HALO going portable!!??!!""!"
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SolidSnakex
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".All they have going for them, he said, is a more recognized name.
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Guns N' Poops
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Halomondo 5 million sales first week!!!1111 NDSPSP00MED
captmcblack
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Can this thing even run a passable version of Halo? :lol
Kung Fu Jedi
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What kind of price and hardware specs is the Gizmodo going to have? Anyone have any idea? Portable Halo sounds sweet, but it'll probably end up being a side scrolling shooter. :rolls eyes:
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radioheadrule83
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I'll take NDS or a PSP port if this thing fails miserabley please...
Guns N' Poops
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paul777 said:
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1643735,00.html
Sony and Microsoft in teh same bed soon !!!111
Halo is going to be awesome with just a D-pad and 4 face buttons....only $420 to give it a spin!
I don't think the DS could handle a game that even remotely resembles Halo, but it would certainly be a better choice than the Gizmondo. You'd have to be retarded to think that Halo is going to decide the handheld wars anyway....
And nothing is going to make Sony struggle more than MS putting their biggest franchise on a handheld with absolutely no chance of competing with Sony! (not attacking you, just the stupidity of this rumor)
I don't think the DS could handle a game that even remotely resembles Halo, but it would certainly be a better choice than the Gizmondo. You'd have to be retarded to think that Halo is going to decide the handheld wars anyway....
Kung Fu Jedi
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-SRV- said:
You think so? I've played the demo and didn't think it was a good interface for a first person shooter at all. Maybe it's something I'd need to get use to, but something just didn't feel all that intuitive to me.
Stylus control is not good for first person shooters in general, but it would be particularly bad for Halo.
How are you going to crouch? How are you going to melee? How are you going to throw grenades or dual wield? How are you going to jump? You can only press one button. The double tap only adds one other option, but there's still a ton of moves and attacks that need to be quickly accessible.
The best they could do is make a game around the Halo IP, but it wouldn't play anything like Halo.
How are you going to crouch? How are you going to melee? How are you going to throw grenades or dual wield? How are you going to jump? You can only press one button. The double tap only adds one other option, but there's still a ton of moves and attacks that need to be quickly accessible.
The best they could do is make a game around the Halo IP, but it wouldn't play anything like Halo.
:lol :lol It would rock hard for Microsoft. Nintendo would pretty clearly be getting the short end of the stick since MS only has one marketable property....that isn't even suited to Nintendo's handhelds.
border said:
The stylus rocks for FPS. Just my opinion, but it is shared by many others. As per crouching, etc. all it takes is mapping out what is needed on the touch screen and the other available buttons, depending on configuration. The Xbox controller has how many buttons? It probably isn't that hard to do it.
Kung Fu Jedi
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-SRV- said:
I guess it just felt odd for me to have only one hand on the system with the other hand using the stylus. I suppose I might get use to it, but with the limited playing time I've had with the system, it just didn't work for me.
If you think it will work, then you haven't played Halo. Halo uses both triggers, both analog stick buttons, and five face buttons. It's not the sort of game where you can be glancing down at a touch screen constantly to select some integral combat action.
Stylus control will only work for something like simplistic FPS games Metroid where there are only 1-2 things that you need to do -- jump/shoot. A Halo sequence might require you to throw a grenade, switch weapons, zoom in, crouch, and shoot all over the span of a few seconds. Selecting that crap off a touch screen just isn't going to work.
Even if you think that controlling the camera with the stylus is nice (bleh), the scheme simply doesn't offer many options...
To be fair, Halo would not work on the PSP either. Halo wouldn't even work on the GameCube. Only PS2 and Xbox would have any real hope of handling its control requirements.
Stylus control will only work for something like simplistic FPS games Metroid where there are only 1-2 things that you need to do -- jump/shoot. A Halo sequence might require you to throw a grenade, switch weapons, zoom in, crouch, and shoot all over the span of a few seconds. Selecting that crap off a touch screen just isn't going to work.
Even if you think that controlling the camera with the stylus is nice (bleh), the scheme simply doesn't offer many options...
To be fair, Halo would not work on the PSP either. Halo wouldn't even work on the GameCube. Only PS2 and Xbox would have any real hope of handling its control requirements.
border said:
Uhhh, yes I have played Halo. I don't consider Metroid as simplistic vs Halo at all.
Mapping soft buttons on the touch screen would easily give you the things you say you need. Such a scenario would probably rule out stylus shooting, but it offers other advantages not available with the GB or PSP or a controller would.
evilromero
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Care to elaborate on why Halo wouldn't work on the GC?border said:
Ignoring the fact that this would result in an incredibly crowded lower-HUD, selecting via touchscreen isn't fast enough for a game with Halo's pace. When my clip runs out and I need to run in quick and melee, I can't look down at a different screen and pick it out of a set of six or seven different option boxes. It needs to be a button touch away.
Dual wielding is impossible because you can't really use two buttons simultaneously. Even if the left hand gun is mapped to the double-tap, how are you going to aim and shoot at the same time.....double tapping as you swing the camera? Ugggh...
If PSP had dual analogs that were "clickable" it could come very close. Unfortunately they've killed most chance at a decent FPS with the system design. A shame that for a system supposedly aimed at 18-34 males, it is neutered for the genre that is probably most popular with 18-34 males. Like the DS, it is only suitable for jump/shoot games, since you only have quick access to two buttons when you use the Turok/MDK control setup.
border said:
DS has two screens.
It would be instinct i imagine. Have a bar at the top etc.
There are going to be limitations of course due to it being a handheld.
Well i hear that the analogue stick on PSP is the most comfortable one created. DS has great touch screen control too. Buttons wise yes both are limited. I;d like to see good fps but i think the next Gameboy will have the clear edge there.
And here I was thinking that DS stood for Double Snake! :lolDeg said:
The lower screen HUD still needs a fairly large space where the stylus can be moved around without fear of hitting any buttons. Outside of that, you have to cram in buttons for crouch, zoom, flashlight, switch weapon, grenade/left hand, jump, melee, etc. It could be done, but it would just be crowded.
