What is the best way to play Halo CE nowadays?>Xbox on a good CRT in Dolby Digital 5.1>Xemu>Halo PC port (2003)>Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 port>Halo Anniversary MCC PC
I'll give you a hint, it's whichever one is most retro
Definitely not emulation or the original PC port. I played the demo for that and it was shit.
>>12161768Plays and looks great on Xemu if thats the easiest option for you. I just wish Xemu had crt shaders built in because the ones through reshade have always looked like shit to me.
>>12161768>ANOTHER Halo threadGay board
>>12161768OG Xbox and MCC after that. Don't bother with anything else.
>>12161825>Gay boardGaylo board
>>12161810The original PC port was the only way to play Halo CE online for a while
>>12161768Doesn't MCC have mods that fix its issues and give you a more faithful original experience?
>>12161768>>Xbox on a good CRT in Dolby Digital 5.1>>XemuMasochism and retardation>>Halo PC port (2003)ThisSee: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved>>Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 port>>Halo Anniversary MCC PCDefinitely not if this is your first time playing it.Play these version if you really enjoyed your first og version playthrough
>>12161768xbox + crt + splitscreen
>>12161768>Xbox on a good CRT in Dolby Digital 5.110/10>>Xemu8/10>>Halo PC port (2003)5/10>>Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 port2/10>>Halo Anniversary MCC PC10/10Goes without saying you should be using surround sound in all options if possible. I don't think it works on the 2003 PC port or in Xemu
>>12162851The 2003 PC port is ass stop smoking crack anon. MCC fixes a ton of issues with the original PC port. The only reason to play the 2003 version is mods
>>12161768MCC PC is the best; only caveat is that the MCC loading screens got a screenshot of the given level which kinda ruins the surprise. The original Xbox version has the best loading screens but that's it's only advantage over MCC.Avoid the original Gearbox PC version and ESPECIALLY avoid Halo Anniversary on 360.
>>12163048>>12163073What's so bad about 360 anniversary edition? If you stick with the old graphics shouldn't it be just like the OG Xbox version?
>>12163123Anniversary on the 360 is based on the Gearbox PC port so has all the issues of that version like broken bump mapping, downgraded transparency shaders and numerous other issues.
>>12163123>>12163142Not to mention 360 Anniversary runs like crap even in classic mode. It runs worse than both the Xbox original AND the Xbox original being emulated on a 360.
>>12161768Xbox of course. "It just feels right"-Steve Ballmer, 2015
>>12161825Its a microsoft indian trying to drum up nostalgia for the remake
>>12163142>>12163191What a disaster. Why didn't they just remaster the original game?
>>12163052The wiki literally provide links to mods that fix the game.
>>12163370Why not just play the MCC version which is already a fixed version of the gearbox port?
>>12163123Basically this >>12163142 and the fact you can't fix it like you can with mods on the original Gearbox port. MCC and 2003 with fixes are both better versions unless you really want to play with the ugly anniversary pseudo-reach graphics instead.
>>12161768you can restore the xbox shaders and whatever on the PC port, but I think the MCC PC collection also did this in the past few years
>>12163048>>Halo PC port (2003)>5/10CE Refined and Chimera restores a lot of the stuff borked in the Gearbox release, so it brings it back up to at least 9/10. The surround sound feature can be brought back through DSOAL, too.
>>12163123It also didn't have the classic multiplayer, what it came with was basically a map pack for Halo Reach.
>>12163693>CE Refined and Chimera restores a lot of the stuff borked in the Gearbox release, so it brings it back up to at least 9/10Refined has a bug with the shotgun where you cannot fire immediately after loading a shell>>12163359If I had to guess, they based it on the Gearbox version because that had a PowerPC Mac version, and the 360 was also a PowerPC machine.
>>12163693I'm not counting mods to fix it. If you can fix everything then I guess that port is even with MCC and 10/10 too
>>12161768Banana chair
I have the PC port, but it seems like the texture lighting only works with the flashlight despite it being supposedly fixed years ago. Am I imagining things? I'll take pictures if someone asks.
like most shooters it benefits from a mouse.
>>12163397Because MCC is literally shit, and i say this as someone who played the OG and that aberration even with patches
>>12164430there's no way the MCC version is that bad, especially after all the updates it got post-launch
>>12164432I'm >>12164353 and forgot to clarify that I'm playing MCC.
>>12164430What's wrong with MCC that hasn't already been fixed?
>>12164353Did you update the game all the way? the bump maps are fixed
>>12161768If you are ok with just single player and no splitscreen, then Anniversary is great because it has the original graphics/soundtrack as an option.
>>12162851Anniversary has been fixed for a long time and it also has classic graphics, you can completely ignore the new graphics and soundtrack.
>>12164479>Did you update the game all the way?I didn't install it (which was officially through Steam) until this year, so I think so? Guess I'll post pics so you can see for yourself.
>>12163698>It also didn't have the classic multiplayer, what it came with was basically a map pack for Halo Reach.Yeah this is a total dealbreaker.
>>12164503It didn't even come with a Blood Gulch remake, 343 expected you to use that one part of Forge World that was in Reach.Lazy fucking studio, that alone was the barometer on how they would treat the whole Halo franchise for the next 15 years.
>>12164474Nothing, he's being a retard>>12164493Bump maps got fixed on MCC a long long time ago
>>12164752>Bump maps got fixed on MCC a long long time agoYep bump mapping was fixed back in 2021 with the season 7 update.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nRe_cW6C1Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUxq3ypC-g
Halo MCC on PC holds your game hostage until you give Microshit a phone number to link to your account, so that makes it the worst version by default.
Don't people still play the Halo Trial?
>>12165039any non schizophrenic reason for disliking it?
Thanks for the thread, Xburgers
>>12161768halo anniversary, rubys rebalance mod. incredible way to play the game, but only in legendary.
>>12161768cursed halo on legendary solo
