My Thoughts on Halo 4 | Campaign Review
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Timestamps:
0:00 - Prelude
1:45 - Part One - The Good
15:06 - Part Two -The Bad
28:31 - Conclusion
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Hi everyone, thanks for tuning in! I know this is a bit of a departure for me, but I hope that you enjoyed it regardless of the growing pains that come with trying different things. If there's something I missed, maybe I got something wrong about the lore or there's just an editing mistake you picked up on, please let me know. I'm always looking to better my content in any way. No point in doing this if you're just gonna become complacent, right?
If you're looking forward to Zombies content though, don't worry, I've got a real RAVE of a review in the works. Yeah, that's real good, me.
As for the occasionally snarky little segment descriptors, I figured I would bring that back from my earlier reviews (like my original BO3 review with the silly segment names) but combine them with the title card presentation of my Beast From Beyond review to prevent breaking flow. Then halfway through editing, I realized "oh shit, that's what Raycevick does lmao".
And here I thought I was being clever. Ah well, what can you do?
P.S. There's some things I intentionally left out because I either wasn't interested in talking about it or the script was just getting WAY too long and I needed to trim it a bit.
Tbh I only watched your zombies stuff because of your charm and presentation of these long videos. I'll always watch your videos b x
Honestly it'd be cool if you reviewed one of the Gears of War campaigns tbh
Review the Bioshock games? 👀
U should review every halo campaign
Can you do a review on the Gears of war franchise I'd love to see your thoughts about it
this is my favorite star wars game
John Halo was a pretty cool Jedi. Remember that time he said "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"? Classic Jedi phrase.
Spooky Sal
Still better than the Last Jedi
@@flamingdragon1527 true
@@Jrrizzo lmao
"You might not have noticed it, but your brain did"
Fantastic.
I grew up watching Jr Rizzo, I'm giving him a C+.
So happy you mentioned The Didact barely showing up. Honestly the thing that I hate most about H4's story is that it gives us such a dope villain that we were teased about in the Halo 3 terminals all those years ago, then goes on to show him only twice (TWICE) in the camapign. What a monumental waste
Good to see ya here I C O N I C lad
@Grayest Yeah, the writers of Halo 5 said that the Didact will be seen again in some form. However, I really disagree with the Didact only having 2 scenes because of "baby steps with his character arc". It's understandable that the Flood and Covenant weren't really that developed in Halo 1, because they were both antagonists in the first game of the series, and Halo's universe hadn't been established at all before that point and there wasn't (As far as I'm aware) terminals in game like there were in H3/4. In that case, I can understand taking it slow and not knowing everything about them from the get-go.
With the Didact though, a huge amount was already known about his life and his motivations before Halo 4 was even released, yet in the game (besides the terminals), he had about 5 mins of screentime. It would've been easy to actually give him something to do instead of sit inside the Cryptum for 5 missions, but for some reason 343 decided to go with just not having him be present which is just bad writing, especially considering how he's billed as the primary antagonist for that game. If you have a primary antagonist, you need to use them, and 343 did not do that with the Didact.
He wasn't really the focus on of the story though...
Didact should have taken Cortana role in guardians it would make the story so much better or even at least have it where he was using a rampant fragment of Cortana
@@activatehalo7763 But he should have.....the appearance of this character should have been a monumental moment in the Halo franchise, as the forerunners have been teased throughout the Bungie games. And since 343 decided to have a Forerunner appear, he better make a damn impression. Yet, the Didact was just another generic bad guy that was dumb as hell. He now got composed in a comic book and Cortana is the main bad guy. 343 completely wasted all that build up and got nothing out of it. 343 introduced so many cool ideas into the lore, but completely failed to connect it into a grand narrative. The randomness of the extended lore and the appearance of random retcon bullshit such as Cortana coming back and the Flood somehow not dying after the events of Halo 3 (like High Charity being still there is just total stupidity and ruins Halo 3) is just lazy writing.
Please make more of these. This is by far the most truly neutral review I've seen for Halo 4 in years. Most of them just delve down to "tree-for-free gaem bad, bungo gaem goodest" This is also the first video I've seen from your channel and I very much enjoyed it. One thing I did notice is that, Halo 4's story is about Chief becoming human and less of a machine. The intro cinematic features the Spartans looking exactly the same. I can't believe it's taken me years to realize that it's literally showing that Chief is just a cog in the machine, despite how unique he is with his armor and augmentations.
