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Subject: How Old Were You When You First Experienced Halo?

I was about 8 or 9. While at my dads friends house i played GTA 3. Then my dads friends older son asked me "hey you ever played Halo"? i said no.

We played the Silent Cartographer and the Final Level. The music and the shockingly realistic violence scared the crap out of me.


Then we played 1v1 multiplayer. Then i said "Dude we need to kill the aliens not eachother"

Also at the time Xbox was blah compared to PS2

[Edited on 07.14.2010 8:29 PM PDT]

  • 07.14.2010 8:24 PM PDT

I think I was about 6 when I first played halo...
I did really good in the campaign until I encountered the flood and didn't know where to go. I was in there for a couple hours going in circles. :'(

  • 07.14.2010 9:46 PM PDT

14, I believe.

  • 07.14.2010 9:49 PM PDT
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What I'm thinking after reading all these posts is... why is it rated "M"

  • 07.14.2010 10:42 PM PDT

Why is entire team running from Sandvich!

6. First game I ever touched that was modern of its time. I fell in love immediately.

  • 07.15.2010 2:09 AM PDT

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I was around 5th grade age, I think...my cousin brought Halos 1 and 2 over, along with some Mech game, can't remember what it was....he finally convinced me to play Halo 2 with him. And I HATED it! And then, overnight, I suddenly loved it, and another enormus Halo fan was born!

  • 07.15.2010 6:27 AM PDT

i can jump?

6 years old my brother had just bought a brand new xbox and the game ge bought with it was halo combat evolved. the moment i played the first mission i couldnt stop. where does all the time go D:
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I was about 11 or 12 at a friends house. I didn't have an xbox yet so I was really excited every time I went over because I knew we'd play Halo!. The good memories are still there though. You?


EDIT: Don't forget to tell of the first experience or memories!

  • 07.15.2010 6:31 AM PDT

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Actually I played Halo 2 first. It was awesomeness and still is, and I was 12 when I first played. I bought Halo 1 for the PC the year after.

  • 07.15.2010 4:27 PM PDT

I was 7 when it was first released in 2001 :D
(And the only reason why I got an xbox because there was a game coming out by Bungie and I try out Halo: CE and I love it :D I played a lot of Marathon when I was little.)
~TGW

[Edited on 07.15.2010 5:54 PM PDT]

  • 07.15.2010 5:50 PM PDT

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I was about 7 or 8.

I was at a friends house with several people and we played splitscreen on Blood Gulch.

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  • 07.15.2010 5:51 PM PDT

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  • 07.16.2010 4:08 PM PDT
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At eight years old, I remember hearing about Halo being released and was never interested. I was a fan of Nintendo's games (still am) and dismissed Halo as some stereotypical mindless shooter game. At nine years old, I played Halo at my neighbor's house. He was three and his dad was a Halo fan who bought an Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved. I had never played a first-person game before, so I immediately had some trouble. That kid beat me so badly that I had absolutely no fun at all. I could hardly even look around and he was just riding along in a Ghost on Blood Gulch, looking at my screen to see where I was, and mowing me down. That left a sour taste in my mouth.

Later the same year, I was in the video games section of Walmart when I stopped to watch a video of Halo. Having heard a lot about it at school, I wanted to see what made this thing so great. The video had several very colorful armored men with orange visors talking to one another in such idiotic and stereotypical ways that I could not believe that this is what had become so popular. Little did I know the video was of Red vs. Blue.

The next time I played Halo was with a friend at the age of eleven. Halo 2 had been released and kids at school were talking about Halo again. My friend played the game too and wanted me to play. By this time I had played the Metroid Prime games, so the first-person concept was no longer alien to me; but I was still hesitant. He really wanted me to play, and got me to watch him play instead.

To my great surprise, there were aliens in Halo. All these years, I had no idea that Halo was science fictional. As a science fiction fan that was an immediate plus for me. My next surprise was that the characters were not idiotic. He got me to play with him on split-screen, and, even though I suck at it, I found myself having fun. It was at this moment that I learned a lesson that I always think about to this day--always give everything a chance before deciding on a final judgment.

For my twelfth birthday, I got an Xbox. My friend let me borrow his copy of Halo 2. I took it home, played through the campaign, and loved it. Then my neighbors let me borrow their copy of Halo: Combat Evolved. I played through that, and loved it too. I just couldn't believe how good it was. The plot twists were amazing, the characters were rich, the cutscenes were very well done, it had a truly epic feel, and it was very exciting to play through. Later I got Xbox Live and discovered a whole other fun aspect to the game, and Halo 2 became my favorite game.

Now I'm a Halo fan and a Bungie fan. It's a good thing my friend made me play Halo.

[Edited on 07.17.2010 12:09 AM PDT]

  • 07.17.2010 12:02 AM PDT

The first Halo game I played was Halo 2, and I was probably about 9 or 10. I can't remember the first time I played campaign, but I still remember the first multiplayer game I was in. I went into a FFA Slayer game on Beaver Creek, and I got -blam!- destroyed, but it was still fun.

It's awesome that even if I didn't remember my first game, I could go back in the game records and look it up.

  • 07.17.2010 5:48 AM PDT

We all learn from our mistakes and what makes Halo hard to put down is because it's never one of them. It's a game to play with the people you play with and there isn't a time when that changes. I usually play with a buddy watching my back and vice versa. Call it a mutual respect that goes a long way. If it's not that, it's me going for the big guns but not the sniper. I've seen better snipers than me. Play with heart and a whole lot of skill and never leave a man behind!

How much was the xbox back then?

  • 07.17.2010 6:41 AM PDT
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How much was the xbox back then?

I'm not positive, but I want to say it was $150.

  • 07.17.2010 5:05 PM PDT
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I was 4 years old when my 20 year old brother got a xbox (the black one) and he had halo two every morning after he got to school i would go on it and get through 8 levels of it before i had to get ready for school.i was a brut but woper back then.

  • 07.19.2010 8:38 PM PDT

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I think I was about five years old, and I first played at my cousin's house. Good memories from what I remember.

  • 07.19.2010 11:43 PM PDT

"Don't Fight the Fire, BE the Fire"

I was around 5, i played it with my older brothers

  • 07.20.2010 5:14 AM PDT

"Don't Fight the Fire, BE the Fire"

I was around 5, i played it with my older brothers

  • 07.20.2010 5:15 AM PDT

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I was 11. My friend called me over and asked if I wanted to play Halo. I said "what's Halo?". I went over there, and me, him, and two other friends had a blast on Sidewinder, FFA slayer. Having no idea what the difference between Multiplayer and Singleplayer was, I went home not planning on buying it. However, I got it for Christmas. But I was an 11 year old, I was having more fun with Pokemon. One day, I was bored and picked up Halo from the bottom of the drawer. I plugged it in and literally did not turn it off for 12 hours. The scene where you step out of the escape pod and see the land for the first time really got to me.

  • 07.20.2010 8:16 AM PDT

I believe I was 7 or 8.

  • 07.20.2010 9:55 AM PDT

I was like 12

  • 07.20.2010 2:08 PM PDT

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i was 11 at my friends house. I was liek... "OMGWTFBBQ I LOVE THIS gaem!"

  • 07.20.2010 4:33 PM PDT

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I was like only 6 when i won my first xbox and the very first two game, spiderman and halo CE.
I wouldn't play halo but till my older sister make me play it and i been stuck at it ever until halo 2 came out.

  • 07.21.2010 2:57 AM PDT