For me, Arbiter was the star of Halo 2. Master Chief was just a side story for fans to be able to catch up with the star of Halo CE. That's what makes Halo 2 my favorite game in the series.
The Arbiter is my favorite video game character ever. His dialogue is amazing. I like him much better than Chief too because he's more developed as a character. He even tries hard to show compassion to his enemies like where he tried so hard to convince Tartarus to change his mind even after he tortured and nearly killed him.
It’s crazy to think of how good these graphics were for the time. In 2004, when I was just a happy little 11 year-old kid, this was THE pinnacle of gaming and graphics
High charity blew my mind. Such a great idea for bungie to focus on developing the covenant lore and they did such a great job. I can’t imagine halo without the story developed in this game. The story in this halo is better than majority of modern movies
I always liked this one better too. It's not the physical pain making him cry out, it's the mark of shame being pressed to his hard earned honor. The scream always struck me as a more emotional one.
8:49 always get me rolling every time like the elites are tryna be serious and pledge their oaths before battle yet these grunts are just fuckin with each other 🤣🤣
***** I'm with you on that. While Halo 4 wasn't to the same level as it's predecessors it still wasn't awful. Plus 343 rushed Halo 4, something they aren't doing with 5, testing a Beta, getting buyer reports. So Don't despair!
Halo 2 is my favorite for a lot of reasons but one of them is the story of The Arbiter. The Arbiter was written so well, his dialogue, how he became The Arbiter. I was more interested in the Elites in this game than Chief and humanity honestly.
The "heretic" should've offered the arbiter to leave on his ship and ask the oracles all the questions he want to know the truth of Halo rather than idiotically shooting the arbiter like crazy
You can achieve more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. Besides it allows the Heretic Leader to monologue at you during the fight as any good boss should do.
thought about this for awhile too. i assume he must have been convinced who ever that arbiter was wouldnt believe them, being the instrument of the prophets. or its an elite thing and he believed if he could kill an arbiter then they would actually heed his word
he just didnt have the patience or want to take the chance of it backfiring, the platform they were on was falling to the center of a Jupiter-esque planet and the Heretic wanted off. the circumstance made it really hard to have the simple explanation that we all wanted. offering to take the Arbiter on his ship with all about 20 seconds to make that call is a massive gamble.
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 says: The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger while you become weaker and weaker, they will lend money to you but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head and you will be the tail.. If you refuse to listen to the lord your god, and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all this curses will pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed. These horrors will serve as a sign and as a warning among you and your descendants forever.. White Christian Americans are the elites being replaced!! OPEN YOUR EYES!
Thanks! The other older version of the Arbiter cutscenes (which looked like 240p) has about 130,000 views, but I promised the viewers I would eventually make an HD version, so here it is. I added an annotation link from the old one to here so hopefully they click here instead now.
I love the blur animations of halo 2 anniversary, but it’s funny how much I prefer the cinematography and lighting of the original. Definitely a byproduct of the limited graphics, but the covenant just come across as more alien as well in the original. Still love and appreciate blurs contributions to halo. They understood the task and nailed it.
Thanks man for uploading the video. This takes me back to the days when my cousin and brother and I would play Halo but I never understood the story. God bless you. I'm relating this game to the bible. It gives me divine faith. The Gospel of Saint Matthew 24:33 all these things. Amen. God bless you. 🙌
i miss the old old halo 2 cutscenes sometimes. . The anniversary cutscenes do so so many things right but messes up the rhythm for me. It always feels alittle off.
Yeah it's just... Not the same. Whenever I replay these games in MCC, I always use the original graphics. The cutscenes look great but they just... Feel different.
Wait, Can someone explain what happened to Thel on the first Cutscene ? What did he actually do that made the prophets mad? And What was the mark he got planted on his chest?
The Covenant wanted someone to blame for the destruction of the ring in the first game, and he seemed most accountable. They accused him of heresy and betrayal for failing to destroy the Pillar of Autumn before it found the ring. They also blamed him for the humans eventually landing on the ring, and finally, they blamed him for failing to stop Master Chief from destroying the ring (Even though he was following protocol by turning his attention to the Flood outbreak.) He pretty much gets everything pinned on him.
