This is the very first montage I released on the internet. After making Vengeance, I decided to buy a capture card and spend more time collecting footage. The result was Dust 2 Dust. You’ll notice some of the better clips from Vengeance were also put into Dust 2 Dust because I never intended to put Vengeance on the net. (I don’t usually use old footage from past montages). Anyway, after posting this video in mlgpro’s forum nearly two years ago I got a lot of feedback and around two thousand downloads from a guy that agreed to host it. A few weeks after putting it out I started getting a lot of friend requests from people talking about how much they loved my montage. One of the people that sent me a friend request said they saw my montage on Halo-Pro.com. So I went over there and sure enough the video was on their front page. I didn’t even know it was on the site until I started getting tons of random friend requests. I talked with Matt (Phreak from Halo-Pro.com) about this later and he said he posted it because he used to go over to Stew007’s house and watch me and other Utah Noobs playing team slayer matchmaking. This was way back before the first patch, BXR’s, Double Shots, and even standby! Anyway, in my opinion this montage is much better than Vengeance and since it’s release two years ago I would estimate that it has received over half a million downloads from a variety of websites like GamingVidz.com, Halo-Pro.com, YouTube and several others.
Well, the Halo 3 Beta is finally over. I wasn’t able to play it nearly as much as I would have liked to, in fact, I just barely passed the 200 games mark. Overall though, I had a blast playing the Beta. I would have to say my favorite map of the three was High Ground. I thought that SnowBound and Valhalla were alright, but I definitely think that High Ground proved to be the most popular map among the people I spoke with. I also think that my favorite new gametype is the twist on territories where your team has to lock them down to get a point.
One other thing I thought was odd about the Beta was how easy it was to level up. I think that the reasoning behind that was to test out Bungie’s matchmaking system accross a broad group of players with different levels, and what better way to do that then make it easy for people to level up quickly. Perhaps when the final game is released it will be more difficult to level up, but when I was playing team slayer I only played a little over 50 games and made it to level 44. I’m sure if I had a little more time I would have reached 50 easily. I believe I only received a couple losses legitimately, whereas the other times we lost team slayer games were due to disconnects.
I’m also a little bummed out that they changed the emblem system and removed a few of the backgrounds that were available in Halo 2, most notably the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds. The only way to create the emblem I used all through Halo 2 is by using one of the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds, both of which were not in the beta. Because they kept in nearly every background from Halo 2 for the emblem system, it leads me to believe that the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds will not be in the final game and if that’s the case I’m not sure which emblem I’ll switch to.
In any case, I had a lot of fun playing the beta did you? What was your favorite map and gametype? Let me know by posting your comments.
This is the previously unreleased trailer to my montage Untouchable. This was made about a month after I finished Dust 2 Dust in a relatively short amount of time because I needed to turn in a video for my video editing class. I never planned on putting it on the internet because I thought the sword clip was too long and there wasn’t enough ownage footage. I also didn’t feel it had the level of energy that I was looking for. So I scraped this video and started from scratch to work on what I would later change the name to Untouchable. (Side note: If you haven’t noticed already I purposely title my videos as a reference to the song used. I’m not really sure why, but I keep on doing it.)
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This was my very first montage created before Dust 2 Dust and was at first never meant to see the light of day. I made it with only two hours of game play and because I had a limited time I set up a few staged plays when I started recording. I needed to make sure I had enough footage to make a montage for my video editing class I was currently attending and I only had one 2 hour VHS tape. So, as a result some of the plays are pretty basic, but for only two hours I thought it was all right. This is the only montage IÂ ever staged a play in and as I said before, it was to make sure I had enough footage for my video editing class. So without further ado, enjoy the show.
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Welcome to the new version of thehalogod.com! I’m pretty much done updating the site; however, I still need to add pages for purchasing lessons or editing and I also need to add all of my videos back onto the site. I will be uploading all of the videos to my official youtube channel and posting full resolution versions on this site as well.
Part of what makes this new version of the site great is the ability for all of you readers out there to comment on posts that I make. Simply scroll down on your browser to the “Meta” section and click “register.” There you can register for an account which will allow you to write comments on what I post. If you don’t want to register quickly or for free you don’t even have to create an account to comment on a post, but you will have to write in your information each time you want to write a comment (so it’s much easier to just register once so you don’t have to deal with it each time you log in.)
Also, please subscribe to my RSS feed, as well as, my youtube channel so you can get the content from me as soon as it’s posted. This site and my youtube channel will be the first places that my new montages will be posted and videos that I edit for others.
The first time I read this on various gaming sites I thought it was a joke, but Microsoft did confirm; however, that there was in fact partial nudity in the game:
“An unfortunate, obscure content error which includes partial nudity was included in our initial production of Halo 2 for Windows Vista.”
I found this story particularly suprising given that I worked on Halo 2 Vista as a game tester since late september of last year and never saw the partial nudity because if I had, I would have notified the appropriate members of the development team about it. Apparently, the error can occur while running into an “.ass” assertion error while using the map editor which then displays a picture of some guy showing off his backside. Our test team was never given the opportunity to use the map editor as this was being handled by other testers.
I’m sorry this will cost Halo PC fans several more days on an already delayed game. Sorry guys and gals, it looks like you won’t be able to play Halo 2 Vista until May 31st. Microsoft has already issued a patch for the game to remove the content, but not before they had to slap a partial nudity sticker on every single retail box.
I’ve finally found a reason to turn my Xbox on for more than one hour. Obviously if you’ve come to this website you’re at least familiar with the Halo series if not a rabid fan of it. In any case, I am extremely impressed with the Beta (having tested it at Microsoft back in Decemeber of 06 it was nice to see the progression). I won’t go into any details as to what was or wasn’t changed from when I played it, but I will say that -Â especially after playing the beta – Halo 3 will be better than Halo 2 and Halo 1 combined.
Now, what I say may be considered heresy to some old school Halo fans that say Halo 1 > all other Halo’s, but once you’ve spent some time with the beta you can already tell they’re going to fix the mistakes that Halo 2 had and throw in new features we didn’t even know we wanted (theater anyone?)
I will be converting this site to a wordpress blog as soon as I’m able to tear myself away from my Xbox 360; however, I don’t know when that might happen. I’m going to try my best to convert the site this weekend but we’ll see.
If you were contemplating wether it is worth the $60 to buy Crackdown just for the Halo 3 beta, don’t even think about it anymore. Buy the game so you can play the beta.
Hey guys and gals, I’ve finally gotten around to converting the site to a wordpress blog. I will be updating the look and content of the site over this weekend until I get it all the way I want it.
 The bottom line – this will make it easier for readers of my site to comment on my posts, enjoy the site etc.