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I think that Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft should team up again to make Halo 2 for the PC. Out of all the forums I go to (wwaayyy too many) I've asked if the members there if there should be a Halo 2 for the PC. They all think there should be (well at least most of them). I would buy it and the demand for it would be great as well. Yes, some people tell me to just get an Xbox, but what if I want to play it on PC? I mean, they might not as well have made Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC either you know? Halo 2 for the PC should be out for the PC.

Eventually, I think, Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft aren't going to say no to money for long. Anyways, if the demand is high enough, they WILL make it. So we need people to demand Halo 2 for the PC. I think it would be VERY neat if you all could demand enough so that they'd make it.

I mod Halo PC a lot, and I suppose you could make a mod where it's just like Halo 2. I mean, it's been done before but none of them even vaguely represent Halo 2. They tried and you can see where they modded it to look like Halo 2, but it's not good. Like the vehicles don't explode after a while and don't look partly damaged. In Halo 2 Xbox, if you didn't know this, you can shoot the hubcaps off of the hogs. You wouldn't be able to do that in a mod, which is also partly why I think there should be H2 for the PC.

And if you're a Mac user, get a life and get a real deal PC. Macs.... oh boy, I HATE Macs with a passion. They are about the worst creation on the planet. I mean, Apple + HP's iPods rock this world (I got one for Christmas), but Macintosh computers can lick my.... extremities *cough*.

And think about it, how cool it would be to have H2 for PC. Gosh, I just think it would be sooo cool to have it. The only problem I can see with it, technically, that is, is that it would take up a crapload of space on your harddrive. Our computer has a nice harddrive so I wouldn't worry about it, but other people with 30 GB harddrives might want to worry about it. Otherwise, just save up $3000 and get the Delll XPS (that thing is scary). You can attach up to four external harddrives on it, each one max of 250 GB (or something crazy like that). That equals to be around 1.3 terrabytes (terra=1000 GB) and this includes its internal harddrive.

But back on topic, H2 would also take up more than one CD to install with. But it's not that bad because Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 has 3 CDs. I mean, that's a lot. If you have a slow computer, it also takes a long time to install. But who cares, we're not talking about that.

So what do you think, Halo 2 for the PC or not? Oh, and PLEASE POST WHY if you post!!!

  • 01.05.2005 8:33 AM PDT
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I vote PC because It kiks XBOX's ass or any other console hn it comes to FPS games. the control on second to none. However this is like the 7384784789375892957967 post about H2 PC.

  • 01.05.2005 9:18 AM PDT
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I vote PC because It kiks XBOX's ass or any other console hn it comes to FPS games. the control on second to none.

Yep, thats what i tell everyone at forums.xbox.com but they all flame me when i say it. so thanks for agreeing without knowing it

  • 01.05.2005 9:35 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Unless they do a massive overhaul to Halo2? I probably wont' get it for PC. I played Halo2 on $box... n'... BLAM! BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!BLAM! BLAM!!!11!!!111!! (for those who don't know, BLAM! is how bungie sensors swearing..)

Here's a review I posted at another forum....

Posted Originally by: ThE_MarD
I just played Halo2 yesterday.... and I nearly cried. OMG, that game has been -blam!- over since the first one.

It's true, the pistol's useless now. It takes a full clip to take down an elite, and in mp can't kill an enemy with 1 clip, you can't zoom shoot it anymore.. YET you can zoom in with a shotty and shoot that? wtf?. UGH, this game annoys me now. -blam!- over my fav gun... just right here for me Halo2 is worse than Halo1...

Dual wielding's nice, but it annoys me how meleeing drops your 2nd gun, so then during the firefight you have to scavenge the ground to try and find the darn gun so you can dual wield again....

Boarding vehicles is nice, I couldn't really get a hang of it cause of how hard it is to board moving vehicles when you can't aim at it cause you have to move your thumb to hold the X key... I ain't got teh console micro, cause I don't bother with it anymore.

Sure, they got rid of the fuelrod guns in multiplayer, and they're better in H2 anywho cause they don't hold rediculous amounts of ammo anymore, but now in multiplayer there's that brute cannon... it's like the fuelrod, a bit less powerful, so at least the weapon balance for heavy weapons was kept in mind, so that's 1 plus side to Halo2.

Another thing interesting to see is an elite without his armor... if you havn't played H2? at least play it to see what kindof race they really are.

