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Halo Reach BC Patch Greatly Improves Performance; Now Runs Better Than Xbox 360 Version

A new Halo Reach backwards compatibility patch has been released by Microsoft which greatly improves the game’s performance on Xbox One.

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poppinslops2752d ago

As someone who's fanatical when it comes to chronology, this is good news... I guess this means the time has finally come for me to play some Halo - not that I hadn't before, but it was just some deathmatches against some friends who spent their time jumping around with sniper rifles and owning me worse than I've ever been owned before, which kind of put me off the franchise.

Donnie812752d ago

Reach is the game that got me into halo. I might try to get that one achievement were you jump of the cliff and execute the elite a few hundred more times. Ill get it one of these days. Glad the game runs smooth now

morganfell2751d ago (Edited 2751d ago )

Woohoo. Solid frames and the background motion blur is almost completely gone. I only notice it in one scene when I am first in the Falcon. Great job getting this running right.

gamingisnotacrime2751d ago

Wow i thought this was left for dead in the water. This just shows that the xbox team is being lead by a gamer mentality. They dont have much to win from improving this game performance yet they did almost a year later. This backwards thing is great, im enjoying some really great gaming from previous gen and i love it

game4funz2751d ago

Agreed. I was hoping they would fix it. Almost lost hope. Never played reach.... But played all the others so I was bumped when the performance was poor.

I would love it if they fixed gears judgement next.

morganfell2751d ago (Edited 2751d ago )

I played it a lot on the 360. But to have all of these in one place now on the One and working is great. I can't think of how many games of Firefight we played. And now that this is running, one of the guys that still just has a 360 can join in as well. There are a handful of franchises in gaming that deserve this kind of attention and HALO is one of them. When I first saw this article and jumped on to check it, I played some Campaign....looked up and an hour and a half was gone.

Referred to as a revelation of an update: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

MCTJim2751d ago

I am going to fire this up and install it now.

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6 Friendliest Characters in Games

GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."

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thorstein243d ago

Dogmeat: *bark!*

Translation: you are dead to me.

JSONEHUNDRED243d ago

You can probably add Karlach to this from BG3

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10 Best Lore-Rich Video Games

Talented writers can build worlds that are as wondrous as real-life. Here are the best lore-rich video games for you to get immersed in.

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shinoff2183479d ago

How'd fallout not make the list. Atleast over cyberpunk, tales , and halo. Fallout been around since what 96 98 and has 5 6 games into it. It's full of lore when you play it. I'd even add star ocean to a point.

robtion478d ago

Agree Fallout should be on there.

MadLad478d ago

And somehow Planescape Torment doesn't even make the list.

Crows90478d ago

Hollow knight surpasses these.

shinoff2183478d ago

In lore? I must be missing something

Crows90478d ago (Edited 478d ago )

Yes in lore. Easily missed... absolutely. Never played a game that had me loving the world and lore behind it as much as that one. Most of course wouldn't be able to experience it since it is a more difficult game.

DarXyde478d ago

I can't speak for all titles on this list, but by the time you get to Dark Souls III, the lore is a bloody tapestry of intricacy

Crows90477d ago

Played them all. Im not saying the games on the list dont have good lore...I just think hollow knight had more lore that is hidden but present and more easily explored and accessed. The souls games have tremendous lore but theyre mostly hidden and stay that way unless you look for it and research it. The lore is not very accessible.

DarXyde477d ago

Crows90,

I think that's a somewhat fair assessment. For me, the Souls games are less upfront about the lore, but it does invite your fascination through NPCs, items, locations, bosses, etc. There's this kind of natural progression where the picture becomes just clear enough by doing the essential tasks, but it really makes you want to explore every inch of the world.

TheColbertinator478d ago

Suikoden and Legend of Heroes also have massive lore setups.

agent13478d ago

narration is more important than lore i'd rather watch the story and characters in a more cinematic way instead of searching for notes and stuff that's why i love sony exclusive games like uncharted and gow and hate from software games

shinoff2183477d ago

The article was top ten lore in video games. I think they did a bad job picking games out. I know what you mean though. I just like a variety of games and genres.

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Halo’s best Bungie campaign has its worst feature fixed after 12 years

Halo’s best ever campaign mode developed by Bungie has had its most annoying feature fixed after more than a decade, making the sci-fi FPS game better than ever

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SullysCigar563d ago

Awesome news - so can we look forward to playing Halo: Infinite with no online issues circa 2033?

just_looken563d ago

"You can download the improved Reach AI mod at Mod DB" This was a mod 343 did nothing so the online will be fixed in our dreams.

SullysCigar563d ago

Par for the course with 343.

Profchaos562d ago

They did say they had a 10 year plan for infinite we just all assumed it would be DLC could of been a 10 year netcode rollout.

But seriously this is a mod the community won't be able to modify infinite in the same way

Cikatriz_ESP563d ago

Combat Evolved was the best campaign, and it's not even close.

just_looken563d ago

You should have tried this version of reach when it first came out remastered for a year there was no sound because 343 could not locate the sound files.

It was a special challenge.

badz149563d ago

more like the bunch at 343i are simply mentally challenged

ACEMANWISE563d ago

Well I guess 12 years is faster than most fixes. I guess this is a cheap way to "remaster" something nowadays.....by just fixing something that used to always be broken.

zidane1341563d ago

Did you even read the article? This is a mod to improve AI from back almost 2 gens ago. Nobody is claiming this is remastering anything. Yeesh.

Crows90562d ago

Halo is dead. Microsoft has other shooter franchises it cares more about now. 343 are no longer Xbox golden studio. They are likely to shift things around or even close it all together and give the IP to someone else.

343i decided to pummel the IP into the ground...and when they see it didn't quite look like Glenn's face they decided to just keep on pummeling. Not sure if Glenn is the IP or the fanbase in this case though.

Profchaos562d ago

343 were never the golden studio they were a hastily thrown together b team when bungie said we want to do something else cya

Crows90562d ago

Well ...I didn't want to say it but I agree. Makes you wonder why Microsoft gave them the IP and didn't keep Bungie or any of the talent they acquired from any studio.

CobraKai562d ago

“ Halo Infinite, Halo 3, or Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s hard to say which of the sci-fi FPS games offers the best experience all round.”
He lost me with Halo Infinite.

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