BlackShadowMist - Halo 2 Montage (His first with us)

[Kombat Frank]

Originally Posted by spartan hoax

thats true, thats what i said when i first saw it. the sticks are all the "montage sticks" that everyone goes for and what you see in pretty much every montage. altho he had some really good gameplays, just a few too many of those lucky sticks. id say a stick has skill when you know who ur trying to stick, not just throwing it into oblivion and seeing a symbol pop up.

oh and another thing. u notice how many times people purposely walk into the stickies, or paused and then moved when they were stuck.

yup..totally agree with you on this one....yeah i thought it was just me but some of those looked completly staged...i duno....its iffy....

[BlackShadowMist]

Combat Frank and Spartan hoax, let me set the record straight. Nothing in my montage was "staged". All that footage was captured from just a week and 2 days of gameplay.

I stick guys from across the map all the time its nothing "lucky" for me, its a skill try asking anyone on my FL, happens all the time. Before I throw the stick I clearly see a guy there and when I throw it with the right timing it sticks him I dont see anything lucky about that; its like throwing timing and so on out the window in the place of luck. Now there were some sticks that I just toss unknowingly and stuck a guy, but the ones where i actually see a guy and wait before throwing it thats skill. I waiting and timed when and how high to throw the stick to reach it target.

Anyway, thanks 4 the feedback. And remember
" Its not about how high you throw the stick or when you throw the stick its about how much luck is on your side nothing more"

[Ephrum]

Originally Posted by BlackShadowMist

Combat Frank and Spartan hoax, let me set the record straight. Nothing in my montage was "staged". All that footage was captured from just a week and 2 days of gameplay.

I stick guys from across the map all the time its nothing "lucky" for me, its a skill try asking anyone on my FL, happens all the time. Before I throw the stick I clearly see a guy there and when I throw it with the right timing it sticks him I dont see anything lucky about that; its like throwing timing and so on out the window in the place of luck. Now there were some sticks that I just toss unknowingly and stuck a guy, but the ones where i actually see a guy and wait before throwing it thats skill. I waiting and timed when and how high to throw the stick to reach it target.

Anyway, thanks 4 the feedback. And remember
" Its not about how high you throw the stick or when you throw the stick its about how much luck is on your side nothing more"

You had a lot of really nice sticks. I catch those sticks a lot too (you'll see it in my montage that's coming out here in the next few days)... but to call them "skill" is just ridiculious. I throw a sticky cross map on Lockout...and even tho I see a guy close to where I'm throwing it... the possibilities of which way he could move to avoid the sticky, or even just randomly making the sticky miss him are endless. To call any kind of super long distance stick "skill" is just stupid...

I can stick people up close, and at a medium distance consistantly... those sticks are skillfull... because you can be more accurate with your throw... but maaan...c'mon. You're not kidding anyone... hail-marry's are just that...lucky.


Anyway...back to the topic...

Your montage was pretty decent. The flash fade effect got really annoying tho... and most of the time didn't go with the music.

There was some solid game play, there was some sloppy game play. I personally don't like watching sloppy game play. I've thrown out a lot of clips that have access shots...or misses because they haven't looked clean... I think more people try to push the kills they got more then how they got them... which is ok, it's more true in representing skill level.

The areas I think could be improved... capture quality... it was a little shady, but not un-watchable. Game play, I'd just like to see more "Crisp" game play. and less flashy white effects. Every now and then is great, especially when they go with the song, but between 99% of the clips just made me not want to watch the entire thing.

Good job tho, definatly looking forward to more, just be careful getting away with the new effects you learn, new, cool things definatly bite you in the ass.

[SmeaGz]

nice montage...i liked it all except the music but it was original so im not complaining

[Totalbodygym]

yea i suppose hail mary's take as much skill as ur 40 is legit
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStat...ckShadow Mist
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStat...ckShadow Mist
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStat...ckShadow Mist
etc etc...
just dont take criticism so heavily.

[BlackShadowMist]

Yup, thats right Spartan and it looks real sweet.

Dude, Im not taking the criticism serious, we just have a difference in opinion nothing more.

[Totalbodygym]

dont get me wrong, cause i def enjoyed watching it, hope to see more vidz from ya

[Ephrum]

Nevermind... not the place for this...

[BlackShadowMist]

Ay, you guys have any ideas for a really good montage? Im talking what sort of montage would you guys love to see that no one else has came up with before? Well, what Im asking is what would you like to see in the next montage?

[Ephrum]

That sort of thinking has to come from you. It can't come from everyone else. Everyone has a different idea of a "perfect" montage. Basically, no montages are going to be 100% origional, and if they are, they're probably gunna suck. They're either gunna have bad footage, they're gunna have bad weapon choices... bad music, too much or too little effects...

Basically, the standard for what people want to see in montages has been set. Multi kills, sweet sticks, cool shit, and no-scopes. Other then that, the only origionality you can by-pass it to come out with an editing style, or song.