"Michael S. Morris" wrote:
>
> Saturday, the 27th of November, 2004
>
> Lewis Mammel wrote:
> I completed level one of HALO 2 on 'EASY' !
>
> All by myself!
>
> Armenius
>
> Very cool! I played someways into HALO maybe
> a year ago. On "easy", of course, and with whatever
> coaching I could get from my Zan as he wandered past.
Yeah, my son bought X-Box ( with HALO ) when it came out,
and I played it some then. It's been a few years I guess.
When HALO 2 finally came out, I asked him if he got it,
thinking maybe he had cooled on it, but not to worry.
He brought it up over Thanksgiving, so I got a chance
at it.
"Easy" really is pretty easy, actually, and gives you
a chance to acclimate to the controls. I have a lot
of trouble with the "look" function. I overshoot, but
there is a sensitivity adjustment. Anyway, I got somewhat
further.
Meanwhile, my son was taking a shot at "legendary" ( highest )
difficulty, and fell back to "heroic" ( above "normal" above "easy")
> Did you happen to catch, I think on NPR's "Marketplace",
> a discussion of the "video-gaming generation" and
> "gaming generation gap"?
No I didn't. My niece complimented me many years ago
when she told me I was the best grownup at Nintendo
that she knew. ( She and her brother easily outplayed me. )
Now it's a whole new ballgame again. Time is bound to
defeat you. I made a big effort to catch up to the eighties,
and now that's nostalgia.
> I think it coincided with the release
> of Halo 2, and discussions of how there's more money now
> in these games than there is in Hollywood movies.
Yeah, the production of a game is comparable to a big movie
now. In fact, the have a lot of cinematic interludes in HALO 2,
and credit the "cinematic" and "AI" voice actors. Miguel Ferrer
and Ron Perlman are among the former.
Lew Mammel, Jr.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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