[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Raa
This from the man who's still preparing for Descent 1...

Hey, I consider D1 to be infinitely better than Halo as well.

[Clave]

Now that deserves a

[Killfrenzy]

Originally posted by Thorn

I hope not. Gearbox buggered up Halo.

Uh.........how?

[Thorn]

Most machines have trouble running it at max detail. Even people with lots of RAM, some of the better FX or Radeon cards and a fast processor. The system requirements are a lie.

[wolfdog]

Originally posted by Clave
Now that deserves a

Maybe... but it is true:D

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Thorn
Most machines have trouble running it at max detail. Even people with lots of RAM, some of the better FX or Radeon cards and a fast processor. The system requirements are a lie.

You'd think that it would require the X-Box equivalent for max performance and everything else would be gravy.

[Grey Wolf]

The thing is, the original design of Halo was specifically coded to take advantage of the specific parts in the Xbox, so you had a bunch of specific code that wouldn't work on anything except a P3 and a modified GF3.

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Clave
Now that deserves a

Ultra-deadly robots that still scare the s*** out of you ten years later?  Check (Don't believe me?  Look up 'Fusion Hulk,' and you will find the true definition of fear. )

The only game series with true six-degrees-of-freedom gameplay?  Check

One of the greatest sci-fi ships of all time?  Check

An awesome collection of weapons, including the one and only Fusion and Mega?  Check

The first true 3D game including polygonal enemies?  Check

The first game with easy, out-of-the-box multiplayer action?  Check

The ability to still be played today thanks to the D1X project?  Check

I rest my case.

(You may now return to your regularly scheduled thread. )

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
The thing is, the original design of Halo was specifically coded to take advantage of the specific parts in the Xbox, so you had a bunch of specific code that wouldn't work on anything except a P3 and a modified GF3.

Yeah, but that's a bollocks excuse.  Visually, there's nothing in Halo which hadn't already been done - better - by a PC at the time the conversion was released.  

whenever Gearbox have responded to complaints about this (i.e. on bluesnews), it's been along the lines of 'well, this is a high-spec game' or similar.  The problem is, that even if you accept that, the min. requirements are a blatant lie - I have a machine which exceeds them in every way (over double the CPU speed*, double RAM,  gfx card, etc), and which cannot easily run the game at decent frameworks on minimal settings (gfx at min, pixel shader path at 1.1, res at min, sound at min).  

And if they didn't lie about this, then they screwed up the coding somehow by having massively large performance differences between hardware configs.  

To be honest, it's put me off Halo 2 when/if it's released on PC.

*yes, I know CPU speed isn't proportional to the actual computational performance... but 2.4GHz > 733MHz

[Grey Wolf]

I think it's more along the lines of the coding is specific, and the guys at Gearbox are too lazy to properly make the code branches for different setups.

[Thorn]

So long as Bungie does it, and not Gearbox, I can't see a problem. They of all people should know how to do it. Giving it to a company known only for making a couple of expansions for existing games and saying "make it work" was a brain dead move.
Opposing Force may have been good gameplay and storywise, but they only code they added was two extra weapon groups and the barnacle grappling hook. That is not the same as what they did with Halo. Not even close.

[NGTM-1R]

...I'm not happy with Halo 2 now that I've had a chance to play through a few times and get the feel of the game. Not happy at all.

They've nerfed the weapons. They've shrunk the area of the game. They've made the opponents smaller and you bigger, or both. In other words, they took the crap-out route to making it more difficult.

This may physically be Halo's successor, but spiritually it's more like Doom 3.