I loved halo reach and I still do and I saw this pc video on halo reach, and it looked so sexy like the weapon models and armour. Reshade would make it even more secy
Damien Martinez It’s kind of a theme with his videos; from comments he shows, he gets a lot of hate and when he does that whole “like the video” thing, he dislikes it in the visual example.
@Kuniko 343 said cross play wont be in at launch and they will monitoring the situation. There are major technical issues with pc and console cross play. I highly doubt they will add it unless there is a huge huge push from the community. And even if they did add cross play, most likely there would be a game type or some way to toggle playing cross play off. Oh and your the authority on what people want? You say same old story..... yet there are remakes emasters that do very well. New isn't always better. Look at the crap we have got from AAA game devs in the last few years. Also, adding halo to pc opens halo up to alot of people that don't play xbox. Reach has never been released on pc. They are also selling it at a really reasonable price. So where is the hatred coming from than if there is no cross play? Or is it because another group not part of your super ultra cool fan club (xbox) is getting the games too?
Check the description for the download for Project Cartographer Halo 2! They also have a discord channel :) pop in and let them know they're doing amazing work!
@Aidan Pritchett That was already set globally as my system isnt too great but I got it to work with a modified version of reshade from the cartographer discord. It had to do with preserving depth layers. Had to force preserving the player arms depth info as the original reshade kept only choosing one or the other (other being the game world depth info). But thanks for the reply!
My buddy from middle school invited me over to his house one day, and I distinctly remember him taking me to his room and saying something along the lines of, "Take a look at this." It was Halo 2. I had never seen anything like it before, and the only thing I could compare it to was Star Wars at the time. He loaded "The Arbiter", and I just watched in awe as the Prophets spoke to Thel about The Great Journey. You know that feeling when you don't know what you're looking at, so all you can do is just stare in awe? Yep. That was me. 8:30 makes me extremely emotional, because not only does it take me back to the moment I became a Halo fan, but it also describes a moment in time where things were not only simpler, but beautifully so. Thank you, Late Night Gaming. Thank you 💓
Best campaign, best writing, best music, best engine upgrade, best glitches, least linear (no invisible barriers), most challenging, great multiplayer. Yeah halo 2 is the best halo game imo
I love what you did with this. This is how I like remasters to be done, retain the art style of the textures and models but update the lighting. Just like the Quake remaster/rerelease.
I can't help but remember there was a way to share reshade presets with other people. Could be another shader plugin, though. I'm not great at editing everything with ReShade so if it's possible then maybe you could share a download to your presets used in the video
I know a very simple way of installing and it requires all files (.inis .dlls and reshade-shaders folder) but editing the reshade.ini file so it reads as "./preset.ini" instead of "c:/halo 2/preset.ini" for all the other required files. It's what I do with my own filters.
to share reshade presets, the creator of the preset simply has to shae the preset.ini (it named by default "DefaultPreset.ini" if he didn't name it and can be found in the main folder)
@@udese730 and you can rename them and set it as default right? Still I wish Halo2 saved them properly because if you alt tab from fullscreen reshade resets for some reason..
Would love to see a let's play or at least a partial let's play with either of the shader settings you used. The borderlands cell shaded style especially!
How did you get AO to work, I turned of anti-aliasing, but the only thing that's actually affected by the AO is my hands. No matter what I do nothing changes. I am using Reshade 4.3.0
Theragingsparten 1 when you look at your list of active shaders do you see “Edit Global Processor Definitions”? Click it and you should see “Reshade_Depth_Input_Is_Reversed”? Instead of 1, set it to 0
@@LateNightHalo unfortunately, no. Still thanks for trying to help out. It did however clean up and slighty improve the AO on the Hands, so that means I'm getting somewhere. Thanks for helping out
for anyone complaining about AO making polygon too visible: you can go find at the beginning of the AO shader a line that say someting like "AO_SMOOTH_NORMALS" set to 0, set it to 1 in the code and save the changes or add it to your pre-processor definition. hope that helps someone out there
The new graphics you did to this game looks like it was made on the Source Engine, Finally a 2004 game worthy to beat Half-Life 2 on how beautiful the game is!
Seeing inside "Sacred Icon", you've done a really good job of making Halo 2 look, not necessarily like Anniversary Halo 2 to me, but it reallllly reminds me of Halo 3, and in my books thats a great thing!
