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I remember the day I skipped school and got in line outside the Best Buy waiting to get my hands on an Xbox. After being sold out of Best Buy and Toy-R-Us I raced over to Circuit City and got the last copy. Not knowing at all what I was about to expeirience I was completely blown away by the game. I played for the rest of the night, it was a great day. What were everyones first Halo expeiriences like?

[Edited on 4/29/2004 9:41:07 PM by stosh]

  • 04.23.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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mine was when i downloaded a demo and then later got it for xbox. i wish i still had the demo. i got to play online. :(

  • 04.23.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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Well to let you know the first time i played Halo i thought it sucked. It was a dark t.v and i couldn't see anything so i hated it, the day i actually got it and played on my own t.v screen i loved it it became my favorite game right away and i couldn't get enough of it.

  • 04.23.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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That seems like so long ago for me, yet like yesterday....must be getting old. Oh well back to the topic. It was actually when my best friend went to go get an Xbox. Halo was one of three games he selected. We came back to his place, hooked up the box, and slapped in Halo. We sat there for a day and a half playing the campaign through I think 3 times before we went to Legendary mode. It was a slaughter house. Not that normal mode wasn't bad at first, but damn. I even remember jumping the first time I saw the Flood. Even though I wasn't playing the first time through. Fun none the less. Man I miss those early days.

  • 04.23.2004 7:55 PM PDT
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I was with my brother. It was a dark and stormy night. The dust in the wind seemed to pierce my skin as I raced towards the light. My old florescent friend, the best buy logo, what a sight. As I arrived at my destination I kept low key. For you see, what I was after, the last copy. Of Halo what a game, which I clenched in my fist as I raced through the rain and foglike mist. The clouds pouring rain caused such a racket, but the last copy you see, I kept in my jacket. We got in the car, my bro turned the key, and I was soon the see, just how great halo could be. Speed limits a thing of the past, I jumped out of the car when we arrived at last. I ran to my room, and what did I see? The master chief in all his glory.

  • 04.23.2004 7:56 PM PDT
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Big Screen TV. PoA on Heroic. Bulky alien controller. Dual Thumbsticks......

Nothing Short of a life-changing revolution.

  • 04.23.2004 8:02 PM PDT
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Leper Messiah: nice...

Losing my halo virginity: A short short story by GOD (Halo Fan)

I bought my Halo Combat pack (Xbox + Halo) and headed home.. set up the xbox... turned it on... put in Halo... "Your Xbox does not recognise this disc..." WHAT???... calmed down... tried again... Bungie Logo... Ahh, heaven has arrived.

  • 04.24.2004 1:24 AM PDT

I had two days off school, for my Xbox didn't arrive on release day :-(, and played it after trying out DOA3 and my OXM demo that I'd since the beginning of the month. And it was every bit as brilliant as promised.
Bit of trivia: Peter Molyneux, general gaming god, thought that the Halo opening was the best Xbox experience.

  • 04.24.2004 1:30 AM PDT
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Sigh...that brings a tear to my eye. But it was christmas day, we got our xbox then drove to hours to our grandmothers house. And our present was HALO! Oh gosh was that the longest day ever, we had to wait till 12 that night to play, it was so horrible. But alas the fury ended and co-op satisfaction began. i think the best part was when we got the warthog in the second level! We must have jumped for joy at how cool that was. Yea..can't talk to teary eyed...We played until 10 the next day, it was perfection, utter perfection. sigh...the good ol' days.

  • 04.24.2004 1:31 AM PDT
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I first played it at a friend's house. His dad works at microsoft and he had got an xbox together with 7 games a week before launch in Europe. We played the campaign from where he'd left off, so I didn't understand anything of the story (neither did/ does he, because he's French...). The first level I played was Assault on the control room... what an experience!!! I loved it right away, although I sucked at it (and so did he, but we didn't realise :D). When we got to the flood, we practically freaked out... it seemed like it was an endless "flood" of exploding little fellas (now I see that they're not that much of them...). That was probably my most intense Halo experience...

A year (?) later, when I got my xbox and had finished JSRF and Sega GT 2002, he lent me Halo and I finished it on normal...I was even more hooked by then, but hadn't really followed the story (my english wasn't as good as it is now, and I had just been staring at the fantastic cut-scenes, without thinking, just staring...). A few months later I bought the game myself (though my friend had said I could lean it whenever I wanted to, until I grew tired of it...) because I consider(ed) it to be and "obligated" xbox purchase. I played it and followed the story, and was blown away like never before (due to the eyecandy that I handn't really noticed before, and to the intriguing storyline.)

Oh the last section of the game (the warthog race against time) was also one of the most intense experiences...the amount of (beautiful!) explosions (sometimes literally) blew me away, as did the covenant trooper that flies in right above you...WOW!!! not to mention foe hammer's crash and the two banshees (but I didn't notice thos the first time... I just raced right to the "getaway-" ship...
I sure hope that Halo 2 will have got an ending section that's just as intense as in Halo: Combat Evolved. (I don't think it's possibl to top that, seriously...)

