I have been playing halo since 2009 and when my dad offered me to play the xbox 360 for the first time I was a blur as a sotong(squid)my first game was my passion at the time,racing games so if you guessed it it is forza motorsport 3.After playing forza for a year,my dad found his LE copy of halo 3.He wanted to play with me (he was terrible at halo)but I lost so we played the halo 3 campaign it was fun fun and more fun.Then I went to a friends house and played halo 3 ODST multiplayer and it is halo 3 with more maps this was encouragement for me to play halo.2011 came along and the game that I hold so dear in my heart,halo reach.Halo Reach was the apex of halo the top of the mountain(for me)I brought me friends to play,laugh and have fun until we had sore throats(not really but our throats did hurt a little) then,2012,another game that I hold close to my heart,halo 4.I know what you’re thinking halo 4 was a terrible game no it was awesome the campaign was a hassle but the multiplayer was so fun and same for reach.Halo 5 my friends have gone different paths but halo 5 is my favourite game just without my friends.But I love halo This is how halo impacted my life.What is your story.
The ending of reach impacted what I thought of the series…
The fact that no matter how powerful or skilled you are…you will fall sometime…and Noble six stands proof of it… Last stand
Halo has been a huge part of my life. Just fun memories, finding everything in Halo 3, system linking with my brothers and having a blast and then when I joined Ultimate Halo it became an ever bigger part and being a part of the community is a blessing.
I’ve been playing ever since my dad brought home the first halo game on release day back in 01 I think. Ever since then it has been a tradition of ours to play every halo game coop and find all the secrets it holds. Until halo 5s release day when I brought it home and my dad got super excited. We sat on the couch ready to go and when we booted it up we couldn’t find how to play coop. So I looked it up online and saw the video about whats-his-face saying how people don’t play splitscreen. My dad was crushed. He got really sad and was to himself for about a week because our tradition since I was little until then was broken. Honestly 343 had ruined one of the most loved traditions I have ever had in my life. And I doubt there is anyways for them to gain that back. However the multiplayer in halo 5 is alright. I’d rate it about a 6 but it’s still fun. I’m enjoying the new firefight.
CE was one of the first video games in my life. I was 1 when I started.
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Really great thread to start, OP! It’s really cool to see a thread that’s both positive and inspires some thought and community-building. That is awesome how involved your dad was in your Halo-ing.
For me, I started playing FPS games on PC and Halo was my very first console FPS…and I was horrible. It took me until Halo 2 to become mildly accustomed to controller-based FPS shooting, but experiencing these grand sagas with a friend in co-op was what made me a permanent Halo faithful. Playing every Halo campaign (console release) in co-op has been a highlight of gaming life. And now, Halo 5 provided another FPS first for me: regularly playing multiplayer PvP, which I haven’t been into since the PC FPS days.
For me it was heading round a friends house back in 2001 to see what the fuss was about this halo thing he kept banging on about. 4 player split screen games on small TV’s. 8 player system link games. Good times!
I was in college at the time when Halo 2 became a really huge phenomenon. I remember playing a lot on my friends Xbox because I didn’t have one at the time. I even played Halo CE when that came out for the PC. Then my senior year Halo 3 came out and by then I did have a 360, so that was the first Halo game I really got immersed in. Been hooked ever since. Love doing the campaigns co-op on legendary with different skulls on, and the online has always been fun to me.
I’m in my forties, & have enjoyed video gaming for a very large portion of my life. Being a solid Sony fan( PS1-PS3), I wasn’t interested in Halo for a long time. Since CE, friends had been trying to get me into it, with no success. I’m also figure collector have been for a while, too. Then, sometime in 2010, I was browsing a collectors forum, when I saw some great pics of Halo Reach figures, & suddenly I had to know more! I went to Halopediea & wiki, watched all the cutscenes, then the whole game on Youtube, & was HOOKED.
From there I did the same for ALL the Halo game books, comics, movies, & stop motion comics (Headhunters & such).I borrowed my sister in law’s 360, & her copy of Halo Reach, & spent a couple of months in multiplayer, which I adored. Later on, I made the mistake of thinking that Bungie was going to hit gold (with me) twice with Destiny. I was there for a full year, right up until The Taken King, at which point I just stopped playing. Then I saw adds for Halo 5, sneak peeks at gameplay, & decided to give Xbox a shot. Around my birthday in the fall, my wife gave me a copy of H5G .Well, I also have three awesome kids, so getting an Xbox 1 wasn’t something I decided (or could even if I wanted to) to make happen overnight. After crawling out of Christmas debt, I traded in my copy of destiny, (no capital for YOU), & picked up the system. Have been loving the multiplayer ever since.
