i know that this probably will never happen because Microsoft is too afraid to try again after the failure of h2v but i am more interested to see who would like to see this happen. and if a flame war doesn't break out maybe a poll could be created and sent to Microsoft, i plan to post this at multiple other websites to see what kind of response it gets.

Microsoft should do it. The only and I emphasize this "ONLY" reason h2v failed was because it had to be played on the brand new vista OS. At the time, not many people had the new OS and many did not want it because, even according to Microsoft, performance for XP was much better than vista for graphical applications due to Vista's massive failure in coding. I think if they tried doing reach for PC, they might find they get more buyers than they would anticipate.

Actually, you can play Reach on PC, Or any other Xbox 360 game.

All you need:
-Xbox 360 Emulator
-A powerful system to play some games with intense graphics
-Xbox 360 controller for PC
-The game(s) .xbe (XBE is the extention that run on Xbox console(s), it is need to play on pc with an emulator.)
-To get the .xbe you need to extract everything from the game disc, i.e: an iso file

Christ not again.

Actually, you CAN'T.
Mostly, because there is no decent Xbox 360 emulator. And the ones that HAVE been made, are absolute crap, and don't work.

E: YES. MICROSOFT SHOULD DO IT. Just use the same recipe used to make Halo 1 PC by Gearbox, and not try to do it like they did to Halo 2.
Edited by Spartan314 on Mar 12, 2012 at 11:05 PM

I agree with Spartan314.Gearbox would be the best for this(based on their Halo 1 porting work).

It would be nice to see, but I'm sure it's not going to happen for two main reasons. First, for whatever reason, it's pretty much set in stone now that Halo is staying on the Xbox. Second, even if they would port another one to PC, let's not forget that Microsoft doesn't relly like modding so it most likely wouldn't have the tools that we have now.

I just can't understand why people think this will change just becasue they want it to. You can send all the polls and reqest you want to Microsoft, but it won't do any good.

GAIGHER's Emulator works, and so does Xeon. I've played Halo 3 and Halo 2 on Xeon.

1) Releasing multi platform doesn't really mean more profit though. You have to pay people to code it for that platform. If it was to fail like h2v then it would be bad for them because they lost money in the recode.

2) World of whackoff is not even $20 a month. why in gods name would they make a FPS $20 a month? Not even BF3 is $20 a month and it is much higher end than any halo game to date. Why would anyone play a game for even $15 a month? [sarcasm] Not to be taken as I am directing this at any certain huge gaming community! [sarcasm] *looks around* *smiles* ($180 a year?!?!?! I'm JUST... saying1 They are ROBBING you and you are just taking it!)

3) So you don't want to see it come to PC because YOU don't have the rig? So if you can't have it, no one can? Just wow.

4) F2p FPS games that have anything where real money can buy better than a free player's weapons, or what I would like to refer to here as "I am so noob but I have money so I win" weapons are the biggest failure in the true gaming world EVER! What a way to show you are a gamer troll by having a 1sk anywhere on the body smg or some BS like that that that these F2p game companies use to make money.

Maybe they don't want a PC port due to the ever spreading piracy on the PC?

SO. Microsoft should invest in PC gaming, and not their (not) stupid xbox.

Oh god, don't talk about paying for F2P games. I've been enough for an idiot for rubbish like adventure quest when I was young. I mean, seriously, you have to be a member to go to this area? I hate things like that.

I don't really like F2Ps. They just get flooded with kids who randomly decided "I'ma play this cause it free". We need MMOs that actually run on your computer, not on your browser.

It is really frustrating.

Also, I agree with Tiel. Seriously, buy a 360 then buy the game then buy Xbox live, then buy a new map pack for ripoff price just to be able to stay in a server for longer than two hours. And don't forget that we already bought the internet used to play the Live with.

Five instances of purchase is way too much. Considering the price, like, seriously, who thinks this up? Playstation network has it right.

Money loving corporate heads.

Why the hell do we start threads like this, there is absolutely no chance this is ever going to happen, especially not at the behest of some kid emailing them the opinions of a bunch of other kids. They aren't going to port Reach to the PC.

Unless a super game hacker ports it like my personal friend is trying to do! I mean um...You didn't see that....did you? I think not... He and I will probably keep it to ourselves for a couple weeks and see if there are bugs, but other than that, if it's bug free, we'll probably charge $30 for it, but one problem: There wont be internet playing, unless he can find out how to do that to. (But I doubt it)

http://fr.xfire.com/video/463eea
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Edited by GAIGHER on Mar 13, 2012 at 02:05 PM

Looks fake to me :/

That will bring a potential lawsuit from Microsoft.

Yeah but not if they don't find out...*Points to you*

@Mastur Cheef

Fine...I'll make it free... D:

Are you kidding me? First and foremost, I seriously doubt you know anyone who can actually accomplish this, second of all, if you do by some miracle manage to get this to work, I guarantee you that if anyone gets word of it who is involved with Microsoft, Bungie, or 343, you will have one hell of a lawsuit on your hands, you could be arrested, fined, and have all of your computer equipment confiscated and probably never seen again. ESPECIALLY if and your friend decide to charge money for it.

