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Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: Ben2974
So the truth comes out at last.
xD
That's what I've been saying this entire time! You just weren't listening! :(


I interpreted that as a general comparison. My bad.

  • 04.08.2012 8:41 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.

Yeah, there's really no reason why the best Halo game in the entire series shouldn't be held as high as the rest of the games.

  • 04.08.2012 1:51 PM PDT

its beacuse xbox is simpler,funner(unless mods)more cozy,bigger screen,and it was on xbox first and personally i prefer xbox but i want to beat h2 vista and i had to buy a xbox controller and i ened up playing it on my tv with some nerd cable anyway not trying to annoy yal i just want to know if you guys have a link or explantion to mr mohawk because every link i get it ays oops

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  • 04.08.2012 4:59 PM PDT

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lol @ Dusk and DON's statements.

wow i'm funny

  • 04.08.2012 5:01 PM PDT
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At Don: Are you sure you're old enough to be playing M rated games?

  • 04.08.2012 5:43 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: DON CAPALCHEY
its beacuse xbox is simpler,funner(unless mods)more cozy,bigger screen,and it was on xbox first and personally i prefer xbox but i want to beat h2 vista and i had to buy a xbox controller and i ened up playing it on my tv with some nerd cable anyway not trying to annoy yal i just want to know if you guys have a link or explantion to mr mohawk because every link i get it ays oops

Could you re-post that in English? Not trying to annoy you, but most of us here don't speak retard. This isn't the Reach forums, after all.

  • 04.08.2012 11:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

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Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

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Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Posted by: DusK
Could you re-post that in English? Not trying to annoy you, but most of us here don't speak retard. This isn't the Reach forums, after all.


His post reminds me of the one time I ever spelled grammar as "grammer" on the internet. I was corrected, and have never spelled it that way again.

  • 04.09.2012 2:27 AM PDT
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His post reminds me of the one time I ever spelled grammar as "grammer" on the internet. I was corrected, and have never spelled it that way again.
Now you know...

  • 04.09.2012 8:51 AM PDT

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I think Halo 2 is more known for multiplayer because it had Xbox Live backing it. That automatically gave it a larger community. Halo 2 was kind of the flagship game for Xbox Live. Now it's true Halo PC had multiplayer before Halo 2, however, it's not quite the same as Halo 2's multiplayer. I'm sure you'd agree that Halo 1 PC's multiplayer is different than Halo 2's. The main difference is matchmaking. It seems console gamers prefer a matchmaking system over server lists. What effect that has overall the popularity of the game is debatable. But since Halo started on Xbox, it's only logical that its main fanbase would be console gamers.

There's also the fact that Halo 1 PC's release wasn't as hyped or well marketed as Halo 2's was. There was no big worldwide launch with tons of parties and celebrities for Halo 1 PC.

As for Halo 3's Forge, the one advantage it has over Halo PC's map editing tools is simplicity. It's easy enough that anyone can pick it up. People can express their creativity without needing prior knowledge on map design and 3D modelling, especially with Halo 2 Vista's map editor. Basically, Halo 3's Forge enabled more players than ever before to participate in map creation, even if the tools are technically limited.

In terms of Forge, it was also sometimes fun to have Forge battles with friends, something not possible in Halo 1 PC.

Those are just my opinions as to why Halo 2 and Halo 3 are more well known Halo games than Halo 1 PC.

  • 04.10.2012 10:02 PM PDT


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Posted by: DusK
Could you re-post that in English? Not trying to annoy you, but most of us here don't speak retard. This isn't the Reach forums, after all.


His post reminds me of the one time I ever spelled grammar as "grammer" on the internet. I was corrected, and have never spelled it that way again.


they say the invention of the internet has decreased the amount of time people remember stuff, but it does have the ability to make you really remember some trivial -blam!- for life.

  • 04.10.2012 10:59 PM PDT


Posted by: Ben2974

Posted by: Dr Syx
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How do you guys feel about this? Is this something that purely doesn't matter or is it something that gets under your skin as well? Should Halo PC get more recognition than it does? Should it be set aside and forgotten? Will Timmy get out of the well in time before he dies of hunger?


I'm really an all-around gamer. I don't think it matters, and it shouldn't matter. The fact that Halo PC is doing so well for its age just goes to show that it doesn't need any more recognition than it already has. And yeah, xbox is not PC, and PC is not xbox.

First, we don't care if you're an "all-around gamer". Second, if you don't think it matters, than why are you posting nonsense? You're missing the point, so please don't bother.

  • 04.11.2012 12:28 AM PDT
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Heed, you're completely missing the point of the thread. We're not discussing why Halo 2 was "more popular" than Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC. We're discussing whether or not it's right to dismiss Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC just because it's on the PC platform.

