Thread 12161768

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.

>>12161768 (OP)
Plays 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 (OP)
>ANOTHER Halo thread
Gay board

>>12161768 (OP)
OG Xbox and MCC after that. Don't bother with anything else.

>>12161825
>Gay board
Gaylo board

>>12161810
The original PC port was the only way to play Halo CE online for a while

>>12161768 (OP)
Doesn't MCC have mods that fix its issues and give you a more faithful original experience?

>>12161768 (OP)
>>Xbox on a good CRT in Dolby Digital 5.1
>>Xemu
Masochism and retardation

>>Halo PC port (2003)
This
See: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved

>>Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 port
>>Halo Anniversary MCC PC
Definitely not if this is your first time playing it.
Play these version if you really enjoyed your first og version playthrough

>>12161768 (OP)
xbox + crt + splitscreen

>>12161768 (OP)
>Xbox on a good CRT in Dolby Digital 5.1
10/10
>>Xemu
8/10
>>Halo PC port (2003)
5/10
>>Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 port
2/10
>>Halo Anniversary MCC PC
10/10

Goes 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

>>12162851
The 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

>>12161768 (OP)
MCC 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
>>12163073
What's so bad about 360 anniversary edition? If you stick with the old graphics shouldn't it be just like the OG Xbox version?

>>12163123
Anniversary 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
>>12163142
Not 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.

>>12161768 (OP)
Xbox of course.
"It just feels right"
-Steve Ballmer, 2015

>>12161825
Its a microsoft indian trying to drum up nostalgia for the remake

>>12163142
>>12163191
What a disaster. Why didn't they just remaster the original game?

>>12163052
The wiki literally provide links to mods that fix the game.

>>12163370
Why not just play the MCC version which is already a fixed version of the gearbox port?

>>12163123
Basically 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.

>>12161768 (OP)
you 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)
>5/10
CE Refined and Chimera restores a lot of the stuff borked in the Gearbox release, so it brings it back up to at least 9/10. The surround sound feature can be brought back through DSOAL, too.

>>12163123
It 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 9/10
Refined has a bug with the shotgun where you cannot fire immediately after loading a shell
>>12163359
If 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.

>>12163693
I'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