On the "remastering" aspect of Halo 3?

[LambentTyto]

Halo CE looks better, and Halo 2's remaster is added cutcenes are beautiful. But Halo 3 is.... the same as when I played it on the xbox. The graphics are ten years outdated. Why didn't they remaster them?

[An Irate Walrus]

Because 3 still holds up reasonably well, apart from the human faces. CE and 2, having originally been developed for the OG XBox, haven't aged nearly so well graphically.

[Cool Cereal]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

The 360 halo games still hold up really well so there is no reason to remaster them fully.
Also 343i has bigger fish to fry (Halo infinite)

[Insomnus]

MCC was originally just H2A, and like CEA a 10 year anniversary title, but then it kind of exploded into this amalgamation. And this is all to some extent while halo 5 was in development too.

Both infinite and the lackluster state of mcc surely impacted any chances of following up in 2017 with a Halo 3 anniversary, as I believe it wasn't until 2018 that mcc was in a considerably more fixed condition. And then came the work bringing it to pc.

[Sifer2]

At this point Infinite needs the most work. If it fails then Halo franchise is pretty much over. So don't give them any distractions lol. I would be happy just seeing them go back, and try to improve what was broken in none anniversary Halo CE, and maybe add Halo 5 to MCC.

[Falleax]

Halo 3 is already gorgeous and Halo 1 anniversary looks awful. Halo 2 anniversary also looks bad but I'm clearly in the minority for thinking that.
Any attempt at remastering Halo 3 would be a disaster.

[Spinning Harlot]

Honestly, all that Halo 3 need is new character models and maybe higher resolution texture.

It still holds up pretty well otherwise.

[Robert F.]

Halo 3 still holds up but some of the character model just needs some improvements, like the ones with super pale marine and Lord Hood's creepy look.

I also wish they change up with Brute's armor color to distinguish their ranks easy.

[Usernamehere]

People actually think Halo 2 Anniversary is good? It's an abomination.

I loaded into a multiplayer map today and it felt like Halo 5's bastard child.

[Rautamies]

Halo 3 is such a visual gem. It doesn't really need a remaster. But the human faces are pretty bad, as Walrus already pointed out. I'm not opposed to making the remaster a thing, though. Would be interested to see what it'd be like. H2A was fantastic.

I'd say Halo 4 is more in need for a remaster. The game's absolutely hideous at times because of the PS2 era textures.

[Robert F.]

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

People actually think Halo 2 Anniversary is good? It's an abomination.

I loaded into a multiplayer map today and it felt like Halo 5's bastard child.

That's because they're two different game? Halo 2 anniversary multiplayer runs on the Halo 4 engine with the same Spartan IV armor sets, and higher texture but tone down a notch to mimic the Halo 2 style but it still plays and act like Halo 4 without sprint.

The campaign on the other hand look vastly different compare to HL2M, it rendered on Saber3d engine on top of Halo 2 classic engine (like they did to Halo CEA).

[Usernamehere]

Originally posted by Robert F.:

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

People actually think Halo 2 Anniversary is good? It's an abomination.

I loaded into a multiplayer map today and it felt like Halo 5's bastard child.

That's because they're two different game? Halo 2 anniversary multiplayer runs on the Halo 4 with same Spartan IV armor set. That's why it looks ugly.

Campaign on the other hand runs on Saber3d engine on top of it

...I was not aware of this.

The singleplayer is an abomination too though, in my opinion. The Elites don't look like Elites to me, and above all there's Halo 4 Warthogs?!

[Falleax]

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

Originally posted by Robert F.:

That's because they're two different game? Halo 2 anniversary multiplayer runs on the Halo 4 with same Spartan IV armor set. That's why it looks ugly.

Campaign on the other hand runs on Saber3d engine on top of it

...I was not aware of this.

The singleplayer is an abomination too though, in my opinion. The Elites don't look like Elites to me, and above all there's Halo 4 Warthogs?!

Cool, someone who agrees with me for once. I also hate the cutscenes too, they changed the pacing, sound effects and camera angles for the worse. Plus all the lens flare, coloring and lighting is obnoxiously bad.

[Usernamehere]

Originally posted by Falleax:

Originally posted by Usernamehere:

...I was not aware of this.

The singleplayer is an abomination too though, in my opinion. The Elites don't look like Elites to me, and above all there's Halo 4 Warthogs?!

Cool, someone who agrees with me for once. I also hate the cutscenes too, they changed the pacing, sound effects and camera angles for the worse. Plus all the lens flare, coloring and lighting is obnoxiously bad.

Pacing is different, movements are different, designs are all different, it's too bright and colorful whereas the original game was somehow colorful and bleak at the same time, lens flare like you said, and gosh some of the redesigns are hell.

I remember the first time I watched the remastered cutscenes and saw Miranda Keyes, and she looks nothing like she did before.

[Wolf DragoX]

Dont worry, one day someone will be able to make a H3A through mods, i know, will not be same as a oficial H3A, but tbh i think it could be good enough

[LambentTyto]

Originally posted by Sifer2:

At this point Infinite needs the most work. If it fails then Halo franchise is pretty much over. So don't give them any distractions lol. I would be happy just seeing them go back, and try to improve what was broken in none anniversary Halo CE, and maybe add Halo 5 to MCC.

Do you know of any news about H5 coming to the MCC or just to PC in general?