  • 04.11.2012 11:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Heed, you're completely missing the point of the thread. We're not discussing why Halo 2 was "more popular" than Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC. We're discussing whether or not it's right to dismiss Halo: Combat Evolved for the PC just because it's on the PC platform.


I don't think it was necessarily dismissed. Rather it was just never as popular as its Xbox counterparts.

  • 04.12.2012 12:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: TheeNocturnal

Posted by: Ben2974

Posted by: Dr Syx
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How do you guys feel about this? Is this something that purely doesn't matter or is it something that gets under your skin as well? Should Halo PC get more recognition than it does? Should it be set aside and forgotten? Will Timmy get out of the well in time before he dies of hunger?


I'm really an all-around gamer. I don't think it matters, and it shouldn't matter. The fact that Halo PC is doing so well for its age just goes to show that it doesn't need any more recognition than it already has. And yeah, xbox is not PC, and PC is not xbox.

First, we don't care if you're an "all-around gamer". Second, if you don't think it matters, than why are you posting nonsense? You're missing the point, so please don't bother.


First, I never asked you to care. Second, I'm posting an opinion which is a direct response to Syx's opinionated questions. I can't believe how much rage you built with my response.

  • 04.12.2012 12:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: General Heed
I don't think it was necessarily dismissed. Rather it was just never as popular as its Xbox counterparts.
It is being dismissed when people like DeeJ say Halo 3 was the first time the Halo community was given the hammer and anvil. It is being dismissed when someone claims the first time Halo was officially played online was with Halo 2. It doesn't matter how popular it was or wasn't. They're talking about "first" and Halo PC was first for both. That isn't open for opinions. It's absolute fact.

Also, it seems most people think Halo PC wasn't popular. This isn't true at all. In fact, back in 2004, it was the top played game on Xfire. That's something. There used be a lot of stuff happening with Halo PC with a large community around it. Saying it wasn't popular enough to be noted as much as its Xbox counter parts isn't just.

You ought to look at this. There are 106 pages of Halo Custom Edition maps there. That's 2,109 custom maps on that website alone. The english version of Halo Custom Edition was downloaded 1,018,457 times from this one website. The copies of Halo: Combat Evolved PC are at least 10x greater than that as well. That may not be as popular but it's nothing to shrug at. That is still very popular.

[Edited on 04.12.2012 2:53 PM PDT]

  • 04.12.2012 2:43 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Syx, DusK and Btcc22...do you guys ever play together on Halo PC?

  • 04.12.2012 3:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Super PolarBear
Syx, DusK and Btcc22...do you guys ever play together on Halo PC?
I play with Btcc22 every now and then. I can't really recall a time I've played with DusK, though. We need to have another game night. :D

  • 04.12.2012 3:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: General Heed
I don't think it was necessarily dismissed. Rather it was just never as popular as its Xbox counterparts.
It is being dismissed when people like DeeJ say Halo 3 was the first time the Halo community was given the hammer and anvil. It is being dismissed when someone claims the first time Halo was officially played online was with Halo 2. It doesn't matter how popular it was or wasn't. They're talking about "first" and Halo PC was first for both. That isn't open for opinions. It's absolute fact.

Also, it seems most people think Halo PC wasn't popular. This isn't true at all. In fact, back in 2004, it was the top played game on Xfire. That's something. There used be a lot of stuff happening with Halo PC with a large community around it. Saying it wasn't popular enough to be noted as much as its Xbox counter parts isn't just.

You ought to look at this. There are 106 pages of Halo Custom Edition maps there. That's 2,109 custom maps on that website alone. The english version of Halo Custom Edition was downloaded 1,018,457 times from this one website. The copies of Halo: Combat Evolved PC are at least 10x greater than that as well. That may not be as popular but it's nothing to shrug at. That is still very popular.


Ah I see what you mean now. I still stand by the belief that awareness of the history of Halo 1 PC was due to a significant amount of marketing and hype by Microsoft. I don't think people intentionally dismiss Halo 1 PC. I think they're just simply not aware of what Halo 1 PC had to offer before the Xbox version.

In fact, we can bring Halo 2 Vista into this as well. Halo 2 Vista was the first Halo game to have Achievements and support HD resolutions and the new Xbox Live architecture which is why Halo 2 survived the shutdown of the original xbox live servers. You could say people dismiss Halo 2 Vista as well.

I'm very positive these dismissals are due to lack of awareness from the lack of marketing. In the past, whenever I signed onto Halo 2 PC, my Xbox Live friends would always send me messages asking me what Halo 2 PC was because they've never heard of it before. In fact, most of them weren't even aware of the existence of Games For Windows Live. They were even more surprised when they learned Xbox Live is free on the PC.

