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i asked out my current girlfriend using forge to spell out will you go out with me...it was a pain in the ass but totally worth it

  • 01.03.2008 10:33 PM PDT
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Ok, I feel the need to chime in here :)

I met and got to know the absolute love (and now WIFE!) of my life through Xbox Live and Halo. It all started in September 2006 when I was playing a game of UNO on XBL. The weird thing is... I NEVER play UNO! Anyway, a wonderful lady with the gamertag Miss Behavior was matched up in my game. We played for hours that night... the conversation seemed effortless :) Now who sent who a friend request is debated :) but the fact remains that we ended up making it onto each others friends list.

The next day I signed on to XBL and popped in Halo 2 (pretty much the only game I EVER played... now its Halo 3) and went searching through my list to see if the amazing lady I met the night before happened to be on. Unfortunately she wasn't, but I noticed she was a level 26... I took a double take and realized that she had played a fair amount of Halo... could this be true? A girl after my own heart?

I sent her a message saying that we should play some Halo sometime if she was up for it. She was... and proceeded to kick my ass left and right... I was humbled to say the least. This is where it all started. Our mutual love for a video game (Halo, the best game ever I might add) brought us together. We spent every free hour talking and playing Halo for the next couple of months.

Then on Christmas day 2006 I hopped on a flight from my native land of Southern California (lol) and headed north to the frozen tundra of southern British Columbia. After overcoming the shock and dissapointment that these people of Canada did not keep pet Polar Bears or take dog sleds to and from work I was greeted by the most beautiful smile I could imagine. Anyway... as if I wasn't already head over heels in love with her... that moment clinched it :)!!!!

I was there through new years and hated leaving. The next couple of months were agony without her even though we talked and played Halo every single day for hours on end. Even a visit from my new love in April 2007 wasn't enough to overcome the long distance of our relationship.

Then in June 2007 I left California again to visit her and attend her mother's wedding. Long story short... I'm still here!!!! In fact, in August of 2007 we were officially hitched! So as it happens... I owe, in large part, the absolute greatest thing to ever happen to me to Bungie. Without Halo there is a VERY GOOD chance I would NEVER have gotten to know the most amazing woman in the entire world. The woman that I plan to spend the rest of my life with... and playing Halo with :)

So thank you Bungie! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

One last part to the story... we have yet to have our "elaborate" wedding ceremony... When we do, however, all you Bungie guys are invited and we'd be honored if you'd attend :)

Also as husband and wife we make a pretty good Doubles team (level 45s)... if anyone cares to play some games with us for fun just messege me or Sereninja (my wife :)

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  • 01.03.2008 10:42 PM PDT

cool cool cool!

Yea, i met a bunch of ppl on halo 2 a few yrs. ago and we still play together today. No girlfriends on halo though. Mine hates halo in fact. heh, kinda sux, makes me feel like more of a nerd. A bunch of my friends I went to school with play me too. THNKX HALO!!!

  • 01.03.2008 10:44 PM PDT

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

When Halo 1 came out my brother bought it. A few months afterward there were a few other people that lived nearby that owned it. So my brother decided to organize what we now call an "Xbox Party". Basically we invited 13 other people and had a 4 xbox, 16 player lan party. Where we could just sit around playing Halo and drinking pop for 6-7 hours. About twice a year we continued this tradition and all our friends in the area (rural) looked forward to the rare phonecall inviting them over to or place. Then Halo 2 came out around the same time my brother left to university and it left me to organize it. So now it is kind of a tradition to have a 6-7 hour Halo playing Xbox party once in a awhile. I just realized when i started writing this that all the way from Halo 1to Halo 3 weve been having these Xbox Parties now, around 4-5 years. I have 1000s of awesome memories from them and its all thanks to Halo.

  • 01.03.2008 10:57 PM PDT

A Halo 2 player never dies, they are just Missing in Action

I thnk Oasis is a pretty cool guy. Eh sings Baetles songs and doesn’t afraid of anything

I met my 3 best buddies on Halo 2
sure I'm in the U.K. and they're in the U.S. but that didn't stop us, we've been friends for 2 years now (since about april 2005) and we recently met face to face in august and I stayed with them until mid november, it was great so thanks bungie, hopefully going back to hang out with them this coming march

  • 01.03.2008 11:02 PM PDT

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Guns don't kill people, AIDS kill people... and I can No Scope AIDS.