You know, with this in mind, it suddenly makes sense to show that Halsey interrogation scene. I think h4 was trying to move in a critical direction of the Spartan creation, their sociopathy and childhood abduction
Turbofurby I think Act Man did a good job as well.
I’m so happy you took the time to talk about the Chief and Cortana arc in this video. It had such and emotional impact on me when I first played through the game I was saddened when people thought it was dumb and forced. It felt like such a natural story to tell and the didact compliments it so well with him being an mirror image of what Chief could be with out Cortana.
It’s a shame that Halo 5 is handled so poorly from a narrative perspective and really down plays everything in 4. Could of been great to see Chief have become more of a human in 5 because he didn’t have Cortana.
I like a lot of Halo 4, but my biggest issue is the Forerunners. I feel any magic and mystery they had is gone in favor of them being like every other race. Which is amazing as we know there are races above even the Forerunners, which I found the Forerunners being how they were in the original trilogy adding to that. I kind of wish they didn't use them or kept them as a backdrop, using ONI instead or something. Generic art-style complaint, but I find them incredibly over-designed and although I know the Prometheans are sort of different, but giving them weapons that are just like ours is fairly dumb. I think the Forerunners should have been this unimaginable race of beings who we can't even picture in terms of their society. If they even live in a society like we do (rise up).
I did enjoy the reveal of Requiem though, I feel the floating towers were the best addition to their architecture. Oh and I love this game's sound design so much. I also prefer the game to Halo 2 overall, which I know is a hot take. Hope you do a video on that game. If you do replay it, I hope you take note of how out of place the first mission is, playing as Chief. It should have opened as Arbiter's first mission, in my opinion, I feel like this could be an interesting topic of the game's pacing. (Note, I am about as much as a fan as you are, I used to be big into it when I was younger but got into other games).
Playing as the arbiter first would have been a terrible decision as there would be even more of a disconnect between halo 2 and Halo CE.
@@digiornodigiovanna7530 I still think it would have made for a more coherence opening level than what was there.
Alex Griffin fighting heretics as the first mission would still be a bit jarring to me.
@@digiornodigiovanna7530 More manageable after the set up, surely. The Covenant cut scene introducing this all as well as the mission.
Totally agree with you. The mystery that's invoked by the Forerunners in the previous games is so entrancing. They definitely should've been kept hidden away, or at least not portrayed so over-the-top. My favorite portrayal of them is from Halo CE. The dark, ominous, massive, intricately illuminated, hieroglyph-ridden structures paint such a massive canvas for your imagination. It helped put me in space. The original skyscapes and darker, more nitty-gritty scifi theme were also a lot more interesting. Wreaked of untraversed territory.
Just gonna say it. Halo 4 has the best sound design in the series apart from the negatives mentioned in this video. Although I do feel the Promethean weapons sound better in Halo 5
Good show, Rizzo!
I'm glad you're branching out into even more things that you're enjoying and despite me having zero experience with Halo, it's always a pleasure to tune into the reviews you make!
As someone who has played every single Halo title, read all the books, know almost everything about the lore, I have to agree with some of the topics you brought up in the video. Even I didn't notice some of the things you mentioned in the good and bad segments. Seeing as how you said you're into Halo now, I'm pretty happy that you're interested in one of my favorite franchises. Can't wait to see more Halo stuff from you in the future!
Always love your long reviews, keep up the good work!
It's always nice seeing content you genuinely enjoyed making. You did good, Rizzo
Rizzo, love your work man. Few questions as for future content.
1. Do you plan to do anything with the Halo 5 campaign and possibly Halo: Infinite when that drops?
2. I know you're done with the cod stuff for now. But I'm curious to see your take on the black ops series campaign. Ya don't have to, but it would certainly make quite a few fans happy to see what you do with it.
Fun fact: Lasky was saved by the Chief as a child, which is why he seems to like him so much.
My Grandmother just died, and she had been suffering from Dementia as long as I knew he, so remembering Cortana's fall reminds me of her.
Halo 4 was the first halo I really got into and to me it’s my favorite. The soundtrack still gets me in the feels
I’m very glad that you didn’t stop the review videos.