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John’s duty, honor and sacrifice can affect more people than the people who play the game if it’s taken to heart.
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> For me, I started playing FPS games on PC and Halo was my very first console FPS…and I was horrible. It took me until Halo 2 to become mildly accustomed to controller-based FPS shooting, but experiencing these grand sagas with a friend in co-op was what made me a permanent Halo faithful. Playing every Halo campaign (console release) in co-op has been a highlight of gaming life. And now, Halo 5 provided another FPS first for me: regularly playing multiplayer PvP, which I haven’t been into since the PC FPS days.
Halo was my first FPS but it took me until September 2015 to even improve.But I am still bad.I have fun by winning and having a great clip like killing Pingy with my pistol(actually did that) but I lost that game Pingy is fun to play with and so is all of you.Now with DVR,I can record those great clips.I got a overkill with a whiplash I never thought I could do that so to be good at halo,practise,and play hard
His name is John, my name is John. No family but the one he’s found, same on my end. Theres been a lot of parallels…
Great thread: Part 1: Um wow, my Halo story? It goes back to the early 2000s in grade school when a classmate of mine named Bryan was talking about a game he got for something called an “Xbox” called Halo. Based on the name I thought it was some anime game involving angels or demons or something. Then I heard it was a “military first person shooter” and that at one point he was fighting “ghosts, banshees and wraiths”. From that I assumed it was a military shooter where Marines were fighting super natural beings with guns till someone told me it was aliens with vehicles named after supernatural entities which made a lot more sense.
Some years later I started seeing TV ads in 2004 for some action game with a dude in green body armor, epic voices in the background, guns, explosions and a very memorable voice at the end saying “There are those that said this day would never come. What are they to say now?” With the logo for Halo 2 before it said “Rated M for Mature.”. It was at that point I knew I wouldn’t be allowed to get it or play it but I was definitely interested.
I eventually forgot about that TV ad until a friend of mine invited me over to his house to watch him “punch an old alien dude in the face on his floating wheelchair”. That sounded hilarious so I went over and watched him play through the level that I now know is called “Regret”.
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I remember being back in school prior to Halo CE becoming what it is. I was checking that dang website every day while Halo was still in it’s 3rd person shooter phase, seeing the E3 trailer which had me more excited then any release before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpXVArrf-W0
Then the website came down when Microsoft made the acquisition, and everything changed. Personally I was devastated at first once the new direction was revealed, and even when the game came out I was still a bit disappointed in the final product. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Flood, I thought it took away from the epicness of the power that was the Covenant. But after accepting the changes and playing through the story a couple times it became a huge staple in my life.
My fondest memory was being in a networking class and the teacher encouraging bringing our consoles to network together to see the material first hand. Had a lot of good times during those classes when we were allowed to do that, and any of the LAN parties at friends houses. (oh the domino’s pizza box towers) There was something about hauling around consoles and TVs and crap that was actually fun. I had the XBox accessories that added to the console, speakers, storage, and a screen…wish they would bring that back. I’ve yet to try the Gaems rig.
Oh and can’t forget the introduction to Bawls energy drinks…got my first taste of that while playing I think Halo 2 at an internet gaming cafe.
I was 12 and my brother was 11 when Halo: CE came out for the Xbox. We played a lot of campaign co-op together, and it was one of the ways we were able to bond. Halo 2 was incredible to see when I watched the opening cutscene at 1 in the morning, and loved how it focused on the Covenant. That aspect of H2 is what I had been waiting for, ever since reading Halo: The Flood novel. I even have good memories of watching my brother and his best friend at elementary school play Halo: CE together. And good memories of binge-watching the first three seasons of RvB online. I even tried to write my own Halo fan-fic from the point of view of the Covenant, but it didn’t end up going anywhere in the end.
Halo has been a big part of my life. It is why I am very sad/disappointed with the franchise right now. No interest in H5 or any of the new novels beyond Shadow of Intent and Broken Circle (reflecting my interest in stories purely from the Covenant POV).