Oh man oh man oh man, Planetside is the only thing keeping me from KILLING MYSELF!!!

[simba]

and I also h8 halo pretty much. 60 percent for me

[Alias]

It's safe to say not everyone loves Half-Life FOR Half-Life itself. But, even so there are umpteen thousand MODs and TCs for Half-Life. My personal favorite being Natural-Selection.

Dues Ex was great. Though I sucked horribly at it and never had the patience to make it very far at all.

[Destroyeron]

Originally posted by Subliminal
Did you ever even play halo arthell? Its the best consol fps ever and when it hits pc with multiplayer its gonna be alot of fun. Dont diss a game just because madd fanboys worship the ground bungie sh!ts on. Its a good game.

WTF you mean its comign to pc?! its comign to pc?! *faints*

[Lonehunter]

Iv'e only played Halo on single player 3 times but playing it multiplayer is a blast!!

[Alias]

Halo 1 PC was canned so, so very long ago.

[Nightmare]

lol, this is pathetic. Everyone here says they played Halo and they hated it. What a load of crap. Your hatred toward the game just comes from the fact it's not coming out on the PC anymore, and I could care less. I have Xbox and PS2, and I can play any game I want, but I played Halo for over 2 years. Why? It's fun and never gets old. Hell, I still play it now from time to time. Personally, I thought Half-Life was over-rated. You hate Halo because you run around and shoot things? WTF do you expect from a FPS? You did the same thing in Half-Life. Thing is, Half-Life was shallow and sucked. There was less story in it than there was in Halo, but they're both FPSs, so it doesn't really matter. Quake and Doom are legends, but they had no story. Whatever, I don't care about HL one way or the other, I threw it away long ago, just don't hate Halo because you can't get it.

[LiquidThunder]

Lol I had no idea people were so uneducated about this subject!!

And I'm not talking about ppl who don't like the game, that's fine with me. I think that if you were given the right partner to play with your opinion would change, but whatever, you hating it doesn't mean I'll like it less. And saying that I'm dumb for liking it won't make it a worse game for me.


Anyway, I didn't know that the PC version of Halo was such a mystery to so many of you.

The PC version is NOT canned, in fact it's progressing very well, and PC screenshots were released not so long ago in PC gamer I believe. Gearbox is heading the development of the PC port and it's heading for a summer release, probably june or july.

The Halo port is the reason that CS: Condition Zero got delayed so much, since Gearbox WAS doing that as well, but MSFT kept dropping them bags of money to work on Halo more. Finally, Gearbox gave Condition Zero to a different developer and now CZ is heading for a spring release, while Gearbox devotes all energy to Halo.

Gearbox's involvement with halo is also behind much of the disappointment from their iteration of 007 Nightfire. So obviously a good ammount of energy is going into this product.

And yes, there will be online play. Nothing to the extent that Halo 2 will have (be jelous, be very jelous), but you will be able to play all available multiplayer game modes from Halo 1 over the internet on your computer. And there are rumors of more levels being included.

There you go guys, a Degree in Halo on PC all in one post! Consider yourselves edjucated.

And anyone that says "halo for pc is cancelled" is misinformed, stupid, or both.
-LT

BTW this info is current as of the April 2003 issue of PC Gamer in their Preview Blowout.

[Alias]

So you are saying that I can't, not like Halo for a legitimate reason that it has some of the most hyped AI and gameplay ever. That people failed to research it and bought into said hype.

Halflife succeeds because it has umpteen thousand mods.
But, at the very least, Half-Life runs at well over 60fps
I can play Half-life online, damn near anytime I want, with over 32 people, that can't watch my screen as I play.

Halo has .. Halo.
Halo runs at 30fps on average.
Halo has 4 player split screen.
Oh but if you get 4 more X-Boxs and 4 TV's you can have all out 4 +4 +4 +4 split screen action!

Please tell me I don't want an Xbox and Halo because I can't get one. Please do. I want to laugh at you some more.

Edit: Last I heard, about 1000 months ago, PC Halo was canned. Never cared much to follow it up.

[Tobias]

LiquidThunder,
1) No one here cares how much sex you have.
2) People who brag about how much sex they have only do so because they are not having any.
3) Calling us stupid and talking to us as if we were your third grade class mates is rude, we dont like it and when you do it we dont like you. Dont do it.
4) Halo 1 for PC is as dead as your sex life.

[LiquidThunder]

>>LiquidThunder,
>>1) No one here cares how much sex you have.

