Halo's 18th Bithday!

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Please join me in wishing Halo a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The Franchise turns 18 in 8 days! We love the memories the Franchise gave us. We love so much and have so much thanks to give!

So, let’s do this: in this thread, let’s all place our best memories (multiple memories if needed) of the past 18 years of Halo!

I will start!

My best #halomemory of the past 18 years is the times at school when playing Halo irl with friends on the school playground. We would use sticks as Assault Rifles and Pinecones as Grenades. And to top it off, sometimes a few teachers would join us!

What do you all have as your #halomemory?

Happy Birthday, Halo. And Happy Birthday Xbox.

-:revolving_hearts: The Halo Community

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Teachers were joining in with students pretending to shoot each other? My my how times have changed. I’ve seen quite a few kids get suspended just for making a gun with their hands.

Anyway, I started off with Halo 4. Got it for Christmas I think 2014, but could have been 2013. My friend got it a few months prior so the first thing I did was join his lobby and he put us in forge on Ragnarok. I obviously had absolutely no idea what I was doing and he kept killing me with the “big scary laser” (Binary Rifle). After a few minutes of repeatedly dying over and over again he eventually tried changing it up a bit by grabbing a Banshee. Another bloodbath ensued, and I got so incredibly excited whenever I finally killed him with my Assault Rifle.

Being victim to an absolute massacre wasn’t really all that fun, so I put the game down and didn’t touch it for a few weeks lol. But I eventually gave it another go with him, this time in matchmaking. I’ve been a big Halo fan ever since.

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> Teachers were joining in with students pretending to shoot each other? My my how times have changed. I’ve seen quite a few kids get suspended just for making a gun with their hands.

This was back in 2005. We were allowed a pocket knife up to six inches in school as well. So, yep. Times have changed. (2007 was when the first “Male Pregnancy” occured. Meaning a transgender person that was a male becoming a female but was not officially a female became pregnant. In Time Kids Magazine!)

As to your story, Very cool to hear. I was never a fan of the last two games. I feel they went too deviant. But, everyone loves Halo for different reasons. I actually love it so much, I personally bought 5 different Xbox friends a copy of Halo: MCC before Game Pass was announced. Now I play with them all the time!

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I started playing Halo in 2001 at the age of 46. Combat Evolved came out and I really liked the game. Every new release I bought and loved them all. With a hectic work schedule and family I never had the time to play online multiplayer. I always loved playing Halo when I had free time to sit back and relax. Achievements were my main goal in the game. Plus the grunt dialog was hilarious.

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> I started playing Halo in 2001 at the age of 46. Combat Evolved came out and I really liked the game. Every new release I bought and loved them all. With a hectic work schedule and family I never had the time to play online multiplayer. I always loved playing Halo when I had free time to sit back and relax. Achievements were my main goal in the game. Plus the grunt dialog was hilarious.

Have you stuck with the series the entire time?

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> > I started playing Halo in 2001 at the age of 46. Combat Evolved came out and I really liked the game. Every new release I bought and loved them all. With a hectic work schedule and family I never had the time to play online multiplayer. I always loved playing Halo when I had free time to sit back and relax. Achievements were my main goal in the game. Plus the grunt dialog was hilarious.
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> Have you stuck with the series the entire time?

Yeap… Bought every Halo game and the consoles that came out.

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> I started playing Halo in 2001 at the age of 46. Combat Evolved came out and I really liked the game. Every new release I bought and loved them all. With a hectic work schedule and family I never had the time to play online multiplayer. I always loved playing Halo when I had free time to sit back and relax. Achievements were my main goal in the game. Plus the grunt dialog was hilarious.

Grunt Dialogue thanks to Joe Staten. He was awesome! I also have all titles to date.

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My favourite moment. Halo 3 multiplayer. Dual slayers. Snowbound. I had two Maulers. I kept instant killing people with surprise attacks. After 16 kills, I heard recent kill say over the mic “I f***ing hate that guy!”

That’s when you know you’re doing your job right.

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My favorite moment. The first time I played Halo was the best, I was excited about the game, the guns, the enemies, and the soundtrack…I was so hyped.

