Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: I wonder why...

As my Halo 2 cravings return, I think to myself "hey! They have a pc version of halo 2! Why don't I just go buy and download that from the marketplace". Halo 2, being one of the biggest xbox games in the brand's history, is still available on the pc yet microsoft is burying it under the crapware it has on it's store (cause everyone is just DYING to play Silent Hunter 5).

I don't see why Microsoft isn't putting Halo 1 and 2 on pc digital distribution and supporting it fully (seeing as Valve is thriving while Marketplace is second string). The Halo and Gears series is Microsoft's bread and butter when it comes to their game studios yet they're to busy kissing Activision's feet to notice that there is still a community that wants classic Halo (I know anniversary edition is coming out, but I mean pure classic untouched Halo) and the PC is a perfect place for that.

  • 07.29.2011 11:21 AM 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.

Halo 2 is a really really bad port. Microsoft wants it buried. That's the simple answer.

  • 07.29.2011 11:26 AM PDT

That makes sense, it's just a such a shame that a classic game didn't turn out so well.

  • 07.29.2011 11:29 AM PDT


Posted by: DusK
Halo 2 is a really really bad port. Microsoft wants it buried. That's the simple answer.


This. Even if it was not a bad port, the game was horrible anyway. It might have been "classic", but that doesnt mean it was good.

Built in aimbot FTW! (sarcasm)

  • 07.29.2011 11:49 AM PDT

The quality of the game is subjective to the person playing, while I agree the auto-aim was a bit to much, aspects like that could have been easily dissected from the game. Rather than a port, I wish they optimized it for PC. With the talent in today's industry, there is no excuse for not optimizing a game based on the platform it's delivered on.

  • 07.29.2011 12:08 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: seized7x
The quality of the game is subjective to the person playing, while I agree the auto-aim was a bit to much, aspects like that could have been easily dissected from the game. Rather than a port, I wish they optimized it for PC. With the talent in today's industry, there is no excuse for not optimizing a game based on the platform it's delivered on.

There's no word to describe this post other than "correct." As much as I despise H2 in all of its current iterations, if they had taken that approach with the port, I'd be a Halo 2 player today.

  • 07.29.2011 9:15 PM PDT

Halo Reach PC über alles!

It is because they don't understand, they have confused the standards of console players to the standards of PC gamers. They thought that PC gamers would gladly shell out $60/month for a service of which all the features were already available to them free of charge (for a long time I might add.) They also made the mistake of thinking that PC gamers wouldn't bother with trying to modify the game further than making custom maps using the items and obstacles that they provided, so the map editor ended up not living up to the standard of Halo 1's editor (which was already low to begin with in comparison to games such as those made by valve.)


But then, another reason lies with the bogus requirement to have Windows Vista installed. And while the OS wasn't necessarily bad (although UAC was annoying at times it could easily be turned off.) the amount of mainstream media criticizing it and the amount of everyday consumers receiving problems with it (mainly due to their machines being underspec) was overwhelming (so much so that M$ decided to wait until systems meeting the requirement were more common before releasing an OS that is almost exactly like it, but that is beside the point.) And considering most casuals at the time ran XP, they couldn't run Halo 2 because they were too afraid to take the risk of buying Vista.


But ultimately it wouldn't have helped them, for the noobifications of H2X were still present. As were the outdated graphics (all they really did was resize the textures and formatted it in widescreen, but to be fair it probably couldn't have been helped considering the size of their development team.) Although I do think Microsoft is starting to gain an understanding of what PC gamers want, considering they stopped charging for GFWL, they still have a long way to go if they ever want to be taken seriously in the PC gaming market.


In conclusion, Microsoft doesn't even want to acknowledge the fact that Halo 2 Vista even existed let alone that it was a mistake, (hence their cutting the support cycle only a year after it came out.) But I can guarantee you that if tomorrow they addressed these issues head on and tried to revive Halo 2, then and only then will there ever be a decent community of people frequently playing H2V.

  • 07.30.2011 1:10 AM PDT
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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.


Posted by: DusK
Halo 2 is a really really bad port. Microsoft wants it buried. That's the simple answer.

Yeah, DusK. You get it. MS knows gamers can be pushed around. They can sit and say nothing and wait for us to forget. Sucks. There is life after Halo, though. You know this better than anyone.

  • 07.30.2011 3:32 AM PDT

This post is very insightful and full of win.

  • 07.30.2011 9:23 AM PDT