themastercody117 The Mark on his chest is called "Mark of Shame" it's a special sign that the covenant do to punish one that did the worst possible crimes against the covenant. later it became a symbol of honor and the symbol of the separatists as the others told above,he let Halo to be destroyed even if he had to focus on the flood outbreak as well. not even the worst criminals in the covenant had that mark of Shame. for now,only Thel Vadam has that mark
Holy crud that things real, Lauper wind face. Q, its made out of Rez system like Kinnex version of Meincraft. Using atomic tractorbeams still?!!! CERN:(
42 Classics AI: I am already dead. Quorra: ;_; Here are some NDS* good for coach journeys, no longer. Q woah. *LOD multplex standard racoonface. Xbox Studio cost hiring an entire puppet cast of Pilot and associated logistics, ie hotels food, car renting, pension pay - from Henson, £3 million. Q, sorta standard for 32bit gen 2, but at least they stared their budget in the face with big brute moves shrug. Cost of bringing back Ackbar actor and associated squashair synth machine, £50k car and advice on American parks to barbeque in without evil evil bears. Bit of an eccentric, an eccentric Q. Pilot and Ackbar on the same thing giving me instructions, no wonder we bothered to play. Retrieving the Windows icon for Sainsburies Homebase is my only concern (Kieth Lemon) Of course... Bomfunk: I your biggest fan! Ship: Heretic it lacks the requisite dreadlock amounts, down the fraud! Bomfunk: But I do swimming pool cannon balling, jump into ball "bombs away"? Arbiter: I am inspired beyond belief, it belongs in the great classic library of the 42. FORTY TWO FS. Bomfunk: I was based on that cannonball from an Orion movie that destroyed two pirate ships? Cuthroat Island.
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 says: The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger while you become weaker and weaker, they will lend money to you but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head and you will be the tail.. If you refuse to listen to the lord your god, and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all this curses will pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed. These horrors will serve as a sign and as a warning among you and your descendants forever.. White Christian Americans are the elites being replaced!! OPEN YOUR EYES!
The arbiter has the best storyline
Keith David as the voice of Arbiter is gold. Nobody could do it better.
For me, Arbiter was the star of Halo 2. Master Chief was just a side story for fans to be able to catch up with the star of Halo CE. That's what makes Halo 2 my favorite game in the series.
I’m 8 years late but arbiters story in halo 2 was really good. I wish they made his story similar in halo 3 rather than make him a side character.
The Arbiter is my favorite video game character ever. His dialogue is amazing. I like him much better than Chief too because he's more developed as a character. He even tries hard to show compassion to his enemies like where he tried so hard to convince Tartarus to change his mind even after he tortured and nearly killed him.
Noble 6 clears
@@HippoBoy999 hard-very hard difficulty (in battle)
arbiter wins low diff in writing
It’s crazy to think of how good these graphics were for the time. In 2004, when I was just a happy little 11 year-old kid, this was THE pinnacle of gaming and graphics
High charity blew my mind. Such a great idea for bungie to focus on developing the covenant lore and they did such a great job. I can’t imagine halo without the story developed in this game.
The story in this halo is better than majority of modern movies
If only there was a campaign that was just in the Covenant's perspective, mainly the Arbiter or others?
Oh, that would be cool
Bro, facts.
4:19, I’ll never understand why this scream was replaced by a regular elite sound in the remastered cutscenes
Well, he was not arbiter in this state, *he was a zealot after all*
Halo 2 original Xbox disc is better than "remastered"
Probably cause the old file was to messy sounding.
I always liked this one better too. It's not the physical pain making him cry out, it's the mark of shame being pressed to his hard earned honor. The scream always struck me as a more emotional one.
Also, the new cutscenes are too fast. It really undercuts the dramatic presentation.
8:49 always get me rolling every time like the elites are tryna be serious and pledge their oaths before battle yet these grunts are just fuckin with each other 🤣🤣
That campaign loading screen is nostalgic beyond any measure.
it's just... not the same anymore is it?.. Halo, it's gone to hell..
Halo 2 is the reason i wish i had a time-machine
YOU WILL NOT NEED ONE FOR LONG! GET ON THIS HYPE TRAIN FOR HALO : MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION.
***** Jeez, that sure was a rude way to BOARD THE HYPE TRAIN FOR THE NEW HALO!!!!!!!! FORGET THE TIME MACHINE!
I feel the same but about minecraft.....
***** You mad?
***** I'm with you on that. While Halo 4 wasn't to the same level as it's predecessors it still wasn't awful. Plus 343 rushed Halo 4, something they aren't doing with 5, testing a Beta, getting buyer reports. So Don't despair!
There are few lines that i feel are as powerful as what Thel says before being branded
_"If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed."_
*"I WILL CONTINUE MY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE HUMANS"*
NO, you will not!
There is a sacred icon critical to the Great Journey. I must find it.
