Back in 2004 I went through a nasty divorce involving child custody. At the time my life was pretty terrible. I would go to work, ocassionaly talk to some friends on XBOX live, and spend time with my kids when possible. I spent about a year and a half like this until I met my girlfriend on Gamertag pics.com and playing halo2 on live. When began going out and really hit it off. The first time I took her to my house we hung out playing Halo2 and Mechassault on live. We are now living together and are celebraing our 2 year anniversary tommorow, I couldnt be happier. Imagine a hot girl that doesnt get pissed when you play Xbox live. It still amazes me how I met her the way I did. Can I have some Recon armor for this? She is also a very amazing artist who is currently going to school in the hopes of someday working for Bungie or LucasArts.

I met my best friends cousin over Xbox live and we have become best friends also. in fact I talk to him more than I talk to my best friend! He said that I am his 16th best friend now. Lol. never thought it could happen!

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CriticalSpartan I used to live in the East of England and had some good friends there but when I moved to the West, I couldn't see them much. When we finally got broadband and an Xbox it was Halo 2 that kept me and my friends in contact really well. It's better than being on the phone because you're not only talking; you're also sniping someone or driving a Warthog or sneaking about carrying a bomb. So Halo kept old friends together (and still does with Halo 3) For Halloween this year I decided to stay in with my girlfriend and it was a case of do I pay attention to Halo 3 or my girlfriend. Well it was Zombie playlists so I was like "screw that, it's Halo time" so I'm sitting there pressing buttons and playing with my stick and my girlfriend decides I look sexy in my headset (I can't understand how that works) and starts doing unspeakable things to my love injection. I couldn't concentrate on the game all that much but it was worth it.[/quote] ^ My idol. Anyway, like a lot of other guys who have posted on here, I've met a lot of my best friends playing Halo. In fact, one of my long-lasting friendships from a town I have since moved away from started almost exclusively because of Halo: CE. I met the guy through a mutual friend and played Halo for the first time on his XBox. I loved it so much that I would go over to the guy's house just to play Halo. A few months later I bought my own XBox and a copy of Halo. I got to love Halo so much that I preordered Halo 2 and later Halo 3, and went to the midnight release of Halo 3. I attribute all of my Halo joy to the guy who started it all for me, my old friend. We still keep in touch to this day. Also, many people know me almost exclusively by my Halo name, Sniper Steve. It always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling at LAN parties when I hear the guys on the other team screaming, "DAMN YOU SNIPER STEVE!!!" Lol

About 2 years ago I was live and teamed up with a kid from Thailand. After showing me some impressive thumb control we became friends, Trong is now a happy and loved american citizen. The past year having him here with me to play Halo and other assorted games has been Heaven. I forgot just how good a well mannered easily intimated 13 year old boy could feel. Trong is openminded too which is great because he's not a night owl like me and I like to stay up and talk to as many boys as I can while playing Halo 3. I dont want to run a country but if any other young supple boys want to experience the same magic as Trong let me know.

Not directly from Halo 2 or Halo 3, but on Red Vs Blue I met my Girlfriend, we just had our one year anniversary on the 13th of December.

I have recently moved to a new area in Florida and when i meet new friends i ask them if they have XBox Live and mainly if they have Halo 3! It's great because most do and we play all the time and meet online before we meet in person. its great! we can leave messages too to keep up with what we will be doing later that week! Great way to keep in touch. What a Community, here!

Alright hears hpw its starts when halo 2 was realeased i dident have xbox live. So it was just me and a friend playing campain on normal (yes i was a nOOb back then) we ended up beating the campain left wondering what do we do next. We started playin split screen muiltiplayer and were loveing it until the four player muitiplayer got old leaveing me wanting more. First thing we thought to ourselfs system link. so every month 8-10 people would get together and play system link. at first i was doing great until some of my freinds started getting live not only did we play system link less but they stated getting better at the game than me so i wasnt haveing much fun. We stoped haveing system links and five months later i finally got live(A year after the game came out. So the very first thing i did was go into dubble team to try and get a feel for online. The only problem was i dident have a mic so i couldent use team work. But the very first match i got in i made a friend and still a freind to this very day. We played dubbles all night long. Long story short meet lots of friends on halo2. Then HALO 3 came along and tons of my friends started getting 360's and Live. half my freinds list is full of people i actualy know something that was rare back when halo and halo2 came out. Me and four of my buddys got a pretty good team goin and we dont lose much so i hope to keep that up. But also playing HALO 3 Me and this girl who i dident talk to much before HALO 3 started haveing late night games messing around and all. Shes a great freind and best to play HALO with and i really hope our relationship goes someware we are always talking and Playing halo with each other. p.s Bungie u made the best game ever props to you guys and thanks for halo and all the greatness that comes with it!!!!!!!!!!

