PC Halo?

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RAGE LT MAN

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Ok, so what's the deal with the only game i'm willing to actually cash out for these days? will it be out, or am i going over to some traitor camp?
 
mulciber said:
hope they let us play with the consolers :evil:
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Dreamcast owners learned they can't hang with PC FPS players... I don't think another console will make that mistake again
 
Umm, my question remains, i'm pissed as hell over this. Halo was supposed to be IN MY HANDS last november. But, Bungie, a company i loved, sold out to the 3v1L 3/\/\p1r3 and now i'm without. they lost SO MUCH money not selling it for mac and pc, maybe even as much as they made selling out. Dunno, point is though, not only did one of the best development houses i've ever know go under, so to speak, but MS is being a dick about it and not letting me have my personal version of evercrack. and i'm never buying a damn xbox, why buy another PC inferior to mine? There's nothing the x-box has that my PC doesnt... *sigh*.

Is there any definitive information on this? any proof that it's coming... all i seem to see is "halo, x-box exclusive." Also, are we getting the same sh*t the xbox got? halo was originally ONE big world, but the xbox, being a pussy PC, can't handle that, so they broke it up into 4 quadrants. i was always hoping for one huge world though, where i could do things as i want, when i want. yet again *sigh*. ms deserves a 2x4 to the back of each employee's head who was involved with the x-box.
 
I was looking forward to Halo too, I think it would have been a much better game had it come out for the PC. I know they cut a lot of the cool features that wouldn't work on a console. I heard "this summer" somewhere once, not sure where or from who, but that's what I'm hoping for at least.
 
I read a post yesterday on Microsoft's website saying they now have a development team to do the conversion. (Bungie WILL NOT be doing the conversion, they really did not mention who was) Anyway the article basically said that Halo will be on the PC in about 8 months. I look for a release date right around Christmas. However with Unreal 2, Quake IV, and Doom3 all coming up, Halo is looking less and less exciting everyday!
 
WHAT F*CKING CONVERSION?! the xbox IS a pc, it runs a win2k kernel on DX8. WTF? the code was ORIGINALLY for PCs and Macs... screw the 2x4, guns, they need to just be shot. At christmas, Halo will be nothing, they could save sales by releasing today, or the novelty of wide open spaces like halo has will be gone with the release of UT2, which is slated for June. MS consists of some pretty damn strange people if you ask me.
 
Microsoft should have had two teams working on Halo. One for PC Development and one for XBOX development, that way they could have made some serious money when it was released. Now all Halo is going to be is a SECOND RATE First Person Shooter when compared to Unreal2, etc. I will be damned it I am going to buy an XBOX just to play Halo!
 
Talenzor said:
Microsoft should have had two teams working on Halo. One for PC Development and one for XBOX development, that way they could have made some serious money when it was released. Now all Halo is going to be is a SECOND RATE First Person Shooter when compared to Unreal2, etc. I will be damned it I am going to buy an XBOX just to play Halo!
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Halo is the XBox "killer app" though, how many XBox consoles would have been sold if you could also get Halo for the PC? Not nearly as many I bet. Same thing goes for the PS2 and Gran Turismo, how many PS2s would have been sold had they made a port of Gran Turismo for the PC (or another console for that matter)? It's all business to those guys. Less console sales means less game sales means less money, and all they care about is what caliber bullet their wallets can stop.
 
AmanoJaku said:

Dreamcast owners learned they can't hang with PC FPS players... I don't think another console will make that mistake again
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I have no clue what you are talking about. I set up my Quake 3 game so that I was able to play with Dreamcast players. I got my ass owned. I have never got my ass kicked so bad before. They were some of the best Quake 3 players that I have ever played. It was crazy.
 
to be railed by a man with a thumb-joystick is sad.

as for HALO, damn. oh well, i used to like bungie because they made good games for their customers, they had a great fan base, and their production value was top notch. When a company sacrifices quality and quantity (thus future support) for a few bucks from Big Sister, thats when it's time to move on. Thanks for everything Bungie of old, now lets see who else can bring a real thinking man's fps to the PC? I assume Epic or someone.
 
"Halo is the XBox "killer app" though, how many XBox consoles would have been sold if you could also get Halo for the PC? "


I know all about "killer apps", however, I like many other PC users would never buy an XBOX for Halo, so consider those lost sales... Know what I mean?
 
My point exactly. i wont touch a console, i like to keep my hands clean. this BS is just lame when it comes to PC sales. MS would have sold almost as many Xbox's anyway, and cleaned up on PC sales to account for the difference. Only in the PC world a game's lifetime is dependent on community support, in the console world, there is no such thing. ie: console games die when you finish them.
 
RAGE LT MAN said:
to be railed by a man with a thumb-joystick is sad.
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Nope, they used keyboard and mouse (sega released a keyboard and mouse for the dreamcast). And if you dont belive me at how good they are, I say you go and try it out yourself.
 
Talenzor said:
"Halo is the XBox "killer app" though, how many XBox consoles would have been sold if you could also get Halo for the PC? "


I know all about "killer apps", however, I like many other PC users would never buy an XBOX for Halo, so consider those lost sales... Know what I mean?
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I hear that, I would never buy an XBox either, I don't care what games it has. But my point is still valid. Say what you want about Microsoft, they know how to bleed the consumer (wallet) dry.
 
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