Not So Silent Night, But Deadly Night
Almost five years to the day after the first HBO LAN Party, Louis Wu held "Deadly Night".
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Rampancy
Death by intelligence.
Recent Videos
| Title | Date |
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| Pathways Into Darkness Part 3 | 08.18.24 |
| Pathways Into Darkness Part 2 | 08.03.24 |
| Pathways Into Darkness Part 1 | 07.27.24 |
| Little Kitty, Big City | 07.20.24 |
| No Man's Sky: Adrift | 07.13.24 |
| Destiny 2: Final Shape Part 4 | 07.06.24 |
| Destiny 2: Final Shape Part 3 | 06.29.24 |
Sheet Music
| Title | Transcriber | Date |
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| Halo 5: Advent (String... | cwhiterun | 06.07.16 |
| Halo 5: Blue Team (Str... | cwhiterun | 10.22.15 |
| Halo 5: Light is Green... | cwhiterun | 10.20.15 |
| Halo 5: The Trials (St... | cwhiterun | 10.12.15 |
| Roll Call - Price Paid | pimpnmonk | 06.02.14 |
| Behold A Pale Horse Fo... | pimpnmonk | 01.24.14 |
| Farthest Outpost/Mercy... | pimpnmonk | 12.30.13 |
Rampancy Podcast
| Episode | Date |
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| Sony Acquires Bungie (mp3) | 02.02.22 |
| Let's Play Mass Effect 3 #27 Final... | 06.02.17 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha... | 05.08.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny... | 03.05.13 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann... | 04.21.12 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann... | 06.26.11 |
| Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint... | 04.18.11 |
Quotes And Notable Notes From Bungie's Brute Video
Since some HBO forumgoers were kind enough to hold open the thread for me, I'm now morally obligated to deliver the goods on the Brute documentary. Given that it is longer and more up-front with its new content than the TV ad, I think a frame by frame analysis, in most places, is unwarranted, so instead I thought I would cherry-pick a few notable quotations or bits of information, and add my own commentary.
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Not So Normal Maps
HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of "Feature Focus" articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons.
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Xbox Live Matchmaking Features Unavailable
Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that's the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use voice chat, but not play games.
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Halo 3 Beta Invites Packaged With Crackdown
Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine.
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Siege Of Madrigal As It Appears In Halo
Although the track "Siege of Madrigal" is actually from Bungie's earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level "Assault on the Control Room".
If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the far right hand side, you can hear this track play.
Spartan182 provided a separate transcription of this track as it appears in Halo. We have a separate page for this track as it appears in Myth, which is a photo of the score.
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Have A Rampant Christmas
This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming;
This one is but flesh and faith... and will get coal inside his stocking.
Have a Merry Christmas... we'd rather not piss this thing off.
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Because Two Blades Are Better Than One
Spartan182 discusses in his blog the possibility of plasma energy swords being dual-wieldable in Halo 3, based on suggestions in the Brute video documentary.
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Firing Squad Interviews Certain Affinity
Max "Yeroen" Hoberman, Bungie alum and founder of Texas-based Certain Affinity, now working on new Halo 2 multiplayer maps for release next year, gave an interview to Firing Squad.
However, that's not all they're working on, apparently:
FiringSquad: You are also working on a new game. What can you tell us about this game at this stage?
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Coming Not To Praise Tartarus, But To Bury Him
So the Brute documentary is out. I'm going to stop using Bungie's VIDOC or Video Documentary term, because I really couldn't think of any other kind of documentary except perhaps for film, and since George Lucas says film is dead and HD Video is the way to go, I suppose it's redundant.
Certain pockets of the fan community, while they enjoyed the very slick and polished Halo 3 Announcement Trailer, have been bothered by the stream of apologia that accompanied first the non-real-time, non-Halo-engine CG television commercial, and now the pre-pre-alpha, not-yet-finished visuals of the Brute documentary.
I'd like to praise Bungie for its candor, however. The documentary on the Halo 2 Limited Edition was quite frank about some of Halo 2's shortcomings, as well as some of the reasons for them. This latest documentary is no different: first and foremost Bungie is admitting that Brutes in Halo 2 were a late addition to the game. They were tough only because they could take a lot of damage; there was no differentiation between different Brute individuals except for Tartarus himself and a few honor guard headdresses, and fighting Brutes was more like fighting Super Flood than fighting Elites or other Covenant units.
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