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Friday, Oct 30
Halo Image Gallery Posted
Almost forgot-- there's an image gallery to accompany the ASE podcast of Halo 3's last level, Halo. Almost forgot-- there's an image gallery to accompany the ASE podcast of Halo 3's last level, Halo.
Wednesday, Oct 7
Bungie Vets Shoot For The Moon
Three veterans of Bungie LLC (née Bungie Studios, née Bungie Software) are forming a new venture: Moonshot Games. Moonshot was founded by former Halo producer Michael Bastien, Bungie AI programmer Damián Isla and Halo 3 designer/writer Rob Stokes. Also on board is artist Mike McCain.
Monday, Sep 21
Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 10: Cortana
Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, the "Cortana" level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1. Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover...
Monday, Aug 24
Podcast Insanity Continues: The Covenant
Also, some MP3 versions are up: Ark (Part 1), Ark (Part 2), and Covenant. UPDATE: Oops, almost forgot, here's the Covenant image gallery to accompany the podcast. Also, some MP3 versions are up: Ark (Part 1), Ark (Part 2), and Covenant.
Friday, Jul 31
Three Weeks, Four Podcast Episodes Coming Up
The rock is the backlog of Anger, Sadness & Envy podcast episodes covering the latter half of The Ark, plus the last three levels of Halo 3: The Covenant, Cortana, and Halo. The rock is the backlog of Anger, Sadness & Envy podcast episodes covering the latter half of The Ark, plus the...
Sunday, May 3
Halo 3 Partnership: Rough Draft Part I : Selecting the Lead and the Wing
I recently read vector40's Banshee Voice Communication article and it gave me an idea: why not expand the partnership to cover all of Halo 3? (with the exception of campaign, for reasons which will later be explained) I recently read vector40's Banshee Voice Communication article and i...
Friday, Apr 24
Rebutting The Ultimate Halo Game
First, I think there's plenty of emphasis, both in campaign and multiplayer, on the golden tripod. You can't get through any campaign levels or multiplayer matches only using equipment, and the rest of the time, the golden tripod is what you have to use.
Monday, Apr 20
Welcome To The Desert Of The Real
The Halo series largely avoided this issue by setting its battles away from pitched battlefields most of the time. The environments you fought in, with the exception of a few, were not destroyed. Some were: a Covenant cruiser and the wreck of the Autumn in Halo 1; New Mombassa in Halo 2, argua...
Monday, Dec 29
Blow: Stories In Games Are Just Hot Air
Jonathan Blow, One man creator of the oh-so-pretty Braid platformer, as amazing for its interesting gameplay as its surreal visuals, says, essentially, that videogame stories are bad and probably wouldn't get much better with better writers since trying to tell a story in a game is a ba...
Monday, Nov 3
Killing Console Multiplayer?
However, let's not split hairs here. Bioshock was a pretty darn good game that had good sales and fantastic reviews, yet has no multiplayer features whatsoever. Shadowrun was a decent game with ho-hum reviews and so-so sales, and has multiplayer only, no campaign whatsoever. In other word...
Thursday, Oct 2
Microsoft Forms New Halo Studio
According to the intertubes, Microsoft is forging ahead with Halo using a new internal studio. Forming the team are Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions and the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4; Corinne Yu, former technician at Gearbox; and at least two former Bungie employees: wri...
Wednesday, Oct 1
Halo 3: Recon Announced
Liveblogging the Microsoft keynote address from the Tokyo Games Show in Japan, Major Nelson says that Microsoft has shown the announcement trailer for Bungie's next Halo game. It's a prologue to Halo 3 called Halo 3: Recon, and as the rumor mill has long anticipated, it is a story told from...
Saturday, Sep 27
Keeping It Clean, Frame By Frame
My general impression is that this teaser is for a campaign expansion to Halo 3 that takes place sometime between the departure of Regret's ship from the Mombasa area and the Master Chief's return to Earth at the start of Halo 3. As such the main character or characters may be other human forc...
Sunday, Sep 14
Halo On Mythic Difficulty Walkthrough
Daniel "Tyrant" Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it's fantastic. If you haven't read it and you're a campaign junkie, it's an absolute must. Daniel "Tyrant" Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possib...
Friday, Jul 25
Captain Spark Reviews Halo 3
You know Captain Spark. The guy who records all those audio snippets from Halo games? Yeah, that's him. He's weighed in now with a review of Halo 3's campaign. He starts by getting two beefs of his chest (the over-aggressive Arbiter and the so-called "Cortana Moments") before getting to what...
Wednesday, Jul 23
Kotaku: Halo Wars Looks Good
Halo plus real-time strategy plus gamepad controls may sound like a recipe for a franchise misfire, but Ensemble Studios has polished Halo Wars to the point of an immediately playable console title. While some may argue that, like first person shooters, RTS games should only be played on...
Friday, Jul 18
Independence: Adding Insult To Injury
On Tuesday Microsoft told Bungie they wouldn't be allowed to do that, either, and since Microsoft is Bungie's publisher for Halo games, and Microsoft owns the Halo intellectual property, and the announcement concerned Halo, Bungie had to do what Microsoft says, prompting Bungie pres...
Thursday, Jul 10
The Man With The Iron Skull: Part One
I thought, though, that if I dropped from Heroic to Normal, I might add Iron for some extra bonus points, try to be careful, and see if it actually felt more like an accomplishment. I thought, though, that if I dropped from Heroic to Normal, I might add Iron for some extra bonus points, try to be...
