I dont know if you can call it love but, I lost my virginity because of halo 2. I met this girl on there we met up just to hang but, she was SUPER HOT! we started to date and before you know it BAM! virginity gone. oh... and i just wanted to say some times we like to go for long runs on last resort and pwning nubs. Some times we take each other on (she normally wins) i guess you could call here a pwn star. lol.

by far the best personal stories on this site right here ive probaly read hundreds of stories on this site an it never gets old

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grampa game17 Time : after I beat Halo 1 on Legendary Place : a busling Midwest City Disposition : Bleak SITUATION; I had recently learned from my ex,..immediate family members,... and friends that my son who was 18 at the time was exhibiting strange behavior. This news was a serious blow that I really didn't need in my near unmanagable but somewhat comfortable little world because my younger brother and sister (who are in their 40's now) both still suffer from schizophrenia and neither of them are completely self-sufficient. Both live in assisted living facillities and are required to take a handfull of pills a day. The insidious desease manifested itself in both my siblings while they were in their still in their mid to late teens. My bother, who could play guitar like Van Halen would never go on to be the next Jimi Hendrix, and my sister who was voted HomeComing Queen in her junior year and who was also an virtuouso jazz dancer would never realize her dreams on the Big Stage. And now it seemed than the dreaded family curse had also fallen on my only son. This was verified after I finally got a chance to observe my son's behavior first hand. The moment I saw him I knew that the mind-depleating gene had been passed onto my son in the "active" form. (schizophrenia usually hits between the early adolesent and adult years) Immediately the effects of the illness was painfully apparent,.. His scathing wit,.. invincible sports skills, and remarkably magnetic personality were for lack of a better term...Fried/gone. He was talking to himself and laughing when nothing was funny and he seemed to be living inside of this own universe. Whatever was happening on the inside of his mind, was clearly manifesting in his five senses as if he had access to his own personal portable virtual world. The reality of it all would have sent me spiralling into oblivion, except I was the only one left unfazed by the illness in my family and for me to fail now would have surely broken my fathers heart. I made a decision that there wouldn't be anymore failure,.... anymore tragedy in my family, and I discovered that even though my son was a mere shadow of who he once was, ....and the young man that I had grown to respect and admire so much was lost to me forever, strangely enough, I discovered that loved him even more. (Where does Halo come into all this?.. in ways you wouldn't believe, ) My ex-wife and I tricked him into going to the Emergency Mental Unit at the local hospital by telling him that he had to take a mandatory physical in order to get on my insurance. He had been living at his sisters house(and subsequently kicked out on the streets), she could no longer tolerate his intolerably sloppy ways and unpredictable psychotic behavior, ... as usual,... after his friends had become aware that he had gone on a one-way ticket to loony-land, they no longer desired to have any further "fellowship" with him. Meanwhile back at the Mental Unit, he became aware that instead of getting a so-called physical examination he was actually taking a mental accuity test, when that realization finally sunk into his warped consciousness he suddenly made a break down the hall toward the exit doors. He was already 6'1,.... 205 lbs,... a solid mass of finely tuned muscle with advanced super-cyborg-like coordination,.. he looked like one of those special team runners, going for the touch down after receiving the kick-off,... he hurdled over desks, chairs, gurneys and even the heads of the medical staff(Jackie Chan style) untill six doctors and interns finally brought him down with much difficulty just inches before he could reach the exit. Alarms were going off all over the place,.. They injected him with a powerful traquilizer and strapped him into a gurney, yet he was still straining to burst free of his bonds,.. his eyes afire with rage and the contempt that comes with being betrayed. When I approached his padded cell which was steel reinforced with only one small square window to see inside his cell, he glowered at me with loathing in his eyes,.. the feeling of hate and betrayal in his heated gaze was so palpable I could barely return my eyes to meet his. I just looked at him and shed a solitary tear and told him that I loved him, and this brief incarceration was necessary to access the full status of his illness, He stormed away from the door in disgust and turned his back on me. . another way of telling me that I was no better than a TRAITOR. Of course I went home and had a good cry. When I came back to the hospital the next morning I practically begged him to cooperate with the medical staff so I could