I've been a follower of Bungie ever since I played Pathways Into Darkness, and especially since Marathon. Of course I'm an avid Halo fan... Halo 2 basically summed up my years of a high school student from November 7th of my Sophomore year until Halo 3 came out when I was at UNC. Because of that, it's literally impossible to think of just one memory. I just have years of time with Halo 2 being my go to game with my friends, who would stay up late with me, eat some pizza, and laugh hysterically at the crap we'd do in the game. I played Halo 2 on the day of its shutdown until 3 in the morning. When I walked into my Chinese class the day after, I humbly wrote on the whiteboard, "RIP Halo 2. November 7th 2005 - April 15th 2010". It's good to hear about Jason Jones, btw. Like I said, I've been a fan for a long time, so he's kind of a hero of mine. I hope his new project is awesome. [Edited on 04.19.2010 7:40 PM PDT]

When i heard that halo 2 was getting shutdown i cried lol. My best memory of playing halo 2 was when i was playing online Team Slayer on Lockout and i picked up the sniper. I aimed shot and got a 2 for one to start the game. R.I.P Halo 2 love ya

I have tons of memories of Halo 2. Almost all of them good. The one I'm posting is the best I have though. I ran into a member of Clan EGM in matchmaking. We became friends. He let me play in a game with Dan Hsu and lots of other Former writers for EGM. We had fun. I became friends with them all. I was invited into the clan and played with them all the time. Eventually I even got invited to play in the Humpday challenge. We totally owned Bungie and it was great. But by far the best memory pertaining to Halo 2 was how I got to go to E3 05. One of the EGM staff helped me get in. It was awesome and in a round about way it was all because of Halo 2. Halo 2 was great....Even though the community could be ridiculous sometimes I still enjoyed it. I will miss it.

Campaign on legendary, final mission. Me and my friend landed on the scarab with sniper rifles and just sat there trying not to die and too scared to come out. Then when we finaly did, we lost all the banshees but one and ended up having to get him to fly whilst i stood on the top. Took so many attempts, but was awesome balancing, shame no way to record haha. Then getting chased around by tartarus on the final section was like 'omg omg omg omg, up the grav lift, down the grav lift, up the grav lift, hide, ahh tarturus, down the grav lift.....' bye halo 2 :( though still campaign :D [Edited on 04.19.2010 9:34 AM PDT]

Oh, Halo 2. All those split screen games. Then my first XBL game. We can have 16 people in one game without having to set up 4 Xboxs and without finding 16 people for those Xboxs?! All those hours of driving around Coagulation. All those Zombie games on Foundation. Cops and robbers on Lockout. I'll miss you Halo 2. But there are still LAN parties! [Edited on 04.19.2010 9:04 AM PDT]

H2 was the 1st Halo game I played. I played it until my "freind" stole it & my Xbox broke. Couldn't recover my GT so I had to make a new one & by the time that happened they stopped selling copies of H2 out here. My freind on Xbox live bought me a copy & sent it... didn't get here till sunday. :( Besides the sob story I'll just say that I'm sad this day had to come. If only Bungie had their own servers. [Edited on 04.19.2010 7:35 AM PDT]

It all began with Halo, my real introduction into gaming. For months and months, my friends and I tore through that game, beyond the tearing limits. But truly, when Halo 2 released, after months of following internet reviews and magazine articles, something within that group of high-school buddies clicked. For years, we played Halo 2 almost every day. Forging some great memories. One of the best: King of the Hill; Midship; static hill in the very center of the map. Shotguns, and grenades. 12+ players. This resulted in every man spawning, tossing a haphazardly aimed grenade into the center of the hill, and then running in after it, knowing he would be met with his own grenade in a few seconds along with everyone else's. The LOWEST score in the end was 30+. I'll never forget it.

I only played one online game of Halo2... (shrug) I loved the SP game though.

i just want to add how i feel. i have had a lot of names but i remember the most about halo 2 was playing some of the best in the world over live. then my income got cut. so i had to end xbox live. but i found a program call xbox connect. and i found a new set of friends. it was a program that let you system link your console over the net. so i found my self with a new set of friends. and we all played halo 2. i seen some awesome mods to halo. i even made some my self for xbox connect. i can say ive seen the true love for this game. there was a program for modded xboxes called project mimesis. and it had home brewed maps. i made some maps my self and had the honer of getting them added. but i stayed true to bungie map style.i made a map called arial. and arial 2.they were banshee dog fighting maps. it was a fun map. that had torrets and rocket launchers as well. well balanced map. i even made 3 diffrant banshees. i was a good moder. not a cheat to win one. most were re skins. and some had some awesome weapon mods but i saw the love for the game. i know that most people hated modders. but most of the people that work at a comp like bungie are like us at 1 time. i had a love for the game that surpassed the normal bounds. i wish i could of been there. for that last day. to stand and say good bye to halo 2 over live. but she will never die. xbox connect will help the halo 2 fans live the good old days. im proud to say i gave hell in a clan called dead on arrival. and legendary dynasty. we are now on live. im called VriezerX.

Ah H2 I will miss you so... I think what I will remember the most is the atmosphere when H2 just started being the same as when it ended, everyone being on just to have fun. The night of the 15th, we thought we would be kicked off right at 12am Pacific and when we didn't everyone that was on grouped up and started counting down the number of active players. We started at around 1200 and most of us made it to top 100 at around 6am Central. It was great sending off H2 in the BTB arena where I first started playing on live. To the few that are still playing I wish you luck to be the last spartan standing!

Rest easy Halo 2. I didn't play much, but what little I did was the most fun I've had in a long time. *cries* [Edited on 04.18.2010 9:45 PM PDT]

Halo 2 was awesome!

