"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

[Zeph]

Say as you want, the Halo 2 cliffhanger from a horrible dev cycle at least gave a proper sense of adventure leading up to the next game. Halo 3 finished things properly, but at least gave you enough questions amidst the closure to keep thinking. ODST expanded what we knew while still giving us more questions to think about. Reach was tightly packaged as a finished piece when you look at it from an action perspective, but visually there were plenty of things to keep you wondering how deep the rabbit hole went (dead spartans in last mission for example).

I was worried there for a bit that there'd be some sort of stupid cliffhanger or something leading up to Halo 5 for rabid fanboys to drool over and continue to talk about how awesome 343i is. Can't say I'm a fan of introspective character development in video games. That shit is usually left to books for a reason. Yeah, they dumbed it down to MC looking out a window, but they're going to catapult with it in Halo 5. 343 weren't kidding when they said they wanted a story with the chief and not a story where the chief is in it. Seems like it's a linear first person mass effect to me. As for the "boss fight" there, I think it's funny that the big scary boss snuck up on the MC by floating down when the MC has a motion tracker that would be able to detect that. 343i is retconning old stable lore while ignoring the shit they keep and make use of. This is probably the worst case of, "hurry [player character], we've got to [go push that button to save the day]," syndrome I've ever seen.

[DarkHalo003]

Yep, halo 4 using pre-rendered cinematics =

Weren't Halo3's cinematics pre-rendered?

[BobtheGreatII]

Weren't Halo3's cinematics pre-rendered?

No. Bungie never used pre-rendered cinematics.

[annihilation]

343i what the fuck are you doing to MC

Also, RAGE had a better ending

[Amit]

Despicable

[DarkHalo003]

No. Bungie never used pre-rendered cinematics.

Huh. What exactly is pre-rendered?

[Siliconmaster]

Bungie's games used matte paintings and visual cheats to make huge environments like the space battle above the Ark and the shots of the Chief's pelican flying over the burning plains after the Cortana level. A pre-rendered cutscene would be like the stuff in Halo Wars, where it's all CG and not done in real time, but rather in a 3d engine. It's a video playing, rather than a true cutscene. The upside is that they can theoretically do effects that rival the ones in the engine, but at this point there's really no excuse for that since game engines are really damned good looking. Personally I prefer in-game cutscenes because they keep the flow the same. The pre-rendered cutscene at the end of Crysis 2 bugged the hell out of me because my graphics settings were actually better than the ones they rendered their cutscene at, so it looked washed out and low res, defeating the entire purpose.

[=sw=warlord]

Huh. What exactly is pre-rendered?

Pre-rendered is video that has been rendered previous and not shown as it is rendered ingame.
CGI in movies is pre-rendered, cutscenes in Halo CE through to Halo 3 were rendered on the fly by the xbox.


/ninja'd

[Siliconmaster]

Haha sorry warlord

[Higuy]

TLR Halo 4: