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Subject: 8 Years of Halo!!!! 4 Years since its posting!!!

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What a nostalgic thread...

Anyways, here's my story.
I first heard of the game in 2002 when I was much younger. I never played video games, but in March 2007 when I got a new computer, I decided 'Hey, let's put this new Graphics Card to use'. So I bought Halo PC off Ebay and I quickly fell in love with it.

The combination and perfect balance of action, music, and story just got me so obsessed. I soon became a complete fanboy and bought Halo 2 PC when it came out in June. I finished it two months before Halo 3, and then realized that I'd finally have to buy a console to play Halo 3 when it came out.

I started a web-business and bought myself an Xbox 360 Elite, surround sound system (not going to play Halo 3 without taking advantage its awesome audio), and Halo 3 Legendary Edition. Finished it September 16, 2008.

It all started with Halo 1, and for that reason I feel a certain loyalty to it over the other two games, which were still awesome, but just didn't have the same feeling as the first in my opinion. Overall, it is a full, complete, and wonderful Trilogy, I just think that Halo 1 embodies that Trilogy in one game better than the other two.

[Edited on 05.24.2009 9:09 PM PDT]

  • 05.24.2009 8:59 PM PDT

Suck it Red!

wow, this is the 1001 post. And it has almost been 5 years since this was posted.

  • 05.30.2009 8:48 PM PDT
Subject: 5 YEARS OF HALO!!!

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
Black Tower

definatly dreaming the two betrayals opening cutscene before ever playing or watching the game.
but actual playing would be doing the glitch to get no enemies on AotCR with my brother with basket case playing on repeat for an hour and a half.
we got all the vehicles on the map and pushed them into the giant chasm where there's a few hunters normally.
then we had fights down there. the wraith exploded many times.
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  • 05.31.2009 5:35 AM PDT

Man, I miss dem Halo 3 days :'(

Halo CE was the best.

WART WART WART!

  • 05.31.2009 6:32 AM PDT

I beat Halo CE the first weekend I had an Xbox on Normal. I then pumped it up to Legendary and thought OMG this is impossible!

Some great, great memories of CE.

  • 06.01.2009 12:11 AM PDT

Campaign: My friends and I finding different pathways to skip parts of the level. That was extremely fun.

Multiplayer: The map is Sideweinder playing a game of Team Slayer 4v4 to a score of 50. The tank is almost centerfield and I chunk a sticky at it cause I'm pissed that we are losing about 46 to 42? Anyways, the plasma is about to hit the scorpion when out of the blue a player from the other team comes ramping off of it with a ghost. The plasma sticks the ghost and I shout excitedly that it was a cool stick. But then, the ghost comes flying at me after the explosion and I jump screaming like a little girl. I turn around to notice that I just betrayed my teamate. Good times.

  • 06.01.2009 8:25 AM PDT

»Adversus Aliquid»

This is freakin awesome. Longest thread ever.

Campaign: Finding the hidden music. fun......

Multiplayer: Sticking a newbie friend in the face, and hearing him go, "what is that? it's a blue blob, I think the screen is mes-" I loved that.

  • 06.05.2009 3:43 PM PDT
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holy crap this thread has been going for five dang years!!
well mine is when i was younger i couldnt get halo... so i downloaded the free trial and played ther first level, but it wouldnt let me do any others due to it being a trial. then i did multi player and the only map you could play on was blood gultch. hahaahahahahahahhahahahaha that made me go out and buy it a year later, the trial is what made blood gultch my alltime fav map.

  • 06.07.2009 1:43 PM PDT
Subject: 8 Years of Halo!!!! 4 Years since its posting!!!

oO( Underdogg13 )Oo

The first time I ever saw Halo was at my cousin's house and I became addicted. Now I have every game, read 3 of the books, and know the most about Halo out of my whole family. I have good memories about all the Halos. Like when Halo 3 came out, no one knew how to use equipment and people sucked with mongooses. And when I didn't know anything about Halo, just playing the game was what I did. Those days were fun, almost makes me sad thinking about them being gone, :(.

  • 06.07.2009 3:10 PM PDT

Posted by: UNDERDOGG13
The first time I ever saw Halo was at my cousin's house and I became addicted. Now I have every game, read 3 of the books, and know the most about Halo out of my whole family. I have good memories about all the Halos. Like when Halo 3 came out, no one knew how to use equipment and people sucked with mongooses. And when I didn't know anything about Halo, just playing the game was what I did. Those days were fun, almost makes me sad thinking about them being gone, :(.


Exact same story here, save the halo 3 stuff. Only really loved one and two.

