- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay Bungie I have offically given up on you guys. Halo 2 was okay, but the ending was another MS attempt to getting money, and now you are making Halo 2 Vista only. Look at games such as Battlefeild 2 and Half Life 2. You dont need a new OS to have a great game. Vista will also leave many people behind, and many cant afford to spend $900 on a PC and THEN another 200-300 on Vista. Plus, knowing Microsoft, That $900 PC will be so slow that Halo 2 will be unplayable. From what I have seen Vista is going to have 512 mb of RAM minimum for vista. If that is what is required to run the OS itself, how is this going to improve game preformance. Do you really need streaming HD for Halo 2? Face it all this crap about Vista is ways to get people buying Vista. Sure, I will buy Vista sometime, but not for at least a year after it comes out, and when RAM gets cheap enough for me to have 4gbs or more, and Processers get cheaper and faster. The minimum CPU is from what I heard somewhere around a 1.8-2.0 Athlon 64 class or 3.0 Pentium 4 Class 64bit CPU. I have an Athlon 64 3000+ which is 1.8ghz. I may not even be able to run Vista, and I invested about $750 into this system. Also, look at Vista's GPU requirements. It is estimated that the minimum req. on nVidias cards is somewhere in the mid to late 5xxx series. I havent seen anything on ATis side but still, that is pretty steep for some. If my gpu is only a few steps above minimum, then how can I be sure this will even be a good playing quality. You must be stupid to think you need DirectX 10 to have a great game. sure it improves eye-candy, but DirectX 9 is used in games today that look amazing, and have good replay value. I dont think you guys can get PC games right at all. Halo PC was so bad its not even funny. All that happened was a port, and very little graphical upgrade. It lags when you play on a LAN, which shouldnt happen concidering LANs are most of the time 100Mbps, which is MORE than enough to have a smooth game. Also, there was almost no support for Halo CE. the only things that you guys did to contribuite to that was the SP2 fix, and the 1.07 patch. If you guys support Halo 2s map making like in Halo 1, there is almost no point in having it at all. Making Halo 2 for Vista isnt a bad move, but for Vista only?? That cuts off a huge chunk of the fanbase