"One of the keys to the success of Halo's story is that we didn't pump a lot of time into figuring out who the Master Chief was." - Joe Staten, Bungie, 2007
@@HaedenBeck Exactly. He went from being a selfless, focused, and legendary hero to being an emotionally compromised doofus who can't get over the demise of his platonic relationship with a holographic AI. 343i *REALLY* did *EVERYTHING* they could to lobotomize Chief of everything that made him so cool.
Man why is it always you retards dickriding the weakest parts of the old games as if they were the best?? There is no way you people really are against proper character development
Crazy to look back on when Bungie was a well-oiled machine. So sad that this group of developers split up so badly after Halo Reach. Only a handful of the people behind that team are even still there. This truly was a dream team and we didn't even know it.
@@AltumNovo Which is sad, because that's exactly the kind of thing the team at Bungie was very against. In one of the earlier ViDocs there is a snippet from (I think) Jason Jones basically explaining the move from their original offices to Washington, and the team refused to work in the cubicles that they were welcomed with. They wanted an open floor plan, and Microsoft gave it to them. Somewhere along the line, money became more important than the vision (surprise, surprise) and they became just another corporate entity.
@@JustSause youll never get people to agree, but as a Halo OG, reach was better than 3. not sure why theres so much sentiment for the 4th best game in the series
I remember playing this as my first major game with my Xbox 360 when I got it for Christmas. Got halo 3 and an 360 elite. Not only was my mind blown away but it was first time playing online on any game. I remember I had no idea about Ethernet ports and connections so I called Xbox and the guy walked me through and gave me a 12 month code for free. That was one of the great summers ever playing halo 3 online
Bad Boys Hub they used to give out free live like nothing back then and every game came with a month 2 weeks or so. Eventually they made them smaller and smaller then stopped giving it away....
I miss when game devs actually cared about bug testing their game and making it fun, now it's rare for a new game to actually be competent and playable which sucks
We took the bungie days for granted and just expected them to create something amazing and nowadays we cant even depend on developers to create a playable game. I miss the good days.
My friends and I were in high school at the time, and we still reminisce about this era of gaming. From 2007 to 2013, there just seemed like there was a classic released every three months or so. Halo, COD, Bioshock, all of the Valve games, Elders Scrolls, Fallout, Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, Gears Of War, GTA, and even LA Noire were all coming out at the same time, and it was glorious. Not to sound like a old bag of bones, but this current generation of gaming doesn't even come close to that era, and I doubt any gaming generation ever will.
i've always loved marty's work on halo but that bit at 53:50 where he explains how different music pieces come in depending on what you're doing/where you're going is what really convinced me just how much of a genius he really is. halo will never be the same without him
The fact that i didn’t even know you could skip those cinematics speaks to the god tier storytelling of Halo 3. Good times. So much nostalgia in this video it’s honestly emotional. Thank you old Bungie 🙏🏼 you’ve molded my childhood and gave me a taste of the finer art of story driven games and spoiled all of us. Forever grateful 💯
Spencer Love imagine having all the source code, all the tools, access to all these documentaries, Microsoft’s unlimited budget, a huge existing fan base....and still fucking it up. 343 are something else
tobsmonster2 dude... you just put it into perspective. I remember when I was younger, every time a halo came out it was almost like another holiday. I got the Halo 4 Xbox 360 and Controller, and all the stuff that came with it. That day I got it home and loaded up Halo 4, and all I remember was it was the first time I had EVER been disappointed with a Halo game. I was so crushed. I wondered what you did... how could somebody ruin something so incredible... I mean Halo was one of those things you’d think would be HARD to mess up... but... Hats off to 343.
Halo 4 was not too bad, 343 didnt fucked it completely. But they missed on firefight mode. At least you still get to play as the master chief. After that. I stopped playing halo.
Well yeah baked lighting will always be cheaper, that's the point baking. Engines are trying for dynamic lighting so that moving things can look nicely lit too, since we've got 1000x the compute power to start to pull it off now.
Seeing this over a year after halo infinite release lowkey hurts. So much skill & passion split apart over time all built on the flagship title of Microsoft. I'll never forget the joy this franchise gave my friends and I during those peak years of gaming.
I dont even want to know all the pressure and terrible work conditions and all that shit, that these guys went through throughout the halo series. They made a miracle. They made a masterpiece. Gamers will never forget halo.
They didn't go thru any of that (aside from pressure because they were at the helm of a highly anticipated project & wanted to deliver) because they were truly passionate about what they were doing, they loved it. One of the engineers even says he would happily never stop working on the game even if they were fired for missing deadlines. Obviously its an exaggeration but it got his point across, you can tell just how much he loved what he was doing.
The Bungie Halo employees were truly a gaming dream team. It was a shame to see it split up once they finished with Halo and see Destiny suffer for it. The Bungie Halo games will always be the crowning achievements of their generations though.
Back in these days we were so spoiled by great games that it even didn't feel like a prime. Today the bars has greatly lowered, but our expectations still haven't, because we once had it all. We can hope that one day, these kinds of passion projects return to gaming. Halo 3 was a freaking masterpiece.
