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[OT/RANT] Do they just not get it?

[drseuss90]

i had a friend tell me he wouldnt give in to the microsoft rumor mill. He was saying stuff like "So many people thought halo 2 was going to come out early, why would I play [Ilovebees] to give into microsoft's rumor mill?" He just didnt understand, almost like it was a conspiracy. Oh well, he doesnt know what he missed...

[thunderclap8]

ARGs are pretty much a subculture of a subculture, and in this case even one level deeper. If this wasn't related to Halo 2, the ARG would have been a subculture of role playing games. But throwing Halo 2 into the mix adds video gaming in there as a parent subculture somehow. The family tree gets messy here. And I think most people just don't know what to make of it as a result.

Most of the time the reaction I get is "oh, that's kinda cool... but not my thing".

I too was disappointed by the /. and SA reactions, but then again they weren't unexpected either. Throw the word Microsoft at /. and the knee-jerk reaction is to lash out in anger. And SA tends to be rather mean spirited to begin with.

But hey, their loss! And less of them meant more game play involvement for us

[daboking]

I honestly don't care what those who did not participate think... lets talk about those of us who did... we grew to quite a sizeable voice, made many new friends, were part of a potentially history making moment in gaming. Kudos to beekeepers.... the few, the proud, halo's truest gaming marines!

[TheHulk]

I have it worse than ALL of you. At work, they now call me the "Queen Bee"........AND I'M A GUY!!!

[daboking]

so, are you trying to overcompensate with a name like thehulk?
just messing with ya.... that is why I kept this to myself around the office.

[neopuff34]

I know what you mean. I tried and tried to get my friends into this because I know they'd enjoy it. Unfortunately, they just shrugged it off as one of my little (and, I'll admit, often quite dumb) 'projects' I do now and again. To this day, my best friend still won't listen to the wavs Oh well. Like someone above me said, more involvement for us.

[Scumbag]

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[Slothboy]

I babbled incoherently at my friends for the first few weeks of ILB, then I just gave up. It honestly, at that point, was a little hard to explain to somebody who wasn't already involved.

The wav files make a pretty decent stand-alone story though. Three of my friends are really into the Halo sidestories (i.e. First Strike and The Fall of Reach) and I finally just burned the completed audio story to cds (six) and put it in their hands. They are all enjoying them.

I think they will be ok with everything that happens until chapter 11. That's when the 2004 part of the story starts to really come into the picture and I can see them getting them confused. At that point I'm aiming them at thebruce's site and I'm sure they will get hooked from there.

They are probably going to "play" Ilovebees after everyone else has gone home. Kinda cool actually. It will live on in the new viewers, if only a little.

[Cherry Cotton]

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[vortech]

No. They don't. Feel special, ya big snowflake.

[Scumbag]

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[rose]

not getting it

[water10]

[thebruce]

Being one who's finished the game already, I can tell you right now, ILB and Halo 2 have two totally different styles of plot... it's VERY likely that a strict Halo fan would probably be bored by ILB, and someone who loves ILB for it's story, might consider Halo 2 a typical sci-fi plot... don't get me wrong, Halo 2's story is very well written, but it's in a completely different environment and style than ILB. Both equally great... well, ILB moreso

I really, honestly, hope that there is more in the future along the same lines as ILB for story... it's like there's two loose story ends now *sigh*