I’m just curious, did anyone hear anything (probably years ago) about why they never made Halo Wars for the PC?
I spend alot of time away from the house and I really wish I could play HW on my laptop…
It just seems strange b/c Ensemble Studios is primarily a PC RTS game creator?
I have and still play alot of the older Ensemble Studios RTS games, and now i’m wishing that i could keep playing HW on pc like the rest of my RTS games.
Halo Wars is heavily console based RTS. As it is , it woudlnt be much of a hit on PC. It would need a heavy changes in controls, interface and so on. Too many RTS games on pc for something like Halo Wars.
Not even mentioning that Halo doesnt have such a comunity on PC.
I don’t really get the point of your poll. Halo wars was designed from the outset to be the best Console RTS, As we know PC to console ports of RTS games don’t work all that well. Their control scheme and gameplay usually end up too complex, too slow or too unintuitive (C&C3 Tiberian wars for example. they had to do a number of modifications to the UI alone before making kanes wrath.). Likewise Console to PC ports of RTS games don’t work, mostly because RTS games designed for console have to be a lot simpler than those on PC. And if you start to develop it more for the PC people on console won’t like it so much.
As it is Halo wars is the best and most successful console RTS, why change it? Also, if you could play any RTS game on PC can you honestly say you would pick halo wars over total war, Starcraft, C&C ect? I doubt it. PC RTS games typically have a higher level of complexity. It’s a simple fact really, I play halo wars on console because it is the Best rts on console, both in the UI and the player base. If i was playing on PC however I would probably pick C&C over halo wars. More unit diversity Ect.
Also you typo’ed in the topic title 
> Halo Wars is heavily console based RTS. As it is , it woudlnt be much of a hit on PC. It would need a heavy changes in controls, interface and so on. Too many RTS games on pc for something like Halo Wars.
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> Not even mentioning that Halo doesnt have such a comunity on PC.
Actually I though people still played Halo 1 on PC?
> > Halo Wars is heavily console based RTS. As it is , it woudlnt be much of a hit on PC. It would need a heavy changes in controls, interface and so on. Too many RTS games on pc for something like Halo Wars.
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> Actually I though people still played Halo 1 on PC?
Some, not a lot, I haven’t loaded up Halo PC for a while but the numbers aren’t that high, and I know Halo 2 Vista is practically dead.
Halo is meant to be a console game, like said, Wars was designed to work on console, with limitations the console had, otherwise there would be a lot more to it.
^^^ Yeah You all make really good points^^^
Thanks, Never really thought about the differences between console and pc RTS games.
I liked all the other pc RTS games but I think HWars was a much bigger hit for me cuz I’ve been a fan of the Halo world for over a decade.
I’m just kinda bummed that when all i have is my laptop i cant play Hwars, but your right PC RTS games have a much higher level of complexity and really would not transfer from console to pc or visa-vera very effectively.
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> I liked all the other pc RTS games but I think HWars was a much bigger hit for me cuz I’ve been a fan of the Halo world for over a decade.
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> I’m just kinda bummed that when all i have is my laptop i cant play Hwars, but your right PC RTS games have a much higher level of complexity and really would not transfer from console to pc or visa-vera very effectively.
Glad you see my point ^_^. It’s not to say we can’t have halo PC, it’s more it’d have to be designed specifically for PC from the start as opposed to ported from console (Which i doubt will happen unless Microsoft think it more profitable), PC to console and Console to PC ports always have UI and game-play issues (When your playing a game that assumes you have a keyboard and mouse not an xbox control being the main one) It’s not just RTS games, it’s an industry wide problem, RPG’s like Skyrim have a similar problem, the PC UI sucks as the game was designed more with console in mind. There’s also often problems even with porting games from one console to another. (PS3 to xbox and Visa versa) Many games (Dragons dogma, Bayonetta to name a few) Have frame rate issues on the PS3 as they were dev’d for Xbox then ported.
Halowars wouldn’t work on a pc.
Its an extremely elementary rts. Extremely basic micro, non-existent macro, and limited strategy.
Its only achievements are that its easy to play, fun, and combat focused. Perfect for console gamers.
If you want a computer RTS, play starcraft, you’ll see how complex RTS games actually are.
> Actually I though people still played Halo 1 on PC?
Some, not a lot, I haven’t loaded up Halo PC for a while but the numbers aren’t that high, and I know Halo 2 Vista is practically dead.
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Actually there’s just as many playing halo 1 pc as there are playing halo 2 pc.
Anyway I love to see those games ported but I’d also like to see odst, halo, reach ported at some point too.