Poll Question: Who is interested in a PC version of Halo

Who is interested in a PC version of Halo Anniversary?

  • YES, of course!!!

    Votes: 98 39.8%

  • nah

    Votes: 148 60.2%
  • Total voters
    246
I personally like Halo and the Halo series. It's not the best thing since sliced bread, but it's reasonably good.

However, I don't like it enough to actually buy an Xbox 360 to play the more recent games in the series, so I'd be more than happy to see those ported to PC, the anniversary one, I wouldn't be jumping up and down to play it on PC, but it'd be nice to have on PC and I'd buy it if the price was right.
 
Just wondered if anybody had any good thoughts on this?

JoseJones said:
I've never heard anybody complain about Halo before so, what's a list of problems with the game and the platform? What are the best games/platforms out right now and why - what makes them so great?

I still play Halo PC version because it's still MORE FUN than many new games I've played. I like being able to quickly get into a game, play hard & have fun and get out when I'm done. I've had loads of trouble with new games that make it far to complex and complicated just trying to login, get set-up and get the damn game started - so i never play them.

Now, I can understand why people wouldn't want the 10 year old Halo platform but, that's not what I'm talking about - I'm talking about a new platform for an older game to improve game play and performance with many improvements. I don't see how anybody could turn that down - the anti-Halo peeps don't need to ruin for everybody else though.

New Halo PC version suggestions:

1. No team killing or betraying. It would be nice if that were no longer an issue. I've been banned just for accidents.

2. It would be great if we could still use weapons/grenades while holding the flag in CTF.

3. In the PC version - please stop repeatedly respawning in the worst possible areas only to die immediately like 10 times in a row. Or at least give 5 seconds of invincibility.

4. Would like to have more than just two weapons at a time.

5. Remove the dumb "suicide" thing and make weapons go right through teammates instead of killing me and calling it suicide.

6. Please improve the handling of the vehicles.

7. Please include a sprint function.

8. Make it compatible on the XBox controller.
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JoseJones said:
Just wondered if anybody had any good thoughts on this?
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Pretty much all terrible.
1.make the game more casual for me
2.make the game more casual for me
3.make the game more casual for me
4. weapons are balanced for only holding 2 weapons. like the plasma gun charge combo with rifle headshot.
5.make the game more casual for me
6.make the game more casual for me and even more boring
7.Worst addition to the series as it made melee kills extremely easy to obtain as you have quite a bit of health in halo. Close quarters battles were essentially ruined because of this.
8.why?
 
JoseJones said:
Just wondered if anybody had any good thoughts on this?
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1. On any decent PC shooter this is a server option that can be turned on/off at admin's discretion

2. See #1, this is a gameplay choice and is dependent on player size. With less players you can't have people playing flag holder defense, so the player themselves should probably have an option to keep themselves alive. The best solution would be that the flag has a special (large) melee, perhaps even an AoE melee swing, or something with a very long reach.

3.There
4. Is
5. a
6. reason
7. PC
8. people don't like halo

Also LOL controller for a fps.
 
Got it, you're a prick who hates everybody and everything and has forgotten what fun is.

yourgrandma said:
Pretty much all terrible.
1.make the game more casual for me
2.make the game more casual for me
3.make the game more casual for me
4. weapons are balanced for only holding 2 weapons. like the plasma gun charge combo with rifle headshot.
5.make the game more casual for me
6.make the game more casual for me and even more boring
7.Worst addition to the series as it made melee kills extremely easy to obtain as you have quite a bit of health in halo. Close quarters battles were essentially ruined because of this.
8.why?
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josejones what do you think about the unreal tournament and quake series? have you ever played tribes or tribes 2? cause, yeah, as someone said, there are reasons why we can't bring ourselves to care one bit about halo.
 
JoseJones said:
Got it, you're a prick who hates everybody and everything and has forgotten what fun is.
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This is a "console fps gamer" mentality and a "pc fps gamer" mentality. (note: I grew up playing console games just as much as pc) You clearly did not begin your gaming experience with the aforementioned titles, classics, that Halo is at-best a shadow of. Halo is a great console fps, but that in itself is a bit of a joke, largely due to the controls. Beyond that, there are the maps, which in many of the classics were made for competition, balance, and complexity first and then aesthetics second. Halo has a few that are largely homages to these classics, but the majority are just sections of the single player campaign, or just "this looks pretty, go kill people in it". As far as decisions about regen'ing health, weapon limits, jump/movement behavior; that is where you'll find much more broadness/leniency in opinion around here.
 
