This is Spartan 117

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“Master Chief, you mind telling me what you’re doing on that ship?”
(Fleet Admiral Sir Terrence Hood)

“Sir, finishing this fight.”

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NOTRLY!

But, I have!  Finally, after finishing the second installment (yeah, I played out of order), my Halo series is over with!  1, 2, & 3 have now all been totally completed.  Of course I didn’t do it on the hard difficulties…but whatever, I still won.

So what’s a girl to do now?  Well, I have Gears of War and GoW 2 (completed 7/5) on hand to take care of.  Also, Killzone 2 has been calling to me.
Mostly, I’m craving the next Halo installment — Halo 3: ODST

Though there will be no beloved Master Chief, I see good times ahead.

{EDITED to combine two posts}
{6/28/09}

With 99% of my blog views being for Halo 3: ODST (a change from my usual WoW traffic), I decided to basically repost info you can find easily elsewhere.

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Halo 3: ODST
(Orbital Drop Shock Troopers)

The game is set approximately two weeks prior to the events of Halo 3 in the fictional city of New Mombasa.

The main objective of ODST is for the player, a lone UNSC soldier known as “the Rookie,” to search through the ruins of New Mombasa and discover what happened to his missing teammates. As the Rookie drops in the ODST pod, the Prophet of Regret’s ship is seen jumping into slipspace. After finding a piece of evidence left behind — a sniper rifle hanging on a lamppost, for example — a flashback is triggered and the player assumes the role of the missing soldier. After players find the first beacon, the choice of where to go next is up to the player. It will also include an option which, unlike other Halo games, will allow the player to play the campaign levels in any order they want to.

ODST’s multiplayer offering is identical to Halo 3’s, and will ship with a total of 24 maps. Maps consist of the original eleven Halo 3 maps (Construct, Epitaph, Guardian, High Ground, Isolation, Last Resort, Narrows, Sandtrap, Snowbound, The Pit, Valhalla), the Heroic map pack (Foundry, Rat’s Nest, Standoff), the Legendary map pack (Avalanche, Blackout, Ghost Town), the “Cold Storage” map, and both parts of the Mythic map pack (Assembly, Orbital, and Sandbox; Citadel, Heretic, and Longshore).

In a recent gameplay trailer, a game mode called Firefight is shown, wherein players take on increasingly difficult waves of varied enemies, similar to Gears of War 2’s Horde mode. Firefight will include new medals as well as the ability to co-op with up to 4 teammates over Xbox LIVE or system link. Each player has a set number of lives which, upon their depletion the game ends. There is no time limit, no limited number of rounds and no maximum number of kills. Skulls will be incorporated into firefight as a means to increase the difficulty and provide variation. The maps used in firefight will be unlocked as the player progresses through the ODST campaign. It is also noted that the enemy characters appearing in each wave are generated at random, thus the player will be unable to anticipate the strength of the next wave prior to its arrival.

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The game’s protagonist, referred to as “the rookie”, is an unnamed member of the UNSC Marines’ Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs) or “Helljumpers”. ODSTs often deploy in small, one-man Human Entry Vehicles (HEVs), launched from spaceships in the upper atmosphere. During the game, the Rookie is separated from his four teammates and must find out what happened to them with the guidance of a city maintenance AI known as the Superintendent. The Rookie’s teammates are Buck, Dutch, Romeo, Mickey, and Dare (voiced by Tricia Helfer). Nathan Fillion also voices one of the ODST in the game.

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Halo 3: ODST will ship as a two-disc set. The first disc containing the campaign mode as well as the firefight co-op mode, while the second disc will contain the multiplayer mode with the complete set of Halo 3 maps. Owners of the game will receive an invitation to participate in the upcoming Halo: Reach multiplayer beta in 2010, while pre-orders will include a token to unlock Sgt. Johnson as a playable character in the Firefight multiplayer mode.

A special edition “Collector’s Pack” has been confirmed, containing the game and a special ODST wireless Xbox 360 Controller.

Links:
Bungie
Wikipedia

Winnar!

I guess being temporarily single (as my man is on business in another state) hasn’t been that bad.  Afterall, I’ve gotten more gaming in!

Now, what to play next…
I suppose beating the first Gears of War would be a good choice…
But then, I am craving some LEBRON JAMES! action too…
Killzone 2 is still begging my fingers to work it…

Hmm…  The used game store is open…  That’s always an excuse to drop some cleavage for the nerds.  (Yes, I do this.  No, it doesn’t work when the dweebs have a girlfriend with them.  In those cases I get to laugh as their whipped-asses get glared at.  I love being a chick gamer!)

You know what’s sad?  I’m debating what to do next with a video game.  Wow.

Achievements

Some achievements have the greatest titles.

Seriously.

EBank “fraud”

Link

Australian gamer blackballed

over virtual world ‘fraud’

Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market.

It happened in EVE Online, where more than 300,000 subscribers pay $US15 a month to play. They gain wealth through hard work, manipulating the market, or killing rivals in a distant future where humans have colonised the stars in an online game similar to World of Warcraft and Second Life.

