So okay, I know its really a Delta (Their public BETA its their internal Delta, messy, isn´t it?) but greek alphabet aside, on 3rd May we´ll be able to taste the first Halo: Reach gameplay experience. I must say that this time I´m more excited about Multiplayer than Campaing, in contrast with previous Halo launches. Because, well, this time I know how its gonna end.
I´ll try to get myself as XboX Live Gold as I can for the upcoming May slaughter, and you can be sure I´ll write here about nearly everything from the Beta. Graphics, Map Design, Gameplay... Also expect severe ranting if something is not of my liking :P
In the (short) meantime you can check, as always, Bungie.net. They have a Reach Beta Guide and several articles about maps and game variants.
Also check out the new video about Reach. Its not a ViDoc, but a trailer, and looks sweet.
Oh, and if I get myself a Gold, I´m planning to be back to Halo3/ODST bussines as well, so more updates and post about that might be coming
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Spartan K-042 Out
28/04/2010
23/04/2010
Reach News
Hi again, surfing around Bungie.net I found some sweet news about the incoming Halo Reach. You know, I´m planning on doing an in-dept article about Reach (speculation included) and also a post-beta report (if I manage to get my hands on the Beta and Live Gold). But for now, I´ll just brief you with the news Bungie may have already told ya.
You know, if you go around their web this post will be mostly useless, but isn´t that the thing that makes you love this blog??
Halo Reach Game Editions
If you are at least a bit of a Halo Fan you may already expect to see the Standard, Collector´s and Legendary Editions.
Reach delivers that three packages (although the Collector´s is called "Limited") and content its detailed here Halsey´s personal journal looks pretty sweet and has already catch my attention. (You don´t know who Dr Halsey´s is??? Then you´re not a Halo fan, begone!) And also the Noble Team statue in Legendary Edition looks good, but I don´t know if good enough to make me pay nearly twice the price of Limited Edition....
Multiplayer ViDoc
Bungie has posted a new ViDoc, now I haven´t seen it (I´m updating from a sinister place with no MS Silverlight installed...) but you should check it out... you know... its free.
This short update comes to an end, hope to see you soon!
Kilo042 Out
You know, if you go around their web this post will be mostly useless, but isn´t that the thing that makes you love this blog??
Halo Reach Game Editions
If you are at least a bit of a Halo Fan you may already expect to see the Standard, Collector´s and Legendary Editions.
Reach delivers that three packages (although the Collector´s is called "Limited") and content its detailed here Halsey´s personal journal looks pretty sweet and has already catch my attention. (You don´t know who Dr Halsey´s is??? Then you´re not a Halo fan, begone!) And also the Noble Team statue in Legendary Edition looks good, but I don´t know if good enough to make me pay nearly twice the price of Limited Edition....
Multiplayer ViDoc
Bungie has posted a new ViDoc, now I haven´t seen it (I´m updating from a sinister place with no MS Silverlight installed...) but you should check it out... you know... its free.
This short update comes to an end, hope to see you soon!
Kilo042 Out
20/04/2010
Halo Legends
I´m here again!!! [Crowd cheers] Its a quick and relatively-short update. I´m on full maintenance in my two PCs and still sick of all that JavaScript nuisance, but I´m here to rant about something that has made me even more sick.
Halo Legends
Honestly, I was very excited with this idea, although I was afraid of some of the short movies to look blunt, or too Anime-like, or some of them transforming and deforming the Halo storyline to add Xplosioms and BLAST!´s. I wanted to give some credit to the guys of Microsoft and 343 Industries.
You know what? I was right....
Let me get this straight, Halo Legends its OK, but it could have been soooo much better. But saying that is not fair, in fact, "Halo Legends" its just the name for a collection of 7 animated shorts produced by different Japanese animation companies. So, its necessary to analyze them one by one
Origins I & II: (9/10)
Origins spans two animated shorts, but a single story. Origins is the tale of the Forerunners war against the Floood, the activacion of the Halo Arrays, the Human history and the battle of the Ark. Basically, we have the 100.000 years of history of the Halo Universe. Incredibily well told, and (IMHO) incredibily well drawn. Origins is a great contribution to the Halo franchise and universe, and stands true to the series.
