{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-26T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/squidink\/2007\/09\/26\/anyone-else-not-playing-halo-3\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:57:26","slug":"anyone-else-not-playing-halo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/squidink\/2007\/09\/26\/anyone-else-not-playing-halo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Else NOT Playing Halo 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t own an X-Box 360. I can’t afford it. I don’t even own a regular X-Box, or a PS3, PS2 or a Wii. I do, in fact, own a PSOne, and I’ve not touched it in at least two years, despite having a handful of games I still enjoy playing on it (mainly the original Resident Evil, RE2, Monster Rancher 2<\/span> and Metal Gear: Solid<\/span>). Two of those games are among my top 10 games ever, and it’s a shame that I really don’t have time to play them more often.<\/p>\n

But, without an X-Box 360, there shall be no Halo 3<\/span> for me. I do own the original Halo<\/span>, for the PC, and I enjoyed it a lot until the Flood showed up. I got very frustrated trying to out-walk them (Master Chief doesn’t run. Or if that is his running speed, it’s pathetically slow<\/span>) through a maze of identical hallways, only to get stuck in a dead end and get killed by the little yellow bugs. Repeatedly.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably get back to it someday, as it’s one of the few games where as I was playing it, I really felt like a bad-ass. There’s nothing like leaping amongst a group of grunts, blasting away, tossing grenades and hearing them scream "He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!<\/span>" as they run for their lives. I felt like Arnold mixed with Kurt Russell. <\/p>\n

Still, as much as I’d like to, I’m not going to get to play Halo 3<\/span> anytime soon. No chance for me to "Finish the Fight<\/span>," as there’s no way I can afford an X-Box 360 anytime in my near future, as I have too many other things I have to spend cashy-money on, like rent, car payments and food. But at least I can enjoy all the fun web-based stuff. The Museum bits and that huge diorama<\/a><\/span> are amazingly cool, and I recommend checking it out. The "interviews" with the survivors of the battle are also very well done. Bungie <\/span>is going all-out to make Halo 3<\/span> a true event, and they’re doing a fantastic job of it.<\/p>\n

I also enjoy their selection of Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude<\/span> to play as you zoom around inside the diorama. Anything that gets more people listening to Classical music, and realizing why it’s still around, is a good thing, I think. I’ll actually go t to the web page and drop into the thing, letting the music play in the background as I do other stuff. It’s that good of a version, and I really hope they put out a Halo 3<\/span> soundtrack CD, with that on it. <\/p>\n

But it also inspires me to want to play a table-top RPG with this kind of action going on. That would be a blast, if my friends could gather to game more often than once every other month or so. Ah well, the life of the older, responsible gamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t own an X-Box 360. I can’t afford it. I don’t even own a regular X-Box, or a PS3, PS2 or a Wii. I do, in fact, own a PSOne, and I’ve not touched it in at least two … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n