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Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
Posted By: maxthehedgie <tjboz@comcast.net> | Date: 11/16/08 8:48 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! My first encounter with Halo was when it first came out on the Xbox. I didn't even know what it was. I was in a Sam's Club store and they had an Xbox in their electronics section. I picked up the controller (I was facing the cliff wall at the beginning of the "Halo" mission, but I didn't know it then). Had I know that there was a force of Covenant coming down the hill, I wouldn't have been button-mashing a spinning in circles. I was terrified- like my heart was thumping in my chest- when an Elite came up and meleed me in the side of the head. I was pretty young then, back when that sort of stuff could freak me out. You know, for a kid who was used to playing Kirby, it was pretty jarring. At that point, I ditched and ran back to my mom. The next time I saw that game was at my friends house, when he came back from Blockbuster with Halo. I still didn't know what it was, at tha point. He stuck it into his Xbox and we watched the opening cutscene. I have t say, I was impressed by the detail. I'd never seen anything so beautful in my life. I swear, the younger you are, the lower the level of detail you accept as realistic. I felt like I was ON Halo. Anyway, he played to the middle of the second mission before we left and did something else. The next time was when I downloaded the one-level, one-multiplayer-map demo for Halo PC. I played Silent Cartographer so many times that it's officially my best Halo 1 mission. I still suck in close combat on Blood Gulch, but my flag-capture method is tried and true. After that, I wanted more. Eventually, I borrowed a copy of the full game from one of my buddies and then I bought my own. Playing through the campaign was the most incredible experience. I loved it. After that, I downloaded Halo: Custom Edition and have been using that exclusively ever since, considering the awesome custom maps people have made. Kudos to you, Halo CE community, you guys rock! Not once during all of this did I ever have an Xbox, nor do I now. After I beat Halo, I waited and waited, since I was hooked. When I heard about Halo 2, I was on the edge of my seat with anticipation. It was almost a year after Halo 2's release that i even got to play it and I've never had a chance to play the whole thing through from start to finish. When Halo 3 came out, I got the Legendary Edition for my birthday, helmet et cetera, but I still didn't have an Xbox, or, rather, a 360. What kept me interested between games, in spite of my lacking the necessary hardware, was the story. I'm an author by nature; I'm at the top of my English and literature classes; Halo's story is wonderful. It's no great exaggeration to say that Halo did for video games what Star Wars did for movies. The mystery of the Forerunners was especially amazing. I ended up writing a fan fiction over 300 pages long. I never finished it, though. I dunno, it might be crap. When I finally played Halo 3, it was on a 3-day weekend where I borrowed my friend's 360. The wait was worth it. Man, I don't think I've done the epic nature of Halo as much justice as I indended, but I hope I came close. If I could get a 360, then I'd be looking even more forward to Halo Wars, Halo 3: Recon, and the Peter Jackson project. We'll see what happens. Celebrate the power of 7, friends
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