The Duel: (6/10)
This one its tricky, tells the story of a Sangheili Arbiter in times before the Human-Covenant War. Its a good tale and with interesting visuals but its just too "japanesse" I mean. Suddently the Sangheili civilization becames Feudal Japan, and with no reason Elites are no longer those fearsome warriors, but neraly human-looking lizards. (Female Elites don´t have four jaws? Honestly!!)And the battle, excelent action but, an entire legion against a lone warrior? And he wins? Feudal-Japan-Anime all the way...
Homecoming: (9/10)
Maybe the first interesting short I came across in Halo Legends. It tells the story of a female Spartan and how she remembers escaping from Reach and trying to come back home only to find she´s been replaced by a clone. (Don´t forget kids, Spartans were kidnapped and conscripted into the military by force and stealth) The visuals are not specially good for me, but the overall feeling works pretty good.
Odd One Out: (1/10)
This one its supposed to be a Halo parody. But let me tell you what, it just sucks. The jokes aren´t Halo-related at all, and aren´t funny at all. You wanna se a good Halo parody? See It´s a Halo Thing. Thats a funny parody....
Protoype: (5/10)
I don´t like the story, and I´m not much into mecha battles, and also, if UNSCDF hasn´t adopted freaky-transformer-like mechs into its main arsenal, it must be because they really, really aren´t viable??. Maybe because scorpions are more effective as tanks??? I don´t know, the only decent thing about this one are the visuals
The Babysitter: (2/10)
This one sucks hard. The story its simplistic, the visuals are terrible (with no sense of scale at all) and the fidelity to the Halo franchise incredibly low. Boy, and when I read the synopsis of this one I tough "ODSTs and a Spartan? Its gonna be cool!"
The Package: (6/10)
Ahh, the most interesting short-movie. We have a terrible done space-battle. I know anime artist love a lot of lights dancing around, specially with missiles, but the battle looks just ridiculous. First of all, "booster frames"... let me scream loudly: WTF??? 4 little tiny spacecraft are able to annihilate waves of Seraphs? And whats with all those lights in the Covenant ships? Did they send "disco fleet"?
But after that terrible battle we get a few minutes of true spartan action, perhaps too matrix-like, but really good. The story its odd, and (again IMHO) a complete nonsense, but The Package has managed to achieve what the other bad shorts couldn´t, its visual an action compensate the silly story.
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That´s it, enough ranting for today. All in all, Halo Legends offers a good bunch of different views and approachs to the Halo universe, like the famed Halo Graphic Novel. Unlike the Halo Graphic Novel, it fails to deliver a complete, true to the story, product.
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Sierra-Kilo-Zero-Four-Two Out
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Halo Legends
Honestly, I was very excited with this idea, although I was afraid of some of the short movies to look blunt, or too Anime-like, or some of them transforming and deforming the Halo storyline to add Xplosioms and BLAST!´s. I wanted to give some credit to the guys of Microsoft and 343 Industries.
You know what? I was right....
Let me get this straight, Halo Legends its OK, but it could have been soooo much better. But saying that is not fair, in fact, "Halo Legends" its just the name for a collection of 7 animated shorts produced by different Japanese animation companies. So, its necessary to analyze them one by one
Origins I & II: (9/10)
Origins spans two animated shorts, but a single story. Origins is the tale of the Forerunners war against the Floood, the activacion of the Halo Arrays, the Human history and the battle of the Ark. Basically, we have the 100.000 years of history of the Halo Universe. Incredibily well told, and (IMHO) incredibily well drawn. Origins is a great contribution to the Halo franchise and universe, and stands true to the series.
The Duel: (6/10)
This one its tricky, tells the story of a Sangheili Arbiter in times before the Human-Covenant War. Its a good tale and with interesting visuals but its just too "japanesse" I mean. Suddently the Sangheili civilization becames Feudal Japan, and with no reason Elites are no longer those fearsome warriors, but neraly human-looking lizards. (Female Elites don´t have four jaws? Honestly!!)And the battle, excelent action but, an entire legion against a lone warrior? And he wins? Feudal-Japan-Anime all the way...
Homecoming: (9/10)
Maybe the first interesting short I came across in Halo Legends. It tells the story of a female Spartan and how she remembers escaping from Reach and trying to come back home only to find she´s been replaced by a clone. (Don´t forget kids, Spartans were kidnapped and conscripted into the military by force and stealth) The visuals are not specially good for me, but the overall feeling works pretty good.