Well it isn't Halo specifically, but more video games in general. Ever since I was little I played video games and because of of it my hand eye co-ordination is a lot more accurate then it would have been without. I am now a semi-professional bassist and musician because the technique came very naturally to me.

  • 01.03.2008 11:15 PM PDT
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I met 4-5 of my best friends hosting Halo:CE LAN parties every weekend for 4 years through high school. Got to at least thank Bungie for that, and I also cited ability to lead/manage large groups on several resumes based on my experiences with coordinating 16+ people at these halo lans.

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This might not be anything special, but because of halo, i think that i've become a better person. I excersize more (well, i play football {american, not british} so i already get a ton of excersize). I help out a lot more around the house. I help everyone i can in the streets, and at school. EVen little things, like holding the door open for somebody. And i'm even a really nice guy playing halo 3 online. This may seem un-masculine, but what drives me is what cortana says at the end of the last level. "Come on Spartan, GO! GO! GO!" It's like the "GO! GO! GO!" part is telling me to do what is right, and Ill accomplish whatever the goal is at the time. And I want to be a hero. "A hero must rise, believe." Well, I want people to believe in me.

Amyways, I just wanted to say that halo has changed my life for the better, and I have to thank bungie for the awesome trilogy and i look forward to the next project.

  • 01.03.2008 11:24 PM PDT

Lol

Im not a super pro, but i like having fun, and i am known by a lot of people as noobsmasher, because a bunch of people from my high school dressed in halo costumes for halloween, i of course had the grav 'noob smashin' hammer! :D Couple days later i was doing speech type thing, blah blah, and when i was done someone screamed 'Noooob Smasher'!! :() Cool thing was i won the speech contest. w00t, i alsoam friends w/ him now too. :F

  • 01.03.2008 11:31 PM PDT

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I met a lot of friends on xbox live that were at my school that I didn't even know existed. I still talked and hang out to this day. I've also made a lot of friends hosting LAN parties at my house for 4-5 years and i met a lot of my friends that a hang out with today from these parties.

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  • 01.03.2008 11:37 PM PDT
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I met my Gurlfriend on Halo 1 :) we still together now and did played die hard halo untill the verry first hour halo 1 wuz released ^^

  • 01.03.2008 11:37 PM PDT

Hey everyone,

My love for Halo started out with Halo: Combat evolved. I was playing the multiplayer of this version online with xbconnect and not soon after I started doing this two of my real life friends joined the fun. Then after a while we came up with the idea of booking a weekend in a bungalow park (center parks for the ones who know it) for a laugh, some drinks and of course to play Halo. These parks usually have one television set so we decided to bring one extra and of course two Xboxes and a link cable.

So on the release day of Halo 2 we picked up our copies at the store and went to the bungalow park with eight guys. Some of them I didn’t know so well because they where colleagues of a friend of mine, but also Halo enthusiasts. When we arrived we set up the consoles and started playing. We played the whole weekend and had a great time. That was the start of a tradition we still treasure up to today. We tend to do this twice a year, bringing our television and Xboxes just to play Halo and have some drinks with the guys. These weekends are really fun, can you imagine 8 guys having a drink and playing Halo in a small bungalow shouting it out when one captures a hill or has a cool headshot :)

The last time we went was just after the release of Halo 3 and it was even bigger then the other times, bringing 2 extra television sets and 3 Xboxes so we have more large screens :) Another cool thing is we organize competitions amongst our group, also just for fun of course. The winner wins a prize (usually beer, which we end up drinking together :) ). Anyway, the point I am getting at with this story is that Halo brought me some very tight friendships I treasure deeply! (No I won’t start crying lol) And for the times we are not in a bungalow we meet up once a week online to play Halo as a group.

Our next trip will be in April this year for more Halo 3 fun with the guys!

For this experience I would like to say THANK YOU BUNGIE!

  • 01.03.2008 11:40 PM PDT
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I have two stories.

A few years ago (well more than a few) I was dating a guy who loved Halo. Usually he only had two other people to play with which split the screen into two small and one large so he would make me log in and play, just to keep the screens even sizes. I was terrible and the game usually just resulted in him and his friends running around, finding me stuck in a corner staring at the sky, and shooting me for an easy kill.

