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Posted by: Barnacle_Blast
Posted by: General Heed
Personally, I think Halo 2 Vista was a pretty decent port. I have no complaints. I switched to Windows Vista immedietly when it came out so I had no issues with the Vista-exclusivity of Halo 2 Vista. That seems to be the number one complaint of the port.
As for not having any new features. Well, you all seem to like Halo 1 PC as a port. However, it also does not bring any new features besides the online multiplayer. In fact, it has less features than the Xbox version due to the lack of co-op campaign. Therefore, in terms of features, Halo 2 Vista matched Halo 1 PC. Halo 2 Vista also came with map editing tools similar to the ones in Halo Custom Edition.
I think you guys should realize that one of the primary reasons there's no Halo 3 or Halo: Reach for PC is because everyone hated Halo 2 Vista and because of the bad reception, Microsoft thought it wouldn't be worth it anymore to make another port.
I think we should be grateful that we even have a port of Halo 2 that is even LIVE-enabled with achievement support.
I doubt Microsoft cares whether or not people liked Halo 2 Vista. I doubt Microsoft would make decisions based on people's reception of a game. They probably mainly base it on sales. As in how many copies of the game were sold when it was released and how many sold since. And of course how much money can be made.
In my opinion Microsoft sees more benefit from producing Halo for XBOX only. I believe Microsoft sees more benefit in console gaming. The corporation probably has put a lot of money into the XBOX console and its games along with Kinect. Microsoft has invested a lot of time into XBOX gaming. Therefore, I believe, there's likely really no point in Microsoft developing more Halo games for PC.
Microsoft makes the Halo series exclusive to the XBOX so that means Microsoft makes most of the profit,if not all, from sales and such.
As for Bungie and the possibility of making Halo: Reach for PC: I say it won't happen. Bungie would've already created the game for PC by now or announced it. I believe Bungie has moved on.
Also, I can't be grateful for Halo 2 Vista because I have major fps issues when playing it. The game lags even though my computer well surpasses the game's system requirements. I think a good amount of other people have a similar issue.
I agree with you. However, Microsoft still ports some Xbox 360 exclusives to the PC's. For example, Fable 3 was ported to the PC pretty recently. They did skip Fable 2 though.