Its 2010, Halo Reach just launched and life is good.
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Halo Reach Aged like fine wine. It still looks so beautiful over a decade after release.
so fun to think that the people who played since halo ce hated it because of the sprint and armor Abilities, halo community will never change.
343's Halo aged like milk
Proof that artstyle > graphics.
@@tenderquirkydragon8643 true for all except Infinite. I think infinite will age very nicely
@@FranFyrhart Indeed. The forerunner saga was generic sci-fi 101
The year is 2019. Reach is coming to PC. Halo Infinite is still mysterious and hyped. Halo 3’s OG servers are still up. 2020 hasn’t happened yet. Life is good.
2020 was a good year, one of my best
@Duck Entertainment Awesome for you bro, truly. But for most of us 2020 was kind of a hot bag of ass
I think the general feeling was more "cautiously optimistic". We were all worried that if Infinite flopped Halo would end. And that was coming right off the heels of Halo 4 and 5's failures... Life was not good.
@@duck_entertainment 2020 was good for me but alot of others it was bad.
Infinite was never hyped
I'm a Reach kid through and through. Always nice to see some retrospective on it
RIP NOBLE TEAM! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Same
I remember i was so excited for halo reach to come out and I was waiting for the weekend to ask my parents to drive me to gamestop to get it. And when my dad got home he told me got something for me on the way home from work. And just nonchalantly hands me halo reach. classic memory.
I was almost 19 when CE came out, and i didn't have a good amount of gaming friends that could do more than be a moving target for me. I can only imagine what it was like to be a kid and grow up with Bungie's 5 Halos. I was in my 20s, but damn do i not still have an emotional tie to this fanchise...
I was 11 when Halo 3 came out… It was a golden era for us
I was probably around 6 when halo 4 came out I think I don’t really know tho cus I’m almost 14 now I’m not doin the math but I was about 6 or 7 when it came out but I didint even know or care because I was playing Reach and cod MW2 and CE and Halo 3 and Halo 2 and not the new games I didint even know about those, thank god I didint grow up playing those
Halo CE came out when I was 8 but only started playing when I was 10-11ish. IMO Halo fans who were born in 1990-1998 are the lucky ones because they can grow up with Halo
@@operatorgriz bugger, halo 4 was crap
i was 10 when CE came out... it blew my brains out
There was always that one friend whose parents picked up the newest game for them. I use to carpool and I have a distinct memory of us getting picked up from school, getting the back seat and seeing my friends mom just holding up Halo Reach for him. Like damn buddy must be nice
I wasn’t well-off by any means. In fact, my entire friend group was lower class, and yet we all still got the Halo games when they came out. It was like, the one nice thing we were able to afford every once in a while. Really wasn’t that big a deal…
@Cato " ohhh look at me it wasnt a big deal ooooooh " you make me sick
@@madcowkiller10 bro what are you talking about, how does that make you sick it’s the truth it’s not like getting a dam super yacht it’s buying a $12 video game from GameStop…what are you talking about you drunk autistic gummy bear
The “holy shit Reach graphics” moment for me was watching the forge world ViDoc before launch and seeing the scorpion tank fire it’s main gun. Watching the recoil kick all of the dirt and dust off the tank blew my mind at the time.
I remember the first time I saw Halo Reach. I had been very late to the party on Halo 3, my father had both CE and 2 already, and we didn't have a 360, so by the time I got one along with Halo 3, it was already 2010 and Halo Reach was well on its way to being released. I didn't use the internet much, I had been taught that youtube was terrifying and full of illegal stuff, so I didn't notice anything about the games release.
Then, one night, I was at a house party my parents had taken me too so they wouldn't have to get a sitter, and the hosts son, who was a good few years older than me, was playing Halo Reach on the TV in the living room. I watched from the door, before advancing to the couch and sitting down next to him. I had literally no idea what it was. It looked like Halo, and I recognised some of the weapons and enemies, but I couldn't for the life of me work out what game he was playing, as it looked nothing like Halo 3.
