- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Ho boy. Here goes a rant...
You basically started up a thread to get Bungie to lower the system reqs for H2PC. Impossible, for starters. They're not going to capitulate even to a forumwide revolt, and you're not going to get the entire forum to revolt, in any sense. The system specs are up to the needs and demands of the game producers, there's nothing you can really do about it. Besides, they didn't knock up H1PC, Gearbox did. Remember that? And seeing that a bungie-microsoft joint team is personally handling (not just overseeing) the conversion, it shouldn't be too much a problem this time around.
Looking over your specs, to be completely honest, an upgrade might help. Intel processors are known to waste computing power. Hence, an AMD core advertised with the "same" speed as an Intel core will operate at a faster speed than its Intel counterpart. As for your graphics card, I suggest upgrading that thing, especially for the up and coming games. H2PC won't be the only game that requires high-end system specs.
Oh, and as for your point about the Xbox, keep in mind that the Xbox is a computer dedicated to gaming. All other things like firewalls, AV systems, the OS and even things like spyware, etc, etc, all take up valuable computing power, wherase the Xbox runs the game and nothing but the game. So in other words, a computer with the exact same specs as an Xbox would likely run the game slower than its Xbox counterpart, since it's gotta run all that miscellaneous stuff in the background.
Oh, and that comment about not whining anymore. That's also an impossibility. There will always be SOMEONE out there who will complain about any given game, good or bad. Make a breakthrough in Survival games and people will call it too difficult. Create the most breathtakingly realistic flying simulator and people will call it unimaginative and boring. Convert H2Xbx in its original form into H2PC and people will find SOMETHING to complain about. In fact, I can see it now...people wondering why it took so long to convert, why it was meant for Vista anyways, or complaining how there's something wrong with the internet connection...
While I do think that there are unnegligible flaws in games (like H1PC's netcode for example), I also know that there will always be SOME flaw with the final product, and if not, someone will find a flaw with it.
[Edited on 4/16/2006]