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Subject: Halo2 for pc?
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Wow that's expensive. I'd rather stick to Halo PC and not have to pay only to play other people.

  • 01.24.2005 5:43 PM PDT
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I am a PC gamer and a Xbox live gamer.....

Xbox live is more user friendly...(most xbox users are not familiar with online gaming so this makes sense)

PC is more competitive....(most PC gamers are vets. at gaming online so the focus is on the comp. not the "online experience")

BTW any half way descent PC will blow the Xbox console out of the water when it comes to handeling a ported game such as Halo2.(even if it is optimized for the console) PC has graphics cards with more RAM and processor speed then the entire xbox console...


I hope Halo2 comes out for the PC... I want TRUE mouse support

  • 01.24.2005 9:04 PM PDT
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Yes,most PC gamers are vets and at least 17 or somethin`...aaanyway i started playing FPS`s with Doom 2 moving on to Quake 2(i played this game all through 5th and 6th grade and I along with my best friend resourected the game in my town now more then 30 players are goin at it...all this in 2 months :)..feeling proud),then naturaly Quake 3 wich is the fastest pased online shooter of all time,Medal of Honor AA,Halo(kinda the most inovative FPS but seems to be a ripp-off of Red Faction somehow),Call of Duty,CS(kinda sucked and n00b-ish),UT2004(just superb) and Half Life 2 wich is absolutely Brilliant in single player and multiplayer(the story is great and the feeling itself is superb)...now i can barely wait for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wich is sure to kick some serious ass.As for Halo 2...sadly it has been left in the dust and when it eventualy dose come onto PC it`s just normal that most Halo 1 PC players will buy it for the story if nothing else...BTW Halo 2 is a n00b-ish shadow of the first game wich was great,NO FALLING DAMAGE? and it`s obviously been rushed and thus made pathetic,Half Life 2 was obviously worked on(the first one was since 1998 for the love of God so they`d have to be suicidal to screw it up wich they didn`t and it must be one of the best PC shooters of all time)...I do hope HALO 2 gets ported by ID software cause they did a great job with most of their games and most PC players know what i`m talkin about.

  • 01.25.2005 5:15 AM PDT
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I`m curious why you would label HL2 crap...
Great graphics
Good Gameplay
Excelent fizics(hmmm...some bugs yes,but rare)
The sound is a bit weak but they are working on EAX for the next patch
Good Story and somewhat of a cliffhanger ending but realy well made so nothing to comment there
The feeling the invironment gives you is excelent(very Cernoal-ish and ColdWar-ish with that whole paranoia vibe and a pinch of post-apocaliptic looking places and very neo-comunist looking block apartment buildings...just like the outskirts of my home town :P )
And it lived up to my expectations and to the hype plus the fact that the first one was a great game too
I give HL2 a streight up 9.2
And i`m sure most reviews will agree with me...didn`t check any though... :) hmmm let me just take a peek at ign

  • 01.25.2005 8:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mr B
Disagree about HL2, I think its titanicaly crap. However, I am looking forward to stalker, thats looking good.

I have no earthly idea why you think that. That's the only educated opinion I've heard so far, including friends, relatives, work colleages and several magazines to which I subscribe, which consider HL2 anything less than outstanding. In fact I'd say the vast majority would hold it to being the best FPS, if not the best Game ever made... ever. I mean the single player gameplay is unrivalled, the acting and setpieces are memorable to say the least. Graphics really are cutting edge, on a high-end system it's unbelievable. Level design is the most detailed ever created. It's hard to believe they only took 6 years to build this masterpiece.

BTW I've heard plenty of suXbox gamers say it sucks because a) they're PC is t3h cr4p, and b) they are t3h cr4p.

[Edited on 1/25/2005 8:48:38 AM]

  • 01.25.2005 8:47 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

I think his prob is he's mixing HL2 with CSS. CSS sucks, HL2 rules. SvenCoop for HL2? gonna be incredible.. ooo, like, 60 player coop! lmao, teh pwnt! =D

Svencoop for HL1 is 32 player coop, even has bots for it too. (I waypointed the whole campaign for RCbot, so frag away my friends. http://filebase.bots-united.com go download rcbot latest beta full, then under waypoints get my rcbot full campaign svencoop waypointpack.).

