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Subject: Halo 2 for Windows Vista
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I say if your going to make a Halo 2 for vista, Make Halo 2 for the Xbox 360 as well! Halo 2 wasnt sopose to be a next gen game but if you guys make Halo 2 for vista, I say make one for the 360, its only fair. =)

  • 02.09.2006 3:21 PM PDT
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go to the gamespot forum and read REAL OPINIONS bout this news....

  • 02.09.2006 3:22 PM PDT
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Microsoft Corporation + Bungie Studios = Axis of Evil…

I look forward to reading more about how they are going to unnecessarily swindle us out of more money in the next update. Who even considers Xbox Live a service anymore? Geez, let me “-blam!- and moan” because legitimate games don’t even exist anymore. It is a joke.

Has a single person ever reached level 45 and above, without cheating or playing with cheaters?

Can I look forward to having Halo 2 for the PC as engrossed with cheaters as the original Halo Pc was?

  • 02.09.2006 3:25 PM PDT
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YAY!!! Yes!!! Rejoice, fellow PC Players! We have not been overlooked, our voices have been heard! 3 cheers for Mouse and Keyboard!!!

  • 02.09.2006 3:26 PM PDT
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@ 4 the PDZ story

xD xD xD

Well for you surely as far as it requires SKILL and not a good connection with a stanbye button or programs on your PC to kick out people from ranked games :D


Yes that is a fact: I\I I\I 0 0 B L 0 2 is n00bified.
I am glad that here in Poland we still have Halo 1 tournaments as nobody want's to play a game that requires NO SKILL Halo2...

Bungie lied us..They made this game 3 years xD ?
Yeah good jokes : D

10months...A good game doesn't require patches, doesn't allow moding, it has no SUCH an autoaim...
Wheres is the online coop ?
where is the battle for earth?
Where is an ending?
Where are the remarquables weapons/levels from Halo:ce ?


WHY DOES MICROSOFT SAYS THAT HALO 3 WILL COME OUT WHEN IT WILL BE READY ?

Are you guys 10years old, blind or simply stupid ?


And 4 the reccord : www.halo2sucks.com

EOT.

PS: Yeah guys buy windows vista's created with APPLE ideas, buy Halo 2, spend some $
Long live to microsoft and $$ Bungie $$


People make me sad.

  • 02.09.2006 3:27 PM PDT
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cause they say the truth <(^.^<) ?

  • 02.09.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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Q. Will there be a Halo 2 for Windows Vista?

A. We have not yet announced Halo 2 for Windows Vista.

  • 02.09.2006 3:29 PM PDT

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Its for Vista...just get over it.

  • 02.09.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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...

You guys are just promoting Vista. Bill is up to his ol' tricks again. You do realize someone is going to start a petition for a Windows XP/2000 port. What's wrong with Windows XP? SLI, CrossFire, it's all compatible with XP. What's the purpose of limiting it to Vista? Vista might be a sexy operating system with all it's neat transparent themes that it has, but it still doesn't deny the fact that XP could do it. The universal question....Why??? OR, is this Vista's "launch title". Lol.

[Edited on 2/9/2006]

  • 02.09.2006 3:33 PM PDT
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Just like HALO 2 : D

4 money : D

  • 02.09.2006 3:35 PM PDT
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Meh, what the hell. I was going to buy a new computer anyway, so I might as well wait for Vista and Halo 2. I'll probably have the money by then (hopefully)...

  • 02.09.2006 3:37 PM PDT
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Directly from some tech site

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Windows Vista doesn't have official minimum system requirements yet, but Microsoft has recommended at least 512MB of memory, a "modern" Intel or AMD processor, and a DirectX 9.0 graphics card for the current Windows Vista Beta 1. You'll need to have the right hardware to get the Windows Vista experience you see in all the pretty screenshots. Yes, your system can run Vista if you don't have a DirectX 9.0 card, but you won't be able to enjoy the full Aero desktop effect because the system will default back to 2D mode.

So i have a gig of ram and basically it says that you will need a good and modern rig to just run vista alone so what if you pile games on top of the vista memory reuqirements that means that you don't have that free memory situation anymore cause 1 gig -512mb leaves 512 mb and some games take darn close to that and even more and sitll lags...

+ Cpu speed will become and issue...Gates as got peoples by the balls i say....


So to play halo 2 really good i am sure i have to buy a new rig cause all my updates as far as hardware in specific areas of my pc are done....

now if ti was an xp version that would be a different story....

  • 02.09.2006 3:42 PM PDT
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I hate xbox gamers thinking that Halo 2 on PC is stupid, jsut because you aint got Halo 3 on your xbox yet, jsut pathetic. And the XBOX version is guna be better then this PC version... dear god what are you thinking?