One part that made singleplayer easier is that important characters can't die... so the need to help them in combat and save their asses from death is no longer needed. On Halo1, when you had to rescue capitan Keyes, you had to like, protect him, cause if he died the mission fails and you need to restart from the last checkpoint. On this? you can melee them until they fall off ledges and still nothing...

Another lame fact is the lack of fall damage. Now that's n00bish. Sure, fall damage was annoying before, but at least it helped keep some of the semi-realisim that was Halo1... so levels like Halo1's death island would be like, too easy to storm a base, cause you could leap off the top knowing you won't die. Sure, you could on Halo1 but it was pretty hard not only to figure out how to fall safely, but to actually do it.

The graphics were really nice, easily the best looking game I've seen on $box... but out of all the games out there, especially on pc? no.

As for the Far Cry textures? yeah, they were really sharp, but I liked them like that. Cause they looked uber-detailed compared to someother games where they just looked bad... Halo1 for PC did have some nice textures, but lots were low quality since most were just the $box textures... Some level textures were redone, so some of the really nice metallic surfaces looked great... what I never understood is why diddn't they redo MasterChief's textures? he's the most viewed texture of them all since he's always in the game...

Another GHEY thing, was how rediculously accurate the tank is now, it's accuracy is now like 100% instead of like 75%-80% of the tank on Halo1. PLUS, in MP the driver's not exposed, so us skilled players who usually shoot at the driver's are stuck shooting the actual tank like a n00b...

Being an elite was kickass though, the ability to cloak for a while was nice.

the only reason i'm gonna play it again is for the storyline, that's it. Cause from what I've played? the storyline's great... Plus I wanna know how the storyline continues.

So yeah, most of the new changes were lame, but there's a few new parts that helped make Halo2 better... but I think I'll stick with Halo1 for PC though... that and Project Torlan: a HaloUT mod in the makings. With all these n00bish changes, yeah, sry to say but... Halo2 = Double n00b, Triple n00b... N00BTACULAR!


[Edited on 1/5/2005 11:20:55 AM]

  • 01.05.2005 11:20 AM PDT
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i really disagree with that quote. i just came back from my friend's house. we played halo 2 on live and it was fun as hell. not that hell is fun but you get my drift. it was awesome. i love that game which is why i want it to be out for PC.

  • 01.05.2005 3:43 PM PDT
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Think about it... Microsoft made this game for the money. I mean thats all its about now-a-days is money. By not releasing it for PC they lose a huge part of the buyers. They also want to sell Xbox's. So they will say it is "Xbox Exclusive" for maybe a year maybe two (lets hope not though) and then they will announce that it will be released for PC. All they want to do is make people run out and but and Xbox AND Halo 2. They make more money this way. Don't worry... it will eventually make it to PC. But it might take a while.

I want it just as bad as everyone else by the way. :-)

  • 01.05.2005 4:14 PM PDT
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I would buy it. But keep gear box out of it. Macsoft did good work for mac version UT2K4 so i'm gone blame all the problems on Gearbox. If they could use the net code from xbox live and I mean raw code, nothing that is xbox live only.

They should also put a buddy list and map/game type voting.

And stick in a map editor, I would increase the life time of the game 10 fold. And for people who say that them we would crapy maps, on UT2K4 people only realy play the good maps, the sucky spam maps dont get played more then a hand full of times because of map vote.

[Edited on 1/5/2005 5:04:19 PM]

  • 01.05.2005 4:50 PM PDT
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ah, c'mon mard, halo 2 wasn't that bad...
the reason the pistol sucks, is cause it was too good in halo1. like seriously, it was suposed to be a weekling sidearm. and what about the three headshot kill???? that makes no friking sence. i mean, why would humanaty make the sheilds on their only hope weaker in the head???? that doesn't make a lick of sence. that's where you want the most protection, not the least. at least the one headshot after shields are down made sence.
the main thing they tried to di in this game was BALLENCE!!!! i mean, if i just respawned with a plasma pistol, what hope did i have against the guy down the hall with a pistol aimed at my forhead?
i also dissagree with your analisis of the tank. though having it closed off was a stupid idea, it shure as hell is no where near 100% accurate. it's the same as the old tank. besides, it can be blown up easily, espicaly because of target tracking.
ever read first strike? the spartians fell from reach's atsmophere, and some survived. sure there had been specific reasons to their survival, but just in the whole, that storyline made halo 1 unrealistic (yeah...right.....)
but people could not just fall onto the base at death island. fall damage has not been removed, it's been changed to all or nothing. eaither you die or you don't, and the distance you can fall before you die in was greatly decreased. so, you'd get halfway down the fall from DI, and....die.
true, the graphics of halo 2 are not up to date, but there still great. when they said 'anything that's not nailed down is drustructable/moveable,' i was like, yeah....right..., but they achived a level that was well beyond even half life 2! true, realisticaly speaking, the graphics are halo graphics, and therefore lacking. but it looks like HALO! whish is what we wanted. besides...howmany times do you shoot aliens in real life?