This is so true. I stopped playing video games for the most part after halo reach cause nothing stood up to my childhood games. I mean how can you beat playing halo 2 and mw2 as your first Xbox games
They’re all so passionate about what they’re doing, nowadays it seems about hiring as many people as you can and getting it done as soon as possible, these guys are doing it out of passion, you can’t buy that with no matter how much money you have
This is why modern games usually suck. They are no longer made by a relatively small team that cares so much about the project, they’re all made by huge companies with thousands of employees just doing the work to make money. There’s obviously some that care a lot about the games they’re making but their passion gets just seems to get drowned out. Most triple A game titles are just awful and unfinished nowadays. It’s sad.
The part of this doc that has always stuck with me is when he's explaining the cinematics at 7:25 and "what keeps a player from skipping". I've replayed the Halo trilogy many times throughout the years and I never skip them. My all-time favorite game series is Metal Gear, and I struggle to sit through most of the cutscenes on repeat playthroughs. Even though they're technically impressive, they really take you out of the action and immersion. Halo just hit that sweet spot of cutscenes that had a lot going on, not being too long, and making you feel like you've accomplished something.
I don't think I've ever skipped a Halo cut scene either from any of the three Halos. I'll even watch all the scenes from Halo 4. Even though some of the characters are really cliche in Halo 4 (the unintelligent general who's always yelling) and some of the action sequences that seem a little to cartoony (MC jumping out of the building and falling thousands of feet to land on a flying pelican), I'll still watch them.
Guilty sparks voice actor does such an amazing job he doesn’t even need a flanger. All the voice actors were excellent picks. Seeing Marty and the audio team work makes me wanna hop on fl studio.
To the younger generation reading this. Appreciate your gaming experiences and make sure you do not lose contact with your gaming friends. I nearly cried when the H3 server was shut down. The opening music takes me back to some fond memories that I wish I could relive again. I’m somewhat angry that the majority of us gamers were oblivious in appreciating we were experiencing the golden peak gaming era.
I remember being in middle school when this game came out. My mom went with me to the midnight launch and let me play it until 2am even though I had to be up for school at 6am. Gah. Great times.
Why is it Bungie devs looked like normal human beings whereas almost everyone in 343's Halo Infinite multiplayer overview looks like a recovering crack addict?
Shout out to every single one of you who was there until the bitter end of the OG server sunset. That was some of the best Halo I’ve ever played. No gaming experience will ever come close to this era of Xbox 360 Halo. This was more than a game - it was something you grew up with. This shared experience is ours forever
Halo 3, and even newer Halos such as 5 and Infintie, are all based on the 'Blam' engine which has it's roots wayyy back in Bungie's old game Myth. Halo actually came about when Jason Jones (I think) was modifying the Blam engine (or what would become the Blam engine) to support 3d characters rather than just sprites. Although the Blam engine is closed-source, and I think is written in C++, Halo and the Blam engine also uses a modified version of Lua called 'Blamscript' which is used for scripting the campaign (events, such as enemy spawning, triggering cutscenes, objectives, and phantom/pelican drop-offs etc). While there's very little official documentation for blamscript (as it was only intended to be used internally within Bungie), several modders have figured out how to use blamscript and there's quite a fair bit of unofficial documentation on it out there. And there's also the way that Halo uses levels, BSPs, tags and .map files. A lot of which is used by modders to make new maps. If you wanna learn more about Halo's engine, then I'd recommend joining some modding discords, there's a bunch of people who've spent a lot of time researching and digging into it. Ever since official modding tools were released for Halo 3 (including some of the tools seen in this video) there's a lot more people digging into Halo 3 and modding.
@@leah-marie5031 No its not once again. Maybe in this comment section but most people would say 5 is fun and objectively it is fun. Just because it's not Halo 3 doesn't mean it isn't fun.
@@REALMARCHINADER Most people find Halo 5 to be the worst in the main games. You may not think so but many others do. You can find it fun if you want but neither of our opinions are solid facts at the end of the day. It's just that a majority of those opinions outweigh yours.
"i dont think there is one developer who is glad we are in an HD world now." AAA games are so bogged down by the graphics arms race now that there seems to be almost no room for innovation on the engineering end of things.
Those of us who lived through gaming in the 90s -2011... well tbh. I seriously think that no one else ever will experience the same amount of passion & love & fun & genuinely amazing games and projects... it will never be the same or as good. We’re Fucking extremely lucky.
The hammer to the og Xbox got me fukn dead 😂😂 the Foley sounds are so good. It took me becoming a mix engineer to realize. Marty the goat too, never knew the music was triggered like that
I finally got to play Halo 3 for the first time and somehow I've managed to avoid spoilers for this long. And I will say it's Halo 2 on steroids. But NOTHING will ever top the first impressions of each and every character you met in Halo 2. And I WISH the Master Chief and the Arbiter shared more lines in Halo 3.
