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Halo Memories


Halo was a watershed game for me when I was a teenager. It was the first time that I was playing a game that was actually a legitimate part of cultural lexicon. Before I had only been playing games that were no longer popular or not as popular as they once were.





But when my step dad bought an x-box and introduced me to Halo, that finally changed. I played it religiously with my step dad after school on the Campaign mode and sometimes by myself and I was blown away by the game. I had never seen anything like it before. The graphics were stunning, the controls were varied but not too complicated, and the story was just as well written as the best sci-fi films.

Halo was also a landmark for me in the sense that it was the first video game I remembered beating and finishing to completion. So many hours of my teenage years were spent playing Halo and it will always have a special place in my heart and it is one of the few games that made me feel a sense of euphoria and elation upon completion and to this day, it still holds up quite nicely.

My memories with Halo though don't stop there. My first ever experience with playing online was also with a Halo game. This time around it was the much anticipated sequel. Halo 2. Playing friends and family online from the comfort of my den was surreal. But despite how cool it was, I did not do it very often because I was not that adept or skilled at multi player matches and I died constantly and rarely ever won a match. This led me to turn to the familiar, the campaign mode. But I am still really glad that I played some online matches though because I was a part of history in that aspect with the revolution that was Halo 2's online multiplayer.

Halo 2 was the last Halo game I beat though or played that often. I did play Halo 3 a few times but I never got around to finishing it and I only recently picked up a XBox 360. One of these days I will give it a run. But I have no desire currently to play it anytime soon. Or the fifty other Halo sequels or spin offs that came out afterward. But despite that playing Halo is one of my favorite and most fondest memories of my youth and is a considerable part of me and my video game identity.

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