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[Black_Stride]

Oblivion remake was garbage. Expecting the same here.

That can't be true, their entire studio is obviously hard at work fixing the Oblivion remake issues.

/s

Oh yeah, the excellent and so trustfull Virtous.
I feel pity for Halo fans. They are in for decades worth of waiting for patches to fix the game.

This isnt Virtuos Games the guys who worked on Oblivion.
This is being done by Abstraction Games......the Co-Development Studio of Master Chief Collection, Dune Awakening and Baldurs Gate 3.
Virtuos Global recently.....not really, acquired them and now "forces" them to identify as Abstraction A Virtuos Studio.

 

[BlackTron]

lol

 

[playbignbox]

I only know Virtuos from some ports they made for Switch, the Nier one was really good

 

[LectureMaster]

Just port the MCC to PS5 and call it a day. I'm tired of those drip feeding nonsense like they did with gears.

 

[Halo is Back]

The only hope this game has is if 343I, oh I mean "Halo Studios", is not developing it imo.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

From brilliant Saber tech to UE5 slop.

Halo: Remake Devolved

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

The absolute state of remasters has me glad that I've been building up my collection of older games - being able to conveniently just play the original instead has been a blessing after so many disappointments. I'm not giving Virtuos a chance, and I think that's fair.

 

[Fbh]

UE5 so they can nail that 480p 30fps feeling of playing it on the original Xbox.
Now that's attention to detail!

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Wish they were remaking a good game instead.

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

So "Halo Studios" is a bunch of purple-haired diversity hires who don't actually know how to do any of their own work, then.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

any of their own work

 

[ungalo]

So "Halo Studios" is a bunch of purple-haired diversity hires who don't actually know how to do any of their own work, then.

It's the case with a lot of Microsoft studios.

Rare is basically a ghost studio at this point, so was The Initiative (fake studio), and now 343. They don't have the capacity to develop games they're just figurehead pretending to manage intellectual properties. Basically Microsoft outsource the full dev but still pretends it's some kind of collaboration. To my knowledge it's the only publisher that does things like this.

 

[Scrawnton]

This isnt Virtuos Games the guys who worked on Oblivion.
This is being done by Abstraction Games......the Co-Development Studio of Master Chief Collection, Dune Awakening and Baldurs Gate 3.
Virtuos Global recently.....not really, acquired them and now "forces" them to identify as Abstraction A Virtuos Studio.

Can they force them to identify as compotent developers who release solid products?

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

To my knowledge it's the only publisher that does things like this.

They won't be doing it much longer. Guess MS really helped drive gaming into the ground. They're Atari 2.0.

 

[Black_Stride]

Can they force them to identify as compotent developers who release solid products?

Baldurs Gate 3 came out pretty good.

 

[SpokkX]

Holy... shit.. what a bad idea

so lets summarize

1. Not a remake - using the original game logic means it is remaster... (EXCACLTY like in MCC - just another time..)
2. Not made in house - but by a "support" studio
3. Made in UE5 - so stutter and performnace problems are for sure

Yes the people that approved this... should perhaps work in another industry

 

[metareferential]

The nail on Halo's coffin.

Good job, Ms. Thank God we have the MCC.

 

[Physiognomonics]

how many times are they gonna remake CE. no creativity...

Still not released on Playstations. It makes sense to release a remake there before a new Halo.

 

[Germuso]

Halo 1 and 2 are on pc day 1, not even.playstation fan give a fuck.

Just remake black

 

[R3TRO]

I'll take a wait and see approach...The ES remake ran decent enough for me so we'll see.

 

[Draugoth]

XboxEra has corroborated this

 

[mèx]

Sure, let's shit on the next classic with yet another UE5 slop remake. Sigh.

 

[Gonzito]

 

[Mister Wolf]

Playing the previous Halo 1 Remake in stereoscopic 3D on the 360 was a wonderful experience.

 

[rm082e]

I truly feel for the younger kids growing up in this era with absolutely nothing to be excited about.

