1st Blog
Never actually written a blog before, but have read a lot. The best thing about blogs in their infancy is that there does not appear to be any guidelines. Just talk about what's on the mind. I'm looking forward to Halo 3 coming out. Halo 2 did not go as expected. My friends and I used to have lans that lasted for hours. When Goldeneye came out, two of my friends would come up to Denver from Colorado Springs and El Paso on a regular basis. Our itinerary for these weekends was approximately: Friday night go out and drink. Eat at Jerusalem's at 3am. Wake up at 10am. Play Goldeneye until 8pm. Repeat until Sunday night. 2003/04 New Year's Eve in Breckenridge was Halo CE until 4am. I don't think we stopped at midnight for a toast. I forgot to tell you, we were there with our gfs. Yep, they were pissed. Fast forward to Halo 2. My friends destroyed me on my own tv opening night. They were surprised b/c everyone thought I would be the best. I am now, but that's b/c I continued playing and none of them except one ever signed up for a Live account. He quit three months in b/c too many Timmies were talkin' smack and he had smashed over ten controllers and three Xboxes. That's not made up or exaggerated. I just turned my intercom to mute, b/c I was frequently on the bad side of an ass-kickin'. Online play with H2 had me hooked, regardless of the ass-thrashing I received on a regular basis. I didn't even pick up a BR until I found MLG and watched a tournament on VOD. I thought the BR was the worst weapon Bungie had ever made until watching MLG. Ok, I'll force myself to use that thing. Today I feel naked w/o a BR. Playing the Beta though, Bungie had done a nice job of making killing more viable w/o a scoped weapon. I especially grew fond of the needler in that short period of time. But the SMG? I'm pretty sure most of us have asked ourselves what Bungie was thinking when they decided to make that the starting weapon for most gametypes and maps. It's ludicrous and absurd. With H2, two problems stuck out like acne on a teenager's face which resulted in a significant downgrade of fun factor. The first has been virtually eliminated by Bungie for H3 and also probably well defended by this website for H2. The problem I am speaking of is negative verbal communication, primarily of the Timmy variety. Originally I intended to turn the mic back on once I was dominating noobs and held supremacy in the Halo universe. As you might expect, that never happened. After three years of playing H2 online, I have accepted who I am in the Halo mp world. Until recently, I have been reluctant to pursue finding people to play with online. I was satisfied with simply honing my skills as a slayer, learning to kill with any weapon. Although I have largely done that, I feel like I have finally transcended to what I thought would have happened two to three years ago, which is feeling comfortable playing with other people repeatedly and confident enough in my skills that I am not embarrassed to the point that I have to run away after every MM game, never to be seen again. I have received hundreds of friends requests after a game. I would reject them thinking that I must have been lucky that game b/c I had host or something. I didn't want to let them down once they found out how bad I really sucked. This must sound like oversensitive teenager behavior, hell, it probably is. But now I know where I am. There are a lot of people better than me and a lot of people not better than me. I rarely talk crap, and am definitely a glass half full person. I have a lot of patience and never get upset at someone if they are the obvious reason for a loss. I've been there many times before. Objective gametypes have become much more interesting to me this year. I find slayer games to be not quite as fun. Unfortunately, I still play Team Slayer the most b/c it is the fastest MM way to find a game. What I really want is to find new and fun gametypes to play with people I am familiar with, especially with people that aren't 12. That is largely why I am here. I have looked through every clan on the website. I have looked at many of the gamer's stats on Bungie. With H3 coming, I feel like I would be a good addition to just about any clan. I am good at adapting to whatever is needed (slaying, support, running objective, whatever- one side note: do not count on me to be the one that gets the snipe on TS Sanctuary or Beaver Creek. Just let me use my favorite weapon, the blue collar work horse. The good 'ol BR.) and I think that I could fit into most any system, whether it be a large group of guys just having fun or a smaller, more competetive group geared more toward winning. My gt is xxRowan. My K:D ratio as of today is 1.35, not too shabby. Oh yeah, there was the second problem with H2 Live mp. It's called lag, and we all know how that story goes.