Sunday, November 21, 2004
I (FINALLY) got Halo 2 on Saturday, and I've spent the last two days virtually living on Xbox Live playing Halo with Haneal, Muk and a whole bunch of other people. Things I think about it:
- I love using the Sword to go on a rampage: In one game my stats read "0 Shots Fired, 0 Shots Hit, 0% Accuracy, 9 kills".
- Matchmaking both sucks and rules: I like that my opponents keep rotating -- there really are some annoying people online -- but I hate how hard it is to keep people I like playing with, I hate how long the whole Matchmaking process takes, and I hate not having control of what type of game I want to play. Though the variety it throws up is also rather welcome.
- Killed Muk in a totally Face/Off way: We were on top of a rocky arch, there was a rocket launcher between us, we both jumped towards each other, but before we collided in mid-air I pulled out my shotgun and blasted him in the face.
- There are some awfully good players online: We were totally and utterly outclassed by this amazing team. They just destroyed us. Every angle we turned to, everywhere we went, everything we did, they stomped us. Somehow we managed a score against them with the flag (I think they lost track of me, or something).
- There are some awfully annoying kids online: These four preteens totally destroyed us despite spending the entire time telling everyone REALLY LOUDLY how cool it was that their dad bought Halo 2 for them at midnight.
- We're actually not bad: We make a pretty decent team for 1 Flag CTF though. Most maps we hold our own, and most of the time we can win. But we are absolutely freaking awesome on Zanzibar -- we have never lost and only ever conceded 2 flags in five games at Zanzibar.
- Fun times on Zanzibar: 1) Sneaking up to steal the flag from the base, then listening to them bitch about how I obviously exploited lag to warp in and out with the flag when in reality the one dude standing guard was looking the other way; 2) Grabbing the flag and then beating two people to death with it on the way out, including the guy on the turret; 3) Single-handedly stopping a flag score by blasting three goons from behind with three point-blank shotgun blasts.
- Gametypes I despise: Territories on Midship, Oddball in the Colossus.
- Some great names on Xbox Live: My favourites are WookieMaster and WookieMistress, who played together. We never managed to ask WookieMistress if she was hot, but the consensus was no.
- People need to learn the controls: We quickly realised that you need to hold down the white button to ONLY talk to your teammates (instead of to anyone within listening range). Other people never quite realised that. My favourite were the dudes in Beaver Creek who'd get to the top of our base and announce "Hey, I'm on top of their base and about to go inside!". Yeah, little tip? WE CAN HEAR YOU.
It's just stupid fun. I can't wait to play more tonight!
Posted at 3:06 AM
