With all the hype surrounding Halo 3's launch, it is not unexpected that all aspects of the game would be heavily scrutinized.
While tinkering with the consoles and capturing data from its frame buffer, Xbox 360 geeky fans discovered that Halo 3 vertical resolution is 640 pixels instead of the standard 720p. Bungie confirmed the revelation but dismissed it as " internet's propensity for drama where none exists."
Bungie explained that they chose to drop those 80 lines in favor of using two frame buffers, both of which render at 1152x640 pixels. "The reason we chose this slightly unorthodox resolution and this very complex use of two buffers is simple enough to see â€" lighting. We wanted to preserve as much dynamic range as possible â€" so we use one for the high dynamic range and one for the low dynamic range values. Both are combined to create the finished on screen image", stated Bungie on their weekly update.
"This ability to display a full range of HDR, combined with our advanced lighting, material and postprocessing engine, gives our scenes, large and small, a compelling, convincing and ultimately real feeling, and at a steady and smooth frame rate, which in the end was far more important to us than the ability to display a few extra pixels. Making this decision simpler still is the fact that the 360 scales the "almost-720p" image effortlessly all the way up to 1080p if you so desire."
"In fact, if you do a comparison shot between the native 1152x640 image and the scaled 1280x720, it's practically impossible to discern the difference. We would ignore it entirely were it not for the internet's propensity for drama where none exists. In fact the reason we haven't mentioned this before in weekly updates, is the simple fact that it would have distracted conversation away from more important aspects of the game, and given tinfoil hats some new gristle to chew on as they catalogued their toenail clippings."
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Submitted by Anonymous onhahahaha...this is why pc always rules....i KNOW what my resolution is and I dont have some game developer misleading me on some crappy game
Bungie Confesses Halo 3 Not HD
Submitted by Anonymous onwhat the hell does – mean?
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Submitted by Anonymous onowned to the max
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Submitted by Anonymous onmore teens whining about things that dont matter, it will never stop, FUDGE!
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Submitted by Anonymous onStupid Microsoft product can't go HD?!? No surprise there hahaha! Go play your geeky game in your microsoft-geeky-low-res you nerds! HALO sucks!
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Submitted by Anonymous onhey i'm not a teen. I'm spartan *cough* and I rule in this low resolution world!
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Submitted by Anonymous onyes yes we must obey what the tall ones say, its "advanced"!. halo ftl
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Submitted by Anonymous onYou people are so **** pathetic. You're putting off a game just because its 'not true HD'? What about the gameplay, doesn't that count?Im not a console aficionado, but bashing a game because of minimal graphics differences is utterly ridiculous. Ether that or you have a brain the size of a canary's.
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Submitted by Anonymous onBashers and morons usually have same style - hahaha blablabla. Xbox360 has faster gpu than ps3 look it up on wikipedia, then go play lair... BTW im euro, this happened at night time, 12 posts!!! FFS USA is so stupid, terrorists who want to nuke you suddenly look good.
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Submitted by Anonymous onFARK WHO GIVES s**t.
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Submitted by Anonymous ontypical of m$ sure it makes no real difference and bet it wasn't even to save money but not at all surprising. kind of like xp default res (when new) with a 55hz refresh rate. not much below the normall but enough to cause eyestrain and headaches!
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Submitted by Anonymous onThat does explain why the visuals are not as impressive as expected. Does this also constitute to breaking the Trades description act - since on the back of the box it does say :1080i/1080p. <-if that is the case then ALL DVD films can also claim this since they can be upscaled also!!!! - Play it to death then get a refund on this basis!!!!!
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Submitted by Anonymous onomg losers. so u didnt buy it, so u dont have money ;) **** off, sony has no game rated so high
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Submitted by Anonymous on"I'm still going to play this game no matter what you geeks throw at the xbox or halo..." said Anon at 18:51LOL he's the geek and he doesen't even know it. F**k Xbox & Microsoft fanboys!
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Submitted by Anonymous on"As will everyone else who purchased the game, why? Because its a great game!" said Anon at 18:51Why because you don't have any social life and no one wants to date you. That's why. What? You wanna use the force against me now? lol! Go watch your Star Wars you dorks!
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Submitted by Anonymous onAnonymousat 11:24"No social life?" Heh, you're one to talk, moron; Here you are posting on a gaming forum and using acronyms like "lol." I bet the closest thing to ***** you ever had was fish. 13 year old nerd, get lost.
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Submitted by Anonymous onOf course its not HD. No s**t.PC gaming wins again.
Bungie Confesses Halo 3 Not HD
Submitted by Anonymous onto anon below me: pc is a different thing. you'll have to spend lots and lots of money to keep upgrading your pc so u can play games and pcs are not just for playing games. i have a very powerful pc and i have all next gen consoles and xbox is a console (it sucks though). at the moment, some console games have awesome graphics. some are better than the current pc game with the latest graphic card and everything set on high.
