Halo 1 & 2 for PC
This topic has moved here: Subject: Halo 2 for Windows Vista
  • Subject: Halo 2 for Windows Vista
  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • of 4
Subject: Halo 2 for Windows Vista
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Moderator Notice: This user has been blacklisted from this forum. Until the user is removed from the blacklist, all posts this user has made have been hidden, and all topics created by this user have been censored.
  • 10.23.2006 11:55 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Many of your questions are answered in the Halo 2 Vista FAQ.

Bungie/Microsoft seems to be developing in house this time, so no miscommunications should occur like last time on HPC, but we really can't say how good or bad a port it is until it comes out. There are also some screenshots in the H2V section of the website. From the older ones to the newer ones you can see progression in the look of the port. These are not of the finished product, though, so it may turn out to be much better than what is shown even now. Hope that answered your questions.

Also, there is a friendly sticky about H2V at the top of the Maw.

[Edited on 10/23/2006]

  • 10.23.2006 12:19 PM PDT

Join the MAW Clan
X-fire username:Iggwilv
My Real Avatar

Bungie is doing it with a team from Microsoft to help. They have confirmed there will be new maps not found in Halo2Xbox. Unknown about the weapons. Yes the graphics should be a lot better.

Your friends didn't like HaloPC because it had bad netcode and required you to lead your shots including close range in order to hit. This was frustrating and took time to get used but if you stuck with it the gameplay was alright. I doubt there will be that same lag issue in H2V.

  • 10.23.2006 12:27 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Iggwilv
I doubt there will be that same lag issue in H2V.


If there is I will go into MS and open up a can o' Whup ass on Bill Gates. Right before I get piledrived by the bodygaurds.

  • 10.23.2006 2:16 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: iholdpopspocket
Alright good, it's nice to know it's being developed in house. Hopefully it's better than Halo 2 on Xbox (which would be incredibly EASY to do) but we'll see I guess.


Fixed it for ya'

  • 10.23.2006 2:46 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I hate it when people say H2 sucks because it doesn't. It just has a different style of play. So don't go changing words that do NOT need to be changed.

  • 10.23.2006 2:56 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Armageddon91
If there is I will go into MS and open up a can o' Whup ass on Bill Gates. Right before I get piledrived by the bodygaurds.


Bill Gates resigned....

  • 10.23.2006 2:58 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Armageddon91
I hate it when people say H2 sucks because it doesn't. It just has a different style of play. So don't go changing words that do NOT need to be changed.

Yup, and your opinion is more credible than others because...?

  • 10.23.2006 4:15 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Bill Gates retiring? YESSSSSS! Finally, Bungie will be free of the menacing Darth Gates![/sarcasm]
My ass. He might officially retire, but he'll still run M$. You'll see. You'll ALL see. MUAHAHAHAHA!

  • 10.23.2006 4:43 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I see many people here get fact and opinion mixed up.

  • 10.23.2006 8:55 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Opinion: A fact created in a person's mind.
Fact: An opinion that is widely accepted as the truth.

  • 10.23.2006 10:01 PM PDT

Join the MAW Clan
X-fire username:Iggwilv
My Real Avatar

OK listen up. Bill Gates hasn't run Microsoft in over 5 years. He handed day to day control over to steve Ballmer a long time ago. He is now focused on the Gates Foundation and giving away the majority of the wealth he has made. Which is a good thing. He is still on the board and still has a say in things, ( a very big say) but he n longer calls the shots. Ballmer has always scared me, he is an arrogant SOB and I wouldn't trust him with my garbage.

As for Halo2 being better then than the original Halo. Not a chance. And I'm not knocking the Halo2 team, but you cannot hope to surpass something that changed the face of gaming. I always wonder that if Halo was released on the PC what would have happened. Half-life was the reigning game in 2000 and 2001. You play those two games side by side no contest. Halo Combat Evolved was made with Bungie's heart. You can see it. Halo2 was made with Halo's money. It didn't measure up. On a positive note, from looking on the Halo3 boards I see some encouraging signs. I'm hoping Halo3 will put a positive finish on a great story. Halo 3 will tie everything up and give us what we crave. Closure. The Chief will finish the fight. OK drunken monologue over.

[Edited on 10/23/2006]

  • 10.23.2006 11:16 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

The whole MS bust thing was a joke guys. Plus I didn't know Bill didnt run MS anymore, sorry for being stupid.

Sorry about the flame but so many people say H2 sucks but it doesn't. Yea H1 is probably better (depending on what gamestyle you like) but H2 doesnt suck. Its like saying Hockey is better than Football so Football sucks. Its all opinion and what you like in a game. H1 is more about aim and percision with weapons. H2 is way more strategic, power weapons (sword, BR, Rocket, ect.), and it you don't have to have the best aim to win.

