It really was I wish more people realized this. Developers truly had passion and wanted to make something amazing and groundbreaking and new. No politics no worrying about being offensive no lootboxes etc.
@@mattmartin6493 I think the developers aren’t to blame or at least not the ones in the upper tiers I’d blame it on poor leadership and following the shareholder’s interest
that era was when nerds, coders and actual creative types worked together throughout the whole company. Nowadays it's all high level management and the marketing department controlling all aspects of the developers work. I really do agree that gaming died in the 2010s but maybe that's just the natural evolution of things :/
hmmm, most of halo 2 is explore able, almost all the terrain can be walked on. It is true that the H2 maps are much larger, but if you play the level normally it doesn't seem much bigger than H1
What's funny is I've had idiotic fanboys rage at me for calling it Halo 1 instead of Halo:CE, as if that's the only "proper" and "correct" way to say it, lol. Yet in this video, a dev literally from Bungie, literally on the Halo team at the time, calls it Halo 1 just fine. Just a shoutout if any of you idiotic fanboys that think this way happen to read this ;)
@@DeathBringer769 Bungie intended to just call the first game Halo, but Microsoft made them add "Combat Evolved" to the title because they thought Halo didn't sound "manly" enough.
The contrast between Bungie then and generic game designers now is insane. They refer to Halo 2, arguably my favourite game of all time as 'some stupid video game' where designers these days will refer to whatever average experience they have made as being 'the most incredible gaming experience to date'. The humility from Bungie is incredible.
youve basically put into words what ive been feeling about most triple AAA games nowadays. The lack of humility these new devs have so they dont piss off their shareholders that their product cant be put out in time or make the money they wanted is frankly tiresome.
Good old times those were.....really a shame that 10 years later, many of those familiar faces, like Joseph Staten and Marty O'Donnell are no longer there....they along with Frank O'Connor were the faces that you would always link to Bungie, but now they are all gone (and in Marty's case he got fired)
gentlemenRick ye....Burnout 3: Takedown, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, World of Warcraft (North America launch), Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank 3, Far Cry, Doom 3, Rome: Total War....just to name few others ;D Heck I dont see how anyone can argue against the fact that 2004 was the best year in gaming., 2007, 2010, 2012 and all others pale in comparison
They openly admit to Halo 2 being a failure to them, the absolute development hell this game suffered is a heartbreaking story of a bunch of passionate developers and creators having to work every hour of every day to come as close to their vision that they knew was simply not possible, even making their own personal hygiene suffer because they had to get the game finished. I've heard Halo 2 called "The greatest failure to ever succeed." If it's any consolation to Ex-Bungie, Halo 2 is genuinely one of my most cherished and favorite games ever made, I remember all the way back in 2004 on Christmas, opening my present to see that iconic image of Master Chief holding 2 SMGs, it didn't take long for me to skyrocket to my Xbox and put that son of a bitch in. It was an unforgettable experience that I played again and again, it took everything that made the first game great and expanded on it, the story and cinematic cut scenes are engraved into my skull, the 30 seconds of fun they nailed and of course the Arbiter reveal blew my mind, to actually get to play as an Elite and see the other side of the War was absolutely incredible. I'd love to experience Halo 2 for the first time again but that's just not possible, but it'll always be up there as my favorite Halo game and one of my most favorite games ever made. Thank you for the memories Bungie, I miss you guys so much.
+Kyle Erman I'm not a fan. A lot of people want a classic multiplayer mode. I, personally, HATE ground pounding, charging, and hovering. Sprinting, aiming down sights, and boosting is okay, but I wouldn't mind at all if they took it out either. And another item on my christmas list...Blood Gulch, or any classic maps really
I've heard nothing but bad things about MCC. I know I would enjoy the campaign, at least, but MCC population will die if it hasn't already. I want a classic playlist in current titles, even if only in custom games. 343 just wants to make it "their" halo.
Some people really like the changes; it's much more competitive I guess. However, not everyone likes it. I will always consider Halo as a Bungie game. What did you think of the campaign?
I had the disc this came on for 3 years before I popped it in to see what it was. As a kid, I just asked my parents to buy me Halo2 and they got the collector's edition without realizing it was anything special. I wish more games had BTS documentaries in their special editions. This stuff was great.
BTS now would just be them reading tweets or facebook or youtube comments about how terrible their games have become and them crying in the corner with a bottle of jack.... Along with the release of unfinished games.
17:03 I'm not going to lie, I cried. The memories Halo created for me as a kid, the hours of gameplay coming home and shutting out life. I can't begin to explain how much this game company changed my life. I can't believe Joseph And Marty are gone. Bungie will never be the same.
That moment of the making of has given me chills from the first time I saw it with my collector's edition. It also helps that the game and that song came out during my formative years. The joy you see in their faces is a real thing, and it still resonates with me.
There will never be another game as insane and revolutionary as Halo 2. Halo 2 set the standards for Online Gaming, friends lists, partys, clans, stats. Everything that is a now standard.
One of the most coolest and unique video game documentaries in that time era. There's less of that now and days which makes me sad because this stuff is interesting by the sheer amount of creativity and hard work that goes into video games that most people don't know about when they play a video game themselves.
Yes, but Bungie was always for being independent and never being controlled by an upper company. (I.E. Microsoft) Plus the fact that so many of the original Bungie employees left paints a picture that something else is going on that we're not seeing.
The good old days. I remember going to EB Games at midnight to pick up my game. It hit different back then, and physical games had a level of polish we don’t see today.
Truly the Golden era of gaming. Will never forget me and all my friends in elementary school sleeping over one person's house every weekend to play halo 2 than staying up every night till 3am playing halo 3 over Xbox live. Some of the best times of my life honostly
+brendanbeast123 fr i watched this and as it was playing i just sat here with my old friend and we talked for hours about all the fun and glitchy shit we went through together... this game basically was my childhood and is a game that will never be forgotten by anyone. And the last seconds of the servers being up everyone in the lobby screamed "we will miss you halo 2! You will never be forgot---" and right as we were about to say forgotten everyone was kicked and me and my friends sat there on skype, going from laughing and having fun playing, to silent in a heart beat, and we just sat there watching our screens with wattery eyes, hoping that it would come back... but an hour and a half after we sat there silent we finally got that it was over... it was weird feeling seeing the biggest part of your childhood just switch off like that... halo will never be the same again... :'(
+TYPO Zexr the beta files that run the game on this video in the end when everyone is playing in that room with the tvs can still be download and played on a softmodded xbox. the orginal halo 2 experience lives through LAN now. and if you want to try what the developers used then try looking for the beta files on iso zone. I feel you
Randomly here to thank Bungie for uploading this. I watched this in October 2012 and it inspired me to get into game dev and now I've been doing it for almost 10 years(As of 2022)! Edit:As of 2023, I'll be in this industry full time for almost 5 years!
