Halo: Reach Discussion

[ejburke]

I would suggest you modify your assumption that I'm just completely off in my own world about the events of the games and try to find out where YOU may have gone wrong in understanding what I was saying. For example, if I refer to Delta Halo firing, and it didn't happen in Halo 2, then you may have rightly concluded that I was talking about the original galaxy purge 100,000 years ago. But you didn't reach (see? I'm bring it back to Reach) that conclusion; you decided that I must not have played the games.

[itszutak]

Jesus christ, you're debating the plot of a game geared (as Halo's marketing has led me to believe) primarily at the mountain-dew fueled high-school (and earlier) crowd. While the original game had a lot of promise, I think that the plot simply isn't as in-depth as many here would like it to be.

At this point I'd rather make up my own story than read the books or comics or whatever else comes up. Halo 2 was a big dissapointment, and Halo 3 was doing the best it could with what it was given (IE, halo 2), but the problem is that every writer had a different idea of the direction Halo should go in, and they all compromised.

[p0lar_bear]

The whole thing with firing Halo in H3 was because the flood known to be released, as well as the Gravemind, were all on the Ark and on the Halo. The plan was to light the ring and hop back into the portal. Anything that could have spread the Flood on the ring/ark would have been destroyed, so infection contained. The ring's destruction was just a side effect.

[t3h m00kz]

a game geared (as Halo's marketing has led me to believe) primarily at the mountain-dew fueled high-school (and earlier) crowd.

yes.

I bet one out of every one hundred people who have played Halo 3 actually took the time to read the terminals.

[Hotrod]

I bet one out of every one hundred people who have played Halo 3 actually took the time to read the terminals.

Which is quite a shame, since the terminals were one of the most fascinating part of Halo 3's story.

[Siliconmaster]

Which is quite a shame, since the terminals were one of the most fascinating part of Halo 3's story.

Agreed. I really enjoyed reading those, though I did it on HBO instead of ingame- easier and more organized.

[BobtheGreatII]

I had a hard time reading them on my TV, so I had to go to Halo Wiki to read them. lol.

[PlasbianX]

Honestly I don't think the movie was "real time." They're probably doing what they did with the Halo 3 "This is the way the world ends" trailer. Cramming as much detail as possible in. I mean hell they did that with the Halo 2 E32003 show too, the Halo 2 engine was shown to have real-time self-shadowing and all sorts of fancy shit that didn't make it into the final game.

I wouldn't be surprised if they have some sort of software to render it at a higher resolution within the game engine. I mean, they have that feature for screenshots, I'm sure the devs would be able to do something similar with the movies. Like, a series of high-res screenshots being rendered into a movie. It gives them a chance to show people what the engine is like.

It's definitely the game engine, but does that mean it's not "pre-rendered"?

Hi.

Q: Awesome, so this is what the final game will look like?

A: This trailer absolutely represents our visual bar for the final game and is near identical to what you’ll see next Fall. The single biggest difference between this trailer and the final game will be the extra generous amount of anti-aliasing (the smoothing of “jaggies” or edges of pixels) present in what you’re watching right now but rest assured that Reach will be significantly improved in this department compared to Halo 3. (The extreme “AA” in the trailer was due to the “frame dump” mentioned above.)

Suffice it to say we’re really excited about the technological and artistic advancements we’re making with Reach and you’ll see more from the campaign in just a few weeks.

[SiriusTexra]

I thought we were talking about Halo, a Sci-fi game not realife events? if your so interested in real life events look up the copenhagen conference.

So. Many. Levels.

That made my christmas, thank you





Also, Halo 2 Vista will be an awesome. We should totally make a website.

[FRain]

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awesome on so many levels