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Edited by linkdude64:
2/14/2013 12:42:08 AM
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To those who have never been swept up in this kind of pre-exposition madness before.
I remember loving Halo before I knew about Bungie, and I remember not having an Xbox. Having to wait, sometimes years after their release, for the chance to actually beat every level of the newest Halo game over at friends houses via co-op on [i]their[/i] Xboxes.
By the time I got a reliable internet connection and had heard about the forum, and the rest of the community, the days of I Love Bees and Halo 3's "Iris" had become ancient history, and I would scroll through the defunct remnants of the associated domain names, trying to get a feel for what it must have been like to be a part of, but only received the pang of regret one experiences after seeing their bus drive past them a block from the stop. Too late. By the time I had joined the forum, Reach was already half-way through its own marketing campaign, which was brilliant.
Now we get to be a part of something! See it unfold with our own eyes! Many of you here are likely younger than I, having just begun my third decade of consciousness, but welcome to everyone.
Bungie sure knows how to make a gamer feel all warm and fuzzy inside. No other game publishers do this. Not even Valve. BUNGiE4LYF.
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1 ReplyI remember reading about ilovebees when I first joined. I was super pumped when the Iris ARG came out. Even though I wasn't a big part of solving much, it was still really fun. The discussions we had were really good. And because of the massive hype surrounding Halo 3 at that time, the amount of people working together to solve Bungie's puzzles and stuff was amazing. There was also a smaller ARG that Halo ODST had, and that was good fun as well. It was great because they actually had an "AI" post and we got really excited. I can't wait. This is going to be awesome.
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2 RepliesI made this account 7 years ago, and have been on this site for a little longer then that. Please stop making me feel old.
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1 ReplyNice blog.
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8 RepliesBungie sucks ass anyway.
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3 RepliesI remember being a little 6 year old, and loving everybit of Halo, I would go over my cousin's house to play co-op with him on his Xbox. Then one day he showed me [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cojjVDdtB8g]this[/url]. I didn't even know B.net existed, and yet I still felt the excitement and anticipation of the game. Fun times, I hope Destiny will be good and doing this aswell.
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Yeah its a nice feeling being here before something drops.ODST was a fun one
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1 ReplyEdited by The Great DanTej: 2/14/2013 5:52:58 AMIt does kind of make me feel sad that i've been with halo for so long (it'll be either nine or ten years this christmas) yet i only discovered bungie.net and everything else bungie recently. I mean, if i had a computer when i got CE, i could've been a part of ilovebees.
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4 RepliesI actually was in a similar situation to you OP. *BroFist*
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5 Replies[quote]having just begun my second decade of consciousness,[/quote] So you are 11?
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10 RepliesI feel the same way. I only found Halo when Halo 3 was in its prime, sometime during ODST's marketing campaign. Back then, I didn't care much about who made the games. My friend told me that I'd be able to be in the beta for the new Halo game when I bought my first game (ODST). I went to Bungie's website, and the rest is history. Although I didn't really frequent the forums, I'd regularly look up the culture of Halo and Bungie on Bungiepedia, and things like Ilovebees and IRIS really made me feel like I missed out, as well as the Superintendent. My main reason to come to Bungie were the weekly updates of exciting intel on Reach, both before and after launch. Even if I'm not contributing to the ARG solution efforts, I really feel like I can look back, just as other veterans have on ILB, IRIS, etc, and say "I was there.".
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1 ReplyI just hope we're able to pull together to solve this bad boy. We're barely cracking today's fuzzy picture as it is. :/
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1 ReplyQuite fun, isn't it? It's a part of the reason I'm still around here. Bungie does an excellent job, and it's reflected in their games and community.