  • 02.09.2006 3:42 PM PDT

Spartans don't die, they simply go to hell and regroup.

Well, I can say I'm dissappointed, sure it'll be cool, but the marketing ploy is so visible here, microsoft made it exclusive, so then we'd all buy Vista, I think I can stick with windows XP, thank you very much.

I look forward to seeing more about it, though I, and countless thousands of other people will be dissappointed at Microsoft's latest marketing junk, to make us all spend more money on their company. I will definetly NOT be buying vista, just for H2PC, in fact, I don't think I'm getting H2PC at all. To tell you the truth, I think many just won't buy it, and Microsoft will lose more than if it was XP, XP Pro, XP 64 bit, and Vista.

I was thinking of waiting to buy my new PC, and put up more money to get Vista, but this turns me away from it, Vista hasn't announced SLi compatibility, so my two Nvidia 7800's would be useless. I remember back when Bungie said Halo 2 will never go to pc, not for a long time, now it is. I'm very disappointed in microsoft, and the way it is bossing bungie around. Sure the PC Halo 2 might be amazingly good looking, but who can actually run it? How much would it cost?! And I bet they will make us pay to play online. Why make something great, greater, if no one can access it without shelling out the ammount for a 360, just for a new and buggy operating system? I don't know about you guys, but I'm not going vista for a LONG time, and if I do, I sure won't be paying the full price. Bungie is going the way of the darkside, Microsoft is completely controlling them, and it's fans are suffering. Goodjob, Micro$oft, "let's rake in more money so they can play their little games", is the point they are putting across, by controlling bungie to do this. If anything was to turn me over to UNIX, it'd be this.

Keep up the good work though bungie, when you release a game on the 360, I shall buy it, and a 360.

Dissappointed with marketing crap,
Raiden.

[Edited on 2/9/2006]

  • 02.09.2006 3:44 PM PDT
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We aren't saying that. We're saying that this is a marketing scheme to promote Vista. Bungie won't admit it, it's just common sense. If the Xbox could run Halo 2 with a stripped down Windows 2000 kernel, why the hell can't Windows XP??? What new features are they adding that only Vista could handle? Is there some new cross-platform implementation, will Vista rock the 360 out of it's box, or something else? We need answers damnit.

[Edited on 2/9/2006]

  • 02.09.2006 3:47 PM PDT

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@ 4 the PDZ story

xD xD xD

Well for you surely as far as it requires SKILL and not a good connection with a stanbye button or programs on your PC to kick out people from ranked games :D


Yes that is a fact: I\I I\I 0 0 B L 0 2 is n00bified.
I am glad that here in Poland we still have Halo 1 tournaments as nobody want's to play a game that requires NO SKILL Halo2...

Bungie...They made this game 3 years xD ?
Yeah good jokes : D

10months...A good game doesn't require patches, doesn't allow moding, it has no SUCH an autoaim...
Wheres is the online coop ?
where is the battle for earth?
Where is an ending?
Where are the remarquables weapons/levels from Halo:ce ?


WHY DOES MICROSOFT SAYS THAT HALO 3 WILL COME OUT WHEN IT WILL BE READY ?

Are you guys 10years old, blind or simply stupid ?


And 4 the reccord : www.halo2sucks.com


Your a sack of utter crap. You realize that Halo 2 has not changed from halo 1 in any real insurmountable way besides xbox live. WELCOME TO XBOX LIVE YOU -blam!- TARD. If you had actually played a game on live before Halo 2 you would realize this. But no, you make a complete idiot out of yourself and try to make up facts where there are none. 10 months, no patches? Have you played ANY computer games. Some computer games have patches for years and years (BF1942) stop making -blam!- up, yout just a whiny little loser who cant take that his country is the little -blam!- for the rest of the world. So what the really good Pope in the last century came from Poland, he tried to come back and tell yall to get off your lazy asses and fight back but you still suck ass. You realize that Bungie promised NONE of what you put on there? All the ads said that an invasion arrived at earth. Guess what, it did. The only thing your dissappointed about is because you thought it was gonna be all at earth, well guess what, that doesnt make good for the story now does it. Please tell me how those things were supposed to be revealed without going to those places. All your other facts are rumors or conjoured little thoughts in your little brain that you thought Bungie said. Face it, you just plain SUCK at the game. You thought you were the best when you played halo 1 with your little buddies, but now that they can kick your ass the game is "noobified". Its called YOU SUCK, get over it and quit -blam!-ing about it. We dont -blam!- care if you dont like the game, and the fact that you think we do only proves how much a ego-centric little -blam!- you are.

