Halo 2 Vista...

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DirtyDreamDesigner

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...is a complete and utter piece of shit.

I don't know where to start... The graphics are horrible, almost comparable to Halo 1 but with the added bonus of the game running like shit, the sound is messed up (that might just be me) and the FoV feels even more restricted than in Halo1 (I think it's 70°, WTF).

It feels outdated, sluggish, ugly and clunky, and the only saving grace is the story.

Don't even think about spending money on this abortion, and whatever you do, don't switch to Vista just because of it. Ugh.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
...is a complete and utter piece of shit.

I don't know where to start... The graphics are horrible, almost comparable to Halo 1 but with the added bonus of the game running like shit, the sound is messed up (that might just be me) and the FoV feels even more restricted than in Halo1 (I think it's 70°, WTF).

It feels outdated, sluggish, ugly and clunky, and the only saving grace is the story.

Don't even think about spending money on this abortion, and whatever you do, don't switch to Vista just because of it. Ugh.
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Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to install Vista just to test out that game. :clap: No sarcasm here at all, completely serious - tone of voice is hard to express via Internet. :wink:

But yeah, there go all of my horrible thoughts about contemplating the installation of Vista. :D :salute:
 
But, as you say, it might just be you. Someone else should try it to confirm this.
 
DarkLegacy said:
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
...is a complete and utter piece of shit.

I don't know where to start... The graphics are horrible, almost comparable to Halo 1 but with the added bonus of the game running like shit, the sound is messed up (that might just be me) and the FoV feels even more restricted than in Halo1 (I think it's 70°, WTF).

It feels outdated, sluggish, ugly and clunky, and the only saving grace is the story.

Don't even think about spending money on this abortion, and whatever you do, don't switch to Vista just because of it. Ugh.
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Lets see the rig your running it on, is it up to snuff? if your not getting at lest 60fps with all gfx setting on hi of course your going to think its ugly.

But i don't know i've been hearing things good and bad so far, so just trying to make it final in my mind.
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Shiozaki said:
Lets see the rig your running it on, is it up to snuff? if your not getting at lest 60fps with all gfx setting on hi of course your going to think its ugly.
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Fuck that shit, there are games three years older that look and run five times better than this clusterfuck of a game.
 
Shiozaki, don't jump to the conclusion of "your system sucks, noob".

The Halo 1 engine for XP was highly unoptimized. I had hardware nearly triple that required for optimal performance and the game still ran like horsecrap.

Take for example, my previous generation system:

Halo 1 [XP]
1280x1024, All Visuals Maximum - 30 FPS Avg

Half Life 2 [XP]
1280x1024, All Visuals Maximum, 4xFSAA, 8x Anisoptrophic - 60 FPS Avg

Now, with a system nearly twenty times as powerful as the original XBOX, I'm only seeing an average framerate in the triple digits with 16x Anisotrophic on Halo. That is atrocious. I won't even mention that framerate I get in properly coded engines such as the Source engine at the moment.

So as for DDD's original statement, I have full faith that Microsoft/Bungie coded a shoddy/shitty console port of Halo 2 for a brand new operating system that they are trying to push on consumers (Where it probably would have worked just fine on Win2k even), and that's that.
 
Not to mention the fact that underneath all that crappy performance and graphics is an inherently flawed game. The FoV is an atrocious 70° making it feel like playing while looking through a 1.5x scope, the level design is iffy at best, I never liked the Halo enemies and what the fuck is up with the crosshairs, they are not in the center of the screen but some two thirds down which feels completely unnatural.

I honestly can't fathom why this game was such a huge hit on the XBOX.
 
Halo sucks. How is this news?

Q1 in multiplayer was more fun than Halo. The whole hype around Halo was the fact it was one of the first multiplayer combat games for the secksbockse.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Not to mention the fact that underneath all that crappy performance and graphics is an inherently flawed game. The FoV is an atrocious 70° making it feel like playing while looking through a 1.5x scope, the level design is iffy at best, I never liked the Halo enemies and what the fuck is up with the crosshairs, they are not in the center of the screen but some two thirds down which feels completely unnatural.

I honestly can't fathom why this game was such a huge hit on the XBOX.
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Yeah, I had to hack the DLLs in the original Halo (XVI32) because it honestly felt like I was viewing the world through a 1.5x scope and I was at a huge disadvantage in multiplayer due to this. Not to mention that the game wouldn't play in my native aspect ratio OR resolution of 1680x1050 and 16:10.

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