>you will never get to stay up until 4am in the summertime playing custom games with your bros ever again.
Take me back
I just wanna go back to coming home from high school, turning on my xbox and hearing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcWxw7UHME
>>711778199
bumping with nostalgia
>>711778425
anyone got halo feel stories?
God shooters have gone to shit since then. Halo 3's full multiplayer suite was flawless.
>>711779049
I know man. I played swat like it was an obsession
>>711778543
I use to come home every night to play fat kid with my best friend, we grew up together but he moved away before high school. We use to play for hours and some times just sit around in a forge fucking around talking. Halo kept us close. Right as the games life was finally ending the nail on the coffin was my friend being run over by a truck walking to work.
>>711778199
>You will never again constantly play custom games on Halo 3
>You will never be master of ceremonies with a 16 person full lobby with crazy in-game chat of people rambling about bullshit and yelling about the fun game
>You will never again forge maps for hours on end just so that you can be ready for that big custom games party later
>You will never have your friends constantly inviting you to join their parties to play some sick Halo 3
>You will never again go back into Theater mode to relive that sick insane moment when that shot landed across the map for the triple kill from nowhere
30000+ custom games played, general rank 5 Social Slayer and Big Team Battle, Halo 3 was the pinnacle of innovation for the shooter, 11/10, would masturbate to.
>>711778199
Better yet 4 player Battlefont 2, putting up a blanket or pizza box to separate the screens
>>711779555
sorry to hear that man
I remember 16 player custom games for what seemed like hours, laying on my bed playing duckhunt and garbage man and jenga with people who I didnt even know.
>>711779716
it hurts man
>you will never get to send randoms "nerd" messages when they had pic related in their file share
halo 3 was god tier
every halo game fell off from there, in my opinion
got a 50 in lone wolves, team swat, mlg, team doubles, team slayer, and team snipers
used to boost accounts with a friend, and sell them for more xbox live subscriptions/microsoft points lol
>>711779716
Oh goodness, my nostalgia is showing again.
*Teardrop*
>>711779848
I never had many friends that lived near me growing up so I usually played the solo missions but damn was that game comfy af on ps2
Bitch i remember Halo opening im old enough to be your dad mother fucker now stop complaining about nostalgia cause im older then you so i have more right to complain cause im older.
>>711779848
fuck yes dude. Get the PC version for better graphics and still functioning multiplayer. Plus you get your own screen
>>711779867
damn I fucking jerked to that
the good times
>>711779867
>tfw everyone had that pic saved somewhere
Halo was a special time man, people throwing stick grenades at other's crotches and trying to make it look like a wiener was also pretty popular.
>>711778199
>all those custom games and maps
>that tunnel map you made for zombies on forge that actually caught on
:(
DELETE THIS FUCKING THREAD YOU NIGGER!
>>711778199
You can't go back Anon, none of us can. Life is cruel.
I always loved playing fatman and all the other games, there will never be a better fucking time
Can we get a game together, for old times sake?
>>711780190
Its okay, we can all remanence together on the good times. Back when coming home from high school meant starting up halo instead of homework to play custom games with people you met mathcmaking that lived across the country. People that probably dont remember you, and you dont remember them, but both remember this game and feel the same way. Sucks
>>711780304
dont forget ice cream truck
>>711780324
Remembering it only makes the pain worse. Please stop. I don't want to want to go back because it can never be.
>>711780576
We all feel the same
>>711778199
>I was in the top 100 warthog gunners in the world according to some website thats probably long dead.
>So many days where I came home from school and friends would be waiting online for me to get on and go destroy people in the hog.
>We learned pretty quick if we took all the power weapons and had my friends drive the hog we would become unstoppable.
>I had almost 6000 kills with the warthog gun before they stopped updating the stats.
>Six fucking thousand.
I cannot express my disappointment when the Master chief collection came out. Unbelievable amount of sadness. I just want to die.
>>711780919
Funny thing was I was never good at the game. Didnt care. I had fun regardless. My first xbox 360 game, first time getting to play with people online and not just splitscreen. I wish i could go back
>>711781046
my first 360 game also played with countless amount of people, never played actual matchmaking tho couldn't get into it
>>711780318
If it wasnt 3am where im at Id be down. maybe try getting a thread started on /v/ on day?
