Halo 2 for Vista screens

[CptStern]

it looks worse than the xbox version imho

http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2vista/screenshots/h2v_Midship03.jpg


http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2Vista/

[brink's]

And its only for Vista...*ucking weak!

i own the xbox version, i just think its retarded theyd make it only compatable with one OS, its not like its that system intensive.

[eraser]

:laugh:

[CptStern]

well with pc anywhere pc users will be able to play halo2 with xbox users ..gotta see how this will turn out: mouse/keyboard vs controller ..of lot of veteran HL2 xbox users will be owned

[Asuka]

Wtf is this shit?

[theotherguy]

ew. is that supposed to be dx10?
for shame!

[MultiVaC]

This is Halo 2?!?! And it's Vista exclusive? It looks like shit!

[Gunner]

This is Halo 2?!?! And it's Vista exclusive? It looks like shit!

Yeah, kind of makes you wonder how incompetent the devs are.

[6Three]

Wtf is this shit?

QFT.

[Lucid]

Looks like Halo 1. :|

Failure.

[Computer5k]

Consider:

Xbox uses Dx9
This looks the same as the xbox version.
It's Vista-only so it can use Dx10


Wjat?

[Steven]

I must say that looks like crap.

[Anthraxxx]

I don't care if the graphics still look like xbox 1 graphics. What sucks is that it's on Vista only. Not to mention that they(Bungie) was probably more worried about putting their available rescources to the development of Halo 3 than improving the graphics of Halo 2. When I get Vista, then i'll get Halo 2...

[Vegeta897]

it looks worse than the xbox version imho
Difference between a TV screen and a high resolution monitor.

[Space Farm]

Boycott this garbage!

[Slacker]

Sure it looks bad, but to be honest, the graphics could look like ****ing Crysis for all I care, I still wouldn't be interested.

[bam23]

YuckkkKK.

If they put it on WindowsXP, I don't care how bad it looks, as long as it has the single player coop mode online. BUT its on Vista, gg.

[Iced_Eagle]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?

[Hazar]

well with pc anywhere pc users will be able to play halo2 with xbox users ..gotta see how this will turn out: mouse/keyboard vs controller ..of lot of veteran HL2 xbox users will be owned

actually, that's not going to be supported because of the ownage issue

future games could though.

but yeah, I think it's pretty damn funny that they're trying to push windows with that crap.

[CyberPitz]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?

When did PC gaming die? \=

[MultiVaC]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?

Of course I want them to revive PC gaming, but they're not going to do it by releasing a game with 2001 graphics in 2007 and making it exclusive for a brand new OS.

[MuToiD_MaN]

Happypants!

He's speaking to the player in that screenshot. Must be saying something like ... "Ohh, why you shootin' that flashy sh** at me? Don't you know who I am? I'm Happypants, beyaatch!"

[BHC]

Less shader happy and more anti-aliasing may be less pleasing to the average eye, but I honestly prefer it.

[Atomic_Piggy]

:laugh: This is so pathetic!

[Zephos]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?

Well, Half Life 2 would make a better flagship title for PC gaming than that hunk of shit. The problem is, that HL2 is already out on PC :P

[-Psy-]

Looks like Halo 1 on the PC.

No AA, why?

It looks diabolical.

[Gray Fox]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?

One of the main reasons PC gaming is dying is because the hardware is so expensive, you are not going to revive PC gaming by excluding the majority of the gaming community, not to mention making it mandatory for anyone to spend another 200,- for a new OS and thus increasing the price of PC gaming even more. And certainly not when your game is a lousy xbox port that doesn't even meet the standards of most XP shooters.

[Venmoch]

it looks worse than the xbox version imho



Thing is, The X-Box version looks just as bad when you play it on the 360 using a higher res. (Not to mention items appearing due to fade distances etc.)

On a TV or a really low resolution the engine can get away with it. At anything higher than 640X480 it starts looking a little dodgy.....

[Raxxman]

best be an early shot, with nothing much done from the Xbox.

This shows just how sucky the graphics on the box are, Microsoft seem to be gambling heavily on the name alone.

[DEATH eVADER]

They're using this as a start for their new "Games for Windows" campaign.

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?


I thought that is why we have Half-Life, because Valve actually puts effort into their campaigns?

If they want to revive PC Gaming, they should bring out Freelancer 2 or Freespace 3 on Vista and DX10 :p

[Gargantou]

best be an early shot, with nothing much done from the Xbox.

