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I used to be a big fan of RPGs when I was younger. When Xbox Generation consoles first hit the market, I had no desire to buy either of the three. Anyway, I was at school and met this guy at school. Every so often, when a video game was brought up, he would mention Halo: Combat Evolved. Fortunately, it wasn't in the annoying way.

You know, where you could just shoot a rubber band across the room and then some annoying guy makes the relationship between a rifle and the finger/elastic-powered weapon and then constantly speak about Halo. From there he'd tell you about ALL his previous Halo experiences and ignore everyone's obvious disapproval of the subject at hand. That annoying guy would always catch the attention of a group; even if his one-sided conversation was aimed at a single person.

To reiterate, this guy was not like that. Somehow his Halo stories would tie into a conversation so well, I would even forget what we were talking about before. I could tell that Bungie did an excellent job on the storyline just by the way he would tell what was going on. If I was intrigued, I would ask a question. The amazing thing was that he could answer in a very detailed manner that wasn't god-forsakenly lengthy. Every story was amazing. This Master Chief character sounded like a BAMF (to all my Dane Cook buddies) that actually had a reason to fight. He wasn't like all the heroes from various FPSes before. I didn't even know they're names. But this Master Chief was the hero that I had subconsciously always admired. Unfortunately, I didn't even know what he looked like. I only had a console that pretty much only made childish games. I now hate that plumber, his brother, his princess girlfriend, and his dinosaur. The only cool one was the dinosaur, but he was deBAMFed, meaning he lacked all BAMF features other than the ability to chew people up and spit them out. I know. I know. I was in sad shape.

Over this time period of story telling, this dude and I became friends. I was probably even a little annoying. I mean, I was probably close to the fellow mentioned above without all the talking. I was just always asking questions.

We were on the way back to school from a weeklong trip, and he gladly told a few stories from the Campaign and Multiplayer modes. He wasn't obnoxious either. He would glorify a story for what had happened; not what he had done. He put it in a way to where I didn't have to listen to some guy just talk about how good he was at a game that I've never played. He was in no way the jerk that you would expect your average Halo player to be. Well, towards the end of the trip, he asks me if I'd ever played. I hadn't, and I responded as such. I guess that led him to invite me to his house. We shared the same sense of humor and found the same types of things to be interesting. Even if he didn't decide to play Halo, we'd still have a great time. I asked my mom ( I was in the eighth grade at the time, by the way. Cut me some slack), she gave the okay, and we made our way to his house.

We finally arrived at the house. We'd been laughing at various things that happened on the weeklong trip mentioned before, and almost as soon as we walked inside he asked me if I wanted to play Halo. Why of course I did, and I answered as such (cool phrase, huh?). He asked his step-father if he could play. The old man had the audacity to reply with something the along the lines of, "Of course you can. You brought me someone else to beat down." I normally wouldn't take a comment like that, but I was raised by a great mother. I was taught to respect elders, so I laughed. He was probably right. I mean, this was my first time actually playing an FPS other than that one secret agent. You know, that one with a particulary expensive eye?

Either way, we got down to business. It was the two of us against his step-father and sister... on split screen... I didn't even know what screen watching was until that point in time. I, trying to be the bigger man, avoided doing as such and focused on things like learning to aim and getting to know the map. If I remember correctly, we were getting dominated, and it was obvious that I was letting the team down. It was okay. AT LEAST I TRIED. Either way, as the finaly CTF match was coming to a close (Blue team - 2 Our Red Team - 0), the blues were coming after our flag in the almight Warthog, or as I like to call it at the time, "it." I called it "it" because when "it" was coming I would let my partner know by shouting, "Here 'it' comes!" By the way, "it" always ran me over. This time I was on top of the base in Blood Gulch. "It" came towards the base, and I threw a well timed and well hidden grenade. "It" was right on top of the grenade as the explosive released the anger I had been storing for the Warthog. The 'Hog tilted vertically; nose in the ground the rest was lying up against the base. The two were easily disposed of. It was the first time I had actually done something worthwhile to defend the base. Eventually though, they won, and it was a little embarrassing being whooped by a girl, but I let that guy know who the boss was eventually going to be with that one grenade.

