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| It's a good game, aye... | |
| Posted By: stan | Date: 11/15/08 7:12 p.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) And I've always enjoyed it. We've had our ups and downs, Halo and I. I came to Halo relatively early, though at the same time I came to Bungie fairly late. Somehow I heard about the MacWorld vid back in '99 (probably from Gamespot, or maybe even a mention on the board at i82.co.uk). Intrigued by what I saw, and hungry for more info on the game, I searched the internet and eventually ended up here at HBO (where I've been ever since, though that's a different story entirely). Here I learned all about Halo and Bungie and spent many happy hours debating and speculating on what might be in store for us when Bungie finally released the game. So in a sense, I learned about HBO through Halo, and through HBO I learned about Halo. I was a broke college student in 2001, so I couldn't afford an Xbox on release day. That meant no Halo, though I did get my first taste during release week at a local EB Games. It wasn't until four months later, in February 2002, that I finally got enough cash together to purchase an Xbox and Halo. The game was great, just as promised, and I had a blast with it. I didn't have any video game playing friends in college, or at least not xbox playing friends, so I never really experienced Halo:CE multiplayer. Instead, I had to wait until Halo 2 and matchmaking before I could try my Halo hand against other people. Unfortunately, my time on Halo 2 matchmaking only lasted one night. Thanks to that pernicious little auto-update Bungie pushed through on release day and its irrational hunger for modded boxes with larger-than-stock hard drives, the next morning I awoke to a banned XBL account. As a result, that one happy night of Halo matchmaking was all I was allowed for a year and a half, until I cleaned up my box and got a new account. Of course, I'm stupid, so not one week after I got back online with my cleaned up box, I burnt up the GPU with a chunk of stray solder left over from a failed case mod attempt (did I mention I've had an up-and-down relationship with Halo?). So, though I owned Halo, Halo 2, and a working xbox for more than three years I only played a total of perhaps four hours of Halo multiplayer. That all changed with Halo 3, which I bought on release day, and have been playing online ever since. So that's my story. A lot has changed in the seven years since Halo. In that time I've lived in three different cities, attended three different institutes of higher education, moved across the country, bought two cats, developed a taste for seafood, lost religion, had a political conversion, failed to maintain a meaningful relationship (though not for lack of effort), watched as Trey Parker and Matt Stone slowly dipped South Park into the crapper (while our President did the same with the country), learned to play the guitar, rejoiced in the triumphal return of scripted television (god bless you 24!), and realized there's more to Chinese food than chow mein and egg rolls. But, despite all the changes, some things have remained just the same (I'm still a broke college [grad] student) and Halo and HBO are two of them. Yay Halo.
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