Remains probably my personal favorite scene of Halo. The idea of defeat from the very beginning always stuck with me. The game very much gives you this sense of hopelessness. Yet the very ending, when you see that fiery landscape suddenly transform into a lush green field, with that ship in the distance as humans return to a fallen world, that to me just hits home in so many ways.
If only Six had managed to hold out long enough for Master Chief to bring the Ascendant Justice back to Reach, then he, Chief and later the Arbiter could've really kicked some ass together!
That was the perfect ending to the Halo saga, alot like Star Wars from half way to the end and finishes from where the story first started. And really gripping with the way Noble planted the seed for aiding in the discovery and destruction of the Halo Array. Long live team Noble.
It didn't take long for Reach to fall. Our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough... ...For you had already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy's resolve. Our victory... your victory... was so close. I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor, all burned and turned to glass. Everything… Except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild.
Basically here's a summary: Reach fell in July-August, 2552, we found Halo in September, and Halo 3 took place I believe in November. The final scene is a repaired Reach in 2589. Halo 4 takes place in 2557
So the events of halo 1-3 only take place within a couple of weeks? That’s insane. And the gravemind managed to “terraform” high charity in that quick of a span?
@@CubeValidus Unless you count one of the 3 early books, set sort of in between 1 and 2 I believe. It's so weird reading those books and trying to look for those scenes or characters in the game. The books also describe John, who even among Spartan's rarely showed himself out of armor, but in one scene he had his helmet off. Pale af according to the book.
@@Jmeon4eva , that's the thing. You'll never see characters from books having significant role in Halo games. And they don't have to be, because books need only to expand the lore of the game, it shouldn't be the fundament without which you won't understand shit. 343 failed to understand that. And thus Halo 5 was born.
Honestly probably for the best. John hated when Spartans died and even though Six was a III John would hate it regardless. Especially when he knows he only succeeded upon someone else's death would weigh heavily on him
I still remember the feeling I had seeing this for the first time. Thinking this was the last Halo game and I would never see another piece of Halo media. A beautiful and depressing sendoff.
@Petera275 I think what he was getting at was that Reach being Bungies "Swan Song" to their time in the Halo universe, this was a perfect ending and they sure went out with a bang
2586? damn, that'd make Dr. Halsey close to a hundred then. Right about 96-97... Latest novel Halo: Glasslands was really insightful and interesting about Halsey too... Wonder what happened to her after the book? And whatever's happened to Jun?
She might not be that old biologically - Johnson was in his 70s when he died, but he clearly hadn't aged that much due to all the time he spent in cryo.
I love the final mission it just shows you how hopeless it is you see dead Spartans and marines strung about the covenant are laying into you and yet you still fight to the very end and in the end your revenge was served so bitterly sweet cold as without you chief and cortana would have never made it off reach and set in motion halo but you will never see because you know a fucking split mouth shanked your ass and now the only memory of us noble six is our god dame helmet
I felt like I made a real impact when I handed Keys Cortana. Then this level came and I felt I had done everything to I could and decided to go down in fire.
Notice that the energy blade shown in the last bit of the helmet camera is in the left hand. That means someone who is an arbiter, but likely was instead someone very VERY high up the chain to have it in that hand. Since Thel becomes the Arbiter, and the only other Arbiter in the games/lore during the war was Ripa during Halo wars, who died.
I believe Noble Six survived the attack by those elites, as his helmet was moved, like someone had picked it up and left it in another position, maybe he went to check on his helmet, but it was broken, so just threw it aside and carried on until the glassing later killed him.
It may seem like a long way till the end of the war. But to put things into perspective, it would take only 3.5 months more for the entire Covenant to collapse in the battle of Installation 00 on December of the same year Noble 6 died.
Just like how the after the fall of Reach, the UNSC still found a chance to turn the tide of the war against the Covenant, I feel like the fall of the Old Republic and the Jedi Order in Star Wars also had similar implications. I imagine Luke, Leia or Mon Mothma giving a similar monologue to honour the fallen Jedi and members of the Republic who died opposing the Empire for passing the torch. This eventually led to the formation of the Rebellion that would eventually shatter the Empire’s resolve despite being outgunned and retreating a lot of times throughout the fight for freedom.
