bought a gamecube launch day even though i tracked halo and bungie for years. had some fun until my friend made me play co-op through halo CE. Once we finished the game it was ALL MULTIPLAYER ALL THE TIME (except chiron). I've never felt so much buyers remorse. Thank you for wonderful times and even a few bachelor party memories

What better way to than to spend a Friday or Saturday then sitting back with a case or two of some Mt Dew and random snacks and playing Halo 2 into the wee hours of the morning with friends. Halo 2 would be the cause of me being the gamer I am today and I am alright with that.

My favorite moments with Bungie are many. Bungie brought me and my friends together. And yeah we would play competitively but most of the time we were just having a good laugh and dreaming of the future. We learned some insane things about ourselves. Chris is possibly the best level designer ive ever seen we had more fun running around his maps making our own stories than what would happen in any multiplayer map. Jake and Matt got caught up in the Roosterteeth universe and now both aspire to join them. And I was fascinated by just everything. And it motivated me to take my first step towards being a professional 3-d modeler. So to tell a favorite moment with Bungie would be to tell you the future. And thats for you to see. See you soon Bungie. Were coming.

halo 2 offline. I was feared when I had the sniper and one time on the map coagulation, I was by the rocks and they were driving in a warthog that ended up flipping them over and ejecting them separate. One of them was crouching behind the warthog and the other one was trying to haul ass to get to cover next to him but right before he went behind it, I was able to headshot him and the other guy freaked out cause he died right in front of him. It was my most memorable moment.

Christmas 2001, my brother opens a box...an Xbox. It’s a GameCube in disguise. Sadness sets in when no gifts remain. In the afternoon we were called back for one more gift. A sizable box, oh so hefty. It was Xbox in a makeshift box, Fuzion Frenzy, extra controller and Halo. (Side note) I love my parents. The remainder of that day, days left in our break...every available moment together from then until Halo 2, my younger brother and I played Halo: CE to lengths no other game will likely reach again. Thank you Bungie, for bonding me and my brother.

It's hard to choose my favorite moment, but this one stood out! My friend and I put a multitude of hours into Halo 2, doing Wraith jumps and sword cancels to glitch certain places. But our biggest challenge was getting the Scarab gun above New Mombasa. After hours of trying, (we did the crate launch method, which was a lot harder and funner than the banshee method) we finally timed our launch perfectly, getting out treasured gun. The mayhem that ensued afterwards was the funnest time I've ever had on Halo. Hopefully more times like this come with Destiny! Thanks Bungie!

I was at my friends house playing split screen with two of our other friends. We were playing oddball with people we met online. We were having a great time kicking their butt, and out of nowhere I get an achievement for killing 3 enemies with the ball. I love achievements so that was great, then a minute later I got one for getting two double kills in one game, and to top it all off we won by a landslide. it was awesome

During a BTB match on sandtrap me and my friend got seperated during an intese fight. I chose to flee (to a better vantage point of course) and found a warthog that had my name all over it. As I drove back towards the battle my friend screamed at me over the mic "dude where are you?". It was at that time that a dastardly blue threw a gravlift at my warthog spinning it wildly into the air. I then landed safetly on a blue spartan that my comrade was fighting and casually honked the horn and said HERE!

My favorite moment, hands-down, was playing Halo:CE with four guys in the living room and four guys in the bedroom LANing it up. Being grown and bogged down with stressors and burdens, I would return to those times in the blink of an eye just to relive the carelessness of my youth (and shooting my little brother across Blood Gulch with the magnum). Please excuse me as nostalgia flees from my tear ducts...

One of my favorite memories of a Bungie game was halo 3 customs games in friends basement with system link. I remember we had 10 people crammed into his basement playing custom games, drinking cases of mountain dew and making jugs upon jugs of Arnold Palmer. We stayed up all night just playing Halo 3 custom games, like frogger, Halo, FFA, CTF, and classic slayer. Since we only had 2 boxes we had to switch people every match. It is one of my favorite memories not of just a Bungie game but my life in general.

