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Subject: A New Unofficial "Halo 3 PC" Thread

Halo CE forever!

I'm a person who prefers PC's over consoles, let's say XBox 360's. I know what I'm talking about since I own both platforms. It's not Bungie's fault H2PC wasn't a great game. Should be a truism by now.

Dissing game developers on their own site... It's alright if it's constructive criticism but whining without a good reason is stupid. I'm glad you guys at Bungie can tolerate much more than what Infinity Ward staff can.

[Edited on 12.03.2009 5:29 AM PST]

  • 12.03.2009 5:25 AM PDT

Halo 3 for PC.

Posted by: Lat3ksi
I'm a person who prefers PC's over consoles, let's say XBox 360's. I know what I'm talking about since I own both platforms. It's not Bungie's fault H2PC wasn't a great game. Should be a truism by now.

Dissing game developers on their own site... It's alright if it's constructive criticism but whining without a good reason is stupid. I'm glad you guys at Bungie can tolerate much more than what Infinity Ward staff can.
we're allowed to diss them.
Bungie couldn't give a -blam!- about the PC gaming community.
except sawnose.

We have every right to want Halo 3 for PC, since it was good for Xbox360, it should be good for PC.

it was Bungie's fault for Halo 2 Vista's Failure, they themselves noted they were in charge of design decisions, and assisted HiredGun in some way.



[Edited on 12.04.2009 2:44 AM PST]

  • 12.04.2009 2:42 AM PDT

Are you going to see Halo Reach's trailer on 12 December 2009?
Well, I'm not. I don't want that Halo 3 PC loses its value. XD

  • 12.05.2009 7:41 AM PDT

Halo CE forever!

Like it has something to do with Reach.

  • 12.05.2009 8:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: NeverStop91
Are you going to see Halo Reach's trailer on 12 December 2009?
Well, I'm not. I don't want that Halo 3 PC loses its value. XD
Halo 3 is just over 2 years old. idiot.

if Halo 3 is to come to PC,
it requires H3EK, 100% Unlocked,
all stock tags, and custom content allowed.

Halo 3 Campaign + Multiplayer maps (including DLC maps).
Halo 3 ODST (the full game).

adjust certain gametypes, and remove any restrictions
that were in place for crappy 360 hardware, to accommodate our PCs.

I'd think, Halo 3 PC may come out after Halo Reach, or...
never. :'(

[Edited on 12.06.2009 5:13 AM PST]

  • 12.06.2009 5:05 AM 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.

Asking for a Halo 3 PC is a lot to ask off Bungie and/or Hired Gun. I think I might have been wrong being optimistic in my previous posts.

  • 12.06.2009 10:25 AM PDT

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Well,....we just have to wait.

  • 12.06.2009 2:54 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Beowul7
Asking for a Halo 3 PC is a lot to ask off Bungie and/or Hired Gun. I think I might have been wrong being optimistic in my previous posts.

I feel ya. I doubt it's gonna happen. And if it does happen, it has a good 99% chance of not happening right.

But it's our right to dream, isn't it?

  • 12.08.2009 12:11 AM PDT

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I saw your post on The Library. You're points of ODST beating Halo is a joke. First the Hub world is nice. But once you beat the game and find all of the audio logs there is really nothing to do, besides wander around. This can't get very boring...very quickly. The flashbacks missions are fun..not overly memorable.
Except for Coastal Highway. FF is alot of fun. But like any survival mode it can get repetitive if you play too much of it.
Yes of course the grapics are better(durr Halo is almost 10 years old retail wise) The music once again is beaten, but due to budget constraints.


Normally I don't do much to reply.