Considering Halo is a fanfucking tastic universe and given 100x the budget and attention that most PC shooters.. Yes bring it on.
 
lilbabycat said:
This is a "console fps gamer" mentality and a "pc fps gamer" mentality. (note: I grew up playing console games just as much as pc) You clearly did not begin your gaming experience with the aforementioned titles, classics, that Halo is at-best a shadow of. Halo is a great console fps, but that in itself is a bit of a joke, largely due to the controls. Beyond that, there are the maps, which in many of the classics were made for competition, balance, and complexity first and then aesthetics second. Halo has a few that are largely homages to these classics, but the majority are just sections of the single player campaign, or just "this looks pretty, go kill people in it". As far as decisions about regen'ing health, weapon limits, jump/movement behavior; that is where you'll find much more broadness/leniency in opinion around here.
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I've been playing multiplayer FPSes since the days of the original Doom over modem. Very very few of the maps from Quake and UT were any more competitive, balanced, or complex than the Halo maps. None of the multiplayer maps in Halo:CE were "just sections of the single player campaign" nor were they put together to look "pretty". Now, 'Return to the Edge' for Q3 will forever be the best map ever created but Halo had some that were a lot of fun also (Blood Gulch and Sidewinder were both a blast for team play).

Some of my favorite multiplayer memories come from Q3, Halo:CE, UT, and the original TF. I miss those types of FPSes. :(
 
theNoid said:
Considering Halo is a fanfucking tastic universe and given 100x the budget and attention that most PC shooters.. Yes bring it on.
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It's a ripoff, lamed out, dumbed down version of Warhammer 40k (mainly Space Marines) (though so is StarCraft...)... in a setting ripped out of a book.. :confused:
 
BiH115 said:
Nah man, Halo 1 on the PC was a big portion of my teen years. It was fun as hell doing an 8 on 8 team deathmatch.
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You must be young...GoldenEye was a big portion of my teenage years. :cool:

Honestly, I was excited about Halo back when it was going to be for Mac/PC only. Once they announced Xbox exclusivity I lost all interest.
 
DeathPrincess said:
It's a ripoff, lamed out, dumbed down version of Warhammer 40k (mainly Space Marines) (though so is StarCraft...)... in a setting ripped out of a book.. :confused:
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Yea cause no other game has used ideas from other games or books. Also the setting was more from Orbital that from Ringworld ;).
 
03grandam said:
Yea cause no other game has used ideas from other games or books. Also the setting was more from Orbital that from Ringworld ;).
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Which was likely based on Ringworld (as it came out 17 years before). Buuut, more compelling evidence is that they asked the Ringworld author to write the novel. :p

It was more the point it was just a junk version of something else, dumbed down severely (and with the more adult elements removed) features nothing original so could hardly be "fantastic".
 
DeathPrincess said:
Which was likely based on Ringworld (as it came out 17 years before). Buuut, more compelling evidence is that they asked the Ringworld author to write the novel. :p

It was more the point it was just a junk version of something else, dumbed down severely (and with the more adult elements removed) features nothing original so could hardly be "fantastic".
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OK so we can agree that the whole idea of Ringworld was probably based on the Dyson sphere, and the Dyson sphere was probably based on even earlier mentions of such. :p
 
Who doesn't want a port of a game if the other option is to have nothing at all?

[H]ardForum, where logic comes to die.
 
Do you want a port of a turd for the sake of having the port?

No?

Us neither is the point.
 
michael.pa2 said:
First,why would I pay for a rehash of a game that already had a PC version?
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This.

Now, if they released the other versions for the PC I would be generally interested. I played the shit out of the original Halo 1 for PC. It was so damn fun, the multiplayer was really fun. I weeped a little on the inside when they made it an XBox exclusive. Fuckers...
 
I always thought of planetside 2 as a mmofps halo game lol, that attracted me
 
tuaarita said:
Who doesn't want a port of a game if the other option is to have nothing at all?