  • 01.05.2005 5:27 PM PDT
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wtf are you on about, Iamwhile?..

Posted by: Iamwhie
fall damage has not been removed, it's been changed to all or nothing.

Or in other words, fall damage has been removed, because you have to fall off the entire level in order to die from falling. So the MC can withstand a 200ft drop provided he stays inside the level. Hmm, realism?

true, the graphics of halo 2 are not up to date, but there still great.
They really aren't up to date, and they never could be because the xbox hardware is equally out-dated. They're really not that great compared to so many other titles on PC.

when they said 'anything that's not nailed down is drustructable/moveable,' i was like, yeah....right..., but they achived a level that was well beyond even half life 2!
You can't lift things in halo 2, just nudge them around. You sure as hell can't throw them or use them as weapons, or as shields, or as climbing blocks, or in puzzles... in fact Halo 2 barely uses the Havok physics engine At All, yet you can do all those things in Half-Life 2. So again I say, wtf are you talking about?

besides...howmany times do you shoot aliens in real life?
I don't shoot aliens in real life so I wouldn't know.

ah, c'mon mard, halo 2 wasn't that bad...
Y'know... it really, really was that bad.


[Edited on 1/5/2005 6:23:40 PM]

  • 01.05.2005 6:21 PM PDT
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skippy, i read your comments, and tried to sleep on it. however your stupidity forced me to respond. anway:
Posted by: Iamwhie
fall damage has not been removed, it's been changed to all or nothing.

Or in other words, fall damage has been removed, because you have to fall off the entire level in order to die from falling. So the MC can withstand a 200ft drop provided he stays inside the level. Hmm, realism

nice of you to ignore my next comment....
the distance you can fall before you die in was greatly decreased.
let me clairify if you are to -blamed- up to understand this simple phrase.
you can only survive falls in which you would have lost half your health in halo1(without crouching at the bottom). that's about the distance i can fall and still walk away. yeah. real unrealistic..... you want proof? people jumped out of thet world trade center before it fell from that hight. a lot of them survived, but were majorly injured. not MC is a super human.... he could survive that. true, i'm not all for no fall damage. i also think it's stupid, but it's there, so live with it. halo2 still rocks.

when they said 'anything that's not nailed down is drustructable/moveable,' i was like, yeah....right..., but they achived a level that was well beyond even half life 2!
You can't lift things in halo 2, just nudge them around. You sure as hell can't throw them or use them as weapons, or as shields, or as climbing blocks, or in puzzles... in fact Halo 2 barely uses the Havok physics engine At All, yet you can do all those things in Half-Life 2. So again I say, wtf are you talking about?


now it's my turn. wtf are you talking about??? so i can't throw them. i have my grenade do it for me. nock over a crate, duck behind it, boom. instant cover. true, blocks can be used to help you in HL2, but if you wanna find fun stuff, you can to do the same in halo. now i'm not dissagreeing with most of your points here, but rember in HL2, there are some random objects that you can't do -blam- with.
halo 2: see a table, blow it over, use for cover
hl2: walk on it........

besides...howmany times do you shoot aliens in real life?
I don't shoot aliens in real life so I wouldn't know.

glad to see we agree. let me intruduce you to something widely used on this planet called scarcasm.
sar·casm (särkzm)
n.
1.A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2.A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.



my point with this statement is halo isn't real. it can't look real, 'cause it's not suposed to, and, as you said, xbox graphics are -blam-

ah, c'mon mard, halo 2 wasn't that bad...
Y'know... it really, really was that bad.

well funny that you agreed with most of what i said, and you still wrote this. obviously, you're so consetied, you can't change you mind, even if facts are displayed in front of you(this sort of thing has happened before between me and him sadly....). have you actualy played it? no, i mean actualy played, not played it for a second, and threw down the controller?

