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KohlyKohl on 24 April 2008

I am so glad I use Linux for gaming.



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IllegalPaladin on 25 April 2008
Strategyking92 said:
IllegalPaladin said:
naznatips said:
L.C.E.C. said:

That's one reason why I gave up being a PC gamer for the most part (not completely) after Halo 2 was Vista-only, along with Shadowrun, and I knew it would become a common trend. I also hate how I have to buy a PC or major overhaul/upgrade every 2-3 years for the price of 1/2 of a car, just to have "impressive" graphics... not to mention NVIDIA cards are always above the price of blood no matter what...

EDIT: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OP???



The op was permabanned as an alt-account of Rock_on_2008. Rock_on's ban will be extended after his current one is up because of his alt account too.

OT: Halo 2 and the other "vista only" games can be made to run in DX9 incredibly easily. In Halo 2 you literally just change the name of a file extension.


lol, are you serious? That's so funny because I think it was stupid to try and force gamers to switch to Vista by having Halo 2 and Shadowrun as 'Vista Only' games. I have Gearbox's (crappy in my opinion) port of Halo on the PC and I may have given Halo 2 a chance, but not anymore.


Why does everyone have so much hate for HALO PC? It was my favorite in the series!


It's my favorite too, but it's not that great compared to other PC games. It was awesome to play it on the Xbox, but rather meh to play it on the PC. Most of my dislike is from the multiplayer though, singleplayer was more or less unchanged. They tried to do online multiplayer but it's weird in that there's a delay on everything so you have to think about where you're shooting and always aim ahead of whatever person you're shooting at.



L.C.E.C. on 26 April 2008
Strategyking92 said:
IllegalPaladin said:
naznatips said:
L.C.E.C. said:

That's one reason why I gave up being a PC gamer for the most part (not completely) after Halo 2 was Vista-only, along with Shadowrun, and I knew it would become a common trend. I also hate how I have to buy a PC or major overhaul/upgrade every 2-3 years for the price of 1/2 of a car, just to have "impressive" graphics... not to mention NVIDIA cards are always above the price of blood no matter what...

EDIT: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OP???



The op was permabanned as an alt-account of Rock_on_2008. Rock_on's ban will be extended after his current one is up because of his alt account too.

OT: Halo 2 and the other "vista only" games can be made to run in DX9 incredibly easily. In Halo 2 you literally just change the name of a file extension.


lol, are you serious? That's so funny because I think it was stupid to try and force gamers to switch to Vista by having Halo 2 and Shadowrun as 'Vista Only' games. I have Gearbox's (crappy in my opinion) port of Halo on the PC and I may have given Halo 2 a chance, but not anymore.


Why does everyone have so much hate for HALO PC? It was my favorite in the series!


@Naznatips: yeah, I saw that mod (for Halo 2) when it first came out too. (I still couldn't do it with only 756 MB of ram, though), but didn't it disable online play???

@Strategyking92: I personally have nothing wrong with it. It wasn't really anything spectacular on PC (A PC-version of a console FPS usually doesn't do nearly as well as PC-original. For example, it would have to compete with counterstrike), but it was still pretty fun to play, considering that you didn't have to have an uber-PC to play it (visual settings). I liked the custom maps for Halo CE though.

@IllegalPaladin: I never experienced  much lag, but text-only communication was pretty bad.




IllegalPaladin on 26 April 2008

There is a delay on everything when playing online (unless you're playing a LAN or hosting an online game) from what I've experienced. It's annoying to do things like drive and such, but it's great because when you're good at compensating the delay, people will freak out and claim how much you cheat.