  • 10.23.2006 11:46 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Boo_Diddly
Opinion: A fact created in a person's mind.
Fact: An opinion that is widely accepted as the truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion

An opinion is a person's ideas and thoughts towards something. It is an assessment, judgment or evaluation of something. An opinion is not a fact, because opinions are either not falsifiable, or the opinion has not been proven or verified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact

A statement of fact or a factual claim is a statement that is presented as an accurate representation of a situation, event, or condition, and that is capable of being either proved or disproved.

If a factual claim is incorrect, then it is called a mistake or an error (if the person making the statement believed it to be correct) or a lie (if the person making the statement did not believe it). A factual claim shown to be correct through examination is accepted as being supported. A factual claim that was believed to be true may later shown to be false (disproved), and a factual claim believed to have been disproved may later be shown to be true. A fact that was once a fact and hence becomes disproven may once again become a fact if the factual evidence supporting its validity becomes increasingly factual in light of new and, ultimately, factual evidence. Supporting evidence may become realised for a fact long after the fact itself was first established and, thus, a factual claim must be as fact once the Popperian elements of falsification have been exhausted - a process that never ends - to end with a fact accepted in the social. A belief that cannot be proved or disproved is an opinion.

End of story.

  • 10.24.2006 3:38 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: iholdpopspocket
The question was not whether Halo 2 was better than Halo:CE; Everyone knows Halo 2 is better.

AHAHAHAHahahhAhahahAHAhAHHAhahHAhahaHAhahAHAHah!

Oh God... that was hilarious. Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder.

AAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHAAHAHAAAAHAHA!!!!

  • 10.24.2006 3:41 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

No no, this was my favorite part:
Posted by: Armageddon91
Sorry about the flame but so many people say H2 sucks but it doesn't. Yea H1 is probably better (depending on what gamestyle you like) but H2 doesnt suck. Its like saying Hockey is better than Football so Football sucks. Its all opinion and what you like in a game.

Oxymoron anyone?

  • 10.24.2006 3:54 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
No no, this was my favorite part:
Posted by: Armageddon91
Sorry about the flame but so many people say H2 sucks but it doesn't. Yea H1 is probably better (depending on what gamestyle you like) but H2 doesnt suck. Its like saying Hockey is better than Football so Football sucks. Its all opinion and what you like in a game.

Oxymoron anyone?


Sorry bout that. Not thinking at the time :P

*Deep Breath*

The Fact is that H1 and H2 are different. Bear with me here.

Halo 1: The better marksman wins- In H1 if you are really good with a pistol then you can take on three other semi-good players at the same time and win.

Halo 2: The better team player wins- There is no way you can take on 3 guys with one BR and win (unless they have no brain stem). I.E. H2 is more about team play. One of the Ogres said this in an interview but I forgot where it is :P

Conclusion: H1 is different than H2. H1 doesnt "suck" and H2 doesnt "suck." So lets just go have fun play Halo. Whether it be H1 or H2

BTW, I am not replying again to feed the flames of this thread.

[Edited on 10/24/2006]

  • 10.24.2006 7:14 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Halo 1 = Skill
Halo 2 = Noob weapon whoring

When playing halo 2 in a match, 2v2 or such, all you have the RL, sword and sniper.

I don't see what the point in the UNBELIEVEABLE auto aim is, you practically never ever ever miss with the sniper.

The reason that halo 2 is classed as strategic, is because there is no aiming, all palyers are equal and therefore all yuo have is luck of starting spawn and enemy stupidity.

  • 10.24.2006 8:18 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Although I must agree with Nessy, that doesn't mean you can't have fun and enjoy Halo 2. At least I can, despite the fact that it's never as satisfying as getting a kill in the first Halo, which takes significantly more skill to get than in the second game. That's why I play Halo PC more than Halo 2.

  • 10.24.2006 11:40 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Master Kim
Although I must agree with Nessy, that doesn't mean you can't have fun and enjoy Halo 2. At least I can, despite the fact that it's never as satisfying as getting a kill in the first Halo, which takes significantly more skill to get than in the second game. That's why I play Halo PC more than Halo 2.


Took the words right out of my mouth.

Plus,the XBL population makes Runescape's look like responsible adults. I was tired of being called a "nub" for thinking that using BXR doesn't take skill, and that the BR is not the only weapon on the game.

Oh yah, I was also accused of modding for getting kills with a needler...

  • 10.24.2006 3:48 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: darekster2ongame
Plus,the XBL population makes Runescape's look like responsible adults.

Sig'd.

Sorry, me15ter, but I don't have enough room for your quote. :(

[Edited on 10/24/2006]

  • 10.24.2006 6:25 PM PDT

  • Pages:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • of 4