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Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

True story:

Since Halo 1 I have beem inlisted into the spartan program, I was always eager to be in combat alone, but since then I now have a circle of friends and fellow Spartans/Elites. Unfortinitly I ahve lsot some of them to the Covenant (Guitar Hero, Call of Duty,, Assaisn Creed, WOW, and the PS3), things did get better evntually.

I then encountered a group of Spartans who are stationed in my hometown, we teamed up and began to rise in rank, but around then things have rapidly grown worse, weapons malfunctions, alck of comunication, and other sisues began plaguing us in the battlefield, one by one we were put out of commision, hopefully soon things can get ebtter so we may fight it out again.

Untill then I am on steady medication (Mass Effect).

  • 01.03.2008 1:08 PM PDT

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I just Lurk in the forums and respond when I need to.

Well long story short I play with a few of the guys from EGM. By playing with them I got into playing with some of the bungie devs. Nowmost of them are now my friends and we play alot together. Well I meet Dan Miller aka dmiller360 while playing with some of the Bungie Devs. Well Dan my friend MDK x2002x and I got together and made the most played custom map in Halo 3 for the past few weeks. Its been really great to meet most of the bungie devs and to play with them like you play with your best friends. I consider these guys to be some of my closest friends on xbox live. They are some of the nicest guys youll ever meet so give em a break if you see them in the same lobby your in. Also I does not has recon

  • 01.03.2008 1:13 PM PDT

"I'm a 40 in Team Spelling, but I have the most worstest time leveling up in Team Superlatives."

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Well...

I first discovered Halo when I was on the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu. The locals frequently performed a sacrifice to someone they called "God Chief," clearly a hamming of "Master Chief." Every day, before the sun came up, the whole island held a halo tournament. The loser was deemed the sacrificial "n00b," and would be sacrificed to ensure the rising of the sun.

After having to play through about four rounds, my beginner's luck wore off, and I lost my fifth morning there. Of course, I had no intention of being sacrificed, so I bolted for the treeline. Unfortunately, Tuvalu is incredibly small. Really small. As such, I realized that I would not be able to escape for good. However, I theorized that if I could live it out until the sun came up, the tribe would realize how unnecessary the sacrifice was. At one point, I was hiding on a roof. The roof caved in and I fell into the lap of the Princess Cavalu. She fell in love with me, we had an R-rated sex scene, and then she agreed to help me out.

As we were running through the streets, hiding from alley to alley, I glanced at my watch. 7:45. Dawn was minutes away. I looked to the horizon. Where was the sun streaming over the crystal blue? Nothing there but the relentless waves, pounding at the shore as the sacrificial drums. Then I realized that there was something to their mythology--without Halo, the sun doesn't come up.

I had made a discovery, and my life was still on the line. However, I suddenly came up with an idea. I ran to their temple and stood at the top of the stairs.
"I am the n00b!" I said. "But Jubbinju (the person who defeated me) is a H4X0R!!!"

The crowd gasped and swung to look at him. Astonished, he did not reply in time, and was carted off to be sacrificed in my place. I used that day to get the hell off the island. To this day, my friends and I play halo every night to ensure the sun arises the next day.


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I started playing Halo2 in the late spring, early summer of 2005. In June of that year I became friends with two players named Guitarmanaaron, now known as ARod1978 and RICHIEUNC. We became fast friends and fought many battles together. Shared some victories, shared some defeats, shared some really good times. While I don't consider the people I meet online as my "friends", they're people I play games with and that it. But Aaron and Richie, I'm glad to say were completely different. They've been two of my best friends for the entire time that I've known them and they've even been nice enough to keep ties with me even though I don't have a 360 like they do. We're such good friends that I even had the privilege of attending Aaron's wedding in the spring 2006. Aaron returned the favor when he showed up at my High school Graduation last spring. It never seemed to bother them that they were friends with an 18 year old, being 26 and 27 respectively. They were just a couple of dudes who just wanted to have a good time playing video games, just like me. I really appreciate them for it and I hope that our friendship can continue for many years to come.

  • 01.03.2008 1:17 PM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

Posted by: Gendo
Posted by: Jeff McRae
I've met a lot of people using Halo's multiplayer. People I now consider best friends. Where's the Commando shoulder pads already?


<3


Ive been with the same tight-knit group of -blam!-s since just after halo2's release. We spent over a year (two years, mb?) playing bigteam and clanmatch nearly every night. i plan to visit a bunch of them soon.
So thanks bungie, for the good times, and good friends gained because of your game.

one thing, though, Where's the Commando shoulder pads already?

