Well I used to be a member of HIH waaayyy back when I was playing on the original xbox, but sadly HIH was shut down. I can honestly say the forum helped me enjoy the most out of halo and really got me hooked. I was far to young and naive to truly understand the story without the help and well the it was nice to talk to people of similar interest.
I know nothing about the 343 forums and I hope its as close knitted as HIH was back in the day. I left because of the excessive trolling and flaming so I hope this forum has that under controll.
Anyways, I am impressed with Halo 4. Despite the obvious relationship to other games I feel like it was a neccessary step forward for the title. My only complaint is the lack of SWAT and Snipers currently but like Reach I will just have to wait.
As far as I go, I am 22 and in college. I was in the Army for 3 years and was lucky enough to experience afghan and iraq...where I played a ton of halo . And I have been playing Halo since I believe the 5th grade...wow. Bout it, see you guys around.