Stimpy Stylee, complete with stupid tear filled goo goo eyes face: [joy]
My Halo 2: Volume 2 CD arrived, yesterday, with only a pittance of thanks to the Unreliable Parcel Service. These people have a better scam going than insurance companies. They never bothered to update the tracking info online, schmucks.
Regardless, CD in hand, I jaunted to my PC and immediately ripped it and downloaded it to my trusty iPod (the database/reporting freak in me wants to run some ratios on the volume of Halo related music [26+17+12+3+57, including an incomplete supplement from Marty O'Donnell and numerous fan tracks I've not yet cleaned up] to overall volume on iPod) and set the iPod aside to charge. I then fired up the CD in my stereo, full blast (screw the tool who lives behind me, with no taste in music or video games, BTW).
Listening to music in the main living area inspires me to clean. And clean I did. For at least two full cycles of the CD. I dusted off every single thing in and around my entertainment center, reorganized my DVDs (not a monumental task, given the DB freak level in me... I've a DB set up to resort and organize them for me a number of ways).
The Volume 1 CD was great:
I love Peril. 99% of the time I start that CD up, I start with Peril. Something about the way it feels bears forth more of the game than I can really describe. Not to mention, it's different and the pizzacato play is absolutely counter to everything done in the hip hop tracks.
In Amber Clad really capitalizes on the inclusion of Steve Vai on the efforts for this score and works within its own context beautifully. There's something powerful and direct about that track, it just invokes Miranda Keyes's personality (yes, I'm that geek).
The Last Spartan is also an inspiring track. Has been since the day it was used for the E3 teaser as early as 2003, I believe, I'll have to do some fact checking on that. Again, we received a piece that perfectly invokes the Master Chief's personality.
Heavy Price Paid is a sad and lonely piece. Also one of my favorites, it invokes a funeral dirge. Unfortunately, I'm not sure for whom.
Earth City rapidly became my second favorite track on the Volume 1 CD. Again, used to great extent in pre-release material, it comprised nearly all of the game play demo shown at E3 in 2004. It's a wonderful track for an FPS game and does great things for moving gameplay and feeling the spirit of the story, overall.
Several of the other tracks are quite memorable as well, however, these represent those that I prefer the most. Unfortunately, a significant portion of Halo 2 has been missing from my collection. Specificaly, some of the sweeping stories and arcs that form portions of the Arbiter's story. I assume this was because the Volume 1 CD was released prior to the game and Bungie didn't want this surprise revealed. Halo's Devils, Monsters track would have definitely spoiled that story's surprise, had the soundtrack been released prior to the game. Listeners with a keen ear for leit motif would've presumed that the sound of Devils, Monsters wasn't allusion for the Covenant, rather, something different.
Enter the suites on Volume 2, that have been absent for 18 months. Only Bungie and/or Marty O'Donnell can specifically explain the delays. Though, as they say, timing is everything (*coughE3isaroundthecornercough*). Is this release designed to put Halo back at the forefront of our gaming queues?
Hint to Bungie: Wasn't necessary for some of us, even if we don't play on Live all the time. I spent no less than 6 hours, last week, playing Halo and Halo 2 campaigns (for the kiddies with no responsibilities, I work 40 hours per week, minimum).
Either way, only time will tell as we approach and get through E3 (friends of mine from NC Soft are going, I have to figure out how to talk them into hitting Bungie's pavillion to score me some intel).
But, I digrees. My intent was to discuss Halo 2: Volume 2.
Which, apparently, I'll do some other time. Right now I'm up to my Halo in insanity...
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Things That Suck
1. Best Buy and all of its ilk. Where's my Halo 2: Volume 2 soundtrack CD, you lousy freaks?! Not. Going. To. Stock. It. I'll show you!
I don't know how I'll show you, yet. But I'll show you. Something.
2. Modern filmmakers. Have you losers (filmmakers) noticed that Best Buy and its ilk now stock television show DVD's BEFORE movies? Have you seen this Spielberg, you HG Wells robbing HACK!!!
The American public now thinks so little of the utter waste you foist on us each week, that we'd rather puchase copies of The A-Team before copies of (excuse me while I vomit in my trash can) War of the Worlds: Special Stupid Spielberg Schlock.
It's a travesty, I tell you. Special effects do not a story make. What happened to the creativity? Go away. Stay out of our movie theaters. Do something more constructive with your lives.
I don't know how I'll show you, yet. But I'll show you. Something.
2. Modern filmmakers. Have you losers (filmmakers) noticed that Best Buy and its ilk now stock television show DVD's BEFORE movies? Have you seen this Spielberg, you HG Wells robbing HACK!!!
The American public now thinks so little of the utter waste you foist on us each week, that we'd rather puchase copies of The A-Team before copies of (excuse me while I vomit in my trash can) War of the Worlds: Special Stupid Spielberg Schlock.
It's a travesty, I tell you. Special effects do not a story make. What happened to the creativity? Go away. Stay out of our movie theaters. Do something more constructive with your lives.
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