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New Halo 3 SP Campaign screenshot

segarr said:
I kind of question Bungie's decision to release to screenshot at this point. They just couldn't wait for E3 and they blew a bit of thier load.
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I'm wondering if the WSJ was the one who blew the load early and Bungie, having no other option, went ahead and responded to it in the best manner possible. Was this part of the media unload delivered to journalists during press week or was it an intentional reveal? Stinkles?
 
segarr said:
I kind of question Bungie's decision to release to screenshot at this point. They just couldn't wait for E3 and they blew a bit of thier load.
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Bungie has balls the size of Halos, a lot more load coming confirmed.
 
McDragon said:
I swear i heard that same line some days ago...
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No they didn't blow anything with the multiplayer shots. Everyone already played that so their wasn't the mystery of it that the single player has.
 
m0dus said:
The pic is indeed impressive . . . but not as impressive as the list of bannings so far. holy crap.
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m0dus, you should make a Banned @ GAF car for Forza and send it to the fallen.

Who am I kidding? They wouldn't play Forza. :lol
 
krypt0nian said:
m0dus, you should make a Banned @ GAF car for Forza and send it to the fallen.

Who am I kidding? They wouldn't play Forza. :lol
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I've got the perfect image for the hood:

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Ramirez said:
I guess my main question would be, with all of the info that's been revealed recently, should we lower our expectations for anything on 7/7?
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7/07/07 in Two words:

SINGLE PLAYER BLOWOUTATHON
 
segarr said:
I kind of question Bungie's decision to release to screenshot at this point. They just couldn't wait for E3 and they blew a bit of thier load.
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Something Halo related has to happen on Saturday. It's 7/7/07 for the love of god.....it doesn't get any more perfect for Bungie.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I still think it's stylistic change, rather than lower quality textures.
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The Chief in the announcement video was using a bump-detail map derived from concrete, heh.

The Chief (and the MP Spartans) have since been given rather a lot of material love. The artists decided that the armor surfaces should actually look like a hardened metal surface instead of cast iron or "metallic sponge".

It's not blasto gratuitous bumpiness anymore. If that's what floats your boat, then too bad, our artists don't share your tastes. The materials are much more refined now (and the light play on them in motion is rather nice. :)
 
krypt0nian said:
m0dus, you should make a Banned @ GAF car for Forza and send it to the fallen.

Who am I kidding? They wouldn't play Forza. :lol
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:lol :lol A few of the fallen were the ones bashing forzas dmg in the GT thread, and yes they dont even own forza let alone ever think of playing it. (They are still experts on it though apparently :P)
 
ferrex said:
The Chief in the announcement video was using a bump-detail map derived from concrete, heh.

The Chief (and the MP Spartans) have since been given rather a lot of material love. The artists decided that the armor surfaces should actually look like a hardened metal surface instead of cast iron or "metallic sponge".

It's not blasto gratuitous bumpiness anymore. If that's what floats your boat, then too bad, our artists don't share your tastes. The materials are much more refined now (and the light play on them in motion is rather nice. :)
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In case anyone else doesn't know - ferrex works at Bungie. (He was most helpful in the Beta thread as well.)
 
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Something Halo related has to happen on Saturday. It's 7/7/07 for the love of god.....it doesn't get any more perfect for Bungie.
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Until the year 2077 anyway ;)
 
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Something Halo related has to happen on Saturday. It's 7/7/07 for the love of god.....it doesn't get any more perfect for Bungie.
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It's Saturday...nothing ever happens on a Saturday.
 
Jesus christ! A campaign screenshot! Ghaleon gets a tag! I don't!

I think I'm going to stop having a life and spend all day on GAF.
 
ferrex said:
The Chief in the announcement video was using a bump-detail map derived from concrete, heh.

The Chief (and the MP Spartans) have since been given rather a lot of material love. The artists decided that the armor surfaces should actually look like a hardened metal surface instead of cast iron or "metallic sponge".

It's not blasto gratuitous bumpiness anymore. If that's what floats your boat, then too bad, our artists don't share your tastes. The materials are much more refined now (and the light play on them in motion is rather nice. :)
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Thank you.

Something I was repeating 2 or 3 times already... he looks even better now, like the way he should BTW...
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
Jesus christ! A campaign screenshot! Ghaleon gets a tag! I don't!

I think I'm going to stop having a life and spend all day on GAF.
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Haha I know. I go out for July 4th, and come back to chaos. :lol
 
ferrex said:
The Chief in the announcement video was using a bump-detail map derived from concrete, heh.

The Chief (and the MP Spartans) have since been given rather a lot of material love. The artists decided that the armor surfaces should actually look like a hardened metal surface instead of cast iron or "metallic sponge".

It's not blasto gratuitous bumpiness anymore. If that's what floats your boat, then too bad, our artists don't share your tastes. The materials are much more refined now (and the light play on them in motion is rather nice. :)
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It's al about the

bling_bling.jpg
 
armubaba said:
Haha I know. I go out for July 4th, and come back to chaos. :lol
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I didn't even go out for the worst holiday this nation has, I just went to run some goddamn errands.

I really like that screen. It makes me feel like sleeping until September 25th.
 
I got the great idea for a Halo 3 trailer. Now envision this in your head.

"...The black screen opens to a vista of clouds. Moody Halo music kicks in and the words Microsoft Game Studios Presents in association with Bungie Studios fades in and out...

...The view zoom back and the face of a marine appears from the corner of the screen...His eyes and skin are very finely textured. We can see that we're inside a pelican.

...An plasma explosion lits the bay of the Pelican, and the marine screams, "We got in coming anti-air, hold on tight!... A pelican pulls up behind the bay. The marine waves and yells at the pelican pilots to move away, and the pilots responded with thumbs up and deccelerated into the distance before shortly blowing up in a thousand pieces by AA.

