Halo 5: Launch Gameplay Trailer
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You are the man Stinkles. I've spent years trying to get this guy to jump in, even texting the number you are asking for. It says something that the Halo 5 you guys made finally did it. Cheers.
Sure, whatever.
You totally can't tell how bad the texture filtering is in these screenshots, yup. Whatever you say, buddy.
I'm sure the texture filtering will be better on your TV. lol
oh noes the texture filtering isn't up to your standards
EVERYONE THROW YOUR XBO IN THE GARBAGE
Reach was my favorite in the series, but I agree with 4 (never played MCC). I was adamant that I would stick to a single console this gen, but with this and gears around the corner, I can feel my resolve weakening.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I think it's just pointing to the greater theme overall. Halo 5 is supposed to "change the Halo universe", so I bet this is just the "beginning" of that.
Hope it's not just about chasing chief and then getting a cliffhanger. Doubt they would do that with how negative the backlash was against Halo 2's ending. The reason it ended that way in the first place was because of a lack of development time.
That's a mean thing to say about your coworkers.
MrCookiepants
Member
That was a really terrible trailer in my opinion. Halo used to have this cool alien atmosphere going for it, but this just looks dumb and over the top.
First Halo game I'm skipping.
First Halo game I'm skipping.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Looks fun as hell, and a bit more light hearted with playful banter and likeable supporting characters. I didn't play Reach but as far as the rest I think this is a first for the main Halo games.
Having said that I've gotta say: gaaaawd is Master Chief a boring character or what!? Thankfully the game will stand on its own with or without MC but he's so boring, so one-note, so unidimensional goody two shoes Boy Scout it's not even funny. Hard to make me care for relate to him when they don't even show his face, much less actual personality. And no I haven't read the expanded universe crap. You're supposed to make me care with the games, not make me read 5 novels.
Also: yey Nathan Fillion!!! But wasn't he also one of the soldiers in Reach? Like I said I didn't play it but wasn't that a prequel where they all died?
Having said that I've gotta say: gaaaawd is Master Chief a boring character or what!? Thankfully the game will stand on its own with or without MC but he's so boring, so one-note, so unidimensional goody two shoes Boy Scout it's not even funny. Hard to make me care for relate to him when they don't even show his face, much less actual personality. And no I haven't read the expanded universe crap. You're supposed to make me care with the games, not make me read 5 novels.
Also: yey Nathan Fillion!!! But wasn't he also one of the soldiers in Reach? Like I said I didn't play it but wasn't that a prequel where they all died?
LegalEagleMike
Member
Fillion's character Buck was in ODST. Which took place during parts of 2 and 3. He also made an appearance in Reach but you didnt play as him.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Ah my bad.
So I take it he survived and this guy in H5 is the same character from ODST right?
Kssio_Aug
Member
Right!
blue_phazon
Member
Halo has always been over the top??????????????????????????????????
He became a Spartan IV before the events of Halo 5.
LegalEagleMike
Member
Yep, and he has gone through the Spartan IV program, which is like a more streamlined less child stealing/abuse version of what Master Chief went through.
fuzzyreactor
Banned
how are people denying the AF issues
it's super visible. Game still looks good though
it's super visible. Game still looks good though
No one is denying AF, I just think it's cherry picking or nitpicking when it's not as noticeable in motion.
This video shows as much:
http://news.xbox.com/api/mediacart/download/462d549179ad4954b6dda62179fc66cc
Alex_Mexico
Member
From that trailer alone I already like him better than 14 years worth of Master Chief. At least Fillion's character has a face. Now I know Spartan IV soldiers do show their faces.
I can't overstate just how boring Master Chief is to me. They tried so hard to make him badass that he's just now predictable, lame and cookie cutter.
The only place he is a cookie cutter character is in the Bungie games, in the books he has a lot more personality and an actual identity.
LegalEagleMike
Member
Everyone likes Buck its true. Many people have stated they wished Buck was the new main character instead of Locke.
Monocle
Member
Poor man's Samus. I'm not big on the wacky armor designs.
Vale > everyone
Knowing me though, I'll do a 180 on this as soon as something cool happens in a cutscene.
The way your phrasing shortcuts implies an inpatient and reckless choice to get somewhere and somehow the result is not desirable. Is this what you think?