The most interesting part of this for me was the parts where they discussed how the then-new systems made things so much more complicated. It's interesting to think of how it's obsolete now, but it was cutting edge then. *Especially* the water. I remember seeing bodies float in the water for the first time and being blown away by it.
@Andrea Basei agree. I play halo 3 campaign on the regular and the graphics aren't even obsolete yet imo. That's what happens when the devs care though. Best game ever imo
‘A Brute lawnmower that is fun to shoot’ I have never thought of the Chopper in that way but now I can’t get it out of my head. It’s stuck there forever.
If I could magically go back to being a kid, I would 100% go back to right before the first Halo came out so that I could experience the entire franchise for the first time again.
Bro, this documentary has opened my eyes even more what developers are currently going through with covid and being remote. OMG, what a nightmare to have to manage and keep on time. Salute to the developers.
6 years making a game and you want to say is because of covid that 343 fucked Halo? they even had an extra year .... I don't want to see this kinda stupid comments
Perhaps It's more tangible for me because I'm not familiar with game design, bug fixes, etc. But, my god, all the trouble they go through to create all those various voice lines and then having to transcribe all that into other languages is just incredible to me. So much work!
Even someone who isn’t familiar with shit like this, I still have so much appreciation and respect for the hard work that Bungie went through to make these games so amazing
the passion is really... something more than I've ever seen documented. the love, passion, the weight we know they felt, but the courage and teamwork that brought it together!
hearing the team talk about how to blend story telling with gameplay is just amazing. this is something that has been lost in video games. everyone is trying to make a movie these days instead of a game. looking at you sony and your movie games.
Loving the pfp, Kamerad! Seeing Kamraden on such videos makes me smile. Not only good beliefs, but good tastes in Games. I miss these days all of the time....
Halo 3 is a fantastic game and Bungie is such an amazing game development company. Halo and Destiny are some of my favorite and most important game series.
yeah it's a really old game from 2007 but what i like about the (late, late) release of Halo 3 on PC is that it looks great and runs smooth even on budget craptops with 30+ frames.
It doesn't anymore unfortunately. I can't run Halo 3 smoothly (especially multiplayer) anymore on a PC that can run Halo 4 at 60fps in 900p. It's been like this since season 6.
This is impressive especially because it's not just one or a few folks with the insight, it's so many different guys who are passionate, thoughtful, and considered, and all excited to explain the intricate work that went into the pursuit of sheer excellence in game design, and it is amazing. These guys never settled amd kept trying to go above and beyond. Really something special.
Man, the nostalgia. The real Great Journey were the friends we made along the way. Halo 3 Xbox live during 2007-2010 was the greatest period in my gaming life. To anyone out there from the old days, this is Lance_SKYWALKER reporting in.
Watching this now, gives me chills I haven't had in years. Especially when explaining how each cinematic segment fits in to what you've just done or about to do. This is beautiful...Thank you, brave souls. You gave us the best of memories. And I want to go back to those times. I really want those Halo/Bungie shirts they're wearing
Quote XKCD: "Too bad they never made any sequels" (Originally about The Matrix, but nowadays, it applies to an appallingly growing number of things. I bet you can name a bunch too...)
Why the hell did they move Frank O'Connor from community manager to managing editor? The guy is a world-class bullshitter. He's one of the primary reasons Halo is dead.
49:50 I find really interesting just because of the level of detail. I got really bored one day and went to Halo 3 and spawned all the weapons in forge and shot them all one by one and then watched it in theater to admire every individual sound. From the gun firing, to the individual spent casings hitting the ground, to the bullets impacting a surface, and the character reloading. I did the same thing in Halo 5 and none of that stuff is present. There’s no sounds of casings landing, the gun fire clarity isn’t nearly as good, the bullets only make sounds when they impact certain surfaces, there’s just not nearly as much attention to detail and it’s pretty sad. I didn’t hate Halo 5, but the love and care that was put into the first three Halo games has yet to be rivaled in any other game I’ve ever played.
The halo 3 warthog was still one of the best feeling vehicles in all of gaming. In terms of mechanics and fun. Like controlling it through the air is unrealistic but it’s way more fun and skillful to land a sick jump with a flip
I love at 3:00 they talk about chief being a husk, a suit of armor, a blank skate. Totally different than Halo 4 and the current Halo TV show which is trying to build on his personality. I guess they could get away with it in Halo 1,2,3 because of the excellent supporting characters. A little more difficult when you kill them all off…
Halo 3 marks the golden years of my life lol. It came out 2 days before my 14th birthday. My brother moved away to go to college and my best friend basically moved into his room. All we did was come home from school, do our homework, then binge Halo for 10 or so hours. In between rounds we would do as many push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups etc as we could. We lived that lifestyle for damn near 2 years. Towards the end we started going out and partying and hooking up with girls (which was easy because we looked like we were on roids). They say there’s no such thing as perfect but that was as close as it could get for me.
