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Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode wor
By:davidfuchs
Date: 6/5/23 1:57 pm
In Response To: Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode wor (Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316))

: I don't know like the nitty gritty tech details or what have you, but I know
: it's not a video file like some believed before H3's launch. It's an exact
: playback of every event that occurred during gameplay. That's why it's
: possible to take a film from 2007 recorded on a 360, and play it back
: today in 4K on a Series X or emulator.

: Bungie were truly ahead of the game, which makes it sad to see them and 343
: drop the ball these days on such an incredible feature.

In some ways, they were just following a long tradition in the PC space of using demo files like Doom and Quake used to keep file sizes manageable for dialup sharing.

We definitely got useful game streaming and recording system-wide with the Xbox One, but it's obviously not as nice as the implementation in Bungie's games. It's a shame it's fallen by the wayside.


Messages In This Thread

How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode work?Ty Lancan6/4/23 8:18 pm
     Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode worJoe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)6/5/23 8:38 am
           Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode wordavidfuchs6/5/23 1:57 pm
                 Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode worJoe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)6/5/23 9:09 pm
     Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode worTy Lancan6/5/23 5:54 pm
     Re: How does the Halo 3 and Reach theater mode woruberfoop6/5/23 10:02 pm

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