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When life gives you lemons, ferment them and get drunk.

Well i didn't really know any other forum to post this in, plus it is about PCs. If this is the incorect forum i apologize and please lock.

Well now to the point. It kinda pisses me off that Halo Wars is only for 360, and not PCs. I honestly do not see the point. Strategy games are much more fun on the computer, and people are more usedto it. I do not have a 360, my brother does but it got the red ring of death. So i can not play the game. If i had a choice between being able to play it on Xbox or PC, i would go with PC. Strategy games are just more at home on a computer, in a console, well its like a fish on land. It isnt in it's correct element. Now don't get me wrong, im not saying that you shouldn't make it for 360, im just saying it should be made for PCs as well. More people could play it, and Bungie would most likely make more money.

  • 08.18.2009 1:03 PM PDT

Hello There, Halo Wars isn't made by Bungie.
Visit http://halowars.com and use their forums.

  • 08.18.2009 1:32 PM PDT

Ensemble Studios made Halo Wars, and Micro$oft has shut them down after the Halo Wars release.
You'll do better to go and start a thread in Micro$oft's Xbox 360 forums, or start a petition for it there.

  • 08.18.2009 9:10 PM PDT

Actually former employees from Ensemble formed Robot Entertainment and are supporting the game still so go halowars.com

[Edited on 08.18.2009 10:23 PM PDT]

  • 08.18.2009 10:20 PM PDT

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

They still support it unlike h2v. But that doesnt mean they will make a pc port.

  • 08.19.2009 8:40 AM PDT

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

Actually Halo Wars is f**king fail.I mean the graphics suck.And WTF?!When did halo turn into 3'rd person?Well at least the cinematics are better than the game play.And when is the Arbiter that huge he looks like a f**king brute.

  • 08.20.2009 4:21 PM PDT

What are you talking about 3rd person? It's a bloody REAL TIME STRATEGY GAME, since when would it be First person, you look at the game for an overview of the map. What are you talking about. Its a well built RTS, it's no Starcraft, but the limitations of the 360 controller compared to the keyboard and mouse. They still made it work well enough to be the best console RTS yet. Again it's an RTS, besides AI moving issues in clustered areas the game plays well in bigger battles the framerate does drop, but it's still playable. The arbiter looks different and so does the Spartans, and if you think he looks like a Brute, you're delusional;

  • 08.20.2009 5:01 PM PDT

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

Dude it looks LIKE a f**king brute cause the arbiter is so large in the cinematic where some captain kills the Arbiter with his own energy sword.It's so obvious.I know the Arbiter is NOT a Brute.Delusional really?I'd like to make it seem obvious.And I don't search up Halo wars either.I barely even know it's a RTS and It's boring to control several spartans killing the covenant I'd rather play Halo 3:ODST or Gears of War and play Horde mode.Because it's better playing it in FPS you won't have to pay attention to the several other spartans in your control to see if they die or not.And playing the multiplayer will be even more fantastic then ever I believe.

[Edited on 08.20.2009 6:14 PM PDT]

  • 08.20.2009 6:07 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.

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Actually Halo Wars is f**king fail.I mean the graphics suck.And WTF?!When did halo turn into 3'rd person?Well at least the cinematics are better than the game play.And when is the Arbiter that huge he looks like a f**king brute.

You do realize Halo started as a RTS game, right?

What am I saying, of course you didn't know that. If you did, you wouldn't be making a stupid argument like that.

  • 08.20.2009 8:17 PM PDT

Arbiter and Brute Cheftian. The only thing that makes the look a LIKE is the fact there A) not human and B) Really Tall

Elites are some 7+ feet tall compared to the average height of a normal human being be 5'11 - 6
2. That's quite the size gap.

Since when is an RTS boring? Try playing with a friend as both being the Arbiter, Building fully upgraded Suicide Grunts and Charging the middle with them ready to blow them selves up. That 50 grunt squads of 4 in a holy suicide attack on each other. 400 hundred Grunts blowing up. If that isn't fun then i don't know what is.

Then again, Halo Wars generally takes thinking....I don't need to go any further than that.

  • 08.20.2009 9:28 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.

It's still crap compared to Warcraft 3, though.

  • 08.20.2009 10:47 PM PDT

Daodan Latency at 65%

Or Starcraft.

  • 08.21.2009 6:35 AM PDT

Best thing on a console

Or Red Alert 2

  • 08.21.2009 8:41 AM PDT

Badass Elite units

Posted by: ItsNOTJohnston
Actually Halo Wars is f**king fail.I mean the graphics suck.And WTF?!When did halo turn into 3'rd person?Well at least the cinematics are better than the game play.And when is the Arbiter that huge he looks like a f**king brute.


The Arbiter looks so tall because all you have seen is from SPARTAN eyeline so they are about the same hight but the elites are taller and bigger then humans

  • 08.21.2009 1:09 PM PDT

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

Well the Arbiter from Halo 2 was skinny.The Arbiter from Halo wars was quite bigger than the one in Halo 2.

[Edited on 08.21.2009 1:50 PM PDT]

  • 08.21.2009 1:50 PM PDT

Are all humans skinny? Are all Humans fat? Are all humans black? Are all humans white? Are all humans tall? Are all Humans short.


  • 08.22.2009 10:14 AM PDT
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To settle this:

When you play Halo 1/2/3 you're playing as the Masterchief most of the time, the Masterchief is a biologically enhanced super human. Spartans had an average height of 7 feet, compare that to a normal human at 5' 11" - 6' 2" and you'll see the difference. Add to that the fact that the Chief has a hugely bulky set of powered armor, and he becomes even taller and massive. A Spartan could generally see eye to eye with an Elite or Brute, a normal human would have to look up at them do to their inferior height.

The Arbiter in Halo Wars is a different Elite than the one you fight with and against in Halo 2/3. Obviously he's going to have a slightly different build than the Arbiter you see in Halo2/3, so you can't really compare the two. The Arbiter in Halo Wars was physically fit, well nourished Elite in his prime, whereas the Arbiter in Halo2/3 was locked away in a Covenant prison before taking up his role...

Bottom line, they're different games with different characters, you can't compare them to each other in any category except story line. People who try and compare different genres of games need to rethink what they're trying to do, since it's like comparing apples to oranges.

  • 08.22.2009 1:29 PM PDT