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Subject: Why did you buy Halo 2?

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

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Halo 2. More than game to many, myself included. It's the pinnacle of my early youth and something that will forever hold a spot in heart. However, what drew me to buying the game.

When I was 10 (2004), the Xbox was getting popular and it was the talk of my 5th Grade class. I wanted one more than anything and I was saving my pay, being the paperboy I was.

The Christmas tips rolled in and my well earned cash was about to be spent on the Xbox Original. However, I had one issue.I need a game to play... But... What game should I buy.

My older brother, who at the time was 15 was obviously the first person I would turn to. I asked him what games he thinks I should buy. I mean, the Gamecube was fun, as was the PS2 but I had no idea what to expect from this new console. First person shooters weren't really popular then.

So I ask him "What game should I buy with my left over money?". His reply was "Well I know there's two really popular games now. There's Half-Life 2 and Halo 2. Now, knowing nothing about either game I was left with a choice. What to choose? After hearing that Halo 2 was "pretty fun" from big brother, I decided to buy it.

I don't think much else has to be said, because I'm still talking about the game. They nailed everything from the Story to the Music. Unfortunately I didn't get to play XBox LIVE as my family didn't have the money to afford it, and at that time the town hadn't heard much about online gaming. It wouldn't be until January of 2009 when I got online with Halo 3. (Which would explain why Halo 3 is my all time favorite multiplayer game, I didn't get the chance to play Halo 2 in its prime)

Why did you, Halo 2 Forum, why did YOU buy Halo 2? Did you own CE and want to play the installment, did you go out on a limb like I did, was it a gift for Christmas? Let us know!

  • 12.24.2011 11:53 PM PDT

I bought Halo 2 because I finished the previous game I bought, Halo CE.

  • 12.25.2011 12:00 AM PDT

It was a no brainer, it followed CE. The hype helped, what with the trailers and all but I would have bought it anyway. Heh, the only reason I bought a 360 was because of H2 and Live was taking off like a rocket. Damn, that was a fun time.

  • 12.25.2011 12:12 AM PDT

"Each event is proceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no event."-Zurin Arctus The Underking

I didn't. My brother did. Awesome choice.

  • 12.25.2011 12:16 AM PDT
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I bought Halo: CE and an Xbox because I played it at my uncle's house.

I bought Halo 2 because I loved CE.

I bought Halo 3 and an Xbox 360 because I loved Halo 2.

I bought ODST and Wars because I love Halo.

I bought Halo Reach because I loved all previous Halo games.

Can you guess why I'm getting Halo 4?

  • 12.25.2011 12:32 AM PDT

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I bought it when I bought my first Xbox. After selling it, and then later buying an Xbox 360, my friend gave it to for he no longer wanted possession for it.

  • 12.25.2011 8:03 AM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.

I bought Halo 2 because that was the only Halo I couldn't find and it took me 8 months of searching before finding it in June of 2011.

  • 12.25.2011 8:11 AM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

Because I had Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach and I saw it in Gamestation for a fiver

  • 12.25.2011 9:31 AM 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.

I loved playing Halo CE and once Halo 2 came out me and my friends chipped in money to buy it together.

  • 12.25.2011 10:58 AM PDT

My 3rd grade teacher brought his Xbox to school on the day of Halo 2's release. We played it in class and I fell in love with the game.

I bought an Xbox and Halo 2 later that year for my birthday.

If it wasn't for him, I probably would have never gotten into Halo or even making this post.

[Edited on 12.25.2011 12:08 PM PST]

  • 12.25.2011 12:03 PM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

i bought HALO 2 because it was the sequel to one of my favourite games at the time. till this day HALO 2 is still one of my top 5 games hands down no matter how better the graphics and engines improve nowdays.
i consider HALO 2 to be the pinnacle of the series, HALO 3 was good but no match for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
it's a shame Reach lacked decent multiplayer maps

now i'm praying everyday for a remake of HALO 2 - a proper remake: in house game engine for the campaign and multiplayer, not a damn map pack for another title.