>>711781232
same, only time i played online was for group games of big team and playing griffball when bungie had it on the weekend playlist
>>711778199
i don't
highschool sucked
shit was expensive and nobody gave me money for anything that wasn't detrimental to my life/health
only joys in life were calling people niggerfaggots on xboxlive and laughing at how bad everyone who played those games were at playing them
>>711781251
I know every now and again people do a populate halo 3 day, If i remember right its usually on Halo 3 birthday or on April 7th
>>711780145
>tfw you get stuck with a frag nade bcus the hitboxes were glitched
>tfw you would lose a close MLG match bcus of it
those days are never ever coming back
>>711781333
griffball was fun as hell, one of the main reasons I played halo reach alot it had decent custom games for a while also
>>711781500
Bungle day, 7/7.
The only game that I made friends with randoms. Went on 2v2, met most l33t sniper ever met. Dominated other team so bad that we rode on the goose and he was getting mid-air headshots.
We were in tears when we hit a jump, headshot, and landed and road-killed her partner.
My god this game was so perfect in every way.
What was the highest skill level? I always got stuck on the second to highest rating and generally played on the third highest.
>>711781832
50 m8
>>711778543
Don't mlg with me or my son ever again
I remember the fat kid map with the mongoose. I would always get to that shit first and gtfo of the map real quick.
Have you guys heard of ElDewrito?
Have you guys heard of ElDewrito
>>711778543
I do. It was the fist serious fps I ever got into and it was one I played with my dad often. I remember when halo 3 finally came out. We pre-ordered the metal box edition and everything. I have never, ever, felt the same unparalleled joy, anticipation, and excitement.
My father and I played the campaigns together many times and when we finally finished the fight in the third game I cried. I didn't realize master chief survived until later. So that night I mourned a personal hero.
My father had clinical depression, really seriously too. But you don't really notice these things as a kid you know? Stuff just happens around you and it doesn't make an impression until later. But he was trying really hard for me and my brother. He did his best to hide what was up from us and take care of us. Even during the divorce. His gamertag was CyborgDad and a few numbers that I've forgotten by now.
He had thrown out his back and couldn't move well. He went a few states away to go live with his parents again after that. Every summer I'd go visit him. He would either play some old game from the DOS era and show it to us, or he's be playing Fallout.
He had trouble adapting and playing newer games. But halo had become such a muscle memory thing for him that he was still able to keep up with us as our motor skills got faster and we got better at the game. I can't tell you how proud I was when I finally beat my Dad at Halo for the first time. No matter how bad things got for him we always had Halo 3 as a common ground.
He was a tall man, in many was I saw him as Master Cheif myself. About 6' 5" tall, and with a shaved head, he was spartan-like in many ways.
Eventually though he was found dead in that same house with his parents, accidental overdose on painkillers. The autopsy report made it sound like his heart just couldn't handle it anymore. They didn't think it was a suicide, neither do I. But I still tear up when I hear this OST...
God damn... Sometimes I dust off my xbox just to put this in sit at the main screen. The song, the background, the feel of that controller in my hand again. Revisiting old saved maps that are now just empty husks of hours long passed. Replayed Legendary campaign with a friend of mine a couple months ago; shit was good but it'll never be the same. I may be pathetic, but that game was pure joy for me and a big part of my life.
http://www.halolfg.com/
Here you go guys, found this about 6 months ago and still use it frequently. Not many people post about Halo 3 on here, but when they do, they will almost always add you, and slowly but surely, you will be back in a group of people living that same nostalgia as you are. Good luck /b/ro's.
:(
Stay up late for the real feels.
I had a PlayStation so I have no idea what y'all are talking about
>>711782078
Trying to get through the campaign without my dad is still pretty had for me emotionally. As fa as I'm concerned the game ended on that ring. It's almost like watching my father die again when it's over.
I miss him.
>>711782078
That actually made me a tear up a bit anon. Sorry to hear that, but atleast you still have memories and have something to remember him by
>>711782178
I've moved onto PC since then and it's undoubtedly better. But There's no fucking way in hell i'd ever regret halo.
>>711782078
Rip. Sounds like a good man who really loved you. Hope youre doing well these days anon. There will be more good memories to be made. Get some rest and treat yourself to a solid breakfast, he would have liked that. Peace
>>711782333
Some of my strongest memories are from playing this game with friends and family. I have very few regrets.
>>711782078
>God speed spartan dad
>>711782333
I don't my dad killed himself when I was three
This is kind of rare for me. I don't talk about my dad or even my thoughts much to people. I do my best to be strong like he was, and in a lot of ways that means bearing the weight of yourself in silence, while still being there to help others. But it's weird to look in the mirror and see parts of him in my own face. Some of my mannerisms like my laugh, etc. It's surreal that my own laugh can trigger a nostalgia hit. He had such a strong influence on me.
