It’s 1:33am here, which means the Halo 3 launch is already underway. For most pc gamers this means nothing at all. Why? Because from day one we’ve been given the shaft by MS and their whored out acquisition. Now now I know many of the console fanboys will come forward with.
“but ura, Halo is XBox only”
But in reality, Halo was being designed around the PC platform and more specifically the 3Dfx Voodoo 4/5 series of video cards. This means it was set to either use OpenGL or more likely support Glide directly.
Given ages of waiting and delays the PC audience saw a half ass port of Halo to the PC, poorly written and badly optimized for gaming, the title was claimed to need stronger hardware to run it due to complexity, but in reality it was just a pile of garbage they threw at the audience to calm them down. Come 2007 we see Halo 2 for Vista, why? no one knows, the game was written on basically DX7 hardware with minimal complexities for hardware power. Regardless MS tried to force the PC user base into a new scheme to do Live on the PC. Sadly this was ages late and no one was about to pay for a service that was awful to begin with (not to mention later cracked to run on DX9)
Now though we have Halo 3 on the Xbox 360, a title promising to be the best FPS in the world 100x over. With MS thumbing their nose at anyone who didn’t give them great oral at E3, GDC, TGS or etc, it made it easy to figure out how to stop normal web sources on reporting (hell I even belong to a prominent website and we still didn’t get jack). Well here’s an idea, Halo 3 so far is… a multiple leaked, spoiled title featuring yet another attempt at rehashing story or “lore” to appease the masses so they can “finish the fight” with master chef, a renegade cook who apparently took to fighting an alien invasion. Given that this is the future and you are catering to a group of users being raised on inferior controls it only makes sense to make them seem like they’re somewhat talented and capable, lets make that a change then, you’re a master chef a super cook with the ability to hold a regenerative shield that apparently can never take source energy damage, also despite being a super being with advanced computer controls can’t aim for your life, such result means that auto-aim is of course included, because aliens have hit-boxes and aimbots make life easy for newbies.
Introduce further a lackluster online model ripping methods already established for the sake of originality, furthermore simplify it to make sure everyone can have a good time because it would be awful if there was ever a strong challenge. Support that one by making predictable spawn points and allowing easy access to camp those points with the largest weapons on the map. Furthermore enhance those stronghold positions so that campers retain a dominant role.
Halo 3 is going to be a great title, it’ll shut the kids up who have been ranting about it for ages finally so that real FPS gamers can get on with a myriad of titles that rule it in every way and probably ahead of the release schedule on the Xbox 360 as well. Nothing like UT3 before it even arrives on the closed network 360.
Halo fans will be in for a treat as they prepare for another long strung out series of online matches over andover and over with periodic map updates and no supporting legal mod community.
PC fans will enjoy a barrage of CTF, CP, LMS, TDM, DM, and more on the PC side with a huge variety of online titles and methods of gameplay, best of all even the older communities have thriving servers, oh my, what’s this? Variety? From games that created these modes before Halo? Oh god what will we do. I mean god even ROTT was a better multiplayer title compared to Halo 3.
Thanks MS for saving PC gamers the trouble of having to put up with a hype machine. I’ll gladly return back to the depths of Team Fortress 2, Crysis, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., ET:QW, Far Cry 2, MOH, COD4 and other titles. Of course also without the stipulation of paying out monthly for bs matchmaking when I can easily click in on a huge array of servers for fast action and large numbers. There’s something about 4v4 that isn’t very entertaining.
I’d like to thank me, myself and I for this rant. I’d like to tell MS to piss off for treating the media like crap and that regardless of the marketing machine, even with a month to play it, Halo 3 would be shit. The better part of this rant is I know that they wouldn’t devote the time of day here or on my company site to review it, because they’re not going to get a free pass for a 10/10.
