@@mandalorian5abi979 He also clearly hasn't been around with Halo long, so he may not have known, or it doesn't mean as much not growing up with RvB and Halo in general.
20:36 my dad and I played through all the Halo games up to 4 on co-op. In 3, I always picked the Arbiter and he played as Chief. When we got to this scene, he was flabbergasted because his name just so happens to also be John, but he hadn't read the books either. He was like "does it take your name from your Xbox profile or something???"
I bet that created some unforgatable moments, I played all these games solo and I have such a strong connection to them. If I had played them all with someone like my dad for the first time not only would these games me 100x more to me but the memories would be better too.
You, drawing parallels between Star Wars and Halo, here one more: Halo theme is the Duel of Fates in this franchise. But the secret that Cortana was hiding wasn't Chief but rather the "Activation Index", that she had the capabilities of firing a Halo ring, a specific one: Installation 04. She had lured the Gravemind into a trap, outside the galaxy, where the only casualties were gonna be the Flood. Once Chief saw the ring, he understood her plan.
@Jordan Pears basically like running away from someone/thing and you turn a corner, and when the pursuer rounds the corner, you have a 12 gauge poured at their head. It’s a little funny how absolutely Angery Gravemind must have been once he realized.
@@spowden it's both.. you get it during the big bombastic action moments, you get it during the awe inspiring moments, you get it during the quiet pensive moments....
It still blows my mind that, despite Chief and Arbiter’s bromance, Chief only says one word to the Arbiter throughout the entire game. Every other line arbiter is present for is directed at another character. Their friendship is sold through the l body language of Chief and how the aggression he shows in the first mission fades over the course of the game. In case you are wondering, the single word is “…worse”
@@justabagofchips8012 I see what you mean. It never made sense to me that chief would be talking to Arby then. Like why would Arby know and hide it from chief... But spark would :)
Master Chief being lucky is also expressed in gameplay. Whenever you're running low on ammo and just happen to find a fresh weapon cache or an abandoned but fully functioning [insert vehicle here], that stuff canonically does happen to Master Chief all the time and is one of the attributing factors to the Chief being so lucky in-universe
Its funny you mention that. In Fall of Reach, once chief sent the rest of the Spartan-IIs to the surface of Reach, a lot of them started dying. Even though it's not full-proof, his luck rubs off on others whenever they're around him.
I read your comment and the first thing I thought of was something called ludonarrative dissonance. To nerd out a bit here, it's when a games' gameplay and the narrative don't match up. Eg. When your protag is a peaceful loving person in cutscenes but as soon as you take over you can kill people or something. Most commonly used example is Nico in GTA IV being really against killing people but then you get out into the sandbox and can blow people up with rocket launchers and literally just go on a killing spree. Your example is perfect at showing how Halo gets it right: by giving us a narrative device (John being lucky) and a gameplay device (frequent caches, the final segment of his health taking longer to go down than the rest of it, etc.) And bring it together perfectly to create a seamless experience. Sorry, nerd rant over
It was mine too. My cousin introduced me to it. The first thing I did was play a simple 1v1v1 on Valhalla. Stepping out of those side caves where I spawned and onto a lush beautiful landscape landscape flowing water, birds above, and the tower beams shooting up made it feel so real. I was taken away by how a video game could be this spectacular. Watching the water splash as you jumped in, the trees move as a warthog crashed into them, and seeing the guns get tossed as a grenade blows everything up was enough to hook me. And now, almost a decade and a half later, here I am still playing it, sobbing every time I see that halo rise up in the campaign or have Johnson tell me to kick Spark's ass.
That part at 6:22 was actually an official reference to Red vs Blue by Bungie, basically getting some notable voice actors from Red vs Blue to do what they’re really good at xD
There are several different versions too, but I can't remember if they're dependant on difficulty or if they're just random. Also, Halo Infinite's multiplayer customization options list pink as "Lightish Red", so they didn't stop with the references here :D
I always like to think that the "luck" Chief has is the fact that we, the player, are him. He never dies because we end up reverting to the last checkpoint, essentially making all his best bits the canon playthrough. It creates a synergy between him and us and makes us feel more badass as well. Also a lot of Cortana's lines are references to the books which is really cool, for example the line with Cortana saying "Could you sacrifice me to reach your goal? Could you watch me die?" Is a direct callback to The Fall of Reach (the first piece of Halo media to ever exist) where Halsey asks Cortana if she could sacrifice herself or the Chief to complete the mission.
That thing with the last checkpoint and the luck being attributed to the fact that Master Chief is the players. In the lore, the Covenant believes that the "Demons" are resurrected after death, obviously a meta-nod to us restarting checkpoint when we die. Its really nice how the authors for the Halo books likes to implement game mechanics in some indirect way.
This video brought a huge wave of nostalgia for me. I remember playing co-op with my dad when I was 7 when it came out. He passed away last month and seeing this has helped a great deal with the ache. Thank you.
I'm sorry for your loss man. My father also passed away 2 weeks ago, Halo 3 was my first 360 game he bought me. Playing Infinite has been nostalgic and been helping me cope a bit
Johnson and Chief have actually known each other since Chief was 15 years old, and had just become an active duty Spartan. This is shown in the book Halo: Silent Storm, and it’s really interesting looking at Halo CE-3’s narratives with that in mind. It’s also rather remarkable how Chief and the Arbiter managed to become friends by the end of Halo 3. Chief has spent his entire life since the age of 14 fighting the Covenant. He’s lost friends and family to them (family being the other Spartans since they were close enough to be family), and has also seen countless soldiers die fighting them. Not to mention the glassed worlds. So the fact he can put aside all that and work with and even become friends with a former member of the Covenant who is not only responsible for at least a billion human deaths (not exaggerating) but also the destruction of Reach (Thel ‘Vadam led the Fleet of Particular Justice, which has that previous 1 billion death total under it’s belt) is truly remarkable and just goes to show how good of a person Chief is. He may not forgive or forget, but he can see past a person’s past mistakes for who they are now.
One correction, John wasn't fighting covenant at 15. Spartans were originally deployed against insurrectionists for the first few year before the covenant showed up. So slightly less animosity, though he still burned reach so...
@@wafflecoptergaming2673 they were deployed against the insurrectionists at first, but one of John’s first operations against the Covenant, called Operation: Silent Storm, actually did happen when he was fifteen. Another good example of the Spartans going against the Covenant when they were younger would be during their first operation in mjolnir, when they lost Sam. That’s not to say they didn’t fight the innies at all, of course. Just ask Colonel Watts and Camp New Hope.
@@double1777 Taking anything the books say seriously is ridiculous for a number of reasons. For one, they're written by people following the release of the games, not before them. Take "Halo: First Strike," written in 2003 for example. If we were to take everything it said as canon, then John and Johnson saved Halsey on Reach just after the events of CE, while Cortana was up in orbit aboard a Covenant ship and learned that they (Covenant) somehow know about Earth and are already en-route to go glass it. And let's take "Silent Storm" for example. I haven't read it, 'nor do I care to go pay money to do so since it's written during the reign of 343. Especially since 343 considers "Halo: Forward Unto Dawn" canon, which takes place in 2526, coincidentally the same time period for both "First Strike" and this "Operation: Silent Storm." But considering that in "Forward Unto Dawn" Master Chief is wearing armor that looks eerily similar to Halo: Infinite armor, likely a precursor to it, then I'd say that 343 has no idea what they're doing since he should've been using Mark IV, the armor in Halo: CE, especially when you actually take Infinite into account itself. That game is a whole 'nother dumpster fire. So calm down mister "I've read the books," because the books don't mean anything.
