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Subject: Should Halo: Reach have improved graphics?
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Posted by: Blade967
Well, having better graphics wouldn't exactly hurt the game. However like most people said, I prefer good gameplay and "bad" graphics over bad gameplay and good graphics. Both would being good would be nice though.


I agree, having amazing gameplay and amazing graphics would be awesome though.

  • 06.30.2009 5:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: xZcNx MarcWagz
Master Chief looks amazing in Halo 3... one of the best character models in any game are you short sighted?
Now I'm not a graphics whore, but I'm going to have to disagree. The Spartan armor looks like plastic in Halo 3; whereas in Halo 1 and Halo 2, it looked like metal.

But to the point, gameplay should be the main priority.

  • 06.30.2009 6:18 AM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

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We should know better, because we are better.

Posted by: Smug Dark Loser
I do pray to god that halo still looks like halo. I dont want a greyed halo.
But they made fun of it with the gloom effect when they announced it, so I doubt it.

All these GoW and CoD games are all greyish. Halo has brighter colors than GoW.
Also look here for a ODSTs opinion on GoW colours.

  • 06.30.2009 6:26 AM PDT
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I'm glad halo has a bunch of colors man Gears of War sucked what a boring game COD4 was ok.. but gears just greys it up its like the only color in the game

  • 06.30.2009 6:37 AM PDT

Ninjabag the tea-pirates!

I don't want to join your group.

I think Halo 3's graphics are good.

  • 06.30.2009 6:37 AM PDT
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I would like to keep the same graphics now, or atleast the same gun detail, from halo 2-3 I hated the look of like the AR and BR

  • 06.30.2009 7:15 AM PDT

Halo Three
GOW2
COD4

So, it looks like the OP's question is equivalent to "Should Halo:Reach have its draw distance reduced to 100m and the entire game moved to tiny environments and all the colors removed so that people who don't have color televisions don't get shafted?"

I believe the answer is no.

  • 06.30.2009 8:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: xZcNx MarcWagz
Master Chief looks amazing in Halo 3... one of the best character models in any game are you short sighted?
Now I'm not a graphics whore, but I'm going to have to disagree. The Spartan armor looks like plastic in Halo 3; whereas in Halo 1 and Halo 2, it looked like metal.

But to the point, gameplay should be the main priority.


they aren't wearing a metal suit.
They are wearing a suit made of different kinds of fibres, Halo 3 has by far the most realistic suit.

http://eriksmind.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/masterchief.jpg
not only can you tell the definition in the pates it includes a much better looking joint
connection

  • 06.30.2009 8:10 AM PDT

Obviously the graphics should be upgraded. ODST uses the same engine as Halo 3 but you can tell that the graphics are improved. So why shouldn't they improve the graphics? The trend these days is to make everything very realistic looking, and why should bungie skimp out on this?
It's easy to see that Halo 3 was lacking in the graphics department compared to other games out there. It would be easy enough to improve the graphics to very high quality and still keep the same old colorful "Halo" look they've always had.

  • 06.30.2009 8:17 AM PDT

You are an idiot. Progress doesn't necessarily mean good, it can be bad too. Right now, many game designers are sacrificing Gameplay for Graphics, you can look at Halo 3 as an example, or GoW2. Even CoD if you want.

Halo 3 has all these textures, they ruin the gameplay and get in the way of things. Graphics don't matter at all in the realms of 3D. If a good game is 3D, it could have -blam!- graphics. And btw, you're talking Dimensions, not Graphics, that was a 2D poster, not 3D, they play completely differently.

Halo 3 has a -blam!-load of textures. Who enjoys throwing a grenade on Blackout and having the stairs bounce it back into your face? Oh yea. I guess you do, because you so enjoy watching that 'nade blow up.
How 'bout GoW2? I got it because GoW1 sounded like fun, but guess what? The majority of Gears players i know enjoy the first one more. Why? The graphics were worse, they spent more time developing the gameplay, the multiplayer, etc.
Or how about CoD? The majority of the people i know who played it, WORSHIPPED the 2nd one. They said the rest couldn't compare. My friend's even went out and bought it for the 360 after playing CoD4 & CoD5.

Graphics don't matter at all. Some of the most popular games in the world have -blam!- graphics. To name a few; Pokemon, Pac-Man, CounterStrike, Early Final Fantasies.

