"Do you believe that Master Chief succeeded, because he was, at his core, broken?" Fella, Master Chief was slaughtering Flood and Covenant when you were still drinking milk out of a bottle.
It does look good. But, honestly we've had this level of graphics for a couple years now.....tlou2 looked that good, death stranding looks better (and is older). Rdr2 was close. There's a couple bangers. I noticed this video switches between game engine and pre-rendered cut scenes and the in game engine faces don't even look next gen......people should expect MORE from SX.
I love how they talk about "Spartans" in a very detached and cold way. But as soon as someone brings up Master Chief she is like "what does John have to do with this?". In the end, even those who created him know it is Master Chief's humanity that is his most important characteristic. "Most of all... do not underestimate HIM".
I actually felt some sympathy towards Halsey in that opening cinematic. Yes, she created the Spartan Program, yes she kidnapped children for it, and yes she is bending history by omitting the original purpose of their creation. However, it was the UNSC that green lit the project knowing full well what it was for, and what it would require. Now that the war is over and she's served her purpose, the UNSC is basically throwing Halsey under the bus here even though they are just as guilty for the creation of this program.
Those Spartans did what nobody could do. They sacrificed their lives and their humanity because the entirety of the human race was at stake. I find it ironic that the interrogator asked such a question because if the Spartans didn’t give it their all, no one would be left alive.
@@sanlorenzo7896 I wonder if the interrogator asked the question knowing what the original intent of the Spartan program was, to stomp out the insurrection
Cortana will always be biased to humanity, she was created by humans, fought with humans, and fell in love with one. If she disregards humanity she kills off what made her alive. Cortana isn’t some emotional love sick robot
“You want to replace him…” See…. That would’ve been the perfect segway to Halo 5 and how they could’ve went with Locke and his backstory. A soldier raised and bred for combat, similar to John, but with the missing parts. But I doubt 343i even remembered this particular titbit; which is an entire 5 mins CGI opening to a new trilogy, on explaining ONI trying to replace John… A literal Chekhov’s Gun.
Despite all she did to them Halsey saw Spartan II's almost like her children and in the same way they saw her almost like a mother. It got to the point where Halsey could recognize every Spartan II in their full suit of armor with a mere glance
"Records show spartans routinely exhibited mildly sociopathic tendencies" Me: I don't know what your talking about -Trow grenades at all allies soldiers lololol xD
Man I love halo 4 story. That at his core broken line always gets me and then the thing from the books where they never say a Spartan dies they’re just forever MIA. Some good stuff, as fun as Halo is, it’s fairly dark. Glad one of the games explored that side a bit.
Please bro I'd rather watch 5 10 mins of these videos than have Disney make a movie on this, filled with feminism, cheesey heroics and dmbass one linersl
Look at every other video game movie. Do you honestly think this is the one that will be good? no. no it will not. Better to leave it in its own medium rather than to try to make it something else
@@legacy4801 the Director of District 9 and Chappie was gonna make a Halo Movie but studio interference and all that, you can see a lot of the assets in the movie from the Robots, Spaceships and Weapons.
I love her passion and dedication she exudes, but most of all, in whatever twisted form it takes, her love for her spartans. Was the process a warcrime? Yes. Undeniably. But was it the wrong thing to do at the right time? Yes. Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean to me she’s almost like a Nazi scientist in a way. Her cruel experiments and research were only vindicated through the Spartans being responsible for the survival of humanity. Had the Covenant not attacked, it’s possible she’d one day be prosecuted for war crimes. I love the complexity of her character and how she justifies her actions in the cinematic
@@WilliamLockwood ehh if they’re kidnapping children from various colonies on different planets to use as child soldiers to fight an insurrection I’d imagine that would fall under war crimes
its such a moral quandary, how do you condemn a woman who inadvertently saved the human race through the whole sale abuse of children ? the Spartans are marvels in there own way..but each started a helpless child forced into experimentation and then a life time of brutal Combat.. Halsey's both monster and savior all rolled into one....which makes for such an interesting character.
Except that's not why the Spartan program began. It began way before they even knew of the covenant and were originally created as a force of super soldiers that allowed the Earth government to maintain control over the colonies.
@@anthonycekic4509 Yeah, and I do not personally see anything really wrong with that, keeping a society of billions stable demands action beyond conventional ethics.
@@johntowers1213 It's real simple to codemn actually. You say "Thank You" as you walk her to the cell she'll spend the rest of her life in. While I'm sure Halo material has expanded on previous ideas to supress the colonies/fight the covenant before the Spartans the amount of options before and after their creation could be near limitless. So her ends do not justify the means.
This is why I love the movie Soldier with Kurt Russell, because it's basically a movie about a futuristic super soldier program like the Spartan Program, only they didn't wear armor and weren't nearly as ridiculously super human, but the movie still had a similar flavor to Halo in that sense, and if you can forgive some good ol' 90s cheese, it's a great fucking action flick!
My mind was blown today, been playing Halo since the OG xbox and never really questioned the size of the Spartans. Now Ive learned that those "little" Grunts are actually as tall as humans and WAY stronger. Playing from a Spartans prospective, the covenant warriors didint look all that big but compared to humans they are HUGE.
@jesusfigueroa231 that's not true? Gen 1 spartans where Johnsons height (because he is one) Spartan 2's were the biggest. And there was only a few spartans bigger then master chief ie Jorge
@@jesusfigueroa231Gen 2 is John 117, he had 3 other mates that were much stronger bigger and taller, but John ended up being the Demon. Gen 3 were Walmart Spartans and not sure about Gen 1. Johnson I think was Gen 1.
@2:37 "Your mistake is seeing Spartans as military hardware..." After she deflected for 2 minutes explaining how militarily efficient they were and ignoring the fact that she stole their humanity.