I want to do everything he did right, but learn from his mistakes and improve upon my own life with that knowledge. I think that would be the best way to serve his memory.
>>711778199
>you now realize that enough time has passed by that a slower paced shooter like Halo 3 would likely get panned hard by people and critics
It feels so awful. Halo 3 deserves to have a bigger player base even if it has been years since it's release. I feel if any non Halo came out with similar gameplay people would probably not care. Most shooters die withing weeks. Months if they are lucky. Only Battlefield and CoD sell big numbers and maintain popularity after launch when it comes to FPS.
>>711782078
fuck. that was a rough read.
![halo-custom-edition[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0cj0BJZ.jpg "halo-custom-edition[1].jpg")
Halo CE for days and months.
How many of you guys are still here in the thread? I'm the anon with the dead dad and I know of a way we can all play Halo Online now for free.
I'll try and get the link up.
I had a nostalgia trip, fired up the old xbox and put on halo 3. just not the same.
>>711783341
here, don't own it anymore though
also, I kinda agree with
>>711783342
some things are better with memory
>>711783342
I have the bundle pack (halo 1,2,3) for the xbox one, totally agree with you. It will never be the same. Even after a single match, it boots you to the main menu so you cant play with the same people. I remember after matches the teams would shit talk the whole time in the lobby waiting for the next game.
Docs google com / document/d/1yVlMw6NzM-liatgr1hBI3hVQN_STHinP2gQQTNjcTnA/edit
>>711778199
Omg the indiana jones lobbys miss these timrs 16 people lobbu dday maps and custom infection maps thx for nostalgia
>>711778199
Why don't we just all go and friend each other and play Halo 3?
>>711783593
You can use this link to download the whole thing on Mega. The community is decently sized still. Fo the most part it's just like old times, tea-bagging and bragging included.
for me, halo 3 will always be the greatest game ever made
If any of you guys want to try and set up a round of Halo online I've set up a chatroom for this thread to use.
tlk io / 4chanhalo3
>>711782078
As long as you remember him, he'll never be dead. Just missing in action.
>>711778199
I remember the days of boosting 50s in SWAT haha a friend of mine had an account with over 2000 losses and we'd hit 50 in under 30 games sometimes.
Sad to think that I'll never be able to play H3 online again..
>>711784433
>>711783744
>>711783524
>>711783342
>>711782340
Seriously guys, we could all play a few rounds right now. The game is like 2GB. Just read this
Docs google com / document/d/1yVlMw6NzM-liatgr1hBI3hVQN_STHinP2gQQTNjcTnA/edit
>>711782078
>He had trouble adapting and playing newer games. But halo had become such a muscle memory thing for him that he was still able to keep up with us as our motor skills got faster and we got better at the game.
I feel this is such an underrated thing about the simplicity of Halo that many do not seem to get. Halo is simple enough to grasp but getting extremely good is difficult to master. With shooters today the developers keep adding all of these crazy movements and while it's okay sometimes I feel it is also okay to have a simplistic shooter as long as it is good. I prefer classic Halo games to Titanfall or CoD IW any day of the week. Halo also wasn't turbo speed like Quake either so it truly was a solid series that can have a wide audience appeal and not be obnoxious about it like how developers love to say they want a wide audience of players yet they seem to not even know how to get such an audience.
Man I miss these days so much. This series has gotten so awful now that they moved away from the classic style gameplay. I can totally see why even a parent would get into Halo. It didn't have to try hard like so many games these days attempt to. All what you need is solid mechanics and fun maps/campaign/multiplayer.
Has anyone ever seen a machinma called
"What the fuck happened to Halo" It was in Halo 3
and they were doing a multiplayer adventure, kinda like RvsB but less popular. It was really funny from when I remember it. The youtuber who made it is called Tacoriffic but he hasn't been active and his videos were flagged by Youtube Red
>>711784548
I don't have a decent laptop and I don't have the money for to buy one. I'd rather spend $60 for a year of xbox live
>>711780919
Top 50 in the world in flamethrower kills.
Fucking reked
>>711783212
yep, this
Im playing now 50 high teamslayer. Still fun occasionally. Miss the old days :(
Halo 3 pistol sucked ass. Solid game though.
>>711785083
It was very hard to use but it wasn't too bad. It was really strong actually.
With a better netcode that gun would have shined a lot more. It also had a slow rate of fire so it had a lot going against it that made people feel the gun was trash but it was decent. Of course you will always want a BR on hand anyways so pistol kind of was obsolete.