Halo 2 is my favorite for a lot of reasons but one of them is the story of The Arbiter. The Arbiter was written so well, his dialogue, how he became The Arbiter. I was more interested in the Elites in this game than Chief and humanity honestly.
The "heretic" should've offered the arbiter to leave on his ship and ask the oracles all the questions he want to know the truth of Halo rather than idiotically shooting the arbiter like crazy
You can achieve more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. Besides it allows the Heretic Leader to monologue at you during the fight as any good boss should do.
thought about this for awhile too. i assume he must have been convinced who ever that arbiter was wouldnt believe them, being the instrument of the prophets. or its an elite thing and he believed if he could kill an arbiter then they would actually heed his word
he just didnt have the patience or want to take the chance of it backfiring, the platform they were on was falling to the center of a Jupiter-esque planet and the Heretic wanted off. the circumstance made it really hard to have the simple explanation that we all wanted. offering to take the Arbiter on his ship with all about 20 seconds to make that call is a massive gamble.
8:27 Lol I'm marathon runner and before the run gets started I would have this going to my mind.
i just realized something master chief only says one sentence to the arbiter ever
when there talking to the gravemind.
"relax, I'd rather not piss this thing off."
"This thing is right, _Halo_ is a weapon. Your prophets are making a _big_ mistake."
@@Konfektionery 2 lines in halo 2. 1 in halo 3. 1 in halo bad blood. 4 lines he spoke to arbiter canonically we’ve seen
There's a lady in my head who calls me stud muffin
I like the sound of the Phantom when it drops the Arbiter at the Quarantine Zone.
what will you have your Arbiter do ?
I can't wait until the remake in November, imagine how beautiful this will look!
>If you only knew how bad things really are
😢💔
Please never remake this game
@@ashyoshicharizard3949 wdym H2 anniversary has been out for like a decade and it's a beautiful remake (unlike CE anniversary)
@@dac5782 wdym yeah MCC was broken for years but it's been amazing for the past few years
2:53 that brute got scared af 😅😅😂
25:48 I always wondered why those brutes didn't just force it in her hands and then force her to push it down....
i wanted this so much thx for making only the arbiter cutscene's
I like the Arbiter better than John 117 because he has more descriptive dialogue.
Thanks for the HD upload, love watching these scenes. Takes time to appreciate how good it was, back in high school.
Keith David's voice! :D
The arbiters introduction is the best cutscene in gaming it's so good.
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 says: The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger while you become weaker and weaker, they will lend money to you but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head and you will be the tail.. If you refuse to listen to the lord your god, and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all this curses will pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed. These horrors will serve as a sign and as a warning among you and your descendants forever..
White Christian Americans are the elites being replaced!! OPEN YOUR EYES!
I felt the need to include it with the cutscenes, just for the memories
Wow... That load screen gave me many flash backs.
Thanks! The other older version of the Arbiter cutscenes (which looked like 240p) has about 130,000 views, but I promised the viewers I would eventually make an HD version, so here it is. I added an annotation link from the old one to here so hopefully they click here instead now.
Arbiter is the boss. So is Johnson. So is Chief. Miranda too.
GraveMind made my stomach growl....hunger for Human emotions and all...
The new voice of Commander Zavala
I love the blur animations of halo 2 anniversary, but it’s funny how much I prefer the cinematography and lighting of the original. Definitely a byproduct of the limited graphics, but the covenant just come across as more alien as well in the original. Still love and appreciate blurs contributions to halo. They understood the task and nailed it.
There was only one ship…
And where oracle is that?
18:10 if anyone wanted to see the old fight
The anniversary fight looks a lot better.
greatest game ever thanks a lot for the upload
10 years later i still agree with you
Yeah just in the end, he doesn't have on in the start of Halo 2. Only after the war between the brutes and Elites he gets one.
halo 2 is one of the best games ever and best halo game
Arby is the real hero of halo 2
Worlds biggest casino featured in uh... that place, ReadyPlayerOne. THE HUMANS SHALL BE LEFT BEHIND. Q, it needs a random number generator.
deserves more views! hopefully the Arbiter should be in Halo 5!!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the masterpiece
Thanks for the souvenir
You're quite welcome! And if you want me to record other cutscenes or gameplay just hit me up a message on what you want done
Thanks man for uploading the video. This takes me back to the days when my cousin and brother and I would play Halo but I never understood the story. God bless you. I'm relating this game to the bible. It gives me divine faith. The Gospel of Saint Matthew 24:33 all these things. Amen. God bless you. 🙌
HAHA at 1:17, put cations on and see the funny mistranslation.
