“When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?”
so in this topic you can describe your first reactions to Halo by answering on the question above and/or writing something else about your first time with Halo.
Before I go and say something stupid: Are we talking about the fictional death hula-hoops or the franchise as a whole?
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> Before I go and say something stupid: Are we talking about the fictional death hula-hoops or the franchise as a whole?
the franchise but sure if you want to you can add a reaction to the hula-hoop of death too at the end.
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Ah. Thanks for the clarification.
Now, as for my actual reaction… before I had played any of the games, I just saw it as “big green Master Chief guy shoots aliens”. It was more or less the general attitude I had towards shooters at the time.
However, after actually getting into the franchise… I don’t know how to describe it, but it was something of a realization to me. It was just… there’s more to Halo than being a shooter, and it really pulled me into the series.
Paralysed and dumbstruck. XD
I only really got into Halo about 5 years ago believe it or not. My first game was ODST. Overall I liked the atmosphere, the music and the story. Seeing as I had played some shooters before such as star wars battlefront, I knew Halo was a fps. However I kept playing Halo. I pushed aside CoD completely, so all my gaming mainly goes in to Halo, mainly collecting the achievements.
My first encounter was in an shop were you could test it and I hate it,as there was no explanation how to play.
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> My first encounter was in an shop were you could test it and I hate it,as there was no explanation how to play.
Which Halo game?
My brother thought it was a good idea to put halo 2 on legendary when I was five years old which was the first time I played 
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> My brother thought it was a good idea to put halo 2 on legendary when I was five years old which was the first time I played
Did you finish it on Legendary the first time round?
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> My first encounter was in an shop were you could test it and I hate it,as there was no explanation how to play.
can be a bit irritating for sure. First time i played i just tried buttons and saw what they did. Like, what is the worst that could happen?
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> My brother thought it was a good idea to put halo 2 on legendary when I was five years old which was the first time I played
thats kind of **** move to do. Hope you got back to Halo soon enough.
overall not all experiences seem to be happy which is a shame though luckily we have gotten the chance to at least eventually experience better moments in Halo.
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No I went and completed it on normal before going back to legendary
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It’s alright on legendary, just remember to noob combo.
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Yeah noob combo is the best thing. Makes it pretty simple really
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> Yeah noob combo is the best thing. Makes it pretty simple really
Oh and speed running strats are quite handy to know, especially on cairo station.
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Don’t worry I’ve beaten it in under 3 hours on legendary now. Wish I knew all of those strats when I was five though
“50 bucks? I can’t afford that.”
Then some time passed and I purchased Halo CE and Halo 2 with the birthday money I had received that day.
I used to go to friends house all the time in middle school and high school to play CE and I could not get enough, even just running through the campaign over and over it was amazing to me. Then H2 came out and I started to play online against other people, and that’s when I knew I was hooked to gaming. I am and always will be a campaign first guy, but the ability to play and talk to people in other places was amazing to me as a 15-16 year old.
I saw the Warthog on the back of the case at a friends house and thought, ‘WoAh, that car has a gun?! I wanna use that!’, couple of hours later I was crashing into grunts and running over my friend on Silent Cartographer. We played trough practically the whole game and I loved it.
Well…I did, right up until that cutscene, when my enjoyment quickly turned into anxiety and panic.
We never made it past Keyes.
I cried and put my face in my pillow when I was 7 because I was afraid of the hunters in Halo 3 and ODST, so I poured my eyes out and asked my brother to kill them in co-op
The game as a whole? Ehh. It was a pretty good time waster back in the day.
The Hunters? OHHHHH GOD THE HUNTERS.
Ok, keep in mind, when I first played CE, I was around 5 years old. I was born a couple months before the game came out. And I wasn’t smart enough to figure out anything about god-mode pistol over here. Whenever I saw Hunters, I immediately paused the game and went to my dad so I could ask him to kill them for me. Hell, I wasn’t the only one; my mom was scared of them too (and she still is to this day, now I have to do it).
Halo 2 was a different story.
Normally, I am not a family man. I don’t like going to family events where a bunch of my cousins and aunts and uncles are. So when my mom pulled out a Xbox copy of Halo 2 during one of my cousin’s birthdays (keep in mind all of them are like high school level and I’m like 6-7 years old), I immediately thought “Wait, there’s another one?!” And now here I am.