And I thought it meant high altitude low opening...boy am I lost.
As a Halo player looking forward to Halo 2 I think this guy is nuts.
Not sure how they are going to change the story around so as the Halo is good (maybe we should try to understand the Flood, they are just not understood).
But whatever the story.... it is the game play any of us care about.
Give it up and play the freakin' game.
Halo sucks. I get my CTF on in Tribes 2, a real mans game where shooting punks moving at 300kph is the leetness.
As a side note, have any of you guys watched the Halo: Red vs. Blue series???
If you spent any time playing in Halo's Blood Gulch you will think this is damn funny stuff.
I always thought it was ironic considering the red versus blue states election rhetoric we just went through
www.redvsblue.com
Well looks like one game I will NOT be buying... was looking forward to Halo 2 also... Oh well...
The only way I can see a video game taking a jab at our values is by having the goal that the losers win.
A hypothetical question: If I buy something that Michael Moore creates, am I not supporting Michael Moore and the causes he represents? What if Moore came out with a fantastic video game that everyone was talking about? Would he not still be the same person with the same anti-American agenda? He is not anti-GOP, he is anti-America...and his beliefs have very little to do with politics and a whole lot to do with a skewed mindset and distorted view of the world. If I knew a product was putting money in Michael Moore's pocket and there were other choices available, I would have a decision to make about which product I'd buy and why.
I've never heard of this person who created Halo, but if someone creates and sells a product to openly promote and finance a political/personal agenda I disagree with and a belief system I find dangerous, why would I want to put money in their pocket?
We have no way of knowing what the politcal leanings are of most game manufacturers. Or if we did have a way to find out, it never occurred to me to ask before.
This creator pretty much put his beliefs on the label. Once the consumer learns that the proceeds from the sale of Halo products will finance a radical anti-American agenda, the purchaser is now confronted with a choice, like it or not. This announcement/article is as good as a warning sticker on the package.
I had preordered a copy of H2. I will enjoy it.
This is odd because HALO follows a closer line of thought with one of Bungie's original titles - Marathon.
This bothers me, though, that they are now saying that humans are to blame? That doesnt quite sqaure with the HALO I have been playing for the past couple of years, or with the cortinata letters released in '98.
I need to research this a little more. The guy's name doesnt even sound familiar. Josh Sowell, does.
Maybe this is why a good chunk of the Bungie staff quit M$ and created their own company - wideload (located at www.wideload.com).
Wanted to follow up and say whom ever wrote the article is plain wrong about the HALO story line.
The HALO story line starts off where human colonies start to disappear and Humans find out that it is the covenant who are doing this and they go to war.
Covenant basically wipe out the human outpost before they get a chance to launch their major offensive based on REACH (good guy outpost).
In H1, you land on HALO, which is a superweapon. The game makes no bones about it that the HALO was made to contain the flood, which is a weapon which the long since gone aliens left as a "super weapon."
In short, the convenant are not attacking earth because of the destruction of a HALO.. the HALO was a weapon.
We will see what the story line gets into once I get my hands on my copy.
If anyone wants to email this creep here is some info:
http://www.ava.org/clubs/ramsteinroadrunners/footnotes/fn0401.pdf
the_statens@t-online.de
Here's a start:
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This was INCREDIBLY stupid in the high competition video game market.
If PS2 people have brains they will take advantage.
Perhaps there should be a warning label indicating the game contains intentional anti-american political statements. Let parents vote with their dollars.
It's been done before. Countless RTS games had the player play both sides before completing the game. Some, like Starcraft had the player play 3 or more sides, each one with a different perspective of a conflict.
It still sounds as if Micro$oft has to provide the narrative for this, to bring out the Kerry/Moore/bin Laden complaint about enforcing the UN resolutions.
It is surprising that guy who made billions in the US would support this. One could expect this of guilty trust-fund babies or actors looking to 'be relevant'. But Gates really did make the money by selling product. Maybe he made way too much, too easily. Or may he doesn't know about this game, and how it's being promoted.
Sure...yeah... uh huh.
Listen, the reporter who has an OBVIOUS bias, found someone connected to the game, who ALSO has an obvious bias.
Now, if this reporter was to be a fair and UN-biased reporter, then WHY did he NOT have an opposing view regarding this game??? WHY did he present one 'game developer's' opinion. Is he insinuating that there is only ONE 'game developer'? Or MAYBE he is trying to act like there is only ONE developer who was 'important'?
A person can take ANY video game and put an 'anti-Bush/anti-American' theory on it. And the reverse is also true. It all depends on what the mindset is.
I think the MOST interesting question about this guy/Halo2/ and 'the message' is....how LONG will he continue to be employed by Microsoft, now that he has taken this slam stand?
Give me a frickin' break. Didn't you learn anything from backward masking, smurf and Harry Potter witchcraft, masters of the universe apostasy, what "kiss" stands for, and the hundred other urban legends propagated through pop culture?
The people you are trying to "expose" are laughing at you.
Conceptually, this sounds like a ripoff of Larry Niven's "Ringworld" with added gratuitous violence (shoot up the BEM's). That's "bug eyed monsters" for all you non sci fi fans. The author of this game is a plagiarist as well as a raving lefty.
Regards,
GtG
PS But then, all art is derivative.