The I love Bees Phenomenon

[RaptorNX01]

I've listened to the entire radio drama a half dozen times and it never stops entertaining. so well done. and it even stands up well on its own with no knowledge of Halo which makes it even better. I honestly hope they do more of these.

[NexCarnifex]

isnt that the guy from g4

[LegionOfMany112]

This was, without a doubt, the best Alternate-Reality game. EVER.

Kudos, Halo 2.

[SushiofDoom18803]

Halo has been the most in-depth a video game could get. It's been one hell of a ride. Always and forever, HALO FOR LIFE <3....

[LordCHull]

why did a stupid piece of advertising (not nearly as memorable or good as advertising for Halo 3, ODST, or even Reach) become a clusterfuck of canon that confuses the hell out of me -.-

[DangerSandler]

@LordCHull Halo: Reach is literally so full of plot holes that it shouldn't even be considered canon, even with the DataDrops. But I personally think that Halo 3's advertising was the best.

[LordCHull]

@DangerSandler I'm saying the advertisement for Halo Reach was better not the game.....I just find this whole I love bees thing just a wtf?

[DangerSandler]

@LordCHull Oh lol yeah I guess it kinda explains why they didnt do it again.

[HiIeric117]

@LordCHull Seriously? You didn't like I Love Bees? What is wrong with you?

[xVirtualNinjax]

Reminds of that one part in Dirty Harry...

[narrat0r12]

I wish I could've talked to that AI...

[TheSovietdino]

Wow my anti virus fucked up, is it a kind of virus?

[WumboTheCreeper]

i noticed, top comment

[KevinLuhrs]

"Dude, it's a hurricane, put the phone down"

[needlermasta]

This "game" you guys keep calling it is called an ARG.

[94XJ]

@needlermasta You know what the "G" stands for in ARG, right? (pssst...it's "game")

[xbjohnson]

games like this need to happen more often! seriously that was awesome! I wish I had known about that!

[ImTehSlenderMan]

guys, go back to the site, there is something new. there has a countdown.

[mattymofo22]

@ImTehSlenderMan you're right. it's counting down to the year 2552

[aaqucnaona94]

What if the people just missed the flashing site? nowadays with breakdowns this doesnt happen, but what if it did?

[Xenctuary]

@aaqucnaona94 It was pretty clear from the trailer, I remember seeing it live

[BouncedmrHappy]

Blame Stosh.

[VioletBob]

I WISH I KNEW ABOUT THIS. So cool..

[MrMakeman]

This was probably the most epic moment in gaming.

Too bad it'll never happen again.

[Artybruh]

@MrMakeman I think that portal game did something similar

[needlermasta]

@Artybruh People who bought the potato pack of indie games and played them made a clock tick down faster so Portal 2 would be released earlier. The game was released 13 hours early.

[FFXIWarriorqueen1]

Kevin is so fucking hot...

[sweata71]

if they actually hacked some girls blog for this, sucks for her

[benzinator11]

@sweata71 nah it was all made by the halo producers. In the end of the story, I think they reveal that an AI (probably cortana) was running from something and went back in time (hence, y'know, this all happening now) and tried to communicate with the outside world by hacking into this girls blog. So the messages are coming from her.

[kury906]

hahahahaha kevin perreria



[QueenAnime99]

What an awesome ARG.

[Unit645]

The counter is counting again.

[JaySchwahn]

@Unit645

The timer is 548 years and counting.

[14megasxlr]

@Unit645 yeah, and its hit zero in about 197,000 years...

[CaptianPWN]

She Dissapeared!

What do you mean the Corridors empty?

There she is again!?

OH MY GOD! SHE HID ON THE CEILING!

[NotSoGuitarHeroPheno]

Oh hey, it's Kevin.

[EthalaRide]

I though "Oh My GOD this is AWESOME!" I haven't seen an ARG before. but I'm sad I missed this one. oh well, I hope there's something else like this soon!

[therealmoharmate]

@EthalaRide "test subjects needed" or "Mission icefly" is going to be something similar

[grmmripper]

This is why ARG's piss me off, if you don't hear about it from the beginning and start playing in the middle, or just completely miss the entire game itself, it's no damn fun. I just learned about ilovebees and it seemed like an absolutely amazing ARG but I missed the entire thing by a few years. I hate that.

