Halo for Mac

[peterjhill]

Originally posted by Cappy

As far as who ports it well that sounds like a MS move most definitely.

Almost every game that is out for the Mac is done this way. Westlake and MacPlay run very lucrative businesses.

What sucks about the XBOX is that Microsoft makes them use DirectX for all the graphics. Had they used OpenGL, we would be set, and have the game tommorrow. Rememeber what Carrnack said about Quake III at MW expo, they had to change only a couple hundred lines of code to make it work on a Mac.

Hey, maybe Bunge did sell out. Hard to blame them, when they see all that cash and stock. Then you add game exposure. They probably sold more copies of Halo in the first day of sale then all previous software sales. I don't know one person with an Xbox that does not have the game.

About the has been and will have been in 2003 aspects of Halo:
1) that assumes a straight port of the game, that it will look exactly like it does now. Why assume that? I would imagine that they will keep the same story and map that exists on the console, after all they have put alot of time into it. But if they have to rewrite the graphics engine, why not use the latest and greatest? As mentioned above, their best bet will be to write the port in OpenGL. The game is going into development now. I would think that it would be comparable to games in the same cycle.
2) what other FPS lets you hop in a car, have a buddy hop in the passenger seat, and another hop on the back on a high caliber machine gun and let you go drive around reeking havoc? How about having 16 people (on the Xbox) in the same game on a huge map? How about hopping in a Banshee and start flying around and shooting things? Or a tank? Didn't think so.
3) no first person shooter has ever EVER had a story line that was so good. It feels like you are playing a part in a movie. The only thing I would wish for is that they make the PC/Mac versions have darker, more creepy graphics in the alien ships. They won't, but it would be cool.

 

[synergy]

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If they sell the game for like 30 bucks or less like they did with AvP then I will buy it. If not, then I'll wait for the bargain bin on it if I get bored with Unreal or Doom 3.

 

[Skeem101]

Halo... requiescat in pace

Originally posted by rekras
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there are no good new games out for mac right now...

As mentioned there is Warcraft 3... buuuuuut how about Medal of Honour, Ice Wind Dale, Diablo 2, Undying, Red Faction... just to name a few?!

😀 People... Halo is old worn out news! Accept it and get on with your lives... that goes for you guys at M$/Bungie too! 😀

 

[gandalf55]

halo rocks. simple as that. agreed halo will have faded a bit by the time it's released. xbox sales are pathetic, the games available are pathetic... eventhough xbox technology is excellent.

sounds like windows people talking about a mac world huh?

screw halo... port a storm of PC games to the mac and i would get more excited than by a single title announcement.

 

[rekras]

Originally posted by gandalf55
halo rocks. simple as that. agreed halo will have faded a bit by the time it's released. xbox sales are pathetic, the games available are pathetic... eventhough xbox technology is excellent.

sounds like windows people talking about a mac world huh?

screw halo... port a storm of PC games to the mac and i would get more excited than by a single title announcement.

nonono.... no screw halo, halo is an incredible game, and it's cooperative multiplayer capibilities are simply not found on the mac right now. We don't have tribes, or counterstrike, or unreal (for X) or anything like that. Also halo takes it a step further by adding vehicles, no "shootemup" game for mac to date allows you to really do anything besides run around. if i were a PC user (which im not) that would be the one point that make me hesitate switching, is there's simply a lack of games for the mac!

 

[jacka55]

I'm gonna say...It ain't worn out.