His sister and father were done playing, and he told me that we should play the campaign. We watched the first Cinema Scene. I loved it. Sergeant Johnson (as I was told his name) had his Marines in line, and the Captain looked very deep in thought as he assessed the situation. It was a really cool moment, and I loved every bit. The first stage was awesome! I just knew I had to escape. To be honest I did die a few times, but that's when I made those really stupid mistakes of running in without thinking. The next stage was just as awesome. The Warthog no longer seemed like the demonic beast I once thought it to be. It eventually became my buddy's steed and I was riding atop the mount with a giant machine gun. SPOILER ALERT! We eventually got to the Flood Levels. The parasitic life-forms couldn't have been introduced in any better fashion. The excitement and fear from that initial confrontation was never quite captured in any game from that point on. The closest was a game for the 360 that involved a lot of water and some pretty big daddies. Halo 3 didn't try to put the fear into like it did with Halo: Combat Evolved, but the excitement was sure there. The Storm was a magnificent level. Bungie even outdid themselves. I always wondered why the Marines and Covenant in Halo never mutated in front of my eyes, but Halo 3 helped me see what I wanted. Marines even transformed while standing. Also, to be honest I felt a little empty inside when the lone marine cried about killing his infected squad. The team was there, dead. He did what he had to do. He was a good soldier. I can't even imagine what I would do if I were in his position. END SPOILERS!!!

Well, from that point on we would continue to play just about every weekend. I even went out and bought my own Xbox (YAY!) when Christmas time rolled around. I had to share the present that year. My brothers and I had to decide on something that we all wanted. I convinced them to get an Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved. I know they liked the game, but they didn't love it like I did (do). I would play my heart out on weekdays. It even got to the point I was talking to my girl and playing the game at the same time... on Legendary. Call me what you will, but I still had the girl when I had the game. You have to be an expert smooth-talker or a extremely handsome man to pull that off (by the way ladies, she cheated on me later on, so needless to say, we're not together. I am single, and I'm not an expert smooth-talker, but I do look extremely handsome when I play that game you love... Boy, I crack myself up). Either way, I began to dominate the game single player on Legendary. I quickly surpassed my buddy's step-father, and my buddy and I were seemingly equal.

Halo 2 came out and I loved it... for a moment. The campaign just didn't last as long as it did in Combat Evolved. It was great for a moment. I dominated everyone nearby with the help my buddy. Then after a while multiplayer became boring... until he got LIVE! It was pretty awesome getting dominated by tactics (Ha! Tactics! Halo 2! Same Sentence!) that I'd never seen before, and I soon hated the plasma pistol and the battle rifle. It was one thing to take away my baby, the assault rifle, but it was another thing entirely to replace it with a weapon which could be used in such a lame manner. It was fine. After getting a taste of LIVE from my bestest friend in the whole wide world, I quickly purchased it. Soon those people wielding combo were devastated by my one-two grenade-Battle Rifle punch. Well here's where my buddy and I began to take different paths. With the introduction of Xbox Live, I became a skilled killer capable of performing feats unimaginable to the normal human brain. By buddy ol' pal, on the other hand, became a infiltration artist capable of performing bomb plants and flag snatches unimaginable to me to this day even though I've seen them. He was also very deadly without an objective. Live changed everything, and it was good.

Time went by, and he moved two states away. I know, I know. My tag team partner was gone, but thank god we still had Live. To be honest with you Bungie, I had stopped playing Halo 2 with the introduction of a game which centered around four soldiers who liked various kinds of machinery that involved cogs and gears. I pretty sure you catch my drift. After a while, we both became bored with the few multiplayer games we shared. We still spoke, but it wasn't as often. Halo 3 changed everything. It's pretty much all I play now. I'm not sure if likes taking a break from his massively effective RPG, but I do know we share some good times. Just recently we started playing double team together. We're pretty dominant.

Thanks Bungie for bringing us this game. I love saved films!

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  • 01.04.2008 5:35 AM PDT
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managed to talk to my cousin as he lives far away and i probably wont see him again, he got xbox live, and we managed to talk over halo and stuff

  • 01.04.2008 5:52 AM PDT
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yeh ive met loads of really great people on Halo 2 and 3. None in person because they live too far away and i'm too lazy. But it's because of people like them i play halo, have such a laugh together. Love you bungie :D *massive kiss*

  • 01.04.2008 6:00 AM PDT

We're the Flintstones kids, ten million strong and growing...

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Per audacia ad astra. Halo Reach | Destiny

Halo inspired me to get back into game development. And so I have. Started a new project recently, though it's still in very early stages.

Halo also got me into Xbox Live. I've made quite a few friends, and have been able to talk to friends more than I used to be able to.

Thanks Bungie :D

  • 01.04.2008 6:10 AM PDT

If you fail to suceed at first, then redefine sucess

Lol i met my best friend, who met his girlfirend, then i met my best friends girlfriends best friend and now shes my girlfriend.....w00t and a whole lotta other stuff which lead to my online/halo social life to be like 10 times bigger than in real life

  • 01.04.2008 6:24 AM PDT
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i met nobody........................
but im olso 13 yr so......

