UPDATE 11/5/23: I just spent the morning reading ALL the comments. Wow, thanks everyone for sharing your stories. We had no idea at the time that this game meant so much to so many. Thanks. (Original Post) So I figured I should upload this again today in honor of Cortana's birthday (who knew?). In a week it'll be the anniversary of Xbox and Halo so I thought I'd get ahead of the pack. Ok, and now a few interesting facts: 1. All the music used in the first 5 minutes of this video hadn’t been written at that time. 2. I used the Halo Love Theme music for the section with my wife Marcie. 3. There are 20 original Bungie folks here. Almost one half of the entire team.
@@user-73a Well that’s really just rude just assuming someone’s age when you know nothing about that person, I was around in the early days, are you gonna call me less then the age I am cause I played the first game when I was six around the time the first game came out. Like not everyone made a UA-cam channel in 2009 like you did After all my dad stood in the line for the first game he was in that line, so if you weren’t there guess I could say your not an oldie like my family is.
@@MrNextMx I guess time. The Bungie team wanted to do something else that wasn't Halo, the same reason why they left Microsoft willingly, they were tired. Now they're scattered, either some of them weren't interested in Destiny or they wanted to do something of their own.
Seeing Martin O'Donnell, Joe Staten, Jason Jones, Marcus Lehto, Jaime Griesemer, Pete Parsons, Curtis Creamer (quite the name haha), Chris Butcher, CJ Cowan, Shi Kai 'Shiek' Wang, Adrian Perez, etc. and so many other Bungie veterans together is always a good and fun watch. No doubt there was turmoil and stress behind the scenes as Game Development can be VERY stressful, but all of them still had an on and off screen chemistry. Just a bunch of cool and dorky guys coming together to make the best damn Game ever all the while having a good and fun time in the process, watching the old Halo 2 and Halo 3 documentaries made me want to be a Game Developer and made me want to join Bungie. It's sadly a dream I no longer have as Game Development today largely isn't cool anymore and modern Bungie is.... yeah.... "If you somehow believe that what you're doing is the greatest thing ever all the time it's absolutely not gonna be the greatest thing ever." - Jason Jones "I mean, as hard as it gets, it's still the best fucking job in the world." - Pete Parsons Those two quotes from the Halo 2 Documentary really stuck with me. A quote from Shi Kai 'Shiek' Wang (which isn't in any of the Documentaries, it was an interview he did) that really stuck with me was how he said "I knew this was where I wanted to work when I showed up to my interview the most overdressed." Basically saying in other words, he decided to dress up in a suit for his interview, whereas everyone else at Bungie (including the ones who interviewed him) were wearing casual.
Please don't delete this Marty. It's like a time machine. People need to see the passion behind these games. Honestly brought a tear to my eye. Such humble beginnings I don't even think you guys realized how good it really was. I think the saddest part is knowing how it all unfolded at Bungie... 😢
To think Infinite was going to be a Series X launch title, got delayed a year after poor reception at E3, and it STILL wasn't even close to enough time.
Marty is the definition of for the fans. Even despite all the bungie legal stuff that has been happening over the years, he continues to upload more and more bts content to give to us fans for our enjoyment.
yeah, I thought the BTS stuff for Destiny was really cool. even if it *did* technically break an NDA. Man was willing to piss off his old folks to share something really sweet.
I love these non-scripted Behind The Scene vids. They feel so humbling to retroactively witness normal people who just poured their love into a game. Because the proof is in the pudding.
In 2001 I played 30seconds of Halo at a buddy’s house, right before I flew out to start prepping a project for the 2002 Olympics. I landed in Salt Lake City & after checking into my room, I went out & bought an Xbox, just to play Halo. To this day, it was & still is, the primary reason I have that console.
As an art form becomes more commercialized, of course its soul inevitably gets snuffed out by those who seek to milk it for profit. But that doesn't mean that those who make the art for the sake of making it don't exist anymore. In the end, people can't make shit for free and they have to make a living too. It's a double edged sword - more money to a project means more possibility but projects made exclusively with the idea to make money off of them lose artistic integrity that makes them great in the first place. A most vicious cycle.
@@Loki- He's saying it for a reason. Gaming does feel very different and not in a good way. I don't see the need to just basically try to invalidate that perspective that many people clearly share about modern gaming. And he's not even saying there's no passion at all. But the big franchises are lacking. We know other games exist. That doesn't mean we can't miss the ones we loved. To just go "no your feelings are wrong you just don't know where to look" is so stuck up and condescending.
I'm sitting here trying not to tear up. This era was my childhood. I still dream about going back in time to re-live beautifully simple days where the internet was super limited and nothing else mattered but your interests and hanging out with your friends...
I really hope UA-cam doesn't try to take these down. I was only 4 when CE came out, too young to know any thing about video game design, but as a Halo fan who's all grown up now, these old Bungie videos are the only glimpse into the development of these iconic games that we have.
@@Vladiator I'm pretty sure Marty hard a court order making him remove alot of old dev content (awhile ago now) can't speak much on it I just remember being upset to see it happen. But I've seen alot of stuff on UA-cam be remove for stupid reasons
Halo was the first true universal bridge that created peace globally by connecting the hearts and souls of humans together. A sacred musical note immortalised upon the pages of history. An eternal reminder of the beauty and creativity that humans like you Martin can bring into our lives. The world has gone mad for those of us with eyes to see and hearts to feel. We all yearn for the long return to times like these. If the return isn't possible, the memories you branded into our consciousness with your gifts will keep us warm as we wander into the abyss.
a time where games were made with passion and a vision, instead of just being made to be live service cash grabs. 10:08 "Launch titles that don't suck, what a concept" this man was ahead of his time, just like the rest of you guys at bungie.