This shows just how sucky the graphics on the box are, Microsoft seem to be gambling heavily on the name alone.On the box? You mean the X-Box? Taking into consideration the XB1s spec I'd say it was pretty good graphics, although there are deff. better looking XB1 games out there..
I mean, the XB1 used a GeForce 3.5 GPU of sorts.. I doubt a computer with a GeForce 3 GPU could run many XBox games with the graphics they have :)

[-Psy-]

It doesn't look like they've done anything to the game at all lol.

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Very dissapointing. I hope the graphics get better.

[Mutley]

Even if the graphics were running off a NASA space shuttle, it is still Halo and for that reason, it will always suck. :|

[StardogChampion]

Looks absolute pants.

What was the reason for being Vista only? Did they overrate their game so much that they thought only Vista could handle it? Or was it a Microsoft thing?

Yes it sucks you can't get this for XP, but they really do need a flagship title for them trying to revive PC gaming... You do want them to revive PC gaming, don't you?
PC gaming won't be revived by releasing shoddy ports of 2-year old games. That's what's hurting the PC market.

Deus Ex 2... Thief 3... and however many other games that were killed by being aimed for the Xbox primarily.

[-Psy-]

A calculator has better graphics.

[Zephos]

Haha, I just checked out the link and frankly... the site itself looks like shit.

[destrukt]

i thought people were finally over judging games based on screenshots, it seems not.

oh, and for all the "halo will always suck lolol" - stay the hell out of the thread.

[Venmoch]

Even if the graphics were running off a NASA space shuttle, it is still Halo and for that reason, it will always suck. :|

I'd disagree. Parts of the Halo series stand out as good examples to the Genre. In particular the character design, sound, voice acting and music as well as breathing life into the NPC's you play alongside (The Marines in particular). Something that many games still can't do. That and the music is awesome.

The problem is, that some of the design choices taken by Bungie really pull down the overall quality of the game. Case in Point Halo 2, it starts out superb, but soon as you become the Arbiter and find the second Halo and stuff it all goes a little downhill and stops becoming a fun game and starts becoming a chore. Which is a shame, because Sgt Johnson gets some great lines near the end but isn't really worth going through the game to get them.

As far as Halo 3 goes, I was slightly dissapointed to learn that by the time the Master Chief has arrived Earth has been invaded. Defending earth from the Covenant as the MC would have been something very difficult to screw up. (In fact thats what Halo 2 was meant to be.) Ah well, I'll wait and see......

Or I'll just get Gears Of War...

[Lucid]

I'm sure the game will still be fun.

[Tyguy]

terrible

[Ren.182]

Not interested in this at all. The single player was boring from the first Arbiter part onwards. I had to play it in coop mode and complete it with a friend so i didnt die of boredom, even then i felt bored. I don't like the multiplayer on the xbox 360 version and they ruined Blood Gulch. I'm sure it may be better on the PC, but i'd rather play Halo PC MP tbh.

Hopefully Halo 3 will be as good as the first at least.

[VictimOfScience]

Hahaha! This should teach someone a lesson..the hard way!

Awful.

[-Psy-]

Why are they releasing this on PC anyway? It's a bit old and I'm sure pretty much everyone has had some kind of play of it.

[CptStern]

Not interested in this at all. The single player was boring from the first Arbiter part onwards. I had to play it in coop mode and complete it with a friend so i didnt die of boredom, even then i felt bored..

QFT ...still havent finished it ..even my friend doesnt feel like finishing it

[DEATH eVADER]

A calculator has better graphics.

Could, could have better graphics. But nonetheless still is very valuable piece of equipment. Gets my 100% just for gameplay :thumbs:

[Sui]

Halo 2 is such a crap game though. The story is utter crap (unlike the 1st) and the multiplayer is a cheap UT2k4 rip off.

[-Psy-]

I never completed Halo 2. Just got bored towards the end...

[Ravioli]

Its not like Dx10 is gona make games that originaly didnt use it make them look next gen...only games that are built for the actuall DX10 from the start and designed from it is gona look really good.

[-Psy-]

And how is that an excuse to make the game look bad under DX9?

[Samon]

Wow, that looks like shit.

[DietSoap]

Incredible... Not only did they not upgrade the graphics with the power of DX10, or EVEN keep it the same, they DOWNGRADED them! :O

OF COURSE this isn't a shallow attempt to make the Xbox consoles look more powerful than a high end PC, of course not! ;)

[-Psy-]

^ Saying that, it would be funny if the final public Vista looks like Windows 95 ;)

[Beerdude26]

I don't care if the graphics still look like xbox 1 graphics. What sucks is that it's on Vista only. Not to mention that they(Bungie) was probably more worried about putting their available rescources to the development of Halo 3 than improving the graphics of Halo 2. When I get Vista, then i'll pirate Halo 2...Fixed. D:

[AiM]

Keyboard vs Controller will kill the console audience unless the players segregate themselves... which will defeat the whole purpose of this cross-platform competition.

