Halo: The Master Chief Collection

In late 2023, I drifted far away from a long-time friend. Right after that, I made another friend in my previous friend's absence. While I was bitter and angsty about my old friend. My new friend and I had many conversations about ourselves, childhood, and similar things. During those conversations, Halo came up, and we mentioned how we both grew up on the series. I, with Halo CE, and him with the rest of the series. The conversation stuck in both of our minds until we both came up with the idea to play through the series together on hardened. And we, in fact, did. While we were surface-level friends, throughout our playthrough of the games, we got a lot closer with each other, made offensive and personal jokes, shared more sensitive memories, and made lifelong memories neither of us will ever forget. He became my brother when it was all over. Thank you, 343 and Bungie, for creating such timeless masterpieces that can bring people together like it did us. And thank you, Gavin. For being my brother, despite it all. No matter the arguments we have or the times we may not talk to each other. I cherish this playthrough dearly. You and I will always move forward unto dawn.

The GOAT

This game has come a long way. I was not there when the game launched and but i know it was rough. Now this is really the best way to play Halo. Mod support, active multiplayer, cross play. This game has some issues with the cross-play but that is trivial compared to the entire game. But certainly this is the way to play the great american FPS classic.

Some of the best games I've played.

This is the deal of the century. Gaming truly peaked with the Bungie Halo era. If you've never played Halo before, get this. If you are a long time fan, get this.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is basically me saying, “I’ll just play one mission,” and then suddenly finding myself emotionally invested in an entire intergalactic war. The gameplay is amazing, the story had me hooked, and somehow a giant man in green armor with the personality of a very determined fridge became one of my favourite characters. Master Chief is an absolute legend. He’s insanely strong, ridiculously cool, and somehow survives situations that should have killed him about twelve times over. At this point I’m convinced half of his superpower is just being unbelievably lucky. He’ll get thrown into some completely impossible situation and somehow walk out like, “Yeah, that could’ve gone worse.” And then there’s Cortana, who I loved from the beginning. Their dynamic is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the story, and I was NOT emotionally prepared for how attached I would become to these characters. Came for the aliens and shooting, stayed because I apparently got emotionally adopted by a seven-foot supersoldier and his AI best friend. 10/10, would trust Master Chief’s luck to save the universe again.