Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
I started playing Halo, back in 2003 (I was 9) when I went on vacation back to the US to visit my brother and father. I got a Gamecube as present with Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros Melee. During that, my brother had the Xbox, and he made me play a game called Halo.
We played Co-Op on Legendary straight off. As you can imagine, I got annihilated the first couple of times, but then I started getting really good fast. Then I kept on playing Heroic by myself, and when I reached the Flood, I was so scared off them, I couldint keep on playing and stopped there.
Almost a year later, my brother moved with me to Spain, and I managed to finish Halo CE. I was still terrorized of Two Betrayals, but managed to push on through and complete the game. Soon after, I bought my own Xbox along with Halo CE, Halo 2 and Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack Disk. Beat Halo 2, and started playing system link with my brother on Halo 2. I had never played a games campaign so many times
After that, years later, I moved to the US in December '07, and got an Xbox 360 for xmas, and with the money I got, I bought Halo 3 Limited Edition. It seemed that from playing so much Halo CE and Halo 2 campaign, multiplayer was really easy for me.
Later on Halo 3 ODST came out, and I was extremly pumped since we got to play as ODST's (My favorite fictional characters at the moment) and because of Firefight. I ended up reserving the game, and had to take the bus, and spent 14 euros alone on the bus ride to the north and back home. I got home, popped that -blam!- in played straight on Legendary. I got Endure the next day with some friends, it was pretty easy for us. I absolutely loved ODST, since it felt so much like CE and the music and atmosphere created was amazing. I always wanted a Halo game set in a city, and Bungie had delivered. ODST is currently my second favorite Halo game of all time.
Then came Halo Reach. I was unbelievably pumped for it thanks to the VGA trailer and since the game was going to take place on Reach. The VGA trailer was amazing and the later GI article was even better. I was on the Reach Forum pulling all nighters, arguing and discussing all the aspects of the trailer and article. I was part of those who defended that Noble Team were Spartan III's, which later turned out to be true. I was so happy we were able to play as SIII's (Currently my favorite fictional character). I wasent able to afford the game when it came out, so one of my best friends that lived in California did me the huge favor of reserving the game, and sending it over to Spain the day it came out as a gift. The day I got it, like a week later, I skipped school and played through the whole campaign with my brother, my friend from California and his brother. Later we played nothing but Invasion, since it was my friend and my favorite playlist. We dominated on Reach. I customized my armor to look like Carter, and my friend like Kat. The gameplay was solid, and I loved the multiplayer, but the campaign was a bitter dissapoinment for me. But it was my own fault, I hyped the game way to much. Then came the sad day when my mother and me couldint afford internet at my house anymore and I had to put down Xbox Live back in Feburary. To this day I still dont have internet and my xbox live ran out in March. Hopefully soon I can get it back just in time for Halo CEA.
Well, there's my story, I know it's long and stuff, but take notice I did not put in a lot of things, including Halo Wars and the Novels and that last week of Halo 2. Playing Halo 2 online that last week was the best games I had ever played in a Halo game. I miss it so much, and especially the maps. Most of my all time favorites are on Halo 2.
Halo for me has defined my gaming lifetime and is part of my childhood that I will always look back on and smile, and has grown onto me more than you would expect, and not for it simply being a game, but for the story it represents, I have great respect for Bungie.. For me, Halo is the ultimate gaming experience. I have been seriously thinking about getting the noble team emblem as a tattoo on my back left shoulder to represent my love and what Halo has meant for me. I might get it when I turn 18 in December.
[Edited on 10.02.2011 7:09 AM PDT]