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The new Bungie videodoc - Halo 3 campaign documentary, Dec 20 2am

TheMissingLink said:
Underwhelming.

Nothing there made me say "wow."

Maybe it's because I hated brutes in Halo 2, maybe because the game didn't look impressive whatsoever, maybe because I'm incredibly tired and merely want to go to bed; I dunno. The different colored lasers made me lol.
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Did we watch the same video? Halo 3 looks damn impressive already, and it's not even final visuals. Brutes look great, the animation for them pushing over a Warthog is awesome. Lighting and shadowing looked damn nice in the video. Already looks as good as the top next-gen games, if not better in certain areas. imo.

My only complaint, is that I want to fight the Elites, not side with them.
 
Foil said:
The guy who stabbed the Brute with the double swords?
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~5 minutes in: 3 Brutes just whallop the shit out of cornered Arbiter. Hopefully his model isn't just a placeholder for the standard Elites.
 
Pretty cool stuff. This is exactly how and what they did for Episode I stuff. Wow you with the E3 trailer and then a steady stream of Behind The Scenes stuff at various levels of completion. Very cool, but anyone waiting to YouTube it is probably going to be disappointed. This isn't a trailer at all. I really hope we get one of these a month. At least.
 
Since the footage is label pre-alpha.
I wonder How long its going to take before we see something that will look close to the finish product.
 
btw, at 1:50 they show a really brief glimpse of the HUD displaying four grenade types: there's the 2 nade types we all know and love, followed by the newly introduced Spike Grenade and lastly theres a silhouette of what appears to be the mofuckin' "Shield Grenade" from the Digitial Domain short. :D

And since this Shield nade is bunched up with the other grenades, I can only assume it's selected like other three grenade types, and NOT a function of the X button. </end HBO-esque dissection>
 
What a ****ing great feature! :D

It's nice to see Bungie acknowledge what was so wrong with how the Brutes played in Halo 2-- "Damage Sponges"-- and how it should be totally different in 3.

But about halfwalf through, when we finally get to see the new Brute designs and combat abilities, is when it really gets interesting. I'm really digging the weight and viciousness of the animation when they're slamming marines into walls and just generally beating them to a pulp and flipping over the Warthog.

The Elite duel-weilding swords was a surprise, and it's a good thing at least some Grunts and Jackals decided to remain loyal to the Covenant cause; it's one thing to have those split-chins on our side, but no way in hell would I fight alongside some Grunts! Still, even with the Elites, I think there's going to be some (intentional) friendly fire on my part... :lol

Even though the graphics are unfinished, (it's still pre-alpha), I have to say that the lighting and shadowing looks pretty incredible already. There's some damn impressive effects going on throughout the last minute or so, especially about 20 seconds from the end. The flash and grenade explosions there are some of the coolest I've seen.
 
Looks like Elites can duel-wield swords. Brutes can Rhino charge Warthogs and knock them over. Brute Chieftans can order other Brutes around and tell them to lace rooms with grenades all at once. Brutes can rip Marines arms off, smash them into a wall with a charge, use a huge hammer to smash them on the head, etc. Lots of neat little things in the video.

Ehh, I'll watch it again tomorrow. In before all the haters hit the thread in the morning. :lol
 
bungie, why don't you put your dam video online ! no more marketplace please... so people could see HQ video instead of that shity youtube video that makes Halo 3 even worse... :)
 
If someone can handle hosting, I can provide a high quality component video capture (still at SD resolution though). Im downloading it right now.
 
I didn't like fighting against the Brutes in Halo 2, and it's good to see Bungie address all the flaws with them. The Brutes in Halo 3 look a lot more fun to fight against. Some of the cool stuff they showed the Brutes doing:

- Stretching a marine out and tearing off both of his arms
- Smashing a marine right in the head with its giant hammer
- Holding a marine above its head and then tossing him
- Ramming a marine into a wall
- Stomping on a marine to death and then pounding its chest
- Running into a warthog, flipping it over
- Brute packs which is a bunch of Brutes working together... they showed a character being stuck in the corner while several brutes were just tearing him to pieces :lol

They also showed an Elite dual wielding swords and slicing the arms off a Brute then stabbing him in the chest! It was a really bad ass animation.