move him in with me when the 3 day medical evaluation was finished (yes,... OL Grampa was going to have give up the free swingin' halo playin' bachelor pad, again). he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. THE HALO MANDATE: 28 days later he was settled into my crib, I told him we wasn't going to be an institution rat like my brother, trained to just watch tv all day, while waiting on his pill, soda, cigarette, and snicker breaks.. Noooo , Dude was going to work, medicated and all. We went out every morning to the temp labor place(while filing out apps during the downtime), I figured that if we couldn't get him an assignment then we could at least get him in the habit of getting up every morning and getting him ready "to" work. He was taking medication but he had developed some odd facial ticks along with some rather disconcerting body language that just reeked of "totally unnatural". He often lumbered along like a lobotomized drone(or like Lurch from the old "Adams Family" sitcom), and he needed a maximum amount of supervision. He also still laughed and giggled for no reason, but the young head-case could still do minimum wage labor, thank God. after 6 weeks my prayers were answered (sort of), he told me that he no longer wanted to take the medication. It was risky to be sure, do I want him to revert to being a full blown psycho?, or do we retain the semi-controlled but definitely sedate and much duller version... I trusted him,.. FLUSH EM' I said. the facial ticks and the decidedly disturbing body language began to fade away after a couple weeks. and I started to see flashes and sparks of his snazzy old self shine thru every once and a while. My work schedule had changed so I had to leave my son at home by himself. I wanted him to get involved with an activity that would fully engage his mind and challenge him to a certain extent. I had him reading the paper and writing reports of the articles that I picked out for him,.. busy work for sure,.. but it helped his basic communication skills while keeping him in touch with the real world,.. the last thing I wanted was for him to be at home day-dreaming or hallucinating all day. But we needed something more... ENTER HALO I had finished the entire halo 1 campaign on legendary and had never had a game play like that before(like the game was alive), yes now I can see all the routines and could probably write a flow chart detailing the AI but at the time 7-8 years ago, it was a completer and utter wonder to me. The experience was so exhilliarating and riveting, that after I finished I felt like I had won an olympic gold medal. I challenged my son to beat the level where you get a sniper rifle and have to kill off all the Covenent in the dark, before eventually being transported to their ship where up to 5 invisible Elites await you with menace in their hearts, cunning in their brains and a plasma rifle in their wicked grip. After surviving that portion of the level getting up the 3 or 4 decks to open the bay doors is a near impossible task,.. its literally a minefield of enemies spawning in front and behind,... with certain death below. That level seemed longer than some entire games on legendary. .. Don't laugh but it took me 2 weeks,.. 3hours a day to finally beat it the 1st time thru. I told him that he must complete that level on legendary,.. before he could partake of any priviliges or have any special requests granted,.. and promised him a crisp $50 bill if he could pull it off. He had retired from gaming entirely when he was around 16 to chase girls before the onset of his illness but agreed to my terms anyway probably because he needed the cigarette money. For me, this was a stress test,... an evaluation,.. I wanted to see if he could handle adversity. I wanted to see if he had the will to win,.. if he had the drive to overcome to keep pressing on and succeed against terrifying odds. would he fold?,.. did he have the mental tenacity to endure the challenge?.... time would tell. I watched him attack the game with a fevor and furry that was only outstripped by his patience and determination. he didn't ask for me to relax my terms and I never asked him how his progress was coming along. but after 8 days and 7nights, he had completed the task. Hence my evaluation: .....If you can beat halo on legendary, there's not much you can't do,.. mentally handicapped or not. From that day forward I pushed him. Pushed him hard,.. He eventually got a job, .. a car,.. an apartment,.... he has many friends and is an assistant manager where he works. and He learned how to speak spanish fluently,.. and is a productive member of his community,.. this is 8 years after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. he is 26 today (now he just needs his ged) I want to thank Bungie for creating such a remarkable game. when my boy beat that level on legendary, that was the break of dawn that swept away the impending darkness,.. it was the light that led the way to restoration, and It was tool that helped my son find his way back. PLEASE TALK TO A DOCTOR BEFORE TRYING THIS AT HOME may not work for everyone Thank You Bungie, and thanks for reading. peace. [/quote] dude somebody tell me why is it that u find

