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[Rangers]

Why didn't you link your images so people can see them in full-resolution?

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/734/734817/img_4911331.html

It looks quite bad when you see it in full-resolution.

Looks good to me.

Are we really going to engage in screenshot wars here? Lets see, you can go scour the world for the worst looking Halo 3 screens, and I can find good ones, sounds like great fun, sigh.

People shouldn't even use screens when discussing graphics imo. Why are you afraid of videos? They tell the true tale much better, for better or worse, imo. Screens are so apt to manipulation.

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Bungie certainly could've spent even more time and money on some parts of the game, like character models/textures. But the general art style of the game doesn't leave too much room there, and more importantly, it still looks as good as most games out there. Not every single AAA title has to be a Gears, KZ2 or (in terms of characters) Mass Effect.

 

[RobertR1]

Just watch the gametrailers review and then comment on graphics, please.

Hell no, it's waaaay more fun to pick spots! like zooming into certain places on Gears and using it to discredit the rest of the game. If you want an A in trolling and hating, you really have to go the extra mile.

 

[iceberg187]

No it doesn't. It doesn't look like the best graphics ever, but considering the scope of what's going on it looks very good. I think there is a very limited number of games out that you can name that look better with anywhere near as much going on.

He's going on with this campaign on other sites. Please don't feed trollers

 

[Laa-Yosh]

I think there is nothing wrong with questioning a 10 rating, as it is extremely high praise. You're overreacting more than Sony crowd is I think.

The game isn't even out yet, but they're already sure that high scores are undeserved.
And sorry for making the obvious connection between two Sony exclusives falling short of expectations and people venting off their frustration on a competing platform's flagship title.

 

[Arwin]

Arwin,

Why should they change the formula? It would be like if the HL series got away from the physics puzzle and threw in magic! people wouldn't be happy. Sticking with the forumla that got you there isn't a bad thing. So executing well on the existing formula is an improvement.

I didn't say anything like that, and neither did Eurogamer, who rated the game 10/10. So what's your problem, exactly?

 

[wowfactor]

Looks good to me.

Are we really going to engage in screenshot wars here? Lets see, you can go scour the world for the worst looking Halo 3 screens, and I can find good ones, sounds like great fun, sigh.

People shouldn't even use screens when discussing graphics imo. Why are you afraid of videos? They tell the true tale much better, for better or worse, imo. Screens are so apt to manipulation.

That pic was said to be great by Rangers. I can't fault me on that.

What kindof manipulation are you talking about? I don't get it. The graphics are out there, available on all mainstream gamesites and they all look the same.

 

[aselto]

Bungie certainly could've spent even more time and money on some parts of the game, like character models/textures. But the general art style of the game doesn't leave too much room there, and more importantly, it still looks as good as most games out there. Not every single AAA title has to be a Gears, KZ2 or (in terms of characters) Mass Effect.

I think Halo 3 does look better than ME and Gears overall though (comparisons with Killzone 2 are the last thing I want ) + with free-roaming replay camera that can go really high in the air (+freezing and slow motion) they could do much less smoke and mirrors tricks than other devs.

 

[Rangers]

As for reviews, again this seems to be a Euro centric site, but the two American biggies are IGN and Gamespot. Frankly, I thought Halo 3 scored lower than I expected, with 9.5's from both. I awoke today half expecting 9.7's or 9.8's. Heck Bioshock and several PS2 games have scored higher than 9.5's from IGN.

9.5 is slightly more impressive at Gamespot, as they grade harder usually.

Do I really expect Halo 3, with it's near limitless replay, Forge, ability to save all gameplay footage including campaign, 4 player co-op, a co-op competitive scoring system, to be less entertaining than Bioshock that scored higher at IGN? Hell no.

Anyways, the problem with "10's" is sites that use a integer system. IGN and Gamespot dont have the "problem" of 10 scoring games.

 

[aselto]

Heck Bioshock and several PS2 games have scored higher than 9.5's from IGN.

Jade Empire got 9.9 from IGN

Anyways, the problem with "10's" is sites that use a integer system. IGN and Gamespot dont have the "problem" of 10 scoring games.

Gamespot now is using .5 only system BTW.

Though campaign mod is really for me only to "finish the fight" in 10 hours, then play it with my friends in online coop mode to have some chatter (and to be able to beat it on Legendary ), but I think the real fun will begin once I'll start to play competetive multiplayer...

 

[Falkster]

Why didn't you link your images so people can see them in full-resolution?

