Is it because of graphics? They shouldn’t matter at all. Just use the original Xbox graphics and add in the extra content featured in Anniversary. I know Halo 2 can be played with backwards compatibility on the 360, but the extra content won’t be available obviously.
Why would they release a new game on an older platform? Aside from the fact the the 360 couldn’t handle the graphics, there is absolutely no reason to release it on 360. If we’re talking about multiplayer, there wouldn’t even be a community since everyone would be playing on the far more superior xbox one. The 360 community is still very full of modders as well which sucks the fun right of the game. I try to play halo 3 on my xbox one every now and then, and after 1-2 matches, i’ll go against a modder who is flying around the map no scoping everyone. I could easily see that happening to H2A 360. The game was never released as its own anyways. It would be comical to try and see an xbox 360 try and handle MCC lol. Hypothetically, if i wanted to play H2A campaign and i was given the choice between xbox one, and 360, i would choose the xbox one simply because i would want to see the game remastered in its glory at 4k 60FPS compared to 1080p 30FPS on 360.
It was simply too demanding for the 360 plus the One was the current generation console. Console hardware becomes obsolete eventually.
For campaign, the extra content IS the new graphics. And H2A multiplayer is a new engine with re-worked maps. They couldn’t simply swap in the original graphics because the maps are different.
H2A was always meant to be an Xbox One release. However, the project expanded from just remastering H2 to creating an entire collection of previous gen Halo games on the Xbox One. At the time of H2A’s development, backwards compatibility was not a thing on Xbox One, and 343 was looking to bring Halo to Xbox One in some way (recall the Halo Xbox One E3 2013 teaser).
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> For campaign, the extra content IS the new graphics. And H2A multiplayer is a new engine with re-worked maps. They couldn’t simply swap in the original graphics because the maps are different.
Then why not just bring the campaign over?
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> H2A was always meant to be an Xbox One release. However, the project expanded from just remastering H2 to creating an entire collection of previous gen Halo games on the Xbox One. At the time of H2A’s development, backwards compatibility was not a thing on Xbox One, and 343 was looking to bring Halo to Xbox One in some way (recall the Halo Xbox One E3 2013 teaser).
I see…
I don’t think the 360 could handle the graphics. Also, I believe it would be for good for the satisfaction knowing it would be on multiple console’s, but it wouldn’t make sense to release it for 360 because the One is the newest Xbox.
I wouldn’t bother playing it if it was a 360 release unless it had backwards compatibility.
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> I don’t think the 360 could handle the graphics. Also, I believe it would be for good for the satisfaction knowing it would be on multiple console’s, but it wouldn’t make sense to release it for 360 because the One is the newest Xbox.
That’s why I said that they could have just used Halo 2’s original graphics instead of having the Anniversary ones included.
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> That’s why I said that they could have just used Halo 2’s original graphics instead of having the Anniversary ones included.
What would be the point then if it was just a content update? They might as well just turn the original servers back on if that’s all they were gonna do.
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> > That’s why I said that they could have just used Halo 2’s original graphics instead of having the Anniversary ones included.
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> What would be the point then if it was just a content update? They might as well just turn the original servers back on if that’s all they were gonna do.
How about Halo 3 graphics as an option then?
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> How about Halo 3 graphics as an option then?
Why not H4 graphics? As we saw, 343 didn’t want to use any of those graphics and instead wanted to go big so that’s what we got on the Xbox One.
Mcc As a 2014 release it seems rather obvious that it would be a Xbox one release ,if people wanted to stay on the 360 in 2014 more power to them ,But having any expectations of access to any new titles and/or content is drawing a very long bow indeed .
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> > For campaign, the extra content IS the new graphics. And H2A multiplayer is a new engine with re-worked maps. They couldn’t simply swap in the original graphics because the maps are different.
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> Then why not just bring the campaign over?
In your original post, you said “Just use the original Xbox graphics and add in the extra content featured in Anniversary”. If they use the original Xbox graphics, then there’s nothing new to bring over for the campaign. Plus, the 360 probably wouldn’t have been able to handle the anniversary graphics.
2 reasons I can think of; they wanted to keep it exclusive to XB1 to push XB1 sales, and 2, the fact that XB1 itself (launch version) could barely handle H2A anyways without frame rate studdering in various spots of the game. H2A’s Forge mode would’t have worked either on a 360 due to all the stuff they added to it, like higher item count.
Most obvious answer is that Microsoft wants to increase sales for the Xbox One, given that the whole gaming industry at the time was already well underway transitioning from the 7th generation to 8th generation of consoles.
If we’re going down on why it wasn’t released on the 360, your best answer is that the Xbox 360 is obsolete in terms of graphical power. There’s no way 360 would be able to run the game at 720p with a stable 30 fps given the amount of fidelity the devs added to the anniversary graphics, and that the game is running two graphic engines simultaneously that were already pushing the Xbox One to its limits.
If you removed the anniversary graphics feature; I’m very confident there would be community backlash against 343, accusing them that they’ve re-released a game with obsolete graphics even if you included the “extra content”. I’m not sure a lot of people would be focusing on the extra content as most of it doesn’t matter much to the game itself.
In 2014 they weren’t even making the 360 anymore