I live in Eastern New Jersey and me and my local friends met a group of fellow teens from Philidelphia Pennsylvania. This summer when most of us have our licenses, we are travelling there to meet them... it should be interesting :)

I got my dream job (well for now) at Gamestop when I walked in one day and bought a new copy of the Legendary Edition of Halo 3! Thanks Bungie!

I've met a cool group of people (some have gone on into the real world now) through a Halo LAN that is usually held every other week. I came across the group after finding Bungie's plan for world domination on the back of the H1 manual. We still LAN to this day, though not as frequently as before, sorry but it seems they've gotten hooked on the COD4 smack, me thinks I'm the only one playing H3 online right now. Our group is [url]http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/rhoh/Group/GroupHome.aspx[/url] Come on by if you're in the area! Also I agree with eerhtxisenin's post, ever since the days of H2 online (part of the reason I was put off by H2 amongst other things). Just yesterday a teeny bopper told me I should go kill myself! FTW!! I really wish there was a way to enforce the ratings of the game online, I guess it's just a lack of parental skills out there. [Edited on 01.03.2008 11:40 AM PST]

I met my girl on Lockout on Halo 2. We started talking and it turned out she lives 15 minutes away from me and went to my middle school. Were still in love to this day.

I Took over the World.....

So i actually do have a story. I met my girlfriend last year in a very halo related way. I'm part of a caving club for my college and twice a year we go camping near a group of caves. Well last fall I was still new to this club, and quite frankly I had up until then been a relatively shy guy. so after a full day crawling two caves, we came back to a bonfire, and what was soon becoming a hippie/ college party. Well a few a few drinks and a skinnydip later i was having a time of my life. As I reapproched the fire I soon found two people who refused to join in in the dip. As I got closer I found that one of them was telling stories of halo 2 escapades with her brother and dad, and how much she love to play. Well needless to say in my current state I found it nessisary to elighten the two girls into how "amazing" I thought I was. I promised her we will play together when we return to college and I immediately offered to run (or is that stumble?) up to the shed to find her a drink, and from then on out we have been dating and playing halo as much as we can. Until then I didnt think it was possible to find an attractive girl who liked video games (shouldn't that be some sort of paradox?) But I did and I've never been happier.

I met 4 friends that I have been really close to for over the past 4 years. Funny thing is all of them live only 30 minutes away from me.

-Didn't get a job because then that means less time for school and i wouldn't be attending Full Sail next year for Videogame Art -Girlfriend, naaah but kind of became a psychologist to many of my friends...i have concluded they are all crazy..but its ok but yeah i met alot of friends around my region and all of California and keep in touch by Fragging at Lan-parties and what not :) -I did run My town for a couple of days :) well was actually really important :) I got the Friends and Family invite for the BEta and had friends trying to come to my house all the time! ha out of alot i only let a couple in :) then they got in with crackdown and i was back to my geeky self but its ok :) haha

I made a friend back in the day of Halo 2. Not a real life friend, just an online gamer friend who lives in a different country. I never realized how much I really cared about someone I never met before until he was put in the hospitol. Has been there for a good 4 months, and probably will be there for another full year. "I never realized how much I really cared about someone I never met " I don't mean that in any kind of homo-blam!- kind of way. Just had to say that, cause... well, you know how people can be here on the bungie forum.

