Remembering the game this Community Grew Upon..

Hi. I'm sure most of you know who I am. I've been with you guys since Halomods/Gearbox. Changed names here and there but, anyway. With the community slowly vanishing, I wanted to make this thread to show good memories of Halo, how it progressed, etc. Please Post Any videos you want to share! This can be any Halo CE videos, Halo 2, Halo 3, whatever. Anything that gave us a fun experience, and made the series what it was. I will start by making a simple timeline.

Halo 1999 First Time ever revealed


Halo E3 2000


Halo E3 2002


Halo Official Trailer


Halo 2 Announcement Trailer


Halo 2 E3 2004 Real Time Demo


Halo 2 E3 2004 Multiplayer Demo


Halo 3 Announcement Trailer


Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer


Halo 2 Vista Trailer


Halo 3 ODST Announcement Trailer


Halo 3 ODST E3 2009 Demo


Halo Reach Announcement Trailer


Halo Reach Campaign Trailer E3 2010



Please share all memorable experiences:) Anything to do with Halo (excluding Halo 4, there is already a thread for that). Thank you!

Cool thread. Not sure if I ever actually saw the original Halo trailer. That's pretty neat.

I think community stuff is the most fun...

CMT of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmhT...g&index=13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoxI5xDn_wo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we7Zd4LFI7o

/shameless promotion lol

But really, it's been the community that has kept it alive. Frankly Modacity isn't much of a dedicated Halo community anymore.

You guys have no idea how happy I am watching these videos:

That Halo 3 2006 E3 trailer still gives me fucking goosebumps.

http://innergoat.modacity.net/video/

the old ce league videos are in here mixed in with other crap. have fun

Heres a video i had laying around of one of our old stunt nights.

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That Halo 3 2006 E3 trailer still gives me fucking goosebumps.

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Same here, that was at E3 and I almost shat my pants

The BEST graphics card for running Halo:



also, anyone remember Vertigo City?

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The BEST graphics card for running Halo:

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Which is funny since Nvidia's the one that's always had issues with Halo.

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The BEST graphics card for running Halo

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I bet Nvidia wouldn't let anybody show their cards throwing fire these days.

http://4chandata.org/images/threads/...Technology.jpg

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also, anyone remember Vertigo City?

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You mean Strider-piece of shit-Core? Who can forget?

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Which is funny since Nvidia's the one that's always had issues with Halo.

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Ah yes, those days of the active camo not being rendered properly.

Come to think of it, I should try it out sometime on my modern nvidia card.

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Ah yes, those days of the active camo not being rendered properly.

Come to think of it, I should try it out sometime on my modern nvidia card.

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Not just camo, Nvidia cards have had issues with massive frame drops when decals are enabled and I've personally experienced flickering interiors in Campaign.

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The BEST graphics card for running Halo:

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That grunt at the end took the cake

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Which is funny since Nvidia's the one that's always had issues with Halo.

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Which is additionally funny because Stubbs The Zombie basically can only run on nvidia cards on the PC. But I blame their use of MacDX (you code with DirectX APIs, but it translates them into OpenGL calls), even on the PC, for that.

So apparently, Gamespy has been pulling the plug on the multiplayer servers for several older games since being bought out. I'm hoping Halo CE is not one of the next games to be axed.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/08/new-...eft-and-right/

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Which is funny since Nvidia's the one that's always had issues with Halo.

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Not really. That card only had support for DirectX 7. PC lauched in the DX9c era.

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Not really. That card only had support for DirectX 7. PC lauched in the DX9c era.

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What does that have to do with anything?

nVidia's problems were with how they handled the shader model structure differently.
can't be funny if it flat out doesn't meet minimum specs.

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nVidia's problems were with how they handled the shader model structure differently.
can't be funny if it flat out doesn't meet minimum specs.

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But I'm not talking about the Geforce 2, I'm talking about ALL nvidia cards. Even today my GTX 570 has problems running Halo properly. I mentioned interior flickering already, and there's some micro stutter too.

My 480 doesn't render active camo right xP

Best moment in all of HCEL

https://www.youtube.com/user/Halo2CombatEvolved

Fun times, Zanzibar was really memorable and probably my favorite Halo 2 (and CE mod) map to date.

I still get friends over every now and then to play 4-way zanzibar splitscreen, on the original black Xbox 1 too :)

fuck it, I want a Halo 2 anniversary remake with a complete remake of the original multiplayer experience too, not simply porting maps to run on the engine of a newer Halo - my main criticism of the halo 1 anniversary. I still bought anniversary anyway and leeched off a friend's 14-day XBL gold voucher to play the entire campaign in online coop from start to finish. Great times.

which brings me to another rant - these days when a game comes with a single player campaign and a coop mode, the coop mode is separate with a loose connection to the campaign and no badass cutscenes and forced objectives that cannot function without a 2nd player. Sometimes, this strategy is necessary (i.e. splinter cell), but in other linear shooter games (i.e. spec ops the line or even COD), I'd much rather play the same single player campaign with a carbon copy of the main protagonist thrown in, and have the carbon copy disappear for cutscenes. Or if every mission has unkillable teammate(s) following you, just have the other player take control of one of them.

tldr - Halo's way of incorporating coop is awesome and I wish more games did it that way. Who cares that a second master Chief can be too cheap or that it "doesn't make sense" for the second MC to disappear in a cutscene. It's fun!

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how did you get that split screen thing going on pc?
E: apparently its on xbox. still though, how?

Oh, this is a fun thread. Coincidentally I just re-uploaded A Halo CE Roadtrip, which was an older video I did showing off a bunch of community stuff. Would belong nicely here.