It's hard to believe that it's been 21 years since this game came out. I've literally grown up with this game and I can confidently say that not a single year has passed where I haven't played it at least once each year. Usually more! Some legends never die! Thank you, Marty and the amazing team that brought this game to life!
This is incredible.... No matter how much Bungie has hurt Marty over the years. He still has the will to look back and reminisce the glory days. It just comes to show how much Bungie has changed, and how many bad decisions it had made through out the years. He deserves so much better. YOU deserve so much better, Marty. We ❤ you!
Man, this world feels like another reality at this point. Thanks to 2001 Marty for recording and thanks to 2023 Marty for sharing, what a wonderful video.
We probably could if 343 would stop trying to push competitive Halo so much and focus on giving the player a fun experience first. That's part of what made the old games so great and the community so loyal. It had competitive elements, but it was mostly focused on being fun.
What the industry needs is new game developers. New companies starting up just like Bungie did. Get the capital and manpower needed to make a quality game. Then once they hit big. They can stand neck and neck with greedy ass companies like Activision and EA. Notice how big companies keep buying up smaller companies? It's industry consolidation and it's not a good thing. It means more and more IP's are falling under one company. Less competition means less quality.
@@spectralassassin6030 This is more of a modern gaming issue rather than just 343. And even then, 343 isn't Bungie. It could never be 100% like the old days even if they wanted it to.
@@seereebee It doesn't need to be 100%. It just needs to stop feeling like a sweat fest all the time. I never cared if I lost in the old days as long as I had a good time. Now everyone feels like they're trying to be a crazy mlg pro. There's no fun anymore. Think about it. When was the last time you got into a match and saw people just doing some dumb funny shit like playing leapfrog?
Just a regular-looking office with cubicles... but imaging having a job where you feel that happy to go in to work. Marty, you were a key part of a very special team in gaming history. Thank you for sharing!
I'm nealry 40 now....and i can remember it, like it was yesterday..... Friday is coming up -> time to Haul every Xbox to our friends house for the whole Weekend. 4-5 Xboxes and 4 Player spittscreen on every TV across the whole flat... and there we were...sometimes even up to 16 People having fun ...this were the good old Days greeting from Germany
Stuff like this makes me wish I would have been a bit older when Halo 1 came out. I would have loved to be able to pick up an Xbox day 1 and do some LAN parties. I still remember playing it at my neighbors house when I was 8 years old, been a hardcore fan ever since.
Oh man dudes would get their feelings hurt *big time* lol. You'd separate the devices into different rooms so proper strategy could be had and it would get tribal real quick. People would show up to the other team's room trying to fight whoever kept camping them or spray the other team with an airsoft bb gun. Not to mention the big maps and floaty movement mean CTF games often lacked a time constraint, so single games would often hit the 40-60minute mark with so much investment.
Oh yah, sadly you missed out. No current gaming experience comes close to the experience of bring TVs around to friends houses as often as possible and having lan parties. It sounds hard, but really was an absolute blast.
Yeah! I saw my friend Jamie's older brothers playing Halo 1 : CE on this giant screen in their living room as we were heading back to his room to play Pikmin on GC, needless to say we stayed and watched in awe! Was probably yeah, 8 or 9.
Everyone says that but we forget how different things were. Remember internet explorer and dial up? Phone books and atlas books, it being rare to have a GPS in your car
idk why but watching this just took me back to 2004 when i was in college. Skipping class or even even a whole day, grabbing a bucket of chicken from kfc and ending at at my friends house where we played Split-screen halo for the whole day Truly some of the most magical moments in my life. I want that feeling back
my regret is that it didnt survive... no one will remember the halo that we had, because the 'new version' is unrecognizable... the feelings and awe that you had when CE was new, that cutting edge wonder that is so 'janky' today... its like people pissing on a biplane for not being anything special, when there were no planes before it, the first of its kind... how can you not marvel at something like that? because you are spoiled, and incapable of recognizing he value that you posses...
Coming back to watch this after seeing all the bad news coming out of Bungie today. Really sucks all around with all the people affected. But to see the passion, and the people who started it all, its such an amazing thing to see. Especially seeing the aesthetics and technology of this time is so nostalgic. I really hope everyone affected can recover and bounce back.
Grew up in the Seattle area and played Halo day 1 with my dad on Christmas 2001. Watching this is a huge nostalgia bomb, Halo is a huge part of my adolescence. That first Halo game was something incredibly special, thanks for the memories Marty.
Where it all began, you as well as many others in this video are an absolute inspiration to hundreds of thousands of people. We thank you for what you have done to the industry.
What really cought my eye was the Piano Rendition of the Halo Theme at 4:23, it isn't loud and Bombastic as One Final Effort but Calming and reminds me of the excerpt from The Siege of Madrigal that is tucked away at the end of the track Halo in the original Sound Track.
I didn’t grow up in the most wealthy home. To convince my mom to get us video games or consoles was tough cause of how expensive it all was. When I was a teenager and could work and afford my own things is when I actually started to get into games as a hobby and not just as something you get a kid. When my dad first heard the music to Halo 2 he totally understood where the passion came from. Thanks Marty
What I enjoy about this is that these guys were all young, passionate guys given the proper resources, and they made a title that made history, and it can easily happen again one day, just need everything to line up again.
