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A wall of text about Halo and me.


Element Lord of Milk

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So, since I might have become a little obsessed about Halo in recent months, I thought I'd talk about the Halo series and my history with it.

 

My first experience with Halo (that I remember) was playing a few minutes of Halo 2 split screen (I think, I recently watched a let's play of Halo 2 and nothing really jumped out at me as familiar, but I definitely remember there being a Grunt, and you know how memories are) at a friend's house years ago (I know it was after 2006, maybe 08 or 09) among a few other games.

 

Around 2009 I saw the first Mega Bloks Halo sets in a Zellers one day, and being an impulsive kid, convinced my parents to buy me the UNSC Hornet (I had previously had quite a few Mega Bloks sets, but that's a story for another day) . I was overall pretty disappointed in the quality of the parts and thus didn't bother to get any more of the sets. Where things really started though, was when I watched a let's play of Halo Reach on YouTube in 2010. That was what prompted me to do some reading into Halo lore. I probably spent several hours reading about it before moving on to other things.

 

Then in about 2010 or 2011, I was in a superstore and the Mega Bloks Covenant Banshee caught my eye. I had heard that Mega Bloks had upped their plastic quality and convinced my parents to buy it for me. This time I was much happier with it and ended up buying many more Halo sets before my interested waned in 2012. Later that same year I watched a let's play of Halo 4, which triggered another burst of wiki reading.

 

Nothing really significant Halo-wise happened to me between then and December 2014 besides picking up Halo Spartan Assault on a Steam sale for 2.49. What triggered my recent Halo obsession was, of all things, a review of a Halo Sprukits model kit by a Lego reviewer I had recently started following. This got me thinking about potentially buying a console in order to actually play a proper Halo game. I had previously thought about doing so, but I had never really seriously considered it. With the trifecta of 1. The Master chief collection being out, meaning it would be easy to jump in. 2. My PC starting to have difficulties with running newer games, meaning that having a current-gen console would be very useful. And 3. My long-standing wanting to play Halo, I started saving up my allowances to buy an Xbox one along with the Master Chief collection (Currently I'm at $80 saved up, and am on track to have enough by the end of the year) .

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I absolutely recommend the book series, particular the Kilo-Three trilogy (Glasslands, Thursday War and Mortal Dictata).

 

They are written so well and expand on an already well-developed universe in a way you rarely see.

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