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Oh, this is a fun thread. Coincidentally I just re-uploaded A Halo CE Roadtrip, which was an older video I did showing off a bunch of community stuff. Would belong nicely here.

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So many great maps in there... loved being able to say "played it.. played it...".

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Oh, this is a fun thread. Coincidentally I just re-uploaded A Halo CE Roadtrip, which was an older video I did showing off a bunch of community stuff. Would belong nicely here.

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I'm really glad you posted that video. Not only was it good, but it brought back a lot of pleasant memories with my working on a lot of those (like Quagmire and Oasis) for a now dead Singleplayer Project that would celebrate the community-made maps by connecting them in a Marathon-like fashion (Terminals would teleport you to each map after you completed the objectives).

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I'm really glad you posted that video. Not only was it good, but it brought back a lot of pleasant memories with my working on a lot of those (like Quagmire and Oasis) for a now dead Singleplayer Project that would celebrate the community-made maps by connecting them in a Marathon-like fashion (Terminals would teleport you to each map after you completed the objectives).

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Thanks, glad you liked it. But holy mother of god I just watched it myself and realized that the audio is off by one or two frames. *twitch* Youtube I hate you. I may have to reupload that. Again.

EDIT: CRISIS AVERTED. HAS BEEN REUPLOADED. LINK ABOVE IS NOW FIXED.

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Thanks, glad you liked it. But holy mother of god I just watched it myself and realized that the audio is off by one or two frames. *twitch* Youtube I hate you. I may have to reupload that. Again.

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Yeah Youtube does that. I recently did a music video for school and it offset some sections with a bit of lag. It's irritating, but then again it wasn't a WMV or a preferable compression for Youtube. Still though, kind of annoying, especially when Youtube says it can do stuff to help and you know it really won't.

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For those who don't know, every time breaking benjamin played a show live, Blow Me Away always featured Halo footage(if a screen was present).


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Can't believe it's been 9 years already, I was only 12 when my dad bought the game for me. good times. Since then my family has gotten a divorce, I completed 6 more years of school, went to college, had 5 jobs and moved out with my GF, where the fuck does time go?

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where the fuck does time go?

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Right out Da Window

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Right out Da Window

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Trying to hold on but didn’t even know

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Trying to hold on but didn’t even know

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I wasted it all just to watch you go

You fucked it up, Pat! But at least you fucked it up with something good.

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You fucked it up, Pat! But at least you fucked it up with something good.

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Since when was CMT good? http://r23.imgfast.net/users/2315/26.../736120395.png

I still remember the night this came out. Feels like it was only yesterday

Man, I spent way too much time trying to make the best content that nobody even wanted to play, and way too little time actually enjoying this game. Not to mention that shit was far from "best".
I just realized my experience modding Halo kind of turned me off of modding anywhere else, and once I stopped I never picked it back up again. Never really played with any of you guys either. This is making me sad :saddowns:

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Man, I spent way too much time trying to make the best content that nobody even wanted to play, and way too little time actually enjoying this game. Not to mention that shit was far from "best".
I just realized my experience modding Halo kind of turned me off of modding anywhere else, and once I stopped I never picked it back up again. Never really played with any of you guys either. This is making me sad :saddowns:

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What lol I learned so much while modding that I don't even care no one ever got to not play my content xD

How a game engine works, Programming, 3ds max, Photoshop(!!! I use it almost daily)...somebody I used to mod with presented in his job interview at a programming company his stuff he did for Halo and they were heavily impressed :D not the actual visual representation but the knowledge of reversing etc.

oh and this forum kept practicing my English (at least most of the time :P), received the newest Tech info and learned about people who actually believe they need a gun to protect themselves from their government or if everyone owns a gun they are less likely to get shot.

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What lol I learned so much...

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True DAT. Half the stuff i've done for halo never actually got released. (it was junk) But i've learned so MUCH not only about modding, but also the world as you mention. I've learned Visual Studio, and 3DS max, the general idea of the processes of a pipeline for the production of content for games and 3-Dimensional entertainment, it's been crazy.

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Hey I made that :D (coag) at least I think that's the one I did. Looks like it.

Modding Halo is basically what got me into the industry. So much fun to be had back then.

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What lol I learned so much while modding that I don't even care no one ever got to not play my content xD

How a game engine works, Programming, 3ds max, Photoshop(!!! I use it almost daily)...somebody I used to mod with presented in his job interview at a programming company his stuff he did for Halo and they were heavily impressed :D not the actual visual representation but the knowledge of reversing etc.

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That's a good point. I did learn a lot that I still use today. I just feel like I missed the point of a game when I don't really even have any memories of playing it, just modding it. It kind of kills my enthusiasm to mod if nobody is going to do anything with it, even if I am learning.

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is that half life 2

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is that half life 2

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is that half life 2

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its life half 2

I have a feeling we're just getting started...:v:

Anyone remember this gem of a trailer? Not a joke either, quite awesome...

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Anyone remember this gem of a trailer? Not a joke either, quite awesome...

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pfff Ganon cuckold the program i wrote. check first video here, though his video better

also has this been posted?

For anyone who was interested in the Halo 2 E3 2003 Demo (like myself), I'm just going to leave this here:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=985145

I'm not sure if this was posted before but a member on the neogaf forums made a really in-depth post about the history\outcome of the legendary Halo 2 Demo in 2003 that never came to be. It's a great read, lots of cool stuff I never knew. There is also multiple different videos of Joe playing through the demo.

If anyone has videos of "Teh Gathering" in HCEL 2009 I'd be deeply grateful. :) Miss those times.

IIRC also played in D2T in some tourney... Can't remember!

First time I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOyrsdevzw

Beta footage of the campaign with a developer commentary. Really cool.