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Subject: Halo 2 pc but only vista
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Poll: Would you play Halo 2 on PC or Mac?  [closed]
PC:  88%
(23 Votes)
Mac:  12%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 26

I have a question has anyone else hurd that halo 2 will indeed be released for pc but only if you upgrade to vista. If it is anything like windows xp this will be 200 dollars not to mention if you need a newer pc to run vista could take 2000 dollars :o

What is weird and ticks me off is nothing is mentioned about a mac release. Why is bungie doing this to it's mac users. All this time we thought bungie was our side but then they go microsoft.

what the crap bungie what the crap....

Didn't even release Halo CE for mac. Come on freaken betrayers.

  • 02.27.2006 5:10 PM PDT
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Their official standpoint is no confirmed plans for H2Mac. Which, if you remember, sound EXTREMELY similar to the words they used to describe H2PC. Ambiguous, allowing for bungie to say "no, we weren't gonna make it after all"...or to say "haha, we WERE gonna make it, we were just keeping it secret!"

Oh, and Bungie had a very small hand in h1CE. It was Gearbox who released CE, not Bungie.

  • 02.27.2006 5:42 PM PDT
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EXTREMELY similar to the words they used to describe H2PC.

Odd... PC stands for personal computer. When did it mean the sucky windows operating system we all learned to hate.

  • 02.27.2006 8:13 PM PDT
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You fools! Bungie is doing a good thing, leading the 64 bit technology revolution! Viva la Bungie!

Also im building a computer with a 64 bit processor so i truely love u bungie <3

  • 02.27.2006 8:17 PM PDT
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You forget bungie was mac first why did they betray the macs. >:(

I HATE YOU!

but anyway he did make a good point before halo ce was more gearbox then bungie. But the damn betrayers. I've been traying to game on mac but it is hard because of ppl like you bungie who leave mac behind I had to buy a windows pc just so I could play games. it pisses me off too. I bought a mac to escape the crashing but no thx to no game software for mac I had to get a windows again then i find out I can't play halo on it because microsoft is being a DICK again! F U bill gates.

  • 02.27.2006 8:26 PM PDT
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because they were bought by microsoft. thats why.

  • 02.27.2006 9:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xeniczone
EXTREMELY similar to the words they used to describe H2PC.

Odd... PC stands for personal computer. When did it mean the sucky windows operating system we all learned to hate.


When it became well-known computer jargon. In other words, when M$ applied the generic term PC to their computers and when Apple (distinguishing themselves as always,) began calling theirs the Mac.

  • 02.27.2006 9:45 PM PDT
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Apple (distinguishing themselves as always,) began calling theirs the Mac.

What is this suppost to mean.

Yeh, I like macs It willl not crash on you for no reason. They always have a good artistic thought in mind when they design there case keyboard mouse and monitors. ( i really like the looks of the g3's case and monitor keyboard etc...). As someone mentioned before bungie is leading the 64bit revolution. WHAT REVOLUTION. O, you mean the revolution on x86 computers. Right... happened a long time ago for macs. And ppl make a big deal when dual cores come out. Once again happened a long time ago for macs. They even have a quad core comptuer not exactly cheap but cool.

I really dont see why you guys like windows so much. I find it sucky, slow, and crashes to much for no reason.

  • 02.28.2006 5:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xeniczone
I have a question has anyone else hurd that halo 2 will indeed be released for pc but only if you upgrade to vista. If it is anything like windows xp this will be 200 dollars not to mention if you need a newer pc to run vista could take 2000 dollars :o

What is weird and ticks me off is nothing is mentioned about a mac release. Why is bungie doing this to it's mac users. All this time we thought bungie was our side but then they go microsoft.

what the crap bungie what the crap....

Didn't even release Halo CE for mac. Come on freaken betrayers.


I don't like that at all because I have a new Dell XPS and I have Windows XP and Im looking forward to Halo 2 for PC and its going to be for vista only. Thats kind of stupid to have to buy a new program for that.

  • 02.28.2006 5:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xeniczone
Apple (distinguishing themselves as always,) began calling theirs the Mac.

What is this suppost to mean.


Meaning that Apple has a habit of purposely distinguishing themselves from the Microsoft crowd. They could also call their computer a PC, the generic term, but they decided it was too reminiscent of M$, and therefore created the term Mac to distinguish themselves completely from M$. We see this pattern again and again. Apple could've called their MP3 player an MP3 player, but decided to give it its (now well known) own name, "iPod."

I'm neither a Windows nor a Mac fanboy, but currently remain a Windows user only because of the variety of programs that run on Windows instead of Mac. I'm pretty sure we're both well aware of the problems with Windows (oh god Blue Screen of Death!!!), so here's my reasoning about the Mac side of computing...

I do appreciate the beauty and simplicity of design in the Mac both aesthetically and OS-wise. Much better than the ugly looking boxes that most Windows computers are housed in. The only problem is, for all my life, I've used a Windows PC, and many documents and stuff will be lost if I switch to Mac. Besides, Macs are a tad out of my price range, and I wouldn't utilize the Mac the way Apple intended it to be used, as an artist's computer. Another point that's both a flaw and an achievement is Apple's we'll-do-it-all-ourselves theology. They design or have a hand in designing everything about their computers from the housing down to the processor. Although this provides for seamless integration between the parts (and therefore less crashing), this also conversely means that the technology will advance slightly slower than on Windows PCs. In other words, processors on PCs are made not by M$, but by AMD and Intel. This provides for competition, which provides for one company striving to get ahead of the other, leading to accelerated technological advances. Apple, however, designs its own processor, meaning not as drastic technological advances simply because of a smaller pool of knowledge to draw from and not as much competition.

  • 02.28.2006 7:52 AM PDT
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Apple could've called their MP3 player an MP3 player, but decided to give it its (now well known) own name, "iPod."


