I got this game on Tuesday, and I just haven't been able to put it down! I've been playing the campaign both solo and with a friend, and it's a blast. I don't have Live hooked up yet, but I'm excited for the multiplayer aspects as well - I loved Halo 2 on Live (and the original Halo on a hacked together internet server). Maybe once I get Live hooked up I can play with some Lusternians.

Is anyone else a big fan? (I know Estarra's not, but presumably just because I keep vanishing to go play!)

i loved halo 1 especially on my xconnect hated halo 2, and halo 3 has made me stop playing any other xbox game.

I'm one of the six people who didn't pre-order Halo 3. I'm holding out until I get further on some of the other two dozen games I own. Plus, I only play Halo for the campaign, so I don't really care about getting into all the Slayer matches online. I can play the campaign any time, and I'll probably just get it for Christmas.

I'm sure it looks very pretty, but I'm saving to buy a 50" plasma TV (must be 1080p), and then games like Halo 3 will be much more worthwhile playing.

If you want to add me as a friend just for the heck of it, please do. I'm open to playing games sometimes, anything from Uno to Crackdown. (See sig for gamercard.)

I didn't pre-order either, I just walked into the store Tuesday morning and bought one. I'm really not into the hype of waiting in line at midnight for a copy.

I'm totally a huge fan! I'll play with you sometime. Ph33r my 1337 Halo skillz and be prepared to experience something you haven't experienced since you fulfilled every Yaoi-fan's dream with your "smooch" with Lyreth: the inability to get what you want and beat me. MUAHAHAHA.

If I get me an X-box live account, thou shalt be smote, oh play-doh

If I had it, I'd definitely play with Lusternians.

Or maybe not, considering I have a broken headset and have to use my disgusting little brother's Live account.

I will have it just as soon as I scrape together the 520 for a 360 and 140 I need for halo 3.

Stupid inflated launch prices. Only have 300 bucks laying around.

Once my ring of death issues are fixed, I'll be on. Morgfyre, if you want to get a game going, my name is themidnightace, as indicated by the picture below that may or may not be working again.

I watched a 30 min show about halo 3 on sci fi last night, it was really interesting. I was surprised that they actually had a show like that, I mean it actually ended up on the Sci fi channel, talk about cool advertising. It had a bunch of famous actors and people who helped create it, etc. talking about it.

My favorite part was one guy was playing with the creator of Lost, and they were stuck so the guy calls up his cousin and asks how to get past this part. His cousin tells him step by step on what to do, and the guy is relaying this to the creator of Lost. The creator of Lost says, "Tell your cousin he doesn't know what the he is talking about!!" and the guy says to him, "Dude, my cousin is 7 years old!! Take it easy!"

I thought that was awesome, and it does show how intense games get, even for the creator of Lost hehehe

Yeah, I got mine 2:30 or so. And people said I'd have to pre-order it. Ha.

krazydakman is my gamertag. Would be awesome to get a room with 16 lusternians in it

hey, im just about to start the campeign on halo 3 for the first time. my gamer tag is scaryscat i'll wait maybe 15 minutes but if any would like to join me. reply here or something.

halo 3's pretty awesome. I have a hard time not leaving Lusty to go play, well not really! But I definately play halo 3 everyday unless my batteries die
no one has any extras
Sojiro won't send me any

When I get an xbox 360 I'm gonna make sure to get rechargable batteries for the controllers, or just get the cord. Currently I'm mooching off a friend's 360 and game, but I do have my own account!

I would love to play if the Xbox 360 wasn't a piece of Microsoft junk. It has once again died just when I need it most. My copy of Halo 3 is just sitting there, taunting me.

I'm getting the game today. I have xbox live all nice and hooked up. Morgy, message me when you get Live with your handle! You too Myn

Just as a general tip, I was getting the ring of death for a while. I turned it off, took off the hard drive, turned it on and off to see if it worked (it did) put the hard drive back on, and it worked again. I had to do that twice in three days, but its been fine ever since (several months now). So try that before you send it off for weeks.

My Xbox tends to freeze up when I'm playing some games, so I fear the Red Ring of Death isn't too far into the future.

Oblivion is a habitual offender in that regard, and whenever I'd get new plasmids in Bioshock it would lag a lot (and sometimes crash). I've only had it crash once so far with Halo 3, and that was when I was loading a campaign mission from the main menu.

Thanks for the advice but it's not working unfortunately. I've been having problems with the visuals for a long time where they would freeze and distort, and I finally got the red ring today. I want to play my Halo 3.

Time for a Krellan face.

If I'm really lucky though I still might be able to get a new one soon. I'm going to call Microsoft and the place I got it tomorrow and see if I can just exchange it and let them deal with Microsoft. They've done it before and are really understanding about it.

That thar is one unusual looking Krellan face.

It's what he looks like when one of his raids that lots of people were going to go on suddenly dissolves. Both sad and confused at the same time.