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Subject: Halo 3 in beta on 360, no word of course on PC version

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If Halo 3 is already in Beta that answers your question. They're not going to bother to put Halo 2 out on PC after Halo 3 is released on X-box. What's sad is that so many cattle, er people, will go out and waste $400+ dollars to play Halo 3, because Halo 3 will probably be for 360 only. That's a shame for all the fools who went out and bought an Xbox so they could play Halo 2.

  • 12.20.2005 12:18 PM PDT
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yep, exactly why I waited to buy a 360...Alos take everything you hear with a grain of salt buddy. I'll give you this though: THERE IS NO HALO 3 BETA!#!%%^ Bungie has only begun the idea phase for their next project. They aren't even close to a beta. Beta versions of a game are practicaly damn-close to the final project and that would mean that Halo 3 is only a mere 2-3 months from release :/

I'm glad you came here and posted off-topic wasting, all our time.

jman571: no soup for you! NEXT!!!!

  • 12.20.2005 1:22 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

Posted by: jman571
yep, exactly why I waited to buy a 360...Alos take everything you hear with a grain of salt buddy. I'll give you this though: THERE IS NO HALO 3 BETA!#!%%^ Bungie has only begun the idea phase for their next project. They aren't even close to a beta. Beta versions of a game are practicaly damn-close to the final project and that would mean that Halo 3 is only a mere 2-3 months from release :/

I'm glad you came here and posted off-topic wasting, all our time.

jman571: no soup for you! NEXT!!!!


It's funny when someone whines about wasting their time, while they waste their time respondind to a supposedly off topic post. Grow up. And yes, Halo3 in playable form does exist. Sorry to break it to you.

  • 12.20.2005 2:25 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

Posted by: Iggwilv
If Halo 3 is already in Beta that answers your question. They're not going to bother to put Halo 2 out on PC after Halo 3 is released on X-box. What's sad is that so many cattle, er people, will go out and waste $400+ dollars to play Halo 3, because Halo 3 will probably be for 360 only. That's a shame for all the fools who went out and bought an Xbox so they could play Halo 2.


Very true. Halo2 on the PC was never going to happen. But you'd think that a 360 version of Halo 3 could easily be ported or vice versa to the PC.

I doubt we will ever see another Halo game from Bungie on the PC. M$ doesn't want anyone to be able to play these games unless it's on their consoles. Bungie could have been the next Electronic Arts if only they had foresight and realized what they were sitting on. Oops.

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yep, exactly why I waited to buy a 360...Alos take everything you hear with a grain of salt buddy. I'll give you this though: THERE IS NO HALO 3 BETA!#!%%^ Bungie has only begun the idea phase for their next project. They aren't even close to a beta. Beta versions of a game are practicaly damn-close to the final project and that would mean that Halo 3 is only a mere 2-3 months from release :/

I'm glad you came here and posted off-topic wasting, all our time.

jman571: no soup for you! NEXT!!!!


It's funny when someone whines about wasting their time, while they waste their time respondind to a supposedly off topic post. Grow up. And yes, Halo3 in playable form does exist. Sorry to break it to you.


Thank you for flaming a fellow member. Doesn't raise your respectability around here too much either, to be completely honest.

Now onto the real topic. Agreeing with Jman, I sincerely doubt that the beta for halo3 is out. The forums would've exploded with posts about halo3. It would've been all over the place. Please double check your sources and information before posting.

You are, of course, welcome to provide solid evidence (in the form of say, a news article from a trusted gamer's resource, ex: Bungie.net, IGN) concerning its exsistance.

Bungie caring for its PC market. Heh. Heh. HAHAHA! It's a part of Moneysoft now. Used to be a good company, but now also filled with the usual Moneysoft redtape. Worse still because ambiguity has been a bungie tradition.

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  • 12.20.2005 3:20 PM PDT

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There has been no announcement of a Halo 3 beta, and no reliable information of any kind about one from any source. Claiming there is a beta without any kind of evidence really doesn't start the post off on a good note.

As to additional PC titles, you have an answer already about a port of Halo 2... and they're working on Xbox360 devkits and using high-definition TV sets for previews right now. (As announced by Frankie in the Weekly Updates.) You Can Do The Math.

As to Bungie being up-front about ANY of their unannounced works-in-progress... well... the next time will be the first. That's part of being Bungie, and has been since the Marathon days.

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wow, nice to see you here in the Maw Anton, It's rare that the mods visit us....

we don't take too kindly to strangers round' these here parts [/southern drawl]

Anyways, it's always a helpful tip to find sources for information that pop into your imagination. I just hope that you won't take too much time trying to find something. I'm sure you have better things to do like professional knitting club, and tiddly-winks.

jman571- going to waste some more of his time (only about 1,053,650 min. left!!)

  • 12.20.2005 5:14 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 3 in beta on 360, no word of course on PC version

Posted by: Nessy

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

Halo 3 is in beta on the 360 apparently.

