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Subject: So, how did you stumble upon Halo?
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How did you first get it, how and why? were you planning it? etc

I got an xbox for Christmas of 2001. About a month later, I wanted to buy myself some more games at Toys R Us, I saw many games, but nothing of compelling interest. Until I saw this one with a big green guy holding a large automatic weapon at my face, a jeep and alienesque vehicles in the backround, and what seems to be a "superstructure", even though I had no idea it was part of the land. On the front was stamped "Halo: Combat Evolved" in fancy font, so i was like meh, this looks cool. I thought it would just be another average game.

So, I popped it into the Xbox and I was like wow, how is a game like this even possible? I've been hooked since then. And to think I got the game entirely by luck.

What's your story?

  • 01.15.2007 3:34 PM PDT

Sighness

Indubidubly. Banana.

I was Peer-Pressured. >_>.

  • 01.15.2007 3:40 PM PDT
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So, how did you stumble upon Halo?

My dad bought it when I was 8-years-old.

  • 01.15.2007 4:33 PM PDT
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First played it at a friends LAN party. I bought an Xbox and both Halos the next week.

  • 01.15.2007 4:50 PM PDT

Got it for X-Mas 2001 or 2002. Can't remember. Have never stopped playing it, even when everyone else around me got bored of it.

  • 01.16.2007 9:40 AM PDT
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In all irony, despite my opinions regarding Halo > Halo 2, Halo 2 was the first game I played in the summer of 2005. I went away for a summer retreat and when I came back to my brother's apartment, he bought an Xbox along with a copy of Halo 2. I played it and fell in love.

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  • 01.16.2007 12:11 PM PDT

Die for the Pie
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Megan Fox is a whore.

Gigolo.

I didnt nkow about it until i got a demo. then i saw it in the shops and bought it

  • 01.16.2007 5:18 PM PDT

I can't believe this, but I learned about Halo, a game everyone was talking about, 2 years after it launched. I was at somebody's house and one person said "Play Halo (PC version)." They played it, but I wasn't stunned. One year later, I was thinking about getting my first console, yes FIRST console. It turned out to be an Xbox because people around me said it had good graphics (I first thought graphics were the most important part of a game) and this amazing game called Halo. I didn't get Halo when I got my Xbox, so I had to wait a few more months. Halo 2 arrived, so I played that first and beat it. It was awesome! It was finally my time to play Halo 1, and I've been a Halo fan ever since.

  • 01.16.2007 6:45 PM PDT
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Upon purchasing my Xbox in early 2004, I rented it out. Thought it was pretty good, but for some reason, I didn't end up buying it until late 2004/early 2005, after getting Halo 2. Now I appreciate it for all its magnificence......

  • 01.16.2007 6:49 PM PDT

because if seeing is believing,
then believe that we have lost our eyes

I went over to a friends house and him,his brother,his brother's friend, and my other friend had the best system link multiplayer games ever. I went and bought an xbox 2 days later and laned it up almost every friday night after that.

  • 01.16.2007 9:22 PM PDT
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played over mates house. was like wow. at the time i was a core ps2 fan. i bought me an xbox cos of halo. and hav been a die hard xboxer since.

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  • 01.18.2007 12:16 PM PDT

OMG

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Got it for X-Mas 2001 or 2002. Can't remember. Have never stopped playing it, even when everyone else around me got bored of it.


people got bored of it ???

is there something wrong woth them i still love halo
campaign in one was way better than halo 2, but i still love halo 2 campaign thow

now back to them matter at hand...how did i get i descover halo....well way back when the sony's playstation 2 was raining supreme and i was totally put off by the xbrick because it was hugh. Luckly for me one of my friends brother decided to take a risk and buy it. Well he got to play on it for like a day then ever day when he got home from work me and his brother (my firend) had already booted it up and wouldnt leave for hours. It was the only game i played for like a year and only halo 2 reduced the time i spent on it.

so thats my story on how i got in to halo.
cant wait till halo 3

  • 01.19.2007 4:37 PM PDT

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Bought PC first, then xbox in 2001. Relatively close to each other time wise. Just a game I picked up because it looked fun, and got hooked.

  • 01.19.2007 7:28 PM PDT
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To play or not to play....

