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| Halo's social side, it helps with asperges *long* | |
| Posted By: nomis78 <simontodd78@gmail.com> | Date: 11/16/08 11:34 p.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) My first impresson of halo, believe it or not, was rather poor, i passed it up in favour of other games that i had recieved with the xbox when i first got it for christmas one year, i played it once, didnt rate it, and so it sat on the shelve gathering dust for a couple of years, it wasnt untill i was talking to a school friend about games and they mentioned how good a game it was and that it had no way of cheating etc etc (i dont remember the entirity of the conversation but we were moaning about cheating) that i gave it ago from that fresh look with older eyes i was hooked, i played the game through on normal firstly, loving the assault on the beach, the witty one liners in the sections of the levels and things like that. i continued to play, often having games past midnight with my dad completing legendary and trying, (and failing for umpteen times) to beat the library, a level which still haunts me. i then got halo on the pc, and loved the fact i could now take my new obsession to my pc and own even more and compete with legendary again, infact i even went about upgrading my system just to get slightly better graphics. then i took the game online, and that was when it really got its claws in. one of my three all time favourite multiplayer maps, i remember the endless dog fights in the banshees, corkscrewing up and down trying to pin that finishing shot onto each others tails, not daring to type to ask for assistance because it would seal your doom. death island, THE best multiplayer map in my opinion, endless fun whatever vehicle you got your hands on, oh how i wish they would remake thoose two maps. it was around that time i found the Halo centre forums, An old, now defunct site hosted by the ogres.net guys, i made a few friends on there i unfortunately lost touch with when it shut down but the community there was amazing, it was a shame to see it close down. it was when that shut down and i was looking for a new community to take me in i found HBO, i didnt participate at first, that i can remember, but lurked, and check the front page often. and started contributing a few months later, even if it was just the odd word here and there. then later on halo 2 came out, i remember the anticipation of this game with my friends, we all had it on pre order, for some of us it ment camping out at out stores for the midnight special opening to pick up your copy for others it meant waiting for the postman that morning, (for me it ment camping out and then doing a cross town dash for my other back up pre-order because they had handed out my special edition to some chancer.) then going into school the following day to compare notes with friends, exchange tips. i remember the online buildup for halo 2 as well, everyone running hither and thither trying to piece together scraps of information. in fact i remember i went on holday during the hwole ILOVEBEES thing, and i took my laptop especially to try and see if i could decode anything, i had copied the entire site to my hard drive and spent my spare time on the holiday pouring over the source code with what rudimentary knowledge i had. after that participation was slow for a bit for me, i played the game nearly every day untill the release of halo 3, i bought the books, i read the theories, i inspected (and still inspect) the HBO front page every day, every scrap of halo i could feasibly get hold of i did. then halo three comes along, again the anticipation, the scurrying round for clues, allthough i was more an observer this time around, the viral campaign didnt quite catch me the way it did with the ILB situation (even if most of what i thought with the ILB was misguided) still, i contributed here and there, the whole thing with the guy on x-box live and being the primary contact for getting something out of him at first and the whole thing that eventually lead us into getting the number for a halo fan who had a RVB recording on his answering machine. man that was a fiasco, but all in good fun. then with the final release of the game i returned until recently to routine, playing halo when i got chance, allthough my time was more limited know due to greater commitments allthough i still found time to contribute more then i had ever done with screenshots and panoramas etc, after being inspired by other members of the community and deciding to bring my photographic eye (and editing software) into the mix got my panoramas. that brings us up round about to today. i still work on panoramas or other projects for the communities enjoyment now and again (like the one i have starting now) and i still play from time to time. to sum up halo has been a major social outlet for me, now that might sound geeky but, from a shy reserved person, thanks to halo and it inovations and how it makes people come together online, ive become a much more outgoing person, and a much more confident person because of the way it has allowed me to interact with people. Thanks to halo i have managed to overcome one of the greater problems of my asperges to a degree, not entirely, i never will i dont think, but it has taught me to cope better, so to bungie for the last six (ish) years thank you you made a difference to alot of people, but especially to myself. (ps, if anyone wants a game sometime, my handle is the same as on here)
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