Great documentary. Long time fan of Halo. Everything about the Halo games just lined up perfectly for me- the story, the space marines and guns, the cool hero Master Chief, the aliens, the music, etc. I also really liked the progression of Master Chief's character from Halo 1 to Halo 4. MC is a private and mysterious person so they way they revealed just a little bit more of him in each game was just right and very satisfying. I know the creators said they were trying to make MC a blank slate without any character but sorry, this actually only defined the MC's character even more LOL. Even in the first Halo.
Sad how we all were in the prime of gaming. And didn’t even know how good we had it.
I would do anything to go back honestly. Adulting makes me want to off myself
We just have to remember halo, bungies halo, going into the future of gaming
Don’t be sad that’s it’s over , be glad it even happened
It was an established expectation, what reason did we have to even conceive this precedent could go away?
yeah man.... wish I kept all those friends
"One of the keys to the success of Halo's story is that we didn't pump a lot of time into figuring out who the Master Chief was." - Joe Staten, Bungie, 2007
Meanwhile nowadays master chief is human he’s emotional he has a dumpy 🤣
@@HaedenBeck Exactly. He went from being a selfless, focused, and legendary hero to being an emotionally compromised doofus who can't get over the demise of his platonic relationship with a holographic AI. 343i *REALLY* did *EVERYTHING* they could to lobotomize Chief of everything that made him so cool.
@@brodieyake7735 Imagine taking a character who had no character besides saying yes sir - and fuck it up!
@@HaedenBeck 😂😂😭 yooo this got me dead
Man why is it always you retards dickriding the weakest parts of the old games as if they were the best?? There is no way you people really are against proper character development
I get mad emotional watching this. I just want that time back where everyone played halo 3.
ghuldorgrey so do I man. I keep pausing it to collect my emotions lmao. My god it's amazing.
On the plus side Halo 3 should be coming to PC soon-ish. It’ll be fucking lit!
@@thirdpartypariah6514 im gonna guess it's gonna come out the same day they release halo infinite gameplay which is in july
Just want to nerd the multiplayer again
ghuldorgrey halo mcc people are playing h3
I salute the brave men and women that worked on the bungie halos
Hank Fuentes yes 💯
I mean, just say "people".
Hank Fuentes check out my newest video is the making of halo 2
You're welcome!! Hahaha! Not sure I ever saw this video. Glad I have now!
Tim Dadabo, aka 343 Guilty Spark
Tim Dadabo, Voice Actor i had pity laser you up you know...
Crazy to look back on when Bungie was a well-oiled machine. So sad that this group of developers split up so badly after Halo Reach. Only a handful of the people behind that team are even still there. This truly was a dream team and we didn't even know it.
Brandon Kruse I know, they did such great games back then. Destiny is good but not to the halo 2-3 halo days
There's a lot of the original team still there it's just that some of the real key figures are gone which is unfortunate.
It's largely the corporate environment that ruined everything.
@@AltumNovo Which is sad, because that's exactly the kind of thing the team at Bungie was very against. In one of the earlier ViDocs there is a snippet from (I think) Jason Jones basically explaining the move from their original offices to Washington, and the team refused to work in the cubicles that they were welcomed with. They wanted an open floor plan, and Microsoft gave it to them. Somewhere along the line, money became more important than the vision (surprise, surprise) and they became just another corporate entity.
Now white women are ruining the studio. Blacked Bungie is cringe as heck.
There will NEVER be another developer team on par with the Halo 1-3 Development team. Ever.
halo odst and reach: am i a joke 2 u?
@@JustSause youll never get people to agree, but as a Halo OG, reach was better than 3. not sure why theres so much sentiment for the 4th best game in the series
I love how fun is what underlines every decision. If it's not fun, then it doesn't make the cut. That's the philosophy behind all truly great games.
I remember playing this as my first major game with my Xbox 360 when I got it for Christmas. Got halo 3 and an 360 elite. Not only was my mind blown away but it was first time playing online on any game. I remember I had no idea about Ethernet ports and connections so I called Xbox and the guy walked me through and gave me a 12 month code for free. That was one of the great summers ever playing halo 3 online
Same i was 9 when i got halo3 with xbox best memories playing whit my brother and friends bungie was legendary!
Bro I feel like there’s no way they gave you 12 months free lol
@@asdalskdf "And then they clapped"
Bad Boys Hub they used to give out free live like nothing back then and every game came with a month 2 weeks or so. Eventually they made them smaller and smaller then stopped giving it away....
Bad Boys Hub they did man lol. I had a really squeaky voice and the dude was super nice. He knew I just wanted to play online.
I miss when game devs actually cared about bug testing their game and making it fun, now it's rare for a new game to actually be competent and playable which sucks
“Man do I really want to give all this credit to Marty?”
If that doesn’t show how huge he was in creating Halo I don’t know what will
We took the bungie days for granted and just expected them to create something amazing and nowadays we cant even depend on developers to create a playable game. I miss the good days.
I believe Halo 3 was the pinnacle of online gaming and nothing will ever really live up to that experience. The original trilogy are perfect.
