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Your parents bought you Halo 4 when you were 4 y/o?
I played all of the games when they first came out but usually at a friends place. In 2012 I got a Best Buy gift card mfrom work and bought a 360. It cam with Reach. I was expecting much, but the story hooked me in again. Then you could earn XP by finding terminals in CEA. I ended up playing all of the games again that year. Even waitied inlinr at midnight for H4.
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The part of Halo that is memorable is always the part where you got to experience it with other friends and family members. I was 7 years old when Halo CE came out and I remember playing 4 player split screen multi flag on blood gulch system link with another Xbox. We’d play Halo for hours upon hours against one another for the sheer fun.
Halo 2 released and it was completely over. We’d play matchmaking for hours upon hours. We’d pack up our set up and go play. I still remember hitting my first legit 34 in ranked BTB at my friends house. The button glitches in this game, super bouncing, watching my team lose a team slayer game 50-0 because the other team modded and we got spawn killed by the modding player repeatedly.
Halo 3 released in high school and this entire life cycle of halo was accompanied by have local LANs at friends house and then hopping on and playing BTB and having an entire team filled in one room. We’d order Pizza Hut and drink to much Mountain Dew we’d be able to make a tower of the pizza boxes and soda cans.
These three games will never compare for me with any other Halo game or the social factor that came about it.
I just became a first time dad and I can’t wait for my daughter to learn about Halo and to play together. This gaming franchise is my heart and soul when it comes to gaming.
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So you remember ads for a video game at 1 year old and host a Halo party at 4 years old?
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Apart from what others have brought to light.
9/11 is not something to cry over having missed.
You’ve got covid and a war in Ukraine to name a few things.
I also really hate to be “that guy”
If you want to actually fix things, don’t encourage their behaviour.
You don’t buy a 6 month battlepass the first thing you do and then go on to say things need to be fixed for the better which you point at the early 2000’s to be.
The CEO of Activision -Blizzard threatened to have a person killed and shot down sexual abuse stuff within the company, yet still get to be there?
Don’t buy or play any of their stuff.
Age of Empire 2 being brought back and being a good old game worth playing? Play that instead of new unfinished stuff.
Don’t buy stuff in unfinished games, don’t buy/play games from problematic developers ( sexual abuse etc ), play and consume entertainment from better indies or older games which are getting new releases ( Halo MCC, Age of Empires, Gears Collection etc ). GoG ( Good old Games ) is a perfect platform to get older games in.
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how do you know how the golden era was when you have been born in 2008 in the first place.
back then in the golden era some people call was for most off the game serie’s much better then there are now.
when a game was launch there was almost Zero game breaking bug’s or problems.
the game’s back then release with full basic contant and the campaing mode was also release with its full contant.
there was almost no complains from cry baby’s more about the weapon belance’s in the FPS game’s or vehicles.
and for the stuff like in cod game’s back then you need to grint for you attachments or in halo for you spartan gear.
now a day’s there release the game’s more in broken state with game breaking bugs or problems and there is to much complains from some cry baby’s about the weapon belance or vehicle belance.
and not forget that some game’s release with less contant and incomplete stuff.
now the grint part is gone also for the weapon attachments or armor parts.
people that have play game’s like halo or cod back in the golden era know how fun it was and how better the support for the game’s have been and there was also less complains about things like things that have been OP in a multiplayer match since it can make things also more fun in some match’s.
Amen Brother!! 
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What made halo unique was playing with friends and how it was just a casual game. People would have LAN parties every weekend and order tons of pizza. Play crazy custom games and overall just enjoy themselves. But now Halo is a “competitive shooter” and I think that is what made Halo lose it’s spark.
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Part of this you could say is blammable on modern gaming culture, which is very isolationist, self-centered, and looking for a quick win over having fun.
At the same time 343’s games have done everything to support this, removing lobeys and most social features.
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Really all games are doing this. And I don’t really understand why. These games claim to bring people together but every new installment brings less and less social features.
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Oh I agree its not just 343. Its just more evidence though of following gaming trends rather than letting halo be halo.
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I think another big problem like I stated earlier is the desire to make a game competitive. No one wants that except pros and they make up a small population of gamers. There is nothing wrong with being good at a game but gaming companies can’t always listen to the competitive players. They need to listen to the community as a whole.
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If you want to actually fix things, don’t encourage their behaviour.
I think you missed the part where I explained that I bought the Battle Pass on release day.
9/11 is not something to cry over having missed
Also, I don’t miss 9/11 itself, I miss the post-9/11 era, as I like to call it (2001-2008)
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and host a Halo party at 4 years old?
The Halo parties were around '15, I was 7 at the time. I didn’t even have friends back in 2012.
So you remember ads for a video game at 1 year old
I never said l was 1 when the Reach advertisements began airing, I was three-ish (2010-2011). Also, it’s not like I remember every single detail about the ads lol.I only remember hearing something about Halo Reach on the TV and that was it. I know the way I wrote it made it seem like I vividly remember watching the ads. So yeah, sorry about that.
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Halo CE I remember always going over to one of my best friends house (who passed away 9 years ago)when I was around 9 years old and every time I walked in he had a TV screen that had the CE menu on it. I always played split screen multiplayer with him(back then it was more like custom games than online). He’d always dominate me. The skill gap always made me want to explore maps and I loved how hidden everything was including powerups and powerweapons. It was awesome.