And the interrogator is trying to push his own viewpoint as well, which is why she asks who he is. If you read the books and surrounding content (I would recommend which does go into more depth surrounding the Spartan IIs and their training as well as the animated series of the same name) you learn that Halsey invests a lot more emotionally into the Spartan IIs than most assume. Halsey also canonically has a reason for the Spartan programme; an ONI investigation that found impending collapse from the growing threat of civil war. If the Covenant hadn't arrived the Insurrection -which isn't featured in the games- likely would have caused a lot of death and destruction anyway. ONI were fully aware of what Halsey was doing all along. Halsey also only recruited from candidates that showed special markers, above what most humans are capable of, in terms of ability; John's luck, Kelly's speed, etc. Halsey also invested in cryogenically saving as many Spartans that washed out during augmentation as possible for potential treatment/resuscitation in future. It should also be noted that of the Spartan IIs, there are two notable examples of reintegration into normal life. Ralph-103 was discharged before the final augmentations, reintegrating and eventually joining the UNSC Marines and dying against the Covenant. The other is Maria-062, who apparently retired from active service during the Human-Covenant war with the intent of starting a family while serving in the Reserves. The Spartan IIs also have a member who actively chose to join the Insurrection after the augmentations in Soren-066, so its not like they're completely without free will. Halsey insisted on the Mjolnir armour to give her Spartans the best survival rates possible, which was something that the vast majority of Ackerson's Spartan IIIs never got access to, Spartan IIIs that were sent out to die by the hundreds having also been conscripted as children who'd seen their families be massacred by the Covenant. Those children were raised in just as harsh a manner, with similar tendencies, with lesser augmentations and essentially treated and manipulated to be expendable cannon fodder. Spartan III teams like NOBLE were amongst the absolute minority in receiving Mjolnir armour. It was also the Spartan III program that heavily invested in the idea of the HeadHunters - sending one or two man Spartan teams on suicide missions to try to eliminate Covenant commanders. It should also be noted that the Spartan IIs were taught to make their own decisions in the field, while Spartan IIIs weren't, hence the mocking tone towards Commander Carter during their encounters In Halo: Reach. As for displaying sociopathic tendencies, part of this isn't down to Halsey anyway, ONI encouraged this with the whole "missing in action" thing and given that Spartan IIs had the highest survivability rate, and thus were essentially shipped from war zone to war zone, it was probably likely to highly negative towards socialisation with other soldiers. While there was animosity between Spartan IIs and other units (such as the ODSTs) it was part of their training to encourage teamwork and a familial bond between the Spartan IIs. Also part of it was due to other companies being humiliated by the Spartan IIs in training, such as Tango Company, who got so pissed off by continually losing that their commanding officer ordered them to use live rounds against a bunch of twelve year olds. () It should also be noted that John-117 displayed familiarity and friendship with Master Sergeant Avery Johnson in the games, who himself was part of Project Orion, the predecessor program to the Spartan IIs, so it's not like they're incapable of friendship or empathy. Did Halsey do something ethically and morally wrong? Sure, but if she hadn't humanity would've been wiped out. At the end of the day, she was caught between doing something incredibly ethically and morally wrong towards a small group of children or a larger portion of humanity. The Insurrection would've likely claimed many lives if it had been allowed to gain anymore steam and Halsey's caught in the whole train conundrum. Unfortunately when it comes down to the survival of the species, ethical and moral dilemmas kinda get thrown out the window for the sake of necessity.,
@@aenearion5503 Awesome resume, i really enjoyed the Halo games, even though i only played until Reach. And i had no idea of this whole background story. Also, just found out there are Halo books! Even though I'm a pasionate reader i didn't knew about that. Thank you for taking the time to write this very interesting lore.
@@heterian97 No problem! I've played the originals (CE-3) Reach, as well as 4 and 5. I didn't get around to playing Halo: Wars, though I did read about the stories behind both. I don't consider myself to be completely in touch with all of the lore per se (Forerunner stuff/Flood stuff is weird) but I found the approach that Halo 4 and 5 took towards the Spartan IIs to be odd. Probably didn't help that Halo 5's story was pretty bad. But yeah, the books give a much greater depth as to Halsey being fully aware of her actions and investing into the Spartan candidates. It also helps that Bungie were willing to cooperate with the authors to have their works fit into the timeline and make a cohesive story. There is a bit of crossover in regards to Halo: Reach and Halo:The Fall of Reach that they retconned slightly, but both stories are still mostly canon. (It's mainly explained by NOBLE not interacting with the other Spartan teams defending the planet.)
This should’ve been in halo infinite instead. When he was floating in space for months after the first battle of zeta halo, everyone would think chief is dead until brohammer finds him.
Still ten times better looking CG than the live action tv show. They should have just let these guys make the show in CG and it could have been awesome. Well, live and learn huh?
@@IonizedComa The casting was bad too. It's like they had the chance to make a show about this epic game series, and someone said, "Hey I've got a great idea, why don't we flush this opportunity right down the toilet?". So, they did.
@@400KrispyKremes honestly if they couldn't pull it off I would of been more than happy with a realistic CGI animation like final fantasy kingsglave Because I know the voice acting team would just be the same voice actors from the original games and it'd be perfect
0:45 we see a demonstration of just why Master Chief, A.K.A. "John" is such a monster and beast in battle and able do stuff most others couldn't, even WITH a powered-armor suit. If I recall the bios info, after the treatments, John ends up being something like... 7+ feet tall?
