H'alo
Do you know what we in our first class today? We watched (and analyzed) someone play Halo 3. That's what we do as a legitimate activity.
Most of you know I'm not a fan of the series. Ironically, I and several other Halo-haters are part of a group whose final semester project is to essentially reverse-engineer Halo and write what would be the game's development bible. We have to count every single thing in the game and extrapolate from that how long and how large a team is necessary to actually build it. Though tedious, we're thankful the game is extremely repetitive in both gameplay, design, and elements, so counting shouldn't be such an insane nightmare.
Incidentally when I dropped by Best Buy tonight to pick up some movies and do some returns, I decided to see how many Halo 3 Legendary Editions were left, and what our price was. There were quite a many left, and I got it for $106 and tax, so I decided why not pick it up. At the Colonial store, they keep their games in a locked room, and my cashier had to call someone to get them. However, there seemed to have been some confusion as to which room they were in. Looks like the mangaer got one from the main game room, while one of the other employees was getting keys to get another one in the other room. At the register, I noticed the "do not sell before" seal was missing its bottom half but thought nothing of it. Upon inspection at home, the seals were broken, the protective cloth was stuffed in the box instead of over the helmet, and wrapping was taken off of the set of bonus discs. I suspect I might have gotten someone else's set. I don't totally mind, because this is somewhat beneficial in that it might help my Halo 1 team. One of the bonus discs contains a set of remastered cinematics from the first two games, so that can greatly help us do our asset counts for the unpausable cinematics.
Most of you know I'm not a fan of the series. Ironically, I and several other Halo-haters are part of a group whose final semester project is to essentially reverse-engineer Halo and write what would be the game's development bible. We have to count every single thing in the game and extrapolate from that how long and how large a team is necessary to actually build it. Though tedious, we're thankful the game is extremely repetitive in both gameplay, design, and elements, so counting shouldn't be such an insane nightmare.
Incidentally when I dropped by Best Buy tonight to pick up some movies and do some returns, I decided to see how many Halo 3 Legendary Editions were left, and what our price was. There were quite a many left, and I got it for $106 and tax, so I decided why not pick it up. At the Colonial store, they keep their games in a locked room, and my cashier had to call someone to get them. However, there seemed to have been some confusion as to which room they were in. Looks like the mangaer got one from the main game room, while one of the other employees was getting keys to get another one in the other room. At the register, I noticed the "do not sell before" seal was missing its bottom half but thought nothing of it. Upon inspection at home, the seals were broken, the protective cloth was stuffed in the box instead of over the helmet, and wrapping was taken off of the set of bonus discs. I suspect I might have gotten someone else's set. I don't totally mind, because this is somewhat beneficial in that it might help my Halo 1 team. One of the bonus discs contains a set of remastered cinematics from the first two games, so that can greatly help us do our asset counts for the unpausable cinematics.