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Subject: Remembering YOUR history - When was your first game of Halo 2?

Were it so easy.

When was the day you first experienced Halo 2 on Xbox Live? Ohhh such great things back then. When was the first time you and your friends finally linked up together over some Live, after finishing up the great campaign, played split screen/system link, got up together over live and just remember back when dual SMG's/pistol/plasma rifle/noob combo/rank all had meaning, where skill was the first thing you noticed between a rank 25 and a 33 (excluding the cheaters)? Remember experiencing how large Coagulation was while flying overhead in a banshee going +25? Or arguing with friends over what map you should play on because none of the Halo 2 maps sucked? Or back when both harcore and new players enjoyed it? Or just when Xbox Live and friends actually meant something, you would go out of your way to ensure you all had a great time more than nowadays.....

Feel free to give your story about how your Halo 2 life started, or just give the date you first played XBL with it. And if you used another account guess when your first game was?

Mine was June 6th, 2006

  • 02.13.2010 11:51 PM PDT

My first online experience with Halo 2 was on XBC, then I moved to Xbox Live and thanks to my "training" on XBC, I owned on my first game =D

12/12/2006

R.I.P. Halo 2. I will play it more often these final days. Bungie, thank you for giving us a great game where a lot of us had great moments.

  • 02.14.2010 1:13 AM PDT
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there is no saving Reach

original gt - Kaelestis
farewell h2

I played Halo 2 since it's release but the very first game I played on Live was on January 2005.

I remember back when it was like extremely hard to level and everyone was stuck in the teens until the revised the system. I remember being on the BTB leaderboard for a short time after the rank reset and going in with my buddy Murdaunit. I remember that's when I met my first XBL friends and made a clan and everything. Good times.

  • 02.14.2010 3:41 AM PDT
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my first game of halo 2 was team slayer on lockout. our team lost 50-7

  • 02.14.2010 2:40 PM PDT
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Gauge you competition and execute with precision.

1st game of Halo 2? I got the game a week early, so mostly Bungie and other lucky individuals were playing...like 5000 at most. And I got a game on Lockout and actually played Sketch. I think I won every game that night and had a heroic looking record until the game actually came out.

  • 02.14.2010 3:50 PM PDT

At a friends house 4-player splitscreen on Zanzibar

  • 02.14.2010 4:09 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

I remember my first game like it was yesterday. My buddy just got the disc and we all went over to his place to experience it.

We went straight to multiplayer all on one screen. Of course we all created our "own" spartans and gave them immature names.

I remember seeing the first map called Lockout. We loaded it up and did the damage. I was the first one to grab the Energy Sword as I spawned close to it. It was the craziest time ever. I think we played for 9 hours or something like that.

"Quit looking at my screen Corey!"

LOL. Good Times. Good Times.

  • 02.14.2010 6:34 PM PDT

Brownie lives!

"10000?"

My first game ever, was at my friends house.
I remember him loading up Headlong, and then I jumped in the Banshee. Then he hijacked me and flew up to that one sniper spot.
Man, I'll miss Halo 2.

  • 02.15.2010 10:12 PM PDT
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First game was on beaver creek after I finally got Xbox live, and I think someone hacked it because there was a 30 and a 40 versus all ones and i have a sneaking suspicion they hacked to spawn next to the rockets. Total blood bath, scared me away for a week but been loving Halo on live ever since.

  • 02.16.2010 2:48 PM PDT
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My first time playing Halo 2 was 4 player split screen on Zanzibar. What a fun game it was!

  • 02.16.2010 6:36 PM PDT
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Steam - slamt4stic
Live - SLAMt4stic

i got it the day it came out already had it all paid off on my preorder, got the special edition with bonus dvd strategy guide and everything... went home and my dad took it away cuz i was grounded.... awwwwww it still pains me to this day :'(

  • 02.16.2010 10:43 PM PDT

w00t w00t

Check out my Gaming Rig on EVGA Mod Rigs.

My first game was at about 12:30am CST on 11/9/2004. I can remember waiting outside GameStop to pick it up at midnight. I couldn't wait to get home with that Limited Edition metal box.

I would also like to say that Halo 2 was the best thing to ever happen to XBL. Anyone who remembers what it was like during H2's heyda knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Farewell Halo 2!

  • 02.17.2010 9:49 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

6/13/2009 4:42:16 PM
This was when i had just convinced my mom halo was ok. I got halo 2. And i had only played halo trial before that.

  • 02.17.2010 2:22 PM PDT

A Hell Jumper - Heroic, a Spartan - Legendary, be We're Mythic; Spartan Mythic Team.
Mythic Actual / Mythic 1
Post to everyone who complains about Reach instead of shutting up and playing something else. http://initiativedesignz.webs.com/HaloReachStuff/Fixn.jpg

Well my 1st time enjoying(really playing) an FPS in general was a custom games w/ my freind Max on Zanzibar- the controls were inverted & all I could do was look down & spin- for some reason I was instantly hooked to Halo, I miss my adventure based RPGs but until those return I'll be playing my Halo (& stupid MW2)

  • 02.18.2010 6:14 AM PDT