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Subject: When will Halo 3 be released for PC if ever?
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Self explanatory, but if it turns out tobe like wat happened to H2V ill be pissed... big time
Also since you managed 4 player Co-op on X Box will the PC version have this?( if it is released on PC)

[Edited on 08.28.2007 6:44 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2007 6:31 AM PDT
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I am going to guess no on H3PC.

H2v isnt selling much (based on the number of people online), and the team the made it isnt supporting it with patches.

That coupled with bad press and reviews... makes it a loser cash wise I would guess.

  • 08.28.2007 7:24 AM PDT
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Well I would think that a port of a Xbox 360 game would be much easier than an older Xbox game. They "could" have easily have developed both the 360 and the pc version in parallel.

  • 08.28.2007 8:10 AM PDT
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If they even do it, I'm guessing: on the next Windows OS.

  • 08.28.2007 9:37 AM PDT

No one likes a smart ass.....especially another smart ass!

Posted by: CVScorp
Well I would think that a port of a Xbox 360 game would be much easier than an older Xbox game. They "could" have easily have developed both the 360 and the pc version in parallel.


Ah, but if they did also develop it for the PC, they might not sell as many 360s. The Halo franchise is the xbox mover. That's why a release 2 to 3 years later happens. It's no longer selling xboxes so now the PC can have it. That's just the way it is. If you really want to play it, I would suggest picking up a 360.

  • 08.28.2007 10:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: rugerx
I am going to guess no on H3PC.

H2v isnt selling much (based on the number of people online), and the team the made it isnt supporting it with patches.

That coupled with bad press and reviews... makes it a loser cash wise I would guess.


It will be on PC but not for another few years. The reason why Halo 2 PC isn't doing to well is because the people ho made it are crap. I've got friends who could do a better job than what hired gun did. I'm a Halo fan, but I am not a console fan. When Halo 1 came out I really liked it. Thought it was the best game out until I got hold of Half Life 2. Halo 2 on the other hand was released on PC a little to late. maybe if it was released a year or 2 earlier it would of been a better success, but putting it up against new games in which it cannot compete was a mistake. One of the reasons why I was disappointed in Halo 2. If and when Halo 3 comes out to PC I hope its good, DX10 compatible, better resolution and detail options and if they don't bring it out to late I think it will be a good game.

  • 08.28.2007 11:09 AM PDT
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Well, seeing as the release for the Xbox version and the PC version is 3 years apart, I'd expect it in 2010.

  • 08.28.2007 11:14 AM PDT

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Self explanatory, but if it turns out tobe like wat happened to H2V ill be pissed... big time
Also since you managed 4 player Co-op on X Box will the PC version have this?( if it is released on PC)

who knows, I would like to see a 4 player Co-op for Halo 3 for the PC, as long as there is no spilt screen, I don't like spilt screens. >.<
I wish Bungie would make it and release it at the same time as the xbox Halo 3, that'd be cool and have cross platform game play, that'd help both M$ and Bungie make more money off the game.

  • 08.28.2007 11:31 AM PDT

What it is.

I'm guessing in the range of 2009-2010...If they were smart it would be more on the lines of 2008-2009...Also, i am sure the 4-player co-op would happen seeing as GoW for the PC has the co-op as well(Same as 360). It didn't shock me when they announced H2 for PC because i figured, "they made the first game for pc they can't abandon us now.." So hopefully it will be the same way...You can't just stop a series on a platform, even if sales aren't awesome...Then again, the reason sales were bad are due MS bad marketing plan by making H2V Vista only. I'm sure they will be smarter next time with Halo 3 and release it on both their new OS(Vienna) and Vista(by then Vista will be popular and XP will be dead). Anyway, all i gotta say is, worry more about the console version of Halo 3, i know i am!