Your review was exactly what I was looking for! I wanted to hear someone who shares a similar opinion. Thanks for making this video! ✌️❤️
Bro this was extremely well written its the first vid ive watched of your channel and I ended up subbing in the intro good job man
Another video I really enjoyed, I’ve always loved your stuff Rizzo and I used to play halo a bunch with my buddies forever ago. Keep making videos man!
This is actually one of my favorite Halo games campaign wise. Right next to 1. This was legitimately beautiful and seeing it again in this review brought a tear to my eye.
Absolutely superb video! You earned a sub!
Oh and nice little RLM references :)
I would love to see more Halo content, but honestly I would watch anything in a similar format. You have a very unique style and personality that is entertaining to watch even in very long videos like this.
Was very excited to see this video, and I was not let down. This was a really fun video to watch from start to finish. I'm really excited to see more Halo content from you. I remember a twitter post about you going and making a Halo 2 review after your re-review of Rave, and I'm 100% on board. Keep up the good work pal!
Notification from UA-cam for Jr Rizzo’s 30 minute video is always the best kind of notification.
I'll have you know i watched this entire video and will watch any video rizzo makes because he's a genuinely enjoyable personality keep up the good work rizzo
I’ve never played Halo and I don’t know anything about it, yet I actually enjoyed this review. It was really well done. Good job man
You should play it my dude trust me you won't regret it.
SuperiorBat Playz I wish I can but I am on ps4
Dude.. grab an Xbox 360 off eBay or get the new Xbox Series X and you will have the Masterchief Collection on gamepass for free. Halo CE - Halo 4 are all fantastic. The story and the execution are top shelf. Halo put the first person shooter on the map for consoles. Halo 5 was the only one where I feel 343i dropped the ball. But from what I hear about Halo Infinite... the series will be back in fine form later this year.
@@solidarnosc9663 I managed to get an Xbox series S and downloaded the master chief collection thanks to Game Pass. I still need to play it, but at least I have the chance
@@sinner2133 did u play it now?
I like the change of pace. The new editing style was weird to me at first (but that’s just because I was so used to the old one) but it’s growing on me. I would like to see more of this stuff in the future
i now would like to see a full series retrospective cause this was great
This was a great video, and opened my eyes to stuff in Halo 4 that I didn’t know was there. It would be funny to see you play infected with Matt, Nick, and the others for a leftovers video. Just a suggestion.
I’ve been hyped for this since you first mentioned it Rizzo. My hype has been satisfied.
I’ve really nothing else to say aside from a tiny desire to see an overall review of the Black Ops campaigns. Or see you tear into Halo 5’s campaign.
Been watching u for a while. Love ur content. Keep it up.
Halo 4 was and still is the only Halo game I managed to go into almost completely blind (Except for me accidentally stumbling onto a spoiler days before I finished it), and I loved it. I'm glad to see someone else at least had some fun with it, and I look forward to you covering the series in the future!
I do hope to see more campaign reviews with the good ol Rizzo touch!
Finally someone who doesn’t think that chief and cortana had a romance in this game
Great video riz! i stopped with halo after halo 2 because i went to pc gaming rather then console. so seeing a review on one of the games i missed out on is actually realy nice. perhaps when/if they come to pc i will have to pick them up!
Now I got to get this off my chest, because i need to know something. its about... black ops 4.
Now you have already said your distaste for the game to the point your not even touching it. thats fine but i also have similar feelings towards the game. despite it getting new updates i just dont have the enthusiasm to even pick it back up. the multiplayer i found meh, blackout i won one game on then aint touched it since, and zombies i just.... feel drained. but i cant put into words why i dislike black ops 4.
what im trying to get at, is that i would adore some kind of video explaining in your views, on what the hell has gone wrong with black ops 4. because i cannot honestly put my finger on it. i was so excited for this it but now i just.... i honestly regret even picking it up.
wierdly enough i felt this way about black ops 2 when it first released. but i duno if they can be compared.
You said you had some interest in reviewing Halo 2’s campaign, right? Would love to see that.
In the words of Count Dooku... “I’ve been looking forward to this”.