...The assault rifle appears in front of our eyes for the first time, and the hud materializes. The pelican is crusing at a lower altitude and the chief shoots at some brutes on the ground before sticking one in the face with a plasma.

...The camera is on the ground as the pelicans land next to a big bridge beside the shores of a wide river. A few human structures are in the enviroment, surrounded by forests...

...we see in first person as the chief shoots and kills a Brute on the bridge. The body falls over and lands in an air duct, and stays floating up and down...

...The chief moves next to the arch of the bridge and watches a spectre takes out a marine, and then it blows up from a human fireshell.

...we then move up the bridge from side steps and looks left as the pelicans explode from wraith motar hits....

....A marine melees a jackal over the bridge, and we look to confirm the kill...

...A spectre dominates the middle of the bridge. A warthog pulls up with a squad of marines. A sargeant jumps off and warn the chief to move away. He shoots a rocket at the spectre, taking it out in a spectalar explosion that consume the company of Covenant nearby.

...The sargeant runs foward...

...we follow...

...2 marines on the side of the bridge gets plasmas shelled by an incoming banshee. Sargeant gets downed by the strafing banshee. A marine runs up and retrieves the sargeant's rocket launcher for you...

...The banshee flies over head. The warthog pulls up and the gunner tries to take out the banshee. The marines screams, "you want some! You want some of these HUH!?..

...The banshee swerves back. The Chief takes aim...

...The banshee gets hit, but the wreckage keeps on its momentum. It crashes into the warthog as the marine fails to scramble out in time...

...The ball of wreckage envelopes our view as marines scream "CHEF! CHEF!".

...Omnious music kicks in with the words Halo 3 on the now black screen...

...The crowd roars...
 
raYne said:
Oh, so now I'm responsible for updating the ban count? :lol

Add Qwerty710710 and nincompoop (indeed) to the list.
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Where did I say you had to update it? I was just answering his question.

But now you've set a precendent..... :p
 
GhaleonEB said:
Where did I say you had to update it? I was just answering his question.

But now you've set a precendent..... :p
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Speaking of precedents, in all volatile threads, the OP should make a heading named "The Banned", and update it as needed. It may act as a deterrent, but more importantly, it'd be another form of entertainment.
 
Wow, why do I always miss out on these things? And I just noticed this thread is 14 pages, wtf happened? :lol Nevermind... I think I know.

Any way, I definitely like the new visor, that's for sure, the more intense yellowish look is awesome.
 
StorablePrawn said:
I NOT BITCH ABOUT HALO GFX NEVER AGAIN
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You're fine, just don't say "downgrade", "it looks last gen", "it looks worse then [game] on console [x]" or "this series sucks" or something as asinine as that. Look at the posts of all those banned, and you'll find those phrases or something similar.

Criticisms can be discussed, just be smart about it.
 
Wow. I keep thinking the 360 would begin to show age especially after the excellent work done by Epic but MS keeps on surprising me. If in game quality is this good, we're talking about another graphical milestone. I don't think I've been this excited about a shooter before.
 
I think the Chief looks better without the odd detail from the E3 06 teaser, but I'm more interested in the sum total of the graphics.
 
This is the best texture work I have ever seen in a console game. I can't see how anyone can say the textures are low res.
 
ferrex said:
The Chief in the announcement video was using a bump-detail map derived from concrete, heh.

The Chief (and the MP Spartans) have since been given rather a lot of material love. The artists decided that the armor surfaces should actually look like a hardened metal surface instead of cast iron or "metallic sponge".

It's not blasto gratuitous bumpiness anymore. If that's what floats your boat, then too bad, our artists don't share your tastes. The materials are much more refined now (and the light play on them in motion is rather nice. :)
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awesome.

after coming back to this thread after being gone half the day i'm glad there was something worth reading from all the horseshit in here.

me thinks minds will be blown soon!
 
I just read this entire thread. Lolz at bannings -- thanks mods.

First of all, the screenshot looks amazing, with a Ghaleon italic. For a FPS with RTS-sized scale, I think it looks incredible. And since Halo has always looked seven times better in motion, I am predicting that pants will be assploded when we finally get a video of close-to-final graphics. Compared to the Announcement Trailer, I think this new armor looks a lot better than concrete green.

As for 7/7/07, I think we might get a ViDoc of some kind -- possibly of the Elites or the Campaign. Then again, we may get a ViDoc of the ramp-up to E3 '07 sometime after E3 is over, much like they did for the first ViDoc.
 
~Kinggi~ said:
heh in both instances the original ones had full reflective visors and then were changed to a solid orange with specular.
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look at the halo 3 screen closer ;)

hell, look at the recent MP screens too
 
Bungie has always been good at the early Bullshots tho. Either way... halo is halo and i'll end up wasting so much of my life into halo3 its sad.
 
~Kinggi~ said:
heh in both instances the original ones had full reflective visors and then were changed to a solid orange with specular.
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um. halo 3 visor is still reflective
 
_dementia said:
yeah I was expecting this.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b113/joeyjoejoe3/halosmokeandmirrors.jpg

Never forget.
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The X02 Announcement trailer was pre-rendered in engine at a much higher resolution. Bungie was pretty clear about that, and never presented that as actual gameplay.

The stencil shadow lighting engine that was used for that and the E3 2003 demonstration (which was in game) was later abandoned as unworkable on the Xbox. Comparing a high res frame from that to a lower res capture isn't a very compelling argument, unless your argument is "I don't care to research what I'm talking about."
 
op_ivy said:
look at the halo 3 screen closer ;)

hell, look at the recent MP screens too
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The reflection isn't nowhere near the reflection in the Announcement trailer though. It has a heavy orange tint also which kills it for me.
 
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