HL2DM is pretty sweet, still needs tweaking though, caush rocketlaunchers are teh ghey (laser guided, and on dm_overlord is placed at the top which's really retarded). There's already a lot of mods planned for HL2 too! check out this list (there's probably a couple more mods that arn't on this list!) http://mods.moddb.com/?search=1&mf=0&mod=&game=61 &type=0&order=game_name&sort=asc&list=40

Hmm, how many mods are there for Halo2? oops! no modding support cause it's $box! so far at the most maybe 10 hacked mods, lmao. :)

  • 01.25.2005 10:22 AM PDT
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How come nobody has mentioned Gearbox? Didn't Gearbox do the port of Halo to the PC? And let's not forget that part of Microsoft's strategy of building the Xbox with standard PC architectures was to bring down the cost and more easily port games to/from the PC.

I for one hope that Halo2 does come out for the PC and with some much needed features like: favorites for servers, friend finder, better network performance, key binding, and more bullets <G>.

Actually I would pay for simple refinements and more maps, as I thoroughly enjoy the game as it is.

-Keith

  • 01.25.2005 11:41 AM PDT
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Dude,the rocket launcher is laser guided but to guide the rocket you need to keep the laser point on your target till the rocket hits it...Don`t expect to just aim at your target,launch the missle and walk away looking at something else...cause where your looking the rocket goes so keep looking right at your target till you hit the f-er

  • 01.25.2005 11:43 AM PDT
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Oh and i suppouse Halo had so many places that were off corse? or how about doom 3? please...i`m sorry you had such a vile bunch of problems but i have a low/medium end rig and i ran it smoothly WITHOUT ONE SINGLE CRASH on everything set to med/high...first off specify what specs you got,what SP you have for WinXP and all that...
I`ve got:
ASUS P4P800S-X (great value mobo supporting great stuff)
P4 @ 1.7GHz(crap obviously)
512DDR PC3200
ATI Radeon 9600(decent)
Windows XP profesional edititon Service Pack 2

btw,check for viruses

The long loadings are only at entering the game then not realy long

  • 01.25.2005 1:19 PM PDT
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microsoft wants to make as much money as possible so it will have halo 2 for PC

  • 01.25.2005 1:23 PM PDT
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There are a lot more people who've had problems with Halo than those which have had problems with HL2. And yet you wouldn't say Halo was a worse game than HL2, despite worse graphics, a Very linear storyline, dumb AI... Halo is basically guilty of everything HL2 is guilty of, except that HL2 has better graphics, it runs better on most people's machines, and despite steam being a slight pain in the arse sometimes at least it keeps games up to date without you needing to download patches manually. Oh and it has a better story, although to be fair it would be rather repetitive to do over again. But surely Halo's would be? and Doom 3's? and FarCry's? The point is not that HL2 is the perfect game, no one is saying that. We're just saying that it is the best example of a FPS of recent years, like it or not it is the cutting edge. And if you play the story all the way through, without prejudice of how much effort it may have taken you to get it running, you can appreciate that 6 years has not been wasted.

BTW Mard, have you tried the Strider Mod? it's awesome :D

  • 01.25.2005 3:52 PM PDT
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[color=red]HALO2 SHOULD NOT COME OUT FOR PC....WANNA KNO Y I DONT THINK IT SHOULD?.....IT IS ALL OF THE REALLY ANNOYING PLAYERS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CHEAT I AM TIRED OF ALL THESE "NOOBS" (i am not sure exactly wat that means but that is wat the ppl online call them)[/color]

  • 01.25.2005 5:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: purplepurson
[color=red]HALO2 SHOULD NOT COME OUT FOR PC....WANNA KNO Y I DONT THINK IT SHOULD?.....IT IS ALL OF THE REALLY ANNOYING PLAYERS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CHEAT I AM TIRED OF ALL THESE "NOOBS" (i am not sure exactly wat that means but that is wat the ppl online call them)[/color]


I don't know what the hell you're talking about and not to mention your reasons of not wanting Halo 2 coming to PC sure doesn't make sense. But in any case, have a cookie.

  • 01.25.2005 9:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: purplepurson
[color=red]HALO2 SHOULD NOT COME OUT FOR PC....WANNA KNO Y I DONT THINK IT SHOULD?.....IT IS ALL OF THE REALLY ANNOYING PLAYERS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CHEAT I AM TIRED OF ALL THESE "NOOBS" (i am not sure exactly wat that means but that is wat the ppl online call them)[/color]


Umm... yeah....

  • 01.25.2005 10:11 PM PDT
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Hi all

I'm new around here and thought I'd stick my head in and see what's going on. While I have no proof that there will be Halo 2 on the PC, I think it's likely as it would be more of money maker for MS, most of the work is already done, so a port would be more cost effective, I think, than building a game from scratch.

