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Halo Infinite 4k/60 Gameplay Demo

dabri

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MaulerX said:
The game looks amazing. It's just so clean and buttery smooth. But most importantly the game looks fun.

Some people wanted better graphics over 60fps and open world'ness. That fine. But there's so much hyperbole going around. LOL. Looks worse than Halo 3, Halo's ME Andromeda etc.... Pretty hilarious actually.
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It is a bit jarring the difference between the cinematic graphics style and the open world section. It doesn't look like the same art direction. One looks very stylized realistic while the other looks flat and almost cartoonish.
I don't mind one or the other but they should stick with one for all cases.
I will say the gameplay section looks like it's straight up missing effects. It just looks so flat and evenly lighted.
 
Coolduderedux

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OP should put this trailer up. It's a separate gameplay trailer that shows a lot of the same footage but some new stuff.

 
WordsintheWater

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Woiwode said:
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People are hyprocrits. Everybody pretends they only care about performance and graphics don't matter. But suddenly everybody is crying if the games turn out like this
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That says 30-60 FPS stable, not sure what you're getting at? Most would like a smooth running game that's not a shock. I would take this game at 30 FPS and for it to look way better than it does. I also didn't expect to sacrifice this much on the graphics side on a 12tflops console.
 

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I'm a huge fan of the Bungie Halo games and I think the game looks great. I kinda hate how all the discussion around most reveals is only about graphics now. I suppose it should be expected during new console launches.
 
canderous

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If they turned on the SSAO and made adjustments to lighting it could make a big difference. The style of the game is flat, but they can still improve it while keeping the style.

I'm cheering for them to make some improvements in the final ~4 months of polish.

Graphics aside, the gameplay looks like pure Halo and ridiculously fun. Sooooooooooooooo much focus on the graphics.
 
Braag

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The game doesn't look bad... the visual style is just incredibly dull. Like everything and everyone looks like it's made of plastic.
 
fourfourfun

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Looks like Halo, nice big open playground to have fun in. Really surprised to see all that detail pop in though. Really took me back to Halo 2 there!
 
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Mr Moot said:
343i says that the gameplay demo we saw ran on a pc and is alike what to expect on Xbox Series X.

www.xboxygen.com

La démo Halo Infinite tournait sur PC et elle est « représentative » de la version Xbox Series X

Halo Infinite s'est montré aujourd'hui avec les toutes premières phases de gameplay. 343 Industries a ainsi levé le voile sur les ambitions de ce nouvel opus qui, (...)
www.xboxygen.com www.xboxygen.com
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They don't even have it running on XSX well enough to be shown yet? Yikes.
 
LordofPwn

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gameplay looks fun, just doesn't look like a next gen game. interested to see how it looks on a One S cause if i can get that gameplay at lie 900p i probably dont need to upgrade to a series X.
 
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Bulby said:
The artistic design for the Banished base/equipment is super weird. It just looks human. Reminds me of Mass Effect 2. Its super bland.
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To be fair, that is what the Banished are all about. They scavenge and make makeshift equipment. Atriox famously has human ODST armor as part of his armor plates. It's why they have additional metals on top of old covy vehicles.
 
WordsintheWater

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Baconmonk said:
I'm a huge fan of the Bungie Halo games and I think the game looks great. I kinda hate how all the discussion around most reveals is only about graphics now. I suppose it should be expected during new console launches.
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It's definitely because it's a new console launch, they also didn't do a particularly good job with the gameplay aspect, I wanted to see more grapple hook, and there's even a trailer with some shock grenade that looked sweet that they didn't show off here.
 
Fantastical

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I think it's a very bad idea to show off an open world game and focus on one small part of the world. Let's see some different environments in this vast world.
 
SRTtoZ

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Anyone know what this was played on? Would have been nice if they showed it running on the Xbox One X.
 
