiplayer (won't touch that regardless) but I have seen the reddit get locked for days over all the backlash and the complaints about missing modes, not letting you choose what to play, people leaving matches or sitting them out because of that. Plus all the stuff about season pass progression. All of the news surrounding the f2p model is only confirming my stance not to touch multiplayer.

In the end, F2P and fixed pay per month require other revenue streams to keep the games going. Whether it's shorter campaigns opening the door for DLC, Season passes or more MTX, it simply is nothing like how the landscape was when Halo 4 launched.

Halo's Multiplayer is F2P and has zero to do with GP. Unfortunately that's the price we have to pay for F2P games since you actually don't have to pay for the game at all. Compared to whats out on the market, Halo's MP is far beyond what BF 2043 and COD Vanguard offer, and those games you have to pay full price for. 343 is giving you a better MP experience for free and if you want to spend money on a Season Pass which is standard across majority of MP games than the choice is up to the consumer.

I just finished the Campaign last night and loved it. I ended up free roaming to find all the hidden secrets and the game was an experience for me. Its exactly what i wanted in a Halo game. The open world design is what suits the genre in my opinion. Halo needed to revert back and needed to find its identity again rather than play like everything else. It feels like Halo and its 10 to 20 hour campaign was a lot bigger than Halo 4's 10 hour and Halo 5's 5 hour campaign. Obviously these times depend on the player.

Halo Infinite MP MTXs are all cosmetics and many people don't even bother with the shop. A lot just play it for the casual gameplay mechanics and fun. Modes are missing however its far from the end of the world. Their is enough game their to keep you busy.

Depends what you like. If you like the type of game you will ignore the bad. If you dont like these types of games you will focus on the bad. Im one of those that cant see what people like in online shooters.

No he dint. He said quality was not afected. Wich I showed where it was. I never said the game sucked or anything. I said there where complains with the game going free to play amd I atrubuted the decision to gamepass. Having content cut to stretch the life of the game is a definete drop in overall quality. That the game is still viewed in a good light overall does not take away that it could have been better.

By adding Ubisoft style open world design? I thought the open world was the weakest part of the campaign. The map felt pretty small by the end, lacking variation. It did have some cool set pieces but overall felt generic. My screenshot collection reflects that, not a lot of shots of the open world. The Nexus and Repository were my favorite levels. The opening and ending were great as well.

I ended up getting frustrated while free roaming with all the limits around. Most of my deaths were from getting timed out "return to the battlefield", venturing a tad too low (instant death) or the grapple hook failing in places you're not allowed to go I guess. I did collect all cores, fobs, squads, targets, propaganda towers, maybe that's why it started feeling repetitive. Capture another copy paste FOB, more icons sprout on the map.

The campaign was certainly fun to play but in the end, I enjoyed Halo 4's campaign more. But since a lot of people didn't like Halo 4, perhaps I'm simply not part of the target audience for Halo. As far as FPS goes, Half Life 2 > Resistance 3 > Wolfenstein New Order > Halo 4 > Max Payne 3 are my favorite campaigns.


What I meant is subscription services sit between F2P on the one end of the spectrum, and full price games at the other end. Gamepass sits in the middle and its games don't need to be as 'predatory' as F2P, but let's not pretend subscription services don't prefer the GAAS model with MTX, DLC and Season passes to keep the money coming in.

I dunno, I can see slight similarities but I don't get that vibe at all.  I have played a lot of Ubisoft games and Halo felt like a breath of fresh air to me.  Spiderman Remastered is closer to Ubisoft's design and I definitely feel the lack of variation and small world there.  I am enjoying the game, but it is now on hold 3/4 of the way through because I am having more fun with Halo Infinite, partly because it feels LESS like an ubisoft clone.

To each their own, this is your opinion so I cannot bash that.  I am just stating mine by comparison.

I suppose that makes them 2 separate games. I see now. So lets talk about the campaing. You do know that the complains where not only about the multyplayer? People where also complaining of the missing modes like coop. 

Driving sims where always service like so forza was gona be what it was always gona be. Wich is why I only mentioned halo wich was at least 50/50. 

I'm not sure why I should care one way or the other.

If someone wants to pay for this, why should I care?

DLC, patches, any form of continuing support and maintenance of the online infrastructure, and just generally the desire to continue to exist and be able to pay your employees. 

Yet you're still finding a way to blame Game Pass and bring it up into this thread, your first comment was literally blaming Game Pass, Lol.

To quote: "Game Pass seal of approval."

Game Pass is irrelevant to this thread.

Also Stalker 2 hasn't released yet, the bidding was set to take place before release.