Catholic Animal Lover!

Let it be known beforehand that I suck at video games. I usually do. Although I did beat the Marios in my heyday, lol. But anyway!

Just got done playing Halo 4 on X-Box LIVE with my 2 brothers. They’d wanted Peter to play, but husband had worked 12 hrs, and was beat, so he was off to bed. I’m the only other one here who remotely knows the game, so I was picked. Plus, I was the only other one here who could play.

I personally was a huge fan of Halo 1, and heard 2 wasn’t that hot. I didn’t really see 3 on the normal 1-player mode, of course, but it didn’t seem that bad. The jist of it is like every other game where you battle: grab a gun, run through a level, try not to get killed, kill the other team’s members.

I’m really bad at controlling my gun/speed/view, so I usually didn’t get more than 2 kills before I was murdified a zillion times! But Halo 3 was fun in the aspect of colorful, and good graphics. I really liked being able to run to the side waterfall and hide in the mist–which was working fine for me till my brother shot me from far off land on a jeep-looking-thing!

Which was another fun aspect. In most of the games, all three of us were on the same team (red or blue). But sometimes we just would turn on each other in a silly way–or they would shoot me because instead of picking up a gun, I was just walking into the wall trying to walk to where it was, being totally stupid and lacking any sort of control. So I would swear I was going to hunt them down, and try to do it.

It’s called a betrayal, but we weren’t overly-excessive with it, so it was ok.

On one game, it was 4 teams of two–except at the last second one of my brothers’ team-mate left him high and dry, leaving the X-Box LIVE game, so leaving him stranded to fight alone. I was ironically paired with my youngest brother, who is the best player of all of us, and he told me to just hide and let him shoot, heh.

I really liked the feature–whether from Halo 3 or X-Box LIVE I know not–where we could replay and watch the entire “battle” like a movie, except an interactive one where you could move the camera anywhere you wanted, to any angle. It confused the heck out of me, but my bro used it to show us cool things happening all over the map, with other players, that we wouldn’t have otherwise known.

Of course, none of them were having as much as we were, I can assure you. I think sometimes people take the whole gaming thing waaaay too seriously! If you can’t laugh when someone elbows you off a cliff you didn’t know you were standing on in the game–then you have a problem and should get your funny bone re-adjusted!

I enjoyed playing with my brothers, a rare moment, and laughing so hard, and even perhaps learning to be a bit of a better player (…..riiiight!). I enjoyed Halo 3 cause it’s not all blood and guts, but more stratagy and color and staying alive and control. And I loved playing as Master Chief! YAAAY!

The only downside to X-Box LIVE is if you don’t have it muted, you get to hear all the weirdos that are prone to play using curse words for no reason.Especially the little kid punks who must just think it’s cool cause their parents are asleep or something….