Good marketing or just really stupid?

[Professor Frink]

I just don't see why Microsoft would do this.  Everyone who really cares about Halo 2 would have already played it on Xbox.  From a technical standpoint it makes little sense too.  [right][snapback]101749[/snapback][/right]

At least for singleplayer, I vastly prefer Halo on the PC. Leaving out co-op multiplayer was extremely annoying, but the braindead checkpoints-without-save system the Xbox version uses is a show-stopper for me, and absolutely ruins the otherwise awesome Legendary mode. I would have preferred no checkpoints and no saves; that would have at least made the game somewhat "hardcore" instead of the current irritating russian-roulette checkpoint minigame.

As it is, neither Halo nor Halo 2 for the Xbox have any appeal for me as single player games. Hopefully Halo 2 will get the same improvement in the Xbox-to-PC translation that Halo did, and I'll be able to see if Halo 2's new levels and new toys balance out the whether the various ways in which everything fun and unique about Halo was watered down in the sequel, or not.

I realize this is stupid from a technical standpoint, and that there's no good reason for the differences aside from some marketroid declaring "savegames scare console players" and a marginally brighter one recognizing that "PC gamers will not tolerate an FPS without savegames".... but there it is anyway.

Short answer: Having bought Halo 2 for the Xbox, i would get it for the PC if it were available.

-- frink

p.s. I don't regret buying Halo 2 for the Xbox, it's a fun multiplayer game.