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greetings bungie.net.
my halo 2 story is a rather unique one, i first played it when i was about 8, played it the second day it was out. a friend of mine had it, and i'd be wanting to go to his house all the time to play it. my parents began to worry about me (lol). after a few years, my brother got his original xbox, this was just a few months before the 360 came out, anyway, halo 2 was the first game we got. another few years, halo 3 came out. i was set on getting it. though i couldnt for about two years, s i was stuck with halo 2. i didnt have LIVE so i was just playing campaign over and over again for a year and a half. then i got my 360, it was on election day 2008. i got halo 3 and beat it in two days, and was finally on live so i played the multiplayer tons as well. then i decided to try halo 2's multiplayer. ill never forget the first time i BXR'd a guy. then, a few months ago when i heard that micro$oft was going to cut off live for xbox originals, i literally cried. i played halo 2 like an addict, only fr it to be ended a few days ago. halo 2, you will remain in my heart forever, R.I.P.. *salutes*

EDIT: i also wanted to share my favorite campaign experience. me and a buddy were playing the level where you kill regret (i cant believe i cant remember what its called). he was killing the guard while i jumped on his chair beat the living -blam!- out of him. in fact, i think i'll go do that right now!

[Edited on 04.18.2010 5:34 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2010 4:46 PM PDT
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Dave Dunn part 2 is the greatest story about halo I have ever heard, ever, especially with Joe and that the story culminated in the punch.
Dave's writing the campain for Reach, right. Right?

  • 04.18.2010 5:10 PM PDT

Oh hey there

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Posted by: urk
There are those who said this day would never come...


I was one of those and now that it has come... i don't know what to say except thank you bungie. and microsoft i hate you for taking away matchmaking but we still have the campaign to play so there is that

[Edited on 04.18.2010 10:20 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2010 5:59 PM PDT

Favorite Halo 2 memory would just be playing 4-man rockets on assembly, so much fun.

  • 04.18.2010 6:34 PM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

Epic News Article!

I will miss Halo 2. :(

  • 04.18.2010 6:45 PM PDT

Halo 2 was awesome!

  • 04.18.2010 7:15 PM PDT

Furry At Heart,
Furry Forever óÓÒò

Supreme mastery therefore, is not to be victorious in all your battles; supreme excellence is to be victorious without fighting.

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "

Rest easy Halo 2. I didn't play much, but what little I did was the most fun I've had in a long time.

*cries*

[Edited on 04.18.2010 9:45 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2010 9:45 PM PDT

Its stupid, really.

Fooled so easily...

You and me.

Ah H2 I will miss you so... I think what I will remember the most is the atmosphere when H2 just started being the same as when it ended, everyone being on just to have fun. The night of the 15th, we thought we would be kicked off right at 12am Pacific and when we didn't everyone that was on grouped up and started counting down the number of active players. We started at around 1200 and most of us made it to top 100 at around 6am Central. It was great sending off H2 in the BTB arena where I first started playing on live. To the few that are still playing I wish you luck to be the last spartan standing!

  • 04.18.2010 11:19 PM PDT

i just want to add how i feel. i have had a lot of names but i remember the most about halo 2 was playing some of the best in the world over live. then my income got cut. so i had to end xbox live. but i found a program call xbox connect. and i found a new set of friends. it was a program that let you system link your console over the net. so i found my self with a new set of friends. and we all played halo 2. i seen some awesome mods to halo. i even made some my self for xbox connect. i can say ive seen the true love for this game. there was a program for modded xboxes called project mimesis. and it had home brewed maps. i made some maps my self and had the honer of getting them added. but i stayed true to bungie map style.i made a map called arial. and arial 2.they were banshee dog fighting maps. it was a fun map. that had torrets and rocket launchers as well. well balanced map. i even made 3 diffrant banshees. i was a good moder. not a cheat to win one. most were re skins. and some had some awesome weapon mods but i saw the love for the game. i know that most people hated modders. but most of the people that work at a comp like bungie are like us at 1 time. i had a love for the game that surpassed the normal bounds. i wish i could of been there. for that last day. to stand and say good bye to halo 2 over live. but she will never die. xbox connect will help the halo 2 fans live the good old days. im proud to say i gave hell in a clan called dead on arrival. and legendary dynasty. we are now on live. im called VriezerX.

  • 04.18.2010 11:19 PM PDT

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I only played one online game of Halo2... (shrug)

I loved the SP game though.

  • 04.19.2010 3:58 AM PDT

"Whaddya need that for, Stranger? Goin' Elephant huntin' or somethin'?"

It all began with Halo, my real introduction into gaming. For months and months, my friends and I tore through that game, beyond the tearing limits. But truly, when Halo 2 released, after months of following internet reviews and magazine articles, something within that group of high-school buddies clicked. For years, we played Halo 2 almost every day. Forging some great memories. One of the best:

King of the Hill; Midship; static hill in the very center of the map. Shotguns, and grenades. 12+ players. This resulted in every man spawning, tossing a haphazardly aimed grenade into the center of the hill, and then running in after it, knowing he would be met with his own grenade in a few seconds along with everyone else's. The LOWEST score in the end was 30+. I'll never forget it.

