So, our little LAN party we had in London, organized by our own Anton P. Nym was quite entertaining, with our special guest, Mr.Nathan Walpole (aka bentllama) from Bungie Studios gracing us with his presence, as he was visiting family in the area...
as for me, my friend and I arrived a couple hours late due to unforseen circumstances, but we arrived just in time for the pizza. It was good to finally meet Anton, and enjoy a series of 11 player games. The weather was good, the drive there was longer than the drive home (up to an hour drive from my home to Anton's) but it was definitely worth it...
if you ever play bentllama in Halo 2, be aware - he's a natural sniper, and may easily lead any game where sniping would count towards final score (ie slayer) much like Rendon

. And if he's given permission to utilize carney-holes, he will use them to their potential.

Otherwise, really he's a fairly average player (well, above average, but not like a Halo 2 god as some may think).
Anton's guests included friends and co-workers, a number of whom had either never played Halo, or rarely if ever played Xbox... so the average experience was fairly low, and by stats, where I and my friend felt we'd be around the middle and consistently topped overall by bentllama, I, along with one of Anton's guests (gumdrop), my friend (mensh - its german), and bentllama, seemed to be fighting for top spot in most games.
Any game with swords seemed to be the favourite of the night. Unfortunately, we pretty much only ever played predefined games, without having the luxury of a box with all our favourite beekeeper inspired game types (so, no DRT, though we did the slightly altered phantom king, no Pious Flea, no Dawn of the Dead, or zombies, etc)...
Even so, it was a great great time. Thanks to Anton for hosting us all...
my friend and I pushed through to the very end, being of the last 4 people to play, including Anton and a friend of his - the last 4 player game ended at about 3:45am (after quite a number of 4 player single life elimination slayer games on foundation

). Which is why the date on this post should read about 6am EST... due to a bit of chatting at the end and finishing up remaining junk food and drinks, and the drive back, and catching up on today's forum posts
and now I'm going to bed...
*sigh*
Until next time!
PS. No Nathan didn't give us any additional info about Halo 2.5 or updates that we didn't already know

But it was great to meet him... and stupid me, didn't think of asking him to sign my LE Halo 2 case I had taken with me... blah!


Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:03 am