I dont know if any of you saw the post, but my story's already been told :) If you dont know who Ryanman7 is.... then you probably should, because he's amazing. He also wrote our story already, so I won't waste your time writing it over again. Pretty much, it's the weirdest thing to tell people about, once they find out how long we've been together... but that doesn't stop me from wanting to tell the whole world. I met my boyfriend playing Halo PC... (soon to be more then that I hope), and it's the best thing that ever happened to me. Who ever thought video games would bring you together with the person who you're going to spend the rest of your life with? In a nutshell, I love you Ryan, and I can't wait for the rest of it :D You should all be jealous to the max. And that's how the story will end... for now. Muhahaha

meet my best friend on halo 2 and girlfriend on halo 3 : )

okay, here goes... about a year ago, around mid-december, i got on xbl for the first time. purely a n00b, i randomly jumped into a halo 2 double team match just to get an idea of multiplayer. a few matchs in i met a guy named I UnOrThAdOx I. he let me in on a few tips and tricks and strategies for how to more effieciently kill someone. later on that week, he invited me into a custom lockout match with about 6 or 7 other people. i said whatever, jumped in. that's where i met two of my best gaming buddies of all time: Son Blade and Carlogo. the session tooks several turns for the interesting, for lack of a better word, during which all the guys found out i was a girl and proceeded to stalk me all over the map, killing each other just to be the only one around me. i think. all of them except Son Blade. he hung back, watched, got killed every now and then. i didn't really think anything of it. the weeks went by and i continued playing with I UnOrThAdOx I and Carlogo, Son Blade went with us every now and then but most of the time was off doing matchmaking by himself. i got to know Carlogo through our glitching antics but barely got chances to know Son Blade better due to his dislike of glitching around. it was fine, i had people to hang out with at least. when we were all out of the sanctuary boundary, we all swapped myspaces. Carlog hardly got on, but Son Blade and i started talking. in a few months, we were getting along great. one day, our conversation turned to relationships. i had a few in the past i regretted, and i told him that. he said never. the conversation evaporated after that. i don't know exactly what happened after that. Son Blade and i continued talking, my halo skills improved due to his and Carlogo's help, and once i got my 360, things went uphill from there. he and i could talk while playing whatever individual game we wanted. it opened the spectrum and let us relax more around the other. then, sometime around july or august or so, he got over his emotional barriers and told me he loved me. it knocked me completely off-guard and i had no idea what to do. after halo 3 came out and he didn't buy it right on the 25th, his brother got it for him and woke him up at some insanely early hour in the morning to play co-op campaign with me. it was the thing i least expected, as he gets enough, sometimes semingly too much sleep every night to wake up at about 5:30-6 or so to keep his schedule tight. he didn't stay up too long, a few hours, and went back to sleep, but it was great for me. now, i couldn't ask for anyone else. to be completely honest, it's not that difficult trying to keep a long-distance relationship strong. he lives in texas and i'm in california, but he's due to visit after he walks in late may, i hope the bus ride doesn't kill him...we're so close, and neither of us asked the other out. pretty much, it was no questions, no problems. we've had no drama between us, and so far other than the distance, i can't ask this to get any better. this is getting long....all i have left to say is i love him, and i will be his girl forever

Playing Halo 3 helped me get a job at Xbox customer support. Edit- Yes, I get all your calls about XBL being down. Chill out and go outside. [Edited on 01.08.2008 10:52 AM PST]

