As in anti-Halo, if you will. Starring Apprentice Tribesman, or something.

The world, and Gamespot has gone Halo nuts. Almost every blog I have tracked seems to have it as a topic and while I have nothing against Halo 3, it's all wearing a bit thin for me. Thing is, I'm a PC Gamer (besides some retro consoles). That means I constantly get the short end (or the sharp one) of the Halo stick from Microsoft and co.

I understand Halo => Xbox = winnar. Fair enough, in today's capitalist society, something like this must be milked. I haven't seen Halo 3 cereal yet, but maybe that's just because I didn't go into the right store, otherwise I see tons of Halo-related products. Once again, not something I have a problem with. Getting gaming into the mainstream is always a good thing in my book. What bugs me is getting screwed over, in other words the "sloppy seconds" form Halo releases for the PC tend to take. The first one was fun, until I got caught in some sort of paradox and kept enterring the same room again and again. Then there were some vehicle shenanigans, but the room curse put me off labelling the game a masterpiece. Twas a good shooter, it just came out too late. If it had had a simultaneous release with the xbox one...

Then came Halo 2. I haven't played it. Gasp. It's probably good. I could play it, as I got a new PC a few months back and went with Vista. What annoys me is the fact that Halo's Vista-only. It certainly doesn't need Vista, judging from the screenshots. But they make it Vista-only so that it forces us to upgrade if we want to play it, much like with the 360. Oh, and we also have to wait years for what is essentially a port. I just love ports! Once again us PC gamers are getting a late invitation to the party. Not only that, it's a slightly dated party, that everyone's already left, and we can't get in without a newer model of shoes. Thanks, guys!

Halo 3 is upon us. Well, not upon me, because I have no 360, and MS can't release it on PC at the same time, because it's fueling 360 sales and they want to keep laughing at Sony. Where does this leave me? Well, no Halo 3 for a few years, and if I were really cynical I'd predict you'll need Vista SP2 to play it, but I'll just stick with "will need Vista" for now. I'm also probably going to get the ending spoiled like scott did, but I can't do much about that either, except open up some cans of whupass when it happens. Anyway, I had to buy something else today at the store, as everyone's getting new games. Then I saw it:

A lemmings pack! I don't know if this is as un-halo as you can get, since Lemmings 3D features first-person Lemming action, and Lemmings paintball has the critters shooting each other, but it's close enough in my book. I didn't buy it for that reason, though. I bought it because of that bite of nostalgia reminding me of the days of fiddling with sound card settings and typing "vgalemmi". I'd call it a simpler time, but I think that wouldn't be true, haha. I also haven't played Lemmings in years, despite being very much into them in their time.

So here's the thing. Continue making games for the PC, by all means, puh-leeeze! But don't treat us all like a bunch of slobbering walking wallets and just keep serving up the half-arsed ports. Otherwise we'll just return to our gems,of which the PC has many. PC Gamers may be a dying breed, but by golly, we're discerning croakers.