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do the graphics actually look as good as they do here?:





Reason I'm asking is that I remember the promo vids for halo 1 looked really nice, but the actual game looked less "glossy".

So if you were to take a screenshot of halo3 right now, would it look exactly the same quality as in these pics?

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riddla wrote:posting in yet another redundant H3 topic

Hi welcome to a gaming forum. That sort of place that gets 1000 threads based off of high profile releases.

Enjoy your stay.

OOOooooohhhhh....shiny bump maps.

This game must be next-gen.

Julios...for the record...a bunch of us were playing it today at lunch and 99% of us said,"Looks just like Halo 2."

tf2 looks better...

riddla wrote:

SOAPboy wrote:Hi welcome to a gaming forum. That sort of place that gets 1000 threads based off of high profile releases.

Enjoy your stay.

quoting the forum dolt in a redundant H3 thread

Moron?

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Julios...for the record...a bunch of us were playing it today at lunch and 99% of us said,"Looks just like Halo 2."

so my next question is, and this is something i've wondered for years:

what do they do to the promo vids and screenies, which are claimed as being engine shots, to make them look so much better?

shaft wrote:http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33745&start=35
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that topic was already 3 pages long by the time i thought about my question, and I want to focus on a specific issue here.

What does it take for somebody to get banned these days, or at least edited in GD?

[xeno]Julios wrote:

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Julios...for the record...a bunch of us were playing it today at lunch and 99% of us said,"Looks just like Halo 2."

so my next question is, and this is something i've wondered for years:

what do they do to the promo vids and screenies, which are claimed as being engine shots, to make them look so much better?

why do you listen to him?? jesus... you ge the answer you are looking for and your mind is made up...

Yes, that is what it looks like in game all the time! Nothing in the games is prerendered, it is all real time. Just look at the screenshots that were posted. Which promo vids are you talking about?

those screenies in at other thread don't look like the screeny in this thread...unless ur a moron...

andyman wrote:
Yes, that is what it looks like in game all the time! Nothing in the games is prerendered, it is all real time. Just look at the screenshots that were posted. Which promo vids are you talking about?

ah went and checked out the screenies in other thread - they look pretty good but hard to make a direct comparison.

It's just that countless times I've seen promo vids and screenies which are engine based, and they have some glossy quality to them that's lacking in the actual screenies, even when the screenies are taken with full quality settings on and antialiasing.

andy can u take a screenie that takes a close-up of the model with similar lighting conditions as the second pic i posted? And put it on super high settings. I wanna make a better comparison.

Pfft. Don't make the man jump through hoops.

Just buy the damned game and see for yourself. Cheap cunt.
Put that oversized greymatter of yours to rest for an hour and have some stupid fun.

Fag.

I think it looks far better than the alpha shots you posted.

Hell, he looks awful in those pics...

Play the intro level, then tell me it looks like Halo 2...

Incoming Halo fanboi fagg0t alert.

[xeno]Julios wrote:andy can u take a screenie that takes a close-up of the model with similar lighting conditions as the second pic i posted? And put it on super high settings. I wanna make a better comparison.

I don't know how to change the resolution settings.. but if i see a scene where it looks like that I'll go back and take a snappy. Might be a while though, I got some things to do today lol

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Pfft. Don't make the man jump through hoops.

Just buy the damned game and see for yourself. Cheap cunt.
Put that oversized greymatter of yours to rest for an hour and have some stupid fun.

Fag.

my pc is quite old, and the last console i owned was an NES

All from in game, 1080p.
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thanks a bunch shaft - they're very nice indeed, though I still think the screenshots at the beginning of this thread are better. Might be a jpeg compression issue, or just a matter of capturing the model in the right lighting, but the textures in the first two shots seem so much more detailed.

Probably, there might be a little cg editing in the pics too to make em look better. I don't think ingame looks that good but it's not far...

The replay's are amazing and the ability to pause, play in slo mo and other features make it an amazing game. I highly recommend it.

looks just like H2, shaft.

I play it at 720p and it looks nowhere as good as those pics shaft... whats the secret? 1080p?

yep