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Alright this last weekend, March 23rd-25th, was another AMAZING event in MLG columbus. I’ve been to all 4 years, and this was the best. It seemed as tho there was less booths then previous but a bit more space, still not enough chairs, never enough! This event was a little more exciting for me, besides the fact I have lots of friends in and around columbus, Revenge was going to be in there since he was on leave for him and his wife to visit family before there first baby is born. Everything was a blast, we played some halo(for fun) but I did alot of running around, on top of this weekend, I’m planning stuff out for PAX east, where we will be in booth #1163 come say HI! On top of normal running around at events, True Gaming Society was sponsoring WARRIORS, and that was a lot of running around with them watching, it really is to bad that second series against dynasty wasnt even on feature stage, it may have been some of the best halo matches I have ever seen. I’d like to thank everybody from TGS who came out, the new friends we made, Warriors for there hard work and repping of TGS and the whole MLG staff for putting on another great event!

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Earlier this morning I logged onto facebook to see a post from 343i, a first look into halo 4. I stopped everything I was doing immediately to check it out. I was able to watch the video twice before I had to make a mad dash out to meet friends. With what I saw, I’ve got hope and skepticism for the next installment of my most beloved franchise.

So to begin let’s take a quick look back at halo 3 and reach. Halo 3, my favourite of the series so far. While I may take slack for that, it was a more balanced and fair multiplayer than halo 2 and the campaign for me was much more fun, mostly to due with 4 player co-op. Now Halo:Reach, had a great story but from the beginning it just didn’t feel like Halo. Maybe because you weren’t the chief, I enjoyed the campaign as a player, but not the same. Multiplayer just never stacked up the same way as the two previous(major) installments. Between bloom and sprint, having to time your shots didn’t work when players could come in and just sprint away to safety, not enough punishment for making mistakes.

Now let’s take a look at what you can go see now on Halo: Waypoint, campaign wise, its debatable, but I’m assuming its forerunners or precursors. What they do say is that for once in a game we will learn more about spartan 117 or master chief. While I’ve read all the books I am excited to see where we head, and the new enemy(and hopefully no flood I’m sick of them). All the graphics are being updated and the detail on the images shown is awesome.
In multiplayer we will be playing as spartan IV’s. Which is a totally new idea not brought up anywhere in the halo canon, and they are developing a reason for blue to be fighting red. While I didn’t see bloom in the small bits I did see there was sprint. But they have shown the fans love and brought back the battle rifle! This is the best I could hope for, and hopefully right from the get go they let us have no bloom/no sprint. Also two maps were showed off, I forget the names right now, but one was an arena style competitive map and the other was a factory with a mech being built in it. The only reason I can assume those are being shown is for beta! They have done it for both reach and h3 so I am hoping the trend continues.

I am hoping for this to be a labour of love for 343i. Set off there game developing strategy right, it is a massive franchise and the reason most people own a xbox. Let’s hope the content keeps flowing and this franchise returns to glory.

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Alright, I’ve decided to write this after seeing so much moaning on twitter the last few days about games and what majo league gaming is doing. As soon as it was announced that call of duty wasn’t going to be at the winter championships a lot of people got angry. So what, if you wanted it, did you go and support it? Guess what its great you watch at home, but if people prefer doing that why would they take up venue space for the game?
I’m also really tired of the entire shooting community first/third, halo/cod/gears whatever flaming other games. We need to stand together to prove that we belong, or all the games will fall by the wayside.
Just because its slightly different game doesn’t make it worse or “gay”. Help each other grow as a community, stand by and support. And if your game isn’t at the mlg event. Go with friends and say hey, we are physically here, and would love to see our game here/back. By staying at home your proving why the game shouldn’t be there.

Also, I’ve recently been in a few battles about mlg gold and why they don’t get the arenas including. While somebody pointed it out themselves. Gold covers all events. You still get them, the arena is something completely different. This is a business people and guess what, nothing they do is free and they have upheld everything they say. Be grateful, it is so much harder than you could imagine to do what sundance, adam, and the whole crew does for us to enjoy this stuff. If you think you can do better, try, seriously these guys all chased a dream for us, one they didn’t need and now they are continuing to try and change and grow for us the fans. Be thankful, and remember there is a reason they do it, they aren’t making tons of money of you, they are passionate about doing something they love and so do you. Quit crying, or if you think you can do better, do it.