2004 was one of the greatest years for video games ever! This was when games really started to evolve into what we see today! Man this brings back memories..
morphanok69 it's like cartoons, they used to be made just for the user, now they are made to make money selling add ons (toys and action figures for cartoons in the 80s and DLC for video games today) but if it goes the same way, cartoons saw that truly good shows kept the fans for life, and we're in a golden age of cartoons, maybe video games will go the same way...
+uscoastgaurd yup and tbh halo 2 was a giant break through for gaming in not only the graphics, but in the way they achieved making a game that will rest in memory of hundreds of thousands of people across the world... no other game has that power :/
@@JuICyBLiinGeR You do know that Activision and Bungie are no longer working together and Bungie walked away with everything in regards to the Destiny franchise. Hence why D2 has been on the up and up with 1.1 million concurrent players since the announcement of their new DLC.
Joe Staten is a legend. He's just that nerdy kid who will make references and doesn't care about your "cringe" All that pressure and truly one of the best video game stories of all time came out of it. I'm really glad they did a perspective flip with the Arbiter, if we never had that the story wouldn't be half as good as it was.
I had no idea there was a sequel back then when it was released, I was just looking for the first one cause it was great but i picked up the halo 2 special edition instead and immediately loved it. Been a halo fan since.
That's why I have deju vu watching this! I was so young and my older brother bought me this special edition for Christmas, the nice metal case and everything. I think I still have it somewhere around my house.
Ah okay, you may enjoy Halo 2. But know that it is a much faster-paced game in terms of movement. So you might be a bit caught off by the speed of Halo 2. Asides from that, the game is great. What platform are you playing it on?
i remember getting off the school bus to my dad waiting with a copy of Halo 2 collectors edition the day it came out. hard to believe that was 12 years ago
17:00 I gotta admit, this part always gets me in tears, dont matter how many times i watch this i still gonna cry like a baby. Because i really really miss the old days of playing Halo every day after school and whole weekend. The exitment for a next Halo game was UNREAL !
***** Huge overestimations here. There are at least 5 people that worked on every single Halo Bungie game. Jason Jones, Joseph Staten, Marty O'Donnell to name a few, not even counting all the lead designers. Whoever that CJ guy is is another...
36:45 Geoff goes so far back with a lot of stuff. Like Achievement Hunter, Rooster Teeth, Let's Play, Red vs Blue He was the start of all of that and its hard to comprehend he's been doing this for longer than a decade and is still around
Like 25 years at this point. Out of the original guys I think only he has stuck around as long. Its weird to think that here soon we are going to have the FINAL season of RvB. Time truly is a brutal and cruel mistress.
It really is crazy how much more dedicated devs were back then, these days it seems like there is a massive disconnect between devs/producers and their audience. Games back in the day on average were just made with more love and the proof is in the gameplay.
@@brianmckee2267 A worthy sacrifice tbh, lots of the best pieces of art in history were done at the cost of the artist's well being, at least these guys only had to be indoors and stressed for a few years.
They need to stop fucking around, take a whole month off, watch old Halo vids like this, play old Halo campaigns, and re-write, I think they need a break to sit down and just think.
In Bungie games chief is just a piece of armor without emotion. He's a white canvas. In 343 he's a predetermined character with feelings and is clearly explotative emotionally. He's a little bitch. 343 killed for what chief was known for. Being relentlessness inhuman piece of armor that all players create their own relations too. This is real art from bungie.
32:58 this is the part that a lot of developers don’t talk about. Halo 2’s campaign development was quite complicated, and their original vision wasn’t exactly what we got in the end. Still, I loved the game and thought it was still worth a great buy despite they problems they had. Wish more developers were more honest about this aspect in their game development.
Its 2019 and I still come back and watch this from time to time. Its just a really cool and motivating doc to put your head down and get through your work.
Same! I am currently playing this documentary right now in the background while going through the hell that is college applications. All while having a big math test to study for also Seeing the stress on their faces but also the passion and drive to not let the fans down gives me hope that if I just grind a little bit more I will see the light at the end of the tunnel.
@@paulwediting7175 Honestly not that bad...I got all of them done I needed too. But it was stressful to get them done. I won't know if I'm accepted until February
17:02 got me more choked up than I'm willing to admit. I have ALOT of painful memories associated with that time and place in my childhood & Halo 2 was one of what felt like a very limited amount of shining lights at the end of the tunnel that kept me going.... Somedays it felt like that time with my friend's, Arbiter & Chief were all I had. After all these years i realise just how right Sgt Johnson was... "Folk's need heroes Chief, gives 'em hope."
The segment of the documentary of the Bungie crew taking a summer camp break after E3 2003 and playing dodgeball and volleyball is one of the most wholesome things I've seen. Bless them all.
Been falling asleep to this since i got the collectors edition of halo 2 for christmas 2004. Literally almost 20 years later im still falling asleep to it
Am I the only one who thinks it was a terrible idea to swap the Prophet of Truth's voice actor with that famous guy in Halo 3? Cause the guy at 44:48 sounded 10x better.
You don know bungie didn’t make halo 4 and halo 5, they joined with another company known as Activision that’s full of greed and rushed their game and ruined their reputation
After what’s happening with Bungie right now and the layoffs, it’s sad to say this old Bungie is forever gone :( I’m just happy to experience the good ol’ days with my dad and friends.
