If you have been a constant reader of this gamerblog, you have likely beheld his mastery of the rich media. This Gunslinger wields a digital editor like he does a Sniper Rifle. He throws the funky beats like he’s hurling plasma on any map of Halo 3, turning his carnage into a dance.
If you have not been a constant reader, it seems extremly likely that you have been shot in the middle of your face by Hoovaloov on Xbox Live. Either way, you may see your own ugly mug below…
Welcome to his File Share. Hoovaloov has focused the spotlight on many of us in the past. This is his time to shine. That is, after all, what a File Share is good for… Hat’s off to The Maker for giving us the means to tell our own war stories.
There ain’t nothing wrong with a man that takes pride in his own work. Should we not admire the success of our opponent? Here is your chance to tell Hoovaloov that he plays a ‘Good Game’.
Halo 3 is a stage. Please enjoy while our resident auteur takes a bow.
At the end of the day on which we celebrate the fool, this gamerblogger came across a jewel of a gift presented by his faithful Halo Clan. Lovingly crafted to commemorate the occassion in which pranks are the objective, the following montage was cultivated from gameplay lifted from Halo 3 via Xbox Live.
As you view this masterful piece of violent pop-culture, please keep in mind the following caveats, listed below…
1. I, XerxdeeJ, of sound mind and avatar, cannot effect a long-range kill with a Sniper Rifle worth a damn. Sincerely. This is not an attempt at humility intended to curry favor from those gamers I intend to lead as one of their Overlords. The long-barrel in Halo 3 might as well be a boat-oar in my hands. I am more likely to kill someone with the SRS99C-S2 AM if I employ it in the manner that one would wield a sledgehammer.
2. TTL, while prolific with combat montages, makes it a point to never set our antics to Death Metal, Cookie Monster Rock, Hardcore Rap, Breaking Benjamin, or any other threadbare forms of music. We have long prided ourselves on this point. If this reminds you of your montage, the joke is on you as well…
3. A Disclaimer lifted directly from the end credits:
“XerxdeeJ did none of these things in this video.”
Playing the great game of Halo affords a gamer the chance to act out so many different roles of their choosing. The archetypes are the same that one may find on an actual battlefield. Sniper. Rifleman. Pistoleer. Heavy Gunner. Guard. And let us not forget the Pilots. Once a player embraces their favorite function on the battlefield, they can hone their craft until it is elevated to the level of art.
One such artist, a Gunslinger who we know as Fezzer, has compiled some of the finer moments of his performances in the various threatres of combat that comprise the Halo 3 Experience via Xbox Live. It has been said that a cat always lands on its feet. The same can be said for the Warthog, provided it is being helmed by a faithful member of our Roadkill Squadron.
Enjoy. Please refrain from flash photography, and hold your applause until the end of the show.
At Tied the Leader, we have our New Year’s Resolutions all laid out. Not suprisingly, they are mostly the same as the resolutions we made last year:
1. Play some good games.
2. Deal in lead.
3. Prepare to drop.
4. Quit smoking. [check!]
5. Lose ten pounds. [yeah, right]
4 out of 5 ain’t bad. As a gesture that the Gunslingers intend to charge into 2009 much as they did into 2008, Oboe Crazy has been up to her old tricks, taking average blokes like us and casting us in the role of the hero.
Have a watch, and then get back to work. We are back to business as usual. Stay tuned for updates from numerous warfronts as they become available.
If you are a constant reader of this masthead for gamer culture, you are no doubt acquainted with a gamer by the name of Oboe Crazy. Being a woman, Oboe is subjected to only the finest behavior of her warring peers. Being a Captain of the TTL Gunslingers, it just so happens that she has dozens of teammates to insure that her griefers are met with swift retribution.
If you find youself doing a dance on our Oboe, there is likely a Gunslinger lurking just around the next corner with a particular interest in seeing you suffer.
Oboe Crazy makes her triumphant return to TTL’s center stage with yet another offering to highlight the finer moments of gameplay waged by her Gunslingers over the course of a month.
This time, however, the focus is on those instances in which the game surprises us with its utter unpredictability. Sooner or later, the fog of war obscures even the keenest eye. It is those occassions that make the grade this bout. What began as a “blooper reel” became a parade of “WTF!”
In October, we all had an opportunity to deliver the ultimatum:
“Trick or Treat!”
Xbox Live, it would seem, is not without its own appetite for a good prank. It could be said that these pearls of sheer confusion only stoke the replayability of the game.
Editor’s Note: Gamevee failed us this news cycle. Pardon our dust while we stretch the capacity of YouTube to display Oboe’s final cut… Watch this space for upgrades.
