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Re: Serious soldiering
Posted By: ocean fx <kobayashimaru_@hotmail.com>Date: 6/23/07 9:48 a.m.

In Response To: Serious soldiering (Rockslider)


: Er, I think you've slightly flown off the handle here, as if you think I've
: been saying everyone should play very cautiously and deadly serious -
: which I haven't of course. No indeedy. At the monument of trigger-happy
: incoherence known as Bad Cyborg we're all-embracing and anti-elitist. You
: may also have missed the playful tone of good humour in what I was saying
: about some of Mike's fighting in Legend, where I wantonly overlooked all
: the bits where he's maybe in proper control (i.e. not down to two bars of
: health with shield bleeping and wading into yet more trouble). I think
: Mike will readily admit that portions of that play are deliberately
: gung-ho for the sake of exhuberant video spectacle. I was just recalling
: the bits that made the most vivid impression on me. But I think I now also
: recall a lot of nice 'stun and tag' moves, which were nice to see and made
: me feel more comfortable.

: I'd say it's when you're properly in control, using your weapons well, and
: (in regard to the 'serious' part) trying to maintain a decent margin of
: safety, in line with what you'd want to be doing in real life. It's a
: natural attitude to take if you're into treating things like they're real
: - which is what I personally like to do. Some players may have more of a
: 'videogaming' mentality in which they're not too concerned about dying,
: because reanimation is just part of the gameplay for them. Fine by me;
: each to his or her own. I could enjoy watching some knockabout stuff for
: fun, but it's some way removed from the stuff I'm really interested in.

: Cough splutter! Or, in Elvish for extra incoherence, cooflienabli
: splootaklipnia! Hey, now I remember you; you're the guy that rumbled me
: last year by pointing out that half of what I say is unintelligible. And
: I'm still at it? Dang. I though I'd got the unintelligibility down to
: about 30% by now, but some things never change eh? Well, stick around a
: while and who knows, I may even get around to giving the site the full
: works. Screenshots, movies, interactive Java-Grunts you can prod with a
: stick ("Ooh!"... "Ahh!"... "Eee!"...
: "Stop poking me!"...), and goodness knows what else, to help
: knock some comprehensibility into the place. Could be fun.

I'm surprised and...somewhat impressed that you remember that. Yeah, it's always bugged me that your site didn't have many descriptors or pictures to help the reader along. I must say, you actually have started writing the site clearer--my issue was that back in the day, you would use a lot of non-official names to refer to places and things, as if they were accepted terms, and it got me lost a lot. So I stopped reading.

But now you've got me interested again. I'd like to play some megabattles and vidcap them. D'you want me to send the captures your way? I would love to see a "megabattle montage" or something similar happen, and I'm offering to help--if you like the idea.

Anyhow. On the issue of how to play, I'm exactly the opposite. I like to...well...play! I treat most encounters as if I had unlimited lives and fight accordingly--because I can respawn anytime I want. And that's one of the things I enjoy most about Halo is that it supports so many different styles of play. Sorry. I took exception to the way you described your own style, and I sniffed a bit of elitist sentiment. I was wrong.

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Kill 'em all speed runsRockslider 6/20/07 12:34 p.m.
     Re: Kill 'em all speed runsDucain 6/20/07 4:08 p.m.
           Re: Kill 'em all speed runsRockslider 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 runsCody Miller 6/20/07 4:56 p.m.
           Re: Kill 'em all speed runsRockslider 6/20/07 8:16 p.m.
           Re: Kill 'em all speed runsSlith 6/20/07 8:35 p.m.
                 Re: Kill 'em all speed runsRockslider 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 runsmike miller 6/21/07 3:12 a.m.
           Re: Kill 'em all speed runsDucain 6/21/07 7:18 a.m.
           Some old gameRockslider 6/21/07 12:25 p.m.
                 Re: Some old gamescarab 6/22/07 1:35 a.m.
                 Re: Some old gameThorsHammer 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 runsocean fx 6/22/07 6:34 a.m.
           Serious soldieringRockslider 6/22/07 3:57 p.m.
                 Re: Serious soldieringocean fx 6/23/07 9:48 a.m.
                       Movie-making advice requestedRockslider 6/23/07 5:49 p.m.
                             Re: Movie-making advice requestedRed_Breast 6/24/07 4:13 p.m.
                                   Re: Movie-making advice requestedRockslider 6/25/07 4:59 p.m.



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