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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: .:F3ar0n:. on April 06, 2007, 06:29:13 PM
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Halo 2 is being released for PC exactly 1 month from today. Any chances of it making a comeback to being a must play lan / multiplayer game for the PC when it's released. I think personally that it's not gonna make a huge impact because gamers have already done Halo for X-Box and such. Halo 1 for PC was a pretty decent game and 2 allowed so many cool things you could do (always fun runnnig around with the sword or sticky bombing ppl to death :2thumbsup:
Anyways, any one think it will 1) be a big sell on PC platforms despite the fact it already has been out for like 2 years now on X-Box and 2) think it'll evolve to be an addicting multiplayer must have for the lan parties game like it did for x-box and x-box live
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It is 3 years old and you need Vista to play it. It makes now sense, when the original Halo came out bungie already made a port one year later. Why wait for 3 years to give us PC users the game, but make it only available to Vista? Besides it is going to be a hog like the original PC port of Halo. SLI anyone?
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I reject playing anything that requires me to running crappy Vista. My rents just got a new comp running Vista, I won't touch the thing. It's all messed up. With that in mind..Screw Halo I guess
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Vista would be great if Microsoft just took all the compatibilty from XP and just moved it over to Vista. The only real problem with Vista is to get it to use old hardware that XP users once used. I tried Vista on my system, it didn't like any of my stuff. None of it was compatible, that is why I am giving it another year before I go that route.
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Is DX10 only Microshaft Vista Compatible? That just sucks. I'm beginning to hate Microshaft more and more with the stupid crap they keep on doing. Thats the only reason why Vista would even sell for 3rd party, cause gamers want DX10. If DX10 was able to run on XP, then I wouldn't upgrade to Vista for a long time. Vista just sucks all around, simply put.
And whats with the inactivity on the boards. Jeez, no one seems around now a days. It's crazy slow around here
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A lot of you guys are too young to really remember, but these same sentiments arise themselves with every new OS release. When Windows 95 came out, people complained that the GUI took up too many resources and they had to upgrade or replace their entire system just to get it to run. There were so many things that didn't have drivers available.
When Windows 98 came out, people complained that Windows95 was perfectly fine, why should they wasted their money on upgrading when it was basically the exact same thing (but now with better USB support). Same with 98SE, it was only an incremental change, why bother?
Then came Windows 2000, though admittedly this was mostly used in businesses. It took forever to get through its development cycle and then when it came out, as a pure desktop OS (enterprise environments aside) you couldn't run most of your games on it because a lot of things saw "This is Windows NT. I can't run on NT, so I'm going to refuse to install.
Windows ME......ok, Windows ME just plain sucked, there's no getting around it.
Windows XP came out and there again were all kinds of things that didn't have drivers, it was such a huge resource hog, what do you mean I don't have enough memory? 128MB was more than enough for my "awesome" Windows 98 machine. I'm just going to stick with that.
Do you hear commonalities with what you've seen/read/heard about Vista?
My point to all of this is that when there is a new version of an OS, there are bound to be many complaints, hardware incompatibilities, and general moaning and groaning. And I guarantee you that when the next version of Windows, currently codenamed Vienna (http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.asp), hits the market, these same stories will play themselves out once more, only this time the hero will be Vista and the enemy will be Vienna.
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Hehe. Sad, but way too true.
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sully didn't say the word stuff once in his post :?
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I shortened a large-ish post in a quote by substituting "stuff"(with italics) where it is rather obvious which post of the user you are quoting. This fairly common forum mechanic avoids redundancy as well as reduces unnecessary clutter on the page.
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Windows ME......ok, Windows ME just plain sucked, there's no getting around it.
Yep it definetly sucks, I know a guy who is still running ME.
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I understand what sully is trying to say. There is bound to be things with new releases frm microshaft that we hate. However Vista compaired to any other OS has the most changes and differences. They changed the entire way a user has to get around as far as drives and such. It's really more of a rip off of linux. The differences between 95-98Se was mostly support. Gui and navigation remained simular, but better support for newer technology was released. XP came out with a new GUI set that we never saw with 98Se but still, it kept the core ideas of windows and how it was setup. With vista, it's setup is completly different. It makes it extremely difficult to get around. Things that you could do with 2-3 clicks now take 5-6 and multiple apps.
Not to mention on Vista the lack of support for the newer hardware and software (duel core support to just name one of many, it's still not as efficient and easily managable as it should be considering the technology really was support since NT4)
In short, Vista support for hardware and support is just horrible. 64 bit hasn't really been devoloped properly through an OS and so overall it has lead to less software devolopement in 64 bit. If all that Vista really has to offer gamers is DX10 and a gay PC ranking system, then I'll stick with XP for a lil while longer
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Don't forget that it looks like a MAC now.
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However Vista compaired to any other OS has the most changes and differences. They changed the entire way a user has to get around as far as drives and such.
Bzzzt! Wrong. What about Windows 3.x to Win95? Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't that a TOTAL rework of the Windows OS?
In short, Vista support for hardware and support is just horrible. 64 bit hasn't really been devoloped properly through an OS and so overall it has lead to less software devolopement in 64 bit. If all that Vista really has to offer gamers is DX10 and a gay PC ranking system, then I'll stick with XP for a lil while longer
Support, in time, will come. Upgrading to the newer OS is inevitable. In the future, like Win98, support for the previous OS will be dropped and the current OS will become standard. Sure, you can complain all you want(I am not an advocate for Microsoft or Vista by any means), but sooner or later upgrading will be required. *shrug* So I just go with the flow.
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Don't forget that it looks like a MAC now.
eww mac.. >_<
i get what sully/f3ar0n is saying too.
hopefully vista will be worthwhile soon.
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ur right by the way...I completly forgot about 3.1 or 3.11 :bigcry:
That was a major rework
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Don't forget that it looks like a MAC now.
eww mac.. >_<
i get what sully/f3ar0n is saying too.
hopefully vista will be worthwhile soon.
Running Vista now... And no... It doesn't look a damn thing like a Mac. They tried to emulate Mac features, but it still doesn't compare. I could go on about why, but you Mac haters don't want to listen anyway. I just have to say I use both and for everyday web work and work in general I find it to be a superior platform for task managing/switching. Vista's "Switch Between Windows" is a far cry from how the Mac's interface works.
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So you got vista just to run halO?