Would you be interested by Halo 3 for PC ?

[BladeVenom]

I have. There's the bad graphics, the disliked ending, and the fact that some players have been able to get through the game on the hardest level in 6 hours. But other than that...

 

[imported_Imp]

I played Halo 1 on PC, and it was pretty standard. Halo, while not trash, is pure marketing done brilliantly by Microsoft. They needed a franchise/mascot, and they got one to hype up a game far beyond what is deserves. I got nothing against this, but I wouldnt buy Halo 3.... didn't even get Halo 2.

 

[PingSpike]

I guess I don't get the purpose of the halo series on PC. It comes out like 3 years to late and requires a super computer to output graphics that weren't anything special when it came out on the console. Meanwhile, there's other games out that run and look better while doing the same things. It'd be a passable title if the port performed ok, it came out in a reasonable amount of time and it didn't have so many arbitrary limitations. But its just not worth the effort when there are other games out there that do it so much better.

I don't really know why microsoft bothers to release it on PC. I almost think they purposely cripple the games performance on the PC as some sort of round about way to try and prove their console is superior. I mean, there's really no excuse for the games poor performance...its not like its to hard to port an original xbox game to PC running windows...since the original xbox pretty much was a PC running windows. And a slow one by todays standards, at that! I know some one will say "Oh, but the xbox was running a stripped down version of windows...so its more efficient." The xbox has a 700mhz celeron, a geforce3 and 64mb of ram. How many resources is full blown windows wasting?

Its certainly clear who Microsoft's favored gaming child is, and its not the PC.

 

[foolfromhell]

Forge is what Halo sets it self apart from any PC online game.
4 online Single player campaign
Easy to use save game-play feature
So many online muti-player game modes
Then halo 3 lets you create your own game mode :! you can create a gamemode which lets you change the total physic of gameplay like add no gravity and ect.

What was that?

There are atleast 100x as many game types with Counter-Strike Source ALONE compared to Halo 3! And CS: S was released in 2004. Modding is what makes PC gaming great. Zombiemod? Gungame? Extended maps? 100% custom maps? Many custom maps are better than the official maps.

With Halo? What was that? Oh yes. You are LOCKED down to what Bungie releases. You PAY for extra maps. You PAY for online play. You are restricted with a controller, which is DAMN slow compared with almost any PC FPS. You are 100% reliant on Microsoft and what they want with their game. Of course, Steam is a bit more restrictive than other types of PC games, but its infinitely better than consoles.

And, HL2 and CS: S graphics from 2004 still outclass most things in Halo 3.

And, wtf? Forge?

BIG DAMN DEAL. You can add stuff here and there...

Its not even a full map editor. Its merely a placement tool. it has been in PC games for over a DECADE. Thats right. a DECADE.

Id rather not invest $400+ on a console that cant even play RTSes...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Sraaz

Originally posted by: NaOH
Wow, the ignorance/elitism is strong in this thread.

::slowly backs out::

Translation: Fuck! They're right!

Console forum spinoff of this thread (your basic PC gamers are elitist geeks discussion by only the 2nd reply)

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Console forum spinoff of this thread (your basic PC gamers are elitist geeks discussion by only the 2nd reply)

Yup, I posted a lengthy reply on page 2

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Hehe, I bitch about Halo 3 on the internet for how much of a cliche it is, but it's actually very fun to play in RL. And I'm decent at it. One of the things Halo does have in its arcadey arena-style play is good moments. Last night at a buddy's house, my friends and I were messing around figuring out the controls and the new weapons. I picked up one of those big blue plasma bomb things. One of my friends was charging me with a Warthog to splatter me down. I rolled the bomb out in front of me, it exploded upon colliding with the car, and the Warthog flipped backwards with my friend in it. I then threw a grenade at the tumbling wreck and it all exploded, buddy and all. Now that was funny. There plenty more of those moments, too.

Halo is basically a consolized, small-scale Battlefield-Quake clone, but it's still fun. I just don't understand the praise it gets. It simply must be from 12-year-olds who've never heard of Quake or Battlefield.

 

[AzN]

So I hear Halo 3 has high marks but from my past experience Halo 1 or 2 wasn't all that and they both had high rated reviews. I played it online too but it's no better than any other FPS for PC. I don't have a 360 so I don't care for Halo 3. I'm not getting a 360 that's for sure. If they release it for the pc than I would probably play it. I'm not obsessed with it like I am with BF2.

 

[Piuc2020]

Has anyone played Marathon? Now THAT was a revolutionary game and Bungie miserably failed to live up to the heritage of Marathon with Halo which is its spiritual successor.

Of course Marathon was a Mac exclusive and was released in 1994 so most people don't know about it... heck I have more fun playing Marathon in both single and multiplayer than I do playing Halo.