They were gone already like 70% when they split with Microsoft/started destiny 1, by destiny 2 was out, maybe less than 5-10 tops from the OG from halo 1 days was left
I'm so glad I was a kid that grew up in the early 2000s, but man oh man! Sometimes how I also wish I had been a teenager or college student in 2004 Lol! Because it looked SUPER FUN than it ever could be if you were a gamer and around those ages. Hard to believe 20 years have gone by in the blink of an eye. You don't see documentaries like this anymore, especially when times were just so damn simple...
Red Centurion the sweet smell of fresh green has tainted the olfactory senses of developers around the world; the passion of creation, and dedication to achieving ones goals, has been lost in a sea of over privileged corporate money makers and devs looking for quick cash. I, for one, will do my absolute best to change the game industry for the better, as I aspire to attain even half of what Bungie accomplished in its prime, for anything of such masterful quality would be better than the recent onslaught of Battle Royals flooding the market.
The dudes seeing the Halo 2 demo probably had no idea how insane its legacy would end up being. The incredible impact that Halo 2 had on online gaming for consoles, even PC, cannot be understated. I'll never forget the great times I had with Halo 2.
17:42 forgot about my fellow Australian lol. Full Holden beanie represent. Man I used to love watching this when I was like 12-13. I bought a second hand special edition halo 2 only a fe months after release and this dvd came with it. Good times man 😢😢
Look at those smiles, look how they are just having fun making a game. you see 343i making of halo 4..fucking kiki wolfkill has this dead expression on her face"-_-" talking about making it easier for other people to play, No passion.
I totally get you. There's just a glow in these guys' eyes that I never saw anywhere ever again. These are dudes who fucking love what they're doing, and this behind-the-scenes is inspiring as fuck.
That's why from halo CE to halo reach they were so fucking perfect! They took pride and loved what they did, they cared about us and there product. 343 don't seem to care, they are always straight faced and just don't seem to have any enthusiasm, it showed in halo 4. For me and many others Bungie is always going to be in my heart alongside the halo franchise. So many feels when I play HALO 😖
Jarrod Hartley They are awesome man, I do feel they really cared. I grew on this series, it will always be a Special franchise to me, I look forward to them putting the same love into Destiny.
Jarrod Hartley I swear if i hear one more person complain about 343 im gonna snap. THE DEVELOPERS AT BUNGIE THAT STILL LOVED HALO LEFT AND MADE 343. THEY MADE THAT STUDIO JUST FOR HALO.
william marchant There are 4-5 Ex-Bungie members that went to 343i, and only 1 of them had a Major role in the Bungie Halo series and that was frank. Look it up. Bungie is made up of thousands of people,and 5 went to 343i. Oh,343i sucks.
17:02 I was 7/8 years old when I watched this scene. What a visceral experience. Really introduced me to the magic of video gaming, and the effect it has on people. The people in that room...man...that’s an experience that’ll stay with them for the rest of their lives. It’s not just a dumb game. It’s everything to them. A year later, I remember looking through my older brother’s cd collection, putting in a random cd in my portable CD player, and this song came on. One of the greatest moments of my life. “YES! It’s the song from the Halo 2 doc! YES!”
I got this dvd with the special edition of halo 2. I must have watched it at least 20 times. I wish game dev companies were driven by passion like they were back then.
The song during the e3 demo is so fitting for Bungie's feeling about the final product, "Im sorry that i hurt you, its something i must live with everyday." seeing as this wasnt how halo 2 turned out at all, still one of my favorite games and my first fps.
“To change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is you.” Bungie had to scrap everything after they shown the game at E3 2003, but at the same time they had to make sure Halo fans will still finally get their long-awaited sequel they needed.
I first watched this documentary after playing for a few hours after I got home from the midnight release of Halo 2 at my local Blockbuster Video. It was fun hanging out with other Halo fans amongst the aisles of movies, chatting about rumors and where the story of the game might go. As soon as I received my collector's edition, in its nifty metal case, from the pasty little video store clerk, I booked it homeward to forgo sleep and live Halo 2 until dawn. I'll never forget how incredible it felt to watch this after playing, sitting alone in my room and enjoying the full Halo 2 experience. It was a good night. A damn good night. My thanks to Bungie for the great times and the memories.
i had the collectors addition when i was a very little kid and i watched this a lot. this is now the first time i watched this doc in probably 10 years lol
I miss these guys so fucking much!!! They were my heroes back in the early 2000s. Outside of being a little metal head, school and Yu-Gi-Oh. Halo 1-3 was truly my entire life growing up
17:03 - I can see why Bungie chose that song. Not just it was a smash hit at the time (and still awesome to hear today), but it also represents what Halo 2 was going through, especially after E3 when they faced a reality check with the game.
The release of news with season 3 in halo infinite made me come back to this doc and this exact moment because it’s all just feeling too familiar at this point with halo infinite. ;-;
Orlando Jones and David Cross' Marine lines were so goddamn good. Same with Robin Atkin Downes as the Prophet, Keith David as the Arbiter, and Ron Perlman as Lord Hood.
Halo 2 was my first Halo game. I got a refurbished original xbox for 80 dollars back in 2007. The hype for Halo 3 was huge, but I knew I wasn't going to be able to get a 360. I got a used copy of Halo 2 instead and was absolutely floored. I had never played a game like it and the sci fi setting was incredible. I didn't get to play the multiplayer (no way my parents would have let me run an Ethernet cable to their room from my own). But, just from the campaign I knew it was special.
It is such a treat to get this inside glimpse of Bungie during the height of their powers and dedication. Halo 2 is the best game ever made. Yes it has flaws, what game doesn't. But the impact it had and the care given to it by it's creators is unparalleled. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart thank you.
I will never forget my mom picking me up at school at lunchtime on november 9th, opening the car door and seeing the halo 2 collectors edition with the metal case and completely losing my mind.
I think with Halo 2, although Bungie maybe had too big vision's for it and they tried too long to make those visions reality and that's why they ended up having cliffhanger ending with couple of missions that were cut out simply because they didnt have the time to finish them....but despite all that Halo 2 still was so amazing game, it might have not been as polished as Halo 3 or Reach, but it definitely was the most surprising (they did really good job at keeping Arbiter's side of the story secret), a game that brought the most new things to the gameplay and also had the best multiplayer maps. So ye, although Halo 2 also got lot of hate, because of the singleplayer campaing and cliffhanger ending, my best memories are still from that game along with Combat Evolved ofcourse...Halo 3 and Reach just didnt have the same effect on me anymore, although they were both good solid games, Reach even excellent.
