HDR is in and from what I hear it is likely to be special.
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HDR is in and from what I hear it is likely to be special.
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And i 100% Believe that Halo infinite will be the most visually/technically impressive games of 2020.
nice!
Sorry, not familiar with people on this site yet, but do you actually have inside knowledge or just speculating?
He recently had an exclusive with MS regarding the HDR BC feature on XSX, so he'll have spoken to a few people there.
Completely agreed. Kind of makes me think, didn't Minecraft have poor reviews when it first launched? Can't think that Fornite and other massively popular games had raving reviews up front either.
Can't exactly blame the reviewers at large, as sometimes a game just doesn't personally jive with them. Judging an art form like a video game, with so much complexity and so many intermingling aspects (music, story, visual art, etc) is far too subjective an endeavor. Taking a metacritic is probably the safest route, but even then, you have sample bias as essentially the entire pool of reviewers are people who play video games for a living and that comes with certain expectations.
At the end of the day, there is no perfect way to evaluate art in any form. That's why letting other people influence how you feel about a game should not be a big factor, it's only how you feel that matters.
Thanks for letting me know! Interesting insight, encouraging that Halo Infinite will indeed make use of HDR. My new TV will be very grateful :)
HDR is the single best visual improvement to happen in the last decade so I can't wait to see how it's implemented. Hopefully they will release proper HDR footage. The lack of pre-release HDR trailers and videos even for recent AAA first party releases is an endless source of frustration.
If you don't have an HDR TV yet, wait until Variable Refresh becomes more standardized and better supported. Shouldn't take more than a year.
You'll be blown away, BTW.
Done well and it really adds to the overall look of a game. Done badly and people just turn it off haha.
Jup, I started getting more distant from reviews, when I really liked games.. and reviewers just hated it. After a few of those I just realized I liked different things from what the majority of electronic gamers liked. And just bought the thinks I liked without caring any longer. :P. I hardly by AAA games any more, as Indie games are miles ahead of them in gameplay usually :).
I haven't played Minecraft Dungeons yet (it looks like a good choice for playing casually with my friends), but I was a bit surprised when Jim was saying on his podcast that "Microsoft still thinks that Minecraft is for kids, but those kids are teenagers now!" This isn't true. Older kids love Minecraft, but really young kids love it too, and there aren't many games on non-Nintendo/mobile platforms for kids under 10, and for console gaming to survive, kids (and non-gamers too!) need somewhere to start with. Exposing these kids to a diverse range of genres is also important too.
While reviewers are probably correct in saying that it could have had more depth without ruining it for kids, with couch co-op, Dungeons seems like it has great potential as a family game, and those games are important for inexperienced players to learn how to play. I know LEGO Star Wars will always hold a special place in my heart for being one of my first games I actually enjoyed when I was trying to get into gaming as an adult, because I definitely would have quit if every experience was as difficult for a new gamer as Halo 3 on very easy!
Special in what way ?
I mean Hdr can either be good or bad, so do you "just" mean it will be a great implementation of it ? Probably a language thing, sorry
YEah, also was surprised by that. But didn't wish to push it too much, as he has his reasons, and that might not be a reason he can help. Like how reviewers don't understand why some games are very good for the audience they are aimed at. And people forget Consoles are a TOY, and toys are for kids of all ages 😜.
(That doesn't mean games can't be art, but some of us need to lighten up sometiems ;)).
They are going to huge effort (and expense) beyond anything I'm aware of in a game so far.
Yup, but the engine is built future Xbox hardware, 343i would've been in direct contact with Jason Ronalds team. Slipspace is supposed to carry Halo for the next decade so it needs to robust at scaling. Its going to be a stunner on Xbox SX. I feel nervous for Xbox One/S only gamers though, but visual fidelity probably doesn't matter to those that intend to play on there.
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343 are a visual powerhouse imo. Halo 4 was one of the best looking games last gen, and Halo 5 looks fantastic despite the sacrifices to meet 60FPS (couple of screens I took)
I've no reason to doubt 343's visual capabilities with Halo infinite, even with their priorities being latency, frame rate etc.
