Halo Infinite Campaign is visually stunning now
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Jez Corden suggested that they were strategising around rather as yet unannounced COD release date. Which makes a lot of sense really.
I wasn't the one who made the initial comparison if you bothered to read the post I quoted.
lol the "sorry to break it to you" with a pic that looks like it came straight from twitter console war accounts isn't helping your cause here
I think it will only look great to Halo fans. Other than that, there will be way more visually interesting games out there when this one comes out.
They still aren't confident enough, since they didn't actually show any campaign gameplay. Surely it'll improve a lot over last year's mess, but I don't think they will be able to marry the old school art direction with modern tech very successfully.
They still aren't confident enough, since they didn't actually show any campaign gameplay. Surely it'll improve a lot over last year's mess, but I don't think they will be able to marry the old school art direction with modern tech very successfully.
I only shared it because somebody asked for it after trying to bring console wars into this thread.
Anyone who doesn't have an agenda honestly can't say that last year's Infinite reveal is somehow comparable to Forbidden West. Graphically Horizon is just miles ahead. Is that pic from your Twitter console wars account?
I wouldn't really use the word stunning, but imo the new Halo footage looks good and much better than the original reveal. I just don't understand why some Xbox fans have the absolute need to make everyone agree that it's somehow the best looking game there is, when clearly it's not. There's already better looking XB1/PS4 games that have similar wide open areas.
Halo hasn't really had the absolute best graphics in the industry in a long, long time and in other areas the more recent releases have been okay at best. Infinite will look better than any Halo game before it, and almost certainly it will also be one of the best Halo games released thus far.
Is that confirmed or just what he was hearing? Not to mention we all know the punchline to that Vanguard outsells and is played by more people than Halo Infinite. Regardless of the quality Vanguard will probably still be the best selling game this holiday.
The delay in announcing a release date is entirely marketing at this point.
Open world and having to run on the base XB1 are the biggest reasons for the visual compromises.I think part of the reason Infinite might seem like it doesn't look as good as previous Halo's is because it is open world. It's actually something of a worry. Halo has always been bout this epic space opera, going to awesome cool locations in various biomes. The art team could really go wild with (pre-baked) lighting, new art, awesome skyboxes, alien foliage.
From what we've seen of "Zeta Halo" we are always in the Halo CE 2nd Level "Pacific Northwest" Biome. The high points don't even look like they have snow. Seems like its only the PNW outside, Forerunner/Banished inside, UNSC inside. That's it.
The engine trailer from 2018 shows some aquatic, beach, desert, grassland, mountain areas.
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But who knows how much of this made the game.
Maybe they are keeping it secret as a surprise.
The game is starting to look good now - perhaps even "great", depending on your perspective and if you remember that they're targeting a high frame rate. Maybe not stunning or best in class - but still pretty good, all things considered.
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0_o Good Lord that looks incredible. Man Halo might be my only MP title now.
I'm thinking the same thing. I was planning to pick up Overwatch 2 but I haven't been happy with Blizzard lately and this honestly looks much better.
Textures and lighting are quite nice now. It's no FH5 (is anything?) but still pretty good.The more I look at Infinite gameplay, the more astonishing it gets:
When have graphics ever made the game fun? Don't get me wrong, the game looks great visually, but the gameplay looks fantastic. I cannot wait to grapple a sniper rifle away from someone in MP.
It looks like a big improvement, I don't think it looks "stunning" but we also barely saw the campaign.
The IQ is insane in those shots. The game needed more time in the oven and I am really glad they decided to delay it. I want Halo to be huge again.
consider they're targeting 4K 60 as the baseline, and going up to 120 for MP, it was never going to be a showstopper. throw in the fact that it needs to scale for last gen support, "average" is good enough.
It looks great for a cross-gen, and top of the class for a mp shooter that needs to run at 60fps.
There is an only a handful of 60fps (non-cartoony) mp shooters that look great. COD, Battlefront, Gears, BFV.
It's hard for me to recall anything else.
There is an only a handful of 60fps (non-cartoony) mp shooters that look great. COD, Battlefront, Gears, BFV.