This is the passion inscribed in halo 1 2 3 reach and odst These games are the greatest experience you can have in gaming to date Back when people got together to create art not for money but to create a great experience Bungie reminds me alot of Christopher nolans film making Quality Quality Quality
I wish more devs would film the making of process. Nobody did it as well as the crew at bungie and because of that everyone felt more attached to the game because they saw what everyone went through to deliver the final product.
What blows my mind is how young they all are. Joseph Staten is 29 here. This was a time when young people with passion and fresh ideas who painted new worlds in gaming. Now its crusty old corporate executives who make games to help buy themselves a third house. Man has gaming gone down hill from those amazing times.
Halo was the first ever FPS game I ever played and since Day 1 I've always been in love with Bungie's entries in the series, each just had a certain magic to them that brings a tear to my eye watching stuff like this.
As an 18 year old this made me cry, everyone looked so much happier than people do nowadays. People didn't look like they were suffering, just living life to its fullest.
If only 343 could have matched the love and passion put into this franchise. Heartbreaking to see something with so many memories associated with your childhood be put to shame by the very people developing it, especially in contrast to these people at Bungie. But the music and gameplay all these guys created left a lasting impression on me and I'll never forget it.
You have literally no idea the amount of effort and passion 343 put in-whether you like their work or not. An absolutely pathetic case of a nerd slating other's work behind a keyboard and screen when they have zero insight into game development. Genuinely pathetic. Grow up.
Bungie were so afraid of becoming corporate sellouts under microsoft so they tried their hardest to make amazing games. Once they left, sadly, Halo became the corporate soul-less cash cow Bungie feared so much.
honestly, i feel like with 343i being built in house by microsoft themselves, unlike bungie who joined microsoft, they'll probably never see that kind of freedom which is a shame really, theres quite a lot of good people at 343i who could do much more if they weren't held under a grip by microsoft, bad management (although the new 343i management is looking good), etc. i'm rooting for them to make it through the mess of infinite tbh
This is the age of monopoly. Free competition and artisanship has been replaced by cold, robotic production of commodities, made quickly and with no passion, to maximise profit. The gaming landscape has changed to turn the player, not the game, into the thing that is bought and sold. Games no longer need to ship finished, functional or fun, since there is so little competition, if any. Thus is the end-point of capitalism.
My 30 years of being alive, has now taught me that for wanting to work at bungie for 20 years was really a wish to climb inside your minds instead of your office space. I think its so impressive the minds of bungie employees. Probably awesome to work there. I love you guys. You are my dream. The buildings in ODST are so beautiful they make me want to cry because we will never get the utopia of the early 2000s back. That game was like something from heaven, a real utopia. Same with all the bungie halos.
Thank you for this, I am a big fan of the old Halo Bungie and see this passion and real humans is amazing, you are amazing ❤ thank you for everything Martin !!! I miss so much the old times with you and all this beautiful and passionate people on Halo, you make me cry ahaha
@@blue-halo-elite moving into our first real office this Saturday. Only 15 of us but we're working towards big things soon. I'll update you here next month.
Halo Trial, Halo: CE, and Halo Custom Edition were my childhood. I can't count number of the times I listened to these songs. So relaxing. Your problems melt away while exploring giant maps.
Idk if it's the music or what, but you can FEEL it in the air. I can't explain it. As an athlete, I liken it to entering the bulls locker room circa 96.
Эта игра сильно повлияла на мое игровое становление. Чудесно окунуться в те времена, когда происходила разработка и релиз игры. Тогда я был еще совсем ребёнком) хоть и лично не знаком, но имена знакомые мне, интересное чувство. спасибо за прекрасное видео.
Halo CE captured my imagination in a way no other game had or has since. I used to seriously play it a good 8+ hours a day for years. (I had no life.) Many of your works still bring me chills and tears to this day. The day you left Bungie was a very sad day. No words can express my gratitude for all the amazing memories you have brought to me.
You are a legend Marty and you always will be. Thank you for helping create such great epic and grand memories during our childhoods with your heartfelt music.
These little behind the scenes films are what made me love gaming and halo the most. Still hope one day I can do music or concept arts for games. Remember Halo.
Thanks for re-uploading Marty! That shot of Stefan, the multiplayer programmer, standing watching others play multiplayer out in the wild for the first time, made me wonder what he was thinking in that moment. I imagine it was a sense of pride and accomplishment. How awesome.
Not only does this give me the wonderful nostalgia for the games, and the Beautiful people of Bungie, it also gives me nostalgia for the era as a kid of the 90s/early 2000's. I hope everyone, from Bungie to the gamers that loved them have a fantastic time moving forward
Ambient wonder really takes you back in time. Whatever equipment you used plus your talent of course really made such an impact on so many of us to where this just takes us back to when things were perfect. Thank you guys.
@@Hello2215. Bro, if someone brings in a camera and they start filming, you should assume it has the potential to inevitably go public. You're daft and or naive if you believe it never will. Even if you ask to not be apart of it or ask to be censored, there's always that chance it might. There's no absolute certainty in anything.
There won’t, in the early days innovation was necessary to make money and the diversity of solid triple A titles shows that. Now it’s become about what’s the most marketable low effort business model to implement into a “live service” as opposed to a game. Still got indie games but 95% of them can be broken down into walking simulator horror games or pixel rogue-likes with the occasional nostalgia shooter game.