This video back on the Halo 2 collectors edition was a significant influence on why I began pursuing a career in games-dev. I'm not on the road to world domination with Bungie like I dreamed all those years ago, but I am working at another similarly-sized studio now and couldn't be happier with how things are going. Cheers Bungie!
The reason halo was such a good game was, because everyone on that team was passionate about this game. They were at work to make something great, not to earn money.
The nostalgia, I remember watching this for the first time back in the day when I all my buddies would carry our xboxes and TVs to each other’s houses every weekend. Love it
![Making of - Halo 2 [Behind the Scenes]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hWael1c2nt8/mqdefault.jpg)
No AAA game company is ever going to put this much effort into a game again. 2000 to 2010 was truly the golden era of gaming.
It really was I wish more people realized this. Developers truly had passion and wanted to make something amazing and groundbreaking and new. No politics no worrying about being offensive no lootboxes etc.
@@mattmartin6493 I think the developers aren’t to blame or at least not the ones in the upper tiers I’d blame it on poor leadership and following the shareholder’s interest
that era was when nerds, coders and actual creative types worked together throughout the whole company. Nowadays it's all high level management and the marketing department controlling all aspects of the developers work. I really do agree that gaming died in the 2010s but maybe that's just the natural evolution of things :/
Then, the concepts of microtransaction, free-to-play, and early access got invented and the rest is history :)
@@hungryim8643 I was there when the horse armor came out… to think back then we thought THAT was crossing the line.
"Halo one was a pretty good game."
That is one of the greatest understatements of all time.
Modesty from them.
"Environments 10 times the size of Halo 1"
biggest overstatement of all time
hmmm, most of halo 2 is explore able, almost all the terrain can be walked on. It is true that the H2 maps are much larger, but if you play the level normally it doesn't seem much bigger than H1
What's funny is I've had idiotic fanboys rage at me for calling it Halo 1 instead of Halo:CE, as if that's the only "proper" and "correct" way to say it, lol. Yet in this video, a dev literally from Bungie, literally on the Halo team at the time, calls it Halo 1 just fine. Just a shoutout if any of you idiotic fanboys that think this way happen to read this ;)
@@DeathBringer769 Bungie intended to just call the first game Halo, but Microsoft made them add "Combat Evolved" to the title because they thought Halo didn't sound "manly" enough.
The contrast between Bungie then and generic game designers now is insane. They refer to Halo 2, arguably my favourite game of all time as 'some stupid video game' where designers these days will refer to whatever average experience they have made as being 'the most incredible gaming experience to date'. The humility from Bungie is incredible.
youve basically put into words what ive been feeling about most triple AAA games nowadays. The lack of humility these new devs have so they dont piss off their shareholders that their product cant be put out in time or make the money they wanted is frankly tiresome.
Exactly, they had what is sorely missing today: ambition.
I guess they have humility but they should've had someone playtest that easy ass legendary difficulty
I love how 2004 this is.
Good old times those were.....really a shame that 10 years later, many of those familiar faces, like Joseph Staten and Marty O'Donnell are no longer there....they along with Frank O'Connor were the faces that you would always link to Bungie, but now they are all gone (and in Marty's case he got fired)
2004 for had: GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Half-Life: 2, Metal Gear Solid, etc. Yea, 2004 kicked so much ass.
gentlemenRick ye....Burnout 3: Takedown, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, World of Warcraft (North America launch), Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank 3, Far Cry, Doom 3, Rome: Total War....just to name few others ;D
Heck I dont see how anyone can argue against the fact that 2004 was the best year in gaming., 2007, 2010, 2012 and all others pale in comparison
Had Halo 2 a week early a decade ago at this time. What the fuck.
2003
They openly admit to Halo 2 being a failure to them, the absolute development hell this game suffered is a heartbreaking story of a bunch of passionate developers and creators having to work every hour of every day to come as close to their vision that they knew was simply not possible, even making their own personal hygiene suffer because they had to get the game finished.
I've heard Halo 2 called "The greatest failure to ever succeed."
If it's any consolation to Ex-Bungie, Halo 2 is genuinely one of my most cherished and favorite games ever made, I remember all the way back in 2004 on Christmas, opening my present to see that iconic image of Master Chief holding 2 SMGs, it didn't take long for me to skyrocket to my Xbox and put that son of a bitch in.
It was an unforgettable experience that I played again and again, it took everything that made the first game great and expanded on it, the story and cinematic cut scenes are engraved into my skull, the 30 seconds of fun they nailed and of course the Arbiter reveal blew my mind, to actually get to play as an Elite and see the other side of the War was absolutely incredible.
I'd love to experience Halo 2 for the first time again but that's just not possible, but it'll always be up there as my favorite Halo game and one of my most favorite games ever made.
Thank you for the memories Bungie, I miss you guys so much.
Damn I tearing up after reading that.
@@bigsauce1116 Same, every year gaming just gets farther away from this
I actually just recently played Halo 2 Anniversary on pc and it was amazing, by far the best halo game and one of my favorite games.
Why was it considered a failure?
@@marnixmaximus3053 It isn't but bungie considered it a failure, in terms of story and what they wanted to achieve with it.
The Arbiter's voice actor kinda sent chills down my spine.......
His name is keith david. He does a lot of video games and acts in movies. He is Captain David Anderson in Mass Effect.
EdgeOf1996 david keith
Mans in the nice guys haha, brill actor
EdgeOf1996 huh...ARTORIAS
hes also in the movie "Armageddon"
You're never too old to play video games.
And You're never too young to play videogames.
@@rootatouille180 lol
I want a Halo like this back. This was the game that got me into the FPS genre. Shoutouts to the music as well.
+Jack Registeel Me too!!!!! I miss good halos. And H2s music was the very best of any game!
