Before the Xtinct Box officially goes under, will we see Halo on a X(tinct) box emulator before the PC Version of Halo?

Touchy Touchy...
Multiplayer... XBox vesus PC ...NOT GONNA HAPPEN... PC to PC... going to be limited. Right now I think you can have up to 8 players on the XBox over the net.
I think that this will be close to if not the same limitation the PC version has as well.

Folks, the XBox network code was NOT THOUGHT OUT PROPERLY AND WAS NOT GIVEN ENOUGH TIME TO DEVELOPE PROPERLY. If you are thinking about the PC version from a Multiplayer perspective... then you are barking up the wrong tree.

Microsoft is sponsoring a Halo Tournament. I own one of the game centers that is hosting the event, YourGame.Net. Details at the MS Press Release.

http://www.xbox.com/press/halonationaltournament.htm

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Is there any keyb. /mouse possibilities on the Xbox, if not i bet the Xbox-rabbits gonna get fucked,
wha'.. propa' fucked..?
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Geeze.
If you dont like Halo, Go fuck off, dont tell us about it: I DONT WANT TO KNOW.

I own it, I would like to play it on PC, And I WAITED FOR IT TOO.

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Okay. So, Halo on PC Multiplayer, Hmm... All I have to wonder is, Will I play against X-boxrs? (or when I get xbox live, will i play against pc players?) Network code shouldnt be that different -- especially since they will release a new 'patch' for X-box live -- or a new halo; or both.

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i remember the games that i really really looked forward to back in the days. TF2 and Halo. I read everything I could about both. I downloaded all movies and screenshots and shit. Once I heard that Halo would come out only for the X-box, I didn't give a shit about it anymore. That's $50 I kept in my pocket. And now that 65893205 years have passed, I don't give a damn if it comes out for the PC or not. Once it does, I'll just get a pirated copy and spend the $50 on something that deserves it. (sure as hell aint microshit)

humm i wonder why its takeing so long for halo to the pc its because microsoft want to see the xbox and now that its doing bad they decide to port it over they had there chance when they put it on the xbox to put it on the pc too ..i dont care about the game any more im waiting for ut2003,unreal2,doom3..and for that fact im judgeing them for system requirements for my next system upgrade..
gforce 5 and true athlon xp 2 gig processor...
andy ways they might as well say forget porting over halo and make halo 2 to even have a remote chance on the pc market.

By the time this comes out (probably sometime in winter im guessing) nobody will really care, there will be more interesting games like splinter cell, raven shield, bf1942, ut2003, ut2... etc. Yes halo is mildly ammusing online, but compared to the upcoming games I don't think it will hold up well.

*sigh* I'm #116, let me explain some things that I didn't get across.

I did see Halo, last night, for the first time. Played through the first two levels coop, then played some 3 player deathmatch. About 5 minutes later the Gamecube was hooked back up and we were playing 4 player Super Smash Bros. Melee again.

What I meant by hating to see Marrowind on the XBox was the _control_. I have a crapload of control over Marrowind on my PC, but I don't think the game would be nearly as fun if I had to fight that damn controller.

So for me, the main problem isn't graphics. It's control. On my PC I can control more graphics, sound, setup, and the controls itself when compared to an Xbox. I'm fine with waiting another year for the game. I still have NWN to play through, and the whole slew of games I can play online. It's all about control, and when it comes to a failure like Xbox, I'll stay away thanks.

I have Marrowind on PC, and I DO crank up the res, because I have a computer that can do that.

My god I am sorry about the grammar in the below post... that's what I get for multi-tasking between builds, code, and that. Hope you can work your way through that mess..

My god I am sorry about the gramar in the below post... that's what I get for multi-tasking between builds, code, and that. Hope you can work your way through that mess..

Hahaha...
Yeah I am a game programmer too. Been in the industry for almost 12 years now. I agree that porting from the XBox to the PC is going to be failry easy for the "Team" that is going to be doing this (no it won't be the same group of people that put together Counter Strike but you can be rest assured that Randy will probably take a gander at it from time to time).
The main problem with this... and perhaps I am speaking for too many people... you see...there is this thing called...finishing... you know... the game? While probably there are still some PC users out there contemplating purchasing an XBox instead of spending the same amount of money on a Geforce4 video card. I personally think would be stupid to do seeing that I dropped $500 on it and found out that Microsoft only supports a 3 month warranty on its product. If your XBox breaks after 3 months... oops...too bad... so sad... Microsoft wants $127.00 to repair it and you get to pay for shipping and handling too.

Besides all that going against the XBox and the number of users out there who will still be purchasing and XBox over a PC upgrade, I think you will still probably be able to sell around 300K to 425K units and that is if the porting team gets it out before Doom III...otherwise... you go to the store... see Doom III on the shelf... see Halo...the XBox to PC port game on the shelf... which one ya gonna buy? You gonna take Halo over DOOM III?!

