Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Opinions on which laptop to buy for this game

Some honest opinions on how well these two will run Halo CE, Halo 2, and Team Fortress 2 would be a great help. Links below will bring you to the two laptop I am choosing from.

First choice: Staples

Second choice: Best Buy

[Edited on 06.30.2011 10:45 AM PDT]

  • 06.30.2011 10:27 AM PDT
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Personally, I'd still go with the one I sent you before. If it were only up to those two options, I'd go with the one from Best Buy.

By the way, it's best to keep these threads in one. You don't need to bump threads. If it was sent to another page, it wasn't because potential posters didn't see it. This forum has little posters in it and things move very slow. If a thread is made here, we see it.

Like DusK said in a previous thread, if you have the option for using a desktop instead, take it, but seeing as though you're doing massive travelling (Across countries) with it, having a desktop would be an extreme annoyance. I could understand your choice for a laptop, but, when you can, think about getting a good gaming desktop :P

[Edited on 06.30.2011 11:34 AM PDT]

  • 06.30.2011 11:32 AM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

If your topic is still on the front page, why the crap would you actually think it would be a good idea to make another one?

  • 06.30.2011 11:36 AM PDT

DusK, take it easy will you? For God's sake man...

  • 06.30.2011 12:09 PM PDT

I made a new thread because it was a slightly different topic and I wanted the opinion of the one person who is actually helping. Thank you for the opinion and I think I am going to go with the Best Buy laptop.

  • 06.30.2011 2:26 PM PDT

Xfire username: rustbandit

Add me to your friends list if you haven't already. It's a lot more fun to play with people from The Maw and people I know than random noobs.

You will for sure be able to run Halo PC fine, I have a less powerful laptop than that at run at full settings.

  • 06.30.2011 2:30 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.


Posted by: Zetren
DusK, take it easy will you? For God's sake man...

No. I can understand how you could have a high tolerance for stupidity, being a Halo 2 player and all, but I can't freakin' stand it.

  • 06.30.2011 8:37 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK

Posted by: Zetren
DusK, take it easy will you? For God's sake man...

No. I can understand how you could have a high tolerance for stupidity, being a Halo 2 player and all, but I can't freakin' stand it.


Halo 2 player? That "stage" in my life is over now, I have just become too sick of it. I'd really like it if you would be a bit nicer to other members on this forum, your level of arrogance is starting to get tiring. Look at members such as Dr Syx and me, we don't lash out at other members. Other members may not be as intelligent as you and I but that should not justifiy your vicious comments, after all, are they worth it?

I actully took offence at that comment DusK, although it's unlikley that i'll get an apology from you.

  • 07.01.2011 5:38 AM PDT


Posted by: RustBandit
You will for sure be able to run Halo PC fine, I have a less powerful laptop than that at run at full settings.


Thank you RustBandit, trying to pick which (Halo CE or Halo 2) that I want to buy lol

And Zetren, Dusk is just a disrespectful kid hidden behind his computer on a forum and gets enjoyment out of googling the answers to prove people wrong and calling them names. He will never change until he moves out of his parents house. =)

Thanks guys for all your help. I bought the i5 processor computer from Best Buy and will be playing one of the Halo PC games sometime later this month.

  • 07.03.2011 12:48 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Twisted4293
And Zetren, Dusk is just a disrespectful kid hidden behind his computer on a forum and gets enjoyment out of googling the answers to prove people wrong and calling them names. He will never change until he moves out of his parents house. =)

Assumptions can be fun.

  • 07.03.2011 1:24 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Twisted4293
And Zetren, Dusk is just a disrespectful kid hidden behind his computer on a forum and gets enjoyment out of googling the answers to prove people wrong and calling them names. He will never change until he moves out of his parents house. =)

Assumptions can be fun.


Truth even more so.

  • 07.03.2011 1:31 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.


Posted by: Zetren

Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Twisted4293
And Zetren, Dusk is just a disrespectful kid hidden behind his computer on a forum and gets enjoyment out of googling the answers to prove people wrong and calling them names. He will never change until he moves out of his parents house. =)

Assumptions can be fun.


