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| Why what you feel is right...and why it will fade | |
| Posted By: Jamirus99 <Jamirus99@gmail.com> | Date: 11/18/04 2:54 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: My Thursday morning BBQ (just add flames) *lon (Ducain) : Man, you guys simply rock. This is exactly why I love HBO. Thank God for
: I appreciate all the opinions, and actually you've brought out some things
: However, at least one of you could have flamed me. I mean, I had the suit
: 8) : JH < Wewt. We do rock. :) When I read your original post I was ready to jump in and agree with you...I have not finished the game yet (starting on Legendary will do that to you) but I know how it ends. However, after reading Sep7's post, I find that he's absolutely right. (That is to say, you both make valid points that I'm going to use as a springboard) Think about it. What is happening now is a transition. It will be painful, perhaps emotionally painful even, to some people, as they realize that they aren't playing the same game. And really, it's a good thing that Halo 2 is not like Halo. I can't tell you how many times during Cairo Station, I just wanted to throw down the controller, save and quit, and begin playing on Easy. My problem was simple: I never played the original Halo on anything but Legendary. In the beginning it was stubbornness, but I came to love the challenge, and I think I got to a point where I was so comfortable with Legendary that I began to take it for granted. To think it was easy. Why? These were levels I knew, enemies that I knew. So, when I first started playing Halo 2, the very first encounter with enemies I found easy. Think about it: I had a battle rifle and marines. This game was going to be easy. I had forgotten that when I first played Legendary it took me more than an hour to get beyond the stairs in Pillar of Autumn. Indeed, the first time I got to a challenge (the part where the Covenant come out of their boarding craft in waves; where you first get to use grenades) I was massacred. I was treating this new game like it was Halo...with dual wielding and new tasty guns. Getting past that first boarding craft took me an hour, as I learned how to dual wield properly, how to use the marines' prescence to my advantage, and how to stand in the face of fire. The second boarding craft took me even longer. My point is this: a lot of people are on overdrive. They're playing Halo 2 like it was Halo 1. They have opinions of the first game: walls to be broken. They had anticipation for the second game: they've already beaten the game and gotten into the mindset that it was crap/spectacular. Ducain, you've fallen into that hole, along with many other people here, including me. Sure, I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm already judging the storyline and gameplay. Why the hell do the grenades now have a blast radius of -1 feet? Why is the battle rifle useless against hunters? Erm...I was supposed to be making my point. My point is we're going too fast. The real discoveries, beyond all these out of the level escapades, these skulls, these sword glitches, will be in the storyline and actual levels. Sep7 had the right idea with Silent Cartographer: we're definitely going to find that we're not as restricted as we thought. We'll learn to think outside the box as Halo 2 eventually sinks into us. I imagine that older Bungie fans might have felt like this when the original Halo came out: ok, yeah, this is a great game with great graphics (and a few flaws) but why the hell are there so many Marathon references if it's not set in the Marathon universe? It will fade. You've been oversaturated with Halo 2. (I personally felt there was far too much hype, disregarding the discussion of whether the game lived up to it or not, nobody can be bombarded with something, even if they like that something, without getting tired of it after a while.) And, personally, I have to say that already there are levels I would like to replay. (And I can't wait to write up my thoughts on the AI of your compadres.) In short: I've been part of this community for something like three years now. I've seen people rise up from obscurity, (goatrope, BOLL) others that vanished/faded/took their saturation breaks (Red Loser, Matt....Uh#5, Frogblast, Skavenger_s7)....some of whom are now back of course, and a whole bunch of other things. I've tired of the Halo universe at some points, only to find a new angle that fired me up anew; conversely, I've never tired of the Halo community, particularly HBO, and I think we will all find ourselves drawn back here for many years to come. Cheers, -Jam | |
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