What do you mean? Is there something wrong with the Commando shoulders or something?

  • 01.03.2008 1:18 PM PDT
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some on the first page are really bad xD


I have friends all over the world because of halo, we talk alot. and I have even met some.

  • 01.03.2008 1:28 PM PDT

"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.

  • 01.03.2008 1:30 PM PDT

It was noon and the day was dark. I was sitting in my room playing halo. As I remember it was a Team Doubles on Guardian; just as I was going to snipe some lonely enemy between the eyes my phone started to ring. I glanced at the caller I.D. to see "Unknown Caller," just to glance back at the screen to see "You were assassinated by An Unknown Caller."

I set down my controller and picked up the phone. "Hello?" I asked.

The caller responded, "We are an organization selling lamps via the pho..." He must have heard the bullets passing by in the background, "Are you ok? It some trouble over there."

Thinking to myself, this could be fun, I should just play along, "Yea, I think I'm fine. Just had to foil some guy's assassination attempt"

"Oh my God... where are you?"

"In the middle of a war, what do you think?" I replied, "How did you get my cell phone number anyways?"

"It was on our list..."

"Listen buddy I need to get going, I am getting surrounded and need to find an escape route, it was nice talking to..."

He interrupted, "Listen, give us your location and we will pick you up."

I gave him a location to pick me up near where I live, away from the "war". He gave me an ETA of about 15 minutes, and low and behold a chopper came to that exact location within 10. Since I was off for the week I figured, what's the worst that could happen? Jumped on the chopper and told them that I raided a civilian house, left my weapons and changed into civilian clothes to avoid being spotted. Somehow they bought it and we took off.

Three hours and about 12 stops later they told me we had arrived. I got off the chopper to see a beautiful countryside and a large building. We entered the building, the entire first floor was a warehouse of lamps, every type of lamp from every possible origin. There was enough to have one in every corner of every cubical in the bungie office!

We proceeded up to the fourth story and they asked me how I got in the predicament I was in. I made up some bull-blam!- story about how I was a mercenary working for the US Army and I was protecting a very important official which whom I could not say, "for security reasons."

Anyway to make a long story short-er, they were a small Island off the coast of Africa who supported their economy by looting different areas of the world and stealing their lamps, along with some other valuables of course. They had just gotten together a military and were looking for somebody to lead it, and the island itself. I showed them my superior tactical fighting skills, all of which I picked up from doing nothing but playing halo, and they thought of me as a supreme ruler. Now I am their leader and we are looting these lamps without any consequences due to our tactical advantage.

Anyways that is my story about how Halo made me the leader of a small country. If anybody is interested in buying cheap lamps just send me a PM on these forums!

  • 01.03.2008 1:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: twinkiemaker
Posted by: Gendo
Posted by: Jeff McRae
I've met a lot of people using Halo's multiplayer. People I now consider best friends. Where's the Commando shoulder pads already?


<3


Ive been with the same tight-knit group of -blam!-s since just after halo2's release. We spent over a year (two years, mb?) playing bigteam and clanmatch nearly every night. i plan to visit a bunch of them soon.
So thanks bungie, for the good times, and good friends gained because of your game.

one thing, though, Where's the Commando shoulder pads already?

What do you mean? Is there something wrong with the Commando shoulders or something?


unfortunateley so, Twinkie my good man!

It seems that the 'Commando' armour permutation, more specifically the shoulder pads, are bugged!

Currently,the aforementioned commando shoulder pads for the elite player model are impossible to unlock through normal means, and bungie have not even acknowledged theres a problem with said Commando shoulders . Hopefully a bungie employee can tell us theyre working on fixing the Commando shoulders , or at the very least let us know, that they know about the problem with the Commando shoulders

shock horror indeed!

forget 'Can i has recon', we should be asking Can we has Commando Shoulders , bungie? :(



[Edited on 01.03.2008 1:35 PM PST]

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I have a TRUE love story.

About 16 months ago i met my girlfriend playing Halo 2. It was my first semester of college and i walked by a room with a door open, and there were a few guys playing halo 2. I asked if i could join them and luckily they said yes. We played for a hour or two when this beautiful lady walked in, she was friends with the guy whose room i was in. We exchanged glances with eachother over the next hour or so and i asked her if she wanted to learn how to play. She said yes and sat down next to me. HAZZAH said i...in my head. I went over the button layout, "A, or the green button, is jump. Y, or the yellow button, is switch weapons..." and so on. That night we went out together and a month later had our first kiss. We have been together for 15 months now and are very happy!

p.s. (her name is natalie)

Thanks for listening (reading)!