I love that this cutscene is 2589. Unfortunately, I think most people have forgotten this and as such we get all the nonsense since this game that makes me really question how we'll get back to recolonizing reach by 2589.
Had to come watch this because it was the only way to watch the final cutscene in a way that didn't sound like a fucking Windows 95 with a Pentium 2 trying to emulate a godamned Xbox 360.
@wweTNAfan1000 It can´t be he was in space at the time the pillar of autumn escaped Reach. As he said in Halo 2 "I followed with all the ships in my command".
You know, I always thought it was halsey talking here. It always made the most sense. But what if it was actually Cortana? When she says he passed down the torch, she was talking about herself and her living the life she had wouldn't have been possible without him.
If noble 6 had survived a lot more people in the coming days after the fall of reach could of been saved especially on Earth where the brunt of the covenant attacks were happening just imagine two hyper lethal vectors fighting side by side as they cut through millions upon millions of covenant Armada.
Wasn't halo 3 taking place in the year of 2552 ? If I'm wrong correct me. the sub title during Noble 6's helmet says 2589, than again the scene could be taking place in the future, like after MC and cortana get stuck in a ship.
This comment has not aged well at all, but infinite is looking up, seeing what it could be gives me the same feeling of hope and content that this ending gave me all those years ago
you know wots weird...... me and my friend starkiller424 were playing this and on his screen showed the master chief helmet check out his fileshare and youll see the screen shot.. UNBELEABLE
hahha no problem. apparently she**Spoiler* got prosecuted for war crimes about the Spartan II program. If you watched the Halo Waypoint Infinity shorts she apparently is now labelled a war criminal. Poor Halsey :(
Yeah, kidnapped many innocent children, replacing them with doomed to die clones, tearing away families, and putting those children into experiments that had a high chance of failure, leaving a lot dead before they could even fight. Yeah "poor halsey," in all honesty i completely understand why she did this. But she completely deserves to be punished for her sins
@@theskipper7305 it wasn't entirely her fault alone, most of what happened in the SPARTAN-II Program was done by other scientists outside of Halsey alone, metaphorically speaking Halsey was the _nicest_ of the scientists that the Spartan-II's looked up to, having been close enough with many of them that she could easily pick out certain traits and mannerisms that they undertook or did; even when they were all hidden underneath large suits of MJOLNIR Power Armor.
What I don’t get is that in the Fall of Reach when she first creates the spartan program she is extremely hesitant and struggles to let herself do the things she did to the spartans, but in 4 and 5 she acts as if she was completely warranted to do it
That spartan is using hax, shouldering a Golden elite in the face kills it? and then kicking the red elite in the chest and the elite is all SUPER injured? wtf? Yeah, that spartan is hacking
Halo Reach epilogue is the ACTUAL end to the Halo franchise. Anything 343 has done isn’t canon to me. Chief is still lost in Space with Cortana but humanity prospered at that cost.
You mean the flashfoward thing??? Maybe. If you mean the game in general we all went into it knowing that we were ultimately going to lose because the Fall of Reach took place directly before the first Halo game.
Chief and Six are very similar. But there's one crucial thing that separates them completely:
Luck.
Definitely cannon
Six had luck, Chief has plotarmor 😂
Remains probably my personal favorite scene of Halo. The idea of defeat from the very beginning always stuck with me. The game very much gives you this sense of hopelessness. Yet the very ending, when you see that fiery landscape suddenly transform into a lush green field, with that ship in the distance as humans return to a fallen world, that to me just hits home in so many ways.
Yeah, it's a perfect scene.
Also, NO ONE LIKE HIS POST. THE NUMBER MUST BE KEPT.
If only Six had managed to hold out long enough for Master Chief to bring the Ascendant Justice back to Reach, then he, Chief and later the Arbiter could've really kicked some ass together!