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I know it's his schtick, but he can sometimes be such a gaming elitist that it's frustratingly negative and reinforces the gatekeeping impression that a lot of hardcore gamers can give off.
I hate gatekeeping in every form, but in stuff I'm passionate about like games ("this feature is too simplistic, hence it appeals to a casual audience, hence it is bad") or sports ("I've been a fan of this team since the beginning, you have NO RIGHT to become a fan now that they're in the playoffs, bandwagoner!") are particularly frustrating.
COME ONE, COME ALL, BANDWAGON FANS!
You what love?
Why not?
343 have been able to make absolutely stunning games in the past, Halo 5 being 60fps was borderline magic.
Given extra horsepower a brand new engine and knowledge gathered from the generation I could easily see Halo Infinites only competition this year being Cyberpunk 2077.
If they need to tone down number of NPC to run on the base console they can do that, graphical settings they can push down to potato mode if need be.
But the Series X and Ampere versions of the game are gonna be mind melting.
Man same here! I have beat it 2 times now with some friends. Going on Adventure Mode with the highest default....WOW...gonna have to get better at the game lol
My hope as well. Imagine searching a looted hardware store with thousands of usable items to rummage through.
This is what I want. Less bags of Food/Ammo, more items that you have to break down into useable materials.
Once HDR was implemented in Forza Horizon 3 afterwards the game looked like 10 times better and there was that "wow" effect.
It really is a difference maker and even "ugly" looking games can really benefit from it. Lighting is key and will be even better with next Gen.
Just the narrative I've seen over the last few weeks that the Series X is somehow being held back by the One. A narrative I disagree with. We're obviously in for a treat with Infinite. I wouldn't be surprised in the least of it was 4K/60 on Series X.
It's very good. Massive potential for a sequel if they take what they have now and expand upon it in every way.
Game gets really really difficult on the higher levels of Adventure mode. Can't imagine how difficult it will be to complete on Apocalypse.
Microsoft-published games are Steam top sellers on a regular basis. Your argument is invalid.
I'm a big XBox fan but it's a no-brainer to me that if you're building a game whose AI and other game mechanics have to scale down to a Jaguar CPU then you're not going to have the same kind of game as if you were targeting the new gen solely as your baseline.
Which is why I suspect we'll see Halo Infinte @ 30fps on X1 and 60fps on SX among other things.
People fail to realize there's no making up for time and resources for the highest tier of AAA games. Nor how the switch to x86 architecture by both Xbox and PS has accelerated the efficiency of scalability in engines.
Pretty exciting stuff, especially when you consider that similar investments are being made across the board for audio/visual. Man, I can't believe we still know nothing about the game given how huge it seemingly is going to be.
I am curious how they'll get by on XBO, as the 30fps enemy animations were super distracting in H5. Do they go 30fps for campaign, (XBO) which is clearly going to be pretty large in scope, and then 60fps for MP across the board?
Not too long until we find out...
I guarantee Halo Infinite will be one of the most impressive games, if not the most impressive, at launch. Once again it takes time and resources to really make full use of upgraded specs and be able to design accordingly.
I wonder if MS is going to postpone whatever they were going to show in June. They seemingly got kind of lucky scheduling their big event for July.
I agree in a general sense, but those games probably aren't going to be ready to release for another year or two on either platform.
This is reasonable to assume, but Slipspace was built with this pain point in mind, and I doubt the designers would feel launching the game on Xbox SX to show a prettier Xbox One game would be acceptable or even satisfactory for them and the team. They took 5 years off for this custom Xbox engine, with direct input from MS hardware/software team. I feel we're all going to be surprised.
I went back and checked a few games and it seems to be pretty random, some game pass games are tracking and some games I bought aren't. Same with achievements, they weren't popping for the Kingdom Hearts collection, but now I'm playing Yakuza Kiwami and they are.
Yeah exactly. It's not that hard to understand that graphically and design wise there will be some limitations with Infinite because it also is being developed for XB1. Has any crossgen game(edit: not counting crossgen games developed separately) ever looked as good or better than the best looking non crossgen games releasing around the same timeframe? Doubt it.
Doesn't mean the game can't look great and can't be an overall excellent game though. I think it will be.
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