In January 2003 my unit was activated to go to Iraq. While mobilizing at Ft. Hood, TX we were thrown into some old WWII dorms with no cable, no internet, and no vehicles. Using nothing but our feet, my roommate and I walked two miles to the store. We carried back a pair of Xbox's, a pair of 17" CRT TVs, two copies of Halo, extra controllers, and a cross-over cable. My entire unit spent the next three months in our room, taking turns to battle on 1/4 of the smallest TV ever made, and we loved every moment of it.

In high school I was part of the computer club. At the end of the school day our teacher and the rest of the club would play Marathon Durandal multiplayer. My favorite weapon was dual shotguns and I was deadly with them. It was my first experience playing a LAN game and our teacher would try to level the playing field when some of us got too good. He would order us to only use dual pistols. We would always wait for the carnage report and recount our K/D ratios. Marathon got me into PC gaming. Thanks Bungie.

My favorite memory is playing Halo CE on my original Xbox on a little 20 inch tube TV. Before my younger brother went of to join the Navy him and I would spend hours on co-op defeating the covenant. It was so much fun huddled in front of that little TV working together to beat each level. We have moved on to giant TVs but we still play Halo together when we get a chance

The first time I played Assault on the Control Room (HALO: CE) with my roommate we experienced perfection. In a warthog we circled the area where you fight the first Wraith, killing everything. On one of the passes we took the ramp with the shade turret, clipped it on the drivers side and ended up doing a barrel roll in the air, Gatling gun blazing the entire time. We stuck the landing, and on an Elite no less, and drove off. We played Assault on the Control room every night until I moved out with my fiancée.

One day I was party chatting with friends while playing Lone Wolves in Halo 3. It was a typical day; win some, lose some. During my last game, I encountered a player that was absolutely dominating everyone. I was becoming quite frustrated, and my friends were enjoying my increasingly belligerent vocabulary. When he came out of Sword Room on The Pit, I tossed some grenades. As soon as my grenades dropped his shields I promptly finished him off with a headshot from my magnum. I still watch the video of me teabagging him on YouTube to this day.

Halo Reach, opening day. I preordered it like anyone else. Unfortunately, it didn't come in that day. I waited the next day. Finally got it. I get online. "Friend wants me to join an Xbox Live Party." He's a usual guy I play with, so I do. I notice one of my best friends is in this party, one of whom I haven't talked to in ages. Needless to say, the first couple of matches, despite the lag and losses we had, it was one of my best times I ever had; no, was my best time.

This day was dug out of the dirt, this day was fought for. When when night fell, there was only Low, and me. Lowraith and I had seen the worst, and pushed on. We had been ODST for only a few missions, our first drop was New Mombasa. The Covenant creatures has destroyed everything, when I first heard the phrase; "they glassed the outlaying cities" I had no idea what to make of it. It only took us one night to realize that anybody who wasn't evacuated was dead. In the night, under the faint glow of night vision display, and without ammunition, Low and I carved a hole straight through New Mombasa with standard issue combat knives, and bloodied knuckles. Our ticket out of the city didn't show up till morning, a strangely beautiful Covy creature that made sounds like a whale as it flew through the air. What ever it was it wasn't pulling for the enemy, and it helped us get to a SO. I never would have thought a covy would save my life.

