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"Halo - what a game, what an ending..."

*SPOILER ALERT*

if you haven't completed halo, shut down your PC NOW!!!

anyway, now that's over...wow!

now that's the kind of ending that only comes once in a century. i mean, it's frantic, fun and dangerous, so nothing is wrong with it - and the end cutscene cleverly leaves the game open to tons of sequels. Xbox owners know that Halo 2 is coming soon, and hopefully to the PC thereafter.

so, what did you all think?

gamezfreak wrote:
> The PC conversion was converted over by Gearbox studios. Not Bungie -
> who made the Xbox version.
>
> Blame them

I see

Take this Gearbox :

nightfire? appauling, and that was only the demo...

They also converted that James bond game, and somehow made it worse for the PC than it was on the console.

The PC conversion was converted over by Gearbox studios. Not Bungie - who made the Xbox version.

Blame them

And yet Max Payne 2 with its advanced graphics and all that physics going on, looks the absolute and runs fluidly with everything cranked right up at 1024x1028.

I would hate to have to play Halo at 800x600 on any machine above P4 with a half decent graphics card. <- that really shouldn't be the case.Its a conspiracy to get us to buy those xboxes I tell you

tigamilla wrote:
> Bah! the PC code is loose, even with my hyperthreaded overclocked p4
> insane clock speed processor etc.. the demo jerked a bit at 1024x1028
> when there were more than 5 aliens on screen... Or could it be my
> non-pro radeon 9600??

I own a P4 2.6, 512 RAM, 64Mb nVidia Gforce 5200, and it still ran slow, even as low as 800x600. I ended up having to change the video settings depending on the level. The later ones played fine actually, even the last bit in the warthog, but the early levels were REALLY jerky.

Went to the internet cafe once, played HALO, got addicted, lol

Bah! the PC code is loose, even with my hyperthreaded overclocked p4 insane clock speed processor etc.. the demo jerked a bit at 1024x1028 when there were more than 5 aliens on screen... Or could it be my non-pro radeon 9600??

I thought the flood were gonna be creepy aswell, until i met them for the first time - then i thought "HEY, they pop! like balloons! that makes it funny! and not scary!"

It is a great game, the only flaw being the library level. Still, I don't see them making the same mistake twice.

On Xbox 16 player Halo was fantastic. Not tried it online on the PC yet.

Personally I thought the Flood were rather spooky at first, especially when I didn't know where they had come from or anything, and having spoken to the scared out of his mind marine.