Comments on: Yeah, Just Another Halo 1 Patch

By: Alarik

Alarik — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:53 +0000

Yeah, nice step. Even though “3rd party” no-cd “fix” is available for a looong time of course. Pretty good game (Library level aside).

By: R.

R. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:46:50 +0000

One of maybe two or three ‘old’ games I still regularly go back to because it’s just so fucking great. If only the sequels, or indeed any combat heavy game that followed, were even half as good.

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:58 +0000

I’ve probably put more hours into this game than anything else on PC ever – mostly the multiplayer.

Finally stopped when TF2 came out, in part because so many of the ‘proper’ players had moved on to other things that it was pretty much impossible to get a game that didn’t feature at least three teamkilling american twelve-year-olds who just swore at everyone.

Revival?

By: Smileyfax

Smileyfax — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:04:08 +0000

Five years? Pff. 3D Realms, in 2005, released patches for Secret Agent and Crystal Caves, games 14 years old then. (The patches fixed an error which would set the system clock to 100 years in the past).

By: Rath

Rath — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:46:55 +0000

Fuck me, I started playing it again only last night as I needed a break from Lost Odyssey grind. Odd coincidence.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:37:32 +0000

Oh, i absolutely owned in the first Halo… i actually won the tourney kept here for championship, but back then, was denied access to the tourney abroad because i was a few weeks of being of being 18, which was the required age, so the guy who came second, by far, got the pass… ouch :P

Also, the CE was garbage, it was overhyped and certainly not worth it, even though it seemingly cut the pings in half, it ruined hit detection.

Additionally, i can’t seem to understand the people who whine about “same corridors over and over again” in Halo… what’s up with that? What FPS doesn’t do it? And is “saved time in graphics department, put more time into making it fun” such a grand flaw in design?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:17:05 +0000

Meh. I couldn’t stand the first one or the second one but found the third quite enjoyable. Not a classic or anything but good fun!

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:52:26 +0000

@Pavel: Very, very good call. The FoV in those games has always pissed me right off, although I never really put my finger on it. Cheers.

Halo: Combat Evolved’s the best one. It was about the gameplay rather than the universe.

By: Devan

Devan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:03:32 +0000

Interesting to see gearbox still on it. I remember the modding/mapping tools they were planning to release with the launch. It turned out to be many months before they finally released those, and by that time there were many creative mods and community-made tools.
I much preferred the PC version of that game, although it really needed the co-op mode.

By: CrowPath

CrowPath — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:48:32 +0000

ascagnel: Yeah, there's a seperate update for CE here: HaloCE 1.08 Patch

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:45:34 +0000

@James G: here is the BG retrospective, tucked away in the 4 million Bioware community members announcement. As for Halo PC, the multiplayer was pretty sweet but the entire game came out way too late of course. They should have gone for an MMOFPS straight away.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:21:15 +0000

I still remember a PC Gamer review of Halo that cited (perhaps tongue in cheek, although the score didn’t reflect it) slowdown as being part of an accurate conversion from the Xbox.

It’s a shame they didn’t mention that the game itself was a shambolic port job which barely ran on numerous setups well above and beyond the recommended specs (in my case, roughly 3 times them).