Halo got me into gaming content on the internet (roosterteeth) which lead to technology content later on. So I have Halo to thank for the fact that I'm sitting here at my desk with a PC I built myself.
A lot of people bitch and complain about Halo being crappy console trash. I won't argue with them if they're talking about the newest Halo games (everything that came after Halo: Reach), but the older ones are great shooters. It gets compared to CoD far too often in my opinion; Halo isn't nearly as re-skin-the-game-and-sell-it-for-$60-again-a-year-later and it's combat is nothing like CoD.
So if you're one of the people who haven't played Halo and think it's complete garbage, please play it at least for a few matches so you have an experience on which you base your thoughts.
Loved El Dorito a while back, I am glad the server browser has been much improved not only that, there is many US servers now. About 6 months ago, there was about US servers always full and a few European servers with a decent amount of ping, still lots of fun though.
Thanks for the share man. Someone at LAN Syndicate actually gave me this on a thumb drive and I forgot about it until a couple days ago. Couldn't believe how complete the mod was for this. Its got some rough edges, but its fucking Halo.
Grey area I'd assume. It's comparable to the vanilla WoW server situation. You'll never get in trouble for playing it. If legal things happen it'll be the downloads for it, not the players.
This is technically speaking a mod of Halo Online since you aren't accessing their servers and several things have been changed. Modders brought back the classic Halo 3 menu and put in other customization options not in Halo Online.
When it was originally just the uploaded source code, several websites were smacked with take down notices for distributing it, but since then its died down and I think because of the amount of work put in by modders, this is now its own thing.
That's my standpoint on it, but I understand some people may still think this is "pirating". I'm just not one of them.
Thank you for sharing this! I'll definitely be giving this a try later. I'm praying that it works fine in the UK. I always wondered what a game like this would do on a PC. Heading to Insomnia LAN this year I hope to find others on it as well!
Very true. Every month we get together at work and do small LAN games. Quite a lot of COD players try Halo and just can't get used to it, and vice versa. When you've seen these games come from their mumble beginnings you realise just how different they are.