“This impossible vastness that reminded me of the second level on Combat Evolved” ahh the attention to detail you muster, I have fond memories of that level 😁 Infinite seems to be promising on huge open areas, with 353 hiring open world designers etc. I really hope they genuinely revert Halo to its roots.. people are skeptical but I’m so excited
Dude, thank you for showing off Project Cartographer! Edit: I can remember recommending it to LNG months ago about playing Halo 2 on PC with better settings, controls, ability to play mp easier than on Xbox, etc.
Wow you did a really good job on this one! You actually improved the look of the game a lot. Some of these shots look just as good as halo 2 anniversary.
8:17 this is what halo 3 looked like when I nuked my brain on adderall, weed, and kratom Except the textures were moving and glowing, growing and shrinking, was not a good time
That cartoon filter actually looked pretty good, I think it'd be interesting to see on a light hearted halo game, one with a more comedic tone. Probably a fan game, or silly bonus game mode that would be dlc nowadays...
I shoulda left this on the reach video. But during my entire time playing reach I only had this old small plasma tv. And it cracked slightly and had some minor errors on the screen. And I played the hell out of reach on it. The immersion of the cracked screen to the helmet was so nice. Just like your reshade there.
One thing that seems really interesting is that once you'd applied the Reshade effects, it really brought out some of the detail on the normal maps. It's especially noticeable at 4:32 and 5:51, where you don't have to squint your eyes to see the details on the SMGs anymore. It really makes me wonder how much better Halo 2 could have been from a graphics and lighting standpoint if they had been given more development time with Halo 2.
Reshade will actually get a Screen-Space-Raytracing option soon. Especially for games that dont have baked in AO, this enhances the GI a lot. (It is currently in beta). Can't wait to try it with Halo 2! And thanks to you I want to play Halo with a cartoon shader :D Great video!
2:05 Dude that's amazing how you noticed that. I "never" would have, and I've played DH more times than I can count! (It's one of my favorite missions).
Hey LNG, I've been watching a lot of your videos from 1-2 years ago and I noticed that in a few of them Udina from Mass Effect pops up and you've talked about ME a little bit but I think it might be pretty interesting to see what your relationship with ME is like... also congrats on reach-ing 100k subs! Keep up the good work.
I like how you started to mess with bloom and then talked about light reflection and refraction like they have anything in common. And then proceeds to blow the shit out of the sky.
correction: halo 3 could go for a HD remaster. None of the actual look of the textures would change but they would be way sharper and more detailed. I’m not sure about redoing the music though, but if they do what they did with halo 2 and kept true to the theme, it should be good.
Damn this actually looks pretty dope. But since we already have a Halo 2 anniversary I'm not exactly excited LOL. I am particularly interested in seeing Halo 3 with reshade >.> When the time comes we'll have to see what can be done.
Hahaha I’m pretty sure I know exactly which tv you were talking about at 8:35 bud, great memories!
When you turned on Ambient Occlusion, were you blinded by its majesty?
...Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
And yet you let LNG desecrate the performance of your PC!
@Herr Nandor You were right to focus your attention on the graphics, but this upgrade, this Ambient Occlusion...
@Wolf Epsilon Noble prophet of Epsilon, this has gone on long enough. Make an example of this shader, the council demands it!
Soulweeper you are one of our most powerful graphics cards... yet your ability to run a stable frame rate was a colossal failure
I can’t wait to see how halo 3 looks in reshade
I think it looks good enough
Same here! Halo 3 should be a great candidate for ReShade. I'm just hope 343 doesn't take years to release it. It's already taken long enough.
Jack Colson except the melted plastic face models
I loved halo reach and I still do and I saw this pc video on halo reach, and it looked so sexy like the weapon models and armour.
Reshade would make it even more secy
And soon Halo 4 reshads
1:03 Disliked his own video lmao
my man haha
Same
Damien Martinez It’s kind of a theme with his videos; from comments he shows, he gets a lot of hate and when he does that whole “like the video” thing, he dislikes it in the visual example.
gata start somewhere
good people still exist
"I remember thinking brutes had hornes."
343: *whispers* WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Halo pc taking so long you got people doing reshade on project cartographer lol
Kuniko you sound salty about console FPS dying
@Kuniko There is nothing wrong on letting people play all the games they want on their platform. Exclusivity is shit.
Kuniko you sound like a complete dumbass console fanboy tbh
@Kuniko 343 said cross play wont be in at launch and they will monitoring the situation. There are major technical issues with pc and console cross play. I highly doubt they will add it unless there is a huge huge push from the community. And even if they did add cross play, most likely there would be a game type or some way to toggle playing cross play off.
Oh and your the authority on what people want? You say same old story..... yet there are remakes
emasters that do very well. New isn't always better. Look at the crap we have got from AAA game devs in the last few years. Also, adding halo to pc opens halo up to alot of people that don't play xbox. Reach has never been released on pc. They are also selling it at a really reasonable price.