@@sanlorenzo7896 to be fair. It really doesn't sound like it should. Im billingual but i grew up with english media my whole life. They should have made it sound clearly sarcastic
Spartans were all listed in the UNSC's records as missing in action if they died, it was a way to upkeep moral within the UNSC and humanity itself. They built up the myth that the Spartans were invincible soldiers, the "Spartans never die" is referencing that.
It was satire, he referenced the common trope that "spartans never die" and thus delegitimizing Halsey's claims as having any real value in regards to the whereabouts of John 117.
@@Under_Growth Unfortunately this is not explicitly stated in the games, but is said many times in the books. Guess they are just assuming people had read them. In the books the government ensured that all Spartans would only be labelled MIA for morale purposes.
i never realised how strong and massive an elite was until i saw that random civilian get shanked by one. the spartans were the best thing ever for humanity, if only that they made the covenant know fear
Of course he wasn't broken. Master Chief's entire motivation was to save the human race and destroy the covenant. He worked alongside several other soldiers (human and Spartan) With fascinatingly advanced levels of team orientated combat tacits and far FAR advanced team oriented small arms/large arms combat, accelerated at convoy ops, and generally all gurilla team tactics of all known battle drills. He has even been known to be *gasp* Diplomatic at times! If you are suggesting the ability to efficiently take life in large numbers equates to sociopathy than you don't fully understand the mind of a soldier
Master Chief is like the aliens in Tomorrow Never Dies/All You Need is Kill. He gets to retry every fight as many times as it takes to win, so he always wins.
Props to Spartans but did they really win the war? There was only like 30 spartan 2s and the 3s were canon fodder for suicide missions. The covenant more just face planted at the finish line.
I'd like to think the man talking isn't any real person. It's her conscience. His voice sounds eerily like the Master Chief's, like John's. It's her conscience finally telling her, after all these years, that what she did was wrong. It's Halsey starting to wrestle with the repercussions of her actions after seeing so many of her 'children' die in combat. Children robbed of their human lives and crafted into the perfect killing machines, into the perfect sacrifice.
Nope. Halsey's conscience is clear, Froggy, and she makes that clear. They're only around to have that conversation because of the hard choices she made. The only time he gets under her skin is when he brings up John, her surrogate son and only real weakness. That dude was one of Parangosky's little toadies, doing research for the SPARTAN-IV program.
It's 5 a.m. over here and clicked on this out of delirium curiosity because i read it as "How Master Chef Was Created...", even though i have no interest in that series to begin with. Was not disappointed.
@@ilesalmo7724 I missed the part where Spartans get their whole skin flayed off and then resown back on to them. All without anesthesia of any kind. Welcome to grimdank.
@@ilesalmo7724 Oh yes, Spartan-IIs have several subdermal implants. The joke being that theirs are implanted in a reasonable manner, IE while the person is sedated and under anesthesia.
Games like all narratives humans have told each other throughout time are the means by which we understand our lives and the possibilities of the choices we make. It's the hallmark of great storytelling. A noble tradition in a new medium.
At the time this program began, cloning techniques were imperfect. They often resulted in abnormalities and health defects that would see the clones succumb to things like disease very early. I haven't read the books in quite a while, but I don't think many (if any) of those clones reached adulthood.
Halo Game Designers: "The great thing about Master Chief is that under the helmet, he could be anyone." Also Halo Game Designers: "Master Chief is a ginger simp who is in love with a naked blue AI because it was the first girl who ever spoke to him."
"And because of our success, when the Covenant invaded, we were ready." Ready? The Covenant nearly wiped out humanity, even with the help of Halsey's Spartans. Pushing us all the way back to Earth. But on the brink of defeat, one Spartan (John-117) saved humanity with the help of a friendly Elite
1:36 Sometimes the choices a villain makes are usually the most efficient and true solution, but they become the villain because those choices go against human empathy.
I'm not familiar with the Halo franchise, but sometimes I discover bits of its history and it's interesting. Like, imagine if that kind of backstory was in the Star Wars prequel. Because the Jedi Order trains younglings, but people have to look for them, I guess. And some children with the Force left out in the wild could turn to the dark side and become a possible threat. So do they force their parents or them (if they are alone) to join the Order? And what if a young human/alien doesn't want to? They get rid of him?
Me too, when i saw the scene with him and the scientists i thought ¨He wasn't that ta...¨, and then realizing for the first time that since the first games you had to look people down to see their faces :v
@@heterian97 yeah I knew he was tall but I was thinking like a head over me. Though in my head grunts are small but I'm reality they are the same size as humans
@@eliteinventor yeah it puts things into perspective when you realize Spartans on average are around 7-8 feet tall. Elites are taller and Brutes are *even* taller (as you saw the sheer size difference here between Chief and that Chieftan) and Hunters…well…let’s just say it puts a new meaning to walking tank
"Do you believe that Master Chief succeeded, because he was, at his core, broken?" Fella, Master Chief was slaughtering Flood and Covenant when you were still drinking milk out of a bottle.
I just have a question, what was the first part of this cinematic from?
I do not understand the question, how is the master chief "broken"? A lack of social skill does not constitute being thoroughly broken
maybe they were referring to what happened with cortana and how that affected chief
@@rubba6818 broken , because he's too strong. Nerf master chief
@@rubba6818 It doesn't, the guy asking that question to her completely ignored WHAT was driving Master Chief and his purpose.
This was the first cutscene that made me say "wow, games are becoming indistinguishable from reality". Amazing graphics on Doctor Halsey!
WAIT NONE OF THIS WAS MADE IN REAL LIFE????
@@buttkicker7172 nope CGI
It does look good. But, honestly we've had this level of graphics for a couple years now.....tlou2 looked that good, death stranding looks better (and is older). Rdr2 was close. There's a couple bangers. I noticed this video switches between game engine and pre-rendered cut scenes and the in game engine faces don't even look next gen......people should expect MORE from SX.
