I want to hear your opinions. tell me what you find to be wrong with the demo. tell me what it is you like about the demo. no hating please. let’s all keep in mind this was a gameplay demo. the graphics arent going to be 100% done at this stage. and agree all we played halos that has worse graphics at launch than this by far. and we love those games.
A valiant effort, OP, but considering the state of other topics thus far, I doubt anyone hating on the game will want to listen to a reasonable take…
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> A valiant effort, OP, but considering the state of other topics thus far, I doubt anyone hating on the game will want to listen to a reasonable take…
I wish they would. if we do nothing but hate on every aspect and dont look at the good things brought forward. if we dont criticize things in a respectful manner no one is going to really get what they want.
I hate the fact that this game looks like Doom Eternal, Destiny, Minecraft, and COD with the name Halo slapped on it. I also hate how everything looks plastic and bright like WTF? This is a military shooter game not a Mario game. The textures are also trash, 5 years and $500 million for that garbage? What a joke. Halo is dead.
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> I hate the fact that this game looks like Doom Eternal, Destiny, Minecraft, and COD with the name Halo slapped on it. I also hate how everything looks plastic and bright like WTF? This is a military shooter game not a Mario game. The textures are also trash, 5 years and $500 million for that garbage? What a joke. Halo is dead.
Feels to me like a copypasta response. How do YOU really feel about it?
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> > I hate the fact that this game looks like Doom Eternal, Destiny, Minecraft, and COD with the name Halo slapped on it. I also hate how everything looks plastic and bright like WTF? This is a military shooter game not a Mario game. The textures are also trash, 5 years and $500 million for that garbage? What a joke. Halo is dead.
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> Feels to me like a copypasta response. How do YOU really feel about it?
That’s just how I feel about, bud. I think the game is crap.
Game looks graphically behind by so many years it is insane, there has literally never been a game that had graphics that are easily considered to be 2 generations behind in the history of gaming.
This is coming from someone that usually doesnt even care about the graphics that much so thats how much it stood out. That being said I’m still open to changing what I think but so far this is looking awful.
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> > I hate the fact that this game looks like Doom Eternal, Destiny, Minecraft, and COD with the name Halo slapped on it. I also hate how everything looks plastic and bright like WTF? This is a military shooter game not a Mario game. The textures are also trash, 5 years and $500 million for that garbage? What a joke. Halo is dead.
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> Feels to me like a copypasta response. How do YOU really feel about it?
I also feel like him. They promissed a huge step forwards with the new engine/graphic and we got just an Halo 5 Update
Just watch the 2018 E3 reveal, it gave me goosebumps. When I saw the demo the first thing I said to my wife is that this looks like a little kids game, honestly thought that they were doing a Fortnite thing.
It seems to have gone the wrong way imo. E3 2018, blown away with the engine demo. E3 2019, I was not sure at all. Thursday 23rd of July 2020, oh dear, it looked awful imo. So many issues, pop in, assets seemingly dropped from other titles, not sure about Link’s toy on a Halo ring, but I’m open to that for some reason, the rest you have all stated. I’m pretty disappointed tbh.
I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again, those disgusting flashing hexagons whenever the shield recharges. Christ I swear they border the entire screen and are a total eyesore
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> I want to hear your opinions. tell me what you find to be wrong with the demo. tell me what it is you like about the demo. no hating please. let’s all keep in mind this was a gameplay demo. the graphics arent going to be 100% done at this stage. and agree all we played halos that has worse graphics at launch than this by far. and we love those games.
Let’s start with the positives:
- Chief’s armor finally looks like an actual armor again instead of a morphsuit with some random metal pieces stapled onto it
- The Warthog finally sounds like a car again and not like the -Yoink- child of a lawnmower and an RC toys car- The Elites finally look like themselves again
- Wildlife on the Halo
- The HUD is less intrusive than in the recent games (Locke’s helmet cut off too much of the screen for “immersion”'s sake)
- Tooltips about the attributes of a weapon when you stand on it for some time
Now that I look at this list, it’s sad that 2/3rds of it is just them un-doing stuff they f’d up in the previous titles
Things I’m indifferent about:
- Soundtrack
- Open World
- Grapple Hook
- Equipment (both as a concept in general and the drop wall in particular)
- Clamber
- Moving the Weapon Counter to the lower right
Things I don’t like:
- Those yellow hexagons on the screen when the shield recharges. (Although I don’t think they necessarily need to be removed, just maybe change the color to match the HUD’s blue tone and make it slightly more transparent)
- That ADS/Zoom Hybrid that still has an animation and isn’t instantaneous
- That weak excuse for a shotgun that takes three shots to kill an Elite at close range. I think even the Halo 2 shotgun was stronger
- Bad or even complete lack of textures on weapons, environments, enemies, etc.
- No animations on the environment, grass, trees, etc.
- Objects and graphics just randomly popping in and out of existence
- The grunts. They are still the same 343 design that look like they have the Bubonic plague, it’s just that some of them wear the classic armor
- The megablox design, both for these weird spires as well as some of the brute exquipment. (That phantom… shudder )
- The brute’s speech at the end. Both the speech itself in terms of writing, as well as the presentation, graphics, framing, etc. It was just cringe-worthy, like bad Wrestling trash-talk that is poorly animated in a cheap WWF game by an AA- or even A-studio.
Things I (still) absolutely hate:
- Sprint
There are enough threads for discussing the demo as it is