That was the perfect ending to the Halo saga, alot like Star Wars from half way to the end and finishes from where the story first started. And really gripping with the way Noble planted the seed for aiding in the discovery and destruction of the Halo Array.
Long live team Noble.
Ah, before 4 and 5...
@@theintelligenceagency3638 eh 4 was ok. 5 was absolute trash
This aged like milk
It didn't take long for Reach to fall.
Our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough...
...For you had already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy's resolve.
Our victory... your victory... was so close.
I wish you could have lived to see it.
But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor, all burned and turned to glass.
Everything…
Except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild.
Remember Reach
Basically here's a summary: Reach fell in July-August, 2552, we found Halo in September, and Halo 3 took place I believe in November. The final scene is a repaired Reach in 2589. Halo 4 takes place in 2557
So the events of halo 1-3 only take place within a couple of weeks? That’s insane. And the gravemind managed to “terraform” high charity in that quick of a span?
@@gennarosevero1856 September 2552 - December 2552 are Halo CE - Halo 3. So 4 months. Lots of it was just slipspace travel.
@@CubeValidus Unless you count one of the 3 early books, set sort of in between 1 and 2 I believe. It's so weird reading those books and trying to look for those scenes or characters in the game. The books also describe John, who even among Spartan's rarely showed himself out of armor, but in one scene he had his helmet off. Pale af according to the book.
@@Jmeon4eva yeah I really wished they had more about Corporal Harland from TFoR and had him join the spartan 4 program
@@Jmeon4eva , that's the thing. You'll never see characters from books having significant role in Halo games. And they don't have to be, because books need only to expand the lore of the game, it shouldn't be the fundament without which you won't understand shit.
343 failed to understand that. And thus Halo 5 was born.
Noble six
The one who started Halo CE
And seen how Infinite ends
master chief was never told about noble six
Honestly probably for the best. John hated when Spartans died and even though Six was a III John would hate it regardless. Especially when he knows he only succeeded upon someone else's death would weigh heavily on him
He was told of Noble team though I'm pretty sure. Check out the Halo novel Shadows of Reach
@@og-cryoman1842 wondered if he knew 6 was considered hyper-lethal, maybe either Cortana or Dr. Halsey told him?
I still remember the feeling I had seeing this for the first time. Thinking this was the last Halo game and I would never see another piece of Halo media. A beautiful and depressing sendoff.
It should've stayed that way
This cutscene sticks with me so much. Say what you will about Reach (and to a lesser extent 4), they both had fantastic stories.
tear jerker
10 years later is still makes me cry
As we start to rebuild, this game will remain barren. A memory to those fallen.
Those elites have by far the most pathetic shielding I've ever seen....
I think lorewise they’re more accurate
this was the most epic cutscene in all of the halo's
doesn't realy matter spartans respawn in 10 seconds
This Spartan won't be hitting respawn anytime soon
Out of lives
@@pyroboi7003 he killed an elite, that gives him one extra life.
@thatonerandomguy2774 yeah, he's gotta wait until the UNSC clears out the rest of the enemies, then he can respawn
That cutscene takes place on the 582nd Bungie day. How about that.
Goosebumps, everytime.
@Petera275 I think what he was getting at was that Reach being Bungies "Swan Song" to their time in the Halo universe, this was a perfect ending and they sure went out with a bang
The most heroic death in video game history
does anyone else notice how he says something when he takes off his helmet it sounds like "No" or "Now"
It was a short breath, but you can think that if you want to
It sounds the same as when he breaths while he sprints so i'm guessing it's that
It’s probably just him gasping for air or a slight grunt.
2586? damn, that'd make Dr. Halsey close to a hundred then. Right about 96-97... Latest novel Halo: Glasslands was really insightful and interesting about Halsey too... Wonder what happened to her after the book? And whatever's happened to Jun?
She might not be that old biologically - Johnson was in his 70s when he died, but he clearly hadn't aged that much due to all the time he spent in cryo.
Jun is head of training for the spartan 4 program.