I’ve admittedly never played a Halo game before and have never had much of an opinion of them, however the videos which you make truly invest into you’re opinions and your outlook. You’re “meme” content is also ‘top kek’ so please keep up the great work there! Your content, It’s a joy to watch and hear your views of any game you talk about, not just Call of Duty zombies. what’s made this video special to me was watching you post about this video on twitter during the process of making the video, Treyarch should really take a leaf out of your book learn how to hype up their audiences for their projects. In conclusion Rizzo, awesome job pal, can’t wait to see what other games you’ll review or play next. Till next time. See ya.
I don't think it was ever 100% confirmed, but I'm fairly certain that whole Halsey interrogation prologue was in reference to replacing Master Chief's _persona_ of _"Humanities Greatest Hero"_ with Locke.
I love these reviews man.
Great video like always my guy
One campaign that i would love to see you cover in the future is Infinite Warfare's, Black Ops 1's or Black Ops 2's
Do one on reach! My personal favorite, would love to see an unbiased review like this one, great job dude
I'll listen and watch your reviews cause I actually really enjoy hearing what you have to say, to me it's just more of yourself.
I agree completely, throughout the game Master Chief has moments that show he's a stunted child and unwilling to let go of Cortana, it's really heartbreaking.
Havent even played halo , still watched the whole video . Your voice man... soothing af
Good work, cant wait for the next one
Glad to see another video from you Rizzo. I'm willing to support any creative decision you make in the future as this is your channel and you are free to do whatever man. Look forward to seeing more soon. Don't work too hard though ;)
As your Halo 4, I honestly don't know much about the Halo franchise after Halo 2 sadly because they decided to not make anymore of the main games for PC which I was very disappointed to find out. Other that the Halo Wars game I want them to release all the Halo Franchise on PC so I can experience it all on there. I don't plan on ever buying an XBOX of any kind so it just sucks they didn't care about the fans like me that played and own Halo CE and 2 since they have released on PC.
Damn I haven't come across your channel before but ngl this vid gave me a pretty good impression. Your review gave me incite into parts of this game I haven't appreciated before and I dig the light (actually funny) comedy sprinkled throughout. Excellent review you're really good at this
20:57 perfect fucking edit yes 😂 I'm totally checking out more of your shit
I remember years ago when i was in college, my roommate would play this game in the living room and i just watched him play with my brain shut off. Never would i thought i would've regretted doing that after watching this video. I swear to god every video you do gives me insight i never thought i would get and especially the inspiration to keep making videos. Was that last sentence a bit too much? I dunno.
Never got into this franchise because of the controls, but learning about the story and characters like this is genuinely interesting. I'd love to see more.
I still can't believe rizzo is a 64 year old sicilian
Real good review Rizzo. While I never played Halo 4 ever, I couldn't help but get my interest back into Halo, as I only played 1-3, alongside a very faint portion of Reach.
Hope you do more reviews like this for other games, like the Gears series, or coming out of left field and giving a Dead by Daylight review. If not, I understand.
I feel like Halo 4 is more of a movie than a game. To me at least
Man, I was sooooo excited to play halo 4 that i actually shilled and picked up the halo 4 xbox 360 bundle. That thing was freaking awesome. The custom lights and sounds it made that paired with the game itself. Mmmmm.
I can't get the image of the elites saying Wort Wort Wort as the turn noble 6 into sushi out of my head lmao
I don't even follow Halo storyline or the Halo franchise in general, but this was a bloody great watch Rizzo, really enjoyed it 👌👌
This was the first halo game I owned and it's really cool to get a new perspective on it. Very cool
Dude, you smashed it out of the park with this one.
Been waiting for this one
Good job my dude. One day i will get a xbox to play halo with you one day. Im excited to see what else u will be doing in the future.
Rizzo I love your videos, whether they be funny haha lets play or these long commentaries on something.
(When's SRS Weapon guides for the Welling though?)
Review on Destiny 1 or 2?
Plus I really enjoy your video style and how you explain your likes and dislikes!
Keep up the good work can't wait to see more!
You enjoyable and interesting video Jr rizzo good job man, but I wanted to ask what is specifically the problem with the bo3 story since in you original review you seemed to like it, I had problems with gk and revelations but I still have faith, anyway keep up the good work
This is still my favorite UA-cam channel
Great video bro I thought you stopped UA-cam
rizzo dont its 11PM and i have classes tomorrow. but im sure its a great video, cant wait to watch
Love the video man also one question what happened to your “last knight” review?