Eventually he kind of noticed me and asked if I wanted to have a go, as he had a different party to go too and was already on his way out the door. He just restarted the mission he was playing, Tip of the Spear, and handed me the controller, and I swear to god it was like I was playing some childhood dream. Everything I had ever imagined seeing in Halo was there, I remember just being stunned at the grenade launcher on startup, followed by the fuel rod turrets (something so bizarre and amazing to me that I couldn't even put it into words later), and then the rocket hog, which was just insane fun.
But I think the part that left the biggest impact on me was the approach to the first AA gun, when I rounded a corner and fought the first ghosts it throws at you, followed by the revenant, a vehicle I had never seen before and immediately thought I had to have. I remember reloading the checkpoint at least five times to try and board it without it getting damaged. I will never be able to recreate the joy I felt when I finally got it and was able to understand that it was, in fact, a hybrid between a ghost and a wraith. Nobody at school believed me when I told them about it, they thought I was just making it up, and of course I couldn't just pull out my phone and show them an image because I was a small child and I didn't have one.
It was like a weird fairy tale of a game, like it only existed in my head until my neighbour eventually got Reach and we played forge mode together. I'll never forget that, and it makes me so sad that the Revenant hasn't appeared again in a Halo game. That stupid pink vehicle defined a massive portion of my childhood.
I was just a kid, about 8 or 9 years old, going through my garage and found a box in the corner. Inside was my dad's Original Xbox and a ton of games. I thought it was cool, but there was one game that caught my eye. A game that had the picture of a giant green stormtrooper looking guy, holding a gun in each hand. Behind him, a burning city, and in front of him, in blue bold letters, five characters. "Halo 2." It was the coolest box cover that I had ever seen. From that moment forward, I was a Halo fan.
Beautiful story fr
I remember getting Halo Reach for Christmas. My family and I played that for so many hours a day.
Watched this on the stream. You should do more of these skippits from your streams. I listen to your streams for these. Streams
Yeah Halo was always the Christmas game for me. I never got any of them on day 1, it was always an xmas present. CE was the only exception, that came bundled with my original Xbox.
I literally try and get my friends to play through halo campaign once a year , it's so nostalgic for me it was such a good game, thanks mom for buying me halo reach legendary edition, I still have the statue
i remember seeing that crate waiting for me after school. My statues missing jorges right hand, tho...still, our moms came in clutch.
@@CyberCripX Reach was the one game I got to go to the midnight release for, and got the Legendary edition to boot. my statue has George's right hand but it didn't quite fit right so I broke one of the sides of the machinegun handle when I shoved his hand into the wrist socket. I still have the statue, one of these days I should just glue it back together proper...
I remember this story from the stream, even better with the editing!
Reach has the most replayable campaign to me. I can't quite explain why but it's easier for me to revisit than 1-ODST.
It has quite open ended encounters imo. Not the _most_ open in the series, but the level design in general is much more "arena" like (probably because much of it doubled up as multiplayer maps) and that can add a lot of opportunity for you to tackle encounters in slightly different ways each time. Depending on difficulty too, things that work on normal won't necessarily work on heroic or legendary.
That's true of all the Halo games to some extent really, but I think Reach capitalized on it more. Maybe not even intentionally.
There isn't really an auto-skip level for me as there have been with the others (no Library/Two Betrayals, Oracle/Sacred Icon/Quarantine Zone, Cortana). Closest I can get to that is maybe the opening part of The Package, but other than that I think Reach did a good job of learning from past mission mistakes.
I'd always redo missions just to see if my Spartan looked good in-game in the cutscenes after changing the armor
@@217adaptiveperspective same
@@justinnyugen7015 I'd do the same in the other games too if they had campaign armor customization
As great looking as Reach really was, 3's art design was peak and will forever be my head canon look for the series.
I liked Reach's artstyle more (Mostly the Sangheili, covie weapons, and the soldiers), but Halo 3's lighting makes it look almost indistinguishable from real life. I wished they would've upgraded the textures for the anniversary.
@@MozambiqueEnjoyer6097 I see were you're coming from with covie armor. It's mostly UNSC stuff for me. I just distinctly remember being disappointed when I saw the Reach troopers. H3 Marines are a perfect marriage of that old badass anime style and practical military. Troopers are a little boring/generic to me.
