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4/16/2010 9:56:31 PM
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One Final Effort
There are those who said this day would never come...
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Halo 2 got me into the franchise, its hard to believe its gone. I guess onwards and upwards (jetpack reference). My fondest memories were teaching my little brother to play. Five years later he owns me whenever we play. Thanks Bungie, for making great games. Can't wait for Reach, Reach, Reach, Reach!
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I have so many fond memories, most will stay with me for the rest of my life. I will just say that Halo 2 is more than a video game, is like one of those things in the lifespan of a person that are simply Amazing and almost out of this world. As a Hardcore Halo Fan and Player, besides Day 1 buyer of each Halo (except Halo CE and Wars)...Here it goes again: Thank You Bungie So Much! Not just for being such great Developers but also for being the terrific Human Beings you are! Last but not least, the importance and transcendence of the Halo Community is an aspect few Game Franchises enjoy nowadays. Great Job Boys & Girls for Making Halo feel like a second Home! I really Hope that the future holds even better and greater experiences provided by the incredible Bungie Games, perhaps Reach has a great chance to do this...Let's See! All in all there is no Doubt Bungie will continue to develop Legendary titles, be it Halo-based or something completely New! [Edited on 04.16.2010 9:06 PM PDT]
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By far, my favorite halo 2 times were the endless hours of Tower of Power, yelling switch sides after someone was infected and didnt switch on zombies, and all the games of Cat and Mouse we played.
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I miss Halo 2 already.
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those were great stats, but how many people were on in the last 24 hrs or halo 2's life? oh and i want to say with out halo 2 i probably would not be addicted to xbl and with out xbl i would prob be a pot head or something so THANK YOU HALO [Edited on 04.16.2010 10:17 PM PDT]
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How were the final 50 determined? I played the heart and soul out of Halo 2 for the past few months and I wish I could still play. :(
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What an intriguing and nostalgic article. I love reading the what ifs and the rest of the stories. It makes games more fun. Thanks! Halo 2, As I mourn your loss, I also celebrate your victories. You introduced me to online play and a wonderful community. Many memories I hold in my heart for you. Some bad, but mostly good. The superboucing and button combos hurt me deeply, as well as your rank resets. But you gave me four wonderful map packs,with 11 new total maps. You [i]made[/i] Xbox Live the pinnacle of what it should always have been. You gave me medals, headaches, joy, peace, and friendships, but even if all those things are forgotten, my memories of you will remain in me. -Duardo
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It's hard to get my head around this, that this era has passed, officially marked with the end of original xbox live. So many hours at friend's houses running through campaign, racing to the end of the Maw for the umpteenth time, chugging mountain dew past midnight, or finally getting that smackdown on my best friend. That's what Halo was to me at least, and I'm tearing up. To think I spent a decade in this wonderful universe. If I could go back I wouldn't do anything differently, maybe just play more Halo. Thank you, Bungie.
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My favorite memories of Halo 2 have got to come from Ascension, and Coagulation.those 2 maps rock! flying a banshee in Multi-player, using the BR for the first time, jacking my first vehicle, all the fun times spent with friends on LIVE and in System link, no game(even Halo 3) has come close to covering the awesome scope of what a game is capable of doing. Halo 2 was awesome first, and a game second. Growing up with Halo 2 made high school, and early college life easier, thinking about it brings back all the fun memories, all the laughs, all the trash talk, all the "DID YOU SEE THAT?!" moments, all come rushing back when i look back on that game, I'm tearing up in this nostalgic moment, it's that touching to see this game's passing, the end of a chapter, so to speak. losing Halo 2 is gonna be hard, like losing an old friend, I'm gonna miss it a lot, but I'll always have my memories, and i wouldn't trade those for world. Thanks Bungie, for such a wonderful game, i hope you keep 'em coming for a long time to come. [Edited on 04.16.2010 11:20 PM PDT]
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Good Lord, where to begin? So many great Halo 2 memories. I could go on for pages listing all of them. It's been a really great ride. Having been into the game from the beginning, I got to see all the changes it went through from launch until now. I got to talk smack and plant bombs with total strangers. (To this day Halo 2 is the only game in which I friended and played custom games with strangers.) I got to make insane flag captures, then rant about them later with my friends. I got to LAN and play custom games with a regular group of friends. I got to I got to discover that the game had lots of little surprises, even after 5 years. I got to -blam!- about SMG starts and power weapons. And then I got to reminisce about SMG starts and power weapons. I got to meet people years later who [i]also[/i] played Halo 2 when it came out. So yeah. Basically the most important game of my childhood. I didn't grow up on Nintendo. I grew up on Halo 2.
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My eyes hurt (I swear It's from all the reading! I'm a man, men don't cry!)
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I remember rushing home in first year of uni with my flatmate with a copy of Halo 2 each and having to avoid talking to each other for 2 days to avoid spoilers. there was the disbelief in the last two levels as the cliffhanger ending became inevitable. There was the agony and ecstasy of playing online for the first time on something approaching dial-up. There was fun. Thank you Bungie :)
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A terrific article. Very nostalgic, indeed. So long, Halo 2, and thanks for introducing me not only to online multiplayer, but also one hell of a community.