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See you at winter championships

So I have decided that once a week, I’m going to write a little article about a friend. I decided to start with robskii, revenge was an obvious choice, and I figured that I don’t take enough jabs at rob.
So I’ve known rob for the last 4 year years since 2008. We’ve been through a lot together. Our friendship original crew back when he was dj robskii, and joined me in rgc. When we split to tgs he came with, and helped. At the time I was working nights and he was unemployed so we spent many a nights playing late, and than there were some late night phone calls. We would chat for hours, about everything, life, sports, gaming. Ideas were hatched and some have even come around.
We first met in person at mlg orlando 2009. Where we competed, and partied. We all hung out for a week and it was such a blast, that what the start of robskii using twitter, so being the social butterfly he was we met a lot of new people. Since than we have attended a few events together, and still chat and plan and everything else. If you don’t know robskii you should. He’s always looking to make new friends but not forgetting the old ones. So here’s to 2012 a big year of travel for me to see all the friends I’m going to talk about here.

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Sorry for not using this much lately, I promise to do more so from now on (I hope). Anyways, I decided to take some time today to write about friends, specifically best friends. Its a funny notion, when I was younger I thought that I could only have one best friend, but than as I got older I started fighting that, because overtime I have developed so many friends that it would be hard to classify them as just good friends. Most of them are from meeting on the internet, because its a little like highschool. You choose who you want to hang out with, not because you work with them and see them all the time, but because you want to.

A best friend is somebody who no matter what will be there. Not a friend who will just support you but a friend who will tell you when your being a retard or whatever else. They always are proud of you, but won’t hesitate to put you in your place.

In my live I’ve had some amazing times, and some dreadful times. And I don’t know how much of it I would make without having surrounding myself with all the great friends and the whole tgs crew. I hope if your reading this you have people like that. Because nobody should go through life alone.

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Whoa, sorry for the delay between posts, been kind of busy around these parts. between the holidays and everything true gaming this got a little ignored. I even knew on some days i should write but didn’t MY bad! If your reading this and not signed up on the website go now! there is so much going on. We just had our first giveaway winner in vegas24702! he will be the nice recipient of 1600 ms points! Beyond just some giveaways, some people are looking to start tournaments. Also morbid nexus is going to be hosting some special gaming nights so go now to see! in other news i bought a ton of games over the holidays and im just grinding away at those. when im not on call of duty

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Alright folks, so i have decided to start doing TGS giveaways, i will be putting up what it is on twitter and the forums, The first will be 1600 microsoft points for anybody registered on the website, 1-50 and i will choose doesn’t matter how new or old you are. I will create a random generator to help me do this. so what are you waiting for? go and sign up now!

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thanks!

As I’ve been listening to different casts like the halo council, the real mlg voice and others over the last few days, I’ve heard lots of discussion about bloom/no bloom, sprint/no sprint and I agree the game is much better on the newer settings, I’ve actually gone on a few times to play reach, which I never really liked from the get go.

My biggest issue playing reach bloom or not has only made somewhat of a difference to me, my biggest issue was the fact that the flash is gone. Without a 4 shot, with the fact that it just took so much more to kill people, you just don’t see as many big plays. The DMR is just not as good being a single shot, it allows people more time to react to get away, with or without sprint. For example, on pit in halo 3 if somebody peaked out just a half step to far they were dead in the blink of an eye, but on reach the extra shot just allows running room.

Something else I feel has taken away from the game is medals. In other games medals were not a given on any game, but now you get one for avenging your death, or running away and living, or an assist. Pretty much anything, they’re just thrown at you. Over and over again, they lost there meaning. I want to see those little emblems come up because I actually worked to get them, not just cause I’m playing the game.

With all that being said, I think that zero bloom/no sprint is a step in the right direction, and probably the closest were going to get to put the halo back into reach. Here’s hoping that 343 Industries gives us the loved BR back, and makes halo, halo again.

So tonight after I get off of work n after Kayla’s work Christmas party… I will be slaving on the site a few hours. I am hoping to have the forums placed inside the main theme’s borders and have the sites menu incorporated on the forum tonight! The Members, and History pages should be up and running as well.
Xorth, the creator of Halo Tracker, will be getting up with me soon about putting his site as an affiliate to TGS. Hopefully he will post TGS on HTR once we are at 100%. Please, Please if you go to his site be respectful n don’t cause NE problems. His site is just what it says… A Halo stat tracking site! They are currently have the only one up on the web since they forced HaloCharts out of the business lolz

I have started my tuition assistance and am enrolling in college this spring. I will be tailoring my bachelors degree a bit to incorporate my career in Air Traffic Control with a little web design where I can. I can only hope I learn enough in college, n from Xorth sometimes, to make our site a one of a kind masterpiece.

Thanks … “And as always, Have nice day!” – FPS Russia

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