Halo 2 – The Daily SPUF

Blowing Up Halo 2’s “Tutorial” – Vidmaster Forever

August 11, 2023July 31, 2023 Glacier 0 Comments halo, Halo 2, marathon, tutorial

Get Creative. First Recon Vidmaster may have been conceived in concert with Marathon, but it hasn’t been home in over twenty-five years. I doubt anyone could expect the series would get a reboot in 2023. From UESC to UNSC and back again, the eponymous Vids have been on ice for quite some time– But I doubt the spirit of Vidmaster went anywhere as Bungie shot into superstardom with Halo back in 2001. In fact, Bungie’s shift to Xbox in an era before widespread broadband internet access leaves Halo’s campaigns more replayable than Marathon ever was. Long before matchmaking, single player… [Continue Reading]

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Halo 2 Broke My Heart

March 3, 2023February 19, 2023 Glacier 0 Comments halo, Halo 2, retrospective

Creating art can be the sum of all suffering. Priority Shift Welcome to February, 2004. Game developer Bungie has ten months to ship their most anticipated sequel of all time, Halo 2. The game is in shambles. Microsoft, Bungie’s publisher, expects the game in November. Staff morale is in the gutter, and some employees have stopped going home. To make the deadline, Bungie wasn’t just cutting, they were cleaving. “Rapidly approaching launch… The team had no engine, environments that couldn’t possibly work in any engine, features that were only half-implemented, a sprawling story that would eventually require two full-sized games… [Continue Reading]