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- JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish18 hours
I literally discovered this yesterday when I sat down to look for options to play Halo with my son, which he’s expressed interest in for a while now. $50, no split-screen co-op, and an always-online requirement with third-party account linkage. Yeah, I’ll be dropping that $50 on a used physical copy and a second controller, after digging the 360 out of the garage. Piss off, Microsoft.
- 1 day
Fuck M$, but to be fair, that remake is older than halo was when it came out in 2010.
1 dayHalo Anniversary was made back when Moore’s Law was still a thing. There’s been less technical improvement in the last 16 years than there were in those 10 years.
- 18 hours
Maybe, but it was made as a 360 exclusive originally. You know, a machine from '05, you’re talking about a 90nm process for the OG model. So 20 years, which include half of the 10 you mentioned.
Even on the models with dye shrinks those gains aren’t used for performance improvements, merely RROD prevention in the form of not getting hot enough to fry its own guts out
Like, we’re talking a fucking machine with half a gig of RAM. Not VRAM, RAM.
A machine made when YouTube looked liked this:
So five years, at least, with Moore’s law, and another (if we call Moore’s law dead by 2010) 16 for between the port and now, as this game is being designed with current PC hardware in mind. Keep in mind this is all compared the Xbox version which was made for hardware that was only five years older.
That’s before we talk about the limitations of recreating the fucking thing within the same engine as the OG. Neat choice, and the instant graphics switch is neat.
Unfortunately, while normally a new engine is a good thing, there seems to be a lotta hate for UE5 games. I haven’t been playing new AAA stuff recently, so others might be able to speak to that better.
- binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Even worse, if the remaster uses Unreal Engine 5 it will probably look like crap compared to the last one.
I just played the remaster of Talos Principle and it looks so much worse it so many ways. I loathe UE5 with a passion.
- ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
I wouldn’t mind a remaster that updated to a more halo 2 or 3 design and did another pass on the levels. The game itself is pretty dated, anything that doesn’t at least tweak things a little doesn’t seem appealing.
- 1 day
Halo 2, and to a lesser extent 3, were backwards steps in terms of gameplay.
I mean, in my opinion. Thankfully my opinion doesn’t really need to matter here since there’s already the original and the remaster that preserved the mechanics faithfully, so I guess if someone wanted to do an actual remake with tweaked gameplay, I’d still be fine.
