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Subject: What do you like more about Halo: CE for the PC then Xbox?
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Some people seem to prefer Halo PC over Xbox, just a simple discussion :)

Why I like it:
Online MP without downloading XBC
More MP maps
Can play on my computer if someone else uses TV
I can bring my laptop anywhere and everywhere I go
Has everything + more maps, online MP, and everything else I said

It's sad that this forum is used for mainly problems with H2 vista, and we can't really post anywhere else without the chance of getting locked.

  • 07.26.2007 4:48 PM PDT
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Oh god... here is my opinion: It is a horrible port. The xbox version was far better.

I can only think of:
More maps, and user made maps.
Higher Resolutions supported

I won't even bother going into the negatives.

  • 07.26.2007 5:12 PM PDT
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Flame thrower and Danger Canyon, 'nuff said.

  • 07.26.2007 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
Flame thrower and Danger Canyon, 'nuff said.


Ha! Suck on that Xbox users! Oh, wait, I have an Xbox...

-blam!-

  • 07.26.2007 6:45 PM PDT
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Halo 1 PC is far better:

1. Online Multiplayer
2. More maps
3. Halo: Custom Edition
4. Able to mod
5. Halo Editing Kit
6. Flamethrower and Fuel Rod Cannon

Theres a bunch more

  • 07.26.2007 6:51 PM PDT
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The only real negative of Halo 1 PC is the extreme lag because of the crappy netcode... other than that it's far superior to Halo 1 Xbox in every respect.

  • 07.27.2007 2:59 AM PDT
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Also the fact that Gearbox messed the shaders up and the only way to restore them is by mods...
Otherwise it's decent.

  • 07.27.2007 3:03 AM PDT
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PC kicks xbox in the ass. Come on, we have leading, lag, and degraded shaders. Who doesn't want that!

  • 07.27.2007 6:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: No Refunds
PC kicks xbox in the ass. Come on, we have leading, lag, and degraded shaders. Who doesn't want that!


People who want to play Halo 1 online, and people who like Custom Maps, because there are quite a few Custom Maps that are impressive and very fun to play. You can look past the lag and shaders (which, in the long run, do not matter... people who say a game is bad because of the graphics have VERY poor judgment skill) and see the brilliance in the Custom Maps and the intense fun you will partake in by playing on them.

I for one hope that the Halo 2 Vista Mapmaking Community is as active and innovative as Halo: Custom Edition was. So far, the majority of the Custom Maps for H2V are mediocre at best, but there is always potential. I may be out of line to judge what I cannot do, but sometimes I wonder why the map was put into release form in the form that it is in sometimes. I don't see any luster in the maps that are using that rainbow-letter scheme. It's an eyesore. =/

  • 07.27.2007 6:51 AM PDT

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It's no big deal. You get a good deal with a good Broadband, a graphically high-end PC, plus shaders? Just ask people how to put them. Plus Multiplayer.

  • 07.27.2007 7:17 AM PDT
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Shaders, WTF are shaders?

M&K>Controller.

  • 07.27.2007 7:41 AM PDT

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Shaders, WTF are shaders?

M&K>Controller.
...have you been under a rock or something?

  • 07.27.2007 7:48 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

That's a very big rock.
But, it is for rendering effects.

[Edited on 07.27.2007 7:54 AM PDT]

  • 07.27.2007 7:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
That's a very big rock.
But, it is for rendering effects.
I concur.

  • 07.27.2007 7:56 AM PDT
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PC kicks xbox in the ass. Come on, we have leading, lag, and degraded shaders. Who doesn't want that!


People who want to play Halo 1 online, and people who like Custom Maps, because there are quite a few Custom Maps that are impressive and very fun to play. You can look past the lag and shaders (which, in the long run, do not matter... people who say a game is bad because of the graphics have VERY poor judgment skill) and see the brilliance in the Custom Maps and the intense fun you will partake in by playing on them.

I for one hope that the Halo 2 Vista Mapmaking Community is as active and innovative as Halo: Custom Edition was. So far, the majority of the Custom Maps for H2V are mediocre at best, but there is always potential. I may be out of line to judge what I cannot do, but sometimes I wonder why the map was put into release form in the form that it is in sometimes. I don't see any luster in the maps that are using that rainbow-letter scheme. It's an eyesore. =/

Bungie put a lot more polish and shine into their game than gearbox did. The fact that it was missing custom maps which the PC had doesn't mean that gearbox did a crappy port. Maps are nice, and I would take that any day, but remember, the entire Custom Edition version is a hack, that was later supported by gearbox. Just shows gearbox didn't even try to think of that, and the job that they did lacked so many things, and what it did have wasn't done well.

I'm not saying the PC version is bad, it's just that bungie put so much more care polish into the xbox version.

  • 07.27.2007 8:42 AM PDT
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an also if u have crappy graphics it looks kinda funky, they should have a little message box pop up: "Best viewed on acid" lol

  • 07.27.2007 9:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: No Refunds
Bungie put a lot more polish and shine into their game than gearbox did. The fact that it was missing custom maps which the PC had doesn't mean that gearbox did a crappy port. Maps are nice, and I would take that any day, but remember, the entire Custom Edition version is a hack, that was later supported by gearbox. Just shows gearbox didn't even try to think of that, and the job that they did lacked so many things, and what it did have wasn't done well.

