- AnotherBob62
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- Exalted Member
"You've created a topic that is not about Halo 3. What should I do?
Dance around it and sprinkle it with flowers?
These are busy forums, and have rules for a reason. People who ignore them or disregard them should be advised that they are disrupting and misusing the forums that nearly everyone else are properly using."
-Recon Number 54 (a.k.a. My Hero)
In the beginning of 04 my cousin and I, who had been best friends since we were in diapers, had stopped talking. He had gotten into drugs, heavy metal, and parties, while I was hanging with all our old friends, playing Halo all the time, and just getting through high school. It had taken a turn for the worse whenever he started getting in trouble with the police. At Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving, we never talked. We used to spend hours in the woods behind his house, camping out, making fires, talking, clearing trails, climbing trees, and just having fun, but we never did that anymore. I figured he was just going through a phase. One day in May of 04, right when school let out, my family met up at his house (because we always went there for big events). I decided to bring my X-Box and a few controllers.
We plugged it up in his room, and me, my cousin, and a couple other of my cousins played Halo. My cousin was absolutely enthralled. He loved it. He said he hadn't had this much fun since playing Turok: Rage Wars for hours on end when we were kids. The next weekend, I was invited over to stay the night, and bring Halo. We made our way through the Campaign on Legendary, and he was hooked. By July of 04, he knew as much as I did about the Halo universe. We had become a team, and to this day we still play doubles all the time.
In November of 04, we stood in line in the freezing rain (I know, cliche', but it was freezing, and it was raining lol) for 3 hours to get Halo 2. We were numbers 22 and 23 in line. As soon as we got home, we hooked it up, and started doing a 2 person LAN to see all the new vehicles, weapons, maps, and upgrades. He went home 2 hours later, and we beat Campaign that day, calling each other as soon as we finished. We played Halo 2 on Live for almost 3 years.
For the 2 years before Halo 3, we were speculating. We'd spend hours, sometimes even days, working on different theories for the story, and what we thought was going to happen. We had quite a few LAN parties, and we always enjoyed ourselves. We were particularly fond of Zombies and Tower of Power custom games. My cousin was as surgical with a shotgun as I was with a brute shot.
Close to the release of Halo 3, we got more serious. We played through the first two Campaign's on Legendary Co-Op, just fishing for things that we missed the first hundred times around. After finally concluding we were ready for anything, and we knew everything, we got ready for the release. We stocked up on Game Fuel, and had everything set up.
We got to GameStop at 4 PM. 8 hours early. We were determined to be first. We met at Wendy's, ate, and went to go get in line. We were the first two there, and we waited all night. We participated in a small, MLG FFA tournament that took place in the parking lot (in which we did good in, until we got matched up with the damn BXRers. But, what can you do?
As soon as Midnight came, and we were the first two to get the game, we rushed over to Circuit City. Circuit City wasn't having a midnight release, they were doing something better. Employees there could bring one friend, and they were having a massive LAN on all the big screen TV's in there. My cousin stopped working there about 2 months before release, and he had a few more friends working there (that were also standing in line with us), so we all got to get in. The first game was a 1 Flag CTFon High Ground (8v8). From then on, it just got amazing. To this day my cousin and I talk all the time now, and he's not into the drug or party scene anymore. So I guess you could say that Halo technically saved my closest family member?
So yeah, that's my story.