I did not find my true love playing Halo, but I did help my true love to find Halo. I have been playing all of the Halo games and started with Halo CE in 2002 it was love at first sight zoom. I have recruited many friends and relatives to the Halo universe over the years, but the one recruitment I am most proud of is my fiancée Valerie. We met for the first time in fall of 2003 during a high school football game. I was a senior and she was a freshman. She was hanging out with a group of friends which included one of my good buddies, who happened to be another person I recruited to Halo and played with often. We talked for a little bit but at the time there weren’t any sparks and we parted ways that night. When the school year ended I was riding around with some friends going to graduation parties and we happened upon a party for this girl who I knew pretty well. Little did I know, this girl just so happened to be the older sister of Valerie. My friends and I ended up hanging out for the rest of the night at their house. This time there were sparks worthy of a 4th of July extravaganza. We ended up spending almost every day together that summer and when the summer came to a close the fun didn’t end. I attended a local community college the following fall, which allowed us to still maintain a happy relationship while she started her sophomore year in high school. During the time that we dated I would spend many hours with friends participating in Halo CE & Halo 2 games via LAN parties or Xbox live. My fiancée thought I was a nerdy little kid for spending as much time as I did playing video games. She never tried to persuade me to give them up, but she just never seemed interested in giving them a try. When she graduated from high school we decided to move in together. At this point we had been dating for about 3 years and were in the deepest type of love. She proved her love for me time and time again with gifts like an Xbox 360 for Valentines Day 2007 and Halo 3 Legendary edition on September 25th 2007. She also bought me other gifts like 12-month live subscriptions and wireless headset. She is by far the greatest girl ever. Even though she had bought me all of that great stuff she had still never played any Halo game. Shortly after Halo 3 was released I decided I was going to get her to at least try Halo 3. It ended up taking me about a month and a half before I convinced her to give it a try but try she did. It was at that point that her eyes lit up like the Rockefeller Christmas tree and she finally realized how great the game is and how I could have spent so many nights and hours playing it. Over the next month she had logged a respectable amount of hours and even gained some impressive skills. She has joined the Xbox live community and has spent every minute of it playing Halo 3. Every night we are at home I hear her ask, “Can we play Halo now?” and any time we are away from our house she will say “I can’t wait to get home and play Halo.” During Thanksgiving this year I asked for her hand in marriage and she said yes. It was at that moment that I knew I had not only gained a fiancée, and soon to be wife, but also my newest and most permanent Halo teammate. So I am proud to say that even though I did not find my true love playing Halo, I was able to help my true love find Halo. [Edited on 01.14.2008 9:51 AM PST]

I bought Halo3 when it first came out, I have never played it online and I must say it has been the best experience. I got my buddies involved, and literally bought a console and game for one of them just so he could get on with us. We play every night of the week, I swear i thought I would never get addicted...yet here I am playing all the time like I need a fix or something. Sheesh! I noticed that most of you all have girlfriends and have possibly met someone...what about guys like me who have been married for 14 years and have 2 kids? I have nearly caused a divorce with this game. I have tried to explain the game to her and how fun it is to beat some poor soul down, or lasering a Warthog with 3 sorry suckers in it, yet when I start I get this blank stare, like I am talkin greek or something. Does anyone out there know what I am talkin about? I am having a blast playing and have met some amazing characters out there, I dont want to give it up, but I need some assistance on how I can get her to see how much I enjoy playing. Any advice? THe Halo Community is truly the best people out there!

Not much as in the Halo game but more as the Chief's Character... Thanks to his character, I look up to him and am doing better in my sport. Thumbs up Bungie for making a great character...

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CaptainMarmoset [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] gunnerwolf im failing school because of halo! YAAAAA.......awww[/quote] Wheeeeee! Me too! Imma gonna werk at Walmart![/quote] First post made me laugh. But this one made me crack up. Mayby becuase im somewat in the same boat but with a D. HAHA

My boyfriend brought me to Halo and we play nonstop. He says I will never get to surpass him but I got a Running Riot in a week of gameplay :D He tells me he wants to train me, but I had to tell him that sometimes the best way to learn is on your own >.> not going lvl 1 against a few lvl 33's on your first day >.> LOL I do let him play with me in campaign to get those skulls =)

Well we went to a competition in Toledo Ohio and got dominated. On Halo 2.

I moved from Canada to Mexico a while ago and pretty much lost most contact with my friends. I still stay in touch with my two best friends because they have Halo 3. In fact, I played through Legendary with a friend over the past days and got me this cool EOD helmet. It's amazing how a simple game can keep friends in constant touch when they're both at least 3000 kilometers away from each other. Oh, and my cousins and I always play Halo 2 or Halo 3 together, depending where we're at. :D [Edited on 01.03.2008 11:15 AM PST]

I've met a couple friends on Halo that I hang out with at waterparks and stuff.

When applying to medical school, i realized i'd spent most of my free time playing halo 2...not doing the traditional extra-cirriculars. well, i'd won several local tournaments so i figured why not, i'll put it on my application. my interviewers must have been gamers. i got into med school.

While playing Halo, I met many friends, pwned noobs in a small country which I am a Governor of the country, and I also realized what I want to do as a main career. Video Game and Computer Design.

I met who I thought was my true love playing Halo.....

Halo 1 started it all. Me and my friends found a way to have a LAN party like, every week, and now, finally, we all have live. also now, so many kids I go to school with and on my swim team play. Halos kind of like a way for us to bond with others.

