I don't understand the complaints about H3 graphics

[Hawk]

twesterm said:

Hawk said:

twesterm said:

Hawk said:
Ya know, I got bored with Quake 4 though. It became a chore playing the game. I'd force myself to play so that I could finish it and be done with it. But I finally decided that's stupid, a game is for fun. I traded it in. Does Quake 4 have better graphics. Sure. But Halo sure has gorgeous graphics still. And I'm with DonWii and Androo. Color is so much better! I like the vibrant colors as opposed to dark colors and shadow. And what happened to gameplay being the true factor of a better game?

I completely agree that Halo 3 is the better game, in fact I thought I had said that Quake 4 wasn't that good of a game in one of my above posts. I wasn't comparing gameplay or creatures, I was just showing what interesting walls, floors, and ceilings through clever texture use and shapes can do for a space.

You did say Quake 4 wasn't that great of a game, that is true. And Halo 3 could have been better with the enviorment design, you are right. But it wouldn't make the game anymore fun to me than it is right now.

Now here's where I disagree with you. Think of the feeling you get while you're walking through the outside jungle type of areas in Halo 3. It's awesome right? Why does it feel so good? Because they put a lot of attention into the atmosphere and making that place feel like an actual place. Doing that bring you into the game and just enhances it that much more.

With the inside areas, they did a fine job of giving the player cover areas and things to maneuver around but it doesn't feel like a place. Every place looks exactly the same and you can tell that every object was placed just for cover or tactical advantage and not because it just should be there. This makes the area confusing (since every place looks the same) and feel very unnatural (and not in it's a man-made thing so it should feel unnatural way but in a this place would never exist like this type of way).

When the space you're playing in feels like an actual place, it brings you into the game more and would just enhance the already good gameplay that Halo 3 has even more.

Yeah, we just have different personal tastes. I highly enjoy Halo 3 and the more detailed environment wouldn't make it funner for me.