Truth even more so.

Get off the computer, child. You're grounded.

  • 07.03.2011 1:32 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK

Posted by: Zetren

Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Twisted4293
And Zetren, Dusk is just a disrespectful kid hidden behind his computer on a forum and gets enjoyment out of googling the answers to prove people wrong and calling them names. He will never change until he moves out of his parents house. =)

Assumptions can be fun.


Truth even more so.

Get off the computer, child. You're grounded.


Haha! So, is that what you do? Spend your free time looking at EVERY post on Bungie.net, trying to protrude your big head where it does not belong? What a great life you have, I REALLY want to be like you when I grow up!

[Edited on 07.03.2011 1:47 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 1:45 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Zetren
Haha! So, is that what you do? Spend your free time looking at EVERY post on Bungie.net, trying to protrude your big head where it does not belong? What a great life you have, I REALLY want to be like you when I grow up!

Awww, did I hurt your feelings, kiddo? Whatcha gonna do, tell daddy?

Nah, just when I'm bored and don't feel like recording or mixing. It's been a long summer already.

And it's not all of B.net, just the one forum that used to be mostly intelligent. This community used to be flat-out awesome. I'm trying to return it to that state. You're certainly not helping.

  • 07.03.2011 1:50 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Zetren
Haha! So, is that what you do? Spend your free time looking at EVERY post on Bungie.net, trying to protrude your big head where it does not belong? What a great life you have, I REALLY want to be like you when I grow up!

Awww, did I hurt your feelings, kiddo? Whatcha gonna do, tell daddy?

Nah, just when I'm bored and don't feel like recording or mixing. It's been a long summer already.

And it's not all of B.net, just the one forum that used to be mostly intelligent. This community used to be flat-out awesome. I'm trying to return it to that state. You're certainly not helping.


Actually Dusk your not helping by putting every member who decides to comment down. People can have their own opinions on a subject that doesn't agree with your ego.

And if there is a mod reading this please close this thread before it gets out of hand. Thank you. =)

  • 07.03.2011 2:43 PM PDT

Halo 3


Posted by: DusK

This community used to be flat-out awesome. I'm trying to return it to that state.



heh

  • 07.03.2011 2:46 PM PDT
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Halo 1&2 PC forum's resident OC ReMixer. Like rockified and metalized video game music? Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.


Posted by: Twisted4293
Actually Dusk your not helping by putting every member who decides to comment down. People can have their own opinions on a subject that doesn't agree with your ego.

This is a game forum. Don't get all butthurt if someone not only disagrees with you, but does it with logic and reasoning.

  • 07.03.2011 3:10 PM PDT
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Not for the faint of heart.

I got a Samsung with an i7, it plays TF2 wonderfully. I have little doubt Halo PC and H2V will run smoothly.

  • 07.03.2011 7:49 PM PDT

>>i7
>>TF2
>>>overkill
Honestly, for TF2....And Halo CE...I think any stock laptop can play those nowadays. But H2V you gotta beef things up for. It's badly optimized and all that stuff, and the end result of it all is it runs like fecal matter on anything with a graphics card below 512 mb.

I did once run it on lowest, LOWEST settings on what I believe was a 256.

PS: It was integrated Intel graphics.

PSS: Oh -blam!- no, not this again.

Throughout this entire thread all of you have been talking only about processors. It doesn't matter who GREAT the processor is, it just needs to fulfill the requirements. You're not gonna run Crysis 2 with a Voodoo card and an i7 990x.

AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics
Feature 1GB GDDR5 and up to 4837MB total video memory for lush images. HDMI output for an easy connection to an HDTV.


Choose the one from Best Buy and you'll have no issues. Processor is clocked a little low, but that doesn't matter much.

Scratch that, processor looks just right. Forget about that staples -blam!-brick, this is a prime deal.

[Edited on 07.03.2011 8:55 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 8:48 PM PDT