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maxminspeech · 1 year

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Halo: Infinite, and the State of Modern Gaming

So, before I write this, I want to offer a couple critically important pieces of context.

I am a neurodivergent (namely, ADHD and Autism) person, and will be looking at these games from this lens

I am a *massive* fan of Halo, and even despite the problems I'm going to mention having here, I fucking love these games, and will continue to do so!

This is exclusively about the multiplayer component of Halo: Infinite. It is not the worst offender in any regard I mention, nor is it unique in its shittiness, but it is the series I know, and play, and have problems with. While I will be viewing these problems and speaking about them using Infinite as a point of reference, it will not be the only game I talk about nor the only thing I reference.

So. Halo: Infinite. It's major additions to the series outside of the core gameplay additions and story are limited-time events, battle passes you use to unlock new armour pieces, weekly items, and a microtransaction store which contains unique items. And ALL of these, are in one way or another, actively harmful.

As an autistic person, I have an incredibly addictive personality, and can hyperfixate on media I particularly enjoy. Halo, as my favourite media franchise in fiction, is certainly one of my worst offenders! But because of this, and a compulsive feeling of need to "get everything I can", I drive myself absolutely insane.

In Halo: Infinite, the grind quite literally never ends. Every 3-6 months, a brand new battle pass is released, containing dozens of hours worth of grinding in cosmetics. In addition to this, a new cosmetic is added each week, and if you don't earn that cosmetic that week? It's gone. Permanently. And there's events, limited time things with similar permanent losses if you don't (or can't) play the game to complete the event in time.

All of these things are, to one form or another, spread across countless games. Maybe not in the same way Halo handles it, but still. Its battle pass is a more user-friendly of that seen in something like Fortnite (as in Halo: Infinite, you can always go back and buy old Battle Passes, meaning no cosmetic from it can be truly missed out on, a fantastic user-friendly addition which would mean infinitely (heh) more if events and weekly items didn't permanently vanish if you fail to acquire them), events are in countless games, whether to add new items or simply speed up different forms of progression, and new rotating items are a somewhat common thing in games, too.

And then there's the store. For all my rage and frustration, I'm going to give shockingly little time to the store. It isn't really the problem itself here, though its existence is the ROOT of all the problems here. Because the game and its multiplayer truly... isn't designed to be fun. Its designed to keep you playing. And that's a critical difference.

Video games shouldn't be designed so you come back every week to get a new item. They should be designed to make you come back every year, or 2 or 3 or however long you want, to experience the entirety of the game once more. To enjoy and love this story, these characters, all over again.

This change in video game design is led by the simple root of it all- capitalism. A need to make more money in as efficient a way as possible. Make people pay for a battle pass, and then while they're playing to complete the pass anyway, make sure they see the store and the items in it, make sure they see that beloved Halo 4 helmet is there, or that they've added a new skin. Whatever keeps people coming back, keeps looking at the store.

Because it doesn't matter if 5 out of 10 people buy nothing, if 4 out of 10 buy something and 1 out of 10 buys everything. Especially when they're this easy to turn around new items for.

I understand that this is simply how the game is played, but I must talk about it, at least from my perspective. Because as an autistic, neurodivergent person, this is simply, to borrow a term from Jim Stephanie Sterling, an accessibility issue.

Video games should be for everyone. I firmly believe this and will stand by it until the day I die. But that doesn't just mean playing the game at all. It also includes people getting to enjoy a game without it being designed to prey upon their neurodivergence, their love for an existing series, just to try and fleece them for all the money they're willing to spend on pixels on a screen.

I love Halo. And I love Halo: Infinite. It's campaign is a masterpiece of writing, environments, visuals and gameplay. It's soundtrack is sublime (having listened to it while writing this, even!) and I adore it even despite all of this. But I also will admit, I can feel like my favourite series in fiction doesn't love me back, with the way it's designed. This isn't to blame 343 Industries, its to blame Microsoft. The company that orders these changes and collects the money while the staff who make the games we love get all of the blame and none of the credit.

The video game industry is fundamentally broken, and the sooner we can fix it, the better. Video games need to be for all, that includes neurodivergent people, and even people who just can't play the game this week!

Honestly, I really enjoyed writing this analytical piece. I think I might do it more often on here, of other ideas I have in games, or reviews, or anything.

Thank you for your time, friends. I hope you have a lovely day! Here's a nice gif of John Halo to cheer you up after a pretty serious ramble c:

#halo #halo infinite #liara rambles #neurodivergences in video games #autism #adhd

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kor0sh · 2 years

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