*soft smile* I’ve been meaning to post this story for quite some time, but never quite found a reason. Now, you’ve given me just that. I can honestly say that Halo is responsible for bringing my fiancé DarkAugustNight and I being together today. I am by no means a child, belonging to the over 25 gamer category. Until Halo 3, I was never much of an on-line player, sticking to LAN parties and games with my friends and brothers. It was always the story, not the multi-player, that enchanted me about the Halo-verse. Pretty much everyone in my friend circle knew me to be an obsessive Halo fan, which they found amusing for a girl. *wry grin* Well, I decided to go up and visit some friends across the state for a few days, having not seen them in some time. As it turned out, a fella upon whom I had been crushing for [i]years[/i] lived with them. I’d always liked him, but things never seemed to work out to bring us together. Until that weekend… when I was talking about my Halo addiction. He politely asked me if I’d ever seen Red vs. Blue, to which I of course answered that I loved ‘em. He invited me up to play some Halo and watch some RvB that he’d downloaded from the Marketplace… and the rest is history. We’re getting married on the beach some time next year, and an almost daily part of our life is an hour or so of Halo 3, even to this day. Halo was the thing that finally brought us together, given that he had always liked me but was too shy to say anything. I believe fully that if it wasn’t for the fact that he was a Halo freak too, we probably never would have gotten to know one another, would never have had the chance to fall in love, and would not now be living a fairytale, frag-style. To be honest, I owe you fellas everything, as without this amazing game my life would not be the perfect wonder that it is today. Halo, seriously, is what brought my fiancé and I together, and I will be forever grateful. ^_^ -Raven-

I'm currently interested in a girl I've met online. I've been talking to her for a few months and one day not to long ago we got to talking about MSN messenger and how she wanted me to get it. My reward for such an easy task? Can anyone say web cam? So, while she took a shower I downloaded the program and ten minutes of chat later and two pictures of myself already sent it's my turn to find out what she looks like. A goddess my friends, a goddess. No more will I say about this other than that she lives within a reasonable distance with me being on a navy base outside the us and that I'm hoping to go out on our first date within the next year. So regardless of what happens next, know this... cute girls do play halo and the quickest way to the next step is messenger. You're welcome. [Edited on 01.08.2008 10:02 AM PST]

Yes, actually, I did. While I had known her a little while before we started playing Halo, as a friend, my fiancee and I became close via our mutual love of the Halo universe... and eventually fell in love. And I'd have to say that yes, she really is my true love... I've never felt about anyone the same way I feel for her... And she's amazing. Yeah, we're the quintessential archetype of two geeks in love, who get excited over anything Halo-related. We got engaged in spring of 2007. To top that off, we're planning a Halo-themed wedding! I should add, that really, we're quite thankful for a medium to both get to spend time with each other, and to help ease the pains of long-distance relationships... Both to just spend the time together and to, well, blow the ever living hell out of each other with Sniper Rifles and Rocket Launchers. Truth be told, the fact that we could complete Halo 3 over XBox Live together was one of the greatest experiences ever. [Edited on 01.08.2008 9:53 AM PST]

I became a 50 because she inspired me. I became a man, bacause she needed me. I became a friend, because she needed one. I became a hero, because to her, that's all I ever am. I met her playing Halo. We've been playing dt exclusive for months. When she had but her humble 25, I brought her to a slayer game. I was angry with host, mad with the connections. She calmed me, told me it was just a game. With my cooled head, I proceeded to murder, acquiring my 50. Call me what you will, but our relationship quickly ascended from some games of halo, to late night conversations. My name is Rob. Her name is Jenn. We've been together for a few months now and... I love her. Thank you bungie, for making a game that brought us together (as well as enduring being the angry subject of our conversation on so many shady epitaph games).