So where is the hatred coming from than if there is no cross play? Or is it because another group not part of your super ultra cool fan club (xbox) is getting the games too?
@Kuniko you sound so sad, dude. I could only imagine how shitty your company must be
Check the description for the download for Project Cartographer Halo 2! They also have a discord channel :) pop in and let them know they're doing amazing work!
Late Night Gaming that’s cool! Thanks man.
Late Night Gaming also the game really looks like halo 2 anniversary with modding!
Finally
6:59 This is actually beatiful. Looks eqaul to or better than anniversery.
Awesome video dude!
Yoooooooo
Spice G Yoooooooo
@@danielstotsky5157 lol forgot I commented that
Yooooooooo
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@@Zuberm1oyoooooooy
Halo 2s AA is off but the AO still shines through my guns. Help?
@MadLink Nvidia but I got it to work
@Aidan Pritchett That was already set globally as my system isnt too great but I got it to work with a modified version of reshade from the cartographer discord. It had to do with preserving depth layers. Had to force preserving the player arms depth info as the original reshade kept only choosing one or the other (other being the game world depth info). But thanks for the reply!
@@BatGear. could u gimme the download? i couldn't find it in their discord
im using not smelly garbage's reshade, because it works online, but it has the same bug as vanilla reshade
@@inventionscreator8875 I gotta go through my old pc to find it but I got you when I get the chance.
These are my favorite type of Halo videos. Seeing how you can push the envelope on such old games to make them look more modern is so cool
My buddy from middle school invited me over to his house one day, and I distinctly remember him taking me to his room and saying something along the lines of, "Take a look at this." It was Halo 2. I had never seen anything like it before, and the only thing I could compare it to was Star Wars at the time. He loaded "The Arbiter", and I just watched in awe as the Prophets spoke to Thel about The Great Journey. You know that feeling when you don't know what you're looking at, so all you can do is just stare in awe? Yep. That was me.
8:30 makes me extremely emotional, because not only does it take me back to the moment I became a Halo fan, but it also describes a moment in time where things were not only simpler, but beautifully so. Thank you, Late Night Gaming. Thank you 💓
9:03
*angry HiddenXperia noises*
Yeah, everybody is entitled to their own opinion but I bet that several Halo fans will hate that.
Has overall best writing 🤷🏼♂️
Is that really a issue h2 is my favorite halo game as well
Best campaign, best writing, best music, best engine upgrade, best glitches, least linear (no invisible barriers), most challenging, great multiplayer.
Yeah halo 2 is the best halo game imo
@@Cloudey agreed but in terms of least linear and least barriers, thats def. halo ce
Ah, turning the Bloom up brings Halo 2 into the 2008-2013 era when everything is BLOOM!
When your favorite levels in halo 2 are sacred icon and quarintine zone
I didnt know that was possible
Same.
Sacred Icon for sure. Easily the most atmospheric mission in all of halo
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 For reals, bro. Especially the part when you first see the Library.
hey me too. minus the rocket launcher flood.
ngl, the cell shaded parts acctually look good, like, i'd play the full game like that, it may be interesting to try on other games too
I love what you did with this. This is how I like remasters to be done, retain the art style of the textures and models but update the lighting. Just like the Quake remaster/rerelease.
Glad we could help you set up AO!
I can't help but remember there was a way to share reshade presets with other people. Could be another shader plugin, though.
I'm not great at editing everything with ReShade so if it's possible then maybe you could share a download to your presets used in the video
I know a very simple way of installing and it requires all files (.inis .dlls and reshade-shaders folder) but editing the reshade.ini file so it reads as "./preset.ini" instead of "c:/halo 2/preset.ini" for all the other required files. It's what I do with my own filters.
to share reshade presets, the creator of the preset simply has to shae the preset.ini (it named by default "DefaultPreset.ini" if he didn't name it and can be found in the main folder)
@@udese730 and you can rename them and set it as default right? Still I wish Halo2 saved them properly because if you alt tab from fullscreen reshade resets for some reason..
@@mattdovale I think that you still have to select it in the dropdown menu in game
Phenomenal job at explaining the way gaming processes work.
OMG THE CARTOON FILTER LOOKS SO GOOD ON HALO 2
Would love to see a let's play or at least a partial let's play with either of the shader settings you used. The borderlands cell shaded style especially!
When I heard the music I looked back in time to the old days seems like yesterday when I played it for the first time...
