Halo Xbox Online News

If Halo online misses the boat, the XBox is screwed. That's my prediction. It's proof that I do not need an XBox to compliment my PC. Why do all of these consoles need an "online strategy?" Why can't they just let people make their own PC servers like they do with PCs ALREADY??? It seems like all console companies are determined to set up their own WAN through some sort of stupid partnership deal, and refuse to let online playing happen by itself. If a game is popular, administrators will set up servers. If it is NOT popular, THEN I can understand having the company set up some regional servers, but spare me this "Sega.net" and "Sony/AOL Partnership" crap.

How to Bake An Ex-Bockkks
---------------------------

1. Take one part barely-functioning game from Bungie
2. Add MBAs at Redmond
3. Stir in mindless hype purchased with $500 million worth of advertising
4. Subtract most of what was potentially cool about #1
5. Here's your Halo. And your Ex-Bockkks.

Whats the point of spending the last couple of years working on a game to only give a really bad impression of it when it matters most...

besides, Halo has lost much of its glitter over the past year or so...with the announcement and release of shots of other more promising looking games. IMHO.

The last thing I want to do is play Halo online. I played it at e3, and the framerates were very choppy in single player. I peeked at the 4 player deathmatch stations and it was about the same framerate as 4 player Goldeneye or Perfect Dark, probably worse. This is not a big deal, we won't miss it.

Is there anyone who frequents this page that's terribly interested in the Xbox? I dunno, but there's so many FPS's coming out for the PC in the next year that I just don't see any reason to get an xbox. Really the only reason I might have considered it waould have been for Halo, but what even is the point of FPS's on consoles anyway?

News like this gives me a raging soft-off

This game really should come out "When it's done."
Not at xbox launch.

On a related note, anybody hear anything about Xbox's "Broadband launch"?
The Digital Extremes guys kept saying that unreal championship would come out xbox BROADBAND LAUNCH, which "should be first quarter next year"

... Why does xbox need a broadband launch when it has ethernet built in? Are they making a battle.net type system or something?

you cant have a 3fps on a console

What the hell happened to the xbox? They had a lot of momemtum a month ago it seems..

I'm not buy Halo unless it has multiplayer. I'm not getting an Xbox until it has proper internet/multiplayer support.

so I thought the xbox went "gold". Wouldn't they have some kind of spec finalized and have the code in a somewhat "done" state by now? I may be wrong about this but this seems kind of strange, are all other developers for the xbox in limbo as well?
Halo seems to be losing steam every day

Arggggggg...Dammit!

So much coolness thrown away, I must have lost about a dozen children when I first saw the macworld video but it has been all downhill from there.

I'm so disappointed and depressed now...

*BANG*

uhh, "Hmm, maybe the PC people will get lucky and have an internet capable Halo for the PC!" correct me if I'm wrong, but if you hyped the game this much, and there's even a slight possibility that the game won't be multiplayer capable, then WTF are you wasting your time for making that game? IMO, if it's FPS or similar, and it doesn't have MP, then go home and forget what you're doing. I know I'll get flamed for that comment, but hey, why am I here at this site in the first place? uhh, because it's online, and I play games ONLINE. Another thing, why do Xbox and Microsoft and Halo hype themselves up so much, then say "Uhh sorry, no MP for you guys, but maybe we'll release a product for more $$ later on that will have what we said it would be capable of in the future." All these companies are saying "Yaa, we'll have internet capable Consoles & Everything! who has it yet, after they've been saying their machines will be ready for years? F'in no1. Console suck, PC's 4ever.

Word to your mother. - vanilla ice.

"Halo is dead"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is stressed that this this is only for the Xbox version of Halo, so any waiting by the PC and Mac players for their version of the game will be possible be paid off with Internet support."

That's great. If there would be no Halo on xbox first then the PC version would be almost done, including multiplayer. Now they have to port it and add multiplayer, so we wait longer.

xbox will fail without usefull networking. Will any xbox multiplayer game have dedicated server? Will the server run on anything else apart from xbox?

You dance with the devil you get burned. This game is useless without net support. They should just make it into a pretty screen saver program. :)

So, the X-Box halo won't have multiplayer and a patch to enable it, as they put it is "unlikely".

Congratulations. I now have absolutely no reason whatsoever to consider Halo for the X-Box. Its ONLY selling point was multiplayer gameplay. If I want single player against AI, MGS still owns me today and MGS2 will own me tomorrow.

GG MS.

I don't believe there'll be a pc version of Halo within a year of the xbox one...

Hmm. That's pretty f'n lame!

Fuck Halo.
Fuck X-Box
Fuck Microsoft

thank you

Stick a fork in it.

I was at E3 and I was very dissapointed by Halo. I must have been running at 3 fps and the graphics themselves were not anything to show off. The game is a total let down. Don't get your hopes up too high. Actually don't even bother.

hahah maybe they will fix it with a patch...hahaa

*chuckles that pc gamers who wanted a pc console type system got their wish*

Attention Bungie:
Thats what you guys get!
Dealing with satan.

And the truth surfaces...

Ah, so that loud wooshing sound we heard when Halo was announced as an X-Box exclusive title was Microsoft flushing the game down the crapper...

I hope that in that six months before it's released for PC they can get our their plungers and salvage something of the game that was previewed at MacWorld 99. These past two years have not been kind to Halo.

IT MUST HAVE ONLINE PLAY!

Xbox sounds more and more like a fuckup every day!

i wanna be 3rd!

3rd post maybe ?