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Subject: My buddy asked me to post this rant for him...
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thk god:
1. i dont care for PC games
2. I have a 360 , so halo 3 here i come
3. My dad will buy vista for me , so i'l just install it
4. i have a laptop , so what if it doesnt play good games , i can still play THE SIMS , AGE OF MYTHOLOGY , AND GTA 3 , which are the games i have for PC .......so basically dis doesnt affect me.

  • 02.09.2006 4:04 PM PDT
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Y'know, you could just buy it for the xbox.

No wait, that would be too easy.

Good rant, but a little biased.

[Edited on 2/9/2006]

  • 02.09.2006 4:06 PM PDT
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Calm down and tell your friend to do the same. I think this thing called a joke is a new concept to you. I'll explain: Jokes are things funny people say that involve a witty comment or sarcastic answer and are designed to make people chuckle....or even laugh. That is what the comment about the program being "translucent (in places)" was, a joke. The same is true for the other quote you included. Another joke, nothing more.

Bungie wouldn't have posted something so dumb about Halo 2 PC if they thought it was a serious thing. Dont misunderstand me, I'm not saying Halo 2 isn't going to make it to the PC, I am saying that you are overreacting to a little joke on Bungie's part. Now, go write this new word down in your little vocabulary journal and try not to forget what it means, OK? Good boy.

  • 02.09.2006 4:11 PM PDT
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Bungie bringing Halo 2 to the PC:
aka, we are Microsofts -blam!- right now

Welcome to marketing folks! Please tell me that this announcement didn't set off anyone else's bull-blam!- alarms. Lets take a look at the facts:

Fact: The Xbox uses a 733 MHz Pentium 3 (Tualitin core)
Fact: The Xbox has 64 megs of main system ram
Fact: The Xbox uses a modified version of MS windows 2000
Fact: Bungie got Halo 1 running on the G5, a 64bit big endian only architecture that only uses OpenGL

Now for the flames:

lets take a look at the FAQ. Halo 2, you may remember, is a "shoot them up" featuring the adventures of Master Chief and his wacky sidekick, Cortana.

Ouch, just ouch! Take a look at the marketing people speak! Seriously, if that doesn't set off the "Warning! Marketing people!" alarm, then nothing will. Now lets take a look at more of it:


Windows Vista is the next generation Microsoft operating system that will by turns, be sweet, awesome, radical, and potentially translucent (in places).


Ok, besides the blatant marketing people pandering here, do you know what these effects are going to do to your system? With Avalon (and Aero) as MS likes to call their new GUI, they had to use ether GeForce 5900s or Radion 9800s, JUST TO SUPPORT THE USER INTERFACE. According to MS, the recommended system requirements are:

Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1 Gig Ram
7200 RPM SATA hard drive
Radion 9800 128 meg

Ouch, that means that all your hot gamer rigs, unless you've got a 6800 GT, are are min recommended speck! We all know what MS recommended specs are like. Anyone using a laptop here? Have fun shelling out $2000 for a new one.

My point is this. This is marketing crap to get you to buy a new PC with Vista on it. (Oh, and have fun paying extra for the gaming version of Vista, thats going to cost a lot). Bungie has, or had, a lot of skilled coders. They got ONI running on the Mac, the PC, and the PS2 (the PS2 is not a lot of fun to program for). They got Halo running on the Mac and PC also. If they wanted to, I have no doubt that they could get Halo running on a SPARC if they really wanted to. Ether their talent has atrophied to the point of non-existance, or they just don't want to because of marketing. Halo 2 runs happily on a GeForce 3 and a Pentium 3. I'm not saying that I expect it to run at 1600x1200 at those specs, I fully understand you coding to the metal for the xbox and not getting anywhere near that level of performance on a PC. I do however, expect a 1 GHz P3 with a GeForce 4 to run it. I would LIKE to see the mac run it. So, I just want to know, are you the sloppiest PC coders of all time, do you really need 3X the system specs and an entirely different OS just to get the game running? Or is this marketing?

  • 02.09.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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Take a look around the forums. We are a sampling of the potential customers of this game. Now take a look at how many people are saying. No, why? I already have it. They are saying who cares if its just on Vista I got a Xbox and a 360 that it plays on fine. It doesn't look good. You don't have many if any threads in the Maw like when Halo CE came out on PC. No FINALLY we can play it on PC or YES! online play (cause it already has it with 2). More no thank you's and I already have it for 2 systems why a 3rd. And I have XP I don't want to spend the $. I know its not a make or break the company flagship title seems more of an afterthought a bonus to getting Vista. For the bungie fans/customers who have paid thier bills its more of a well at least they admit its not thier next big project. Rather than excitement at the announcement.

  • 02.09.2006 4:41 PM PDT
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Texas Ben does have a good point. It is rediculous to believe that ONLY Vista could run this game. Microsoft needs to cut it out with all these special versions of their operating systems. Let's see, we had XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center. Now we're going to have a whole slew of Vista Iterations (Gamer Edition!? ::shakes head::). I think Mac has the right idea in making one OS: OS X. Why make customers settle or choose? Make one version available that does everything. I know I'm not buying Vista. I'll be moving to Mac in a month.

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They never said it couldn't run on whatever your specs were. They said they were making it for Vista. Don't assume they mean it has to have vista's min specs to run. Also remember that a console can do alot more than a computer with the same exact specs. Vista is the next generation OS, why would you expect it to have requirements that are 2 generations old?

About the shootem up with master chief and his sidekick cortana, it was a joke as someone said. If you are detemermined to make a rant, leave out the jokes.

  • 02.09.2006 5:19 PM PDT
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Also remember that a console can do alot more than a computer with the same exact specs then Vista will truly be the most ground breaking OS ever to not need more specs than OS previous and do more.

  • 02.09.2006 5:23 PM PDT
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Calm down dude. If you dont want to get vista and buy h2 again THEN DONT. Dont whine about marketing to everyone.

  • 02.09.2006 5:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: jjcorreia
Calm down dude. If you dont want to get vista and buy h2 again THEN DONT. Dont whine about marketing to everyone.
or or hey I got an idea. Do the same yourself. If you don't like the thread content DON'T post. Find a no whiner thread and enjoy. We are using our bungie given right (though we have no rights according to them :-) to say "hey this idea is kinda lame" (don't think MS expected this though we are the community who are aprt of the customer demographic and so far the talk isn't good)

  • 02.09.2006 5:35 PM PDT

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  • 02.09.2006 6:40 PM PDT