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Submitted by Roger Wilco onYup I agree. PC is a PC. Consoles are consoles. Handhelds are handhelds. Arcade machines are arcade machines. Toasters are toasters. Xbox is crap.
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Submitted by Anonymous onHalo3 is a HD = Horrible Definition
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Submitted by Anonymous onYes we can clearly see how important graphics are (in this case it doesn't even make a difference because the difference is impossible to notice).Just look at how the sells are going:nr 1 Wii (crappiest graphics best gameplay)nr 2 Xbox 360 (Second best graphics second best game play)nr 3 Playstation 3 (Best graphics and crappiest game play).Clearly graphics matter! And rofl in this case you can't even notice the graphics.You guys fail... miserably.
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Submitted by Anonymous on[Quote]You guys are pathetic...I'm still going to play this game no matter what you geeks throw at the xbox or halo...As will everyone else who purchased the game, why?Because its a great game!If your PS3 is so great, why aren't you playing it instead of trying to find ways to make the 360 look bad....[/quote]Why the f**k are you here then dumbass
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Submitted by Anonymous onSUCK BALLS b***hES!!
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Submitted by Anonymous onagreed 2 post below me. It annoys me how 12 year old kids spread their stupidity. so u dont like Xp - use linux. so u dont like halo - play barbies. so u dont like xbox360 play ps3 ( the many games it has ). LIVE WITH IT
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Submitted by Anonymous onwoohooo!!! puts those hd tvs to waste. they force you to buy hd to get the best gaming experience but don't implement it in their flagship game, genius!!!
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Submitted by Anonymous onHalo sucks and that's a fact.
Bungie Confesses Halo 3 Not HD
Submitted by Anonymous onHalo 1 was the only good one in the series and it was MUCH better on PC...Halo 2 was CRAP, even on PCand Halo 3 is just the same refurbished CRAP
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Submitted by Anonymous onHalo 1, halo 2, halo 3, all crap!
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Submitted by Anonymous onSo basicaly they werent able to make the gamne run at a decent pace when having a true hi def resolution so they lowered the res to up the frame rate.This happend either because bungie are sh!tty coders, the 360 couldnt handle it or they were pushing to get the game out quickly so didnt have time to optimize it?Either way it svcks.
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Submitted by Anonymous onyes halo sucks, so bad.thats why it has sold so many copies worldwide because it sucks.if you dont like it dont play it.go and play god of war or something you sony fanboys sure do love God of War
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Submitted by Anonymous onWho in the hell argues over video games? f**king tools. STFU, have fun, and play.
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Submitted by BILLGAYTESLIBERATIONFRONT onHALO 3 SUUUUUUCKS DIIICK!!!1!ANYONE SUPPORTING THIS SHIIIIIT IS RETARDED AND DON'T KNOW ABOUT QUALITY GAMES!!!!!MICROSHIIIIITTT FANBOYS GO AND SUUUCK THE MR GAYTES DIIIIIIICKK!!!!AND NO0000 I DON'T PLAY ON CONSOLES M$ BIIIITCHESS!!!!
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Submitted by Cure onNot getting the big deal here? Sure do see a lot of fan boys (on both sides) moaning...Still if there's no negative effect on the quality then there's no problem.
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Submitted by Anonymous on....................../´¯/)....................,/¯../.................../..../............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯·¸........../'/.../..../......./¨¯........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')..........................'...../..........''............. _.·´..........................(..............................******* ALL OF YOU FOR POSTING HERE.
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Submitted by Anonymous onHAHA! This proves the fact that we should all just go buy a PS3 right now!... right?... right?... hmm
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Submitted by Anonymous onSo what bungie said was "Halo 3 doesn't use full HD because the 360 doesnt have enough hardware to run it smoothly with all the other visual effects it has", get used to it people this holds true for all consoles. You should've been aware of that when you decided to buy a console instead of upgrading your pc.
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Submitted by Anonymous onLOL! SCREWED!!!
Bungie Confesses Halo 3 Not HD
Submitted by Anonymous onoh no halo3 discs scrached, its not TRUE HD and master chief has a small p***s! all the more reason for ME not to play this game and WHINE right here on MG forums
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Submitted by Anonymous onlook at them, with their squinty eyes..
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Submitted by Anonymous onHA..HAHA...1. POOR XBox 1 Sales2. Xbox lasts only 4 years (******** all customers)3. Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death4. Scratched Halo Discs5. Halo is not TRUE HDLOLSorry, but Sony still RULES and y'all know IT!!!
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Submitted by Anonymous onpos game.
Bungie Confesses Halo 3 Not HD
Submitted by Anonymous onYou guys are pathetic...I'm still going to play this game no matter what you geeks throw at the xbox or halo...As will everyone else who purchased the game, why?Because its a great game!If your PS3 is so great, why aren't you playing it instead of trying to find ways to make the 360 look bad....
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