My friends and I were in high school at the time, and we still reminisce about this era of gaming. From 2007 to 2013, there just seemed like there was a classic released every three months or so. Halo, COD, Bioshock, all of the Valve games, Elders Scrolls, Fallout, Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, Gears Of War, GTA, and even LA Noire were all coming out at the same time, and it was glorious. Not to sound like a old bag of bones, but this current generation of gaming doesn't even come close to that era, and I doubt any gaming generation ever will.
Amen.@@brodieyake7735
3 was the best if you werent skilled enough to get good at 2, sure
I don't think we'll ever have a game quite like Halo 3 ever again.
i've always loved marty's work on halo but that bit at 53:50 where he explains how different music pieces come in depending on what you're doing/where you're going is what really convinced me just how much of a genius he really is. halo will never be the same without him
The music really was one of the greatest gems of the game.
Amazing, they truly had fun and passion when creating this game, it has soul.
Bungie had a purpose driven to make the game they love. There will be no game companies that will have the same passion as convicted as bungie.
There was a lot more than simple passion.
They thought things through, they had a ton of brains on their side too.
Its 2020 and I stall rather play halo 3 than any other halo.
@@jamesw3036 also extremely talented people, alot of peeps there studied psychology
@@joekev27 Cringe.
This process seemed to go much more smoothly than Halo 2’s development. Forever grateful to Bungie for creating these games
The fact that i didn’t even know you could skip those cinematics speaks to the god tier storytelling of Halo 3. Good times. So much nostalgia in this video it’s honestly emotional. Thank you old Bungie 🙏🏼 you’ve molded my childhood and gave me a taste of the finer art of story driven games and spoiled all of us. Forever grateful 💯
"I love my job. EA are you hiring?"
42:55
Desperate times
Different times
@@bombomos not evvveeeeeennnn
@@SoulbentAnime yes even, also did you have a stroke typing
@@Ryan-xq3kl no not even. And no I intentionally put a bunch of letters to emphasize the evennnnnnn. You have to listen to the way people talk.
343 should watch this... And take some damn notes.
Spencer Love imagine having all the source code, all the tools, access to all these documentaries, Microsoft’s unlimited budget, a huge existing fan base....and still fucking it up. 343 are something else
tobsmonster2 dude... you just put it into perspective. I remember when I was younger, every time a halo came out it was almost like another holiday. I got the Halo 4 Xbox 360 and Controller, and all the stuff that came with it. That day I got it home and loaded up Halo 4, and all I remember was it was the first time I had EVER been disappointed with a Halo game. I was so crushed. I wondered what you did... how could somebody ruin something so incredible... I mean Halo was one of those things you’d think would be HARD to mess up... but... Hats off to 343.
Spencer Love check out my latest video is the full documentary of halo 2
I agree after halo of duty avengers 5 343 almost killed the halo franchise infinite will be the last chance
Halo 4 was not too bad, 343 didnt fucked it completely. But they missed on firefight mode. At least you still get to play as the master chief. After that. I stopped playing halo.
Halo 3 has amazing baked lighting. It looks just as if not more photorealistic than newer dynamic lighting systems while being cheaper to render.
Well yeah baked lighting will always be cheaper, that's the point baking. Engines are trying for dynamic lighting so that moving things can look nicely lit too, since we've got 1000x the compute power to start to pull it off now.
Seeing this over a year after halo infinite release lowkey hurts. So much skill & passion split apart over time all built on the flagship title of Microsoft. I'll never forget the joy this franchise gave my friends and I during those peak years of gaming.
I dont even want to know all the pressure and terrible work conditions and all that shit, that these guys went through throughout the halo series.
They made a miracle. They made a masterpiece. Gamers will never forget halo.
Better work conditions then what 343 gave them thats for sure
They didn't go thru any of that (aside from pressure because they were at the helm of a highly anticipated project & wanted to deliver) because they were truly passionate about what they were doing, they loved it. One of the engineers even says he would happily never stop working on the game even if they were fired for missing deadlines. Obviously its an exaggeration but it got his point across, you can tell just how much he loved what he was doing.
The Bungie Halo employees were truly a gaming dream team. It was a shame to see it split up once they finished with Halo and see Destiny suffer for it. The Bungie Halo games will always be the crowning achievements of their generations though.
Back in these days we were so spoiled by great games that it even didn't feel like a prime. Today the bars has greatly lowered, but our expectations still haven't, because we once had it all. We can hope that one day, these kinds of passion projects return to gaming. Halo 3 was a freaking masterpiece.
This is so true. I stopped playing video games for the most part after halo reach cause nothing stood up to my childhood games. I mean how can you beat playing halo 2 and mw2 as your first Xbox games
Halo 3 and reach were the last games i played so much that my game console broke multiple times from never turning off my xbox
I played H3 so much one summer the disc broke in my Xbox
"Let's show the Chiefs face. That would be a really good idea." Even Bungie has bad ideas. They just didn't follow through with them.
Just finished my trilogy run yesterday, doing that every once in a while to remember what good video games used to be.
This behind the scenes stuff on halo 1, 2 and 3 was my cocain as a kid. Really helped me get excited enough to dive into game dev stuff
They’re all so passionate about what they’re doing, nowadays it seems about hiring as many people as you can and getting it done as soon as possible, these guys are doing it out of passion, you can’t buy that with no matter how much money you have
It wasn't just passion. They certainly had brains on their side, too.