@@thebigenchilada678 thats a gross oversimplification of indie games and wayy off the mark, theyre thriving and innovating more than ever before atm, you must not play much.
@@Zionswasd i almost exclusively play indie games now lol, if you were to go onto steam right now, you will find those two genres make up the bulk of new indie games.
I agree there will be another eventually. But how long? I don't think anytime soon. Lots of stuff outside of gaming will have to happen (social, economic, and political) to sort of put things back into a position where things reset.
I was Born in 2007 and may never trully get the full experiance from this video. But this is just magic. Such a throwback to the begging of a genre defying series.
@@TheItalianoAssassino I was 1991 so I got to experience the original Tomb Raider on Windows 95 and The Lion King on VHS. I still have both. I don't have a CD drive or VHS player to actually play them, but I still have them lol.
It's been so long since we've heard anything from you. Thrilled to wake up to this today. Missing the glory days of what once was. Your music and these games have spanned a generation and are a real connection point for me and my kids. For that I thank you.
UPDATE 11/5/23: I just spent the morning reading ALL the comments. Wow, thanks everyone for sharing your stories. We had no idea at the time that this game meant so much to so many. Thanks.
(Original Post)
So I figured I should upload this again today in honor of Cortana's birthday (who knew?). In a week it'll be the anniversary of Xbox and Halo so I thought I'd get ahead of the pack.
Ok, and now a few interesting facts:
1. All the music used in the first 5 minutes of this video hadn’t been written at that time.
2. I used the Halo Love Theme music for the section with my wife Marcie.
3. There are 20 original Bungie folks here. Almost one half of the entire team.
thank you for sharing!
You're a treasure.
thank you for this :)
@@LtSponge no u UwU
Please don’t delete this.
almost 23 years old and the casting couch joke still hits
💀
Sounds like you’re a (former?) Bungie employee.
@@3thndv155 or maybe a caster? ;)
Yeah wtf lol
Look at that. Real people acting like human beings and making games that are fun first.
Thank you for everything, Mr. O’Donnell.
What did you expect them to act like
It is why video games were so great and were loved. You take this away and you get what we have today.
@@dougr8646 Now they just act like corporate robots and cram lectures in their media.
@@dougr8646 useful idiots with weird hair co-opting beloved stories and running them into the ground
@@dougr8646 Lizards or something lol
I really do love how marty knows how important this stuff is to us early halo fans and hopefully to himself as well.
You're probably less than 30 so that's not an early Halo fan like most of us
@@user-73a Well that’s really just rude just assuming someone’s age when you know nothing about that person, I was around in the early days, are you gonna call me less then the age I am cause I played the first game when I was six around the time the first game came out.
Like not everyone made a UA-cam channel in 2009 like you did
After all my dad stood in the line for the first game he was in that line, so if you weren’t there guess I could say your not an oldie like my family is.
@@user-73a didn't realize u had to be 30 to have grew up playing from halo ce onwards lol
@@1800moonSugar cope
@@user-73a you talk like the pre teen boys i see on social media. Thats pretty sad if you’re over 30.
A part of my heart warms up when I see Joe and the OG Bungie crew. All of them were so talented and complemented each other.
Always wondering, what's happened to them?
@@MrNextMx I guess time. The Bungie team wanted to do something else that wasn't Halo, the same reason why they left Microsoft willingly, they were tired.
Now they're scattered, either some of them weren't interested in Destiny or they wanted to do something of their own.
@@SnowRemnant maybe we can see a new game from the og bungie team.
Only time will tell, a man can always dreams
@@SnowRemnant Activision activisioned a lot of them too
Seeing Martin O'Donnell, Joe Staten, Jason Jones, Marcus Lehto, Jaime Griesemer, Pete Parsons, Curtis Creamer (quite the name haha), Chris Butcher, CJ Cowan, Shi Kai 'Shiek' Wang, Adrian Perez, etc. and so many other Bungie veterans together is always a good and fun watch. No doubt there was turmoil and stress behind the scenes as Game Development can be VERY stressful, but all of them still had an on and off screen chemistry. Just a bunch of cool and dorky guys coming together to make the best damn Game ever all the while having a good and fun time in the process, watching the old Halo 2 and Halo 3 documentaries made me want to be a Game Developer and made me want to join Bungie. It's sadly a dream I no longer have as Game Development today largely isn't cool anymore and modern Bungie is.... yeah....
"If you somehow believe that what you're doing is the greatest thing ever all the time it's absolutely not gonna be the greatest thing ever." - Jason Jones
"I mean, as hard as it gets, it's still the best fucking job in the world." - Pete Parsons
Those two quotes from the Halo 2 Documentary really stuck with me. A quote from Shi Kai 'Shiek' Wang (which isn't in any of the Documentaries, it was an interview he did) that really stuck with me was how he said "I knew this was where I wanted to work when I showed up to my interview the most overdressed." Basically saying in other words, he decided to dress up in a suit for his interview, whereas everyone else at Bungie (including the ones who interviewed him) were wearing casual.
Please don't delete this Marty. It's like a time machine. People need to see the passion behind these games. Honestly brought a tear to my eye. Such humble beginnings I don't even think you guys realized how good it really was. I think the saddest part is knowing how it all unfolded at Bungie... 😢
I downloaded it just in case
10:08 ''launch titles that don't suck - what a concept''
That aged poorly
To think Infinite was going to be a Series X launch title, got delayed a year after poor reception at E3, and it STILL wasn't even close to enough time.
