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Anyone Going to Play Halo for PC?
It should be released on 9.30.2003. Anybody going to take the dive? I'm playing it now and, in spite of my outdated hardware, it still plays nice. The combat is standard, but the vehicles and ships to fly are really great. Love it!
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Insane
Location: Ames, IA
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that will work fine, there are lots of mixed reviews on performance though, ive heard of cases where a GeForceMX400 plays w/ no lag, while my FX5600 works fine, but a Ti4200 was getting 10-20fps, it seems widespread and it might be driver related, but its an awesome game! cant wait to go buy it for real so i can play 8v8 on the net. The new weps are cool as well as the new maps.
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Location: courtin in the kitchen
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I'm getting it tomarrow and probably going to set up a tournament as soon as tomarrow night. I heard it'll eat up your resources like mad though so we'll see
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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IGN gave it an 8.2. I'll pass. They said that if you've played the XBox version, this one will bore you, and that the XBox version is actually better. Oh well!
-Lasereth
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Location: Cleveland, OH/Athens, OH
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I have a friend with a beta copy...she's said there are some horribly messed up graphics.
Regardless, I hated it on Xbox, and I doubt a crappy port will make it better
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The final version is much better than the beta.
But, I have a p4 2.4, 512 pc2100, and an AIW 9700 Pro, and it runs like shit with everything turned up. For a 2 year+ old game, it shouldn't being doing that. And it looks like crap too. It runs better at 1600x1200 than 1024x768 :wtf: If they get a patch out that fixes a lot of the problems it has, then maybe it will be worth it. But as of now, it isn't. |
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I've been playing it on a AMD 2000+, with a Radeon 7200 (still waiting for prices to drop :P)
It runs fine at 800x600 with everything turned up (save for AA), though granted, it doesn't look as good as it did on the X-box. I'm not on any sort of power gaming system, though. I give it three out of five "Meh's". Very intuitive and well thought out at some parts, but so much of it, situation and level design-wise, is repetitive to a fault. |
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Insane
Location: Austria
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it was great on the pc , but i wont go for it again on the pc .. the single player is to lame with the boring levels (when you already finished it on the xbox) and for multy i wait
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Upright
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I played the X-box version, so i'm not really interested.. i didnt even like it that much... sticking with CS and Battlefield for my FPS dosage
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#18 (permalink) |
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Location: nihilistic freedom
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I didn't play the XBOX version, so I'm new to Halo. So far, the single player mission has been pretty good. The story has been pretty interesting. I can't complain about the graphics, as it is a 2 year old game. Some of the levels are getting a bit repeative. For example when you have to blow up 3 generators, they could've just made it one. I'm just wondering, for those of you that thought it was boring, how far have you gotten in the game? I might have gotten bored with it, if The Flood hadn't started...
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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I posted this before in another thread, but the reason the last half of Halo is repetitive is because Microsoft forced Bungie to release the game before it was finished, simply to meet the XBox US launch. The last few levels are indeed repetitive, and even Bungie admits that. I wonder how the last levels would have been if they had longer to finish it.
-Lasereth
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Location: nihilistic freedom
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Update: Yup, 8 minutes into the day after I got the game, I'm done the single player. Overall, pretty good. Looking forward to the sequel. Last edited by nothingx; 09-30-2003 at 08:07 PM.. |
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![]() Have you seen the video for Halo 2 shown at E3? If you havn't, I suggest you search for it. The first time I saw it, it left me speechless
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#23 (permalink) |
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Location: Louisville, KY
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I'm gonna pass on this one...
1)I'm just a poor college student with no money. 2)Not enough time to get into any game seriously at this point. 3)Still bitter at Bungie for not releasing to PC initially.
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#24 (permalink) |
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Location: courtin in the kitchen
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Ok like I said I picked it up yesterday and played it last night with some friends and I have to say the exp. on a whole was positive. There are new multiplayer maps, access to more weapons. Also on the x-box version certain vehciles like the banshee were not available for multiplayer and now they are. So they certainly added more for the PC version, and we did have fun. My only negative comment it is certainly a resource hog. I have a 2ghz athalon, 128mg Geforce4 and 512mg of ram and I still had to run some of my visuals low to ensure no slow down. Anyway all in all I liked it
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Insane
Location: Ames, IA
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thats fine, but part of the beauty of halo is CTF on Blood Gulch 8v8 style. Plus, anyone who is saying they hit it on Xbox so theyll pass on PC is crazy. New guns, new mp levels, and there are some things in sp that i dont remember from xbox, but that might just be me.