Fronexe The ai in the game is very smart even today I am finding out new things about it Bungie had brilliant designers
And yet they have tons of delays
This is why modern games usually suck. They are no longer made by a relatively small team that cares so much about the project, they’re all made by huge companies with thousands of employees just doing the work to make money. There’s obviously some that care a lot about the games they’re making but their passion gets just seems to get drowned out. Most triple A game titles are just awful and unfinished nowadays. It’s sad.
The part of this doc that has always stuck with me is when he's explaining the cinematics at 7:25 and "what keeps a player from skipping". I've replayed the Halo trilogy many times throughout the years and I never skip them. My all-time favorite game series is Metal Gear, and I struggle to sit through most of the cutscenes on repeat playthroughs. Even though they're technically impressive, they really take you out of the action and immersion. Halo just hit that sweet spot of cutscenes that had a lot going on, not being too long, and making you feel like you've accomplished something.
I don't think I've ever skipped a Halo cut scene either from any of the three Halos. I'll even watch all the scenes from Halo 4. Even though some of the characters are really cliche in Halo 4 (the unintelligent general who's always yelling) and some of the action sequences that seem a little to cartoony (MC jumping out of the building and falling thousands of feet to land on a flying pelican), I'll still watch them.
@@AudraTI didn’t even know you could skip the cinematics 😂😂
Absolute masterpiece. You can see their hearts poured into every bit if this game. Miss this Bungie.
Halo and Xbox at its peak. I'm so glad I was there to live it. Salute to my Halo 3 pals, wherever they are.
We’re all still here :)
halo isnt halo without bungie
Guilty sparks voice actor does such an amazing job he doesn’t even need a flanger. All the voice actors were excellent picks.
Seeing Marty and the audio team work makes me wanna hop on fl studio.
Nolan North - Voice of Marine #3
Two months after Halo 3 was released, PS3 got a game that would launch this guy to stardom.
He was also richtofen but cod zombies is fucking dead so
Uncharted and Assassin’s Creed?
To the younger generation reading this. Appreciate your gaming experiences and make sure you do not lose contact with your gaming friends. I nearly cried when the H3 server was shut down. The opening music takes me back to some fond memories that I wish I could relive again. I’m somewhat angry that the majority of us gamers were oblivious in appreciating we were experiencing the golden peak gaming era.
Halo CE, Halo 2 and Halo 3 were all awesome games that built and flowed from one to other successfully. Marty's work is just also incredible.
"Cortana's every girlfriend we've ever had..."
...so, a collection of anime cartoons, essentially?
...juuuuuust kidding.
Unless...
I remember being in middle school when this game came out. My mom went with me to the midnight launch and let me play it until 2am even though I had to be up for school at 6am. Gah. Great times.
Why is it Bungie devs looked like normal human beings whereas almost everyone in 343's Halo Infinite multiplayer overview looks like a recovering crack addict?
Thirteen years later, Halo 3 has just started its PC beta
4:48 the true villian of halo
the forefather of 343
Shout out to every single one of you who was there until the bitter end of the OG server sunset. That was some of the best Halo I’ve ever played. No gaming experience will ever come close to this era of Xbox 360 Halo. This was more than a game - it was something you grew up with. This shared experience is ours forever
I'm really intrigued to understand all the coding behind it- i think it's awesome how technology has advanced enough to make a masterpiece like this!
InfiniteWarr1or and I wonder how long it took like how manny hours and months for it lol how manny people as well
@@EpicGaming1414 manny
Halo 3, and even newer Halos such as 5 and Infintie, are all based on the 'Blam' engine which has it's roots wayyy back in Bungie's old game Myth. Halo actually came about when Jason Jones (I think) was modifying the Blam engine (or what would become the Blam engine) to support 3d characters rather than just sprites.
Although the Blam engine is closed-source, and I think is written in C++, Halo and the Blam engine also uses a modified version of Lua called 'Blamscript' which is used for scripting the campaign (events, such as enemy spawning, triggering cutscenes, objectives, and phantom/pelican drop-offs etc). While there's very little official documentation for blamscript (as it was only intended to be used internally within Bungie), several modders have figured out how to use blamscript and there's quite a fair bit of unofficial documentation on it out there.
And there's also the way that Halo uses levels, BSPs, tags and .map files. A lot of which is used by modders to make new maps.
If you wanna learn more about Halo's engine, then I'd recommend joining some modding discords, there's a bunch of people who've spent a lot of time researching and digging into it. Ever since official modding tools were released for Halo 3 (including some of the tools seen in this video) there's a lot more people digging into Halo 3 and modding.
My entire childhood, best days of my life. I would do anything to go back. Thanks for uploading this.
Wise Burger no problem man. I grew up with halo too
played it when i was a teenager- it was awesome!
According to 30 year cycle, in 10 years there are going to be a lot of people here feeling nostalgic for 00's
True lol
There’s people nostalgic for 2016
@@theaverageclownhole3369 internet changes faster than real world, yes.
