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Subject: Halo and you?

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Halo and you: tell us your story.

When I got my hands on Halo: Combat Evolved, after some time I had weekly LAN parties at my house, just two xboxes with 8 friends, sometimes at a friends house. It was so much fun, it soon became a weekly tradition, and they almost always went till the next day. It was the reason I eagerly waited for friday,the reason I dident care about school work, something to look foward to. Then came the Halo 2 announcment, and so the LANs contiuned, all wile counting down the days till Halo 2 release. When that day finaly came, I excitely poped the CD in, and started up single player, trying to slowly pace through the game, to beat it over a period of two weeks. That friday, I had my first Halo 2 LAN party, it was a blast, sadly, it was my last Halo 2 LAN party.

After that, most of my friends just got bored of Halo, I dont know why, but when the time came to set up the second LAN for Halo 2, they just stoped. So myself and two other friends moved on to the next best thing, Xbox Live. I played countless hours with my two friends, and random people online, and made some pretty good online buddies. Then after about a year (before the stat reset) my friends just stoped playing, so it was me alone, still playing Halo 2 for about a year. Then came the 360, I droped Halo for a bit to try out new games, then a few months later I went back to Halo 2. It was a mess, I sucked with the new controller, my clan was departed, my online buddies had finished with XBL, but I continued on for about a month, then I just stoped. Maybe it was just getting fed up with the cheaters, the jerks, the few gameplay flaws, or annoyinces, but I just stoped. I moved on to other games, mainly oblivion, but I still dident game as much as I did with Halo 2.

Then some of my other friends, called up and asked if I had a system link cable so they could try out counter strike on xbox with two players. Of course after all those years of LAN, I had a cable ready for use. I told them to come over and we could set it all up. We got all set up but the 360 couldent run counter strike, so I offered to put in some Halo 2, so we did, and played a little of 2 on 2, across the xbox and 360. Then for old times sake, I proposed some Halo: Combat Evolved, we poped it in and Had a blast, it lasted almost all day. When everyone had to leave, after having a great time, I offered to do it agian sometime soon. We started school in a week or so, and on the first day, I told them we should have another little LAN that friday. On that friday (last friday) they confirmed, as always the last moment, so we went to my house to set up for the LAN, and was supposed to be a small little LAN, evolved to an all day thing, complete with crappy pizza and a Tijuana Mama eating. We went back to Halo 2 for a single game, and then decided agiants it, and back to Halo: Combat Evolved.

So, the first friday of the new school year, I got together with some friends, new to the whole LAN scene, plus an oldie form the previous years of my LAN traditions, for another party, and we had an absoulte blast. I am currently planning for another LAN next friday, hopefully with some more people, new and old to the carnage and fun, along with nasty pizza and soda, that is my LAN parties, my tradition.

Yeah, its long, but I'm am kinda bored, and just wanted to sum up pretty much every thing that resulted for me falling in love with Halo. I am glad it happened.

[Edited on 9/3/2006]

  • 09.03.2006 12:10 AM PDT

Me and my mates would have Xbox LAN(2 Xboxes) every month or so. We had one or two LANs with halo 2 but then our group broke up and we haven't had one since.

Not as long as yours but that’s mostly what happened.

The last LAN we had was When one of the guys was leaving to go to the UK.

  • 09.03.2006 2:15 AM PDT
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If you invite me to your group you will be blocked.

I don't have LANs often, so I usually play campain or maybe a 3-4 player free for all, But when I do get and LAN party going, it's one of those awsome times when there are a couple close scoring guys that blow the rest away (sometimes I manage to win, others I lose horribly).

My first LAN party started ok, it was actually held during a party at my church, we had close to 250 people there. We did some CTF, slayer, SWAT, KotH, Oddball and the like.
But the most memorable fight wasa 16 player free-for-all in Coagulation (where else). It was one of those games where amazing things happen one after the other to make an awsome game, it was the first time I got a killtacular with the sniper, I took out two tanks by myself, one after the other, managed to beat down a warthog (it's possible), got 15 kills in a row 'til some prick got the rockets, and stuck 4 vehicles in one life (each gave me a double kill).

The worst part was I got second place by 1 point. We played 'til 200, it was 199 to 199 and I found the guy who was tied with me. I popped off a couple shots with my BR, brought his sheilds down to nothing while he peppered me with his SMG, then whipped out his pistol and finished the job. He died too, but after me. I was in awe.

  • 09.03.2006 7:30 AM PDT