Okay. Second gripe of the day. I honestly think that
this commercial contains stock footage of the software development department at Bungie Studios. I mean, Bungie.net has
the announcement of
new Halo 2 maps that are going to be released on April 17th. They'll be offered for $4 and they'll add extra venues to get your frag on...but wait a minute! The announcement reads that one is called "Tombstone" and is
actually the
Halo 1 map "Hang em High" where as the second map is called Desolation and is
actually the
Halo 1 map "Desolation". Now the textures on the walls are different, and "Tombstone", er, "Hang Em High" has water in the trench, but WHO does Bungie think they're fooling?
Apparently, Bungie took some lessons from ole' sneaky Bill Gates! Why make
new maps when you can, with 1/20th the work, jazz up a bunch of
old maps and sell them
again? Didn't people buy Halo 2 in order to buy a
new and better game? I mean, Bungie could have saved themselves a whole load of money and simply added the Halo 2 maps to the original Halo!
Oh, and while we're griping about Halo, can
anyone figure out why I have to buy Vista to play Halo 2 for the PC? I mean, who cares about the rapid install garbage? It's NOT using DX10 and it's a 4 year old game that ran on the original XboX, which was a PIII 700 mhz with a 64 meg Geforce 3 series card!
Will Bungie and Microsoft quit screwing around and start making things
worth spending money on? This is enough to make a guy chuck his PC out the window...but don't worry. I'm not going to do something INSANE like buy a Mac or something. I
was thinking about picking up an
Amiga though. Until Next Time,
The Armchair "Angry at Kirkland and Remond" Geek