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The Halo 2 Council of Celebrities
An anonymous reader writes "I just read about this over at VH1.com. It's called the Halo 2 Council, and it's made up of celebrities who get to play Halo 2 in advance of the launch. Don't expect to join, though. This council is only open to societies' most respected artists and intellectuals: Linkin Park, Hoobastank, some guy that plays sports, a girl that appeared on Friends, and an actor from The 0.C."
When they are done playing Halo 2, NASA has requested their advice on plants for the mars trip.
Don't you just love people who are famous because of their fame?
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I used to pan friends who complained when their favorite punk bands broke into the mainstream. It's about the music, not the fame! Well, I'm feeling a little of that now, having been with Bungie from the beginning. I'm so Emo.
As a well-deserved reward for admitting in public that they've seen a screenshot of a PC game in the past, celebrities have been given the opportunity to play a pre-release version of Team Fortress 2 which is scheduled to be out "sometime soon."
Not only will they receive a copy of TF2, but they will receive a gold-plated Personal Computer (a modern device which does calculations) with which to play them on.
Now let's take a look at the chosen few:
Noam Chomsky, the post-modern Thor Aeckurlund of gaming gods (and a decent linguist too) was quoted as saying "I'm going to be all over this like media on East Timor."
Boutrous Boutros-Ghali, upon seeing how the gold-plated computer would fit snugly into his SUV's front panel was heard saying "We will unite the nations through team gameplay and a global punkbuster."
George W Bush was concerned as to whether or not the game would work on all three of his Internets but was quickly calmed by Gore who said it would work on all of the ones he invented.
Finally, to round out the chosen four, a copy was given to Bill O'r^]CONNECTION LOST
What about the thousands who have dl/d the leaked version off the net and played that? Do they get to join?
That club doesn't sound so exclusive any more.
Just fire up your ftp and grab your copy thanks to Diffusion release group.
Oh BTW, make sure you speak french or can read English subtitles.
now that Bungie is famous (/ with MS) the "nerds" (game players) who were their "friends" from the beginning get dumped for the "cool kids" (largely telentless celebrities IMO).
Why is Bungie not letting dedicated fans play Halo2 before launch? (rhetorical question)
this is all part of the trend... it's now cool and "in" to be a "gamer"
just take a look at the new G4TechTV, it's like MTV, quite literally, only with videogames. anyone who has that channel can corroborate with me on this.
What are all the real artisits doing bandaid this year or something? Seriously roll out Bono, this is a crime against humanity. Incubus doing a 20 minute opera that "came easy to them". Call me when Roger Walters starts playing Halo. And I saw this "Hoobastank" on some Video Music Awards... this so called rock band... the "drummer" was a drum machine and they had this poor guy on a chair up the back with a snare and one hat. Kids these days don't even know what a drum kit looks like. These bands have the highest fan to talent ratio in the history of popular music. Example A http://www.moad.org/member/Jon/FredShred.WMV Fred Durst unable to play guitar and butchering a modern classic. Example B: Nickleback singing the same song twice but calling it something different http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/00047
Halo, halo my precious halo. You are a god among console fps, why, why lower yourself to this?
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I'd just like to thank everyone who took the time to answer my RHETORICAL question. Cheers, your insight was much appreciated (Sorry to be harsh, Im just pissed off right now). Take a thought experiment: The largest, biggest and grestest sporting ground is made, eg for American Football. Its opening game is on nov 9. To hype the sports grounds the sponsors for the field do not ask the best teams to practice on the field in advance, instead they grab a random bunch of celebrities who kinda like American Football and let them play their silly little games on the field weeks in advance. GAH!
Someone should tell the Hoobastank lead singer to stop wasting time playing video games and learn how to actually sing.
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Since gaming is now a big selling market, and Big Screen gaming (with live audiences) is becoming a little more popular, I wonder just how long until the gamers begin to gain popularity via reality TV shows such at "Idol".
Can you imagine it? International Halo 2 Star. A cross between traditional gaming and WWF style acting? The possibilities are endless.
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Has anyone ever considered that new single player levels might get downloaded from Xbox live? now that could be paid content worth having! Regardless of the brevity or length of plot or gameplay time, I expect that if there was enough demand they could use live to extend the game far beyond the lifespan of HALO (which I still play heavily).
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I believe this is going to be a relatively obscure use of Live, like Splinter Cell. My guess is that they will be adding to the single player via downloads.
Who to believe, hmm let me think about this for a second.
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Bungie/MS should not be permitted to do this. It's just showing everyone is inferior to celebrities, that they do indeed get special privalegdes.
Ms. Tyler is a huge fan of Halo, and I could see allowing her to play it, since people say shes actually really good and played Halo 1 since the Xbox came out. The case that they get to play Halo2 is sweet though. Its a fact that Celebs get all the perks. Makes me less sad for Bungie/MS about the Halo2 leak, especially since I don't have an Xbox.
They've never said that, in fact the plan is to release Halo 3 the same day as the PS3 for obvious reasons.
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Bah, seriously though, from someone in advertising/marketing, this is just a bad move. I mean, celebrity endorsements are nice every now and then but people want to play video games, they don't want to sit and watch others play them instead, no matter how famous the people may be.
And I think a large number of Halo players are mature to the point where they don't let celebrity endorsements determine what products they buy.
I remember reading a marketing quote about how your product is in trouble if you need to rely on celebrity endorsements to sell it.
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they should get Ashlee Simpson to play too
maybe she can lipsync a review of the game afterwards?
I remember reading in an interview (go check the bluesnews archives) that whilst they (Bungie) wouldn't do the next Halo because they where going to focus on an all new IP, they would farm out the next Halo to another dev studio.
Which makes a lot of sense, considering the franchise.
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Maybe I'm in the minority on this, cause I know a number of gamers who like them, but I view Linkin' Park as a bunch of no-talent whiners who represent a lot that's wrong with music today. The fact that Bungie let them within 100 miles of anything Halo-related ( 1 or 2 ), drops my respect for them ten-fold.
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Playing a game early is kind of bad, but star treatment at E3 really pisses me off. It's supposed to be a convention/trade show for game industry professionals to show off their new stuff to each other and to game magazine/review site folks.
The average game fan can't get in (without some social engineering anyway) or at least has to spend a long time in line for the most popular games. But some shitheel like Carmen Electra can waltz right up to any game they want to play.
(please don't lable this as funny because its supposed to be serious)
::A group of celebrities walk down the street::
::tosses out old X-box::
MS: Hey guys we have a bunch of money and free stuff that we think is cool and don't want anyone else have, what should we do with it.
MS: Hey Look! Rich people! Lets give them money and free stuff! Because everyone knows they are elite gamers!
Rich people: WOW! money and free stuff, no way! This never happens to us! And look a portable X-box! Thats so cool, now I can play X-box in my luxury RV.
Rich people: AWESOME! I am never moving this thing!
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