Reviewer: Halo:ODST is Underwhelming

[QUOTE="dragonfly110"]

Im sorry brown but that screenshot is nowhere near accurate, that looks like a halo 1 shot this is probably more close to being an accurate assumption of the games visuals:

while true its still no gears or killzone, its still far better then that screen you posted made it look.

bronxxbombers

Heres a better one then Brown pasted, and lets not forget, this one is online MP, with a lot of enemies on screen, and tons more off.

[QUOTE="bronxxbombers"]

[QUOTE="dragonfly110"]

Im sorry brown but that screenshot is nowhere near accurate, that looks like a halo 1 shot this is probably more close to being an accurate assumption of the games visuals:

while true its still no gears or killzone, its still far better then that screen you posted made it look.

Brownesque

Heres a better one then Brown pasted, and lets not forget, this one is online MP, with a lot of enemies on screen, and tons more off.

He is a Cow like you, that explains it, sorry Kotaku is saying its going to be a great game. It sure will outsell anything on the PS3 thats for sure...

PrimusGears

:o

Oh my, how we are blinded by anger only to be in denial.

[QUOTE="djsifer01"]]My friend was a huge Halo fan, back when i had a Xbox i played both with him.clone01

[QUOTE="Brownesque"]

[QUOTE="dragonfly110"]

Im sorry brown but that screenshot is nowhere near accurate, that looks like a halo 1 shot this is probably more close to being an accurate assumption of the games visuals:

while true its still no gears or killzone, its still far better then that screen you posted made it look.

dragonfly110

You mean the 720p direct capture screenshots from Gameswire or the 720p vidoc I pulled from Bungie's website?

Hmm, I wonder where all the aliasing went in your screen. Those screens and vidocs must have been from a beta version before they added in all the anti-aliasing.

That or what you've given me is an outright bullshot that's been doctored for marketing purposes. What you're doing is being selective, and you're not even using genuine screens.

thats a mighty huge assumption, your giving against me. I can assure you that when i went on ign where i get all of my screens the thought "ha ha I am gonna get some doctored up halo ODST pics to make it look like Crysis I am such a lemming!" did not go through my headIm just posting the screen that to me looks the closest to the demo they showed at E3, if you feel it is doctored upand inacurate then that is fine, IM not trying to tell you that you need to buy the game and that it will be teh most amazing thing ever, Im just posting the fact that the screenshot you posted was a bad one and an inacurate representation of the game, no matter where you plled it from.

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="djsifer01"]]My friend was a huge Halo fan, back when i had a Xbox i played both with him.djsifer01

[QUOTE="bronxxbombers"]

[QUOTE="dragonfly110"]

Im sorry brown but that screenshot is nowhere near accurate, that looks like a halo 1 shot this is probably more close to being an accurate assumption of the games visuals:

while true its still no gears or killzone, its still far better then that screen you posted made it look.

Brownesque

Heres a better one then Brown pasted, and lets not forget, this one is online MP, with a lot of enemies on screen, and tons more off.

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="djsifer01"]]My friend was a huge Halo fan, back when i had a Xbox i played both with him.djsifer01

Thats your opinion and I respect it. But im always dumbfounded by people who express extreme hate for something that was criticaly and commercially praied. Thats all.

[QUOTE="Tht1Guy7780"]

[QUOTE="djsifer01"]That would be incorrect, i own all 3 systems a PSP and a gaming PC.djsifer01

Ok. Youve never played halo according to your gamertag.(but like everyone else, you probably played it at a friends house right?)

I don't know what's sadder. The idea that you judge a series half way, or the fact that you invested so much time in a series you hate.

[QUOTE="Brownesque"]

[QUOTE="bronxxbombers"] Tis not in game now is it?

Heres a better one then Brown pasted, and lets not forget, this one is online MP, with a lot of enemies on screen, and tons more off.

bronxxbombers

Umm isnt everyone entitled to their own opinions?you have got to realise lems that not everyone sees the same thing you do.

[QUOTE="bronxxbombers"][QUOTE="Brownesque"] Is that a native resolution direct-capture screen? Then it's not as indicative of what the game is actually rendering. Add that to the fact that in real time your 640p natively rendered image is going to be upscaled to 720p and then stretched to fit the size of your HDTV.... Do you have ANY idea why screens like those exist? It's called marketing. Some people want to know what the game looks like, not dream a beautiful game into existence. For the record, that's not a better screen. If you stretched it to fit a 1280x720p screen space it would look worse than the screens in the OP.

Brownesque

[QUOTE="Brownesque"][QUOTE="bronxxbombers"] I did not understand a word you said. Time for me to leace this thread. bronxxbombers

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="Brownesque"] It's going to look worse than the image you posted when you actually play it.Brownesque

[QUOTE="Brownesque"][QUOTE="clone01"] so i'm certain you've played a lot of 360 games, right?gmc2u_64

[QUOTE="gmc2u_64"]

