I've been saying for months that this 1080p/60 thing is not going to last. These consoles are not powerful enough to support that standard unless there is little to no advancement in the art.
I don't think some of you guys are reading this right. They seem to be saying that the game is held to 30 fps because of CPU limitations (However, they could have used GPGPU to alleviate that on PS4. Apparently they chose to not bother). It's with the resolution that they forced parity by making them the same when they could have made the PS4 version 1080p if they wanted to.
Resolution isn't affected much by the CPU in the first place, it's GPU bound so the whole, CPU, AI excuse they've given is PR BS.
Uhhh, that's exactly why I talked about both points. Their CPU comments are in regards to the framerate. Their parity comments are in regards to the resolution. Basically they're saying that the game is 30 fps because of CPU limitations they had with both machines. But the game is 900p on PS4 simply because they wanted to avoid comparisons being made.
I've been saying ever since these consoles launched that I think these Jaguar cores could have been fine if there was 12 of them instead of 8. But 8 of these is not enough, especially considering that 2 of them are reserved for the OS in both machines. And there should have been anywhere from 22-24 GPU compute units in both consoles. Instead we've got 50% of next-gen in X1 and 75% of next-gen in PS4.
I don't think some of you guys are reading this right. They seem to be saying that the game is held to 30 fps because of CPU limitations (However, they could have used GPGPU to alleviate that on PS4. Apparently they chose to not bother). It's with the resolution that they forced parity by making them the same when they could have made the PS4 version 1080p if they wanted to.
I found halo 2 incredibly mediocre. It took the wide open environments of halo 1 and made it mostly a corridor shooter.
It seems like a poor decision to me, but if you want to play halo 2 that badly, go for it.
To me the biggest problem with Halo 2 was the Brutes. All they ever wanted to do was run straight at you. But man, the game sure was prettier than the first one. :)
I've got a friend who was wrestling between X1 and PS4 and ended up picking X1 because of this collection. I'd like to have it but it ain't having as strong an effect on me as it is him. MS under Phil Spencer (My God, was Mattrick a disaster or what?! He should be on Sony's payroll) has taken me from 100% sure I'm picking PS4 to 90% sure but in the end I just can't get passed what a horribly bad job Mattrick did with the hardware design decisions, there's nothing Spencer can do to fix that.
OK, I did some reading up on this cuz those pics kinda baffled me. From what I can tell it looks like Halo 2 is going to be the only game in the collection to get a substantial graphical overhaul. When it comes to the first Halo you can choose between original Halo:CE and X360's Halo:CE Anniversary, both of which will be in 1080p/60. I'm assuming these pics are from original Halo and not Anniversary cuz my memory is telling me that Anniversary on 360 looked better than these pics. As far as Halo 3 and 4 go the only graphical upgrades will be 1080p and 60 fps, no redone art for those.
Wtf? Who even cares about it being 1080p and 60 fps if it looks like that? I know you can press a button to switch between the classic look of the game and the redo ... hopefully this is the classic view, although I don't know why they'd bother posting them if that's the case.
One thing I don't like about the resurgence of 2D though is that so many of them are puzzle games. That seems to make up a very large percentage of them. Make em action/adventure, make em single player, and make em good and I'm interested.
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