@@0WookieCookie0 Yeah First Strike is inconsistent with halo lore, not going to deny that. But I'm honestly confused as to what you're even angry about. I was simply pointing out that the Master Chief did fight the Covenant when he was fifteen canonically, not personally attacking the guy who replied to me. (Also First Strike takes place in 2552, right after CE, years after Silent Storm and Forward Unto Dawn. The armor Chief wears in CE is mark v, not mark IV, and the armor he wears in Forward Unto Dawn... yeah makes no sense. Probably a variant of mark IV. Also, Silent Storm and Forward Unto Dawn line up with each other. I'm not going to say you have to read the books, that would be disgraceful, but please don't say something makes no sense if you don't fully understand it.) Also, the books (most of them) are canon. They very well do mean something for Halo's lore and overall story.
"SPARTANS never die" It's a running theme in the Halo setting that SPARTANS, of any generation, never die. They just go missing. The entirety of the SPARTAN-IIIs, all of the lost IIs, even the ORION volunteers as far as I know, all only missing. ONI wanted it to be part of their 'mythos' that they just did not die. Not sure if it carries on with the IVs but...gonna be honest I stopped following the story at about Reach. If I got anything wrong here btw I'm sorry, it's not intentional: I'm JUST NOW getting back into Halo lore for Infinite.
I believe the books comment on this and that after the war all the Spartans that went MIA were eventually reported KIA as it was only for moral during the war. Chief was the only one still listed as MIA as there was no proof he was dead. Though ONI did list him as KIA while trying to make Locke kill him (Locke ignored the order from the start, he never intended to actually shoot to kill the Chief even when he drew his pistol). This backfired on ONI super hard, and with the AI's rebelling, ONI is a shell of its former self.
My knowledge of the books is limited but as far as I know after the Human-Covenant war they stopped doing that. If a Spartan II, III or IV dies they list it as KIA. But (and here is where i think I might be wrong) the Spartans themselves have taken the phrase and now it’s a part of their “culture” per se. When someone dies and someone points it out they say “Spartans never die” or “he/she (whatever) is missing in action)
The only spartan that is officially MIA and is completely unknown to what happened is Kurt-059. Dude blew up two nukes to save Onyx from the covenant and basically saved blue team in the process, whilst in the SPI armour, which is infamous for being bad at protecting their users
@@soupgirl1871 the Mirage SPI was meant for stealth, so it was far cheaper to replace the shields with active camo. besides the suit was made cheaply because the sole purpose of the Spartan III's was to die on suicide missions. Noble Team were the only ones to get the Mark V[B] type cause they survived all their missions and were worth the investment. Kurt, out of all the Spartans, was able to use the suit to full effect because he knew the ins-and-outs of it, and trained with it for far longer then all the Spartan III's. It didn't hurt that he was an original Spartan II as well.
Fun fact: I'm not sure if you noticed, but the aforementioned 'favorite vignette' uses voice actors from Red vs Blue - Matt Hullum and- I think that's Dan Godwin? Love the attention to detail with those.
For the specific difficulty he was playing it was Jason Saldana(Tucker) and Matt Hullum(Doc), i believe Burnie is the legendary with Joel but I could be wrong
The warthog run will always stay with me. The music, the setting, just everything about it just made me want to replay it over and over again. There will never be moment like this ever again and I’m fine with that. Halo 3 will always the be best of the series to me.
"And so... you must be silenced" An excellent callback to Halo 2 when Truth was referring to the Heretic leader Sesa 'Refumee as he said that "(he) must be silenced".
17:54 Cortana's "Secret" was the index. The Gravemind and the flood as a whole has one weakness, the halo's. He knew she had something up her sleeve. He didn't know that she still had the index from installation 04 as it hadn't been formed yet by the time that ring and all (Technically just most) of the flood on it were destroyed.
16:25 Love that Cortana's memory also replays the first meeting between John and Halsey, on that one colony's playground way back when(The Fall of Reach), to really show how deep Gravemind got into Cortana's mind.
18:05 - I think the secret Cortana was keeping from the Gravemind was the Index from Alpha Halo. As far as the Gravemind had known, Chief and the Arbiter's plan to take on the Flood could only be a direct fight, and so it was using Cortana to try and lure the two into a place - High Charity - where it could dispose of all three of them. With Cortana having confirmed for Chief that the Halo rings are still very much in play, she also confirmed the Gravemind's suspicions about how exactly Chief would finish the fight.
Halo 3 is the all time high of the franchise and I think it was a perfect cap for a perfect trilogy. Never has a game lived up to the hype as much as Halo 3 did. Late 2000s I feel was the golden age of AAA gaming and unfortunately we've seen a lot of big game studios bogged down in corporate meddling. It's been up to indie devs to deliver the creativity and zeal for gaming that once defined the AAA space. And the multiplayer was also standout even if you didn't touch on it.
at around 18:00 the secret was actually the index when she showed Chief she had it. Had she actually given it to the gravemind it would have made the new ring un-fireable
17:57 The secret it's talking about is the activation index, as shown in the cutscene. I can see why you missed that since it's not exactly spelled out, but yeah, she held onto it and didn't let the gravemind know about it until it was too late.
I remember being in tears the first time I finished the trilogy. I was glad to have not played the games until I was old enough for the MCC and I never regretted waiting for so long, and it truly was, well, a great journey.
I think missed Win was when arbiter finally kills truth and let’s out a roar. I Believe this was him get revenge for all his fallen brothers that died by truth and his brutes
This series made me feel so exhilarating as a kid, and playing Wars made me feel so intelligent as a teen, Reach made me feel alive, 4 and 5 made me feel like a Veteran, and Anniversary made me cry. Such an indescribable franchise, and I'm ready for the emotions Infinite will bring. Honored to be on this ride with you man.
Really kinda surprised you didn’t win the color shift in Cortana when John shows up in that mission. That shift of a depressed dark faint blue to a brighter glow when you actually sees him
17:25 "Keep your head down, there's two of us in here now, remember!?" Cortana said that in CE on the Pillar of Autum when you took too much damage. She says it again in 3 when Chief rescues her and it really goes to show the bond between them.
The original Halo trilogy was a huge part of my life. I remember playing through CE when I was 8 at launch with my dad, and loving the game. When Halo 2 was announced we both got excited for it. I remember taking a day off school to stay home and finish the game when we got to the final levels. It's one of those games that brought my dad and I together and something I hold near and dear to who I am as a person. When Halo 3 was announced, my dad got me a 360 just to play it. I wish we could have gone through 3 together before he died.
Cortana's and Chief's story will never cease to bring tears to my eyes. Fighting through High Charity, _knowing_ she's suffering, gives such a deep sense of desperation, making her line at the end, "You found me," such a relief. Freakin' beautiful.
Correction at 18:17 - the big secret was that Cortana still had possession of the activation index from the first Halo ring they fought on in Halo:CE. Now since the replacement for that Ring is being built on the Ark, Cortana’s plan is to activate the Ring to destroy the flood once and for all, and they’re outside of a radius that will harm other planets, humans, or other species. Full Circle.
Fun fact, the password at the door scene is voiced by Tucker and Doc from the web series Red vs Blue. An amazing series that is Rooster Teeth’s pinnacle achievement and was made in Halo
Just a fun little thing. The first time Cortana talks to Chief she say " Could you sacrifice me for the sake of the mission, could you watch me die" is the first thing Halsey asks Cortana when she chose Chief as her host spartan. I thought that was an interesting parallel because she immediately said yes to Halsey due to their safety being B priority vs the mission which is an A priority. Although we don't get Chiefs answer here he did leave her to finish the fight initially in halo 2. Later in halo 4 and 5 she asks Chief to figure out which of them is human making this a nice little Easter egg they put in to kind of kick it all off.
