>>8791040.>343 works in mysterious ways
343 is just a manipulative gf/exgf of a studio.
Basically they didnt like that this old IP or property was so well liked and that new fans were unsure if 343 could be trusted. They felt they had to show they could do halo too but "even better." Because they had an ego they tried to impress everyone by changing everything about halo that they never needed to morph in the first place. Not because the fans thought it needed to be changed, but because they wanted to change it so it was THEIR halo. the 343 brand. It was as selfish and risky act, and they could have maybe pulled it off but they fucked it up and made something hyper dismisive with a franchise that had been around for like a decade and a half at the time.
you can see this everywhere. in the reworked designs for weapons people hate like the new rocket launchers, the unrecognizeable spartan visual aesthetic, the mutated and disfigured versions of the covenant species. Nothing looks or feels the same. seriously the new grunts are repulsive and look like downsyndrome shark hybrids, i would have preferred an in universe explanation like this was a grunt species from a specific world but nope.
They could have just compromised and made new shit like the forerunners and robot crap, while not fucking with everything else, and then everyone could have been happy, but that wasnt enough for them. So all of this shit that was already accepted by fans, they had to change as well.
Basically 343 is all hubris and ego, and because there was a fan backlash , after them refusing to listen to fans for 2 games, now they are trying out this infinite thing to please them. If they really cared about the fans, they would have gone with an art style closer to infinite in the first place. So this entire thing of them even making infinite is basically them being forced to do something they should have done from the start, that they are only doing now because they feel forced to.
