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Bungie Splits from Microsoft, Mac Games Ahead?

tjanuranus said:
Halo is Crap? are you insane? I wonder why it breaks every record there is as far as sales go. Maybe because just about everyone wants to play it? If it were crap it wouldn't be the biggest selling game ever. Halo 2 was now Halo 3 is. If people thought halo 2 was crap, Halo 3 wouldn't have sold like it did and currently is.
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If you have never played Marathon BACK in 1994/96, you will never understand...its mix of storyline, puzzles and action are unmatched, and Halo cannot compare to its intelligent design. And as far as "best-selling" software is concerned, you may use the same analogy for Windows...everybody has it, therefore it's wonderful...no thanks. :rolleyes:
 
um, i have played marathon. so yes i can compare the to games and Halo is the best FPS ever. period. I have gears of war and while graphically it is the greatest console video game ever made (imo) the game play cannot compare to halo.

The comparison to windows is just stupid. The only reason so many people use windows is because it comes standard on the crappy pc's they buy. If halo came with every xbox then i would say it might be a fair comparison. it's not like everyone is getting os x or linux and saying... "man i have to go buy windows it's the best!"
 
offwidafairies said:
i cant believe so many people are excited about this.
i hate games. id hate for apple to focus on gaming machines.
keep the focus on video, audio & graphics
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Gaming machines make wonderful 3D development platforms too

And they increase the market share of a company...

Just an FYI
 
BRLawyer said:
If you have never played Marathon BACK in 1994/96, you will never understand...its mix of storyline, puzzles and action are unmatched, and Halo cannot compare to its intelligent design. And as far as "best-selling" software is concerned, you may use the same analogy for Windows...everybody has it, therefore it's wonderful...no thanks. :rolleyes:
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Marathon as you stated is a totally different type of game. Both are Bungie games. Why do you even bring up the Windows analagy here? It does not make sense. What really makes sense is that YOU love this type of game and are willing to defend it to the end. Others Love Halo and will defend it as well. But allas Halo does not need defending since it is a very successful franchise for Bungie. Your distaine for microsoft is apparent and really has no place when talking about the XBOX 360. Gee If you wanted you can actually play Marathon on the Xbox 360 right now its avaliable as a downloadable game for about $8 US.
 
tjanuranus said:
not a good example. you can't compare a movie to a video game. the fact that people are STILL playing halo 2 online shows that it's a great game. Millions of people around the world will be playing halo 3 for years to come just like they have with Halo 2. Unless you have really played it online you can't possibly understand. I also have Halo 1 for the Mac and it's cool but the multiplayer can't compete with xbox live.
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Just because people play it doesn't mean it's good....people are dumb....yea:cool:
 
slackpacker said:
Marathon as you stated is a totally different type of game. Both are Bungie games. Why do you even bring up the Windows analagy here? It does not make sense. What really makes sense is that YOU love this type of game and are willing to defend it to the end. Others Love Halo and will defend it as well. But allas Halo does not need defending since it is a very successful franchise for Bungie. Your distaine for microsoft is apparent and really has no place when talking about the XBOX 360. Gee If you wanted you can actually play Marathon on the Xbox 360 right now its avaliable as a downloadable game for about $8 US.
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Of course I am defending Marathon, it was a much better game. The analogy of Windows was applied because someone above said that because a game sells a lot, it's wonderful. Halo has pretty much NOTHING exceptional when compared with other high-end shooter games. Great GFX? Yes. Does it make it unmatched? Not at all. I PLAYED Halo demo on the Mac, and I got bored after some 30min playing, NOTHING mindblowing that CoD or other shooters hadn't already shown.

Marathon, on the other hand, hasn't had YET a suitable competitor. All others are either dumb shooters or pure strategy. Marathon's mix was close to perfect, and Halo does NOT come close.

And yeah, Windows sucks...it will ALWAYS suck for true members of a Mac rumors site. As for consoles, I don't really care, as I don't have time nor willingness to spend on XBox/PS rigs and their cumbersome gamepads.
 
BRLawyer said:
Marathon, on the other hand, hasn't had YET a suitable competitor. All others are either dumb shooters or pure strategy. Marathon's mix was close to perfect, and Halo does NOT come close.
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And there never will be according to your statements .... Your holding Marathon on this unattainable pedestal of perfection. In your eyes its a perfect game.

You don't have to play Halo .... you don't have to like Halo. Halo is NOT Marathon quit compairing the two. Halo was produced/Programed by the same guys @ Bungie who wanted to make a Game they wanted to play.
 
slackpacker said:
Nice statement and putdown... now I get mine off handed baseless reply

"I USED to think that all people on this board were intelligent"

or

"What makes you so smart"
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I am not saying I am smarter than anyone else I'm just saying people are dumb and good is subjective.
 
Mac Games! Alright. Too bad I already own an Xbox 360, and laptop gaming doesn't really interest me. But its still good for the mac gamers!
 
JobsRules said:
YAWN.

Are people still fretting about Mac games?

Just get a next-gen console and relax.
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And if they're willing to overpay for a white computer with a shiny OS, they have the money to buy Parallels to play a Windows game on their Mac.
 
or maybe steve jobs should get off his ass and try to convince game companies and software companies to make stuff for macs so boot camp wouldn't be needed
 
You're kidding me right?

Dogenzaka said:
And if they're willing to overpay for a white computer with a shiny OS, they have the money to buy Parallels to play a Windows game on their Mac.
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By the way, I am an owner of a vista machine that makes this MACBOOK look like a poor imitator.

There are many, and I mean MANY reasons, why Windows machines shine when used to play games.

A Mac. Not even the Mac Pro matches those stats... or for that matter the price. Yes that VISTA Machine is far more expensive than the top of the line Pro mac... then again it will last eight years or so

Now, this macbook is COMPARABLE to an equivalent Vista system. And... if we incude necessary standard software, (Word, et al) it is actually cheaper than its equivalent machine

I just spend two months doing the research

But I do not delude myself. This is NOT a gaming machine

that is what my husband'd toy is for...

Oh and THAT machine is also for 3D applications

By the way, the ONLY program I run on emulation on this machine is far from resource heavy... and it runs ok... but you must be absolutely nuts to think that you can run a power hungry 3d App in emulation. Hell, a power hungry app outside of emulation will still eat RAM like there was no tomorrow... and some of them have horrible RAM leaks...
 
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