Your Favorite Halo Memories?

Games Other Halo
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The emotion and the music during the closing credits reminded me of what Halo USED to be and SHOULD be.

Play this song while you read the rest…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7dDU2-sZo

Halo has been part of my life for almost 12 years. I was 8 years old when I got Halo 1. Before then I would go to my buddy’s place and split-screen with him. Boarding Action with rockets and snipers, Blood Gulch tanks and sniper battles… damn. I played campaign at least 25 times or more. I must have played “Assault on the Control Room” (tank level) close to 50 times. I remember the first few missions felt “lighter” and adventurous, but then once “343 Guilty Spark” hit (the Flood level)the game took on a dark and scary feel that I loved and hated at the same time. I loved how the later missions took you back into the rooms and hallways you’d been through only hours earlier but now they had been taken over by the flood and everything was broken and a mess.I remember the ending levels feeling cold, dark and scary. I remember wishing so much to actually be able to drive a Wraith! Or wanting to be a Hunter/Golden Elite with a sword.

Now play this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3sxC7oVhk

I also remember Halo 2 - I was 11. Slightly new feel, awesome new additions such as vehicle boarding, DRIVING A WRAITH, using the sword,being an elite… oh man was I ever in my glory. Multiplayer was so exciting online - clans, tower of power, zombies, cops and robbers, fatman/MJ, Warthog Wars, Troy, maps like Terminal, Midship, Headlong, Zanzibar… even miss things like getting into modded lobbies and doing crazy things. I also miss the button combos like BXR, BXB, the double/quad shot. Ahh Halo 2.
Remember in Campaign when you have Hunters, Grunts and Jackals all fighting with you? Fighting the Brutes that you HATED. Remember Johnson hijacking a Scarab and using it to fight WITH you? I just remember saying this a lot while playing Halo 2 - “WHAT! NO WAY! You can do that now?! I’ve always wanted to!”

Queue Halo 3 music…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-D3NSeGo4

I was in grade 8, 14 years old. I don’t think I was ever as excited for a video game… ever. It was coming on Xbox 360 (insane graphics), forge, theater, equipment (Landmine, anyone?) I remember watching and waiting for every Bungie ViDoc. I remember counting down the days until the Beta came out. I remember the 3 beta maps - Snowbound, Valhalla, and High Ground. I remember seeing a General and being scared shootless in the pregame lobby. I remember earning my first 50, and finally becoming a General. I remember playing through campaign and using things like the flame thrower, killing Scarabs, and having the flood on my side for a few missions. I remember gettingall types of challenging achievements in order to get the katana and Hayabusa Armor. I remember wanting Recon armor so badly, then doing the Vidmaster challenges and getting it.

There is so much more that I could sit here and reminisce about with the original Trilogy, but I’d be here all day.
I miss being a kid, completely mesmerized by Halo. To those who have been there since Halo 1/2, you know what I mean. Halo wasn’t just a game. You got a Halo “feeling” that took you off into another world. A mysterious, scary, magical and exciting feeling. This happened in Campaign and in Multiplayer.

I remember playing campaign and feeling like I knew the characters. I loved the music, the enemies,the levels, maps, guns, vehicles,etc.I’d hear others talking about Halo and always had the feeling like “Hey, you can’t talk about Halo unless I do”, almost like Halo belonged to me, and nobody else. I feel like everyone felt this way. Everyone was proud to say they played Halo and that it was “MY game”. Halo was in a league of it’s own.

I no longer play Halo, because Halo Reach and now 4 have failed to take me away like before. I know I’m 20 now, but that’s not the reason. Halo 4 is simply not Halo.

Halo has been part of my life for over half of it- I grew up with it. When I finished Halo 4, at this exact moment,(video below) when the credits came up and that familiar song began to play, all those memories of Halo came rushing through me and I actually teared up. Skip to 3:30…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2nPn6Qq6fE

The song reminded me why I hate Halo 4. It does not have the Halo “feeling” for me, and fails to give me what that song does. I think this is the case for most people. Halo 4 is a good game. But Halo isn’t just a game. RealHalo fans know what I’m talking about. Halo has lost its magic, and that is why the population is suffering. Just my two cents.

Thanks for reading! Here are some other songs that bring me right back to the good ol’ days.

Peril
Heretic, Hero
Warthog Run

What are some of your favorite Halo memories?

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yes very true. My fave memory was playing splitscren 3 player i think h2 when i was 8, me my bro and a friend. Good times and the awe from halo 1 seeing the flood and Yoinking! my pants thorugh h1 2 and 3 fighting them and the brutes and epicness of the covy alliance! but halo 4 lost all the magic like you said it doesnt fell right anymore

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It’s not because of your age. When CE dropped I was in my early 20s. And I was taken away by Bungie’s universe. Everything about it was amazing. Chief, the Spartan concept, the covenant concept, the music, the sound effects, storylines, Cortana, Sargeant Johnson … I could go on and on and on.

