Musky_Cheese
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People need to calm down on the over reaction to the Halo demo
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
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DeaDPo0L84
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It simply didn't look good and was nowhere near on par with how Microsoft has been hyping this up. If you think it looks amazing and is gonna be the best thing ever more power to you. We can only react or form opinions on what they choose to show us, and it wasn't good.
turtlepowa
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Just wait and see, then bash.
Musky_Cheese
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That’s exactly what they did tho
DeaDPo0L84
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"Just wait and see"
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Explosive Zombie
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Honestly the problems with it go beyond the technical. Like yeah it very distinctly doesn't look like a next-gen game but even from an artistic direction it's especially bland.
Here's a good question for you if it wasn't Halo would anyone be talking about it?
Here's a good question for you if it wasn't Halo would anyone be talking about it?
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Gamerguy84
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Its sad to see honestly. It was MS defining game. Its a well known franchise and even if you never played it, you respected its brand.
I guess it can still be saved but its terrible what has happened. 343 murdered it.
I guess it can still be saved but its terrible what has happened. 343 murdered it.
PleaseWaitStation4
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"Let's take Halo 1... and make it again..."
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Yes. Yes he is.
Phil Spencer: XGS titles for the “next couple of years” will be cross-gen
Yeah The first year of a new generation console is always underutilized. Sometimes it's because the old hardware is exotic Sometimes it's because the new hardware is exotic But the main problem is when DevKit arrives in the hands of the developers. In the case of the PS5 it was in the middle...www.neogaf.com
Loool you got him. Embarassing
Vawn
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I'm guessing because they showed nothing about how the game will look and run. Also, that game will also be multi-platform.
Dr.Morris79
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But it is a launch title! So at least it's not three years off, I just hope it comes out..
I remember buying a Playstation 4 for Ace Combat, then it vanished for a long time.
the_master
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This is lalmost all wrong:
1- Phil Spencer Liedseveral times bragging about the power, the show itself and the quality he was going to show, he should step down after this.
2- Xbone is holding it back
3- They DO NOT have time to improve, it is 4 months away, you cant' polish the whole game in 3 months
4- They will need to be patching bugs after lunch for years to come, this game is not ready even to be shown in an E3 show, ray tracing will be another problem when performance starts going down.
5- NOBODY has claimed that there is the whole ring to explore, they don't even say it is an open world, they say that the world is open and expansive, but not have claimed that it is really an open world (They better come out soon with the truth before people gets the hopes up)
6- Shooting body parts has always affected the animation, (maybe Except in Halo 4/5) so this was a good improvement, certainly appreciate that in the demo. Especially, shooting at the legs and making the brute stumble. That is reeeally good for the game. kudos when deserved
7- We didn't see any verticality in combat cause the grappling hoojkll was moving the MC in a straight line usually forward.
8- Some new weapons where interesting indeed, can't wait to try them
9- Splitscreen is a great thing that came back. Kudos
10- Upgrades can be also very cool indeed.
11- No, not every game enters crunch time. And games risk it when they do, it can end well for the game, or it can end really bad. They are probably swimming in bugs and won't have time to do any major upgrade to the game if they don't postpone it. They would have to have fixed the open world tech (streaming, keeping character and item data alive on non visible terrains in different level of detail so they can be queried when not loaded, etc...) Months ago so they can build the gameplay and level design around it. What hapens now is that if they fix this tech, the level design is already done to work as best as possible with the current tech, meaning the game is already clamped by its own tech and they won't have to change all the levels layout.
Basically it seems that they fucked up their tech and art direction (bland colours, poor lighting...)
They can still come out with great gameplay feel and that is the most important and the only thing that I have hopes towards.
Vawn
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Makes it even stranger that they didn't show anything.
Actually, on further inspection is this true? They said it's a "console launch exclusive". I take this mean when it comes out (who knows when), it will launch on PC and Xbox and then come to PS5 at a point later depending on how long the exclusivity deal is.
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ultrazilla
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Vawn
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Oh. So what we saw yesterday actually WAS the Xbox One version and this screenshot shows the Series X enhancements.
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Deleted member 775630
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I also said that. Boy was I wrongWeren't you the guy saying you were going to laugh at people when Halo looked better than anything Sony showed ?
bargeparty
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This game is definitely not open world, you're all fooling yourselves.
chilichote
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I have the impression that the OP is emotionally involved^^
You should know that criticism is a good thing! This is the only way your beloved Microsoft can improve. If nobody says shit is what Microsoft does, the shit just gets bigger instead of smaller. In this respect you should really go inside yourself^^
You should know that criticism is a good thing! This is the only way your beloved Microsoft can improve. If nobody says shit is what Microsoft does, the shit just gets bigger instead of smaller. In this respect you should really go inside yourself^^
Lionel Richie
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I don't know if people need to calm down, but I do know that there's no reason to be upset.