Oh lord yes a new upload
I hope you do more videos like this.
I wanna see a video on Halo 5! This video is great, and I would love to see a video similar in structure to this about halo 5
The only feedback I'll give you is... I'm gonna need one of these videos for every single Halo campaign now. 💜 You're one of my inspirations, keep it going, this was great
Wow, I thought this day would never come!
I really liked this review Rizzo. Been around a long time on your channel, and I would just like to say I definitely wanna see more reviews. Although you have already made this review, I would highly recommend watching a UA-cam Channel called “The Act Man”, who by far has some of the best reviews on UA-cam. Also, Halo Reach is one of my favourites and most played games of all time, I really think you should do a review on that, would love to know your thoughts. Keep up the good work 👍
I really like the fact that you're reviewing other things, it is a pretty nice change. I hope you do Halo 5 (just so you can tear apart that one fight scene that two of the characters have. You should know what I mean), because I am interested in your opinions on that game.
Btw please do a review of each Halo game because it's good to have in-depth reviews on YT
You nailed my feelings about this game as a casual player
Things I hate about halo 4 campaign:
- Expects you to defeat a whole army or I just suck
-Master chef should of died like 20 times
-He survived a nuke
-can he just die
Things I like about halo 4 campaign:
-the graphics
-it ended so shortly
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He only survived a nuke because he was surrounded by a hardlight shield, which does sorta make sense - it is Forerunner technology after all, and it was set up that it's basically impenetrable beforehand. With the dying, doesn't the same thing apply to every Halo game? Chief/ Arbiter constantly do crazy shit, like in 3 Chief fell from orbit and walked it off like 10 secs after the game began. But yeah Halo 4's Promethians were annoying as fuck and completely sunk large parts of the game for me, so I see where you're going with the whole army thing lmao
WTF are you on about?
Good vid rizzo
I really loved your review, you almost maked me cry on the part of Chief losing Cortana, I actually never noticed the lighting on the Infinity being glitched, hope to see more about Halo
Also this video was released on my birthday, owo?
Its weird...
I’m not used to seeing somebody's opinions so closely mirroring my own...
Its almost scary!
Great, great, great, great vid!
Would be really interested to hear your thoughts on ODST.
I loved spartan ops despite the repeating levels, I've played them solo, with friends, and with randoms and it was great.
I would love to see more halo reviews specially halo 2
👏Review👏Every👏Halo👏Game
Good shit Rizzo, looking forward to the next Halo video!
I found myself rushing through missions just to get the cutscenes, and even though i didnt enjoy the combat, the relationship between cortana and cheif made up for it, and i enjoyed the game so much because of that
Halo 4 is what killed my love for the game. But I’m happy to see that wasn’t the case for everyone else. Hopefully the new halo game does good.
Absolutely stellar video, you knocked it out of the park, just wanted to clear something up, rampancy is dementia in halo 4 because of what you mentioned, but rampancy itself was hinted at in halo 3 and the concept actually comes from Marathon, an earlier Bungie title, where rampancy is what happens when the growth limitations of an AI are removed and it becomes fully sentinent.
This is why they retconed it back to being that in halo 5
EDIT: not defending halo 5, fuck that campaign, but just wanted to make clear why the dumbass writer that made 0 research did that
One of the things I would add is showing the dialogue without commentary for effect. Like when you were talking about Chief and Cortana’s last conversation in the hard light shield. I wanted to here what the were saying when you were talking about. Ya know. But that’s just me
Honestly, my headcanon is that chief has always cared this much about cortana, it's just that the fact she is dying is what gets him to be more desperate and outwardly show these emotions
You should definitely do more of this stuff, perhaps you should Spartan Ops or Reach next, you seem to have some interesting thoughts on them.
I'd very much like to see a review of the first three games altogether
18:19
I felt that.
Loved the review Rizzo! Not a huge fan of Halo but you made me interested in the franchise! I was curious, would you ever think of covering God of War (2018)? The story of the game is sooo good. Just curious if you would be interested in that ever?
Man I wish you did more halo videos
Would love to hear your thoughts on Halo 5
Marty music is I C O N I C
I kinda hate myself now
Good job Kanye, very cool!
The guy interrogating Halsey is Spartan Locke