Halo 2 for Vista screenshots emerge... [Archive]

DilTech

08-27-2006, 07:45 PM

Magnj

08-27-2006, 07:47 PM

wow those screenies look like crap.

DilTech

08-27-2006, 07:49 PM

They're 100% identical to the xbox version, just higher resolution. Funny, considering microsoft are requiring windows vista and supposidly DX10 as well to run it.

purefun65

08-27-2006, 08:07 PM

If those screen shots are any real indication of this game I'm gonna have to pass on this one.:nono:

afireinside

08-27-2006, 08:39 PM

That is terrible... wow

Ouchy

08-27-2006, 08:46 PM

http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2Vista/gallery.aspx?gallery=Screenshots&page=1

So.... We need a new operating system, new direct x version, new everything..... For identical graphics to the xbox version?

Microsoft wants to give people incentive to upgrade. That was already established a long time ago.

selectodude

08-27-2006, 09:08 PM

I can really see that stressing my graphics card to the fullest. Shame on you Bungie.

bizkit35461

08-27-2006, 10:02 PM

In the faq i found that it says:

As the name suggests, Halo 2 Vista will be brought to PCs with Windows Vista only. Of course you can always purchase Halo 2 for your Xbox or Xbox 360. There are currently no plans to bring Halo 2 to Mac, PlayStation 9 or the Commodore 64.

WTF. We don't have PS3 yet and they are talking about playstation 9?!?!?!:confused:

~R4z3r~

Revv23

08-27-2006, 10:16 PM

lol, halo 1 is better anyways.

Nanometer

08-27-2006, 10:24 PM

That looks terrible. Somthing must have went horribly wrong with the shaders.

SewerSide

08-27-2006, 10:42 PM

knowing microsoft, the final version will look worst than that, require 400MB in patches and still wont play on 1/2 the pc's its installed on.

phelan1777

08-27-2006, 10:48 PM

Hey now its microsoft, they are the best at everything didn'y you know!:slap:

MaxxxRacer

08-27-2006, 11:58 PM

I love halo, but those screenies look like total crap.. there is absolutely no bump mapping and the textures look worse than Halo1 for Xbox textures.

BlackX

08-28-2006, 12:47 AM

Is it a joke? :stick:

Starscream

08-28-2006, 01:08 AM

:p: making this game Vista only will be bad PR for vista.

Microsofts slogan will be:
play all ur new pc games on vista and they might all look like crap.

Syn.

08-28-2006, 01:11 AM

oozberg

08-28-2006, 01:12 AM

Forget about DX9, DX10 is here :D

Daveb2012

08-28-2006, 01:34 AM

that looks like a nintendo 64 game.. i cannot beleive its only for vista, as if xp with todays best h/w couldn't handle that game.

K404

08-28-2006, 01:51 AM

Are those pics confirmed as PC? Looks like XBox to me.

Theres trailers out for Halo2 on the PC...and they look nothing like that

trakslacker

08-28-2006, 06:35 AM

There are currently no plans to bring Halo 2 to Mac, PlayStation 9 or the Commodore 64.

WTF. We don't have PS3 yet and they are talking about playstation 9?!?!?!:confused:

~R4z3r~

Wait a minute, the thing that stuck out to you the most in that quote was Playstation 9? So you looked at the words "Commodore 64", associated that with "Halo 2" and then thought to yourself, "Oh, sure that makes sense."

WTF mate?

mursaat

08-28-2006, 07:16 AM

Hmm and what about Microsoft releasing for Mac, huh huh? :D:D j/k

If those screenshots are for real, they better redo everything.

With Crysis, QW:ET, Turok, BF2142, Huxley, UT2007, etc M$ will have a hard time explaining such poor graphics, and more when they're trying to force us to upgrade to Vista and DX10 :stick:

Celcius

08-28-2006, 07:19 AM

MS needs to put this game back in DX9 format and work on a DX10 version of Halo 3.

DilTech

08-28-2006, 07:28 AM

Are those pics confirmed as PC? Looks like XBox to me.

Theres trailers out for Halo2 on the PC...and they look nothing like that

Yes they're 100% confirmed. That's bungies official website, and at the top it says "Halo 2 Vista:Gallery". This is direct from the source, if anything they'd make it look better than it actually does in screen shots, not worse.... Also, the xbox can't do 1920x1200 like some of those screen shots are.

How about a link to these so called "trailers".

:::edit:::
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11926

CONFIRMED. Those are the real deal screenshots of halo 2 vista.

Starscream

08-28-2006, 07:31 AM

the only ways this game can have good sales is if theyd pack it inside Windows Vista (like minesweeper etc) or if they would put the sales price at 9.99 orso.

cause seeing the competition it will have there is no way to justify any price above 20 euro.

like when they brought Liberty city stories formt he PSP to the PS2 it had a sales price of 19 euro here.

alexio

08-28-2006, 07:33 AM

Looks like a beta or even alpha version to me. As said above those shaders look like crap.