Kenneth Haight
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Fake
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Yes. Yes he is.
Phil Spencer: XGS titles for the “next couple of years” will be cross-gen
Yeah The first year of a new generation console is always underutilized. Sometimes it's because the old hardware is exotic Sometimes it's because the new hardware is exotic But the main problem is when DevKit arrives in the hands of the developers. In the case of the PS5 it was in the middle...
Embarrassing.
Romulus
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Just the way the demo person was panning the camera around like "look at this awesome scenery!" all the while shit is popping up like Far Cry Instincts in the background and the textures look like Forge in Halo 3.
That's worrisome. You're proud of that? Meanwhile, a pathetic base ps4 is pulling off far better backgrounds and character models. And the fact that they don't have raytracing at launch and rumors that multiplayer might be a patch? The AI looked awful the mission structure was like a 6th generation open world game. The story seems thrown together too. The whole project just seems like a sinking ship that they barely saved. Then you look at the MCC, they couldn't even do that before COVID.
It's way more than just visuals and November is right around the corner. 5 years, for this?
That's worrisome. You're proud of that? Meanwhile, a pathetic base ps4 is pulling off far better backgrounds and character models. And the fact that they don't have raytracing at launch and rumors that multiplayer might be a patch? The AI looked awful the mission structure was like a 6th generation open world game. The story seems thrown together too. The whole project just seems like a sinking ship that they barely saved. Then you look at the MCC, they couldn't even do that before COVID.
It's way more than just visuals and November is right around the corner. 5 years, for this?
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The Fartist
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
I'm still looking forward to checking out the game.
It's supposed to be massive; I'll judge it on it's merits as a game even if the graphics are mediocre.
It's supposed to be massive; I'll judge it on it's merits as a game even if the graphics are mediocre.
hyperbertha
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The lighting model was god awful by 2020 standards. It absolutely is proof that Xbox one is holding it back. A 12 teraflop game should look so much better. You need to realize there are aspects of visuals that can't be scaled up either, not just gameplay.
Riven326
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Hey, OP. Here's Halo 4. Running on Xbox 360. A console released in 2005.
Halo Infinite running on a pc in 2020:
What Halo Infinite was supposed to look like:
Shut the fuck up, OP. Let people vent their completely justified frustrations over this undeniable travesty of epic proportions.
Halo Infinite running on a pc in 2020:
What Halo Infinite was supposed to look like:
Shut the fuck up, OP. Let people vent their completely justified frustrations over this undeniable travesty of epic proportions.
Vawn
Banned
The pop-in is especially concerning. How is that still a thing? That shouldn't even happen on current-gen.
The Fartist
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They're not done designing their SSD, what you saw was running on a 5400 RPM HDD.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I’m curious why the news outlets aren’t killing this demo?
No it didn't. We saw nothing.
Yes, I remember perfect dark zero being an underwhelming game that killed the franchiseCalm down everyone. Remember wallguy?
I mean everyone knows yesterday showings will be cross gen. Blame xbox one and don matrick if anything.
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Riven326
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Type into Google Halo Infinite screenshots.
bargeparty
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I just re-watched part of the demo and realized the enemies faces don't even animated. They say things and express pain, anger, etc, but there's ZERO expression.
Riven326
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Well don't close this one. I worked my ass off posting those comparison picks for the OP. He probably hasn't even seen them yet.
the_master
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Look at this in engine image from 2018 and then calm down when you see the current one.
The Fartist
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killatopak
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Well it has no raytracing, no MP and it was supposedly demoed on a high end PC.
Things does not bode well on release. I’ll expect them to support and update it regularly but by that time the damage is already done.
Things does not bode well on release. I’ll expect them to support and update it regularly but by that time the damage is already done.
SkeletonQuays
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They need to vary the foliage as well... I live in north carolina and there are various types of trees along with pines. Seeing just a few of the same type of pine tree repeated over and over again looks so freaking weird. There also needs to be more dynamicism to the skybox... moving clouds, contrails, the ship should have had wind effects that disprupted the environment below. It's just baffling how stale and flat everything looked. If they wanted to call back to the original feels of a 20 year old game then mission accomplished in that regard?... I guess?