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Sunday, October 2, 2005 |  |
Metal Gear Solid (Halo Style)
Wow. Jamie98s has put up a bunch of movies over the last four months - but this one might be my favorite. It's called Metal Gear Solid, and it's (as might be expected) a story starring Solid Snake, from the MGS series. Jamie's plot description: "Solid Snake is deployed to a secret miltary base to disarm a nuclear warhead and destroy a top secret project known as Metal Gear." Audio is from MGS, video is all Halo (with a few special effects thrown in). Fantastic job - simply fantastic. It's rather large (107 mb in WMP9 format, 100 mb in QuickTime format), because it's rather long (32 and a half minutes), so we're starting it off as a BitTorrent download. You can grab the WMP9 torrent or the QT one - your choice. We're also providing quite a bit of seed bandwidth (2000 kB/sec per torrent), so downloads should be speedy, and should STAY speedy if early downloaders leave BitTorrent open after they've gotten a copy. In a day or two, we'll provide direct download links, as well, for folks who can't handle BT. Enjoy it - I sure did. (Louis Wu 22:17:16 UTC) (permalink)
More Elnea Artwork
Elnea has been sketching up a storm since the data loss suffered by Red vs Blue a couple of days ago - there are two new sketches (one is an early version of a piece of artwork already in the collection, the other is crash-related)... and while you're there, there's couple of new avatars at the end of the Avatar section. Nice stuff! (Louis Wu 20:56:59 UTC) (permalink)
Matchmaking Playlist Weightings
Sith went through the current playlists, and broke out the weightings for maps and gametypes on each one. Interesting data! (Louis Wu 20:30:43 UTC) (permalink)
Gamespot's Best Launch Titles
Gamespot has put up a new article on the Best Launch Titles of all time - and Halo makes the list (at number 5). They had really nice things to say about the game:
With Halo, [Bungie] accomplished the rarest of feats: It broke through to a new audience in the biggest way imaginable and set an extremely high standard for subsequent Xbox games. Halo's influence is undeniable. The game might have seemed derivative at first glance, but its numerous subtle innovations have been borrowed by countless other games since.
I'd agree with that... thanks, prometheus. (Louis Wu 16:07:31 UTC) (permalink)
Kickin' it, old-school.
So last night, Ducain pointed out a post he'd made over at High Impact Halo, giving props to WLT, a trickster who managed to put not one, but TWO hogs on top of one of the Blue Beam towers in the level Halo... along with himself. It's one of those totally useless, totally amazing tricks that just makes you want to giggle. We're hosting copies of the film, to save on WLT's bandwidth - you can grab the vid in its original WMP9 format (18.9 mb) or a re-encoded QuickTime (19.3 mb). Halo is nearly 4 years old. Halo 2 is almost a year old. And there are STILL people spending inordinate amounts of time setting up, and executing, new demonstrations of Halo physics fun. (Louis Wu 15:30:39 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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Lost the Lead Promo MLG Goodies Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. I'm a GOOD guy! I Love Bees, Reordered - Parts 11, 12, and Afterword I didn't know Voltron drank coffee... |
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