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Uglyorgan Alright here is my story. I went on a job interview, and the interview was going real great, and we were going over my life highlights. So at the end of the interview the guy says "At my very first job interview, the interviewer asked me this question, and I loved it so much that I use it in every interview I have given. It's nothing big, nothing serious. What is your greatest accomplishment?" Now at this point the interview was real casual and we had gone over all my accomplishments, and I said.... "Well this isn't serious, but last night I worked real hard and gained a rank in Halo 2." He looked at me puzzled and I said "It's a video game....and you play against other people, and I did real well last night." So we end the interview and a little over a week goes by. The temp agency calls me and says "You didn't get the job, you went in there and started talking about video games....that was stupid." I was a little floored by this, and the temp agency girl even told me that I need to learn how to handle myself in interviews and that they could no longer represent me. Apparently this guy looks down on people who play video games. The book "Everything bad is good for you" came out around then in the book it talks about how video games are a social experience now and are excellent cognitive experiences. The guy who wrote the book did a signing and I went and bought two copies. One for myself and one for the interview guy. I sent it to his office, and oddly enough I never got a thank you letter back.[/quote] hmmm makes me wonder about all those years i use 2 get scalled at 4 playin all day n night n now im smart as -blam!- hmm halo has made me smarter, dats life altering

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] D Ruler My friend met his love on Halo 3. And I don't rule a small country, I have bigger fishes to fry, HELLO NEPTUNE! THEN ZETA RETICULI BABY![/quote]Alright then, you can go ahead and be king of empty frozen wastelands for your whole life if you want, lol. Although.... if you manage to live to be several thousand years old, people will eventually begin colonizing there, and hey, you'll be king of something big after all. Also, the Licky, that has got to be the most awkward yet somehow still admirable story I have ever heard. ... Its a shame people use the english language improperly, so that bungie has to filter perfectly decent words as inappropriate. [Edited on 03.19.2008 1:02 AM PDT]

My friend met his love on Halo 3. And I don't rule a small country, I have bigger fishes to fry, HELLO NEPTUNE! THEN ZETA RETICULI BABY!

I met my wife to be playing team snipers in halo2, i was getting owned, and so i made a "funny" comment, "they must think sniper rifles are like tennis raquets, and you can only hit the target" (actually it was very stupid (i was drunk)....) anyways she asked me were i was from and we found out we live in the same town (VERY ironic), and later that week while i was shopping at the grocery store i saw her and recognized her name, since she was a cashier (Natick is a VERY small town) and we started dating.

well to be truely honest i've met a lot of really cool people over halo 3s MM. a lot of tards as well. but i guess i can say that when i do manage to get my GF to play with me (she sucks something awful but shes getting better) it brings us a little closer by the end of the match. i also met my one of my close friends who lives one apartment over from me on XBL by pure accident... we could hear eachother screaming through the walls and she came to check it out first and basically tackled me for killing her so many times >.< why she came to check on all the screaming and cursing i'll never know but i'm glad she did. new halo buddies FTW!!!

Well a few years ago me and my childhood friend bought Halo with our money put together. We would take turns at having it each night, and sometimes we played 1 on 1 games over and over again. Then he moved, I never saw him again. I met him on the first day of the valentines day tourney. How did I know it was him? His GT was AlexTHM what his profile was in Halo 1. I immediately recognised it, that day was so fun.....

Hey Licky, i'm very happy for you and hope you have nice life with Cheese Assasin! :) [Edited on 02.22.2008 2:05 AM PST]

What Noob Empire said, Halo is the stuff.

MY ONE AND ONLY TRUE LUV IS HALO. having said that I am 13 years old and I aim to get a Masters in Graphic Designing &/or computer programing. I want to be just like the people who work at Bungie. I really like the bungie community also, =D keep up the gr8 work guys

That was one amazing McDonald's Chicken sandwich. All of what you say is true, that is our Halo story <3. I also have to say thank you Bungie for some of the most wonderful moments of my life. I really have no clue where I would be today if it wasn't for halo 2 and that fateful moment of meeting The Licky. I am truly happy <3 -Cheese Assassin

It's becoming more and more common for people to meet their loved ones on the internet, but yet I still get funny faces when I say.. instead of myspace, facebook or instant messegeing, I met my boy over Xbox Live, over Halo 2. I still remember sitting in those Halo 2 pre game lobbies, as LickyMcLickLick (at the time), with the Cheese Assassin's tag sitting under mine, I knew I had found the guy of my dreams. Late summer, 2005, on a drawling, slow and some what boring day, I found myself chilling at my friend (the shuffler)’s house, casually gaming with friends. It’s funny because this rather dull, ordinary day ended up changing my life. This change came in the form of a message, over Halo 2. Now during this time I didn’t have my own account, so I took the precedence to make sure that I’d be the first to open most of my dear friends messages while I was visiting. Often I'd find them boring. I didn't care about kill counts or what new level they'd brag about.. but this one... As I opened the voice file, a hyper young man explained with vigor how freaking awesome his McDonald’s chicken sandwich was, between profanities, of course. I remember laughing then, hard, replaying the message over and over again. It's funny though, I felt a draw... thought he must be cute.. he's funny enough... I remember something clicked… I had to meet this… Cheese Assassin! I asked my friend about him, and he drew blanks. My friend explained that he had added Cheese Assassin because he was funny, and an awesome player. That was nice and all, but now I really had to meet him. Corny as it sounds.. I know, or should I say cheesy? Haha... Anyways. Not soon afterwards I begun playing with this boy, under my friend’s account of course. Until eventually I thought well enough to get my own live account (it was winter 2005 now). Then fiinally for the first time, in March of 2006, when our other friends had gone to bed, it was just us two, sitting in the lobby, for the first time. It was quiet at first. But you know what? We started to chat. And chat. And chat. Before I knew it, it was dawn out side. The first time we had talked alone, one on one, we talked for a straight 8 hours! This started the chemistry. This started the feelings… and over hundreds, if not thousands of Halo 2 games and long night lobby talks that summer, this North Carolina boy expressed his true feelings. Even though we were 2,000 miles away, we had gotten so close, distance didn't matter. Halo had brought us together, we had fell in love with each other. Now it’s been two years since our wonderful relationship has started. We have played Halo 2 and 3 almost every night for all of this time and we’ve spent about the equivalent of 2 months of time together in person, and decided that it needs to become more permanent. He’s moving to Colorado this summer and we look forward to a wonderful future together! We’ve joked that if we do get married, we are so getting a pair of Spartans, with a bow and veil, for our wedding cake. Thank you so much Bungie. If it wasn’t for you, I would have never found my soul mate! -Love, The Licky

