- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Chewy Gumball
99% of the people who buy H2V won't be buying it to mod. They will see the custom content as a bonus but won't actually try it, or won't get deep enough to even try SP. There will probably be only a few, mostly the HCE modders, that would try SP stuff in the beginning.
So Microsoft's target market, now that they've excluded the tinker/Halo enthusiast crowd, is people who want to play Halo 2 again, only with a mouse and keyboard this time.
The kiddie fanbois already have Halo 2, in their kiddie console environment. Serious PC shooter types will, as I've said, take one look, laugh, and move on.
It's Halo PC all over again, only much much worse.
Plus, you can just wait for Prom to come out.
Oh come on, Prometheus is the Duke Nukem Forever of mod tools. Hell I first made that quip about it last year.
By the time they actually release it, we'll all be busy pointing out the flaws in Halo 4 PC.
Are you going to buy it because you want to make singleplayer stuff, or because you might want to make a simple map, and play on other peoples custom maps?
Just about all of the custom MP maps I've seen for Halo have been crap. Maybee I'm spoiled by all the superb custom maps for UT, many of which exceed Bungie's mapping by a mile, but they have mostly been crap.
I can totally understand, give one set of gamers the HEK, and the other set UnrealEd, and of course a spanking will occurr.