More references to the fall of Reach Book: Some of the lines Cortana says in Cortana are what Halsey says to the Spartan II trainees right after they were abducted and began training, and in the big arena where the Cortana terminal is, her background dialogue is Halsey's side of the conversation she had with John when she first meets him at his school. Got to love the respect Bungie had for the lore they had already established
@@dukes1993724 You do realise the Game and Book about the fall of reach can be "blended" in such a way that the plot holes are small - check out halo canon's video!
6:20 not only is this just funny dialogue, but those two voice actors are from Red vs Blue, and are playing their parts exactly as their respective characters would. Simmons and Tucker I believe.
This game series quite literally defined my childhood , i have made life long friends from halo!!!!! Peoplei still know and game with to this day.... some 15 years after i first met them. For me the halo series as a whole is the best gaming has ever been especially in 3 , with campaign, multiplayer, forge, theater , file share, THE MUSIC , from the ranking system to BTB to the damn promotional videos made for the game this was the pinnacle of gaming for so so soooo many people all around the world and for me in 20 years of halo nothing has come close to this game , the expanded universe the fans everything about it has still to be topped and i don't think it will be . And to friends made on Halo that we have lost , RIP Usher you will be missed Brother .
One of my absolute, absolute favorite moments from this game is when Chief and Arbiter are back to back, and Arbiter says "We trade one villain for another." Has so much good implication behind it and emotion behind the dialogue, it highlights how they've both grown to trust each other as well. I love it.
5:40 Makes perfect sense, you ever played a really difficult game and tried to complete it failing over and over again? You're getting close to the end and you're emotional and losing it slightly at the thought of failing again and having to start over, you want to win and in the context of a video game, you'll put your character through hell, first time you go through it like it's no big deal. (I realise it's just a game, but as someone who prefers their own company, especially given how people are nowadays, I resonate more with digital landscapes and CGI people than I ever did with real people.)
Wow, talk about timing. I played through the Halo series in the MCC for the first time this week, and it really blew me away. 3 and Reach in particular lived up to the decade-long hype. It's such an incredible series.
The music swell when Chief grabs Johnson's hand always gives me goosebumps. Halo 3 is *THE* best Halo game story-wise and soundtrack-wise. Also, there is a secret ending if you play on the hardest difficulty, Legnedary.
When Gravemind says “At last, her secret is revealed!” he was actually referring to that Cortana having the copy of the Sacred Icon or “key” of the first Halo Ring so they could activate the newly built one to destroy the Flood. Cortana desperately prevented the Flood from finding out or the Gravemind would’ve fought hard against it and possibly destroyed Cortana to prevent it. Halo 3 has such a great story. Even great stories from the surface and to the core. They tied the stories together very nicely from Halo 1-3
prety much everything about halo 3 is perfection, the campaign, the musical score, the multiplayer, i remember getting my xbox 360 when I was 9 and playing it all day when i came out
Fun fact: The little 'let me in' skit in the beginning was inspired by Rooster Teeth's Red vs Blue. A machinima show they made using Halo Multiplayer and later full on animation and motion tracking.
What I would give to be able to experience this trilogy, again, for the first time. Your end comments really hit home. This game was, at the time, the biggest entertainment launch ever. GTA 4, and many more broke its record, but being a console exclusive that did so well, AT LAUNCH, is amazing. I’m glad you got to enjoy it. Cheers!
Fun Fact about the Chopper. It was actually made by an Engineer (You'll see some in ODST, floating squid bois) to be farming equipment when the Covenant first found Humanity on Harvest. It was made as a peaceful gift, but things hit the fan, this involved a nervous grunt, gunfire, and the rise of Tartarus. But later on during the War, it was made to be less than peaceful as seen in Halo 3. (Though you may know this) Good work on the videos, I love watching them and seeing the enjoyment and excitement many people felt upon first playing Halo captured so purely in this video and the previous ones(at least to me.) I can't wait to see your ones on Halo Reach and Halo 3: ODST.
Halo 3 was the first Halo I played, I've gone back to play combat evolved and two now but I think this was an amazing introduction to the series for me.
This was my first Halo game that I ever played. Me and my best friend would stay up late playing Co-Op at his house. This game has defined so much of my passions. The mutual respect between The Arbiter and Chief taught me the importance of being a true friend. Martin O'Donnell's score lead me to learn to play the violin and join my orchestra (both tremendous blessings that I simply can't put into words). These things and more from this game helped me become a better friend and brother. I often find myself listening to Never Forget, feeling everything all over again.
Glad to see your input on my favorite video game trilogy, and even more ecstatic that you liked it. Im excited to see your videos on 4 and 5, and hopefully Infinite when it releases, keep up the great work, cheers!
space on metric, international space station, space on the imperial system, yo doods, the empire's pretty chill, maybe you could like join it or something
Honestly, I can’t wait to see you get to the rest of the series. I started my relationship with Halo with Reach and onward because I was also a PlayStation kid growing up. I didn’t actually complete Halo 1-3s campaigns until MCC came out. Seeing you do Reach, 4, and 5 is gonna be fun. Also, the only trilogy that is perfect is The Lord of the Rings and yes, I will fight anyone on that.
Fun fact! the vignette in which the marine won't open the door is in reference to the red vs blue web series and depending on what difficulty you play on, you'll get different voice actors and different dialogue.
This really just shows that the video game industry has really went down the drain, you look at all these old games that were totally amazing with love and effort put behind them to release a working product, back when you could trust pre-ordering a game. Anyway good vid and maybe do wins for could be the Metal Gear series, this isn't a suggestion I am approaching rapidly.
17:00 This is most likely one of the best moments in Halo's music. It starts with Cortana's motif, then the piano transitions to Chief's motif and the strings counter with the Halo theme as Cortana pulls up the index. Every moment from the previous games set up for this, Marty's "emotional equity" really shines.
Younger kids have no idea how influential and 💣 bombastic the original Halo trilogy was! I still have great memories playing the co-op campaign on all three games. ❤️
I remember playing this with my brothers on split screen. It was always a fight for who would get the larger top screen. So much fun grinding away on campaign and sandtrap in pursuit of various armor sets. Hayabusa helmet with Katana body for the win. This game is what I grew up playing.
5:54 First off, that's a Red vs Blue. You got Tucker and Doc here, Tucker being locked out. Secondly, it's different depending on the difficulty. You can also get Grif and Simmons or Church and Caboose. I think you're missing several other wins as well, but I don't feel like listing them right now.
I knew they would multiwin to “and so you must be silenced”, but slightly bummed he didn’t include the yell Arbiter does after it has so much emotion and punctuates the already badass moment and completes Arby’s arc perfectly
I believe it was more than just Installation 04's index as well, it's pretty much correct she protected Chief as well, but I'm pretty sure Gravemind knew how humanity saw him, maybe she knew something else. Plus, it's a weird thing that Installation 08/04B works with an index from a destroyed ring, like any index could work
@@soupgirl1871 Maybe? 😂 tbh i never actually read their relationship in a romantic light (until Halo 4) but I can totally see where you’re coming from and I absolutely love the ambiguity of their relationship (again until Halo 4 lmao). I do agree it is kind of weird that an old (destroyed) Halo index works with the new one BUT it’s kind of consistent considering that we (the player) never actually got the index in Halo 2? Maybe it was just an insurance thing from the Forerunners? Like every index was a master key? Lol
Halo lore fan here: thought I’d toss in a little background info towards one of the last wins in the video. All Spartans are, at the time of their death departure from active service (aside from resignation and such) are always recorded as MIA, or missing in action this is seen mentioned in Halo Reach, and despairs funerals being seen for some Spartans, such as one from Halo Wars. Thought I’d share this cool fact :)
Time to hurt GamingWins and everyone that doesn't know. 343 Guilty Spark is alive. It is in the books I believe that 343 was recovered by a human ship and he has taken it over. So there's a chance someday in the future we are going to hear "Oh! Reclaimer!" again.