Halo 2 I remember going over to his house even more being older and we would play online. I didn’t have an xbox at the time. I had a gamecube. It was more fun playing an FPS with friends to me. Went to other friends houses that also had Halo 2 and it convinced me to ask for an xbox for Christmas. I still remember how big xbox live was getting when it first came out. I was more of a social player than competitive player. I met so many strangers online when I was young which sounded scary but was awesome. I participated in glitch clans, found out about softmodding. Partook in making mini movies on youtube with people(duck duck goose on Lockout). Had IRL friends that were a lot better than me that loved playing ranked and going up the 1-50 ranking system.
Fast forward again to Halo 3. Friends had 360s and were so pumped about playing the H3 beta. I still had an OG xbox and was a master at knowing all halo 2 glitches. My friends would jokingly send me invites to play the H3 beta and I always tried accepting but never worked lol. I convinced my parents I’d pass my drivers license test and they bought me a 360. I went to the H3 midnight release and was number 13 in line. My friends were like 1 and 4 luckily but one of their dads stuck around and was my guardian since I was to young to buy it as it was rated M. I put a seatbelt over the physical copy on my way home because I was overwhelmingly anxious something would happen on my way home. Got like 3 hours of sleep that night before school and the next 3 years were history. Screaming VETO when a map/mode you didn’t like came on the screen with everyone, when Foundry released I had so many fun custom games with IRL friends and strangers. I got so heated when I would get to the 35-40 ranks in Lone Wolves(never made it past 40) but I was a lot better player in 3 than I was in 2. I think it’s because I played it the most.
ODST had a very good story and loved firefight when it was introduced.
Reach I loved everything except some multiplayer design.
4, MCC and 5 had it’s downs and ups but I still have memories from it even though they didn’t meet my standards.
I love Infinite’s gameplay but if it had the content it needed it would be in my top 2-3 Halo games.
I’ll always be a Halo fan. No matter how bad it seems, it can always get better.
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Exactly why and how I still love Halo! I play with my brother, nephew and irl friends!
That’s actually very cool. I don’t hear many stories about people who were fans in the 2000s still playing to this day. I hope you and your daughter make many great memories together.
As I like to put it, once a Halo fan, always a Halo fan.
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I said what you quoted because I did read that part of yours.
The battlepass was as basic as they get and full of fillers made to progress the Battlepass even faster.
Progressing it was, and still in part is, problematic, through artificially hindered through randomize few active challenges. And back then issues were even worsened by a few selection of playlists, and game mode specific challenges.
The first BP was also shortened and had items removed.
Not only that, but it makes little sense to buy a Battlepass early on.
If for any reason you don’t get to continue playing the money is wasted.
Quite a regressing “era” in many areas. You missed nothing.
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Thank you Grave. My daughter is just over three months old… so, we’ve got some time before she even starts to try and play Halo with her old me. 
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Cool to see this, and I’m sorry you haven’t had the experience you’re looking for!
I was only 6 or 7 when Combat evolved came out, and I remember playing the demo with silent cartographer in the gamestop at the mall. My older cousin had it and I played obsessively through it with him and my brother. I was too young to follow the hype and I didn’t have an xbox or anything so I don’t really remember when Halo 2 came out, but I do remember my cousin having the steel book and us shifting towards playing that more.
In my mind, I was the perfect age for Halo. A little young to be playing early on, which emphasized the horror elements of the first game… but I was perfect age for Halo 3. I obsessed for like two years watching anything I could about it, I remember reading magazines, watching the believe videos again and again and again, starry night, etc., all the good stuff.
When the game came out I was SOOOO hyped. A year in advance I worked really hard and got honor roll and stuff to convince my mom to allow me to have video games… dude I straight up wrote a persuasive essay about it. My Xbox 360 came with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (pretty great game actually,) but the first game I actually bought was a $10 xbox copy of Halo CE. I got home from school the day Halo 3 released and started playing it, got through a few missions before my brother got home and we started over from the beginning, finishing over half the game in the first night. I’ll never forget that feeling, realizing that after two years of hype I had blow through half the game in one night.
I gobbled up EVERYTHING I could. Read every single book, every bit of lore… there use to be a great thread on the forums with a complete list of every piece of halo media in chronological order, and I read ever post, random data dump, book, comic, short, ad, EVERYTHING. I loved playing ODST, and was beyond hyped for Reach. Personally Reach took the cake for me, I was ready for the new movement mechanics and loved the emphasis on military science fiction.
Everything sorta started to go wrong early on with 343 after that… from the beginning, Halo 4 just seemed goofy. Halo 3 was such a nice, round number, and ended so well…
What I will say though? When I picked up Infinite and played through the campaign for the first time… the first day I got up to Outpost Tremonious and I thought it was great. It wasn’t until the sort’ve flat, 2 dimensional open world mechanics really showed themselves that I got disappointed.
So there is hope. Microsoft just has to realize that Halo isn’t a call of duty style franchise to milk. CoD has some cool campaign stuff sometimes, but overall it’s not that interesting of a world. They can keep dumping out crap, adding narrative to sell cosmetics, and people will love it. If Microsoft tries to do the same with Halo it will always fail. Perhaps someday they will see the value… Cod 4 was a hugely popular game that established a lot of multiplayer systems that exist today, but Halo 3 had the iconic campaign that keeps its playerbase and fandom alive even now. Longevity comes from great art, not mtx.
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