The Gamercide community would like to thank everyone who has worked on the Halo series. Everyone of you are responsible for providing us with unforgettable memories that will last a lifetime. So to every single one of you that have poured every bit of energy that you could muster into the Halo series over the years we raise our glasses and say, "Thank You". Without you, the following memories would not be possible.
"I remember playing Halo CE over and over again with my friends. It was truly the first FPS I played and I fell in love with it. I played the entire campaign on Legendary from day one and we beat that game like it was nothing. I still remember the last lvl, The Maw, when the pillar is about to explode and you're driving like hell from the flood to get to the escape ship. That was where I finally figured out how to drive the warthog properly lol. Halo 2's first lvl was such a pain in the butt on Legendary, running into one of the first rooms the covenant landed in and getting mowed down by those two turrets. Nothing was more painful than that lvl, but I had a blast getting through it.
Then there was the online. With out a doubt in my mind I can say if it weren't for the Halo 2 online I would not own an Xbox 360 or an Xbox Live account. The online had soo many glitches but they were alot of fun to mess around on. The sword sniping, sword canceling, that one time I saw a flying warthog in blood gultch, super bounces and so much more. I was never the best but I could damn well hold my own.
The midnight launch for Halo 3. I'll remember sitting in Gamestop bs'ing with everyone for a long time to come. I was so happy when I got my spartan helmet out of the box at home. It was the first Halo game I could afford to purchase myself and I was able to get the special edition which made it all the better. I stayed up all night playing that game, even got the day off from school and work just so I could play it all day. I was the first one in my school to beat the game on Legendary." - Stealthy Shadows
"First time playing Halo was when I was about 12, we were at a family friends party, and with no other kids my age around the adults just set me up with Halo and I played for almost the entire time I was there, but whenever I played a 1 on 1 with anyone they would destroy me.
Later that summer I was staying at my friends house for a week, at this time I didn't have an Xbox original or 360, but my friend did and he had Halo CE, out of that entire week i must have logged over 72 hours on it. This was the only reason I decided to get an Xbox 360 on my 13th birthday and the only game i got with it was Halo 2.
That was only a month and a half before the release of Halo 3 which i picked up on release day. Halo 3 was the game everyone had, and everyone played, yet I was addicted and in a very short time I became the best player out of anyone I knew. I near mastered almost everything to do with Halo 3, getting up to a brigadier in almost no time at all, while finding time to make kick-ass maps in forge I've logged over 3000 matchmaking games and over 4000 custom games." -InfernoParadox
"I was a late bloomer to the Xbox experience. I was always a Sony girl and was told that the Xbox's graphics sucked and to not get one. Then one day [this was after Halo CE was a $20 game] we got an Xbox at my house. My brothers and I fell in love with the game. Even though our internet sucked and we couldn't play online with people at all for Halo 2, we played the hell outta the multiplayer for that game. Halo CE and Halo 2 made me fall in love with the Xbox and I bought my 360 pretty much just for the launch of Halo 3." -Mandy2610
"First time I played Halo: Combat Evolved I was a little kid at the age of ten years old. Basically fresh out of Chuck E Cheese. My best friends at the time and still to this day said they got this new system called an Xbox and Halo and they wanted me to come over. So I pleaded for my mom to let me play this game since it was rated 'M' and I told her I wouldn't go on a rampage packing heat at my elementary school since it was a videogame. It worked. Later that day, my mom dropped me off and I played Halo for the first time. I stayed the night over there and we had a Halo session all afternoon, all night, and the whole next morning.
I remember Halo was the first game that the bullet rounds exiting the gun after being fired actually landed on the ground and rolled according to the terrain. I literally spent five minutes in a Warthog parked on top of a hill and shot the turret at the sky just to watch the bullets roll down the hill. I was amazed. From then on out, I'm what you can call a Halo fanboy and you guys and gals know how I am. I've only grown to love Halo more since Bungie is really the "lead" developer in community involvement. Online stats came out in 2004 for Halo 2 to check all the details of your games, weapons, etc. on Bungie.net...and there are still developers who don't do this to this day. I honestly don't get it. Theater and file sharing; done in 2007 and yet Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST are the only two games that still have this system.
