irserious.com — A lot of people were unimpressed with Halo 3's graphics. Well, according to Bungie's Frank O'Connor, those graphics are not complete yet, and the final version of Halo 3 will feature graphical improvements beyond what was seen in the mulitplayer beta.
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philo1001May 31, 2007
OMG no wai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, i thought they were gunna do a complete turnaround and go back to 8-bit
ku16610May 31, 2007
halo is an overhyped lame ass attempt of a FPS game.
Closed AccountMay 31, 2007
wow there's alot of bad blood on this thread, just look at all the people that have been dugg down
hbndonutMay 31, 2007
I think the beta looks alright. The graphics can look a lot like Halo 2 at some times and then at other times they look absolutely great. We all know the graphics will never compare to GOW, but some people need to grow up and stop saying the graphics just plain suck. Sure the graphics are more simplistic than some games out there, but that was bungies intent for the game so as to keep to Halo's stylised feel. What is there looks great. All the surface textures are very high resolution and they look amazing. PLUS the game has a good steady framerate, it plays very smoothly and there is no screen tearing.The only graphical improvements I would like to see is the real time reflections on the Spartan visors that we were promised. And maybe tone down those dark shadows the player models have beneath them.
hbndonutMay 31, 2007
Gears and Halo... It's kinda like deciding between 2 comics... one has complex drawings and lots of text, the other is more simplistic but it's fun to read. I would choose the fun comic.Gears is actually a little 'too' lush. It looks great but i mean it is distracting and the gameplay is pretty slow and repetitve. Although, that wont prevent me from pre-ordering Gears2 and picking it up on release day. I love the game but it doesnt come close to Halo.
hbndonutMay 31, 2007
How has Halo been "bumped off the hill"? The game is set to outsell Halo 2! There has already been over 3 million pre-orders for the game.
Closed AccountMay 31, 2007
by SpectralSounds"So, they are upgrading the graphics to reflect complaints about how they should look better. Not because its a beta. The graphics should have already been DONE before beta tests."WUTT??? OH JESUS...
lacronicusJun 2, 2007
"Antibing, so they have to add entirely different features in order for you to think of this as a beta? Did I mention that Bungie's implementing 2nd Person? :O Oh wait, s**t the NDA is going to rape me for that."you idiot, 2nd person dosent exist, at least not as a perspective in a video game. perhaps you meant 3rd person? perhaps, but seeing as how it was the main point of that statement, i doubt youd get it wrong. either way, you lost your credibility. in any case, i would not be surprised of bungie pulls off something spectacular. the idea of a beta is that it is feature complete, however, many games that use an MP beta only have multiplayer features complete. it is perfectly reasonable to think that the graphical features will be added. granted, it wont look anything like crysis, since crysis involves a lot more than can be simply added to an engine to make it look pretty (i.e. everything in crysis is integrated with the engine. if the original engine did not have it, it wont likely get added with a simply patch. things like trees breaking and buildings blowing up are not something that can be added with the engine not supporting it from the beginning.) bungie could never pull something like that off in 4 months, and if theyve been working on it the whole time, then the MP beta was a waste of time, since not only does everyone think its bad, but it would never end up getting tested by the general public. i have no doubt that it will look better than gears, but aside from some high poly models and high res textures, it had nothing truly remarkable to compete with.
lacronicusJun 2, 2007
hd does not make or break a game. in fact, weve gotten past that. case in point, the crysis videos on youtube easily look better then half life 2 running at 720p (well... 1280*1024 still > than 1280*720) why? because there is so much more than just resolution that plays a role in how a game looks. a football game on SD tv still looks more real than madden at 1080p. why? because resolution isnt everything. the lighting, the shadows, the character movement, the environment, the draw distance, physics, a whole number of things. sure, with gears thats all that matters, but on games like crysis, where every aspect of the game is as good as the character models, its what truly makes the game.
lacronicusJun 2, 2007
"but 95% of gamers dont have a sytem with quad-core CPUs, 8800 video cards, 4gigs of ram and whatever else to run these new crysis-level games."+1 captain obvious pointsthe crysis dx9 testbeds, which still look vastly superior to most games currently announced, are < 800 with a dual core (which most new computers have), 1-2 gigs of ram (also standard), and a 1950xt at 240 for the 512mb version. and considering that the only difference between the dx9 and dx10 is 100 bucks in graphics card improvements, theres not much youll be missing for a 900 dollar rig. considering most people already have a decent computer, the price would come down. your right, 99% of gamers dont have those specs, but none of them actually need them. unless you want to get a 30" screen, which pushes twice as many pixels as a 1080p monitor, and since you mention card*s*, it would likely be running at least 8x AA. now will you please stop with the "crysis is gonna be so expensive, im gonna go make excuses for halo3 now" bit. it gets bothersome when there are so many good ways to push the halo series. it may not have great gfx, but it has a very promising story, solid MP, and its overall fun to play. even if its not great looking, its certainly not bad enough to take away from the experience, and if thats all bungie can manage, id be happy with it. id rather have a fun game that didnt slide on graphics, than one which has great graphics, but nothing else. EDIT: just checked, the gfx card, the 1950, is only 189 now