I got really sick of it. I'm competative by nature.

I forced my friend's brother (also a friend of my boyfriend) to teach me how to play Halo in secret on pain of death if he told. For about a month I pretended to suck until I was certain I could win.

I did. Ironically on the map he made me play my first game on. Beaver Creek. We broke up the next week. It was a disgusting match. 25 to 13 to 13 to 5.

The second story took place when I moved to a new city for my job. I knew no one, I had no idea what there was to do after work, and people were pretty sketched out by the new girl (me). It was a pretty tight knit community of people who had worked together for years. Things got really hectic for a couple of months and every one was stressed out so I brought in my old Xbox and Halo 2 for people to play during lunch breaks or when ever.

This didn't really win me any fans (they still didn't like me).

I happened to go into the break room when four people where engaged in a really sloppy game of slayer free for all. I guess I started giving pointers at some point and one of the guys who lost finally lost it and yelled at me.

something along the lines of "Well if you're so damn good why don't you try!"

I did. I won. Then I ended up with people showing up hours before break issuing challenges. I ended the year undefeated.

I'm now one of the group and the Halo thing has become a yearly tradition. You can hear Halo related banter around all day long, scores from games last night, and some co-ordination taking place at work as to who will be on live that night and who will be at some one elses house to play.
We even ended up with a Halo 3 release countdown.

I don't get too play ,uch any more because of the whole wrok thing, but I still have the memories.

A few new people have started and I always make sure to tell them that we have Halo in the break room and I'm always up for a match. Most of them don't think girls are very good players, but I think humility is a good trait to instill in the noobs.

  • 01.04.2008 12:08 AM PDT

Phrog pilots, reckless and free. We would strap into our birds, set the engines on fire, and leave these earthly bonds with a chorus of WHOP WHOP WHOP. Akin to beating your chest and howling in defiance at the rest of the world.
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Although we didn't meet via Halo, and she doesn't play the game herself, this is a story of my tolerant wife that I've been meaning to share.

I have to give her credit for putting up with my obsession. From my time spent on the forums, playing the game, and collecting Bungie memorabilia, she's been a great sport through it all. As a Christmas present a few years back she gave me a mint copy of Myth and Pathways into Darkness, sealed in box, to help fill out the old collection of Bungie stuff; a collection that culminated in my purchase of a Nightmare Armor MJOLNIR helmet signed by members of the Bungie team.

So after my bachelor party gallivanted around Vegas, wearing a different Bungie shirt every day, it was back to concentrate on wedding planning. After giving me the green light to have my Groom's cake be shaped like a Septagon, we still needed to cover what music to have during the ceremony. Most people didn't believe me that it was her idea to include Halo music in the wedding, but it was. I originally tried contacting Marty like a creepy stalker for any wedding-ish Halo music suggestions but lacked the proper persuasion to garner a response. (I knew I should have promised decadent coffee beans.) So, she suggested that we be introduced to the Halo theme but with one condition. I had to wear the Masterchief helmet. The hardest part of the decision was to decide between the Halo: Combat Evolved theme, or the Halo 2 theme. In the end her wisdom shined through. She stated: "Halo 1 does seem more appropriate for a wedding with the softer music in comparison, but with Halo 2, people who have played the game will instantly recognize the electric guitar intro and those who haven't will wonder what's up with the Beethoven meets 80's hair band music." (Her words Marty. Beware the wrath of a women's scorn. :D )

It helped that only a few people knew what was coming the day of the wedding and seeing the crowd's reaction through a mirrored visor was a spectacle in itself. On one side were all of our younger friends laughing their asses off. On the other side were my parents shaking their head with the 'That's our son.' look, the in-laws smiling and clapping with the 'Is it too late to back out?' look, and several Grandparents wondering why I was wearing my helicopter helmet from work. Either way, here's a picture from the wedding:
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Even on our honeymoon in New Zealand she tolerated my shenanigans.
Bringing Bungie love and man-beards to a glacier near you.

I'm lucky to have someone who rolls with my nerdiness and I most certainly love my wife.

  • 01.04.2008 1:10 AM PDT
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mmm ya... I like 1v1. Its hopless to think that theyll bring it back.

