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Penny Arcade - Comic - Finity
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Finity
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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It's a shame. Three Tychos would've gotten us a triptycho.
Everyone I've asked thought the Halo Infinite trailer was either "awesome" or "awesome but too short." But Gabe and Tycho hate Halo as they established years ago, so this understandable.
Edit: Even some journalists have pointed out it didn’t exactly wow anyone. It’s not exactly a Tycho/Gabe exclusive issue.
Really?
Nothing about it looked remotely next gen. Especially considering this is like their flagship series.
The faces legit looked worse than some current gen games. That's not a good look at all.
They definitely used to compare it unfavorably to driving nails through genitalia, but for at least a couple of the later iterations they actually liked it.
I'm not even sure if by "The Halo Infinite Trailer" we're talking about the "Cinematic Trailer" or the "Gameplay Demo" or even the "Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer". Or maybe something else entirely?
I wonder, because I watched all of those and while they seemed bland to me, every Halo has seemed bland to me, and these types of games in general. I'm really straining to see the connection in panel 1. I just don't get how it's somehow noteworthy in its terribleness.
Also, I feel dumb because I only now realized that each panel is talking about a completely different game (further confused by the comic title "Finity" only seeming to refer to one of them).
I'm getting too old for this shit.
(I like Brutal Legend though)
I liked Brutal Legend as well. But that game would have been sooooooo much better if it had tried to be a Zelda clone, instead of trying to be some strange Real Time Strategy hybrid.
I guess.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/we-should-talk-about-halo-infinites-not-quite-next-gen-premiere/
I have no idea what game you two are talking about. I've never heard of this "Brutal Legend". I did play an amazing game called Brütal Legend. That was an amazing game that didn't get its due.
It was a great introduction to metal music for me. I actually went out of my way to unlock all the tracks.
But uhh yeah the awkward combo of hack-n-slash plus RTS.
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I liked Brutal Legend but yeah, if Brutal Legend had just been basically Darksiders then I probably would have liked it even more.
But specifically regarding Halo, I assume the "guy falling endlessly on an escalator" is all of the early parts of the trailer, where the game failed repeatedly to impress, and did not look at all like a next-gen videogame. And I assumed the "at the end... we could see his butt" was in reference to the alien snarly faced orc lookin dude who gave this really long boring speech.
Unflattering comparisons can be made between contemporary games and Halo Infinite, but there are plenty enough unflattering comparisons I've seen between Infinite and previous games in the series.
This article made me feel even more like I'm taking crazy pills.
I get that people are underwhelmed by the graphics, but the author criticizes the hexagonal columns making up the cliff face as lazy "repeating cylinder block things" as if they're the product of some engine limitation and couldn't possibly be a stylistic choice ala the giant's causeway which has been used as inspiration for a million things.
it seems like they went to really a lot of effort to do worldbuilding, but then ran out of time/money for character writing
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I consider myself a Halo fan, or at least, I used to be. But honestly? The faces have looked mediocre going all the way back to Halo 3. 2 was really the last time I thought Halo had good human faces compared to its contemporaries.
I've never played Brutal Legend, but my recollection of the coverage at the time was a strong consensus that it would've been better sticking to one genre or another. Almost every review seemed to feel like the hybrid did not work very well and was the game's biggest weakness.
I've always felt like they tend to focus on the wrong things. Enemies like the Flood don't stay compelling for long because you can only escape/overcome hordes of mindless monsters directed by a single intelligence for so long before it gets boring, no matter how many new 'bioforms' they show up with. The Covenant civil war that's kicked off in 2 could've been milked for a long while, with lots of interesting ideas. Instead, it's basically resolved off-screen between 2 and 3.
Until they needed to try and bring it back for 4, because they thought they needed a secondary enemy besides the Forerunner dude and his post-human robo-monsters. Mind you, the new internecine Covenant conflict isn't a terrible idea (aside from the repetition), but it feels really stupid when you read the synopsis of why it's happening in-story. They resolved the Flood as an enemy in 3, then decided to start laying pipe to bring them back again in the comics and books, because cyclical never-advancing settings are what people loved about the old Star Wars EU and the pre-8th edition Warhammer 40,000 lore, am I right?
They keep teasing the idea of a human civil war, with the sinister and 'good' parts of the UNSC seemingly often working at cross-purposes to one another, but AFAIK they still haven't pulled the trigger on that one. No, instead we're getting a story of Cortana being a rogue AI, as if that wasn't already handled better by Bungie's Marathon trilogy (which is probably why they ended up not going that direction with the character, despite teasing it in 1 and 2).
Well there's two of us at least.
Yeah, very much so. Admittedly, none of us were meticulously analyzing visual fidelity (thanks for the crap stream quality, Youtube), but gameplay--the list of open-world shooters running at 60 FPS even at 1080p, much less 4K, on console is very short.
DF has a much more in-depth look at the actual visual graphics. Gameplay looked outstanding, but there's only 8 minutes of it (beats sitting in a tomb full of very pretty statues for the same length of time).
To back this up. The paragraph in question. At no point does he criticize the use of columns. Just how poorly they are rendered.
Apparently, 343 intends to continue working on the game after its release, including releasing full ray-tracing support post launch. But, this doesn't do anything for me. I'm increasingly tired of games that need to rely on post launch patches to provide complete and compelling experiences.