: The Master Chief Collection is imminent, and it's still a bit difficult to
: believe how much 343i over-delivered with it. Matchmaking for Halo 1, 2,
: and 3. Every map ever. To be sure, this is what I and my friends have been
: wishing for for years. In some ways a return to how things once were, and
: in the case of Halo 1 matchmaking, a journey into how old things were
: meant to be.

eh, Halo 1 was never meant to be on-line until the PC version, and depending how you look at it it wasn't even meant to have multiplayer for the Xbox version (Microsoft told them no and they did it anyway and kind of snuck it in, as I remember the story)

: ... wait a second. My friends. Where are my friends?

: A sudden sadness washes over me. All my friends are dead. The people with
: whom I most want to share this experience are gone, taken from us by the
: inexorable march of time, maturity, and real-life concerns.

: retsamolah: dead
: hellmitre: dead
: Hexudus: dead
: Ghost Faction: dead
: NartFOpc: asleep
: Reconcilliation: dead
: akba: dead

re: most of those: