15 Years of Halo - Share your fondest memory!

Playing slayer on Derelict, when every death was because of a reload, and a friend told me to Dere-lick his balls when I killed him

Just playing halo back then with my brother

Actually my real fondest moment of Halo and for any game at all is this.

While 6 years old
Starting out, me and my brother (from a another mother) only played offline on Halo CE, spend hours doing this, days ! Then Halo 2 came out and playing through the campaign continually and in CG, just me and him versus each other, nobody else (did not have internet connection back then), he would eventually figure out how to do the rocket lock on and would not tell me, man that annoyed me, but non the less then Halo 3 came out and this is where things escalated a bit.
Never before have we played Halo online but now with Halo 3 (which I bought my own console for) we could suddenly play online, we would still go to each others houses and play, but this new experience with multiplayer led to something completely new, we met others from our rather small country (denmark) that also played Halo and we then grew our friendships until one day we decided to have a lan party. From all over our country we came, 9 of us in total, and we played, had good times and ever since then we have always met up again and kept the contact. This is my fondest "memory" of Halo, being the game that gave me friends for life.

Playing Reach with some friends was honestly the most fun I have ever had with a controller, be it playing Campaign and hunting Easter Eggs or our invaluable attempts of making great Forge maps (some are actually half decent). Halo Reach will always be my most nostalgic things in my entire life.

Definitely when I first turned on my xbox and loaded up Halo CE and heard the theme song I loved it so much. I use it for my ringtone now and every time I play the Halo games I play an hour version on my phone. So definitely the music was my best memory It helped me get into the halo games since it fit all the battles and exploration moments it was just perfect. (343 if you could please put that theme in all your games from now on) thanks for reading, and with utmost respect - BossOpossum9

I remember in Halo CE, where me and a buddy just kept chasing each other around the bases for hours and hours in blood gulch on split screen haha. simpler times, simpler times...

Playing CE in college for cases of cheap swill beer (we preferred it to 2)

My best memory was playing Reach. The struggle of the defense of the planet though knowing it would inevitably fall and how that was the beginning of John's story.

First ever match of Halo I ever played, Halo 3, I got in the Warthog and managed to splatter the entire enemy team. Hence Warthogman.
But on the campaign side of things my mate lent me Halo 1-3 when I first got my 360 and I played through them in 2 days even staying up all night attempting to beat the Library and trying to not wake up the house with my frustration after my millionth death. Was hooked from there on out, books, comics, games you name it.

Keep the memories coming, love reading and reminiscing along with you all. It's still a bit surreal to stop and think it's nearly been FIFTEEN YEARS and like many of you, most of my fondest memories involve interactions and experiences with people in and around the community just as much, if not more than, the games themselves. We'll be sharing memories from around the team and broader community as part of our anniversary celebration in November.