O ya im weird aparrently cuz i use Lagacy inverted. Well maby just maby =D

Mines is kinda indirect but really shaped my social life as i know it today. I met my best friend playing halo for one. I had a whole group of friends (from football and wrestling) that were all cool and all but they never would be able to keep up with me with any game we played. I love games. I am attending school for game design right now actually. Anywho. So around school i was known as the halo guy and i would perioticly get challenges in halo because is was just known that i was the best around my school. I always ran into people that were garbage. So somebody told me that this Don guy was pretty good. so a little snooping around i found that all his friends couldnt imagie me beating him. I was excited because i so desperatly wanted to go to touneys in my area but knew nobody good to go with. turns out he was horible at the game. But it was still fun to play with him just cuz hes the funniest guy i have every met. now day we play halo 3 and hes not bad. Im just that much better then him. So me and him are best friends. I met alot of his other firends that play halo as well. So im at a holloween party with my best friend and i notice a very goodlooking girl dressed up as princess naboo (what ever her name is from starwars) ya it was hot im a nerd get over it. Long story short. its over a year later and i cant imagine anybody else making me more happy =D She has tried to play halo. Im not good at leting people win. She really likes her Wii. She says shes gonna beat me in Brawl but I highly doubt it considering i played Melee at a tourney level for 2 years. they cant be that different right?

  • 01.04.2008 1:36 AM PDT

I wander the Lost Woods...

Hey, I'm Bradley. I used to live in South Dakota. I've never had a fast internet connection until this year. I bought Halo: CE for my dad's b-day up there, and we both got addicted to the campaign. I was about 14 then, so "The Flood" level was a great spookie entertainment. Anyways, he died so I had to move down to Georgia with my mother. I'm a pretty quiet guy, so I'd never had a girlfriend nor many friends. At my new school I had heard some guys talking about Halo 2; said they were gonna have a lan-party, which I'd never heard of before. I went and sat next to them, and I just kinda nudged into the conversation. That group of emo/skater/gamers (LOL) is the best bunch of friends I've ever had, and my first friends. So the lan-party was moved to a later date, but I still wanted to stay the night over to play Halo 2 with my new bud, Drew. That's the most fun a sheltered kid like me had ever had. Well, Drew had (parent's split up) a step sister, who is also his cousin (Lol, confusing, I know). Her name is Ashley! Long, long, long story short: We fell in love, been together for 5 years now, and will be getting married soon! It was hard, but all those hardships (as she says) act as bricks that build up our mansion. I'm absolutely positive that we're soulmates.

Thanks, Bungie, for making one of the best games of all time and my one connection to my only happiness, my love. Wooohooo super cheesy, but oh so true story.

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Roughly two years ago, my romantic life was in shambles. I had been friends with a girl for a long time and I had always wanted more but didn't want to "pressure" her into making any decisions she didn't want to make (this basically translates to me being an insufferable bore in any part of my life that didn't pertain to her). I stopped hanging out with a lot of my friends in order to spend more time with this girl, and things just kept getting worse. I had definitely made a home in the "friend zone."

This went on for quite awhile; she would call me asking for a favor and I would drop everything and tend to her needs, only to get a semi-enthusiastic "thank you" in return. The sad part is I did not mind being this "good samaritan." I thought that if I only stuck with it long enough, she would eventually come around to me and we would become more than just friends. Unbeknownst to me, this would never happen, and all I was doing was losing the people who actually cared about me due to the aforementioned times that I would ditch my friends to hang out with her.

To my credit, I was younger then. I didn't understand the concept of people using each other for personal gain. I thought she was asking me these favors because she liked me, not because she just liked me doing things for her. I admit, when it came to the game of love, I was a slow learner. When this girl's selfish and cruel ways finally became apparent to me, it was all but too late. I had lost several of my friends, and even my family was upset with me over the way I had been acting. One of the few things I had left was Halo.

I started playing even more frequently than I already had been. I would play 4 or 5 hours every night before bed, which eventually led to me dreaming about Halo while I slept, and I started instinctively waking up in the middle of the night to play it as well. I found that while I played Halo, all my pain went away. This girl that had hurt me so bad did not matter in the world of Halo. As long as I was playing the game, she was nothing, and therefore my personal anguish was nothing as well. I started playing more and more, each day it seemed that I played 1 more match than I had the day before, until it got to the point where I did nothing except play Halo. I couldn't stop.

