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Posted by: Iron Curtain
First of all, this thread is probably not going to be popular.
Now, let's take a look at Halo 2 Vista. Not only do you have to upgrade to Vista to play it (which is $99 at the very least), you have to pay $50 for it. $50 for a mediocre port of a two and a half year old game. What kind of bull-blam!- is that? Not only that, but unless you get a Gold Windows Live account, you're basically playing a demo of Halo 2. Microsoft wants you to pay for stuff that is free in virtually every other PC FPS.
What was Microsoft thinking? Is this really a good way to show off how much they "care" about the PC gaming market, and to promote Windows Live? Microsoft once said that they really "care" about the PC's potential as a gaming platform. This clearly demonstrates the opposite.
Which leads me to my point. Boycott Halo 2 Vista. If you buy Halo 2 Vista, you're supporting this blatant rip-off that Microsoft is trying to pull. If Windows Live becomes popular, in the future, a lot of games might be like Halo 2 Vista. Buy higher quality games like Half-Life 2 or Far Cry, instead. Stick with Halo 1 PC if you must. Just don't support this bull-blam!-.
Edit: As I expected, this thread is going to have a lot of Halo 2 fanboys trying to justify Windows Live. Wake the -blam!- up.
Instead of telling everyone to boycott it, how about... you just don't buy it. and if people are going to agree with you, chances are they were already on that train of thought, so chances are, they weren't planning on getting it anyway.
You talk about how vista alone isn't worth getting. Plenty of people already have it (myself included, and according to MS, 40 million other people). It is a tremendous upgrade and would suggest it to anyone, Halo 2 regardless.
And a mediocre port? It has everything the xbox version had and then some. It boxes all the maps from the various downloads and discs into one package and gives us two completely new maps. And then it more than doubles the graphic output (480 to 1200 vertical lines is actually a 2.5x increase).
And finally, and perhaps more importantly, it gives those without consoles a chance to play this amazing game.
And even with all that said, I'm going to reiterate myself. If you think it's a waste of money and/or time, just don't buy it. Why should be have to hear about how Bungie and MS are ruining our lives by releasing a game on the PC when they really didn't have to?
And for the record, I am not a "Fanboy" as you will probably assume. I play plenty of games, most of which are not MS games, nor on MS consoles. I use Mac OS X, Vista and XP. I would hardly consider myself an MS/Bungie fanboy, I probably have less of a biased opinion than yourself, although I won't go so far as to say that I'm completely unbiased. Nobody is.