Halo CE, my brother got the game from a friend for a week, I played it a lot. Years later we got a 360 and I started playing from Halo 3 backwards to CE again.
But a poll in the forum won’t show you the average consumer. It will show you the numbers for “hadcore” fans that spent so much of their free time with the game, they do not just play it, they also watch content and discuss the game.
Yep - 2.2 lbs per kg.
I also always remember 1600 metres to a mile.
Halo Combat Evolved was the game that got me interested in Modding Halo Combat Evolved Maps! 
PEACE! 
This is a weird topic for me lol. The first Halo i played was Halo 4 customs and a bit of campaign at a friends house wayyyy back, but the first Halo I ever played solo was CE with a 360 i borrowed from my uncle, but the first Halo i ever finished was Reach through MCC when I got an Xbox One S handed down from my uncle as he got a Series X (different uncle). My dad prefers PlayStation so he usually plays that, thats why I only got an Xbox in 2020.
I think im just gonna vote Halo 4
Based on this poll, looks like the majority of players left who care about Halo Infinite are old schools who started on CE.
Where’s your broader audience now 343?
OG since ‘04 here, played some blood gultch at a bday bash and I was hooked.
XB Connect baby. I used to go to huge LAN parties with my Duke.
I put CE as the first game I played, but truthfully it was Halo 3. I played the hell out of the CE PC demo. I played that so much that I could run through Silent Cartographer on legendary without taking damage. That’s why I put CE as my first game. It was my introduction to the series and when Halo 3 came out I got myself a 360, a copy of 3 and dived right in for what is one of the best games I’ve ever played. Both the campaign and multiplayer for 3 holds some of my favorite moments of the series. Reach is such an incredibly close 2nd that the two are almost tied for my favorite Halo game.
First Halo i ever played was H2.
One of my friends showed me the game after school and while i did not really think much about it at first i absolutely loved the flood. I remember reading in the newspaper back when i was 10-11 years old that reach was going to be bungie last Halo game and that made me pretty sad at the time (even kept it as a poster in my room). Back in 2013 i learned that a new studio took the franchise and another Halo game came out without even knowing it (H4), so i tried it out and needless to say i was left disappointed. Completely left the franchise for few years after that
Halo CE on the Mac.
Yes I’m that old…
I played CE in the MCC, but that seems like cheating.
Reach on MCC. Though, I had kinda played a mild amount of Reach on the original Xbox 360.
Depends if you played with anniversary graphics or original.
Back in the early 2000’s (it was 2002 i think, back when games released completed) got an Xbox and my parents gifted me a Halo CE copy.
At first I thought ‘What a horrible game’, then i fell in love with it.
The library level gave me nightmares for days. I couldn’t finish it because of that (and GTA 3).
Then Halo 2 got released, played and finished it, then came back and finished CE.
Halo 2 funnily enough i played ce and 3 splitscreen multiplayer with my older cousin and i saw a used copy of halo 2 at a old movie place that had a separate gaming shop tied tonit and picked it up and i fell in love with that game it was all i could play for a good few months it was so fun just using glitches and exploring outside the maps heck i even looked up videos of halo 2 secrets which lead me to the ghost of lockout
So if you want to be technical halo ce was my first but my real first halo was 2
I started with my friend on campaign Halo on original xbox in 2008ish or 2007, then MP CE on PC and then when we both had money we got reach in 2010.
Started CE on pc, went to xbox for Halo 2 & 3, took a break for various reasons, played reach on friends xbox, then couple of years ago got xbox one and mcc and finally got achievements iv’e never been able to get, played 5 even though wasn’t too great, still play occasionally though, and now Infinite…
Thinking of doing another complete campaign run through ce to Infinite
Halo CE. But not the Xbox version. I actually started with the Gearbox port. Played the demo, dad got the main game. Then went to Halo 2 vista. Got a 360, xbox one, then in 2019 I built my current PC for Infinite.
343 might need to start getting their paid employees/contractors to start voting to fudge the numbers or it might seem that they have failed to recruit and have likely driven off more players by going a new direction.
It’s good to see all the OG CE players still active in the community.