Also at the 1:53 mark you can see the new HUD - it's as Luke described it (slightly curved so it appears as if you're looking out of Master Chief's visor). You can see the shield grenade there too as the 4th grenade type :) as well as
The Arbiter
.
 
Hmm, I'm still convinced the shield grenade is used with the X button.

I just don't see how it can be used as a simple grenade, surely you would have to look directly at the floor for it to take effect?

I havn't seen the video yet, so I can't judge well enough.
 
Sean said:
I didn't like fighting against the Brutes in Halo 2, and it's good to see Bungie address all the flaws with them. The Brutes in Halo 3 look a lot more fun to fight against. Some of the cool stuff they showed the Brutes doing:

- Stretching a marine out and tearing off both of his arms
- Smashing a marine right in the head with its giant hammer
- Holding a marine above its head and then tossing him
- Ramming a marine into a wall
- Stomping on a marine to death and then pounding its chest
- Running into a warthog, flipping it over
- Brute packs which is a bunch of Brutes working together... they showed a character being stuck in the corner while several brutes were just tearing him to pieces :lol

They also showed an Elite dual wielding swords and slicing the arms off a Brute then stabbing him in the chest! It was a really bad ass animation.

Also at the 1:53 mark you can see the new HUD - it's as Luke described it (slightly curved so it appears as if you're looking out of Master Chief's visor). You can see the shield grenade there too as the 4th grenade type :) as well as
The Arbiter
.
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It's a pokeball.
 
FFChris said:
Hmm, I'm still convinced the shield grenade is used with the X button.

I just don't see how it can be used as a simple grenade, surely you would have to look directly at the floor for it to take effect?
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Not necessarily. Even if it used as a normal grenade it would still be possible to code so that you don't need to aim. Or maybe a you can throw them around all you wan't, so that you can put upp protections for your comrades
 
NinjaDOF[MSV] said:
Not necessarily. Even if it used as a normal grenade it would still be possible to code so that you don't need to aim. Or maybe a you can throw them around all you wan't, so that you can put upp protections for your comrades
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Well then comes the argument that if you run out of offensive grenades (Spike, Plasma, Frag) in the heat of battle...you will end up throwing shield grenades, that's a pretty terrible design flaw.

I've had a look at the video, since it's really low res all I can see is 4 icons with what looks to be quantities beside them. That doesn't mean they are all grenades, just that they can all be collected.

I don't know though, it's not like I havn't been wrong before!
 
Milhouse31 said:
It's kind of underwhelming. Isn't Halo3 supposed to make GOW its bitch graphic-wise ?
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No. Actually Bungie stated that they were going to focus on other things.

Which worries me a little.
 
Prepare for disappointment on the graphics side...

Funky Papa said:
No. Actually Bungie stated that they were going to focus on other things.

Which worries me a little.
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They said that they´re making the graphics beautiful in another way than GoW. But they believe that the Halo 3 graphics will be the best the 360 has to offer when it´s out.
 
Frenck said:
They have a new look, new AI and they have ranks now plus the new finishing moves. A complete redesign.
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Well, the new AI is a given. At least fighting Brutes will be much more fun now.
 
PnCIa said:
Prepare for disappointment on the graphics side...


They said that they´re making the graphics beautiful in another way than GoW. But they believe that the Halo 3 graphics will be the best the 360 has to offer when it´s out.
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Gears of War owns Halo thing...
 
PnCIa said:
Prepare for disappointment on the graphics side...


They said that they´re making the graphics beautiful in another way than GoW. But they believe that the Halo 3 graphics will be the best the 360 has to offer when it´s out.
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Yeah, that's right (I have a hazzy memory)
 
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