Obviously the cutscenes are so detailed and look great but does any body wish that they just went with remastered gameplay graphics cutscenes?
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I’m fine with either since the Anniversary visuals are just a novelty to me. I get the criticisms towards them though.
I mean they looked phenomenal so I can’t complain. Would love to see this treatment for Halo 3. Halo Reach would make that impossible though.
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What do you mean by this statement?
I think that because your custom armor is displayed in the cutscenes of Halo Reach, they would have to be rendered in-engine/in game. I think that the pre-rendered CGI cutscenes in Halo two wouldn’t be able to adapt to your custom armor, so there would have to be a bunch of different versions of the cutscene (because the CGI is creating lighting etc. in a different way than the game engine, I think?)
Since there are 33 trillion or more different combinations of all the armor pieces and color, that would not be feasible.
I could be wrong about this, it’s just how It’s been explained to me on these forums.
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I’d love this, but for completely different reasoning:
Halo 2: Anniversary’s renders are absolutely beautiful, but they’re also a giant file size. If I could uninstall those and live off the classic Halo 2 cut scenes with Anniversary assets to shave off a few gigabytes, I would with little hesitation.
Though I imagine it’d take quite a bit of work to get Gravemind working well… His model in the Anniversary cutscene is a bit different than his Halo 2 classic model. Better than nothing!
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H2A: Pre-rendered video files created by Blur Studios, an outsourced company who created all non-dialogue elements from scratch. Thousands of videos would need to be created to allow for each of Reach’s armor choices.
Reach: Real-time scripted animations, cameras, etc. created by Bungie and rendered by the game itself. This allowed the game to alter existing cutscenes automatically based on the player’s armor choices.
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That makes very good sense. I didn’t think about that. Thank you for clarifying.
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I really wish they’d stuck to in-engine cutscenes. The transition between gameplay and cutscenes is made pretty jarring with Anniversary graphics, and the CQI really highlights the flaws in the Halo 2: Anniversary Elites character designs, which are almost as bad (if not worse) than Halo 4’s.
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while i almost always play exclusively in the classic graphics , i wish the option was there … would fix that one backwards flying phantom mistake…
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Yeah, H2A elites have bulbous helmets, tiny feet, janky teeth, weak shoulder span… Obviously other than the face and non-diseased arms they do look worse than 4’s in a number of ways.
I do prefer the look of H2A’s botched circumcision gravemind over classic rotten cabbage gravemind though…