The perfect age for a player who played all Halo's

non of this matters, age doesnt matter, as long as you have played all of them. Heck you could be 15 now and have played all of them. Sure you dont have that lan party memory but at least they have experienced Halo through all stages of its life (gameplay and story wise)

Porcin3 Proph3t wrote:

non of this matters, age doesnt matter, as long as you have played all of them. Heck you could be 15 now and have played all of them. Sure you dont have that lan party memory but at least they have experienced Halo through all stages of its life (gameplay and story wise)

Well if you are a Campaign only guy then it wouldn't matter I guess. Although you would be ripping on some of the graphics on the older stuff.

I'm 47. I have played them all. But I didn't get into multiplayer of any kind for any titles until 2010. I was only interested in the single player. Then the MP obsession struck me Blame Gears of War 3 for that. and Ever since then , I have been playing almost every shooter MP there is on the market trying to make up for lost time.

Comedic Hermit wrote:

Pulse Optional wrote:

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I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here? What's the point, pulse?

My point is the age of experiencing all of the Campaigns without going backwards. Experiencing all MP's competitively in your gaming prime and potential lifestyle/maturity prime. The appreciation of CE really went with the discovery of CE and how there was nothing really like this world. Typically there is a level of glue to the 1st experience with Halo. Not that there is anything wrong with that but if your 1st exposure was Reach you would compare all versions to it. You would likely think Halo CE sucks because it's lack of options, customization, forge, sprint, and jetpacks.

Pulse Optional wrote:

Comedic Hermit wrote:

Pulse Optional wrote:

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I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here? What's the point, pulse?

My point is the age of experiencing all of the Campaigns without going backwards. Experiencing all MP's competitively in your gaming prime and potential lifestyle/maturity prime. The appreciation of CE really went with the discovery of CE and how there was nothing really like this world. Typically there is a level of glue to the 1st experience with Halo. Not that there is anything wrong with that but if your 1st exposure was Reach you would compare all versions to it. You would likely think Halo CE sucks because it's lack of options, customization, forge, sprint, and jetpacks.

Well, you nailed me pretty well. You were off by a year. On the other hand there was no requirement for someone to be 18 or 19 in 2001 to experience CE to it's fullest. Someone could have been 45 and still played and 5 and 6 years olds probably played the multiplayer as well.

Comedic Hermit wrote:

Pulse Optional wrote:

Comedic Hermit wrote:

Pulse Optional wrote:

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I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here? What's the point, pulse?

My point is the age of experiencing all of the Campaigns without going backwards. Experiencing all MP's competitively in your gaming prime and potential lifestyle/maturity prime. The appreciation of CE really went with the discovery of CE and how there was nothing really like this world. Typically there is a level of glue to the 1st experience with Halo. Not that there is anything wrong with that but if your 1st exposure was Reach you would compare all versions to it. You would likely think Halo CE sucks because it's lack of options, customization, forge, sprint, and jetpacks.

Well, you nailed me pretty well. You were off by a year. On the other hand there was no requirement for someone to be 18 or 19 in 2001 to experience CE to it's fullest. Someone could have been 45 and still played and 5 and 6 years olds probably played the multiplayer as well.

My point to get at that age was independence for LAN MP parties. Relying on mom and dad to approve 10+ friends to come over when you were 14 or 15 would only happen once a month if you were lucky. They would never approve 1 to 2 LAN's per week. If you were in college at this time or had just one single friend of your group with his own place or roommates that loved this game like you did he could host frequently. Me and my friends were in our mid to late 20's when these LAN parties hit and we had insane fun but I am trying to essentially analyze franchise gameplay optimization. We were playing GoldenEye (auto-aim off License to kill) then Starcraft in our college years and while they were pretty fun it was no Halo. The resource and mobility advantage of LAN parties via Halo CE gave it advantages over PC at that particular time. PC LAN parties can be fun too but mobility wise they are a bear for setup. Dropping 4 dudes on one 32" Tube and only needing one of the 4 to own the game was easy recruitment and a cheap way to entertain the masses. Our avg LAN party for Halo CE was 8 players. Halo 2 Launch we had 20 players. We had a friggin bench for a LAN party. If you scrape the drywall and listen carefully you can still hear the smack talk absorbed into the wall.

I was 10 when CE came out. I didn't have a console then, but played countless hours at my friends houses. I enjoyed CE so much that I saved up for the next several years to buy an Original Xbox only to play Halo 2. That way I can host my own LAN-parties and drink endless amounts of Mountain Dew. I repeated the process for Halo 3, and I had just as an amazing amount of fun and memorable moments. Reach was kind of a let down, so my friends and I stuck with Halo 3 and even Halo 2 occasionally due to the fact that we couldn't decide which of the two was better. When Halo 4 came out, most everyone hated it, and stopped playing Halo all together (thanks 343). Because of this I was forced to play Halo 4 online 90% of the time. I was in college at the same time, so finding time to play became increasingly difficult. Besides, Halo 4 was garbage. It was due to this fact that I started to try out other games. I never thought I would do such a thing, but... 343. The MCC came out next, and my friends and I became excited to relive our past only to yet again be shut down by 343. At this point all of my friends switched to PS4 or refused to play a game that says 343 anywhere on it. Now, I'm stuck playing completely solo all of the time. I am now 24 and have a ton of free time. I have Halo 5, a great internet connection, my own house, Xbox One, I go to the gym for 2-3 hours a day, a have an amazing job, and I have 5-6 hours of free time every day to play; but no one to play with. Even if someone comes over, there is no split screen. So, yeah, I miss the good old days. The ones where you earned your armor, no micro-transactions, no warzone, skill was key, everyone talked about Halo, life-long friendships started because of Halo, and more. I only wish I were a little older, or more matured so I could've enjoyed them more, or at least was a better player. Now I feel out of place when I speak about Halo. I'm one of the few I know that even play a lot. I still play because Halo 5 can be enjoyable, but it can be so lonely lol.

Or, don't get married with kids and party with Halo and bros from CE to H5. :D

Y'see... some of these whippersnappers just don't git what Halo was really like back in the day!

Hrmph... online MP. Back then "online MP" was loading up a car with a 100lb tube TV, Xbox and game disc, probably a few cables for the LAN and TV hookup and a controller that could break a toe if you dropped it. Driving to a friend's house and unloading all that crap from the car, lugging it in to a room and hooking it all up, just to play MP.

And some didn't even have a car! Nothing says "Halo fan" like a 95lb kid carrying a 75lb tube TV on his back, through half a foot of snow, for 3 blocks, while his brother followed, carrying the Xbox and tried to use the controller as a sled!

I tell ya' these kids nowadays don't know how good they have it...

I'm 15 and I was playing CE and 2 when I was like 4 or 5. Deal with it.