My girlfriend and I are dating because of Halo. We met one day in September 2007. It goes like this. I'm from Ohio, and I work in retail. One day myself and the others in my department completed all of our closing tasks, so we were sent over to ready-to-wear clothing to assist . Myself (Electronics) and my co-workers (Sporting goods, Toys.. Housewares) got busy looking like we were helping. This was not easy. It is hard to fold a shirt being a guy and worse, A gamer, I have thumbs which while quick and strong, were not designed for precise tasks, bar sniping. It was at this time that a colleague of mine called me over to "help". I proceeded towards the dark corner where the racks had all been straightened, in order to hide until the clock ran out. It's a valid strategy. It was on my trek to this fortress of ineptitude that I overheard a short bit of conversation float over from the other side of a rack of hoodies. 'Heroic is too easy, but Legendary is too hard.' "Wait, Normal isn't 'normal'?" 'Not for me' I kept walking, I made 3 more footfalls before my mind registered the significance of what it had received. They were talking about Halo. Furthermore, they were Female. My ears perked up, my eyes opened wide, and I sniffed the air like a bloodhound.I walked cautiously back to where I had heard the interesting bit. I listened intently. "But I don't play video games" 'Oh, come on, I need to get good again before I start into matchmaking' Oh yes, She will be mine. I like to think that I walked around the corner with a James Bond swagger, and charmingly asked her if she was indeed speaking of Halo 3. I like to think that. In reality what I said can be stated mostly in hasty chat acronyms. "OMG! UR talking about Halo! OMGSTFU NU-UH!" She smiled kindly, as if she were about to ask me if I had lost my plastic helmet. 'YOU play?' I staggered. I'M not the unusual one here, I'm a guy. Life-long card carrying member of the "Doesn't Have Boobs" club. "Yeah" 'Oh, what level are you on?' "I've beaten it, now I mostly play multiplayer" 'Wow! really?' "Yup. You have a Gamertag?" 'Yeah, I'll have to write it down for you' I had her Gamertag before I knew her name. It's Jessica, I've learned that since. We met up the next night online, and we played a few rounds or matchmaking. She was a newbie, but she showed promise. The next day we talked at work about our conquests the previous night. 'Thanks for sticking that guy with the Shotgun, he had me.' "No problem, thanks for sniping that guy with the rockets" It went like that for about a week. Meet online at night, talk about it at work the next day. One day, I got a message on XBL. 'Since I didn't work today, I don't know what time you guys got out. If you want to play, call me. My number is **Blam!**' She gave me her number. Without my asking for it. Hmm. This bounced around my head for a minute. We had been interacting every day in person, every night on XBL. She's not sick of me. Before I could call her, she got online. 'Hey, did you get my message?' "Yeah, but not until just now" 'Good. now you have my number if you ever.... umm, need it' Oh yeah, she digs me. We started playing , and the thought kept occurring to me that I should just ask her out. No, I reasoned, you don't ask chicks out on Halo. Oh, but this is not a normal chick. For one, she plays Halo. "So, are you seeing anybody?" She wasn't. "Do you want to hit Newport Saturday?" She did. The date went great. We talked about the normal date stuff , but we also had vehicular splatters, sniper sprees and 'Who is Luke, and how do i go about redeeming these steak dinners?' to ponder. It's January now, and things are still going great. We don't play together over Live very much anymore, since we're usually at the same place, taking turns alternating playing and cheering. P.S. I found out later that she had given me her number, not so that I could call and ask her out, but honestly so that I would call her to tell when I was getting online. She wanted me to ask her out, but she wanted me to do it over Halo. God I love her.

I've actually tried to send a message about this to Frankie a few months back... I met my wife at a Halo 2 tourny where we got paired together in a 4 v 4 match, we dated for two years and have been married for almost a year now, we have a 1 year old son who is already trying to play any game we play though he doesn't quite know what he's doing yet obviously :D We still frag away together, even though we can't do split screens very well, so we have two 360s and two copies of H3 and H2. If you ever want to frag with us just send us a message on XBL BPF Gunshy (Me) BPF Halovixen (Her) And yes she has a way higher gamer score then I do... almost breaking 20,000

When Halo:CE first came out I was in my senior year of high school; myself and most of my friends really got into it, and we played it co-op and did LANs whenever we got the chance. Shortly after i graduated my parents moved and I went with them. When I first arrived at my new home I was halfway across the country from the friends I had known my whole life, and I didnt know anyone in the new town I had just moved into. I spent the first month or so sitting in my basement, playing my video games and looking for work since I wasnt ready to hop straight into college after moving. I was eventually iucky enough to get a job at the local gamestop; where I figured I would at least be able to make some money selling something that I loved. As it turned out, the guys who I worked with at gamestop regularly held Halo:CE LANs at their apartment, and after working at Gamestop for about 3 weeks, I was invited over. We LANned at least 4 times a week for the next 6 months, sometimes in excess of 10 hours straight. I became best friends with one of the guys who held the LANs, met another best friend, and through the LANs I was introduced to many other people with similar tastes with whom I am still very close friends with to this day. All in all I account most of the friends that I hang with today to those days before Xbox Live; when Halo:CE was the hottest game around and Halo LANs were the cool thing to do every night after work. Thank You Bungie!

