| naznatips said: And I'm sorry eugene but have you ever stopped to wonder why you've never met a PC gamer who thinks Halo is special? Did you ever wonder why the game ranks a 70% on PC while it's over 90% on the Xbox despite the PC version having more features? It's obviously not some hatred of it not being on our console since both Halo and Halo 2 are available on PC. It's because they are simply years behind PC FPS games. We've been playing games like System Shock 2, Half-Life series, Unreal Tournament series, Quake series, etc. for years. A full decade before the release of Halo 2 PC FPSes were offering more complex gameplay and a better, much more fleshed out, online system. We STILL have a better online system through Steam for absolutely free along with a better digital distribution system than Xbox Live has. In fact, Microsoft is now trying to encroach on us with their bullshit Windows Live crap that no one is buying because it's absolutely ridiculous to expect PC users to pay $50 a year for far less features than we get with Steam for free. Halo is a great CONSOLE FPS series, but it simply doesn't offer anything for PC gamers that we can't get better elsewhere. I think Halo 3 is a great shooter... for the 360. Just like I think Metroid Prime Hunters is a great shooter for the Nintendo DS. It's great for the platform it's on, but it's just not comparable to games on the PC. |
Nice post.
I'm really only interested in the Halo series on the Xbox/360. I even own the first one on the PC and don't think it's that great. The "This is amazing!!!" feeling when my friend and I first played through Halo co-op years ago was quickly replaced with a huge "meh" the second I loaded it up on my PC. Adding to that was a rather poor port with a bad online mode. Not that Halo PC had terrible online mode, but a FPS having a delay where you have to lead every shot or else you wont hit anything is almost unforgivable especially when you think about having that problem with Counter-Strike or the UT series. I thought I had been above that since we dropped the 56k modem and went for cable 6+ years ago, but apparently not.
Also, I'm really not happy that Windows Live is being pushed on us. I'm also not enjoying how the Windows Live screens are literally a cut and paste of Xbox Live (seen on Gears of War PC). For as long as they're charging for this service, it wont be worth it (lets not even bring up the Silver version, at least without looking at Halo 2).
I'd much rather play Counter-Strike to Halo and I've been doing so since Halo came out (Well, I've moved to Condition Zero and CSS, but still).
