Hi, I'm Robin.

Recently I've been giving Halo Infinite's free multiplayer a shot with some friends of mine and to my surprise, I'm actually enjoying it. I'm not really into first-person or hell even third-person shooter games all that much. I've always been much more into JRPG's and RPG's in general, or open world exploration games. However, there has always been one massive exception- the Halo franchise. My biggest problem with shooter games is they've always felt kind of the same to me. I never really notice much of a difference in the weapons besides "this gun is a handgun" or "this one is a rocket launcher." Maybe that's just because of my relative unfamiliarity with the genre in general, but still. With Halo, it always felt different, like I could feel that the guns and weapons had actual weight and recoil and when you combine that with the fact most games prevented me from running, it felt like I really was a soldier in a giant, heavy suit of armor holding these differently weighted weapons.

All of that changed when I played Halo 4. Suddenly, every gun started feel the same again. On top of that, the story just didn't grab me like the original story of the first three games did. I've never had an Xbox one, but when I played Halo 5 at my friend's house just to give it a shot I was convinced that either the game had changed or I had changed. Maybe I had just grown out of Halo, and this was the sign I was just done with the series. Over the years I realized others had the same feelings I did about both the new story seeming less interesting and the gameplay changing for the worse, but whether or not that was a vocal minority is something I still don't fully understand. So when my friend Max told me Halo Infinite was free to play on steam, I was a bit skeptical. After playing it a little bit, digging out my old Xbox 360 controller in order to do so, I started to think to myself, "this is kind of how I remember Halo feeling."

When I sat down with my friends the other day to play Halo Infinite as a full team of 4, I knew for sure that I was havong fun. Slayer, Capture the Flag, Ball Control, Zone Control, it didn't matter. I was having fun in a brand new Halo game for the first time in years. It reminded me of when we'd play our legitimate copies of Combat evolved on the school computers during lunch in my senior year of high school. So, here I am now. Wondering to myself if this a sign that Halo is "back," as it were. It never really left, but it never really felt the same. So, does this mean that the campaign is gonna be good? Am I going to finally be invested in the story once again? I have no idea, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at the very least excited for what's to come down the line. What are your thoughts on the Halo Infinite multiplayer? Do you have the same feelings I did about the franchise? Do you think Infinite's multiplayer is a sign of good things to come or ado you outright hate the multiplayer? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Thanks for reading and I'll see you all later.

-Robin.

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