HALO 3 Official Thread

Tried&Tested said:
Thanks for the games tonight people, but this really isn't my cup of tea at all. Campaign is underwhelming and i can't see myself going back to it. Online play, while fun, isn't for me. In MM if anyone wants to save a few squids.
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I just went to list mine on the MM and saw yours. As soon as yours is old I'm putting mine on.

I tried but cannot see the facination with this game at all. Although GFX arent everything they are rubbish.

Weapons just dont grab me and the voice chat is **** Whats that all about, half the fun is the banter and most of the time it was silent.

Its fast paced and the Lobbys good but the game still feels flat to me weapons wise.
 
dannyjo22 said:
I just went to list mine on the MM and saw yours. As soon as yours is old I'm putting mine on.

I tried but cannot see the facination with this game at all. Although GFX arent everything they are rubbish.

Weapons just dont grab me and the voice chat is **** Whats that all about, half the fun is the banter and most of the time it was silent.

Its fast paced and the Lobbys good but the game still feels flat to me weapons wise.
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Cheers for waiting :)

I never liked the previous Halo games either. Stupidly i thought they'd try something a bit different with this one..nope. Skate should be here tomorrow...fingers crossed that's not a let down either.
 
mmj_uk said:
So they were telling us porkies about free AA then?
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That gets on my nerves as well, the hype for the 360 included the 4xfsaa caper. I asked about this a while ago and supposodly its only games that use a specific rendering mode that can take advantage of it.

Funny how all the screenshots though get anti aliased just like pgr.
 
Tried&Tested said:
Cheers for waiting :)

I never liked the previous Halo games either. Stupidly i thought they'd try something a bit different with this one..nope. Skate should be here tomorrow...fingers crossed that's not a let down either.
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I can understand people liking it, its just not for me. I had tried the COD demo and thought that was light years ahead. For me this feels like something from 10 years ago. I like to feel like Ive actually fired a weapon. To me it just feels odd.

I have sega rally coming tommorow, ive had the text to say its been sent so I can MP that instead ;)
 
Finally started the game tonight, having had it all day ! Playing on heroic, and I'm finding I'm constantly getting sniped. Got a terrible feeling I'm going to have to start again on a lower difficulty ! Anyone got any tips?
 
Ol!ver said:
Finally started the game tonight, having had it all day ! Playing on heroic, and I'm finding I'm constantly getting sniped. Got a terrible feeling I'm going to have to start again on a lower difficulty ! Anyone got any tips?
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Try not to get shot :D

Go into cover then come out and shoot.
 
Good games with the OcUK crowd tonight.

However... I'm just not getting it. The guns all feel 'soft' and apart from this shield thing I have no feedback as to if I'm hitting someone. GoW multiplayer was so much more fun. Oh and the graphics are awful, not what I'd expect from such a big game.

Still, its worth it for the hilarity of you lot in MP.
 
Ol!ver said:
You've not put Halo 2 in by mistake have you? :eek:
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I can understand where he's coming from - Halo 3 is one of the most aliased 360 games I've seen to date, and it helps no end when there's a lot of wires and foliage and small details etc in the game. Bungie sacrificed multisampling for high texture quality, but I think it's a hefty price to pay and would have settled for slightly lower everything else just for smoothing to be enabled.

Just looking at the screenshots mode shows how well detailed the world is - the geometry and texturing are topnotch but the aliasing really lets it down.

I mean, look at the screens I've taken - the screens are taken with only a 1920x1080 and 4xAA brushup - and you can really see that the world and models themselves are quality pieces of work.
 
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MP is fun from what I've seen tonight but the sheer ugliness of the game is going to put me off it in the long run. I don't understand how cod4 can maintain 60fps and still look somewhat respectable but halo has to come out looking so bland to get the same sort of framerates.
 
The graphics put me off the SP but this game is not about SP its about MP and the MP is great, fast paced, team based, it should be great and people will play it for ages.

GoW blows this game out of the sky for visual but Halo 3 is ahead for gameplay by miles.
 
Kronologic said:
I must be playing a different game to some of you. The game looks bloody amazing. Sure its not as pretty as the games made using the Unreal 3 engine. But they are by no means shabby at all.
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From the right angle on my D3000 it looks a beast with game mode on, but the SP just lacks something, the MP looks miles better in terms of textures and AA

MP is a right laugh as always with you lot.

Whats the butter south park song, got any links?
 
Kronologic said:
I must be playing a different game to some of you. The game looks bloody amazing. Sure its not as pretty as the games made using the Unreal 3 engine. But they are by no means shabby at all.
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Well put it this way the people complaing about the graphics hardly ever played Halo 2 (or atleast never played with us)

Both of us have been playing it for 3 years (and more with Halo 1) so we know more or less what to expect from the graphics and quite honestly while I was playing the campaign I thought to myself "hey this looks just like Halo 2" (Not that its a bad thing because I still think Halo 2 looks damn good even 3 years after its release)

I wasn't blown away by the graphics, but I wasnt expecting to be anyway :)
I really wouldn't care if it looked like Halo 1 if I'm honest
 
cheets64 said:
The graphics put me off the SP but this game is not about SP its about MP and the MP is great, fast paced, team based, it should be great and people will play it for ages.

GoW blows this game out of the sky for visual but Halo 3 is ahead for gameplay by miles.
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It's not about Graphics either, ;)
 
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