[HalfJawArbiter166]

What, the FUCK, is this?

[CommandoX11]

@coatedhunter360 it was just to draw people's attention to halo 2... is all. Its a waste of time game that nerds would play so they can play halo2 before release date.

[CommandoX11]

Lol i didnt even notice the ad when i played halo 2 which was back like 5 or 6 years ago. Thats pretty clever in my opinion.

[weezyfan25]

dont go here it gives you a virus :(

[justaman15]

Damn, this was some weird stuff. I think that the website got taken over by an unstable AI, so it got things pretty messed up after all the Halo 2 commotion.

[wertests215]

I love bees is back!! Let the madness begin.

[airsoftbuddies50]

wait...where was the honey sent to?

[AWWWWTF]

This is real??!?!?!? That is an amazing marketing scheme!!!

[airsoftbuddies50]

@AWWWWTF look up the radio messages in portal. these kind of marketing ARGs are everywhere, and so much fun :D

[AWWWWTF]

@airsoftbuddies50 Alright cool!

[CaptianPWN]

I was Lieutenant CaptianPWN and My Special skill was Beat Boxing

[CaptianPWN]

I was there.

[Stumpy44444]

They should have done this stuff for all the games.

[ThatIndianGuy7116]

@Stumpy44444 no it would just get old and over done. but this was really clever no doubt

[SuperBigChug]

I heard some assassain was caught by this when she asked for his skills he said "i have a silenced pistol and a paticular set of skills"

[waffleriddle]

This Contolling of people is epic

a website just falshed on a advertisement for 1 second

and the internet goes crazy

[Drakester671]

I Rofled at the ground beef

[HalfJawArbiter166]

This site is a damn thing that is blowing my mind to hell. That Iris is also a heavy son of a bitch that is beginning to make me mad. What the blood does Iris, I Love Bees and Halo 2 have with each other?

[Tweak2911]

best ad campaign ever.

[redLuigi11]

why halo why thats low 

[adamfsh]

Was this from Pulse? I defiantly remember watching this on G4 way back when.

[pxiy321]

did the count down already pass?

[SkInHoUnD]

Ilovebees was so fucking gay....whats even gayer is people actually gave fuck.

It would have been hilarious if they were all those lengths to create some faggy game,....and no one was interested.

[YouKilledAlan]

Only true Halo fans know about I Love Bees. ^_^

[WLuico]

I wonder if you could have said naughty stuff to her while on the phone lol... "I have a guitar!" 'go and get it!' "if you come with me! wink wink"

So it's about an artificial intelligent species stranded on earth? then she calls out some allies who are stranded as well to help her out? but then an evil alien finds her and corrupts her to locate earth for the covenant? thus making Halo 1???? what of the other planet on Halo 2 - 3??

[aliennetworkRecords]

Yeah, K-Per!!

[fixdeluxe1]

I don't know how to play this game?

How do you?

Is it some kind of internet game.

[spider394]

Unless you have the ability to go back in time to before Halo 2 was released, you won't be able to play....sorry....

[fixdeluxe1]

That sucks.

[haloman4311]

do you know if Year zero the ARG is still on?

[spider394]

@adambelfast1 no I'm afraid not,

[adambelfast1]

@spider394 oh ok, but im still confused what was all this about what was its connection to halo was it just to promote the game? also how come there is a countdown on the site saying "countdown to wide and awake physical",,,,,thanks in advance

[t3hUBER]

@adambelfast1 It's a countdown to the invasion of the Covenant, a race of aliens from the Halo universe. It was just a big viral marketing campaign, spread rumors about Halo 2.

[origamikiller012]

@adambelfast1 you are the biggest dumbass ever

[adambelfast1]

@origamikiller012 yeah i know after i left that comment and read up on more on i love bees an dicovered this was nearly 10 yrs years ago i thought the same thing about my self

[HeyItsASquirrel]

@spider394 WAYBACKMACHINE! GET TO WORK!

[TutorialXGamer]

@fixdeluxe1 Fail!

