Today’s game is Halo Combat Evolved. Me and a friend have been going through it on Normal (Our last playthrough was on Legendary) and during it we lowered the resolution down to 720 x 480 (what, i believe the original Xbox ran on).

We ran through Guilty Spark like that, after that my friend was dreading the library though so he called it stops though. I went and figured out how to setup ReShade with a CRT filter for it too enhance the experience. obviously not the same as just playing the OG but it was an experience. I have a copy on Disk so at one point i’d like to get all the hardware to play it, but for now this was an amazing experience.

Looking at it this way was like playing a new game almost. I could understand how this was the “forefront” of graphics at the time. On the pictures there’s scan lines, but in the actual gameplay it’s very soft and glowy. It really contextualizes how the original game was supposed to look. I kind of want to go through Halo 2 like this too, but i think the better option is to get a disk copy and play it that way.

I only played Two Betrayals like this because i had to disable Anticheat to play it that way and i didn’t want to play that far without my friend but it was a fun experience to play it this way. I wish i could play it that way with him with Anti Cheat. I wonder if there’s something i can do with VK Basalt instead of ReShade.