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Re: First Day Complete.
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 8/30/11 8:37 p.m.
In Response To: First Day Complete. (Leviathan) : Waking up was terrible. 6 hours of sleep after 48 awake does not help. At : all. : Free breakfast at hotel helps a little. : Meet Kanbo at 8 in line for Anniversary panel. Get awesome HBO shirt. Get to : meet a few other HBO visitors/lurkers as we sight HBO shirts on one : another. : Long wait... : But worth it. Anniversary was great. How they talked about the original and : its evolution into what we're seeing now was very respectful and with : genuine love. : Still not sure about the design of the actual ring.... : But the graphics of 343 Guilty Spark are actually pretty amazing seeing it : move and be played in real time, and in person. The lighting engine that : they've put in seemed like the best lighting I've ever seen in a Halo : game. The Jackal's shields really felt glowing and juicy. The thrusters of : the Pelican scattered blue light across the ship's hull and the tall tree : trunks. The glowing plants threw me off at first, but then as I : investigated them, I really enjoyed how you actually see the energy : surging through the plant, and then reaching its tips. It was great : detail. : I hate 3D movies, but my brief viewing of Halo CE A in 3D was actually pretty : amazing. I was literally ducking to the side as a Jackal shot a charge-up : plasma blast at me. I'm sure I looked stupid. :) The 3D really felt like : something 'new' and an interesting way of re-experiencing an older game. : It's not something that will revolutionize the series, or even something : you'll want to play ALL the time (if you even have the money to afford a : 3D TV - I know I can't afford one) but I think it would allow for a pretty : unique and immersive experience - a great addition to your memories of : Halo. : After the Anniversary panel, I got to meet with Louis Wu and Miguel Chavez : and chat as we wandered over to HaloFest proper. Simply meeting those two : legends have been worth the trip alone. : The HaloFest area is awesome. Super-sad that I can't actually sit in or drive : the Warthog, but oh well. :) The pieces of the Believe Diorama are : beautiful. Seeing the 'explosions' close up is ridiculously cool. New Halo : multiplayer maps are being played all around you at all times and lots of : new items and toys are for sale in their store. They've got a cool Mega : Blocks corner and a Halo timeline (just having ALL the original Halos up : together, almost as a shrine- it's such a simple thing to do but it really : made me happy). Another corner of the area is a smaller theater where the : Halo Community Panel happened. Got to hear stories from lots of cool : community leaders and sit with a number of fellow HBO-ers and cheer on : Louis Wu and chant our community's name! Louis Wu even gave a shot out to : Fistful of Arrows and me, which was pretty freaking cool. Very humbling : (and embarrassing - I think I got very red when they made me stand up! :) : ) : Halo Universe panel was awesome. The two terminals I saw from Anniversary : were ridiculously good and I saw no canon-conflicts that I had heard about : that I could tell. There was a beautiful shot of the Halo rings floating : about the Ark - amazing! Also, we got another glimpse of the Forerunners. : I liked the design of these - Life-Builders (I think). They took the : concept design featured in Legends-Origins and really bulked it up a bit : and detailed it with a lot of realistic touches. I love continuity - : especially continuity that improves upon its predecessor without : overwriting it. : I got to talk to Kevin Grace, the writer of the terminals the night before : and he seemed like a really nice guy and really knew Halo and what he was : talking about. He seemed to care. :) : Nervously shook hands with Marty O'Donnell and Steve Downes. Steve said : "Nice to meet you, Levi." Hearing Master Chief say that to you : is an amazing experience I have to say. :D : Quickly gave a copy of Fistful of Arrows (what's been released anyways) to : Frankie. Also got a copy to Cocopjojo later on. One more to give out! : Dinner with HBO! Got to sit at a table with girlfriend, Kanbo, and Loftus. As : the rest of the group joked and chatted, me and Loftus got down into the : gritty details like scale, measurements, and lots of other fun stuff! It : was awesome. I even got to correct Mr. Loftus on something - hah! (yeah, : yeah he corrected me on like ten other things, so what...) : But that was a lot of fun. I've been wanting to pick his brain for a long, : long time - way before I even started posting here and just read the front : page. : VIP party was MUCH bigger at first, but then it trickled out and I got to : meet a lot of cool people. Vic DeLeon, mission designer from Bungie and : 343i who worked on Halo 2 through Halo 4 gave me a dead zebra, hah. It was : a rare 3d print he made of the zebra model from Uplift Reserve (which he : worked on). It was awesome, and I got to talk to him for a bit - turns out : he designed a LOT of my favorite bits of the Halo series! Also got to : briefly talk to Johnny O'than, Urk, Dan Miller, and many members of the : community. : Got to see Frankie give Claude 'Louis' Errera a "Claude Errera" : award. Apparently it's the start of a new tradition of 343i, to give such : an award to an outstanding member of the community. And he definitely : deserves it AND such a legacy. He's an awesome dude. :) : And that's just the first day. Now I shall collapse. (Photos will come after : the trip!) Still going on about correcting me. :P I told you...I have a 576 page Word doc so I don't HAVE to remember everything. :) Chatting with you was one of the highlights of HaloFest for me. Great writeup, had a blast hanging out with you and your girlfriend. She's way cool, by the way. :) Once I heard the award was the Claude Errera Award, I figured I knew who was probably going to get it.

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First Day Complete.	Leviathan	8/27/11 2:12 a.m.
Re: First Day Complete.	necro2607	8/27/11 2:32 a.m.
Sounds awesome, thanks for the recap. *NM*	Sqorck	8/27/11 2:51 a.m.
Fantastic writeup dude *NM*	Dubbl3.utoo	8/27/11 2:54 a.m.
Re: First Day Complete.	mattroe	8/27/11 5:39 a.m.
So.... Exhausted...	padraig08	8/27/11 5:57 a.m.
Re: So.... Exhausted...	SonofMacPhisto	8/27/11 12:04 p.m.
Re: So.... Exhausted...	Louis Wu	8/27/11 12:26 p.m.
Re: So.... Exhausted...	Devin Olsen	8/29/11 8:58 p.m.
Re: So.... Exhausted...	Narcogen	8/29/11 9:37 p.m.
what happens at PAX, stays at PAX *NM*	rglass	8/29/11 10:08 p.m.
^ A truer statement has never been said. *NM*	NsU Soldier	8/30/11 3:38 a.m.
Re: So.... Exhausted...	Devin Olsen	8/30/11 1:47 a.m.
Re: First Day Complete.	DEEP NNN	8/27/11 9:16 a.m.
Levi:world's most intresting man	jo	8/27/11 11:08 a.m.
Great writeup. :D	AngelicLionheart	8/30/11 6:04 p.m.
Re: First Day Complete.	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	8/30/11 8:37 p.m.