Honestly, it’s amazing that you’re feeling the exact same way that I felt 14 years ago. I was getting goosebumps and you’ve taken the perfect care of this series that I knew you would back in your CE video. So thank you GamingWins, just like I thanked Bungie and 343 for taking beautiful care of one of the most important things in my life
I don't think I appreciated it quite right as a kid but growing up and playing Halo made some of the worst years of my life into some of the best. It was a real work of art and I still can't hold back tears and shivers when I hear those lines by those voices, those cinematic shots and immaculate music, this story that had no right to make a shooter about aliens so damn good. Also, really excited to see Halo 3: ODST and Halo Reach when you do those videos.
My first ever game I played when I was just a kid and 14 years later and halo 3 still brings tears to my eye. Beautiful as not just a game but art as a whole.
Something funny my family noticed is that if you're playing co-op against guilty spark, he will Target chief specifically. Which we realized after player 1 accidentally fell off the catwalk and couldn't respawn cause player 2 was in combat.... 'in combat' meaning staring at the floating lightbulb as he yelled and glared Lazer beams down at player 1's dead body, either not noticing player 2, or not caring. Could've been a glitch, but it really happened. Spark hates chief.
The last 3 minutes of you describing your experience made me emotional. 20 years ago I played the 1st Halo as a kid & fell completely in love with the franchise. There’s a charm to it I really haven’t found with any other franchise & I’m grateful for all the memories I have with it throughout all these years. Glad I stumbled upon this video for a walk down memory lane.
When this came out, I had only briefly played CE and 2, but to me, this was the pinnacle of gaming. There was nothing in my mind that could ever top this, and to this day I still feel the same way. Countless hours spent solo and with friends playing through multiplayer matches putting our 10 year old blood sweat and tears into amazing firefights, and doing the same as we played the campaign as Chief, Arby and what we dubbed the other elites as "Silly Campaign Elites". This game will forever be my example of what perfection can look like. Thank you for the reminder. And remember, Spartans never die. Keep up the great work brother.
This is one of my favourite games of all time littered with so many moments I love but my favourite is when the ship the lands the sheer scale of the ship backed by the killer score is just amazing
Every line in this game has quite potential, and they’re all so good! I love the mutual respect for both allies and enemies that just ooze from everyone. Even the most hated of enemies or unwilling allies don’t treat the others like they’re weak or incompetent, but as genuine threats and powerful beings they have to take care around and respect lest they be destroyed. It’s so rare these days to see that level of self-confidence and control, it feels all the cooler and more reverent.
Halo, and halo 3 especially has a special place in my heart. Life long fan. Was 7 during CE. I’ve lost friends, gained friends, and grown old all with Halo. And it’s so personal to me and what halo did for me as a kid growing up through high-school that hearing never forget strings ( halo 3 menu, etc ) I am brought to tears. Every time. If anyone wants to meet Steve or Jen, they go to a ton of comic cons every year for autographs etc. people have just about anything signed they can carry. On top of that, sometimes you can get a rare appearance from Marty o donnell and Jeff Steizer.
That end rank could not be more accurate or perfect. Halo 3 really did stick the landing for the trilogy, and I wish I had appreciated it more as an early teen, because my god, this game series is so gripping and beautiful.
5:53 Like Johnson's lines in CE, 2 and 3, depending on what difficulty you play this on, you not only get different lines of dialogue for this scene, but get them from none other than the Red Vs Blue team.
8:19 it’s briefly said about the destruction but I can’t stress enough how much I love the phantom pieces being broken off when they explode. They changed it in reach where it’s just one small piece that remains but in 3, it’s multiple pieces and it’s so cool
I legit actually started tearing up towards the end of this video. It's weird, but I didn't grow up with an Xbox. I was also a Playstation kid, but the memories I have of staying up all night with my buddies playing on their Xbox's as we played Halo together... Man, take me back please. Life was easy and the nostalgia hits hard every. single. time. I would die of anticipation every time my friends and I would plan to go spend the night at each other's places just so we could game for hours on end. This was incredible, thanks for allowing me to get my emotions out a bit tonight.
I love this game so much, I came in late as I’m only 18 but halo 3 quickly became my favorite game. And even ten years later still holds that spot. This video encapsulated almost everything that makes it so good to the point where the ending made me cry. I’m so happy you get to experience this for the first time!
For some people, this was simply another video game. To some of us here, this was a game that defined an entire generation and culture.
Some people: "Hit or miss?"
Us: "I guess I never miss huh."
My Frieeend you’ve appeared once more, and a halo fan I see, you just keep getting more powerful
This is the game that got me into gaming as a kid it’s always gonna have a special place in my heart
bruh!
Ah yes, I see that my UA-cam stalker is here
Also, that door interaction at the door on the second level is voiced by Red vs Blue characters
And they are voiced by different RvB characters depending on the difficulty level
It’s criminal he did not mention that in the video personally but still love this content
@@mandalorian5abi979 He also clearly hasn't been around with Halo long, so he may not have known, or it doesn't mean as much not growing up with RvB and Halo in general.
And Terrence Stamp plays The Prophet of Truth
Simmons is still such a blow hard ;)
20:36 my dad and I played through all the Halo games up to 4 on co-op. In 3, I always picked the Arbiter and he played as Chief. When we got to this scene, he was flabbergasted because his name just so happens to also be John, but he hadn't read the books either. He was like "does it take your name from your Xbox profile or something???"
*throws the XBox out the window*
"They're tracking us! Timmy, pack your things and get to the car!"
@@Fletch55 okay, that's honestly really funny😂
I bet that created some unforgatable moments, I played all these games solo and I have such a strong connection to them. If I had played them all with someone like my dad for the first time not only would these games me 100x more to me but the memories would be better too.
You, drawing parallels between Star Wars and Halo, here one more: Halo theme is the Duel of Fates in this franchise.
But the secret that Cortana was hiding wasn't Chief but rather the "Activation Index", that she had the capabilities of firing a Halo ring, a specific one: Installation 04. She had lured the Gravemind into a trap, outside the galaxy, where the only casualties were gonna be the Flood. Once Chief saw the ring, he understood her plan.
@Jordan Pears basically like running away from someone/thing and you turn a corner, and when the pursuer rounds the corner, you have a 12 gauge poured at their head.
It’s a little funny how absolutely Angery Gravemind must have been once he realized.
The Halo Theme isn't the Duel of the Fates of Halo, it's the Force theme.
I feel like I knew this for a long time but seeing it in words feels... new
@@spowden it's both.. you get it during the big bombastic action moments, you get it during the awe inspiring moments, you get it during the quiet pensive moments....
*Installation 08, as it's officially designated as by the Lesser Ark (Which is designated Installation 00)
It still blows my mind that, despite Chief and Arbiter’s bromance, Chief only says one word to the Arbiter throughout the entire game. Every other line arbiter is present for is directed at another character. Their friendship is sold through the l body language of Chief and how the aggression he shows in the first mission fades over the course of the game.
In case you are wondering, the single word is “…worse”
Chief asks arbiter “when did you know” when they’re looking at the new halo ring at the end of the covenant
@@justabagofchips8012 thats to spark
@@JoshBleeze oh so chief knew spark was there? I always just assumed chief was talking to Arby
@@justabagofchips8012 I see what you mean. It never made sense to me that chief would be talking to Arby then. Like why would Arby know and hide it from chief... But spark would :)
Wow. That... That's mindblowing
Missed win on the opening to "The Covenant." That scene of Pelicans and green Phantoms flying in formation to the score is just.... HMHMHMHM.