One Saturday afternoon my parents came into my room to tell me it was time for dinner. When they turned on the light, they were shocked to discover that I had literally fallen asleep with my eyes open while playing Halo. I still had the controller in my hands and the game was still playing, but I wasn't moving and my eyes were bloodshot and my cheeks were streaked with tears and my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air. I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby "yo home smell you later!" Looked at my kingdom I was finally there to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

  • 01.04.2008 2:21 AM PDT
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I love Halo 3, i think you Bungie guys have more than satisfied my needs by bringing out the new Halo, i have met a lot of new friends that i enjoy playing with, (and we make a hell of a good team slayer team). My mum is always shouting at me to get off because i play it too much.

  • 01.04.2008 2:51 AM PDT

The Master Chief is too cool to be bothered by such silly things as gravity.

Halo (more specifically, Halo 3) helped me through some rough spots in my life... Where romance may or may not have been involved. :D

  • 01.04.2008 3:06 AM PDT
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I didn't meet her on XBL, but she soon snuck onto it after meeting me. The game I played (all too often by myself, according to her) became her love as well.

I spent a month or so playing her with a handicap, then realized that she had learned my moves all to well. She soon entered rumble-pit, then BTB, Team Slayer, and S.W.A.T. She had become my trusted team-mate durring the time before we met the TTL Gunslingers. There might have always been two "timmies" quitting, team-killing, or commiting suicide, but she never gave up, which kept me from giving up.

We went back and stormed Halo CE, then beat Halo 2 (which I didn't beat for almost two years after launch, having fell in love with match-making), though she refused to play the Beta. "It's like cake I can only nible. I'd rather have the whole thing." When Halo 3 launched, she hated me for wanting to play it without hte split-screen, ands still does. All aside, there's no one else I'd rather give up my screen for.

Her addiction is now concrete, and while I've wandered off into other battlefields, she's always there to help me back into my Spartan armor.

TTL Pheonix Sam
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  • 01.04.2008 3:12 AM PDT
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Does losing friends and jobs count?

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Halo ruined my third year of college. Ruined.

Then it got me a job.

  • 01.04.2008 4:07 AM PDT
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No.

me and my best freind got over many an argument in swords on lockout... we also got owned by two people from up north and have since made a semi-clan owning team of us... we each seem to have skills that benefit the group in a different way.

me= sword (close combat generally)
terramarine= sniper (long range)
zuk1= vehichles
datherdan= explosives

we lose rairly when we all play together :D

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In 2005 I was off to Iraq for my first tour in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. While on the plane from Fort Campbell, Kentucky the guys in my platoon began talking about Halo (notice the capitalization of Halo, because it is indeed, that important). Knowing we all would have plenty of time to have our lan parties, we began talking blam! to each other. Nonetheless I felt the need to step it up a notch and I wielded my blue sharpie from my assault pack and wrote 35 on my M4 Carbine. Yes 35, the number displayed on the back of a battle rifle to show that you have a full flip in your weapon. From then on our military issued M4 semi automatic, three round burst, magazine fed, air cooled carbines became known as "Battle Rifles". Upon landing in Kuwait we quickly spread the jargon of calling your M4 or M16 a battle rifle and gracing them with the number "35". Being an aviator and traveling much of Iraq by way of Blackhawk, I saw many marines and soldiers. During a somewhat routine trip to Ramadi we picked up a platoon of army national guardsmen from New York and I noticed an entire squad with the number 35 written in blue sharpie on their carbines. I began to laugh wildly and asked one of them, "Sergeant, why do you have "35" written on your M4?" I showed him my M4, he smiled and replied, "I have 35 rounds to put in the Covenants ass!" That is the most memorable Halo moment, while not actually playing the game, that I will ever have. I spent countless hours forgetting how hot Iraq was, how much I missed my family, or anything other luxury while I no scoped noobs on Ascension. Thanks Bungie for giving us a piece of home and some great times.

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I lost faith in humanities understanding of it's own anatomy on Xbox live, done and dusted

  • 01.04.2008 5:03 AM PDT