Why is Halo 5 so despised?

[Quadsword]

I never played Halo 5, didn't really follow the discourse around it when it launched, and it's unlikely it will ever get ported to PC. I'm just curious to know why most consider it the worst Halo game.

[Chronomize]

Because—along with Halo 4—it sucks. Or maybe that's just a bias for new things—which I know that I have.

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Tldr, the story is an abomination. The Prometheans are also pretty boring to fight.
The gameplay is great however.

[Vwoop]

The campaign's story was horrendous, but honestly, the multiplayer is really fun and I would love to see it on PC someday. Gunplay is solid and say what you will about "advanced" movement i.e. sliding, thrusters to boost yourself in a certain direction, and staying in air while aiming down sights, but I personally thought they were nice additions to the combat.

[JackieTheDemon]

Campaign was garbage. No local split-screen, art direction went to the trash, the prometheans are bad.

[Roy]

Generic sci-fi art direction that's pretty much "it needs glowy bits, tubes and levitating pieces to be ancient alien tech".
Horrible gameplay choices making it more of a CoD space war rather than a Halo title.
Less interesting scenarios as a result of dumbing down the gameplay elements to make it more of a casual sprinty shooter.

4 and 5 are just bad for so many reasons, couldn't even be bothered to finish 4 for the story because the promethean encounters are so boring

[ExplosiveBolts]

Because the story is an abomination. MP on the other hand has the best weapon balance in the whole series.

[-BritishEcho-]

Because no one gave a sh*t about Locke, people wanted to play as chief and continue his story....

[Cool Cereal]

awful writing, misleading ads and news that built up the hype train, mp was more like titanfall 2 and awful futuristic CODs than halo, P2W mechanics, etc.

[Silver the King]

terrible story p2w multiplayer even 5 euro for the game is a robbery

[DivineLion]

the only thing i dont like is the Locke vs Chief fight, everything else is ok at that point. i really hope Blue team doesnt split up again. and i honestly want more buck

[Toshiba6699]

343 actually do a really great job on Halo 4(the campaign is like the best). However, the campaign of Halo 5 is quite disappointing. First of all, why Locke, a new introduced character will be the main character instead of Master Chief? Secondly, behaviour and personality of Locke is really not that good. Besides, nothing was introduced in the opening and most of the time, players are really confused on what is going on. Furthermore, the fact that how Cortana is alive and being the villain is not explained clearly (A huge gap between Halo 4 and Halo 5). Last but not least and the most important of all, you have to read MANY HALO BOOKS AND MOVIES in order to know the background information of Halo 5 and I believe that most of the players dont have interest or lack of time reading/watching all of them.

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REQ System is Pay2Win in Halo 5 Warzone

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Originally posted by Toshiba6699:

Last but not least and the most important of all, you have to read MANY HALO BOOKS AND MOVIES in order to know the background information of Halo 5 and I believe that most of the players dont have interest or lack of time reading/watching all of them.

Ironically, there is actually very little lead-up to Halo 5, from the events of Halo 4. H4 got an entire trilogy of buildup with the Ur and Iso Didact(s). Halo 5 got a really good audio drama, and not much else. No real book tie-in material.

[BobboilDandee]

Call of Halo: Infinite Lies

-marketing was straight up lies, which pissed alot of fans off, was told the game was a manhunt, but in reality it wasn't, it was a small part of it and the climax of locke and chief meeting was a freaking cut-scene....

-game-play tore the community apart, game started to feel like playing COD, which alot of people hate, but the new fans loved.

-art style was garbage, the gritty realistic military style of Halo was changed to some kind of abomination of crappy Anime style.

-story is trash, no one likes the Prometheans.

[Karak Sonen]

It's a similar case to why Peeps say Resident Evil 5 and 6 are bad.
They aren't bad games, they are just really bad Halo games.