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Halo Infinite - Campaign Overview (October 25th - 6am PT / 9am ET / 3pm CET)
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Kev Kev
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you can say whatever you want, just make sure its in the spirit of civil discourse and not trolly. basically, be an adult who is ready to have a conversation about it, rather than a troll who just drops a drive by, negative comment with zero intention to have a discussion about it.Oh... Oh well you know what, i'm not gonna say anything
related: thank you to the mods for swiftly taking out the trash ITT. it was fair moderation, and helps keep the thread from turning into a shit show. thats why gaf is the best forum to discuss gaming.
and the game looks fun! the trailer is lacking in hype, and i think thats great. i hate all the tropey, in your face, adrenaline pumping trailers weve been getting for every piece of media over the last decade. this just looks like a fun, chill halo, that gives you freedom to approach the game how you want, probably includes some fun exploration and hidden stuff, and just looks like an experience that i will be enjoying for several years.
in the books, the spartans are quite sneaky most of the time. and although you could sneak in previous halos, it wasnt really meant to be a sneaky game. i have a hunch we'll be able to be a little more stealthy in this halo and im really looking forward to it. its almost a dream come true for the halo geek in me. id love to see halo branch even more into the open world concept. maybe one day it'll be an open galaxy where we can travel to different planets and different halo rings, earth, reach, harvest, etc., and approach the gameplay however we want. this could be a great new beginning for the halo series.
good job 343, looking forward to december.
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Lukaku's First Touch
Member
I just hope with this big map, there is some form of total war with marines fighting aliens on the map. Like big battlefields going on.
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Lighting sees minor improvements
Texture work looks noticeably improved (although this could be a result of the lighting changes bringing this out more)
Draw distances look VASTLY improved
The latter two make the most difference to the overall visual fidelity of the vistas in-game.
From the video, the particle effects see massively improved also.
The animations are still a bit choppy, but overall it's a significant step up from the initial reveal.
The rocky textured landscapes are MUCH more visually appealing than the weird seemingly untextured hexagonal columns in the previous reveal. This new footage still has the hexagonal columns too, but they seem to have scaled back their prevalence and improved the texturing on them too.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm aware and expect more from a big IP with a powerful box driving it.
I don't want to reiterate the points but it's been what it's been and an extra year has helped but I wasn't expecting miracles to begin with.
abacab driver
Banned
Just woke up. Game looks fucking awesome. Going back to sleep.
octiny
Banned
Riky
$MSFT
Flintty
Member
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
cormack12
Gold Member
I hope they are much better than in Halo 5 honestly. On Legendary they are shite. I'm getting blasted by a warden and they are looking at a wall smelling each others asses.
Jaguar Victory
Member
No worries, we can all like different things. I can tell you from having played the multiplayer that the graphics are not a concern for most that played it. It was very good. What I'm more interested in than anything is how they nail traversal, map/mission UI & encounter design & replayability.
makaveli60
Member
Yeah, this is my opinion as well. Graphically I don‘t see much improvement, though I didn’t have problems with the reveal at all either. I mean, what do you expect from an openworld 1080p60fps game targeting Xbox One? I didn’t understand the hate back then. Though I guess this is just a fanboy thing on both sides. The real “problem” for me is that it looks the same as the previous titles (not graphically, but the game itself), no innovation and from what they showed it’s generic openworld game #3535 with a Halo skin. This should be like the first titles, handcrafted levels with which they could also melt our faces graphics-wise. I will get it eventually as I’m sure it will be a good game but it didn’t make me excited enough to get it day one.
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SafeOrAlone
Banned
Let's not give Ubisoft the credit of being the only open-world developers out there. The comparisons to those games is silly, because they have uninspired gameplay and checklist-driven "missions".
Halo's core strength has always been the immediate gameplay. Combining that with a semi-open world is much more interesting than another dull Ubisoft design.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Trailer was okay, I'm just super excited they're supporting ultrawide at launch, still lame theirs no coop though.
Kev Kev
Member
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm looking forward to the MP as well.
I'm also disappointed about lack of split screen at launch unless that's changed as well.
Still looking forward to it. I may let the kids play it on the Series S.
ResilientBanana
Member
You stop any animation in any game, and there's a way to make it look like shit.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Nothing a sticky bomb won't solve.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Looks fun af. It's gonna be a good time.
TheGodfather07
Member
Looks alot better but at the same time halo has never been about graphics. Its always had that kind of colourful flat look. Still, this is acceptable unlike the horrid showing last year.
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oldergamer
Member
Open ended mission objectives like just cause + halo combat is gonna be fun !