Blow me gates, ballmer and your fag pr firm edelmann. I don’t need a title based on a generic story model ripping gameplay from every other title over at least the last 10 years. Originality and a set of balls would do your company some good, unfortunately we’ll continue to see more Halo rehash attempts so they can say they tried their best to fuel the stagnation er development of the game.
I’d like to say this is a pudnation challenge to MS to put up, but I think the community knows what to expect from the company and what this game will ultimately be in terms of quality.
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Well said. Halo3 is definaltey a media driven juggernaut but the game has nothing original or groundbreaking to offer a PC gamer. Haha did you really call Master Chief a renegade cook lol im not even sure if thats really part of the storyline but still funny lol. If Halo 3’s multiplayer is anything like its predecessor I just dont see what the appeal is. I suppose the auto-aim is a nice feature to those who lack the ability to aim on their own. Or, like you stated, maybe it is the map design which encourages camping the shotgun/rocket launcher which appeals to your average new gen drooling console fag. You nailed it with Rise of the Triad that was a great game ahha i think that was the first multiplayer game which had taunts. I will never forget the “BEHIND YOU!” taunt haha classic.
Yeah right, Halo 3 isn\’t original? Where else have you seen such great implementation of vehicles and fast paced IN YOUR FACE ACTION. You haven\’t. PC gaming got melee because of Halo. Not because of PC developers, think about that next time you hit someone in the face with the butt of your rifle. HALO MADE IT, SWORDS FTW, PC GAMING FTL.
I don\’t know what these games you keep listing are, honestly if they can\’t make me feel like part of a bigger story then whats the point. In Halo I AM leading the story, no other game has ever done that. Name ONE title that ever did it before. OH WHAT YOU CAN\’T? Thats right you fucking can\’t. Noobs on PC\’s need to realize XBOX made it happen. You can thank Bungie now KTHXFUCKINGBYE
You guys are the stupid japs. Go fuck yourselves ura and pud.
Your lame ass system will not even use a \’ properly. NICE SITE HAHAHA
Halo is original? Space premise, aliens, wow thats original. How about the naming of the lead character you control which you are so fond of. MASTER CHIEF. Honestly the guy who came up with that name is just genius, im surprised he didnt call the final boss MASTER ENEMY. Or maybe he did id never fucking know. Heres a premise for Halo 4: Master Chief is faced with the challenge of learning how to use a mouse and keyboard to aim. Go fuck yourself.
Dude have you like NEVER heard of military names? MASTER CHIEF is a title for high ranking soldiers. In HALO he\’s the man, where\’s your PC hero for that? Oh wait you don\’t have one.
HALO made story driven shooters, it\’s the most indepth game for it and it has a series of books around it to support it. HAVE YOU READ THE HALO BOOKS? they are the most detailed stories I\’ve ever read. You and your PC gamers could learn a thing from games with stories.
I dont see you backing up anything. Thats because HALO does what PC\’s don\’t. It gives good gameplay.
Don\’t hate the Xbox 360 because you guys can\’t afford it. I guess PC gamers stick to PC\’s because they can\’t get with the times. The 360 with the thumbstick adapter is probably the most precise control system I\’ve ever used. Better than a stupid trackball or whatever you guys use these days for \”gaming\”.
Stop being posers.
Jesus, I make a post and we get the king of fucking trolls.
Halo didn’t make story driven shooters, Half-Life helped give birth to that before Halo even met a retail release, interactive NPC’s, puzzles, objectives to actually move forward. Valve started that ages ago.
Not every game needs a retard writing geek books around it, some games do well enough based on historical lore, I mean ffs look at God of War, it’s entirely based on mythology but it’s extremely successful without having some twat going “zomg teh banshees they must have level 12 powwweerr!!! *pushes up glasses*”
What is original about the idea of Halo versus Half-Life? Alien invasion? Ominous superpowers that you chase? a Hero that you control entirely? Or maybe you meant the environments and rooms in halo, you know the whole lets see how many times we can recycle the texture system thing they did where you felt like you were walking in place because of the lack of variety. Or the bot routes that cycled to make it seem like active AI.