Go somewhere where your stupidity will be worshipped.

  • 06.30.2009 8:37 AM PDT

Plekpedia - The most epic site in the history of ever.

At least Halo has more then 3 colors.

But yes, I believe Reach will have better graphics, I just hope they're not too realistic.

  • 06.30.2009 8:40 AM PDT

7even is Darker

The one thing they need to do is add dynamic shadows to the environments, that simple feature makes a huge difference on the visuals.

  • 06.30.2009 8:41 AM PDT

7even is Darker

Posted by: FFSalt
You are an idiot. Progress doesn't necessarily mean good, it can be bad too. Right now, many game designers are sacrificing Gameplay for Graphics, you can look at Halo 3 as an example, or GoW2. Even CoD if you want.

Halo 3 has all these textures, they ruin the gameplay and get in the way of things. Graphics don't matter at all in the realms of 3D. If a good game is 3D, it could have -blam!- graphics. And btw, you're talking Dimensions, not Graphics, that was a 2D poster, not 3D, they play completely differently.

Halo 3 has a -blam!-load of textures. Who enjoys throwing a grenade on Blackout and having the stairs bounce it back into your face? Oh yea. I guess you do, because you so enjoy watching that 'nade blow up.
How 'bout GoW2? I got it because GoW1 sounded like fun, but guess what? The majority of Gears players i know enjoy the first one more. Why? The graphics were worse, they spent more time developing the gameplay, the multiplayer, etc.
Or how about CoD? The majority of the people i know who played it, WORSHIPPED the 2nd one. They said the rest couldn't compare. My friend's even went out and bought it for the 360 after playing CoD4 & CoD5.

Graphics don't matter at all. Some of the most popular games in the world have -blam!- graphics. To name a few; Pokemon, Pac-Man, CounterStrike, Early Final Fantasies.

Go somewhere where your stupidity will be worshipped.


(the blackout thing) Those aren't textures, it's called map geometry.

  • 06.30.2009 8:42 AM PDT

Yet they still cause the same problem? Boo hoo? I got a word wrong.

There's still a problem with the map, which reduces gameplay.

  • 06.30.2009 8:47 AM PDT

7even is Darker

Halo 3 still uses the technique of just darkening the textures where a shadow should be over having a dynamic shadow.

Dynamic shadows make a huge difference for things like screenshots or films because the shadows being cast over the character look very cool.

Without Dynamic Shadows.

With Dynamic Shadows.


tried to get the same screens but couldn't.

  • 06.30.2009 8:50 AM PDT

I want Halo: Reach's graphics level to be around the graphics of Killzone 2. Or at least have human characters that don't have square heads.

  • 06.30.2009 8:53 AM PDT

Head's first

I dont want improved graphics, i want kickass graphics. Seriously, Halo is Xbox's flagship title and a flagship product should have kickass everything.

[Edited on 06.30.2009 8:59 AM PDT]

  • 06.30.2009 8:58 AM PDT


I dont want improved graphics, i want kickass graphics. Seriously, Halo is Xbox's flagship title and a flagship product should have kickass everything.

[Edited on 06.30.2009 8:59 AM PDT]

yes.

  • 06.30.2009 9:00 AM PDT

I hope you get lupus

i would be slightly annoyed if the graphics were worse but not very i dont really care about graphics

  • 06.30.2009 11:01 AM PDT

I could really care less if they used the exact same graphix on halo 3 for halo reach, as long as the gameplay is great, it really wont matter to me.

  • 06.30.2009 11:41 AM PDT

Well Let's Do It

Posted by: HalcyonSyzygy
I dont want improved graphics, i want kickass graphics. Seriously, Halo is Xbox's flagship title and a flagship product should have kickass everything.


Agree with HalcyonSyzygy

  • 06.30.2009 1:37 PM PDT

Id like the graphics to be a little less decent then halo CE, as Reach is place before the first halo game, so the graphics should really be less good ;)

  • 06.30.2009 1:37 PM PDT

G-R-A-Y-M-8-8

Pronounced, Gray Em Eighty Eight

Halo:Reach has a new graphics engine, and a senior dev has boasted about how good it looks. You won't be disappointed.

  • 06.30.2009 1:40 PM PDT

Well Let's Do It

how do u know?

  • 06.30.2009 1:43 PM PDT