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Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1
Posted By: Jamirus99 <jamirus9@bestweb.net>	Date: 5/16/03 6:13 a.m.
In Response To: Bungie Fanfest Update #1 (Shishka) : Ha ha! I got to it first! : The fanfest was a blazing success. And by blazing, I mean ninja's on fire. : I'm gonna keep it short, because I wanna put the pictures I've taken in and : make a full size article for you all. However, keep in mind. Short is a : relative term. : The first thing that happened was Alta, the Bungie Princess, led the group I : was with through the roped off E3 expo floor, straight to the Halo 2 : theater, where Jaime demonstrated Halo 2 for us again. Keep in mind, this : is a live, realtime demo, only the cutscenes at the beginning and end are : fully scripted. Simply put, what I saw then was a bit different from what : I saw yesterday, which was slightly different from the stuff you guys have : downloaded from the Microsoft press conference. After the demo, we were : given a gift bag, with a magazine, a load of stickers, and a miniature : Master Chief. There are only 250 of these little guys in existance. : Fanfesters have 200 of them, I assume the other 50 go to Bungie. : After that, I went and did a bit of mingling. I met up with Miguel, who : introduced me to CYBRFRK, who introduced me to Louis Wu. I also met up : with Cunbelin, R.G., and several others that you've met around here. : During the mingling, a Halo documentary played, along with the entire Red vs : Blue collection, including the seventh episode (comedy gold!), which I : believe hasn't been posted online yet. : After that, questions from online and by fanfest attendants were answered : (well, most of them) to the best of Bungie's ability. Don't expect to hear : any straight-forward answers about Halo 2. : After that, we got to see the 3 videos made by the finalists for the Biggest : Halo Fan contest. The winner was the Red vs Blue public service : announcement. The other two were definitely good, though. I'm sure you'll : see them soon enough. : Next, came the Bungie trivia contest. An impressive amount of fan knowledge : was displayed, but in the end there could be only one. : Jen Taylor, the voice talent behind Cortana, read the questions for the Q&A : session, then after that went in front of the theater and signed : autographs. I must say, she rocks. She's very cool. : After that, Jaime told me he was showing an "alternate" showing of : the Halo 2 demo. What this meant basically was that instead of going : straight through the demo as he had been doing for the last two days, he : fooled around a little. For example, he threw a grenade into the medic : tent you pass by early in the game. He also shot the helmet off of a : marine medic. He manned a gun turret, and started firing at a civilian : car, which exploded. Then, he continued to fire, and rolled the wreckage : of the car down the street a ways. He spent some time basically shooting : the hell out of things, he also went up to read close to the signs so we : could read the words on them. At the scene where you cut off the wraith in : the warthog, and shoot it with the grenade launcher, he continually shot : it with the grenade launcher, and the constant impacts combined with the : original forward motion of the wraith essentially kept it up in the air : until he was done shooting it. He also shot at the other warthog. It : appeared to be invincible. Warthog jumping may in fact live on. However, : and I was given direct command by Jaime himself, I am supposed to tell you : this part of the demo. After he stole the ghost (by the way, yes, you push : a button to jump onto a vehicle, and until you push something else, you'll : just hang out on the front of the vehicle. The Brute turned the ghost : around, and slowed it down, presumabely to give the other nearby brutes a : chance to attack you), he got out, which confused the AI (which expects : you to fight a little, and then run off to complete the scene), and went : to the other brute controlled ghost, which was just floating there. There, : he shot the wings off the sides. : One more time. : You can cause damage to vehicles. : The night ended with a prize raffle, a lot of stuff, from shirts, to Seventh : Column mugs, to the Fall of Reach and Flood books (my best friend got the : only copy of FoR that was signed by Nylund himself), to XBox Live kits and : currently unreleased colored XBox controllers. : This, of course, is leaving out the fact that Halo PC was being played at its : E3 booth, and many of the XBox booths had been converted to playing Halo. : There was a lot of Halo going on. The people on Halo PC got to try the new : levels, the warthog with a grenade launcher, and Banshee's in multiplayer. : The others had good ole classic Halo multiplayer, with really nice plasma : screens. Indeed, it was a night to remember for us all. : I'm gonna close it up now, but I'll answer any questions to the best of my : ability, but expect more in depth news from myself and other fanfest : attendants in the near future. : -S Wow shishka, lucky you! You played Halo 2! I really liked your summary, and wish I could be there myself. My question: have you heard about whether the marine AI will be driving on set paths- that would suck.

