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befor this is moved to the halo 3 forum (aka the pit o spam) pless read it is more ritfully here in my opinion

the lates 2 halo 3 addes have woried me to some messier for the pure fact that there was no game play/ran on the game engion seen
now this woris me because part of me has to wonder. is the game play under par of what they want to show?

now corect me if i am wrong i have not played teh beta but i heard that it was not as amzinf (atleast grapics) as some would have thought
so i am thinking that the date might be push back a bit or that bungie is woried about the curet status of teh game play/grapics

  • 07.11.2007 10:35 PM PDT
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Bungie generally doesn't push back dates(Old people correct me if I'm wrong.), they never even set one for Halo 2, but the game companies put one out there and pushed it back, which people got pissed off about...

Anyway, I think all the stuff so far has all been in-game.

  • 07.11.2007 11:29 PM PDT
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Halo 3 is staying the way it is. What people apparently don't understand about "graphics'" is that they're supposed to look good when you're actually playing, not just for videos and screenshots.

  • 07.11.2007 11:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Monkeylizard
Halo 3 is staying the way it is. What people apparently don't understand about "graphics'" is that they're supposed to look good when you're actually playing, not just for videos and screenshots.

I could not agree with you more Monkeylizard. What people seem to not notice is that 'next-gen' has turned out to be video games that are black, grey, brown, and that's it. As far as primary colors that are shown. Graphics and Gameplay wise, Halo 3 has gone well over the top. All that is left before the game goes gold is just a few touch ups and to have a final run throughs for bugs and glitches. I wouldn't worry about Bungie, or Halo for that matter, Bungie knows what they're doing. ;)

  • 07.12.2007 12:02 AM PDT

There's really nothing to worry about. As was in the weekly update, they've known about the release date for quite a while, and I'm sure that they held off on telling us until they were 99% certain that they would be able to meet it. Don't forget that all we had for the longest time was "2007" and then "Fall 2007," both of which were pretty much assumed. Luckily, they left that cushion so we didn't get too excited about something that wasn't coming.

Don't forget that something like the Half-Life 2 source code theft could theoretically occur, but I'm sure that measures have been taken to avoid such a situation. That's the 1%.

[Edited on 07.12.2007 12:19 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2007 12:17 AM PDT

HALO 2 will rule 4ever. It is Halo and it is enougth. Thanks Bungie, our life will never be the same.

The problem of this so called next gen is that this new gen isnt really a new one.It's the old one with better graphics and not much more.

Graphics are a good thing but they only impress you for 10 minutes, after that you only want a good gameplay and good AI, and those are the things I want in Halo 3, not ultra realistic graphics, but then a poor gameplay like GOW.

And yes I agree Halo 3 forum is the spam land. I have seen great topics just dying and I see 10 topics talking about brute flood, and graphics in the first page.

[Edited on 07.12.2007 8:17 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2007 8:15 AM PDT

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  • 07.12.2007 8:56 AM PDT
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one more thing that i would like to point out that disappointed me
was this (this was one of teh orignal back of screen shots from halo 3)
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo3/screenshots/H3_MPAlp ha_SnowboundCarnage.jpg

vs one of the screen shots relaces not to long ago
http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo3/Screenshots/H3_fores t02.jpg

the main thing that caught my eye in teh diferance in teh shots was the texter on the armor in the first pictuer on snow bound it was much more detailed.
i most sertanl agree that grapics are no every thing hell i stil play a lot of marathon and god knows its not up to todays stadnerds

(can som ene lazy link i can never get the coding to work)

[Edited on 07.12.2007 8:58 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2007 8:57 AM PDT

Posted by: Durendul
one more thing that i would like to point out that disappointed me
was this (this was one of teh orignal back of screen shots from halo 3)
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo3/screenshots/H3_MPAlp ha_SnowboundCarnage.jpg

vs one of the screen shots relaces not to long ago
http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo3/Screenshots/H3_fores t02.jpg

the main thing that caught my eye in teh diferance in teh shots was the texter on the armor in the first pictuer on snow bound it was much more detailed.
i most sertanl agree that grapics are no every thing hell i stil play a lot of marathon and god knows its not up to todays stadnerds

(can som ene lazy link i can never get the coding to work)

Snowbound Alpha
Campaign Forest

The old armor looked too glassy. I think that they both look awesome, but the old armor looked a little out of place with the scenery.

  • 07.12.2007 9:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: Durendul
one more thing that i would like to point out that disappointed me
was this (this was one of teh orignal back of screen shots from halo 3)
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo3/screenshots/H3_MPAlp ha_SnowboundCarnage.jpg

vs one of the screen shots relaces not to long ago
http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo3/Screenshots/H3_fores t02.jpg

the main thing that caught my eye in teh diferance in teh shots was the texter on the armor in the first pictuer on snow bound it was much more detailed.
i most sertanl agree that grapics are no every thing hell i stil play a lot of marathon and god knows its not up to todays stadnerds

(can som ene lazy link i can never get the coding to work)
Achronos has explained many times that the texturing on the armor is an aesthetic choice that the game's artists made because they think it looks better when in motion in the game environment. It is not "reduced-quality" graphics. You must realize that grittiness does not equal high quality graphics.

Indeed, in the pictures you linked (links fixed above), the lighting, shadowing, and detail on the environment blow me away. As far as the art style goes, that is a matter of personal preference. I will not lie -- I have ALWAYS preferred Halo's "clean" look over the "grittier" look of many war games. I prefer it for many reasons. But I think that it is a huge mistake to say that graphics depend on grittiness.

Now to keep things on topic and appropriate for this forum instead of Halo 3, it appears that you think that Bungie is lying to its community by releasing screenshots with different textures on the Master Chief. I must respectfully disagree. Bungie has gone to extreme lengths to say "subject to change," "pre-Alpha," "subject to change," "Alpha Build," "Beta Build," "SUBJECT TO CHANGE."

If the artists thought that MC would look better with cleaner "plate metal" rather than the "cast-iron/concrete" look, then what you should be doing is marvelling at the fact that the artists actually had the ability to implement both of those options and then to make that decision. Not talking about how the graphics are "lower-quality" because they chose one aesthetic option over another. That's just silly, my friend!

  • 07.12.2007 9:39 AM PDT


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Posted by: Monkeylizard
Halo 3 is staying the way it is. What people apparently don't understand about "graphics'" is that they're supposed to look good when you're actually playing, not just for videos and screenshots.


I agree. Graphics should look good when you're actually playing the game. But what I've seen from some of the pics and videos so far, they look pretty good.

  • 07.12.2007 10:09 AM PDT