Actually, filtering on sharp transparency like that tends to be one of the more obvious artifacts in any scene in any game that uses stuff like it. Too blurry and you lose the natural undersampling effect of the grating, too sharp and the scene is filled with high-power aliasing. But the issue comes partly from how occlusion is captured at the output, so beefing up the texture filtering alone won't make those surfaces perfect.
High-order supersampling would do the trick, but good luck with that.
I miss-read, yeah super-sampling is most likely not going to happen.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Well I don't care. If I have to read all the expanded universe crap just to get invested in the main character of the Halo franchise's meat & potatoes (at least 5 videogames) that's their fault and their shitty writing. I shouldn't have to hunt down all those books, drama CDs, board games and POGs to like the main protagonist.
It's a good thing they're fun to play but as far as the 4 main Halo games I've played they have mediocre characters and a terribly boring one-note, if visually memorable (I'll give him that), main character.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Lol smh
"Good luck with that" as in "it's not a viable solution." I wasn't making any sort of comment as to how much someone will or won't notice the issue.
Whatever bro, thanks for adding to the conversation.
I was busy with something else and miss-read, I already corrected my statement.
Can't even accidentally miss-read a comment and fix it within a minute in here without someone jumping my crap...
It's a good thing that 343 is actually working to flesh out his character then. I agree that you shouldn't have to read a bunch of books in order to get a better background on a character(although honestly Fall of Reach would be good enough on its own.).
Bornstellar
Member
Monocle
Member
I like her more already.
Ein Bear
Member
#TeamBuck
Actually, if it were up to me, I'd have brought the entire ODST crew back as the second playable squad. Swap out Locke, Tanaka and Vale for Mickey, Dutch and Romeo. Aww yeah.
Twilight Gap
Member
surprised the elite's shoulder didn't break after she jumped on it though
Yeah, I just.. can't get excited. I stopped at Reach and I feel 343 really haven't convinced me that I need to play Halo these days and get an Xbone.
It really is just all over the top - I remember Halo being a little mysterious, a sense of wonder and dread at the same time. I get games have to get bigger and 'badder' with each sequel but it doesn't sit right with me personally again much like Halo 4.
It really is just all over the top - I remember Halo being a little mysterious, a sense of wonder and dread at the same time. I get games have to get bigger and 'badder' with each sequel but it doesn't sit right with me personally again much like Halo 4.
Monocle
Member
Sometimes I forget how ridiculously heavy Spartans are.
343 could play that up for comedy. Squish a Grunt or something. Pratfall on an insurrectionist. (I'm full of ideas.)
iPhone am cry.
In his defense I think he is genuinely concerned. I mean if you were to play the whole game zoomed in 10x and only stare at one portion of your screen you *might* notice some texture effects are missing.
Personally I will play it unzoomed and enjoy that buttery smooth 60 fps.
Also I'd take those lacking texture effects over the 30fps with consistent drops of many other exclusive games this gen, all day every day. Game looks awesome.
Worse. Macbook Pro Retina lol. Neither Safari nor Chrome seemed to load it smoothly.
Monocle
Member
Lol, damn.
Bungie's Spartans, maybe, but these guys are just wearing skintight bodysuits with a few metal bits glued to them here and there. Vale's armor would have to be paper thin if she's not secretly a magically animated skeleton.
#TeamSecretSkeleton
Monocle
Member
OK I'm back to liking her less now.
Spartan IIs are the best and only true Spartans. You can ask anyone.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Well we'll see about that with Halo 5 because I did play Halo 4 and Master Chief was as one-note and boring as ever. They did attempted to flesh out Cortana but, in my opinion, was forced, badly written, and incredibly cringe worthy ("never lie to a girl"....."take a girl for a ride?" Ugh) with a dumb "love" story that left me more creeped out than interested.
She's an A.I. and he's a faceless brute with no personality of course I'm can't bring myself to care about their fucked up "romance".
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
If you want a better idea of what the game looks like in motion you should watch this video:
http://news.xbox.com/api/mediacart/download/462d549179ad4954b6dda62179fc66cc
It honestly doesn;t looi like anything that will distract me. On another note, is that one baddy on the right actually jumping the baddy on the left?
KiboSenshi
Neo Member
I assume that elite is apart of arby's militia