Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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hey i only game on 360 and i was wondering what are the differences between Halo 1 and 2 on the comp and the 360?

  • 05.13.2007 9:46 AM PDT
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They're better...

  • 05.13.2007 9:53 AM PDT
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mainly its just the way people play, some people find it easier and more comfortable playing with a keyboard and mouse, and on computers games are higher resolution, which has ups and downs

  • 05.13.2007 9:59 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Graphics, on pc there is no sony fanboys bi7ching about graphics, because their wimpy PS3 isn't 1337 enough to handle Crysis....

  • 05.13.2007 10:11 AM PDT
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I saw a PS3 at Futureshop one day. Played a little Motorstorm, not impressed at all. $600 for that?

  • 05.13.2007 10:24 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

I know and then they talk about Resistance as if it's something special, it's a good game, just not outstanding. I am not paying that much for only one good game.

  • 05.13.2007 10:31 AM PDT
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Gheystation is dead. Sony -blam!- up too much on too many things. Not just with the PS3.

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  • 05.13.2007 10:36 AM PDT
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fair play consoles are crap, and the people that "play" on them always going on about them being better than a pc, they are talking bollocks! i admit that once i did "play" on consoles, however i saw the error of my ways and have been gaming on pcs for about 9 years. i would never go back to consoles because they are -blam!-. nuff said huh!!!

  • 05.13.2007 11:09 AM PDT
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The difference between PC and console imo. Todays PC's are far more powerful than both the xbox 360 and ps3. An xbox 360/ps3 is only equivilent to a decent system with a nvidia 7900GT. Anyone who has got a better system has got more power than what both the xbox 360 and ps3 can provide.

A lot of people say that PC games are -blam!- because they freeze and stutter where as consoles do not. I can tell you that i have played a few console games that have frozen and/or stuttered. Yes these downers might make the PC gaming experience a little less enjoyable, but on average you get a lot higher frame-rates and smoother game-play. I would love to see any console achieve better frame-rates and smoother game-play while running 50 programs in the background.

Games on PC are generally graphically superior, having the ability to change graphics details at will is awesome and an advantage. With consoles they are simply not powerful enough to cope with some of todays games thus they have reduced graphic details. Not to mention you can have far higher resolution, AA and AF on PC making the games visual looks a lot better than any console.

Like i stated in my second paragraph about stuttering etc. When game developers make games for a console, they only have to work on 1 console as every console is the same. One xbox is the same to another xbox, one ps3 is the same as another ps3. So they can better optimize the game to suit that particular console. EVERY computer is different, no matter how much the specs look alike. This is a problem for game developers because they have to work on multiple computer with different specs, but can never optimize the game to suit all computers (with the exception of UT2K4). Thats why they are always constantly bringing out updates and patches for games, graphics cards, sound cards etc.

A lot of people also say, "well why spend so much money on a computer when you can get a console cheaper". Thats quite simple to answer. Because computers are not just for gaming, people like to use multimedia software that requires powerful systems, encoding movies, benchmarking and many more. Consoles are cheaper, but can you browse the web, use Microsoft office programs, use paint programs like photoshop, 3d programs like maya/3dsmax, cinema4d etc, and much, much more, and do a lot of that stuff at the same time.

PC's will ALWAYS be superior to consoles, its practically impossible for a console to be better than a PC as once console manage to do all the stuff a PC can do, its no longer a console, but a PC. Consoles are for gaming, nothing else.

  • 05.13.2007 11:13 AM PDT
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nice one fake, suck it to those console nobheads. they deserve nothing better.

  • 05.13.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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halo 1 PC has online gaming, which halo Xbox doesn't actually have, and halo 2 vista hasn't come out yet so we can't really tell you why it's better or worse.

  • 05.13.2007 12:18 PM PDT
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Well obviosuly the pc ports of the games will be better. They're only released a couple years after.

  • 05.13.2007 12:47 PM PDT

hehehe....I'm gonna piss off some people when i say this, but I still speak the truth. I love the PS3! The games are fun and using the motion sensors in the sixaxis is sweet. Sure, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too expensive, but I still love using it. (my roomate bought one.)

With that out of the way....

The differences are mostly online and graphics. If you have a powerful enough computer and you're using Halo 1 pc, you can get graphics far superior to Halo Xbox. I haven't seen H2V yet (obviously) so I can't say about the graphics there, although Hired Gun claims that a powerful computer can outmatch the console version as well. Online-wise, Halo 1 pc has it. Halo 2 pc has a refined version of Halo 2 Xbox's online, so fans of both matchmaking and fans of halo 1 pc's system will be satisfied.

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  • 05.13.2007 1:24 PM PDT
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Why would that piss me off, i have nothing against the xbox or playstation, i just think pc's a superior in every way.

  • 05.13.2007 1:41 PM PDT
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pcs are dumb console gaming all the way

  • 05.13.2007 1:52 PM PDT

Basically it's much different, with a PC you can play games differently, like using the mouse and keyboard and by using different keys, but with a console you can use a controller and using the proper buttons you already use. I used to have Halo:Combat Evolved for X-Box, I got rid of it, and then got rid of my X-Box, after that I got the game for PC and it's much better, more fun and has a lot of better graphics. The Graphics can be better on any game if you have a good video card or something, with a console you can have regular graphics.
Also I would like to say, Yes, PS3 sucks, but the only console I trust is Nintendo consoles, like Wii and GameCube , sure, they might have kiddy games, but some can be fun. Once in a while they might create a violent game for Wii, and GameCube already has a lot violent games out there. I might get a 360 some day, since X-Box really sucked.

  • 05.13.2007 1:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheLastCrusader7
pcs are dumb console gaming all the way


then why bother posting a whole thread on it here?

  • 05.13.2007 2:05 PM PDT
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One word: Mods

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Posted by: TheLastCrusader7
pcs are dumb console gaming all the way

GTFO.

  • 05.13.2007 2:18 PM PDT
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Isn't is possible to not be so one sided? PC games are better, but that doesn't mean everyone here needs to think "Consolze is the devil!". I play both, and I tend to enjoy both. There's nothing wrong with playing a round of Gears of War, then turning around to play an RTS on my PC...

  • 05.13.2007 2:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: darekster2ongame
Isn't is possible to not be so one sided? PC games are better, but that doesn't mean everyone here needs to think "Consolze is the devil!". I play both, and I tend to enjoy both. There's nothing wrong with playing a round of Gears of War, then turning around to play an RTS on my PC...

Sure, I enjoy my consoles too, only becasue all of the games on consoles aren't on computer.

  • 05.13.2007 2:24 PM PDT

alot of the good games arent on computer unless they appear on the pc 20 yrs later

  • 05.13.2007 2:28 PM PDT
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Console GPUs aren't even that great. PS3's GPU is just a modded G70 chip, and the 360's GPU is based off the R520. The Wii's is some other random chip from ATI. Basically, GeForce 8 (possibly the higher end of GeForce 7) owns them all.

  • 05.13.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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EDIT- Sorry about double post, B.net decided to post the same thing twice XP.

[Edited on 05.13.2007 2:36 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2007 2:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheLastCrusader7
pcs are dumb console gaming all the way

Think!

[Edited on 05.13.2007 2:46 PM PDT]

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