EBank, EVE’s largest player-run financial institution which has thousands of depositors, is at the centre of the scandal.

“Basically this character was one of the people that had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money,” said Ned Coker, of the Icelandic company CCP, which developed the game.

The CEO of EBank, a 27-year-old Australian tech worker who identified himself only as Richard and used the online name Ricdic, embezzled about 200 billion interstellar kredits, the game’s virtual currency.

He broke the rules of the game by exchanging the stolen virtual funds for $6300 Australian ($5100) with players who preferred to buy virtual money rather than earn it playing the game.

“It was a very on the spot decision,” the married father of two explained in an interview.

He said a spam email for a black market website that traded online money for real cash popped up on his screen, prompting him to exchange the virtual cash for real money to cover a deposit on his house and expenses related to his son’s medical problems.

“I saw that as an avenue that could be taken, and I decided to skim off the top, you could say, to overcome real life (difficulties).”

Word of the theft spread quickly within EVE. Panicked customers started a run on the bank, worried that they would lose the money they had amassed by hunting space pirates or mining asteroids.

Ironically, if Ricdic had merely stolen the online money he could have stayed in the game. But exchanging the virtual cash for real dollars broke the rules and CCP banned Richard’s EBank accounts.

“It unbalances the game,” Coker said.

Players can only buy virtual money with real money, or use virtual cash to pay for playing time, but they cannot exchange game money for the real thing.

“We have never seen ourselves as gods who make the rules of social interaction,” said Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, an economics adviser to CCP. “You are able to lose the things you have created. That’s what makes the world interesting.”

Ironically, Richard had built a reputation as one of EVE’s few trusted players – a rare commodity in a game where repeatedly blowing up a violator’s spaceship was the only way to enforce some contracts.

Asked if he had any regrets about the scam, Richard said he felt he let down his fellow EBank staffers, many of whom he considered friends.

“I’m not proud of it at all, that’s why I didn’t brag about it. But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would’ve chosen the same path based on the same situation,” he said.

EBank survived the crisis. But Richard will not be returning to EVE anytime soon.

“At the moment, we’ve got our hands full,” Richard said about his family responsibilities in the real world.

Worm heart huntin’

With days of utter boredom comes a return to the 360.  Granted I was never “done” with gaming, I’ve just not had the urge to play in a long while.  (Long being days, days!)

Last night I decided to give Gears of War 2 another go.  Man, oh, man…  GoW2 is so badass.  Slowly, I’m learning how to better play.  It’s taken quite some time to realize I don’t have to pop shots from cover and can, rather, charge up with some clever dives/rolls to punch enemy faces in to save a couple hundred bullets.

I’m presently inside the giant worm apparently looking to find its heart.  I assume the goal is to chainsaw it and throw blood everywhere.  Speaking of blood, getting smashed by the digestive teeth is epic fun.  Goddamn it’s awesome.

…I really need to get back into Killzone2.

{EDIT}
Well, I was spot-on with the chainsaw-to-heart thinking!

PS:
“Concentrate your fire on the sphincter!”

GoW2

I’m not so good.  I’d rather be playing Halo.  :(

But visually it’s fucking stunning.

Finally

Let me edit that down to remove the sexy avatar (you know you love it).
{And why can’t I view my own profile properly?  I had to use my boyfriends just to view this.}

YEEEAAAHHHHHH BITCHES!

Interesting…

Someone did a search today which led them to this blog… an odd search which somehow linked to here…

sex happy viegiena

wut?

Achievements

So wrong, so funny…  I may go to Hell just for liking that image.

Gaming update

We’ve had a couple friends come by who are giving my bf his geeky-girl-gamer fixes (since I apparently don’t seem to count). I think he enjoys playing against them ’cause he doesn’t know them as well and when they get pissed, THEY GET PISSED. I know he loves working people up like that. Pwning hawt bishes in video games must be a manly thrill.

We bought Gears of War 2 on Ebay..only to have to work at getting the money back as the seller went from good to bad; the seller has sold nearly a dozen items this month and not delivered according to the feedback. Sucks. The four of us (bf&I and the two sisters) have been anxiously waiting for that game too. Looks like I’ll go out myself and buy it for a much higher cost from a store. LAME.

We visit GameStop on occasion now. I always look for Halo Wars (I saw it there once) but it’s always gone. Guess nobody is exchanging that one. So far, everyone has said it’s simply brilliant. Yet another I’ll have to purchase for full price somewhere.

The sisters (I’m calling them that from now on) convinced us to play the first Gears of War while we were waiting for 2 and I admit it’s a badass game. We’ve not played it much at all ’cause we’ve both been busy with work ‘n whatnot and when we do play, we’re playing Halo 2 or I’m dorking around in the menu screen of NBA Live 09.

PS: I freaking hate playing the Arbiter.

PPS:  I FUCKING HATE THE FLOOD!