It's not an opinion, halo 2 was the best
i miss the old old halo 2 cutscenes sometimes. . The anniversary cutscenes do so so many things right but messes up the rhythm for me. It always feels alittle off.
Yeah it's just... Not the same. Whenever I replay these games in MCC, I always use the original graphics. The cutscenes look great but they just... Feel different.
The memories...........
Still the best version of halo 2 !!!!
I just notice the elite skull on Tartarus shoulder,
Imagine that though, like there's already tensions between the species, and he has to go ahead and wear that! What a troll!
Thats racist lol
keyboy2332 All Brutes are kinda Racist to Elites..
And vice-versa :P
Halo 2 Prophet of Truth had a voice actor ten times better than the one in Halo 3
2:34 wait how'd a horse get in the audience????
It's the same species as the noble prophets
ahh my favorite character,besides myself
Halo 2, easily the best game ever crafted.
Wait, Can someone explain what happened to Thel on the first Cutscene ? What did he actually do that made the prophets mad? And What was the mark he got planted on his chest?
He let master chief blow up the halo ring
The Covenant wanted someone to blame for the destruction of the ring in the first game, and he seemed most accountable. They accused him of heresy and betrayal for failing to destroy the Pillar of Autumn before it found the ring. They also blamed him for the humans eventually landing on the ring, and finally, they blamed him for failing to stop Master Chief from destroying the ring (Even though he was following protocol by turning his attention to the Flood outbreak.) He pretty much gets everything pinned on him.
AfterAttackTV Thank you! you cleared up everything pretty much (:
themastercody117 no problem bro :)
themastercody117 The Mark on his chest is called "Mark of Shame"
it's a special sign that the covenant do to punish one that did the worst possible crimes against the covenant. later it became a symbol of honor and the symbol of the separatists
as the others told above,he let Halo to be destroyed even if he had to focus on the flood outbreak as well.
not even the worst criminals in the covenant had that mark of Shame.
for now,only Thel Vadam has that mark
Fur shading on the brutes!
I definitely agree on that
4:16 ttttssssssssssssss..... AUAAAaaAAAAAAHHAAAAAA.
what is the name of the elite commander that helps the arbiter? i never learned it
Rtas Vadumee
thank you
Can anyone help? What is the track called that's played from 4:25? Thank you.
Its just called "The Arbiter". if you type "the arbiter theme" into you tube it should come up
That's it!!! Thank you!!
*RAaaah!* 16:18
I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but...Seeing the old version makes me want to see the Annivarsy version.
No
I beat the game
It's pretty sad what 343 did to this franchise
Just pretend anything past halo reach doesnt exist, like I do
Holy crud that things real, Lauper wind face. Q, its made out of Rez system like Kinnex version of Meincraft. Using atomic tractorbeams still?!!! CERN:(
42 Classics AI: I am already dead. Quorra: ;_; Here are some NDS* good for coach journeys, no longer. Q woah. *LOD multplex standard racoonface. Xbox Studio cost hiring an entire puppet cast of Pilot and associated logistics, ie hotels food, car renting, pension pay - from Henson, £3 million. Q, sorta standard for 32bit gen 2, but at least they stared their budget in the face with big brute moves shrug. Cost of bringing back Ackbar actor and associated squashair synth machine, £50k car and advice on American parks to barbeque in without evil evil bears. Bit of an eccentric, an eccentric Q. Pilot and Ackbar on the same thing giving me instructions, no wonder we bothered to play. Retrieving the Windows icon for Sainsburies Homebase is my only concern (Kieth Lemon) Of course... Bomfunk: I your biggest fan! Ship: Heretic it lacks the requisite dreadlock amounts, down the fraud! Bomfunk: But I do swimming pool cannon balling, jump into ball "bombs away"? Arbiter: I am inspired beyond belief, it belongs in the great classic library of the 42. FORTY TWO FS. Bomfunk: I was based on that cannonball from an Orion movie that destroyed two pirate ships? Cuthroat Island.
wtf is this and why would you post this garbage. Wtf is with all your comments? Are you... okay? On drugs? 5 years old? Which is it?
ur video don't work mang
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Die arbiter!
Deuteronomy 28:43-44 says: The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger while you become weaker and weaker, they will lend money to you but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head and you will be the tail.. If you refuse to listen to the lord your god, and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all this curses will pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed. These horrors will serve as a sign and as a warning among you and your descendants forever..
White Christian Americans are the elites being replaced!! OPEN YOUR EYES!
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