  • 04.19.2010 5:49 AM 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

H2 was the 1st Halo game I played. I played it until my "freind" stole it & my Xbox broke. Couldn't recover my GT so I had to make a new one & by the time that happened they stopped selling copies of H2 out here. My freind on Xbox live bought me a copy & sent it... didn't get here till sunday. :(

Besides the sob story I'll just say that I'm sad this day had to come. If only Bungie had their own servers.

[Edited on 04.19.2010 7:35 AM PDT]

  • 04.19.2010 7:34 AM PDT

Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Oh, Halo 2. All those split screen games. Then my first XBL game. We can have 16 people in one game without having to set up 4 Xboxs and without finding 16 people for those Xboxs?!

All those hours of driving around Coagulation. All those Zombie games on Foundation. Cops and robbers on Lockout. I'll miss you Halo 2. But there are still LAN parties!

[Edited on 04.19.2010 9:04 AM PDT]

  • 04.19.2010 9:03 AM PDT

Death is always behind you, all you can do is try to out run it. It never tires, so it will always be the outcome. The only question is how long you can run for? And thats why spartans can't die, they can run forever. That and the fact they can respawn =D

Campaign on legendary, final mission. Me and my friend landed on the scarab with sniper rifles and just sat there trying not to die and too scared to come out. Then when we finaly did, we lost all the banshees but one and ended up having to get him to fly whilst i stood on the top. Took so many attempts, but was awesome balancing, shame no way to record haha. Then getting chased around by tartarus on the final section was like 'omg omg omg omg, up the grav lift, down the grav lift, up the grav lift, hide, ahh tarturus, down the grav lift.....'

bye halo 2 :( though still campaign :D

[Edited on 04.19.2010 9:34 AM PDT]

  • 04.19.2010 9:27 AM PDT

I have tons of memories of Halo 2. Almost all of them good. The one I'm posting is the best I have though.

I ran into a member of Clan EGM in matchmaking. We became friends. He let me play in a game with Dan Hsu and lots of other Former writers for EGM. We had fun. I became friends with them all. I was invited into the clan and played with them all the time.

Eventually I even got invited to play in the Humpday challenge. We totally owned Bungie and it was great. But by far the best memory pertaining to Halo 2 was how I got to go to E3 05. One of the EGM staff helped me get in. It was awesome and in a round about way it was all because of Halo 2.

Halo 2 was great....Even though the community could be ridiculous sometimes I still enjoyed it. I will miss it.

  • 04.19.2010 11:14 AM PDT

Halo may be fun but its a lot of hard work.

When i heard that halo 2 was getting shutdown i cried lol.


My best memory of playing halo 2 was when i was playing online
Team Slayer on Lockout and i picked up the sniper. I aimed shot and got a 2 for one to start the game.


R.I.P Halo 2 love ya

  • 04.19.2010 6:42 PM PDT

"Veni, vidi, verbavi asinum"

"I came, I saw, I kicked ass"
-What Caesar REALLY said

I've been a follower of Bungie ever since I played Pathways Into Darkness, and especially since Marathon. Of course I'm an avid Halo fan...

Halo 2 basically summed up my years of a high school student from November 7th of my Sophomore year until Halo 3 came out when I was at UNC. Because of that, it's literally impossible to think of just one memory. I just have years of time with Halo 2 being my go to game with my friends, who would stay up late with me, eat some pizza, and laugh hysterically at the crap we'd do in the game.

I played Halo 2 on the day of its shutdown until 3 in the morning. When I walked into my Chinese class the day after, I humbly wrote on the whiteboard, "RIP Halo 2. November 7th 2005 - April 15th 2010".

It's good to hear about Jason Jones, btw. Like I said, I've been a fan for a long time, so he's kind of a hero of mine. I hope his new project is awesome.

[Edited on 04.19.2010 7:40 PM PDT]

  • 04.19.2010 7:39 PM PDT

Video games don't affect children

If PacMan had affected us as kids then we'd all be running around in dark rooms, gobbling up magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music......

...... Been to a rave lately?

I was introduced to Halo CE when a friend bought an Xbox, many years ago. I was told it involved "funny talking midgety ewok things" and zombies and the multiplayer was fantastic. From there, my love affair with the Halo fiction, and with Bungie was sealed. Countless hours were spent playing LAN in his basement, our two systems and a spare TV ravaging away.