It's hard for me to recall anything else.
I've played every Halo that has came out and really like the series, that said, I don't know if it's me, but I always wonder whether people are playing a cruel joke I just don't get when they fawn over Halo screenshots, this one even more so.
They look fine, this one looks fine, but I've never, ever, been blown away by the graphics of a Halo game. Artistically they are often great, and that counts for a lot, but the style of the game has just never wowed me.
They look fine, this one looks fine, but I've never, ever, been blown away by the graphics of a Halo game. Artistically they are often great, and that counts for a lot, but the style of the game has just never wowed me.
halo 4 had absolutely top tier graphics when it came out. infinite looks ok
And the only reason Halo 4 got that is the removal/downgrade of other features. It had smaller maps/arenas, worse enemy AI, less physics objects, and really poor framerate with splitscreen and Forge, etc.
A Halo game that wants to expand on its features/gameplay is never going to be a true showstopper.
Yeah this is where I am. I thought it looked good, and a lot better than last year (at least from what you could extract from what they showed) - pop-in seemed to be a non-issue in that pulled back shot and it was drawing in more detail a lot further away, the PBR on the weapons and armor etc. looked muuuuuch better, and everything looked sharp and clean and readable, like you'd want from a Halo game. That shot of the landscape in the distance of the halo and stuff looked great, and I especially loved the look of the Banished base.
But "stunning"? I mean, to the extent that word has a firm definition - nah. It looked really good, which is what I hoped for after the big bowl of "what the fuck?" that was last year, but going for the top shelf superlatives seems a bit overboard.
It looks like it belongs now, which is good and I'll take it at 4K60.
Not enough shown to judge sp yet but it was a big improvement over the last showing. I'm sure it's gonna look really good .
The mp looked really nice to me , especially with it having a 120fps mode
The mp looked really nice to me , especially with it having a 120fps mode
after watching the mp footage it does look loads better. Looks like a proper AAA title now, it's not stunning to my eyes but for how many platforms it's launching on, it's respectable.
still not sure why they're showing 'in engine' cutscenes for the SP unless the cutscenes are pre-rendered?
still not sure why they're showing 'in engine' cutscenes for the SP unless the cutscenes are pre-rendered?
I think it looks pretty good. I wouldn't call it stunning but it's decent. And that's fine. Outside of Halo 1 and 4, I never considered Halo to be the top end of visuals. Infinite just needs to have a great campaign and a fun multiplayer that is regularly updated.
I think it looks as good as it can be given the amount of consoles it has to support and the art-style they've landed on.
Everything in reveals of games these day that isn't actual gameplay is possible/suspect to have been laced with some form of real-time/offline/render fuckery. It has always bern this way since the mid 90s and first generation 3D polygon consoles, and the first competent, capable and well supported PC 3D accelerator cards for gaming (starting with 2nd gen cards like the first Rendition Verite V1000 and more importantly, 3DFX Voodoo 1.
Yeah I'm kinda scratching my head at this thread based on those screenshots.
I think their tech is the biggest limitation (look how good Forza Horizon 5 looks for example, and Horizon Forbidden West. With the right tech, it could look even more amazing, even if multiplat), and perhaps the fact that the game has been in development for like 6 years, the campaign is apparently huge (probably has a ton of art assets that could take years to redo). I honestly hope they move onto Unreal 5 for the next game.
But I honestly think the multiplayer footage looks legitimately great. The campaign cinematics look excellent, and the jury is still out on the campaign visuals. I suspect it will surprise a lot of people once they actually get it in their hands, the same way Assassins Creed Valhalla did last year.
One revelation I had last night. They potentially built the entire world so you can fly anywhere. Imagine being able to literally just hop into a Banshee and fly over the entire Halo ring, that would be a moment of revelation. No more artificial walls and barriers, just like a GTA game. That would be amazing. If they deliver a truly open-world halo game where you can just go and explore the ring anywhere, and they execute it well, they could be onto something special, and that's hopefully where they will truly win people over.
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