>>711778199
lvl 50 general checking in
>>711778199
This thread gave me heavy feels
You did good op thank you
ITT: Foreveralone faggotry
>>711778199
>>711778543
>halo 3
>mfw you're all a bunch of munchkins
I remember halo 2 back in middle school. good ol zombies on foundation where you could barricade up the door by knocking those metal whatthefucks over
would get on XBL and watch Bleach at like 2am on adult swim with two of my buddies. one of them was a pint sized white kid that wore his hair in his face like the Ring girl and the other was hispanic and constantly looking for tiny's approval interesting group dynamic lol
>>711786916
yeah man
super duper alone
anyone who's ever played halo
must live in their moms basement
>>711787056
Out of all of them Halo 2 was my favorite. First online match of anything I ever played. Connecting my old black brick of an Xbox to the internet felt like magic.
post your favorite map /b/
>>711787075
>>711786916
>mfw I matched with a tinderella who plays halo and works at xbox
This thread is making me really sad. If anyone wants to play on Xbox one I'm down
>>711787145
right? I was introduced to it at a friend's house. Halo (2) was the reason for xbox
>>711787254
Fukken Turf all the way bro. Largest small map I've ever played. Very smartly designed.
Plus you could do that rocket launcher glitch to catapult yourself off the banshee wings and snipe from the sky scrapers above.
>>711778199
Why don't games like this happen anymore?
Has multiplayer gotten too mainstream? Do people take it too seriously?
What the fuck happened to fun games in general man. Every game is just filled with tryhards who don't know how to have fun unless the game is giving them a 'You win' every few minutes. Can't just play to relax anymore.
>>711787474
great choice man that map was good.
>>711778199
ay lets start up a custom game lol
>>711787323
Add hellkite lord (old name from mtg)
I may be playing some rounds the next days
>was 12 when halo 3 was released
>saved up 500 dollars from newspaper route to buy xbox 360, rockband, halo 3 and xbox live plus headset
>played the game religiously but was 12 so sucked
>only played custom zombie games and added everyone from lobbies so i could join custom games from the friends menu 24/7
>made some real friends and always had xbox party chats and friends inviting me the moment i came online
>played from the moment i came home from school until i went to bed
>was into high level ice hockey at the time to so social life at school was bumpin
>make so many friends on xbox live
>life is fuckin great
>one day xbox has red ring
>not the normal one you can send to microsoft to fix, gpu literally melted
>go without xbox for ~6 months
>christmas rolls around parents buy me new slim xbox
>set it up but forget my email/password combo
>cant remember my old friends names to add them
>mfw i never got to talk to them again
>every now and then i think about them and what they are up to
>had to make new friends but they could never match the old ones
This map was A1 quality.
How I miss halo 3 ...
Halo 3 an ODST were my favorites of the halo line, christ i remember when halo CE came out! I met so many kick ass people to play within halo 3 an the community was amazing. I bought an xbox one literally just for halo 5 and what. the . fuck. did they do to it?!?!? it wasn't even a complete game like what the fuck.
anyone know if halo 3 is even still online? if anything how many players are online? i think last year i check and only 500 left?
>>711787668
oh zanzibar, my old friend, I will remember all the fun I had with you
>>711787668
ahhh the mods that were done with this map...
>>711787626
Thats so sad anon
>>711780919
whats wrong with the master chief collection(i dont have an xbox one)
>>711787736
I remember when I wasn't able to pre order ODST. I was kind of bummed out but the guy at the target I bought it from had a bunch of old DLC cards for being able to play as Sargent Johnson. He just gave me one for free. That made me really happy.
>>711787626
>save everyone from custom game lobbies so you have customs to join
this is why Halo 2 rocked. one word: Clans
>>711787922
also I couldnt even find an ss of the clan friends list. it's basically a myth at this point. was always annoyed that they didnt have it in halo 3. besides halo 2 maps being superior clans could have made halo great again
>>711787922
This pic just reminded me of the fucking shit mics. I miss those. Sounded like all your friends were fucking underwater.
>>711779867
feels 2 real
>>711779867
garbage man, duckhunt, fatboy, spent my whole childhood doin that shit
always found it funny how i was 9 years old when the game was released and i was squeaker on the mic
now i make fun of the squeakers on the mics
>>711788236
Halo 2 feels
>>711780324
>be 15
>getting out of 8th period
>hanging out for a bit with friends
>head home and head over to friends
>fire up Nintendo 64
>super smash bros
>girls call my house
>mom calls me at friends house
>tells me Anoness called
>ppfffffff
>can't you see I'm busy
>kindly tell them to fuck off and wait
>playing tourney as Luigi
>only kirby stands in my way
>>711788236
I knew I was a fucking squeaker. So I just stayed off comms.