That view at the ship over the water with the added effects looked damn good. I'm going to have to fire up Halo 2 again
That bit with the borderlands withe the goof off session looked like the juicy filter in halo reach
Remember how Bungie guys were all excited about "Stencil shadows on everything" during the developer commentary.
Boy how far have we come.
I think that you are the best at modding in halo games, and I just want to say thanks for making great videos
*Best at modding halo games would go to gamecheat period heh*
Purity CE yeah I guess you’re right 😂
How did you get AO to work, I turned of anti-aliasing, but the only thing that's actually affected by the AO is my hands. No matter what I do nothing changes. I am using Reshade 4.3.0
Theragingsparten 1 when you look at your list of active shaders do you see “Edit Global Processor Definitions”?
Click it and you should see “Reshade_Depth_Input_Is_Reversed”?
Instead of 1, set it to 0
@@LateNightHalo thanks so much man, that helps a ton.
Theragingsparten 1 did it solve the issue?
@@LateNightHalo unfortunately, no. Still thanks for trying to help out. It did however clean up and slighty improve the AO on the Hands, so that means I'm getting somewhere. Thanks for helping out
@@Th3_HP visit my Discord for help. LNG forgot to thank us for assistance with helping him accomplish that. Discord.gg/3CzSnWe
I have been researching modding Halo 2s visuals as well so cool to know someone else is
Nobody-...
Late Night Gaming-“My powers have doubled since the last time I reshaded, Bungie!”
this legit almost made me cry because of the nostalgia
Sacred icon looks absolutely incredible!
6:08 It kinda looks like Halo 3...Sweet!
for anyone complaining about AO making polygon too visible:
you can go find at the beginning of the AO shader a line that say someting like "AO_SMOOTH_NORMALS" set to 0, set it to 1 in the code and save the changes or add it to your pre-processor definition.
hope that helps someone out there
6:56 Damm the reshade Lookz awesome
duuuude the cartoon filter looks awesome. i want it
The new graphics you did to this game looks like it was made on the Source Engine, Finally a 2004 game worthy to beat Half-Life 2 on how beautiful the game is!
So close to 100k!! You deserve it man always great content
Seeing inside "Sacred Icon", you've done a really good job of making Halo 2 look, not necessarily like Anniversary Halo 2 to me, but it reallllly reminds me of Halo 3, and in my books thats a great thing!
8:44 If you didn't grow up playing Halo like this you were missing out
I'm sure it was slightly better than that
“This impossible vastness that reminded me of the second level on Combat Evolved” ahh the attention to detail you muster, I have fond memories of that level 😁 Infinite seems to be promising on huge open areas, with 353 hiring open world designers etc. I really hope they genuinely revert Halo to its roots.. people are skeptical but I’m so excited
Dude, thank you for showing off Project Cartographer!
Edit: I can remember recommending it to LNG months ago about playing Halo 2 on PC with better settings, controls, ability to play mp easier than on Xbox, etc.
Wow you did a really good job on this one! You actually improved the look of the game a lot.
Some of these shots look just as good as halo 2 anniversary.
8:17 this is what halo 3 looked like when I nuked my brain on adderall, weed, and kratom
Except the textures were moving and glowing, growing and shrinking, was not a good time
That cartoon filter actually looked pretty good, I think it'd be interesting to see on a light hearted halo game, one with a more comedic tone. Probably a fan game, or silly bonus game mode that would be dlc nowadays...
Not gonna lie you should have played cutscenes with the cartoon filter and the custom graphics you made.
Deanedong doorbell would you all like me to upload a series of “comedic halo 2 moments” with Borderlands reshade?
@@LateNightHalo yes please. I'd appreciate that.
@@LateNightHalo Yes
@@LateNightHalo +1
This vid takes me back to the good halo 3 days
please do another this video blew my mind halo 2 is my favorite
I shoulda left this on the reach video. But during my entire time playing reach I only had this old small plasma tv. And it cracked slightly and had some minor errors on the screen. And I played the hell out of reach on it. The immersion of the cracked screen to the helmet was so nice. Just like your reshade there.
0:58 "My powers have doubled since my last video on this topic, Count"
One thing that seems really interesting is that once you'd applied the Reshade effects, it really brought out some of the detail on the normal maps. It's especially noticeable at 4:32 and 5:51, where you don't have to squint your eyes to see the details on the SMGs anymore. It really makes me wonder how much better Halo 2 could have been from a graphics and lighting standpoint if they had been given more development time with Halo 2.
My god... your path of destruction is immeasurable! Your powers just keep on growing! You'll soon be unstoppable!
Nice work, by the way.
