I’ll preface this by saying there were some things I liked in this July gameplay reveal, but thoughts and feelings are still all over the place. So I’m not sure what’s good and what’s bad, but it feels like the bads are more than the goods. Here’s my feedback (if it may ever be helpful to 343i) on things I didn’t like and that I feel can be improved on:
- There are some noticeably low resolution textures in trees, on the pilot, on brutes and on animals; - I’ve never been in the “bring back the old art style” camp, but I think even those who are, now have to admit this art style is too cartoony. Everybody is saying it all over the internet; - Smoke and texture pop in is clearly evident is multiple instances; - Shadows look very low resolution on some objects and sometime completely absent; - Why are brutes hairless? - Almost no blood effects at all; - Grass, trees and foliage in general don’t react at all to wind, explosions or even people walking on them. They feel dead. - Didn’t see much, but water looks less dynamic than in Halo 3. Again; - Explosions look more like splashes; - Sprint animation shakes the camera left and right too fast, it feels odd; - Elites, Grunts and Jakals look smaller and skinnier than usual; - The AI doesn’t look very smart, nobody took cover once or dodged very often; - I don’t mind sprint, in fact I liked it in H5, but this time it looks quite slow, what’s the purpose of it? - There’s granade hit markers; - Bloom on many weapons; - Human weapons are unoriginal and not at all like Hao weapons; - There aren’t many of those “floating islands” showing on the map and, considering the demo covered half of the island Chef landed on in about 5 minutes including all those fights, it looks like the floating islands aren’t all that big too; - We gave up on Halo Infinite being a revolutionary game like the first few games were, but this gameplay reveal didn’t even feel very innovative tbh; - There is Cortana, Atiox, the Flood and many more possible main antagonists, I don’t know why they’re focusing so much on Escharum, but if if they give more space to this unknown new character than to Cortana, Atriox or the Flood, I’m concerned 343i is going to mess up the plot this time too.These points can be subjective or objective, look at them as you want and feel free to add more or dispute any of them. There’s probably more posts similar to this one, but regardless let’s give some feedback on what we didn’t like about the geameplay reveal to 343i. Maybe somebody could even suggest and post a solution to some of those issues.