yo do u think u could look at my File share and give me ur input about it. and while ur at download my video, it's a warthog that glitch somehow and when ever my friend spawned a radio antenna the warthog would float in mid air. OH AND I KNOW THE JOKE TO HOW BUNGIE GOT IT'S NAME.

Me and my best friend became best friends because of playing Halo CE together at LAN parties. We went to elementary school together but never hung out before Halo CE. Me and My brother met some really good friends at a Halo 2 tournament. (Who live about 3 hours away) Created a really cool clan with those friends as well. CE United. (AKA full name) Combat Evolved United. I love the short name more. My brother moved to Vegas and met his fiancé because of those friends we met at that Halo 2 tournament. Halo got me my senior prom date. One of the friends we met at the Halo 2 tournament I was just in his wedding last weekend. Thanks for everything Bungie. I <3 U

(Yes, this is a copy from the post [url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=17044712]HERE[/url] First off: a bit of backstory.. There is a young man who will be referred to as "Killen" (Carrikature or something in the video). Now. This Killen fellow is, oh how should I put it? Absolutely infuriating. I know this, I, along with my compadres in the video actually live with him. Now, Killen, a few days back, did something very very foolish: Not only did he decide to steal my make-up, but he also thought it would be fun to empty the contents of my drawers and string them along the street (some of which have now been lost) Safe to say, Nikki was not pleased, and decided to take it upon herself to serve bags of proverbial tea to the sinful Killen - in both the literal and virtual senses. Examples: - [url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=17044712]Here[/url] - The rest of my fileshare. Killen, if you see this: I swapped your soya milk for actual milk. Have fun on the loo for the next few hours! :D

Using My Halo skillz I got the pope and George Bush and 50 presidents and kings all around the world to proclaim me emperor of the world.

Well, my wife and I play Halo 3 pretty regularly. We even got our names to match. AshesTWOasheS, DustTOOdusT. And to be completely honest, she's not half bad. It's always funny to hear people say that she sounds like a pre-pubesent teen, then to find out that she's a chick, then that she's a hot chick, and then the bummer, she's married, and then the "Damn dude, you got lucky with her." We are currently the same rank, but I'm almost beating her there.

That sounds kinda romantic, but at the same time really, really, sad.

George bush bet me that if i could beat him in halo 3 then he would give me the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and i won, so i got it.....yay!

When I first started dating my boyfriend, I would get pissed when he'd rather play Halo, than hang out with me, but after realizing that I can either play this damned game or ditch the boy I strated to play. Thank God I choose the latter. That was four years ago, my boyfriend and I are still going strong and talk to each more on xbox live than we do on cell phones.

I began playing on XBL about 4 years ago and I met a group of people to this day I still play with it was back in the rainbow 6 era, anyways this past thanksgiving I got to finally meet some of them, I ended up going on a flight to Calgary, Alberta Canada and spent thanksgiving weekend with them it was some good times, but we are die hard halo players now and I could'nt imagine it any other way, e had been playing halo 2 even when halo 3 had launched because I couldnt afford an xbox 360 and when I got there my friend had one waiting for me to take home with me, so saying that I would just like to thank the Teams at XBL, Bungie, and Ubisoft for all there hard work and dedication, without them I would have never have met so many of my new friends . P.S JOHNNY WALKER9 is the reason I get to play 360 and I would like to thank him

halo got me a lot of really good friends [Edited on 01.15.2008 12:39 PM PST]

My sons and I have definitely bonded while enjoying the halo experience. Every night after work (or first thing in the morning if it's the weekend) I'm asked to play some campaign co-op, multiplayer or their favorite: forge. We laugh about the "Hey I just STUCK that guy" or the random "look down there at that" and then proceed to TK the other person and we all laugh.. No other game has brought us together quite like the Halo series. We all are eagerly looking forward to what the future holds for us, Bungie and Master Chief.. Woot!

My current boyfriend met me while doing the "Drum Corps" thing, and the moment he found out I was totally into Halo, the match was made. He and I have been together for nearly 3 years now, and plan to get married in the not-so-distant future. We make it a point to play Halo 3 together now and then, but with opposite schedules, the time is limited. Heh... I found my man, and he found his gamer-woman. ;)