[H]ardForum, where logic comes to die.
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The original question was whether people are interested in a port, if the question had been whether they should port it probably would have gotten a lot of "meh, whatever" responses instead. Given that Halo is mostly popular among the xbox crowd the response is hardly surprising, it also doesn't help the OP any that they feel the need to flame anyone who responds to their questions with an answer they don't like.
 
Halo is the epitomy of the failure of MS, I would never buy it, simply because A it was never a very good game and B why would I want to buy some horribly out of date late to the party port? You don't want to sell a game to me when its new why do I want your last ditch effort,.

The more important thing is this though. MS is looking hard at a future where they are relegated to a niche company and one of the biggest reasons why is because they are losing the PC gaming crowd. And a large part of that is because of decisions like Halo, it could have been a game that they used as a strong windows platform game, you can get it on PC or XBOX but instead they made it an XBOX only game which made the way for COD to overtake top spot. And now more than ever they should be looking to games like this to try to reinvigorate interest in windows computers, but they aren't, they view the windows computer very much like apple views computers, something sell people too. Not as an all in one device.
 
I voted no even though I love Halo. Simple reason I'd rather play it the way it is now without the elitist crowd that is voting no right here.

For as much as playing on live can be unpleasant sometimes it's nowhere near as bad as the crowd of d-bags that frequent most PC shooters.
 
tuaarita said:
Who doesn't want a port of a game if the other option is to have nothing at all?

[H]ardForum, where logic comes to die.
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Less trash games "dumbing" down trash players preventing them from finding a good game to eventually become good players and therefore good competition in the titles I do want to play?

If there was widespread KB+M use on consoles I would be on it daily. That would be enough for me to switch, as the vast majority of the issues that come along with a controller setup (for shooters) resolve themselves. And it wouldn't be Halo...

I would agree with the other poster that side Planetside 2 is the "pc" Halo. They have a very similar feel and look, though I stopped playing PS2 because the infantry vs vehicle balance was a bit silly and node-zerging was becoming a problem.
 
lilbabycat said:
I would agree with the other poster that side Planetside 2 is the "pc" Halo. They have a very similar feel and look, though I stopped playing PS2 because the infantry vs vehicle balance was a bit silly and node-zerging was becoming a problem.
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That's like saying Battlefield feels and looks similar to Counterstrike. They don't "feel" anything alike; Halo is an arena shooter like Quake, CS, Unreal, COD, etc. The only commonality is that it's a FPS with a futuristic setting and vehicles.
 
BF adds vehicles but other than that its a slow realistic shooter just like CS they feel a lot alike and people who do well in one will do well in the other.
 
Well other than the fact that BF mostly does huge and more complex maps, environmental damage, weapon upgrades, classes, movement is slower, takes longer to play a match, and is generally all about large scale 32 and 64 player warfare.

CS is small maps, no respawning, smaller groups of players, and ends after a few minutes.

The only thing they have in common is that they're modern military FPS games. I do pretty well in CS but get owned in BF since basic things like gun handling are way different.
 
CS has 32 player servers. modes with respawning etc..... Comp matches in BF were only 8v8, gun handling is burst fire in either game. It will take you all of 10 minutes to go look up any specifics for a gun. COD, CS, BF its all the same thing just fans of each one wish to make it out to be something completely different.
 
If the original PC version did very well, okay perhaps. However, I'm with earlier sentiments that Halo doesn't hold up very well against other PC FPS games. As a console game? Hell, yeah...that was a wise move. I played the demo on PC and just wasn't impressed. I'll probably pick it up once I see it for $20 or less just to see how it plays on the intended console. It's a good console series, but a bland PC one.

The problem I see is that I imagine most Halo fans have the 360, and if they were going to buy it, they'd buy it for that first. Even if it does, I can't see people buying the same game for a second platform. Hey, look, I really like Halo 4, but if that comes out on PC, I'm not buying it. The only time I've ever broke that rule was purchasing Burnout: Revenge for the 360 simply because I wasn't going to buy another PS2 to play one game the wife and I like to play together.
 
Halo to me has always seemed spectacularly bland and generic, but despite this, well polished and executed. What it does, it does well... but it's just meh to me.
 
Absolutely. I'd still play it with a controller most likely. I'd only buy it if they did it justice. Halo 2 for PC was bullshit.
 
a PC version of Halo Anniversary is heading straight to GOG with a heavy discount. Seriouly it's a mediocre fps game...
 
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