Plus my parents were the type that thought everyone online back then was a pedophile.
>>711788236
It's the circle of gaming. And those squeakers will grow up to yell at squeakers and so on and so forth.
Damn I remember first playing Halo 2 at my older friends house, he was in high school while I was still in like 6th grade. He had to help me beat the flood missions cause that shit terrified me as a kid. He was the first one to show me KOTOR too, he bought me an Xbox for my 13th birthday and I played Halo 2 and eventually Halo 3 every day throughout my entire school career. Just a couple weeks ago found out that he murdered his wife then shot himself in the head in a hotel room, thinking about dusting off my original xbox that has been in my attic for countless years but I know I'm gonna be hit by a wave of feels ):
>>711787897
Different guy here. When it was released it had the most broken multiplayer ever, it works better nowadays but I can't ever find as much people playing anymore. Also there are no rolling matches like someone else said in the thread earlier so you play one game and then go back to the menu
>>711788569
i always had to ask my bros to help me with the flood mission high charity regardless of difficulty on halo 3 cause that scared the shit out of me
sorry to hear about your friend bro, thats crazy how he bought you an xbox tho sounded like a good guy
who knows what changed
>>711782078
Thank you for sharing that Anon. Keep pressing forward and hold fast to his memory.
>>711782996
I'm trying to figure out a way to explain how I feel. Back in the day it was me and my XBL buddies rotating between COD4, WAW, and Halo 3. Back then I didn't care about politics or any kind of bullshit like that. All I cared about was whoever made that insane stick or triple kill. Back in the day I struggled with pretty hardcore depression over personal stuff and chronic pain issues. I really didn't know where the fuck I was going in life, and XBL was my main reprieve from reality.
While COD4 and to a lesser extent WAW sucked up tons of hours, Halo 3 had the creative community that even Call of Duty or most FPS games today can't match, and it's where I spent most of my time. Tower of Power back in the H2 days was one thing, but being able to create totally new ways of playing and have this crazy shared experience was mind blowing at the time. Completely custom forge maps, being able to relive crazy moments through theater, fuck man I miss those days.
These days I've got a lot of my personal bullshit better handled, but it's really hard for me to just escape from reality. I still got 1 really good friend I keep in touch with from the old days. This summer I'm gonna go try to visit him IRL for the first time.
so sad how captivating a video game can be yet life itself isn't top kek. i spent DAYS playing this game.
wtf can i live in the year 3000 pls, i want to explore the universe not sit here rotting
Halo 3 was the first xbox game I played, growing up I'd always had playstation, never touched the console since, Christmas 2005/6 some time, my stepdad got us a 360 with Halo and I played it for years, first of my friends to get the katana, but then he left, we kept the console and moved on. Few years later I got a notification that my terms and services had to be updated by my parental guardian otherwise I couldn't go on my account, because he set my account up and had left I lost my account, lost my friends, achievements, custom content, I started again with my new account, it just wasn't the same though. Fast forward to now, I'm 22 and last week I recovered my old acc, it let me on without a problem, spent the weekend going trough my old games and saves. Went through my friends list, offline...offline...offline... all of them, no sign of activity in years.
I loved halo 1.
it was the first game i've ever seriously gotten into.
the first time you explore the ring after crashing was mind blowing for me back in the day.
as is the first flood level. i actually felt scared.
then came halo 2. i thought the cutscenes and the environment was amazing. but some things were off, the bullets felt rubbery against brutes, and everything just felt mediocre.
When halo 3 came out i thought it would be amazing, given how halo 2 was a flop. the first level got back some of the feel from the original halo. the multiplayer was also great. but overall it cant realy compare to the original. the gameplay felt unnecessarily complicated by items which, although useful in multiplayer, were kind of underwelming in single player.
i'd been through many fpses by now. but nothing really compares to when i played halo 1. everything since has been a letdown.
i've realized that games have become rehashes of rehashes. the purity of FPS is gone, and every FPS game is just a re-shelling of the same thing.
the biggest culprit is the difference between bf3 and 4. literally just the graphics.
ever since halo 3 i'd been waiting for the next big "innovation" in gaming.
titanfall was tipped to be that. but it kind of felt like a flop. i enjoy a pure multiplayer experience.
