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Re: Some old game
Posted By: ThorsHammer <Nate4D@comcast.net>	Date: 6/22/07 3:04 a.m.
In Response To: Some old game (Rockslider) [snip] : Heh, here's where I cautiously admit that your Legend video was one of the : main ones I was thinking of when I talked about bleeping shields and : near-death experiences (and arrrgh!... action ruined by pesky music : drowning out the sounds of battle). Someone recommended it when I said I : was interested in seeing some hot combat. Well, I guess it was hot, in : the sense that you seemed to be almost continuously in the frying pan as : far as I can recall; but that wasn't quite the sort of 'hot' I was looking : for. Still, you did give the covies a nasty time of things while you were : busy toying with the afterlife, which at least is one thing I'm all in : favour of. : I'm guessing that actually there probably were some nice bits of combat : mixed in there that I've forgotten about, but my overriding memory is one : of shrinking back in my chair and peeking through my hands to check : whether you were still breathing. I was in a public library at the time, : and it's quite possible that people around me thought I was watching a : slasher movie or something. Which might actually have been less rattling : now I come to think of it. I needed some time to recover... : I'm not quite sure whether you were alluding there to my 'Reality rule' about : getting through without dying, or whether you just meant to imply that in : general play, you don't always hold back just for the sake of playing as : safe as possible. Probably the latter I'm guessing. Either way, what you : said gave me an involuntary chuckle, because 'not dying' seems like goal : number one to me! : Sure. I enjoy a bit of 'blitzing' as I'd call it; close-range fighting where : you're in control. That's especially relevant for a speed run where it's : obviously in your interests to push hard and sail as close to the wind as : you dare. On a point of termininology (not that either of us has : necessarily been misusing it), 'gung-ho' ought to be reserved for : describing close-range stuff where you're really taking a bad risk. : Blitzing good, gung-ho not so good. I have to say that Mike's Legend videos (and also his vid of Belly of the Beast) made me a much better Legendary player. At first, when I saw them, I was just like 'whoa. The man's not human.' When I started to try adapting his techniques, though, I discovered that in general, they did make Legendary easier to handle (as well as making your play way more fun to watch). I was never anywhere near as good at the style as Mike was (still is? dunno how much he's been doing while I've been out of it). I just wanted to point out that my Legendary playstyle improved massively from watching them. It worked better _and_ was more fun to watch - a win/win if I ever saw one. Although I think he's right in saying that it's harder to do this stuff in Halo 2, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have made it through H2's Legendary mode if it weren't for the fundamentally more aggressive approach I learned from him. I guess, really, I'm saying, 'Just vid it - with style.' -Nate

WHY did you do that?

Message Index

Kill 'em all speed runs	Rockslider	6/20/07 12:34 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Ducain	6/20/07 4:08 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Rockslider	6/20/07 8:26 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs...hmm...	vshields ash	6/20/07 4:46 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs...hmm...	Rockslider	6/20/07 8:36 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Cody Miller	6/20/07 4:56 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Rockslider	6/20/07 8:16 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Slith	6/20/07 8:35 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Rockslider	6/21/07 12:32 p.m.
How many Flood in the Library?	Rockslider	6/21/07 6:23 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	mike miller	6/21/07 3:12 a.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	Ducain	6/21/07 7:18 a.m.
Some old game	Rockslider	6/21/07 12:25 p.m.
Re: Some old game	scarab	6/22/07 1:35 a.m.
Re: Some old game	ThorsHammer	6/22/07 3:04 a.m.
Hey Mike...	Rockslider	6/22/07 3:50 p.m.
Re: Hey Mike...	Louis Wu	6/22/07 7:05 p.m.
Re: Kill 'em all speed runs	ocean fx	6/22/07 6:34 a.m.
Serious soldiering	Rockslider	6/22/07 3:57 p.m.
Re: Serious soldiering	ocean fx	6/23/07 9:48 a.m.
Movie-making advice requested	Rockslider	6/23/07 5:49 p.m.
Re: Movie-making advice requested	Red_Breast	6/24/07 4:13 p.m.
Re: Movie-making advice requested	Rockslider	6/25/07 4:59 p.m.