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Rampancy
Death by intelligence.
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Sheet Music
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| Halo 5: Advent (String... | cwhiterun | 06.07.16 |
| Halo 5: Blue Team (Str... | cwhiterun | 10.22.15 |
| Halo 5: Light is Green... | cwhiterun | 10.20.15 |
| Halo 5: The Trials (St... | cwhiterun | 10.12.15 |
| Roll Call - Price Paid | pimpnmonk | 06.02.14 |
| Behold A Pale Horse Fo... | pimpnmonk | 01.24.14 |
| Farthest Outpost/Mercy... | pimpnmonk | 12.30.13 |
Rampancy Podcast
| Episode | Date |
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| Sony Acquires Bungie (mp3) | 02.02.22 |
| Let's Play Mass Effect 3 #27 Final... | 06.02.17 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha... | 05.08.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny... | 03.05.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann... | 04.21.12 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann... | 06.26.11 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint... | 04.18.11 |
Suggestions Database At Bungie.net
Yeroen has posted a story that they've added a new area to the site, a Suggestions Database for fans to... well, to make suggestions.
There are a few notes already there-- a couple of requests for the return of XML Channels (yes, please! And how about Bungie.net generating one of its own, too!) as well as a note that it appears that the old Bungie.net site is still there at hydra.bungie.com.
TechTV Reviews The Xbox
We missed TechTV's (very positive) review of the Xbox, posted back on Launch Day:
The Xbox is the most powerful game console ever. That's not to say it's necessarily the best gaming console available; factors other than raw power come into play when deciding which console to buy. When people familiar with Sony and Nintendo's next-generation gaming consoles pick up an Xbox controller, they will notice a marked difference in the graphics quality and processing power of this machine.
It's divided into four sections: Introduction, hardware, fast, but not perfect , and reality.
Shacknews Writer Posts Positive Impressions
Jack Mathews at Shacknews now has an Xbox and a GameCube, and so to start off a new round of fla... I mean, discussions, he's posted a few positive impressions of titles for each console to start off:
Halo - Surprisingly very fun, especially the indoor combat. The enemies are extremely fun to fight against, the health system is great, infinite respawns at checkpoints are nice. The controls (once I could invert the lookaround) are pretty damn nice.
Not really sure why that starts with surprisingly unless he never really enjoyed reinstalling Windows 98SE. But then again, later on in the article he calls Super Monkey Ball a great party game so perhaps normal human beings aren't competent to even guess what he considers fun .
Marty Writes Recent Rant
We failed to notice before, but along with the new Letters to the Webmaster at the revised Bungie.net site, there's a new Soapbox, this time by Marty O'Donnell on how long a game should be:
And another thing - this concept of beating a game. Does one say, I just beat War and Peace, and it rocked ? No, one would sound like an idiot. Rather one should say I just finished reading War and Peace and I more fully understand the poignancy and futility of striving against man's inhumanity to man . One would still sound like an idiot, but at least one might have a better chance at impressing a chick at a party (although my daughters would never fall for it so don't even think about trying).
Sure about that, Marty? Let's hope so.
The Whole Story Of Halo Is Here
Harry has posted a spoiler of humungous proportions, laying out the entire story of the game in summary form.
If you don't want to know, don't click the link.
Halo, Xbox, Bungie Quickies
Xbox365 reports there are no plans to launch the MS console in China.
Psyrixx posts his story of Xbox acquisition.
The new Bungie.net site runs on (surprise, surprise) Microsoft's IIS software and Windows 2000. Cortana, g0t r00t?
Halo Limited To 640 x 480 Only
It was long suspected.
The detailed environments in Halo push the Xbox's graphics hardware to the limit, as evidenced by the slight framerate problems right up until release. The VGA adapter for the Xbox went AWOL, and Microsoft updated the Xbox FAQ to indicate that connecting the Xbox to a monitor wasn't possible.
Put together, it suggested that perhaps Halo would be producing output at a resolution appropriate for a standard TV-- 640x480-- even if connected to another device.
And now we know it's true. Matt Soell has responded to a thread in the HBO forum about some display problems experienced by someone using a Sony Wega KV36-XBR400 with the Xbox HD AV Pack.
Matt had this to say:
Both Jason and Joseph are out recuperating from illness and/or surgery, but I asked Marty and Jay about this. Neither one had a definite answer, but we're all 99% sure that Halo outputs the same resolution (640x480) all the time. Not sure why the picture would seem more or less aliased at any given time, because I don't think we change resolutions or anything else during gameplay that would cause that.
I'm sure the picture still looks better on an HDTV than a standard one, but it looks like even if you have one, or the mysterious VGA adapter reappeared, you'd still be using the 640x480 resolution. Question is, what does that mean for Halo on the Macintosh and the PC? And what illness and/or surgery has befallen Jason and/or Joseph?
Xbox Launch Coverage Update
A few more Xbox Launch stories have cropped up:
ConsoleDomain has reported that while most people at the NYC launch party were able to get their hands on an Xbox if they wanted one, that supply is now constrained.
GameSpy has a feature on the Xbox Launch, including a report from the Times Square event and an interview with Don Coyner, Microsoft Xbox's Head of Marketing for North America.
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