Buyer's Remorse - An open letter to the devs of H2V

[nooBBooze]

Q: Was Halo Ce in sight shortly after halo pc was released?

Im just trying to cultivate a tiny seedling of hope for a hypothetical h2ce you know. dont be too rude to my fragile plant nkay?

[Vicky]

I think it came out ~ a year after but, H2V is already 'sort of ce' with the *cough* 'HEK' included.

[demonmaster3k]

I for one am glad H2V is Vista-only. It makes the decision not to purchase it that much easier.

why does everyone view vista as devil'sware. it's not a bad os at all, just disable the annoying ass UAC. it runs perfectly with a dual-core and 2gb ddr2 sdram (even if i have a shitty video card)

h2v did sux tho
and if the trend continues...
h3vieanna/windows 7 will sux ass

[flibitijibibo]

Yeah, after UAC is off, the OS is great =D.

I wish I could've contributed to the actual letter, especially during the discussion of the H2EK. As an audiophile, I pretty much got gangraped with disappointment when they disabled sound editing in the kit. When that's disabled, I'm useless.

Shdwsnipa
Sound Monkey
H2Vista.net

[MereCatfish]

I still think we should have ditched the section headers.

[Rob Oplawar]

Hm, this got posted on HBO, but Louis Wu mentioned that when Halo PC came out there were many similar complaints. I came into the HCE scene a year after it got started, so I don't know, but it makes me the tiniest bit hopeful that maybe H2V will have a H2CE eventually. But as Vicky said, since H2V already has an "editing kit," they may or may not bother with that this time around.

Edit: I know! We should all bug Bungie until they just give us the tools they used for creating Halo 2. I mean, that's pretty much what the HEK was.
Hm, I can't figure out how much I'm joking. It would be awesome to be sure, but yeah, there's almost no chance that Bungie would actually do that, cause those tools were meant to be used internally and blah blah blah. Fail.

[jcap]

Well, Halo PC also had support...

Also, you're supposed to learn from prior mistakes. Nothing was learned here. We actually ended up getting a worse port than the one for Halo PC.

[Zeph]

Hm, this got posted on HBO, but Louis Wu mentioned that when Halo PC came out there were many similar complaints. I came into the HCE scene a year after it got started, so I don't know, but it makes me the tiniest bit hopeful that maybe H2V will have a H2CE eventually. But as Vicky said, since H2V already has an "editing kit," they may or may not bother with that this time around.

Edit: I know! We should all bug Bungie until they just give us the tools they used for creating Halo 2. I mean, that's pretty much what the HEK was.
Hm, I can't figure out how much I'm joking. It would be awesome to be sure, but yeah, there's almost no chance that Bungie would actually do that, cause those tools were meant to be used internally and blah blah blah. Fail.

Most of the Halo PC problems came from drivers. ATI had some major problems around that time, but a few months later it was perfectly fine. In any reasonable review website, you can go read about it. H2V has some rediculous problems that cant be blamed on anything other than the port design. Can you list any design faults from HPC?

[Kornman00]

Atleast Gearbox did their homework.

When Stubbs came out, Wideload only had a select few cards that they supported. And guess the fuck what? Their goddamn publisher had setup the exe with some crap ass protection which detoured me from changing the list that said which cards were supported. And you know what? If your fucking card wasn't supported, the game wouldn't fucking load so you couldn't play it. Fuck you, at least give me some bullshit that the goddamn card isn't supported and to play at your own fucking risk...

But I guess the world america is so full of idiots these days that people won't listen. At least I could play the xbox and mac versions :-/

New day, new drama. Just move on and try next time.

[Vicky]

Yeah, after UAC is off, the OS is great =D.

Yeah and after building and building my map it won't load in sapien under vista anymore (not even with 20 services killed and no other apps running) but it does on xp, vista just looks better... that's it.

(oh and it runs h2v online too...)