JDHarbs

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Gestault said:
Considering how they basically just ran through a demo chunk of the game without any special treatment, these visuals aren't exactly bumming me out.
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Up close during cutscenes it looks fantastic. I still believe the reason the open world looks so rough is they were aiming for ray tracing and had to simplify all of the materials and textures for it to hit performance standards. Without ray tracing like we see in the demo, it looks rough.
 
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Alastor X said:
Wow, I didn't even hear about this. Unbelievable.
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It "worked", it was actually functional unlike launch MCC. But each game had its own problems. Sound and framerate with Reach, hit detection with CE, a glitch where you could shoot the ground and kill players in Halo 2...various audio and visual bugs. Forge didn't get added until just recently. Just very, very sloppy.
 
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jviggy43 said:
Huh guess I just wasn't aware that this was a common practice.
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I don't think it's common, the public test server concept seems more common for sure, but it's not entirely unheard of. With Sea of Thieves... I don't really know too much about the programme as it is post-launch but pre-launch it suffered from being a group of people that were all massive fans of Rare/Sea of Thieves to the point that they struggled to give constructive criticism. Clearly Sea of Thieves has improved a lot (in most areas) so they must be doing something right.
 
Veelk

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I just got up and watched the trailer. I thought it looked good. Well, the guns looks strangely low res and the brute character model was a bit of a woof, but the environment was pretty and I liked the animations and just being back in the halo aesthetic, so I was pleased.

Let me go see how the rest of era appreciates the trail-

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It's just.. inconsistent.

There are still images of this game that look really good, and others that look.. really, really bad. You can easily find screen grabs that support your argument whether you think this looks great or like hot shit.

I'm not blown away but I generally favour stylised visuals. I am looking forward to seeing it at 21:9 and 1440p.
 

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In may end up great in the end but heck that there are already countless hilarious memes on this reveal tells you all about how it went, so disappointing
 
Sec0nd

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I think some of the graphics criticism is unfair. Such as the picture of a detailed gun from 5 next to one from Infinite. With Infinite, they are definitely going for another art style. One that is more reminiscent of H1/2/3 which was a bit more cartoony. Granted that was more due to hardware limitation than that it was a deliberate artistic choice.

With Reach onwards, the games went in a more graphically detailed direction which leaned more into realism, which never quite suited the Halo franchise in my opinion. It made everything extremely over-designed and cluttered. Especially if you look at the character design for multiplayer skins, the guns, and the maps themselves. And that cluttered map design also started to have a negative impact on the gameplay with all the unnecessary nooks and crannies you could get your grenades stuck in.

So in that sense, I'm extremely happy with the more simplistic art direction. But as I want to be wowed by next-gen consoles this is just isn't the game and in that sense ridiculously disappointing.
 
coldsagging

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I've been out of the Halo loop (ha) since 4, what happened to the enemies that were in 4? They not in this?

Not that I'd miss them they weren't fun to fight at all on higher difficulties.
 
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Mr Moot said:
343i says that the gameplay demo we saw ran on a pc and is alike what to expect on Xbox Series X.

www.xboxygen.com

La démo Halo Infinite tournait sur PC et elle est « représentative » de la version Xbox Series X

Halo Infinite s'est montré aujourd'hui avec les toutes premières phases de gameplay. 343 Industries a ainsi levé le voile sur les ambitions de ce nouvel opus qui, (...)
www.xboxygen.com www.xboxygen.com
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how reliable is this? i honestly tought it was running on a Xbox One. lame.
 
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Baconmonk said:
I'm a huge fan of the Bungie Halo games and I think the game looks great. I kinda hate how all the discussion around most reveals is only about graphics now. I suppose it should be expected during new console launches.
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They didn't show off enough to draw attention away from the graphics. If Halo is going open world, show more of what can be done in the game. They showed a super basic overview of a battle or two that we've seen a million times before in Halo reveals. Thats the biggest disappointment to me personally, but I'm sure we'll see a lot more soon.
 
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