+Jack Registeel same here
+Kyle Erman I'm not a fan. A lot of people want a classic multiplayer mode. I, personally, HATE ground pounding, charging, and hovering. Sprinting, aiming down sights, and boosting is okay, but I wouldn't mind at all if they took it out either. And another item on my christmas list...Blood Gulch, or any classic maps really
I've heard nothing but bad things about MCC. I know I would enjoy the campaign, at least, but MCC population will die if it hasn't already. I want a classic playlist in current titles, even if only in custom games. 343 just wants to make it "their" halo.
Some people really like the changes; it's much more competitive I guess. However, not everyone likes it. I will always consider Halo as a Bungie game. What did you think of the campaign?
I had the disc this came on for 3 years before I popped it in to see what it was. As a kid, I just asked my parents to buy me Halo2 and they got the collector's edition without realizing it was anything special.
I wish more games had BTS documentaries in their special editions. This stuff was great.
+ChrisOfTheDead halo 3 has one too, it's just as good.
OldSchoolDudeGaming I know! :D The Halo 1 and 2 cutscenes with creator commentary is awesome! I re-watch once a year.
It would just be suits telling them to follow trends.
BTS now would just be them reading tweets or facebook or youtube comments about how terrible their games have become and them crying in the corner with a bottle of jack.... Along with the release of unfinished games.
I enjoyed watching the one that came with Gears of War, but it wasn't as good as this.
17:03 I'm not going to lie, I cried.
The memories Halo created for me as a kid, the hours of gameplay coming home and shutting out life.
I can't begin to explain how much this game company changed my life.
I can't believe Joseph And Marty are gone.
Bungie will never be the same.
***** Sony had nothing to do with Destiny. Other than ps4 getting a few exclusive things.
That moment of the making of has given me chills from the first time I saw it with my collector's edition. It also helps that the game and that song came out during my formative years. The joy you see in their faces is a real thing, and it still resonates with me.
yeah that part brought on some feels
There will never be another game as insane and revolutionary as Halo 2.
Halo 2 set the standards for Online Gaming, friends lists, partys, clans, stats. Everything that is a now standard.
Dude, just seeing this comment that you made four years ago. Me too.
"The key to winning the Pentathlon is appearing like you're drunk, but drinking root beer!"
"The key to enjoying the Pentathlon... beer."
I watch this about once a year.
Same, nostalgia hits hard
One of the most coolest and unique video game documentaries in that time era. There's less of that now and days which makes me sad because this stuff is interesting by the sheer amount of creativity and hard work that goes into video games that most people don't know about when they play a video game themselves.
This isn't their story, this is their Legacy :)
RIP Bungie, I had always hoped it would never come to what it is. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, thanks for the best years ever.
+Jimmy T. Man It's not Bungie, they are being controlled by Activision.
Yes, but Bungie was always for being independent and never being controlled by an upper company. (I.E. Microsoft) Plus the fact that so many of the original Bungie employees left paints a picture that something else is going on that we're not seeing.
Ah dual smg's something that fans thought was really cool when they first saw it but when you use them on legendary they're pretty damn useless xD
Dual needles on the other hand..
MrAtlfan21 my lifeline on legendary right there
The good old days. I remember going to EB Games at midnight to pick up my game. It hit different back then, and physical games had a level of polish we don’t see today.
"Are we too old? "
"Naah"
Truly the Golden era of gaming. Will never forget me and all my friends in elementary school sleeping over one person's house every weekend to play halo 2 than staying up every night till 3am playing halo 3 over Xbox live. Some of the best times of my life honostly
Man, I LOVE Michael Wincott's voice (Prophet of Truth). So eerily intimidating.
Me too, It's amazing
I've watched this many times. Makes me cry when I think of all the memories, and times never to return.
right? 17:01 when that guy's face lights up at the E3 demo... every. single. time. hair stands on end and my eyes half well up.
+brendanbeast123 fr i watched this and as it was playing i just sat here with my old friend and we talked for hours about all the fun and glitchy shit we went through together... this game basically was my childhood and is a game that will never be forgotten by anyone. And the last seconds of the servers being up everyone in the lobby screamed "we will miss you halo 2! You will never be forgot---" and right as we were about to say forgotten everyone was kicked and me and my friends sat there on skype, going from laughing and having fun playing, to silent in a heart beat, and we just sat there watching our screens with wattery eyes, hoping that it would come back... but an hour and a half after we sat there silent we finally got that it was over... it was weird feeling seeing the biggest part of your childhood just switch off like that... halo will never be the same again... :'(
+TYPO Zexr the beta files that run the game on this video in the end when everyone is playing in that room with the tvs can still be download and played on a softmodded xbox. the orginal halo 2 experience lives through LAN now. and if you want to try what the developers used then try looking for the beta files on iso zone. I feel you
It returns :)
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Randomly here to thank Bungie for uploading this. I watched this in October 2012 and it inspired me to get into game dev and now I've been doing it for almost 10 years(As of 2022)!
Edit:As of 2023, I'll be in this industry full time for almost 5 years!
If you never need help with voice acting in one of your games il be glad to help! :)
That's really cool :)
Dude good to hear! Keep that old school passion alive man.
Back when making games was a reward
+TheLuisberg Top Commentor Back when you didn't have to go indie to make a game for the sake of making a game
Yeah. 'Twas a time of wonder
And when game companies put the player first.
@@rufousthefox9766 exactly
2004 was one of the greatest years for video games ever! This was when games really started to evolve into what we see today! Man this brings back memories..
Why can't games be this good anymore?
They only make it for the money now...
morphanok69 it's like cartoons, they used to be made just for the user, now they are made to make money selling add ons (toys and action figures for cartoons in the 80s and DLC for video games today) but if it goes the same way, cartoons saw that truly good shows kept the fans for life, and we're in a golden age of cartoons, maybe video games will go the same way...
Emk Mage Huh.. reminds me of today's movies. No true camera work and filled with cgi. Welcome to the new world of entertainment folks..
2 words: Early Access.
They think of sales and trends. They don't try to make memories for the gamer anymore. Corporate greed is what infected the video game industry.
They nailed Halo 2. One of my favorite games to date. Sad to see that Bungie turned into Infinity Ward.
+uscoastgaurd yup and tbh halo 2 was a giant break through for gaming in not only the graphics, but in the way they achieved making a game that will rest in memory of hundreds of thousands of people across the world... no other game has that power :/
I mean half the people from the original crew are gone from that studio a lot of them actually
Don’t you mean ACTIVISION. Remember who the publishers are.