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Cant say I found my true love by playing halo, but halo has no doubt brought us closer. My significant other and I were both into games, however, she liked games like Guitar Hero and The Sims..bleh! I, of course, only cared about one game....HALO!!!!

However, all that changed when H3 was released. I had been waiting for years for H3 so my woman had to try it out. And guess what? She loved it. =P Now she is a regular in the matchmaking lobby with me, and we have never been closer. Thank you Bungie!

  • 01.03.2008 1:35 PM PDT

Well, I didn't quite meet my girl on Halo, but we continued to flirt on it. Now we've been dating for over a year and we sure as hell are happy. =) Thanks Halo for letting me use you as a tool for dating.

  • 01.03.2008 1:36 PM PDT
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My story is rather odd...and geeky.

It was the day of the release of the Halo 3 Beta. And I was pissed for a couple of reasons: (1) I didn't have Crackdown and I was not selected for entrance into the Beta. (2) My AP Language and Composition test was that day...what a way to celebrate.

In any case, I couldn't get Halo 3 Beta off my mind. I couldn't wait to get home and watch Youtube videos and read forums about the Beta. Although I was sad that I could not play the Beta, I was still excited about it coming out. I grind through the multiple choice portion of the AP test for a good hour or so and then the proctors call for a break. During the break, I still can't get Halo 3 Beta off my mind so I talk to my friends about it. I jokingly say to them "How much money would you give me if I wrote about the Halo 3 Beta on the essay portion of the test?" They laugh it off.

I continue through the essay portion. I write through a document based essay pretty easily and then comes the second prompt. It was about charity. Great ..."High Charity" I stupidly think to myself...because Halo just won't go away. I sat there thinking about what I should write. They were probably expecting some kind of examples of giving money to the poor, or volunteering at the senior center or something generic like that. I didn't want to give them something everyone would write about. I wanted to write about something special. And then it hit me. Halo 3 Beta. That IS charity. The people who play the Beta contribute to our society in a very unique way. They give feedback to Bungie and offer suggestions and overall contribute to make the game better. They help make the game better for all the millions of people like me who have to wait for the release of the final game. Ultimately they make the lives of millions of people so much more entertaining. I would call that charity. I tore through that prompt. My pencil wouldn't stop, and my heart was pumping. I was excited! I couldn't believe that I was actually writing about Halo on an AP TEST! After I finished the essay, my sense of satisfaction was indescribable.

My friends wouldn't believe me when I told them afterward. But eventually, I convinced them. They knew that I was THAT crazy. I came out of that test feeling very good about myself. However, it was not until a few months later during the summer when the true reward came. During July I recieved the scores in the mail, and much to my excitement I recieved a 5 on the AP Language and Composition test. I recieved the highest score possible! I knew that my essay would help pull me through. It is a memory I have that I will laugh back on time and time again. Sometimes I still can't believe that I actually wrote about Halo 3 on such a serious and important test as the AP test. But it was really worth it.

I want to thank you, Bungie, for helping me score well on that test and for making such an awesome game!

  • 01.03.2008 1:36 PM PDT

-Why live in the real world when I can live in mine?
-I accept random friend requests
-How do you kill that which has no life?
97% OF TEENS WON'T STAND UP FOR GOD. IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE 3% WHO WILL, PUT THIS IN YOUR SIG.

Well, I didn't meet my girlfriend in Halo, but our first kiss was in a match, midnight on new years. So thats close enough.

  • 01.03.2008 1:42 PM PDT

No "New Halo game" will ever be the same without Bungie.

Whatever you do, don't give up!
-Vic DeLeon, GDC 2008

I choose the Xbox because of Halo.

