I’m on the side of the fence that thinks while the gameplay visuals can be improved, I’m good with the art direction of the game.
Where I think they completely dropped the ball on is the cinematics. Just compare the face of Atriox from Halo Wars 2 to the brute at the end of the gameplay reveal. The difference is jarring. This can be due to multiple different reasons, one being that it was an in game cinematic vs a normal load in cinematic. Whatever the reason is, I was left disappointed. We need some Blur studio magic! Thoughts?
Infinite is going by a way of all the gameplay and cinematics with the same engine. Halo Wars 2 cinematics were made with another engine, which it would´nt run on the Xbox. It is more like a video. I feel good in a way that infinite will show us the great things about the Slipspace Engine, all made with the same engine of the gameplay.
I agree what we saw in July wasn’t great. Not terrible but not great. 343i’s response to it made me laugh a bit and I also felt like we were honey dicked. If you go back and watch the Slipspace demo trailer and Discover Hope, those trailers were FAR better than what we were shown and all claim to be in-engine.
If the cinematics looked like the previous two, I don’t there would be as much controversy or whatever you’d call it.
Even in the SlipSpace demo, they never showed that lego/Minecraft style mountain/terrain of the ring rebuilding or whatever. It wasn’t in there at all. Then years later they spring that on us and they’re like, “But it received a lot of positive feedback.” Like no… Lol. That was never in there. I’m not opposed to that style complimenting the terrain to show the ring is rebuilding but for it to dominate the terrain and backdrop, it’s so off putting. Idk when that design choice was made, but it was a bad one IMO.
But yeah, Blur made the HW2 ones and while I thought they were good, I wouldn’t bank on something like that in Infinite. We just need to bring it back to the Slipspace demo and Discover Hope and I think we’d be good.
I want to see cinematics like halo 2 anniversary and halo wars 2, i know is easier to do it in-game but there are things that would be difficult to look them awesome like isabel destroying the covenant ship while jerome was fighting with a lot of brutes, more impressive than master chief vs locke