how stupid where they to give Reach more maps when the game was already dying

Posted by: Sector Z 157
I don't think much else has to be said, because I'm still talking about the game. They nailed everything from the Story to the Music. Unfortunately I didn't get to play XBox LIVE as my family didn't have the money to afford it, and at that time the town hadn't heard much about online gaming.
i wish people who never experienced HALO 2 on XBOX Live will stop feeling bad about it, sure it was a great experience if you had a chance but i found local games equally fun even if the maximum players was 4. gives you alot of nice memories after the years to come
back then internet access wasn't as good as it is today so local games was the traditional way for it

[Edited on 12.25.2011 3:24 PM PST]

  • 12.25.2011 3:17 PM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

I completely understand the Local Games aspect of Halo 2. Being 10/11, I wasn't into gaming that much but I remember walking 15 minutes to my friend's house and we'd play some Halo 2 with his younger sister.

I laugh at this today, and it seems dumb but it was actually a lot of fun at the time. What we would do was take the Elite character model, previously knowing that different color's meant different ranks and we made our own list of ranks with their corresponding color patterns.

My friend and I were like the chairmen who would dictate whether or not his sister was "experienced enough" to rank up. We'd make her do certain tasks in the game like grenade jumping to a particular area, or killing us so many time while we hunted her. It was silly. As well, I remember that many of these "trials" were held on Headlong, another location where we would smack boxes to cover the entrances to our "Bases" (Becoming obsolete once Forge was introduced).

Experiences like these made Halo 2 what is it to me today.
Posted by: path1k
i wish people who never experienced HALO 2 on XBOX Live will stop feeling bad about it, sure it was a great experience if you had a chance but i found local games equally fun even if the maximum players was 4. gives you alot of nice memories after the years to come
back then internet access wasn't as good as it is today so local games was the traditional way for it

  • 12.25.2011 5:07 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Because it was Halo and it had XBL.

  • 12.26.2011 4:41 PM PDT

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I remember how I began my love of Halo.

It was 2001, I was 4 at the time. My dad's Playstation had broken and he went shopping for a new console. He heard that Xbox was by Microsoft, so he went for that. He purchased the console and was given Halo with it. But he didn't really care for that, he wanted Star Wars games. I remember how he argued furiously to trade Halo for a Star Wars game, but when the cashier continually refused, my dad was forced to buy the Star Wars game and come home with 2 games to play.

He didn't touch Halo for a month, and when he got bored of shooting stormtroopers, he finally picked up Halo. I remember starring at the screen in amazement as my dad shot those Grunts, Jackles and Elites. Once my dad finished the game, he wanted to play multiplayer and invited me to play. That's when I began to play Halo. I remember all the fun games I had. Slayer on Blood Gulch and Boarding Action, Oddball on Prisoner and Hang 'em High, King of the Hill on Battle Creek. It was so much fun.

When Halo 2 was released in 2004, I was 7. My dad was going to buy it at the midnight sale, I remember begging him for hours to go with him. He finally gave in. At midnight, we got the second copy of Halo 2 that store sold, and the first Special Edition of it they sold. I was the 3rd person I knew to hold that game cover. First was the cashier, then my dad, then me.

I never played Halo and Halo 2's campaign myself until I was 11, I used to wait for my dad to finish it and then I would play on his saved game so I had all the levels. But I remember the fun I had on that game's multiplayer. We couldn't afford Xbox Live at the time, but you know you're playing a good game when you're having so much fun playing on a quarter of your TV screen. The awesome games I played. Capture the Flag on Headlong, Slayer on Ivory Tower, Rockets on Colossus, Assault on Zanzibar, I loved it! But I especially loved Headlong. The way that destroyed city looked had me playing in awe. I was always either in the Banshee or the Gauss Turret. I loved having the vantage points.

Then Halo 3 was released, I was 10. I still didn't have online play, but I remember not having as much fun on Halo 3 as I did on Halo 1 and 2. I don't know why, but that changed. On January 21st, 2009 I got Xbox Live. I played Call of Duty 2 first, it was the only game I could think of playing. But halfway through my 3rd game on COD 2 I thought "HALO 3!". I threw it in the disc tray and began shooting the absolute hell out of everyone. My first game was on Narrows, and I'll always remember that game.