[Fliko]

What was the reason for being Vista only?

I believe an effective version of DX10 was not possible on the Windows NT engine... Windows 2000 - Windows XP for those who don't know.. atleast, I think that is what was ran off of the Windows NT.

Halo 2 for Vista is there to help push the move to Vista.

Lots of people bash Microsoft, but they don't even understand what they are bashing.

Windows NT is old, I'm personaly glad Microsoft is building a whole new OS with a new engine. This will allow for many more things to be possible.

To a user, Windows Vista is pratically Windows XP
To a dev, Windows Vista is a big move

[No Limit]

:x Wow, I just threw up my breakfast.

[-Psy-]

Halo 2 for Vista is there to help push the move to Vista.

Considering how many people in this thread don't like the looks of it then I don't see how this going to be a reason to buy Vista.

[Warbie]

Keyboard vs Controller will kill the console audience unless the players segregate themselves... which will defeat the whole purpose of this cross-platform competition.

I tend to agree. You'd be suprised how good some people are with a pad, though. I know quite a few guys who could slaughter your average pc fps player while using a pad. Of course, given the same level of skill and knowledge of a game and a mouse user will have a clear advantage.

Anyhoo, Halo was always much better on the Xbox and with a pad. I found the pc version to be quite average in comparison.

[Atomic_Piggy]

Incredible... Not only did they not upgrade the graphics with the power of DX10, or EVEN keep it the same, they DOWNGRADED them! :O

OF COURSE this isn't a shallow attempt to make the Xbox consoles look more powerful than a high end PC, of course not! ;)

Said pefectly, have my cookie.

[DEATHMASTER]

http://bungie.com/News/TopStory.aspx?link=Halo2vistaweek01
"If you’re a PC gamer who takes pride in catlike 180 degrees turns with mouse and keyboard, you no doubt mock and pity the Neanderthal console gamer capable only of twiddling two thumbsticks and mashing candy-colored buttons."
"If, on the other hand, you’re one of the aforementioned cavepersons, the good news is that the Xbox 360 controller will plug straight into your your Vista PC and operates H2V perfectly."
I love that, cuz it's so funny!
This guy is great!

As for the screens, yeah they look like crap. I doubt it will look like that on release though. Either that or they were using some craptasticular machine.

[sea]

I'm sure glad they didn't change anything... Halo's graphics are the best ever. Thank Jesus they didn't try to muck them up by improving them!

[DEATHMASTER]

Looks like Halo 1 on the PC.

No AA, why?

If you're saying that Halo 1 for pc had no AA then you're wrong.
For me all I had to do was go into the nvidia properties and change the
settings for halo.exe to use it; making the card render that despite no
in game ability to do so.

[f0rked]

Wow that screen does look really, really crap. Then again, the game isnt gonna be coming out for another, what, year or so? So maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions about how totally shit it's gonna be. I must admit though I've never been a huge fan of the halo series, but for some reason I really wanna go play Halo2 on my brothers 360. Might go do that now to kill some time. Purchased geometry wars earlier then played it for an hour straight before feeling like my brain had imploded. Some Tacticalish FPS should do me good.

Also on a rather OT note: Saints Row in like 5 days! :D

[Stigmata]

Wow that screen does look really, really crap. Then again, the game isnt gonna be coming out for another, what, year or so? So maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions about how totally shit it's gonna be. I must admit though I've never been a huge fan of the halo series, but for some reason I really wanna go play Halo2 on my brothers 360. Might go do that now to kill some time. Purchased geometry wars earlier then played it for an hour straight before feeling like my brain had imploded. Some Tacticalish FPS should do me good.

Also on a rather OT note: Saints Row in like 5 days! :DIt's a decent timekiller.

and; :D

Respectively, of course.

[PimpinPenguin]

Well they will have to upgrade the graphics otherwise it will look pathetic compared to the pc shooters.

[TheAntipop]

http://bungie.com/News/TopStory.aspx?link=Halo2vistaweek01
"If you’re a PC gamer who takes pride in catlike 180 degrees turns with mouse and keyboard, you no doubt mock and pity the Neanderthal console gamer capable only of twiddling two thumbsticks and mashing candy-colored

Errrr... you got to be an idiot, and I mean an idiot, to not be able to do a 180 using thumb sticks. Seriously. Bad example.

