Why'd they do it, bros?
to make you seeth
Half-Life 2 was a cutting-edge game at the time. Doom 3 was the same in that it was ported to Xbox to prove how powerful the console was and to provide the experience to players who couldn't afford gaming PCs.
>>12589016It worked great, I had no problems finishing it decades ago. Yeah the texture resolution was ass, but on an old TV it didn't really make much of a difference.
>>12589034I wouldn't really care about that but it's the cripplingly low frame rate that I struggled with too much and pushed me to make my first Steam purchase.
>>12589016why not?
money
>>12589158I was so used to games lagging back then I didn't even notice. I remember playing a lot of Far Cry Instincts and other Xbox FPS games getting like 20FPS on average, it was just the way it was. I probably couldn't tolerate it today though.
>>12589016>Why'd they do it, bros?Valve was contractually obligated to ship 2 exclusives on Xbox.
Released exactly a week before xbox 360 launched too
>>12589016The game is barely playable due to performance issues and the visual downgrades are too harshGabe probably still did it just to create Steam sympathizers
>>12590701Its impressive they got it running at all. I don't think a pc with similar specs to the xbox could run it as well
>>12589016You can actually play this today on the hardware it was made for, unlike the PC version.
>>12590876weird, my pc works but my xbox needs a set of new capacitors
>>12590812A pc with similar specs to the xbox could run a version cut down to a similar degree as well
>>12590812Half Life 2 ran unbelievablely well on my mid ass 2005 PC. Insanely well optimized game.
>>12589016Did what? An impressive programming feat? People used to do that back in the day...
>>12589016Majority of PC games were ported to the Xbox at the time, Xbox was basically the "can run PC games" machine.
>>12591640The majority of PC games that were ported to the Xbox ran like shit and none of them sold well besides Morrowind.
>>12590876But you can still play the original version
>>12591689>5 discsMogged by GTA5.
>>12591723Forgot to attach, bloody bastard benchod.
>>12591727Not retro
>>12589016It performed no worse than the average gaming PC at the time. Not everyone had a cutting edge gaming rig.
>>12591669Yeah but at the time majority of people had a living room family PC that could barely do DirectX 8, so there were all these PC games coming out but your PC couldn't even start most of them, the Xbox allowed you to play and enjoy those games.
>>12589794What was the second?
>>12591774That makes no senseIf that were true, and PC games didn't sell because people didn't have the capable hardware, developers and publishers wouldn't create games exclusively for PC.
>>12591792half-life 2, counter-strike was the first. They ported HL2 and CS because Teebo and Kai fell apart.
