- maveric101
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first of all, i think it would be great if one of the prizes for playing was being one of the last 300 players(spartans) online. you could call it "warrior of Thermopylae" or "dining in hell" or something.
anyway, wow. halo 2 was really important to me. i don't know where to start. i'll try to be as concise as possible.
the maps. imo Halo 2 had the best maps of all the Halo games. my favorites: lockout, ascension, midship, ivory tower, beaver creek, zanzibar, relic, terminal. turf and sanctuary were my absolute favorites though. i can't stress how awesome i think santuary is... i think it's the best multiplayer map i've ever played on. i would've liked to see more of these maps in halo 3, but if that's not gonna happen, maybe Reach if they would work, or any future Halo game really.
i remember:
--tower of power. i don't even know what to say. but it was loads of fun, and i really miss it.
--zombies. the first game where i played a zombie gametype, and it was tons of fun on Foundation. i remember how people would post up in the various rooms: the one where you could jump up to a high space at the back, and another where people moved crates to the entrance as a barrier. i remember playing as a zombie, desperately trying to get past; eventually, we managed to get in a bit and steal one of the crates, creating an opening. i remember playing on zanzibar, and several humans had posted up at camp froman. we didn't have enough zombies for a frontal assault, so we went to the big crate by the wheel and melee'd it over to and up the stairs at froman, using the crate as cover. it must've taken at least 10 minutes, but it worked. we jumped over the crate and killed a couple people.
--a couple of my friends who i spent a huge part of my summer summer 06 playing team snipers with. in terminal we would camp the upper level of the garage, lol.
--the people from my clan. a friend introduced me online. i never knew them in person, but they were hilarious and fun to play with. most of them were in their early 30's (i was in high school), two of them were even married and had a very young kid. often they would get drunk and play; the female of the couple would talk in a british accent when she was drunk. at one point someone was pretending to be a unicorn, but when they talked, someone else said "unicorns don't speak english, they only go neighghgh!" then there was Banana Phone, where we would join social team slayer with 5 people. when we got split up, the two on the other team would pretend to be total noobs: "what team are we on? do i shoot this red guy? oops, sorry. whoah! i just picked up a second gun! what? how'd you do that?" etc.
--"what the f**k's a samIam?" except this guy in the pregame lobby said it as "sam-L-am" instead of "sam I am." still an inside joke for my friends to this day.
--those awesome moments in multiplayer where you felt invincible. i remember one time on Sanctuary where i was heading to a ramp on the side of the map, and started getting shot by two people from behind. by the time i had turned around, my shields were pretty much gone. i jumped down the ramp and over thier heads, chucking a grenade or two. i don't remember the exact details of how i killed them, but i remember feeling like the ultimate badass, so untouchable.
--sword jumping to the top of headlong. we used a banshee for a little bit of it, but i remember trying to get up to a higher ledge, we had one person stand on another and jump, a third person below had to sword jump at them when they hit the peak of their jump to fly up to the next level. eventually we made it ON TOP of one of the cranes in the level.
--making my player model appear in the sky on burial mounds.
--super bouncing. yeah, it was a sometimes a little annoying when people did it in matchmaking, but finding more of them in private games was awesome.
--gathering all the fusion cores and vehicles in zanzibar to make a huge explosion.
--this one time where i had a sniper and looked across coag and saw an enemy with a sniper rifle. we both fired a shot, both missed. right before i took my second shot however, i briefly saw a ghost shoot through my screen and splatter the hell out of my enemy. it was hilarious because since i was zoomed in the ghost came out of nowhere.
--fun
wow, i really failed at being concise. i had to get it out though. i could have written more, but i'll leave it at that.
anyway, me and my friends will definitely be getting people together for halo 2 LAN parties.
*sigh* it's the end of an era.
R.I.P. Halo 2. you will be greatly missed.
P.S. - please never change, Bungie. you guys are by far my favorite developer, everything i know about you guys screams "i want to work there." your sense of humor, your ability to have a lax work environment while still having an incredible drive to push out games even more incredible than anyone thought possible, your devotion to your community, and more. i'm still in college though, so it'll be a while before i send in my resume. but don't worry, it's coming.
[Edited on 04.16.2010 9:07 PM PDT]