I love the final mission it just shows you how hopeless it is you see dead Spartans and marines strung about the covenant are laying into you and yet you still fight to the very end and in the end your revenge was served so bitterly sweet cold as without you chief and cortana would have never made it off reach and set in motion halo but you will never see because you know a fucking split mouth shanked your ass and now the only memory of us noble six is our god dame helmet
This hits me hard seeing as Halo Reach is the first halo game i played
10 años y aún duele, Gracias equipo NOBLE, gracias 6
This scene was truly the end of an era...
I felt like I made a real impact when I handed Keys Cortana. Then this level came and I felt I had done everything to I could and decided to go down in fire.
Notice that the energy blade shown in the last bit of the helmet camera is in the left hand. That means someone who is an arbiter, but likely was instead someone very VERY high up the chain to have it in that hand. Since Thel becomes the Arbiter, and the only other Arbiter in the games/lore during the war was Ripa during Halo wars, who died.
I believe Noble Six survived the attack by those elites, as his helmet was moved, like someone had picked it up and left it in another position, maybe he went to check on his helmet, but it was broken, so just threw it aside and carried on until the glassing later killed him.
Perhaps the covenant tossed it around after they killed six to mock him/her?
@@shax232 they took is a value wort wort
Slightly different angle maybe.
If anything I would believe they left it there as a memorial when they went to rebuild Reach
*played the Halo 3 credits as soon as the cutscenes ended
It may seem like a long way till the end of the war. But to put things into perspective, it would take only 3.5 months more for the entire Covenant to collapse in the battle of Installation 00 on December of the same year Noble 6 died.
Just like how the after the fall of Reach, the UNSC still found a chance to turn the tide of the war against the Covenant, I feel like the fall of the Old Republic and the Jedi Order in Star Wars also had similar implications. I imagine Luke, Leia or Mon Mothma giving a similar monologue to honour the fallen Jedi and members of the Republic who died opposing the Empire for passing the torch. This eventually led to the formation of the Rebellion that would eventually shatter the Empire’s resolve despite being outgunned and retreating a lot of times throughout the fight for freedom.
Someone made an edit where the Ghosts and Glass song comes on right when this scene ends, and man that would make a great credit roll song
This is when Halo should've ended, gracefully with Bungie
I love that this cutscene is 2589. Unfortunately, I think most people have forgotten this and as such we get all the nonsense since this game that makes me really question how we'll get back to recolonizing reach by 2589.
these elites are exaggerating
look at them, falling around like drunks-
especially the second white armoured one.
reminds me of a cbeebies show.
Had to come watch this because it was the only way to watch the final cutscene in a way that didn't sound like a fucking Windows 95 with a Pentium 2 trying to emulate a godamned Xbox 360.
You know about the anniversary edition?
Happy 10 year halo reach
You can see (NOBLE SIX) face for a brief second when he or she bashes the first elite
Isn't the model headless when using alternate camera angles through modding?
If Noble 6's body and armor was burned and turned to glass, then how is his helmet still there?
Its probably not precise glassing, so patches probably survived, helmet including
they glassed around the helmet
More symbolism really
The whole planet did burn but by then it was just more wall of fire consuming everything left that wasn’t hit by precise glassing beams.
@wweTNAfan1000 It can´t be he was in space at the time the pillar of autumn escaped Reach. As he said in Halo 2 "I followed with all the ships in my command".
That music at the end tho... infinite nostalgia
Also, it was showing Reach WAY long in the future.
-sniff- I love a happy ending
You know, I always thought it was halsey talking here. It always made the most sense. But what if it was actually Cortana? When she says he passed down the torch, she was talking about herself and her living the life she had wouldn't have been possible without him.
That was in 2589. Cortana was destroyed nearly 30 years earlier.
I’m guessing that it was something Halsey recorded immediately after the “Halo event” but the visuals are from the future
What happens to Noble Six's body? Did the Covanant took it to studied?
Pablo Perez It was most likely left on the battlefield where it would have burned up from the glassing.
"Your body, your armor, all *burned* and turned to glass."
@@seanjohnson3401 That's the 50% of probability, the other 50% is the covenant took them to eat them.
@@fantasmacstrp9239 They didn't eat spartans.