Well, atleast they are not trying to cover something up. Maybe Microsoft made them post this horrible screenies to boost sales of the Xbox version :D

DilTech

08-28-2006, 07:36 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVGP-F4NfLk&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R442zdTBvdk&mode=related&search=

Gameplay videos from the show in germany, futher showing this is infact real. Keep in mind, they're done with a hand-cam, show resolution isn't the best.

$ilver

08-28-2006, 07:43 AM

i played halo 1 on my gf2 ultra and it look much way better ...

edit: it even reminds me on playing quake2 on my g400 xD

Helmore

08-28-2006, 08:13 AM

Wow man, even Halo on the X-Box looks better, I don't know what's up with M$. Yeah they prolly wanna boost sales for the X-Box version.

CBONE

08-28-2006, 08:18 AM

the only ways this game can have good sales is if theyd pack it inside Windows Vista (like minesweeper etc)

That would be a smart move. Hearts, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Halo 2, or Dungeon Siege? What to play, what to play?

phelan1777

08-28-2006, 08:39 AM

That would be a smart move. Hearts, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Halo 2, or Dungeon Siege? What to play, what to play?

hehehe, well considering we will need all new hardware to even use Vista, hmm I think we should be able to run all of the "old" games even with the last "old" game being released say six weeks before Vista is officially released(If ever).

Hicks

08-28-2006, 08:45 AM

LOL. Don't really see much point in bringing Halo 2 out for PC, especially if it looks like this.

Ron 61

08-28-2006, 08:48 AM

Those aren't screen shots, there crap shots. What the **** where they thinking?

BlackX

08-28-2006, 10:03 AM

Hope they will change the graphics engine. Its nearly 3 years old game.

grimREEFER

08-28-2006, 10:16 AM

they made it in dx10 cause its easier to work with, not for better grafix apparantly

BlackX

08-28-2006, 10:23 AM

they made it in dx10 cause its easier to work with, not for better grafix apparantly

If its true than they are complete idiots for sure.

MaxxxRacer

08-28-2006, 08:48 PM

Revv23

08-28-2006, 09:02 PM

FWIW, they most likely had to completely redo the graphics engine for the PC version like they did for the first Halo.

BUT, those screenies look worse than images from halo 1 for pc.... so I'm very confused.

they didnt redo the graphics, they gave the game to gearbox who added a few poorly programmed effects that made huge performance impacts.

[XC] Lead Head

08-28-2006, 09:13 PM

^^ what he said

Halo 1 go about 40FPS tops maxed when i had an x800 pro, at that time i got 70-80FPS average in CSS and about 50FPS in DOom3

MaxxxRacer

08-28-2006, 10:31 PM

Gearbox redid the engine..... different compiller and different engine... It was a POS game engine, but none the less it was different.

but ya the engine did suck.. My x800 and 9800 pro both hated it... but the Geforece2 GTS did a pretty good job because the bump mapping and DX9 effects were turned off.

Hicks

08-29-2006, 03:43 AM

Compare this, to like Crysis, UT2007, Stalker, Supreme Commander, and modern games like Prey, HL2, FEAR, Far Cry, it looks pathetic.

Yeah i remember Halo on the PC, it did ok on my Ti4600. My X800XT PE wasn't much better, and my 7800GTX was. Certain indoor parts were really really slow.

ge|atinousfury

08-29-2006, 04:06 AM

lol it does remind me of N64 days

SoddemFX

08-29-2006, 04:34 AM

Reminds me of what 'Redline' from back in 2000 looked like....

Tom

jbizzler

08-29-2006, 04:42 AM

It doesn't require DX10. It requires Vista. You can play this game on a DX9 card as long as you have Vista. I HOPE that it's just early and they don't have shaders, or they're waiting for a more complete DX10 to make it awsome with it or somethign. I guess they'd be OKAY if they had AA.

MaxxxRacer

08-29-2006, 07:33 PM

I have a feeling this was (is) just a joke to make all of us Halo nuts go crazy...

arisythila

08-29-2006, 08:36 PM

Yeah that did look like crap. Maybe it was an ATI video card. :rotf:

Revv23

08-29-2006, 09:41 PM

[QUOTE=Lead Head
Halo 1 go about 40FPS tops maxed when i had an x800 pro, at that time i got 70-80FPS average in CSS and about 50FPS in DOom3[/QUOTE]

Wow really, i got 40-60 on my 9800pro pretty reliably...

i did however turn off particle effects and that other4 high impact effect.

@maxx, my understanding was that it was a direct port, but you know more then i, and looking at it now i agree with you... thats probably why it didnt come with all of the same levels as the original.

[XC] MarioMaster

08-29-2006, 09:53 PM

dissapointing, had nowhere near the effect of the trailer - they look like crap

Major_A

08-29-2006, 10:52 PM

I'm sure a nice group of young dedicated programmers (aka hackers) will alter a few things in the game's code to have it run on XP.

perkam

08-29-2006, 11:22 PM

KEEP IN MIND GENTLEMEN

...that MS has been pestering Bungie to finish halo 3 asap...hence not a lot of work has been done on the port. Once Halo 3 launches, they'll get back to work on Halo 2 for PC and make more enhancements to bring up to par to ...

at least Halo 1 i hope...cos the pc screens for that looked a lot better than the screens listed in this thread.