  • 04.24.2004 2:30 AM PDT
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I was in Japan when I first played.

I went into "Cybac", a local chain of Internet Cafes'.
(Cyber Area Comunications)

I knew of the new xbox... but I did not own one. The last system I owned was a NES!
I am/was into PC games.

Anyway, when I was at this Cybac, I noticed that they had two booths that had the xbox.
As well as PCs and Cable TVs. So I took a booth with a box in it, checked my e-mail, watched some -blam!-, then checked out xbox.com. When I get to the front I find only two games!!

One was a race game, never liked these games!
And that other was called HALO.
Now you must know that all of it is in Japanese, I speak fluently! But the reading is hard!
So - I didn't know crap about the game... did not look it up online until a few months later.

HALO: This sucks!
I go and pop in the game... could not read anything!
Randomly push "A" and start... this is how games are started, no?
FINALLY a game loads!
Wait, why am I in a Jeep? OK, at least there is a gun on it!
Hey, bad guys! Wait...
How do I shoot them?!
The gun will not fire! But, I run them over...
This sucks!
And I turned it off and watched more -blam!-, checked more e-mail, played doom...

About two weeks later I am bored and go to the joint again.
This time I have a friend at Cybac that tells me what each option reads as...
and I start a new game!
All but the tutorial was great!

Now I am addicted!

  • 04.24.2004 3:47 AM PDT
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I played Halo the first time in Virgin, where i played in turns with this other guy - I did PoA, he did Halo, and so on. We got hammered but ti was fun. We only discovered coop when i bought it much later. Its the only game I'll never trade in (apart from Munche's oddisey, thats scratched so they wont take it). All other xbox games ive ever owned eventually end up at gamestation or GAME, which is bolax but i cant find anything addictive to that point. Ive only got 3 games right now!
So ive returned to pc until i find something decent again - might be halo 2 or something like fable, I'm still unsure.

  • 04.24.2004 5:15 AM PDT
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After a year of resisting it, I finally broke down and tried it a year after it came out when my cousin brought his Xbox and 4 controlers and Halo to my grandmothers house and we gave it a go. For a full acocunt see my post in the "introduce yourself" tpoic in the Septagon.

  • 04.24.2004 6:20 AM PDT

The entire fleet is engaged Cortana, with respect what the hell sorta reinforcements have you got?

unfortunatly when i first played halo i thinght it was just anouther FPS but with a BIG tank and this was my Bros mates versionand they both kept kikin my ass. but later that year my bro got his own Xbox and HALO (still thinkiing it wasnt that special), i kept wondering why he just wouldnt stop playing it.
then one lucky day he left is room open while he was at work and i found the reason why he was in their (i know what ur thinkin) yes because halo is the best damn game in the god damned world thats whyits been over a year since that day and since i have got a job xbox and of course halo! and i still cant stop playing it

  • 04.24.2004 6:43 AM PDT
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I waited six months or so after release to get an Xbox and picked up Halo at the same time. Popping Halo in the drive, and diving into the storyline...simply magic. Undoubtedly the best launch title I've ever played, from being woken up on the PoA, to the suspense of meeting The Flood, the score that flowed with the game so naturally, just too much to list. I played it every day after work and weekends for weeks on end.

  • 04.24.2004 7:00 AM PDT
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My xbox was hidden in the dishwasher

  • 04.24.2004 7:31 AM PDT
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My first Halo experience was reluctant. I wanted a Gamecube (Before I get any crap, Perfect Dark 2 was still going to be on Gamecube at that time, and I had really loved that game on N64), but my dad wanted to get something that could play DVD's. What he was going to do was give me $100 to but any system I wanted, but if I got an Xbox he would give me another $100. That never happened, though, because he went to Best Buy and they actually had a couple of Xbox's in stock and he couldn't control himself. So on Christmas day I got an Xbox, Halo, a secong controler, and a Star Wars game, and I was a little dissapointed. So I went downstairs and hooked it up...and didn't come upstairs till dinnertime. I really should thank my dad for not caring what I want, because Halo is the most awesome game I have ever played!

  • 04.24.2004 8:50 AM PDT
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the first time i saw HALO i thought it would be the worst game i ever played, but then i went to my grandparents house and my cousin brought his xbox and his controllers and HALO, it was cousin and my brother playing HALO then the phone rang and my cousin went to answer it, so he said "117 play for me" so thats what i did and the level they were playing was AoCr, when i got that controller in my hand it was like i had played the game before, the controlling was easy i knew which buttons were what already(with some friendly fire of course). then my friend "SOLID SNAKE" came by one day and i was playing halo and thats when i had the huge controller known as "the beast", so he had the opportunity to use that controller, but when we played CO OP we played on LEGENDARY, was that ever hard, it ttok him a couple of kills to get used to the controlling but everyday for about 3 months he would come to my house from school and it would be lunch and all we would do is play HALO, when we finally beat HALO he wanted to borrow it so him and his brother could play, so i let them now his brother is addicted to the game but i tiook it back to get used to controlling(not that i have to) and wait for the arrival of HALO 2

  • 04.24.2004 9:56 AM PDT
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In the summer of 2002, during my family's usual visit to central New York, my cousin introduced me to Halo. It was this same cousin that introduced me to GoldenEye and Perfect Dark back in the day. I found myself intrigued by the story like no game I've played before. There was mystery, horror, and suspense all in this incredible package that I seemed to be unconciously waiting for all these years. Multiplayer was like a dream come true... I was no longer fighting with the controller to aim! Within days I was in love with Halo, the first game to come along and be so damn cool since Zelda.