I purchased an XBox on the release date. I was offered a game and controller at discounted prices as part of a deal. At the time there were only three games on the shelf for the XBox. I purchased two of them. One being Halo which I think I got for half price or something as part of the deal and the other was Blood Wake. Blood Wake was alright but it sooned turned into Blood Waste and dissappeared from my shelves.

The reason I purchased Halo was simple. It was one of only three games on the shelf at the time. As I liked first person shooter games Halo was the ONLY choice at the time.

So, in short, the first game I purchased turned out to be the best one I have purchased for the XBox :). Though there are other good games such as Doom 2, Rainbow 6 and Morrowind. Halo CE is by far the most played game I have. I played it so much that when I broke the CD and then purchased a new copy the next day :p .



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  • 01.19.2007 8:39 PM PDT
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I stepped into WalMart and there she was....

  • 01.20.2007 10:11 AM PDT
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I was a nintendo kid, 64 then the cube. Untill the year 2005, when I realized I wanted to shoot people, and therfore bought the box. I got Halo 2 , and bought Halo cause it was only 15 bucks. Me and my bro played through the H1 campaign first, we were noobs, but it was amazing. Then I played through the H2 campain, I was still a noob. Then I found out about xbox live, and me and my friends played it online, and I started getting good at the game.

I played through h2 campaign once on normal, and h1 campain about 9 times, 1 easy, 1 normal, 3 heroic, 4 legendary. H2 campaign on legendary, or any other difficulty was kinda lame. Now after a brief stint with Gow, im back on live with h2 and starting to play xbconnect with h1.

  • 01.20.2007 11:37 AM PDT
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It was back in the days of the Console Wars, ancient history for some. I was just a lad and took a venture to the shop to purchase me some new pantaloons, when I realized that for 400 smackers, I could be wearing new pantaloons, and get me a new game box. I read up on the Microsoft Xbox, PlayStation 2, and the Nintendo GameCube, but the only one which really peaked my interest was the good ol' Xbox. So I walk round' the corner and see a vendor named WalMart. So I says "Oy, listen up, mate I got $400, that's 400,000 pennies, and I be lookin' to get me an Xbox! You shall sell me one or I shall slay thee and milk thy goats and take thy mother as a trophy-wife!" So, the employee stares at me for about fifty minutes and says "What the hell is wrong with you?" I got security called on me and was escorted out of the store. So, I went to the same WalMart later on, got an Xbox and then had enough to get a game. I was looking hard on BloodWake, the game with the boats and all that exciting stuff, but something took my glance onto Halo. I had no clue what this "Halo" was, why I wanted it, or who made it... but something told me to get it. So, I popped it in and it said "Bungie" and I was like "Oh, it's good then..." but then... I was blown away. This story was much, much too detailed and made up. But basically I randomly chose Halo over Bloodwake the day I bought my Xbox and then I was happy ever since. Every year when it gets around the time I got Halo, I get a craving to play it soooo bad. Actually I get that feeling a lot. Oh wells, love Halo!

  • 01.20.2007 2:25 PM PDT

-Sic transit gloria mundi

When I first heard that Microsoft coming out with a video game console, I decided I had to get it, fast forward to June '02 and I was at a halo tournament for a free xbox following a microsoft conference. I didn't win but the next day I bought an xbox at Circuit City and Halo was the game I got with it. Even the girl at the checkout stand praised it.

  • 01.20.2007 9:51 PM PDT
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Played a lan party at my friends house. First time rode in the warthog I was hooked.

  • 01.21.2007 8:44 PM PDT

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My friend got his Xbox a few months after release and he got Halo bundled with it. at this point I was thinking to myself "well done, you've bought yourself a horribly overpriced games console the size of a fridge." He asked me to come over and play it and I really wasn't expecting much. We went through the first few levels of the campaign and I was turned. I absolutely loved it!

It was my birthday a few months after and with my birthday money, went out to town, bought an Xbox, Halo and a pair of controllers. I played the game to death for ages!

  • 01.22.2007 7:36 AM PDT
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As we fled the Covenant assault on Reach in "The Pillar of Autumn," we followed the Cole Protocol to a "T." However, the randomized jump vectors landed us near a large ring-like sattelite revolving around a gas-giant planet. Once the Covenant started boarding the ship, I fled in a Bumblebee lifepod, and landed on the ring.

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  • 01.22.2007 7:43 AM PDT

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