Dare we say, Iconic!
It's also a throwback to the start of Silent Cartographer in Halo CE.
@@combinestrider117 Yes. That.
Master Chief being lucky is also expressed in gameplay. Whenever you're running low on ammo and just happen to find a fresh weapon cache or an abandoned but fully functioning [insert vehicle here], that stuff canonically does happen to Master Chief all the time and is one of the attributing factors to the Chief being so lucky in-universe
Its funny you mention that. In Fall of Reach, once chief sent the rest of the Spartan-IIs to the surface of Reach, a lot of them started dying. Even though it's not full-proof, his luck rubs off on others whenever they're around him.
I read your comment and the first thing I thought of was something called ludonarrative dissonance. To nerd out a bit here, it's when a games' gameplay and the narrative don't match up. Eg. When your protag is a peaceful loving person in cutscenes but as soon as you take over you can kill people or something. Most commonly used example is Nico in GTA IV being really against killing people but then you get out into the sandbox and can blow people up with rocket launchers and literally just go on a killing spree. Your example is perfect at showing how Halo gets it right: by giving us a narrative device (John being lucky) and a gameplay device (frequent caches, the final segment of his health taking longer to go down than the rest of it, etc.) And bring it together perfectly to create a seamless experience. Sorry, nerd rant over
Halo 3 was my first 360 game. Still remember my first multiplayer match and everything... Things were simpler back then.
I get such a warm feeling when I think about those days
Same!
Team Slayer on Guardian...
Wish I could relive those moments
It was mine too. My cousin introduced me to it. The first thing I did was play a simple 1v1v1 on Valhalla. Stepping out of those side caves where I spawned and onto a lush beautiful landscape landscape flowing water, birds above, and the tower beams shooting up made it feel so real. I was taken away by how a video game could be this spectacular. Watching the water splash as you jumped in, the trees move as a warthog crashed into them, and seeing the guns get tossed as a grenade blows everything up was enough to hook me. And now, almost a decade and a half later, here I am still playing it, sobbing every time I see that halo rise up in the campaign or have Johnson tell me to kick Spark's ass.
Halo 3 was my first 360/xbox game in general, first online experience too, as far as I remember.
They were truly special days and times.
That part at 6:22 was actually an official reference to Red vs Blue by Bungie, basically getting some notable voice actors from Red vs Blue to do what they’re really good at xD
There are several different versions too, but I can't remember if they're dependant on difficulty or if they're just random.
Also, Halo Infinite's multiplayer customization options list pink as "Lightish Red", so they didn't stop with the references here :D
Don't forget that the Stuck armor emblem's description is "Is it a spider?", Donut's line from "Knock Knock? Who's There? Pain"
@@flibbernodgets7018 I’ve been playing infinite but never noticed that, that’s so cool :D
@@wolfsbane501st3 I don't have many armor colors yet so idk if it's there but it's one of the default options for your AI
@@flibbernodgets7018 Yeah they are different characters depending on what difficulty you are on. I think on legendary its caboose and church.
I always like to think that the "luck" Chief has is the fact that we, the player, are him. He never dies because we end up reverting to the last checkpoint, essentially making all his best bits the canon playthrough. It creates a synergy between him and us and makes us feel more badass as well. Also a lot of Cortana's lines are references to the books which is really cool, for example the line with Cortana saying "Could you sacrifice me to reach your goal? Could you watch me die?" Is a direct callback to The Fall of Reach (the first piece of Halo media to ever exist) where Halsey asks Cortana if she could sacrifice herself or the Chief to complete the mission.
That thing with the last checkpoint and the luck being attributed to the fact that Master Chief is the players. In the lore, the Covenant believes that the "Demons" are resurrected after death, obviously a meta-nod to us restarting checkpoint when we die. Its really nice how the authors for the Halo books likes to implement game mechanics in some indirect way.
This video brought a huge wave of nostalgia for me. I remember playing co-op with my dad when I was 7 when it came out. He passed away last month and seeing this has helped a great deal with the ache. Thank you.
I'm sorry for your loss man. My father also passed away 2 weeks ago, Halo 3 was my first 360 game he bought me. Playing Infinite has been nostalgic and been helping me cope a bit
Were it so easy... Stay strong, brother.
I played it with my dad too, hope your alright mate
My dad passed away and the one memory I'll always cherish was him buying Halo 4 for me, even when he said he wouldn't...
Hold him forever strong in your memory brother, wherever he is, I'm sure he misses you just as you miss him.
Johnson and Chief have actually known each other since Chief was 15 years old, and had just become an active duty Spartan. This is shown in the book Halo: Silent Storm, and it’s really interesting looking at Halo CE-3’s narratives with that in mind.
It’s also rather remarkable how Chief and the Arbiter managed to become friends by the end of Halo 3. Chief has spent his entire life since the age of 14 fighting the Covenant. He’s lost friends and family to them (family being the other Spartans since they were close enough to be family), and has also seen countless soldiers die fighting them. Not to mention the glassed worlds. So the fact he can put aside all that and work with and even become friends with a former member of the Covenant who is not only responsible for at least a billion human deaths (not exaggerating) but also the destruction of Reach (Thel ‘Vadam led the Fleet of Particular Justice, which has that previous 1 billion death total under it’s belt) is truly remarkable and just goes to show how good of a person Chief is. He may not forgive or forget, but he can see past a person’s past mistakes for who they are now.
One correction, John wasn't fighting covenant at 15. Spartans were originally deployed against insurrectionists for the first few year before the covenant showed up. So slightly less animosity, though he still burned reach so...
@@wafflecoptergaming2673 they were deployed against the insurrectionists at first, but one of John’s first operations against the Covenant, called Operation: Silent Storm, actually did happen when he was fifteen. Another good example of the Spartans going against the Covenant when they were younger would be during their first operation in mjolnir, when they lost Sam.
That’s not to say they didn’t fight the innies at all, of course. Just ask Colonel Watts and Camp New Hope.
@@double1777 Taking anything the books say seriously is ridiculous for a number of reasons. For one, they're written by people following the release of the games, not before them. Take "Halo: First Strike," written in 2003 for example. If we were to take everything it said as canon, then John and Johnson saved Halsey on Reach just after the events of CE, while Cortana was up in orbit aboard a Covenant ship and learned that they (Covenant) somehow know about Earth and are already en-route to go glass it.
And let's take "Silent Storm" for example. I haven't read it, 'nor do I care to go pay money to do so since it's written during the reign of 343. Especially since 343 considers "Halo: Forward Unto Dawn" canon, which takes place in 2526, coincidentally the same time period for both "First Strike" and this "Operation: Silent Storm." But considering that in "Forward Unto Dawn" Master Chief is wearing armor that looks eerily similar to Halo: Infinite armor, likely a precursor to it, then I'd say that 343 has no idea what they're doing since he should've been using Mark IV, the armor in Halo: CE, especially when you actually take Infinite into account itself. That game is a whole 'nother dumpster fire. So calm down mister "I've read the books," because the books don't mean anything.
@@0WookieCookie0 Yeah First Strike is inconsistent with halo lore, not going to deny that. But I'm honestly confused as to what you're even angry about. I was simply pointing out that the Master Chief did fight the Covenant when he was fifteen canonically, not personally attacking the guy who replied to me. (Also First Strike takes place in 2552, right after CE, years after Silent Storm and Forward Unto Dawn. The armor Chief wears in CE is mark v, not mark IV, and the armor he wears in Forward Unto Dawn... yeah makes no sense. Probably a variant of mark IV. Also, Silent Storm and Forward Unto Dawn line up with each other. I'm not going to say you have to read the books, that would be disgraceful, but please don't say something makes no sense if you don't fully understand it.)
