I'm starting to get itchy. H-Day is one week from today. I feel like I ought to be doing something to prepare myself. Maybe some finger stretching exercises. Something. Maybe I should pre-order. I don't know. It's crazy. I just went through this for Harry Potter.
I've heard that somebody got a 6 minute spy capture of the ending of the single-player game. I just know that I don't want to see that. If somebody would have told me what would happen to various character in that last book, it would have destroyed half the adventure. So I'm going to stay away from YouTube on that score.
Part of me wants to just relax, chill out and not worry about playing the first week. Another part of me wants to find out which of my online buddies has the biggest HiDef and go hang at his place. Another part of me wants to pretend I don't care at all and deny my inner game geek. See, I know that there are going to be a dozen new maps for the interactive game, and I know some folks are going to just do the single player just to get some quick achievements. I've already been through the beta, so I have a jump on some millions of players. Why should I rush?
Because, Halo is the biggest new franchise of science fiction. It is what Star Trek used to be.
Yeah you got me. I think people who watch soap operas are lamebrains. I'd never watch Entertainment Tonight or buy a gossip magazine, but I am a gamer. Lately it has become something of a guilty pleasure. I don't quite enjoy it as much as I used to, and the times that I do, I feel a bit more silly. It's detective novels that are doing this to me, I think. I do a lot more serious reading too. I heard that there was a Halo comic novel. I never found it. I've been trying to get the I love bees ringtone onto my Treo. No luck yet. The film has been canceled and the Nylund books have left me a little dry. I need more Halo fix, and nothing is satisfying me.
I need the real game. I need to un-Shadowrun my reflexes. I need to back off of Rainbow Six and get my Halo focus back. It's about that time.
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