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I think Halo 1 holds up better than Halo 2 graphically, Halo 2 feels like a step back in many ways with its muddy and flat overall appearance. Also that era's bloom may hold nostalgic value for many, but for me it's just aged terribly, especially with the glowing skin, a side effect of the low dynamic range (SDR) as you alluded to.

Any games similar to this game out now on ps5???

The problem here is the character models don't seem to be casting shadows on themselves, meaning they look just as flat as always. This is a huge step in the right direction as the environmental shadows are much improved, but to really capture that E3 nostalgia we need character models that cast shadows on their own character models.

Does this also work on cutscenes?

So much more dynamic, hope they use this when they restore the e3 level

The wife and I have never stopped playing it since it came out. The first game I install on any computer I get. Best RTS and the best soundtrack..... My grandson is enjoying it now also.....

The lighting is what fundamentally sets apart the Vanilla H2 we all know and love from the e3 look + earlier commercials... I've read somewhere that in order for this really to be implemented, the source code of the engine would have to be changed, which to my understanding isn't feasible.

343 should release the dev build of h2 from the IGN play through with O’ Connor

Hey mate what xemu settings are you using? struggling to get my brute force to load after the first mission? seems to be a common problem on the latest xemu build

This mod is broken and a WIP. If it works correctly it acutally makes every thing look like it make sense. Every texture and model all look like oily acne skin in vanilla H2. Those who can't tell the differece go see Latenight gamings video on it "Why H2 look worse than CE"

Hard to believe that these shadows made the OG Xbox shit itself.

It is moderatly more noticable and does improve some areas. Though, other areas are aboviously just as bad. Lighting was always Halo 2's biggest flaw with its art style imo.

Changes very little in my opinion

With CRTs you could actually notice all of this. Most VGA CRTs could do at least 1024x768 and by the late 90s many could do up to 1600x1200. Some of the best out there could do resolutions like 2048x1536. The 2D sprites were just more done as a limitation of the hardware not the displays. Many CRT monitors for PCs can actually do modern games justice as I own one that can do 1920x1080 from 1994. Would have been a high end monitor at the time but still it could easily do HD resolutions.

I prefer the newer graphics. I do not see how this level could be played the old way. Sure it is more creepy but you cannot see anything. So what is the point of making it so dark your blind as a bat. Also this mission is so buggy it is hard to complete even if you can see.

My brother bought an xbox that came with this game and midtown madness 3, unfortunately it was the only two games we'd ever own on xbox because we mostly used our ps2, but we spent a lot of time playing this game and it was such a phenomenal game for its time. It was unlike anything else we played back then

Unreal Tournament & Quake III Team Arena - Sent Me Here

Those were extreme times, kids in their big basements dreaming it big rough and smart, haggling for bitcoin in the empty void, selling polygons pride chess birth dominance control. I was always into it. Or it was always on the scedulw.

Probably my favorite era of game graphics. Back when games looked like games, and hand-crafted art could be easily dissected by eye alone, and appreciated.

Is that the original audio? what a banger!

Loved this game. The unique stats for each race and character was a fun spin on the old formula.

17:00 This isn’t even the classic Bump Mapping as defined by James Blinn at SIGGRAPH 1978, this is a cheaper per-vertex approximation of it. Emboss Bump Mapping was made to run on 3D cards not capable of per-pixel lighting effects, like the Voodoo 1 and 2 or Riva TNT. It looks better than having no bump mapping at all, but can’t compare to the true per-pixel variant. Outcast (a game that premiered in mid-1999) had per-pixel bump mapping (software-rendered) as far back as in prototype form when shown off at E3 1997 (as can be seen in its 1997 trailer), and Trespasser (from October 1998) had its own form of bump mapping with surface normals stored in two greyscale textures in polar co-ordinates (i.e. early Normal Mapping, also software-rendered). The first game with Emboss Bump Mapping was the Voodoo 2-enhanced 1998 re-release of Montezuma’s Return, which debuted in October 1998 along with Trespasser (which did per-pixel bump maps) but was vastly predated by Outcast’s 1997 and 1998 pre-release builds. In short, the “bump mapping” in 3DMark 99 is a 3D-card-friendly form of fake bump mapping that uses blending tricks to imitate the real classic method of bump mapping (which looked just as good as Normal Mapping does today).

