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Halo 1 and 2 On The 360
Next Generation is reporting on possible graphical improvements for Halo 1 and 2 on the 360. The source? The folks at Bungie mentioned some surprises in their most recent update. From the article: "Some better anti-aliasing would be a nice touch, though more computationally intensive. While we're asking for pie in the sky things, some up-rezzed textures for use in the now higher resolutions might also be a great addition, though this would require content resources (e.g. real money spent on games that aren't likely to continue selling to 360 owners) so this is even less probable than the previously mentioned upgrades. Also, those textures would either have to ship on the hard drives (very unlikely) or be downloaded via Live (more possible but still unlikely)."
A PSX game on the PS3 should play the same as it did on the PS2 and the PSX, If there's a way to avoid crashes or faster loading, great, but it should be essentially the same experience, this is the way it always is.
Um, perhaps you never noticed the hardware acceleration toggles in the PS2 configuration menu that allows for smoother texture processing, as well as a few other nifty features, when playing PSOne games? This is the standard. Do you know why? Because, prior to Sony, nobody else did backwards compatibility. I want my games to be able to look a little bit sharper on the new consoles if they can.
So, yes, it should be the same way it always was. Which is that new hardware scales up old software to enhance the game, even if it is only a minor enhancement.
Last I checked the PSX tried to do all of this and it didn't come to america. Why because that isn't a game system.
Last I checked, a convergence system that powers your entire living room is exactly what Sony promised us with the PS2, they just never delivered. Sony didn't promise us a game system, they promised us downloadable demos, movies, music, and TV, all from the convenience of a sexy black box. Looks like Microsoft tore the page right from Sony's playbook...just they actually followed through.
Amen. The anti-Microsoft arguments would actually be more persuasive if the posters here at least gave the illusion of being non-biased. Right now, that ain't happening, and you can practically guarantee that the top 3-5 comments are going to be:
1) Microsoft-bashing, like the one you've just read. As a bonus, this one contains gems like:
"It's entirely possible that when everyone puts in their precious halo they will crash the compatibility engine, what a fine way to start the launch of a new system."
Yeah, and it's entirely possible that a giant space chicken will descend on us from the Vega start system and peck Europe to utter destruction. And both events are about equally likely... do you honestly think Microsoft wouldn't, you know, *test* their code before shipping it?
2) Diatribes about how gameplay is always better than graphics which sometimes go as far as saying that games with poor graphics have better gameplay. (Players of ET on the Atari 2600 might want to dispute this one.) Of course, you have to mention that Nintendo is the *only* company out there that understands this and releases games with good gameplay.
These posts always get modded to +5 regardless of how off-topic they are, or how repetitive it is reading the same goddamned arguments in every single game thread which is, more than anything, proof that the moderation system doesn't work.
3) Completely off-topic rants about how good Nintendo is, sometimes from people who admit that they don't even own any other consoles to compare their experience to. Despite being posted in topics like "Xbox Live to carry mini-games" and "Splinter Cell Next Gen to be PS3 Exclusive", these posts will never be moderated as Off-Topic, but will instead get +5 Interesting.
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