Is That A New Halo Game In Your Pocket?
Apparently some readers disbelieve the rumor because it's "too early" for the announcement of another Halo game. SG replies that there's a difference between announcing game development and announcing a release date-- but in this case it really may be too early, as Halo 3 wasn't announc...
Sunday, Mar 16
Get Back On The Track, Jack
HBO today points to an interesting blog entry by an English teacher in Korea, playing Halo 3 (apparently for the first time or nearly so) in Korean without English subtitles, and so without much insight into the story or what the player is supposed to do:
Thursday, Feb 21
Halo 3 Update To 'Fix' Melee Contests
In this week's Bungie Weekly Update, Tyson "Ferrex" Green gives an exhaustive explanation of how Halo 2's melee system worked, how Bungie addressed its flaws in changing the design for Halo 3, how that design change led to complaints from the the playerbase, and how the Halo 3 Auto Update...
Opinion: Halo 3 Soundtrack Adds Epic Sound To Epic Scenes: Part Three
Tribute and Wake Me When You Need Me are where Bungie gets to eat its emotional cake and have it, too. Tribute brings the UNSC martial themes and the Arbiter's themes together as Lord Hood honors the fallen-- including the Master Chief-- and the Elites return home.
Monday, Dec 17
Re: Dallas News: Halo 3's Story A 'Confusing Muddle'
We did a count, actually, he gets about 150 words per game. Which admittedly, is not much. I always just considered it a part of his character. Cortana, as the artificial intelligence, gets most of the "explaining" tasks, and where she doesn't, Captain Keyes and later Commander Keyes get tha...
Sunday, Dec 16
Re: Dallas News: Halo 3's Story A 'Confusing Muddle'
Additionally, I do not feel that Halo is the best example of art in the gaming universe, merely one that is very near to my heart in the same way that Star Wars is not very deep or even that complex of a story yet is captivating for millions of people.
Wednesday, Dec 5
Opinion: Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
HALO sales never peaked on release, like the games it leant it's name to. In fact they got off modest ground. The sales of HALO 1 swelled, and they swelled on the basis of word of mouth. Both single and multiplayer aspects contributed, but... To underestimate the impact that it's supremely regard...
Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
You seem to be making my argument for me. I'm also not exactly sure how it is that having a balanced close quarters combat scenario discourages close play, since compared to Halo 3's simpler scenario, it is suggested that it encourages it.
Tuesday, Dec 4
Opinion: Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
Regardless of whether they connect at random (like in Halo 2) or are guaranteed to hit (like in Halo 3), the very concept of the melee lunge is flawed. The best we could hope for in Halo 3 is that Bungie ditches the "who has more health" system and makes it to where if both players are weak enough t...
Monday, Dec 3
Opinion: Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
This is the argument over Halo 2 all over again. When it was made over Halo 2, I suggested that while many things might be changed, that some of the essential parts of Halo 2's design that many fans of Halo 1 so objected to would very likely remain, because despite strenuous statements to the co...
Opinion: Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
Halo 1 and Halo 2/3 play very differently. Halo 2 and 3 are obviously different from each other, but they play more similarly with each other than with Halo 1. Because different people will prefer different styles of play, there are strong contingents of players out there that love Halo 3 muc...
Saturday, Dec 1
Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
I think that the hardcore Halo faithful are still standing around waiting for another "Halo 1" to come around. The job of any gaming company is to make money. The original Halo sold basketloads - but Bungie needed to reach a broader audience. Halo 2 was wider open and now so is Halo 3. Quote:
Monday, Nov 26
Re: What will Bungie's next project be?
Whatever Bungie has decided to do (or perhaps they've yet to decide) I think it'll be a while before we find out. Bungie might leave the Chief out there and come back to him later, or else they might not. Maybe they will dive right into Halo 4, maybe they won't.
Wednesday, Nov 21
Opinion: Re: Halo 3 Should Be More Like Pokemon Snap
Such as? I hardly think it's a perfect game. In fact, I've been accused of both nitpicking Halo 3 to death and being a Halo 3 apologist just in the few weeks since release. I just haven't begun my Halo 3 Impressions series yet to detail them because I need to "live with" the game for a bit longer, fi...
Re: Halo 3 Should Be More Like Pokemon Snap
That wasn't a snide quip - it was an honest opinion. We're not using the same words to mean the same thing, he and I; in order to have a dialogue, I'd have had to start by defining my terms. I don't have time for that. Huh. I'm fine if it ends here, personally. I don't need a non-Bungie Halo 4, myself.
Monday, Nov 19
Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
Somehow I don't think Bungie has done that or will do that.
Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
Ultimately though, for me the most important question was whether or not Halo 3 was fun. I didn't enjoy Halo 2 multiplayer at all, so whatever it was they changed about Halo 3 that makes me keep coming back was obviously enough to negate the changes in style that has taken place since the origi...
Re: You can't run but you can hide. Halo 3 is broken.
The bottom line is that millions of people would not have any desire to play the game you describe and it would get about as many people playing as the paintball games do currently. The majority of people like having to choose 2 weapons that they are good with and having to adapt their strategy...
Thursday, Nov 15
Re: Halo 4 Rumors... Already?
Spoiler: Onyx is an artificial planet, a "shield world" constructed from Sentinels, it appeared normal from the outside, so that's not what we see at the end of Halo 3. It might be the Dyson Sphere the characters from Onyx enter at the end of the novel (assuming that's what happens).
