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"Dear Bungie.net, we regret being stubborn bastards, we regret coming to this forum, and we most definitely regret that Darth Kooky blew up our raggedy-ass opinion!"
I had so many awesome times with this game. So breace yourselves for a wall of text because I'm going to highlight Halo 2 moments until quite possibly, I have to continue in a second post :P
Campaign
Halo 2, in my opinion, had the best Campaign as it was the longest and featured many different encounters that were all golden.
Funniest moment:
I was playing through Delta Halo for the bajillionth time. I had reached the point where they were "pouring out of the middle". I continued on up the left ramp and started killing Covies from behind cover while the Marines chased the Ghosts around in their Warthog. I was picking off Jackals and Grunts with my BR and unloading the ammo into Elites when I ran out of ammo. Still having a Rocket Launcher, I decided to take down a Ghost as I no longer required a vehicle and needed any weapon to replace my empty one.
The out of nowhere, Joe Staten's Grunty voice came from a particularly brave Grunt who jumped out from behind an obelisk and yelled a battlecry at me. Naturally I was startled and my heart was racing. Out of instinct I hammered down the Right Trigger before realizing what I had just wasted. It was in no way wasted.
The Grunt flew straight up in the air while I recovered and calmed down. I had spotted the Ghost and was about to get a lock on. The Ghost took the ramp and the Warthog was still giving chase. It was at that particular moment when the Grunt decided to fall from the sky. The Ghost at full boost rammed what I assumed was a Grunty corpse as I heard no sound emanating from the Grunt. The Grunt rocketed into a far wall at tremendous speed. I was rolling on the floor laughing for a good 5 minutes or more.
Funniest Halo 2 moment I have ever witnessed. Bar none.
Favourite levels:
Delta Halo, Regret, and Gravemind
Favourite encounters:
Any part of Gravemind. Specifically the Mausoleum of the Arbiter. Pretty much because of Blow Me Away playing in the background.
Favourite enemy to fight:
Elites
Notable mention:
The first time I played Halo 2's Campaign was with my brother and he skipped all the cutscenes and I had no idea about the story until late 2006 when no one skipped the cutscenes and actually let me play a level other than The Silent Cartographer on Halo: CE. We had played through Cairo Station, Outskirts, and Metropolis. Knowing the story, my brother again skipped the cutscene. Being the a first time player of Halo 2's Campaign, I had no clue why I had started with a weird looking lightsaber that I quickly remembered was the Energy Sword I never got to use.
Seeing an Elite in front of me, let alone 2 was enough to make me start wildly slashing. I continued to kill every Covie I could find while my brother was distracted by someone. We continued to kill some Heretics and not being a very skilled player, I had missed some of our allies. I started unloading shots into the "shiny aliens". My brother then told me that that if the reticule was green, they were on our side. I replied by stating that we were the green cyborg guy, not aliens. He then told me to look at his player model. I saw a weird looking alien known as the Arbiter. My brother then told me I was an alien too after my astonishment that he was an alien (By this time I was shooting him)., I looked down and sure enough I had non-human legs. I then proceeded to suicide bomb the both of us to "save humanity".
Multiplayer
Funniest moment:
Watching as my attempted killer got run over by the train on Terminal. It happened so much and was really funny every time.
Favourite moments:
Let's start with the first time I ever played Halo 2.
December 7th, 2004. It was my friend's (The one who had fully introduced me to Halo and taught me that you could shoot people too. Not just take cool jumps off of Jeeps and flipped Tanks with a weird looking hovering motorbike.) birthday and I was at his house along with 1 friend I didn't know who had been playing Halo 2 online, and our mutual friend who had also never played Halo 2. We were noobs and began playing a 4 player LAN party with 2 Xboxes and 2 copies of Halo 2. We played for 12 hours until 6:36 a.m. when his mom finally told us to go to sleep. Good times.
Any other good moment is at the dozens of LAN parties I was part of that were Halo 2 and Halo 2 only. If we played video games ever. It was always Halo 2 (Though I was introduced to KotOR, Fuzion Frenzy, and Fable when we weren't playing Halo...which was rare :P).
Favourite maps:
- Terminal
- Headlong
- Coagulation
- Ivory Tower
- Waterworks
- Relic
- Elongation
- Ascension
- Lockout
- Turf
- Midship
- Burial Mounds
- Containment
- Colossus
- Zanzibar
- Ummm...actually all of them. Except for Foundation, Backwash, and Desolation. Gemini and Warlock were ok but not favourites.
- Tombstone
- Sanctuary
- Beaver Creek
Favourite weapons:
- Sniper Rifle
- BR
- Shotgun
- Rocket Launcher
- Energy Sword
- Beam Rifle
- Plasma Grenade
Favourite gametypes:
Slayer, Team Slayer and CTF anything.
Conclusion
Halo 2 was great and I will miss it a lot. I only regret not playing it more online. Halo: Reach will help fill the void. But one day I will have another Halo 2 LAN party. And it will be awesome. :D
Thanks Bungie, for the memories. You guys/girls rock!!!
[Edited on 04.16.2010 5:31 PM PDT]