The coolest thing for me was playing the Campaigns on Legendary in my spare time. I also hosted tons of Lan parties … I mean it was nuts. I would go to the gym and play basketball with 2 dozen guys, half of whom I would say “Halo at my place?” afterward and boom, within the hour dudes were carrying big -Yoink- TVs up to my 2nd floor and making Pizza Hut workers lives miserable down the street. But as fun as the multiplayer was, it was just that–fun. It never took me away like getting immersed in the Halo world and Chief’s fight.

Specific things I remember and miss dearly with this new (and severely disappointing) game:

  • The Menu music from CE, H2 and H3

  • More of the game’s music … even the super chill stuff played on maps like Assault on the Control room where you rolled up on rooms full of sleeping grunts.

  • I miss the true difficult of legendary. The long checkpoints that made fighting the last couple of foes … absolutely mindblowing. Who can ever forget fighting the waves of covenant that kept dropping from the gravity lift on the Truth and Reconciliation? Or fighting the waves of foes once you made it UP the lift!

  • Sniper Alley and Outskirts in H2. People complained about the jackal snipers being too hard. You know what was really fun? Taking to the roof tops and getting the jump on THEM first.

  • I miss the covenant characters. The Arbiter. The Prophets. The Shipmaster Rtas. I’ve missed these guys since H3. Just hearing them.

  • I miss the old grunts. The hilarious -Yoink- they’d say. These H4 grunts are an embarrassment. Big fat round heads that you can’t miss. They look more like Toadstool from Mario World than anything else. They simply don’t leave me with the belief that I’m putting down grunts. In H4 they just seem like something else.

  • The sound of a plasma rifle! OMFG what is this nonsense now? The covie weapons sound stupid now. The Storm Rifle and Plasma Pistol sound ridiculously weak and empty. IMO the plasma rifles and elites went hand in hand. Just like the elites and their voices. These new Elites don’t sound the part at all.

  • H3, the jungle. And the Hornets. And the scarabs … right on through the original trilogy. Every scarab battle was absolutely epic.

I feel like I could go on and on and on with the Campaign, and that this site doesn’t even have the bandwidth for me to begin about the multiplayer, but I’ll leave it all right here.

Reach began to alienate itself from the Halo Universe. It was halfway gone. But H4 is probably about 90% gone.

And the thing is, I realize 343 is trying to put THEIR stamp on the game and make it memorable in a different way from the original trilogy. I get that. But they may as well just scrap the Halo part from the title.

Personally I cannot wait for this Destiny game of Bungie’s to drop. My imagination is still with me. I still can play Halo 1-3 and zone out in wonder, marveling at how brilliant it all is, but it’s clear that those who helped make the trilogy that way, stayed behind with Bungie (since H4 is way too dull). Therefore, I can only assume that Destiny will be amazing.

I’m ready for something different. And from the bottom on my heart, I’d much rather play something new and fresh instead of this abomination of “Halo” that we have today.

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I think music itself has a mysterious power to move people, to motivate people, to push people onwards. From Halo C.E. to Halo 3, the epic music provided us a journey they we most certainly couldn’t forget with just the songs and the noise and the music alone. It certainly did its job with splendor and quite frankly Marty knew what we wanted once we heard, we wanted more of the same thing.

Halo music painted vast landscapes beyond our world of imagination. The music created a reality years beyond where we live and over to the stars where long lost beauties laid before us. Just close your eyes and listen to the links above, you can sense the mystery, the adventure, the epic journey, the theme of hope, belief and many more heroic ideas instilled in the story. The original trilogy was about a far removed space in our dreams that we can only hope that they will never fade.

Halo 4, in its own respect is a new direction with a new crew and to be honest, the story must go on. I have all the soundtracks and I still intensely enjoy the originals, but Halo 4 is epic in its own way and I’ve learned to respect that.

My favorite soundtrack in Halo 4 is Arrival and it painted the definitive music for me in this game. So in its own way, it’s found a place and I think we should really at the very least appreciate the effort that Three Hundred and Fourty-Three Industries has put into the Campaign, the music, the cinematics and the story. I honestly think they put that 110% effort into this aspect of Halo 4.