I was so upset when Halo 2's online was shut down. I had gotten rid of Halo 2 before I got Xbox Live, so I never got to play it online. I met a friend last year who had Halo 2 PC, and I instantly asked to borrow it. He refused, so I insisted on playing it at his house. He agreed, and I jumped into online play. Finally, after 6 years, I got to have my game of Halo 2 online. It was Big Team Battle on Coagulation, and I did so well! It was like my skill was building up inside over 6 years and it finally burst out. But I still couldn't find any online games on Headlong. But I got to have that when I bought Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, and played Big Team Battle on Headlong Anniversary. I know, it wasn't Halo 2, but it was close enough. I was so happy to have finally played my favourite Halo map of all time online!

Halo has earned it's possition in my heart, and it will never leave. I know for a fact, that one day, I will get to relive the time I missed out on during Halo 2's prime. I'm not sure how I'll do it, but I will.

  • 12.26.2011 6:30 PM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

HALO 2 Anniversary, that's how

  • 12.26.2011 7:10 PM PDT

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HALO 2 Anniversary, that's how

You changed your avatar. I prefered the Arbiter.

  • 12.28.2011 4:18 PM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

scroll to the top and look at the second member who posted

  • 12.28.2011 6:56 PM PDT


Posted by: AcidThe Wraith
I bought Halo: CE and an Xbox because I played it at my uncle's house.

I bought Halo 2 because I loved CE.

I bought Halo 3 and an Xbox 360 because I loved Halo 2.

I bought ODST and Wars because I love Halo.

I bought Halo Reach because I loved all previous Halo games.

Can you guess why I'm getting Halo 4?

Hmm...no, no please...don't tell me... xD

Is it because you enjoyed Halo: Reach and all the previous Halo games? I can haz cookie?

  • 12.28.2011 8:00 PM PDT

love war games always did halo2 is so awesome!!:}no matter if it is my other fav game red dead halo2 will always have a spiecial place in my heart!!SO PLAY ON HALO LOVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! -dangerdude

i didnt by it:c my dad was maybe wasin hes 20s and he byd the xbox and w/ it came halo2 then i waz 5 when he gav me it resulting i bcame n LOVE w/ it!!!

  • 12.29.2011 7:25 PM PDT

I never bought halo 1 i went to my friends house to abuse the ability to play it though! A LOT might i add

The only reason i got an xbox was to play halo 2. And the only reason i talked my grandparents into getting high speed was so i could play Xbox Live.

Halo 3 was the only reason I owned a Xbox 360(which i sold).


If they did make halo 2 once again and it was a release for the 360 or the Microsoft future console then I would buy up the console just to play the game because i am in love with it. END OF STORY.

  • 01.05.2012 10:58 AM PDT

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Losing internet 9/7/2012 until i don't know when. See you starside folks.


Fada beo Halo 2!

I bought it because a liked Halo. It's really not that hard to do either. :)

  • 01.05.2012 12:54 PM PDT
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I would love to say:

"To continue the story. I had hoped it was everything it seemed to be due to my high expectations from Combat Evolved."

Truth is that it wasn't like that at all. It was more like this:

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  • 01.05.2012 1:18 PM PDT


Posted by: Dr Syx
I would love to say:

"To continue the story. I had hoped it was everything it seemed to be due to my high expectations from Combat Evolved."

Truth is that it wasn't like that at all. It was more like this:

"zOMG U CAN HAZ ELIT3 IN MULTIPLAYERz!!!" - Dr Syx with an 11 year old's brain
Lol, <3 to Dr Syx

  • 01.05.2012 1:26 PM PDT

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"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

It followed Halo CE so I HADDDD to get it. Actually I waited until midnight release to get to a gamestop with my brothers and buy it. We skipped the next day of school playing it all day and my mom was cool with it.

I believe she called in sick for us. That was way back in high school. Good times.

  • 01.05.2012 3:10 PM PDT

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