  • 01.04.2008 6:31 AM PDT

Pawned By Ownage

When I got married in August my wife searched far and wide to get me a life sized Master Chief Grooms cake for the wedding rehearsal. We live in Florida and she had to go out of state to Georgia to get it because it seems like their is a patent by Microsoft on this (who would have guessed) & there is only like a handful of places that can actually recreate MC. Anyways, on the the way of transferring the cake the company -blam!- dropped Master Chief on the floor and the cake shattered.......FotherMucker!!!!!! So what she did was (And I don't know how she pulled it off) is she had a local company make me an Xbox 360 cake with 2 wireless remotes. It looked really sweet and I actually had a video of it on my phone. I'm sure I have pics somewhere in the house (Have to ask her).

At times I still think about it............If I did have a MC cake in front of me..........Would I be able to eat it???? The cake actually stood on its own 2 legs with guns blazing.........It was not no cheap Mister Chief looking thing.........I don't think I would have been able to do it...........Oh and forget watching anyone else take a bite of him........If anyone is eating MC it's me and no one else!!!!

I think it turned out for the better........RIP MC Cake........ RIP.......

Oh and my job made me a three and a half foot halo banner on my anniversary.......SWEET......

-Repituar

  • 01.04.2008 6:35 AM PDT
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  • 01.04.2008 6:46 AM PDT

I took the GED exam in SC and received an award for scoring within the top 5%, and I have to say, I think it was because of my essay. My topic: Halo 3. I made sure to get finished with everything else in that section to leave plenty of time to write it, and ended up using every second of 90 minutes just on the essay. I used nearly every square inch on the scratch page to plan out perfectly what I would write on the answer page, and kicked the -blam!- out of that essay. As soon as I saw that the topic was about my favorite sport, game, or other activity, I knew that all those nights of playing halo were finally going to pay off.

Thanks, Bungie!
Gil V.

  • 01.04.2008 6:55 AM PDT

Spartans, what is your profession?
Go Green!

I got my boss's kids (ages 11 and 12) who were dedicated playstation fans to spend thier entire life savings from mowing lawns and newspaper routes on a xbox 360 and halo 3. I just sat down with them and explained the halo universe and my mlg expierences, they were totally hooked. Its the least I could do for a company that has given me so many kick ass video gaming memories. Add two more recruits to the bungie army and keep up the amazing work.

  • 01.04.2008 7:06 AM PDT

i run a small country just south of america now. its called mexico.

lolz. but seriously sense i statrted playin halo3 online my friends on live are (tighter/c them more) than my friends at home.

  • 01.04.2008 7:28 AM PDT

Posted by: eerhtxisenin
I actually had an epiphany within my first 15 minutes of playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live. I realized that any person under the age of 16 with access to the internet is a closed-minded, over-aggressive, vacuous imbecile that will try to convince me of their own superiority in terms of video gaming skill or life experience (or my lack thereof) when given the opportunity to communicate with total strangers while concealing their own person identity. I was also informed by a young man from England that I should be fully respectful of him because he invented the language that I speak.


that's so amazingly true

i was so skeptical about xbox when it first came out. i thought microsoft making a game console was the most ridiculous thing ever heard, and when my brother got it for his birthday, i thought he was doing what everyone else was doing, nothing more. and then he started talking about this game called halo: combat evolved, and how it was an awesome game about fighting aliens and saving humanity. and i thought, "wow how original." i didn't realize at the time how original it really was, so i ignored it. i was determined to hate the xbox and everything associated with it. he did convince me to play co-op every once in a while, and it wasn't the terrible experience that i expected, but i wasn't hooked. i didn't get any of the story, but it was kind of fun, but i didn't think anything of it. i didn't even play the multiplayer mode. i was still determined that the xbox was the antichrist, and i wanted nothing to do with it.


when halo 2 came out, he got it and started playing it all the time. i wasn't even aware at this point how big halo had become. i watched my brother play campaign, and it looked cool, but again, i wanted nothing to do with it. i was at my best friend's house one night, and he, unlike my brother, had xbl, and he convinced me to play online with him. it was probably the most fun i've ever had with a video game. there was something about halo that was different than anything i've ever encountered. maybe it was the sticky grenades, the warthogs, the rockets, the swords, i don't know. but something made me fall in love with halo that night. i would invite my friend over my house on weekends just so that he could bring his xbox and cables so that i could play xbl all day. and when i couldn't play xbl, i played campaign on my brother's xbox. eventually i got into the storyline, and i wanted to play the first halo to understand it better. halo CE's campaign was so much more fun than halo 2, and i played it over again and again.

