inmostlight, posts by tag: halo - LiveJournal

I've been slowly making my way through the Halo 3 campaign.  I'll say more when I'm done, but unlike Halo 2 it's actually keeping me interested.  I never did finish H2, but here I want to keep going; I think the main difference is that I don't feel like I'm getting lost as much, and there are more instances of epic awesomeness.  The pacing's better.  And, admittedly, the achievement points and especially the co-op help.  (I probably would have finished it by now if I didn't keep getting sucked into co-op games!)

The online can be as fun as ever, and I haven't yet run into any racist twelve year olds.  I do mostly run into people much better than I am, though, and get my ass kicked.  But I finally won a ranked deathmatch last night, mostly because I played Grand Theft AutoGhost, grabbed a vehicle, and zoomed around the level running over all the other players. God that's fun after a long day of work. Splat!

I had so much fun in that winning match I decided to play around with the replay features a bit. ( Collapse )

4-player online co-op = greatest thing since sliced bread
sliced bread having just been invented last week
I don't like how it doesn't let others just hop in or leave at any time, though.

I'm already enjoying the campaign a whole lot more than Halo 2, and not getting lost as much as I used to. I do miss the David Cross marine, though.

I didn't try any of the online deathmatch yet. I do like how it shows a world map with lights for all the people online, and pretty much all of North America except for a part in the middle and a few places out west is lit up like a halogen light.

For todomy

Troy Hurtubise, the greatest Canadian who ever lived, has built what looks like working MJOLNIR Master Chief armor. Plus, I bet you could totally fuck up some grizzly bears in that thing!

bedlamboy was upset that yesterday's video post didn't actually feature Transformers, so this post is for him.
I'm not going to talk about the Transformers movie, because I have no faith in Michael Bay. There'll be fast cuts and loud explosions and bad rock music and that's about it. What I am hesitantly excited about, though, is the Halo movie. Getting the screenwriter of 28 Days Later and being produced by Peter Jackson were good enough, but I'm very intrigued by them tapping Neill Blomkamp to be the director.

At first I hadn't heard of him, other than that he'd mostly done commercials and music videos. Sometimes that can be good (Michel Gondry, David Fincher), but all too often that description fills me with fear-filled tremors because of hacks like McG. But then I read that he was responsible for that awesome documentary-style sci-fi short, Alive in Joburg. And that Citroen commercial with the dancing robot car. There's your transformer!

YouTube has a bunch of his films. Here's a short called Tetra Vaal; it's more a concept than anything, but I love his documentary style. He's almost like a sci-fi Spike Lee. I'm also impressed with how he manages to take fantastic technology place it in a real-world, dirty environment without having it look out of place. I don't want to be too optimistic, but Blomkamp so far falls more into the Gondry and Fincher camps than the McG hobo village. I eagerly look forward to seeing what he can do with a feature-length film.



Also check out: Yellow, that looks like what I Robot should have been like.

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh to executive product Halo movie.

Maybe, just maybe, it'll be cool. At least WETA will make it look good.