COD series got back some of the "feel" of a decent campaign, but multiplayer is just a twitch shooter.
battlefield was the only thing that came close multiplayer wise, but the pc matchmaking system was terrible. i mean a browser? really?
far cry gave a good feel of an expansive fps environment, but that's about it. the storyline felt incongruent, and i was frustrated with the latest one that i couldnt just kill everybody and take over.
they may all be better games in comparison, but its that experience you get from your first fps ever that you spend the rest of your time chasing.
this thread is great
I really miss what Halo used to be
>>711782762
please post more
>>711782762
holy shit yeah i remember all the dank images people made
>>711778199
Especially because the Halo franchise went down the drain with 343's shitty management. Storywise 4 and 5 are tryhard edgy shit for 12 year olds, the sound design of weapons, explosions and the environment is below AAA, and even the skyboxes don't give that sense of awe in their vastness.
Like, they had covenant capital ships removed from the player's position 20 km but really they were just resized sloppily and put away 2 km instead of 20, The whole sense of scale was just off.
Case in point - 34:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04LRbnHDT-A
>>711789985
this one was so fucking cool back in the day
Fat kid
I never played Halo 3
I never played Gears of War games either
I feel like I missed out alot
Jenga
>>711790574
>>711790403
I've seen that robot before...
Jenga used to be my fucking favorite. Fuck I loved this game.
Duck Hunt
>>711790403
I remember downloading and playing on that map
>>711790532
this was always my favorite to play
>>711790532
summer 08 for me
>graduation year
phuck i feel old
Platform
>>711790532
This brings back a lot of bad memories.
I fucking hated this game type
Trash compactor
>crtl f
>hmv
Seriously. No HMV. Kill yourselves and die.
Hurricane Katrina
>>711790847
Excuse me, you fucking noob?
>>711790925
how could've I forgotten this
I'm pretty butt hurt I don't have any of these classic maps and game types on master chief collection, and nobody to play with. Only have like two friends with the mcc and halo just isn't as fun without a bigger lobby
Jail (mt favorite)
>>711790723
sucked being the fat kid but once the ball got rolling it was alright
I remember a few years ago some /b/ros made a thread asking to play Halo 3 and we got quite a bit of people
>>711791009
damn I forgot about jail, one of my favs also
Alright my dude, its been fun sharing these screenshots but I have to go jerk my dick at work. Have fun
>>711791388
thank you for your service, have a great day
it looks like almost every gaming community i've ever heard of has died or gone to shit. (i started gaming around the release of halo reach and black ops 1) i've heard ghost stories of how clans were actually groups of friends, not just a stupid nametag and the countless hours of verbal bullshittery you would here in lobbies during regular multiplayer gameplay. its just feels weird that games now have a usable voice com system but its all dead air.
>>711787056
This is the shit that's so good - I used to play halo 3 with my 2 housemate (we had and xbox and a TV/monitor each upstairs in the livingroom/attic placed side by side) and my best friend who lived down the road. We used to play team slayer and territories and shit. The best part was trash talking little girls on the headsets and teabagging their corpses. Also rushing the sniper rifle and firing all the shots into the ground just so some MLG fuckbag couldnt have it.
>>711778199
> i'll never live that year in my first student flat again
> getting stoned with my friends and play the coop campaign because we suck to much at playing multiplayer
> getting drunk and high on coke and have the master chief comfort me on the comedown
> not going to class cause Cortona told me to go get that guilty spark
> failing my exams but no worries cause i saved the galaxy
> last week i finally graduated
>>711791704
Halo had a great community back in the day.
Now it's full of spergs. They'll never understand the value of Recon armour.
>>711792005
wasn't it like personally given to you or something like that? i just know that grifball was made by the community and destroyed in halo 4
>>711782078
Spartans never die, they're just MIA
>>711792142
Get out
>>711790544
You did miss out. Don't let those on /v/ fool you. Those who want some sort of hipster cred for not liking these games because they are popular I mean. It doesn't matter if they were popular with a lot of douche bags playing them. The games were incredibly fun to play.
>>711792142
if you wanted Recon back when Halo 3 was release you had to impress Bungie.
I know someone from the Community got it because he made really good screenshots in Halo 3.
John CJG got it because he made the Arby n CHief.
