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A 3 Legged Goat
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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]