@@dji1299 I think it aged well considering launch titles still suck
Had a good laugh at this, 20 years later and still relevant.
👑
Marty is the definition of for the fans. Even despite all the bungie legal stuff that has been happening over the years, he continues to upload more and more bts content to give to us fans for our enjoyment.
So important in these times, when... When you now, all these new games and series that are raping things we love
yeah, I thought the BTS stuff for Destiny was really cool. even if it *did* technically break an NDA. Man was willing to piss off his old folks to share something really sweet.
I love these non-scripted Behind The Scene vids. They feel so humbling to retroactively witness normal people who just poured their love into a game. Because the proof is in the pudding.
it's so cool, it's a like a time-capsule
In 2001 I played 30seconds of Halo at a buddy’s house, right before I flew out to start prepping a project for the 2002 Olympics.
I landed in Salt Lake City & after checking into my room, I went out & bought an Xbox, just to play Halo.
To this day, it was & still is, the primary reason I have that console.
Tremendous , thanks for sharing
2002 Salt Lake City Olympics 🥹
A bygone era. Wish we could go back to these simpler, more passionate times.
There's passion in the world, just not where you're looking.
Why we must support our indie devs. There's no passion in AAA anymore
As an art form becomes more commercialized, of course its soul inevitably gets snuffed out by those who seek to milk it for profit.
But that doesn't mean that those who make the art for the sake of making it don't exist anymore.
In the end, people can't make shit for free and they have to make a living too. It's a double edged sword - more money to a project means more possibility but projects made exclusively with the idea to make money off of them lose artistic integrity that makes them great in the first place. A most vicious cycle.
@@SnakeHelah Just played signalis made by 2 (two!) people. Such a good game, highly recommended
@@Loki- He's saying it for a reason. Gaming does feel very different and not in a good way. I don't see the need to just basically try to invalidate that perspective that many people clearly share about modern gaming. And he's not even saying there's no passion at all. But the big franchises are lacking. We know other games exist. That doesn't mean we can't miss the ones we loved. To just go "no your feelings are wrong you just don't know where to look" is so stuck up and condescending.
This is so cool to see. Everyone was so passionate about the game
This whole video reeks of early 2000s and I love it
I want to go back to those times
9// will permanently keep that from ever happening again. Enjoy your new normal brought to you by W3F and Gates
@@CoercedJab no idea what you just said but okay
lol did u guys see the boomer with the puffy leather jacket & blue jeans? lol it's such a boomer outfit 😂👌🏻
@@John-X The quintessential "I work in Tech" guy that is likely a CSR.
What I wouldn't give to go back ⏳
I'm sitting here trying not to tear up. This era was my childhood. I still dream about going back in time to re-live beautifully simple days where the internet was super limited and nothing else mattered but your interests and hanging out with your friends...
Amen....
Man you just made me cry. God those were the days
:((((
It was perfect. Back when everybody still went outside, but also played games at the end of the day..
Too late for me - the tears are a-flowin' . 😂
I really hope UA-cam doesn't try to take these down. I was only 4 when CE came out, too young to know any thing about video game design, but as a Halo fan who's all grown up now, these old Bungie videos are the only glimpse into the development of these iconic games that we have.
You know the r/halo Mods are already calling
I was 9 man many many peoples childhoods were great cause thease guys 😂🤟
… why would YT take these down?
@@Vladiator I'm pretty sure Marty hard a court order making him remove alot of old dev content (awhile ago now) can't speak much on it I just remember being upset to see it happen. But I've seen alot of stuff on UA-cam be remove for stupid reasons
Download it now so you won't have to worry about it coming down in the future.
During the gaming golden age, now we are in the dark times. RIP Bungie and Halo.
10:08 "Launch titles that don't suck"
how far we've gone back
That made me pause the video and laugh, that guy's based as fuck
Halo was the first true universal bridge that created peace globally by connecting the hearts and souls of humans together. A sacred musical note immortalised upon the pages of history. An eternal reminder of the beauty and creativity that humans like you Martin can bring into our lives. The world has gone mad for those of us with eyes to see and hearts to feel. We all yearn for the long return to times like these. If the return isn't possible, the memories you branded into our consciousness with your gifts will keep us warm as we wander into the abyss.
a time where games were made with passion and a vision, instead of just being made to be live service cash grabs.
10:08 "Launch titles that don't suck, what a concept" this man was ahead of his time, just like the rest of you guys at bungie.
or to push agendas
He sounds kinda like Simmons
@@shadepizza4217 yeah kinda, just not as nasally sounding as Gus i reckon
@@TheCentralScrutinizerAgain And yet CoD WaW probably had the best CoD campaign of all time.
@@TheCentralScrutinizerAgain nobody pushes agendas in gaming
It's hard to believe that it's been 21 years since this game came out. I've literally grown up with this game and I can confidently say that not a single year has passed where I haven't played it at least once each year. Usually more! Some legends never die! Thank you, Marty and the amazing team that brought this game to life!
This is incredible.... No matter how much Bungie has hurt Marty over the years. He still has the will to look back and reminisce the glory days. It just comes to show how much Bungie has changed, and how many bad decisions it had made through out the years. He deserves so much better. YOU deserve so much better, Marty. We ❤ you!