@@bertkas2809 I think its because it's the closest to the CE Marine armor and I'm really fond of that.
@@MozambiqueEnjoyer6097 it honestly doesn’t even need a remaster at all. The games textures still look great and the lighting is still brilliantly done. Sure they could touch it up for its 20th anniversary but it doesn’t really need a full make over like halo 2 had done to it. It really annoyed me how many people were mad that it didn’t get a 10th anniversary remaster, like it really doesn’t need it
@@bertkas2809 For me it has to be Reach, I consider Isaac Hannaford's Reach concept arts as Halo canon, if they ever make a good series or movies, it has to be his style, balls to the walls military science fiction, definitely NOT like the shitcrap Paralympic+ put out.
For me I was waiting with my 2 friends for our school bus but it never arrived and we were going home to get a lift to school when my best friend burst out of his house shouting his copy just got dropped off in the post and yeah we just spent the entire school day at his tearing through the campaign and messing around in forge and custom Free for All. It was a great day.
Born Jan 16 2001. So I am as old as the actual franchise is grew up from CE straight to currently with CE, H2, HR and H4 being games I enjoyed a lot growing up. But to this day Halo reach is my personal favorite. The ability to customize your spartan with that heavy bulky look. Grabbing a chain gun or weapons that do that heavy like support always felt appealing to me.
Somehow skipped playing Halo 3?
@@_Cato_ didn't skip Halo 3. I'm just not referring to all the games. Imagine what I ment as I played all of them in chronological order by release date
I preordered the Reach limited edition set back in 2010 after playing the beta and now 12 years later I still have Halsey's journal that I got from it.
Yeah that's the one I got too. Not a big collectors edition person, but I kept that. A funny (and sad) thing I remember from back then is a reading a bunch of people complaining online that they ruined the journal. They didn't realise it was held shut by a magnet strip, so they cut the rope spine to open it. Idiots haha.
@@yewtewbstew547 Oh, man. I completely forgot about that! All the forum posts on the Bungie forums complaining about that journal, and how stupid those people felt when they learned what mistakes they had made!
What I remember vividly about Halo Reach was the obscene amount of motion blur lol. The Xbox 360 was on its last leg. I couldn’t believe what they could squeeze out of a triple-core processor, an ancient GPU with 512mb of VRAM, and 512mb of RAM.
As soon as I booted up the MCC on my PC, I turned motion blur off. The game looked much better lol
Edit: The man himself corrected me. I am wrong about the motion blur.
Can fact: it wasn’t motion blur that made the game look the way it did. It was a bad implementation of Temporal Anti Aliasing
Other fan fact: the MCC version of reach doesn’t have motion blur as an option ;P
@@LateNightHalo Oh shit! It was bad AA? I never knew that. Thanks dude. I stand corrected!
Halo 2 was the first Halo game I played (at friends' houses), Halo 3 was the first Halo game I bought, but Halo Reach was the first Halo game that I PLAYED.
I remember getting so much hate back when Halo Reach released since I bought the Legendary Edition and had the flame. Man, I miss those days.
Halo Reach has this beautiful almost dreamlike feel to the graphics. Like you're playing through a memory
I never thought about it like that, but I think thats what Bungie was going for.
@@MozambiqueEnjoyer6097 it took me multiple playthrough to form that idea but it feels amazing once you realize it, whether it was their intention or not, just thinking that adds to the edperience
I still remember from the Xbox 360 version of Reach you get that intro sequence. You get Marty's iconic drums, strings, and that choir/vocals as the shot pans over the planet Reach.
Then the Main menu kicks in and more of the vocals/choir starts playing. Games these days rarely have something to hook you in EVEN before you start a New Game.
spent countless hours running around forge world with my friend setting up our own bases and then going head to head. Truly some of my best memories were made in forge world
I fondly looked up at my hung Halo Reach Gameinformer thats tacked up above my window (among other GI's). Your points all hit home with me man. I was there in 2010! 2007, 2004, and 2001! MAN I wish we could go back to the glory days sometimes
I was 16 when halo reach came out and ill never forget the memories.
