You what?

[suicidal_monkey]

there are a few alternatives... Mac OSX and Linux are two, and linux is free to try, so we should at least be trying it out. I intend to make my next pc a linux pc. windows will be a last resort for games/apps that require it, but most of the stuff I do should in theory work under linux reasonably well... :huh:

[Blunt]

err guys....


this is a pointless discussion...why are'nt you gaming?

[Doorman]

Originally posted by Blunt@Feb 10 2006, 12:39 AM
err guys....
this is a pointless discussion...why are'nt you gaming?

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Er...where? Everyone's gawn ta bed!

[Liberator]

Most Linux distributions are free and the "techy only" aspect was removed years ago.

The problem is the game support. Yeah, you can get the server files for most games for Linux, but the game binaries themselves are like the excrement of the proverbial rocking horse.

I'm afraid the "forward thinking" aspect of gaming support loses out to the old $ or £ sign.

Blame the PC distributers, they are the ones that package M$ OS with everything.

Everyone "out of the know" assumes that because Linux is free, it is a buggy unsupported OS which is second rate.

The opposite is true, it is the most supported, updated, professional, powerfull and cheap operating systems to run.

But after all that, Halo2 is M$ and so M$ is making sure that the hype produces £'s of income once the pleborians get a whiff.



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[Carr0t]

I never thought all that much of Halo or halo 2. I played the first few levels of Halo on XBox, quite liked it, bought it for PC, and discovered that compared with the majority of PC FPSes it was only mediocre. It only seemed so good on XBox because good console FPSes are few and far between. I wasn't thant impressed with Halo 2 either, and given the price of the XBox nowadays compared with buying, say, Windows XP, wouldn't it be cheaper to just but a XBox and play Halo 2 on that?

If this is an attempt by Microsoft to squeeze more cash out of people then I don't think it's gonna work. But given the min/recommended specs of Vista I suspect we're going to get the same situation we had with XP when it first came out, where games started listing one set of specs on the back of the box for 95, 98, ME, 2k, and a different set for XP. Vista supposedly is going to include all this cool integrated stuff to make my gaming experience easier and faster, but i'll be very surprised based on the specs Vista requires if they manage to make any of my current games run faster than they do on my XP install.

[delanvital]

Originally posted by Doorman@Feb 10 2006, 12:06 AM
Forgive my ignorance, but if it was way ahead of it's time why couldn't you play games on it? :dummy:

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Ahead of its time in other aspects. The multitasking part was excellent, the system was very stable and if you used an application made for it, it was very efficient. No 640Kb limit was also nice. AFAIK it was a joint development between IBM and Microsoft? Originally?

That said, driver support was an issue and the "emulated" support for programs made for Windows was not that good  <_< So, you could not play games on it succesfully because you would have to "emulate" Windows which meant booting it partially and having some compatibility issues, or just boot Windows only on which the game would run better anyway  <_<

[Maus]

I'm not sure how my memory works here, but I think I recall having performance issues with Halo PC and being mightily pi***** off that my 3GHz PC with a 256Mb 9800pro underperformed the XBox's 733MHz processor and some kind of nvidia card at 250MHz.

Quite why Halo2 will require a ninja PC is beyond me.

Also, I'm with Doorman in that I have absolutely no interest in this overhyped piece of trash excuse for a video game. If memory serves, all my XBox-owning friends were annoyed with it, as it cuts off in the middle of the story with a damp squib of an ending. I can just play HL2 if I want all that.

edit: oh, and the xbox only has 64Mb RAM I think. Though I guess it can get away with it since it's not running Vista.