The first time i played halo i could not stop. Because of Halo I lost every chance of ever being part of the in-crowd. I really thank bungie for this!

i met one of my best friends from halo 2... way back in like 2004 i was playing a game of team slayer on burial mounds and he was on the opposite team.. my team lost but i did the best on my team so we joined up. We eventually just started playing halo with each other all the time because we made a good team. after i had been playing with this kid on halo for so long i found out that he only lived about 4 hours away from me. so yeah we eventually just met up and hung out....it was odd at first but we actually are good friends now..

I actually met a girl on halo 2 and we dated for about a year Sadly the relationship ended but i met another one on halo 2 and although it lasted short it was still fun and Im just glad I got to meet new people and Im still friends with most of the people Ive meet over the years. Thanks Bungie for all the memories that you gave me -Ian

After college I had a hard time finding a job. I spent a lot of time looking around for jobs in my field but after a few months, it was clear that very few existed. So instead of settling for an inferior job, I turned to Halo 2. I played Halo 2 for an additional six months with no luck in the job hunt. Until one day, the phone rang in the middle of a BTB game on Headlong. I didn’t recognize the number so I was hesitant to answer right in the middle of a game. But for some reason I answered anyway. As it turns out, it was the Governor’s Office and they wanted to talk to me about a job. The next day I interviewed with them and was hired within a few days. So for all you guys out there looking for a job don’t worry about it, play Halo, and a job will come to you! It worked for me! And for those of you who may be wondering, yes, my team got slaughtered! My bad…

I rule an underground city in antarctica where we play halo 3 nonstop and eat ice.

Contrary to bungie's ambitions, i met about a third of my friends by playing halo 2 and trying to find new glitches and exploit the old. we were really pissed when rocket glitch was removed, but we stayed determined and on the first day of the second batch of dlc, my friend and i got out of Gemini with sword lattering and lots of running. AND THIS IS WHY ID BE A GREAT TESTER BUNGIE! just gimme enough time to finish university.

Well i have a story that i always seem to write about for school essays just because there is so many ways i can relate to it. I met a family of halo players that truly did change my life and just the way I look at things. But the one who changed me the most was a girl in that family that I will never forget. I first met her in a custom in halo2 a couple of years back. We didnt talk much because at that time we did not now we had anything in common. I didnt really start talking to her until we both got an xbox 360 and we used the private chat feature quite alot. After many hours of conversation i relized how much me and her actually had in common and really id never met a girl like her. Eventually we played Halo and became rivals. As time passed we got alot better and alot closer. At one point she became sick and couldnt get on halo as much as she would normally so her parents allowed her to give their number to me. They were willing to allow long distance calls just so that she could keep in touch with me, and this just made me feel great. Overtime i got the chance to get aquainted with her brother, dad, lil sister, cousin, and even her mom. because all of them played Halo. Eventually it got to the point where we were discussing ways i could meet her. I somehow managed to work something out between my parents and her parents and i got the chance to travel across the country to meet her. It was the 1st time i had ever gone out of the state on my own and boy was it an experience.I got to stay with her family and everyday there was something new and they were definetly the best days of my life so far. They lived in a mountainous area which i have never experienced before. I got to try many new things and I just fell in love with the area's climate. Me and her became best of friends and I even got the chance to visit her again during the winter so that i could experience a new climate. It was so much more exciting than dull old Texas. Of cource when it got too cold we went inside and played the most intense games of halo customs to have ever been played. Everyone in the house was amazingly skilled. I had a great time being with her and ill never forget her. She taught me to ignore the bad things in people She taught me to make friends no matter what their like She taught me an entire new way to live life and im going to carry on this way of living for as long as i can She did more for me than I could ever do for her So I thank her very much Hard to believe that any of this happened to me. And the biggest surprise of all is that all of this happened, but im still a little short from being 16 yrs old

the girl who i had a crush on just got xbox live and halo 3. at first we were "just friends". but after playing hours upon hours of non stop halo.... she started to like me.