Already feel nostalgic for 00's for the past few years now.
Notice how often they say the game has to be fun
Something halo 5 was not
@@leah-marie5031 Yes it was. Halo 5 is fun. Tf you talking about?
@@REALMARCHINADER your opinion is very unpopular
@@leah-marie5031 No its not once again. Maybe in this comment section but most people would say 5 is fun and objectively it is fun. Just because it's not Halo 3 doesn't mean it isn't fun.
@@REALMARCHINADER Most people find Halo 5 to be the worst in the main games. You may not think so but many others do. You can find it fun if you want but neither of our opinions are solid facts at the end of the day. It's just that a majority of those opinions outweigh yours.
"i dont think there is one developer who is glad we are in an HD world now."
AAA games are so bogged down by the graphics arms race now that there seems to be almost no room for innovation on the engineering end of things.
Those of us who lived through gaming in the 90s -2011... well tbh. I seriously think that no one else ever will experience the same amount of passion & love & fun & genuinely amazing games and projects... it will never be the same or as good. We’re Fucking extremely lucky.
The hammer to the og Xbox got me fukn dead 😂😂 the Foley sounds are so good. It took me becoming a mix engineer to realize. Marty the goat too, never knew the music was triggered like that
I finally got to play Halo 3 for the first time and somehow I've managed to avoid spoilers for this long. And I will say it's Halo 2 on steroids. But NOTHING will ever top the first impressions of each and every character you met in Halo 2. And I WISH the Master Chief and the Arbiter shared more lines in Halo 3.
Thanks for the upload dude. This brought back so many memories
J P it sure does man
You can really tell these guys were at the top of their game when making this.
The most interesting part of this for me was the parts where they discussed how the then-new systems made things so much more complicated. It's interesting to think of how it's obsolete now, but it was cutting edge then.
*Especially* the water. I remember seeing bodies float in the water for the first time and being blown away by it.
Games still haven’t matched the realism and awesome floaty physics of halo 3s water
Dude, have you seen games today? Unfinished bug bags, halo's aren't obsolete, they aged like wine considering gaming in 2022
@Andrea Basei agree. I play halo 3 campaign on the regular and the graphics aren't even obsolete yet imo. That's what happens when the devs care though. Best game ever imo
here we are in 2021 and this game is still being played faithfully and is even optimized on next gen. All started thanks to these guys.
‘A Brute lawnmower that is fun to shoot’ I have never thought of the Chopper in that way but now I can’t get it out of my head. It’s stuck there forever.
The grunts have so much personality. It’s so cool when Npc’s have so much detailed dialogue. Makes it feel more real
Jamie is incredible. Absolutely loved hearing his insight on the IGN speedrun commentary and other playthroughs
Halo 3 was amazing but Halo 2 still brings up the best memories for me. The matchmaking in 2 will NEVER be replicated.
Mind-blowing for it's time.. set the bar too high..
If I could magically go back to being a kid, I would 100% go back to right before the first Halo came out so that I could experience the entire franchise for the first time again.
This video alone is better than anything 343i has made
Bro, this documentary has opened my eyes even more what developers are currently going through with covid and being remote. OMG, what a nightmare to have to manage and keep on time. Salute to the developers.
6 years making a game and you want to say is because of covid that 343 fucked Halo? they even had an extra year .... I don't want to see this kinda stupid comments
@@o_Presence_o Well you saw it and you responded. So who is stupid? Have a good day.
Perhaps It's more tangible for me because I'm not familiar with game design, bug fixes, etc. But, my god, all the trouble they go through to create all those various voice lines and then having to transcribe all that into other languages is just incredible to me. So much work!
Even someone who isn’t familiar with shit like this, I still have so much appreciation and respect for the hard work that Bungie went through to make these games so amazing
Wow all their hard work shown here is obviously why the game was so great, it definitely paid off
A lifetime of memories and more haha
idk how many times I’ve watched this
Thanks for the memories Bungie (this team, specifically)!
the passion is really... something more than I've ever seen documented. the love, passion, the weight we know they felt, but the courage and teamwork that brought it together!
hearing the team talk about how to blend story telling with gameplay is just amazing. this is something that has been lost in video games. everyone is trying to make a movie these days instead of a game. looking at you sony and your movie games.
Loving the pfp, Kamerad! Seeing Kamraden on such videos makes me smile. Not only good beliefs, but good tastes in Games. I miss these days all of the time....
Back when the devs put heart into their games. Man i love halo 3
Halo 3 is a fantastic game and Bungie is such an amazing game development company. Halo and Destiny are some of my favorite and most important game series.
These men brought me some of the best memories of my childhood. i spent so many hours in the sandbox yall created.
"Cortana's every girlfriend that we've ever had.
Just kidding. We've never had girlfriends."
Absolutely the dream team… The golden era of Bungie was truly an amazing thing. I applaud the entire team.
yeah it's a really old game from 2007 but what i like about the (late, late) release of Halo 3 on PC is that it looks great and runs smooth even on budget craptops with 30+ frames.
