Chade on 6/10/2008 at 04:31
Play the single player campaign on a hard difficulty level and you will find that from time to time some unusual game dynamics arise. With recharging shields and ammo for both yourself and enemies, the action sometimes settles down into an equilibirum, which can be interesting to break.
Made the game worth it in my opinion.
Gaph on 6/10/2008 at 05:05
Quote Posted by michaelg
I've been playing both Stalker and the Witcher but have a hankering for a simple straight shooter.
Since you said this then I'm sure you'll enjoy Halo. If you've spent a lot of time with complex games like Stalker and the Witcher then something like Halo will seem like a breath of fresh air. When I finished Doom 3 I was completely burnt out by it's relentless scares and high tension. I was dying for something more lighthearted, so when I picked up Prey I ended up
really ejoying it.
After Prey I couldn't look at another FPS, even Half-Life wasn't fun. You just keep ping-ponging back and forth to keep things fresh.
Koki on 6/10/2008 at 05:33
Seconding everything EvaUnit02 said. Sound the alarm.
Quote Posted by MSX
I wouldn't say its better than the original HL. Mostly because it never takes itself too seriously.
Well you wanted more examples of "does not take itself seriously" dethtoll, here you go.
Fragony on 6/10/2008 at 15:05
If you like it there is a lot of it. Halo is a terrific game depending on your ability to overlook some, well issues. When it comes to pure shooting goodness and tactical flexibility it is still the very best, the most elegant and complete combat system I ever saw.
MSX on 6/10/2008 at 23:27
Quote Posted by michaelg
Well that's the reason I like the original HL so much. As intense as the gameplay was at times, it was also a very funny game. It also didn't take itself to seriously which is why I found it a better game than HL2 which I thought took itself
to seriously.
HL? Very Funny? I guess perhaps some situational humor with barney and the scientists. Though nothing that breaks the suspension of disbelief. All the humor is contextual. Or are you a violence is fucking hillarious™ kinda guy? I just dont remember it being overly funny, but then again I didint find halo funny at all.
Haha enemies hug when their gonna die at the end lolz. Spoiler for spoiling sarchasm. The H is for extra hate.
lost_soul on 7/10/2008 at 00:50
I used to play Halo online a lot for the PC. It was very fun, but it lacked a lot of critical features. For example, if a server was full, upon trying to connect it would just send you back to the main menu telling you the server is full. Games from 1996 (e.g. Quake) would continuously try to reconnect to the server until a spot opened up. There is also no lag compensation, meaning you'll have to aim that sniper rifle well in front of the guy running in a direction perpendicular to you in Internet games in order to hit him. Again. this is something other PC games (e.g. Half-Life) had well before Halo came out. They recently released a new official patch (v1.08 I think) which removes the disk-checking malware so you don't have to keep the disk in the drive to play. That may make it worth the buy. There is also the custom edition which can run custom maps as the name implies. Some awesome maps were created for it like Division Falls, but they are rarely, if ever played online. The ability to load/play custom content should have been integrated into the standard version of the game the way it is with other PC games.
catbarf on 7/10/2008 at 00:59
Do note that as the console version was built with a 30FPS cap, all animations are locked at 30FPS and so anything that moves will stutter regardless of how high your FPS really is.
Dario on 14/10/2008 at 04:28
I enjoyed Halo PC just as much or more than Halo for Xbox, for two reasons: 1) sharper graphics (played it at 1280x1024 res), and 2) better controls (KB/Mouse).
I simply don't understand people who say the Xbox version is better. Sure, playing on a PC can dampen the experience just because you know you've got 10x better games installed (and because the game is a million years old), but if you don't have the Xbox version fresh in your head, it's the exact same thing. Add the two above factors, and it's BETTER.
If I had to replay the game right now, I'd do it on my PC, hands down.
Malf on 14/10/2008 at 09:44
Wasn't there some shit floating around at the time of release that Halo PC's renderer was different and inferior to the Xbox version because the Xbox graphics chipset had access to a shader model that was essentially SM 1.5 when SM 1.0 was the highest available on the PC at the time?