Also, the books (most of them) are canon. They very well do mean something for Halo's lore and overall story.
The door “vignette” actually changes based on difficulty, and are voiced by characters from Red vs Blue
Yeah :D
I’m surprised you didn’t win when Johnson says “don’t… EVER let her go…” that legit makes me choke up every time
"SPARTANS never die"
It's a running theme in the Halo setting that SPARTANS, of any generation, never die. They just go missing. The entirety of the SPARTAN-IIIs, all of the lost IIs, even the ORION volunteers as far as I know, all only missing. ONI wanted it to be part of their 'mythos' that they just did not die. Not sure if it carries on with the IVs but...gonna be honest I stopped following the story at about Reach.
If I got anything wrong here btw I'm sorry, it's not intentional: I'm JUST NOW getting back into Halo lore for Infinite.
I believe the books comment on this and that after the war all the Spartans that went MIA were eventually reported KIA as it was only for moral during the war. Chief was the only one still listed as MIA as there was no proof he was dead.
Though ONI did list him as KIA while trying to make Locke kill him (Locke ignored the order from the start, he never intended to actually shoot to kill the Chief even when he drew his pistol). This backfired on ONI super hard, and with the AI's rebelling, ONI is a shell of its former self.
Yeah they try to make people believe that they never die but with reach we the player saw the hard truth
My knowledge of the books is limited but as far as I know after the Human-Covenant war they stopped doing that. If a Spartan II, III or IV dies they list it as KIA. But (and here is where i think I might be wrong) the Spartans themselves have taken the phrase and now it’s a part of their “culture” per se.
When someone dies and someone points it out they say “Spartans never die” or “he/she (whatever) is missing in action)
The only spartan that is officially MIA and is completely unknown to what happened is Kurt-059. Dude blew up two nukes to save Onyx from the covenant and basically saved blue team in the process, whilst in the SPI armour, which is infamous for being bad at protecting their users
@@soupgirl1871 the Mirage SPI was meant for stealth, so it was far cheaper to replace the shields with active camo. besides the suit was made cheaply because the sole purpose of the Spartan III's was to die on suicide missions. Noble Team were the only ones to get the Mark V[B] type cause they survived all their missions and were worth the investment.
Kurt, out of all the Spartans, was able to use the suit to full effect because he knew the ins-and-outs of it, and trained with it for far longer then all the Spartan III's. It didn't hurt that he was an original Spartan II as well.
Fun fact: I'm not sure if you noticed, but the aforementioned 'favorite vignette' uses voice actors from Red vs Blue - Matt Hullum and- I think that's Dan Godwin? Love the attention to detail with those.
Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum I believe.
For the specific difficulty he was playing it was Jason Saldana(Tucker) and Matt Hullum(Doc), i believe Burnie is the legendary with Joel but I could be wrong
Makes sense, it definitely looks like an interaction pulled straight out of red vs blue 😂
@@chadpringle9001 no you're right, legendary was Joel and Burnie
And I think heroic was Gus and Geoff
The warthog run will always stay with me. The music, the setting, just everything about it just made me want to replay it over and over again. There will never be moment like this ever again and I’m fine with that. Halo 3 will always the be best of the series to me.
Same.
"And so... you must be silenced"
An excellent callback to Halo 2 when Truth was referring to the Heretic leader Sesa 'Refumee as he said that "(he) must be silenced".
It makes me so happy to see someone experiencing these games for the first time they way I did. I love this series so goddamn much man
17:54 Cortana's "Secret" was the index. The Gravemind and the flood as a whole has one weakness, the halo's. He knew she had something up her sleeve. He didn't know that she still had the index from installation 04 as it hadn't been formed yet by the time that ring and all (Technically just most) of the flood on it were destroyed.
16:25 Love that Cortana's memory also replays the first meeting between John and Halsey, on that one colony's playground way back when(The Fall of Reach), to really show how deep Gravemind got into Cortana's mind.
18:05 - I think the secret Cortana was keeping from the Gravemind was the Index from Alpha Halo. As far as the Gravemind had known, Chief and the Arbiter's plan to take on the Flood could only be a direct fight, and so it was using Cortana to try and lure the two into a place - High Charity - where it could dispose of all three of them. With Cortana having confirmed for Chief that the Halo rings are still very much in play, she also confirmed the Gravemind's suspicions about how exactly Chief would finish the fight.
Halo 3 is the all time high of the franchise and I think it was a perfect cap for a perfect trilogy. Never has a game lived up to the hype as much as Halo 3 did. Late 2000s I feel was the golden age of AAA gaming and unfortunately we've seen a lot of big game studios bogged down in corporate meddling. It's been up to indie devs to deliver the creativity and zeal for gaming that once defined the AAA space.
And the multiplayer was also standout even if you didn't touch on it.
at around 18:00 the secret was actually the index when she showed Chief she had it. Had she actually given it to the gravemind it would have made the new ring un-fireable
17:57
The secret it's talking about is the activation index, as shown in the cutscene. I can see why you missed that since it's not exactly spelled out, but yeah, she held onto it and didn't let the gravemind know about it until it was too late.
I remember being in tears the first time I finished the trilogy. I was glad to have not played the games until I was old enough for the MCC and I never regretted waiting for so long, and it truly was, well, a great journey.
I think missed Win was when arbiter finally kills truth and let’s out a roar. I Believe this was him get revenge for all his fallen brothers that died by truth and his brutes
This series made me feel so exhilarating as a kid, and playing Wars made me feel so intelligent as a teen, Reach made me feel alive, 4 and 5 made me feel like a Veteran, and Anniversary made me cry. Such an indescribable franchise, and I'm ready for the emotions Infinite will bring. Honored to be on this ride with you man.
Love how it took him 2 months from CE to 2, but 2's cliffhanger made him do 3 immediatly.
Really kinda surprised you didn’t win the color shift in Cortana when John shows up in that mission. That shift of a depressed dark faint blue to a brighter glow when you actually sees him
17:25
"Keep your head down, there's two of us in here now, remember!?" Cortana said that in CE on the Pillar of Autum when you took too much damage.
She says it again in 3 when Chief rescues her and it really goes to show the bond between them.
The original Halo trilogy was a huge part of my life. I remember playing through CE when I was 8 at launch with my dad, and loving the game. When Halo 2 was announced we both got excited for it. I remember taking a day off school to stay home and finish the game when we got to the final levels. It's one of those games that brought my dad and I together and something I hold near and dear to who I am as a person. When Halo 3 was announced, my dad got me a 360 just to play it.
I wish we could have gone through 3 together before he died.
Cortana's and Chief's story will never cease to bring tears to my eyes. Fighting through High Charity, _knowing_ she's suffering, gives such a deep sense of desperation, making her line at the end, "You found me," such a relief. Freakin' beautiful.
Correction at 18:17 - the big secret was that Cortana still had possession of the activation index from the first Halo ring they fought on in Halo:CE. Now since the replacement for that Ring is being built on the Ark, Cortana’s plan is to activate the Ring to destroy the flood once and for all, and they’re outside of a radius that will harm other planets, humans, or other species. Full Circle.
