Discriminating Gamer

Here’s my first attempt at a Haloramic composite Halo 3 screenshot. It lacks the depth of some other Haloramics I’ve seen, probably due to the nature of the source images. I rotated the camera significantly for each capture, so much so that the large moon on the left and my flying corpse on the right were never in a screen capture together. Still, it sort of comes across as just a wide screenshot. Anyway, the depth is lacking but I like the cool hues and stark, minimal feel it has going on.

The story behind this Halo 3 panoramic is much better than the shot itself. I was trolling the underground on Snowbound, as I customarily do, when a well placed frag set off the fusion cores near the shotgun spawn. Anyone who’s traded rounds in the tunnels of Snowbound knows this is not an uncommon occurrence. Needless to say, I didn’t survive the subsequent fireworks.

It wasn’t the first time I died a fiery death looking for the shotgun, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. It was after the explosion this situation became unique. My corpse was blasted through the shield door, up the ramp and out of the wide tunnel. It barely clipped the ridge the automatic turrets sit on, cartwheeled though the air (the source of the Haloramic) before it hit the ground and skittered to a halt way, way out in the middle of the barren wasteland. I couldn’t even get the camera near it in theater mode because of the invisible barrier out past the auto-turrets.

It’s funny, what may appear to be a super hero soaring to new heights is actually a corpse blasted into frozen desolation. It’s a fairly amusing sequence of events. I’ll upload the video to my Bungie.net fileshare if anyone cares to check it out.