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A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the New
Posted By: Sain7	Date: 10/23/07 6:49 p.m.
The following is a series of verses I wrote to try and capture the changeover from Halo 2 to Halo 3. It looks a little pretentious, but I mean it in good fun [; The Changing of the Guard See the man, o' top the hill Hayabusa gleaming, BR cold; how he wishes, wanders, wishes, searching for those kills of old... Halo 2, nowhere to go, owning those with no BR Open maps, SMG, this is where you wish you were. With number three, those times have changéd He cannot host from 50 yards; when they run, no aim to help him, they dodge, escape, his new BR Halo 2, multitasking, one weapon for long range and short Quick and dirty, BXRing, give other arms no second thought. Those that spawn are now defended, Salvation comes with their AR; close quarters privilege rescinded, he stands alone, an old BR A new day dawns, brightly gleaming, rewarding those with speed of thought Not just raw shooting, evolution, your brain the greatest weapon wrought. His time has passed, his sun has set He must adapt, or stay behind; a New Guard comes, without evolving he'll stay forever, alone, snow-blind. ~Saint And now a little explanation of the thinking behind it... [: I was playing an FFA Slayer game on Snowbound, and I saw a guy standing on top of one of the bases with a BR. As he turned his BR on me and I avoided most of the damage with a good strafe, I returned fire with AR bursts and forced him to take cover... Right then I realised what he was; a relic from some of the worse days of Halo 2, used to preying on SMG-wielders in wide open maps. With Halo 3, I like to think that as well as a good weapon you need to think about your strategy as opposed to just hanging around killing people who can't fight back. A man with a plan and an AR can seriously put the hurt on a BR guy, where an SMG user would have great difficulty. He went positive, but he had so few kills that it made no difference how little he died. After the game I thought about how someone who would undoubtedly have been good at Halo 2 was clutching onto his old ways, trying to keep up in a new world where spawning enemies aren't defenceless, the BR isn't an all-powerful tool of destruction and the auto-aim won't give you free kills. I felt kind of sad for him, in truth - he apparently spends his Halo time scanning the open areas on the tops of maps, desperately hoping for kills to steal. Anyway, this was a requiem for him and those like him - but also a welcome, a greeting to a new wave of players who'll find strategy gives them a turn to shine. It's not particularly good, and a lot less lyrical than your typical poem or ode, but I thought it worked out quite well. [;

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A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the New	Sain7	10/23/07 6:49 p.m.
Re: A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the N	MffnMn	10/23/07 7:07 p.m.
Re: A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the N	Crimm	10/23/07 7:15 p.m.
I think I teared up there a little. *NM*	vlad3163	10/23/07 10:41 p.m.
Re: A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the N	SG Noodles	10/24/07 9:36 a.m.
Re: A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the N	Morpheus	10/24/07 9:37 a.m.
Re: A Requiem for the Old Way, an Embrace of the N	Sain7	10/24/07 4:46 p.m.
Well done! *NM*	FuzzyWhisper	10/25/07 4:07 a.m.