Love hearing people talk about halo like this, almost brings me to tears
I really enjoyed this clip, not just for the talking points but your candid self talking so clearly about your memories, I should catch the stream more often
Going from H3's forge and using teleporters so we could clip the objects through the floors/walls to Reach's improved forge was INSANE
Reach's Spartan armor designs have still not been topped. So much variety while still maintaining a clear aesthetic sense. The best looking armor pieces in Infinite are still the Reach ones on the Mark V and Reach armor is extremely popular with cosplayers as well.. My biggest issue with MCC's customization system is that I can't use or see the cut content they added from Reach in multiplayer games without also seeing those clashing medieval fantasy helmets, I wish I could toggle those off.
Im very glad we grew up playing these halo games. Truly unmatched compared to today.
I still go back to 360 Reach every now and then just to look at the UI, character customization, emblem customization, that menu! It makes me emotional And it's just like... Where did things go wrong??? How can 343 just toss everything that Bungie did right in the trash like they know better how to make a Halo game.
This hit me in the feels and its not even my memory 🥲
I remember my first evening playing Halo Reach, eager to dive into the campaign, and being completely shocked by how awesome it was to have my own customized Spartan appearing in cutscenes. Then I saw the amazing cutscene that is shot from the first person point of view, as Carter hand signals you to move up and chase the elite. It all felt so much more REAL than any other Halo game. The grittier tone and atmosphere, the more realistic squad communication, and the tense music made Reach this truly unforgettable experience for me!
Not having a complete game is what really killed infinite, that hurts because the game had so much potential the first halo that felt like classic halo but with a modern twist and it was fun. But the desert of content made it boring after you played it for a few hours you did it all and it got boring.
Still looks amazing. I miss those days :(
When game devs just keep on giving, when there is endless "school yard rumble" going on because of it, you know that you are playing a quality game and you have quality time.
GOAT halo game and its no debate
Remember the ViDocs? I watched them countless times until it finally released. Fond Memories.
Subscribed! Most meaningful video on Halo I've seen so far.
This reminds me of my first time playing Halo CE. Something as simple as the army ammo packs on the ground really immersed me. You could see the logic to it, even though I was a kid and had never seen a disposable blister/plastic Ammo pack, it just made sense.
Everything about the games had something deep to it, something careful. Each new game was a significant leap ahead.
Halo 2 was a bit muddy because it was locked in by the original xbox graphics, but the menu system, the online, the clans, the maps, the physics, it was just awesome. No game got close at that time. Bungie are an innovative, complex, philosophical, artistic company, and they want to have fun.
My brother had a big falling out with my family, hasnt spoken to our parents in nearly a decade. I was always playing halo with him ( 2 and 3) even though I was literally a child, but when reach came out... damn, these were the memories before things got really bad and he left our home. We were playing split screen, multiplayer, forge, campaign and especially firefight! Wish things would be different today...
That was a beautiful and relatable story. I couldn’t wait to get the next Game informer magazine & the Halo reach issue blew me away as well. I used to reread it and reread it.
Reminds me of freshman year of college, getting up early just to squeeze in a few campaign levels and eventually getting that classic Mark V helmet
I picked up my Legendary Edition of Reach at a midnight launch event at the GameStop at my mall. They started doing trivia and gave out the promo posters for correct answers and I pretty much bagged up everything. Ended up giving some of them to my friends. I still have a huge 5 foot window poster somewhere.
I remember finally switching to a decent sized TV also on HD for the first time, and when I started the game and saw that planet on the intro screen...my lord.
Shoutout to that beast wars Megatron on the desk lmao
Halo Reach is aesthetic.
i miss these days, being a kid, life was simple...
I remember feeling sad that the era of halo 3 was over (i was really into the mlg scene), I remember staying up all night waiting for the reach beta and playing it all day before i left for science camp the next day in middle school... man, the days...
Your halo 3 mythic edition story just unlocked a memory I had renting that from blockbuster.....ahhh life WAS good
It was also released on my birthday.
Omg, the image of the Gameinformer mag brought way to much emotion when it appeared on the video lol. I remember getting that and hyping over halo. Oh man, brings me way to far back..
