- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: C00K13
PLEASE DO NOT SAY STUFF LIKE 'MACS SUCK 'MUHAHAHA'. Thank you. If Bungie is making HALO 2 for Vista, why not make HALO 2 for Macs? There's this new thing called Cider that makes it much faster to port games from PC's to Macs, but it has to be on Intel Macs only; luckily I'm using one of those right now. Plus, I with many Mac users that bought HALO: Combat Evolved for Mac. Hopefully, Bungie takes this in consideration....
Take a gander at this thread, it may answer some of your questions.
A site search for "Halo 2 Mac" or something of that nature might interest you as well.
Posted by: No Refunds
What confuses me is that Halo CE was made for both macs and PC, even when it was all controlled by microsoft. Sure gearbox made it, but they did it with bungies permission, which asked permission from microsoft.
My guess here is that in the buyout deal with Microsoft, Bungie retained the right to make a Mac/PC port of Halo (or to contract out said port, as the case turned out to be, with Gearbox, Westlake, and MacSoft handling the PC and Mac ports, respectively), after Halo for the Xbox went gold and shipped. My idea here is that Bungie did this out of the goodness of their hearts, after showing us Halo for the Mac and PC, there was no way they would go back on any implied promise that Halo would be brought to the computer.
I further conjecture that Bungie made no such deal with Microsoft concerning the possibilty of Halo 2 for Macs and PCs, leaving Microsoft to plan the direction Halo 2 would take (on to the Xbox and Vista, as it turned out).