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GAHHH! *grabs Vista stick* Whack! Bash! Konch! Whack, Whack Smash!!!

Halo 2 PC is ONLY for Windows Vista. END OF STORY!

  • 03.22.2006 12:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: WartHogRacerman3
I have a great idea, make Halo 2 for Widows XP or Linux!


I don't know if you read the update, but windows vista is gonna be better than XP, graphics wise, performance wise, etc. So it's like teaching a new dog old tricks, not gonna happen, they're not good.

  • 03.22.2006 1:28 PM PDT
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I have a great idea, make Halo 2 for Widows XP or Linux!


I don't know if you read the update, but windows vista is gonna be better than XP, graphics wise, performance wise, etc. So it's like teaching a new dog old tricks, not gonna happen, they're not good.


dont you mean old dog new tricks?

whatever. i want to see halo 2 CE

  • 03.22.2006 1:33 PM PDT
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There isn't going to be an H2CE, it will already have custom content support.

  • 03.22.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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I own an HDTV [12/30/07]

Posted by: fastmatt
Posted by: WartHogRacerman3
I have a great idea, make Halo 2 for Widows XP or Linux!


I don't know if you read the update, but windows vista is gonna be better than XP, graphics wise, performance wise, etc. So it's like teaching a new dog old tricks, not gonna happen, they're not good.
You know hardware determines performance and graphics, NOT Software. Plus Vista is just Windows XP Media Edition revamped.

[Edited on 3/22/2006]

  • 03.22.2006 3:07 PM PDT

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Posted by: WartHogRacerman3
Posted by: fastmatt
Posted by: WartHogRacerman3
I have a great idea, make Halo 2 for Widows XP or Linux!


I don't know if you read the update, but windows vista is gonna be better than XP, graphics wise, performance wise, etc. So it's like teaching a new dog old tricks, not gonna happen, they're not good.
You know hardware determines performance and graphics, NOT Software. Plus Vista is just Windows XP Media Edition revamped.


I'm pretty sure I just read that Vista is not a revamp, it's a whole new OS

  • 03.22.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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Ok, lets go with your "Theory" WartHog. If I take the original doom and put it on the newest computer, will it look better than doom on the original hardware? If I take pong and put it on a new computer with the ability to render 3D graphics, will it be 3D?

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anywhoo BOTH hardware and software determines performance and graphics. Without the software to run a game, it wont run. Without the hardware, you get the same result. The thing that Vista has that Xp WON'T have is DirectX 10. Halo 2 PC will be using DX 10, and its almost guarenteed to not be on DX 9. There are also certain things that every program requires from an OS; Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever os you choose *even DOS*. These are libraries of data and such. What an OS does *for those of you who cant comprehend by yourselves* is that it takes a program, interprets and converts data into a form that a processor can understand. without and os, you need to program in either assembely or binary.

  • 03.22.2006 5:34 PM PDT
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H2PC is going to be for Vista. Chances are that most people here are going to get a new OS eventually.

H2PC at its very core must be the same as the Xbox version, but better.

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wow DirectX 10 that really make vista worth it ,and if halo 2 wasn't made for vista you wouldn't care much for it now would you?

  • 03.22.2006 6:32 PM PDT
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It probably will make vista worth it. People would get vista anyways, so it makes sense to make it for vista with its projected release being next year, late this year.

  • 03.22.2006 6:44 PM PDT
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not to bump, but to comtinue the discussion on the proper thread.

What about multiplayer options? What game types should we have? should we bring back race? what about other possible game types?!?

  • 03.26.2006 5:37 PM PDT
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Having played Halo for PC quite a long time and being a fan of other FPS here is what I think they need to create for Halo 2 PC.

- First I would love it to come to XP but I don't believe that, that will not happen as we do need to move on from XP. Microsoft has had enough issues with it and is ready to move on, bringing Halo 2 to Vista seems like a logical progression in all cases even if we want to stay with what we know.

- Having played Half life 2 and Battlefront 2 there are definate advantages to these but sometimes it is much faster to get onto a halo server. The main advantages of these is the online config, Halo 2 needs if pos to reinvent a more easy way to find friends, fav servers, and most especially leader boards and and to implement a score chart, so that you can still be the best but dont have to play 1000000000 times to be spotted as good. This all should be fast and easy to access.