Fun fact, the password at the door scene is voiced by Tucker and Doc from the web series Red vs Blue. An amazing series that is Rooster Teeth’s pinnacle achievement and was made in Halo
Fun Fact part 2: depending on the difficulty it can also be Simmons and Grif, or Church and Caboose
Just a fun little thing. The first time Cortana talks to Chief she say " Could you sacrifice me for the sake of the mission, could you watch me die" is the first thing Halsey asks Cortana when she chose Chief as her host spartan. I thought that was an interesting parallel because she immediately said yes to Halsey due to their safety being B priority vs the mission which is an A priority. Although we don't get Chiefs answer here he did leave her to finish the fight initially in halo 2. Later in halo 4 and 5 she asks Chief to figure out which of them is human making this a nice little Easter egg they put in to kind of kick it all off.
More references to the fall of Reach Book: Some of the lines Cortana says in Cortana are what Halsey says to the Spartan II trainees right after they were abducted and began training, and in the big arena where the Cortana terminal is, her background dialogue is Halsey's side of the conversation she had with John when she first meets him at his school. Got to love the respect Bungie had for the lore they had already established
@@grantcawby7225 They didn’t show it much respect when they made the game Reach
@@dukes1993724 You do realise the Game and Book about the fall of reach can be "blended" in such a way that the plot holes are small - check out halo canon's video!
@@Firefrab Eh, timeline is still screwy. You’re telling me the majority of the UNSC didn’t know the Covenant were on Reach until the last day it fell?
6:20 not only is this just funny dialogue, but those two voice actors are from Red vs Blue, and are playing their parts exactly as their respective characters would. Simmons and Tucker I believe.
You were right with Tucker, but the other guy’s Doc, not Simmons
5:53 fun fact that is a reference to red vs blue a halo machinima.
I like how in Co-op it shows two banshees flying into the mission “Cortana”
14:50 that music still makes me anxious
This game series quite literally defined my childhood , i have made life long friends from halo!!!!! Peoplei still know and game with to this day.... some 15 years after i first met them.
For me the halo series as a whole is the best gaming has ever been especially in 3 , with campaign, multiplayer, forge, theater , file share, THE MUSIC , from the ranking system to BTB to the damn promotional videos made for the game this was the pinnacle of gaming for so so soooo many people all around the world and for me in 20 years of halo nothing has come close to this game , the expanded universe the fans everything about it has still to be topped and i don't think it will be .
And to friends made on Halo that we have lost , RIP Usher you will be missed Brother .
One of my absolute, absolute favorite moments from this game is when Chief and Arbiter are back to back, and Arbiter says "We trade one villain for another." Has so much good implication behind it and emotion behind the dialogue, it highlights how they've both grown to trust each other as well. I love it.
5:40 Makes perfect sense, you ever played a really difficult game and tried to complete it failing over and over again? You're getting close to the end and you're emotional and losing it slightly at the thought of failing again and having to start over, you want to win and in the context of a video game, you'll put your character through hell, first time you go through it like it's no big deal.
(I realise it's just a game, but as someone who prefers their own company, especially given how people are nowadays, I resonate more with digital landscapes and CGI people than I ever did with real people.)
Wow, talk about timing. I played through the Halo series in the MCC for the first time this week, and it really blew me away. 3 and Reach in particular lived up to the decade-long hype. It's such an incredible series.
Noble 6 ending was possibly imo the greatest ending for a character you play.That ending is so epic even to this day.
The music swell when Chief grabs Johnson's hand always gives me goosebumps. Halo 3 is *THE* best Halo game story-wise and soundtrack-wise.
Also, there is a secret ending if you play on the hardest difficulty, Legnedary.
There's one you missed in H3 (Halo 3) and that was Johnson promise to never let Cortana go. Keeping a promise to an old friend.
When Gravemind says “At last, her secret is revealed!” he was actually referring to that Cortana having the copy of the Sacred Icon or “key” of the first Halo Ring so they could activate the newly built one to destroy the Flood.
Cortana desperately prevented the Flood from finding out or the Gravemind would’ve fought hard against it and possibly destroyed Cortana to prevent it.
Halo 3 has such a great story. Even great stories from the surface and to the core. They tied the stories together very nicely from Halo 1-3
prety much everything about halo 3 is perfection, the campaign, the musical score, the multiplayer, i remember getting my xbox 360 when I was 9 and playing it all day when i came out
Thanks for this video bro this is my favorite in the series its a masterpiece in my opinion.
Fun fact: The little 'let me in' skit in the beginning was inspired by Rooster Teeth's Red vs Blue. A machinima show they made using Halo Multiplayer and later full on animation and motion tracking.
What I would give to be able to experience this trilogy, again, for the first time. Your end comments really hit home. This game was, at the time, the biggest entertainment launch ever. GTA 4, and many more broke its record, but being a console exclusive that did so well, AT LAUNCH, is amazing. I’m glad you got to enjoy it. Cheers!
Fun Fact about the Chopper. It was actually made by an Engineer (You'll see some in ODST, floating squid bois) to be farming equipment when the Covenant first found Humanity on Harvest. It was made as a peaceful gift, but things hit the fan, this involved a nervous grunt, gunfire, and the rise of Tartarus. But later on during the War, it was made to be less than peaceful as seen in Halo 3. (Though you may know this)
Good work on the videos, I love watching them and seeing the enjoyment and excitement many people felt upon first playing Halo captured so purely in this video and the previous ones(at least to me.) I can't wait to see your ones on Halo Reach and Halo 3: ODST.
Halo 3 was the first Halo I played, I've gone back to play combat evolved and two now but I think this was an amazing introduction to the series for me.
Same here.
This was my first Halo game that I ever played. Me and my best friend would stay up late playing Co-Op at his house. This game has defined so much of my passions. The mutual respect between The Arbiter and Chief taught me the importance of being a true friend. Martin O'Donnell's score lead me to learn to play the violin and join my orchestra (both tremendous blessings that I simply can't put into words). These things and more from this game helped me become a better friend and brother. I often find myself listening to Never Forget, feeling everything all over again.
Glad to see your input on my favorite video game trilogy, and even more ecstatic that you liked it. Im excited to see your videos on 4 and 5, and hopefully Infinite when it releases, keep up the great work, cheers!
space on metric, international space station, space on the imperial system, yo doods, the empire's pretty chill, maybe you could like join it or something
Honestly, I can’t wait to see you get to the rest of the series. I started my relationship with Halo with Reach and onward because I was also a PlayStation kid growing up. I didn’t actually complete Halo 1-3s campaigns until MCC came out. Seeing you do Reach, 4, and 5 is gonna be fun.
Also, the only trilogy that is perfect is The Lord of the Rings and yes, I will fight anyone on that.
No one cares
@@nickmf22 then why respond?
10:36
Cortana: *In AI pain*
Chief: *Concern* Honey, you alright?
Congrats on the 100k man, you really deserve it.
Fun fact! the vignette in which the marine won't open the door is in reference to the red vs blue web series and depending on what difficulty you play on, you'll get different voice actors and different dialogue.
In terms of great soundtracks, you should do Journey and The Order: 1886: two of my favorite video game soundtracks.
2:10 haha funny you mention that since 3 was my first halo game... still didn't need much explanation though felt pretty standard either way
Same honestly
This really just shows that the video game industry has really went down the drain, you look at all these old games that were totally amazing with love and effort put behind them to release a working product, back when you could trust pre-ordering a game. Anyway good vid and maybe do wins for could be the Metal Gear series, this isn't a suggestion I am approaching rapidly.
17:00 This is most likely one of the best moments in Halo's music. It starts with Cortana's motif, then the piano transitions to Chief's motif and the strings counter with the Halo theme as Cortana pulls up the index. Every moment from the previous games set up for this, Marty's "emotional equity" really shines.