That is nothing to do with it you blaming apple for giving there mp3 player a name. Why not blame dell for calling there computers dell instead of computers. And lets blame bungie for calling the game halo instead of game. Just because it falls under the catigory of MP3 play doesn't mean they can't give them a name.

I do have a windows computer but, I really don't care for it and I have used it only for gameing with games that arn't on mac. but I don't want to upgrade it when I can just buy the game for my mac it is pointless. If I do have to upgrade it I will make it good so I don't have to do it again.

  • 02.28.2006 1:19 PM PDT

It'd be a shame not to see Halo 2 on the Mac as well.

I'm sure that Bungie would love to do it, and are probably at this very moment trying to find a way.

  • 02.28.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xeniczone
Apple could've called their MP3 player an MP3 player, but decided to give it its (now well known) own name, "iPod."


That is nothing to do with it you blaming apple for giving there mp3 player a name. Why not blame dell for calling there computers dell instead of computers. And lets blame bungie for calling the game halo instead of game. Just because it falls under the catigory of MP3 play doesn't mean they can't give them a name.


Blame? This is the first time I've ever had to quote myself, but apparently you just don't get it. Reread my posts, and reread this line to yourself over and over again until you do get it down:

Posted by: me15ter
I'm neither a Windows nor a Mac fanboy, but currently remain a Windows user only because of the variety of programs that run on Windows instead of Mac. I'm pretty sure we're both well aware of the problems with Windows (oh god Blue Screen of Death!!!), so here's my reasoning about the Mac side of computing...

  • 02.28.2006 2:01 PM PDT
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Do you know why windows is the most popular OS? Because it has the largest selection of software available. That is how microsoft got so big. They didn't nescisarily make the best products, they just made sure alot of developers developed for thier platform. They also have a very good marketing department. Macs are better than PCs on stability, and aesthetics, but PCs have a much better selection of software. PCs also can have better technology in them. A much wider range of technology. Because of this, there is a much larger range of prices for PCs than for Macs. People can build their own PC, which is cheaper, but you can't really build your own Mac.

  • 02.28.2006 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Chewy Gumball
Macs are better than PCs on aesthetics


My new PC looks somuch better than any of those crappy looking macs with their wierd curvy lines and glossy whiteness.

  • 02.28.2006 2:25 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Yeah, remember, Bungie is now just a subsidiary company of M$. So they do as they're told. End of discusion. They wanted to make it big, so they sacrificed their creative freedom in doing so by selling out to the highest bidder.

For the 1000th time, you DON'T need a better PC to run Windows Vista. You just need a half-decent one is all. Minimum specs aren't that high for winV. Pretty much just need a ati radeon 9200 or Nvidia FX5200 for a vidcard, and the rest of the comp specs to support that.

Bungie is in NO WAY leading the 64bit revolution. That there is serious BS. AMD is the fore-front. They made the first 64bit cpu. They worked with M$ to release the first x64 edition of windows xp. And there's even a AMD64 based website (http://www.planetamd64.com/) So if anything it's AMD and its fans leading the 64bit revolution, everyone's just jumping in on the bandwagon just like I'm hoping H2PC will be, otherwise it would be in no way be taking advantage of WinV as they oh-so keep promising.

Btw, list of x64 compatible games.

Half Life 2
Half Life 2 Lost Coast (<<< CSS and DODS are still only 32bit)
Far Cry
UT2k4

Well, that I know of, those are it for windows-based games. I'm sure there's some Linux ones out there. I'm also uncertain wether Quake4 is x64 compatible as it does have a linux version, but just cause of that doesn't mean it is eh?

[Edited on 2/28/2006]

  • 02.28.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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What about the 64 bit G5 processors? I know that Apple is switching to 32 bit intel processors so does this mean that if Halo 2 comes out, it won't take advantage of the 64 bit computing capablities of the G5? I have an iMac G5 and I definitely want to be able to play Halo 2 even if I have to play it at 800x600 with everything off. Where does it say Halo 2 is coming out for PC? I think a year of not visiting this forum have kind of put me behind in where bungie is, development wise.

  • 02.28.2006 6:43 PM PDT
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Go check the front page, it's there. Might have to dig a bit in the News Archive, but you'll find it.

  • 02.28.2006 6:57 PM PDT
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I think Xeno and I are the only Mac users who voted. How sad. What kind of Mac do you have Xeno?

  • 02.28.2006 9:55 PM PDT

Posted by: ThE_MarD
Yeah, remember, Bungie is now just a subsidiary company of M$. So they do as they're told. End of discusion. They wanted to make it big, so they sacrificed their creative freedom in doing so by selling out to the highest bidder.

And you know this how?

Because, as far as I understand, Bungie still has creative freedom - Microsoft doesn't tell them what they have to do.

  • 03.01.2006 6:52 AM PDT
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But goweb, how do you know that? :P

  • 03.01.2006 7:58 AM PDT
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Microsoft can tell them what to do, but they don't seem like they are. Atleast not right now.

  • 03.01.2006 8:56 AM PDT

-S

Posted by: Xeniczone
You forget bungie was mac first why did they betray the macs. >:(

I HATE YOU!


1996 just called; it wants its pointless evangelism back.

[Edited on 3/1/2006]

  • 03.01.2006 9:25 AM PDT

Posted by: Spartan 012
But goweb, how do you know that? :P

From various posts I've seen here.

  • 03.01.2006 12:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Posted by: Xeniczone
You forget bungie was mac first why did they betray the macs. >:(

I HATE YOU!


1996 just called; it wants its pointless evangelism back.


NINJA'D!!!!!!!111

lol

aaaanyway... theres no havok for mac yet... so no halo 2...

  • 03.01.2006 1:00 PM PDT

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