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  • Elder Legendary Member

Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

all of us who have macs probably have an Xbox too and know that they are better than PCs especially in the media entertainment area
I'm annoyed you slipped in a "mac is better" line. If you hadn't, I would have voted yes instead.

  • 06.06.2007 10:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Maple Grunt
People who buy Macs are not gamers. Bungie should not waste time on them.

Don't make your self look stupid, I don't feel like proving you wrong right now.


If someone cares so much about a video game(s) that they complain on a forum about it, they should have never got a Mac in the first place. It's as simple as that.

  • 06.06.2007 11:03 PM PDT

Gaming Systems:
Intel Core i7 720QM (4 cores, 8 threads)
4Gb DDR3-1333mhz
1Gb AMD Radeon HD 4650
Windows 7 64bit

Xbox 360 w/ 20Gb HDD (2008 edition) & XBL Gold.

"If someone cares so much about a video game(s) that they complain on a forum about it, they should have never got a Mac in the first place. It's as simple as that."

It's true.

So how exactly do Macs have better media capabilites then, hmm? This is what amuses me about the Apple ads too, they're so hilariously wrong. They make out PCs can't do pictures, movies or music....oh nah, we're definitely lacking on that aspect, obviously i can't very easily just open a pic up in Photo Gallery, then just browse the entire library of them on my PC, in the same place i look at my Music and Videos...

I want to know why people even try and game on Mac computers, they were never built for gaming, they've never performed at gaming and the computers themselves are extortionately expensive. It's not even reassuringly expensive because they look just like big blobs of plastic anyway. Like other people are saying, there's just no market for games on a Mac. If Halo 2 came to the Mac, i doubt more than about 1000 people in the world would buy it, not even covering the expenses of porting it to Mac.

I disagree that Microsoft are going back to their pre-2001 ways. I have never seen a repeat performance of Windows ME, as far as i'm concerned that was the stage where MS hit rock bottom, regurgitating a 6 year old idea. Making some things Vista only is just basic marketing, but notice they've kept up some things for XP. IE7, Windows Defender, Windows Media Player 11, Live Messenger and Desktop Search are all technically Vista features which were also given full support for Windows XP. But you've got to see that XP is 6 years old, for a company like MS that is now a failing asset, so pushing the new much improved (and it is, sorry haters, just get used to it) Windows Vista is a goal for them. I don't mind them doing that, if the end product is a good quality. There is no denying it, Halo 2 Vista is actually built very well. The demands aren't THAT bad, it runs great on moderately powerful PCs and up, it's got some new features, it's relatively well de-bugged and so doesn't crash all the time... There's nothing that sticks out and says "cr@p quality" at least, so i'm fine with the Vista-only branding as long as they keep that up. It's when they bring out games for Vista only and they turn out crud, that i will become annoyed.

  • 06.07.2007 1:18 AM PDT
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I disagree that Microsoft are going back to their pre-2001 ways. I have never seen a repeat performance of Windows ME, as far as i'm concerned that was the stage where MS hit rock bottom, regurgitating a 6 year old idea. Making some things Vista only is just basic marketing, but notice they've kept up some things for XP.

I don't disagree with you, I just wasn't speaking in terms of OS quality.

I think all of us here who remember Windows Mistake Edition.. err.. ME.. would all agree that it was the worst desktop OS Microsoft has ever made.

The critical difference between what Microsoft is doing now with DirectX 10 and making it inseparable from Vista and integrating MSIE to Windows 95OSR2 and Windows 98 is that there's no direct competitor to DirectX. But the methodology is the same: By using their substantial market saturation, they are taking choice out of the consumer's hands by saying "if you want X, you have to get Y" - and in the case of DirectX, Microsoft knows most people will eventually need it. In the case of MSIE, they just handed it to consumers knowing that the average consumer wasn't going to go running out to change to Netscape because, in their minds, they already had a functional web browser.

I've yet to read a logical explanation as to why they decided to make DirectX 10 a Vista only component. Unless it specifically has to do with the removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer from the Vista kernel, there's no reason DX10 couldn't have been offered cross platform.

  • 06.07.2007 7:56 AM PDT
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"Do you think Bungie should create their games for Mac as well as PC"

The answer is 'No.' Why? Because Bungie is owned by Microsoft. This discussion, and all discussions regarding Halo on Mac, are rather silly. Why do these threads persist? It doesn't make any sense. Please find a better outlet for your time and energy.

  • 06.07.2007 10:35 AM PDT
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Exactly. Since Bungie is owned by Windows, they CAN'T make Mac games, even if there is a small .0000001% chance that they do. Quit your whining and do yourself a favor, by a PC, or at least double boot. Quit making these stupid topics because they never go anywhere.

  • 06.07.2007 12:53 PM PDT

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