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/734/734817/img_4911331.html

It looks quite bad when you see it in full-resolution.

Looks pretty good to me! Logon to your xbox and check out the vids on the marketplace to see how good the game looks in motion. Scope considered, it goes beyond my hopes.

 

[Cyan]

YEAH! OMG! WTF!!!! Pre-order cancelled!

ROFL

This is a happy night people.... There are millions of fans excited all over the world today that will be reviving the heroic deeds of Spartan John-117, who's the last of his species, again and Halo 3 will go down in history soon.

Plz, stop the comparisons -at least today-. Thx

 

[Acert93]

Quite a lot of the reviews I read....sorry if I've been misinformed. Perhaps I'll change the linguistics to "not that impressive" ? From screenshots and videos i've seen as well, in comparison to other games...the bar is rising all the time.

Want to link to those reviews with quotes? What I am reading is generally: One of the best 360 games out there.

this is beyond3d thus my comment on halos graphics (or lack of) is apt

Sure it is. So now go back to my criticism of your comment and demonstrate how I was wrong in pointing out how it is more than Halo 2 HD with hirez textures. I listed a number of elements that go beyond Halo 2 graphic techniques and fidelity. There is even a nice video showing off just some of the basics (as later Halo 3 levels look much better in a number of places):

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25482.html

 

[RobertR1]

ROFL

This is a happy night people.... There are millions of fans excited all over the world today that will be reviving the heroic deeds of Spartan John-117, who's the last of his species, again and Halo 3 will go down in history soon.

Plz, stop the comparisons -at least today-. Thx

Let them have their fun. A couple of days from now, millions of people will be playing this game while they'll keep on finding ways to downplay and hate on the game.

In the end, their noise isn't going to change minds or have an impact, it just re inforces their own beliefs and makes them feel better about their stance.

Laa-Yosh made reference to SDF earlier. No need to check their site. Watch this thread for a bit

 

[liolio]

the game seems to live up its hype, I guess MS has it system seller at least for US.

 

[deepbrown]

Want to link to those reviews with quotes? What I am reading is generally: One of the best 360 games out there.

Average/not that impressive graphics. I wasn't talking about the game as a whole!

 

[deepbrown]

Let them have their fun. A couple of days from now, millions of people will be playing this game while they'll keep on finding ways to downplay and hate on the game.

In the end, their noise isn't going to change minds or have an impact, it just re inforces their own beliefs and makes them feel better about their stance.

Laa-Yosh made reference to SDF earlier. No need to check their site. Watch this thread for a bit

I think this is a shame...questioning something of this sort is natural, and advisable. You don't want a lot of nodders. It is often very profitable to have two strongly opposing sides to reach a solid conclusion. As long as both are OPEN to questioning and criticism.

Not sure if you were talking about me...hope not. Note, nowhere have I said it looks like an Xbox game - that's just silly.

 

[liolio]

I remember that when I was young a lot of magasins gave rank in graphics, animation etc.
Now in a lot of sites graphic rank seems also to stand for technical merit.

Anyway this game looks beautiful, scale, sharpness, lightning, smoothnes, etc bungie delivered that's it

 

[TrungGap]

Is halo 3 graphic average? Yeah, it's average. It average for it type of game it is. It's average in comparison is Gears, CoD4 and KZ2 (oops, did i cross that tabooed line)...yeah...it's average...it didn't beat out KZ2, just matching.

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

Define "content".

The harder difficulty requires you to actually think and plan out an attack strategy, rather than just going in guns blazing.

You can't define FPS "content" by basically doing a "fly-by" of the single campaign in god-mode. You get satisfaction by getting "stuck" at points, and then working out a strategy you haven't needed to use before in order to progress.

Content as in more levels to walk/fight true.

Also, i don't get the people bitching about how games should "never score a ten". If you're not using the full range of your scoring system, then WTF is the point? If you never give 10s out, even for the very best games available, you've got a practical scoring range of 1-9, not 1-10. And then you might as well get rid of the 10 rating anyway, as you're never going to use it, and then you've got 9 as your 'perfect' score and you have the same problem again.

Because to me a 10 means it perfect. In school you could only score a 10 if you had everything right, even if you made one mistake you'd get a 10-, 9,9 or whatever. But only a 10 if everything was right. The fact is that Halo3 isnt perfect just as I think there wont every be a game that is perfect so it shouldnt get a 10 but a 9,9 if you think its the best thing.