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Posted by: General Heed
Having the game as a Vista-exclusive was not really that big a deal. Especially not today.
Not today, yeah. We have the nicely optimized Windows 7. Back when H2 was released, it required an OS that ran games like crap compared to its predecessor unless you ran Vista 64-bit and packed in the RAM. You'd know this if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
5 uses for the CD Key is already more than enough.
Like it was more than enough for this guy?
I've reinstalled my copy of UT 7 times to the day. 4 of those were troubleshooting on my parents' computer. Any limit on CD key use isn't necessary. You'd know this if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
And even if you do use it all up, you just simply call Microsoft and they'll reactivate it for you. Simple as that.
Hear that, node? Your trifles with MS support for your used up CD key, according to General Ignorant here, don't even exist. They'll just give you a new key! You're in the clear, buddy!
Posted by: General Heed
If the keys were unlimited, it would encourage piracy or the sharing of CD keys.
Like all the other games with CD keys, such as Halo, which will auto-kick you if you're using the same CD key as someone else? You'd know this if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
The keyboard and mouse control are virtually the same as the Halo 1 port.
Hey Syx, wasn't it you that commented on having to framerate cap the game to get the mouse to work correctly? Or was it Jacob? Can't remember, but I've seen the complaint that renders this point moot quite a bit.
Posted by: General Heed
And at least Halo 2 Vista does have 360 controller support.
And aim assist. No PC FPS should ever have aim assist. You'd know this if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
There are no compatibility issues with Windows 7.
ROFL!!! Holy crap. It amazes me that after so many people have come to this board posting about how the game no longer works with Win7 that people are still stupid enough to say this.
Posted by: General Heed
I have a dual-boot setup on my laptop with Vista and 7. Halo 2 Vista runs just fine in both partitions. Everything down to Tray and Play works flawlesly in Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. If there are compatibility problems, it's not the OS or the game. It's probably your graphic drivers or something else like that.
Works for you. Must work for everyone. Right?
Posted by: General Heed
Anti-cheat is usually handled by the Xbox Live service (which is now free for PC). I'm guessing Microsoft no longer monitors the games because people like you started hating on Halo 2 Vista, thus driving the sales down and reducing the incentive to monitor the game and provide post-launch support. You did this to yourself. You brought all these issues on yourself.
That would be well and dandy, except that the game released without an anti-cheat. Live hasn't "monitored the game" since its release.
Posted by: General Heed
The graphics of Halo 2 Vista are far better than the Xbox version. That much is clear. I'd say the improvements of Halo 2 Xbox to Halo 2 Vista are greater than Halo 1 Xbox to Halo 1 PC. In fact, I don't see you complaining about Halo 1 PC. The graphics in the PC version aren't significantly better than the Xbox version. Yet everyone still likes that port.
Because graphics don't make a good game? You'd know this if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
Really, why isn't anyone complaining about the Halo 1 PC port?
They do.
Posted by: General Heed
All the points you made besides Vista exclusivity could also be applied to the Halo 1 PC port.
Really? Let's see.
Graphics optimization in HPC is fine. Graphics optimization in H2V sucks.
Mouse controls in HPC are fine. Mouse controls in H2V suck.
There's no aim assist in H2V. Controller gets kiddie training wheels in H2V, much so that controllers often beat out more skilled kb/m users.
HEK in CE is great. HEK for H2V is gimped.
HPC got a compat fix for Windows 7, and game-breaking flaws were fixed. Nothing like that has happened for H2V.
GfWL integration sucks for H2V. No such problems in HPC.
Should I keep going?
Posted by: General Heed
You all complain that Halo 2 Vista didn't add new features like campaign co-op. Well Halo 1 PC didn't add campaign co-op either. As I mentioned above, Halo 1 PC's graphics weren't significantly better than the Xbox version either. And I certainly still see cheating in Halo 1 PC.
The first two points I can see where you're coming from. That last one, given that you're a Halo 2oob, probably stems from you getting stomped legit in HPC and wanting to not chalk it up to general suckage on your part.
Posted by: General Heed
So you see, unless I'm wrong that you guys don't hate Halo 1 PC, this means that you guys have a personal bias against Halo 2 Vista regardless of whatever points you made.
Not really. Good games are good games, crap games are crap games. I like to call a spade a spade. Most PC gamers do. You would too, if you were a PC gamer.
Posted by: General Heed
I think the only reason people don't like Halo 2 Vista is just because it's a Vista exclusive.
Actually. that's the tip of the iceberg. I gave a nice fat list in my first post. Did you forget how to read?
Posted by: General Heed
The low population of Halo 2 Vista can be easily fixed. It's up to you to fix it.
Telling people who like good games to play bad games, like you just did, is beyond stupid. I can no longer take you seriously.
Posted by: General Heed
It's not the game's fault that the population is low.
Yeah, it is. If a game's crap, nobody will play it. If it's not, people will play it. It's that freakin' simple
Posted by: General Heed
It's your fault. You chose to not play it and you chose to convince others to not play it. You could've at least let them try it out for themselves instead of making people think they're making a terrible mistake buying Halo 2 Vista.
"Try this game! There's nothing good that can be said about it, but it's only 20 bucks! There are better games you could spend your money on, but screw that. Spend it on H2V. We'll see you back here when you have a problem with the game running on Windows 7, or GfWL not installing correctly, or crappy mouse movement, or crappy performance on a computer that should have no problem running such a dated game."
Is that what you're looking for, General?
But for real, I can't lie like Ben, and I'm not delusional like you, so regarding H2V, there's only one thing a reasonable person could say: It sucks.
And you'd know it to... if you were a PC gamer. :)
[Edited on 06.24.2011 12:31 AM PDT]