Perkam

vudoodoodoo

08-30-2006, 03:38 AM

Just skip Halo 2 and bring Halo 3 to PC too. Bastards.
Oh wait, then they can't sell any X360's. :stick:

THX1138

08-30-2006, 05:15 AM

I saved one of the screen shots from the bungie site and I noticed it said low res ? Why are they posting low res screen shots. whats up with that crap ????

Starscream

08-30-2006, 09:22 AM

I saved one of the screen shots from the bungie site and I noticed it said low res ? Why are they posting low res screen shots. whats up with that crap ????

:P i bet it requires only Vista to play low res. to play high res ul nee d a dx10 card

DilTech

08-30-2006, 10:20 AM

You probably saved the shrunk one, the full images are 1920x1200.

Budwise

08-30-2006, 12:40 PM

id say that is exactly how it looks on Xbox. I have no clue as to why so many are obsessed with the Halo series...

SparkyJJO

08-30-2006, 01:34 PM

that looks no better than halo 1. Huh they screwed that up. O well.

krille

08-30-2006, 02:32 PM

lol

Gnome

09-11-2006, 06:47 PM

Timmay

09-11-2006, 07:13 PM

Wow that looks like She-ite.

m0da

09-11-2006, 07:27 PM

Wow that looks like She-ite.

it really does \=...

is it possibly because of this?:

You probably saved the shrunk one, the full images are 1920x1200.

Radeon117X

09-11-2006, 07:58 PM

How crappy....it could be 400% better if they didnt waste so much damn time!!!! I require better shadows with no jaggies like the superjaggied ones in BF2...on second thought, those screens are FULL of jaggies....and I also require that the textures on the Chief's hand be revamped and overtextured. I also require full HDR lighting, better lighting effects, and a hell of a lot more details for the weapons as they look TERRIBLY undertextured in his hands.

Plus: CENTRE THE GODDAMNED RETICLE ALREADY!!! I had NO idea why it was off centre in the Xbox Halo 2 , but they could have AT LEAST fixed it!!!

Turok

09-12-2006, 04:52 AM

Whats left is that Halo2 will be as laggy and buggy as Halo1 for PC :stick:
They would make the game even worse if they keep the verry high autoaim on Halo2 for Xbox, and they better allow HP damage due to falls. These are one of the reasons why people say "halo is for n00bs".
I gave up on Halo a long time ago. Its like the Battlefield series, to be honest. They come out with a good franchise, and then they screw it up and the publisher tries to get every penny out of its corpses and Fans (as ignorant as they may be) will continue buying it :rolleyes:

Radeon117X

09-12-2006, 11:19 AM

They come out with a good franchise, and then they screw it up and the publisher tries to get every penny out of its corpses and Fans (as ignorant as they may be) will continue buying it :rolleyes:
At least games are not over $100 investments....theyre just $50 or so. So it's no real issue if they spend that amount of $$$ on the game, even if it sucks.

vudoodoodoo

09-12-2006, 12:38 PM

$50 is alot of money for a sucky game...

clayton

09-12-2006, 02:13 PM

id say that is exactly how it looks on Xbox. I have no clue as to why so many are obsessed with the Halo series...
I think Halo is just over-rated. Though, PC and FPS is my favorite.

MaxxxRacer

09-12-2006, 09:30 PM

$50 is alot of money for a sucky game...

thats alot of money for any game ;)

Revv23

09-13-2006, 07:11 AM

yeah ive become a bargain video gamer lately, its funny, im sitting on my $1000 computer, and i wont pay more then $40 for a game.

revenant

09-13-2006, 04:25 PM

the textures look very simple and bland... gah!

Starscream

09-13-2006, 04:53 PM

$50 is alot of money for a sucky game...

50 bucks is alot for a sucky game that has the same value and purpose as a coaster.

like its not asif you buy only 1 50 euro/dollar game but ul buy several.
and in lets say the past 2 years ive bought several sucky games wich arent worth the disc or box they were sold in.

Like coming up in my head ive spend atleast 150 euro in really :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty games in the past 2 years, games that only dissapointed me.
I will laugh when i see retail prices of Halo2 for PC.

MaxxxRacer

09-13-2006, 06:06 PM

I will laugh when i see retail prices of Halo2 for PC.

no you wont... you'll cry...

FghtinIrshNvrDi

09-13-2006, 07:51 PM

I will laugh when i see retail prices of Halo2 for PC.

If you're a believer, you may start asking questions that atheists do...

Ryan

cky2k6

09-14-2006, 05:44 AM

you guys have lost the reason for playing games. A game is suppose to have fun gameplay and catchy story line, nothing beats Halo at that, the graphics comes secondary. But if you do not wont to buy this game becouse you dont like the graphics engine, then by all means just go back to benching 3dmark and leave us gamers to play our games.
im sorry, but what in the hell are you talking about? halo? unbeatable storyline? yeah, whatever dude... halo has no real place in the pc world, we have had unreal tournament, and its actually getting better over time, unlike halo apparently...