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Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
Posted By: DirkGently <sevenisdarker@gmail.com> | Date: 11/18/08 12:50 a.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) I remember first seeing a copy of Halo at our local Blockbuster, way back when, shortly after my twelfth birthday. My dad pointed it out, calling me over from my examining of the PS2 section. "Hey," he says, "doesn't this look interesting." "Yeah," I said, "it does look pretty cool." Little did I know that our little winter trip to Blockbuster would be what led me to who I am today and what I'm majoring in at college now. That year for Christmas I got a Xbox with a copy of Halo: Combat Evolved. I set it up and popped it in and I was instantly hooked. I played it constantly, lapping up the little details I missed on my previous playthrough. I remember the fun of exploring Halo, sneaking about under Truth and Reconciliation, getting lost in Truth and Reconciliation. Storming the beaches of the Silent Cartographer, playing in the on my way to the Control Room. Getting scared out of my pants during 343 Guilty Spark (I am still scared at the sound of a VCR rewinding or fast forwarding), blasting my through the Library, jumping into goop in Keyes, walking into big glowly lights to stop the lightbulb, and blowing up a ring by blowing a ship with a rocket launcher, and running away from it all in a warthog. So many memorable quotes, from Marines going "Woohoo" as you jumped rocks and hills, to Wort Wort Wort!, to our wonderful one-lining, always-appearing-where-you-don't-expect-him-to-because-he-died-in-the-last-level Sniper Sargent. The grunts fleeing, shouting about food nipples, and to being told that "They call it Halo" and that "This cave isn't a natural formation." Let me withdraw myself from nostalgia lane and talk about the now. Getting Halo (and the xbox to play it on) that year for Christmas is what I can trace back to being to the first thing that lead me to wanting to make video games. Halo itself isn't the game that made me want to make games. Marathon is, but if it wasn't for Halo I wouldn't have ever found out about Marathon. Or a lot of things for that matter. The Fall Of Reach is what got me into reading science fiction. And watching, as well. Shortly after playing co-op with a friend, he lent me a copy of Aliens. And, subsequently, the entire series as well as the Predator films. I'm sure there's more I could write, but I'm a bit tired and worried I'm getting a weebit incoherent. And I've got class in the morning anyway.
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