Halo PC is a very fun game if you're playing with your friends only on a private internet server using Ventrillo or something. My friends play like this a couple of times almost every week, and it never gets old. IMO Halo is a game to be played with your friends only.
But otherwise, its not a bad game. Singeplayer is fun, and multiplayer can get pretty amazing as long as you arent playing with stupid 12 year olds. I'd definitely get it for 10 dollars.
[QUOTE="TheCrazed420"]Not wanting to start a big Halo argument here(cause we've been there done that before :P), but thats opinion, and you're really selling the game short by saying that any other shooter in the last five years is equal in quality to Halo. It doesn't have its massive following for nothing.
Some of the stuff I've seen in Forge is absolutely amazing, and its stuff I've never seen before in any game.
foxhound_fox
Well of course it is an opinion. :P And it has its massive following for a reason yes, but that reason is because it was the first "casual" shooter on the Xbox that drew in the "Xbox Live" crowd and what makes the game such a huge success for having changed hardly anything over three iterations and two console generations.
Eh, I don't even think there Live existed at that time... Could be wrong though. My point is that at that time the SP-campaign was one of the best if you compare it to shooters at that time. I think it's funny that people say it's copy/paste, lots of backtracking and so on. Most shooters at that time had that. It pains me to say this, but even System Shock 2 had these features. CoD anyone? Or Doom, Quake? Like I said, if Halo was a PC-shooter, people would praise it a lot more on this forum. I think there's a lot of bias going on here... But whatever, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, I respect that.
[QUOTE="TheCrazed420"]Not wanting to start a big Halo argument here(cause we've been there done that before :P), but thats opinion, and you're really selling the game short by saying that any other shooter in the last five years is equal in quality to Halo. It doesn't have its massive following for nothing.
Some of the stuff I've seen in Forge is absolutely amazing, and its stuff I've never seen before in any game.
foxhound_fox
Well of course it is an opinion. :P And it has its massive following for a reason yes, but that reason is because it was the first "casual" shooter on the Xbox that drew in the "Xbox Live" crowd and what makes the game such a huge success for having changed hardly anything over three iterations and two console generations.
Eh, I don't even think there Live existed at that time... Could be wrong though. My point is that at that time the SP-campaign was one of the best if you compare it to shooters at that time. I think it's funny that people say it's copy/paste, lots of backtracking and so on. Most shooters at that time had that. It pains me to say this, but even System Shock 2 had these features. CoD anyone? Or Doom, Quake (ok, maybe these are too old to give as an example, but still)? Like I said, if Halo was a PC-shooter, people would praise it a lot more on this forum. I think there's a lot of bias going on here... But whatever, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, I respect that.
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="TheCrazed420"]Not wanting to start a big Halo argument here(cause we've been there done that before :P), but thats opinion, and you're really selling the game short by saying that any other shooter in the last five years is equal in quality to Halo. It doesn't have its massive following for nothing.
Some of the stuff I've seen in Forge is absolutely amazing, and its stuff I've never seen before in any game.
artur79
Well of course it is an opinion. :P And it has its massive following for a reason yes, but that reason is because it was the first "casual" shooter on the Xbox that drew in the "Xbox Live" crowd and what makes the game such a huge success for having changed hardly anything over three iterations and two console generations.
Eh, I don't even think there Live existed at that time... Could be wrong though. My point is that at that time the SP-campaign was one of the best if you compare it to shooters at that time. I think it's funny that people say it's copy/paste, lots of backtracking and so on. Most shooters at that time had that. It pains me to say this, but even System Shock 2 had these features. CoD anyone? Or Doom, Quake (ok, maybe these are too old to give as an example, but still)? Like I said, if Halo was a PC-shooter, people would praise it a lot more on this forum. I think there's a lot of bias going on here... But whatever, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, I respect that.
At the time Halo came out and became very popular Live was in the talks but didn't release. To get your multiplayer fix in Halo alot of people did lan parties. When live release in 2004 I believe the games that support it was Mechassault and Counter Strike ect. but none really push the service to obtain many users. Once Halo 2 release boy the service flew off the charts. Xbox live use to be a really respectful community at the time btw.
In all honesty I think there are far better multiplayers.. Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Battlefield series, Unreal Tournament 2k4.. To name a few.
I play Halo 2 (PC) as well, but I actually enjoy playing Halo 1 a little more I think, maybe it's just because I just started playing H2, and have not gotten used to it. But like I said before, some of the custom maps on Halo 1 (Custom Edition to be more precise) are a blast to play.
The single player is very good. The multiplayer is always fun, as there are many gametypes/maps and because of the opprotunity to join a multitude of clans, or start your own. As well as there being several leagues made for halo pc clan wars.
I don't know if it would be better to just save the money for another game because I do not know your gaming preferences, but this is a very good choice.
I played oon it again today, even with 8meg broadband on which i can play Crysis online easily it laggs a bit :( the gameplay is still fun though, ive got a lot better since i last played it over a year ago.
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