But when Bungie release ODST and DLC you had to complete some challenges to get it. ( Regular Recon)
>>711791704
>clans were actually groups of friends
I actually got that feeling again in call of duty ghosts of all the fuckin games. Randomly stumbled across a group of "old school" gamers who just wanted to play with the same 6 dudes every night like the good old days. It was retarded how competetive we got during the seasonal clan war thing. Literally every day for a week or two, we'd have the same 6 dudes playing for 10+ hours a day
throughout the whole thing, my sides were literally sore from laughing and my voice was hoarse from telling those faggots on the other team that I fucked their mom almost as hard as I fucked them last game. As much as I love to shit on any call of duty game after cod4, it was everything I ever wanted from an fps during those tournaments
>>711778199
You can still do that. Make more friends.
>>711787922
Ahh, I want to cry....
>>711792353
I remember when Bungie gave everyone flaming recon for a day
Tfw I was never interested in gaylo and I spent the majority enjoying mw2 golden days wit all my homies before there was barely squeakers on it. Damn I miss thos days.
>HS
>playing on console
>not having your broke ass parents spend their vacation money on a pc for you
Get on my level
>>711792492
Played that and halo 3 in its prime god damn it was beautiful
>>711792593
Mah nigga (':
Rust 1v1intervention only doe :3
>>711792593
2007 was a good year for gaming
>>711792698
Shit was lit when you had beef with someone and your friends and their friends and enemy's friends friends spectated then went apeshit when people hit noscope trickshots. It was decided then who was the dankest player. Gg no re.
Ah those were the day. Halo 3 (followedd by CoD 4 and then Black Ops) were probably the best games of my generation. Halo 3 was so much fun, and the ranking system was great.
I used to "boost n00bz" to 50 and shit. I was 46+ in every playlist. I was also like super good at team slayer and doubles even playing on level 50. There was just something about it that I was fucking amazing at. I was comparatively much worse at MLG however. I had several friends (not IRL) who went semi (although one of them did live near me) for Halo 3. One dude's team even placed 17th for one tournament (2008 MLG season), but shit just fell apart for them after that, and tbh that was kind of a stroke of luck. Anyway, I was like about as good as those dudes at TS and TD, but for some reason I was comparatively worse at MLG (I couldn't, e.g. get a 50 on my own in the MLG playlist).
It was something I was really good at though. At the time I was only like 12-14 too. Today I'm 21. I imagine that if I had kept playing (and if the new Halo games didn't suck and felt more like the old one) I would have become good enough to place semi by the time I was like 18 or 19 or 20 or so.
>>711792959
For some reason bo turned me off. Maybe because all the weapons sounded like cheap toy guns. Gameplay was decent though. And I loved all the creative playercards
>>711792959
I really hated when Bungie reset ranks in Halo 3.
>sending voice messages to random people in custom game lobbies of you breathing heavy and slapping your hand against your thigh
Who else?
Also had three dudes who were always together whem they showed up in the custom game "group" whos names were lemonparty, meatspinman, and - fuck i forgot his name. Good keks from those guys.
>>711778199
>be 5 years old
>running around outside playing with dirt and shit
>jump over this guard barrier, trip, scrape the fuck out of my knee and arm
>crying, run home
>older brother sees me crying, picks me up, takes me into his room, sites me down in front of his TV and gives the his Xbox controller
>"here you go man, have fun"
>starts playing Halo Combat Evolved
>had no idea how to play it so i just ran around, shot at things, fell off a cliff and died
>started playing it more
>brother moved out, mom got me an Xbox
>brother gave me his old copy of Halo: CE to play
>played it every single day as a kid
>start playing more halo games
>see this thread
>feel the feels
>come home from middle school, go over to friends house
>stay up all night at his house playing custom games
Fuck you and this thread for making me feel even worse than I already do.
>ninja obstacle course was our favorite map
>>711793240
Oh by the ranking system I wasn't referring to exp, which was based purely on games played/total wins (which they did reset, kind of pissing people off), but rather the ranked "skill levels", which were never reset and were based on you percentage of wins (and hence your "performance"). I'm not sure if you remember, but the skill levels were different for each playlist and only applied to ranked playlists. "Social" playlists provided exp but didn't have ranks.
Also exp had no max (I remember people with over 10,000 IIRC), but you're skill level maxed out a 50, and very few people achieved that (hence why people like me got "paid" in XBL points/XBL gold to "boost" people).
Btw, in case anyone is curious I was a super awesome booster. My record was like a level 50 in doubles in 21 games or 23 games or something like that. However, I had a friend who got one in 12 games on one account.
Halo 3 for the custom games
Halo 2 for the matchmaking
I sucked ass at halo 3 matchmaking but rektd halo 2, new mechanics and items fucked me, weapons felt different too.
Halo 2 was always my favorite for multiplayer, but the campaign was ass.
Anyone else play Conker live and reloaded?
