- MaxRealflugel
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- Elder Mythic Member
This, I hope, will be an informative and deeply engaging read for both the players of Halo, and those involved in its creation.
First, I'd like to complain a little. Not about any of the Halo games produced by Bungie, but about the lack of acknowledgement that most of us in the Gallery forum receive.
Now obviously a lot of the Bungie staff are, understandably, busy with the ODST project and anything else that is currently in the pipeline. So I can appreciate that most of you (Bungie) are unable to enjoy the luxury of drifting through the forums, answering threads or simply contributing to a chosen discussion, but what you have to understand is that us Gallery folk are a little more devoted than the regular sea of fans that you already have.
Most people that post in the Halo 3 forum (the most popular forum at the moment) are regular gamers. Now I'm not having go at regular gamers, but most, if not all, of their threads are filled with "Help get me to lvl 50" or "what's better, a sniper rifle or a banana?"
These are community members that buy Halo, play Halo, try to rank up in matches and then carry on with their life in general. We in the Gallery forum go that little bit further.
We envelope ourselves and our readers in fan fiction, or spend hours or even days creating unique and beautiful images. Machinima also gets a look in, but is most often produced and kept within various groups.
For me I have personally been writing a Halo based piece of fan fiction for almost a year. And yet, despite numerous attempts, I have been unable to get this or any other fanfic on the Bungie news section.
Halo is very different to every other first person shooter. It has amazing game play, environments that you can completely immerse yourself in and dense storyline that no other game can match. We take all of that on board and expand the universe a little bit more.
While the modern gamer might finish the fight, we stay up, writing, drawing, creating and fighting some more.
So please Bungie, give us the recognition that we deserve.
More to come...