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Subject: Halo 3 and ODST for pc

I travel into the forums quite alot but only post when i really really really nead to go!

This is a list of what i would want halo 3 and odst for pc to be like, and dont say its never gonna come.

1.I hope halo 3 and odst are developed by bungie for computer so they get cotinued support and love.
2.I hope they have cross platform, some people may say this is impossible because halo 3 for pc would be about 4 years apart and have different graphics but it has been done before with other games.
3.i hope halo 3 would contain all the content from xbox live and mabye a few new maps but nothing else, and after it is released their should be a couple more bits of dlc launhed for both platforms
4.halo 3 odst should not contain the halo multyplayer maps second disc but instead have like 8 new fire fight maps and better graphics
5. i hope both are fully integrated into bungie.net

The list can go on and on but i think this would be good list, i mean by all means they could include the multyplayer maps with odst aswell but i think they should have more firefight maps.

i also think both should have a real simple map editor similar to unreal editor and forge for all multyplayer content!!

Please tell me what you think.

  • 07.21.2009 6:27 AM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Sounds too good to be true.



:(

  • 07.21.2009 6:55 AM PDT

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

too good to be true, it probably wont be cross platform as other games like SFIV pc arent. It also wont be integrated with BUNGIE.net, they will probably be ported by someone else. But it could have bonus maps and it may not even be ported as
1. H2v sold bad compared to halo pc
2. The XBOX 360 is a ppc based system like older macs, where the XBOX is a x86 based system like the PC. So a port is unlikely, but then again, Gears of war (a 360 game) was ported to PC.

  • 07.21.2009 8:07 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

1. Further Halo PC games won't be developed by Bungie, Bungie doesn't write PC games, not since the late 1990s. Microsoft just registered another in house game studio known as "343 Industries." So sounds like Halo 3 PC will be another port job done by Microsoft.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/rumor-control/909119209/26 966705/microsoft-names-internal-halo-label.html

  • 07.21.2009 12:37 PM PDT

Wish Halo 3 PC would come out sooner... :(

Posted by: Frnksnbns
1. Further Halo PC games won't be developed by Bungie, Bungie doesn't write PC games, not since the late 1990s. Microsoft just registered another in house game studio known as "343 Industries." So sounds like Halo 3 PC will be another port job done by Microsoft.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/rumor-control/909119209/26 966705/microsoft-names-internal-halo-label.html
I heard its gonna be released early 2010.
which makes me believe, it will include ODST expansion, and this time I'm sure they've learn't from their mistakes.

HiredGun were a bunch of noobs in cubicles.
Bungie even wrote an article, explaining that it was their 1st game they ever worked on.
besides Halo 2 was already born with glitches, then it went from worse to -blam!-, so just blame them for all hell that fell on h2v.

Halo 3 has been made almost glitch-free, so I think the studio porting it will be able have an easier job.

[Edited on 07.21.2009 2:11 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2009 2:10 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

HiredGun failed us.

  • 07.21.2009 3:31 PM PDT

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

It was a OK port, but it has glitches and a certian hacker (gunmonkey80) who crashed the server browser (i know it is him as when i highlighted his name with my mouse scroll wheel my game crashed.) and crashes games. But i havent seen any slowdown lag (i use a higher end graphics card).

Also, gfw live hasn't had many games but at least it doesn't have to "prepare to launch" every game nor does it take forever to matchmake.

[Edited on 07.21.2009 6:04 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2009 5:59 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Also, gfw live hasn't had many games but at least it doesn't have to "prepare to launch" every game


Like Steam? For a whole 2 seconds?

  • 07.21.2009 6:08 PM PDT

GFWL is a Joke compared to Steam. Like Chaosenemy said the whole 2 seconds?

  • 07.21.2009 9:36 PM PDT

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

No, steam doesnt take two seconds, it takes a while for me. It also needs to "connect to account" and it also gives you "hl2.exe has econotured a problem". Not only that, but it happens all the time. (im on 64 bit vista, btw). My non steam games, though, have no issues like that. And if you look at Steam games on amazon that arent made by valve (steamworks), such as Empire total war or warhammer 40k ii, you see one star reviews due to steam issues or reviewers saying how bad steam is. BTW, games are overpriced on steam. And it crashes and takes forever to machmake compared to gfwl/xbl and gamespy. And i have had more issues with steam then other drms (securom). But then again, it must be partially caused by my awful 60kbs "high speed" internet.