Before I begin however, if you're one of those blindfolded Bungie supporters that get in the faces of people with conflicting opinions (that are backed up with legitimate reasoning) by saying things like "try playing on legendary" or something equally hollow and retarded like "go back to Call of Duty 4 then", instead of sending me a crude e-mail,or saying "OMG another Wall-o-text,what a douche,just attach your dick to the railroad track of a speeding train with a big nail gun and shut the f**k up you douche.
I'll start with Halo 3: ODST's campaign mode, which I found to be very underwhelming. I began on two player split-screen with a friend and got to the third or so stage, then eventually realized that Halo 3: ODST is one of those games where the campaign is much more enjoyable when played solo (unlike most, e.g. Gears of War 1 and 2), and so restarted and played the campaign from start to finish myself, and I was still underwhelmed.I found the gameplay in campaign to be extremely repetitive, for reasons specific to the game and also the fact that the typical Halo enemy formula is simply getting old now. A couple grunts and a brute, the occasional chieftain or hunter to mix things up... yawn. Most of the game is spent watching Phantom after Phantom come down to drop off ground units.I love the new pistol in Halo 3: ODST, and that's really one of the only few good things I can say about the campaign. Getting headshots with the pistol is quite satisfying, unfortunately not enough to save the campaign though.
Always keep in mind that I'm just another guy with another opinion on the game, but it honestly surprises me that so many people commend ODST on its writing and voice acting (I realize I'm not really one to talk here but bear with me). Much of the dialogue is cheesy and overdone, and the voice acting never seems to be great, it's always executed with either not enough emotion, given the line's context, or simply overdone. Am I honestly the only one who laughed when Buck, in the first cinematic sequence, said ". . . GET SET . . ."? And if I lived in a world where principals of schools walked into classrooms during fire drills and said "You know the music, time to dance", I'd shoot myself in the f**king head.Another thing that bothers me is the animation style in the game, which is simply too dated now. All the characters are so damn bouncy that at times I feel like I'm watching Madagascar 2: Back 2 Africa. Most games nowadays utilize motion capture technology to make characters move in a believable way, but for some reason Bungie refuses to hop aboard this train, which is cool in a way since hand animation is more traditional I suppose, but ultimately lame since to me, all the cutscenes look ridiculous. Watch ODST's first cinematic sequence, then a cutscene from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and you'll see what I'm talking about.Overall the campaign seems very uninspired. When Buck and Dare walked in and started -blam!-ing at each other, I thought I was watching the Abyss with Ed Harris and that chick, can't remember her name. Not to mention their relationship was just totally uninteresting, partly due to the fact that Dare is an ugly -blam!-. Sorry.
SPOILER ALERT:
Also, don't get me started on Buck and Dare's kissing scene near the end of the game, which was taken almost word for word and shot for shot from the movie Chicken Run.One thing I'll give the campaign is the music, on which Marty O'Donnell did a wonderful job (except for the parts with the saxophone, seriously, what the -blam!- is that), but the only problem is that there isn't enough of it. The music seems to just stop and restart at the oddest moments, leaving epic fight sequences with no orchestral backing of any kind.I like what Bungie attempted with the rookie character at night in the desolate streets of the "hub" New Mombasa, where lengthy and lonely treks from one end of the map to the other are accompanied by haunting piano melodies sounding suspiciously similar to Resident Evil's "safe room" tunes, but also, the problem with this is that it just isn't entertaining long-term and ends up becoming rather dull as it carries on. A little after halfway through the game, I was literally thinking to myself "Oh great, I'm gonna beat this level and have to go back to that -blam!- boring-ass city and find the next weird flashback-generating object like a used dildo or rubber fist or something". Yeah, the audio clips that you find on your journeys through the empty city are a nice touch, but not enough to keep me wanting to go back to it.Halo 3's campaign was much more enjoyable and well-executed, and ODST's campaign felt like nothing more than a cheap, uninteresting and forgettable sub-plot due to dated technology, unrealistic writing, flawed line delivery and lack of music (but what was there was good at least) that was more of a chore to finish than a joy.

I'll now jump to ODST's other feature that everyone's raving about, and that's firefight, which I have to admit really can be quite a blast and in my opinion is the sole reason anyone should consider buying this game. My one complaint about it is that the "catch" skull (which causes enemies to throw a -blam!- ton of grenades) should have at least been moved further down the queue towards the end so it's not encountered for a while, or perhaps even just taken out altogether, because it's annoying as -blam!-. Otherwise, it's a solid, polished and enjoyable multiplayer mode where you join up with three other players and hold off hordes of A.I. and rack up points. However, one can't help but feel that the feature is cheapened by the fact that it was so transparently taken from Gears of War 2 (Horde mode), but ODST did it better and that's what counts I suppose.Unfortunately, all the good things about ODST seem to have one niggling flaw that prevents them from shining, and firefight mode is no exception to this rule, with the omission of matchmaking. In other words, in order to fully enjoy firefight mode, you must have three people on your friends list online at the time and get into a room together, you can't simply play a "quick match" or search for random players.I mean the technology for matchmaking is there, in Halo 3 multiplayer, and fully functional. I'm no programmer so I don't want to be naive and say "why not just copy and paste the matchmaking code to ODST" and assume it's easily fixed, but even if it wasn't, shouldn't Bungie have gone the extra mile and included firefight matchmaking in an effort to justify the $70 people are paying for an expansion?
ODST also has the theater mode feature, which is kind of nice. I have no use for it, but better that it's there than not I guess.ODST's final feature is the included second disk containing the Halo 3 Complete Multiplayer Experience, wherein there lies a massive logical error. It's a safe assumption that those that buy ODST, an expansion of Halo 3, have up until now played the -blam!- out of multiplayer and kept up with the map packs. So what the -blam!- is the point of selling Halo 3 fans a disk with everything that they already have?It's pretty obvious that the guys at Microsoft sat around trying desperately to come up with a way to justify selling ODST (an expansion, keep in mind) for $70, and then one of them said "I know, let's just throw multiplayer in on another disk with all the add-ons and sell Halo 3 multiplayer to our piss-poor public again.Firefight is nice, but Halo 3: ODST just plain isn't worth $70.I believe Bungie has now essentially gone down the same path as Rare, where they perpetuate an unjustified aura of mysticism and epicness around them while currently generating mediocre product, deluded due to "that one game" they have under their belt (Bungie: Halo 1, Rare: Goldeneye 007/Perfect Dark 64). In this day and age, I believe companies like Infinity Ward and Epic Games deserve much more attention, along with a few others.

