- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: kyur4thich11
Agamemnon, you must not have played Halo 2 on the Xbox that much.
I have unfortunately played it extensively.
Halo 2 Vista is a great game from transitioning from the Xbox version. After playing constant matches with cheaters, bad connections, and unwanted gametypes, Halo 2 Vista gives you the freedom to join whatever the hell game you want.
That's worth $50 for you?
Right now, with it only being a month in it's release, everything isn't smooth which is making the game pretty dull.
The problem is, EVERYTHING is wrong with the game. And what's even worse is that the production team said they were waiting for nearly six months for Vista to come out to release the game. What's the excuse with that bull?
Sure there are better games out there, but my main reason, I'm not sure about others, was dedicated servers.
Again, that's worth $50?
From what it sounds, the main reason people are bashing this game is due to the Live service. It's understandable when you have games like Half-Life 2 that offer all the features of Live and more. Then again, you can't expect anything great from a port.
Uh, yeah, you can. I'd at least expect something that was apparent that makes this game worth $50.
I didn't praise Halo PC for it's graphics but rather it's online play. I don't see why people are trying to bash Halo 2's graphics when they weren't meant to be next gen, although they have definitely improved from the Xbox version(trust me, from playing H2X since 2004 I damn well know).
I was playing H2X from Nov 2004 as well, and I can still see barely any difference from the PC version and the Xbox version except resolution and pixelation.
Oh one more thing, with the map editor, it opens a great amount of replay value, seeing as you can play in user created maps other than the ones built in the game.
How much do you know about H2EK? Did you know that nearly 95% of the features had to be unlocked by users? Also, don't act like making a map is a simple process and that you're given modeling tools as well.
Posted by: Static
Perhaps you don't quite remember what games were coming out around the same time? Far Cry and doom 3 ring a bell? Both of these games came out a bit after and looked a whole lot better and ran a whole lot better. Just like H2V's situation. Nothing has changed don't kid yourself and say that H2V looks bad. Try running halo pc on a geforce 2 mx and it would be like running H2V on a 6200. Same card range same timeframe for each game.
Nice try. I had a Radeon 9200 PCI when I first got Halo and I could run it on high with a constant 30 FPS. I couldn't even run Doom 3 on the lowest settings and when I did the highest FPS rate I got was 15 FPS.
Controllers were an intentional additive and not a problem. It was made to have auto-aim, thats different than a shoddy port. But then again the xbox version had the same problem. Take this up with Bungie on the halo 2 game franchise as a whole.
Well, guess what; this is now on the PC. Maybe you'd like to point out to me on the other FPS PC games where the auto aim is on in multi player.
Again, let me reiterate myself; this is now on the PC. The controller is exactly that; a controller. You don't plug in an Xbox controller to play Starcraft, do you? When you're going to do something for PC gamers, at least try to cater to THEM and not the freaking console gamers, which already have the game and have had it for nearly two years.
And we are taking it up with the developers.
Realistically name a game that had no problems and needed no patches after the game released. But in this case it's not a problem with the game but with drivers(yet again).
None, of course, but there are only very few in which I can name when the games first came out that they were complete atrocities and had game editors and then expected the community to fix all of the problems. H2V is on that list, a list that shouldn't even exist.
Because the community of H2V and H2 are the same? I don't hear 8 year olds on ritalin at all and the ones that do are no where near as problimatic as the TKers in the first game. I can mute the 8 year olds, I can't kick the TKers out of the game.
They actually are in most parts. A lot of the people who bought H2V were Xbox kids who already have Gold accounts and bought it to get the Live achievements. Also, stop over-generalizing. I would rarely find the type of people you are describing on Halo PC. I find A LOT more of them on H2X and they're all deciding to come over on H2V.
Again, everything he quotes as problems are infact problems with Halo 2's core gameplay with problems on the xbox version as well.
Windows Live is not Halo 2 Xbox. Them not fixing a damn thing is also a catering problem to the game. Also, he is me.
[Edited on 06.18.2007 6:45 PM PDT]