Anyone play the Halo games?

I am a PC gamer first and foremost, but for some reason I can't get enough Halo.

I have all the games, even the crappy Halo Wars (which if you know anything about, should be PC gamer anathema).

I have been sinking several hours into the Anniversary Edition, as well as ODST (again), Reach (for the millionth time) - all of them.

I love Halo. I cannot get enough Halo.

Anyone else feel this way? If so, which is you favorite game?

have you got Halo 1/2 for computer, if you have i'd be delighted to play if you can connect to me. Not alot of people are palying it on the PC. I don't really like Halo, now that i have Frontlines Fuel of War, and Call of Duty, and Crysis Wars could be better if the performance was more efficient. But i do like a game of Halo 2, if there are people there to play with online.

Halo: Combat Evolved is one of the best games ever made. Period.

It is undoubtedly the best console FPS. No other console FPS has come close to beating it.

I really don't like the cross-hair in Halo though, and how long it takes to kill enemies. I like Turok more in that respect (the latest Turok) eventhough alot of people don't like it. Far Cry is quite good though, i'm talking about Far Cry 1.

The Cross-hair's are smaller on Turok and Far Cry, and i noticed on pc the cross-hair on Halo is towards the bottom of the screen, the graphics seem a bit tacky/ odd for some textures like facial textures, and objects meshes are very basic. The enemies are annoying or infantile, makes it feel like you are shooting at telly tubbies. At the other extreme end is some particular modern warfare games or aliens versus predator where the graphics and stories are just too real. In my honest opinion making a game fun isn't about making it mirror real life; i don't want to see some of the disgusting things that happen in the real world put into my computer game, i want to relax and enjoy. But at the same time i'm a bit more hard core than just shooting grunts with high pitch voices.

Try completing the all Halo games by yourself on legendary, then you can talk about "hardcore".

There are many other different types of enemies in Halo than just Grunts, Grunts are just that, Grunts....Fish in a barrel, cannon fodder. Though they can be very deadly in large numbers on Ledgedary.

Flood, anyone? Hunters? How about Field Marshall, Genreral & Ultra Elites.

As for the graphics, Halo: Combat Evolved is 10 years old.

I'm thinking about comparing other 32mb graphic games to Halo 2. I'm not at all talking about the difficulty of the game but instead the characters, such as in Aliens versus predators, i don't like the characters. I like the characters in Frontlines Fuel of War, it's not a gory game, and it's a bit more serious than some of the characters in halo, but then Halo is better in the sense that your not always shooting people. I told you i like Halo otherwise i wouldn't be playing it online, maybe it's Half Life 2 that i would really like, i haven't actually got it but i remember playing Half Life 1 on my friend's Play Station 2. I prefer the more serious weapons in a game, particularly ones that shoot bullets at high velocities, in Halo plasma weapon projectiles travel very slowly. I liked the Turok rail gun in the latest Turok game, that's my idea of a good fantasy semi-realistic weapon
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No, any personal recommendations? Which is the best one to start with?

The Fall of Reach is awesome. Just awesome.
The Flood is a novelization of Halo CE with extra story. I loved seeing it fleshed out.
First Strike bridges Halo CE and Halo 2 and is also awesome.
Do not miss these three, but the others (Contact Harvest, Ghosts of Onyx) are a great read, too.

CoD is the same game it was 8 years ago....

Sounds good mate. I was gonna buy one a while back.

Think I'll give The Flood a try first.

Started playing Halo PC again because of this thread, and I've got a few observations. (PCgamer - you should give it a shot)

First, playing with the mouse and keyboard is a lot of fun (always played with a gamepad before); I keep wanting to sprint, though. Love switching weapons with the mousewheel. :-)

Second, the textures and reflections are pretty darn good for an older game. Gearbox did a good job porting it - played the Xbox version the other day, and everything looked bland and muddy.

Thirdly, you can now apply morphological anti-aliasing if you've got a Radeon HD 5xxx and up (formerly no antialiasing solution worked). I've tried MLAA in a lot of games and it always blurs text and makes the overall image look muddy... But apply it to Halo PC, and all that happens is the jaggies are completely gone. Almost like AMD made MLAA specifically for this game...

And lastly, that compelling blend of timpani and strings in the Halo theme is incredible.

Anyways - I'm thoroughly enjoying the best Halo yet again! Hope the TexMod comes out soon...

Perfectly.

Fair warning: I haven't tried it with W7 64-bit. Though I don't see why the 32-bit .exe shouldn't work in 64-bit.

And I know the resolution caps at 1600x900 on a 1080p screen. (Max res back in the day was 1600x1200.) Just a heads-up.

Do you know if a custom resolution can be forced via ini/cfg/command line as with a lot of other older games? I tinkered around until I was able to force 1080p in Red Faction and Half Life 1, after all.

Thanks.

I have a little tip for you, just in case you ever run into a situation where you have to reconfigure the cfg file every single time you play (as you mentioned above).

Reconfigure the way you do normally, except upon exiting be sure and select "save as" instead of "save", and then choose "all types".

I really don't see how it works, but it does work. At least for me it does.