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| Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
| Posted By: Blackstar <blackstar601@gmail.com> | Date: 11/15/08 5:04 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Halo - a look back over seven years (Stuntmutt) : See, when I first played Halo, I wasn't that impressed. It was actually THIS : place that hooked me in and made me stick around for years. Seeing what : people were doing with the game that it wasn't supposed to do - the tricks : like Randall's warthog jump. Bj0rK's hacking and shooting a dropship down : with a pistol. Whoever made the Body Movin' dance video. Then I tried to : get involved myself and managed to fulfill a childhood fantasy - making a : comic strip. I got to meet and make good friends. In this country, in the : US and even in Khazakstan. Like Jill, I got invited to travel the world : and stay in people's homes just through a video game. And best of all, I : got to invent bacon-metal. Here's to Halo, sure. But the biggest shout to : HBO. I know how you feel. My first experience with it was playing it for that Khazakstan guy because he could not come and get the game and xbox til Christmas. So I had to play it and describe it to him over the phone. At the time, I was not that impressed either. I made it to the warthog and after 2 or 3 times falling off of cliffs I gave up. Even all through Christmas just watching that crazy Khazak play through it, I felt I was not that interested. Then he took it away. Then something weird happened. I missed it. Watching him play and seeing how much he enjoyed it and constantly talking about it got me more and more curious. I started feeling withdrawal. My 'first-one-is-always-free' taste of it lingered and finally I picked up Halo and an Xbox for myself as an early birthday present. After a while, I really began to enjoy it and then I was introduced to this online place. Then came Warthog Jump and everything changed. I loved it. I dubbed it to tape and brought it to work to torture co-workers with it. I saw how much everyone here loved it and I thought to myself... I can edit a halo video together. After 2 weeks of capturing and editing clips Halo: The Movie was born. And after that came 3 more. Then feedback from this place was overwhelming. People loved them. My email box was flooded for a long time to come and I got to converse with some really fantastic people. It felt great being able to contribute and bring a little joy to this community. This all lead to out of state and local Halo LANs, making original highlight videos, creating pictures and posters and helping with cartoons. Getting video projectors just to play on bigger screens and endless talking in IRC groups. Eventually even MS marketing asked me to burn them a DVD copy of my videos to show at a "1 Million Halo Copies" sold party in San Francisco. As a thank you they sent me every game Microsoft made for the xbox. How cool is that? Then came the hack of Halo gameplay online using a computer as a bridge. This was the pre-cursor to Xbox LIVE. It was crude and problematic but you did not care because when it worked it brought a whole new dynamic. More gameplay and endless video making opportunities. (Not to mention being introduced to my first 'tea-bagging' by a 13 year old girl in California.) Watching the old LAN vids and pictures brings it all back. All the laughs, the goofs, the betrayals and the triumphs. The long days, the long nights. The long games and the long drives. The first handshakes and the high fives. The impossible odds and the impossible shots. And even the sad endings, when all you could think about was when the next one would be. All made possible by a very special group of people and made unforgettable by a fantastic group of fans. Thank you to everyone. And thank you Narc, for showing me that 'really cool game' trailer.
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