More On Halo PC

G4 and OS X for "real" computing and X-Box for gaming. All problems solved.

Sounds like Bungie is starting to make a case for NOT having HALO on the PC or the mac.....

Gonna be interesting to read the future comments from MicroSoft spokesmen. *cough* I meant Bungie.

This game is going to be a scripted polygon movie or something? Everyone is shitting their pants over cut scenes.. eat me.

I love the gfx in this game

but fucking bejesus i'm sick of hearing about it allready

"...the performance that you get from single configuration optimization will probably mean only high end PCs will get to enjoy the game, if at all."

Sorry, Maarten, but whiff-ola. With current PC CPU's well past the X-Box's planned 700MHz, with average successful overclocks well into the 800-900MHz range, there's no way at all the X-Box will be even competitive with a 2001 PC in terms of CPU power. And as for its graphics, whatever chip ends up in the X-Box will also be available to PC owners, and since it's an nVidia chip most people won't even need to think twice about buying, even if it does cost $300. Then there's memory. The X-Box is planned to have 64MB of RAM, but it's UMA, meaning the graphics chip and the CPU will have to share that 64MB. By 2001, 256MB will likely be the typical enthusiast compliment (Carmack said the new DOOM will carry a 128MB baseline), with at least 32MB, prolly 64MB on our graphics cards alone.

Single configuration optimization is certainly a powerful thing, but I doubt it'll overcome the hardware lead the PC will have by the X-Box's launch to the point where "only high-end systems" can enjoy Halo.

MoNsTeR

umm, is it just me, or is this "conclusion" blindingly obvious?

"Yes we are developing Halo for x-box but we thought we'd optimize it for play on the Commodore 64."

Er, duh.

100TH

Hey, whatever happened to that other bungie game, Oni? It looked pretty cool when I first saw previews for it, but all of the Halo news seems to have overshadowed Oni completely. Did plans for this game change too when Bungie was bought out? According to bungie's site Oni is still coming out on PC..

If you buy X-Box for this game you are - IMHO - dumbass because that is exactly what MS want you to do and exactly why they bought bungie.

If I play this game its gonna be on pc - and with a bit of luck it'll be a warez version. Hey, there's always other games too. If Q3 came out only for Dolphin would you buy the Dolphin for it.. or go and play some more Counter-Strike?

But I refuse to be a sheep to the Microsoft herder.

Cheers,
Raziel

I just noticed that all the pcs in this computer lab are now:

p3 600
256mb
20 Gigs
16 DVD
TNT2U

and the Windows 98 serials are easily read on the side of the box in case you need to re-enter it...

My school is silly, and now I know why I paid so much in University costs...

um yea, several important words for readers to note: x-box sucks donkey scrotum. I saw it in action this year at Siggraph and its not that cool at all. The demo they made for it is a video, not real time. They used premire to edit it and stuff after rendering it in 3ds max. Wow, i was amazed at how well it can play videos...wait, uh, my vcr can do that. Another point to note about the x-box: m$ os= bad. Windows crashes....that means youll be getting some problems on it. I havent seen a gpf on a console yet, maybe this will be a first ;)
So this leads me to an argument against "high end PCs will get to enjoy the game" - By the time the x-box comes out, its technology will be already outdated and most people with mid-range systems will be able to run it perfectly fine. and also, as a smaller sidenote: if they dont release halo for pc( ive been waiting for many months now), I will run a contest on shugashack that will grant the winner a chance at me (tied up of course) with a chainsaw, a la doom. I think that halo is the messiah so if it isnt out for pc, theres no reason to wait for the truth to come. P34c3 out,
-Lev

I don't want no steenking X-box!

Halo is good for me....













TO POOP ON

-Norulez

Halo doesn't look like it is going to be good to me!

Microsoft screws us again!

Ok you guys have way too much time on your hands to wip out Tommy Boy or Austin Powers. I could understand a line or 2 but a whole monolauge???? WTF?!?!

-Norulez

I can't believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him! I didn't see that one coming.

BUSTA CAP IN HALO...DUKE NUKEM 4-EVA, YO

umm I just got DSL this moring (aww yeah!) and now the master server list for q3 doesnt respone to anything.. any idea how to fix this??

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.

Let me tell you why I suck as a Salesman. Say I walk into some guys office and he's even remotely interested in buying something. Well then I get all excited and I'm like Jo-Jo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. The pet, is my possible sale. Oh my pretty little pet. I love you. So I stroke it....and I pet it....and I massage it. And I love my little naughty pet. You're naughty. And then I take my naughty pet and I go....AHHHH! I killed it. I killed my sale!.

I'm going to be hellaciously pissed if the game looks better on the XBox than it does on my computer.

Tommy: Richard, what were you doing?
Richard: Looking over some documents.
Tommy: Well, where are they? I don't see them.
Richard: They're in my briefcase.
Tommy: How could you be looking over your documents, if they're in your briefcase? Hmmmmm, it's a mystery. Were you watching Spanktravision? Or were you watching that funny comedian, oh what's his name, Buddy Wackit. Hey, there's a pretty girl out there, maybe she go's out with one of the yankees...Richard, who was your favorite Little Rascal? Was it Alfalfa, or was it Spanky, hehehehehehe, sinner.

What's the name of that comedian again?
Buddy whackit!

Big Guy in a little coat

Although X-Box specs might not seem much to PC owners next year, the performance that you get from single configuration optimization will probably mean only high end PCs will get to enjoy the game, Hey Maarten just buy an x-box ,there going to be cheap enough .

Nothing against the X-box and all the other "TV's-not-only-for-watching-movies"-hardware ... but after the GameBoy centuries ago *lol* I've been playing PC games ONLY. My point is that programmers seem to be unable to handle their code if it is said the Halo won't work on high-end PCs. I cannot understand that and even IF there will only be an "X-Box-Halo" I won't buy the X-Box. I'm a PC PLAYER!!! :0)

Peter Tamte confirmed at MacWorld during the keynote that Halo will be released for the Mac, which virtually means they'll port the PC version. I'm not worried about playing a non-Xbox version of this game.