EDIT: Added more info. Also, GFW Live is mainly a online game matchmaking service, not a content distrobution/drm service. Even some steam games use gfw live like warhammer 40k dawn of war ii, they just dont take as long to matchmake.

[Edited on 07.22.2009 12:00 PM PDT]

  • 07.22.2009 11:40 AM PDT
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I am on 64bit vista and before that 64bit XP... I use steam since 2003. I almost never had a problem and I still have nearly no problem. It takes 5 seconds to connect to my account and 10 seconds to launch any game...
Well... That's not the discussion ;) I just created my account on this forum to ask if halo 3 will be on PC , and I'm happy to see we have a chance :)

Sorry about my bad English,

Best regards,

rXp>!<

  • 07.23.2009 12:11 AM PDT

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

I know this might sound retarded.But,Steam is Kinda like Xfire.-Cough- Please don't flame!

  • 07.23.2009 1:05 AM PDT
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I like steam, but yes It's more and more becoming like Xfire :/
I hope the "steam community" program won't become too "consolish" :p
Steam is still the best game plateform online there is :)

  • 07.23.2009 2:35 AM PDT

What are you talking about the only thing they have similar is the both have friends list and you can talk to people, and save your favorite servers. Steam is mostly a digital download store

  • 07.23.2009 9:07 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: ItsNOTJohnston
I know this might sound retarded.But,Steam is barely like Xfire.-Cough- Please don't flame!

Fixed.

  • 07.23.2009 12:40 PM PDT

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

Also, steam lacks many of XFires features so it is not even like it.

  • 07.23.2009 1:09 PM PDT

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

Halo 3 PC! :D,If it releases it the 1'st day.I run out and buy the game.WOOT!Another year and it's gonna release.Looking forward to it! xD

  • 07.23.2009 2:02 PM PDT

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

It also might not come to PC as they want to keep games exclusive to the 360, as they are also competing aganst Sony And Nintendo. If it comes, it will use gfwl as:
1. Microsoft is makeing it.
2. With steam, YOU get random crashes: http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8390/steamcrash.png

  • 07.23.2009 3:26 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: JacobGRocks
It also might not come to PC as they want to keep games exclusive to the 360, as they are also competing aganst Sony And Nintendo. If it comes, it will use gfwl as:
1. Microsoft is makeing it.
2. With steam, YOU get random crashes: http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8390/steamcrash.png

I'm still waiting for that to happen to me. Sorry your system sucks, Jacob.

  • 07.23.2009 5:33 PM PDT

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

My system does not suck as h2v runs smooth at 4xaa for me. And btw, here are the specs of my system that "sucks".
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/577/pwndz.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6449/pwnd2d.jpg

Im not the only one with steam crashes, btw. Google "Steam Crash" and you have over 4 million results. And if you need further proof, read amazon reviews about steam.

  • 07.24.2009 7:59 AM PDT

10 years with Bungie.
3 years with 343 Industries.

It's time for that all to change, and to take 343 to the top.
Bungie, it's been one hell of a good run with you guys. It's just time to move on. We'll be together again soon.

Okay, I don't see how these 2 games could be ported without using a super computer.
Halo 3, 6.8 GB in total. Okay, add in multiplayer features for that, You're looking at over 10 GB. Add in Halo 3: ODST, and you've got almost 17 GB worth of wasted data.

Really, Graphics Cards would have to be the top of the line. Really, the only thing I know of that can possibly run it is an iMac. Windows Vista kills processing power, and Windows 7 would have to be updated alot to support it.

...not to mention the fact that we'll have to have DirectX12 or 13 in order to run it.

I really just don't see it.

  • 07.24.2009 9:41 AM PDT

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

Unless the porting house learns and doesnt make it the next top-of-the-line-card-needed game like halo 1 was which required a good card even though it had 2001 graphics.

And imacs only have lame geforce 9400s. Now, they are already out with the gts/gtx 200 line (i have a gtx 260)

[Edited on 07.24.2009 9:55 AM PDT]

  • 07.24.2009 9:52 AM PDT
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Okay, I don't see how these 2 games could be ported without using a super computer.
Halo 3, 6.8 GB in total. Okay, add in multiplayer features for that, You're looking at over 10 GB. Add in Halo 3: ODST, and you've got almost 17 GB worth of wasted data.

Really, Graphics Cards would have to be the top of the line. Really, the only thing I know of that can possibly run it is an iMac. Windows Vista kills processing power, and Windows 7 would have to be updated alot to support it.