Life is good boys, never forget it
I was a Sophmore in HS when Reach launched. Had to sell my original Nintendo DS and all its games to just get a preorder for the standard edition for the special Recon helmet and special chest. My first noble 6 was recon helmet and UA-multi threat chest for preordering from GameStop.
I remember my dad teased me when he came to pick me up from school. He told me we were going to pick up Halo Reach the next day, but then he opened his trunk and gave it to me. I was so happy that day, and booted up my xbox in the living room. So excited to play it with my friends, seeing all of the 1,000,000+ people online playing it. Magical experience. Crazy that was over 12 years ago.
Reach's Forge provided me with really important childhood memories that shaped me in a lot of ways
Man, Halo Reach is where I started my Halo journey. Before that I played a bit of Halo 2 and 3 at friends home but I never really had that much fun, like it was cool and all but I guess I was too young to properly enjoy it.
Tho when Reach came out and I saw it at my local game store I started to put pressure on my dad to buy it for me for no particular reason, maybe because the cover was beautiful, idk, the only thing I know for sure is that I loved it so much that the other Halo games followed through quite quickly and today Reach still is my favorite game
I didnt have live so i mostly played forge and firefight split screen with friends. What a time it was!
I'm sad because I've been a halo fan since I was little. I remember halo reach coming out and how hyped my big brother was. You see I was always too young to play vidio games espeshualy halo, I must have been 5 or 6 when reach came out, but I wuld watch my brothers play games and that's were I got alot of my gaming taste from. I do remember my brother replaying halo reaches campane alot and one time he let me play the last mission which was the first time I played halo. I even remeber during one of his play through being my brother to save George. Unfortunately even when I got my own xbox I didn't bother geting a halo game until on one of my birthdays I got halo 5. Which unfortunately was the first game in the franchise I played all the way through. I meen I had played afew minions of halo 2 but cept forgetting how to resume a game. Luckily I wuled eventually get Xbox live in lockdown and that Christmas I was given MCC and now I've been able to fully apreashiat the franchise. But I'm sad that I've not seen a lornsh of a compleat halo game that I was old enough to play.
I was a sophomore in highschool when Halo Reach came out. Always loved Halo music and when i heard Reach's main theme i was ecstatic! I also remember watching Bungie's Vidoc video of Forge mode and it looked soo much more flexible. 😇😍
Did midnight launch with one of my friends in college, the graphics were insane and forge world was crazy, on PC it works great and is againg really well
I remember when I first got this game on the day came out, it was very magical, i still remember the first multiplayer match i played, the first time i played the campaign, the first assassination on a another player.
But my best memories are playing with my friends, we played multiplayer a lot of the time, most of the fun was playing custom games, we also have fun messing around with Easter eggs and finding ways to glitch out the campaign levels.
Me and my friends made a little clan called, Commonwealth Defence Force, in forge we make are own clan bases together.
I miss reach i know i can still play it on mcc, but it's just not the same as the original.
I remember reading the Halo 3 mags. It really feels like the end of the trilogy. The final story summary and soo many high resolution screenshots they had.
I'd love to see more of these snippets from the streams uploaded as their own videos!
I'll never forget reach I can't remember ever being more excited for anything
I remember that halo reach was the only game I ever got to go to the midnight release of. I was so incredibly excited by the prospect too, and given how that sort of culture surrounding game releases being a big in person event has sort of died out with digital releases being preferred, I'm glad I got to do one and it was on a game that was genuinely good and well made.
I still thank Halo Reach for bringing me into the series as a whole. I couldn't get into the earlier Halo's cause I never own an Xbox 360. The only Halo I played was 3, and that was at a Boys&Girls Club(idk if people remember this). I remember fondly playing LAN with the other kids and teens. Of course, sometime later Reach came out and I had an Xbox around the same time. From there, things became history for me. Super glad also in recent times, when MCC was coming to PC, I was hyped to finally play previous titles like CE, 2, ODST, and even relive 3 again
POV: you’re 20 years old looking back on games you grew up with and loved so much and wishing you could get those chills again for the first time playing a game full of content at release. Only to be struck down by the realization that those days may not come back due to modern gaming
I remember back in the day a few months before the game dropped a boy scout Troup out of Texas who teamed up with Microsoft made multiple patches with the halo reach characters on it for the 100th boy scout jamboree and everyone was trying to get there hands on the full halo reach set of patches man that was the coolest thing ever to trade them for one of there patches. I still have that patch today.
