Inquisitive_Idiot
Regular
Everything looks amazing, from the animation in both the gameplay (assassinations look awesome) to the cinematics, as well as the ingame graphics and lighting. This is a massive improvement over Halo 3/ODST.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Love their environment art though, amazing as always
Aye, I'm VERY impressed with the world geometry and detail in this shot. Especially looking at the natural walls of the canyon. It's not just a highly detailed texture, but a detailed texture in combination with detailed geometry.
Too far away from the rest of the scene to get a good impression on those, but Reach is obviously a generational leap over Halo 3.
And judging by impressions of people that got to see the realtime flyby of the level, it's even more impressive in person.
This may well be the first Halo where not only the gameplay impresses me, but the graphics might actually impress me.
Regards,
SB
That's a concept painting...
Okkay, the viddoc is very promising. That battle scene in the editor looked quite epic, just as all those Warthogs with air cover and lotsa marines driving somewhere in the untextured cinematic.
Could we make any guesses about the res based on the viddoc or is there too much compression? In-engine scenes definitely had aliasing, but I can't tell at a first glance if it's 720p native or upscaled...
Okkay, the viddoc is very promising. That battle scene in the editor looked quite epic, just as all those Warthogs with air cover and lotsa marines driving somewhere in the untextured cinematic.
Could we make any guesses about the res based on the viddoc or is there too much compression? In-engine scenes definitely had aliasing, but I can't tell at a first glance if it's 720p native or upscaled...
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Silent_Buddha
Legend
Bah, ruin my fun. Well at least the concept painting looks good.
[EDIT] - Just saw the vidoc. Amazing. Confirmation of things we basically already knew. The engine was gutted and mostly rewritten for X360. Up to 4x more poly's per character (including weapon I'm assuming) in addition to more characters on screen (and in view) at any given moment.
Watching the simulated mass fight was very impressive even if it was with untextured assets. Skybox looks very cool. Environments look absolutely huge in some of the brief shots. Only recent game I can think of with the same sense of scale is Crysis on PC. Every other game on console seems absolutely tiny in comparison (although I never played GTA IV). This is within the constraints of any given "level" or "section" within the game. And even then, even Crysis didn't feature as many enemies on the screen at any given time...
My impressions so far. In any given small area, say 100 yards x 100 yards, it's not going to fare favorably with other top tier graphics games. However, as a whole in any given "level" there's going to be far more assets and far more things going on.
Regards,
SB
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ShadowRunner
Veteran
Cant see it yet as im at work, cant wait though!
Glad they show the large scale battles in this, that was my main problem with the pics they were not showing off the most impressive thing about the game. Scale does make a big difference, its the reason i think Just Cause was one of the most impressive looking games ive seen.
Im looking forward to seeing the new animation, its one of the main areas that needed improvement and sounds like thats exactly what they have done.
Glad they show the large scale battles in this, that was my main problem with the pics they were not showing off the most impressive thing about the game. Scale does make a big difference, its the reason i think Just Cause was one of the most impressive looking games ive seen.
Im looking forward to seeing the new animation, its one of the main areas that needed improvement and sounds like thats exactly what they have done.
My jaw is on the floor! Absolutely incredible visuals. And this in pre-alpha, with a game designed around sandbox play and 30 enemies at once!
I never would have thought I'd say this, but bravo bungie, bravo.
I almost think this might be a bigger visual leap than 2 to 3
Cant wait for people to come in and declare how "average" it is
With these visuals, and the Halo name, the sales potential of this one is off the charts. Remember how Halo 3's attach rate was in the 50's, while no other gen this game has even hit above mid-30's, including MW1/2.
I never would have thought I'd say this, but bravo bungie, bravo.
I almost think this might be a bigger visual leap than 2 to 3
Cant wait for people to come in and declare how "average" it is
With these visuals, and the Halo name, the sales potential of this one is off the charts. Remember how Halo 3's attach rate was in the 50's, while no other gen this game has even hit above mid-30's, including MW1/2.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
They only show a mock-up briefly. And with untextured assets. But I still found it impressive even in it's obviously unfinished state.
Add in texturing, world assets, that new impressive particle collision system with sparks flying everywhere, more rockets, and I'm just drooling thinking about the carnage.
Regards,
SB
dragonelite
Veteran
Jaw on ground
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Inquisitive_Idiot
Regular
The new animations are really impressive, and bring a whole new level of character to the game. Even the basic improvements to the walking animation of the Elites gives them a whole new sense of character, and really personifies there alien origins. Its amazing looking back at Halo 3, seeing as it had some of the most lifeless and dull animations for an FPS this generation, and then compare that with the total 180 that is Halo Reach. Bungie sure looks to have done their homework on this one, and I for one cannot wait for the Beta in May!
RenegadeRocks
Legend
Thats a really nice shot ! Not seen the other new shots, but this seems much better than the previously shown shots. Technically these shots are rhru the roof compared to ODST, but artistically the previously revealed shots felt haywire, but this one is really good. Art is comimg together too now. Great!
Waiting for the vidoc to download.
A Halo game that feels like Halo CE & plays like new ? 
I am literally blown away ! I hope Object Motion Blur,Dynamic DOF,SSAO & some sort of GI implementation makes it into the game .
P.S.[I just imagined all this with 720p 2*MSAA & good amount of texture filtering.....My head explodes !!]
I am literally blown away ! I hope Object Motion Blur,Dynamic DOF,SSAO & some sort of GI implementation makes it into the game
. P.S.[I just imagined all this with 720p 2*MSAA & good amount of texture filtering.....My head explodes !!
]