I spent nearly a year after that wishing for an Xbox and browsing HBO to stay up to date with the Halo community. Then in April 2003 I got an Xbox and Halo, and I still play to this day.

  • 04.24.2004 10:33 AM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Me and my older brother had just jointly bought (well, not just us, since we paid half and my parents paid half) an Xbox over the internet, which came with a copy of Halo. It was meant as a Christmas gift, which meant that if it came early, we wouldn't be able to play it until Xmas.... So, one day it comes early, while only my brother and I were at home... Knowing that we wouldn't be able to open it without our parents noticing the opened box, I thought fast and said, "If we clean the house before they get home, maybe they'll let us play it due to our niceness..." My brother agreed, and we went to work. My mother comes home, and she lets us play (I was jumping up and down). We popped Halo in, and got to play the first level only (a bit unfortunate), and I remember thinking how hard it was to get used to the control scheme at first (I had never played a console FPS before), but how frickin' awesome and cool it was! I couldn't believe it. The following weeks of waiting to play the rest of it were hell. This was the December after the Xbox was released, which means I've been playing Halo since a little after it was released.

PS: We actually did sneak the Xbox and Halo back out a week before Xmas, and played through the second level, and also shared the experience with a friend via multiplayer....

  • 04.24.2004 11:04 AM PDT
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Well the first time I played it was in PC world were they had it on display. I at the time thought it was crap because for some reason to my eyes grunts looked like weird bats and there sqauwking/talking i thought was meant to be comical. So I thouht the game would not sell. i go round a friends house and he has halo. I was still a little confused and thought Capt Keyes was some random dude in a closet when he gives you the pistol. Anyway after a few more visits and playings I actually sure halo as it really was; a truly great game (and grunts dont have wings).
I was heavily on PC games so I waited a year for halo PC. Bought it and it didn't work. Bought a new vid card, it works but the graphics look -blam!-e compared to the xboxversion. So I thought screw it found some money lying around in my account and bought an xbox with halo and Midtown Madness 3.( a load of crap) in Novemeber.
And now today I am the best halo gamer I know of in the Multiverse.

  • 04.24.2004 11:28 AM PDT
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first played it in co-op and thought bl**dy hell!!! best game then still is now, its so good i'm still discovering new marine sayings that i've missed in the past. amazing!!!

  • 04.24.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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Ah. The memories. At first I was totally against XBox (I was a playstation fanatic). One of my stepbrothera and i wanted to get a PS2 for christmas and the other stepbrother wanted to get an XBox. So we, being older, beat on him for a bit and tryed to convince him of PS2's greatness. He kept saying that he really wanted to play halo. I had played it a few times, but I didn't think it was worth much. I said it wasn't worth getting an xbox just for halo. I was wrong. My parents, being generous, got him an xbox and made us buy a PS2 ourselves. We did and loved it for about 3 months. Then we got sick of GTA3 and started playing halo. Eventualy I became obsessed with it and now our PS2 sits on a shelf, all the controlers broken, gathering dust. The xbox gets alot of use. In fact, I decided to be hypocritical and buy another xbox myself just so we could system link without the hassle of haveing 16 people over.

That's my story, I'm willing to sell anyone the rights to it for $5

  • 04.24.2004 1:10 PM PDT

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My first time was just under a month after the Xbox came out. My brother and I bought it together, my mom ran out and got it before school one day and it was the last system left at the store. I got to play it a little before school, and then at night I had my friends over to play multiplayer. That was one of the best nights, my parent's came home with a new TV for me too.

  • 04.24.2004 1:12 PM PDT
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I didn't have an Xbox NOR a copy of Halo, I wanted to play it. So, I went to the video store where in I rented both. Got home and plugged it in, I look on the level screen and all the levels are there, someone had played throught it all ready. I went to the last level, liked the warning for the legendary setting and decided to go for it. Well, the controller was a lemon, I hated the control set up this guy had, and to top it off I wasn't even very good at FPS's in fact I hated them. 20 minutes in after getting my ass kicked many many times the damn thing overheats and freezes, I turn it off and stand up red-faced pissed as all hell, the first thing I say is, "That was f****** awesome!" Bad move because mom was there, I got grounded. After that that I decided to get my own box and all, this time I play from the begining and beat it on legendary in co-op, I looks to my friend and say "That was better the then (insert word), but why did the elite grab Johnson?" I never looked back and now I'm obsessed with the single game that convinced me to get an xbox, and the company that makes it, Bungie.

  • 04.24.2004 1:21 PM PDT