I've already finished H2 a couple of times, and while I think it's a great game, it's my opinion that the muscle of a PC would handle the graphics better as I noticed a lot of flaws when playing on my Xbox. It's hard to explain, when something new would appear on screen, it's like the Xbox couldn't get it all screen fast enough and everything would pop up in layers. Also, the voxol system or whatever they used for distant objects didn't work all that well- grenades look like diamonds a medium distances. On the Mombasa levels, car and truck side view mirrors would appear siddenly as you got closer to them, etc. And I found a lot of the textures were kind of muddy. I figure if they can Unreal II or Deus Ex on the Xbox, H2 should have been easier, because I think those games are likely to have more complex graphics over all, (don't know for sure, haven't seen them on the Xbox). That doesn't change the fact that Halo 2 is a pretty good game- and the Halo beast has swallowed me whole-, because I've bought the big fat strategy guide, the art of book, the Limited Edition H2 game, Master Chief action figures and wait with baited breath for the next Red vs. Blue.

As for PC vs. Xbox, this is as tired an argument as Xbox vs. PS2. It goes no where fast and just makes people angry. I have a good gaming PC, an Xbox and a PS2, so I have no worries all around. I'd rather just play games than argue about what's better for playing them.

  • 01.26.2005 1:06 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Heh, Very nicely put there Kier. :)

But to clarify on that person who has probs with "hacking" on HaloPC? err... halo supports no fakeclient hooks, so no aimbot, or any kindof bot (ture multiplayer ai, etc). As for the n word, that's not allowed on these forums (hey, the mods came up with it, not me, I'm just tellin' ya the rules) so don't use it unless you wanna get banned like someother users. What that n word meant was like, someone highly inexperienced in this game, or any game. Or they can be people that use nothing but the cheapest, and the things that require the least amount of skill to use. Stuff like a Banshee (usually called "shee whores"), Fuel Rod Gun (usualy called the "n-cannon whores"), and the rocketlauncher (usually called "rl whores). So if you use those 3 extensively and all the time? that makes you a whore. And we all know whores are good for only 1 thing... screwing you out of your cash, lol, pwnd.

  • 01.26.2005 9:58 AM PDT
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You'v obesly never played Halo on PC have you, because if you did you would know that it's Freaking auwsom. your just one of those X-box tards that thinks because you sistem is newer every thing is better. I'v played it for both and I like the PC vershion better

[Edited on 1/26/2005 12:57:54 PM]

  • 01.26.2005 12:56 PM PDT
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I like your style

  • 01.26.2005 1:03 PM PDT
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Xbox? New? Dude there's room for every memeber of Bungie.net to fit between those two words, with space for a few thousand immigrants too. I don't know many people who still use a 4 year old PC, and yet millions are dumb enough to buy the 4 year old xbox even today.

  • 01.26.2005 1:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Skippy TBK
Xbox? New? Dude there's room for every memeber of Bungie.net to fit between those two words, with space for a few thousand immigrants too. I don't know many people who still use a 4 year old PC, and yet millions are dumb enough to buy the 4 year old xbox even today.


Sweeeeeet! Though not entirely sure that's how it is. I like my green Halo Xbox, and it's currently the only place to play Halo 2. Though I am dumb enough to buy Halo 2 for the PC if it comes out.

  • 01.26.2005 2:56 PM PDT
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Halo 2 on xbox is fun in multiplayer but the story line isn't as great as I hoped for.

Keyes: We happened to stumble across another ring in the middle of space just like the last one we found! We must destroy it!

sure the plot twist was sort of cool but the flood didn't really add to the story, they just suddenly appeared. Even if the story sucks, I'm gonna buy it if/when it comes out for PC cuz it looks really good and has a ton of weapons.

  • 01.26.2005 8:38 PM PDT
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Stumbled across it? They were brought straight to it by the Profit of Regret's carrier. The Covenant knew where Delta Halo was, the only ones who didn't were the crew of the In Amber Clad.

I think the main story problem is the fact that the writers will ignore the fact that now that Covenant have hit Earth and left ALL that juicy tech behind, by way of wrecked ships, vehicles and weapons, that human technology won't improve. I guess it's always bugged me that the humans are still using machine guns in the 26th century. Yet they can build AIs that can out think the entire Covenant navy.

  • 01.26.2005 9:01 PM PDT
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Yeah, funny how we still work with projectiles, huh? And even after 500 years...no supersoldiers yet? Oh well, the game's goal isn't solid realism, just something believable that would fit with the story.

  • 01.26.2005 9:48 PM PDT