[JeblaHebla]

@fixdeluxe1 Its an ARG: Alternate Reality Game, you have to act in real life via payphone, e-mail, and phone. if you are able to figure out the puzzle, you get early access to play Halo 2 multiplayer.

[Hikarilover123]

@fixdeluxe1 I know it's been a long time, but you can still visit the website.

ilovebees(dot)com

It's still as creepy as back then. The timer is still ticking downward to a date in the far, far future.

[GameBoy408]

i just finished reading the first halo book, i'm sucked into the halo series all over again. I feel like getting the first two games again, just for the story. you can appreciate it so much more after a book.

[ALLIED7621]

@GameBoy408 yeah the books are great

[shugochara78]

THATS FREAKYY!

[oromaaka3]

this is UNSC AI Serial number CTN-0542-9. i am a momument to all your pwnage.

[DainCorporation]

Oh no! Dana if you are out there Hide for your live Mellisa knows your exact location!!! run there is still time!

[HappyNightmare95]

Aparently ODST is gonna be linked to this aswell.

[CaptianPWN]

This was the biggest video game publicity stunt that also forwarded to making WHY SO SERIOUS for dark knight.

[gametavern]

I Love. I Love bees.

[TheDullahan]

It is a perfect example of how to control people through viral advertisement.

[Sheenious]

@TheDullahan control nerds not people

[QueenAnime99]

@Sheenious Nerds = People. And it's about having fun.

[Sheenious]

@QueenAnime99 nerd are like donkeys, sterile. boom! bitch

[QueenAnime99]

@Sheenious You straight crazy. LOL. Good day.

[phnixlady]

Blackjack?

[Marc1k]

That was definitely Kevin Pereira

[screamforska]

@Marc1k This is probably a G4TV special for AOTS

[StepManiaMaster]

When was this aired? Was it G4? I'm pretty sure that's Kevin Pereira.

[SplatterGamer]

Don't know really where it was aired, but there's some kind of new xbox game that does some similar things. Just saw a trailer called "Penalty to be a hero?". It "smells" viral all over it, but nothing about what game it's about :(

[Ockzopie]

this was great but why was it called i love bees

[therealfettypet]

Durga or Melissa's name means 'Bees'

[project2501b]

Melissa's name is routed in the meaning of bees, Durga is a goddess from Hindu mythology that actually describes the character very well.

But the entire thing is called 'ilovebees' because that's the name of the website. 'Covered in bees', 'just a little sting', etc. were all phrases used by Durga later on in the game.

[leofera11]

THAT"S SATANIC!!

[TARDISdude2k7]

bungie is smart for doing something like this

[CrdBrdProjects]

ingenious...

[aarmenta92]

this is genius...

[Aldawok12]

is that kevin WOW he looks wierd

[nexudude]

That was the greatest story ever. Durga totally fell in love with Jersey.

[davidjratcliffe]

I REMEMBER THIS

[Keirosuke]

Kamal in I love bees is the voice actor for Sasuke from Naruto, Haseo, and Luke fon fabre :D

[ANACONDA360]

i listened to the entire movie (i guess it could be described as an Audio-movie). It was creeeeeeepy.

[bobtheduck]

I have the entire I love bees audio drama, it's awesome... The only problem is it's arranged out of chronological order, and it's especially bad in the last chapter. I reedited the last chapter to a logical order, and will be doing so with each chapter eventually. The finale (in proper order, with the last section of Jersey's thing being very last in the whole series) is powerful. I want to animated portions of it for my Demo reel, though I guess I'd need permission from Microsoft.

[vectorb]

As a Beekeeper, Im pretty sure that you can do with it what you will as long as you credit 42, and bungie. I have often wished some one would do something with it. I made my own remix as well, adding in the recorded audio from the live phone calls and some music that players made to seporate each weeks audio. loved this game.

[ANACONDA360]

have you checked the site recently?

Is there ANY explanation on why the counter to October 20th, 2552 is no longer present?

[OMGWTFBBQATTACK]

Lol at the Creeeeepy.

[liljdude94]

thats so cool !!!!

[117master711]

thats insane

[sidney27ago]

when i got to the website, it gived me the creeps(but now i have halo 2!)

