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Monday, August 29, 2005 |  |
Never say die -erm, quit
These guys are nuts. (I admire their sticktoitiveness, but man... I wouldn't have had the patience. Life's too short - I'd rather be playing games I LIKE.) (Louis Wu 21:42:51 UTC) (permalink)
HCEC 17: Prelude
Dennis Powers writes that the Halo CE Chronicles Episode 17 - Prelude - has been posted. The search and rescue team looking for our Station Commander is about to come under attack from well-armed Covenant forces... the stage is set for some great action. Qucktime (20 mb), WMP9 (22 mb), or streaming Flash (8 mb) formats, all downloadable from the video archive. (Louis Wu 20:32:11 UTC) (permalink)
Broken Record
Mercury has weighed in with his own opinion on the recent 1Up article - you can find his thoughts on The Oracle, his blog. I guess the 1Up writer did it right, after all - I can't remember the last time an article there got this much of the fan community up in arms. (Louis Wu 18:53:12 UTC) (permalink)
Can't be all bad.
As has been mentioned a few times recently, a lengthy LANfest (6 days now, sort of, and counting) has been going on involving some community regulars. The first real writeup got posted to our forum a little bit ago - Stuntmutt, taking a page from Tolstoy's playbook, wrote a monster of a reminiscence of the trip so far. (I must say, I've been maligned. Possibly justifiably... but maligned nonetheless. Pistols at dawn, sir.) It's a great read, whether you were there or not - it sums up some of the high points of the event really nicely. (Pisses me off - he nailed pretty much every single point I wanted to cover in my OWN writeup. I may just have to admin his post and put my name on it.) Check it out. (Louis Wu 18:04:55 UTC) (permalink)
c0ld, Hard Cash.
Today's One One Se7en suggests a feasible way for certain Halo clans to make a little money. Go, Helljumpers. (Louis Wu 15:36:21 UTC) (permalink)
Monday Fiction
Twelve new stories posted today in the Fan Fiction section - busy weekend for the writers! Go read. (Louis Wu 15:19:45 UTC) (permalink)
Briar's Armor - finished!
Remember Briar's Armor? (We've mentioned them a few times.) The Master Chief armor is finished - and tonight we got a pair of images in our inbox. Gorgeous work! Full body shot (343K) | closeup (296K) (Louis Wu 04:34:51 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Pro Roundup
3Suns sent in a roundup of pro-level Halo news articles from around the net:
- From Team3D.net - Ogre 2 won a car playing Halo 2
- From HaloPro.com - Team 3D's Hotshy (Walshy) interviewed
- From Team3D.com - Team 3D won VGL regional NY a few weeks ago
- From MLGPro.com - IGS Monglers take first at MLG Nashville
Some of these might be a bit old - but they're all unreported here. (Louis Wu 04:09:59 UTC) (permalink)
Podtacular Episode 6
Podtacular Episode 6 has been posted - 90 minutes long, highlight is an interview with Overswarm, the author of the Not So Common Sense strategy guide hosted right here. Thanks, henry brown. (Louis Wu 03:54:59 UTC) (permalink)
Broken Halo - or Whiny Writer?
Last night, Ename Nep pointed out an article over at 1Up.com, entitled 'Broken Halo: Five ways Bungie can fix Halo 2'. It's nothing that hasn't been said a thousand times before on Halo forums the whole 'net round... what makes this somewhat surprising is the fact that it shows up, in this form, on a site like 1Up. (I'll say right now that my respect for their journalistic integrity has dropped a notch or two because of this article.) It's full of absurd absolute statements ("Since the rockets on Coagulation don't respawn when someone is holding them, the Banshee pilot (unless he's maladroit) is invincible") and faulty logic ("Because there is a singular power weapon on Colossus with no counterpart, even shoddily organized teams can get a beam rifle, use it to get a fast lead, and then hold the beam rifle with a couple shots left in it for the rest of the round and use their lead to win") - it's so strident in its tired arguments that even the decent suggestions (I liked the idea of retaining Halo's plasma pistol overheating-after-an-overcharge feature, which would have toned down the hard-to-counter PP/BR combo) are lost in the rhetoric. Cody Miller pointed to a Slashdot poster's summary of this article that nailed the problem quite nicely. (Louis Wu 03:32:52 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Corpseguy's finished helmet Gamecloud from PAX Even More Montages Now THAT is amazing. LAN Of The Free. And to all, a good night. |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Suffer THIS! Podtacular Ep 5 Rendered Chief WaLKa Montage Preview Bijou? Like the theater? |
