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Halo 4 - Media blow out
- Thread starter Hypertrooper
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Shake Appeal
Member
Yup. Not much else for Jackals to do during the long, cold nights of interstellar travel.
Future PhaZe
Member
Somebody goin get this work thats pretty much all I know about H4 at this point.
shinobi602
Member
Welp, they look like proper Velociraptors now.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Vire
Member
Poker Face
Member
Yea all the ADS, .20 second kill time, and helicopters flying around the map. What the hell 343
Any spoilers?
thisisnotdanny
Banned
The Covenant yet again discovers an artifact and gets raped on it by its inhabitants...can't wait to walk in on them getting destroyed.
Vire
Member
They show some campaign gameplay interspersed throughout the interview. But he talks about the improvements to the engine.
Initially.
They did an amazing job graphically with this game, and the art direction cannot be praised enough. I can't imagine how jaw dropping Halo 5 will look on Durango.
Also i must remember to never read comments on that site when i watch videos, every time someone complains about a Halo game not having "Aim down sites" and the very idea of it being in a Halo game, makes me want to kick a kitten.
Vire
Member
Frank, does Halo 4 finally allow the option to turn the music off in the settings?
Yeah, I know it causes drama (asking that), but I'd like to just listen to the weapon and environmental sound effects. Was just replaying Halo 3 and the music is loud.
You could probably play a track on the Xbox music thingy, it mutes music for most games. Just turn down the volume on the song you played and you should be good to go.
Doesn't work for Halo.
Continuity
Member
Halo 3 made me choose xbox 360, Halo 4 is going to tell me I made the right choice.
ii Stryker
Banned
I'm actually really liking the kill cams and loadouts however I'm cautious as to how well it'll play in MP.
Allowing the player to have whatever weapon set they want does seem counter intuitive. One of the greatest things the franchise has always done with regards to MP is starting everyone on an even playing field and then making them fight over the power weapons, it reinforces player movement and keeps the game going. I'm fearful that with this new direction games will de-evolve into a campfest.
what is the player count for the different competitive gametypes BTW?
Allowing the player to have whatever weapon set they want does seem counter intuitive. One of the greatest things the franchise has always done with regards to MP is starting everyone on an even playing field and then making them fight over the power weapons, it reinforces player movement and keeps the game going. I'm fearful that with this new direction games will de-evolve into a campfest.
what is the player count for the different competitive gametypes BTW?
Well, 16 is still the maximum. 8v8 for BTB, as usual.
Infinity Slayer seems to be 5v5 or 4v4, most probably follow this, as usual for Halos.
So far the BR, DMR and Carbine all have the same kill time and those will be the weapons most people use anyways.
Foxy Fox 39
Banned
I like it. You guys are just jaded. It matches the new tone and aesthetic of Halo 4.New logo wouldn't look bad if it wasn't for the terrible art design.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Someone simply......tried
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or just neogaf being neogaf.
Muffdraul
Member
I had issues in Halo 2 and 3 with certain weapons sounding way, way too quiet. In Halo 2 it was the sniper rifle and the shotgun, in Halo 3 it was the AR and the the BR. They just sounded so wimpy and unsatisfying. I always assumed it was Marty forcing Jay to toe the line and make sure the weapons didn't get in the way of the music. No other explanation of how those wimpy sound fx got past QA makes any sense to me.
New Cortana is def hot, but she no longer looks like a luminous being made of light. She looks like some cosplay chick who blue herself. Hmm... maybe that's the point.
Anyone who didn't think Halo 3 and Reach looked amazing is cray. Or has a huge tumo in their visua corte.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
That's absolutely playable, though you won't necessarily see it from that angle in first person play.
Anyone who thinks either one is without flaws (art or technical side) is cray.
Consider the faces in Halo 3. Pretty bad even for that time, Mass Effect had way better facial models.
Yeah, I'd say that looks playable. See the little purple shield and covenant on the ground in the lower left corner.
I'd say it's the back of Forward Onto Dawn (because of the round objects in the middle, saying "Forward Onto Dawn" and that's the Dyson Sphere in the background, behind the covenant ships.
Muffdraul
Member
Anyone who thinks anything is without flaws is a jackass.
I wouldn't hold Halo 3's human faces up as pinnacles of design and execution, but generally speaking as you play through the game they don't look as bad as that one shot of Lord Hood everyone always posts to "prove Halo 3 had shitty graphics." Taken as a whole it was mostly eyecandy as far as I'm concerned. Not-really-HD or not.
â Narayan
Member
lighting of the blade over chief's visor is a nice little detail
I try my best to not quote animated .gifs, but... HOLY SHIT THAT IS AWESOME.
True. Halo 3 looks very nice, good use of color. Vibrant, excellent HDR.
Lack of AA hurt it bad though. Higher resolution would have alleaviated that issue of course.
My biggest fear for Halo 4 is that it will have frame rate drops, like Reach had. Reach's weren't common but when they happened, they were really bad.
And splitscreen in Reach is nearly unplayable at times due to extremly short draw distance.
Vire
Member
Blue Ninja
Member
As long as I can break out of that shit with pan-cam, all is good.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Can't wait for the epic Blue Ninja pano's, : )
I'd prefer there were no invisible walls, let clever players to break the maps completly. Like in Halo 2.
Blue Ninja
Member
Just for that, I'm gonna open up a Halo game and make one.
EDIT: Though I don't have my USB stick anymore. I don't suppose Halo 3 screens still upload to Waypoint?
Poker Face
Member
ElzarTheBam
Member
Yes! <3
Neuromancer
Member
Yep this game looks boss as fuck. Can't wait. Don't need to see any more, I've been sold for a while.
From what I remember the options menu looked exactly the same as the one in Reach. It seems that adding extra options is all the way at the bottom of the priority list of stuff to add in Halo 4, disappointing to say the least. Marty O'Donnel was arrogant enough to think that nobody needed the option to turn off any of the audio (He pretty much said so himself) and apparently 343 doesn't deem it necessary either. Personally I would find it extremely silly if Halo 4 didn't allow you to adjust audio settings, especially because it's MS's flagship franchise and it's fucking 2012.
Hawk269
Member
Hmmm that would be interesting. A pure 1080p, no jaggies version could be interesting!
ArchedThunder
Banned
Turn on a song from your hard drive and pause the song, no more music in the game.