I lived almost an hour away from a game stop I lived in a town where Walmart actually closed and it closed at 10 pm I was very happy with everything and then we got infinite
I had pre-ordered the limited edition Halo Reach from my favorite game retailer at the time. It was a dream for me as a teenager to hold this game in my hands days before the release.
I remember playing the beta and I loved the jetpack
Reach is far my favourite game in the series but god the memories it gave me. Staying up till the middle of the night to play the beta, the amount of fun in customs, grinding for armor and the emotional goodbye message from bungie at the end of the game.
I had a Wii for a while as a kid, so I was late to the Xbox 360 and finally got one the same Christmas after halo reach came out. It was my first real taste of halo after a decade of playing it over friends houses, and it was awesome. Still is, I will always have a sweet spot for reach.
Wow, my dad got me an xbox 360 for Christmas that year and Halo: Reach was the first game I got for that xbox.
I remember the beta being released and odst was still the hype as well as halo 3. I played it on my first trip to visit family in Louisiana. It was amazing now here I am almost 30 living in Louisiana by some chance lol crazy how life flys by
So I recently had a birthday party based around Forge. With over a month in advance, my besties all took to Forge to make the best map they could, any game they wanted, ending with one Reach, one 4, one 2: Anniversary, and four 3 maps. We then played each one in order, tallying up all our kills. At the end, people all voted for their favorite map. The person with the most kills won the Nerf Bulldog, the person with the best Forge map won the Nerf Mauler, while everyone else got the cheapo five dollar Rocket Launcher and Needler nerf guns. An absolutely amazing night, I'd easily do it again.
i missed out of most of Halo Reach sadly. played the campaign late and barely touched multiplayer.
i was a Halo fan back then and knew Reach existed, i just didn't have a Xbox 360. My first Halo Reach experience was at a friends house when he finally got a Xbox 360. It was great.
Reach’s Firefight was the greatest and is the greatest of all time. I remember pre ordering two of the limited edition “Black Box” editions of Reach. I still keep them in pristine condition. I just need to buy the Reach Edition 360S to complete my Reach collection.
Ah yes, the days when videogames launched as completed software.
And when DLC released, it was actual DLC that added to the content already there - and it was either free or like $20 max for a LOT of stuff. Now, DLC is just a better way of saying "here's a Patch update to get our game closer to actually being finished, plus 1 map and a new skin to make it look like it's not a Patch. Also it's only in our $60 season pass."
Ah yes, A thing that absolutely still happens to this day.
@Flare Did you even actually read my comment?
@Flare First off, you're objectively wrong. I have multiple videos proving my "claim" true. Also a simple google search will prove everything.
Second, your first comment had literally nothing to do with my first comment.
Why you're trying to argue with a 2 week old comment is very strange.
@Flare Oh so you're just to going ignore everything I write and cherry pick. Got ya 👍Edit: Just read your about page. Well done troll. You got me. I fell for the bait 💀
It felt like i played firefight for maybe a year straight. Loved Reach
Halo Reach will always be a staple in my mind. It was the game that brought myself and my two other friends together. 4 years after its release I was playing a game of Grifball, and wonder into two unlikely, very strange, but kind souls. We’ve actually got to meet in person. Are we are still best friends to this day.
I’ll always have love for this game.
Its 2010. I'm fourteen years old. I'm having the time of my life with Halo Reach, having gotten into the Beta and using money I had saved up for it as my second big purchase, the first being Halo 3: ODST. My friends and I play around in forge, speculating on what maps they might add later on. The future is looking bright. Mom is still alive. I'm happy, and not a giant eyeball.
I was kinda hoping for another game with Chief since we just got ODST but I have to say this game looks great. The skull helmet guy looks so badass I can’t wait to wear his knife in multiplayer
I remember seeing the Forge World ViDoc at my grandparent's house on a family trip as a teenager and absolutely losing my mind. That has to be one of my top 10 moments of sheer exhilaration in my life.
