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[LorD BaZTArD]

I think the big problem here is people are impatient. Seriously. Yeah ok, a couple of slips in the presentation have occurred. Waah, oh noes I have to put my age here. Who cares? It is a freaking number.

Iris == Eleven days old.
ILovebeees had small puzzles immediately but the meat of the start of the game was wondering "I wonder what happens when the timers tick over" And then the game kicked off for real. Payphones, Wav files, player crews. A fantastic storyline voiced by people with real talent.

No-one saw that part of the game coming. That part of the game took a while to unfold. IRIS is different but to it's benefit and also hindrance is that it has the legacy of ILB sitting behind it. Look at all the beekeepers returning. People Know about Iris because of ILoveBees and because of this people epect certain things. You can't please everyone and naturally some people are dissapointed.

Yet Seriously, the game is ELEVEN DAYS OLD. Give it time to unfold. I'm sure there is some good stuff coming. I'm looking forward to the game. Bring it on. I love the Halo Universe and want to know everythng about it. The undying Bungie fanboy that I am wants to see Durandal rock up in Halo. He probably will not, but I can always dream.

[DigitalDWR]

I really think this story is going to unfold as a chronicaling of the events right before the halo was activated, and what the forerunners or their technology has been up to since the activation.

I read some where that they are going to tie up all the questions to the series, but not all of them in the game. through the new comics , Ad campaign and the up coming novels.

I am super excited to see where this story will lead.

but for the time being i am enjoying the fact that the game is being built around us discovering " ancient " artifacts, and lost secrets.

When that Server key was spining around i thought... hrmm what if i try to click on some stuff. Then whn i highlighted the glyphs and downloaded the images it felt like i was apart of the story. discovering lost things.

I dont think this ARG will be as deep and player orientated as ILB's was. We wont have to discover, and dig a whole lot to get answers for this one. I think we are just along for the ride. As the story progesses we will have chances to participate, but i beleive this is ment for us to enjoy, not so much work for like ILB's was. Now nothing was wrong with the way ILBs was done. but it was geared to being able to break complicated Cyphers, and clues that people who just dont have the time or the know how to do. So now its easier shinyer... less involved, but just as entertaining.

So i sit and wait. look over these pictures and wonder.

Re read the lore, and skim through the books. Scower the interweb looking for clues. for something to pull me into the next part of the story...



waiting sucks....


I should be working.......







*siggggghhhh*

[CoffeeJedi]

[Phaedra]

[Foz]

[LorD BaZTArD]

Exactly Phaedra. Thing is, those who don't know what I Love Bee's was can easily find out. It also helps that many, many people still remember the game fondly. Look at all the people coming back.

I Love Bee's was popular on the news sites. More than a few people found it through penny-arcade and the like. Tycho was an avid beekeeper. Hell that's how I found out about this one. Which is sad because I've been watching Heroes and Sector Seven recently and it got to the point that I went straight to them and forgot the news forum. Stupid of me.

[Antares]

Maybe it's just me. But looks like some people who complain about these not being an ARG are, mostly, the ones who found ILB too late and couldn't be involved on that game. So they want they ILB experience and this one may or may not be the same.

To every one of those complaining (like the Alaska goy who drive just to not be able to answer), just give this some time. And remember, there's always someone like me, stuck in Colombia (this is South America, in case you're wondering) who can only dream about participating on a ARG beyon posting theories in forums like these.

On a final note, I guess Alaska just got one phone calle because, even being the biggest state of the Union, it is also one with very few people, and far, far away for many to drive and answer a call... following that logic my country should have a lot of involvement (we're bigger than France, Spain, Portugal and Germany put together).

Anyway, I'll be helping as much as I can and hoping the best for thos who play this game.

[pondrthis]

This is my first "community" arg, and it seems cool enough. I've played a few args before but they were all, "take fifteen minutes to ponder this puzzle, find a strange email address, blah blah".

ILB looked boring. Running around to phone booths? I'd much rather just listen to a .wav and try to play it backwards, change speed, etc. There's so much more depth to puzzles when we have greater access to the files. Otherwise, the deepest it can get is a few riddles.

[LorD BaZTArD]

Thing is that we had to find the axons. They weren't given to us and we had to go to them. It was never that easy. We needed to decode the GPS co-ordinates and then find them. It's partially why so many phones were never found and it is also why so many funny stories sprung up about people running through the wackiest of places looking for phones.

Many a hotel concierge/store manager would freak out after picking up a phone and hearing melissa. You had to be there.

[Phyltre]

[LorD BaZTArD]

By the way. It's better when companies don't announce that they're doing an ARG. It builds up the suspension of disbelief. It may be a marketing campaign, but it goes deeper than that because you learn more and you spread the word, that doesn't make it a bad thing, I would rather an ARG than see "BUY THIS NOW TO BE COOL" on ads on tv/websites.

On the flipside to this, is if everyone did ARG's it would get old fast.

Also, I've seen bungie mention nothing aside from the teasing on their site. Bungie always do that.

[Jordan117]

[rpepper]

[LorD BaZTArD]

Just a note, I edited the other post. Also after a brief look around on a few microsoft sites, I find no such mention. Point me in the direction of such?

Yeah, that was funny. Bill Gates does that though. Heh.

[rpepper]