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Subject: Anyone else think the H2V screenshots look really bad?

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2Vista/gallery.aspx?gallery=S creenshots&page=1

I'm sorry, but these shots look really bad IMO. There doesn't seem to be any anti-aliasing used at all, but in any case the pics look really awful. The first screenshots for H2 on the Xbox looked far superior to these (even though actual gameplay didn't look as good). It worries me because these caps ARE actual gameplay shots, and they look really outdated. To my eyes they hardly look better than Halo PC screenshots...

[Edited on 8/29/2006]

  • 08.29.2006 11:42 AM PDT
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Umm...Looks like halo2. The lighting and explosions and stuff look a lot better. Thats abou all I can see though. And the res.

  • 08.29.2006 11:45 AM PDT
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Well duh. The game is still in development. Its going to look bad until the game is completely finished.

  • 08.29.2006 11:45 AM PDT
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Releasing these shots was a mistake.

Frankly, what is up there looks like ass, especially when viewed full-screen. Bungie should have waited a month or two, so that more graphical augumentations could have been added. In one of the shots, the texture for the Elite's head and neck is missing, and the texture on the flag appears to be a placeholder, among other things.

  • 08.29.2006 12:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Armageddon91
Well duh. The game is still in development. Its going to look bad until the game is completely finished.


QFT. Among other things, the flag, elite, and walls are only partially textured, and the font for text is blocky and generally crappified. Still, it keeps the public interested...

  • 08.29.2006 12:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChAiRMaNWoW
Posted by: Armageddon91
Well duh. The game is still in development. Its going to look bad until the game is completely finished.


QFT. Among other things, the flag, elite, and walls are only partially textured, and the font for text is blocky and generally crappified. Still, it keeps the public interested...


In that aspect, it backfired, at least for me. Even though I know these are shots of an unfinished build, it still reduced my excitement just a little bit.

Reminding myself that we will finally be able to make content for H2 warms my heart, however.

  • 08.29.2006 12:17 PM PDT
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Yes, I agree. These new H2V screenshots sucks so much...um, they suck so much, I can't even find good words to make fun of them with.

I mean seriously, as Franksbns said, they look worse that Halo2Xbox. The screenshots looks like something out of a 16-bit (but 3-D) Atari game. The Master Chief's looks like they have worn series of boxes instead of a MK VI armor. WTF?

  • 08.29.2006 12:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Take a look at the Halo2 Xbox screenshots and compare. What a freakin joke. Bungie should be embarrassed.

http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2/Gallery.aspx?Gallery=Screen shots&page=3

  • 08.29.2006 12:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Take a look at the Halo2 Xbox screenshots and compare. What a freakin joke. Bungie should be embarrassed.

http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2/Gallery.aspx?Gallery=Screen shots&page=3


They have no reason to be embarrassed. They just made a mistake in judgement and released screens before they were ready to be released.

Ironically, the exact same thing happened with H2 Xbox...

  • 08.29.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ad Hominum
They have no reason to be embarrassed. They just made a mistake in judgement and released screens before they were ready to be released.

Ironically, the exact same thing happened with H2 Xbox...

Yes, but on H2 Xbox, people didn't already know how it should look, so they wern't dissapointed. Now, we know how H2V ought to look, and when it doesn't, we get pissed. Give them some time, people!

  • 08.29.2006 1:45 PM PDT

The shots are outdated...see the video of gameplay, and even though it's very low res, it still shows the graphic improvments of H2V over the xbox version.

  • 08.29.2006 1:46 PM PDT
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So far, the most noticeable gaphical upgrade is the weapon shaders. I really like the shiny weapons. :)

However :

1) However, the textures are quite bleary and I would really appreciate sharper textures.

2) The explosions for the HE (human) grenades look a bit dates. I would appreciate it if they looked more flashy.

3) Similarly, I would like to see updated explosions on vehicles, preferably something like this
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/165/reviews/928456_200 60615_screen002.jpg

4) I would like to see the weapon effects (muzzle flashes and weapon trails) updated, with the glow effectsd on covenant weapons made softer. Maybe something along the lines of this :
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2004/news/03/19/earth2160/e arth2160_screen005.jpg

5) Like everyone else, I would really like to see anti aliasing.

  • 08.29.2006 6:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Anyone else think the H2V screenshots look really bad?

I do.

  • 08.30.2006 1:24 AM PDT