Author: narcogen

In response to those who’ve asked me what do you think of Halo 3 I wrote a long piece on finishing the fights. Halo, being a first person shooter with a linear story has a number of “finishes”, though. There are the conflicts the player is a direct party to, but there are other story…

So during the Week Without Internet here are a few things that went on: Joe Staten’s new Halo book, Contact Harvest, came out. It covers the first Human-Covenant engagements from the perspective of Avery Johnson. Bungie.net has the prologue online. GameTap has a two part interview with Staten about the novel. G4TV also has an…

Narcogen and Trindacut examine the second level of Halo 3, A Crow’s Nest, for Anger, Sadness & Envy, the official podcast of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net. Features include an interview with the Prophet of Truth, changes to voice actors, and Halo 3’s equivalent of the Jackal sniper: the invincible Brute chieftain. This is the M4A version…

Kato at Katonian.net has an article up on how to make stereoscopic screenshots from Halo 3. The story mentions only the Windows program StereoPhoto Maker but I also located the Macintosh freeware AnaBuilder, which you might have some luck with if you’re a Mac user.

Rockslider famously rejected Halo 2, preferring instead to spend six years tricking the Halo 1 engine into delivering him continually more epic “megabattles”. So, naturally, people wanted to know what he thought of Halo 3– did it return to the roots of the original game enough to keep his interest? Now he’s provided the answer…

Since before I’d even managed to finish the fight on Heroic, let alone Legendary, people have been asking… “so, what do you think of Halo 3?” Given the thousands of words I’ve hurled at Halo 2 over the years that seems like a rather broad question. When pressed, most people admit what they really want…

The first episode of Anger, Sadness & Envy, the official podcast of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net, covers the first two levels of Halo 3: Arrival and Sierra 117. We’re working on getting this submitted into the iTunes podcast directory, but until then, you can manually subscribe in iTunes by pulling down the Advanced menu, choosing the…

Sorahn wrote a script to power Haloscreenshots.net; you enter your gamertag and it pulls down all your screenshots from Bungie.net. For the next step, it assembles those images into a mosaic composed from the submitted images. The first mosaic is up now, check it out!

Inari Vaissi Nagy at the University of Ottawa’s Fulcrum wonders if Master Chief isn’t a good modern equivalent of ancient epic heroes: The violence, the big, nasty guns and speeding vehicles, and the brutal competitiveness, are all undoubtedly major attractions to the gaming world–much to the alarm of many from the pre-gamer generation. But is…

Frag The Cullen forwarded to me a film clip made by Jihaku of a Team Slayer game played a few days ago. In that game, player Geo Stelar seems to have an infinite bag of bubble shields. No matter how many times he deploys it, he always has another, a fact he uses to his…

deadox1138 has created a site for Halo motivational posters. It’s fantastic, check it out right now.

Amazon.com has a page up for the two-disc Halo 3 Original Soundtrack, due out on November 20, 2007. It will include the music created by Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori for Halo 3 and be published by Sumthing Else Records. However, it will also include a track by the lucky winners of a contest being…

A few items of note that slipped through the cracks lately: ForgeHub is a site featuring descriptions and links to custom maps and gametypes people have created in Forge. Some very interesting stuff up there now, with more sure to follow. High Speed Halo is still getting up to speed on Halo 3 speedruns, but…

Today’s entry in the Halo 3 Weapons Guide is the Covenant Carbine.  Click here for the complete text.

The Wide Load points out the latest newspost at Wideload (boy is that going to be a hard distinction to keep making) that confirms the announcement of Wideload Shorts’ web-based game Cyclomite debuting on GarageGames’ InstantAction site early next year and already previewed by 1Up.

Nthro Sraom submitted a nice how-to for finding the Famine Skull in Halo 3. Since Rampancy’s collection of skull pages isn’t complete, we’re asking readers to submit entries on their own favorite skull: how and where to find it, what it does, your preferred method of reaching it, and how it changes your experience of…

Texas TV station KIITV has a story on the implementation of realtime signal processing by audio firm Waves in Halo 3, as mentioned by Bungie audio director Marty O’Donnell in his interview on Major Nelson’s podcast last week.

Once again more news has transpired in 24 hours than I’m able to handle with the individual loving care that each unique-as-in-snowflake bit of news fully deserves to be treated. So sue me. Here’s what happened: Bungie cheated HBO out of a Humpday win. Makes you wish there was some large company comprised of adults…

Alex Seropian of Wideload Games delivered the keynote address at GarageGames’ IndieGamesCon conference. GamaSutra has a summary of the content of Seropian’s talk, including the Wideload Commandments.

YankeeHotel has started up a picture blog called abstrakt, art from inside the Halo 3 engine, featuring artsy, unmodified screenshots. Check it out! Thanks for the heads-up to Louis Wu at HBO.