I'm not saying the PC version is bad, it's just that bungie put so much more care polish into the xbox version.
Wow, yeah, totally, because that's why your legs move while you run and throw a grenade, and that's why there is a ladder climbing animation.

Polish? Halo was rushed, to be honest.

  • 07.27.2007 9:22 AM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: No Refunds
Bungie put a lot more polish and shine into their game than gearbox did. The fact that it was missing custom maps which the PC had doesn't mean that gearbox did a crappy port. Maps are nice, and I would take that any day, but remember, the entire Custom Edition version is a hack, that was later supported by gearbox. Just shows gearbox didn't even try to think of that, and the job that they did lacked so many things, and what it did have wasn't done well.

I'm not saying the PC version is bad, it's just that bungie put so much more care polish into the xbox version.
Wow, yeah, totally, because that's why your legs move while you run and throw a grenade, and that's why there is a ladder climbing animation.

Polish? Halo was rushed, to be honest.
Well, yeah. They were running out of time, so those last quirks weren't fixed. They did rush in the end of all of it. But they did put polish care on most of the game.

  • 07.27.2007 9:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: MLG TWISTED
I don't like anything about the pc version of halo, bad netcode.
Takes a lot of skill, though, unlike Halo 2. :)

  • 07.27.2007 12:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: MLG TWISTED
I don't like anything about the pc version of halo, bad netcode.
Takes a lot of skill, though, unlike Halo 2. :)
PP/BR and PP/Pistol combos are way harder in Halo PC then Halo 2, more skill is defently required. You can't aspect the auto-aim to make you a pro-pistoler.

Who cares about graphics? At least you don't have to download XBC. IMO, XBC is harder to use then the Halo PC OnMP joining, I still can't get XBC to work, so I use PC.

Oh, did I mention that in the real Halo ( not Custom ) that there are barley any modders? I never met a modder so far, and if you meet one, you won't derank because they beat a match, another thing, the games are funner becuase there aren't ranks ( or should I say, numbers? ) that make the game a more over job, sometimes they get way too serious. Some moron even PMed me saying he 'ownt' me. If it happens on PC it's not as common as it is on XBL/XBC and the matches are way less serious.

I really don't get why people say the Xbox version is way better then PC, it's missing online MP, which PC has, plud the SP.

  • 07.27.2007 12:31 PM PDT

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Like leading, it's an epic lead compared to others, but it makes you better for it.

  • 07.27.2007 12:33 PM PDT
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The shader model 2 mod for Halo PC, makes visually superior to the XBOX Halo. If you have an NVIDIA gfx card you can also get a camouflage mod that too looks visually superior than the XBOX Halo. And Online play is cool too. But other than that, they are basically equal. The reason I chose to go Halo PC is mainly because of the online play and fun mods, and KB&M totally destroys controllers, can't stand the XBOX controller.

EDIT: Oh and the higher resolution, and far greater framerates :-), I believe the framrate on the XBOX is locked at 30, on PC it can go well over 100, so far greater gameplay in terms of smoothness.

[Edited on 07.27.2007 1:47 PM PDT]

  • 07.27.2007 1:45 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

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I don't like anything about the pc version of halo, bad netcode.
Takes a lot of skill, though, unlike Halo 2. :)
PP/BR and PP/Pistol combos are way harder in Halo PC then Halo 2, more skill is defently required. You can't aspect the auto-aim to make you a pro-pistoler.

Who cares about graphics? At least you don't have to download XBC. IMO, XBC is harder to use then the Halo PC OnMP joining, I still can't get XBC to work, so I use PC.

Oh, did I mention that in the real Halo ( not Custom ) that there are barley any modders? I never met a modder so far, and if you meet one, you won't derank because they beat a match, another thing, the games are funner becuase there aren't ranks ( or should I say, numbers? ) that make the game a more over job, sometimes they get way too serious. Some moron even PMed me saying he 'ownt' me. If it happens on PC it's not as common as it is on XBL/XBC and the matches are way less serious.

I really don't get why people say the Xbox version is way better then PC, it's missing online MP, which PC has, plud the SP.
Why expect any better from a guy who posts in here with a gamertag avatar.

  • 07.27.2007 2:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zamlon
Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: MLG TWISTED
I don't like anything about the pc version of halo, bad netcode.
Takes a lot of skill, though, unlike Halo 2. :)
PP/BR and PP/Pistol combos are way harder in Halo PC then Halo 2, more skill is defently required. You can't aspect the auto-aim to make you a pro-pistoler.

Who cares about graphics? At least you don't have to download XBC. IMO, XBC is harder to use then the Halo PC OnMP joining, I still can't get XBC to work, so I use PC.

Oh, did I mention that in the real Halo ( not Custom ) that there are barley any modders? I never met a modder so far, and if you meet one, you won't derank because they beat a match, another thing, the games are funner becuase there aren't ranks ( or should I say, numbers? ) that make the game a more over job, sometimes they get way too serious. Some moron even PMed me saying he 'ownt' me. If it happens on PC it's not as common as it is on XBL/XBC and the matches are way less serious.

I really don't get why people say the Xbox version is way better then PC, it's missing online MP, which PC has, plud the SP.
It's not so much that Halo on the Xbox is better than the PC version as much as the PC version could have been better but ended up with some disappointments.

  • 07.27.2007 2:41 PM PDT

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