[QUOTE="Brownesque"] I've played a few. I've played a Forza 2 demo, a CoD2 demo, a PDZ demo, a Halo Wars demo, a GRAW 2 demo.....all those on an HDTV demo kiosk... Unfortunately I've only played Gears 1 and Oblivion on an SDTV and Gears of War 2, Halo 3, and Viva Pinata briefly on an HDTV. Seeing as I don't own an Xbox 360 and don't get a lot of opportunities to play them, I haven't played many Xbox 360 games, but that's really besides the point. You know, it's sick. Some guy apparently thinks I'm being too technical so I summarize in a single sentence and you tell me something completely unrelated, insinuating that my analysis was based on an experience I obviously don't have. My analysis wasn't based on experience, it's based on the careful reasoning you can see at the top of this page in the thread. You take a 640p image and display it natively without stretching out the image on your computer screen and it looks as its rendered. If you play it on a television set it stretches that picture out to match the size of your television set. It doesn't look worse in the sense that it degrades the actual visual quality of the image, but try saving an image to your desktop and open Microsoft photo viewer. Then zoom into the image. That's effectively the same thing. Here, take one of these ODST screens, save them to your desktop, open them with Microsoft photo viewer and zoom in. That's the kind of effect you're getting on your television set. Obviously, you're increasing view distance to compensate, but the actual attractiveness of the image will have degraded. And for the record I've played a lot of PS3 games that look nice in screens and look horrific when you actually play them. For example, MGS4 looks pretty terrible from time to time and so does CoD4. It's the same effect, it isn't dependent on the color of plastic or the branding of the machine.Brownesque

[QUOTE="bronxxbombers"]

[QUOTE="Brownesque"] It's going to look worse than the image you posted when you actually play it.Brownesque

Because then I wouldn't be playing it.Brownesque

Because then I wouldn't be playing it.Brownesque

[QUOTE="Brownesque"]Because then I wouldn't be playing it.clone01

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="Brownesque"]Because then I wouldn't be playing it.Brownesque

microsoft is just milking consumers dry of money ODST was originally suppose to come out as an expansion and even the reviewer shows that wasn't changed it's basically an expansion of Halo 3 the only difference is that microsoft knows unsuspecting fans will buy anything with halo on it so what do they do ? they say it's a full game and charge $60...

$60 for an expansion unbelievable the losers will be the ones who spent that amount of money for an expansion with 2005 graphics.

I which the reviewer would not try to be safe and give the score it deserves 5.0 or 3.0 don't be scared dow hat you feel is right.

simslifer

microsoft is just milking consumers dry of money ODST was originally suppose to come out as an expansion and even the reviewer shows that wasn't changed it's basically an expansion of Halo 3 the only difference is that microsoft knows unsuspecting fans will buy anything with halo on it so what do they do ? they say it's a full game and charge $60...

$60 for an expansion unbelievable the losers will be the ones who spent that amount of money for an expansion with 2005 graphics.

I wish the reviewer would not try to be safe and give the score it deserves 5.0 or 3.0 don't be scared do what you feel is right.

simslifer

He is a Cow like you, that explains it, sorry Kotaku is saying its going to be a great game. It sure will outsell anything on the PS3 thats for sure...

PrimusGears

[QUOTE="PrimusGears"]

He is a Cow like you, that explains it, sorry Kotaku is saying its going to be a great game. It sure will outsell anything on the PS3 thats for sure...

mgs_freak91

Then we can expect long threads by cows as to why sales don't matter....

It's an expansion of a 2 year old game, to expect it to look better than what Halo 3 already offers would be foolish.

I'm going to make that reviewer look stupid with one word: Expansion.

That is all.

microsoft is just milking consumers dry of money ODST was originally suppose to come out as an expansion and even the reviewer shows that wasn't changed it's basically an expansion of Halo 3 the only difference is that microsoft knows unsuspecting fans will buy anything with halo on it so what do they do ? they say it's a full game and charge $60...

$60 for an expansion unbelievable the losers will be the ones who spent that amount of money for an expansion with 2005 graphics.

I wish the reviewer would not try to be safe and give the score it deserves 5.0 or 3.0 don't be scared do what you feel is right.

[QUOTE="TheArmyGuy48"]Haven't decided yet. Prolly give it an eight to be safe.WAIW

microsoft is just milking consumers dry of money ODST was originally suppose to come out as an expansion and even the reviewer shows that wasn't changed it's basically an expansion of Halo 3 the only difference is that microsoft knows unsuspecting fans will buy anything with halo on it so what do they do ? they say it's a full game and charge $60...

$60 for an expansion unbelievable the losers will be the ones who spent that amount of money for an expansion with 2005 graphics.

I wish the reviewer would not try to be safe and give the score it deserves 5.0 or 3.0 don't be scared do what you feel is right.

simslifer

Its also unbelievable that you pay $60 for console games when PC gamers get their games for $50 with better graphics too huh?

[QUOTE="mgs_freak91"][QUOTE="PrimusGears"]

He is a Cow like you, that explains it, sorry Kotaku is saying its going to be a great game. It sure will outsell anything on the PS3 thats for sure...

MizFitAwesome

Then we can expect long threads by cows as to why sales don't matter....

[QUOTE="simslifer"]

microsoft is just milking consumers dry of money ODST was originally suppose to come out as an expansion and even the reviewer shows that wasn't changed it's basically an expansion of Halo 3 the only difference is that microsoft knows unsuspecting fans will buy anything with halo on it so what do they do ? they say it's a full game and charge $60...

$60 for an expansion unbelievable the losers will be the ones who spent that amount of money for an expansion with 2005 graphics.

I wish the reviewer would not try to be safe and give the score it deserves 5.0 or 3.0 don't be scared do what you feel is right.

The__Havoc

Its also unbelievable that you pay $60 for console games when PC gamers get their games for $50 with better graphics too huh?

ITS AN EXPANSION!!!! Thats why "Halo 3" is in the title :roll:

I guess this guy will not like MW2 either, seeing as how the graphics are the same as COD4....