>>719936090
Honestly, at this point? Just give us a different central character and make Chief our mentor or CO or something that he technically should be by this point in the franchise. A Rookie or Noble Six successor, their own thing, mute or not, I dunno. But Steve Downes is 74 years old now and they can't have him endlessly be Chief even with the proclamation that he and Jen Taylor can have their voices used by Microsoft for AI shit. The one good idea they could've had with Infinite overall was having a custom Spartan start their own little adventure on the side to build up to bigger shit, and that got entirely abandoned because the game fucked itself, not to mention squandered on an annoying Banished AI in one dude's head fucking with the base.