Well that’s obviously because present day destiny bungie and 2001 halo bungie are completely different studios TBFH
The Bungie of the past is not the one we have today. Most of the ogs have moved on.
The Bungie that screwed him was not the same Bungie he made beautiful memories with
Not the same Bungie
Man, this world feels like another reality at this point. Thanks to 2001 Marty for recording and thanks to 2023 Marty for sharing, what a wonderful video.
I dont think we'll ever have another gaming community as great as the bungie era halos, but I'll always cherish those memories!
We probably could if 343 would stop trying to push competitive Halo so much and focus on giving the player a fun experience first. That's part of what made the old games so great and the community so loyal. It had competitive elements, but it was mostly focused on being fun.
@@spectralassassin6030 well to be honest 343 is mostly focused on being shit
What the industry needs is new game developers. New companies starting up just like Bungie did. Get the capital and manpower needed to make a quality game. Then once they hit big. They can stand neck and neck with greedy ass companies like Activision and EA. Notice how big companies keep buying up smaller companies? It's industry consolidation and it's not a good thing. It means more and more IP's are falling under one company. Less competition means less quality.
@@spectralassassin6030 This is more of a modern gaming issue rather than just 343. And even then, 343 isn't Bungie. It could never be 100% like the old days even if they wanted it to.
@@seereebee It doesn't need to be 100%. It just needs to stop feeling like a sweat fest all the time. I never cared if I lost in the old days as long as I had a good time. Now everyone feels like they're trying to be a crazy mlg pro. There's no fun anymore.
Think about it. When was the last time you got into a match and saw people just doing some dumb funny shit like playing leapfrog?
Just a regular-looking office with cubicles... but imaging having a job where you feel that happy to go in to work. Marty, you were a key part of a very special team in gaming history. Thank you for sharing!
This was legit a game dev dream-team.
I'm nealry 40 now....and i can remember it, like it was yesterday.....
Friday is coming up -> time to Haul every Xbox to our friends house for the whole Weekend.
4-5 Xboxes and 4 Player spittscreen on every TV across the whole flat...
and there we were...sometimes even up to 16 People having fun ...this were the good old Days
greeting from Germany
Stuff like this makes me wish I would have been a bit older when Halo 1 came out. I would have loved to be able to pick up an Xbox day 1 and do some LAN parties. I still remember playing it at my neighbors house when I was 8 years old, been a hardcore fan ever since.
Yess man I was nine but 100% thease guys made a big impact
Oh man dudes would get their feelings hurt *big time* lol. You'd separate the devices into different rooms so proper strategy could be had and it would get tribal real quick. People would show up to the other team's room trying to fight whoever kept camping them or spray the other team with an airsoft bb gun. Not to mention the big maps and floaty movement mean CTF games often lacked a time constraint, so single games would often hit the 40-60minute mark with so much investment.
Oh yah, sadly you missed out. No current gaming experience comes close to the experience of bring TVs around to friends houses as often as possible and having lan parties. It sounds hard, but really was an absolute blast.
Yeah! I saw my friend Jamie's older brothers playing Halo 1 : CE on this giant screen in their living room as we were heading back to his room to play Pikmin on GC, needless to say we stayed and watched in awe! Was probably yeah, 8 or 9.
@@vaggeto we did it with Halo 3, but even then it was late into the LAN lifetime
Back when video game studios felt more like a garage band than a suit and tie corporation.
The good ol' days
you can say that again
Everyone says that but we forget how different things were. Remember internet explorer and dial up? Phone books and atlas books, it being rare to have a GPS in your car
@@LiftYagami but maps are funner
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bro 9/11 mfing happened 2 months before Halo CE released. Not the good ol days lmao
This era is just too painful to look back on. Thank you for this video and thank you for creating the music of my formative years.
Everything pre 9// is hard to watch now…. The new normal sucks
Good times. Martin, it wouldn't be Halo without your music and your spirit.
idk why but watching this just took me back to 2004 when i was in college. Skipping class or even even a whole day, grabbing a bucket of chicken from kfc and ending at at my friends house where we played Split-screen halo for the whole day Truly some of the most magical moments in my life. I want that feeling back
Memories
my regret is that it didnt survive... no one will remember the halo that we had, because the 'new version' is unrecognizable... the feelings and awe that you had when CE was new, that cutting edge wonder that is so 'janky' today... its like people pissing on a biplane for not being anything special, when there were no planes before it, the first of its kind... how can you not marvel at something like that? because you are spoiled, and incapable of recognizing he value that you posses...
Coming back to watch this after seeing all the bad news coming out of Bungie today. Really sucks all around with all the people affected. But to see the passion, and the people who started it all, its such an amazing thing to see. Especially seeing the aesthetics and technology of this time is so nostalgic.
I really hope everyone affected can recover and bounce back.
I miss Bungie Halo
Grew up in the Seattle area and played Halo day 1 with my dad on Christmas 2001. Watching this is a huge nostalgia bomb, Halo is a huge part of my adolescence. That first Halo game was something incredibly special, thanks for the memories Marty.
Oh the memories of Bungie. Makes me cry every time 🥺🥺
Where it all began, you as well as many others in this video are an absolute inspiration to hundreds of thousands of people. We thank you for what you have done to the industry.
What really cought my eye was the Piano Rendition of the Halo Theme at 4:23, it isn't loud and Bombastic as One Final Effort but Calming and reminds me of the excerpt from The Siege of Madrigal that is tucked away at the end of the track Halo in the original Sound Track.