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> It’s not because of your age. When CE dropped I was in my early 20s. And I was taken away by Bungie’s universe. Everything about it was amazing. Chief, the Spartan concept, the covenant concept, the music, the sound effects, storylines, Cortana, Sargeant Johnson … I could go on and on and on.
>
> The coolest thing for me was playing the Campaigns on Legendary in my spare time. I also hosted tons of Lan parties … I mean it was nuts. I would go to the gym and play basketball with 2 dozen guys, half of whom I would say “Halo at my place?” afterward and boom, within the hour dudes were carrying big -Yoink!- TVs up to my 2nd floor and making Pizza Hut workers lives miserable down the street. But as fun as the multiplayer was, it was just that–fun. It never took me away like getting immersed in the Halo world and Chief’s fight.
>
> Specific things I remember and miss dearly with this new (and severely disappointing) game:
>
> - The Menu music from CE, H2 and H3
>
> - More of the game’s music … even the super chill stuff played on maps like Assault on the Control room where you rolled up on rooms full of sleeping grunts.
>
> - I miss the true difficult of legendary. The long checkpoints that made fighting the last couple of foes … absolutely mindblowing. Who can ever forget fighting the waves of covenant that kept dropping from the gravity lift on the Truth and Reconciliation? Or fighting the waves of foes once you made it UP the lift!
>
> - Sniper Alley and Outskirts in H2. People complained about the jackal snipers being too hard. You know what was really fun? Taking to the roof tops and getting the jump on THEM first.
>
> - I miss the covenant characters. The Arbiter. The Prophets. The Shipmaster Rtas. I’ve missed these guys since H3. Just hearing them.
>
> - I miss the old grunts. The hilarious Yoink! they’d say. These H4 grunts are an embarrassment. Big fat round heads that you can’t miss. They look more like Toadstool from Mario World than anything else. They simply don’t leave me with the belief that I’m putting down grunts. In H4 they just seem like something else.
>
> - The sound of a plasma rifle! OMFG what is this nonsense now? The covie weapons sound stupid now. The Storm Rifle and Plasma Pistol sound ridiculously weak and empty. IMO the plasma rifles and elites went hand in hand. Just like the elites and their voices. These new Elites don’t sound the part at all.
>
> - H3, the jungle. And the Hornets. And the scarabs … right on through the original trilogy. Every scarab battle was absolutely epic.
>
> I feel like I could go on and on and on with the Campaign, and that this site doesn’t even have the bandwidth for me to begin about the multiplayer, but I’ll leave it all right here.
>
> Reach began to alienate itself from the Halo Universe. It was halfway gone. But H4 is probably about 90% gone.
>
> And the thing is, I realize 343 is trying to put THEIR stamp on the game and make it memorable in a different way from the original trilogy. I get that. But they may as well just scrap the Halo part from the title.
>
> Personally I cannot wait for this Destiny game of Bungie’s to drop. My imagination is still with me. I still can play Halo 1-3 and zone out in wonder, marveling at how brilliant it all is, but it’s clear that those who helped make the trilogy that way, stayed behind with Bungie (since H4 is way too dull). Therefore, I can only assume that Destiny will be amazing.
>
> I’m ready for something different. And from the bottom on my heart, I’d much rather play something new and fresh instead of this abomination of “Halo” that we have today.

Totally agree and know EXACTLY what youre talking about. Glad to know I’m not the only one out there.

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Changed the title - can a mod move this to the appropriate section? Thanks

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My favorite Halo memory has got to be in Halo 3.
Campaign level Covenant.
That final effort part. Where you and the marines storm the Citadel. Best Halo OST , Covenant forces trying to stop you and at the end… 2 Scarabs out of nowhere.

Best moment in a Halo game. Evar.

but for best memory in a Multiplayer match? Propably when i was playing double team with my friend and we won 2 oddball matches with full score while the enemy team had 0 score. We laughed our -Yoinks!- off.

Good times.

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One of my favorite memories from past halo’s was when I put halo 2 in and went to the main menu and hearing the monk chants and then hearing the female vocals come in.

Listen to the female vocals in this track, my god what wonderful music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSDeT6dPSU

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The days of Halo 2 were the best, the most fond memories of a Halo game I had, and an online experience that made Xbox boom even more. I miss those days of BTB on Containment and Waterworks, and other great maps. Not to mention the Custom Games that went on.

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My favourite Halo memory has got to be the Two Scarabs Battle. That was almost a defining moment for the game franchise, IMO.

My favourite multiplayer moment would probably be when six of our team mates left, and me and my friend were stuck inside the Hemorrhage base with Shotguns. There were two Wraiths and a Warthog circling around the base, literally. However, after they got bored of waiting for us to come out, they decided to come in - to their own peril. They kept coming in the same door over and over again, until we eventually turned the tables on them and won with a higher score.

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My favorite moment in Halo is the mission regret and you first land on Delta Halo the music just made it perfect In Amber Clad is my favorite song from the soundtrack.