I have many favorite moments, but the top one has to be when I got the greatest kill from the grave ever. Here is the Short Version: It was me and two other friends playing Big Team Battle on Spire within REACH. Knowing that an enemy Wraith was the biggest threat that would keep us from victory that day, I dusted the dirt and blood off of my armor - which only made a smeared mix over my white armor. I didn't have time to punch it until it exploded so I Grabbed the grenade from my waist. The driver needed to try something else to shake this thorn in his side off, so he fired the cannon of the Wraith directly into the boulder. It is my grenade that landed right behind the weakened Wraith that just took me out. The Wraith bursts into purple flames as the tank implodes, killing the driver with it. Below is the longer version in a spoiler if anyone waats to read all of it: [spoiler]It was me and two other friends playing Big Team Battle on Spire within REACH. Knowing that an enemy Wraith was the biggest threat that would keep us from victory that day, I dusted the dirt and blood off of my armor - which only made a smeared mix over my white armor. I thought to myself, "What would Johnson do?" Well, he would want to go out with a BANG! I gunned straight for the Wraith dodging bullets and plasma that threatened to halt the destruction of their deadliest weapon at the time, and successfully latched onto the front of the Purple behemoth. I didn't have time to punch it until it exploded, I would be dead long before I could do that. Grabbing the grenade from my waist, I planned the net best thing. This bull ride felt like it was going in slow-motion. My grenade in-hand rose in the air, ready to deal a major blow to the enemy that gave my team one heck of a battle, but the driver decided to shake me off by ramming the wraith into a nearby boulder. I did not budge, but I took damage to my shields, and the Wraith got a small scratch to it's hard armor. The driver needed to try something else to shake this thorn in his side off, so he was about to risk his own life by firing the cannon of the Wraith directly into the boulder that we crashed into. Next thing I know, I am falling into the sky and am now motionless in the dirt, feeling defeated as my enemy walked away. Wait, what is that? There is a small circular object that is plummeting right behind the Wraith that just took me out. BAM!. A flash of red, yellow, and orange erupted from my grenade that came down like a gift from heaven. A second after the first explosion, the Wraith bursts into purple flames as the tank imploded, killing the driver with it. I felt accomplished with my death meaning something, and gaining the victory for my team.[/spoiler]

So some friends and I were playing SWAT on sword base, when all but 2 players on both sides lagged out. Rather than continue to fight, a tea bag/betrayal war commenced. The final score of the game was something like -60 to -40. Proud to say my team won!

“Get him!” Spartan J33 yelled, his voice tinny through my headset. I could barely see the telltale wavering of the Elite’s camo as it ran across the path below us. We both unloaded with our pistols. The Elite’s shields flashed once, twice, then it got away. We restarted the level. The Falcons dropped us off. We sprinted across the grass. At the top of the last hill, we let loose. It got away again. It took several tries. He would shoot while I reloaded. Finally, “He’s down!” Spartan said. I dropped my controller and started dancing.

My favorite moment playing a Bungie game occurred during my first time playing Halo 3. I was in my best friend's house playing with him and his father, my school's principal. Rather than dive into the campaign, as there were three of us, we chose instead to explore the multiplayer maps in alphabetical order, which is how we came to play a FFA game on Construct. During a random walk, I found, lying on the ground a weapon called the "Spartan Laser." I picked it up. I fired a test shot. I smiled. The rest is history.

Halo 3, Vid Master Annual achievement. The first step to the legendary and fabled Recon helmet for me and my friends. We attempted to do this insane challenge, not knowing how difficult it'd truly be. Hours were spent, we finally worked our way through to the iconic warthog run, vulgar words were thrown, anger was released, warthogs were destroyed, rage intensified, and our friendship was challenged, but we finally did it. We beat and got the achievement, and nothing else gaming related has ever felt so satisfying.

In the Customs with my friends in Halo Reach . Downloading, the best maps out there and celebrating Bungie Day with Blue Flaming Pride. I love the games that you put out and will be a Bungie supporter for life. SUPER MI7CHELL9...

Halo 3: ODST. We were going for the last vidmaster challenge, Endure. It was my last one in order to get my sweet and precious recon helmet. We had suffered through the grueling challenge of heroic and was on the last wave. No lives left and my squad mates just kept dying left and right. I looked around and I was the only one left. I somehow managed to get a hammer. 5 big brutes stood between me and Recon. I managed to wield my hammer and take this all down. My friends stood in awe. Recon was mine!

Last summer my friends and I were playing 2v2 slayer on Sandtrap, I was roaming around the map and looked at my buddy's screen to see he was about to laser his brother when our other friend rammed him with a warthog and was then lasered. We all laughed for a few minutes and proceeded to kill each other.

A fond memory of mine is the Steaktacular challenge. My friends and I played for hours and discovered that the true challenge was getting into a game with a Bungie employee, and fighting of hordes of steak-thirsty super fans that crossed our path while we awaited an unmistakable blue flame. While waiting for a match, we told jokes about Cookie Crisps, which look like cookies but taste like grits. Then we realized we had been playing against Bungie all along. I shut off the Xbox, grabbed some left over steak from the fridge, and munched gingerly until falling asleep.