  • 02.09.2006 3:49 PM PDT
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1. Will the H2PC custom made maps be able to transfer to a xbox/360 for play on the console?
2. Will Halo3 feature map customization?
Just a few thoughts...

  • 02.09.2006 3:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Megatron 808
1. Will the H2PC custom made maps be able to transfer to a xbox/360 for play on the console?
2. Will Halo3 feature map customization?
Just a few thoughts...


Well, seeming as Halo 3 hasn't even been announced, uh, no.

  • 02.09.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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Stores already spilled the beans by taking pre-orders. Besides, with the Xbox 360, and the Halo franchise being a big hit by Bungie, what else would they be working on? Let's stay off of Halo 3. I wanna know more about why Halo 2 PC is limited to Vista. And does this mean future Microsoft software (DirectX 10, Windows Media Player, later versions of evil Internet Explorer..etc..) will not be supported under XP? To think 98SE was supported for all that time, and 2000, which just entered the 5 year extended support plan. Gee wiz!

[Edited on 2/9/2006]

  • 02.09.2006 3:53 PM PDT

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Stores already spilled the beans by taking pre-orders. Besides, with the Xbox 360, and the Halo franchise being a big hit by Bungie, what else would they be working on? Let's stay off of Halo 3. I wanna know more about why Halo 2 PC is limited to Vista. And does this mean future Microsoft software (DirectX 10, Windows Media Player, later versions of evil Internet Explorer..etc..) will not be supported under XP? To think 98SE was supported for all that time, and 2000, which just entered the 5 year extended support plan. Gee wiz!


I have Millenium Edition and run the latest Mozilla Firefox and IE 6. So advancements in Browsers and the such will not be limited *methinks* to one OS. You have to remember that most people who use the internet have obsolete Browsers and OS's. That is why when one designs a website you must plan for backwards-compatibility. So I believe that the future will still be available to most, whether you use XP or not.

  • 02.09.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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PEOPLE!!! Maybe you should try this nice game called Halo, then try Halo for the PC! Wow, it gets cooler! Can anybody say flamethrower? New maps! Let's fast forward to the future...
Halo 2 is super 1337 (except for those dang cheaters, get a life)! Now it's not new maps, it's make your own! That's something that wasn't possible unless you wanted to "break the rules". I'm ready! I'm thankful for my nice new modern computer thanks to Halo on the PC. Yea, it broke the bank but it was completely, completely worth the effort.

Here's a thought. It seems that most of the people on Live have never played the "new" maps before. WHAT!!!! Try the first game, it's awesome. Invite some buddies over, order pizza get some beer. If you don't have a second TV have a friend bring one and his XBOX. Go to some video game store and buy two copies of the first game, remember to get the PATCH CABLE. Hint: 3 headshots with the handgun.

Have fun.

  • 02.09.2006 4:02 PM PDT

sup sup sup

So, this isn't your new project?

  • 02.09.2006 4:03 PM PDT
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Calm down man. Alot of people don;'t like halo 2 so if he doesn't like it don't tell him he sucks...

Oh and I will not bother spending the money to buy vista to play halo 2. I also hope this fails miserably. Sorry guys but i am no longer a fan after reading this. I might as well get a 360 and halo 2. It would be cheaper than a grand or two on a new pc. BTW I got a new pc a month ago. I'm not gonna get vista this year. I hope many users have this senario and that it fails.

pshhhh "GREAT NEW FEATURES ON VISTA!"

My foot!

besides...there are FAR better games than halo 2 on windows xp.

Thanks for not supporting the majority of people AT ALL.

This is NOT what we asked for...you made rich people happy not all your fans.

  • 02.09.2006 4:03 PM PDT

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

O Yes. Gates strikes again.

WOW. There was abosolutely no better way to improve Vista's image in the eyes of gamers. Even though the os its self has had a few problems and is a few years late.

Microsoft's marketing departement has completely outdone themselves.

I know I am getting Vista (thas inevetible) and this game, so I wish you guys luck with the development.

  • 02.09.2006 4:03 PM PDT
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Well it looks like im upgrading my pc. sounds like it will be fun and btw guys "Q: Is Bungie's lack of involvement in the port of Halo 2 for Windows Vista due to their work on Halo 3?
A: Although Bungie Studios' primary focus lies elsewhere, it is important to note that they are involved in the creation of Halo 2 for Windows Vista. They are working closely with an internal Microsoft Game Studios team."

thats the closest answer were gonna get about Halo 3 until im guessing E3. so yippe...lol

  • 02.09.2006 4:05 PM PDT