WHY THE FUCK IS A SHITTY COLLECTION OF 6TH AND 7TH GEN GAMES OVER 100 GIGABYTES?
Better question, why does it need a Windows Live Account in 2026? lol
>>741451738Nobody knows how to optimize shit anymore
I think I read somewhere the credits for one of the games which is just white text scrolling up on a black background is a 5GB mp4 file. They just didn't care at all.
>>741451738Halo 2A is around half of the install size, Halo 4 is also pretty big too, both games use pre-rendered cutscenes, mainly H2A, 4 only has them for the prologue and epilogue.
>>741453808There's also the hour of Spartan Ops story cutscenes that most people have never seen
>>741451738it isn't>>741451938it doesn't
Better question is why do I need to input a verification code from my phone in order to play a single player game
It's like 11 games in one. 2 versions of each plus Halo 4. And then all the multiplayer maps for all the games.
>>741456467>it doesn'tthis is just halo 3 btw
>>741451738Are you planning on playing all 5 games all at once? No? Then only download the campaign you're interested in.
>>741451738>MicrosoftFound the problem
what kind of third world internet speed do you have where 100gb is an issue? just wait for like 10-15 minutes.
>>741457291Why do you like your ass pulled inside out just because you see its halo
>>741456854I literally only have Bungie games installed.
>>741457291It's not the internet speed, it's the Steam Deck with 512gb storage.
>>741457365That is 5 games and stuff like Halo one has two graphical texture you can swap on the fly
>>741451738Because Halo 2 is fuck hueg
>>741456794Okay? Multiply by three and it's not even close to 100 gigs still.
>>741451738>download, play, and finish each game invididuallynot my problem
>>741451738Halo 4 is pretty much an end-of-generation title and slips a ton of pre-rendered shit in there, Halo 2 is the original plus the remade visuals with pre-renders, and Combat Evolved also has its anniversary remaster in there. Everything is basically higher resolution textures on top of their original selves.
>>741457989Halo 3 and Reach also have a bunch of new armor added, and with how Halo's file structure works everything new needs to be baked into every single map in the game.
Day 100 of asking for a friend to play coop workshop mods with.
>>741457748>threeanon...
>>741451738>Halo 1-4 single/multiplayer>Somehow supposed to be under 100gigsIt's a collection. OF COURSE if you download the "content complete" version it's going to be 100+ gigs.If you don't need the whole thing, it's WAY less than that. Halo 2-3 multiplayer is like 25gigs.
>>741458097>with how Halo's file structure works everything new needs to be baked into every single map in the game.
>>741458248It worked well for console load times, where you're only going to be running things off of a disc.
>>741457649PSA.Recently Halo 2 Restored made it to the archive and it is playable online with Project Cartographer and its anti-cheat works unlike MCC.Restored is essentially Halo 2 Vista minus GFWL plus quality of life updates.It runs great, plays better than the MCC version and it is the only way you will play Halo 2 MP in the year of our lord.Halo 2 on MCC sees next to no play, with Halo 3 and Reach being the most played titles.End of message.Now someone tell me if ElDewrito is better or if that is only for Halo 3/4.Halo 2 is so much fun, I landed a sticky on a guy who was like 3 stories above me and dropped the oddball, I shouted get the fuck down from there as it happened. Lol.Also melee in Halo 2 just feels better.I used to like Halo 3 better but H2 is growing in me.
>>741458248Yeah welcome to console gaming, where devs have to do whack-ass shit to make sure the machine doesn't catch fire.
>>741458405El Dewrito is kinda shitty, and Halo 3 is the only MCC game that actually sees play nowadays.
>>741458248This is one of several reasons why Infinite was a technological disaster internally. Slipspace Engine is really just a retitled Blam, like how Creation Engine is still just Gamebryo underneath the flashy veneer. Another major problem is that because Microsoft moved to 18 month contractor policies to try to avoid paying health benefits for longer-term employees, they had a massive brain drain of the people that knew the engine in the first place and thus people lost track of how to actually develop for it.That's why Campaign Evolved and the rebrand are making such a big ass push to Unreal Engine in a desperate attempt to wipe the technical debt. And yet they just imported Halo Reach shit wholesale over with possibilities that it's just a UE5 layer on top of Blam code, which would be even more retardo debt.
>>741457748You'd still be wrong even if that was my point.
>>741451738it was 30-40 gb on xbox one, shitty 4k textures bloated the size to 135 gb on series x
>>741458350>>741458432>>741458546Technological limitations made them make better games or they made better games in spite of technological limitations, an age old question.I wonder if we will ever see a new engine from AAA devs or is it just UT every time all the time
>>741458754In a way, the limitations did result in better games. But at the same time, we had smarter devs back then that actually understood the hardware and didn't brute force their implementations of tech.
They best rename that shit to Gaylo
>>741458951They also were both a first-party team with hands on documentation of what they were working with, and effectively hand-developed their own engine and tools for the time, so Bungie and early 343 would've known better than anyone else how to literally "make Halo". Maybe not well given 2 and 4's balancing, but still. Now all those talents are gone in favor of college and technical school hires who have no idea what the fuck they're doing past a booklet or online course, handling someone else's work that came before them like they're some sorta Egyptian hieroglyphics.
>>741456417are those even included in MCC, because those cutscenes never showed when I went through spartan ops
>>741459076Game balance doesn't have anything to do with understanding the tech.But you're right, having a revolving door of contractors who wouldn't know how a proprietary engine works does not help anyone. And because it's easier and cheaper to just hire those people, it results in every game using the same 2 engines.>>741459150They're there, but the option is out of the way.
>>741458478>and Halo 3 is the only MCC game that actually sees play nowadays.Because it was without a doubt the best Halo game and still is.
>>741459590The most normalfag option, sure.
>>741451738>why is halo CE anniversary, halo 2 anniversary, halo 3, halo 3 odst, halo reach, and halo 4 100gbs all together!!!
>>741459684>The most normalfag option, sure.Reach is the normalfag option bro
>>741461414Reach is when the franchise died.
>>741458248I tried to mod the crosshair to be smaller in halo 1 and it was a fucking nightmare for exactly the same reason.
So you won't want to play it. Which you shouldn't.
