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Halo Dialogue Statistics, from the source
So recently, we've been getting a lot of email asking for information about the lines of dialogue recorded for each of the three Halo games; it's unclear to me whether there's a trivia contest going on somewhere, or if everyone just had the same idea at the same time. Either way, it seemed prudent to check with the only folks that could say for sure - the Bungie audio crew. Jay Weinland has all the files on his hard drive, so it was easy enough to look at stats:
- Halo: 8,087 files produced
- Halo 2: 21,090 files produced
- Halo 3: 39,377 files produced
These numbers include alien speech, such as Jackals, Hunters, etc. And Marty wanted to clarify that not all of these are actually triggerable - the numbers that you actually have a chance of hearing are 15-20% below those numbers. Still, even if you can only hear 32,000 of them... 40,000 lines recorded for Halo 3. Wow. (Thanks, guys.) (Louis Wu 21:09:43 UTC) (permalink)
Landing Strip.
Stuntmutt takes a shot at some non-player characters in today's One One Se7en... blame Max. (Louis Wu 18:24:54 UTC) (permalink)
From release to dissolution in five months
Ouch. Looks like the Hired Gun team (the guys who ported Halo 2 to Windows Vista) no longer exists. Not sure what that means for future support of the game... thanks, rapture. (Louis Wu 18:13:38 UTC) (permalink)
Blue Realm Wearable Helmet
BARBARIC_RAGE commissioned a wearable helmet from Devin White's Blue Realm Studios - the end result is gorgeous. Check it out. (Louis Wu 17:38:24 UTC) (permalink)
Custom-painted Legendary Helmet
Very cool. BARBARIC_RAGE found a truly Legendary Edition of Halo 3; it's just like the one you can buy at the store (has sealed game disc/sealed Essentials discs/original packaging)... except that the helmet is custom-painted and battle-scarred. Really nice paint job, too. The eBay Auction ends in about 3 and a half days... figure out what you're willing so spend on this and get to bidding! (Louis Wu 17:04:20 UTC) (permalink)
What you gon' do with all that junk?
Indutiomarus reminded us that Halo3.Junk.ws is now live, and accepting new members. This was one of the most useful (and long-lasting) stats sites for Halo 2, and now they're back with stats aggregation for Halo 3. Add your gamertag, and keep track of lots of statistics you never knew you cared about! (Louis Wu 15:40:38 UTC) (permalink)
Pumpkin Voting Ends Today!
A quick reminder: voting will end today for the 2007 Guilt O' Lantern pumpkin carving contest. If you haven't voted yet, do it today... because at midnight (Eastern Time), voting will be offline! We'll tabulate the results and post the winners either tomorrow or Wednesday. (Louis Wu 13:30:37 UTC) (permalink)
Interview with a Faceplate Designer
Hawty McBloggy has posted an interview with SpaceGhost2K, a guy who creates very cool custom faceplates for Xbox 360s. A bunch of the shots in the interview show off his Halo-related work - but he's got amazing stuff in a LOT of genres. Go look! (Louis Wu 13:11:12 UTC) (permalink)
Reclaimer: Chapter One, Part Seven - Will
TTL Demag0gue is up early, with a new episode of The Reclaimer - it's a look at a basic human instinct. (Louis Wu 11:00:34 UTC) (permalink)
Make your own targets.
sorahn found a site that allows high-quality vectorization of bitmap images (man, I remember when you had to PAY for programs that did that!), and immediately put it to use vectorizing the popup targets from The Pit. Pretty! (EPS files available, for folks who want to populate their OWN shooting galleries.) (Louis Wu 10:56:56 UTC) (permalink)
Posterboard turret
gunluva whipped out a posterboard machine gun turret yesterday - not bad for 30 minutes work! (Louis Wu 10:54:24 UTC) (permalink)
Podtacular 134
Big Goalie Dan stopped by to point out that Podtacular 134 is now up - and hour and 22 minutes long, 40 mb large, and full of tales from the foxholes. Go listen! (Louis Wu 10:50:51 UTC) (permalink)
The Waiting Game
After a very long hiatus, Mister Froggy is back with a new episode of Halo, Articulated, skewering Marvel Comics for the delays over the Halo comic book. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 10:47:37 UTC) (permalink)
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