AJUMP23
Gold Member
where is that "shitake mushroom picture" for this guy.
penguininthesun
Neo Member
Even though I’ve only ever played about 3/4ths of the original Halo as a kid (accidentally deleted my save file cause I was stupid), this is somehow making me nostalgic for it. It is really reminiscent of the first game, and I’ve always loved that theme song. Hopefully that means it’ll be the great experience that actual Halo fans have waited for. The voiceover on the trailer is truly terrible though. Sorry! 
Iced Arcade
Member
" BUt ThAtS CgI" not realizing Halo uses in game for cutscenes (besides anniversary games)
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
A Halo campaign with fucking legit RPG elements and so much to do in the environment and world that it has RPG like points of interest after capturing locations or completing objectives. You can use a forward operating base as a rally points for marine fire support, fast travel, access weapon variants, get vehicle drops, and you "gain valor" to unlock resources at all forward operating bases. So when you need some fresh marine support you can go get it from a forward operating base.
This is the type of game design I was fucking hope to get from this game. We also have true mini-boss encounters with enhanced capability compared to normal enemies. Amazing, amazing.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
As long as its fun, and Just Cause is a lot of fun.
I also said the same thing when I saw it.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
I'm really excited about the move to open world and there being compounds you can take out if you feel like it. It does feel a bit Far Cry, but that's a loop in the Far Cry games that I really enjoy. As for tightly scripted moments, I have to imagine there's bases/locations where it's exactly that.
That trailer sold me.
That trailer sold me.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Shit same - never got round to playing it.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Breh he straight up went into an outpost to shut it down in the trailer lol. I didn't mean that as a bad thing, it just is what it is. That type of gameplay loop will serve Halo well.
tmlDan
Member
I am going to play this regardless but that was seriously unimpressive, it was like a low budget trailer (hate voiceover and cuts without straight gameplay for a final showing) with snail pace gameplay.
Really wish we got co-op day one but im too eager to see what the story has to offer to wait for that.
At the very least it looks better than the first time they showed it.
Really wish we got co-op day one but im too eager to see what the story has to offer to wait for that.
At the very least it looks better than the first time they showed it.
R6Rider
Gold Member
Gameplay looks as expected. Gameplay loop looks like it's going the Far Cry route, but also looks like it will offer far less variety. The outpost clearing might get old really fast, or it could turn out better than expected.
Lots of improvements visually, but I can't unsee the copy pasta trees all over the place.
Hoping there are some interesting random events/encounters in the world.
Not having co-op at launch when the gameplay loop would be perfect for it is lame.
Lots of improvements visually, but I can't unsee the copy pasta trees all over the place.
Hoping there are some interesting random events/encounters in the world.
Not having co-op at launch when the gameplay loop would be perfect for it is lame.
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
You're comparing CGI versus CGI tho.
Kev Kev
Member
i liked how relaxed it was
it wasnt the same old tired, in your face, trombones going "BWAAAAAHHHHH" and other shit that trope infested trailers have been doing for the last decade
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Halo Wars
Looks soooo good!
Sony
Nintendo
While I can live with Infinite's presentation, part of me still wonders how the game would have looked were it not for last gen consoles. Given that MP and SP are a separate package, I hope they will treat SP as the premium experience going forward for high end hardware and leave the MP to be as multiplat as possible.
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SafeOrAlone
Banned
Yeah, he also jumped like Mario and fired a gun like Duke Nukem.
i do see what you’re saying but I’m being a bit facetious because I really think this will be an experience much different from a Ubisoft title.
VN1X
Banned
I'll pick it up on the cheap one day to play with a friend or two. Doesn't look like anything we haven't already seen (in terms of gameplay) and I think I'm kind of done with open-world for the moment. Halo just needs a tight combat flow with a strong narrative. While I was never a huge fan of the Halo games I do think some of them managed to combine these two aspects really well, especially when the combat spaces opened up a bit but still kept pushing the player forward. Halo going open-world doesn't do a whole lot for me and considering you get half the game for free (and that co-op isn't even ready at launch) I'll give it a miss for now.
See you in a LTTP thread in 6 years or something hah.
See you in a LTTP thread in 6 years or something hah.
Negotiator101
Member
You know what for the sheer size of the game the advanced physics, the different ways you can play every encounter all in open world environments filled with dozens of AI and running at 60fps. I'd say this game on a technical level is far beyond what most games can even dream about and it has no business looking this good, but more importantly seems to play better than it looks, 343 redemption is coming I feel.
Thebonehead
Banned
Expecting the PC modders to give chief a Spidey suit and web shooter