Bungie has honestly lead the way in community development I believe for the last ten years in the gaming industry, especially with Xbox. Matchmaking revolutionized competitive multiplayer and social multiplayer experiences. Friends could come over and you could all play online against other people from all around the world. Matchmaking, to this day, is the greatest innovation Xbox LIVE has seen. I have no doubts in my mind that without Halo 2, Xbox LIVE would definitely not be as successful as it is.
I am deeply saddened that Halo: Reach is Bungie's last Halo title, but I think this is also a great note to end on. They haven't milked the franchise and have pumped out games every year to make a quick buck. They listen to the community, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and they are respected because of that. I have no grudge towards anyone who doesn't like the Halo games, but it's hard to deny the amount of community support they give. And with that, I will always respect Bungie and ten years down the road, I'm sure developers will be looking at Halo and still breaking it down to how Bungie could always make that "30 seconds of fun" repeat over and over. " -Bogeh
"First time I played Halo, I was actually watching my neighbor's kids. They had an xbox and we played Halo all night lol, even though I did suck xD.
I played Halo a few times after that, but then Halo 2 came out. I remember being grounded when my friends called me over to play it with them. I think I was nearly on my knees asking my parents to unground me for the day lol. Eventually worked, althought I'm not shure if I convinced them or if they where jsut tired of hearing me.
Eventually got myself my own Xbox with some Christmas money, but couldn't get Halo 2, none left. But then came my birthday 2 months later, parents got me Halo 2 xD.
TBH, I never had Live until the 360. So I never realyl played Halo 2 live, until I had the 360, but I did play the crap out of it with friends and so on.
Then came the 360, oh joy, I was finally able to play Halo LIVE. I think I spent a hole damn week doing nearly nothing else but that.
I remember the first game I played, ended with 20ish kills lol. Well, I played the crap out of Halo 2 until Halo 3 came out, or until I got the 3rd game." -Kira Onime
"I played Halo: CE on my computer for the first time back around 2002.
I hadn't played a lot of them, and never touched multiplayer. Though I almost finished the entire campaign, if it weren't for my impending drug habit and ultimate hiatus from gaming for 5 years. So yeah, that's my only memory of Halo, since I haven't played 2 or 3, or ODST. I don't want to be late to that party. The next time I played a game was back in Late 2008/Early 2009, when I got my Xbox 360 for Christmas." - eminutia
"My first experiences with Halo were pretty random. The very first time I played Halo was the Halo: CE demo. It was an old PC demo I downloaded from Microsoft.com. I don't even think they have game demos on Microsoft.com anymore. I thought it was a neat game, but didn't think much of it because I only had a PS2. Later on I saw my brother playing Halo 2 and he handed me the controller. As soon as I started playing a guy jumped across some rooftops in front of me and I quickly shot him in the head a couple times with the Battle Rifle and he died in midair before he got to the other side, rag-dolling beautifully. That's when I first got hooked, and when I discovered what my favorite gun was. Afterward I played through Halo: CE and Halo 2's campaigns and was amazed. The games were way ahead of their time. I think one of my favorite parts of the series was actually the music. Marty O'Donnell made some amazing, beautiful music in the series.