  • 08.28.2007 12:13 PM PDT
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  • 08.28.2007 2:41 PM PDT
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Here's my guess on H3PC:

- It will be released whenever Halo 3 becomes next to obselete.
- Due to the latest marketing craze of having release dates in the middle of the week (when everyone can't play it ASAP like they want to), it will be on a Wednesday or Thursday (Tuesday turned out not to be enough of a cockbite).
- Even more specifically on the date, it will be 1+ year(s) away from the announcement, but it will be delayed by another year, then 3 months, then 2 weeks the weekend it would have been released, then it will be recalled until a date that is never specified for a feature that is acceptable for an M rated game anyways. It'll be a revolutionary marketing tactic by then.
- It will be on the next OS using DX10 ONLY, despite the fact that DX11 will be on the new OS. This will ensure that the version of DirectX needed is emulated so it runs like -blam!-.
- Speaking of things running like -blam!-, the game will run like this even if you're miles above the recommended requirements.
- Many promises will be made to fix several infamous glitches in the game, but only 1 will be fixed in the hope that you will forget about the rest of them.
- On the note of glitches, BXR will be edited in. Just for kicks.
- So will auto-aim (for controllers only, mind you).
- There will be a map editor that doesn't actually do any editing.
- Updates will be made to change the colors of banners before potentially non-existent title updates are released. Unnecessary banners are more important, everyone knows that.

Hope this helps give you an idea.

  • 08.28.2007 4:07 PM PDT

Sep. 08

What I heard from a guy in h2v that says he works for Bungie. But its the internetz so you never know >:{

  • 08.28.2007 4:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Yutaka541
Well, seeing as the release for the Xbox version and the PC version is 3 years apart, I'd expect it in 2010.


I dunno guys... the next OS will hit the shelves in 5 years or so.. and man H3 will be very very stale at that point.

Aegia physics engines are the rage and sadly I think that may shutdown PC gaming. Most folks are not going to run a vid card or 2 (SLI) and also run a supplemental phys card to boot.

I yearn for the days in say 1999 when gaming was going GL and DX.... things have come so far so fast, many ppl wont pony up.

No wonder the consoles dominate.. one system for $500 or so, all the games work etc etc.
I for one HATE console games. I own the x360 and the ps2 for other family members, but I rarely touch the games. I hate the controllers.

Funny part is, all the family flocks to the PC when I am playing PC games. "Dad they are cooler!"

2 cents.

  • 08.28.2007 4:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
Here's my guess on H3PC:

- It will be released whenever Halo 3 becomes next to obselete.

Bungie has never been good with release dates lol, nothing will ever change.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- Due to the latest marketing craze of having release dates in the middle of the week (when everyone can't play it ASAP like they want to), it will be on a Wednesday or Thursday (Tuesday turned out not to be enough of a cockbite).

As if a day or two makes a real difference. The people desperate enough will just skip school/work anyways.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- Even more specifically on the date, it will be 1+ year(s) away from the announcement, but it will be delayed by another year, then 3 months, then 2 weeks the weekend it would have been released, then it will be recalled until a date that is never specified for a feature that is acceptable for an M rated game anyways. It'll be a revolutionary marketing tactic by then.

Sounds a lot like the original halo 2 as well, see: point 1.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- It will be on the next OS using DX10 ONLY, despite the fact that DX11 will be on the new OS. This will ensure that the version of DirectX needed is emulated so it runs like -blam!-.

Not true, vista has two APIs, directx 10 and directx 9ex which allows full backwards compatibility for dx9 applications. Don't consfuse bad drivers from nvidia and ATI/AMD with vista itself. Just remember Aero glass is actually a dx9ex application, not dx10.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- Speaking of things running like -blam!-, the game will run like this even if you're miles above the recommended requirements.

LOLOLOL, if you have a slow computer why do you think a game wil high system requirements runs like crap on your system. It shouldn't come as a shock. Do you remember how bad halo pc ran? Remember when ATI couldn't code a driver worth a damn and the sniper didn't work?

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- Many promises will be made to fix several infamous glitches in the game, but only 1 will be fixed in the hope that you will forget about the rest of them.

Really? Point out these promises they told us that they werent going to remove any of the button glitches.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- On the note of glitches, BXR will be edited in. Just for kicks.

This is just dumb.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- So will auto-aim (for controllers only, mind you).

You talk like this was a glitch, it is not because it's a bad port, it's a dumb decision.

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- There will be a map editor that doesn't actually do any editing.

Since when has this been true? Bungie NEVER said the game was going to ship with a map CREATOR. They did the exact same thing with the first halo pc remember?

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
- Updates will be made to change the colors of banners before potentially non-existent title updates are released. Unnecessary banners are more important, everyone knows that.

What in the world are you talking about?

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
Hope this helps give you an idea.

Dumb

  • 08.28.2007 5:02 PM PDT

Posted by: Wakeboy1337
Sep. 08

What I heard from a guy in h2v that says he works for Bungie. But its the internetz so you never know >:{

lmfao, it'd be kind of weird if some one from bungie really said that, and was right. oh well.