After a long hiatus, resident machinima auteur TTL Hoovaloov is back with a piece that he calls the “Stupid Fun ‘Tage”. You may remember this gamer – whose friends call him “Hoov” – from such previous works as Beta Carotage or Lagtacular. His most recent offering is a parade of evidence of the replayability of Halo 3 via Xbox Live.
This montage could have just as easily been called the “Splatter ‘Tage” or the “Oh My God ‘Tage” or the “Did You See That? ‘Tage”. This is why we fight. Nothing can prepare a Halo National for what might come next when two teams clash on the digital battlefield.
Is it any mystery that Warthog Pilots have more fun? Snipers have their enigma and their rare skill. Attackers have their collection of stolen flags. Defenders fight for the glory [and the medals] that come from a shutout.
The crazy cowboys from the motorpool, however, see all of the very best moments that the Halo 3 physics engine affords a gamer. And, they see it from the driver’s seat. Even within the confines of an expressed combat specialty [Hoovaloov is a Gunslinger of the Roadkill Squadron], there are unexpected moments that can inspire shock and awe in even the most jaded veteran.
DISCLAIMER: “OPERATION SWEET JUMPS” is a trademark of this gamerblogger. I invented that. Well, I didn’t invent the Warthog; nor did I invent a fondness for seeing it catch some air. However, I did coin the phrase to describe the practice of going off-mission on a joyride when a 20 point lead has been accrued in Team Slayer. All rights reserved!
Please join us in wishing the Official Clan of Tied the Leader a good game on their Third Gunniversary. That’s right…
We are, on this very day, three years old.
What a long, strange campaign it has been. 1,095 days ago, our original 7 members [all of them still Overlords in the ranks of the Gunslingers] began sending “Clan Invites” through Halo 2. At the time, we had no idea that our efforts would be so richly rewarded with friendship, camaraderie, and experience points.
Since then, we have not strayed too far from the cradle that incubated the seeds of our ever-warring video game community. Members have come and gone. Games have launched and been succeeded. Opponents have risen and fallen. The Gunslingers remain, devoted to their mission to enjoy the game, as well as each other.
What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a self-aggrandizing highlight reel? Don’t bother with singing that awful Happy Birthday song. Just click on the button that makes the pictures fly through the air. As always, our thanks go out to OboeCrazy for committing our finer moments to video and classical music.
As we head into Year Four, our momentum is breakneck. Our SPARTANS [and Elites] are eager for a warfront expansion of Mythic proportion. We continue to answer the Call of Duty. Our COGs are ready to spin again in the Gears Of War machine.
The ranks of the Halo Nation have thinned over the course of the past year. Can you feel it? Can you?
Would be SPARTANS are on sabatical. They seem to think that they are rock stars, or Jedi, or even car theives. Let’s not even touch on the issue of Duty, and its unmistakable Call.
Yet, there is one group that refuses to go gently into that good night. It would be too much to say that they rage against the dying of the light. Halo’s race is not yet run. Nevertheless, these Halophiles never stray too far from home. I am talking, much as I always am, about the TTL Gunslingers.
Have you seen us lately? We are in there – in Matchmaking. In Halo 3. Month in and month out. Week in and week out. Day by day… one game at a time.
You can bet that we are just around the corner of your next Big Team Battle. And, by rights, you can bet that your next game just might be good. Win or lose. Tie or DNF.
Among the many leading our charge is one Oboe Crazy. She is a passionate gamer with a musical sense of timing and combat. These compilations are her celebration of the team that she calls home.
At Tied the Leader, this front page has been enjoying somewhat of a sumer vacation in recent weeks. Your friendly neighborhood gamerblogger will safeguard his pride by not asking if you had noticed.
We have been getting outside from time to time [no, really]. We are planning a LAN. And, of course, we are playing our favorite game. There is always time for that. When the green ring on the box comes alive, there will be blood.
There are times when it seems that not much more can be said about that. We have stated our case. We have chiseled our charter into what passes for stone in cyberspace. We have built our army and mustered our allies. We play the game for the opportunities it grants us to interact [either peacefully or violently] with our fellow gamers…
May the lead trade sides on several occassions throughout the match!
As gamers, the game is our stage. Here is a look back on some of our favorite plays, executed recently in the warzone lovingly maintained for us by the fighting men and women at Bungie Studios.
This assembly of highlights exists not to rub the noses of the fallen in their own blood, but to celebrate the fact that gamers are active participants in their own quest for entertainment. They are their own playmakers, their own closers, their own gold medalists.
Enjoy, as we have… Love, TTL.
p.s. Don’t miss Yours Truly at 2:15 in the timecode, executing a one-wheel reverse-endo in a Warthog – flag on board! They don’t pass out medals for that…
p.p.s. Mad props to Oboe Crazy for shining the spotlight on our better moments!
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