I just played
my last ever game of Halo 2 (coincidentally it was also my 3,300th game, which is a nice round number), with Brainboy, who also posts on GAF. It was a 1v1 duel on Lockout, first to 15 kills, with BR start. I took an early lead until Brainboy went on a spree, then it slowly levelled out until it became tit-for-tat and tied on 14 apiece. Brainboy finally died valiantly on the sniper perch from a few frags I bounced around the corner. And that is probably the last Halo I will play in any form until October at the earliest (December is more likely), because I am missing the Halo 3 launch both through practical reasons, and as a point of principle and sacrifice for the masters course I begin in another country on Friday. I won't have Internet there for a while either, so I will probably miss most of the hoopla and hype of the final two weeks, and of the week of launch.
It sucks that Halo 3 has been spotted in the wild, because it would have been nice to think that you were all here happily speculating and anticipating in my absence, unwatched. As it is, I want to thank GhaleonEB and m0dus, and whoever else, for making this one of the most intelligent and tolerant Halo community threads on the wide Internet. I hope this game is everything all of you want it to be, and more, and maybe I'll see some of you soon enough. If and when you do, please be kind. I will, after all, be a Halo 3 noob.
. I'm going to try and go full dark for reviews this time around.