I don't think so. The average consumer purchases 3 to 4 titles a year. This would be one of the 3-4 titles. The average consumer doesn't purchase more than one title every 2.5 to 3 months... this means sales for Halo could be scattered.

Personally... I know for a fact that the Halo code base is a whacked out hack job in MANY places and its core engine is going to have to be modified in order to make Halo even a hair remotely fun to play online (seeing that it is right now <Xbox version> peer to peer). Don't even forget all of the specialty code and methods used to take advantage of the XBox (not that there won't be some fairly close if not almost identical D3D8 method calls to replace them.

In the end... I think everyone fighting out here about this stupid title needs to sit back and wait. It is going to be (my estimate being a semi-veteran in the industry) about 9 to 14 months before you see the product...and that is if everything goes fairly well for the team.

You also have to realize the team doing this port is a piece meal team that is being brought together from various different companies. This means that many/some of the team members have never worked with each other... I also know that many of the people are coming from Terminal Reality... and if you look at the titles and quality of products falling out that door mixed with the new team syndrom and the already distant release date for the product.

I am sad to say that it will get done and money will be spent doing it. I will bet that Microsoft gets their $$ out of the deal and the new team will be left standing with nothing more than yet another notch on their belt and a semi-decent salary to boot. I dare to wonder how they will feel if they have visions massive unit sale volumes.

Halo is Halo... great title... great team who put it together. Gearbox is a fantastic company and will do their best to put it out as quickly and best they can. I just think the odds are stacked against them so if you are waiting for Halo to come out on the PC... just go rent an XBox for a week and Halo and play it now. It will save you time and money.

Okay, I'll admit I have a fairly good system, I guess I assume that most everyone else does as well. I don't like the xbox and I don't like MS, let's leave it at that. And no, I wasn't exaggerating.
This comment was edited on Jul 18, 13:16.

From Halo to Morrowind. Gotta love Internet message boards.

I liked the graphics in Morrowind, but I don't understand why everyone is raving about them. The lighting is way off and the colors are bland and washed out.

you must be crazy. The X-box controller is the most uncomfortable out of all the next-gen consoles.

"I should know since I have the PC version of Marrowind, and it looks better than the X-BOX... PS: I have a geforce4 128mb"

Lucky you. Except not everyone is so fortunate to have a videocard that cost as much as an Xbox itself to pair it up with a relatively hot rod PC that cost even more to make it look a bit better than the Xbox version.

P.S. I also have a Geforce4 Ti since I just got a new computer to go with it, but I'll still get Morrowind for the Xbox so I can sit back and relax with a controller (with rumble) in my hand and be guranteed a cohesive experience for hours on end rather than sit up three feet away from the monitor, callous my fingers from pounding the keyboard keys and make my wrist sore from prolong mouse usage to play a loooooong game like Morrowind.

"I played Morrowind on my friends xbox and it looked like garbage compared to running on my pc."

Looked liked garbage...now that's a hyperbolic statement that none of the reviews of the game on commercial web sites can back you up on, nor do screenshots of the Xbox version when you compare it to PC screenshots of the game. Besides the putting the PC version at an extremely high resolution, I bet you won't even be able to tell the difference between the screenshots, unless the PC version is running on something less than a Geforce 3.

Second, I think you're overestimating the importance of the editor for the average person who just want to play the game, rather than work on it on the Xbox. I mean, let's not lose focus on what a console is for, playing games, not doing work (at least not work on the scale of creating something for a full fledge RPG).
I don't think it's technical but testing reason for why the editor was ommitted: the Xbox version, which only contained the game itself, was delayed because they had to do additional testing to fix bugs they already found on the released PC version. If they included the editor as well, who knows if the game would have been released by now because of all the testing that needs to be done to make sure it's bug free.

Also, there wouldn't be any feasible way to share whatever you created on the editor anyway until Xbox Live is up, and of course, this game's development pre-dates Xbox Live by a lot. Finally, Bethedsa said that the game will accept plug-ins, just like the PC game; something not practical on any other current console other than the Xbox. Once Xbox Live is up, Bethedsa could provide a lot downloadable plug-ins for the game if they haven't done so by other means, like through the demo DVDs from the Offical Xbox Magazine.

By the time Halo is ported to the PC, the majority will already own it on Xbox, thus making the release appear to flop. I don't have an Xbox, yet, but I'm sure as hell getting one for Halo-- rather than waiting until the summer of 2003.

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Ok, can we argree that the x-box, in all purposes IS a PC? I mean it has a Intel Processors, Cd/DVD drive, a 8gig HD, and a Celeron MB. The only thing it lacks is a floppy drive and a Keyboard / Mouse (and thats possiable since everything is USB. I think it is possiable to say YES, the port will be very close to the XBOX version, and on top of that I think it will support better resoultions... I should know since I have the PC version of Marrowind, and it looks better than the X-BOX... PS: I have a geforce4 128mb