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Forums - Microsoft - First "I Wet My Pants" Screenshot of Halo 3 Campaign

rocketpig on 05 July 2007
ckmlb said:

Wanna bet Halo 3 will look nothing near as good as Gears of War?


Of course it won't, Halo environments are too wide-open to display the same quality as the narrow, closed up environments of Gears.

But I think many of you are seriously underestimating Bungie. Remember that these guys take pride in top-notch graphics. This game may not look quite as good as Gears, but it will be close. 




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omgwtfbbq on 05 July 2007
RedToof said:

I think its fairly obvious that Bungie intentionally 'dumbed down' the graphics for the beta. Probably for two reasons:

  1. Needed to be a reasonably sized download, and a full set of textures would have made download too big.
  2. To keep some 'wow' factor for the game's release.

 

too many people seem to think of "beta" as an "advertisement" rather than what a beta actually is, a near-finished test product released to a group of people so they can iron out any bugs/balance features that exist. It is NOT a demo, it is a beta, which is a completely different animal. The reason that they didn't use the graphics of Halo 3 were quite simple, they were completely irrelevant to the task of a beta.

People bashing the Halo 3 beta graphics have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

 



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omgwtfbbq on 05 July 2007
Cobretti said:
the game will not look as good as that screen shot.

I see no reason why they would of daulled down the beta SO MUCH just cause they were thinking of the people and the download size. If people are die hard fans they will download any size to play it.

Jus tlook at the matrix onlien game. The first fix patch was over 1gb big, and loads of peopel got it. It was just a fix patch not even the game.
see my previous post. It was a BETA, not a demo.

 



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ckmlb on 06 July 2007
Dolla Dolla said:
ckmlb said:

Wanna bet Halo 3 will look nothing near as good as Gears of War?


The problem with a bet like this is ... who gets the final say that it looks better or not as good? And, if the in-game models are as detailed as the above picture, would you consider it better looking than Gears?


 I don't think this screenshot will be representative, but even if it is I still think Gears looks better. Just wait for UT 3 that's gonna be even better. Jaws will drop lol



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Dolla Dolla on 06 July 2007

Ah ... see, if this was representative of Halo 3 as a whole, I would say it looks better than Gears.

We'll need to make a bet on something more concrete, haha.



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Darkjor on 06 July 2007

I dont like that screenshot, the master chiefs armor and the rifle seems to be made of plastic. Based on that screenshot, it doesnt look better than Gears, but its definitely an improvement from the beta.



 

 

OriGin on 06 July 2007

OMG HES ON EARTH!!!



Bodhesatva on 06 July 2007
ckmlb said:
shams said:

Look at the full (780p?) version of the screenshot on the forum. The 360 can easily do those gfx in-game for characters. Easily. The shot in this thread looks overly nice, because it has been downsampled to half resolution.

I think if anyone is expecting LESS from Halo3, they are kidding themselves. This is a full YEAR after Gears of Wars remember ;)


Wanna bet Halo 3 will look nothing near as good as Gears of War?


 I'll take that bet. 



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superchunk on 06 July 2007

looks nice. Can't wait for E3 to see the real thing in play.



Dolla Dolla on 06 July 2007

Turns out, the screenshot up top is actually the second one of the campaign.

Here is the first:



Threads of Interest:
The Movie Thread: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=6880
The Crow Eating Thread: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=3886
The Betting Thread: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=7104
Custom GIFs Thread: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=18963
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