@@JuICyBLiinGeR You do know that Activision and Bungie are no longer working together and Bungie walked away with everything in regards to the Destiny franchise. Hence why D2 has been on the up and up with 1.1 million concurrent players since the announcement of their new DLC.
Andrew Wayne I was replying to the original post.
Joe Staten is a legend. He's just that nerdy kid who will make references and doesn't care about your "cringe"
All that pressure and truly one of the best video game stories of all time came out of it. I'm really glad they did a perspective flip with the Arbiter, if we never had that the story wouldn't be half as good as it was.
He also wrote some math book.
Thank god he’s back
@@Camilhurt he’s actually white, wtf?
“OOOOOHHH, TAKE IT!” :)
Imagine if the had the time and the processing power to create what they envisioned
If you bought the special edition of Halo 2, you got this documentary. \m/
I ended up buying the special edition thinking it would have the mission from their E3 demo. Ah to be naive again.
I had no idea there was a sequel back then when it was released, I was just looking for the first one cause it was great but i picked up the halo 2 special edition instead and immediately loved it. Been a halo fan since.
That's why I have deju vu watching this! I was so young and my older brother bought me this special edition for Christmas, the nice metal case and everything. I think I still have it somewhere around my house.
just finished Halo 1. It is a masterpiece, looking forward to it's sequel.
+Shubh Sharma Do you have the Master Chief Collection with four of the games?
nope just had the old pc game.
Ah okay, you may enjoy Halo 2. But know that it is a much faster-paced game in terms of movement. So you might be a bit caught off by the speed of Halo 2. Asides from that, the game is great. What platform are you playing it on?
Im a PC player and I have no problem with fast paced gameplay as I am also a player of counter strike. Thank you luke for your advice.
Halo reach on PC would be my baby
i remember getting off the school bus to my dad waiting with a copy of Halo 2 collectors edition the day it came out. hard to believe that was 12 years ago
The anatomy of my childhood.
same!!
Days that I not only miss, but days that make me upset to know that they're never coming back.
The epitome of my childhood.
It’s sad this comment was 4 years ago
Marry me
17:00
I gotta admit, this part always gets me in tears, dont matter how many times i watch this i still gonna cry like a baby. Because i really really miss the old days of playing Halo every day after school and whole weekend. The exitment for a next Halo game was UNREAL !
RandomVideos I know exactly you feel man, I’m doing the exact same thing now
It's sad that those days are memories but I smile because it happened.
17:20.. man that music and the classic H2.. I was in my childhood for a min ;(((
I know man, it unexpectedly almost brought tears
I wonder how many of these people still work for Bungie... :/
very few seeing how shit destiny was
+ThomasStreet Jason Jones.
That's about it.
***** Well, 40 people worked on Halo 1.
***** Huge overestimations here. There are at least 5 people that worked on every single Halo Bungie game. Jason Jones, Joseph Staten, Marty O'Donnell to name a few, not even counting all the lead designers. Whoever that CJ guy is is another...
+ThomasStreet
Marty O'Donnell got Kicked and Joe Staten left Bungie they're not a great Company anymore
10:01 “your call sarge.”
“We’re going in.”
“DAMN STRAIGHT WERE GOING IN!”
XD
36:45
Geoff goes so far back with a lot of stuff. Like Achievement Hunter, Rooster Teeth, Let's Play, Red vs Blue
He was the start of all of that and its hard to comprehend he's been doing this for longer than a decade and is still around
Like 25 years at this point. Out of the original guys I think only he has stuck around as long. Its weird to think that here soon we are going to have the FINAL season of RvB. Time truly is a brutal and cruel mistress.
It really is crazy how much more dedicated devs were back then, these days it seems like there is a massive disconnect between devs/producers and their audience. Games back in the day on average were just made with more love and the proof is in the gameplay.
Yum. Pudding.
Pudding
I mean yeah. But those guys talking about working overnight and not seeing the sun for months on end isn't good either.
@@brianmckee2267 A worthy sacrifice tbh, lots of the best pieces of art in history were done at the cost of the artist's well being, at least these guys only had to be indoors and stressed for a few years.
profit>gameplay
the whole 343i team needs to sit down and watch this
They need to stop fucking around, take a whole month off, watch old Halo vids like this, play old Halo campaigns, and re-write, I think they need a break to sit down and just think.
Chochi450 yes
Chochi450 They need Marty and Staten.
In Bungie games chief is just a piece of armor without emotion. He's a white canvas. In 343 he's a predetermined character with feelings and is clearly explotative emotionally. He's a little bitch. 343 killed for what chief was known for. Being relentlessness inhuman piece of armor that all players create their own relations too. This is real art from bungie.
+Uy because they make donuts not halo games
32:58 this is the part that a lot of developers don’t talk about. Halo 2’s campaign development was quite complicated, and their original vision wasn’t exactly what we got in the end. Still, I loved the game and thought it was still worth a great buy despite they problems they had. Wish more developers were more honest about this aspect in their game development.
The good old days.... This brought memories back to me... :( really miss them..Bungie please come back to halo the community misses you.
Jason Jones, Joe Staten. Marty O'Donnell: The Holy Gaming Trinity
Agreed
Its 2019 and I still come back and watch this from time to time. Its just a really cool and motivating doc to put your head down and get through your work.
Paul Whiteford 2020 and I’m still doing it
@@iNoXpLodE me too :)
Same! I am currently playing this documentary right now in the background while going through the hell that is college applications. All while having a big math test to study for also
Seeing the stress on their faces but also the passion and drive to not let the fans down gives me hope that if I just grind a little bit more I will see the light at the end of the tunnel.
@@heralds3164 How did you go with the applications?
@@paulwediting7175 Honestly not that bad...I got all of them done I needed too. But it was stressful to get them done. I won't know if I'm accepted until February
I still have the disk that this is on with the collector's edition
Same, Do you still have the actual collectors edition though?
Yes. I personally never once saw the normal version in person
Mike Oxbigg I have both, and multiples of the original :D
Mike Oxbigg aww man i lost mine the memories of that. the sliver plated cover was just awesome
+Mike Oxbigg Me too
The young roosterteeth
I know man! Gus was skinny as hell!!!
