What was the first halo title you played, what were your first thoughts, and what made you want to play the rest?
When i got my first xbox(original big green slab of a console),
I had 4 games with it; halo CE, Darkwatch, The Suffering, and Conkers Bad Fur Day: Live And Reloaded.
So I started out playing Halo CE(it had the coolest cover out of the 4), I thought it was DUMB, I was running around shooting aliens.
On a side not i had played a lot of shooters on P.C, PS2 , and NGC at the time.
I wasnt really understanding much of the story at the time, nor was my brother(we were playing splitscreen).
From the way i saw it, i was a weird robo-cop rip off of a cyborg(grunts called master chief that in the origional),
crash landing on a giant hoola hoop in the middle of space orbiting some random planet no one cares about.
The hunters and cloaked elites on “Truth And Reconciliation” were pretty cool to keep me playing, but I felt
at the time the whole 2nd level on the halo ring after landing in the pod was taking forever, I felt really bored running around that second level,
it was a nice touch to drive a warthog there, but I had been playing GTA at the time and figured if im gonna be driving around in
a car in a shooter environment it might as well be GTA. Fortunately the magic of splitscreen gaming helped pass the time through
this still boring level as I still hate playing it in anniversary.
So after about 5 levels later i was about ready to play something else(Friend brought over DOOM 3),
and then I was introduced to the freaking Flood.
Im a zombie fanatic from the start, always was from age 5 to today,
I was playing resident evil and doom as soon as i got my hands on it, and i still play them.
Being introduced to these swarms of undead alien parasite zombies that were the flood, completely changed the style of gameplay,
and completely caught me off guard, of which i still go back to halo for the Flood.
The only campaign titles i continue to play in the halo series admittedly are Reach and ODST(4 and 5 weren’t very appealing to me) as far as non zombie titles go.
Thus when i finished the game i was impressed with what i had beaten, a little pissed off at how i wasn’t allowed to wield the fuel rod cannons
(Bungie was a -Yoink- for that, they obviously meant for such a reaction, a toy the player wants but cant have)but nonetheless i continued playing
even after I beat it, I beat it on all difficulties, and soon found out a halo 2 existed O.O and quickly got myself a copy, and to my enjoyment they had
picked up where the story had left, given master chief more personality, along with brilliant eye candy, and even better WEAPONS and the FLOOD.
And it was this game genre of SCI-FI and horror combined that moved me towards games such as dead space.
Halo influenced the games i bought for xbox in the future, and made me excited to hear a 3rd title was being released for 360 at the time.
So over all, hated halo for a bit, loved it after the zombies, still continue to play it today, currently i play custom edition on PC,
343 is pathetic not to pick up on a title like what was done with custom editions setup, and with SPV3 coming along, the game is even more amazing.
Hope the same is done with halo 2 eventually, love the flood campaign and other content the modding community has put together.