Graphics: 4/5
Campaign: 2.5/5
Firefight: 4.5/5
Theater Mode: Whatever/5
Multiplayer: Already have it/5

Overall: 3/5

[Edited on 12.08.2009 12:27 AM PST]

  • 12.08.2009 12:23 AM PDT
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now that I think about it,
since this maybe the last Halo PC game,

I would like Halo 3 PC to contain.
Halo 1's Campaign
Halo 2's Campaign
Halo 3's Campaign
Halo 3 ODST's Campaign.

Multiplayer (default 16 players, servers have ability to host more than 16.)
Online Co-op (servers have ability to go over 4 players)
Forge (More objects)
Saved Films (and video encoder, to make Bungie Pro redundant).
Mod support, in-game console commands,

Custom Campaign & Multiplayer maps.
better custom map downloading system, sort of how torrenting works.

21 pages, just shows how not many people are interested in Halo 3 for PC.

:'(

[Edited on 12.08.2009 3:16 AM PST]

  • 12.08.2009 3:02 AM PDT

This is an old account iDarkWint3r is my new Bungie.net user.

Sorry we aren't interested anymore,especially me.

  • 12.08.2009 6:33 PM PDT

w00t w00t

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Posted by: ItsNOTJohnston
I began on two player split-screen with a friend and got to the third or so stage, then eventually realized that Halo 3: ODST is one of those games where the campaign is much more enjoyable when played solo


This is where I feel that I did the right thing by playing through the Campaign by myself the first time though on Heroic because ODST is best enjoyed by that way.

I doubt the atmosphere of the game can be set with a friend sitting there "enjoying" the game with you.



I love the new pistol in Halo 3: ODST, and that's really one of the only few good things I can say about the campaign. Getting headshots with the pistol is quite satisfying



Agreed.



I'll now jump to ODST's other feature that everyone's raving about, and that's firefight, which I have to admit really can be quite a blast and in my opinion is the sole reason anyone should consider buying this game.... but you can't simply play a "quick match" or search for random players.I mean the technology for matchmaking is there, in Halo 3 multiplayer, and fully functional.


This is a great component to add for the franchise but I don't remember Halo 3 having any matchmaking for Campaign either.

FireFight is built off the same engine as the campaign so MM was never a feature in any of the H3 games.

Check out this G4 interview with Bungie. I found it quite an interesting read - http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/701137/Reaction-Time-Bungie -Reflects-on-Halo-3-ODST.html

It's pretty obvious that the guys at Microsoft sat around trying desperately to come up with a way to justify selling ODST (an expansion, keep in mind) for $60, and then one of them said "I know, let's just throw multiplayer in on another disk with all the add-ons, More achievements, Recon Armor, 3 New Maps, and included the Halo: Reach Beta and sell Halo 3 multiplayer to our public again.

Yea that about somes it up.

I would give ODST 4/5 because I enjoyed the campaign more than you did but it still could have used more.

But what can you expect from a game that was produced in about a year? Its not like they spent 2 or 3 years coming up with this title and had the option to throw everything and the kitchen sink in with for the ride.


But on topic, Halo 3 for PC would be excellent though I doubt it will ever come out.


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It hurts no one, when Matchmaking is enabled for Campaign or Firefight.

It's much better than playing alone.

Bungie is just stupid.

[Edited on 12.09.2009 9:06 AM PST]

  • 12.09.2009 9:05 AM PDT

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I want to live to 100 minus 1 ,
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Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...

[Edited on 12.09.2009 4:52 PM PST]

  • 12.09.2009 4:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: jredbaron96
Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...
7ru7h.
Let there be more speculation for Halo 3 PC or another Halo game.

[Edited on 12.10.2009 4:23 AM PST]

  • 12.10.2009 1:55 AM PDT

Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: jredbaron96
Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...
7ru7h.
Let there be more speculation for Halo 3 PC or another Halo game.


Did you miss a little game called Halo Reach?

  • 12.10.2009 9:15 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

If you want some speculation, here is proof: MS is launching games on demand for PC. Which means more competition to steam, d2d and impluse. Halo 3 PC may also be soon and also (to the dismay of many haters), halo 2 pc might come there too.

