- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Coup De Ta:
My argument was this:
Bungie does not owe this community (or anyone in the world, for that mater) anything. And yet here a large number of people are, flaming Bungie for not giving them what they want. I was arguing what your justification for doing such was.
And what is my justification for why they did it? Hmm? Maybe you'd like to point out to where I said Bungie owed us something or that Halo is the best game ever?
But what shocks me is that you became so offended by... My "spelling" error, I suppose. If I had no real argument, I fail to see what it was that offended you SO badly.
It didn't shock me at all. I was pointing out to you how obliviously stupid your first "argument" was by mocking what you had done; pretty much nothing but nitpick at others. But you were right about one thing; you failed to see a lot of things. What offended me is how you blatantly jumped into the fire and said "lol" and that was it. "lol, you guys make me laugh." That's a half-assed insult without a bit of argument backing it up. See: taking the easy way out.
As a side note, no respectable person would actually say "lawl" in an argument/conversation/etc. unless it was parody. I'll leave it at that.
It was a parody; a direct parody of you because that's what you virtually said in your very first post.
No disrespect was aimed at you until you became unnecessarily hostile towards me. If you REALLY want to, you can go ahead and "have the last words" so to speak. I have no interest in carrying out this conversation, and I'm sure you don't either.
There was no hostility to begin with until you responded with insults. What, did you expect me to respond with milk and cookies? And it has taken nearly 50 posts later for you to finally realize what I was talking about. It wasn't hostility; it was pure frustration at how you couldn't even simply comprehend what I was saying after I had repeated it nearly three times.
Posted by: Synthmilk
Did I say it brought down the game? No, I said that these things missing made it a crappy port. Missing or incomplete textures is hardly professional.
So, wait, higher res textures, one replaced AR texture, and a replacement texture for Jackal shields made it crappy? Bravo. Quite the downfall of Halo PC. Yes, I agree with you. In my entire playing history of Halo PC, never have I found a "missing" texture, but now I can see why it completely sucks.
The game not working properly with certain graphics or sound drivers, the game not working with some sound cards, unexplained low FPS rates at random periods using certain settings, and the problems happened with both nVidia and ATI cards, ATI just had a few less problems.
Here, try this on for size. I first played Halo with a ATI Raedon 9200 PCI. Would you like to know how crappy that video card is? Beyond the pale crappy. Want to know how many issues I had with it and Halo? Zero. How many sound card issues? Zero. Did I have some fancy sound card? No. It was what ever came with a 1999 standard office-issue Compaq.
The so many complaints we receive on the Maw about "Halo not working omigosh!" is usually user-related, especially with kids thinking they can play a game with some serious out-dated technology. It's not Doom and it will not run with 32VRAM. So all of these "graphics" issues? Guess how many I had? Oh, come on, guess!
Lucky you, because playing the game a few dozen times on various skill levels I found a number of consistant trigger glitches even with the latestpatch, though most that I saw with earlier patches are fixed. One example is the hunters not appearing after Capt. Keyes lifts off with the coveant dropship, the sounds play properly, but there are no fuel rod shots and when he rams them, they arn't there, but we hear them die. I call that a highly noticeable trigger error.
I call that a one in a million fluke. Never had that happen to me as well.
And other AI errors I count include some Flood Infection Forms never attacking me or even moving, and some Marines/Covenant running in random directions, though that glitch is rare.
It's also unheard of to me, even from the random complaints on this board, at Gearbox, and at Gamefaqs.
Marathon, Marathon: Durandal, Marathon: Infinity, Myth, Myth Soulblighter, Myth The Fallen Lords, Oni, Pathways into Darkness.
Oh, yes; the good ol' days. Classics always seem to surpass even the greatest games of today. Why, it's common for gaming mags to list Pong or Tetris as the number one games mostly because it's a fad. Yes, wow, they were forerunners and did their purpose, but they're not Jesus.
never said it was worse than the XBox version, I'm saying that a crappy job was done porting it, with obvious glaring problems that hardly are compensated for by the addition of a couple of new, multiplayer only weapons and a new Hog. The HEK is an awsome addition, but even it is hardly a shining example of a mod kit.
Once again, this over-exaggeration of this "failed" PC port, though I will agree with you on HEK. The tools included are buggy as hell, but given that they were made on such short notice I'm not surprised, especially when the creators aren't even allowed to support them any more.
I love Halo, but it's hardly the best game in existance overall, and not something a professional game company would tote around when compared to their other games it's a bit lackluster. We are getting H2V, and it's being done properly from the looks of it, so why shouldn't it get first billing?
I didn't say it was the best game either. As a matter of fact, I can name numerous games that are much better than Halo, but I'm not sure what this has to do with the arguing of the PC port.