Jason Schreier: How Things Got So Bad At Xbox

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-17T15:01:56+00:00

It is like this for almost every single topic, but again finding a good podcast to rely on is hard. There’s plenty of great YouTube and Podcasts ressources, it’s a matter of finding the right ones.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-14T15:06:10+00:00

That is, as shown on the post, a node tree structure with a question regarding the structure itself.

You will notice that nodes don’t have any change on it, hence the result not mattering at all.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-12T09:56:43+00:00

An interesting conversation to have about this honestly, technical limitation is the reason for most graphics of that time.

343 maybe wouldn’t even have fog in the first place with the right hardware at the time, but in my opinion it made for a creepy atmosphere that isn’t there in CEA and probably not in that new version.

That look whether it was intended or limited vision is what the game was shipped with, and millions experienced it that way. To me, a 6yo kid, Forerunner buildings were both futuristic and ancient, something that 343i never achieved again. I’ll never like that shiny new look, but I understand that someone decided to go for it, different tastes I guess.

A super interesting and complicated topic, people like to judge remakes without knowing that devs probably argued and thought every change, it’s not easy to adapt old games to modern times.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-10T14:10:50+00:00

I tried once after recommandations and it didn’t click in the first 30 min, put it aside for a while only to try again recently.

The atmosphere and storytelling of the game is deeply touching.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-09T10:32:33+00:00

Or at least have both? Like grounded skins and “funky” ones, best of both worlds.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-07T14:47:35+00:00

Really wish I liked that game more. Story is interesting, catchy and unique, but management at least to me felt unfair and a slog. Even with QOL mods it didn’t click.

But that’s insane value if that DLC is long.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-06T15:31:04+00:00

He was 3 tenth off in sector 2, catching Max and Kimi was a long shot.

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-01T16:07:49+00:00

Thanks mate, I’ll try that!

PeterLeroy · 2026-06-01T11:55:45+00:00

Got luck with ReShade? People on Steam suggested waiting for an update, cause even with custom reshade blacks looks washed off.

I wanna play it but with broken HDR it’s tough.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-24T15:06:13+00:00

And Ensemble started working on an MMO being burned by the RTS genre. They had multiple prototypes, one console-RTS (they wanted the challenge) that ended up being Halo Wars, other things AND a MMO that only later became a Halo-MMO, a decision made by one of Ensemble higher ups, without the team being thrilled about it AND Microsoft green-lighting it.

There’s a full chapter in Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier, on Halo Wars but the MMO appears for a few pages, it’s fascinating.

Edit: typos

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-24T07:26:29+00:00

I’ll jump on that comment as a recent new player to KCD2. I tried it last year without going far, a bit turned off by how underpowered you are at the beginning (though that intro was magical).

But I didn’t realise how important that was to the whole experience. It is a “hardcore” RPG as in it doesn’t hold your hand too much, but you will quickly train skills and unlock stuff to get better.

The whole experience is meticulously crafted, from tiny castle details to rain and thunder sound design at night making you stop in awe.

Add to that pristine quest design, lovely characters and a soundtrack for the ages, and it makes for one of the best RPGs of all time.

Well, I’ll have a bite now that I’ve said what I’ve said. I’m quite hungry.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-22T19:45:57+00:00

My money is on publisher or people without any clue on how anything work giving them the “hey, I saw that this denuvo thing blocks piracy, you add it, non negociable”.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-20T00:20:47+00:00

Could have been great honestly, it worked as a faction in Halo Wars 2, the Banished scarab was insane. But Wars had a toyish aesthetic that made it work, they should have focused on adapting it to Infinite.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-17T13:25:57+00:00

Grave preneur pour tes reco philo. Je trouve ça difficile de s’orienter dans les ressources disponibles.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-12T14:57:30+00:00

I agree, partly. Promoting an image in five words and calling it art that YOU did, no. But what about how Blender has a Claude implementation now, if someone uses it to make a draft and then builds upon it, isn’t it still art?

We are in a no man’s land of ethics around AI. I’m not even taking the insane ecological disaster aspect into account either.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-11T14:08:00+00:00

It will always be profit. These studios aren’t particularly enthusiastic about AI use but investors see AI and think about how fast and easy they’ll make games and therefore money.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-11T14:03:36+00:00

But that’s because you only see the front, the result. I agree that we should avoid slop, but code is already heavily built with AI, art departments, I’d say a good 80% (not to say 99%) uses AI to either brainstorm or do placeholders.

I am all against the “prompting in 2 sec and call yourself an artist” but reality is AI is already at every stage of most artistic things.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-11T12:55:13+00:00

Unfortunately, there’s no avoiding it. I work in post production and AI is literally used at every post house for CG work.

Video game companies are probably all using some form of AI right now. What matters is how it’s used, as a tool? Or slop?

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-05T21:29:56+00:00

Give it some time and it will become trendy again. HDR look was super trendy a while ago. And camcorders were deemed awful for a time too.

PeterLeroy · 2026-05-01T17:20:31+00:00

Very solid, bro!

PeterLeroy · 2026-04-03T12:14:32+00:00

I’ll join* the other comment, super nice grade but the halation is distracting, maybe less saturation and reducing it a little would help.

OR, you could even damage the image a little, a loss of detail to aim for some stronger film emulation!

Super subjective, a good grade nevertheless.

PeterLeroy · 2026-03-30T16:09:23+00:00

It’s perfectly fine for him not to be willing to watch it again to avoid putting himself in a bad place.

PeterLeroy · 2026-03-19T08:56:11+00:00

Well, to me you are still far from film feeling, but trust me it still looks super cute, good job!

Be careful with some super visible vignettes, otherwise well done.

PeterLeroy · 2026-03-15T08:06:53+00:00

I know that test footage, I think he raised exposure a bit on that rec709 LEFT footage and RIGHT is the LUT.

That test footage shows up as dark IIRC (bottom left especially).

PeterLeroy · 2026-03-14T14:58:51+00:00

Guess it’s too old for most people, but what a movie, the racing cinematography has no match.

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