spIdeZ Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 There is no halo 2 download, its a joke. OMG really? you can't be serious!!! I have been telling everyone to get on their comps and d/l when he comes back!!! It will be sooooo cool! Now don't you go and rain on our parade! :wacko: :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 NNOO!!!112````1`1 HALO 2 MUST BE F$O RPCC!!@111`` I really want Halo 2 for the PC :( Hopefully, by 2007 or 2008 it will be available :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KICK Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 No guys its been anouced that Halo 2 is not coming to pc, i did not read this other forums :rolleyes: Bungie has simply stated that it is for Xbox Only and I mean Xbox only, it will not be coming to PC. Can't quite remeber where but it is only for Xbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted December 11, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2003 OptiPlex: it'll prob be obsolete by then.. halo 2 for xbox only... :) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orphic Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Halo 2 for XBox comes out just a few days after my birthday. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KICK Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Halo 2 for XBox comes out just a few days after my birthday. :D I hope your not thinking the 4/4/04 date cause thats bogus :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..... Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Kinda like the original HALO for Xbox In commercials "ONLY ON XBOX" On the box of the game "Xbox exclusive" But its now on PC .... The orginal halo was only released on PC for a couple of reasons. Bungie promised it would make it to the pc eventually, and Microsoft thought it was a good idea to get more peolpe interested in the series, and go out to buy an xbox for Halo 2. It is not coming to the PC, ever, just like Kick_XP stated. Just like Midtown Madness 1+2 were on the PC and 3 is xbox, and is not coming to the pc. The same goes for RalliSport Challenge iirc the second one will not be coming to the pc either. It's also done for technical reasons. Halo development on the xbox (with final dev kits) was only around 6 months time, bungie were rushed with the engine and hated it. (the loader was done in less than a day which is why it takes so long to load levels for example) Halo was very "PC-ish" in terms of most of the code, it wasn't really optimised well for the xbox. Although there were some things done with the rendering that can't be done on pcs, which is one of the resons it took so long for the port, and why it doesn't run as well on a PC. The other reason it doesn't run well on PCs is not because it was a bad port as everyone says, but because it's AI is so good, and it has heavy use of Bumpmapping/Pixel Shaders etc which hasn't really been done to that scale before in PC games and as such really pulls down performance a lot as you increase resolution (because everything is done per-pixel and increasing resolution is a drastic change on how many pixels the effect is being applied to) This is also the same for Deus Ex, it's making heavy use of effects that aren't used in PC games yet, and as such people say it's "unoptimised" or a "crappy port" but the fact is that, if anything, the xbox got the worse version technically because it wasn't coded for the xbox, it's just running the PC engine with a couple of modified ini settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windef Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 Lol, Nice joke about the link. Some guys said it is not gonna released for the pc and you just said funny i can download it there :p:p:P But i think Bill Gates is gonna use it for a release game for the xbox 2 And later after that release i do think its gonna get released at the pc. At leasd i hope that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
you cant see me Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 its meant to be released in late 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KICK Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 its meant to be released in late 2004 Halo 2 for Xbox is coming in spring 2004, not late 2004 and if your thinking pc date there is no pc release for this game ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted December 12, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2003 i dont think they would let bill gates dictate what is happening with release dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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