Exactly what I thought.
I didn’t grow up in the most wealthy home. To convince my mom to get us video games or consoles was tough cause of how expensive it all was. When I was a teenager and could work and afford my own things is when I actually started to get into games as a hobby and not just as something you get a kid. When my dad first heard the music to Halo 2 he totally understood where the passion came from. Thanks Marty
imagine playing video games developed by a creative studio with a soul
Stop imagining. Do it
@Richard I've said the same thing before but it's also true that you didn't need to go indi to find those games.
@Richard I agree with you fully - it’s just that none of them are heading the Halo franchise :/
What I enjoy about this is that these guys were all young, passionate guys given the proper resources, and they made a title that made history, and it can easily happen again one day, just need everything to line up again.
Microsoft will never ever allow it to happen
@thesaltbaron2237 that's why the title needs to be ripped from Microsoft's grummy hands!
The man the myth the legend
This is the passion inscribed in halo 1 2 3 reach and odst
These games are the greatest experience you can have in gaming to date
Back when people got together to create art not for money but to create a great experience
Bungie reminds me alot of Christopher nolans film making
Quality Quality Quality
I wish more devs would film the making of process. Nobody did it as well as the crew at bungie and because of that everyone felt more attached to the game because they saw what everyone went through to deliver the final product.
What blows my mind is how young they all are. Joseph Staten is 29 here. This was a time when young people with passion and fresh ideas who painted new worlds in gaming. Now its crusty old corporate executives who make games to help buy themselves a third house. Man has gaming gone down hill from those amazing times.
Halo was the first ever FPS game I ever played and since Day 1 I've always been in love with Bungie's entries in the series, each just had a certain magic to them that brings a tear to my eye watching stuff like this.
As an 18 year old this made me cry, everyone looked so much happier than people do nowadays. People didn't look like they were suffering, just living life to its fullest.
Pre 9//… no new normal yet
If only 343 could have matched the love and passion put into this franchise. Heartbreaking to see something with so many memories associated with your childhood be put to shame by the very people developing it, especially in contrast to these people at Bungie. But the music and gameplay all these guys created left a lasting impression on me and I'll never forget it.
You have literally no idea the amount of effort and passion 343 put in-whether you like their work or not. An absolutely pathetic case of a nerd slating other's work behind a keyboard and screen when they have zero insight into game development. Genuinely pathetic. Grow up.
Bungie were so afraid of becoming corporate sellouts under microsoft so they tried their hardest to make amazing games. Once they left, sadly, Halo became the corporate soul-less cash cow Bungie feared so much.
@@deafbyhiphop lets not act like destiny made them the angles we knew them from
honestly, i feel like with 343i being built in house by microsoft themselves, unlike bungie who joined microsoft, they'll probably never see that kind of freedom which is a shame really, theres quite a lot of good people at 343i who could do much more if they weren't held under a grip by microsoft, bad management (although the new 343i management is looking good), etc.
i'm rooting for them to make it through the mess of infinite tbh
This is the age of monopoly. Free competition and artisanship has been replaced by cold, robotic production of commodities, made quickly and with no passion, to maximise profit. The gaming landscape has changed to turn the player, not the game, into the thing that is bought and sold. Games no longer need to ship finished, functional or fun, since there is so little competition, if any. Thus is the end-point of capitalism.
Marty, you’re a class act. Seriously you’re a shining example of someone in the industry. Bless your soul
You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all our lost time. Bungie history, is it? Fascinating.
I see what you did there. I am shccked, almost too shocked for words.
My 30 years of being alive, has now taught me that for wanting to work at bungie for 20 years was really a wish to climb inside your minds instead of your office space. I think its so impressive the minds of bungie employees. Probably awesome to work there. I love you guys. You are my dream. The buildings in ODST are so beautiful they make me want to cry because we will never get the utopia of the early 2000s back. That game was like something from heaven, a real utopia. Same with all the bungie halos.
I can't tell you how much I miss Bungie as it was
Thank you for this, I am a big fan of the old Halo Bungie and see this passion and real humans is amazing, you are amazing ❤ thank you for everything Martin !!! I miss so much the old times with you and all this beautiful and passionate people on Halo, you make me cry ahaha
Nice to see how it was back in 2001, just hope time travel exists sooner rather than later to experience the feeling of a loved series releasing again
10:08 "Launch titles that don't suck, what a concept." Amen.
Recently opened my own studio, totally influenced/inspired by these OG videos since I was a kid. Thank you so much Marty.
good hoepfully there will be more like yours then
how's your studio goin man?
@@blue-halo-elite moving into our first real office this Saturday. Only 15 of us but we're working towards big things soon. I'll update you here next month.
@@jax2433 That's fucking excellent, I wish you and your team the best of luck setting up!
These guys shaped most of our childhoods. Just incredible to see!
Love seeing these. Feels like watching old family videos or something.
This video was stunning, would love to see more of Bungie’s olden days
Miss that classic halo music.
Halo Trial, Halo: CE, and Halo Custom Edition were my childhood. I can't count number of the times I listened to these songs. So relaxing. Your problems melt away while exploring giant maps.
"home movies are fun"...yet so nostalgic and magical like the fade out with the chant at the end
I was a kid, but these videos remind me of such a simpler time.
HE'S BACK. Welcome back Marty.
