I recently decided to pony up the cash and become a Premium Member over at Giant Bomb. They do a series of videos called Demo Derby, in which they play old Official Playstation/Xbox Magazine demo discs and watch all the videos and such. Great videos that makes me long for the "good ol' days" when I was in middle/high school during that original Xbox era, and simultaneously makes me realize how far games have come.

I watched one last night with the Halo demo on it (which was just Silent Cartographer). A few things stuck out to me while watching one of them play through it:

-It's neat to watch someone else play and in certain segments either do the same exact thing I would do, or do something completely opposite. I'm sure most of us played Halo enough to fall into habits while playing certain levels--it's neat (and oddly off-putting) to see those habits not replicated by another player.

-They went absolutely nuts with Hunters in the first Halo. Silent Cartographer alone has at least four pairs, with the first two encounters happening basically back-to-back. I can't recall any of the sequels approach that frequency.

-The original Halo is still an amazing game. It's been too long since I've gone back to it, and watching that video gave me the itch to try it again.