If I wanted AI I could use Deus Ex, fucking game relied on the speed of your system to determine how it would behave, how would I know? Pud played it on his K6-2 500 while I played it on my piss poor MMX-233 at the time with a VooDoo 1 card and the AI practically stood still because the CPU cycles for routes were non-existent.
Don’t come here thinking you have some stroke of originality to claim Halo made gaming. PC gaming made it possible for Halo to even exist. Without iD 3D Realms Valve and others Bungie wouldn’t even be a fucking thought.
My Video card cost more than your 360 lol…. As far as your arguement that PC games dont have storylines, heres a few examples of ones that do: Deus Ex, Omikron, Half Life (not the greastest story line, but an engaging experience none the less)
haha you cant be serious, trackball….
Dude I doubt your video card cost more than a 360, $449 for an Elite? yeah right you\’re just another 360 hater. Why don\’t you go ask your video card maker where Halo 3 is? Oh wait they don\’t care. Thats why you\’re complaining, because you dont get to be part of the greatest FPS of our time.
My H3 brother there has it right, you two are just bitter because you can\’t be part of what defines FPS gaming, everything from this point out is only trying to catch up to what Halo brings to gaming. Bioshock was a failure, why? because it didn\’t make people want to keep the battle going, you don\’t beat the boss and feel like you can still save the world. Halo 3 makes gamers realize they are part of something bigger.
Read the books, the story is more in depth than anything Half-Life or God of War or any of your lame games had. LOTR barely touches how in-depth you feel with HALO.
Deus Ex sucked, so did the sequel, they shouldn\’t try so hard to keep up with what Bungie was already working on at the time. Omikron? what is that? It\’s probably some PS1 game you\’re trying to chant. Half-Life was mediocre, the sequels have been as well. All this hype trying to be what Xbox fans already have.
You guys are ignorant, the 360 is gaming.
Double teamed, whats up guys, can\’t keep up when it\’s more than one person who is right?
Halo 3 is gaming, when it comes to Vista or whatever the new OS is, you guys are going to be clamoring for it. Don\’t try to act like PC gaming can beat live for online play, the PC has yet to ever get something that good with it\’s dead online communities. Maybe you guys like playing with the same 10 people on every game but pro gamers don\’t.
Greatest FPS of our time? Halo3 is just a copy clone of halo 2, which was a copy clone of halo 1. You’re playing the same rehashed shit from 6 years ago with a new number at the end of it. At least PC Gamers will admit when a product is complete shit and not just leach to whatever is fed to them every year. I suppose your the kind of gamer who owns Madden 2008, and Madden 2007, and Madden 2006, you see where im going with this.
God of War? thats for the Playstation buddy get your platforms straight.
Sorry guys I didn\’t respond sooner, I was busy enjoying HALO on the console you guys can\’t afford. Stop being so fucking lame and just admit consoles are better.
Of course Halo borrows from itself, what else is there to take from? Halo continues the epic story and the fight with Master Chief, it\’s not like some other game was really going to be as impactful on FPS as Halo and make Bungie look at it. Who are you kidding?
PC gamers never admit anything, if that was the case they wouldn\’t be denying that Halo 3 > other FPS. It\’s true, vehicle maps, melee combat, it\’s all because of Bungie and no one wants to give them credit.
What if I collect each season? Players come and go, and if I want to use all-stars like Michael Vik I need to be able to go back a version because EA didn\’t have the balls to put in a true athlete.
PC gamers are sony fanboi\’s most of the time, you guys and your fucking vaios.
I win and XBOX wins, it\’s the truth.
Beat Halo3, wasn’t too bad.
My PC vid card cost about 1k.
Bye.
The sexiest thing to gaming is apparently in the works still by Diamond. A 2GB DDR4 HD 2900 card. Oh the humanity.