This my my own thread I just made. Ten years of Halo 3. Thanks Bungie!!!! You made a beautiful game! I'm pretty happy 343i made OG Halo 3 backwards compatible, playable along with the MCC version. Because of that its taking a trip down memory lane - ten years ago, when it took the world by storm, and became the biggest entertainment launch in history at its time. Colossally successful. Yeah...ts not everyone's favorite game. But it sure as heck is mine. To this day Halo 3 has remained my all time favorite game, the best game I've ever played - one of three games I give a perfect 10/10 score, and the most visually beautiful game I've ever played (old character models aside). However, the door is open for a new experience to take that mantle. Yes, pun intended. But man! Ten years of the masterpiece that defined mine, and millions of others', childhoods and adulthoods. Makes me so nostalgic. I was 14, almost 15 when it launched. I remember asking my dad several times, "Are you gonna get it??" He gave me my copy on the 27th or 28th. Oddly Waypoint says that while my Service Record on Reach says the 28th (remember you can check a few old stats while in Reach's menus). But that doesn't matter. My life was filled with it; all the late night multiplayer sessions, watching MLG tournaments (Str8 Rippin H3 montage - GOAT), Finishing the Fight, epic comebacks, struggling in Ranked, clutch CTF or BTB victories. You name it. It was so worth it. In fact Halo 3 was my first online console multiplayer game. I'm gonna try hopping on for the ten years, then again on Wednesday for ten years since I first played it. As I get older I'll probably not come back to it that often, like I do now. But there's no mistaking how huge of a game it was and how many people it impacted. So Thank you Bungie! You made an incredible game! Thanks 343i for keeping it alive for a little longer! Decade count of playtime is nearly 900 hours, or at that mark when I calculated it recently. Over 70,000 multiplayer kills (not counting Custom Games). Campaign beat probably 5 times, more or less. Lets share our fondest memories! Edit 1: I played on the 25th, and the 27th - exactly ten years to the [i]evening[/i] I first played it. :D