Halo 2 for PC

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Halo was a good run and gun shooter... thats about it... nothing particularly new compared to PC FPS games. the indoor level design was pretty bad but the outdoor level design was really good. The driveable vehicles implemented well but they existed on PC since codename eagle days. Maybe it was new to consoles. The port was initially pretty shoddy. The first time i tried to play it on my 9800 pro, it was framing like crazy and dropping to the low teens at places which forced me to just dump the game midway. Returned back to the game after a few patches and driver updates on the same hardware and it was butter smooth at 1600x1200. I tried a bit of halo 2 on an xbox but gave up cos of the shoddy control scheme. There's no way an fps can be played with a stupid gamepad.
 
Chaos said:
There's no way an fps can be played with a stupid gamepad.
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My thoughts exactly!

I don't see how anyone can use a little analog stick to aim with any precision or speed (let alone both).

I could not get halfway through the game on normal difficulty on halo for Xbox, but on PC I beat it in 3 hours without dying. Incredible.
 
IceFusion said:
who knows.. let it come... i loved Halo 1...would install Vista just to play it :p
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You won't be disappointed except for the short campaign.Just don't get addicted to hijacking covenant vehicles like me :P .Multiplayer is great..play it more than Gears.But PC guys are lucky since they can have custom maps..
 
thebigbadidea said:
My thoughts exactly!

I don't see how anyone can use a little analog stick to aim with any precision or speed (let alone both).

I could not get halfway through the game on normal difficulty on halo for Xbox, but on PC I beat it in 3 hours without dying. Incredible.
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Did you even play it? 3 hours heh!

The Xbox game pad is superb but it takes a few hours to get used to. Nowadays I am as good with my Xbox pad as I am with a M&K. Probably better since its ridiculously easy to circle strafe in MP with the game pad.

The PS2 game pad makes FPSs unplayable though. The dead zone is too much.
 
Shooters + gamepads = roflcopter. The level of competence you can achieve with a mouse+keyboard cannot be achieved with a gamepad. That's just my opinion, but I believe it holds true.
 
i dont think so. my friends plays halo 2, GoW, gun etc on xbox and i guess he frags very well. sad he couldnt make it to the LP. It was hard time for me to aim in GoW though. with so many gamers around me i dont think anyone can bring him down in halo 2 with him using gamepad and other guy on mouse/keyboard.
 
Arya said:
with so many gamers around me i dont think anyone can bring him down in halo 2 with him using gamepad and other guy on mouse/keyboard.
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that would be because of the auto aim?

rio is right, its not even a question open for discussion. m+kb obviously offers much more accuracy than a controller ever could...
 
^^Try it... just once. He using a gamepad and everyone else using keyb/mouse. He'd be massacred in broad daylight. If someone thinks that a good player on a gamepad can beat a good player on a kb+m, he's smoking too much weed :P
 
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