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Re: Accck! Wrong!
Posted By: REBDate: 6/2/02 11:00 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Accck! Wrong! (Claude Errera)

: How about...

: Because of the buyout, Mac and PC users WILL be able to play it. If the
: buyout hadn't happened, that might not have been true.

You sound like you got a point, but you don't. Alex didn't sold Bungie to MS because of economical problems - he took advantage of all the hipe around Halo to sell the company to a giant corporation and make a lot of money.

: How about...

: Buying an Xbox and Halo is FAR cheaper than upgrading the Macintosh I owned
: in July 1999 to the point where it could play Halo. (And don't tell me
: that I could do other things with that computer, because I sure as hell
: don't need a Geforce4 Ti to crunch spreadsheets.)

I'm still going to buy a new Mac to run Mac OS X smoothly - Halo would only have rushed that expense, but I still would have done it sooner or later. Halo is the only reason to buy an Xbox - I'd rather play on the PlayStation2 (because there are a lot of games for that console) or the GameCube, which is the best console out there with a lot of cool games too.

: How about...

: The Halo that exists today is far, far better than the Halo that would have
: existed had the original dev plan been carried out. The pipe dream of a
: persistent online world would have been proven to be the product of
: Nathan's fevered imagination that it truly was, and the end result would
: have been a game that (while no doubt cool) wouldn't have stood up to what
: Bungie was able to do with the Xbox platform. The PC/Mac versions that
: will come out of this development process will be FAR superior to what
: would have existed 1 or 2 years ago - if only because they'll be able to
: take advantage of the much-improved graphics hardware that has appeared
: since then.

I can't believe you're saying that! I'd rather play a game right here, right now, than wait for YEARS and then come out with such poor excuse. Live the moment, my friend. Don't waste your time waiting for a better tomorrow.

: Or maybe it's none of the above - maybe they really DID screw you over by
: going to the Xbox first.

Hey, you said, Claude.

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                 Re: seriously thoughCpt. Sqweky 6/2/02 6:23 p.m.
                       Accck! Wrong!REB 6/2/02 8:35 p.m.
                             Re: Accck! Wrong!Claude Errera 6/2/02 9:59 p.m.
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                                         Re: Accck! Wrong!Mark Levin 6/2/02 11:42 p.m.
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                                                     Re: Accck! Wrong!Jacke 6/3/02 6:23 a.m.
                                                           Re: Accck! Wrong!REB 6/3/02 12:49 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Accck! Wrong!Claude Errera 6/3/02 1:27 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Accck! Wrong!REB 6/4/02 1:24 a.m.
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                                                                                         BWAHAHAHA LOL dink blam! *NT*D-M.A. 6/4/02 4:49 a.m.
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                                   Re: Finishes thinking...Jacke 6/3/02 6:07 a.m.
                                         Re: Finishes thinking...Cpt. Sqweky 6/3/02 9:41 p.m.
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