So when I heard a sequel was on the spoke, I was thrilled. I followed all the media. Caught the very few commercials with glee. (somehow missed out on Ilovebees) but as soon as cam-corder copies of the E3 demo made their way to the internet. I was floored. The cinematic quality and overall jump forward in appearance.... I was falling over myself with anticipation. I still remember, I was unable to pre-order but went at midnight to pick up a special edition copy of the game. However, sophomore year of high school demanded I wait until the next day to play it.

I can't say I loved everything about it. It was the next logical step, but not much more. After Halo CE's apparent perfection. Halo 2, just seemed, lacking. It would be a very long time, before I found confirmation that the overwhelming sadness I felt for the game in contrast to it's potential was mirrored so closely by Bungie's experience making the game. Bungie really gave their soul to make this work, both in losing it's independence to Microsoft and in the amount that had to be sliced to make way for reality.

All was not lost, gleams of sunshine from what the game's original intent had been poked through, and where it did. A lightly melancholy but uplifting moment occurred. Moments like leaving Cortana at that platform, hear Truth annunciate "Some said this day would never come...." over High Charity's PA system as you chased them, always a step behind. Truly this game was of a beautiful vision that was quashed by limitations.

Multiplayer though, was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it greatly. Hours were racked up on a slew of good maps and returning favorites. My friends and I clung to the mast of our sinking Halo CE, throwing LAN parties as often as possible, but I definitely enjoyed many a time on Halo 2's multiplayer. Live brought something unseen to console based gamers.

In fact, it was this meeting of the gamer minds that really made the game for me. The ability for players from all over to communicate, play, and create was really what kept me coming back. From attempts at machinima, to exploring the outer reaches of maps thanks to a combination of sword/rockets. To, my personal favorite, the honesty-based game of zombies, the dynamics of which are closely paralleled, but in my opinion not quite matched by Halo 3's infection gametype. This creativity kept me coming back.

It sounds like for Bungie's staff this was an obstacle that brought about growth, learning, realization of priorities and development of tools that allowed later games to be that much better.

In parallel, I can remember cracking open that case on Nov 8th, 2004. Since then, I've graduated high school, am attending college in computer science

and thanks to you folks at Bungie have selected a career path to become a video game developer..... hopefully ;-)

So long Halo 2,
Here's looking to the future,

Charlie

  • 04.20.2010 12:35 AM PDT

I silently pray that my enemies get cancer

I tried to play halo2 on the 14th day, the "last" day, but Killtacular mappack, wouldn't let me download it.

Everytime i waited the download to 99%, it poppedup the xboxguide with a message "File corrupt", restarted my interwebs, xbox, everything, it still said "File corrupt" at 99%, i even plugged my xbox classic and tried to play there, it still said "file corrupt"

Thus, i never got to play halo2 on my current xboxlive account.

And my old account, doesn't have any xbl gold goodness, password forgotten, and the account is registered on my brothers email. And he's currently in the army, and its nearly impossible to call him and ask his email and password "cus i wanted to play xbox".

I feel sad.

  • 04.20.2010 5:32 AM PDT
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i never got to play halo2 and now i never will

  • 04.20.2010 1:21 PM PDT

Halo 2 is the reason I bought a Xbox, if not for that I would probably still be on a Playstation.

Now your gone, ah well, Reach is gonna kick ass!

  • 04.20.2010 8:52 PM PDT

I'm -blam!-

i never got to play halo 2 i brougth the disk (of ebay regretably but that was coz game ran out of second hand ones)the disk was scratched and the campaine didnt work, the multieplayer wouldent let me play as i didnt have the DLC and my marketplace on my x box was playing up when i tried and i couldent download anything. i hope in 5 years tiem or something they open halo 2 back up for a long week end just to mark the aneversiry of one of the gratest xbox games EVER!!!

  • 04.21.2010 3:10 PM PDT

my favorite halo 2 memory.
im sitting alone at a table during lunch at my school. some guys who i had never talked to before come sit down with me. one of them says "hey we heard you like halo?". "why yes i do" i said "but it sucks cause all i ever do is play by myself becasue i dont really have any friends to play with and i dont have xbox live yet." "really?" they said. "how about you come over to my house and play some halo2 with us then?". those guys are now my best friends those days hauling around my xbox, staying up late laughing, hunting glitches shooting eachother in the face are the best memories i have, if not for halo2 i may have never had them.

  • 04.21.2010 8:46 PM PDT

no. nonono

<3
:'(

I have nothing else I can say. :/

  • 04.22.2010 2:40 AM PDT

Favorite Halo 2 memory- we played a lot of multiplayer, mostly system link, in my apartment in college. But we never really played the campaign. So one day, my roommate and I decided we were going to get serious about the campaign. We picked up a 30-pack of Bud Light and started the campaign on Co-op Legendary. Well, needless to say, we made pretty good progress at first. A couple hours in, we were so completely hammered we couldn't even shoot straight anymore. We didn't end up finishing the campaign that day, but I sure have a lot of fond memories of Halo 2!

  • 04.22.2010 3:00 PM PDT