I live for these graphics enhancing videos
Re shade made the fourunners structures look godly
Ay yo, that borderlands reshaped looked hella cool
I really like the borderlands filter on Halo!
Another great vid since h2 is my favorite halo game I really liked that you did this can’t wait for h3 reshade
Reshade will actually get a Screen-Space-Raytracing option soon. Especially for games that dont have baked in AO, this enhances the GI a lot. (It is currently in beta). Can't wait to try it with Halo 2! And thanks to you I want to play Halo with a cartoon shader :D Great video!
Dude you sound like a low pitch Vsauce Micheal.
And I _love it_
2:05 Dude that's amazing how you noticed that. I "never" would have, and I've played DH more times than I can count! (It's one of my favorite missions).
You should totally upload this as a preset! Nice work dude!
the day i been waiting for
I can’t wait to do stuff like this once all the games from MCC are on PC
dude you really need to upload a mod for this damn just imagine the popularity you will get
Ragadan Aviatori once I finalize a Reshade Preset for H2, I’ll see if there’s a way to publish it online!
@@LateNightHalo Awsome ! this is going to be great
@@LateNightHalo Can't wait!
Stuff like Oblivion has made me quite wary of bloom, but Damn Son. That looks fantastic.
I like the Enhancements for the H2C, it makes it pop out more for its age
I’m new to the channel so forgive my timing but I figured it out.. you’re the Vsauce of video games
Omg nostalgia from 2013 when i play this game first time
although im baked af, your voice is beautiful
Hey LNG, I've been watching a lot of your videos from 1-2 years ago and I noticed that in a few of them Udina from Mass Effect pops up and you've talked about ME a little bit but I think it might be pretty interesting to see what your relationship with ME is like... also congrats on reach-ing 100k subs! Keep up the good work.
I like how you started to mess with bloom and then talked about light reflection and refraction like they have anything in common.
And then proceeds to blow the shit out of the sky.
The cartoon filter looks really cool.
8:21 that Gives me Borderland Vibes
THAT BORDERLANDS LOOK WAS SO DOPE!
I wish that halo 2's engine was more stable, I would love to see a spv3 version of halo 2!
Woah. It's absolutely nuts you got a 15 year old game looking so good just using mods!
Damn scared icon looked good with reshade
dude....... the cartoon filter is amazing
Halo 3 really needs an anniversary style graphics update imo.
Disagree. Looks ridiculously good as it is.
I have mixed feelings about this it still looks great til this day but halo 3 in halo 2 anniversary graphics would be sexy
Theyll likely change a bit of the gameplay as they did with H2A, however. Unless h2as was only multiplayer idk
correction: halo 3 could go for a HD remaster. None of the actual look of the textures would change but they would be way sharper and more detailed. I’m not sure about redoing the music though, but if they do what they did with halo 2 and kept true to the theme, it should be good.
Trixmay 988 why not make it better though
I liked this video just based off the simple fact that I now know what exactly pixels are
@7:53 bro borderlands style halo, I would do a playthrough just for the hell of it
I would LOVE to play Halo with borderlands graphics. Halolands looks awesome!
Your starting to get really good at reshade my guy, you should redue halo 1 again now that your so much better at it
good job. you made halo 2 look like borderlands. great enhancements.
Why doesn’t this have more likes. This was awesome
Nice!
Also, there are more Sweeeeet updates for Halo 2 Project Cartographer!
-years later I commented or have already idk. Scrapy is Scrapy...
did not expect how good that cartoon shader was gonna look.
Oh man, i wish you would finish this and succeed! It's looking really good, and i want the prest to try it out by myself.
I'd love to see a video where you take H2:A and make it look like original Halo 2!
damm this looks really good , I always thought halo 2 graphics are bad compared to ce , but this makes it look alot better .
Okay... Sacred Icon was stunning with ReShade I'm not even gonna lie.
not gonna lie bro ur very epic and ur channel is epic
gamer moment
Dude I can't wait for halo 3 and odst to get the reshade treatment
Wow, it looks like Halo 3 with the new lighting effects.
I love the Borderlands style for this.
2:56 LGN: "It was like I was a ghost or something."
Legendary Players: *Laughing in millions of deaths.*
You just made me want to play old games
Ahhhh cab i have this game with this graphics?😢your working is best enhancing graphic i ever seen.❤️🔥
That borderlands enb was dope
Damn this actually looks pretty dope. But since we already have a Halo 2 anniversary I'm not exactly excited LOL.
I am particularly interested in seeing Halo 3 with reshade >.> When the time comes we'll have to see what can be done.