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

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Hmm i got Halo CE when it first came out and im 15 now so i would say like 6-8 im not 100% sure when it came out then. I didnt get live until i was 12 though.

  • 05.08.2010 8:55 AM PDT
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I think i was like 7 or 8. Now im 13.

  • 05.08.2010 11:20 AM PDT

like 7. and i was traumatized by the Flood, they were the scariest thing i ever seen (at that age) .... I'm 15 now

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  • 05.12.2010 9:39 PM PDT

I was 4. It was the first game I ever played and since I didn't have an xbox, I could only play it at my uncle's place. But my parents bought an xbox when halo 2 came out and that's when I decided to make halo my top video game career.

  • 05.12.2010 9:57 PM PDT
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I was about 8 when i saw it in a local store. i bought it strait away and all the way to my home i was saying "this is going to be awesome" and I was right.

  • 05.12.2010 11:47 PM PDT
Subject: How Old Were You When You First Experenced Halo?

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Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".

I was around 8yrs old when I first picked up and put Halo: CE in my disk tray.

  • 05.13.2010 1:34 AM PDT
Subject: How Old Were You When You First Experienced Halo?
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9 got pwned all the time :)

  • 05.13.2010 9:54 AM PDT
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I was 7

  • 05.13.2010 6:51 PM PDT

13. It was the end of 8th grade. Got the Halo: CE Edition XBOX as a graduation present =).

[Edited on 05.13.2010 7:30 PM PDT]

  • 05.13.2010 7:29 PM PDT

i was about 6

  • 05.13.2010 8:03 PM PDT

Like I told my last wife, I said "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see and besides...it's all in the reflexes."

Oh my god you're all so young! I was freakin 19 when Halo CE came out. Granted I didn't read everyone's reply, but I'm amazed that more older gamers like myself didn't post replies here. Especially when you consider that most of the Bungie employees are older than me.

Almost forgot. my first memories were going over to my friend's apartment, seeing that he had borrowed his neighbor's Xbox and that he had Halo. Of course I heard about the game before then, but hadn't played it yet. We spent the next 8 hours playing Campaign and CTF, and thinking it was the greatest video game experience known to man. Still is.

[Edited on 05.14.2010 5:10 AM PDT]

  • 05.14.2010 5:08 AM PDT

Like I told my last wife, I said "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see and besides...it's all in the reflexes."

I don't mean to offend anyone here, but this is the kind of thing I have a problem with as an older gamer who primarily plays M rated games. They are rated M for a reason, and you shouldn't have been playing Halo at 5 ( I don't even tink I played any video games that young). I guess the reason I get irked when I see posts like this is that it means this poster is now 13 or 14, which is STILL too young to be owning oir playing M rated games, and it means that it's one more little kid I'll have to deal with on Xbox Live. I know nobody enforces the ESRB rating system, but then why even have it? I was hopeful that I could avoid playing with kids online when they announced the rating system way back before you kids can even remember, and it's now obvious that it doesn't matter what a game is rated, kids will get their hands on it somehow.

I long for the days of an older gaming community.

  • 05.14.2010 5:14 AM PDT
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I first experienced Halo about it when I was about 13 years old. I even joined a Halo 3 forum and I was a administrator, in charge of coding. I was not very interested in Halo at the time.

Then about a year later, someone told me about Halo PC and I downloaded Halo Trial immediately. When I first played Halo, it was -blam!- awesome! I loved fighting the Hunters. Pissing off the Zealot was fun! :D I thought that the Zealot at the Silent Cartographer was Arbiter.

Then I found this. This guy was such a -blam!- badass. Much better then those Halo 3 Legendary walkthroughs!

Then the person who got me interested in Halo showed me this. Simply amazing!

Then a few years later, I got Halo 3. At first, I was just a Halo 3 player. I was not really interested in glitches and strategies. Then one day, I encountered my first wtf moment. The flying Tank Form. Then two Arbiters. Then three Arbiters. :D

And now here I am. A Halo 1 modder, Halo 3 player, glitcher, and strategist, and a Bungie.net member.