then i got the novels, and i've read all four and i'm waiting for Harvest to come in the mail. i read the graphic novels a couple of times as well. i was completely immersed in the halo universe. after the 360 came out, my brother finally convinced my parents to buy xbl. by this time, however, i hadn't played halo in a while and i didn't want to get my own account on xbl yet, so i stuck with the campaign if i ever played. my brother became more interested in GOW, so i couldn't watch him play online anymore.


when halo 3 finally came out, i played through campaign in one night, i bought an xbl account, i play online every chance i get. i love this game and this trilogy. i could not love a human baby more than i love Halo.

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  • 01.04.2008 7:29 AM PDT
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I wont say It found true love, but Halo did Pretty much save my little cousins life. You see my little cuz was once a gangbanger. 59 Piru to be exact til one day he walked in on my friend and I playing Halo 2. At first he was like "Ya'll some nerds playin dis stupid ass game". But eventually he sat down and played with us. About two months later he became a regular. Eventually He became hooked. Getting his own 360 and live. I guess Halo helped him relize that there is more than just violence in the hood. Instead outside raising Hell he now spends majaroty of his time Playing H3. His Gamertag is KING GUNN3R if you ever want to talk to him.

  • 01.04.2008 7:50 AM PDT
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i surprisingly found out i played with my teacher...
he was talking about it and saying my gamer tag and i was like...
you gotta be kidding me that's me...
and he was like no -blam!- way(everyone gasped it was funny)
then i was like yea...so any time i need help ill just go on xbox live and play halo and hell teach me physics :O

  • 01.04.2008 7:57 AM PDT
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I HAZ FLAMIN RECONZ!1!1!1!!!!!1!!11!1!1
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As much as I've moved everywhere in my life Halo has kept me in touch with many friends and has helped me make new ones. In school I'm usually regarded as teh kid that pwns "nubs". Halo has become such a big part of my life and really isn't just a game anymore and is actually something that I believe is something I'm going to be telling my grandkids and such. Playing Halo has always made me happy and I hope to continue with halo for a couple more decades.

  • 01.04.2008 8:10 AM PDT

I'm probably twice your age, punk!

Oh, and say hi to your Mom.

My wife is about ready to divorce me because of Halo. Does that count?

  • 01.04.2008 8:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Hank
Playing Halo has brought me and my cousins closer together. Not even joking.


me to i have a cousin about 350 miles away and my family does'nt see him that much witch is weird cause we have other cousins we go to an hour away from that cousins house and he is are only cousin that is me and my bros age

well anyway my story is short and some parts sad where i didnt get to play halo it all started with the xbox my familys first game was amped the first one but very soon after we got amped we got bored of it then halo: ce came out after a long time of boredom from amped we decided to buy it instantly because we wanted a different game after a year or so of playing it are xbox started breaking and it ruined the disk of the beloved halo ce (this is the sad part lol) and then we couldn't play halo :ce until halo 2 came out we played bond until halo 2 came out then we got as bored as heck after a while then it saved us halo 2 came out we were filled with joy we didn't get xbox live for a long time and when i did it wasnt to hard to pwn here and their but i was sill a noob soon after awhile i started getting better and know i am a 12 year old that has about 5 ppl who hate me for reasons i still dont understand (most likely because they got beaten by a kid about 2 of those five were in a clan of my freinds in halo 2 and got jeleous because i was winning most of the clan tournament) but anyway to answer the question about great experiences so i have not had anything happen to me except alot of 16 to 20 year old cussing at me then me pwning them ya sure alot i have lost to but more importantly many more i have beaten well thanks for reading and my gamertag is zeeg hyl now here is how you pronounce it (seig hiel)

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  • 01.04.2008 9:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: dirtyShisno 213
I became ruler of a small country nobody knows about. It's called Noneyobeeswax. We worship Bungie and eat chalk and dirt.

lulz 3rd pozt!!1!1!!!!11one

YOU STOLE MY ARMOR!!!!!!!!! >:( LOL

  • 01.04.2008 9:40 AM PDT
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I met my wife playing halo 2 on xbox live. we were playing team training on Coagulation. I shot her in the face with a sniper and it just went from there.