Odd One Out: (1/10)
This one its supposed to be a Halo parody. But let me tell you what, it just sucks. The jokes aren´t Halo-related at all, and aren´t funny at all. You wanna se a good Halo parody? See It´s a Halo Thing. Thats a funny parody....
Protoype: (5/10)
I don´t like the story, and I´m not much into mecha battles, and also, if UNSCDF hasn´t adopted freaky-transformer-like mechs into its main arsenal, it must be because they really, really aren´t viable??. Maybe because scorpions are more effective as tanks??? I don´t know, the only decent thing about this one are the visuals
The Babysitter: (2/10)
This one sucks hard. The story its simplistic, the visuals are terrible (with no sense of scale at all) and the fidelity to the Halo franchise incredibly low. Boy, and when I read the synopsis of this one I tough "ODSTs and a Spartan? Its gonna be cool!"
The Package: (6/10)
Ahh, the most interesting short-movie. We have a terrible done space-battle. I know anime artist love a lot of lights dancing around, specially with missiles, but the battle looks just ridiculous. First of all, "booster frames"... let me scream loudly: WTF??? 4 little tiny spacecraft are able to annihilate waves of Seraphs? And whats with all those lights in the Covenant ships? Did they send "disco fleet"?
But after that terrible battle we get a few minutes of true spartan action, perhaps too matrix-like, but really good. The story its odd, and (again IMHO) a complete nonsense, but The Package has managed to achieve what the other bad shorts couldn´t, its visual an action compensate the silly story.
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That´s it, enough ranting for today. All in all, Halo Legends offers a good bunch of different views and approachs to the Halo universe, like the famed Halo Graphic Novel. Unlike the Halo Graphic Novel, it fails to deliver a complete, true to the story, product.
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Sierra-Kilo-Zero-Four-Two Out
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16/04/2010
Again, I failed...
Hi there! I´m updating this for mainly two reasons:
-First, I´m way too bored, programming a JavaScript Minesweeper sucks nearly as much as the game itself, but right now its my "job". A job I despise and a job that makes me wanna wander aimlessly around the Internet
-Second, Its been ages since I last updated. Fortunately that doesn´t mean its been ages since I last played Halo. Nay, my Halo-mania its as strong as always.
HaloCharts
I recently discovered this nice page where players like me (or you, at least I hope you play Halo ¬¬) can check their stats even in more deep than with B.net Service Record. Halo Charts its also a community, a community I would be deeply involved with were not for my (temporary) lack of XboX Live! Gold account
Anyway, check my stats. They suck, I know, but I´m pretty proud of them anyway. Specially of that "Greater than 1.25 K/D ratio" Because it could be way worse, like in a 0.50-way-worse-manner. Id like to say or promise you that I´ll be stayin´round here regulary, but I can´t lie to you folks. I´ll lie to myself to see if that works and I can be around at least once per week
Verdadero Khan HaloChart Stats
-First, I´m way too bored, programming a JavaScript Minesweeper sucks nearly as much as the game itself, but right now its my "job". A job I despise and a job that makes me wanna wander aimlessly around the Internet
-Second, Its been ages since I last updated. Fortunately that doesn´t mean its been ages since I last played Halo. Nay, my Halo-mania its as strong as always.
HaloCharts
I recently discovered this nice page where players like me (or you, at least I hope you play Halo ¬¬) can check their stats even in more deep than with B.net Service Record. Halo Charts its also a community, a community I would be deeply involved with were not for my (temporary) lack of XboX Live! Gold account
Anyway, check my stats. They suck, I know, but I´m pretty proud of them anyway. Specially of that "Greater than 1.25 K/D ratio" Because it could be way worse, like in a 0.50-way-worse-manner. Id like to say or promise you that I´ll be stayin´round here regulary, but I can´t lie to you folks. I´ll lie to myself to see if that works and I can be around at least once per week
Verdadero Khan HaloChart Stats
24/12/2009
Xmas!
You know, I´m not the kind of guy who goes around shouting "Merry Christmas!" and actually believing in it. But I do believe in sympathy, kindness and lots of nice and delicious food. Besides, this is Internet, a world were you can be whoever you want to be. For a moment, I´ll be the "Merry Christmas" type, so allow me to wish you all a Merry Christmas, a hell of a lot of happiness and a nice start for this 2010.