@Ivar Guess, it was an implication towards motion capture.
I remember Ace Combat 5 and I was cERTAIN that it was filmed...
"but most of all..do not...underestimate.....him"
Chills, literal chills.
117 can literally kill a fucking shit ton of alien ships alone xd
"Number five killed my brother"
I was going to like this, but it’s the perfect number of likes for a comment on a Halo video.
@@Persist_21 he and offensive bias are the only sentient beings to ever defeat flood..
Turn your heat up
I love how they talk about "Spartans" in a very detached and cold way. But as soon as someone brings up Master Chief she is like "what does John have to do with this?". In the end, even those who created him know it is Master Chief's humanity that is his most important characteristic. "Most of all... do not underestimate HIM".
I actually felt some sympathy towards Halsey in that opening cinematic. Yes, she created the Spartan Program, yes she kidnapped children for it, and yes she is bending history by omitting the original purpose of their creation. However, it was the UNSC that green lit the project knowing full well what it was for, and what it would require. Now that the war is over and she's served her purpose, the UNSC is basically throwing Halsey under the bus here even though they are just as guilty for the creation of this program.
Shit rolls down hill.
Well it was ONI that approved it, not the UNSC. But yes
Scapegoat
Endersgame pretty ends the same way in the following books.
@@afterforever21 I've heard that term so much I'm tired of it lmao
“Do you think the Spartan’s lack of basic humanity helped?”
You know they’re super soldiers engineered to be wind up death machines right?
Those Spartans did what nobody could do. They sacrificed their lives and their humanity because the entirety of the human race was at stake. I find it ironic that the interrogator asked such a question because if the Spartans didn’t give it their all, no one would be left alive.
@@sanlorenzo7896 I wonder if the interrogator asked the question knowing what the original intent of the Spartan program was, to stomp out the insurrection
@@aquapb893 I think he did. But to paraphrase Halsey, no one cared about the original intent once the Covenant attacked.
Yall talk about this game as if it were real life. Lol
@@meatdaddy1399 it’s called passion.
As long as 117 is alive, Cortana will always have biased attitude towards humans. If anyone hurt 117, Cortana will go berserker.
Cortana will always be biased to humanity, she was created by humans, fought with humans, and fell in love with one. If she disregards humanity she kills off what made her alive. Cortana isn’t some emotional love sick robot
The only Cortana I know is that search bar in Windows desktop.
She's already responsible for many human deaths
I'm new to halo but what is the name of the one used in the video
@@darthwyrrlok9442 of which character R U referring to.
“You want to replace him…” See…. That would’ve been the perfect segway to Halo 5 and how they could’ve went with Locke and his backstory. A soldier raised and bred for combat, similar to John, but with the missing parts.
But I doubt 343i even remembered this particular titbit; which is an entire 5 mins CGI opening to a new trilogy, on explaining ONI trying to replace John…
A literal Chekhov’s Gun.
bravo good sir, Bravo!
Replace him with Jerome hes more likable
That’s cause he’s more like chief
No just no to all of it horrible idea..I'm truly disgusted and disappointed lol
@@jaimevalencia6271 Jerome is a spartan 2, Locke is a spartan 4
She says “what does John have to do with this” she’s so attached to him I love it
Despite all she did to them Halsey saw Spartan II's almost like her children and in the same way they saw her almost like a mother. It got to the point where Halsey could recognize every Spartan II in their full suit of armor with a mere glance
Halo had some of the best mini stories/advertisement ever for a game, gave you goosebumps.
The ODST one was amazing, the music and live action was like nothing that had ever came out at the time for a video game.
Her: I supplied the tools to maintain that efficiency.
*The tools*
Her: Here's a virtual waifu
Sounds legit.
And she based it on herself.
You're not wrong.
This comment wins the weeb award. Thank you fellow weeb.
Sounds about right.
I would love to see this as a series like it’s long overdue
So true.
It’s called fall of reach? Lmao
Yeah youre about 3-4 years behind bud
They tried, kinda. Was going ok until the end and then it just felt really cheesey
@@wolfgangireland1936 I mean a real series, like on Amazon prime or Hulu
"Records show spartans routinely exhibited mildly sociopathic tendencies"
Me: I don't know what your talking about
-Trow grenades at all allies soldiers lololol xD
It was about xbox’s voice chat :D
@@iuku4313 This reading of it is amazing lmfao
ME: Have you seen the Call of Duty Lobbys?
CABOOSE!!!
sociopathic, not retarded. there's a difference.
Man I love halo 4 story. That at his core broken line always gets me and then the thing from the books where they never say a Spartan dies they’re just forever MIA. Some good stuff, as fun as Halo is, it’s fairly dark. Glad one of the games explored that side a bit.
I actually enjoyed halo 4 story despite the amount of hate it gets
D.r Halsey is a fascinating character in the Halo universe.
if you haven't read the books (Fall of Reach and First Strike) I so very highly recommend them. Halsey is critical.
Everyone treats her like a criminal but she really did love her spartans.
@@XvShadowsvX hense her reaction to chief being keep a secret while halsey was on board and cpt lassky copped a smack for that
Don't kidnap Master Chief and if u did kidnap him
Let him go before the music kicks in
Doomguy's little brother took notes lol
When you let him go is when the music kicks in
he let them do it so he could get closer to the one in charge
DADADADADUN DADADUN
Scripts are too stupid to do the common sense thing in the villains role. I would've killed him long time ago.
I like how those pods look like the Spartan helmets in a way
Get them used to the perspective.