It doesn't anymore unfortunately. I can't run Halo 3 smoothly (especially multiplayer) anymore on a PC that can run Halo 4 at 60fps in 900p. It's been like this since season 6.
This is impressive especially because it's not just one or a few folks with the insight, it's so many different guys who are passionate, thoughtful, and considered, and all excited to explain the intricate work that went into the pursuit of sheer excellence in game design, and it is amazing. These guys never settled amd kept trying to go above and beyond. Really something special.
Man, the nostalgia. The real Great Journey were the friends we made along the way. Halo 3 Xbox live during 2007-2010 was the greatest period in my gaming life. To anyone out there from the old days, this is Lance_SKYWALKER reporting in.
I had so much fun with friends playing hours of Halo 3 multiplayer. I wish I could relive those moments sometimes.
This game created on of my top life experiences, couldn’t thank them more for the effort they put into it
Ironically Halo's water never got this amount of attention ever again. It's a shame.
5's water is actually pretty good. 4's was just sad.
That was ones guys entire job, just the realism of water.
Watching this now, gives me chills I haven't had in years. Especially when explaining how each cinematic segment fits in to what you've just done or about to do. This is beautiful...Thank you, brave souls. You gave us the best of memories. And I want to go back to those times.
I really want those Halo/Bungie shirts they're wearing
The music played during this will always live somewhere in my heart
“If we have people an open map and said go find her people wouldn’t care”
If you give me an open world Halo rpg I’ll literally drink your bath water.
I mean that's kind of what you're getting in several months.
message from the future:
its shit
@@JarlBubbleLord true lol
"The end of Halo 3 is the end of the entire trilogy"
If only it ended after reach
Quote XKCD: "Too bad they never made any sequels" (Originally about The Matrix, but nowadays, it applies to an appallingly growing number of things. I bet you can name a bunch too...)
7:59 Things were a little different back then. Guy has 8 shot glasses and patron on his desk.
Why the hell did they move Frank O'Connor from community manager to managing editor? The guy is a world-class bullshitter. He's one of the primary reasons Halo is dead.
All of these people are so fucking cool man
The bottle of patron gold on the cinematic techs desk tells me everything i need to know lmaoo
49:50 I find really interesting just because of the level of detail. I got really bored one day and went to Halo 3 and spawned all the weapons in forge and shot them all one by one and then watched it in theater to admire every individual sound. From the gun firing, to the individual spent casings hitting the ground, to the bullets impacting a surface, and the character reloading. I did the same thing in Halo 5 and none of that stuff is present. There’s no sounds of casings landing, the gun fire clarity isn’t nearly as good, the bullets only make sounds when they impact certain surfaces, there’s just not nearly as much attention to detail and it’s pretty sad. I didn’t hate Halo 5, but the love and care that was put into the first three Halo games has yet to be rivaled in any other game I’ve ever played.
Linking vigorous play testing and having a fun factoring in it is something thats missing in many AAA titles today
you had me at the loading animation
The halo 3 warthog was still one of the best feeling vehicles in all of gaming. In terms of mechanics and fun. Like controlling it through the air is unrealistic but it’s way more fun and skillful to land a sick jump with a flip
48:27 BEST PART OF THE WHOLE VIDEO! cant believe microsoft didnt believe in Marty's piano for 3
Halo 3 had the best explosions, water physics, vehicle physics, and damage FX , even compared to reach and infinite
I love at 3:00 they talk about chief being a husk, a suit of armor, a blank skate. Totally different than Halo 4 and the current Halo TV show which is trying to build on his personality. I guess they could get away with it in Halo 1,2,3 because of the excellent supporting characters. A little more difficult when you kill them all off…
The ominous music when the guy said he liked watching bodies float downstream was a nice touch
The composer is a fucken legend
Halo 3 is the best game ever in my opinion
Love how the timeline states all the important aspect of game development: Audio, Art design, animation, level design AAAAANNNNDDD weeds.
Good old days... come back🥺...... please
Uuugh the violins...make me wanna cry. I miss my 10 year old self some days...
Halo 3 marks the golden years of my life lol. It came out 2 days before my 14th birthday. My brother moved away to go to college and my best friend basically moved into his room. All we did was come home from school, do our homework, then binge Halo for 10 or so hours. In between rounds we would do as many push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups etc as we could. We lived that lifestyle for damn near 2 years. Towards the end we started going out and partying and hooking up with girls (which was easy because we looked like we were on roids). They say there’s no such thing as perfect but that was as close as it could get for me.
Great documentary. Long time fan of Halo. Everything about the Halo games just lined up perfectly for me- the story, the space marines and guns, the cool hero Master Chief, the aliens, the music, etc. I also really liked the progression of Master Chief's character from Halo 1 to Halo 4. MC is a private and mysterious person so they way they revealed just a little bit more of him in each game was just right and very satisfying. I know the creators said they were trying to make MC a blank slate without any character but sorry, this actually only defined the MC's character even more LOL. Even in the first Halo.