[Edited on 05.14.2010 2:48 PM PDT]

  • 05.14.2010 2:46 PM PDT

i was like 3 or 4. i sucked!

  • 05.14.2010 3:54 PM PDT
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I first experienced Halo about it when I was about 13 years old. I even joined a Halo 3 forum and I was a administrator, in charge of coding. I was not very interested in Halo at the time.

Then about a year later, someone told me about Halo PC and I downloaded Halo Trial immediately. When I first played Halo, it was -blam!- awesome! I loved fighting the Hunters. Pissing off the Zealot was fun! :D I thought that the Zealot at the Silent Cartographer was Arbiter.

Then I found this. This guy was such a -blam!- badass. Much better then those Halo 3 Legendary walkthroughs!

Then the person who got me interested in Halo showed me this. Simply amazing!

Then a few years later, I got Halo 3. At first, I was just a Halo 3 player. I was not really interested in glitches and strategies. Then one day, I encountered my first wtf moment. The flying Tank Form. Then two Arbiters. Then three Arbiters. :D

And now here I am. A Halo 1 modder, Halo 3 player, glitcher, and strategist, and a Bungie.net member.


That speed run was epic.

  • 05.15.2010 12:36 PM PDT

I can't really remember I think 6-8.

  • 05.15.2010 4:10 PM PDT
Subject: How Old Were You When You First Experenced Halo?

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This guys' math fails, read this locked thread:
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It came out in 2001, and played it in 2002 or 2003 so I was 7 or 8 years old when I beat CE on normal. :)

  • 05.15.2010 5:57 PM PDT
Subject: How Old Were You When You First Experienced Halo?

7, I played Halo at my older cousins house, and fell in love. But the Elites were always creepy to me, not anymore in the new games, but when ever I pop in CE I remember the good old days.

  • 05.15.2010 8:54 PM PDT
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"Were it so easy"

"Halo Made Jimnix"

I was around Ten maybe Eleven?

My friend "Designerdata" had the original Xbox before me. So i went round to play this game he was Raving about called "Halo"

Having only ever played Crash bandicoot and Tekken up uintill this point i was'nt very ecited. But then I saw AOTCR load up.

WOW! " I would have been your daddy". I was amazed. I still remebr it to this day!

Everything about it, The music the way the little grunts ran away! How my heart jumped as i watched my experienced Wingman be struck down by a gold, armoured sword wielding elite only to watch in horror as he killed me too!

Very Veyr fond memories!


Halo Made Jimnix!

EDIT: Excuse my spelling mistakes! I was in a bloody rush to get it all out! Im 19 now BTW. Just so you know im an adult and have every right to play Halo.

[Edited on 05.16.2010 11:38 AM PDT]

  • 05.16.2010 11:36 AM PDT

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This guys' math fails, read this locked thread:
Enjoy this Epic math fail.

Don't let this thread die, it's too damn important. :P

  • 05.18.2010 12:21 PM PDT

You'd probably shoot back if i wasn't T-bagging your dead body.

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  • 05.18.2010 2:53 PM PDT

My brother got Halo:CE when I was like 5 or 6. I remember playing it with him every day, and the moment we beat the last mission on Legendary, together, i knew halo would be in my childhood memories all the way until now!

  • 05.18.2010 4:19 PM PDT

Rei!

Where?

:3

I was 6. I made all my friends throw their controllers out the window with my Pistol 3 shots. :P

  • 05.18.2010 6:45 PM PDT

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No worries! It's not going to die! It's been pinned. This thread is probably the most interesting thread I've read (no bias I swear), and I am extremely proud to have created a thread where people can share their first sentimental gaming experienes of Halo! This has really meant a lot to me and others alike reflecting on our first covenant stomping moments! Thanks for sharing! ~The Wow Moment

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  • 05.18.2010 7:25 PM PDT

-Sic transit gloria mundi

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I was only eleven...

  • 05.24.2010 5:26 PM PDT