  • 01.04.2008 9:42 AM PDT

Since graduating college I have had the opportunity to move out in the real world and get a job that uses my unique skills. This unfortunately has brought distance between my best friends and I. Xbox Live in general has kept my friendship with those losers intact. Nothing beats spending quality time with friends that are 250 miles away from you, and you never have to leave your living room. And oh the laughs we share gunning down little punks and then listening to their little trash talking mouths after the game. It’s just *sniff* makes the friendship that much stronger.

  • 01.04.2008 9:52 AM PDT
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Because of Halo, my girlfriend dumed me for a guy 14 years younger :-( (and he's a twat), and we got 3 kids....now i'm alone in a small falt and see my kids 3 times a week, it sucks and I went off the 360 for ages, now i'm getting back into it again cos it was too late to save the relationship at the time, so what the hell, might as well play Halo 3 as it rocks, just started getting my girls into it which is driving the ex nuts :-). Small pleasures in a big world.

  • 01.04.2008 9:57 AM PDT
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this is a funny story.
way back when the stats got reset i was playing a team slayer match and it was me and 2 buddies of mine. So were playing and i noticed a kid on our team named Pureplaya813, so i asked him if he lived in the area code 813 cause I live in the 813. and he did in fact live in 813, so i then asked him if he went to Leto High School and he said he did, i and i go to Leto. So then i was like well do u know who Cory D is and he was like "i think so, i think i sit next to him in spanish class", and in fact he did. His name was David and we knew of each other we just never talked much, but after meeting him on xbox live hen in real life we became great friends after that.

  • 01.04.2008 9:57 AM PDT

I was actually re-introduced into the world of videogames by the woman who I was smart enough to marry. Until then the last videogame I had played was the arcade version of Afterburner. When she and I were dating, she asked me if I played videogames. I told her no, that being a comic book freak was enough of a drain on my wallet and social skills. She said that was too bad, because she had just bought an xbox and this really cool game called Halo: CE. So to call it true love would be an injustice to what my wife and I share. But it's close enough.

  • 01.04.2008 10:26 AM PDT

TEAM MUTE PLEASE.....AND THANK YOU.
Dont sweat the small stuff.....its ALL small stuff!!!!!
The name is WHOADUDE. Pronounced "woe-dude" NOT WHO A DUDE!!!!!

Frankie,

I am responding to the Halo “love” request…..I am in NO WAY saying I found the love of my life while playing your amazing trilogy. What I will say is that I found a VERY best friend. I am a male, older than most on live, that plays a 360 loyally daily. I started way back on a Super Pong system, and have advanced with almost every system from every maker since. I was in the long overnight line when the original XBOX arrived, and the same goes when the 360 showed up. Am very proud to stay up late, wake up late, and show up late to work daily due to HALO…now version 3.

The “best friend” I mentioned is exactly 4 hours south of me. I’m in the Detroit area, and HE is in Columbus, Ohio. We have played together since Halo 2 came out. Most memorable is our clans facing each other, but sharing the same XBOX live friends list. He ended up stealing ALL of my clan members, and I was left holding an SMG and that’s all. We put our differences aside, kicked a few people out, kept the good ones (which I will say is now exactly 4 of us to this day), and moved on.

The ironic part of the friendship is we had talked about planning a meeting somewhere in between our mileage differences, and a date somewhere between our birthdays. Well as it turns out, we share the same birthday. 6-6…the devils day. We then decided we couldn’t split a day, so we said the hell with it, and I funded a trip for him to come north for a weekend last April. He and his brother showed up on Friday, and left Sunday afternoon. I rearranged the house to fit an extra 32” TV next to the already cramped 50” lcd I use so we could play side by side. Our 4th player, in California was slightly confused about why he was on my microphone but then figured out it must have been our birthdays.

It was better than a LAN party. 3 people 4 feet apart playing nonstop for 3 days, and all the drinks I could supply. And I will say, there were too many drinks for at least 1 of us. And my girlfriend watching the whole time and enjoying the hell out of it.

I will put out a THANK YOU to Bungie & Microsoft for letting me be part of the early Friends & Family Halo 3 release, and helping this friendship come to be, and I will dedicate every assassination, beatdown, snipe, and sticky grenade to SEETHER15…the best friend ANYONE on live could ever have.


Thanks for the opportunity.

WhoaDude


p.s…we have a few extraordinary clips to send, a cheating clip, a glitch, a very funny vehicle clip, and a MAJOR request for the secret hallowed Bungie armor (this based on a betrayal that in NO WAY happened) the clip proves it. but I need to know where to send them so you can check them out. PLEASE let me know.

  • 01.04.2008 10:28 AM PDT