Younger kids have no idea how influential and 💣 bombastic the original Halo trilogy was! I still have great memories playing the co-op campaign on all three games. ❤️
I remember playing this with my brothers on split screen. It was always a fight for who would get the larger top screen. So much fun grinding away on campaign and sandtrap in pursuit of various armor sets. Hayabusa helmet with Katana body for the win. This game is what I grew up playing.
5:54
First off, that's a Red vs Blue. You got Tucker and Doc here, Tucker being locked out.
Secondly, it's different depending on the difficulty. You can also get Grif and Simmons or Church and Caboose.
I think you're missing several other wins as well, but I don't feel like listing them right now.
I knew they would multiwin to “and so you must be silenced”, but slightly bummed he didn’t include the yell Arbiter does after it has so much emotion and punctuates the already badass moment and completes Arby’s arc perfectly
Here before someone mentions the incredible entrance of the Forward Unto Dawn!
8:45 FINALLY! You finally put it into words how this scene makes me feel!
Sorry im going to nerd out lmao but i think she was actually protecting the index? But I seriously loved this video. Halo was truly an amazing game!
I believe it was more than just Installation 04's index as well, it's pretty much correct she protected Chief as well, but I'm pretty sure Gravemind knew how humanity saw him, maybe she knew something else. Plus, it's a weird thing that Installation 08/04B works with an index from a destroyed ring, like any index could work
@@soupgirl1871 Maybe? 😂 tbh i never actually read their relationship in a romantic light (until Halo 4) but I can totally see where you’re coming from and I absolutely love the ambiguity of their relationship (again until Halo 4 lmao). I do agree it is kind of weird that an old (destroyed) Halo index works with the new one BUT it’s kind of consistent considering that we (the player) never actually got the index in Halo 2? Maybe it was just an insurance thing from the Forerunners? Like every index was a master key? Lol
Halo lore fan here: thought I’d toss in a little background info towards one of the last wins in the video. All Spartans are, at the time of their death departure from active service (aside from resignation and such) are always recorded as MIA, or missing in action this is seen mentioned in Halo Reach, and despairs funerals being seen for some Spartans, such as one from Halo Wars. Thought I’d share this cool fact :)
Time to hurt GamingWins and everyone that doesn't know.
343 Guilty Spark is alive. It is in the books I believe that 343 was recovered by a human ship and he has taken it over. So there's a chance someday in the future we are going to hear "Oh! Reclaimer!" again.
... Then switch to full-auto and not hesitate like last time !
@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 Indeed
Honestly, it’s amazing that you’re feeling the exact same way that I felt 14 years ago. I was getting goosebumps and you’ve taken the perfect care of this series that I knew you would back in your CE video. So thank you GamingWins, just like I thanked Bungie and 343 for taking beautiful care of one of the most important things in my life
Best game of all time argue with the wall
I don't think I appreciated it quite right as a kid but growing up and playing Halo made some of the worst years of my life into some of the best. It was a real work of art and I still can't hold back tears and shivers when I hear those lines by those voices, those cinematic shots and immaculate music, this story that had no right to make a shooter about aliens so damn good.
Also, really excited to see Halo 3: ODST and Halo Reach when you do those videos.
Halo 3 was my first Halo game and I’m so glad it was
My first ever game I played when I was just a kid and 14 years later and halo 3 still brings tears to my eye.
Beautiful as not just a game but art as a whole.
Something funny my family noticed is that if you're playing co-op against guilty spark, he will Target chief specifically. Which we realized after player 1 accidentally fell off the catwalk and couldn't respawn cause player 2 was in combat....
'in combat' meaning staring at the floating lightbulb as he yelled and glared Lazer beams down at player 1's dead body, either not noticing player 2, or not caring.
Could've been a glitch, but it really happened. Spark hates chief.
The last 3 minutes of you describing your experience made me emotional. 20 years ago I played the 1st Halo as a kid & fell completely in love with the franchise. There’s a charm to it I really haven’t found with any other franchise & I’m grateful for all the memories I have with it throughout all these years. Glad I stumbled upon this video for a walk down memory lane.
Just watching this got me on the verge of tears at some points.
So many emotional triggers.
I love fighting the scarab, trying to destroy everything on it before blowing it up was so satisfying.
When this came out, I had only briefly played CE and 2, but to me, this was the pinnacle of gaming. There was nothing in my mind that could ever top this, and to this day I still feel the same way. Countless hours spent solo and with friends playing through multiplayer matches putting our 10 year old blood sweat and tears into amazing firefights, and doing the same as we played the campaign as Chief, Arby and what we dubbed the other elites as "Silly Campaign Elites". This game will forever be my example of what perfection can look like. Thank you for the reminder. And remember, Spartans never die. Keep up the great work brother.
This is one of my favourite games of all time littered with so many moments I love but my favourite is when the ship the lands the sheer scale of the ship backed by the killer score is just amazing
1:53 another great little detail is that master chief does not let go of Johnson’s arm untill he gets back the chip.
19:31 I’m glad you got that one in there, it was fun confusing people in your stream when I brought it up
Every line in this game has quite potential, and they’re all so good! I love the mutual respect for both allies and enemies that just ooze from everyone. Even the most hated of enemies or unwilling allies don’t treat the others like they’re weak or incompetent, but as genuine threats and powerful beings they have to take care around and respect lest they be destroyed.
It’s so rare these days to see that level of self-confidence and control, it feels all the cooler and more reverent.
Halo, and halo 3 especially has a special place in my heart. Life long fan. Was 7 during CE. I’ve lost friends, gained friends, and grown old all with Halo. And it’s so personal to me and what halo did for me as a kid growing up through high-school that hearing never forget strings ( halo 3 menu, etc ) I am brought to tears. Every time. If anyone wants to meet Steve or Jen, they go to a ton of comic cons every year for autographs etc. people have just about anything signed they can carry. On top of that, sometimes you can get a rare appearance from Marty o donnell and Jeff Steizer.
That end rank could not be more accurate or perfect. Halo 3 really did stick the landing for the trilogy, and I wish I had appreciated it more as an early teen, because my god, this game series is so gripping and beautiful.
That whole opening cinematic to The Ark should've been included, it's too good!
6:18 AND on top of that being an easter egg to one of the best online shows I've ever watched. Good stuff RVB
5:53 Like Johnson's lines in CE, 2 and 3, depending on what difficulty you play this on, you not only get different lines of dialogue for this scene, but get them from none other than the Red Vs Blue team.
8:19 it’s briefly said about the destruction but I can’t stress enough how much I love the phantom pieces being broken off when they explode. They changed it in reach where it’s just one small piece that remains but in 3, it’s multiple pieces and it’s so cool
If there was ever something I wanted you to cover more than anything, it would have to be the Metro series. Love those games to death.
Your passion and love for these games makes the nostalgia and my personal love for these so much better, Thankyou
I poured a couple cups of milk, sat down with that marine, and had an emotional conversation about how it’s all gonna be ok.
6:21 forgot to mention eh very funny RVB reference but it’s ok
I legit actually started tearing up towards the end of this video. It's weird, but I didn't grow up with an Xbox. I was also a Playstation kid, but the memories I have of staying up all night with my buddies playing on their Xbox's as we played Halo together... Man, take me back please. Life was easy and the nostalgia hits hard every. single. time. I would die of anticipation every time my friends and I would plan to go spend the night at each other's places just so we could game for hours on end.
This was incredible, thanks for allowing me to get my emotions out a bit tonight.
I love this game so much, I came in late as I’m only 18 but halo 3 quickly became my favorite game. And even ten years later still holds that spot. This video encapsulated almost everything that makes it so good to the point where the ending made me cry. I’m so happy you get to experience this for the first time!
As an OG halo fan, seeing someone discover halos GOAT (fr) story is the closest I’ll get to replaying it, W VIDEO