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My best memories of Halo 2 were at the beginning of 2007 when I first got Live. Even though I had owned Halo 2 since 2004, playing online had to be one of the best gaming moments ever. Having all my cousins coming around for some 4 player Xbox Live was pure awesome.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow. I never played it on this account, but I logged thousands of hours on my first XBL account.
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I will never forget my first halo 2 game on xbox live. I bought halo 2 as soon as it came out, and for about 2 years a played splitscreen with my friends. I got to the point where i needed to turn on a severe handicap to keep it fair. I finally got a 100 foot Ethernet cable and xbox live for christmas. When i set it up and was ready to go i remember wanting to make a name for myself and wanting everyone to remember my name, so i was soo nervous playing cause i didnt want to ruin my non existing rep. SO, my first game was on the rumble training playlist, and it was a warlock free for all. I was shaking so hard from nervousness and excitement i coulnt land my BR shots. The entire game i was in agony because there was one player i could not get ahead and cept me in second the entire match. He was just running around the sides with a shotgun. I think i came in second my 3 or 5 kills, but it was the best online experience of my life. thanks bungie, there are no words That'll do h2, that'll do. [Edited on 04.17.2010 9:49 AM PDT]
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Well that took some time to read fully. I especially enjoyed the part with the Flood Sea Monkeys! Halo 2 will be missed by many, but now it's now to read through that storypage link.
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beautifully said forum ninja [Edited on 04.17.2010 9:52 AM PDT]
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Probably my best memory was in a game on Relic with one of my friends. *On top of the structure Friend: "Hey man that warthog is flying" Me: "Warthogs can't fl..." *Flying guass warthog passing by me 20 feet in the air Me: "WTF?" Halo 2 you will be missed, but I am glad I still have the memories. [Edited on 04.17.2010 10:04 AM PDT]
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Halo 2 brought me back to console gaming after a rather long pause of 10 or 12 years or so. I bought an Xbox and Halo two the Christmas H2 came out, played one level, then went right back to the store and bought CE so I could play through the story. I played those campaigns countless times. I never got into online matchmaking until H3 but I have a myriad of fond memories from the missions of the first two games. You've made an excellent franchise and I'm looking forward to Reach.
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Awww...the closest thing to play online with friends like Halo 2 is ODST. :(
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this actually made me tear up...I remember being the annoying little kid everyone hated then puberty hit...hha good times good times
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My fondest memories of Halo 2... There's so many of them... I kept playing right until the end. If I needed to get away from H3's boosters and whiners, I took out the ol' H2 disk and fired up some matchmaking. And back then I practically LIVED in the campaign mode besides the Multiplayer. All my friends already had the 360 when I was still playing on the classic Xbox. And when I finally got the 360, I ended up with 2 accounts, one for the old Xbox and one for the 360. The most H2 games are logged on the old account. A friend once calculated how many gametime I had put in up until that moment. He ended up with 43 days of 24/7 non-stop gametime in total. Kinda says it all. One of the fondest memories is propably this. I had a friend over at my place who hardly plays videogames at all, and certainly no shooters. I hadn't been on H2 for a long while because of me mostly playing H3 now. So I took her to Lockout in H2, she wanted to see what I was always talking about when I mentioned Matchmaking and H2. We all know that people who are not familiar with the controlscheme have the hardest time even just walking/looking around. They always end up either looking up at the sky or at their feet and bumping into things. So I positioned myself squarely in front of her Chiefs' face and told her to try to keep looking at my Elites' face when walking over the map. So I ended up walking backwards over the map while guiding her along, making all the jumps without ever looking or falling into the abyss. And this was after not having been there for a LONG while. She looked at me in amazement and said; "Dude, you just walked across the whole map backwards without ever having to look where you're at or where to go. Even the jumps you can do blind. Something tells me you have been here a LOT!" Up until then I hadn't even realised what I was doing. We looked at each other and laughed. I said: "I guess they weren't joking when they said that I practically lived here when I am at home from work." Even today in H3 I still catch myself wasting a perfectly good bubbleshield or drainer because the ingrained "Press X to reload" creeps into my fingers now and then. Goodbye dear Halo 2, you will be sorely missed, even with all the cheaters and hackers that plagued you. And I probably will log some more hours in the campaign, just to hear the Grunts shout all kinds of funny thing.
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My first time hooking up xbox live is probably the BEST experience I had on xbox live. I remember my first halo 2 match, it was BTB, I always imagined how fun it would be to play with 15 other people, I only played in local with my 2 brothers. Me and my brother became the masters at COAGULARION MULTI FLAG. We would rush into the warthog, powerslide into the enemy base, 1 goes up and we bring the flag back. so many memories of CLOSE btb games, we had tons of come-backs, this is the best FPS series I will ever play.
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Epic article! Halo 2 was an amazing game, and it will be dearly missed. Thanks Bungie, for making a fantastic game that brought us all so much joy!
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True that.