5 years back, Well it started when I seen my first Halo trailer. The trailer where Master Chief snipes the 2 Elites and the master chief had a wierd robot voice. After seeing that trailer, I instantly fell in love. The fact that a hero could wear some sort of paint ball suit and run around sniping aliens was all I needed to see that this game had to be more than LIFE, but more so the paintball helmet. I think thats why Master Chief was such a success, theres something about having a paintball helmet and looking cool I guess. It was only announced on the Mac and my computer wasnt really mine. So anyways my birthday was coming up, I knew I was getting money and I wanted to buy a gaming system with it. (Why not a PC? Because for me, a gaming system is where it all started) My Choices narrowed down to 2 systems, the PS2 or Xbox. PS2 was talked about alot and the Xbox was very quiet. I decited to check out the Xbox website, xbox.com. Xbox had a comparison of the 2 consoles, plus gamecube. I still wasnt convinced but i wanted to make the right choice... I was so fusturated because I wanted to make the right chocie. :o( Im a serious gamer, always have been, always will, and choices like this are critical. BUT there was light... THE GUY IN THE PAINTBALL SUIT, HE WAS ON THE XBOX??? O_O I remember I was in disbelief saying things like: THAT CANT BE HIM, HES ON THE PC HOW COULD HE BE ON THE XBOX?(Take note im barely 13, 5 years go.) All the memories from the trailer raced thru my mind, and then more added after seeing the pictures on Xbox.com The picture of a Scorpion Tank behinde chief was priceless. I had made up my mind, enough dreaming, I had to own this game and see who he is, what he was, and snipe 2 blue aliens(Elites). Ever since then, I have a firm foot on where I stand in this console war, with Bungie & Halo on the Xbox. Im going to school for making games at Devry, hopfully one day I could take a tour to where it all started. Where the magic happened as cribs would put it. ;)

It isnt really your average love story but hey, love comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. =]
Anyways
Thanks for Reading. Anyone who wants to play some social, add me!

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Posted by: Gendo
Commando shoulders


What a scandal. I have a friend in the military who's a commando, and he goes nowhere without his Commando shoulder pads. Just terrible.

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Posted by: Qbix89
Hmm, I have met some guys whom I have become really good friends with.
I'll be traveling across the globe to meet them in a year, or so.


Me too! :D

  • 01.03.2008 1:47 PM PDT

My wife and I used it as a way of keeping in touch while we were dating since we were 800 miles away from each other for 4 months. Nothing like a relationship that centers around virtual headbashing.

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Well I havent met no true love through Halo, but have meet many cool guys in the game industry. I currently play with a bunch of guys who work in countless game studios all over the US. I have friends that work at Microsoft to THQ to even Terminal Reality (guys making the new Ghostbusters title). They are by far the funniest guys I know and I can relate with them cause we are all in the same industry. What also is neat is that meeting people like that help you get into the gaming industry which anyone who is looking to get a job at a studio is rather hard. They can always refer you since youve gotten to know them online and just became good friends with them.

Ive also played with some MLG Semi Pros and just people wanting to get into MLG and they are all really cool friends to have and share the same passion for competitive gaming. I met some people Ive played with online at MLG events and they turn out to be awesome and a good friends in real life.

So to me Halo has sure helped me make friends across the US and just get to know people in the industry as well as the competitive gaming world...

  • 01.03.2008 1:55 PM PDT
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I've met quite a few good friends on Halo 2 and a few more on 3 and the beta, but outside of the games, the most wonderful thing happened to me. It was during a recent ARG, I met my girlfriend and I intend to go over and see her once we finish school in a couple of years. Thanks Bungie, you have my respect and loyalty.

  • 01.03.2008 1:55 PM PDT

been playing halo nonstop since it came out and now i rule my own ittle country named GOD country. i named it after myself since i am god and i am the god of halo soo it works out well. plan on going pro with my holy powers and rule over mlg. and with my holy god powers i did find my true love on halo and its great

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Great topic. I have been waiting to tell my story to the world. I have been in an out of relationships for 3 years with other halo playas. It has been mostly one sided and it has taken me some time to warm up to the countless -blam!- transactions that have taken place. I feel that I am completely without control and I feel very violated. It has not been till recently that I have learned that these experiences are simply not going to stop, and that I have to begin to stop fighting the feelings.

So, ever since Forge has been around it has given me the upper hand. Now, even though the relations have not subsided, I have been able to create a more comfortable place to be encountered. I also am able to find refuge from those experiences that I would rather not have them repeat themselves. I now feel like a good ole' tea bag is something that makes me a better person. So to all those aggresive, low self esteem halo warriors who insist on forging themselves onto my dead, helpless body, I welcome the experience.......No, I encourage the experience.

And, finally, to that girl, that insists on doing this to me.....and you know who you are, it just aint the same.....something is missing

  • 01.03.2008 1:56 PM PDT