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Message Index

Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Shishka	5/16/03 3:57 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Neo Alucard X	5/16/03 4:40 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Adam Daniel	5/16/03 11:37 a.m.
Marines and Warthogs	Shishka	5/16/03 11:49 a.m.
Re: Marines and Warthogs	Red Loser	5/16/03 10:07 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Electric Monk	5/16/03 5:02 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Ross Mills	5/16/03 5:10 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Electric Monk	5/16/03 5:33 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Ross Mills	5/16/03 5:36 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Electric Monk	5/16/03 5:48 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	BOLL	5/16/03 6:11 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Jamirus99	5/16/03 6:13 a.m.
Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Skeletor	5/16/03 7:31 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Electric Monk	5/16/03 8:55 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Gwilym	5/16/03 10:25 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Skeletor	5/16/03 5:14 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Djof (Still in CA)	5/18/03 3:03 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Red Loser	5/16/03 10:05 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #2	Oso	5/18/03 5:01 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	CYBRFRK	5/16/03 12:38 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Shishka	5/16/03 12:54 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Sledgefare	5/16/03 2:06 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Shishka	5/16/03 9:14 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	SketchFactor	5/19/03 1:38 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Djof (Still in CA)	5/18/03 2:59 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	mehve	5/18/03 4:00 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Fearless Son	5/18/03 1:49 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Djof (Still in CA)	5/18/03 9:05 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Djof (Still in CA)	5/18/03 9:03 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Cunbelin	5/19/03 5:33 a.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Kevin	5/18/03 12:42 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	gspawn	5/18/03 12:54 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Shishka	5/18/03 5:10 p.m.
Re: Bungie Fanfest Update #1	Erick	5/18/03 1:57 p.m.
RG's mini Fanfest report	R.G.	5/19/03 4:09 a.m.
wow r-who? :) nm	vshields ash	5/19/03 4:37 a.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	Jamirus99	5/19/03 6:05 a.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	Louis Wu	5/19/03 9:47 a.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	CYBRFRK	5/19/03 10:24 a.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	Miguel Chavez	5/19/03 11:47 a.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	Louis Wu	5/19/03 12:25 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	SketchFactor	5/19/03 1:41 p.m.
LOL - Ooh tell more! *NM*	Ross Mills	5/19/03 2:20 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	CYBRFRK	5/19/03 2:20 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	CYBRFRK	5/19/03 3:20 p.m.
:-)	Miguel Chavez	5/19/03 3:26 p.m.
;-)	mnemesis	5/19/03 3:31 p.m.
Re: ;-)	deanero	5/19/03 3:38 p.m.
Camper defined	Miguel Chavez	5/19/03 4:34 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	deanero	5/19/03 4:48 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	mnemesis	5/19/03 5:08 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	deanero	5/19/03 5:19 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	Miguel Chavez	5/19/03 9:41 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	mnemesis	5/20/03 12:25 a.m.
Re: Camper defined	CYBRFRK	5/20/03 12:41 a.m.
Re: Camper defined	Fearless Son	5/21/03 4:13 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	CYBRFRK	5/21/03 5:00 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	Miguel Chavez	5/22/03 12:41 a.m.
Re: Camper defined	biomonky	5/21/03 9:47 p.m.
Re: Camper defined	Miguel Chavez	5/22/03 12:42 a.m.
Re: ;-)	CYBRFRK	5/19/03 4:47 p.m.
Re: :-)	c0ld vengeance	5/19/03 3:33 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	Shishka	5/19/03 11:54 a.m.
For the record...	deanero	5/19/03 3:11 p.m.
Re: For the record...	CYBRFRK	5/19/03 3:33 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	mehve	5/19/03 5:57 p.m.
Re: RG's mini Fanfest report	R.G.	5/19/03 6:59 p.m.
I'm back..finally.	Warbow	5/19/03 10:46 a.m.
Re: I'm back..finally.	Louis Wu	5/19/03 10:53 a.m.
Re: I'm back..finally.	Warbow	5/19/03 10:59 a.m.
Re: I'm back..finally.	CYBRFRK	5/20/03 12:39 a.m.