They are
Forshadowing
I still cant believe after all this time, they still haven't made a movie!!
they have a couple
Ikr
Please bro I'd rather watch 5 10 mins of these videos than have Disney make a movie on this, filled with feminism, cheesey heroics and dmbass one linersl
Look at every other video game movie. Do you honestly think this is the one that will be good? no. no it will not. Better to leave it in its own medium rather than to try to make it something else
@@legacy4801 the Director of District 9 and Chappie was gonna make a Halo Movie but studio interference and all that, you can see a lot of the assets in the movie from the Robots, Spaceships and Weapons.
Why is nobody talking about how they just casually slapped in a wilhelm scream at 3:20 ???? LMAOOOOOO
Didn’t hear it
Wtf i heard kt
Its very faint but I can hear it LOL
Thats crazy I just noticed that lmao
Damn you caught that huh.... nerd.
I love her passion and dedication she exudes, but most of all, in whatever twisted form it takes, her love for her spartans.
Was the process a warcrime? Yes. Undeniably.
But was it the wrong thing to do at the right time? Yes. Absolutely.
"Yeah bitch I did warcrimes, what you gonna do about it?"
Yeah, I mean to me she’s almost like a Nazi scientist in a way. Her cruel experiments and research were only vindicated through the Spartans being responsible for the survival of humanity. Had the Covenant not attacked, it’s possible she’d one day be prosecuted for war crimes. I love the complexity of her character and how she justifies her actions in the cinematic
It's a crime, but not a war crime. War crimes are against other nations, I think, rather than crimes committed while a war is on.
@@WilliamLockwood ehh if they’re kidnapping children from various colonies on different planets to use as child soldiers to fight an insurrection I’d imagine that would fall under war crimes
Well, her son is a Spartan-2 after all. Jorge.
And remember, they are able to oneshot Elites with punch only.
In games, sometime, punches are more effective than firearms
True. That's typically why they keep the cinematics for before and after.
Me getting pissed cause i keep getting melee killed on ranked
"My work saved the human race."
I don't think any lawyer/judge in the Halo universe can argue with that.
its such a moral quandary, how do you condemn a woman who inadvertently saved the human race through the whole sale abuse of children ?
the Spartans are marvels in there own way..but each started a helpless child forced into experimentation and then a life time of brutal Combat..
Halsey's both monster and savior all rolled into one....which makes for such an interesting character.
Except that's not why the Spartan program began. It began way before they even knew of the covenant and were originally created as a force of super soldiers that allowed the Earth government to maintain control over the colonies.
@@anthonycekic4509 Yeah, and I do not personally see anything really wrong with that, keeping a society of billions stable demands action beyond conventional ethics.
@@rubba6818 then you would be happy to sacrifice yourself and your family to do that, correct?
@@johntowers1213 It's real simple to codemn actually. You say "Thank You" as you walk her to the cell she'll spend the rest of her life in.
While I'm sure Halo material has expanded on previous ideas to supress the colonies/fight the covenant before the Spartans the amount of options before and after their creation could be near limitless. So her ends do not justify the means.
the music, wording, everything, always consistently giving me the feelz!
These cutscenes are so damn beautiful.
Wich
game is this
This is why I love the movie Soldier with Kurt Russell, because it's basically a movie about a futuristic super soldier program like the Spartan Program, only they didn't wear armor and weren't nearly as ridiculously super human, but the movie still had a similar flavor to Halo in that sense, and if you can forgive some good ol' 90s cheese, it's a great fucking action flick!
I'll check it out
i agree.. i love that movie. its fantastic :)
Yeah Soldier is definitely good watch. They basically copied it for Halo.
I worked on this game!
Well, just the menus in The Master Chief Collection, but still!
cool
Wow that’s so cool
Congratulations, here's a cookie 🍪
@@zZParabellumZz thanks! Here's one for you!
8=====D~~~~~
@@infradig696 It wasn't an insult, calm yourself.
My mind was blown today, been playing Halo since the OG xbox and never really questioned the size of the Spartans. Now Ive learned that those "little" Grunts are actually as tall as humans and WAY stronger. Playing from a Spartans prospective, the covenant warriors didint look all that big but compared to humans they are HUGE.
So true !
And MC wasn't even the tallest. Slightly below average gen 1 spartan height.
@jesusfigueroa231 that's not true? Gen 1 spartans where Johnsons height (because he is one) Spartan 2's were the biggest. And there was only a few spartans bigger then master chief ie Jorge
@@jesusfigueroa231Gen 2 is John 117, he had 3 other mates that were much stronger bigger and taller, but John ended up being the Demon. Gen 3 were Walmart Spartans and not sure about Gen 1. Johnson I think was Gen 1.
Never underestimate Spartan 117!
Best ultimate soldier
@@phahadwire4422 dont forget noble six
*laughs in Halo 2 Legendary jackal sniper
@@ohnojuno he is dead
@@dead3ye209 still
@2:37 "Your mistake is seeing Spartans as military hardware..." After she deflected for 2 minutes explaining how militarily efficient they were and ignoring the fact that she stole their humanity.
And the interrogator is trying to push his own viewpoint as well, which is why she asks who he is. If you read the books and surrounding content (I would recommend which does go into more depth surrounding the Spartan IIs and their training as well as the animated series of the same name) you learn that Halsey invests a lot more emotionally into the Spartan IIs than most assume. Halsey also canonically has a reason for the Spartan programme; an ONI investigation that found impending collapse from the growing threat of civil war. If the Covenant hadn't arrived the Insurrection -which isn't featured in the games- likely would have caused a lot of death and destruction anyway. ONI were fully aware of what Halsey was doing all along.