I've got a 13yo son. He's excited all the time and spends more time gaming than I did when I was his age. Him and his friends are just into completely different stuff than us older folks are into. He spent the last 4 years being excited about Fortnite and Roblox stuff. There's also a lot of mish-mash where memes inspire Roblox games, which everyone is making YouTube videos about, then those videos spawn new memes that work their way back into the games. They've got their own thing going.

He has played some other games like Super Meat Boy, Cuphead, Castle Crashers, Sonic Mania, some VR stuff, etc. He also sees me playing more traditional games, but he's not as interested in isolated, single-player story games. He's usually approaching games more as a platform for social hangouts with friends.

 

[BlackTron]

Wish they were remaking a good game instead.

Nice tag bro

 

[intbal]

yes, the anniversary remaster ran pretty poorly with its stutter issues and it was using the pc version as a basis which had issues with its ui compared to the original xbox (plus missing effects in classic graphics mode)

On top of that, I hated the artstyle. They made the backgrounds busy and darker with that blue filter, and enemies frequently blended in making focusing difficult.

Whenever i play cea on mcc (which performance wise runs waaay better) i just stick either classic graphics for the aforementioned reasons.

Halo 5 also had similar issues, too much shit happening on screen at once with overly complicated designs in the background

Sorry.
Fake screenshot.
I was just mocking the expected future outcome of yet another twin-engine remaster, if indeed that's what they're doing.

That framerate graph is actually from the Xbox One version of Cyberpunk. I just cropped it out and slapped it over the top of a Halo CE Anniversary screenshot.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

History about to repeat

 

[Chuck Berry]

Halo is dead and buried and no one gives AF about it anymore. No one gave AF about the shitty paramount show, no one wants to play anymore of 343 studios shit tier games, and no one gives AF about a nostalgia trip for a series that has sucked ass for years. Move on.

 

[rkofan87]

• Halo Combat Evolved Remake is being made the same way Oblivion Remake
• They've been hiring people with knowledge on old Halo game engines

 

[rkofan87]

So this will be the PS5 version and not the MCC.

Feels bad man.

sadly yes

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The only thing Microsoft knows how to do is re-release Halo over and over again huh

Coming 2040: "Halo Combat Evolved 3rd Remake AI Edition"

 

[rkofan87]

Just keep remaking classics we've all already played before instead of new games because you don't have the talent to pull it off. Lame

this port mcc/5/6 and make a new one.

 

[rkofan87]

Just port the MCC to PS5 and call it a day. I'm tired of those drip feeding nonsense like they did with gears.

this but you forgot 5/6

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[BennyBlanco]

The version in the MCC is already good. What's the point?

 

[Senua]

this but you forgot 5/6

Common occurrence

 

[xrnzaaas]

Oblivion remake was garbage. Expecting the same here.

Yep it was the worst kind of remake:
- all of the archaic mechanics intact
- all of the old bugs still there + some new issues and crashing after longer sessions (played on XSX)
- new graphics at the expense of game running like shit and not holding stable fps (again, based on console version)
- no major changes / new content for those who know the original well
- full price

 

[Codes 208]

Sorry.
Fake screenshot.
I was just mocking the expected future outcome of yet another twin-engine remaster, if indeed that's what they're doing.

That framerate graph is actually from the Xbox One version of Cyberpunk. I just cropped it out and slapped it over the top of a Halo CE Anniversary screenshot.

You know what the scary thing is? For a fake, Thats honestly not far off from the actual performance of Halo CEA, it got quite a bit of flak for frame issues when playing in the new graphics (at least the original 360 version anyway)

 

[Lagspike_exe]

This explaisn the moronic dual-engine idea.

BTW Oblivion Remake runs like trash even on PS5 Pro, so you can imagine how well this is going to work for an intensive shooter like Halo on base machines.

 

[OverHeat]

Bailout.gif

 

[Ceadeus]

 

[kevboard]

it will run like shit, have a fucking sprint button, stutters, crappy looking lumen...

I already hate it and I haven't seen a single frame of it.


Saber Interactive has 2 amazing engines, AND THEY ALREADY MADE 2 FUCKING REMASTERS of Halo...
Swarm Engine, Saber 3D Engine... either of them are vastly preferable to UE5

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I can't take one more unoptimized stutterfest, my cup is full, they better have learned their lesson.