In Response To: Most Epic "omfg1v1LockoutMLGfoo" Match Ever UPDATED (KP)
I challenge you to Guitar Hero!
: Many of you are acquainted with e , and the quicker among you may even think
: first of the head of Xbox Live operations and not the drug. Tonight, in
: conjunction with Bothari , Kitty and Ragedoll , e hijacked me from
: my home where I was very contently (re: drunkenly) playing Halo 2 with
: some Gunslingers. We went to e's place to play Guitar Hero 2 and
: Monopoly. Mario Monopoly , because the standard edition just isn't nerdy
: enough for us.
: After some sort of petty dispute, I declared a 1v1 Lockout, which e brazenly
: accepted. To set the stage, e and I have previously butted heads in an
: epic 1v1. There was an incident at Gameworks in which we took an 11-11 air
: hockey match into overtime - meaning the table and scoreboard had been
: turned off leaving only the puck, the paddles and the hair on our chest in
: play. e stole the game and a small part of me that night, so I had
: something to prove tonight.
: But what made this match special, you might ask? Put your hand down, there's
: no fucking audience participation, would be my reply. This was perhaps the
: most epic Halo 2 1v1 evarz because we attempted to play our Halo 2 match
: with the Guitar Hero 2 controllers. A condition which simultaneously
: provided e the only route through which he could hope to achieve victory
: and me with a chance to actually prove some sort of worth with the guitar
: after failing Heart-Shaped Box on easy only minutes before. We were able
: to navigate the menu easily enough and were promptly dropped into Lockout,
: but that's where the ease of use ends.
: When we spawned our characters were frantically spinning in circles, e
: finally figured out that the whammy bar was controlling the X-axis. Not
: only that, but to stabilize it, the whammy bar needs to be half-way
: depressed. Push it all the way down and it turns right, let it go all the
: way out and it's pulling left. Even more bizarrely, the Y-axis was
: controlled by the motion sensor. Tilt the guitar up to look up (on normal
: settings) and vice versa. A, B, X, Y functioned as expected. What we never
: did quite figure out was what was controlling the triggers, just that
: something was. Unfortunately, we found no way to actually move our
: characters and by default we spawned far away and in no position to see
: each other. In order to have some hope of actually achieving a kill, we
: chose a different and symmetrical map where we might have a chance of
: spawning facing each other.
: We chose Midship and frenziedly stabilized our wildly spinning characters
: after spawning. We fumbled for a moment, trying to get a decent angle in
: order to get a shot off in the general direction of the other. Then we
: tried to find out how to fire. Finally and mysteriously, e took a shot. At
: the ground. KP takes the lead! Then, as a result of my celebrating, I
: somehow hucked a sticky at the wall in front of me and the match was even.
: But not for long! as e's character spawned and blew himself up, the right
: trigger still apparently active. When I respawned the same thing happened,
: and again to e. Then I out-smarted the slow-witted bald man, a skill I
: attained in my time at Bungie, by simply hitting the pause button,
: freezing my score at -2 while he continued to spawn and kill himself. KP
: wins and evens the e/KP 1v1 circuit.
: I believe we've just begun to scratch the surface of alternately controlled
: Halo matches. I'd love to see future matches featuring dance pad vs.
: guitar, wheel and pedals vs. flight stick, etc. If there's any community
: with the dedication - and seemingly endless supply of free time - to
: explore such a nonsensical concept, it is the Bungie community.
: KP
: Bothari just uploaded the video for all to see.
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