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Subject: First time you played halo
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The first time i played i was staying the night at my 26 year old uncles house (we were close and i was young and imressionable) he was a gamer (doom, unreal and quake mostly) and he got me into games. Anyway, i was at his apartment about 2 months after halo was released and i had never heard of xbox nor had i heard of halo, i walk into his house and he promptly tells me to sit my ass down and hold on. So i sit on the most comfortable couch in the world, there is a half eaten box of pizza on my left and a 2 litre of mountain dew in front of me. He turns on his 42" plasma tv, 1000 watt surround sound and kills the lights, he says enjoy and goes to bed. Im sitting there thinking what the hell is this? So the microsft screen pops up and after that HALO i hear the music and it instantly grabs my attention. So i create a quick profile and start the game, the first thing i see is a spaceship and the darkness of space. I was instantly hooked because i am a huge space and scifi nut so naturally it grabbed my attention. I -blam!- you not i sat from 8 oclock that night until the following morning until he woke up around 10 playing campaign, i had the game beaten before he did and i wanted more, we continued to play campaign until the next day until about 8 oclock before i went home.

We played campaign for nearly a year and a half, until sadly he died and never got to see halo 2. I think about him every time i play halo or seen an image of halo. Because of my uncle i have read all 3 books, in 1 week where as i would never have read a book before that fast. Now 5 almost six years later halo has been the biggest part of my life, i have seen the chief pushing kids off of a hill grow up to standing at the edge of the end of the universe. Its been a long and perilous journey, and it will be sad to see this story arc come to an end.

  • 12.08.2006 2:22 AM PDT
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And it's your connection that's slower than turtle sex.

In........................................................Out .

I remember when I first played Halo, I had this special feeling, like no other, it was hard to describe, It was like bliss mixed with curiousity mixed with fun. I went level through level, loving every bit of it, until 343 guilty spark, which I actually thought the marines were doing one hell of a job, Until I got to the crazy marine, where I thought the Covies were kidnapping marines and somehow mutating them into Covenant...



When I saw the flood, I was horrified, until I got to the combat forms, which then I confirmed my self made theory, which ended when I saw the combat forms attack the Covenant, where I just thought the guys were just evil lil' blobs that like turning stuff into Zombies.



When I got to the Human combat forms, I wasn't really that scared, I just mowed them down, until I found the marines, where I was relieved, and watched in horror as my marines slowly got owned by the flood, that's when the Moniter showed up and the Library began...



When I regained control of the MC, I was thinking: "Wtf", and spent hours on end mowing down Flood, annoyed to almost insanity by the Moniter's annoyingness.



When Two Betrayals came, it was a super fun rollercoaster of emotions changing with the music, Where I tried to rescue captain Keyes, but failed, and when I heard "The captain, He's one of them!" I knew that I was easily screwed, after the cutscene, I fought like hell to get off the ship, to where the PoA lay, the immediate moment I saw it, I knew it was the final fight.



As I grimly navigated through the fallen ship, mowing down whatever I saw, I flashed back to all the feelings this game brought, and smiled, When I made the engine go critical, and ran for the Warthog, I knew that this next part was going to be easily the most concentration-taxing part of them all...



Gradually, I drove my way through the tunnels, when I finally got to Foehammer, and watched, and then felt my spirits drop as two Banshees followed her, and shot her down, I felt a moment of sadness, and drove off.



I navigated through the tunnels, desperately scrambling for the Longsword fighter at the end, the moment I saw the huge thing, I knew that it was about to end, I got out, sprinted like hell for the ship, with all hell breaking loose around me, made it in just in time, and felt the tension as the Masterchief made his way for the controls, and made it out just in time, I then felt a calmness, it was over, I had proved worthy over an enormous amount of foes, I had beaten Halo.



Then, as it was Halo PC, I pressed multiplayer, and prepared for a whole new challenge, a challenge that will tax every last bit of skill Halo gave me.



The fight goes on...

[Edited on 12/8/2006]

  • 12.08.2006 3:29 AM PDT
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That is pretty much the same way i felt, during the game you feel a sense of hopelisness in some areas. And every time you find your way out, there are a few parts that get annoying and your like, how the hell am i going to do that? But you find a way, you always do.

  • 12.08.2006 12:37 PM PDT
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Wha the first time I played Halo? There's already a thread about this. Sorry to hear about your uncle dying like that he must've been real cool. But the first time I played was on Sidewinder regular Slayer for some reason. My friend set it up to 50 kills and it took like two hours but it was fun.

  • 12.08.2006 8:01 PM PDT
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Played Halo for the first time during summer of 2002 with my best friend. Fell in love...with the game. I was 20. Great times....

  • 12.09.2006 10:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: scruss
That is pretty much the same way i felt, during the game you feel a sense of hopelisness in some areas. And every time you find your way out, there are a few parts that get annoying and your like, how the hell am i going to do that? But you find a way, you always do.


exactly :)

  • 12.09.2006 5:26 PM PDT
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When i play C.E i think of my brother. We played this game when we were kids, and did stuff together, and i remember playing the library level with him, we were both scared of the flood(which we named PuffaPods)), now everytime i play it it feels so empty without him. Sadly now he is in the army and never see him, and wehn i do, we never speak

  • 12.10.2006 3:14 PM PDT
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The first time I played halo CE was at wal mart or somthing. It was shortly after the xbox came out and i absolutly hated the game...lol. I think mostly because i really....really hated the huge controller. About a year later or somthing the controller s came out and i starting playing it at my friends house.I got hooked and got a xbox just to play halo.

  • 12.11.2006 2:11 AM PDT
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first time i played.

on a HD projector and MASSIVE 400000000000000000 WATTS SURROUND SOUND.

when i played it, i was hooked for all eternity.


still am

the fight goes on!

  • 12.11.2006 6:53 AM PDT