...not to mention the fact that we'll have to have DirectX12 or 13 in order to run it.

I really just don't see it.



XD you don't quite understand do you??
halo 2 PC fitted on the same size disc as halo 2 xbox and yet it had textures stretching twice the size as the origionals. multiplayer features. and all that crap (don't have halo 2 PC so I can't compare directly)
PC's can use better decompression by decompressing it onto the hard drive and opening files from HDD.
on PC you can get a 12GB - 20GB game in 3GB's
decompression may take around 45minutes but you only need to do it once and you get super graphics (refering to crysis, and yes I have seen it compressed to 3GB's and run afterwards)
also the average PC hard drive is 200GB a gamers can be 300GB - 2TB so that ammount of space is mini.
oh and DX11 isn't out yet so 12 and 13 won't be for quite a while!
windows 7 runs like XP with features beyond Vista. with so many participating in the beta I think it will be near bug free on release. runnign games will be a brease especialy seeing as the xbox 360 has these embarasing specs:
AMD custom built triple core 3.2Ghz 1MB L2 cache (admittedly not bad though the 1MB L2 cache is pathetic and very slowing)
ATI 500Mhz 10MB Graphics Card (pathetic and easy to out do with PC graphics cards)
512MB 700Mhz GDDR3 RAM (although DDR3 its still patheticly small :/)

any propper gaming PC could run an xbox 360 game with ease!
the only reason they run well on the xbox atm is because the OS is specially built for running the games efficiency


[Edited on 07.25.2009 11:27 AM PDT]

  • 07.25.2009 11:23 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: Halo2commander22
Okay, I don't see how these 2 games could be ported without using a super computer.
Halo 3, 6.8 GB in total. Okay, add in multiplayer features for that, You're looking at over 10 GB. Add in Halo 3: ODST, and you've got almost 17 GB worth of wasted data.

Really, Graphics Cards would have to be the top of the line. Really, the only thing I know of that can possibly run it is an iMac. Windows Vista kills processing power, and Windows 7 would have to be updated alot to support it.

...not to mention the fact that we'll have to have DirectX12 or 13 in order to run it.

I really just don't see it.

LMFAO

Kid, listen up. An Xbox 360 pales in comparison to even mainstream gaming PCs these days. A 360's GPU is locked at DirectX 9, and the entire system uses only 512MB of shared GDDR3 RAM. A videa card would definitely not have to be "top of the line" to run H3. I could see GeForce 8 series cards running H3 just fine.

There are PC games out there right now that beat the crap out of H3 in terms of processing and graphics power utilized. Crysis, for example. Explain how Ubisoft made that game look more beautiful than H3 ever could and DX9 systems are running it.

  • 07.25.2009 1:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Halo2commander22
Okay, I don't see how these 2 games could be ported without using a super computer.
Halo 3, 6.8 GB in total. Okay, add in multiplayer features for that, You're looking at over 10 GB. Add in Halo 3: ODST, and you've got almost 17 GB worth of wasted data.

Really, Graphics Cards would have to be the top of the line. Really, the only thing I know of that can possibly run it is an iMac. Windows Vista kills processing power, and Windows 7 would have to be updated alot to support it.

...not to mention the fact that we'll have to have DirectX12 or 13 in order to run it.

I really just don't see it.

LMFAO

Kid, listen up. An Xbox 360 pales in comparison to even mainstream gaming PCs these days. A 360's GPU is locked at DirectX 9, and the entire system uses only 512MB of shared GDDR3 RAM. A videa card would definitely not have to be "top of the line" to run H3. I could see GeForce 8 series cards running H3 just fine.

There are PC games out there right now that beat the crap out of H3 in terms of processing and graphics power utilized. Crysis, for example. Explain how Ubisoft made that game look more beautiful than H3 ever could and DX9 systems are running it.

exactly and the only thing making the xbox 360 run games so well as it is, is it has its own operating system that manages 3D API's thread termination and memory managing better than a PC's but that's just because a PC's OS has to be more open for change in those areas due to different programming styles with different programs.
The Xbox 360 is a gaming system and intern is made efficiently for gaming. The PC has the slight draw back that it is optimised for multi-tasking rather than gaming. Xbox 360 though I have to say is worth having one. I recently sold mine because I hadn't gone on there in a month I kind of miss it but upgrading my PC sure has more ups than keeping the 360.

  • 07.25.2009 3:49 PM PDT

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