   I have decided Halo players don't have PCs...
  Anyone noticed that most of those bright eye, stand up for Halo as the best game ever until my dying day, people seem to be preaty ignorant about PC games?Halo is a good game, and if I had a X-Box I would own it.  I got the demo for the PC, and will play to warm up quick before those 16 player X-Box sessions with it (if you lucky enough to have so many fans around you, or unlucky perhaps?).  Its not fun enough to buy for the PC though, unless its a $15 special somewhere.I dunno, this just annoyes me fairly easyly.  So I had to come complain on the (cough) underused GDNet Lounge... 
  I scoff at your use of the word "underused". Hang your head in shame. ;  Are you judging Halo solely based on the PC version?Because the PC version is pretty inferior to the Xbox version, gameplay wise. ;  ;quote:Original post by pinacolada  Are you judging Halo solely based on the PC version?Because the PC version is pretty inferior to the Xbox version, gameplay wise.   How so? In terms of gameplay they''re exactly the same (you know, because they''re the same game). I could see how you might argue technical issues, but Halo is Halo regardless of the platform.    ----------------------------------------"Before criticizing someone, walk a mile in their shoes.Then, when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes." -- Deep Thoughts"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it''s done." - Scott AdamsFaceHat Software -- Wear the hat. ;quote:Original post by The Senshi  How so? In terms of gameplay they''re exactly the same (you know, because they''re the same game). I could see how you might argue technical issues, but Halo is Halo regardless of the platform.    Well, I can''t really put my finger on it. Maybe Halo is just meant to be played with a controller, maybe they did something slightly different with the PC controls. All I know is that I love the Xbox version, and I''ve tried playing the PC version, and for whatever reason, it just wasn''t enjoyable for me. And I''ve talked to a lot of people that have played both, and most of them feel the same way.But I might have mistakenly ass-umed that it was a widespread belief. Could just be my opinion. ;  I''ve noticed the same thing. I have the fullversin of Halo on the PC and have played it on XBox and yeh there is something... different... about the PC version. It''s just not the same, I don''t know why. ;  As someone who has both I''d say the Xbox version is better, in that it runs at a decent framerate with all effects, and that it''s much easier to cart your xbox down to a friends house than it is to cart your PC down there. Fair enough, the Xbox version is only running at 640x480, but you don''t really notice that on a television. I find multiplayer is a lot more fun when you''re all in the same room.That said, mutiplayer over the internet on the PC version is fantastic, and is something that the Xbox version just can''t match.As for Halo players not having PCs, I''ve been playing PC games exclusively since 1995, and it''s only just in the last year I''ve being buying consoles/console games. (the last console I owned before that being a megadrive) I just can''t be arsed with the constant upgrading, and buggy games any more. Publishers tend to rush out PC games unfinished and then patch them, that and the fact that it''s pretty much impossible to test a game on every single combination of PC hardware and software. I''m not saying that console games aren''t buggy, but it''s highly unlikely that a game that fatals every hour would get through a TRC/TCR check, whereas as PC game only has to go through the publisher.;  Halo on the PC has a lot of problems. One of the big ones is framerate - on the console, people are used to low framerates (though I hear Halo did set a new low). On the PC, people with the best hardware available at release expect 70-100 constant framerates. Halo delivered 10-30 eratic frames a second on decent hardware(meaning it can run many current games at a playable rate), and benchmarks show it giving 30-40 FPS max on good hardaware.Also, the gameplay might be ok for a console gameplay, but for a PC FPS it was rather bland. FPS on the console seem to be rare, so it has much less to compete with on there. Also, console games don''t have to worry about compatability so they know exactly what effects they can and can''t use and make sure they use them effectively. On the PC version, it seems like half the effects were disabled when they shouldn''t be and thus the graphics looked REALLY bad (worse than quake 3, more like counter-strike or so, and for open outdoor levels that just doesn''t work).It also didn''t scale well at all. Going from 640*480*32 on lowest settings to 800*600*32 with max settings was something like a 7 FPS difference, which just isn''t enough for it to be playable on anything but the very best hardware.I''m very glad it was a friend that bought it and not me, because I''d want a refund (he was more satisfied with it, being mostly a console gamer). ;  The XBox version gives of this radiation that causes your brain to produce more endorphins than normal, causing you to enjoy the game more on their console than their rivals. It''s a conspiracy, don''t tell anyone. 