Since Halo Reach, I realized that I come back to playing Halo for the dumbest reasons. I pretty much didn’t play Reach after the first week it came out, and after sitting in my cabinet for quite some time, I sort of felt like it was a flop purchase. One day, I was on eBay and I saw someone selling the GameStop preorder bonus chest armor and I bought it and started playing Reach. Originally, I just wanted to show off the armor but then I found that the game was actually really good and played until Halo 4 came out.
In any case, I like to be special when it comes to games. Thanks to the Bonus Trade thread on this forum, I managed to obtain all the bonus skins on the first week of Halo 4 and spent the next few months using different combos of the bonus skins to show off that I had them all. Alas, I fell out of Halo 4 eventually, but last month, I got a new Xbox 360 that included Halo 4. On the front of the box in a big yellow rectangle was NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE. I already owned Halo 4, but I realized that the only other people who owned this game were those who bought the Halo 4 console, or the latest 360 bundle. In other words, the minority. So I sold my old copy and started playing this one, because I feel special with my special case 
Is that a legitimate reason to play this game?
Any urge to play Halo 4 is a legitimate reason to play Halo 4.
To each their own. I like coming back to Halo 4 and killing people in a Mantis while I drive a Ghost…or dodging their Mantis stomps while in a mongoose.
I really like those Not Packaged For Individual Sale games cause not many people have them and the only way to get them is by buying a console.
What ever it takes to float your boat I guess.
I more or less fell out of Halo 4 once I hit SR130 and completed S-Ops. Not that I thought it was a bad game but I just wasn’t interested in it at the time.
I have had a bit of an itch to jump into Matchmaking lately. Not something I’ve really done since Halo 3. And in the few games I’ve played lately its made new items appear in the armory which has added some incentive to play.
> What ever it takes to float your boat I guess.
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> I more or less fell out of Halo 4 once I hit SR130 and completed S-Ops. Not that I thought it was a bad game but I just wasn’t interested in it at the time.
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> <mark>I have had a bit of an itch to jump into Matchmaking lately.</mark> Not something I’ve really done since Halo 3. And in the few games I’ve played lately its made new items appear in the armory which has added some incentive to play.
Itch your way into some CTF!
> > What ever it takes to float your boat I guess.
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> > I more or less fell out of Halo 4 once I hit SR130 and completed S-Ops. Not that I thought it was a bad game but I just wasn’t interested in it at the time.
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> > <mark>I have had a bit of an itch to jump into Matchmaking lately.</mark> Not something I’ve really done since Halo 3. And in the few games I’ve played lately its made new items appear in the armory which has added some incentive to play.
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> Itch your way into some CTF!
I might later tonight (+/- 10p est).
I have that whole work thing to do right now. 
I play Halo because it’s an itch that occasionally strikes me when I’m bored. Or rather because I’m a fan of the franchise since day one and keep playing despite myself, regardless of how increasingly crappy each new game gets.
Halo 4 still has a decent SWAT experience minus few undesirable maps (Yes, one of which is COMPLEX). But when there’s a decent map I can forgive the occasional cross mapping.