James060394

The Halo games could work on PC and they have done in the past but there are a lot of empty arguments that people keep throwing around here trying to argue against Halo coming to PC. 1) Hackers will ruin any chance of Halo on the PC Wrong. PC uses dedicated servers run by admins. If in the small chance there is a hacker, they will be booted very quickly. I've yet to see hackers manage to get away with anything in any of the Halo games on PC or PC games in general on servers with good admins. On Halo 2 there was nothing to stop hackers on the Xbox, on PC there was for example as a result of dedicated servers. 2) It's an Xbox exclusive like Uncharted is to PS3, PC gamers are being greedy. Actually, Halo is a Microsoft exclusive. There is nothing stopping Halo being ported to PC as you saw with the first two games. Halo 2 Vista even uses Games For Windows Live (PC version of Xbox Live) with achievements etc. Both of these games were "Xbox exclusives" but were still ported after a few years. Fact is, if Microsoft deems there to be money to be made, they will make a PC port. 3) 343 Industries doesn't work with PC. This one i'm not sure on but in any case, Halo 1 and 2 were ported by other teams anyway with oversight by Bungie. Gearbox ported the original Halo and Hired Gun ported (badly) the second. A similar scenario could be made for the other Halo games. 4) The controls don't work as well on PC. This is absurd. M+K has always been better for FPS and the first two games worked perfectly fine on PC with those controls. And in any case, part of GFWL or PC gaming is the choice of use of a 360 controller if preferred, in which case you're getting a much smoother experience (60+fps vs 30) compared to the Xbox so the game and controls will work better than console. 5) Whenever i think Halo, i think Xbox Granted, this i do agree with this to some extent, it doesn't mean there is a PC fanbase waiting for the other Halo games. Halo PC has a huge community after 9 years or so after its release as the game worked well on PC. Halo 2 on the other hand didnt do so great due to the bugs it has when it was ported and silly ideas Microsoft tried do (5 installs and your game becomes useless etc) but there are still those who want the story. Even some gamers like myself would still buy a PC version of the newer games - provided it caters well to the PC crowd and offers good customisation and modability like the original Halo PC did with Custom Edition. 6) Go play Custom Edition with Halo 3 mods Kind of defeats the point, it's still not Halo 3. Anyways, these are my opinions on the matter and hopefully there will be some good discussions made