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Re: Meh. Maybe.
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>Date: 10/3/12 7:31 p.m.

In Response To: Meh. Maybe. (uberfoop)


: I detailed my issues with CEA's visuals at extreme length a while ago , so I
: won't reiterate the specifics. In short, though, I consider CEA to be
: lacking in value. It provides us with none of CE's multiplayer, and what I
: consider to be an inferior version of the campaign whose shininess and
: image quality doesn't come remotely close to making up for the losses in
: raw aesthetic power. To cap it off, the "classic mode"
: functionality used to provide a comparison with the original game is an
: ugly, poor representation of CE due to being a sketchy Halo PC port.

What? I'll agree on there being issues with the new visuals, but classic mode looks fine, what's wrong with it?

: A Halo 2 Anniversary would perhaps turn out somewhat better, though, for
: several reasons:
: -Online multiplayer would be much more likely to show up
: than for CEA. This is because peer-to-peer networking for Halo 2 has
: always existed; more or less the only work that would have to be done to
: get Halo 2's MP working again would be modifying the lobby system to
: recognize modern XBL accounts.

Firstly, they'd also have to replace the physics engine (already done in the PC version) and redo the entire animation system, and I'd hope they'd improve the netcode too, and I wouldn't be mad if they made the shotgun a little more consistent. Secondly, if they didn't want the first game competing with current ones, what makes you think they'll be OK with a revamped Halo 2 competing with them?

: -Better planning could improve the smoothness of development, both due to
: experience dealing with outsourcing these things and due to not fitting
: the entire development period into a single year.
: -Halo 2's ports have historically been much more visually accurate than CE's.
: Halo 2 Vista does a decent job of representing Halo 2, and aside from the
: ghost image issue, so does the software emulation in the 360. Things like
: animated fog that have never worked for CE outside of running it native on
: oXbox work fine in other versions of Halo 2. So, a classic mode for a H2A
: has a good chance of being vastly more faithful than that of CEA.

um, no? I thought that was the reason Backwash was taken out of matchmaking, because rendering the fog on the 360 had unpredictable and/or ugly results... am I remembering wrong?

You cannot fall off the floor.


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Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Rice 10/2/12 1:13 a.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Quirel 10/2/12 1:30 a.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Ragashingo 10/2/12 2:00 a.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?FyreWulff 10/2/12 3:02 a.m.
           Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?FyreWulff 10/2/12 3:03 a.m.
           Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?General Vagueness 10/3/12 6:53 p.m.
     Meh. Maybe.uberfoop 10/2/12 3:24 a.m.
           Re: Meh. Maybe.Rice 10/2/12 4:00 a.m.
           Re: Meh. Maybe.General Vagueness 10/3/12 7:31 p.m.
                 Re: Meh. Maybe.uberfoop 10/3/12 8:02 p.m.
                       Re: Meh. Maybe.General Vagueness 10/5/12 12:09 a.m.
                             Re: Meh. Maybe.uberfoop 10/5/12 3:01 a.m.
                                   Re: Meh. Maybe.General Vagueness 10/11/12 1:31 p.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Archilen 10/2/12 7:32 a.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?kapowaz 10/2/12 7:49 a.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Captain Spark 10/2/12 11:50 a.m.
     I would like an H2A...Nikko B201 10/2/12 5:19 p.m.
           Re: I would like an H2A...General Vagueness 10/3/12 9:09 p.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 10/2/12 6:44 p.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Leviathan 10/2/12 7:46 p.m.
           Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 10/2/12 10:26 p.m.
     Re: Halo 2 : Anniversary by time of Halo 5?dogcom 10/5/12 10:26 a.m.



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