  • 08.28.2007 5:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wakeboy1337
Sep. 08

What I heard from a guy in h2v that says he works for Bungie. But its the internetz so you never know >:{

lmfao, it'd be kind of weird if some one from bungie really said that, and was right. oh well.


It would be freaking awesome!

[Edited on 08.28.2007 5:35 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2007 5:34 PM PDT

Posted by: rugerx
and the team the made it isnt supporting it with patches.


I just got a patch yesterday. A new one.

  • 08.28.2007 5:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: rugerx
and the team the made it isnt supporting it with patches.


I just got a patch yesterday. A new one.


It wasnt for Halo 2

It was for GFW Live

Cause I got it in Halo 2 and it carried over to Shadowrun.

  • 08.28.2007 5:45 PM PDT

oh. great, now I look stupid(er)

  • 08.28.2007 5:54 PM PDT
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Hahaha, holy crap, someone actually took me seriously.

Well, I'm not gunna blah blah argue and whatnot (since it was blatantly a joke XP), but I will clear up a thing or two.

- I consider my PC to be quite fast. See my signature for specs.
- The second to last thing was actually a Live update that occurred either today or yesterday, I wasn't on yesterday. They made this required update that took god knows how long to actually install, and all it did was change all the orange stuff in Live to blue. That, and they changed the banner from a sleekish LIVE to a mooshed looking Games for Windows Live banner (also blue). Note: I do run at a resolution that doesn't stretch anything, so the banner is actually squeezed in the menu.

Sorry you took me seriously, it really was a joke XD. I'm sure they learned SOMETHING from H2V and none of my sarcasm will actually occur. Except for the BXR thing. That'll definitely happen, right? XD

  • 08.28.2007 5:55 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Your computer is decent but far from 1337-ness. And, when you post something like that, tbh, it looks like a rant, and no one likes rants, except for the ranter, because obviously all the ranter does all ranting day is rant on and on. So, note to reader: Don't rant!

  • 08.28.2007 6:29 PM PDT

I love music, and I want to learn all of the Halo Trilogy music. Please! Give me the sheet music!

At night, I have dreams that I am playing Halo 3 on a Core 7 Explosion 10.9Ghz CPUv2 and Quad 13000GTX's. And 32Gb of memory of course. And that's probably what it will be like when H3 is released for PC. That will be the day...

  • 08.28.2007 6:47 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.

Posted by: SonicMaster326
At night, I have dreams that I am playing Halo 3 on a Core 7 Explosion 10.9Ghz CPUv2 and Quad 13000GTX's. And 32Gb of memory of course. And that's probably what it will be like when H3 is released for PC. That will be the day...
Trully poetic, but Halo 3 will probably be released for PC three years from now, by that time having XBox LIVE players letting go off Halo 2, and Halo 3 becoming old, and eventually losing players. If Micro$oft pulls another fast one to buy a new OS to Halo 3, Billy is -blam!- dead.

  • 08.28.2007 6:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

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Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: Shdwsnipa
Hahaha, holy crap, someone actually took me seriously.

Well, I'm not gunna blah blah argue and whatnot (since it was blatantly a joke XP), but I will clear up a thing or two.

- I consider my PC to be quite fast. See my signature for specs.
- The second to last thing was actually a Live update that occurred either today or yesterday, I wasn't on yesterday. They made this required update that took god knows how long to actually install, and all it did was change all the orange stuff in Live to blue. That, and they changed the banner from a sleekish LIVE to a mooshed looking Games for Windows Live banner (also blue). Note: I do run at a resolution that doesn't stretch anything, so the banner is actually squeezed in the menu.

Sorry you took me seriously, it really was a joke XD. I'm sure they learned SOMETHING from H2V and none of my sarcasm will actually occur. Except for the BXR thing. That'll definitely happen, right? XD


If you have that GPU then I can't see how you could possibly be -blam!-ing about performance.

  • 08.28.2007 7:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: JesseZinVT
Posted by: rugerx
and the team the made it isnt supporting it with patches.


I just got a patch yesterday. A new one.


It wasnt for Halo 2

It was for GFW Live

Cause I got it in Halo 2 and it carried over to Shadowrun.

there should be an update for Halo 2 Vista soon

  • 08.28.2007 7:06 PM PDT

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