Why do people bash Halo 3's graphics?

Halo 3 always seems to take a bashing for its graphics... but though I no longer own a 360, I thought Halo 3 had amazing graphics and art direction. Halo 3 in motion is lovely and, whilst maybe not up to the same standards as some more recent games, it is still a great looking game!

Why is the game constantly bashed for its graphics? Gameplay aside.

Halo 3 always seems to take a bashing for its graphics... but though I no longer own a 360, I thought Halo 3 had amazing graphics and art direction. Halo 3 in motion is lovely and, whilst maybe not up to the same standards as some more recent games, it is still a great looking game!

Why is the game constantly bashed for its graphics? Gameplay aside.

thetruespin

Its not the best looking, but its certainly not the worse. No where near. Its a good looking game. But yeah, it gets way more hate than it deserves. -DrRobotnik-

[QUOTE="-DrRobotnik-"]Its not the best looking, but its certainly not the worse. No where near. Its a good looking game. But yeah, it gets way more hate than it deserves. TX360

I think people forget the huge environments in Halo 3... i mean, it wasn't farcry 2... but you had HUGE open spaces to play with. gears 1/2 looks nice, but you have to follow quite a restricted path.thetruespin

[QUOTE="TX360"][QUOTE="-DrRobotnik-"]Its not the best looking, but its certainly not the worse. No where near. Its a good looking game. But yeah, it gets way more hate than it deserves. thetruespin

either way, its one hell of a fun game, has proubly the biggest community on cosoles, millions of gametype varients, and forged maps, with split screen, 4-player co-op. Overall its just a solid good game. Graphics look sweet, no realistic, but they look nice

Because they are inferior.

Yeh, it's graphics were actually pretty nice, and it had some pretty large and open environments, unlike Gears of War.AAllxxjjnn

Because they are inferior.

kingyotoX

either way, its one hell of a fun game, has proubly the biggest community on cosoles, millions of gametype varients, and forged maps, with split screen, 4-player co-op. Overall its just a solid good game. Graphics look sweet, no realistic, but they look nice

jeezers

Its a great looking game to me.

It looks really sharp, but not realistic. I love the bright colours of the forest and desert levels.

The only thing I liked about halos graphic's was the glossy character models. The rest was bland, environment textures where especially bad and there is alot of pop in.

I played the citadel level on my 52 inch 1080p Sharp Aquos and the game still looks beautiful to this day :)-RocBoys9489-

I don't know really. It's got huge open maps, and detailed textures. But what really shines is the fact that the multiplayer can take 16 people + explosions + vehicles and never does the framerate drop. That is pretty impressive.

Halo is actually visually stunning. Bungie did a great job with level design. Kudos to them.

And if you don't catch my drift watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTbZ3Rbm54

You're defending a 360 game?! What?!

It's a trap! :P

Halo 3 looks good, but not OMG amazing.

Halo is actually visually stunning. Bungie did a great job with level design. Kudos to them.

And if you don't catch my drift watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTbZ3Rbm54

[QUOTE="Csalbertcs"]

Halo is actually visually stunning. Bungie did a great job with level design. Kudos to them.

And if you don't catch my drift watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTbZ3Rbm54

jeezers

Halo is actually visually stunning. Bungie did a great job with level design. Kudos to them.

And if you don't catch my drift watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTbZ3Rbm54

when halo 3 first came out it s graphics where something amazing. right now they are pretty outdated (TONS of fps have better graphics than hal;o 3 now). i hope odst has better graphics than 3

[QUOTE="Csalbertcs"][QUOTE="jeezers"] great videojeezers

Halo 3 always seems to take a bashing for its graphics... but though I no longer own a 360, I thought Halo 3 had amazing graphics and art direction. Halo 3 in motion is lovely and, whilst maybe not up to the same standards as some more recent games, it is still a great looking game!

Why is the game constantly bashed for its graphics? Gameplay aside.

thetruespin

Atleast Halo has environments that are colourful and stunning. Sick of dark greyish enviroments like Gears or KZ2.

They bash Halo 3's graphics out of sheer, burning, seething, agonizing jealousy. That is why.Floppy_Jim

Game looks ugly as balls :( Low resolution, I put it on my s2409w monitor(1080, 24 in) it's just a jaggie mess...

why dont people bash halo 3 for not having aim assisting off option?

why dont people bash halo 3 for not having aim assisting off option?

grr320

Halo 3 is bashed because it is popular.

And although it's graphics are pretty good, because of it's popularity the graphics will be bashed too (because they don't look better than the latest graphics king)

Also, Master Chief is pretty much Microsoft's mascot, and hate towards the 360 is pretty much going to be dumpd onto this game.

On top of that, the graphics wern't as good as they could have been.

what makes halo 3 look crappy is poorly modeled character models and incomplete/barren looking levels.

the textures on actual environment piss on killzone2.

I don't bash halo 3 for anything, but from what I'm seeing it was the 360 fanboys that started raising the halo 3 > killzone2 threads after the game was released and got a 9.0. And then the the graphics debate was an obvious result of the retaliation.

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]They bash Halo 3's graphics out of sheer, burning, seething, agonizing jealousy. That is why.kingyotoX

[QUOTE="grr320"]

why dont people bash halo 3 for not having aim assisting off option?

-DrRobotnik-

The first need for speed was a racing sim and sponsored by road and track magazine, you could wreck and do flips better in that gamethan burnout, lol trust me if you hit someone going fast you gonna flip or something lol.

[QUOTE="grr320"]

why dont people bash halo 3 for not having aim assisting off option?

-DrRobotnik-

i forgot to say what i really wanted lol cut to the point, burnout was made because they stopped letting you wreck in need for speed games.

which is lame, they really need to bring back wrecks to need for speed and make it more realistic.

cuz Halo 2 made sooooo much cash and halo 3 is not even running at 720p with halo 2 engine? lol wtf bungie was thinking?Syferonik