Mission Objective :- To see Halo 2 through until the very end, due to happen at 8am GMT 15th of April 2010. Must not play anything else until this goal is achieved...plus you get an extra bit of bling for your Halo - Reach character which is, y'know, cool......
Equipment :- Xbox 360, Halo 2, wired controller (to stop battery changing mid-game), broken Headset that I can hear people on but not use to talk, phone (switched off so not interrupted), 6 Cans of Irn Bru, 8 bags of crisps and 3 chocolate Hob-Nobs
Mission Log Start :-
2.25pm- Have to download extra multi-player maps again, after deleting them so as I could download The Ballad Of Gay Tony for GTA4...still, shouldn't take long...
3.00pm- ...Shouldn't take long at all...
3.25pm- COME ON YOU BLOODY STu.....oh, you're done! What? Another two maps?? GAHHHH!
4.25pm- Logged into Halo 2.....finally...and prepared to see this thing through to the end. Except now I need the loo...
6.30pm- Have just been called something unprintable by someone who sounds like they're just having a quick game before In The Night Garden comes on....Some thing's never change!
7.47pm- Already becoming tired which isn't a good sign...losing quite a few games as well, and considering giving up for a few hours.....
8.12pm- Hahahahahaha! Eat that, Frank FJA!! Maybe just a couple more games before I rest....
12.16am- Rest did not come....now far too in the zone to give up, going to sit this one through until 8am!
1.35am- Something strange is happening....all of the swearing and abuse seems to be disappearing and everybody is talking about games they've played in the past, or what Halo 2 has meant to them...or just having a laugh and congratulating people on good kills...it's all rather weird....
2.47am- Have got some really excited guy on my team, who keeps mentioning how long it is until the servers shut down....He really is quite excitable, but also sounds quite scared..as if the world will blow up....
2.54am- detwiler - the excitable one - has invited me to join his party. We zap into another game and meet up with ivantrembow, a chap who sounds just like Jimmy Stewart and has a shining wit and strange habit of calling everybody on the team Harold, regardless of who they are...
5.47am- detwiler is about to have a heart attack...although people have been trying to tell him otherwise, he still believes that the servers are going to close at midnight East Coast time....he is panicking and wondering if everybody's Xboxs are going to explode..
Our ranks have grown to include a gaming couple who watch each others backs on the battlefield, and we did have a French sniper but he left after getting killed a bit too much...This combined with our Stewart-esque "leader" and detwiler's manic countdown to doom, makes me feel like I am actually part of some squad of doomed soldiers fighting in a battle they know isn't going to end well, but making the most of it....
6.02am- Having realized his mistake, detwiler has now reset his death-clock and started counting down the next two hours...Our rag-tag bunch are holding up well, but the tiredness is starting to creep up on me. I'm making silly mistakes...oh well, only two hours left! Ivantrembow is helping keep me going by mocking people's gamertags...Violated Manatee was asked how he played with flippers, and told we were sorry he had been violated...It was all taken in the light-hearted manner it was meant in, and he has joined our party....
7.59am- I should have been asleep hours ago....but the whole craziness of the night has meant that I just couldn't leave my group....detwiler is really on the edge now, and even ivantrembow doesn't know how this is going to end...Battle after battle has been fought, some won - some lost, but all of them in good spirits....the trash-talking and playing of music down mics is a thing of another age...On this night, I have realized that LIVE can be a thing of beauty! People coming together to see off a much-loved game, something many of them have grown up with..people are going to be genuinely upset by all this..They might even need counselling....detwiler definitely will!
All these battles, all this death and fun and in a minute it'll all end!! But how, what's going to happen? Detwiler's countdown is halted only for everyone to say goodbye and wish everyone well.....5, 4, 3, 2, 1......
8.01am- Uhm...we're still all here....hello? Microsoft.....????
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