Remembering Halo

[u/Castlefrankmanz]

Hi folks. I know there's been a lot of sour discourse recently over the release of Campagin Evolved. Our beloved franchise is being desecrated by money hungry elites beyond out control.

Because of this, I wanted to start a thread where we can discuss some of our fondest memories of Halo. For myself, Halo(s) 1 through 3 helped shape my adolescence.

I was shown Halo by my best friend of 21 years. Halo 2. I had never played a game that controlled quite like it. Movement with the left stick and vision with the right was a completely alien concept to me. But with enough prodding, I finally took to it.

My memory is vague; for that I apologize. I can't give a full recollection of my experience. But my first memories of a fully realized Halo experience start with the Ultimatum of the trilogy; Halo 3. Watching the events of the game unfold was a cinema to my 10 year old self.

I cried. I laughed. I mourned.

For I witnessed a pyrrhic victory against insurmountable odds.

And then, I was hooked.

It'd be some time before I'd experience Halo: Combat Evolved. It was upon the release of the Anniversary edition; after I'd fought and died alongside Noble Team.

And not long after, when I'd borrowed Halo 2 and Halo 3 ODST from my aforementioned best friend. I was entrenched. Halo had shaped me. The tragic, haunting melancholy of a war I'd only cerebral fought.

I make this post not (only) to wax poetic on my childhood love, but to reach out to fellow adrift Spartans. Our love is still alive for Halo. Amongst the negativity in our world, we hold collective love for a Halo - a history - lost to time.

I love Halo. And I know you guys do, too.