Like I said, most overrated game in gaming history, basically every high-profile shooter on the PC is better than Halo 2 yet none get the attention Halo does... why?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
Has anyone played Marathon? Now THAT was a revolutionary game and Bungie miserably failed to live up to the heritage of Marathon with Halo which is its spiritual successor.

Of course Marathon was a Mac exclusive and was released in 1994 so most people don't know about it... heck I have more fun playing Marathon in both single and multiplayer than I do playing Halo.

Like I said, most overrated game in gaming history, basically every high-profile shooter on the PC is better than Halo 2 yet none get the attention Halo does... why?

:thumbsup:

I was born and raised on Marathon 2: Durandal and probably wouldn't be a gamer today without it. Halo was the game I was looking forward to more than anything in 1999 and it's changed engines, genre, and platform so many times there is no surprise the final product was an abortion. A lot of the concepts (Master Chief's design, AI rampancy, the weapons, the enemies, and even the storyline a bit) were even borrowed outright from the Marathon trilogy to fill Halo a bit more. A real shame that Bungie has been on such a decline ever since Microsoft bought them out. I'm not a Microsoft or X-Box hater, but I'm still a little pissed off about it.

 

[exdeath]

Everyone that I have met that is crazy about Halo is between the ages of 12-18 and personally owns every Fast and the Furious movie on DVD.

/thread

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
Has anyone played Marathon? Now THAT was a revolutionary game and Bungie miserably failed to live up to the heritage of Marathon with Halo which is its spiritual successor.

Of course Marathon was a Mac exclusive and was released in 1994 so most people don't know about it... heck I have more fun playing Marathon in both single and multiplayer than I do playing Halo.

Like I said, most overrated game in gaming history, basically every high-profile shooter on the PC is better than Halo 2 yet none get the attention Halo does... why?

:thumbsup:

I was born and raised on Marathon 2: Durandal and probably wouldn't be a gamer today without it. Halo was the game I was looking forward to more than anything in 1999 and it's changed engines, genre, and platform so many times there is no surprise the final product was an abortion. A lot of the concepts (Master Chief's design, AI rampancy, the weapons, the enemies, and even the storyline a bit) were even borrowed outright from the Marathon trilogy to fill Halo a bit more. A real shame that Bungie has been on such a decline ever since Microsoft bought them out. I'm not a Microsoft or X-Box hater, but I'm still a little pissed off about it.

Also a fan of Marathon. Im actually a long time fan of Bungie in general, I started with Pathways into Darkness on a Powermac I had. You can download Marathon for windows somewhere and I think theres also fan made hi-res textures. I wish they didn't get rid of the music in Marathon 2 though. They should have brought back the BOBs in Halo too.

 

[Wheelock]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
I just don't understand the praise it gets. It simply must be from 12-year-olds who've never heard of Quake or Battlefield.

:thumbsup: If Moses had come down from the mountain in September of 2007, that's what he would have said.

 

[Judgement]

Only if it got good reviews and was in the bargain bin shortly after being released.

 

[tigersty1e]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
I don't get it - how can playing Halo not feel slow to people when they play it? To me, it feels like playing an FPS underwater.

Agreed. Especially when you float in the air (err... I mean jump)

Master Cheif is just liesurely jogging around the map.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
I don't get it - how can playing Halo not feel slow to people when they play it? To me, it feels like playing an FPS underwater.

Agreed. Especially when you float in the air (err... I mean jump)

Master Cheif is just liesurely jogging around the map.

I like how people say, as an excuse for the slow game play, that having to "hold and wait" to turn around makes it more realistic than being able to instantly swap ends with the flick of a wrist and acquire your aggressor ASAP...

I don't know about anybody else, but if someone is shooting at me from behind in real life, I can turn around pretty damn quick... like instantly... I don't sit there and shuffle in place for 3 seconds.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: exdeath

But then you wouldn't have exclusives that sold crappy consoles that people otherwise wouldn't buy if they could get the game even for a weaker system...

I think it's pretty pathetic and lame when they have to "lure" you with "we have this must have game for 2007 and they don't!!!!", especially when they fight tooth and nail to get exclusive rights to prevent the original developer from even making the game on anything else ever... Are they that insecure that they aren't comfortable making the game cross platform and letting the consumer choose which is better?

For example, the most recent Zelda... I am REALLY surprised Nintendo released Twilight Princess for Gamecube AND Wii... they probably lost a few Wii sales to people who just wanted that one game and didn't care for the Wii.

It boils down to money. Console companies pay big bucks for exclusive rights because it increases their profits, and the money they pay increases the profits for game developers...or at least that is the idea. Until exclusive rights become something which does not increase the profits for either side, we will not see them completely go away. However, looking at the rate of increase in cost to make a good game that sells I would say that the exclusive rights days are numbered.

We'll see...