What's the name of the guy at 12:50 ? I want to know what is he working on
17:02 got me more choked up than I'm willing to admit. I have ALOT of painful memories associated with that time and place in my childhood & Halo 2 was one of what felt like a very limited amount of shining lights at the end of the tunnel that kept me going....
Somedays it felt like that time with my friend's, Arbiter & Chief were all I had. After all these years i realise just how right Sgt Johnson was...
"Folk's need heroes Chief, gives 'em hope."
Marcus Lehto swearing over the lighting in the pelican being world relative has lived in my brain since 2005. Why.
I'm glad they didn't have time to finish it. The unintentional glitches made the gameplay almost perfect
The segment of the documentary of the Bungie crew taking a summer camp break after E3 2003 and playing dodgeball and volleyball is one of the most wholesome things I've seen. Bless them all.
19:19 ...pure early 2000's gold...
Been falling asleep to this since i got the collectors edition of halo 2 for christmas 2004. Literally almost 20 years later im still falling asleep to it
23:38 The greatest quote from this whole thing. THE BEST WAY TO SUCCESS IS BEING YOUR OWN WORST CRITIC.
Am I the only one who thinks it was a terrible idea to swap the Prophet of Truth's voice actor with that famous guy in Halo 3?
Cause the guy at 44:48 sounded 10x better.
Raptor086 It is said that Michael Wincott chose not to reprise his role.
"put all of the content into the game" .........
Hahaha literally the opposite of Destiny 1 and 2... :(
@@tommyshommy I'm pretty sure he meant that they have to cut 50% of the game because they lack the time. Halo 2 while good is clearly rushed
Bungie is literally anakin , young and pure and full of potential in the early days with halo. now full of greed , hate and malice for its consumers.
this.... fucknig this....
You don know bungie didn’t make halo 4 and halo 5, they joined with another company known as Activision that’s full of greed and rushed their game and ruined their reputation
Soviet Union he never said they made 4 and 5, he said the early days of halo, be fore 343 took over
Jason Pabon I don’t think halo was full of greed when bungie owned it
Soviet Union I mean he meant, that bungie made the old ones and after that they were full of greed
This was the video that made me want to work in the game industry.
I was 14. What a ride.
"Gaming used to be, the domain of the geeks. And it's not really anymore."
This ended up being so prophetic
After what’s happening with Bungie right now and the layoffs, it’s sad to say this old Bungie is forever gone :( I’m just happy to experience the good ol’ days with my dad and friends.
They were gone already like 70% when they split with Microsoft/started destiny 1, by destiny 2 was out, maybe less than 5-10 tops from the OG from halo 1 days was left
I'm so glad I was a kid that grew up in the early 2000s, but man oh man! Sometimes how I also wish I had been a teenager or college student in 2004 Lol! Because it looked SUPER FUN than it ever could be if you were a gamer and around those ages. Hard to believe 20 years have gone by in the blink of an eye. You don't see documentaries like this anymore, especially when times were just so damn simple...
Seeing this video, and hearing them talk about their passion for Halo...god, I miss the old Bungie. What happened?
Red Centurion the sweet smell of fresh green has tainted the olfactory senses of developers around the world; the passion of creation, and dedication to achieving ones goals, has been lost in a sea of over privileged corporate money makers and devs looking for quick cash. I, for one, will do my absolute best to change the game industry for the better, as I aspire to attain even half of what Bungie accomplished in its prime, for anything of such masterful quality would be better than the recent onslaught of Battle Royals flooding the market.
The dudes seeing the Halo 2 demo probably had no idea how insane its legacy would end up being.
The incredible impact that Halo 2 had on online gaming for consoles, even PC, cannot be understated.
I'll never forget the great times I had with Halo 2.
17:42 forgot about my fellow Australian lol. Full Holden beanie represent. Man I used to love watching this when I was like 12-13. I bought a second hand special edition halo 2 only a fe months after release and this dvd came with it. Good times man 😢😢
Look at those smiles, look how they are just having fun making a game. you see 343i making of halo 4..fucking kiki wolfkill has this dead expression on her face"-_-" talking about making it easier for other people to play, No passion.
I totally get you. There's just a glow in these guys' eyes that I never saw anywhere ever again. These are dudes who fucking love what they're doing, and this behind-the-scenes is inspiring as fuck.
That's why from halo CE to halo reach they were so fucking perfect! They took pride and loved what they did, they cared about us and there product. 343 don't seem to care, they are always straight faced and just don't seem to have any enthusiasm, it showed in halo 4. For me and many others Bungie is always going to be in my heart alongside the halo franchise. So many feels when I play HALO 😖
Jarrod Hartley They are awesome man, I do feel they really cared. I grew on this series, it will always be a Special franchise to me, I look forward to them putting the same love into Destiny.
Jarrod Hartley I swear if i hear one more person complain about 343 im gonna snap. THE DEVELOPERS AT BUNGIE THAT STILL LOVED HALO LEFT AND MADE 343. THEY MADE THAT STUDIO JUST FOR HALO.
william marchant
There are 4-5 Ex-Bungie members that went to 343i, and only 1 of them had a Major role in the Bungie Halo series and that was frank.
Look it up.
Bungie is made up of thousands of people,and 5 went to 343i.
Oh,343i sucks.
ive seen this so many times
same here, bro
+brad toose 1 thousand times and counting :D
same lol
I've seen this at least 4 times over, and I don't even have H1... :|
I am absolutely in love with background music at 32:19 it just gives a nostalgic magical feeling
44:27 HOLD ON TO YOUR POTATOES
hahaha that was funny bro
No joke, I made that my senior quote.
17:02
I was 7/8 years old when I watched this scene. What a visceral experience. Really introduced me to the magic of video gaming, and the effect it has on people.
The people in that room...man...that’s an experience that’ll stay with them for the rest of their lives. It’s not just a dumb game. It’s everything to them.
A year later, I remember looking through my older brother’s cd collection, putting in a random cd in my portable CD player, and this song came on. One of the greatest moments of my life.