I never actually owned Halo: CE or Halo 2, I just played my brother's copies. But then Halo 3 was announced. I bought an Xbox 360 in early 2007 and got into high definition gaming, anticipating Halo 3's release later that year. Months before it came out, I had the $150 Legendary Edition preordered. I sort of justified it by thinking that I had never bought the first two games, and the Legendary bonus disc contained all of the cutscenes from them in movie format, and with optional commentary, which was awesome. Halo 3 quickly became the multiplayer game that I put the most time into, even beating out Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2. I even managed to get all of the achievements in Halo 3. While many of them were done with a cooperating group, I still had to work for them because I was usually the one who organized the achievement matches. I am very proud of my 1750 in Halo 3 and my 1000 in ODST, because I love the series." -AudaciousKevin
"I thought the X-Box was a joke. I never thought I'd own one or want one. It was Sony all the way for me. Halo CE changed everything the minute I saw it. I HAD to have Halo and thus had to own an X-Box. Thanks to Halo a whole new world in gaming was opened up to me and I never looked back." -towncryer
"The first time I played Halo was combat Evolved around the year 2002. I had never seen an Xbox before and the huge old xbox controllers were intimidating but the game was so much fun. We beat the campaign between us in one night and the following night we had a huge LAN party. A few years later I bought my first Xbox and Halo CE and Halo 2 were staples between my friends and I for years to come. Halo to me has been more then just a game, when I reminisce about HS and past friends it's hard to separate those memories from this game that brought us so close together. I had so many LAN/pool parties at my house, countless nights of my Mom screaming at us cussing because my friend dropped the bomb instead of planting it or how we swore the other team was cheating because we couldn't capture the flag if our lives depended on it." -CHINESE BABOON
"A freshman at Montana State University, through knowing a blockbuster employee I was able to show up at 11:50 pm, walk to the counter, grab it, and leave. Got back to the dorms, and there was people all over, heading and returning from picking up their copy. Now at msu, the way they had their network set up, it was like one giant LAN for everybody staying in a dorm room, so all night, people were yelling, screaming, and just celebrating the release all night long, and campus was about half empty the next day." -sedington86
"I remember Halo first when I would head over to Mike's, my childhood friend, house afterschool to play the original Halo on his Xbox. Normally, I would never go near that console. I was a diehard playstation fanboy and my friend and I would get into constant arguments debating which console was better. My argument would always be, xbox sucks and it's controllers are HUGE. He would rebute this by saying Xbox was built like a computer and had better graphics. Keep in mind we were in like 5th grade at the time. Our petty fighting would get resolved overtime when Halo: Combat Evolved came out. "You know I have to give it to you Mike, Halo is the only good thing Xbox has even though it has ginormous controllers". Eventually after countless hours playing over my friend's house, I would buy my own Xbox to play Halo. Then I went onto to play games like Fable and A Bard's Tale and I fell in love with the console." -JB410
"I remember the very first time that I played Halo was when I decided to get into the series before the 3rd game came out. But that is not my most memorable moment. That moment involves a couple of friends hanging out together, playing the Big Team Battle playlist on Halo 3, and Ramen Noodles. Lol
While we were all waiting for the match to start, two of my friends were trying to cook eight packages of Ramen Noodles at once. Now the whole shebang started when one of them didn’t mute their mic to say that the ‘Ramen’ has been in the microwave for 8 minutes, after which someone immediately afterwards remarked that Ramen does not take 8 minutes to cook. Now the real fun happened once the match started. The entire team of eight people started talking nonstop about Ramen noodles saying remarks such as:
“I love how the crap is really cheap, but starts to taste like crap too if you keep buying it.”
“Ramen is good the first week, kind of good the second week, ok the third week, and absolutely sucks the forth week.”
“I wonder if they have Ramen Therapy.”
Now those are just a few of the comments that were brought up. Even though our team lost the match, it was ok because we all had a hell of a time talking about Ramen.
I understand that this may not seem very funny just reading it, but if you were there, it was a blast. LOL." -Skylark95
"The first time I played Halo was the demo for the original Halo on the big black box. I was like, WTF is this? Popped it in with my dad watching eagerly beside me and oh my goodness. We both took turns playing it and we could not stop. This was the best thing next to a PB&J.
Halo 2 online.....I first played online with my husband. I was a bit intimidated by the thought of playing this game online, but after my first match I was hooked. Team Swat and Team Snipers gave me bragging rights and you better believe I throw it in my husband's face every now and then. I say that with a huge grin on my face.
Halo 3....I will admit I cried. I cried like a baby when I thought the Chief died. Of course my husband was laughing at me the whole entire time, but whatever. I
On behalf of Gamercide, I would like to say that without this outstanding series, we would not be here today talking about what has made Halo one of the most outstanding series to ever grace a console. Bungie, you gave us a story with unforgettable characters, and we here at Gamercide give you our memories.
-The Gamercide Community
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