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Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
Posted By: Ibeechu | Date: 11/15/08 1:09 p.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) : http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=24503 : Give us what you got! I first got Comcast... must have been in 2002 or very early 2003. Along with it came G4 (before it sucked). On nearly every show - Pulse, Judgment Day, G4TV.com, EP, Filter, and numerous others, people kept mentioning, and comparing new games to, Halo. I'd never heard of it because all I had at the time were Nintendo consoles, and the only gaming magazine I got was Nintendo Power. But, I really wanted an Xbox, so I got one for Christmas 2003. A few weeks later, i was at the video store and decided to rent this apparently great game. When I booted it up, right at the main menu, with the spinning ring and the ethereal chanting, I knew that this was going to be a great game. However, I got stuck on the first level (the bit where you're supposed to go into the maintenance corridors. I couldn't find the fucking door) and I got frustrated, and didn't play it again. A few weeks after that, I was at Best Buy, and saw Halo there for about 30 bucks. I decided to give it another go. This time, I played it all the way through, and got way into the series. I learned everything I could about the backstory, about the upcoming Halo 2, I read the books, got active at B.net, etc. I can't say anything about Halo that hasn't been said in the past seven years. It was the killer app for the Xbox, it broke brand new ground in first person shooters, and showed that an FPS CAN have an amazing story. As far as I'm concerned, the Halo series is the best series of all time. I've never played a video game that ever filled me with such emotion as Halo 1, 2, and especially 3. Halo was Bungie's Hamlet or Lear. If Halo were a woman, I'd fuck it.
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