  • 01.05.2005 8:01 PM PDT
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Well now that Half Life 2 is out, all I can say is good luck to Microsoft and Bungie to try and get a foothold in the PC community. I'm sure people who bought Halo PC remembers how well Microsoft's tech support works by pissing them off with the "gearbox makes the patches, but Microsoft must approves it" type deal.

  • 01.05.2005 8:55 PM PDT
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The halo franchise was made on for the xbox and thus feels better on the xbox, if they were to make halo 2 on pc i think it would be a waste of time and money, because bungie and MS wont be spending time to convert it to pc when they have xbox 2 and halo 3 to organise, and if any other developer looked past the failure of halo pc it probably still wpuldnt be as good, and it wouldnt as sell as many as it did on xbox.

  • 01.06.2005 2:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dragon X
The halo franchise was made on for the xbox and thus feels better on the xbox, if they were to make halo 2 on pc i think it would be a waste of time and money, because bungie and MS wont be spending time to convert it to pc when they have xbox 2 and halo 3 to organise, and if any other developer looked past the failure of halo pc it probably still wpuldnt be as good, and it wouldnt as sell as many as it did on xbox.

skippy, i might side with you just so we can get the buzz on this guy

  • 01.06.2005 6:06 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Hmm, so falldamage can be toggled eh? then that's not too bad... I guess I was playing with some $box n00bs afterall, lol...

As for the tank not being that accurate? I'm not sure aboot that dude... I lept out at the tank... and it smoked me... in mid air..... that's either luck, or the tanks much more accurate... I'm guessing accuracy.

Hey, the game's like you said, not realistic, but more of semi-realistic, so why would they just plow over their own continuity by making the pistol lame and a MASSIVE downgrade from the first Halo is what I'm saying...

Yeah, I'm probably gonna be playing more HL2 than H2 easily... probaby even more H1 than H2, lmao.

Another thing I forgot to note, was the really poor animations. WTH? look at the melee, it instatly whips out, no smooth melee like on H1... and MC does run a bit weirder on this game... more straight up than on H1, that was kindof freaky...

The way they made the rl lock on was interesting, a little hard to get at first to get but interesting. I would've preferred if it was only lock on to banshees cause it's still pretty easy to smoke a vehicle traveling on the ground already. One majior improvement for the rl than on H1 was the splash radius, it's smaller, so it requires more skill. ;)

One thing I liked for the wraith is how you can leap on the back pannel, rip it open and plant a stickey in there, dunno if it's the same deal for the human tank too...

Another plus is the human tank (scorpion in lamen terms..). I like the new controlling methon used for it, much more complex, so using it is no longer a burden when trying to drive one way and shoot another. :)

  • 01.06.2005 10:07 AM PDT
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I want to play halo 2 with mous. I like H1 on pc more as on the xbox. I have taken a xbox 4 H2. And if H2 coms fore the pc i wil buy it!

(I know my English is bad)

  • 01.06.2005 11:00 AM PDT
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well mard, i'm back to agreeing with you. except with the tank. how far away were you?
and yeah, all vehicals can be boarded front AND back
finaly, i wish to dissagree with your ideas on the pistol, but conclude that as we are diffrent people, we have diffrent opinions
and yes, i will be playing HL2 more than H2

  • 01.06.2005 1:13 PM PDT
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OK Iamwhile fair enough but I still maintain HL2 kicks H2's arse in the physics department. The fact that in HL2 you can pick up a circular saw blade and fire it through a line of zombies slicing them in two is no less than awesome. Picking up a toilet with the gravgun and using it to bowl down Overwatch soldiers is equally amusing. And for the record despite not being able to pick large objects like tables up in HL2, you can punch anything with the gravgun up to the size of cars, sending them skidding into your enemies and devastating crowds of them. And you can pluck those Man-hacks out of the air and bash them against a wall. In H2 basically all you can do is nudge stuff and hide behind it. But anyways you said you'd rather play HL2 than H2 so we're agreed on that. And btw my problem is that in H2, you can fall a huge distance without taking ANY damage not even shield damage, which is unrealistic. I know in the books their shields disappeared and they only survived coz of their bone re-enforcements or whatever but that doesn't work too well in the game coz people can make rediculous drops and not even lose their shield. BTW I didn't know it was toggle-able tho so who cares really as long as I can put fall damage back on.