But to be perfectly honest, I don't think your friend can come anywhere close to accomplishing this particular task.
Edited by Bobblehob on Mar 13, 2012 at 07:21 PM

Somebody could just send some emails to microsoft and 343i, tell them what they did wrong with their old ones, tell them the strengths and why halo 1 is still very active on PC, and then tell them how the editing kit should work. Start with Halo 3, then ODST, so on and so forth. I would upgrade my rig just to get those games.
Of course, nobody really thinks about writing messages to these companies, and explaining to them that the game should be released for the PC. Instead, they would simply say, "Can you port this game to the PC? I would really like it, and many other people would too!" But it won't work that way. Strength is in numbers.
The xbox 360 is getting old anyway, so unless if the 720 (Or whatever it's called) will be released with windows 8 installed like it's rumored, then we'll be stuck for playing it on the 360 right now. (If it does have windows 8 installed, then that means anybody who upgrades to windows 8 will not only be able to play Halo 3, but also every other Console exclusive for the xbox 360. I don't own a lot of games, and it would probably be more expensive than all the games I have put together, but it seems like a deal to me).
I might send a message to both microsoft and 343 explaining to them why they should create a PC port for Halo 3, Reach, etc. etc.
If anybody has already done this, which it is very possible that some of you have, then please enlighten me.

It won't make any difference what so ever, unless you could convince every single person who plays any game on the xbox 360, you aren't going to do any good by just sending an email to them.
Edited by Bobblehob on Mar 13, 2012 at 07:57 PM

I never said anything about a petition. I said emails. If you could get enough people to send out emails (Perhaps in one day) to both companies, then maybe they would actually do it.
And Halo isn't the Xbox's only saving grace. There are two others.
1. Ignorance
(PC sucks and the xbox is better than anything in the whole world kind of ignorance. I see it a lot.)
2. Fear of social status
(Fear of being called a nerd because you play a PC game, even though you can just go ahead and plug in an xbox controller, and then it'd be just like a higher quality xbox. But I prefer the key board. It just feels right on custom maps...)

Those two alone have kept Call of Duty and Battlefield fans from playing PC. The whole reason why I got into PC is because Reach and Halo 3 Forge didn't do it for me, I needed something greater... and then I saw halo CE.
And plus, most people won't just leave their regular xbox friends behind. I know somebody who has a broken xbox, and spent 2 months trying to fix it. It doesn't read disks, but it still works, so now whenever he's bored he goes online and talks to people, while remaining on the dash board.
Edited by Mini0013xx on Mar 13, 2012 at 09:55 PM

Then there's always making your own version to suit the features you want... Why not just modify an existing engine, like what was done with splinter cell. Lighting-based AI visibility in that game is pretty much thanks to the heavily*modified unreal engine that they used, you can't replicate it with the stock engine(as far as a hotshot gamedev is concerned).
Edited by OrangeJuice on Mar 14, 2012 at 12:02 AM

To be honest, and not trying to make this a personal attack, but you are kind of ignorant as to how the system here works.

The only possible way you could have any effect on the decisions as far as Ports of existing games to PC, would be to have millions upon millions of emails sent over a short period of time, enough that it causes issues for their servers or something, they might be inclined to listen, but even then they aren't likely to do so. It would probably not make them any money, when you consider the time and effort it would take for them to port the game to PC.

Fear of social status has literally nothing to do with this.

And yes, we all know what the advantages of an editing kit for the PC would be. The fact remains that Halo is likely to remain a console exclusive series. And almost nothing short of a ridiculous loss of popularity and consequent loss of profits will likely change that.

It might not be all that you are hoping for. goodbye_world is just a square that slides across the screen and bounces off the edges, and when you hold the BACK button the controller vibrates. was my first xbox program xD
EDIT> Oh, and after 140 seconds the page-heap goes NULL and the square disappears...
Edited by OrangeJuice on Mar 14, 2012 at 02:28 PM

ONT: Then again the POLLs worked for Dino Crisis... I think
Edited by OrangeJuice on Mar 14, 2012 at 02:32 PM

I'll just let Dennis correct your strange idea that Gearbox ported Halo 1 to PC properly...

Oh and my opinion:
Sure it would be great if Microsoft ported Reach to PC!
They're not that stupid though.

Anyone who hates pirates would know that there's no way Microsoft would willingly port Reach to PC. They would lose TONS of profits, regardless of how many copies actually sell on PC, because people would just not bother buying the game on Xbox since they can pirate it anyway. And regardless of whether or not you think I'm wrong, the point still remains that Microsoft themselves hate pirates!

Unless of course they dump the game on 'Games for Windows Live' in which case nobody in their right mind will ever buy it anyway so they most certainly won't get any profit.
And please don't bother mentioning Steam when we're discussing MICROSOFT here. You know what I mean.

If they did (which they probably will not), I'd be open armed, even if it doesn't go as far as SP.

Why start this thread? It won't happen, and not with the other Halos either.





Deal with it.

There were rumors that windows 8 may be able to play Xbox 360 games.

There is no current fully working Xbox 360 emulator. Xeon is an emulator for the original Xbox and can only play 1 game, Halo Combat Evolved. However it can't even go in-game, you can only use the main menu.

Ain't this the truth.

Painful too.

Only painful if you don't accept it.

Thats a load of crap, there will only be a certain audience which would buy it for PC as not everyone has a highend computer. And a good percentage prefer console gaming, like me.

They wouldn't loose as much money as you makeout..