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Posted by: CP0 Fraser
Posted by: General Heed
Posted by: CP0 Fraser
Posted by: General Heed
Posted by: Annihilated You
What you still have to remember is that halo 3 can be played by 4 people on the same xbox. The xbox is generating the game 4times that of single player.
COD4 and similar games sometimes look much better because they are created just so 1 or 2 people can play on that xbox. For this they face less limits that those that Halo 3 faces.
What is amazing about Halo 3 other than a million other things is that with the graphics, maps look astounding. The water reflects light and flows majestically.
But when you look at a tree and its leaves from 40 feet away it looks great but as you get closer its actually really basic.
Actually, COD 4 can also be played by 4 people through splitscreen. So it's pretty much the same situation as Halo 3.
4 people rendering an environment and player controlled characters is not the same as having the AI have to be more intelligent and fight multiple enemies when they're used to one, rendering four times the AI on one xbox.
Actually, Halo 3 only allows two players to play co-op on one xbox. Online co-op allows 4 players but otherwise you're only limited to 2 people per system for campaign.
Thats wasn't the point, I never stated that, I used 4 because we were using that number alot, as an example,
My point still stands,
Well I never actually disagreed with you that Halo 3 still has pretty amazing graphics. I was just stating the facts and offering a comparison.
Anyways, I have a thought. What if, instead of releasing Halo: Reach on the 360, Microsoft runs the game on some of their own super computers and then streams the game to Xbox Live users? Because they're using super computers, they could make the real-time graphics in Reach comparable if not better than pre-rendered graphics. I know this idea probably won't happen for Microsoft. But it's not really that far fetched.
There's a new console/online gaming service coming out called "On Live". Instead of buying the games on disc or downloading the games, you play the games live by having them streamed to you via internet. As long as your computer can play HD media and has a bandwidth capable of streaming HD media, then you can play the "On Live" games at full quality without needing a high end graphics card. And since we all know the Xbox 360 can handle streaming HD media, then the same could be applied for streaming HD gaming.
That would justify paying 50 dollars a year for Xbox Live. I would definitely pay those 50 bucks if all future games were streamed to my 360 from super computers that could make the graphics of the games look way better than pre-rendered graphics if not close to real life.