I might or might not update before next year. But we´ll be having another nice "Halo LAN Party" for New Year´s Eve, so I´ll definitely update after that magical event ^-^
Now, the card
I might or might not update before next year. But we´ll be having another nice "Halo LAN Party" for New Year´s Eve, so I´ll definitely update after that magical event ^-^
Now, the card
It wasn´t made by me, thanks to Bungie. All of you be good Santas and treat the grunts nicely!
23/12/2009
Sadie Story
Hi there, so here I am again. Not as regular as Id like, but it could be worse. Couldn´t it?
////The Meta-Game
Anyway I completed the meta-game Sadie´s Story in ODST. And that´s what made me come here today. Its great. The "game" itself is not much. You´ll basically come across signals from The Superintendent while playing in Mombasa Streets as The Rookie. The signals vary from police car´s sirens and digital ads suddenly turning into arrows pointing a direction to ticket machines venting cash non-stop.
Sadie Endesha, the main character
Finding the clues using these signals its great and intuitive, you feel like you´re being directed by the city itself (Thanks, Vergil ^-^). Once found, a clue would be only a bit of audio with some images. I told ya, that´s not much. But those bits of audio tell the story of Sadie, a young girl from New Mombasa, and they do so from her in-universe perspective. For Halo fanatics like me having audio bits of Mombasa´s daily life and the Covenant´s assault from the civilian´s perspective is very interesting. Add that the story is well told, well connected and displayed as one of those old-school radio novels and its just too sweet for me to not go after each little clue as a hungry hound.
There were 30, and boy, one or two of them were really hidden. Were not for lil´s Superintendent help I would have never found them. The last one was specially diferent, and especially dramatic.
////It was a G-R-E-A-T Idea
Including optional information about the game universe in any game is something Dev´s should do more often. Bungie tried it a bit with Halo 3´s Terminals. Its a great way to expand the game universe while not anoying players with endless cinematics or tons of text they can´t skip. Of course if you like the game and the story, you´ll want to see what those bits have to offer. But if you´re the kind of (idiot) player who only wants to shoot at stuff with his laz00r you won´t search for them, and you wont spam the dev´s mail with tons of "your game rulz but to much cutzcenes!!!!" so, this way, everybody is happy. The story-loving fans and the gameplay-only dudes
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Sierra K-042 out!!
////The Meta-Game
Anyway I completed the meta-game Sadie´s Story in ODST. And that´s what made me come here today. Its great. The "game" itself is not much. You´ll basically come across signals from The Superintendent while playing in Mombasa Streets as The Rookie. The signals vary from police car´s sirens and digital ads suddenly turning into arrows pointing a direction to ticket machines venting cash non-stop.
Sadie Endesha, the main character
Finding the clues using these signals its great and intuitive, you feel like you´re being directed by the city itself (Thanks, Vergil ^-^). Once found, a clue would be only a bit of audio with some images. I told ya, that´s not much. But those bits of audio tell the story of Sadie, a young girl from New Mombasa, and they do so from her in-universe perspective. For Halo fanatics like me having audio bits of Mombasa´s daily life and the Covenant´s assault from the civilian´s perspective is very interesting. Add that the story is well told, well connected and displayed as one of those old-school radio novels and its just too sweet for me to not go after each little clue as a hungry hound.
There were 30, and boy, one or two of them were really hidden. Were not for lil´s Superintendent help I would have never found them. The last one was specially diferent, and especially dramatic.
////It was a G-R-E-A-T Idea
Including optional information about the game universe in any game is something Dev´s should do more often. Bungie tried it a bit with Halo 3´s Terminals. Its a great way to expand the game universe while not anoying players with endless cinematics or tons of text they can´t skip. Of course if you like the game and the story, you´ll want to see what those bits have to offer. But if you´re the kind of (idiot) player who only wants to shoot at stuff with his laz00r you won´t search for them, and you wont spam the dev´s mail with tons of "your game rulz but to much cutzcenes!!!!" so, this way, everybody is happy. The story-loving fans and the gameplay-only dudes
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Sierra K-042 out!!
16/12/2009
Updating, again!
I haven´t stepped into darkness and seclusion yet, so here I am again to offer you some not-so-fresh but juicy news.
