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Rolling On
Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has finished up his comparison of Gears of War and Halo 2 (apparently, it’s my fault he’s stopping at three segments) – this one looks at story and music. While earlier versions had Narcogen pointing out things that Gears might have done better than Halo, this one is pretty negative about GoW. Interesting read – I guess I gotta go play the game now!(Louis Wu 15:09:06 UTC)
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Foulacy, Legendz, and FBI Icon – MLG Floweth Over
3Suns pointed out a raft of new content over at MLGPro.com – there’s player match commentary from Foulacy, an interview with Legendz, and an interview with FBI Icon (a lesser-known team, but one with high hopes). Go read, go watch! (Louis Wu 14:42:29 UTC)
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Midship Strats at TPC
Over at ThePanicAttacks, NoFXRaven has written up an article on Midship strategies – give it a read if you have trouble figuring out how far Carbine is from Top Pink. Thanks, Jobyn.(Louis Wu 14:23:52 UTC)
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Checkpoint delaying
Rockslider has written up an article about checkpoint delaying – ways to manipulate WHEN Halo gives you a checkpoint, rather than allowing the game to dictate how this happens. (As with all of his work so far, this information is relevant to Halo, not Halo 2.) Take a look!(Louis Wu 14:19:21 UTC)
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Halo 3 Worries
BitMaP stopped by with a new, Halo-related episode of Strouperman – here’s hoping the prediction at the end is not true!(Louis Wu 13:33:22 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Is it becoming a trend? Seven new pieces in the Fan Fiction section again this week. Go read.(Louis Wu 13:28:22 UTC)
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In the hole
Sluty bk stopped by to point out a video he’d posted on YouTube; forum reaction was quite positive. (I’m not sure I ‘got’ it.) See for yourself!(Louis Wu 13:04:02 UTC)
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Gears of Halo, Part Three
Louis Wu says this article is supposed to have three parts, so I guess this is the end. Weapons? Covered. Characters? Covered. NPC behaviors? Covered. Cover? Covered. What’s left? Oh, right. Story.
Plot Holes You Could Drive A Warthog Through
Normally, when one is talking about plot holes, one is referring to elements of a work of fiction that cause the audience to lose suspension of disbelief: characters acting contrary to their nature, unlikely and unexpected events, strange conspiracies of circumstance and coincidence. Things that make you want to lean over to your neighbor and say, “that would never happen in real life”.Works of fiction in fantasy and science fiction universes have a lot of different ways to conceal those flaws: magical mysteries and high-tech mumbo jumbo. Wizards are people who can summon fireballs from thin air, and the Enterprise is a ship which, by very definition, travels faster than the speed of light. All that remains is for these fictional universes to remain self-consistent. Which they sometimes do.
Gears of War, though, has some plot holes. They’re different kinds of holes. Most of the time, characters in Gears are fairly easy to understand, and act in accordance with our expectations. Since most of the time we expect them to be either kicking ass or taking names, we are not confounded when these things occur. So when something happens that does seem unexplained, it stands out. Some sharp readers already pointed out a few, but I’ll try and start from the beginning.
Click “read more” from the front page for the entire text.
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Shadowrun news site on thx.com
The Hushed Casket is hosting a Shadowrun blog and news site at http://shadowrun.hushedcasket.com. The site is full of the latest Shadowrun information with reports as they are released or, well, invited by the writers. Since the site is powered by beta testers, it should have in depth coverage of the game. Thanks to EnragedGnome for helping out.
view Shadowrun – the blog
RSS feed for Shadowrun – the blog
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Grand Theft Auto IV trailer
XBOX.com has the first trailer for GTAIV. XBOX.com also listed the release date at October 16, 2007 on the GTAIV game page. (download .zip archive of trailer from xbox.com)
I have to say that the in-game graphics looks very good, especially for there to be so many moving avatars and characters on screen. I’ll give this game a close look once the release date nears.
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I LIKED Chiron.
Wow, cool. Bungie’s posted a new Letters to the Webmaster! (Last batch went up in January 2006 – been a while.) I’d say the Webmaster’s been drinking – but that would be uselessly obvious information. Thanks, Brodingo.(Louis Wu 22:35:39 UTC)
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Letters to the Webmaster
The Webmaster is back. Fat lot of good that’s going to do you. Misplaced letters answered by a drunken monkey.
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The Halo Effect
Over at GameSetWatch, you’ll find a short review of a new Halo book called ‘The Halo Effect’ – it was posted last week, but I’ve held off mentioning it because I wanted to post my OWN review. (The book includes significant amounts of work from two of the three Halo Story Page editors – Finn did quite a bit of editing, and provided the appendix, and Jillybean wrote an article about the mythos of Halo.) All in all, it’s an impressive collection of essays – and as I said, I’ll have a more complete review soon, but in the meantime, check out GameSetWatch! Thanks to Simon Carless for reminding me I hadn’t mentioned this yet.(Louis Wu 17:00:50 UTC)
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MMaster Talks MMachinima with GGTV
Over at GamingTV, you’ll find an interview with machinima creator MMaster, conducted by GTV moderator Soupa. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:55:23 UTC)
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What Not To Do In Halo 2
Black Aye pointed out a new film by a new machinima clan, Mystik Films. Go see what they’re up to.(Louis Wu 15:26:32 UTC)
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MARVELous
Sane Intolerant let us know about a new Halo Toy Box episode – given that Marvel’s going to be doing an episodic Halo comic soon, he thought it might be good for Halo denizens to meet their new neighbors.(Louis Wu 14:51:11 UTC)
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Custom Halo Themes on your 360
Hellhawk created a custom Halo-flavored Xbox 360 Theme – check it out in this post! (The most interesting part, for me, is the ease with which one of these can be created…)(Louis Wu 14:49:28 UTC)
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Shane Kim looks down the road
There’s an interview with Shane Kim over at Gamasutra; they asked him about projects Bungie might be working on outside Halo 3, and he mentioned the upcoming episodic content announced at X06 last fall:I know that we are working with Peter Jackson on the next installment in the Halo series and that we’ve had that planning going on, and when one production team is finished with Halo 3, they need to be ready to move on to the next thing. That’s really how you manage the life cycle of a studio.
He’s not really saying very much – but it’s nice to know this work is still ongoing. (We haven’t heard anything official since that first announcement.)(Louis Wu 16:30:15 UTC)
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The Forthcoming World of Halo
ActionTrip wrote up a piece looking at the upcoming roadmap for the Halo franchise in the near future (Halo 2 Vista, Halo 3, and Halo Wars). There are a few questionable facts inside (there’s a discussion of DX10 enhancements for Halo 2 Vista, for example; I was pretty sure there WERE no DX10-specific features included in the game), but in general, it’s a nice summary. Thanks, Ure Paul.(Louis Wu 14:58:00 UTC)
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Bring Me The Head Of Content Management.
Stuntmutt fills in the missing pieces of the Next Generation interview we mentioned – check today’s One One Se7en for details.(Louis Wu 14:18:03 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