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Location: New Mexico
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Agreed. Game was crap on X Box and it will be crap on the computer.
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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You have the right to disagree with others, but your opinion at least needs to be explained. Why'd ya hate it? -Lasereth
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The GrandDaddy of them all!
Location: Austin, TX
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I had the leaked version a week back and the game on pc kicks ass, especially the multiplayer mode.
the graphics are nothing amazing, but the 1 player story line is pretty good. the multiplayer is where the fun comes in. think of it as cs where you can fly planes, drive trucks, get on turrets etc...
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Location: New Mexico
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Why didn't this game deserve game of the year? Why is it crap? as stated before, it is crap. Ok the graphics arent very good, the game is really slow paced, its just all out boring. And dont be all, just cuz you suck at it you hate it, cuz that isnt true, lots of people in my dorm hall have it and i have actually played with them on XBox and i win a lot of the time, but i still cant stand the game. It is a mediocre FPS. If i want realism, i will stick to Ghost Recon or Raven Shield. If i want crazy fast paced action i will stick to UT2k3 or hell even Quake 3. Why did it get a perfect score from Electronic Gaming Monthly if it's crap? Sorry but i dont listen to magazines. Why did Imagine Games Network give it the highest rated XBox score ever, even to this date? Because, at least in my opinion, the XBox doesnt have any real good games. People just flocked to Halo because it was so "revolutionary" and took so long to make so it must be good. Which leads to my next point. Why did it take 5 years to make, if it turned out to be crap? Because it was intended for the PC first and was in the process of being made when Microsoft bought Bungee and made them make it for the XBox only. So basically they had to start over from scratch. Ya these are just my opinions and i know you all dont feel the same way but, meh. I will give Halo for the XBox some credit though. The controls are definitely the best for any FPS i have ever played on a console.
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Location: nihilistic freedom
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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I was thinking about the games you mentioned that are better, and I realized something: they are all on PC. Yes, they got good reviews, but they are PC games. I'm guessing you just hate console games period, and refuse to accept that any console FPS has good qualities. Oh, this isn't out of the ordinary, a lot of my PC friends won't play consoles because "ahhh blahh the graphics suxor and controllers are for idiots." Well, you don't know what you're missing. Like I said earlier, most PCs simply have the graphical edge in frame-rate. That's it! People didn't flock to Halo because it was "revolutionary" and "took 5 years to make." No one knew what Halo was when it came out. I was at the XBox launch, and trust me, not a fucking person there out of the 100 where I got mine had even heard of Halo. Millions of people bought Halo because they played it, read the outstanding reviews, and knew that they couldn't skip a game like this. That's why there are so many fans. I guess PC gamers will never want to admit that a console FPS has any advantages over PC FPS. Oh well, I play both and enjoy both. -Lasereth
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Location: New Mexico
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And believe me i knew exactly what halo was way before it came out and so did everyone i know. I was severely disappointed though.
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#37 (permalink) | |
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Location: nihilistic freedom
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![]() Yeah, okay, forgot about that one. But I think that's exceptional circumstance. The Matrix brand name is the only thing that sold that game. Had it been exactly the same game by any other name, it would've had mediocre sales, at best. |
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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#39 (permalink) |
alpaca lunch for the trip
Location: in my computer
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crap. I got so busy after I posted this I left myself out of the discussion. D'Oh! I have a P III 1g with an ancient 64MB GeForce 2 Ultra. From what I know, there are two main rendering engines, and of course I will be dealt the low-graphics version. Thats okay as the gameplay has been fun. I understand when people say they played it on XBox and yeah, it sometimes does seem outdated. I suppose on a high-end machine (i gotta remember to go shopping...) it would look really great. I personally get a kick out of running over people with the vehicles. It just cracks me up, dont know why. Almost as silly as hitting people with the snowmobile in NOLF2. Oh brother.
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Location: IN, USA
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