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While I agree that Halo had great music and graphics, and was overall a good game, the controls on the PC were actually somewhat sluggish compared to other FPS

by qplex 8y ago

While I agree that Halo had great music and graphics, and was overall a good game, the controls on the PC were actually somewhat sluggish compared to other FPS titles. Bungie was originally developing it for Macintosh but they sold out to Microsoft and Halo became the main launch title for the Xbox, so the PC version was sadly dumbed down and released later.

ravenstine 8y ago
What do you mean by "dumbed down"? I played Halo CE mostly on PC and don't remember it being dumbed down graphically speaking(if you had the graphics card for it), though there were a few minor differences like all the jackal shields being teal. In fact, Halo PC had more and bigger multiplayer maps than on Xbox.
- qplex 8y ago
  The controls and the gameplay. Graphics were arguably better on the PC; higher resolution and better frame rate, but it was not well optimized. So the PC version was definetly a port of a console FPS and it showed. Mouse aiming was awful (too slow without acceleration, and inaccurate with it). Weapon switching was very akward as well (tab? and only 2 guns?!?). If you had just played Half-Life shooting headcrabs off the poor scientists, or let alone something like Deus Ex, it just felt very dumbed down
  - leetcrew 8y ago
    > Mouse aiming was awful (too slow without acceleration, and inaccurate with it). what do you mean by this? do they not let you adjust the mouse sensitivity or are you talking about input lag?
    - qplex 8y ago
      Yes, as far as I can remember there was no option to adjust the sensitivity. However there seems to be a third party hack that fixes the issue: https://github.com/AWilliams17/Halo-CE-Mouse-Tool/releases https://github.com/AWilliams17/Halo-CE-Mouse-Tool/releases
      - leetcrew 8y ago
        wow, that's incredible. what an awful design decision.
      - ravenstine 8y ago
        It's really amazing that, 8 days ago, there was a commit for a tool to improve a game from 2001 that shipped for the PC in 2005.

by qplex 8y ago

ravenstine 8y ago

What do you mean by "dumbed down"? I played Halo CE mostly on PC and don't remember it being dumbed down graphically speaking(if you had the graphics card for it), though there were a few minor differences like all the jackal shields being teal. In fact, Halo PC had more and bigger multiplayer maps than on Xbox.

qplex 8y ago
The controls and the gameplay. Graphics were arguably better on the PC; higher resolution and better frame rate, but it was not well optimized. So the PC version was definetly a port of a console FPS and it showed. Mouse aiming was awful (too slow without acceleration, and inaccurate with it). Weapon switching was very akward as well (tab? and only 2 guns?!?). If you had just played Half-Life shooting headcrabs off the poor scientists, or let alone something like Deus Ex, it just felt very dumbed down
- leetcrew 8y ago
  > Mouse aiming was awful (too slow without acceleration, and inaccurate with it). what do you mean by this? do they not let you adjust the mouse sensitivity or are you talking about input lag?
  - qplex 8y ago
    Yes, as far as I can remember there was no option to adjust the sensitivity. However there seems to be a third party hack that fixes the issue: https://github.com/AWilliams17/Halo-CE-Mouse-Tool/releases https://github.com/AWilliams17/Halo-CE-Mouse-Tool/releases
    - leetcrew 8y ago
      wow, that's incredible. what an awful design decision.
    - ravenstine 8y ago
      It's really amazing that, 8 days ago, there was a commit for a tool to improve a game from 2001 that shipped for the PC in 2005.