Game Informer May 2012 Cover revealed: Halo 4
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What? R3 looks fantastic along with the Ratchet and Clank games.
Anyways this does seem of topic.
You joke but on GAF it does. There's no question
Franklinator
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halo's jaggies could help with that
Boardwalk, Reflection, Countdown,Sword Base... They all look very I don't know how to say...unimpressive? They certainly don't look good after playing Crysis 2. Lighting is just incomparable.
QisTopTier
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Animations are janky, its borderline SD, its jagged and on top of that artstyle is some of the most generic I have seen. Insomniac dropped the ball hard this gen, no doubt about that.
Crysis 2 blows Resistance 3 out of the water easily. Not even a contest.
Thats just bad design. I know whole bunch of people would pick KZ3 or C2 explosions over Reach any day of the week even though particles in Reach are full res. I think Frankie mentioned that they early made decisions on what to cut. Thats all there is, cut in one place to gain in another. Who makes better decisions, makes better looking game. And Bungie definitely don't have good "eye" for these decisions (Halo 3 HDR for example).
I agree with you about the majority of those, but Reflection? It's the best looking aspect of Halo Reach in general.
Phonomezer
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Fine. Recent Halo games haven't been known to push the bar graphically. Explains why people were surprised to see Halo as the cover.
It looks better than those, but I'm putting it because of interiors. They are just very dull in Bungie engine.
I would say Bungie makes bad decision as far as visuals are concerned. I remember one topic on B3D forums where people where in "awe" of KZ3 textures on AI turns out Reach had higher resolution textures on AI, but people would never tell. Here is where artists play big role, and so does artstyle.
So much blur.
ViewtifulJC
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That makes it more realistic!
Uno Venova
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Crysis 2 was so uneven graphically, I like consistency.
lets nor forget the awful framerate. c2 on consoles was horrible.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Thread is super serious right now.
They tried to cram in too much. Just the beginning of C2 is something no other good looking game on consoles tries to do. When you open up the door and look at the trees and grass in front of you, those consoles immediately get on their knees, especially PS3 with lower bandwidth.
I never like participating in these graphic discussions, anyway, but that was forcing me to ask. And I personally think Reflection looks like the best map in the series, easily. So it's weird to see it listed, yet alone be placed "below MW3" levels.
Muffdraul
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Which console is that running on?
We are forgetting the most important aspect of Crysis 2 -- that it was a terrible a game. Well, I didn't expect it to be Halo, so I can't say I'm excited. If the screenshots really are impressive, I'll admit to it. But, until then, I expect to look like other Halo titles, which is to say wholly unimpressive.
I was wrong, its not below MW3 lvl, its below Blops level. And I'm not joking, Blops had good interior lighting, better than both of those games. They showed of their tech at last GDC.
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The particles aren't full res, they just have a good way of hiding the artifacts from low res alpha.
Muffdraul
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Well I admit that gif looks better than I remember from when I played it last year. I'd play it again, but... meh.
I dunno what they are, perhaps 1/2, 1/4. KZ games I know are much much lower.
KZ2 used 1/4 res. KZ3 could go as low as 1/16.
Hell no, it was the best fps of last year.
Muffdraul
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A harsh indictment of FPS 2011.
Yeah, Bulletstorm is all kinds of awesome.
But really, we shouldn't be comparing artwork for Halo 4 Cortana to the in-game models of Cortana from the previous games.
ViewtifulJC
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I agree. Serious Sam 3 really was the best FPS of the year
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
PLayed Resistance 3 in 3D and really enjoyed it - need to go back , especially skulking around in basements peering out which i find awesome.
However, unless playing it not in 3D massively jumps the games look, it's nowhere near Crysis 2
Anyways, will be nice if Halo 4 does look awesome - the Halo games always looked good but not "blown away" good (Cartographer level on Xbox excluded!)
However, unless playing it not in 3D massively jumps the games look, it's nowhere near Crysis 2
Anyways, will be nice if Halo 4 does look awesome - the Halo games always looked good but not "blown away" good (Cartographer level on Xbox excluded!)
I've played plenty of BLOPS and I've played plenty of Reach. There's no way in hell Reflection is below anything that's in BLOPS. That's just fools talk.
It was Resistance 3.
Even though resistance 3 was sub hd , the effects and lighting was just awesome
http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/Massa_01/r3.gif
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Anyways we are really going offtopic, cant wait for some new halo screenshots
The reason Halo look so bad is because the Xbox 360 only does the colors; brown, gray and black in HD.
EliteArtist
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Which is why Resistance 3 was amazing. Just the way all that brown, yellow, and grey came together... mmmmmmm
To stay on topic a little bit: Uninterested for Halo 4. It's like the tenth season of a long running show as in there's no real rhyme or reason to it other than it just being there because it's popular.
Reach had like a quarter of a level with purple environments.
Nizz
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shinobi602
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Lol, it looks good and has good effects, but it's blurry as shit and has just as much jaggies as any Halo game.
HP_Wuvcraft
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No idea why they needed to sex up Cortana.
shinobi602
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She's looked that way since Halo 2.
bros love tits
She looks like a naked female wearing bodypaint in that cover.
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