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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: General Heed
Technically, Halo wasn't taken from PC gamers. It was taken from Mac Gamers. Halo was originally meant to be a Mac-exclusive RTS game. Then Microsoft came in a took Halo away from Mac users and forced Bungie to make Halo for the Xbox which in early stages was a third person shooter and finally a first person shooter. It's difficult to say how popular Halo would've been if Microsoft never stepped in. But the fact that there aren't really any popular Mac-exclusive games suggests that Halo would've never become popular.First off, it was never supposed to be a Mac exclusive. It was coming out for Windows PC as well. This is another case of you not really knowing all the information. When I say "PC gamers" I include Mac users because the Mac is a personal computer.
However, I think I know where these people are coming from. I don't necessarily agree with them, but I think their logic is that the pc versions of Halo were just simply ports and never meant to be a flagship game like the Xbox versions were. I don't agree with that, but I think that's what their thinking might be. It doesn't matter if they were ports or not. Halo: Combat Evolved PC was treated with the same sort of respect as a main game. If you would have been around in the beginning, you would have known that. Bungie even had many dedicated servers set up. There was a good bit of interaction as well. It wasn't like Halo 2 Vista where they even denied having anything to do with it. To anyone that was actually around during those times, they would know it wasn't anything short of a big deal for this community.
Posted by: Ben2974
The opposite also has to do a lot with fanboyism...based off of the responses I got here. Just sayin' :pAre you talking about us being fanboys over this situation? If so, that's completely ridiculous. In this situation, the fanboys are the people who only consider Halo games for the Xbox to be real Halo titles. I was wanting to be considered equal, not better than. That's like calling Martin Luther King Jr. a racist.
Yeah I missed the part about PC's. Also, Macs don't count as PC's, at least not in the eyes of Valve and other game developers. PC's and Macs are considered two different platforms according to Valve. When they announced Counter Strike: GO, they said it would be cross-platform compatible between the PC and Mac. Inititally it would've supported more platforms, but they announced it would only be cross-platform with PC and Mac now. They wouldn't have bothered categorizing games as PC games and Mac games on Steam if PCs and Macs were the same.
Like I said, I don't agree with the thinking that just because it's a port, it's not a real halo game. All I said was that I suspect that's what they might've been thinking.
You'd think that a Halo fan would try to collect every Halo game/merchandise possible... That's part of the reason why I got Halo 2 Vista, to collect all the Halo games. Other reasons included getting achievements and being able to private chat with my xbox live friends while on the PC. Plus, I wanted to enjoy the Halo 2 campaign in HD on the go.