If noble 6 had survived a lot more people in the coming days after the fall of reach could of been saved especially on Earth where the brunt of the covenant attacks were happening just imagine two hyper lethal vectors fighting side by side as they cut through millions upon millions of covenant Armada.
This isn't the epilogue, genius.
Wasn't halo 3 taking place in the year of 2552 ? If I'm wrong correct me. the sub title during Noble 6's helmet says 2589, than again the scene could be taking place in the future, like after MC and cortana get stuck in a ship.
They ain’t in a ship no more 🚬
No Lone Wolf beginning cutscene?
Well, I guess not much really happens there anyway.
@Petera275 Yeah, I'm looking forward to the 343 Halo trilogy, but I know a lot of people who aren't giving them a chance
This comment has not aged well at all, but infinite is looking up, seeing what it could be gives me the same feeling of hope and content that this ending gave me all those years ago
@CAEKK1 Cortana A.I mades from Hasley you know
His helmet could have malfunctioned.
❤ 0:47
Bungie
Rip 360 servers not dead just Missing In Action
I'm sorry, sir, as this is two years too late, but...
Were you trying to argue sense into a video game character's final stand? :p
Came here because the PC audio mixing is so fucked up I can't listen to the stuttering hell that is the last cutscene. Good job 343
Reminds me of the fall of cadia
@TheGhidorahSlayer I know that, but how does a shouldering a GOLDEN elite = win? THe elite had an energy sword! Thats hax!
He shot him twice after.
you know wots weird...... me and my friend starkiller424 were playing this and on his screen showed the master chief helmet check out his fileshare and youll see the screen shot.. UNBELEABLE
What if 117 helped six to defeat the covenant
0:48
I've always hated this cutscene because that ultra took half a mag to kill.
BULLSHIT!
From this to cortana x john
@wweTNAfan1000 It wasn't Thel followed the PoA to Halo.
I know u wrote this 8 months ago , but apparently she's gonna be executed but almost everyone knows it wont happen since she did this speech
hahha no problem. apparently she**Spoiler* got prosecuted for war crimes about the Spartan II program. If you watched the Halo Waypoint Infinity shorts she apparently is now labelled a war criminal. Poor Halsey :(
Yeah, kidnapped many innocent children, replacing them with doomed to die clones, tearing away families, and putting those children into experiments that had a high chance of failure, leaving a lot dead before they could even fight. Yeah "poor halsey," in all honesty i completely understand why she did this. But she completely deserves to be punished for her sins
@@theskipper7305 it wasn't entirely her fault alone, most of what happened in the SPARTAN-II Program was done by other scientists outside of Halsey alone, metaphorically speaking Halsey was the _nicest_ of the scientists that the Spartan-II's looked up to, having been close enough with many of them that she could easily pick out certain traits and mannerisms that they undertook or did; even when they were all hidden underneath large suits of MJOLNIR Power Armor.
What I don’t get is that in the Fall of Reach when she first creates the spartan program she is extremely hesitant and struggles to let herself do the things she did to the spartans, but in 4 and 5 she acts as if she was completely warranted to do it
Pure sarcasm
Those e
once i typed that comment i thought that... lol :D
That spartan is using hax, shouldering a Golden elite in the face kills it? and then kicking the red elite in the chest and the elite is all SUPER injured? wtf? Yeah, that spartan is hacking
0:32 Arbiter? You are in Reach?
for me...bungie can do better.....
that's not Hasley that is cortana
Halo Reach epilogue is the ACTUAL end to the Halo franchise. Anything 343 has done isn’t canon to me. Chief is still lost in Space with Cortana but humanity prospered at that cost.
Noble Six > Master Chief... there i said it!
Hey your opinion both are great spartans the epiloge does say a lot
Now none, lmao
thumbs up if u think the elite that killed 6 was the arbiter
So essentially…Bungie published and wrote the true ending to the Halo franchise so that 343 cant fuck it up.
You mean the flashfoward thing??? Maybe. If you mean the game in general we all went into it knowing that we were ultimately going to lose because the Fall of Reach took place directly before the first Halo game.