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Halo - A Hog
This doesn't sound like a Microsoft/Apple debate from what I've seen above. Look at the facts, though. Halo is a poor console port. When most first-person shooter games are getting 100+ frames per second, the top-of-the-line graphics card in the PC world can't break 60 frames. See Halo frame rates versus Unreal Tournament 2003 frame rates. Sure, Halo's an all right game, but if I'm paying $50 for a game, I expect it to perform comparably to "last year's games" that sell for $30-40 now. And why should I have to buy a cutting-edge system to get the privilege of poor frame rates anyway? In my opinion, this definitely enters into the discussion. If the performance is poor, it detracts from the gameplay, and Halo doesn't differentiate itself enough from other games to warrant rave reviews on the PC/Mac platform. Frankly, there are so many failings (lack of performance, differentiation, and bot matches for LAN play), that it doesn't deserve 7 stars, let alone 9. That said, I've had some fun playing it, but it's not on my LAN party group's list of games because of all the failings. Unreal Tournament 2003 has a much better engine, and that alone makes it more fun. Save $20 and buy UT2K3 if you haven't bought that one yet! :)
Halo - A Hog
This has been gone over a billion times other places. Halo's graphics engine for PC and Mac is NOT last year's technology. This is just the beginning of a long line of games that is going to push hardware to the limits again. Doom III, Half Life 2, and more. This is also the first FPS that I know of that started on a console and migrated to computers, and not the other way around. Gearbox had to rewrite a lot of the rendering engine just to get it to run on the amount of hardware they did, and then Westlake had to change that code to run on Mac hardware.
Halo - A Hog
"but if I'm paying $50 for a game, I expect it to perform comparably to "last year's games" that sell for $30-40 now"Let me get this straight. You expect a new release to perform as well on the same hardware as games released a year ago? What are you smoking? Anyone knows that as time goes on and games programmers design more advanced games, more powerful hardware is required to keep up! If a game is a year newer, then you should expect to need a year newer computer to get the same performance, all other things being equal. Andy
Halo - A Hog
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Halo - A Hog
Oni is a perfect example. Here is a game, with a female lead character, that not only uses weapons, but advanced moves and blocking. The game was great. But the inability to include net-play was its downfall. If only Oni had multi-player, assault levels and custom mapping...its play would have exceeded Halo's playability
i can't agree with you more, i had the optertunity to play Oni multi player at macworld a couple of years before it was released. it was much funner than any FPS shooter that i've played multi player. i was so disapointed by Oni's lack of MP when it shipped, i didn't bother to buy it. ---
Halo - A Hog
> Sure, Halo's an all right game, but if I'm paying $50 for a game, I |
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