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And it doesn’t make me breakfast, either.
I just love articles like this one: MyGEN (an Australian gaming site) put up the “Top 10 Things Bungie Screwed UP with Halo 3“. After stating that “in no way are we anti-halo or anti-Bungie”, they go on to complain about stuff like glitches in Bungie.net site integration and weapons nerfing with comments like “they honestly plain old suck”, “collision detection is shocking”, “shoddy net code”, and “bungie totally screwed it up”. Yeah, that’s definitely the sort of language I use when I’m trying to provide constructive criticism to a company I love. While some of their points have merit, many of the complaints are downright silly; it’s hard to take any of it seriously when they complain that in the two weeks since Bungie announced it’s separating from Microsoft, “we have not seen a single improvement to the reliability of matchmaking or their website.” I hesitated posting this since it seems to be designed more to generate web traffic than to actually discuss problems with the game… I found this at N4G.(Louis Wu 17:04:32 UTC)
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Talking Point.
Yesterday, there was some speculation on our forum about how useful voice recognition would be in videogames. Stuntmutt’s got his own take on the subject in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:06:30 UTC)
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The Riot 70
Sigafoos sent word of The Riot 70 – this one is half an hour, 12 mb, with a focus on the halo3.junk.ws beta (and a possibility of getting into it. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:44:27 UTC)
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Halloween’s coming…
pcgamer15 stopped by last night to show off pics of his Halloween costume, currently under construction. We’ve created a more permanent record, just in case, because it’s pretty cool.(Louis Wu 13:47:17 UTC)
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Nostalgia: Evolved
ZZoMBiE13 continues to update Another Halo Comic Strip – #6 is now up, I feel bad for the Arbiter.(Louis Wu 11:43:27 UTC)
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The Artful Forger
Hawty McBloggy discusses ways to use Forge which might not have occurred to you at first blush. The screenshot she links to is truly amazing…(Louis Wu 11:33:28 UTC)
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Guides and a new podcast at R.net
Rampancy.net content madness: There’s a new guide for the Cowbell Skull, an entry into the Weapons Guide (today it’s the Spiker), and the kickoff of Anger, Sadness, & Envy, the Rampancy podcast. Co-hosts trindacut and Narcogen will walk you through the first level of Halo 3 (along with the opening cutscene) in about half an hour – it weighs in at 13 mb.(Louis Wu 11:27:23 UTC)
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Podtacular 131
Big Goalie Dan let us know that Podtacular 131 is up – an hour long, discussing custom creations. 22 mb – go listen!(Louis Wu 11:02:47 UTC)
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If you think of it, someone will build it.
Someone created a guide to show you how to make a Halo 3 Xbox 360… out of paper. (No, it’s not a COVER for your regular 360. It’s a paper 360.) I don’t know what to say.(Louis Wu 10:55:17 UTC)
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Photo Mosaic – Made with Your Help
Yesterday, we front-paged a request from sorahn for your gamertag, so that he could grab your Bungie.net screenshots and turn them into a photo mosaic. Several hundred of you agreed to help – and the first mosiac is now up to see. It was created with the first 2000 submitted screens, and it’s available for download in a 5600×5792 version.(Louis Wu 10:48:38 UTC)
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Walking Wounded
Elnea posted Halo Action Figure Theater 97. Just when you thought things couldn’t get stranger…(Louis Wu 10:35:46 UTC)
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Breaking Down the Walls
Out-of-Map stuff continues – pete_the_duck got some interesting pics in The Storm, and the7ftman put up clips of High Ground and Guardian in his FileShare. At this point, except for Isolation (and maybe a Campaign map or two), you should have access to the outside of pretty much ANY map…(Louis Wu 10:33:43 UTC)
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Anger, Sadness And Envy Episode One: Arrival and Sierra 117
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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 “Subscribe to podcast” item, and entering this URL:
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Spiker
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Today’s entry in the Halo 3 Weapons Guide is the Spiker, a dual-wieldable weapon of Brute origin.
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A Picture Worth Two Thousand… Pictures
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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!
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Halo 3 Caption Contest.
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Game Makers – Halo
QuickTactical noticed an interview with Chris Barrett and Joe Tung from MLG Vegas last week – it’s a little hard to find. The link he gives is the same one MSN gives me – but it doesn’t get you there. Do a search for ‘Game Makers’ on that page, though, and you should find a vid called ‘Game Makers: Halo’. That’s the one you want.(Louis Wu 22:11:57 UTC)
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Episode 131: Customs and Creations
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It’s Sunday which means it’s time for another shiny new episode of the Podtacular podcast. This week our guest host is Killazilla, head of the Review Frenzy feature here at Podtacular. Review Frenzy’s talented team of writers review all the hot new games to give you the heads up on what’s good and what suxorz. Anyway, this week is a huge verbal fileshare of awesome customs and forge edits from the community. We also talk about important topics like if Mr. T were gay, being raised by a family of yetis, and cacti that grow steaks. BIG thanks to Rodsmack10K at XBL10Kclub.com for sending me the infamous freestyle halo 3 beatbox/chant from the Seattle launch event. Check it out in the outtakes! This week’s winner for coolest screenshot goes to Face Head. If you want your screenshot on the cover of Podtacular for thousands to see, be sure to submit yours! It also might make it to the front page of podtacular.com.
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