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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 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
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Halo 2 was my first online gaming experience. One of my first games was slayer on Beaver Creek, and I distinctly remember taking a severe beating. Indeed, it was here that I learned the dynamics of playing against other people - online, NOT in splitscreen! Thank you, Bungie! RIP Halo 2.
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my fondest memory after playing for years of Halo 2 on lans to later find out that there was such a thing as an online community that would also play from around the world against. Thank you halo 2 for helping me "Jump In" to Xbox Live.
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I miss Halo 2 already :( There are those who said this day would never come...what are they to say now?
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<3 Halo 2. My favorite moment ever: 2 flag CTF on Containment. Got matched up against a modder, and when the game started everyone had been dropped/booted save me and one of the modder's teammates. The modder started flying a tank like it was a banshee and raining down hell, and I still managed to beat them. :)
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what a great game. after halo 1, this was my gateway drug to all that is online gaming and trash talking. thank you, bungie. each and every one of you. fav halo 2 memory? definitely a CTF game on waterworks. i grab a wraith, head over to the red base to try and distract and destroy so my team can grab their flag. i start firing, start getting kills. soon enough, ive got a 26 kill streak and we win the game. im sure the other team was reaaaaaaally pissed at me lol. i was laughing so hard tho. whenever me and my friend would play online, it would always start at lockout, swords to 25. and we would play it every single time. it was awesome. thanks bungie. much love
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Well, an age of the Xbox Live passed, taking with it gods and temples, hopes and dreams; but when we turn our head we see the new era comming, ready to be build. Halo 2 was my first Xbox Live game, it was the game that tunned me into the Xbox Live world. I will miss the times when I died and when I killed someone; the rockets in pursuit of it's target. The cheats (well, not much that part). However, Halo 2 was agreat game, the campaing and the online game; we'll all miss online gaming. Team of Halo 2 thanks for giving us a window to the future; and the key to open that window. JORGE 58236
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i almost wanted to cry when i read this, closing the door on such an epic chapter of an on going saga i must've spent a sizable percentage of my middle and high school careers playing halo 2, didn't get XBL til 360 came out though so that just made halo 2 that much better for me spending hours matchmaking, playing zombies, perfecting super jumps and glitches (never to be used in ranked games mind you) i think my two best memories were both playing with my friend murphy. the first one was when we were in his basement playing and it was midnight and i had a curfew to be home so i said one more game then i had to peace. one final epic zombies game on turf (greatest map ever). so it was me and murphy vs his two brothers, one older one younger and they were human still, while i was one the zombie team with and they got in the warthog turret (cheating i kno but the game continued) so for hours we used our swords to slowly inch crates towards the warthog and finally, 3am victory, then we continued to play some silly slayer games, just messin around, but as much time as i wasted in that single night, i'll always remember it as one of my best halo experiences my other best memory was one day last summer or two summers ago, it was after halo 3 came out but me and my friends wanted some classic halo, so once again i called upon my good friend murphy to supply an xbox 360 and bring it over my house. i conveniently had a 25ft lan cable and two tvs in two separate rooms that were a little under 25 ft apart. so we rallied up a dozen friends or so, set up the systems, and spent the rest of the afternoon doing team slayer, ctf, assault, and then just more screwin around but those are just the prime choices of a whole selection of memories, i dont hav enough time or patience to write them all and i'm sure you dont have enough to read them all hope its still on tmo night when i get back to college so that i can have one final dance with halo 2 online
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When I heard that Halo 2 Online was coming to an end, there was only 2 people I could think of contacting; Marcus and Paul. Some backstory is required to fully understand what this means. For many people, Halo 2 was a place to just jump into matches with their buddies, to shoot other people playing with their buddies, or solo. For me though, Halo 2 was a place that I met two buddies. I remember vividly playing Team Slayer on Zanzibar, when through proximity chat (thank you for that feature Bungie) I heard these two guys going back and forth with family guy quotes, and it was just cracking me up. So I started talking to the two guys. So after the match, we joined up into our new team, and so it began. Obviously before logging off that day, we were on each other's friends list, and so after that, we would continue meeting up online and playing some halo 2 to relax and enjoy ourselves. For months this continued, and so we started talking more and more, and then all of a sudden, we have each other's screen names on AIM, and Facebook accounts, and I am talking to these guys on a daily basis outside of Halo 2, all the way to this very day. This all happened back in May 2005, and to this day I am still close friends with these guys, who by the way, live in Illinois, and I live in New York. Halo 2 became not only a place where I fragged countless enemies, but where I met two guys who I essentially hang out all the time with. Because of things like proximity chat, partying up on the "virtual couch" as it's been called, and just the unpredictability of Matchmaking, I now have two buddies who I've killed other people with...in Halo 2, 3, and ODST, and soon, Reach. What I am trying to say is, thanks for the memories Bungie, you did and still do know how to make a great online experience, one that cultivates social interaction and fun -blam!- times. Can't wait to call up Marc and Paul for some Reach action in the beta
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I love it when Bungie talks about stuff that gets omitted from their games.
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What saddens me the most is how every game I played on the 14th I heard "Why have I never played this before? This is awesome!" or "This is way better the Halo 3." At least they got a taste of it before it was gone. Thanks for the memories and the nearly 8000 games I got to play over live.
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R.I.P. old friend... We will miss you so.
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First of all, thank you Bungie for making such a great game. This game was truely the best game ever. What I liked about this game was the end scene of the last level and the scene after the credits. That was the best.
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Ah, remembering when I picked up my copy of Halo 2. I had so many expectations for this game and it excelled on so many of them. From playing as the Arbiter to drop-podding into Delta Halo to the glorious level Gravemind, I'm left with nothing but awe, excluding the multiplayer. <3
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I had the privilege and hellacious good time of being Bungie's Microsoft lawyer during the later development and release of Halo 2. While "lawyer" and "fun" aren't usually linked together except as antonyms, the experience working with the brilliant people at Bungie during that time ranks as my top professional experience. We certainly had enough rocky and really stressed out times, such as reviewing the script and finding some potentially serious geopolitical issues that were a bear to wrestle with. Other things were easier to resolve, like just letting those guys at Roosterteeth go ahead with that Red vs. Blue thing and screw the trademark and copyright issues. We also started the initial licensing and merchandizing that led to the wave of stuff that Halo is today (so you decided to do the Halloween costumes finally, eh?). Through it all, I was living a professional fantasy - a lawyer who's a gamer working on games. And working with Bungie too boot. The Bungie team invited me to the EMP launch party, and that, combined with launch night itself, will probably be the closest I come to feeling like a rock star. I had people asking me for autographs on the release poster at EMP, even after I explained I was only the lawyer. And the coolest experience was driving the XBOX Escalade into the middle of Redmond Town Center on launch night, the hundreds of cheering people lined up along the balconies above waiting for the doors to open, as team Bungie arrived to enthusiastic roars. Thanks to Pete and Frank and Brian and Marty and The Princess and the rest of the gang from those days who let me come in and work, learn, play and gawk. It was such a great time. And finally, thanks for putting me in the end credits. Now I'm immortal too, like the legacy that is your work. Congratulations and best wishes. Hubert
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True that.
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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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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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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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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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Awww...the closest thing to play online with friends like Halo 2 is ODST. :(
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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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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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beautifully said forum ninja [Edited on 04.17.2010 9:52 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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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]
