Halo
343 Industries is a sinful and shameless "studio" that doesn't listen to or have any respect for their target audience, let alone understand the concept of a target audience or have the desire to even learn about the concept of a "target audience".
Call of Halo 4: Generic Sci-Fi Warfare
Halo 5 Gorbians
Halo Infinite Broken Promises
The only good Halo games that have come out since the social media director/tertiary writer became the franchise director by default because all the other staff members above him left to make Destiny (Frank O'Connor) were the games that were developed out of house.
Halo Spartan Assault
Halo Spartan Strike
Halo CE Anniversary
Halo 2 Anniversary
Halo Fireteam Raven
Halo Wars 2
Halo 5 Forge
Those were good games.
And then we have the overabundance of novels and the insufferable retcons!
Before Frank O'Connor became the de-facto Franchise Director, Humanity were the Forerunners.
BUT SUDDENLY
He became the Franchise Director and decided to make his barely-canon sub-plot that exists in the Halo 3 Terminals revolving around the Didact and Librarian become further expanded by novels commissioned to Greg Bear in order to retcon the franchise and have Humans and Forerunners be separate species WHILE ALSO committing the writing taboo of explaining the cosmic horror that is the Flood.
Cosmic Horror, BY DEFINITION, is to be hardly explained and the origins and history of which is unknown.
Honestly, with how Halo 4 failed to even be a Halo game and how low the game's reception was; I am surprised that Microsoft didn't shaft 343 Industries and make the smart decision of rotating out the hacks with people how had care and investment in the franchise.
And to add further insult to injury we had Bonnie Ross and Brian Reed further tainting the franchise.
GLAD THEY ARE BOTH GONE NOW
Halo Infinite had such promise.
And because of this failure of a studio, they wasted time, wasted budget, and broke promises in order to compensate for the lack of effort they put into the project.
Joseph Staten and Paul Bertone are back from Bungie to finally, FINALLY show this cursed studio how to actually BE a studio and eventually, through the power of updating, FIX the mess of Halo Infinite.
Shame the rest of the franchise from 2012 and onward cannot be fixed without a reboot of sorts that might happen in a decade or so.