ODST Legnd
First, I completed Halo ODST on Legendary. Man, what a night. Some points where I tought "this is gonna be hell" were easy as pie. But others that looked easy were... hell. But I must admit it wasn´t so hard, compared to what I feared (Noob Combo FTW). So finally I can play as Dare!!
ODST Legnd
First, I completed Halo ODST on Legendary. Man, what a night. Some points where I tought "this is gonna be hell" were easy as pie. But others that looked easy were... hell. But I must admit it wasn´t so hard, compared to what I feared (Noob Combo FTW). So finally I can play as Dare!!
Not only that I like seeing chicks killing dozens of Covies, but also I love her Recon Armor.
The Fall of Reach:
A trailer of the upcoming Halo: Reach bungie title has been on the net for quite a few days now. So if you haven´t seen it, now its your time to do so.
Seems nice, huh? Well, maybe it isn´t as epic as the ones we were used to regarding Halo (although you have to admit that the Covenant Cruiser looks pretty epic and... scary) we just see a Spartan squad with presumably MJOLNIR Mark IV armor and a new addition to the squad. A lone survivor of "Pegasi" which, we pressume, its also a Spartan.
First, the speculation!
This is my blog, and I love to speculate regarding the Halo Universe. And about Reach and the trailer, there´s plenty to think about. We have a Spartan team, nicknamed "Noble". We´ll, the main Spartan force was commanded by Frederick, the Blue Leader. And descended on a Pelican to protect the MAC Stations generators, which were on the surface of the planet and also were very vulnerable to Covenant ground units. (Read Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike to know more) So what´s with this team? Are they even Spartan-II? I guess so, but I can only guess.
Regarding the Lone survivor of Pegasi. He may come from Pegasi Delta, a small planet were the Covenant held a colony and a refuelling station. 300 Spartan-III were sent to assault the colony in Operation TORPEDO. Only two survived: Tom B-292 and Lucy B-091. So if our lonewolf is a survivor from Pegasi, he/she must be either Tom or Lucy. Or he/she might even be another Spartan-III survivor, you know, when everything goes to hell in a military operation its hard to tell how many of your friends are dead, mortally wounded or just MIA
But of course, Pegasi might mean anything else and non-related. Thats the sad part of speculation
Onto the trailer itself:
Look at that graphics, aren´t they great for a CGI trailer? Think again, because Bungie stated they were INGAME Graphics. Wow, thats just amazing, isn´t it? I can´t wait to see the finished product. Oh, and the Elites are back......
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Sierra K-042 Out
A trailer of the upcoming Halo: Reach bungie title has been on the net for quite a few days now. So if you haven´t seen it, now its your time to do so.
Seems nice, huh? Well, maybe it isn´t as epic as the ones we were used to regarding Halo (although you have to admit that the Covenant Cruiser looks pretty epic and... scary) we just see a Spartan squad with presumably MJOLNIR Mark IV armor and a new addition to the squad. A lone survivor of "Pegasi" which, we pressume, its also a Spartan.
First, the speculation!
This is my blog, and I love to speculate regarding the Halo Universe. And about Reach and the trailer, there´s plenty to think about. We have a Spartan team, nicknamed "Noble". We´ll, the main Spartan force was commanded by Frederick, the Blue Leader. And descended on a Pelican to protect the MAC Stations generators, which were on the surface of the planet and also were very vulnerable to Covenant ground units. (Read Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike to know more) So what´s with this team? Are they even Spartan-II? I guess so, but I can only guess.
Regarding the Lone survivor of Pegasi. He may come from Pegasi Delta, a small planet were the Covenant held a colony and a refuelling station. 300 Spartan-III were sent to assault the colony in Operation TORPEDO. Only two survived: Tom B-292 and Lucy B-091. So if our lonewolf is a survivor from Pegasi, he/she must be either Tom or Lucy. Or he/she might even be another Spartan-III survivor, you know, when everything goes to hell in a military operation its hard to tell how many of your friends are dead, mortally wounded or just MIA
But of course, Pegasi might mean anything else and non-related. Thats the sad part of speculation
Onto the trailer itself:
Look at that graphics, aren´t they great for a CGI trailer? Think again, because Bungie stated they were INGAME Graphics. Wow, thats just amazing, isn´t it? I can´t wait to see the finished product. Oh, and the Elites are back......
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Sierra K-042 Out
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