Bungie- it's time that you tell us if you're going to make any more Halo games for the PC. I think we have a right to know after this long. It's not asking much, just a wink or a nod is needed. Leaving us out to dry for years without any attention to your PC customers has got to stop. You need to start being more upfront about whether or not you have plans to make any more Halo games for the PC. Some of us might actually buy a 360 if we knew Halo on the PC was dead. Time to cut the crap and give us a statement regarding if you have future plans to bring these games to the PC platform.

  • 12.20.2005 10:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Halo 3 is in beta on the 360 apparently.


And you have this info from where?

The Update?

This section?
"...we're prototyping aspects of this next game mean that even some gameplay tests, demos and experiments, are surprisingly polished and playable."

You know what that says to me? That there are aspects of their game (which may or may not be Halo 3) that are playable. That could mean playing with a new physics engine. That could be playing with a hand to hand combat for a fantasy rpg. The could be the motion of the ocean for their pirate sim. Certainly doesn't say beta. "Aspects" isn't even Alpha state.

As to PC... you want an up front answer? Go back months of Updates where they repeatedly say that there are no plans tro bring Halo 2 to the PC. And of course they aren't going to say whether their next game will be made for the PC BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T ANNOUNCED IT YET! They won't rule it out because that is just bad buisness as they haven't ruled it out. They haven't ruled out making Animal Crossing Extreme Dating Adventure either.

  • 12.20.2005 5:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Frnksnbns

It's funny when someone whines about wasting their time, while they waste their time respondind to a supposedly off topic post. Grow up. And yes, Halo3 in playable form does exist. Sorry to break it to you.


Proof please

  • 12.20.2005 6:14 PM PDT
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Does the xbox 360 support a mouse and keyboard?

  • 12.20.2005 6:32 PM PDT

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dude, you pulled a jesus!

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Posted by: Frnksnbns

It's funny when someone whines about wasting their time, while they waste their time respondind to a supposedly off topic post. Grow up. And yes, Halo3 in playable form does exist. Sorry to break it to you.


Proof please


What do you need proof for? He's a believable guy, come on, you guys wouldn't believe Halo 2 exists if you didn't own it yourself. Lighten up a little, you need too much proof. Here, if you want proof, I'll give you some:

By Frankie:
"Halo 3 is coming out for Xbox 360 in 2006."

There. Happy now?
"I've traveled through time"- Frankie

Hey look! Proof of time travel!

  • 12.20.2005 6:42 PM PDT
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Follower2, *pssst* I know where you can find some WMD.

Personally, it folks start announcing "truths" I like them to back it up.

P.S.- Your name is approbriate.

[Edited on 12/20/2005]

  • 12.20.2005 6:43 PM PDT
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I love Halo PC it's the first version of Halo that I was introduced to, I played the xbox 360 today at a store and was impressed with the system and the fact that most of the displays have that dandy High Definition Screen attached to them, I'm sure the Xbox 360 would still look sweet on my television. I'm looking fwd to playing Halo3 when and if its released its just that I'm kinda upset that it would most likely be released exclusively for the 360 platform I might be wrong I dont know, It would be the first time, Anyways thanks for the post I enjoy learning little tid bits of information on future Bungie projects,
Cheers
~^Jesse^~

  • 12.20.2005 6:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Posted by: jman571
yep, exactly why I waited to buy a 360...Alos take everything you hear with a grain of salt buddy. I'll give you this though: THERE IS NO HALO 3 BETA!#!%%^ Bungie has only begun the idea phase for their next project. They aren't even close to a beta. Beta versions of a game are practicaly damn-close to the final project and that would mean that Halo 3 is only a mere 2-3 months from release :/

I'm glad you came here and posted off-topic wasting, all our time.

jman571: no soup for you! NEXT!!!!


It's funny when someone whines about wasting their time, while they waste their time respondind to a supposedly off topic post. Grow up. And yes, Halo3 in playable form does exist. Sorry to break it to you.


Thank you for flaming a fellow member. Doesn't raise your respectability around here too much either, to be completely honest.

Now onto the real topic. Agreeing with Jman, I sincerely doubt that the beta for halo3 is out. The forums would've exploded with posts about halo3. It would've been all over the place. Please double check your sources and information before posting.

You are, of course, welcome to provide solid evidence (in the form of say, a news article from a trusted gamer's resource, ex: Bungie.net, IGN) concerning its exsistance.

Bungie caring for its PC market. Heh. Heh. HAHAHA! It's a part of Moneysoft now. Used to be a good company, but now also filled with the usual Moneysoft redtape. Worse still because ambiguity has been a bungie tradition.


I flamed no one. As far as my respectablilty goes: I'll let my skill speak for itself. Anyone who has played with me knows the score. I'm the first one to pwn you, but I'm the first one to switch teams up to make the games fair as well.

As far as proof that Halo3 is playable already?

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halo3/index.html

You'll have it by Q2 '06

So yeah Bungie can claim they don't release info on this or that, but the fact of the matter is, Bungie does what M$ tells them to do, and that means making games for the 360, not the PC. I strongly believe that if Bungie were independent of M$, Halo would have remained first and foremost a PC/Mac game. These games would have been developed for all platforms, not just the ones M$ tells them to develop for.

