Halo MCC - Halo 4 - 17th November

Nate75 · 27 Nov 2019 at 11:14

Confused by the pricing on this one.

Was all set to get the collection at the bargain price of 29.99 but thinking as I play so little may as well get Reach and then others if / when I complete them.

Gone to get Reach now which is 6.99 but all the others are now 29.99.

Confused!

dan958 · 27 Nov 2019 at 11:30

Nate75 said:
Confused by the pricing on this one.

Was all set to get the collection at the bargain price of 29.99 but thinking as I play so little may as well get Reach and then others if / when I complete them.

Gone to get Reach now which is 6.99 but all the others are now 29.99.

Confused!

Separate prices for the others have not yet been released on the steam store - but I read that they will all be the same price, except for ODST which will be cheaper (so will work out cheaper to buy the package)

Bishie · 27 Nov 2019 at 12:07

I'm confused by the planned release date. Is December 3rd just for Halo: Reach, or the whole collection?

Edit: Nevermind, the rest of the games are slated for 2020. It's a shame, because I'm only interested in the original!

Nate75 · 27 Nov 2019 at 13:29

dan958 said:
Separate prices for the others have not yet been released on the steam store - but I read that they will all be the same price, except for ODST which will be cheaper (so will work out cheaper to buy the package)

Weird as a moment ago all the other games bar Reach was showing 29.99. Now show as N/A.

Cheers. I think I will just get Reach and see how I go

AWPC · 27 Nov 2019 at 15:53

Just get on Xbox Game Pass only a few £££ a month for all games as well as all other MS PC games current & future day & date release with other digital versions £29.99 is over a years worth of subs to Game Pass!! along with other recent games like Metro Exodus & The Outer Worlds.

All Halo's use Xbox Live for all versions anyway Steam is just a storefront for it

Cully · 2 Dec 2019 at 11:24

This is out tomorrow

ic1male · 2 Dec 2019 at 11:58

Cully said:
This is out tomorrow

Doesn't look like there's any pre-loading happening.

Rexton · 2 Dec 2019 at 13:50

Was expecting a preload, hopefully it's available to play early tomorrow. I've got the day off

HeX · 2 Dec 2019 at 15:11

Bishie said:
It's a shame, because I'm only interested in the original!

The original came out on PC back in 2003, you could have played it 16 years ago

HALO 2 has the best remake in the MCC; interested to see what Reach looks like though as that's my favourite campaign and MP!

VincentHanna · 2 Dec 2019 at 15:19

Gotta say - As somebody who remembers the original Apple trailer for Halo, and then bought an Xbox from America before they were released here and has played every Halo game including Halo 3:ODST....I always thought that the single player campaigns were a bit....meh.

Graphics, physics, audio and AI was always good - But the story and level design never really did it for me.

Halo in particular has lots of samey looking grey corridors and rooms, and don't even get me started on The Flood.

I'm sure it's great fun in co-op/multiplayer but I'm more of a solitary single player campaign guy.

doodah · 2 Dec 2019 at 15:41

2003!? I remember those Geoforce 2 GTS adverts like they were yesterday!

Rexton · 2 Dec 2019 at 15:55

Looks like a 18:00 GMT launch on Steam

DomBruv · 2 Dec 2019 at 16:04

Rexton said:
Looks like a 18:00 GMT launch on Steam

today?

dan958 · 2 Dec 2019 at 16:22

DomBruv said:
today?

Tomorrow.

Name · 2 Dec 2019 at 18:00

Weird, i pre-loaded something on the xbox app for pc. It says "play" but then it doesn't load, have i just preloaded a launcher for it or something? guess i'll find out tomorrow.

Relentless81 · 2 Dec 2019 at 18:07

I think I'm having a bit of buyer's remorse already, I realise thesegames are old now, really old but I only ever played one in the 360, not even sure which one and hated the pad so I saw this as an opportunity to play them all through properly with mouse and KB and bought it but compared to modern games the cash might be better spent else where

Matmulder · 2 Dec 2019 at 18:54

Name said:
Weird, i pre-loaded something on the xbox app for pc. It says "play" but then it doesn't load, have i just preloaded a launcher for it or something? guess i'll find out tomorrow.

It pre-loaded a 10mb file for me a few days ago...before giving the "Play" button. I know older games are smaller, but 10mb seems a bit on the low side.

Name · 2 Dec 2019 at 19:02

Matmulder said:
It pre-loaded a 10mb file for me a few days ago

Yeah, that's what happened to me.

Judging from menu screenshots i've seen. We pre-load a launcher and upon release the launcher enables us to choose which games we want to download from within the game menu...i think.

agnes · 2 Dec 2019 at 19:27

Where do you pre load from? I can't see any option to.

I bought the master chief collection, so can't even see the individual games.

Bishie · 2 Dec 2019 at 20:12

HeX said:
The original came out on PC back in 2003, you could have played it 16 years ago

HALO 2 has the best remake in the MCC; interested to see what Reach looks like though as that's my favourite campaign and MP!

I did, and it's still the best in the series imo. I just want to play it on PC with better visuals.