Halsey also only recruited from candidates that showed special markers, above what most humans are capable of, in terms of ability; John's luck, Kelly's speed, etc. Halsey also invested in cryogenically saving as many Spartans that washed out during augmentation as possible for potential treatment/resuscitation in future. It should also be noted that of the Spartan IIs, there are two notable examples of reintegration into normal life. Ralph-103 was discharged before the final augmentations, reintegrating and eventually joining the UNSC Marines and dying against the Covenant. The other is Maria-062, who apparently retired from active service during the Human-Covenant war with the intent of starting a family while serving in the Reserves. The Spartan IIs also have a member who actively chose to join the Insurrection after the augmentations in Soren-066, so its not like they're completely without free will.
Halsey insisted on the Mjolnir armour to give her Spartans the best survival rates possible, which was something that the vast majority of Ackerson's Spartan IIIs never got access to, Spartan IIIs that were sent out to die by the hundreds having also been conscripted as children who'd seen their families be massacred by the Covenant. Those children were raised in just as harsh a manner, with similar tendencies, with lesser augmentations and essentially treated and manipulated to be expendable cannon fodder. Spartan III teams like NOBLE were amongst the absolute minority in receiving Mjolnir armour. It was also the Spartan III program that heavily invested in the idea of the HeadHunters - sending one or two man Spartan teams on suicide missions to try to eliminate Covenant commanders. It should also be noted that the Spartan IIs were taught to make their own decisions in the field, while Spartan IIIs weren't, hence the mocking tone towards Commander Carter during their encounters In Halo: Reach.
As for displaying sociopathic tendencies, part of this isn't down to Halsey anyway, ONI encouraged this with the whole "missing in action" thing and given that Spartan IIs had the highest survivability rate, and thus were essentially shipped from war zone to war zone, it was probably likely to highly negative towards socialisation with other soldiers. While there was animosity between Spartan IIs and other units (such as the ODSTs) it was part of their training to encourage teamwork and a familial bond between the Spartan IIs. Also part of it was due to other companies being humiliated by the Spartan IIs in training, such as Tango Company, who got so pissed off by continually losing that their commanding officer ordered them to use live rounds against a bunch of twelve year olds. () It should also be noted that John-117 displayed familiarity and friendship with Master Sergeant Avery Johnson in the games, who himself was part of Project Orion, the predecessor program to the Spartan IIs, so it's not like they're incapable of friendship or empathy.
Did Halsey do something ethically and morally wrong? Sure, but if she hadn't humanity would've been wiped out. At the end of the day, she was caught between doing something incredibly ethically and morally wrong towards a small group of children or a larger portion of humanity. The Insurrection would've likely claimed many lives if it had been allowed to gain anymore steam and Halsey's caught in the whole train conundrum. Unfortunately when it comes down to the survival of the species, ethical and moral dilemmas kinda get thrown out the window for the sake of necessity.,
@@aenearion5503 Awesome resume, i really enjoyed the Halo games, even though i only played until Reach. And i had no idea of this whole background story. Also, just found out there are Halo books! Even though I'm a pasionate reader i didn't knew about that. Thank you for taking the time to write this very interesting lore.
@@heterian97 No problem! I've played the originals (CE-3) Reach, as well as 4 and 5. I didn't get around to playing Halo: Wars, though I did read about the stories behind both. I don't consider myself to be completely in touch with all of the lore per se (Forerunner stuff/Flood stuff is weird) but I found the approach that Halo 4 and 5 took towards the Spartan IIs to be odd. Probably didn't help that Halo 5's story was pretty bad.
But yeah, the books give a much greater depth as to Halsey being fully aware of her actions and investing into the Spartan candidates. It also helps that Bungie were willing to cooperate with the authors to have their works fit into the timeline and make a cohesive story. There is a bit of crossover in regards to Halo: Reach and Halo:The Fall of Reach that they retconned slightly, but both stories are still mostly canon. (It's mainly explained by NOBLE not interacting with the other Spartan teams defending the planet.)
@@aenearion5503 man fuck that bullshit the government can't kidnap kids and indoctrinate them into the military
@@ducklinglibrary7941 but all of humanity would've died if they didn't..
“The only thing they fear is him”-Random Grunt
2:03 Halsey: "I supplied the tools to maintain that efficiency"
Also Halsey: "Here is Waifu"
"The records show efficient behavior operating in hazardous situations."
I was waiting for: “You wanna replace the chief?! Well, you *can’t* replace the chief”
"Our Destiny as a Species"
Adeptus Astartes: laughing by the Emperor's will
LoL! I thought the same thing :D
Tbf, this is only 1 step into the Adeptus Astartes. You don't just go all out in an instance, you want to try and see what works and expand upon that.
WH40k fans are becoming the next JoJo fans.
@@mechanomics2649 starting to see a trend here as well tbh.
Jeje well the Astartes are the "Big Brother" of the Spartans.
Why can't they make a full movie with this type of animation
@Alexander Orozco oh for sure, it's going to take hard work. But possible.
@@Agafya101 very expensive. It will dry up an entire GDP of a country.
@Alexander Orozco yeah, thats understandable
didn"t they actually did it ? i must have day dreamed or other people have poor memory
@@rjee007 least like beowulf
Now this can be an movie or Netflix show and what a photorealistic quality
Some of the scenes after the original Halo 4 intro were shot in live action. Pretty obvious, TBH.
I mean he has a point...
My gameplay is beyond broken, and I'm the core.
This should’ve been in halo infinite instead. When he was floating in space for months after the first battle of zeta halo, everyone would think chief is dead until brohammer finds him.
1:08 - 1:25 this is what I wanted from the tv series, smh would have been amazing
if anyone has time to read "the fall of reach" should do so... all the halo books were good, but that one was just... wow.
I have had it for quite some time..now I'm gonna have a go at it.. Let's see how good it really is.
