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Subject: My God... I Miss This Game

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Looking back at the fun times I had on this game makes me want to cry. Don't get me wrong, I love Halo Reach, but it still can't touch Halo 2.

The maps on this game were unbelievable. The gameplay was perfect. Everything...

They just HAD to shut down the servers back in April. I wish I could go back to Halo 2 right now... I guess its too late to wish.

  • 10.11.2010 6:42 PM PDT

Major C.B.

Posted by: True Blue754
Looking back at the fun times I had on this game makes me want to cry. Don't get me wrong, I love Halo Reach, but it still can't touch Halo 2.

The maps on this game were unbelievable. The gameplay was perfect. Everything...

They just HAD to shut down the servers back in April. I wish I could go back to Halo 2 right now... I guess its too late to wish.


You don't know what you had til it's gone. But the outcry for more Halo 2 is, I'd say, very visible among the Xbox community. I have a feeling it'll be back. Look at DOOM. Look at Goldeneye. Sure, times were different.... But good games always have ways of coming back in one way or another.

  • 10.11.2010 10:28 PM PDT

They should make a Xbox live Arcade game thats just Halo 2 multiplayer.


[Edited on 10.11.2010 10:43 PM PDT]

  • 10.11.2010 10:42 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Get the PC port. It's on disc, you can use controller, and it's $20.

  • 10.12.2010 6:04 AM PDT
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They should make a Xbox live Arcade game thats just Halo 2 multiplayer.

I'd rather have it on a disc due to my strong distaste of buying games that I can only download and not have a physical copy, I'd still buy it either way though.

OP, you can still play Halo 2 online; Google Xlink Kai, or Xbox Connect. It's not the same as XBL but it's better than nothing.


Yeah, XBC is lacking in people/servers, but I still think its awesome. Its better than nothing.

Also, the PC port isn't the greatest thing in the world, but I do play it and I don't think its anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. They were LAZY when making it, but it still has the same game play in my opinion.

[Edited on 10.12.2010 7:40 AM PDT]

  • 10.12.2010 7:38 AM PDT

Just get the PC version, its less than $20 now and you can get a GTX 430 for $75 and it will run everything on MAX

  • 10.12.2010 9:52 AM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Can someone explain to me why we can just make one giant thread about this issue...

I mean everyone in existence is missing H2 right? Ok maybe not everyone i.e. those heartless peeps at Micro. lol JK if you bring H2 back soon, not JK if H2 is brought back never or in a different form that is bad!

Also peeps that dont play video games, But I know for sure a large chunk of the Halo community is missing H2 and so we should be able to make a giant thread on this I think? Right?

  • 10.13.2010 12:15 AM PDT

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BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Halo 2 Vista.

  • 10.13.2010 8:57 AM PDT

"I'll tell you right now, if you ever see someone called ll wa1do ll... leave the game immediately. My friend knows him, I've been in his party a few times, do not mess with this guy. From what I've heard, he's the real deal. I also heard someone made a guy named Wa2do (similar to his name) and then he hacked that guy and boosted off his level." -From Minou on Bungie.net

Agreed, I think anyone that ever played Halo 2 online was angry that it got taken down. We do not need thread after thread of the same thing.
Posted by: totallymassive
Can someone explain to me why we can just make one giant thread about this issue...

I mean everyone in existence is missing H2 right? Ok maybe not everyone i.e. those heartless peeps at Micro. lol JK if you bring H2 back soon, not JK if H2 is brought back never or in a different form that is bad!

Also peeps that dont play video games, But I know for sure a large chunk of the Halo community is missing H2 and so we should be able to make a giant thread on this I think? Right?

  • 10.13.2010 9:56 AM PDT
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"Always my pleasure to be lazy." - InvasionImminent

Yeah, I think we all have to come to the realization that Halo 2 had its time and like all things has to end. We can make due with playing on Vista or XBC/Other programs like that, but, sadly enough, we'll never have the original Halo 2 LIVE back.

  • 10.13.2010 10:03 AM PDT

What you've just said was one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard...At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought...I award you no points. And may God have mercy on your soul.


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Posted by: True Blue754
Looking back at the fun times I had on this game makes me want to cry. Don't get me wrong, I love Halo Reach, but it still can't touch Halo 2.

The maps on this game were unbelievable. The gameplay was perfect. Everything...

They just HAD to shut down the servers back in April. I wish I could go back to Halo 2 right now... I guess its too late to wish.


You don't know what you had til it's gone.


This. When they were gonna shut down the original XBL servers I was too busy with some other game to care, I was like "Meh. Haven't played it in years, I don't care..." Then...I read it on Bungie.net "Halo 2 is officially dead." I then cried because I didn't realize how much I missed it...This game made 3 years of my life...3 YEARS...Of amazing friends, an awesome community, fun conversations and gameplay...Halo 2 was the only xbox live game I never raged at because I always had fun with it...It's just so hard to believe it's gone...I use XLink Kai now...But...It'll never replace the original xbox live...Plus everyone who plays XLink Kai is from Latin -blam!- America!

Either way I still miss this game and it hurts like hell that I'll never relive the fun I had back then...

  • 10.15.2010 8:42 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Miss is an understatment!

  • 11.14.2010 4:37 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.


Posted by: totallymassive
Miss is an understatment!


Agreed my friend.

  • 11.14.2010 4:49 PM PDT

I remember the first time I learned that it was going to be online enabled, and thinking "oh, that should be fun." I must say, nothing will ever match a good match of slayer on Burial Mounds or Coagulation. And the people, oh dear, what a great bunch of folks. Hell, I even miss the moders.

  • 11.14.2010 5:11 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Yeah, it being online enabled was the only reason I went on XBL... Sad day when it came off for me and I also miss the modders lol (I actually played some pretty good matches with them in custom matches).
Posted by: slyblackjack
I remember the first time I learned that it was going to be online enabled, and thinking "oh, that should be fun." I must say, nothing will ever match a good match of slayer on Burial Mounds or Coagulation. And the people, oh dear, what a great bunch of folks. Hell, I even miss the moders.

  • 11.15.2010 7:53 PM PDT

This game not being on xbox live is so disappointing. While the game was in its prime, I pretty much only played MLG Customs or Team Hardcore but now I miss the "bad" maps. If Halo 2 came back for 1 day but you could only play on Gemini and Colossus I would still be satisfied.

  • 11.16.2010 3:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).


Posted by: NeviK
This game not being on xbox live is so disappointing. While the game was in its prime, I pretty much only played MLG Customs or Team Hardcore but now I miss the "bad" maps. If Halo 2 came back for 1 day but you could only play on Gemini and Colossus I would still be satisfied.

The only map I didn't like was Foundation, and only because of the rockets.

  • 11.16.2010 11:58 PM PDT

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I too have found myself longing for the days of Halo 2, I only came in towards the end of it's prime, but that was the most memorable year of gaming I've yet had. On days when Reach nothing but a major pain, and Halo 3 is the same or only marginally better, I wish for another Halo to get games on Live. Heck some days I just want to play some Halo 2, on real Halo 2 maps.

  • 11.17.2010 1:36 AM PDT