Life wasn't good until 2011, reach was a mess at the launch. An awful slow progression system, bugged servers and the matches ruined by spartans that were using armor lock and camouflage.
I remember that all my friends went back to halo 3. With the title update they fixed all the problems one year later.
God I hated armour lock
I was barely even alive when the halo games came out. 2001 and 2004 I still wasn’t born yet, 2007 I was only year old, 2010 I was 4, 2012, I was 6, and 2015 I was 9. So yeah, not exactly the age to be picking up FPS titles. My only experience with gaming by that point was MCPE. It wasn’t until 2017 I got into online gaming with my friends because of Fortnite. Then I downloaded Halo Infinite after it released cuz I wanted a new title to play. Fell in love with Halo Infinite and wanted to play the other games. Fell in love with those and I’ve been playing Halo ever since
I still think that there has not been a game released that looks as good as Reach. The skyboxes are absolutely insane and inspire an enormous desire to explore that world. I wanted a PlayStation 3 so badly and I went to my friends house and played Reach one more time and I hands down decided that it was going to be an Xbox 360 that I was going to get. Because I wanted to play my favorite game. And it’s still one of my very favorite games today.
I have no memories in any other game in multiplayer like I do in Reach. I met people and played endless custom games and forge with people. It was an incredible time to be alive. Makes me feel like today sucks.
I got my first xbox 5 months after Reach launched and its remained my favorite multiplayer experience to this day.
I was 10 when I got Reach. Didn’t even know Xbox Live existed (and wouldn’t until 2013), but I remember the campaign so vividly, I remember spending countless hours in firefight or Lone Wolf just surviving against hordes of covenant.. nothing will ever match that experience..
I was 22 in 2010 when Reach dropped, I rememeber Deliver Hope traumatising me, it was just so haunting. If Halo gets a good movie, especially focused on the UNSC's struggle and not Forerunner space magic, then it has to be in the same soul-scarring fashion as The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down were made in.
I remember my friend got it for his birthday about a week after launch and me, him, his brother and our other friend played it all day and night on this tiny yellow AV TV (the fat ones that had no hdmi) and we played that on 4 player split screen just in forge world the whole time. We got busted at like 3 AM when the youngest brother screamed “WEEEEEE” after going over this huge ramp he made in a ghost. Their mom stormed in and we were so pissed at him for that. Good times😭
I don't think I'd ever been so excited for a game after this, remember just shitting bricks even at the opportunity to fight Elites for the first time as someone who started at H3/H3:ODST
I have to be honest, I didn't really like Reach multiplayer very much back in the day. But after Reach came to MCC and MCC came to PC, I realized how freaking good that game was. This is partially because the game had been tweaked over the years (particularly talking about bloom on the DMR). But I feel bad that I didn't appreciate it as much when it first came out.
Halo 3 was and is a better game, and always will be, but Reach was very good after a few tweaks.
Yeah I'm definitely one of the crowd who didn't like the bloom or loadouts either. The armour abilities were _okay,_ basically just an evolution of the utility items in 3. All of that stuff was fine in the campaign. On the bright side, back then, Reach didn't kill Halo 3 or anything. Both games had a healthy player population, so you could just play whatever.
Even Halo 2 retained a strong playerbase up until Microsoft killed the original Xbox Live.
bruh i miss the xbox 360 and ps3 days
Halo reach has a sad nostalgia for me. Me and my cousin where huge Halo fan and played together every halo game. We were both watching the updates and vidoc together from Bungie. He died of leukemia before the release. Since then I've been using his emblem.
I remember I was in 6th grade when halo reach launched, and my mom took me to get it when I got out of school. She let me stay home the next day on Wednesday, but I had already beat the campaign by 4am that morning, so I played nothing but multiplayer all day when I woke up at 12 until about 2 am that night... I was an addicted kid.. now I'm an addicted adult lol
i still have that magazine
I remember staying up extremely late to play Reach Beta early
i also read that game informer as a kid camping in michigan. good ass memories.💚
“The good old days of completed games” no shit😔 i miss the halo i grew up with, sux we’ll probably never see that spark again