“YES! It’s the song from the Halo 2 doc! YES!”
The Reason is the song I’ll always associate with Halo 2.
Dude playing Combat Evolved with all those dudes on LAN would have been so sick
I got this dvd with the special edition of halo 2. I must have watched it at least 20 times. I wish game dev companies were driven by passion like they were back then.
Bungie will never go back to this 'charm' and 'passion' they presented from Halo 1 - Halo Reach. Thats for sure.
Wow, the voice actors are incredible ! Didn't know that many actors worked "worked" on Halo 2 !
i still remember coming home from school to see my uncle pull the limited edition halo 2 with the metal cover and this disk out...i cried with joy
Thank you Joe Staten for your service in Halo.
What happened to this level of quality in games?
"We messed up..." at 33:22 is so satisfying for me to hear after playing through Halo 2. I love the game to death but there were so many flaws.
It would be amazing to see what the game could have been.
@@nutyyyy_You can see the storyboards for the orignal story now with orignal ending if you didn't know. It gives a pretty good idea.
November 9, 2004. The best, happiest day of my entire life.
Halo 1'2'3 4 so glad I got to witness behind the scenes and experience the games
Still playing it in 2023. Amazing game 🎮
The song during the e3 demo is so fitting for Bungie's feeling about the final product, "Im sorry that i hurt you, its something i must live with everyday." seeing as this wasnt how halo 2 turned out at all, still one of my favorite games and my first fps.
“To change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is you.”
Bungie had to scrap everything after they shown the game at E3 2003, but at the same time they had to make sure Halo fans will still finally get their long-awaited sequel they needed.
I first watched this documentary after playing for a few hours after I got home from the midnight release of Halo 2 at my local Blockbuster Video.
It was fun hanging out with other Halo fans amongst the aisles of movies, chatting about rumors and where the story of the game might go. As soon as I received my collector's edition, in its nifty metal case, from the pasty little video store clerk, I booked it homeward to forgo sleep and live Halo 2 until dawn.
I'll never forget how incredible it felt to watch this after playing, sitting alone in my room and enjoying the full Halo 2 experience. It was a good night. A damn good night.
My thanks to Bungie for the great times and the memories.
i had the collectors addition when i was a very little kid and i watched this a lot. this is now the first time i watched this doc in probably 10 years lol
I miss these guys so fucking much!!! They were my heroes back in the early 2000s. Outside of being a little metal head, school and Yu-Gi-Oh.
Halo 1-3 was truly my entire life growing up
this was the first game that i was totally immersed in. halo 2 is the best in the series in my opionion
I watch this entire video every once in a while. Some type of snack while watching this is so chill
17:03 - I can see why Bungie chose that song. Not just it was a smash hit at the time (and still awesome to hear today), but it also represents what Halo 2 was going through, especially after E3 when they faced a reality check with the game.
What's the song called?
@@thatboi6021 Hoobastank - The Reason
The release of news with season 3 in halo infinite made me come back to this doc and this exact moment because it’s all just feeling too familiar at this point with halo infinite. ;-;
@@Joeru510Greetings from the future. It’s not Halo 3 perfect (yet hopefully), but Infinite is shaping to better with Season 5.
incredible.
leaving my love here for anyone in this video looking back at this
🐢
Orlando Jones and David Cross' Marine lines were so goddamn good. Same with Robin Atkin Downes as the Prophet, Keith David as the Arbiter, and Ron Perlman as Lord Hood.
Halo 2 was my first Halo game. I got a refurbished original xbox for 80 dollars back in 2007. The hype for Halo 3 was huge, but I knew I wasn't going to be able to get a 360. I got a used copy of Halo 2 instead and was absolutely floored. I had never played a game like it and the sci fi setting was incredible. I didn't get to play the multiplayer (no way my parents would have let me run an Ethernet cable to their room from my own). But, just from the campaign I knew it was special.
343 needs to study this documentary closely.
26:15 that LAN party looks like what me and my buddies did back in the day. That really made me nostalgic as hell. I miss these days.
It is such a treat to get this inside glimpse of Bungie during the height of their powers and dedication. Halo 2 is the best game ever made. Yes it has flaws, what game doesn't. But the impact it had and the care given to it by it's creators is unparalleled. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart thank you.
I will never forget my mom picking me up at school at lunchtime on november 9th, opening the car door and seeing the halo 2 collectors edition with the metal case and completely losing my mind.
Still here 15 years later. Wishing I could go back to when this game came out. There will never be another experience like this again. :,(
18 years now
Agreed. Was bliss.
I think with Halo 2, although Bungie maybe had too big vision's for it and they tried too long to make those visions reality and that's why they ended up having cliffhanger ending with couple of missions that were cut out simply because they didnt have the time to finish them....but despite all that Halo 2 still was so amazing game, it might have not been as polished as Halo 3 or Reach, but it definitely was the most surprising (they did really good job at keeping Arbiter's side of the story secret), a game that brought the most new things to the gameplay and also had the best multiplayer maps.
So ye, although Halo 2 also got lot of hate, because of the singleplayer campaing and cliffhanger ending, my best memories are still from that game along with Combat Evolved ofcourse...Halo 3 and Reach just didnt have the same effect on me anymore, although they were both good solid games, Reach even excellent.
Seeing those people's reactions to the demo got to me. I miss the days when video games had a greater significance
I miss and love you.
11 years later... ballin video. i remember watching this dvd
Between halo 2 to Halo 3 is my favorite setup of Bungie employees. Their current incarnation just doesn't seem to have that same magic.
Its kind of a downer to look back at this and to see all of the people who Bungie has fired/ let go.
29:55 “These guys were intimidating” Proceeds to tackle him 😂
This video back on the Halo 2 collectors edition was a significant influence on why I began pursuing a career in games-dev. I'm not on the road to world domination with Bungie like I dreamed all those years ago, but I am working at another similarly-sized studio now and couldn't be happier with how things are going. Cheers Bungie!
How’s your first game coming!?
The reason halo was such a good game was, because everyone on that team was passionate about this game. They were at work to make something great, not to earn money.
The nostalgia, I remember watching this for the first time back in the day when I all my buddies would carry our xboxes and TVs to each other’s houses every weekend. Love it