Dear 343industries,
in case you were planning to port Halo Reach to PC, let me give you advice to make it better.
In my opinion, Halo Reach pc should:
-include all DLCs and multiplayer maps
-be graphically improved (HD textures, Antialiasing,…)
-include online and LAN co-op
But there’s some really kicka** Spartan model props and AI for Garrys Mod. Me and a friend are making a Machinima series, and now we can actually make Spartans have a genuine fist-fight! It’s epic!
I don’t want to be negative to you but I’m telling you right now that it’s never going to happen in a million years. Here’s just a couple of reasons why.
Halo: Reach was Bungie’s project. Meaning that if a port was to be made it would either have to be ported through 343i or Microsoft themselves. I’m telling you now that Microsoft won’t do it. They just won’t. 343i won’t because they’ve officially announced the Halo 4 release date, anything that could potentially make that date invalid would instantly be removed/ignored.
Microsoft will literally force 343 to release the game complete or otherwise and if I pay £40 for another Halo game with half of the features/missions missing for a game like Reach I am going to be incredibly annoyed.
Another reason would be that it isn’t a business smart move. Sure there are plenty of PC gamers out there and you all are entitled to a voice. However the reason behind it being a bad business move is because the game will be two years old this year. Re-releasing it on PC is a waste of time/effort and money due to most people either pirating it or not even buying it in the first place.
My final and least important was that Reach wasn’t very well accepted by the fan-base and Microsoft knows this. Do they care about this? I have no idea.
But the chances of them actually doing this are incredibly slim to none.
If I were you I wouldn’t bother with Reach anymore simply because Halo 4 is on the way! We already know Halo 4 isn’t PC supported but you can make a case RIGHT NOW for Halo 5/6 and even future games to be supported by PC.
As a side note Windows 8 also supports Xbox 360 so technically you could play it on your computer in any case.
> Lol, xbox live in windows 8 is still a rumor. Reach deserves a pc port even if it’s cheap and poorly done.
I’m on the Windows 8 Preview Release right now, Xbox LIVE isn’t a rumour on it, it is currently only working in France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
Halo 2 Vista sold poorly, and was not supported very well. While CE did very well on PC, I don’t think MS would want to risk another H2V with Halo 3 or Reach on Windows, no matter how much I want it to happen.
That would be totally awesome and for a small while there was some evidence that they would be releasing it. this obviously did not happen but if they did then they would probably release it on windows 8 and that would just totally suck.
During Reach’s making Bungie was asked if they were going to port Halo Reach to the PC.
They said they didn’t plan on doing it, and it is most probably because it is easier to pirate.
343i is probably going to need a lot of time to clean up Halo 4 and try not to screw up on Halo 5 (if Halo survives that long).