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I fondly remember playing halo 2 all the time with my cousin val and my uncle Jason my cousin he was murdered back in 2007 just shy of a few months before halo 3 released :frowning: he never got to finish the fight and my uncle stopped following the series after reach basically even though we have played 4 together before im pretty much the only person left in my family that stayed loyal to halo I was 7 when halo CE came around so in one way or another halo has been in my life come to think of it I didn’t really enjoy halo until 2009 when I sold my Nintendo wii and bought a 360 with halo 3 and sonic 06 then got halo 3 odst for Christmas like few months later and never looked back I been a halo fanatic ever since and still am and probably will remain that way and im hyped with what we have seen of halo infinite so far

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Happy Birthday to the only Game I play :joy:… I was 11 when CE dropped, me, and my friend would split screen religiously. I then bought an OG Xbox to be able to play Halo, strictly Halo. Then the day game when 2 dropped. Halo 2 is the greatest game of all time, for me (followed closely by 3), and where the majority of my most fond memories are from. Infinite has potential to replace it though! Halo 2 was in a time where if someone had Xbox Live, they had Halo 2. You could call anyone up, and they’d be down to play H2. I single handedly got atleast 10-15 people into Halo with H2, and they got live resulting, with a handful of people switching to Xbox from PlayStation permanently. It’s a perfect game, even it’s flaws (being standbyed, modded against, super bounces, out of map glitches, butterflying), leads to countless hours of fun. When a game can have you lost in a custom match for hours, just attempting to glitch out, and butterfly on maps, without becoming bored, it’s beyond special lol! Theres no way a game today would make it with modders, and such like 2 had, yet everyone still played it, because it was yet perfect. Countless memories made on that game with my friends, and I have hope that Halo will one day get back to it’s rightful spot at the top of gamers minds/ playlist… I am the last of all my friends that are still on Halo, but I have hope they’ll return, well the ones that still have Xbox, we are in our 30’s now.

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> Happy Birthday to the only Game I play :joy:… I was 11 when CE dropped, me, and my friend would split screen religiously. I then bought an OG Xbox to be able to play Halo, strictly Halo. Then the day game when 2 dropped. Halo 2 is the greatest game of all time, for me (followed closely by 3), and where the majority of my most fond memories are from. Infinite has potential to replace it though! Halo 2 was in a time where if someone had Xbox Live, they had Halo 2. You could call anyone up, and they’d be down to play H2. I single handedly got atleast 10-15 people into Halo with H2, and they got live resulting, with a handful of people switching to Xbox from PlayStation permanently. It’s a perfect game, even it’s flaws (being standbyed, modded against, super bounces, out of map glitches, butterflying), leads to countless hours of fun. When a game can have you lost in a custom match for hours, just attempting to glitch out, and butterfly on maps, without becoming bored, it’s beyond special lol! Theres no way a game today would make it with modders, and such like 2 had, yet everyone still played it, because it was yet perfect. Countless memories made on that game with my friends, and I have hope that Halo will one day get back to it’s rightful spot at the top of gamers minds/ playlist… I am the last of all my friends that are still on Halo, but I have hope they’ll return, well the ones that still have Xbox, we are in our 30’s now.

I have a similar story. I was never on Xbox Live. Not until about a year ago. But have had Xbox since Christmas 2001. My parents got me an Xbox and Halo: CE. Been a fanatic ever since. So fanatical, I purchased the $100 req pack a few times already. But Halo 1 and 2 reamin my favorite halos. My friends were always playing Halo during recess at school. Now, I am the only one loyal left.

A few weeks before the Discover Hope trailer launched, a long time friend (he and I both got our Xbox consoles the same day) that I recently [at the time] reconnected with said he left after the failed launch of Halo 4. He left and said he will never return.

Then the trailer dropped.

He calls me the next day and says this:

“[My Name,] I am very much considering buying Halo Infinite.”

If that trailer can bring back someone like him, that should show how confident I am 343I is on the right track.

Now, we only need to make sure those Microtransactions are not going to destroy the game. I do not mind a few. But they better be strictly cosmetic based. If not, I myself may leave.