How great the UI was compared to the slow transition animation-ridden bloatware it is today

As soon I got my 4090 I downloaded all kinds of benchmarks haha, nice!

Graphics was better back then

How is this possible?

This takes me back... Wow have we come far!!

Shit posting

I couldn't even get it to start up at 4K but 1920*1440 worked fine with the compatibility patch. Wasn't able to get around the V-sync but it ran at 120 FPS locked using ~4% of the GPU and 5% of the CPU of my RTX 4090 and Ryzen 7800X3D 😂

I experienced a feeling of seeing an advanced Amiga demo with this 3DMark99 🙂 Not sure, but I believe I had a Pentium 166 Mhz OC to 233 Mhz with a voodoo 2 card in 1999 🙂 Or was this computer earlier than 99?

What's that sound? Oh, it's the sound of RTX 4090 yawning🥱 😆

Imagine what games will be like when hardware is fast enough to run these graphics!

Fps is over 5000?

i prefer on original hardware ;) ruclips.net/video/9C8YRyAKWJI/видео.html

That's pretty impressive for 1999.

Smaller geometry primitives were historically always slower to render in large numbers, due to limitations in the software programming models and hardware architectures. It wasn't until recently (DX12 Ultimate) that the entire geometry part of the rendering pipeline was properly parallelized at API level -- from the individual vertices to the higher order polygon patches. That's why even a ridiculously overpowered GPU (4090) is still exhibiting performance drops executing such old software code. Severe under-utilization.

You can feel the Future Crew with this one

Funny, the 3D Mark 99 runs on the internal ARM CPU of the 4090 in 8K ... XD

This is 🔥 🔥

I can see a bit of a performance hit with these graphics features. Looks like a lot of work too. I think 1440p and support for modern resolutions is enough to change the game tbh. This looks very poorly optimized. I do appreciate you making the video and putting the love into making it look this good though...just don't forget about performance!

the texture smoothing makes it look like a mobile game, without it looks like a proper 90s fps masterpiece

This was my childhood , loved this game

does this no longer work? ut99 there is no normal effect. Does anyone know how to enable it?

does this no longer work? ut99 there is no normal effect. Does anyone know how to enable it?

5:28 Funny you should say that because Bump Mapping (multiple flavors of it, in fact) existed in games between 1998 to 1999, everything from Emboss (Bump) Mapping, Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping, software-rendered classic (per-pixel) Bump Mapping to Normal Mapping with per-pixel surface normals encoded using greyscale spherical “slope maps” instead of RGB-encoded pixels (like with DOT3), but also whatever quirky Normal Mapping format was supported in hardware on Sega Dreamcast (and was sadly under-used).

X-Isle debuted shortly after the GeForce2 GTS (NV15) around mid-to-late 2000. It didn’t exist in 1999, there is no proof it did, other than unreliable sources (Polygon I think) misquoting which E3 it was first shown at (E3 1999 instead of E3 2000). It’s sad that this misinformation is being circulated as fact. There was never a version compiled in ‘99 and certainly would not have existed in mid-1999 as the GeForce 256 didn’t exist yet! It was a showcase for the multi-texturing capabilities of NV15 primarily. It runs OK on the GeForce 256, with DOT3 Bump Mapping (Normal Mapping) and everything, but Cube Mapping didn’t run very well on it. GF2 GTS handles Cube Mapping like a champ! The GeForce3 version was a later version of X-Isle from early-to-mid 2001.

I think that i would love to see a remake or a new game of brute force with the gameplay of gears of war while keeping the special abilities of the 4 characters. While Gears of War is on Sera, the new brute force would be in space visiting different planets. The possibility of having a lot of different weapon would make it interesting. Just imagining Brutus hiding behind something and using his heat vision to see where are the others ennemies would be cool. And adding more characters to team. Hope for The Coalition to buy the game rights.

When was this game released?

0:27 By the way, if you look at the beer (oil) cans, there's a Finnish play on words there. In Finland, there's a beer brand named _Lapin Kulta,_ meaning "Gold of Lapland". In the benchmark, it's _Lapin Öljy,_ which would translate to "Oil of Lapland".

I do still never receive any your adore in your past films despite my incredible results of RTX 4090. Why? 😕😓 But I may retire all "likes" for your films and I won't click more "likes" for your current/future films.