- One of the main things I believe they should do to generate more game sales is add new things to the games, much like they did when they released halo for PC adding maps and guns! This will generate more sales as xbox halo 2 owners will then want a copy!

- PCs are the future of gaming as the next gen computers that are soon coming out will far out strip any console for power, games will become extreamly brilliant for the PC and Microsoft need to see this potential, esspecially with Halo 2, with this game they need to make an amazing statment saying this is how games will be on vista - basically it had better blow our socks off in all ways, other wise there is no need to port it to vista!

- Cant wait to get the game but I wont be buying Vista for a few months at least until there is an amount of stabilaty with the new OS I should imagine that it will be attacked much more than XP is and I hope that Microsft is ready for that. So even though I seriously want the game I am ready to wait until a few of the bugs have been kicked.

- Who knows maybe some kid somewhere will come up with a vista console for XP in which we can play Halo 2 without Vista - that would be ace!

  • 03.27.2006 3:52 AM PDT
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Firstly just wanna say Its fantastic news....best news ive heard since my wife said 'YES'.

One nice idea that i have found is over the many hours, days and years i have played the EU servers on CTF i know every bump, lump, pothole, tree and rock.

A good idea for the maps used in the eu bungie/ bungie servers would be to alter the size of rocks every now and again. Add more trees and move them about a bit every 3 or 4 months. It would help out the 'not so skilled' give them a glimmer of hope. Imagine, just when you think you can make that gap as you race home with the flag, you find your self plunging down the bottom cause its now just that lttle bit wider! Get the idea?

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  • 03.27.2006 10:11 AM PDT

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your stupid, H2PC wont use DX10 seeing as no GPU's are able to use it yet, and prolly wont be realeased until '08, and where ws it almost guarenteed to not use DX9, if you can provide a link, so audio conversatiuon to where someone working on the game said they where going to be making it in DX10, then i'll gladly edit this post.


Didn't the ninja's just give you a timeout for rude, inappropiate behavior?

Anyway Vista will be released at the begining 0f '07, do you honestly think that ATI or nVidea will not make a Vista/DX10 compatible card until a year later?

And i don't know if anyone has said specifically that Halo2PC will be using DX10 but it's a good bet because DX10 is not going to be coming to XP so that would suggest they are making it Vista-only so they can use DX10.

[Edited on 3/27/2006]

  • 03.27.2006 10:41 AM PDT

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I would like to have bots in Halo 2 for Pc so I can practice and also practice with some friends against a bot team.

  • 03.27.2006 1:04 PM PDT
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I would like to have bots in Halo 2 for Pc so I can practice and also practice with some friends against a bot team.


Sorry, but that's not going to happen.

It's key to remember that Bungie is not making a new game for PC, rather, they're simply porting H2 to PC from the Xbox.

Now, before I get flamed by 20 morons claiming that Bungie said that H2PC is not a port, you must realize that, yes, it is a port. Bungie only said they were undertaking this task while trying to not treat it like a port.

  • 03.27.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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You can practise on campaign, or make your own map with AI.

  • 03.27.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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Well, anyone else has any ideas for Halo 2 PC, we have to to keep this thread alive and on the front page. This thread is vital to Halo 2 PC, it shows what we want in Halo 2 PC, and maybe, maybe bungie will see this thread and the feedback on it.

This page was previously on page 4 :o

*secretly a bump to front page, if you found the little hint in the first sentence and why there is no suggestion, bah i'm kidding or am I, hehehehehheheh...............*

[Edited on 4/1/2006]

  • 04.01.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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Well cheer up XP users, im making a h2 sp mod for CE!

  • 04.15.2006 6:17 PM PDT

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maybe a few new maps, remake of sidewinder/hang em high/chiron or something

  • 04.15.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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WOW, where did this thread come from, it was on page who knows what lol. This thread has come back from the dead, this is a good thread now, keep it on the front page.

  • 04.16.2006 12:35 AM PDT
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heyyo,
couple game types that i would like to see come back to h2 pc, RACE, and team snipers kill in order, where you have a target, and if u dont kill your target it doesnt count, cant think of any others right now but, i would also like to see more than 16 players in a game maybe 32? if you can get enough people with good computers it could work

just a thought
-Ender DA

  • 04.16.2006 1:51 PM PDT