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JEMC on 26 October 2015
Mummelmann said:
JEMC said:
And this surprises no one... well, only people that fail at reading comprehension and jump to conclusions too easily.

The last Halo game for PC was bad port of Halo 2 destined to push Windows Vista. If they wanted to bring Halo to PC, the first game they should port is The Master Chief Collection so PC gamers can play Halo 3 and 4.


Halo was never a big deal on PC. That said; there is a real lack of good FPS games on PC as well in the past few years.

Maybe a port will show up one day. The bigger question is; is there any point to it?



Far Cry 4 or Wolfenstein are good and not too old, and that's the ones I can think of right now.

And the question of what's the point of it, well, it's MSoft who has to decide it. However, another question is: if they want to gauge the interest in the PC comunity for their games, what's the best game to do it?



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Darwinianevolution on 26 October 2015
Mummelmann said:
JEMC said:
And this surprises no one... well, only people that fail at reading comprehension and jump to conclusions too easily.

The last Halo game for PC was bad port of Halo 2 destined to push Windows Vista. If they wanted to bring Halo to PC, the first game they should port is The Master Chief Collection so PC gamers can play Halo 3 and 4.


Halo was never a big deal on PC. That said; there is a real lack of good FPS games on PC as well in the past few years.

Maybe a port will show up one day. The bigger question is; is there any point to it?

Well, my theory is that Microsoft will, in a couple of years (probably close to the end of the XBone lifespam), release their own digital distribution service for PC gaming. Windows 10 is already designed to sell you apps, so this kind of service would be complementary. And what game would they bring to compete with Steam? Halo. The next XBox would become basically a PC with W10 (or whatever OS Windows chooses by then) with standarised hardware that was compatible with their service. Both PC and console users would have the chance of getting Xbox Life, that seems to be the main goal for Microsoft nowadays.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

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generic-user-1 on 26 October 2015
Darwinianevolution said:
Mummelmann said:
JEMC said:
And this surprises no one... well, only people that fail at reading comprehension and jump to conclusions too easily.

The last Halo game for PC was bad port of Halo 2 destined to push Windows Vista. If they wanted to bring Halo to PC, the first game they should port is The Master Chief Collection so PC gamers can play Halo 3 and 4.


Halo was never a big deal on PC. That said; there is a real lack of good FPS games on PC as well in the past few years.

Maybe a port will show up one day. The bigger question is; is there any point to it?

Well, my theory is that Microsoft will, in a couple of years (probably close to the end of the XBone lifespam), release their own digital distribution service for PC gaming. Windows 10 is already designed to sell you apps, so this kind of service would be complementary. And what game would they bring to compete with Steam? Halo. The next XBox would become basically a PC with W10 (or whatever OS Windows chooses by then) with standarised hardware that was compatible with their service. Both PC and console users would have the chance of getting Xbox Life, that seems to be the main goal for Microsoft nowadays.

a realy stupid goal, why buy xbox gold if you can buy games from steam and gog and play their mp for free...



vivster on 26 October 2015
NobleTeam360 said:
If Halo 1 and 2's sales on PC are any indication, then I don't see why MS would waste time on porting the game to PC.

If Xbox sales are any indication, then I don't see why MS would waste time on making consoles.

Or in other words, I'm pretty sure it will come to PC eventually.



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Darwinianevolution on 26 October 2015
generic-user-1 said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Mummelmann said:
JEMC said:
And this surprises no one... well, only people that fail at reading comprehension and jump to conclusions too easily.

The last Halo game for PC was bad port of Halo 2 destined to push Windows Vista. If they wanted to bring Halo to PC, the first game they should port is The Master Chief Collection so PC gamers can play Halo 3 and 4.


Halo was never a big deal on PC. That said; there is a real lack of good FPS games on PC as well in the past few years.

Maybe a port will show up one day. The bigger question is; is there any point to it?

Well, my theory is that Microsoft will, in a couple of years (probably close to the end of the XBone lifespam), release their own digital distribution service for PC gaming. Windows 10 is already designed to sell you apps, so this kind of service would be complementary. And what game would they bring to compete with Steam? Halo. The next XBox would become basically a PC with W10 (or whatever OS Windows chooses by then) with standarised hardware that was compatible with their service. Both PC and console users would have the chance of getting Xbox Life, that seems to be the main goal for Microsoft nowadays.

a realy stupid goal, why buy xbox gold if you can buy games from steam and gog and play their mp for free...

I'm sure they'll find something to sell you through Live on PC. I'm sure Microsoft is regretting not expanding their Games for Windows service into a full digital store years ago.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

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Bail on 26 October 2015

This is very similiar to the "Kinect is core to Xbox" announcement to me.



Chazore on 26 October 2015

Only thing that bothers me is them dangling that hook constantly, stop doing it unless you plan to actually bring them all over to PC because all that ever does is piss off both communities.

What I care most about is when they finally do decide to bring the series back to PC in a million years time, will they charge full price and more for those games even though they will be very old by then?. I can imagine MS doing that when they feel they've got some power grip but until then they don't really have swaying power, that goes to Steam and likely will for a long time.



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NobleTeam360 on 26 October 2015
vivster said:
NobleTeam360 said:
If Halo 1 and 2's sales on PC are any indication, then I don't see why MS would waste time on porting the game to PC.

If Xbox sales are any indication, then I don't see why MS would waste time on making consoles.

Or in other words, I'm pretty sure it will come to PC eventually.

What are Xbox's sales exactly? I'd love to know your insider numbers. 



vivster on 26 October 2015
NobleTeam360 said:
vivster said:

If Xbox sales are any indication, then I don't see why MS would waste time on making consoles.

Or in other words, I'm pretty sure it will come to PC eventually.

What are Xbox's sales exactly? I'd love to know your insider numbers. 

I know I should've taken the Zune for the analogy.

Point is, past PC sales indicate nothing about a likely PC release of Halo 5 or MCC for that matter. I mean they're the ones constantly pretending to care about PC gamers.



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NobleTeam360 on 26 October 2015
vivster said:
NobleTeam360 said:

What are Xbox's sales exactly? I'd love to know your insider numbers. 

I know I should've taken the Zune for the analogy.

Point is, past PC sales indicate nothing about a likely PC release of Halo 5 or MCC for that matter. I mean they're the ones constantly pretending to care about PC gamers.

I'm sure they're part of the reason MS stopped bothering to put the on PC. So I wouldn't say they don't indicate "nothing" about a PC release. But heck, maybe they'll have better luck this time around and actually get some decent sales from the PC crowd.