[seterry]

ya... its counting down to the year when the covenent attacks earth... I think it was 2525.

[spider394]

2525 was when they discovered the covenent. The humans spent 28 years trying to prevent them from finding us. The covenent finally found earth when 343 Guilty Spark told them the location of earth, they attacked earth in 2553.

[seterry]

oh, it was in 2553? oh....

[perfectseason07]

nope i'm pretty sure that the Covenant attacked Earth in 2552

[seterry]

still weard.

[tulud]

@spider394

343 fucked us up

[spartan876]

@spider394 Spark didn't tell them the location, Truth already knew it.

[kiris10]

@spider394 Actually Earth was attacked in 2552, and also the year, the covenant disbanded. This is a reference to Bugie's favourite number 7 since 2+5=7 and 5+2=7.

[Hound419]

@spider394 I thought it was 2552 cause that's when Halo 3 ODST is set?

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@spider394 the fuck?! they didnt attack earth in 2553! they attacked way before! it ended in 2552 when master chief blew up that 3rd halo ring! get our facts right

[spider394]

@finalkamehamehaflash So I made a minor mistake, no need to bite my head off for it....

[Ivik6]

@finalkamehamehaflash Way before happened to be 2552.

Spark never told the Covenenant the location of Earth they found out from various assautls like Reach.

The chief destroyed the Ark and replica of the fourth Halo (the one featured in Halo 1) in 2552.

Get *your facts right.

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@Ivik6 WELL?! and what happened afterwards? ooh, nothing, THE WAR FUCKING ENDED! get a brain you idiot

[Ivik6]

@finalkamehamehaflash Oh first of all mistake in the third line it should be 2553.

The aftermath of the war happens to have nothing to do with any of the comments on this thread. Please try and stay on topic.

As for what happened after, it's going to be decided by 343 Industries. For all we know the elites could turn on the humans or Master Chief will find something.

Also it's good to be polite. Less insults help. So does accepting when your wrong and not rage-replying something unrelated.

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@Ivik6 he was stating that the war STARTED at 2553, but that is impossible because it ended in 2552... read for once bro

[Ivik6]

@finalkamehamehaflash Please pay attention to detail. It is important to make sure you read through what the argument is about and know it's details before you start criticizing others of not doing that.

Spider394 stated that the covenant found Earth in 2553 not that that's when the war ended. They already stated that it had started in 2525.

And again you are wrong. The war ended in March of 2553.

[Rodri8032]

@finalkamehamehaflash nope it ended at the start of 2553

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@Rodri8032 just stfu allready! jesus christ! at least i was right! at least i wasnt 45 years off you dumb fucking dickhead! and i am so fucking sorry i dont know the exact date of when the war ended, i am so motherfucking sorry k? go and suck ur daddy's dick some more...

[Rodri8032]

@finalkamehamehaflash sorry i tought i were the first one to reply to your comment

[roflcoptatbag]

@finalkamehamehaflash 4th

Installation 04

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@roflcoptatbag well master chief destroyed 3 halo rings... i'm referring to the third he destroyed

[roflcoptatbag]

@finalkamehamehaflash ......

[tayfun0107]

@finalkamehamehaflash 3rd halo ring? what the fuck?

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@tayfun0107 how many halo rings do you think there are?

[tayfun0107]

@finalkamehamehaflash there are 7, but master chief only went to 2

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@tayfun0107 AHEM halo 1 halo 2 and halo 3 (remember the carrier ship on the second halo?)

[tayfun0107]

@finalkamehamehaflash halo 1 04 halo 2 05 halo 3 the ark and 04b oh wait fuck, sorry i have not played halo 3 in a wile

[finalkamehamehaflash]

@tayfun0107 thx bro

[TheFallingVengence]

@spider394 actually you are all wrong. The covenant found out Earth when a secret beacon was attached to a heavy frigate returning to earth for refueling (after Reach) the covenant found the coordinates and attacked with a small fleet not knowing it was the humans homeworld

[sillysp8]

kool

[fwub]

freeeaaakkkyy...

[BigNigger]

Nice spelling on Phenomenon.

[spider394]

.............

[pinkpanther35016]

xD

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