Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1?

Halo 2 is a video game released in 2004. It is the sequel to Halo 1, a game made by Bungie and released in 2001. Halo follows the story of John Halo (master chief to his friends) as he and his pal arbiter do something, I dont know. There are many shadows such as Stencil shadows and Baked shadows. The Covenant want to steal the Oven John Halo uses to Bake his shadows and it is up to the UNSC to stop them. Halo Spartans Didact 343 industries Halo Infinite Halo 7 Playstation Xbox and other things that may help this video get seen

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[TheRussianORIONTrooper]

Theres a mod on the workshop thats attempting to fix this issue!

[bowrey]

Halo 2 is one of those weird cases of surviving multiple apocalyptic level development upsets and somehow coming out fairly stable and almost content complete.

[JoCat]

its insane how much good some lighting can do, to the point some of this H2 footage with the dynamic lighting could pass for early halo 3 screenshots
probably one of the reasons halo 3's graphics still hold up so well today, it's the lighting

[LaperLarden]

So what I'm gathering from this is... The modding community has some work to do.

[riloegaming]

It's fascinating how by simply adding dynamic lighting, Halo 2 is skyrocketed to borderline on-par with Halo 3's gorgeousness.

[stevemc]

I always noticed how H2 has some crunchy texture compression too
In CE you can read the text on UNSC ammo packs but in H2 its unintelligible

[TheRealFrozenFire]

*"THICK, BLACK shadows."*
*"THROBBING, THICK old man veins."*


Very **ahem** informative video, LNG. Much appreciated👍

[ronin]

0:45 "imagine what developers were up against"
Homie doing the worm on the floor

[Zminator]

Is this why Halo 3 was so aggressive with the lighting system? Like an overcompensation to what they couldn't do in Halo 2?

[MajorSilvaa]

Microsoft mismanaged H2 so badly. The fact they pushed Bungie for an original Xbox release date when they released the 360 a year later is just mind blowing. I can’t imagine how incredible H2 would’ve been had Bungie had an extra year and the power of the 360 to work with. Such a shame

[PraetorianCarrion]

It's crazy to think how different the artistic direction of the franchise would've gone with just a simple change to lighting, I'd love to see a newer game play with starker moodier lighting

[ROBOHOLIC]

That title's some fighting words.

Edit: Nvm. I see what you mean now. What the hell, we were robbed of greatness 😭

[autofigure]

the way those halo 2 models TRANSFORMED after the light was cast, they looked immediately more similar to halo 3. Halo 3s lighting surely was them finally getting it to LOOK how they wanted it to even if it wasn't quite the same / made with more advanced and powerful tech.

[damsen]

They should have waited Halo 2 to be on the X360 with the ambition they had.

[dipshidian]

6:02 Those “ordinary dynamic shadows” are called shadow maps. This is an implementation of real-time shadow mapping, an evolution of the baked shadows in late 90s games. Stencil shadows are also a form of dynamic shadows, just using polygon-based shadows instead of the rasterized (per-pixel) ones in shadow mapping.

[ItsButterBean]

All these years I thought it was just me; can’t wait to see what’s up

[bander]

I always knew H2's story and gameplay was ahead of its time, but turns out even its lighting was also too far ahead of its time. Every day I think we all get reminded just how lucky we are that this game was even released at all

[BoeBins]

The brutes look straight up scary with proper lighting.

[kel_ski]

Actually a super well made and informative video. Thanks for putting it together dude

[billb]

"Drop a massive stencil shadow over the like button" was a pretty solid interaction reminder