--New HALO 3 screenshots--

First image looks like trash. Second looks uninteresting obviously because it's showing off forge. Third is redeemed by the Elite model.

Even then, they're all still bullshots. God knows how the first looks so bad even though it is one.

Nice and crisp....and is that Guilty Spark I see in the second pic?

They look really nice.

Nice and crisp....and is that Guilty Spark I see in the second pic?

SgtWhiskeyjack

Yeah, apparently you turn into him when you go a'forgin during a game.

Nice and crisp....and is that Guilty Spark I see in the second pic?

SgtWhiskeyjack

Yes.

During FORGE mode one takes the appearance of a monitor.

The elite looks marvelous.

last one looks great

the marines look like crap in the irst one

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CB4McGusto

:lol: :lol:

wtf is a bullshot?lespaul1919

My gosh scroll all the way to the right and look at the first pic. SO MUCH BLOOM.

wtf is a bullshot?lespaul1919

Usually, it's a screenshot taken at a much higher resolution than the game actually runs at, and is then downscaled (this is a bit similar to the rendering technique Super Sampling, a form of Anti-Aliasing that is extremely taxing on hardware.) The result is an extremely smooth, high-quality look (no jagged edges anywhere.) Developers, particularly console devs, pull this crap all the time to make the game look better in screenshots than it actually does in-game.

Sometimes "bullshot" is used to refer to screenshot doctoring, but that doesn't seem to happen very often nowadays from what I can tell.

Another one:

[QUOTE="lespaul1919"]wtf is a bullshot?Velocitas8

Usually, it's a screenshot taken at a much higher resolution than the game actually runs at, and is then downscaled (this is similar to the rendering technique Super Sampling, which is extremely taxing on hardware.) The result is an extremely smooth, high-quality look (no jagged edges anywhere.) Developers, particularly console devs, pull this crap all the time to make the game look better in screenshots than it actually does in-game.

I've seen it all.

[QUOTE="lespaul1919"]wtf is a bullshot?nintendofreak_2

My gosh scroll all the way to the right and look at the first pic. SO MUCH BLOOM.

those screens aren't edited at all.

Another one:

ToScA-

MY EYES:cry: !!!!!

Another one:

ToScA-

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Another one:

Rougehunter

Man...the lighting is the best on 360.

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Another one:

Cubs360

Man...the lighting is the best on 360.

That is highly impressive...and something you can use for a tactical advantage :)

Hey!!!

Whats that first vehicle?

Something like a warthog mixed with a personel carrier.

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Another one:

SgtWhiskeyjack

Man...the lighting is the best on 360.

That is highly impressive...and something you can use for a tactical advantage :)

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[QUOTE="lespaul1919"]wtf is a bullshot?lespaul1919

My gosh scroll all the way to the right and look at the first pic. SO MUCH BLOOM.

those screens aren't edited at all.

Nope, they aren't edited.

However they aren't totally representative of how the game looks either. That isn't 4xMSAA. Anyone familiar with Anti-Aliasing would recognize this to obviously be more along the lines of 16xAA, which the game can't possibly be supporting for a couple reasons:

1) The 360's 10MB of eDRAM couldn't handle a framebuffer that massive, even when employing tiling (especially since the game also utilizes HDR.)

2) The game's framerate would slow to a slideshow.

Hey!!!

Whats that first vehicle?

Something like a warthog mixed with a personel carrier.

leejohnson7

It's still a Warthog, however it's a modified one called a Troop Transport Warthog.

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Hey!!!

Whats that first vehicle?

Something like a warthog mixed with a personel carrier.

ToScA-

It's still a Warthog, however it's a modified one called a Troop Transport Warthog.

I see.

Thats new to Halo 3 I'll take it, I've only played the first.

First 2 pics look crap. Every other one in this thread from then on looks awesome. We haven't seen much of the marines yet. Could this be to hide their fugliness, or to shock us with photorealistic modeling and animation? 2 weeks until we find the answer to that one :D

[EDIT]-Actually, the first looks awesome. Heaps of detail on just about everything with a few rough edges that kill the shot a little.

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Hey!!!

Whats that first vehicle?

Something like a warthog mixed with a personel carrier.

leejohnson7

It's still a Warthog, however it's a modified one called a Troop Transport Warthog.

I see.

Thats new to Halo 3 I'll take it, I've only played the first.

Yeah. Bungie was actually going to put that Warthog variation (among others) in Halo 2, but they decided not to later in the development cycle.

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Hey!!!

Whats that first vehicle?

Something like a warthog mixed with a personel carrier.

leejohnson7

It's still a Warthog, however it's a modified one called a Troop Transport Warthog.

I see.

Thats new to Halo 3 I'll take it, I've only played the first.

Correct. It is a new addition to the series :)

First 2 pics look crap. Every other one in this thread from then on looks awesome. We haven't seen much of the marines yet. Could this be to hide their fugliness, or to shock us with photorealistic modeling and animation? 2 weeks until we find the answer to that one :DMegaPigeon

The Marines remind me of the Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War -_-..Both in their artistic likeness and model quality, heh.

wtf is TCHBOLinKuei_warrior

The Cows Have Been Owned :D

First 2 pics look crap. Every other one in this thread from then on looks awesome. We haven't seen much of the marines yet. Could this be to hide their fugliness, or to shock us with photorealistic modeling and animation? 2 weeks until we find the answer to that one :D

EDIT-Actually, the first looks awesome. Heaps of detail on just about everything with a few rough edges that kill the shot a little.

MegaPigeon

I still have a hard time accepting that only two weeks remain. It feels as if this long awaited sequel came along almost too fast:P

[QUOTE="LinKuei_warrior"]wtf is TCHBOMegaPigeon

The Cows Have Been Owned :D

ty for showing me an example in your sig:p

[QUOTE="LinKuei_warrior"]wtf is TCHBOMegaPigeon

The Cows Have Been Owned :D

If you do what PS3_3DO did with it though you can be modded.

[QUOTE="MegaPigeon"]

First 2 pics look crap. Every other one in this thread from then on looks awesome. We haven't seen much of the marines yet. Could this be to hide their fugliness, or to shock us with photorealistic modeling and animation? 2 weeks until we find the answer to that one :D

EDIT-Actually, the first looks awesome. Heaps of detail on just about everything with a few rough edges that kill the shot a little.

ToScA-

I still have a hard time accepting that only two weeks remain. It feels as if this long awaited sequel came along almost too fast:P

Halo 3?

2 weeks? lol I haven't noticed time fly like that.

[QUOTE="ToScA-"][QUOTE="MegaPigeon"]

First 2 pics look crap. Every other one in this thread from then on looks awesome. We haven't seen much of the marines yet. Could this be to hide their fugliness, or to shock us with photorealistic modeling and animation? 2 weeks until we find the answer to that one :D

EDIT-Actually, the first looks awesome. Heaps of detail on just about everything with a few rough edges that kill the shot a little.

leejohnson7

I still have a hard time accepting that only two weeks remain. It feels as if this long awaited sequel came along almost too fast:P

Halo 3?

2 weeks? lol I haven't noticed time fly like that.

Nobody has :D

And if your in America, it's a mere 12 days :o