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My best halo memory is when I lived in a huge neighborhood when I was younger. We would have up to 20 of us kids ranging from 7-18 all in one living room playing multiplayer with one another. And when we were told to go outside we just pretend we in the halo universe. Looking back on it now it’s quite amazing how me being on the younger end of this spectrum the older kids played with us. It’s cool what kind of friendships halo can make!

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So Happy Birthday Halo!!! Thanks for the good memories!!! Let’s hope there are more to come!!!

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> > 2533274807375329;11:
> > Happy Birthday to the only Game I play :joy:… I was 11 when CE dropped, me, and my friend would split screen religiously. I then bought an OG Xbox to be able to play Halo, strictly Halo. Then the day game when 2 dropped. Halo 2 is the greatest game of all time, for me (followed closely by 3), and where the majority of my most fond memories are from. Infinite has potential to replace it though! Halo 2 was in a time where if someone had Xbox Live, they had Halo 2. You could call anyone up, and they’d be down to play H2. I single handedly got atleast 10-15 people into Halo with H2, and they got live resulting, with a handful of people switching to Xbox from PlayStation permanently. It’s a perfect game, even it’s flaws (being standbyed, modded against, super bounces, out of map glitches, butterflying), leads to countless hours of fun. When a game can have you lost in a custom match for hours, just attempting to glitch out, and butterfly on maps, without becoming bored, it’s beyond special lol! Theres no way a game today would make it with modders, and such like 2 had, yet everyone still played it, because it was yet perfect. Countless memories made on that game with my friends, and I have hope that Halo will one day get back to it’s rightful spot at the top of gamers minds/ playlist… I am the last of all my friends that are still on Halo, but I have hope they’ll return, well the ones that still have Xbox, we are in our 30’s now.
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> I have a similar story. I was never on Xbox Live. Not until about a year ago. But have had Xbox since Christmas 2001. My parents got me an Xbox and Halo: CE. Been a fanatic ever since. So fanatical, I purchased the $100 req pack a few times already. But Halo 1 and 2 reamin my favorite halos. My friends were always playing Halo during recess at school. Now, I am the only one loyal left.
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> A few weeks before the Discover Hope trailer launched, a long time friend (he and I both got our Xbox consoles the same day) that I recently [at the time] reconnected with said he left after the failed launch of Halo 4. He left and said he will never return.
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> Then the trailer dropped.
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> He calls me the next day and says this:
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> “[My Name,] I am very much considering buying Halo Infinite.”
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> If that trailer can bring back someone like him, that should show how confident I am 343I is on the right track.
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> Now, we only need to make sure those Microtransactions are not going to destroy the game. I do not mind a few. But they better be strictly cosmetic based. If not, I myself may leave.

Right on sir! It doesn’t matter if you were online, or not, it’s the point that you’re a loyal fan! My sole reason for buying each Xbox Console is the new games. I’ve spent thousands on halo over the years, and don’t regret it a bit. If Infinite is good, even ½ what Halo 2 was in its prime. I wouldn’t care if it even had Microtransactions. Thank god they wasn’t a thing in Halo 2/3, aside from map packs, and some cosmetics, because I would have spent any money I had on it lol! I do miss the times when you bought a game, you got the game, but if it’s a good game, I’d pay day 1 for new map packs, etc. It would sure beat having Forged Maps, looking like play dough unrealistic maps, but I know that the map pack days are probably gone forever :disappointed:

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I can now say HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALO!

What an incredible 18 years it has been. I cannot thank you enough for all the things you all have done for me. You have led me to more friends than I can even count. Led me to a great love for gaming. Led me to express myself in ways I normally would have simply been quiet about at home. You are the reason I love games and hope to be a video game developer one day.

Have a fantastic 18th Birthday and let’s bring Halo Infinite home!

Love you all!

PS
Thank you to Bungie for building a universe that has stood the test of time and giving us something special. Something I hope to share with my kids one day. May your work on Destiny 2 continue to evolve in great strides just like 343 Industries is doing to Halo.