I don't know how many of you remember Diablo 1, but that was just about the longest wait of any game ever. Yet, by the time it came out, although all the nay-sayers were mumbling and groaning, and the Hip-Hopping up-to-date PC gamers claimed it was dead, it still enjoyed phenomenal success on the Mac. And, also like the old days, when there's a long wait between versions, we (and in this case PC people too) will get a BETTER VERSION. Westlake isn't known for making crap ports that no-one wants. Furthermore, there is quite a large set of PC people who are eagerly waiting for Halo, so it is definitely not worn out, and won't be by the time it comes out. I also happen to work in a warehouse that supplies all the video games for a particular large consumer electronics retailer, and Halo, despite being a year or so old, has be for the most part being one of the games I've been picking larger quantities of. Of course, it's complete dwarfed by the number of GTA3 I've been picking, but that's another story. I hate M$ just as much as the next guy, and this has been a topic I've been preaching about for the past few weeks very loudly about how it's never going to come out, but I'm going to have to say that it's a good thing that it is, because despite being owned by M$, Bungie's team is still pretty much the same, and still is very capable of making games that push the boundaries of quality.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Like another poster said, if they sell Halo for $20 or $30 it will sell. If they price it at $50 it's gonna sit on the shelf. With Doom 3 and the next UT games coming out Halo is gonna look old running on it's current engine (anyone know what engine Halo runs on/will run on?).

Halo's fate will also depend on the number of maps it has and number of "games" it has CTF, TDM, Assualt, etc., and the overall playability. People play CS 'cause it's fun, not 'cause it looks pretty anymore 😉 But Halo is gonna have an up hill climb. People were hyped about it once (pre-MS buyout), are they gonna get hyped about it again?


Lethal

 

[job]

Originally posted by peterjhill

3) no first person shooter has ever EVER had a story line that was so good. It feels like you are playing a part in a movie. The only thing I would wish for is that they make the PC/Mac versions have darker, more creepy graphics in the alien ships. They won't, but it would be cool.

Two simple words : Deus Ex.

And it had a much better story line than Halo. 😀

 

[chewbaccapits]

On the other hand.....

Like I said before...Old Hat, but should we support it anyway? I buy games to support Mac...Should we think about our OS? Or are we in unindated with so many MAC games that we can just blow this one by? I know the timing REALLY bites but if we totally ignore it, won't game developers ignore us, MORE! I just don't think its wise to blow it.....What do you guys think...oh, bungie just announce that a DirectX version PAC-MAN will ship in Aug.

 

[macfreek57]

the story/setting/graphics still look awesome to me to buy
i hope in a year i can get a computer that will run it... then i'll buy

anyway
can you imagine how huge that would have been if bungie had released it for mac that summer after they demo'd it? they maybe could have warded off the microsoft buyout! and they'd still be making awesome games for mac

 

[sockdoggy]

Originally posted by LethalWolfe
Like another poster said, if they sell Halo for $20 or $30 it will sell. If they price it at $50 it's gonna sit on the shelf. With Doom 3 and the next UT games coming out Halo is gonna look old running on it's current engine (anyone know what engine Halo runs on/will run on?).

Halo's fate will also depend on the number of maps it has and number of "games" it has CTF, TDM, Assualt, etc., and the overall playability.

Halo runs on the Halo engine. It sounds like a lot of you have not played this game much (or at all), and are bashing it because it's only on the Xbox. Give me a break- this is one of the best FPS ever, and it will sell like hot cakes at any price. The only thing missing from it is a flame thrower. Do you think there will be a better FPS on the Mac before Halo is released?

 

[peterjhill]

Originally posted by sockdoggy
The only thing missing from it is a flame thrower.

I do miss being able to have two shotguns or two pistols. BTW, give me the pistol in Halo against anyone on Quake or Unreal with any other weapon, and watch me school your ass! The pistol on Halo rocks with its "integrated sight" with the helmet that your guy wears. One of the guys I work with is lethal with the pistol. He can run in one direction, while looking sideways, and get a one-hit kill headshot from 100 yards away. It isn't that the game is "easy", he is just damned good.

 

[job]

Originally posted by peterjhill


I do miss being able to have two shotguns or two pistols. BTW, give me the pistol in Halo against anyone on Quake or Unreal with any other weapon, and watch me school your ass! The pistol on Halo rocks with its "integrated sight" with the helmet that your guy wears. One of the guys I work with is lethal with the pistol. He can run in one direction, while looking sideways, and get a one-hit kill headshot from 100 yards away. It isn't that the game is "easy", he is just damned good.

How about the InstaGib shock rifle from UT? 😀 😀

 

[Macrazy]

Yeah forget Halo get Doom3

How idiot that Bungie sold the soul to Micro$hit Then screwed Halo! I hate Micro$hit.