Fokin nerd
Wasn’t that the book that showed what happens if a normal human wears MJOLNIR armor? That passage was brutal
@@jeezosdude867 i'm not even mad.
@@A.R.T.4 yup. and how genetically modified the spartans were from the beginning.
I love how Catherine Halsey's personality is the same as rampant Cortana
Like a rampant cortana but better composed and calculated
She made cortana, so it based on her after all
I may have been oblivious throughout the series because I just realized all the confinement cells at 0:01 are shaped like Spartan's helmet
Oh, Halo 4, how i miss you
3:49
The black man be like:
Hey cameraman are you recording? Oh yes ok.
I dont know why but I just now realized their cells they sit in look almost exactly like master chiefs helmet
One thing that bugged me about this awesome cinematic, was how there are somehow a bunch of spartans with chief's new armor from halo 4
The Man, The Hero, The Legend.
HERO not HEROE... I'm sorry, I'm not a grammar nazzi, but for some reason HEROE looked like HOE, so I couldn't help myself...
@@barbatos673 got it, i typed "heroe" cause it is in spanish my native lenguage and well only one letter changes, my mistake XD
@@galahad9487 it's alright, it's just, you know, perception is weird...
Still ten times better looking CG than the live action tv show. They should have just let these guys make the show in CG and it could have been awesome. Well, live and learn huh?
CG wasn't the worst part of the live action show
They could of still pulled it off with it's current CG
The writing and characters were just bad
@@IonizedComa The casting was bad too. It's like they had the chance to make a show about this epic game series, and someone said, "Hey I've got a great idea, why don't we flush this opportunity right down the toilet?". So, they did.
@@400KrispyKremes honestly if they couldn't pull it off I would of been more than happy with a realistic CGI animation like final fantasy kingsglave
Because I know the voice acting team would just be the same voice actors from the original games and it'd be perfect
@@IonizedComa I know right? What a waste.
0:45 we see a demonstration of just why Master Chief, A.K.A. "John" is such a monster and beast in battle and able do stuff most others couldn't, even WITH a powered-armor suit. If I recall the bios info, after the treatments, John ends up being something like... 7+ feet tall?
@Giovanni LoFranco I believe Sam and George are the same height.
@Giovanni LoFranco Yes he is lmao.
@Giovanni LoFranco we are talking about the same gorge right? the one from reach ?
@Giovanni LoFranco I always thought he was way bigger. my bad. too bad sam died early. he would've been bad ass.
nostagia. you just brought back happy memories from 2012
Shoot … even before that.
The children's beds are shaped like lil Mjolnir armor helmets.
Yes and they are prefabricated cubicles to sleep in and that's about it. ONI essentially copied the Agoge from ancient Sparta with a modern twist.
Even if you don't care for the artstyle change in Halo 4, if you try to say the graphics weren't AMAZING, you're tripping.
If you think becoming a Spartan is rough, wait until you see what it takes to join the Adeptus Astartes...
Nothing like 20 extra organs and years of operations to get a human mountain that wears an Abrams tank for his armor.
muh overpriced plastic
@@mechanomics2649 You shut your filthy mouth...
@@mechanomics2649 lore != derivatives
I legit read this as master chef and literally thought I was gonna see come epic culinary cinematic of how master chef was created
I like how this kept with the Lore. Spartan -058 was Linda who had red hair.
Scientists in Halo: *creates fancy super-humans*
Also Scientists in Halo: *confuses basic terms like "race" with "species"*
It is clear the writers of the new Halo series never even played the game.
I love how the bed units at the beginning look like oversized cartoonish Spartan helmets
Interrogator: the chief is dead
2 seconds later
Interrogator: catherine, spartans never die
To be fair, he said it mockingly lol
@@sanlorenzo7896 to be fair. It really doesn't sound like it should. Im billingual but i grew up with english media my whole life. They should have made it sound clearly sarcastic
Spartans were all listed in the UNSC's records as missing in action if they died, it was a way to upkeep moral within the UNSC and humanity itself. They built up the myth that the Spartans were invincible soldiers, the "Spartans never die" is referencing that.
It was satire, he referenced the common trope that "spartans never die" and thus delegitimizing Halsey's claims as having any real value in regards to the whereabouts of John 117.
@@Under_Growth Unfortunately this is not explicitly stated in the games, but is said many times in the books. Guess they are just assuming people had read them. In the books the government ensured that all Spartans would only be labelled MIA for morale purposes.
Man in the shadow "Master Chief is dead !"
John behind him : "MIA"
In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood :)
Jooo Doom reference.
Amazing how there's some frames straight out of Doom
why is this so much better then the new live action
Holy cow, whoever made this decided that "fade to black" was the only effect they were gonna use
“Cortana..where did I come from”
“Well chief, when a daddy and mommy Spartan love each other very much…”
She simply meant, "Never underestimate Yourself!!"
I get goosebumps from this! Can't wait for the new Halo release!
same. The direction 343 went with the series turned me away for a long time, but the essence of Halo at its core still gives me shivers and adrenaline
She was monitoring Spartan 117 as a child playing king of the hill on a playground and winning every time before he was taken for the program.
i never realised how strong and massive an elite was until i saw that random civilian get shanked by one. the spartans were the best thing ever for humanity, if only that they made the covenant know fear
why cant paramount just make something like this?
Of course he wasn't broken.
Master Chief's entire motivation was to save the human race and destroy the covenant.
He worked alongside several other soldiers (human and Spartan)
With fascinatingly advanced levels of team orientated combat tacits and far FAR advanced team oriented small arms/large arms combat,
accelerated at convoy ops,
and generally all gurilla team tactics of all known battle drills.
He has even been known to be *gasp*
Diplomatic at times!