I wish I was born earlier to experience this
me too
Same here
Same. I was born the very year the game released
wish i could go back and do it all again
Golden age of gaming
Idk if it's the music or what, but you can FEEL it in the air. I can't explain it. As an athlete, I liken it to entering the bulls locker room circa 96.
"that's my casting couch" Lmao, the exact humor I'd expect from Bungie. Marty.. thanks for sharing this.
This really captures the heart of Halo. Thank you Martie for the memories.
Always love seeing a video pop up from Marty
Marty is an absolute legend for this. It almost hurts to watch after seeing what gaming has become 20 years later. And that music… my god
god i wish these times were still here
Im somewhat young still and just got into halo a few years ago. Cant describe how disapointed i am that i missed the bungie years.
Can’t wait to see what else is in the bungie vault
The Leviathan Raid, Scourge of the Past, etc...
I wish we could go back to these times. Games were great and so were the developers. Thank you Marty for such a wonderful experience.
Always love these behind the scenes recordings
Man seeing all of this makes me realize just how much of a family you all felt like. And you brought us all into your family. Thank you Marty
Эта игра сильно повлияла на мое игровое становление. Чудесно окунуться в те времена, когда происходила разработка и релиз игры. Тогда я был еще совсем ребёнком) хоть и лично не знаком, но имена знакомые мне, интересное чувство. спасибо за прекрасное видео.
Man this is so wholesome… absolutely legendary crew
It's so surreal seeing a massive launch night at the town center. So many memories there.
Missed you Marty, glad to have you back.
From HBO with love.
Halo CE captured my imagination in a way no other game had or has since. I used to seriously play it a good 8+ hours a day for years. (I had no life.) Many of your works still bring me chills and tears to this day. The day you left Bungie was a very sad day. No words can express my gratitude for all the amazing memories you have brought to me.
You are a legend Marty and you always will be. Thank you for helping create such great epic and grand memories during our childhoods with your heartfelt music.
These little behind the scenes films are what made me love gaming and halo the most. Still hope one day I can do music or concept arts for games.
Remember Halo.
You guys changed my life. You were my life.
Good to have you back Marty
Thanks for re-uploading Marty! That shot of Stefan, the multiplayer programmer, standing watching others play multiplayer out in the wild for the first time, made me wonder what he was thinking in that moment. I imagine it was a sense of pride and accomplishment. How awesome.
Not only does this give me the wonderful nostalgia for the games, and the Beautiful people of Bungie, it also gives me nostalgia for the era as a kid of the 90s/early 2000's. I hope everyone, from Bungie to the gamers that loved them have a fantastic time moving forward
pre-9// was a very peaceful time for most in the west
@Echo Delta aye they were
Ambient wonder really takes you back in time. Whatever equipment you used plus your talent of course really made such an impact on so many of us to where this just takes us back to when things were perfect. Thank you guys.
Martin you are a legend.
The franchize that shaped me into who I am today. Both personally and professionally. Can't be more thankful. Thank you.
I really hope you passed this through Bungie, I’d hate for you to have issues with them again. But it’s great to have you back Marty.
I hope no one at bungie is that petty.
@@nanoplasm Why would they? They knew they were being recorded, so they knew it would eventually be public.
@@Mr.KittensAndGibberish that's not how things work
@@Hello2215. Bro, if someone brings in a camera and they start filming, you should assume it has the potential to inevitably go public. You're daft and or naive if you believe it never will. Even if you ask to not be apart of it or ask to be censored, there's always that chance it might. There's no absolute certainty in anything.
@@nanoplasm They are, nu-Bungie are disgusting and act like cretins.
Minute 4:29 almost sent me over the edge. I miss Martys Halo music so much 😭
The man, the myth, the legend himself
This made me feel emotional even though I've never played Halo
There will be a renaissance of gaming that resembles this era. Great times will come again.
There won’t, in the early days innovation was necessary to make money and the diversity of solid triple A titles shows that. Now it’s become about what’s the most marketable low effort business model to implement into a “live service” as opposed to a game.
Still got indie games but 95% of them can be broken down into walking simulator horror games or pixel rogue-likes with the occasional nostalgia shooter game.
@@thebigenchilada678 thats a gross oversimplification of indie games and wayy off the mark, theyre thriving and innovating more than ever before atm, you must not play much.
@@Zionswasd i almost exclusively play indie games now lol, if you were to go onto steam right now, you will find those two genres make up the bulk of new indie games.
@@thebigenchilada678 on itchio maybe with the horror games, but not steam
I agree there will be another eventually. But how long? I don't think anytime soon. Lots of stuff outside of gaming will have to happen (social, economic, and political) to sort of put things back into a position where things reset.
8:00 man it's sad this type of moments they will never happen again, I'm glad that I lived the hype of Halo 2 and 3 in the store.
I was Born in 2007 and may never trully get the full experiance from this video. But this is just magic. Such a throwback to the begging of a genre defying series.
it was really a special point in time, before corruption and greed
I was born in 1998 and barely experienced the old computer / VHS vibes for a few years.
@@TheItalianoAssassino I was 1991 so I got to experience the original Tomb Raider on Windows 95 and The Lion King on VHS. I still have both. I don't have a CD drive or VHS player to actually play them, but I still have them lol.
It's been so long since we've heard anything from you. Thrilled to wake up to this today. Missing the glory days of what once was. Your music and these games have spanned a generation and are a real connection point for me and my kids. For that I thank you.
How are you doing?
You made the best music of my teen years!
Thanks for that.