Yeah, you're right. I've edited the two posts containing said content because I agree with you and regret that I posted them.

>>2) People who brag about how much sex they have only do so because they are not having any.

I agree, and can't really argue that I have or have not had sex considering the medium we're using, so my own self-knowlege will suffice.

>>3) Calling us stupid and talking to us as if we were your third grade class mates is rude, we dont like it and when you do it we dont like you. Dont do it.

If I did this it was unintentional. I was simply explaining to you all about Halo PC since NO one seemed to know about, which brings us to our next point...

>>4) Halo 1 for PC is as dead as your sex life.

I'd agree with you here too, except you're wrong. You're right in all points (though my talking down to you was unintentional) except this. It is, in fact, alive and well as of the most recent issue of PC Gamer, a more reliable source of info I'll never know. Until I hear otherwise from the same or higher sources, then Halo 1 for PC is very much alive and well, but your analogy still holds true


-LT

[LiquidThunder]

Alias:

Allow me to appologize on behalf of the other halo lovers in this thread. No game is perfect, and no game appeals to everyone. Those of us who like halo tend to REALLY REALLY like it, not because it's for tEh xBoX or because Bungie is our god, but because, if it suits you, then you tend to NEVER GET BORED of it, for reasons I cannot explain other than it is a game of the highest production value.

Regardless, I'm sorry we don't share an opinion on this matter but I respect yours and agree with you on many of your points about other games, and I hope you can respect my position of Pro-Halo.

Thanks for your time and effort in posting in this thread, your opinions are valuable to us all, as are everyone's who takes the time to not use caps and not flame, etc.

Hope to see you in PS, which I pray we can both love with equal fervor.

-LT

[Kadreal]

I hate Bungie for selling out, now they'll never make any new myth games (awesome games) and Halo got ruined by going console only. If they kept it to PC it would of been so much better, first the graphics could of been better as they wern't limited to the xbox. Second the multiplayer maps could of been much bigger and better because the ones on xbox are so few and most are designed for 4 players. Third they could of had rocking multi-player with 32 players or so across the internet on huge maps with lots vechiles. Forth they could of made it moddable so that it would have alot more replay value. Face it Halo would of been much better and more flexible on PC but of course the designers could care less how good it is when microsoft waves alot of green in front of their eyes.

[Hellsfire123]

My only problem with all console FPS games is the slight auto aim in them. They have to have it, or the game would be to hard for average people, but it still annoys me.

In anycase i loved Halo, the autoaim was almost unnoticable, the game play was fun, but the best part was co-op play. Myself and a friend spent about 8 hrs playing legendary. First we played from the beginning. Then we got to the flood. Impossible, or so damn close it makes no difference lol. So we skipped ahead, beat the last level and had alot of laughs.

PC halo would replace Halflife easily. The game halflife was horrible in my opinion, and the only reason its so hailed is its mods. CS, TFC, DOD, NS, VS and the other 30 odd i have installed on the computer are the only reason i still have a halflife cd not being used as a coster. Now picture these mods on a Halo engine, and realise the Halo gameplay was far superior to halflife and suddenly the champ is stripped of his title.

[Moleculor]

My personal favorite being Natural-Selection.

*grins* Ever been to the forums?

[LiquidThunder]

>>>first the graphics could of been better as they wern't limited to the xbox.




Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Can't put enought 'i's in that one.

Think hard about that one. And if you still can't figure it out, then you don't know much about computer hardware and the computer software market.

In the fall of 2001 there wasn't a single computer on the market no matter how you upgraded it that would be able to run halo with all its graphical effects at a constant 30 fps. Let alone split the screen two, three, and even four times and still maintain that fps.

But even if there WAS (and when the Geforce 4 was released about 5 months later, there were) the game would still not be able to be relased on the PC because in order to get even close to xbox quality graphics you'd have to have a computer that you spent over 3,000 bones on and within the last two months of the game's release. That's about, oh, .03% of their market. Hmm hmm, yeah lets make a game that NO ONE CAN BUY.


Making a game for a console means that EVERYONE can play it and they don't need to program for the lowest common denominator.

I don't care what else you want to say about Halo for xbox, just don't dis the graphics, because that's obvious favoritism. There is in fact nothing wrong with Halo's graphics, they're quite excellent, and remain a benchmark for all PC games graphics. With the new Unreal engine being the only released titles to surpass it on virtually any level.
-LT