Epic News Article! I will miss Halo 2. :(

Favorite Halo 2 memory would just be playing 4-man rockets on assembly, so much fun.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] urk There are those who said this day would never come... [/quote] I was one of those and now that it has come... i don't know what to say except thank you bungie. and microsoft i hate you for taking away matchmaking but we still have the campaign to play so there is that [Edited on 04.18.2010 10:20 PM PDT]

Dave Dunn part 2 is the greatest story about halo I have ever heard, ever, especially with Joe and that the story culminated in the punch. Dave's writing the campain for Reach, right. Right?

greetings bungie.net. my halo 2 story is a rather unique one, i first played it when i was about 8, played it the second day it was out. a friend of mine had it, and i'd be wanting to go to his house all the time to play it. my parents began to worry about me (lol). after a few years, my brother got his original xbox, this was just a few months before the 360 came out, anyway, halo 2 was the first game we got. another few years, halo 3 came out. i was set on getting it. though i couldnt for about two years, s i was stuck with halo 2. i didnt have LIVE so i was just playing campaign over and over again for a year and a half. then i got my 360, it was on election day 2008. i got halo 3 and beat it in two days, and was finally on live so i played the multiplayer tons as well. then i decided to try halo 2's multiplayer. ill never forget the first time i BXR'd a guy. then, a few months ago when i heard that micro$oft was going to cut off live for xbox originals, i literally cried. i played halo 2 like an addict, only fr it to be ended a few days ago. halo 2, you will remain in my heart forever, R.I.P.. *salutes* EDIT: i also wanted to share my favorite campaign experience. me and a buddy were playing the level where you kill regret (i cant believe i cant remember what its called). he was killing the guard while i jumped on his chair beat the living -blam!- out of him. in fact, i think i'll go do that right now! [Edited on 04.18.2010 5:34 PM PDT]

I made sure that my last game was on my favorite map (not by modding): Coagulation. Good bye Halo 2. I wish I knew you better (online wise).

Read the whole thing, I loved how Staten took the shot [i]before[/i] pulling his pants up. Thank you, Bungie. Too many memories to make a single post about Halo 2. So many games played. :)

That made me laugh and cry. It's like an ex-girlfriend you could never get over. Farewell old girl. We will all miss you. -K-

It refuses to die...

I remember playing Ghost busters after I saw it mentioned in a Bungie weekly update. Juggernaut was invisible, with a brute shot I believe and everyone else had Sentinel Beams, it was on Backwash (one of the unfortunately lesser used maps) and it was a blast. I actually played Halo 2 before I got my hands on Halo CE and it has been my favourite Halo game ever since. I think that a big chunk of your registered campaign play time would have come straight from my Xbox, as I played through the Halo 2 campaign probably over 20 or 30 times. I adored it, the indepth narrative for the Covenant was amazing and so refreshing from the usual boring nemises you fight in other games. I loved playing as the Arbiter, the empathy you felt for the Elites when the brutes began the genocide and how much you wanted to take out Truth. That friggin cliff hanger ending though! Argh! I worked my arse off to kill Tartarus the first time round and was so excited for the epic finale, but it only made me more excited for Halo 3. Matchmaking was a blast and I still miss Custom games like Star Wars and Tower of Power on Ascension (my favourite), Hide and Seek on Turf and of course, Zombies on Foundation and Zombie survival on Headlong (the map I most wanted remade for Halo 3). Halo 3 never had the same Custom game pull that Halo 2 did, that's all me and my friends did, play Customs and have a fricken blast! There was never any anger about it (unless someone refused the honour rules and started shooting as a Zombie or changed teams without warning grrrr). Super bouncing. Oh my god, super bouncing. That was amazing, the glitches were so entertaining. Me and that same group of friends used to go to Turf, superbounce out of the map and then we would butterfly jump onto the top of buildings. We'd then sword lunge at each other and fly off the buildings, across the entire map. We must have spend upwards of several days just doing that, just chilling, smoking cigs, talking about nothing and have the greatest time in the world. Simpler times. I hope Reach takes a lot from Halo 2, I hope the emphasis on Customs is greater, I hope that old maps will make a return as an homage to the most amazing game I ever played. It will forever be my favourite Halo game, with it's amazingly in-depth campaign and astoundingly fun multiplayer, which created frienships for me that have lasted 5 years. I loved Halo 2, I still love it and I'm sure Reach will do Bungie proud. But Bungie has already done itself proud by showing such great emotion over the loss of Halo 2, it makes me endlessly happy to see a gaming company that isn't just out for the money, but loves the games they make and the fans that love them back. Peace out Halo 2, don't worry, your future is in good hands and I'll still play through your campaign for endless eons to come. <3 Nirvana985, the same gamertag from Zombies, that couldn't get passed level 21 on Halo 2. <3 <3 <3 [Edited on 04.18.2010 9:34 AM PDT]

It's sad this day had to come... We will all miss H2. Thanks 4 the memories Bungie<3

Oh wait!!! 7 are backck?????????????????????? 7? 7? 7? 7? 7? 7? 7? SEVEN...

Halo 2 is Ofiicially dead!!!!!!!!! We are going to miss you!! Around 9:00am to 9:09 am 6 remained giving the last hurrah. Now, Halo 2 on Xbox Live is no more. Great times indeed! Thanx Bungie for Master Chief, Cortana and everyone!!!

Halo 2 I loved it hope that Halo 2 will have matchmaking again sometime Halo2 goobye specail thanks to bungie for one of the best games from Halo1 to halo waypoint thanks for the best games ever,lomow