It is launching with GFW live versions of games like World of Goo and Osmos, and also, some gfw live games are coming there too along with a free game: Tinker.

More info: http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/8997.aspx

  • 12.10.2009 11:38 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: JacobGRocks
If you want some speculation, here is proof: MS is launching games on demand for PC. Which means more competition to steam, d2d and impluse. Halo 3 PC may also be soon and also (to the dismay of many haters), halo 2 pc might come there too.

It is launching with GFW live versions of games like World of Goo and Osmos, and also, some gfw live games are coming there too along with a free game: Tinker.

More info: http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/8997.aspx

It still won't hold a candle to Steam in any aspect whatsoever. Hell, I doubt it would even move people from D2D.

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Posted by: LoneStaruner
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: jredbaron96
Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...
7ru7h.
Let there be more speculation for Halo 3 PC or another Halo game.


Did you miss a little game called Halo Reach?
can you read?
343 Industries....

  • 12.11.2009 4:51 AM PDT

Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: LoneStaruner
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: jredbaron96
Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...
7ru7h.
Let there be more speculation for Halo 3 PC or another Halo game.


Did you miss a little game called Halo Reach?
can you read?
343 Industries....


Take your own advice, I responded to the last part of your link-sentence. Which CLEARLY says "or another Halo Game" which makes me right HALO REACH is another HALO game *GASP*

  • 12.11.2009 10:43 AM PDT

any chance halo 1 will be available for download at gfw?

  • 12.13.2009 2:01 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Since MS owns it, there is a slight chance. THough, since Halo 2 PC coming to GFW Marketplace is just a rumor now, then Halo 1 might not come there either. MS would probably make all the Halo PC fans mad too by making it GFW enabled too, since it is not GFW enabled.

  • 12.13.2009 4:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: LoneStaruner
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: LoneStaruner
Posted by: Moifugley
Posted by: jredbaron96
Once again mate..were on A Bungie webs...Oh, what does Bungie care. No one cares about the Halo PC guys...
7ru7h.
Let there be more speculation for Halo 3 PC or another Halo game.


Did you miss a little game called Halo Reach?
can you read?
343 Industries....


Take your own advice, I responded to the last part of your link-sentence. Which CLEARLY says "or another Halo Game" which makes me right HALO REACH is another HALO game *GASP*
By 343 Industries dumbass.
Halo Reach is called Halo Reach and is in the making by Bungie, not 343 Industries.
no where did I mention Bungie, so you should never have thought about Halo Reach.

"or another Halo game", you never heard of 343 Industries?
I said that because, we can't know for certain if they will ever make Halo 3 PC,
they may just make a new Halo game for the next console.
343 Industries is a Microsoft Game Studios internal-build team established to create
new properties for the Halo series.

@ LoneStaruner, don't add more to this.

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Since MS owns it, there is a slight chance. THough, since Halo 2 PC coming to GFW Marketplace is just a rumor now, then Halo 1 might not come there either. MS would probably make all the Halo PC fans mad too by making it GFW enabled too, since it is not GFW enabled.
wouldn't it cost them money?
to change the coding, remove the need for custom names, adding the GFWL interace.
They may not even bother.



[Edited on 12.13.2009 11:58 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2009 11:40 PM PDT

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Wouldn't it be awesome if they released Halo 2 Vista and Halo 3 PC via GFWL? I bet they'll keep it like the console version or as close to as possible.

I just hope that the USB 360 controller has good support if it does come out. Considering that M$ would like for more people to buy their hardware I'm sure it will be great with a 360 pad.

Posted by: DusK
It still won't hold a candle to Steam in any aspect whatsoever. Hell, I doubt it would even move people from D2D.


P.S. - That computer couldn't play Crysis Warhead Maxed out.

Posted by: DusK
Posted by: General Heed
Isn't there still an option to set all the graphics to max settings in Crysis Warhead?

Even maxed out, it still aint as pretty.




Posted by: Skibur
I'd pass on Halo 3 PC.

It hasn't got the same nostalgic qualities as Halo or Halo 2.


I'd buy it just for more Halo achievements but I agree it does not have the same qualities.

[Edited on 12.14.2009 8:19 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2009 7:52 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: TS z3NN 9
I just hope that the USB 360 controller has good support if it does come out. Considering that M$ would like for more people to buy their hardware I'm sure it will be great with a 360 pad.

I wouldn't get it. I want to see the game as a PC FPS, not a console FPS pretending to be a PC FPS.

Posted by: TS z3NN 9
P.S. - That computer couldn't play Crysis Warhead Maxed out.

Then how did I go through the campaign with graphics maxed out at 1440x900 res? Magic?

GTFO of here unless you know wtf you're talking about.

[Edited on 12.14.2009 9:21 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2009 9:01 PM PDT