Oh and to the mod who brought up Halo2...I never once mentioned Halo2 for the PC. We all know that will never happen. This thread was about Halo3 coming to the 360, and no version coming to the PC.

[Edited on 12/21/2005]

  • 12.21.2005 4:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Frnksnbns
As far as proof that Halo3 is playable already?

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halo3/index.html

You'll have it by Q2 '06


Oh, praise be to Gamespot! Glory and Grace be to those that accept the Gamespot truth!

Or, you could... Stay with me on this one... Not be so gullible so as to decide the assumptions someone made on their blog to be truth.

  • 12.21.2005 4:53 PM PDT
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Frnksnbns, that was your undesputable proof? Come on, if your going to try to prove something, at least post something better than [article] Halo 3 shall come out in 2006 [/article]

[Edited on 12/21/2005]

  • 12.21.2005 4:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
As far as proof that Halo3 is playable already?

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halo3/index.html

You'll have it by Q2 '06


Oh, praise be to Gamespot! Glory and Grace be to those that accept the Gamespot truth!

Or, you could... Stay with me on this one... Not be so gullible so as to decide the assumptions someone made on their blog to be truth.


Cmon. Im not faulting you for denying it as it's company policy. But Frankie has talked about a game that is "surprisingly polished and playable." What else could it be? I could be wrong (I have been several times before). But Bungie is owned by MS. MS owns 360. 360 needs Halo. Not only does MS need Halo to offset some of the losses they experience with EVERY 360 they sell, they need a game that can single handedly drive the sales of their 360 because as of right now, there is no game to speak of capable of that. PDZero is good, but not great.

I appreciate your commitment to not getting everyone excited too early and playing things cautiously, but anyone who stops and thinks about the business side of this would deduct H3 is probably your current project. If you weren't owned by MS I wouldn't think that, but you are so I do. Now I don't think it'll be ready for quite a while, certainly not by Q2 2006. Last time there was MONTHS in between the announcement and the release. I could very well see 11/06 though.

  • 12.21.2005 5:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Titan Alumn
Cmon. Im not faulting you for denying it as it's company policy. But Frankie has talked about a game that is "surprisingly polished and playable."


Maybe you should read it again. If you didn't make up a context for it, you might figure out what he was actually saying, and wouldn't be so quick to form assumptions.

  • 12.21.2005 6:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: jman571
yep, exactly why I waited to buy a 360...Alos take everything you hear with a grain of salt buddy. I'll give you this though: THERE IS NO HALO 3 BETA!#!%%^ Bungie has only begun the idea phase for their next project. They aren't even close to a beta. Beta versions of a game are practicaly damn-close to the final project and that would mean that Halo 3 is only a mere 2-3 months from release :/


Well.... for sure, they have sound being done, if not done already, they discussed the sound progress on their "next project" in one of their updates. And I doubt they would be recording sound if they were in the idea phase.

And the truth is, you have no proof whats so ever about what stage of development they are in, they could be 99% done for all we know, they just have chosen not to tell us anything at all this time. Probably so we don't complain when they change things and so that we don't go off demanding screenshots and videos every 1/2 second.

  • 12.21.2005 6:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Posted by: Frnksnbns
As far as proof that Halo3 is playable already?

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halo3/index.html

You'll have it by Q2 '06


Oh, praise be to Gamespot! Glory and Grace be to those that accept the Gamespot truth!

Or, you could... Stay with me on this one... Not be so gullible so as to decide the assumptions someone made on their blog to be truth.


I would say something, but that pretty much sums it up.

Oh, and I meant your respectability on the forum. I won't necessarily respect someone with the highest stats/cleanest game in the world, but I will respect someone who acts nicely on the forum.

I shall say no more on the matter.

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Posted by: Titan Alumn
Frankie has talked about a game that is "surprisingly polished and playable


So the above statement means it is Halo 3? Please......

Ok, so the 360 needs another killer-app.

Why should that be Halo 3?

Your logic

Halo 3 will sell.
Microsoft need a selling game.
Ergo Halo 3 is next.

That makes no sense at all.

  • 12.21.2005 7:37 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 3 or is it?
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i did, like every other halo fan, fall into madness during the production of h2. every string along, every 2d (AND 3D!) screenshot, every update. i absorbed it all in madness and thirst. some would have called everything up till the release "hype". all i kno was, i was super-duper-pooper-scooper hyped. i could tell u stories. oh i could tell u stories, but alas. closer to the point, after playing through the campaign, i was a little... disatisfied with the way it ended, as were many in the gaming community. A huge part of that whiplash was because we were all so anxious for the game. Maybe Microsoft, or more likely Bungie, has decided to keep things a lot more contained then b4 when it comes to their next project which is probably h3 (or as i like to call it "h3: the rest of halo 2"). all i kno is that if bungie passed halo of to another developer or have been allowed or deciced to work on a different game, i would be seriously flippin a "B" all over this hizzow. snap. i typed alot. piece.

  • 12.21.2005 8:20 PM PDT

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