Halo XboX vs pc

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what do you prefer?
im more of an xbox man myself havent tried pc much though
 

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Unless you have an amazing video card, then XBox is the best for graphics. Of course, Halo PC supports Multiplayer. Personally, I prefer the Xbox vresion.
 

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[glow=red]PC now and forever. I say that graphics shouldn't suffer because of the evil Xbox version.[/glow]
 

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Evil... Xbox...?

Bad Kuzmich. No cookie for you.

The graphics suffer because if you turn on the 'shiny mappy thingy' (as a friend of mine stated) then the game would have massive lag, unlike the Xbox version, where the ONLY single-player graphics lag was caused by when you beat an Elite's carcass too many times (the blood gets all over the place.)

Multiplayer-wise, I don't give a deep shit. Multiplayer is multiplayer is multiplayer. Nothing big or bad about it.

I just hope that Halo 2 is Xbox only, no PC port, so then all those overzealous anti-Xboxian PS2 owners won't be able to access the glory of Halo 2.

BTW, according to many people, FPSs are better on the computer. IMHO, the only way one can play a good FPS is with a gamepad on an Xbox.
 

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[glow=red]I still say it should be PC-only, then the programmers will be able to make the graphics better. All the consoles exept for PC are evil, then you buy Xbox you feed Bill Gates, and he doesn't deserve it, look at how screwy windows is. Bill Gates must pay, burn the bastard. AHAHAHAHAHAHA.[/glow]
 

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bill gates gets what he deserves...thus he deserves alot of money do reserch on him and you'll see that he dontates millions upon millions. anyway back to the subject... PC is alot better i'd say get a radeon 9800 pro :) blow your head off
 

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Hmph. I really don't care. Did you realize that Mircrosoft LOSES money whenever an Xbox is bought? They make the money back through game deals, etc.

What the hell are you talking about, screwy Windows? My Windows XP Pro runs perfectly fine.

Consoles are not evil. Macs are. I'm fine with PCs, but there are some games that one can NEVER play on PC, i.e. Steel Battalion (which I am a proud owner of, BTW).

Game Designers for PC games can't make graphics better. Well, they can, but that doesn't mean that all of a sudden your PC can play them with no lag. To play Halo without lag, you'd need an ATI Radeon 9800, at least a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor, a really good sound card, etc. You'd also need a really fast kind of Internet connection to play it all online without ping lag. And no, DSL won't cut it. YOu need cable or better.

However, on Xbox, Halo 2 will rule. You don't need to bother with buying new graphics card, processor, hard drives, sound cards, or Internet connection (but you do need DSL at the least to play on Xbox Live). On the Xbox, you don't need to worry about binding keys to your keyboard, or cahnging mouse sensitivity, or even bother with tweaking the sounds and graphics for "Optimal Performance".

Xbox is actually better than the PC. Xbox is the PC, simplified.

And if Windows is as screwy as you say it is, then why bother with the PC, hmm? You're contradicting yourself now, Kuzmich.

Bungie didn't do anything for Halo PC (Bungie is the team that developed Halo, BTW. Microsoft Games Studios published it). In fact, an entirely different team, Gearbox Studios, did the port. That's why the PC version sucked so bad. All it got was:

Online Multiplayer
Flamethrower in Multiplayer
Fuel Rod Cannon on Multiplayer

It actually lost the 2 player co-op mode, which just saddens me. It was so fun doing tricks off Ghosts on AOTC...

Also, consoles come with memory cards that can easily port memory. Plus, they rarely cost more than say, $30 USD. PC-wise, it's near impossible to transfer memory because you'd have to buy either a portable hard drive (and God knows how much that is nowadays...) or a USB memory card, which can cost upwards of $50 USD. I may be wrong, and if I am, please correct me on the pricing.

In the end, it's all about preference. If you're a good typer and prefer to memorize the keyboard keys and know what to press when and then whupass, then so be it. If you don't want to look at the keyboard everytime to find the goddamn "Action" button, then the consoles maybe more your style. The controls are MUCH more easily memorized, the mandatory memory cards for PS2 and GCN make carrying around files easy (although it's a bit more costly, becaus they're mandatory). Sure, the Xbox is gigantic, but I can still fit it into my backback along with my PS2 and all my games plus controllers, cables, and memory card for the PS2. The Xbox's hard drive takes up space, but helps a lot because the hard drive allows developers do crazier things with the Xbox.
 

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[glow=red]Well i got a Pentium 4, 256 RAM, Geforce FX 5200 video card, and some kind of sound card and yes i am a happy owner of wireless cable modem.[/glow]
 

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256 RAM ain't gonna cut it anymore, Kuzmich. I have a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, 512 RAM (soon to be 1024), ATI 9600 (Hopefully to be upgraded soon), an amazing sound card (don't remember the name) and good ol' DSL (it works fine, and I don't want Halo PC.)

Yes, Halo was and still is overrated. Halo is boring now, unless you can wire up four Xboxes and have a 16-player LAN party.

Halo 2 is overrated, but is still going to be AMAZING.

On another, non-Halo related note, San Adreas is going to kick ass. However, according to unwritten rules of Halo Fanboydom, I must hate any game other than Halo.
 

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im good with xbox because i can still play halo online anyways so i dont need pc.. pc is good in many ways because theres more improvements but it isnt batter than xbox by a long shot unreplacable
 

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Xbox is great. I havent even got PC version, but I heard you cant co op on PC which sucks. On Xbox you can have 16 players, and the graphics are always the same on every Xbox. So Xbox is better...
 

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ya and to even play on pc you have to have a fast computer or lag will get ya
 

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ya and to even play on pc you have to have a fast computer or lag will get ya

...halo 2 comes out in 42 more days hehe
 

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comes out nov 9 and im going to get it the first day rockass
 

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dont blame ya. might get it the weekend after the game comes out we'll see. is it going to come out on xbox and pc?
 

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i know xbox im pretty sure it will come out on pc just not right away
 

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