>>711789484
Too true anon. Now I gotta go to work with this hanging over me...
>>711794529
the campaign was the best campaign of any Halo game
>>711794707
Arbiter missions were garbage mate.
>>711794817
as a matter of fact, they were the best part
>>711789484
Try planetside 2. I really really REALLY recommend it.
>>711794817
>mate
Fuck out of here eurotrash. Halo used to be one of the few more modern FPS games with good campaign. Halo 2 is second best for me though. Halo CE will always be my favorite.
>>711778543
I would go over to my friend's house and we would play against each other all the time.
The problem with splitscreen is that eventually one would call the other out for screenlooking.
I would be trying to snipe my friend but he ducks out of the way as soon as he saw himself on my screen. Or he would always know exactly where I am on the map.
One time, he was sitting on top of the base in Coagulation with a sniper rifle. I decided to try and sneak up and melee him in the back. I was moving slow enough to not show up on the radar, I was sure because I was watching his radar.
Right before I get close enough to melee him, he turns around and screams RADAR!!!! Switches to his shotgun and shoots me in the face.
I almost lost a friend that day
>>711787056
FUCK YEAH
and there was always people that wouldn't change teams
Also the super jumps and mods
Fucking loved halo 2, next halo
Halo 2 & 3 was the pinnacle of my childhood gaming. Fun community, good matchmaking, and non-fucked gameplay. My favorite was the Halo 2 glitches. I can still remember most of the fun glitches to do in custom games. Climbing the buildings on Headlong trying to avoid death barriers...good times.
There were a few glitches in Halo 3, one of which let you get out of bounds in theater mode with the camera. It's where I took my desktop pic that I still use today.
Pic related. Gotta get out of bounds in the H3 map Avalanche in order to get a clear view.
>>711787056
Nah it was about some poor sucka crouching by the ledge in the room with the fan blades and hoping on top of him to get out the map that way.
Man halo 2 had some interesting ways to get out of the map
>>711778199
>halo 3
>high school
Fucking young faggots, fuck off.
>>711795990
you're a bk
>>711787145
FUCK YES
Halo 2 for life. Feels :(
>>711782330
Holy fuck I remember this one
>>711795896
Yoo. My nigga.
>>711787056
>munchkins
when halo first came out i was in my second year undergrad
I used to play halo 3 all the time man. It was the first halo me and my bro played and we loved it. We played forge for hours and hours and played co-op campaign countless times. We never had gold till about 1-2 years after getting the Xbox but we still played it online. This was back when i was in junior high but I wish I could go back to those times. I miss just screwing around playing games with him and not having to worry about having enough to buy groceries. Having a job and saving for college suck ass.
>>711799280
If anyone wants to play mcc post you're gt ill add you.
>>711788335
>>only kirby stands in my way
>mfw only played as the puffball of doom
I have every halo. I placed fif for top 8 in FFA H2 @ MLG 05 06 and 07. My alias used to be PoPcoRN P. Add me on xbl: NYCitySam iXi.
>>711799360
Mcc?
>>711800031
Master chief collection. Have my 360 away atm. Only my xbone on me.
Glad to have seen the love for Halo 2 and Halo 3 in this thread. The best online multiplayer shooters still to date.
Upsetting they fucked Halo MCC so badly and then abandoned it. Features are still broken and not working. Stuff as simple as the icons are still broken among more serious stuff.
played halo 1 (on PC) 2 (at friends) which was really fun
when 3 came out i just had my own xbox360 and had around 6+ good irl friends who all played the game
we had this shack where we always had 6+ xbox306's with seperate TV's and internet connection and halo 3's, this was literally THE thing I would do every weekend and the whole xbox live and the halo 3 community and playing with friends was just fucking amazing
I bought halo reach when it came out but it really was a shit game imo, almost everyone went to reach and people said that after many patches the game was... I always kept on playing halo3 because I thought maybe people will realize it's still just as fun but it slowly died ... halo in general pretty much slowly died since they left halo 3
>>711801149
>imo
No Halo Reach aside the campaign being decent was just complete shit. They completely made it RNG friendly with the unbelievable reticle bloom so that it would close the skill gap and enable the filthy casuals to have a better chance.
Halo Reach mechanics and multiplayer were utter garbage. It was Bungie's attempt to "subtley" ruin Halo on the way out when according to the Destiny poster inside of Halo 3: Recon that they were already working on their own game. They wanted people to leave Halo and come to Destiny. How better than to ruin the series on the way out instead of leaving it at the glory of Halo 2 and 3 multiplayer.
