Have you ever had something strange happen when you were playing Legacy Halo games?
*Xbox live names removed for privacy please
Please feel free to add.
A little background to my first story.
I played halo reach multiplayer from its launch.
As time passed, I took about a 1.5 year break.
Came back, and only played Btb and firefight.
I maxed out all the commendations, except the “grounded” one.
For the sake of brevity: there was lots of toxicity around this commendation for multiple reasons.
So I began not going for the commendation, and helping anyone out trying to finish it, and ignoring it.
Just wanted to have fun, and frequently good players would just quit out or get toxic over it.
Eventually I started playing with the same people over the years, and had a pretty dang good time.
Here’s where this story begins.
I kept encountering an older gentleman in his
60s who had a long way to go in the commendations department, so for a couple of hours a night for almost 2 years, probably a few thousand games I helped him out.
Got to know a lot about him and his family, etc.
He would loose his cool whenever he missed out on a vehicle.
It was kind of funny how he would rag people out for it. I chilled him out.
Time passed, and one night, the number remaining left to max out was under 50 vehicles. That’s where he got it to. Wow.
That night he was really getting upset, and he started complaining about getting a headache. Then he just missed out on getting a wraith kill, and yelled at a player who had previously agreed to take turns with him on beachfront. Raging angry.
Game ends, he tells me he feels like poop, headache and chest pains. He’s done for the night.
I remind him to take it easy, there’s like, 1 or 2 more nights of playing and he’ll be done. I ask more jokingly than seriously if he should maybe head to hospital and get checked.
He laughs it off, says he’ll see me tomorrow night and he’ll get the commendation over with.
I’ve never heard from him since.
Messages to his son on xbox and the few people on his friends list go unanswered, but they were never really on anyway.
So either he passed away that night, or decided to never play or log on again, after years of trying to max out a commendation, with the end in sight.
Despite his temper, he was funny. I miss the guy.
A cautionary tale of taking a game too seriously?
I’ll never know.
I post this up since soon I’m going on a long hiking trip.
If I never post again…you can guess why.
Wow. I have got to say that was an interesting read. It’s a shame you never found out what happened. I don’t want to discount the possibility that the poor bloke passed away, but I would say that he had come to the decision never to play again due to health problems.
I came to this thread excitedly thinking we’d be discussing in game unsolved mysteries, alas no dice however it’s still piqued my interest in what happened to the dude. I hope one day you get some clarity and closure.
That was quite the read, I hope that person is still out there and just decided to step back from gaming, still it’s unfortunate you never received so much as an update and have to speculate on the situation to this day
I’m pretty sure he’s gone.
He was ex-military, and I know lots of ex-military.
I just can’t believe he’d get that close, and then go…
“Awww screw it, I’m quitting gaming forever,”
He used to use his 360 as a DVD player, youtube, Netflix, etc. But afaik he’s never powered up again.
Its 12,000 vehicles.
What a shame, may he rest in peace if hes gone
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> Have you ever had something strange happen when you were playing Legacy Halo games?
> *_Xbox live names removed for privacy please_Please feel free to add.
> A little background to my first story.
> I played halo reach multiplayer from its launch.
> As time passed, I took about a 1.5 year break.
> Came back, and only played Btb and firefight.
> I maxed out all the commendations, except the “grounded” one.
> For the sake of brevity: there was lots of toxicity around this commendation for multiple reasons.
> So I began not going for the commendation, and helping anyone out trying to finish it, and ignoring it.
> Just wanted to have fun, and frequently good players would just quit out or get toxic over it.
> Eventually I started playing with the same people over the years, and had a pretty dang good time.
> Here’s where this story begins.
> I kept encountering an older gentleman in his
> 60s who had a long way to go in the commendations department, so for a couple of hours a night for almost 2 years, probably a few thousand games I helped him out.
> Got to know a lot about him and his family, etc.
> He would loose his cool whenever he missed out on a vehicle.
> It was kind of funny how he would rag people out for it. I chilled him out.
> Time passed, and one night, the number remaining left to max out was under 50 vehicles. That’s where he got it to. Wow.
> That night he was really getting upset, and he started complaining about getting a headache. Then he just missed out on getting a wraith kill, and yelled at a player who had previously agreed to take turns with him on beachfront. Raging angry.
> Game ends, he tells me he feels like poop, headache and chest pains. He’s done for the night.