It was through Halo that I came to realize that I was -blam!-. Prior to owning Halo 2, I lived the hetero lifestyle enjoyed by many others. Once I picked up that copy of Halo 2 and subscribed to Xbox Live, doubts began to creep into my mind. The thought that I might be -blam!- never occurred to me and yet every night I was being told repeatedly that I was. The more I played, the more I thought about my own -blam!-ity. I thought I was straight, but could that many 13 year old boys possibly be wrong? How could I not pwn noobs with the regularity of someone who works part time at GameStop and lives in his parents' basement and still be attracted to women at the same time? After months of playing I finally came to terms with my -blam!-ity. I left my wife and daughter and now reside at the local YMCA. They don't have a high speed internet connection but that's ok. I'd be afraid someone would break into my room and steal my xbox anyway. I can't play Halo anymore but at least I know who I truly am now. Thanks Bungie and Microsoft and all the little kids who play Halo when they're parents aren't around to hear them talk. You've changed my life in a very special way.

I used to play Big Team Battle and clan matches in Halo 2 with a guy who's gamertag was Captain Matt75 with some of my personal friends and some of his. We owned guys all the time. That was back in like early 2005. But summer of that year I found out from some of Matt's friends that I still talk to and play with today that he was trying out for the Dallas Cowboys. Funny thing was, is that the Cowboys training camp was in L.A., not to far from where I live. So I went down their one day with one of my personal friends that we used to play Halo 2 together with. We watched the team play for a bit and afterwards got to meet Matt in person and had him autograph some stuff including his Halo stats from Bungie.net. He was an awesome guy. After that we played on Halo 2 a little bit more, but by the end of that summer, Matt had stopped playing Halo altogther. I found out from his friends that he made the practice squad for the Cowboys, but not the real team. Bummer, but at least he made something. His friends also said that he might get an Xbox 360 when Halo 3 came out and get a new gamertag, but unfortunately that never happened and I haven't talked to him since. I don't think that he is on the practice squad anymore though. The funny thing is that I made a few good friends playing and owning on Live over Halo 2, but Matt was the only person that I ever met in person and the only one who almost made it into the NFL. Not to mention that I live In California and he and his friends like in New York and other places on the East Coast and his try-outs took him all the way across the country for me to meet him. Hopefully one day he might get Halo 3, but that is unlikely. But that is my Halo adventure. :)

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AlmightyPancake Well... I first discovered Halo when I was on the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu. The locals frequently performed a sacrifice to someone they called "God Chief," clearly a hamming of "Master Chief." Every day, before the sun came up, the whole island held a halo tournament. The loser was deemed the sacrificial "n00b," and would be sacrificed to ensure the rising of the sun. After having to play through about four rounds, my beginner's luck wore off, and I lost my fifth morning there. Of course, I had no intention of being sacrificed, so I bolted for the treeline. Unfortunately, Tuvalu is incredibly small. Really small. As such, I realized that I would not be able to escape for good. However, I theorized that if I could live it out until the sun came up, the tribe would realize how unnecessary the sacrifice was. At one point, I was hiding on a roof. The roof caved in and I fell into the lap of the Princess Cavalu. She fell in love with me, we had an R-rated sex scene, and then she agreed to help me out. As we were running through the streets, hiding from alley to alley, I glanced at my watch. 7:45. Dawn was minutes away. I looked to the horizon. Where was the sun streaming over the crystal blue? Nothing there but the relentless waves, pounding at the shore as the sacrificial drums. Then I realized that there was something to their mythology--without Halo, the sun doesn't come up. I had made a discovery, and my life was still on the line. However, I suddenly came up with an idea. I ran to their temple and stood at the top of the stairs. "I am the n00b!" I said. "But Jubbinju (the person who defeated me) is a H4X0R!!!" The crowd gasped and swung to look at him. Astonished, he did not reply in time, and was carted off to be sacrificed in my place. I used that day to get the hell off the island. To this day, my friends and I play halo every night to ensure the sun arises the next day.[/quote] Total win. If this is a contest then I vote AlmightyPancaketo be winner. Your story made me laugh so hard.

Made real good friends over XBL ( MaesterGXL, Roman Craig - Joel, ShortBus - Jimmy, Chevelle, Blobby, TarHeels, KIMO ). Made money playing Halo 2. Podtacular is a cool community for tournaments and friends. Halo 1 FTW.