Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Microsoft,or any other company for that matter,will make a legal, retail version of Halo2 for a different OS than Vista? I would hope so, but i doubt it. Thoughts on it?

  • 08.19.2007 1:48 PM PDT
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No, they won't. Halo 3 is gonna give MS and Bungie so much revenue that no one will care about Halo 2 anymore... but I'm still gonna laugh if Halo 3 flops. =P

  • 08.19.2007 3:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
No, they won't. Halo 3 is gonna give MS and Bungie so much revenue that no one will care about Halo 2 anymore... but I'm still gonna laugh if Halo 3 flops. =P


Halo 3 can't flop. Too many people have already pre-ordered it. Almost a million I think.

  • 08.19.2007 3:05 PM PDT
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I don't know Halo 2 was originally designed for XP as far as im concerned (after xbox) but i believe Microsoft changed it to Vista only to Promote there new operating System. The Main reason i think this is because it uses direct x9 still and directx10 is probably the biggest upgrade for vista other than the look. Falling Leaf claims to be releasing something so it can play on XP but im not sure if that will be legal. You can get almost anything that vista has for xp illegally including the interface,directx10,and the games but that you have to find on your own.

  • 08.19.2007 3:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tylord
I don't know Halo 2 was originally designed for XP as far as im concerned (after xbox) but i believe Microsoft changed it to Vista only to Promote there new operating System. The Main reason i think this is because it uses direct x9 still and directx10 is probably the biggest upgrade for vista other than the look. Falling Leaf claims to be releasing something so it can play on XP but im not sure if that will be legal. You can get almost anything that vista has for xp illegally including the interface,directx10,and the games but that you have to find on your own.

Halo 2 Vista was always designed for Vista, hence why it has the operating system in its name.

  • 08.19.2007 4:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
No, they won't. Halo 3 is gonna give MS and Bungie so much revenue that no one will care about Halo 2 anymore... but I'm still gonna laugh if Halo 3 flops. =P


Halo 3 can't flop. Too many people have already pre-ordered it. Almost a million I think.
I guess, but just like Scarlet, I'd fall off laughing if the reviews suck. Hehe...

  • 08.19.2007 5:35 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

I would certainly hope not, I don't want any game to fail that a lot of people put their hardest into.

  • 08.19.2007 7:23 PM PDT

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I don't want any game to fail that a lot of people put their hardest into.
Aha? No. What Bungie is doing is putting all the crap they didn't put on their previous games So it doens't fail like the rush Halo 1 was. Why do people throw grenades withou a feet animation? How about we keep running up the ladders? :\

  • 08.19.2007 7:43 PM PDT
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Halo 1 was rushed? Then Halo 2 must've been mega-rushed because Halo 1 was far superior in my opinion. By flop, I didn't mean sales... it's the most hyped thing in gaming history since Final Fantasy VII. But if the game really REALLY turns sour, I'm gonna laugh so hard I'll probably come close to dying.

  • 08.19.2007 8:27 PM PDT
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Halo 2 did upgrade and expand on some of the features left out of Halo 1.

  • 08.19.2007 8:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
Halo 1 was rushed? Then Halo 2 must've been mega-rushed because Halo 1 was far superior in my opinion. By flop, I didn't mean sales... it's the most hyped thing in gaming history since Final Fantasy VII. But if the game really REALLY turns sour, I'm gonna laugh so hard I'll probably come close to dying.


or how about the hype on crysis or bioshock? that is pretty big. i doubt it is as big as halo 3 but hey, they arnt bringing it to pc (yet) so i dont care about it. when and if they do it will probbably be a shotty port as well....

  • 08.20.2007 6:32 AM PDT

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As far as Bioshock, a demo (available only on live marketplace) came out a coule of days ago, and from the impressions I got from everyone I talked to that played it, it definately lived up to the hype. A little off-topic, I'm just excited about it.

  • 08.20.2007 6:38 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

If you have had multiple revisions spanning the mac, pc, then the xbox, and a revision of story and many delays and buy outs, would you call it rushed to get out a product to make up for the cash losses for those revisions?

  • 08.20.2007 6:44 AM PDT
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Agamemnon582bc it still may have been designed for xp microsoft could have just put vista as the name because the game was changed to strictly vista.

  • 08.20.2007 2:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: Scarlet Crusade
Halo 1 was rushed? Then Halo 2 must've been mega-rushed because Halo 1 was far superior in my opinion. By flop, I didn't mean sales... it's the most hyped thing in gaming history since Final Fantasy VII. But if the game really REALLY turns sour, I'm gonna laugh so hard I'll probably come close to dying.
Of course it is a great game! However, it was rushed at the end. I repeat myself: Throw grenades with hovering feet? We run up ladders? Lacking amount of armoury? If you notice, Halo 2 has way too much more weapons than Halo. And if you pay attention to the Bungie.net Headlines (Who can't with the "Halo tidbits" and "HALO 3 NEW WEAPONS ZOMG" titles.) the crew is adding all the crap that they didn't add in the previous games, seemingly trying to make the perfect game. The mongoose is no exception when not added to Halo 2. And the flamethrower for Halo 3? As the old Maw used to say 'lol pwnt'. You're better off with a leaf blower from your local Sears. God, I miss those guys.

Oh, and Scarlet, I'll be sure to ask Marty to play in your funeral. That is, if I don't pass out laughing myself.

  • 08.20.2007 2:31 PM PDT