- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I played Playstation all my life.. I have some of my greatest gaming memorys with a playstation remote in my hands.. but I first discovered Halo:CE when a hoard of stupid little teenagers started talking about it, I checked it out and I realized what all the buzz was about.. but i never thought it was worth buying an X box over.
Then Halo 2 came out and the fanbase only grew, but I was still not over-powered and i found myself enjoying fighting games (Street fighter 3, Tekken) to be more in my 'genre'. Still, this game DID look to be interesting but I never really got to play it that much.
Summer 04' came around and I found myself living in my friends basement, getting drunk and sleeping 2 hours a week. I would spend my nights, wasted off my ass, playing random video games after everyone had passed out. The games I played during these few months were Star Wars (the rpg, not sure the title), Tony Hawks Underground 2, GTA Vice City(which i broke) and Halo:CE. I got bored of all these games, but i quickly and drunkenly realized that Halo was the most interesting one. I would spend all nighters, filled with vodka and illegal substances trying to beat levels on legendary.. slowly but surely, i would be able to defeat the evil battallion of Elites and Floods, and i found myself developing strategys in my head.. this is not a run 'n' gun, this is all out war, and i am a one man army.
Before these Bungie nights, I had never played Halo:CE that much.. i might have played once or twice on multi-player and I got easily frustrated by my constant deaths, but it no way was it my lack of skill.. i had simply never owned or played X box.
After a week or two of playing Halo:CE, drinking vodka and eating ridiculous amounts of instant noodles, popcorn and coffee crisps, i finally played through the entire game on legendary.. i was proud of myself, and i must say i was quite 'hooked' for lack of a better word. In these days, 2 years ago.. It was the best days of my life, getting drunk with friends, listening to good music, to loud into the wee hours of the night... My friend was a diabetic, a smoker, a drinker and indeed he abused of chemicals he shouldnt.. but so did I! without the diabetes.. but because of this guys illness, i was forced to drink Diet Decaffeinated Pepsi.. and i must say, it was horrible. We used to stack up countless amounts of cans on his coffee table in the basement.. and we used to put our ashes in them.. to many times did i pick up one of these cans and swallow ciggarette, cigar and spliff ashes... but these nights were amazing! We used to play bloody knuckles with a pound coin as a drinking game, literally breaking our fists open just so that we could take an other shot.
At long last, months had passed and I was once more forced to enter school.. I discovered my addiction.. no.. not to cigarettes, ashes, drugs or alchohol but to the now classic Halo:CE.
Lacking the proper funding to continue my newly found love for the Halo games, i found myself downloading free trials for the Halo:PC and hoaned my skills there. I made an interesting discovery.. everyone sucked ass! I could rarely ever find anyone who could challenge me and be good at it.. no one was good enough to defeat me and i always beat them horribly.. I forced myself to improve on my techniques, my weaknesses were with Shotguns.. i simply could not use them correctly but now i am not half-bad.. i can kill anyone easily and avoid enemy weapons easily.. its simple, really. A large problem with Halo:PC was the banshees.. These weapons were the most noob things in the Haloverse and got on my nerves so badly.. not only was it a giant flying purple wang, but it also had the fuel rod on it, making it unbalanced and unfair.. but to my surprise, no one knew how to use it and was pretty much.. well a noob weapon... but still easy to kill if you knew how to do it correctly. My top weapons were obviously, the pistol and the sniper which for some reason blew away teh competition.
I then lost interest in Halo, but i played it once in a while for fun, just for the hell of it.. but i found myself addicted to Street Fighter once more, and even playing Paper Mario more then Halo ( 350 hours of Paper Mario in all)..
Then the Halo 3 trailer was announced and i longed to announce my ideas to the people, wanting to be heard I found the thread 'Idea's for weapons in Halo 3' and made haste to putting all my (great) ideas down which would add to gameplay, interactivity and realism.. I pretty much wrote an entire essay about my ideas and posted it here.. but i was crushed miserably by the fact that no one at all cared about people's ideas.. and that there opinion was the only one that mattered.. i read through some of the pages of idea's and saw things such as 'bows and arrows.. boomrangs and bringing back the H1 pistol'.. I felt like i was surrounded by morons, by bluddering idiots who spent there time giving idiotic idea's and flaming at others... Crazy, ridiculous theorys popped up here and there every few minutes.. as thought people thought that they were writing the script themselves, they started to beleive that there own ideas were part of the story and claimed that if you read the books, you could see that.. say.. Cortana is pregnant?
I felt so.. destroyed. I lost all hope in the people.. and i put my trust in the developers of the game... which is what everyone else should do. I was going to disconnect my account.. delete it from existence so that my ideas would become anonymous since they fell on deaf ears anyway.. but then I was invited to a group called
The Discussion Corner . It gave me new hope because i realized that there were some intelligent people on this site.. JAVA.. Reanimation.. Scrolnyx.. Iceman Assasin.. and uh.. uh.. um.. well thats pretty much it.. Though, they're are idiots everywhere, this was the one place where a few intelligent people reunited to discuss topics about anything.. taboo subjects, drugs, love, , education, society, religion, sex ual orientation, death and life.. and so on and so forth.. and these people actually had a sense of humour as well! Sure, they're were some idiots who beleived themselves superior, even though they were entirely ridiculous and immature.. you could still discuss with these people about what they beleived in, it was not a flame war, it was not a hate group.. it was actual discussions.
Then i started going in The Flood, and saw that this place was pretty much just a place where people could have fun.. it wasnt an uptight neck and tie strict military control camp like the H3 forums. Here, i could lay back.. have some fun.. and i find myself in these forums, along with the discussion corner everytime I come on the net..
I even stopped caring about the H3 release, I had forgotten why i came here to start with.. lol.