If you are suggesting the ability to efficiently take life in large numbers equates to sociopathy than you don't fully understand the mind of a soldier
Dude, you MUST find a girlfriend.
@@adamf.4823 My wife wouldn't like that I don't think
@@adamf.4823 having knowledge of a game equates to being a loser I guess?
@@plumpo4047 yup. that's this dumbfuck generation for ya.
@@4DeMS dont lump us with adam
They had all of this lore... ALL OF IT. .. and we got that fucking show. I cant even believe jen is going along with it....
Master Chief is like the aliens in Tomorrow Never Dies/All You Need is Kill. He gets to retry every fight as many times as it takes to win, so he always wins.
Great Manga
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
I can't tell how much of this is animated (some shots look purely live action) but it's all amazing
I’ll forever love the lore on halo n the background
Props to Spartans but did they really win the war? There was only like 30 spartan 2s and the 3s were canon fodder for suicide missions. The covenant more just face planted at the finish line.
“Spartans never die.” Tell that to Noble squad.
wasn't technically created just selected. yes he was enhanced but was already significantly more physically gifted than most people
I'd like to think the man talking isn't any real person. It's her conscience. His voice sounds eerily like the Master Chief's, like John's. It's her conscience finally telling her, after all these years, that what she did was wrong. It's Halsey starting to wrestle with the repercussions of her actions after seeing so many of her 'children' die in combat. Children robbed of their human lives and crafted into the perfect killing machines, into the perfect sacrifice.
Nope. Halsey's conscience is clear, Froggy, and she makes that clear. They're only around to have that conversation because of the hard choices she made. The only time he gets under her skin is when he brings up John, her surrogate son and only real weakness. That dude was one of Parangosky's little toadies, doing research for the SPARTAN-IV program.
No wonder that helmet stays on. Bros got that mega mind head
A Wilhelm scream. A freaking Wilhelm scream. Kudos to whoever hid that there.
It's 5 a.m. over here and clicked on this out of delirium curiosity because i read it as "How Master Chef Was Created...", even though i have no interest in that series to begin with.
Was not disappointed.
1:56 Bungie never made the Chief look that bad ass
Hot take: Spartans are Witchers. In Space.
Yes
Or Astartes from Warhammer 40k
@@ilesalmo7724 I missed the part where Spartans get their whole skin flayed off and then resown back on to them. All without anesthesia of any kind. Welcome to grimdank.
@@thergonomic this video has the kid (John?) Looking at the scars in his hands. Maybe that's also a part of SpartanII process
@@ilesalmo7724 Oh yes, Spartan-IIs have several subdermal implants. The joke being that theirs are implanted in a reasonable manner, IE while the person is sedated and under anesthesia.
you know how much master chief carries the spartan name when you do not need to ask who "HIM" is
We are in a stage of development in which we can't distinguish between reality and games
Games like all narratives humans have told each other throughout time are the means by which we understand our lives and the possibilities of the choices we make.
It's the hallmark of great storytelling. A noble tradition in a new medium.
Rather then secretly kidnapping children and replacing them with clones, wouldn't it be easier to just augment the clones?
At the time this program began, cloning techniques were imperfect. They often resulted in abnormalities and health defects that would see the clones succumb to things like disease very early. I haven't read the books in quite a while, but I don't think many (if any) of those clones reached adulthood.
@@AprehamLincoln
Ah, I had heard the clones died young. But I heard they were desind to do that.
Halo Game Designers: "The great thing about Master Chief is that under the helmet, he could be anyone."
Also Halo Game Designers: "Master Chief is a ginger simp who is in love with a naked blue AI because it was the first girl who ever spoke to him."
Bungie:
343: so you’re saying he’s a simp?
holy shit, the kid at the beach looks real.
i would totally watch a halo movie/show with this animation. I wish they'd finally make a halo show
Why couldn’t we get a Halo series that actually follows the lore?
"And because of our success, when the Covenant invaded, we were ready." Ready? The Covenant nearly wiped out humanity, even with the help of Halsey's Spartans. Pushing us all the way back to Earth. But on the brink of defeat, one Spartan (John-117) saved humanity with the help of a friendly Elite
Without the Spartans, the covenant wouldn’t have an enemy to fear.
"Catherine, Spartans never die" Goosebumps
they're just missing in action
This 5 minute scene had better dialogue than all of season 1 put together.
“Cathrine, spartans never die” this chilled me to my core
1:36 Sometimes the choices a villain makes are usually the most efficient and true solution, but they become the villain because those choices go against human empathy.
Every villain is a hero in their own story. They have a reason for why they are doing it.
I'm not familiar with the Halo franchise, but sometimes I discover bits of its history and it's interesting. Like, imagine if that kind of backstory was in the Star Wars prequel. Because the Jedi Order trains younglings, but people have to look for them, I guess. And some children with the Force left out in the wild could turn to the dark side and become a possible threat. So do they force their parents or them (if they are alone) to join the Order? And what if a young human/alien doesn't want to? They get rid of him?
I keep forgetting how tall chief is.
Me too, when i saw the scene with him and the scientists i thought ¨He wasn't that ta...¨, and then realizing for the first time that since the first games you had to look people down to see their faces :v
I never knew they were that tall ,
@@heterian97 yeah I knew he was tall but I was thinking like a head over me.
Though in my head grunts are small but I'm reality they are the same size as humans
@@eliteinventor yeah it puts things into perspective when you realize Spartans on average are around 7-8 feet tall. Elites are taller and Brutes are *even* taller (as you saw the sheer size difference here between Chief and that Chieftan) and Hunters…well…let’s just say it puts a new meaning to walking tank
Ain't even the biggest one, haha
I remember reading a book where Master Chief was chosen and I'm pretty sure he voluntarily joined the Spartan program