> I remind him to take it easy, there’s like, 1 or 2 more nights of playing and he’ll be done. I ask more jokingly than seriously if he should maybe head to hospital and get checked.
> He laughs it off, says he’ll see me tomorrow night and he’ll get the commendation over with.
> I’ve never heard from him since.
> Messages to his son on xbox and the few people on his friends list go unanswered, but they were never really on anyway.
> So either he passed away that night, or decided to never play or log on again, after years of trying to max out a commendation, with the end in sight.
> Despite his temper, he was funny. I miss the guy.
> A cautionary tale of taking a game too seriously?
> I’ll never know.
> I post this up since soon I’m going on a long hiking trip.
> If I never post again…you can guess why.
This is is the stuff that punches you right in the gut with nostalgia, this IS what HALO WAS and should of always been, a community based on friends that you never stopped playing with,now idek where its going besides toxic land. Thank you for this story i logged onto OG H3 to look at some old things and decided to hop on the legacy forums. I only have one guy still on my list from the old days and he don’t even invite me anymore, makes me sad as hell. I remember just about every major friendship i made on there, stories of great times, stories of betrayal from mates i started with… just of all it man. Bungie made a community that i feel will never be 100% resurrected like it should be. Sorry for the rant this game just means a lot more to me than most think. This was touching, to say the least.
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> > 2533274808453107;1:
> > Have you ever had something strange happen when you were playing Legacy Halo games?
> > *_Xbox live names removed for privacy please_Please feel free to add.
> > A little background to my first story.
> > I played halo reach multiplayer from its launch.
> > As time passed, I took about a 1.5 year break.
> > Came back, and only played Btb and firefight.
> > I maxed out all the commendations, except the “grounded” one.
> > For the sake of brevity: there was lots of toxicity around this commendation for multiple reasons.
> > So I began not going for the commendation, and helping anyone out trying to finish it, and ignoring it.
> > Just wanted to have fun, and frequently good players would just quit out or get toxic over it.
> > Eventually I started playing with the same people over the years, and had a pretty dang good time.
> > Here’s where this story begins.
> > I kept encountering an older gentleman in his
> > 60s who had a long way to go in the commendations department, so for a couple of hours a night for almost 2 years, probably a few thousand games I helped him out.
> > Got to know a lot about him and his family, etc.
> > He would loose his cool whenever he missed out on a vehicle.
> > It was kind of funny how he would rag people out for it. I chilled him out.
> > Time passed, and one night, the number remaining left to max out was under 50 vehicles. That’s where he got it to. Wow.
> > That night he was really getting upset, and he started complaining about getting a headache. Then he just missed out on getting a wraith kill, and yelled at a player who had previously agreed to take turns with him on beachfront. Raging angry.
> > Game ends, he tells me he feels like poop, headache and chest pains. He’s done for the night.
> > I remind him to take it easy, there’s like, 1 or 2 more nights of playing and he’ll be done. I ask more jokingly than seriously if he should maybe head to hospital and get checked.
> > He laughs it off, says he’ll see me tomorrow night and he’ll get the commendation over with.
> > I’ve never heard from him since.
> > Messages to his son on xbox and the few people on his friends list go unanswered, but they were never really on anyway.
> > So either he passed away that night, or decided to never play or log on again, after years of trying to max out a commendation, with the end in sight.
> > Despite his temper, he was funny. I miss the guy.
> > A cautionary tale of taking a game too seriously?
> > I’ll never know.
> > I post this up since soon I’m going on a long hiking trip.
> > If I never post again…you can guess why.
>
> This is is the stuff that punches you right in the gut with nostalgia, this IS what HALO WAS and should of always been, a community based on friends that you never stopped playing with,now idek where its going besides toxic land. Thank you for this story i logged onto OG H3 to look at some old things and decided to hop on the legacy forums. I only have one guy still on my list from the old days and he don’t even invite me anymore, makes me sad as hell. I remember just about every major friendship i made on there, stories of great times, stories of betrayal from mates i started with… just of all it man. Bungie made a community that i feel will never be 100% resurrected like it should be. Sorry for the rant this game just means a lot more to me than most think. This was touching, to say the least.
Thanks man
Gonna try and throw up a few more old tales before this board transitions, a way to say goodbye to the past.
Wish I could post his gamertag.