- RidiculousX
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In my opinion, for all the console people, it should definately have support for the Xbox 360 Controller. I bought one just to use with my computer, and it is really cool. Tried it with Halo 1, and had a little trouble mapping the buttons, but it was still good (tip: assign the X button to action, don't set reload. They share the same button, but if you press action, reload will happen anyway) (go for that ten foot experience). And Halo 1 was using Direct Input or something, so the triggers both are mapped on the Z-axis, which creates a little bit of confusion when you press the Fire and Grenade triggers at the same time.
That, and they should support Co-Op.
And after seing how so much went wrong with Halo 1 multiplayer for PC, I don't think that they will make the same mistake. I mean, it wasn't even them for Halo 1. So I'm not too worried about Halo 2 for PC. Should be a lot like the Xbox version.
Now some rambling:
Halo 2 for Windows Vista is still probably going to be using DirectX 9. The DirectX 10 requirement will guarantee a minimum set of requrements. If you have DirectX 10 hardware, it is guaranteed to support all the features it says it has (except three, I don't remember what those three are, and it is subject to change). And it is guaranteed to be backwards compatible. Actually, I think Xbox uses DirectX 8, or maybe even 7. I don't know. Probably not 9. At least, not all the features of 9.
One problem that game developers will no longer have after making the switch to DirectX 10 is trying to figure out what the user's computer will support as far as features. Capabilities vary form computer to computer and the program has to check that the computer meets a specific set of requirements.
Also, Microsoft is moving Xbox Live functionality over to Windows, primarily Vista. So multi-player should be using a standard format that is similar to Xbox Live and other games for Vista (headsets and stuff). But that's still a long way off.
And Windows Vista will add a lot (maybe not that much) of specific features for games (namely the Game Explorer), but it will not make in game graphics or sound any better. A program will still only do what it is made to do.
But, I am so spokes person for Microsoft, so any accuracy of the above statements is probably nonexistent (to a certain extent).
[Edited on 7/1/2006]