You can't really blame the people dismissing the PC versions of Halo. It's really Microsoft's fault for not investing more on marketing and increasing product awareness.

  • 04.12.2012 9:43 PM PDT
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Heed, you completely over looked what I said and continue with your argument. I said I'm talking specifically about people who do know and dismiss it because it's on PC. No one is arguing people don't know that it exists. People like DeeJ definitely do know that Halo PC exists.

Also, Halo: Combat Evolved PC was the first Halo to support HD, not Halo 2 Vista.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 12:55 AM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 12:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Heed, you completely over looked what I said and continue with your argument. I said I'm talking specifically about people who do know and dismiss it because it's on PC. No one is arguing people don't know that it exists. People like DeeJ definitely do know that Halo PC exists.

Also, Halo: Combat Evolved PC was the first Halo to support HD, not Halo 2 Vista.


As long as there is ambiguity in the article in regards to the domain of the "community", you can't give clean judgement. As far as I know, after skimming through the "Bungie Rides Along with Blueprint", it seems the community they were talking about is the xbox community. Therefore, Halo pc and H2PC are completely excluded from the achievements because they are not part of the community.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 8:44 AM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 8:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ben2974
As long as there is ambiguity in the article in regards to the domain of the "community", you can't give clean judgement. As far as I know, after skimming through the "Bungie Rides Along with Blueprint", it seems the community they were talking about is the xbox community. Therefore, Halo pc and H2PC are completely excluded from the achievements because they are not part of the community.
Flatly saying "The community" makes me feel that he was talking about the Halo community in general. If he meant the Xbox community specifically that helps out what I meant by people just dismissing the PC version of Combat Evolved as though it doesn't exist. They should not be excluded just because it's not on Xbox. It's just as much a part of this community as any other Halo.

In fact, I want to point this out as well: We were the original Halo community. Before the game released ages ago, we were the ones that were waiting. We were the people hyped for this game to come into existence. It was ripped out of our hands by Microsoft. Many PC gamers are still hurt by that happening. Separating Xbox and PC Halo communities isn't right. We're all equal.

(As for the Microsoft/Bungie thing, I understand why it happened. If they wouldn't have signed the deal Bungie would have probably gone under and so would have Halo. It's ultimately good that it happened but that doesn't change the hurt that caused to Bungie's original audience.)

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  • 04.13.2012 8:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: Ben2974
As long as there is ambiguity in the article in regards to the domain of the "community", you can't give clean judgement. As far as I know, after skimming through the "Bungie Rides Along with Blueprint", it seems the community they were talking about is the xbox community. Therefore, Halo pc and H2PC are completely excluded from the achievements because they are not part of the community.
Flatly saying "The community" makes me feel that he was talking about the Halo community in general. If he meant the Xbox community specifically that helps out what I meant by people just dismissing the PC version of Combat Evolved as though it doesn't exist. They should not be excluded just because it's not on Xbox. It's just as much a part of this community as any other Halo.


You have to choose one of the two communities, Syx.

  • 04.13.2012 9:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ben2974
You have to choose one of the two communities, Syx.
No I don't? I was saying that IF he was in fact talking about the Xbox community when flatly saying "our community", he would be dismissing the PC community by not even distinguishing the two. I do think he meant the community as a whole, though.

In fact, in the quote, he says "our community". If he does mean just the Xbox community then I guess the original Bungie community is being disowned like a bastard child.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 9:55 AM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 9:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: Ben2974
You have to choose one of the two communities, Syx.
No I don't? I was saying that IF he was in fact talking about the Xbox community and flatly saying "the community", he would be dismissing the PC community by not even distinguishing the two. I do think he meant the community as a whole, though.


I wouldn't have thought it necessary to distinguish between the two in an article concerning a specific community (xbox). Within a specific community of the domain, is "the community." So within the xbox, "the community" consists of Halo 1 for xbox, Halo 2 for the xbox, Halo 3 and Reach (even Hwars). Now the question is if his article suggests otherwise, which I do not think.

  • 04.13.2012 10:09 AM PDT
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I corrected what I said. He said "our community" not "the community". Our community would mean Bungie's community so that means I could even state that he's forgetting Marathon, Myth, Halo: Combat Evolved PC, and Halo 2 Vista.

This is also only part of what I'm talking about. I've run into several people who do in fact disregard Halo PC because it wasn't on the Xbox. Saying that it doesn't count.

[Edited on 04.13.2012 10:45 AM PDT]

  • 04.13.2012 10:44 AM PDT