[DEATHMASTER]

It's just funny, that's why I posted it.
Read it for more serious talking about the game if you want.
I didn't post anything about that because most people here
seem to hate the game, anyways; it's there for anyone who cares.

[TheAntipop]

I meant bad example as in they choose basic movement as something to jest at 'you like controllers, which SUK111, and keyboard wins' with. To be able to do a nice 180 movement on a keyboard/mouse is stupidly easy and pretty much the same as using thumbsticks.

I didn't mean it as anything to you, just the quote in general. :cheers:

[nutcrackr]

People will probably still flock over this product and buy vista just for it. They don't pay the guys at MS marketing to twiddle their thumbs all day.

[Asus]

The edges really get to me there. They need AA baad! I find it funny that it needs AA that badly yet it is a large resolution screenshot (1900x1200) which normally doesn't need much AA.
Not impressed at all. Wonder if it will be as big of a hog as Halo 1 for the PC.

[Kouler]

I'm a huge Halo fan, despite what others think, I love Halo, Halo 2 and Halo PC, and will no doubt get Halo 2 PC :)

[Przemek]

Who's doing the conversion to the PC? Is it Gearbox again? As far as I like Gearbox, they didn't do Halo well (graphics like in Unreal but extreme hardware reqs).

[sea]

Who's doing the conversion to the PC? Is it Gearbox again? As far as I like Gearbox, they didn't do Halo well (graphics like in Unreal but extreme hardware reqs).To be fair, they basically had to re-write the game's engine for use in the PC from the ground up, and Halo for the PC was also one of the first DirectX 9.0 games made, so they were working with what was at the time new technology. I'm not surprised they didn't get it right off the bat. Now that they're a more experienced developer (what with Brothers and Arms and all), they shouldn't have trouble with getting the game to perform properly..

[-Psy-]

If you're saying that Halo 1 for pc had no AA then you're wrong.
For me all I had to do was go into the nvidia properties and change the
settings for halo.exe to use it; making the card render that despite no
in game ability to do so.

:S

Well, I couldn't get AA or AF working even thought I turned them on with the ATI Control panel...

[0mar]

If Gearbox makes it, you can guarentee it'll suck dick in terms of frame-rates. It'll look like a 2003 game but need 2008 specs.

[hungryduck]

ewwww, gross.

[JoeCLawrence]

If they want to revive PC Gaming, they should bring out Freelancer 2 or Freespace 3 on Vista and DX10 :p

QFT

Freelancer kicked ass, and it still has a pretty large fanbase. But Halo 2 looks pretty crappy on PC right now. But since it has like a year to release, and is apparently quite playable, it will probably get a lot of work before release. Hopefully. Regardless I already own it, so why bother?

Edit: Whoa, taking a second look at that, it looks like there is no bump mapping! Halo 2 has loads of bump mapping on the Xbox, so no wonder it looks like crap.

[bigburpco]

BULLBULLBULLBULLBULLBULLBULLBULLBULLBULLSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT

[Gargantou]

If there was an announcement that Elite 4 would be released on Windows Vista next year I'd get Vista immediatly.:)

[Costin]

i don't get it why windows vista,halo2 could work on a XP...

[DEATHMASTER]

working is not the issue with MS, they WANT you to buy a brand new OS just for the game (for other things as well, but this forces you if you get it to play the game)

[gweedodogg69]

Yea it looks pretty suck. The lighting is well...bad. Everyone is bright, no shading really. Maybe it's in beta stages, AND nvidia/ati havent released drivers (cept for Beta 2) for their video cards. Who knows. Vista is in Beta as well don't forget ;).

[The Brick]

I'll pass unless it has SP coop.

[Hazar]

don't forget that that's actually how halo2 looks on the xbox :p

[Samon]

No, it looked better than that.

[Atomic_Piggy]

don't forget that that's actually how halo2 looks on the xbox :p

Xbox version is better than that filth.:p

[DEATHMASTER]

This is actually a couple weeks old but these shots are better than the first batch.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halo2/screenindex.html

[bam23]

Huge improvement.

Vista ftl.

[Asuka]

New ones dont look to bad, but still not impressed.

[XIII]

Huge improvement.

Vista ftl.

look worse tha hl2...imo...too crappy for vista

[Computer5k]

In semi-related news: There is some hope of playing this on xp.

Because dx10 will be vista only by Microsoft's decision, not technical limitations, the WINE team is considering porting their implementation of dx10 over opengl to windows, so you don't need to buy vista to use it :)

New screens: looks better, mostly from the AA as far as I can tell, maybe higher res textures also. The crosshair below the middle of the screen really stands out, though. A lot more than on xbox.