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BUNGIE HAS CUT CUSTOM SINGLE-PLAYER SUPPORT FROM HALO 2 VISTA. COPY, PASTE, AND BOLDFACE THIS INTO YOUR SIGNATURE IF YOU ARE AGAINST THIS CUT.
Posted by: General Heed
Well, a nice solid game wouldn't need so many patches like the poorly constructed Valve games. Take a look at Halo 3. Only 2 patches have ever been released. Halo 3 is a solid well constructed game by Bungie that barely has any patches because it doesn't need that many.
Halo 3 more than likely has tons of holes and exploits in it, hell, a while ago I found a glitch with the laser in Forge that attributes your kill to another person. However, they haven't been found because of the environment Halo 3 runs in; the LIVE service is essentially mafia protection; anyone who doesn't follow the ToS down to the letter gets banned with no refunds. Thus, nobody is exploring the game, adding onto it, finding/abusing bugs, etc. I can guarantee that the game is far from perfect, the LIVE service just hides that from the average end-user.
Also, a patch isn't necessarily just bug fixes. While most patches do fix up exploits and glitches, they also update the engine for new technologies (namely video card drivers), and address community feedback, thus adding new features and content to the engine. Let's take, for example, a personal favorite of mine, Team Fortress 2. TF2 is constantly evolving because of its popularity. While people are finding engine bugs and glitches that get patched, Valve is also recognizing better community ideas and trends, and adding/removing/changing the game's content to adapt. Each class is getting new weapons and abilities over time, new game modes are being added by both the community and Valve, and there are under-the-hood tweaks being done to make the game run better with this new content, as well as cater towards the modders who add to the game.
Posted by: General Heed
Windows Vista is definitely not this generation's Windows ME. Ever since 2003, I got sick of XP and was waiting for something new. 4 years later they finally came out with Windows Vista and I loved it. I really don't see why people are complaining so much about Vista. It's a great system. It doesn't crash as much as XP, doesn't slow down as much, and doesn't get as many viruses.
You may not have had issues getting it to run, however others have had more trouble than it's worth. For example, I had to wait a good while before my video card had stable drivers released for Vista. I'm not made of money, so it's not like I could drop about $150+ for a new, good video card. Though true, it's isn't really Microsoft's fault in Vista's case, and comparing it to ME isn't right, but it still has it quirks and issues that give people enough reason to favor XP over it. Vista is essentially a prettier XP with UAC (protecting you from your worst enemy: yourself?) and Aero, which uses DirectX 9 on the desktop to make windows have a glassy effect and Flip3D to render a window on a plane.
Yes, I've tried Vista. I liked it. I liked Aero. I know my way around Vista. I just prefer XP for my current setup.
Posted by: General Heed
Why would you stick around with Windows 2000? You're like a person that denies new technology and refuses to advance to the future. Instead, you want to stick around with ancient stuff and try to complain about all the problems in the new systems.
Because as I said, I'm not made of money. This particular box was salvaged from a freelance repair job I did for a buddy. I made do with the parts I had, and the specs of the system would have made XP a bad choice for it to do video capture on. So I went with 2k, which is less resource-intensive than XP is, while still using the NT framework.
Posted by: General Heed
Bottom line, Vista is good. XP is old. Get over it. Stop dwelling in the past. Accept that Windows Vista is going to be the basis for all future Windows Operating Systems. If you've seen what Windows 7 looks like, you'll know that it's definitely based off of Vista. In fact, Windows Vista is like the Windows 95 of this generation. A new revolutionary system that will set the foundation for most future operation systems.
Bottom line: not everyone has rich parents that can buy them the latest and greatest hardware. I'm not making enough money to keep up with the Joneses, and with the current state of the economy, finding a higher-paying job is hard. But, I'm content for the most part with what I have.
[Edited on 08.31.2009 2:32 PM PDT]