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Subject: What Halo 2 moment will you always remember?
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"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I do know that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein

Me, well, it was when I was playing a four player, offline match on 2-man teams, and I drove my 'hog through a grav lift, got sniped out of the seat, and my 'hog splattered my brother, and won me the match from the grave.

I shall miss you, Halo 2.

  • 04.17.2010 9:50 PM PDT

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One memory I thought was funny was when I was flying a banshee and it blew up and died and the wing splattered someone.

  • 04.17.2010 10:13 PM PDT

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
I was the 2nd to last person to get kicked off Halo 2, see the thread Here

That time I played with the very last Halo 2 players in big team battle/custom games. :)

  • 04.17.2010 10:48 PM PDT

R.I.P. Halo 2 11/9/04-4/15/10
If you havn't played Halo 2 online than you are missing so much. Plus if you have played a good amount of Halo 2 online, I might have a better chance of listening to anything you say.

There are a lot of moments I will always remember but I loved the first time I got a 31 in BTB Skirmish.

  • 04.18.2010 6:28 AM PDT

Playing split screen matchmaking at my bud's house one last time. :'(

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  • 04.18.2010 6:31 AM PDT

My biggest memories were the midnight launch and the tons of people that were there. It was the first game that I ever got at midnight. Also just how popular the game was and the anticipation over the first batch of DLC. I just remember how crazy everybody got over trying to figure out when it was going to be released and all ther rumors that were going around.

  • 04.18.2010 11:00 AM PDT
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- Watching the E3 2003 demo and nearly peeing myself in excitement.

- Seeing boarding for the first time in the aforementioned video. Dual-wielding was cool and the Brutes made me squeal a little bit, but nothing in that video was cooler than when Master Chief boarded that Ghost and drop-kicked the pilot straight out of his seat.

- Standing in line to buy the game at midnight.

- Putting the game disc into my Xbox console for the very first time and almost squealing in excitement.

- Getting through the entirety of the Earth portion of the game in the first night and thinking WTF?!?

- Having to forcibly remove myself from the game in the middle of the first Arbiter level so I could get some sleep. (I had school the next day and had probably stayed up until about 3:30 in the morning playing through the campaign. No multiplayer for me until that Friday.)

- Boarding the Prophet of Regret's throne and giving him the beatdown of a lifetime.

- Getting inexplicably stuck on Sacred Icon for two days.

- Being totally confused by the Gravemind.

- Having massive amounts of fun with the Brutes in the latter portion of the game.

- Defeating Tartarus and feeling a huge sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

- Watching the final cutscene and feeling a huge sense of bewilderment and disappointment.

- Realizing that I had completely forgotten my initial disappointment in not getting to defend Earth (as the advertisements implied we would get to do) by the end of the game.

- Finally beating the campaign on Legendary for the first time.

- Discovering Cairo Vacation all by myself and finding out the next day that the Internet had figured it out before me.

- Unlocking Foundation on co-op with my friend Will.

- My first game of Lockout on LIVE. (Swords)

- My last multiplayer game on LIVE, three days ago. (Custom 2v2 CTF Classic on Midship)

- Finding my first skull (Blind, of course) and going WTF?!?

- Finding out about the rest of the skulls and slowly collecting them over a period of several weeks.

- Playing matchmaking at four in the morning one summer (2006?) and screwing around with some guy who fell asleep in the middle of the game. (Yeah, just like that video on YouTube.)

- Getting my first (accidental) scopeless snipe.

- Finding out about sword flying for the first time on HBO and thinking WTF?!? ...then trying to replicate the glitch for hours on end with no results.

- Superjumping. I still haven't figured out all of the jumps and it's been a multi-year process of trial and error attempting to get them right.

- The AWESOME geeky LAN party I had for my birthday in June 2005. We played Halo, Halo 2, Fusion Frenzy (LOL), and Unreal Championship. There were six TVs and six Xboxes serving two players each set up in the playroom on big-ass wooden tables. We brought in about five or six comfy office chairs from my friends' houses and a bunch of hard-ass wooden dinner-table chairs from my kitchen for everyone else. (Those things were so uncomfortable after several hours of non-stop gaming.) We had loud music playing the entire time on my home stereo, including Linkin Park, System of a Down, Puddle of Mudd, and the Halo 2 soundtrack. There were five different kinds of pizza (cheese, pepperoni, Hawaiian, supreme, and "spicy" [my dad's special pizza with ham, bell peppers, onions, jalapenos, and a whole @ssload of Tabasco sauce]) and a whole ice chest full of drinks. The party started just before noon and kept going until nine in the evening. We had an absolute blast.

- The best Halo campaign in the series, bar none.

- The unparalleled multiplayer maps.

- The breathtaking art design.

- The incredible story and cinematics.

- The (mostly) friendly community and competitive players. I'm going to miss talking shop and bragging about victories with the people I met on LIVE more than anything else.

Rest in peace, Halo 2. We've still got Vista and XBC, but there's no replacement for the raw experience of playing Halo 2 on Xbox LIVE.

[Edited on 04.18.2010 2:59 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2010 2:49 PM PDT

mine is tricking people who thought they could break glass on a mao but i shot them with a rocket.

  • 04.18.2010 2:52 PM PDT
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"Sir, finishing this fight."

*ROLL CREDITS*

Me blanking staring at the screen with my mouth gaping and the words "IS THAT IT?" repeating in my head, or was I saying it out loud? Meh.

On a more positive note, earning my 35 with my BTB clan, playing with my BTB clan, meeting old friends I still know, and my last game where I capped the final flag on Coagulation. It was my Se7en thousandth.

There's more of course but I'd be typing them out for ages.

  • 04.18.2010 2:57 PM PDT

How Bungie completely revolutionized online multiplayer with their matchmaking feature that some of the most popular games like the Call of Duty series have adopted. No longer did players have to sit in lobbies for long periods of time hoping that enough people would join to get a game going, or have to play somebody's lame game type, or have tons of lag, or play with players with unbalanced skill levels, or get kicked from a room for no reason. With Halo 2, players could quickly get into games, lag free, with players of similar skill.

  • 04.18.2010 4:30 PM PDT
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Getting kicked out of my Ghost by a Drone and thinking "How is that physically possible?!?"

While having a lan party, watching a teammate who had the flag get into a wharthog that was being driven by the other team and loling as it survived 7 wraith blasts. It had to be the most epic joyride ever.

Realizing that I was the only person in all of Halo fandom to think that the ending of Halo 2 was badass and epic.

[Edited on 04.18.2010 4:55 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2010 4:54 PM PDT
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The first kill I got. I remember it like yesterday, it was an SMG kill on Beaver Creek....Those were the days.

  • 04.18.2010 5:03 PM PDT

If I had a Rocket Launcher...

Shut up and get behind me... Sir!

The cable. I'm going to cut it.

Awesomeness would ensue.

Various LAN Parties.
Way too many to count.

I love ya, matchmaking, but you just can't match up to a good 8vs8 LAN party.

  • 04.18.2010 5:17 PM PDT

"I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour."
-Busby Berkley

RIP Halo 2

Playing with my friend on a massive game of TOP on Ascension.

  • 04.18.2010 5:22 PM PDT