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1. Resolders RAM to upgrade from 64mb to 128mb of vram

2. Solders new CPU onto console only to discover its gpu bottle necked

3. Enables OCing the GPU on the original Xbox, only to run into memory bandwidth limits

4. Reverse engineers Halo 2 source code to set scaling to 720p or 1080p (output is interlaced to 1080i)

5. Speeds up the hard drive to faster load in textures

My god this man is more dedicated to Halo 2 than Bungie is to any of their IP today.

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> My god this man is more dedicated to Halo 2 than Bungie is to any of their IP today

Bungie isn't involved with Halo at all any more. Microsoft owns the IP and it's developed by 343 Industries.

Bungie has Destiny/Destiny 2 now and the upcoming Marathon extraction shooter.

Most D2 players flat out don't trust Bungie anymore. Not only have they been mailing in their seasonal content for years now, but their last campaign was abysmal. Taking an extra 6 months on development won't change things. I've got a group of 12 friends who all have been playing since alpha. One has purchased the next expansion, and nobody else is even considering it. I'm relieved to finally be done with it, personally.

As someone who watched their friend play through Destiny 1 for hundreds of hours, I don't know what anyone was expecting? That game clearly did not respect it's players and their time or money, yet still made insanely good profits, so why would they do anything different?

Remember how much they paid Peter Dinklage for his voice acting, and his character sounded absolutely phoned in, and lazy, to the point that they eventually had to replace it with much better voice acting by someone else who was cheaper

It was about availability for future recordings, not price. If cost was a concern they wouldn't have had Nolan North rerecord all of Dinklage's existing dialogue, just replace him going forward.

As a Destiny player I am more than aware they don't own Halo.

They are also not passionate about Destiny 2 and it shows.

Nostalgia runs hard! So many hours spent in that game. I'm happy someone is also as in enamored with the magic as I am!

Yeah this is an incredible engineering feat, but I don't think I could do it knowing I could just go out and spend $500 on an xbox series X to play the remastered version in 120fps at 4k instead. I admire this level of dedication.

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