  • 06.07.2009 5:55 PM PDT

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Just playing halo CE's campaign. Probably the best ive played in any game. Played this after halo 2s campaign and thought CE's was better. Probably playing on the level were you storm the beach. I literally would just start the checkpoint over and over again.

  • 06.12.2009 4:10 PM PDT

Bump for Great Justice.

  • 06.17.2009 12:12 AM PDT
Subject: 5 YEARS OF HALO!!!
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my memory is playing halo with my dad for the first time it was awesome

  • 06.22.2009 10:17 PM PDT
Subject: 8 Years of Halo!!!! 4 Years since its posting!!!

If this is the state of my art, then I secede.

I am posting here. That's my best moment.

  • 06.29.2009 6:44 PM PDT
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Well, time for a short (perhaps long for some people) story that will fill your brains with hopeful shock.

Way back in November, 2001, when the original Xbox first released, my older brother went to the convention center near our location where the consoles were first getting sold. He told me it was jam-packed, consistently loud, and just overall amazing.

Guess what? Hopefully you all knew what came along as a number one selling hit on the first day of the Xbox release, right? Halo: CE! Halo was released the same day the original Xbox was released. November 15th, 2001.

When he came home about 5 hours later, it was about 5:00 AM in the morning, and I was laying on my bed waiting to play the damn console, heh heh. He came home with an Xbox, four controllers, and one game, Halo: CE.

We both played Halo: CE's fantastic campaign first on Normal, and didn't turn off the console until we official beat it, which took about 6-8 hours overall. We were both tired, happy, and worn out as hell, but we both agreed that that was one of the best games we ever played.

Man I miss those old days...

  • 07.01.2009 10:47 AM PDT
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"I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me."
-Dwight Schrute

I picked up my Xbox and Halo: CE the day after Christmas with some cash I got. I remember the electronics department guy saying" Halo, huh? Haven't heard much about this game."

My senior year, my friends would come over every day after school and we would play 4 - player split screen multiplayer. Blood Gulch CTF and Boarding Action Snipers were favorites of ours.

My freshman year of college, I discovered that you could hook up your Xbox to the school's network and play against anyone else who had an Xbox hooked up via a system link. Needless to say, this was a whole new addictive world of multiplayer for me. I was hooked, as was my entire floor of guys I lived with.
I ended up winning 3 tournaments with Halo: CE -- two 4v4s at college and one FFA at a GameCrazy on the night Halo 2 was released.

Oh, glory days...

  • 07.01.2009 12:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dund3r
My freshman year of college, I discovered that you could hook up your Xbox to the school's network and play against anyone else who had an Xbox hooked up via a system link. Needless to say, this was a whole new addictive world of multiplayer for me. I was hooked, as was my entire floor of guys I lived with.

Man. I wish I could have System Link games for local tournaments and stuff. I personally was never good at the game (I'm better now though.) so I probably would of lost all the time.

My older brother and his friends would go over each others' house every day too to play 4 player splitscreen. He loved it.

  • 07.01.2009 4:36 PM PDT

Reach: 2010

Why does a man climb a mountain? Because it is there..

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"Wow! It's like the money-shot is on MY face!"

I can't believe it's been this long. Wow.

Best Memory: Simply encountering the flood for the first time. I was playing at night, it was silent as could be, and freaking bam flood everywhere.

  • 07.01.2009 4:53 PM PDT

if knowledge is power and power corrupts, isn't knowledge therefore dangerous?
Black Tower

Oh the days of getting out of moving vehicles, I miss you so.

  • 07.15.2009 10:32 AM PDT

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"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."

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I love playing in blood gultch. We played a game were two ppl drove warthogs and two ppl had to go from one base to the other without getting killed.

Damn this thread is old.

  • 07.15.2009 11:46 AM PDT
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Yes, blood gultch was class, I loved it a lot. They remade it in Halo 2 but not three? What? That's odd wouldn't you say? Anyway Halo:CE was AND IS still awesome. ~Cm

  • 07.19.2009 7:35 PM PDT

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Halo's Tenth Anniversary - July 21st, 2009 Thank you for the outstanding game Bungie!
Halo Series fan since it's creation.

Halo was actually the first game I ever played. It's what got me into combat games. It was the first game I had on my original Xbox. I remember when I used to stay up all night with my friend and we'd play splitscreen campaign. Good times...

  • 07.20.2009 4:09 PM PDT
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I used to have sleep overs just for Halo haha good times :) ~Cm

  • 07.20.2009 4:38 PM PDT

I remember all the LAN matches with tuns of friends through system link. So fun.

  • 07.20.2009 9:45 PM PDT