  • 01.06.2005 2:50 PM PDT
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If u guys are looking for realizam out of a game that has aliens and a parisitic race then i think u might be out of luck. Yes their should be some realism demanded from this game but over all halo 2 kicks BAM. And the spartians are suppose to be super solders. Shouldn't super solders be able to survive a 10-40 ft fall. and as for that stupid gravity thing which on hl2 which game has more realism now... punching cars and making them fly...

[Edited on 1/6/2005 5:31:00 PM]

  • 01.06.2005 5:29 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Well, for Halo1... Halo had lower gravity than earth's gravity (which's why he kindof floated more in the air)... but on earth, with higher gravity, he can live a fall? oi... why did they make fall damage default to off is what I'm saying... removes the challenge to survive. :(

As for the tank? I was half ways across the map on that blood gultch impersonation map... I was trying to board a wraith, hit the wrong key, flew up above the wraith, and a tank shot me out of the air... This happened again when I was hiding behind a rock... the amout of accuracy on those things are much higher than Halo1...

  • 01.07.2005 10:51 AM PDT
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Ya know,i don`t think i`m even gona bother with Halo 2 anymore.Unless it comes out on PC i won`t croud my mind with it,why should i? With kickass games like UT2004,Halo1,Half Life 2,Doom 3 and...(get this)...QUAKE 4 in the making,why should i bother commenting to M$ to make a PC version of Halo 2? From what i keep hearing Halo 2 is crap anyway...no falling damage? COME ON!!! As for the MC now being in the tank with total cover is a GREAT idea..think about it...it`s a F-ing tank...the driver SHOULD be surrounded by armor not having his head exposed like a dumbass...it just adds to the realism.Ok something else...are the vehicles influenced by the ammount of damage they take or just run well till they get to damaged and become unuseble?...aaaaaanyway the only reason i think i`l be getting Halo 2 when it comes out on PC would be the story and the promise that it will work a lot better and smoother then the "bang up job" Gearbox done with Halo 1...i hope if M$ do make Halo 2 PC it will be done by Bungie and ID soft

  • 01.08.2005 5:28 AM PDT
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HALO 2 rocks, PERIOD. Jeez, I suggest that you all stop dreaming, have any of you ever heard of HALO 2.5 director's cut? That is called the xbox 2 launch game. That means that Microsoft still has tons of money to still make from HALO 2, by the time a PC version comes out, we will all be playing HALF-LIFE 3

  • 01.08.2005 5:43 AM PDT
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A good point...but still it sucks and it`s unfair to us PC players ...f it anyway lots of other games out there

  • 01.08.2005 7:05 AM PDT
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why dont u computer geeks just get a frekin xbox and live... thers not that much lag on there unlike the computer

  • 01.08.2005 9:31 AM PDT
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Posted by: Z_O_R_B_A_N
why dont u computer geeks just get a frekin xbox and live... thers not that much lag on there unlike the computer


Why don't you take your frekin xbox and live and go back to the xbox board. Nobody is dumb and stupid enough to buy a $120 Xbox for one $50 dollar game unless you're Bill Gate's son plus he doesn't support keyboard and mouse control.

[Edited on 1/8/2005 10:58:14 AM]

  • 01.08.2005 10:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: ThE_MarD
Heyyo,

Well, for Halo1... Halo had lower gravity than earth's gravity (which's why he kindof floated more in the air)... but on earth, with higher gravity, he can live a fall? oi... why did they make fall damage default to off is what I'm saying... removes the challenge to survive. :(

As for the tank? I was half ways across the map on that blood gultch impersonation map... I was trying to board a wraith, hit the wrong key, flew up above the wraith, and a tank shot me out of the air... This happened again when I was hiding behind a rock... the amout of accuracy on those things are much higher than Halo1...

sounds like that tank was aiming for the wraith, an you got caught up in the splash.
but, never the less, that is strange. it truly looks like it was a lucky shot.
besides, it it were that accurate, it would be hard to line up the target recticle just right to hit you like that.

  • 01.08.2005 3:04 PM PDT

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