Halo 1-3 in my opinion is the greatest stretch of games we've ever seen. So ahead of there time, comparing them to modern games today they still are so much better. You can tell the devs really put their heart and soles into whereas devs and game studios now just focus on maximizing profits:(((
I would argue Halo 3 had a lot of competition around its release, cod4 and gears of war, and still managed to become an ultimate experience, only thing that I think they missed on is graphics and story
I haven’t bought a new game since Sniper Elite 5, and the only one I’ve recently bought before that was RDR2. The game industry is too hyper-focused on graphics now, and the games suffer for it. Take Sniper Elite 5. The graphics aren’t the greatest, but the gameplay is fun and takes skill. Can that be said about CoD Vanguard? No. Sure, the graphics look beautiful, but does that matter if the gameplay sucks? No. Even when the game objectively looks better (Like Fo4 or BO3 zombies) it looses it’s charm that made it fun to experience. In my opinion, SE5 is the last good AAA title to come out in the past 2 years.
Yes I play them in order (the bungie games!) then start all over again 😂 on legendary it takes me the whole year to get through them all. Just playing when I get time, i honestly think if I only had an Xbox and these games I’d be happy forever.
@@Sparecards The Library isn’t as scary or repetitive as everyone claims. 343 Guilty Spark talking to you about containment makes the whole level a lot of fun. I was definitely smiling :)
Showing DICE's Battlefront as the example of proritizing pretty graphics over fun gameplay was extremely cathartic. Way too many people gave that game a pass.
Yeah I've easily put 1000 hours into Battlefront II, but I've maybe put 60 hours into the newer Battlefront 2. Yeah after DICE was able to make the game it was kinda fun to play. But it was so limited. In Battlefront I could take a ship, fly it around a map, land on a sand crawler or a AT-AT, or a big rock. Get out of the ship shoot at people, get back into my ship and fly around some more
i enjoyed one of DICE BF as well as i enjoyed the 343 games. sorry but i think their gameplay aren't so bad , it's my right it doesn't mean i don't have bad tastes. i can see where's the probs though they just doesn't put their potential hight
My fondest memory of CE was when rescuing Captain Keyes. I had a glitch where if you fight the jackals outside and then trigger the cut scene, they continue to attack during the cut scene! So while Keyes is talking, plasma is flying everywhere, marines are getting hit. And then Keyes himself gets hit...and dies....and then comes back to life! Funniest shit I ever saw. Good times, Bungie. 😂
I found a similar glitch during the first time entering the control room, if you time it right and fly the banshee up high with enough speed in the direction of the door opening, chief will be teleported out of the banshee for the cutscene, and the banshee will fall and kill him leaving a disemodied voice for the cutscene.
I am just so sad that i started at the tail end of the bungie era, but the memories I do have from playing reach with my brother and dad are some of the best.
Same for me. I was 19 when I first played Halo back in 2010. My first Halo was ODST, and then a few months later, Halo Reach came out. What a time!! I'm grateful to have experienced it, even if at the tail end.
That’s how I felt about Halo 2. I didn’t get into matchmaking and online custom games till Halo 3. My most fond memories is playing 3 and Reach with my dad and friends.
This was an incredible video dude, I really miss the feeling of the Bungie era games. You hit the nail on the head with everything mentioned, definitely keep doing videos like these! By the end of the year, your channel is going to be huge!
Halo CE is my childhood gem. As someone who's born in 2002 and only started playing 6-7 years after the release for the first at my dad's house every weekend was a very fun time. As a kid playing it on easy all the way to Assault on the Control room when I completed it and mission 343 Guilty Spark was next with it's dark and foggy atmosphere and level design it had me scared as a kid, I only completed it and the other missions later when I grow up more and then completed halo ce's campaign for the first time. I remember back then always chilling and messing around with sleeping grunts and Perchance to Dream starts playing in the background after you gone down the first lift. I still have my original copy of CE backwards compatible on the Xbox 360 and I even play it sometimes. Halo CE is my most played halo game to this day campaign wise, now it day's I'm playing it on legendary with skulls on MCC to make it even more chaotic, challenging and fun to fight against the A.i. I also adore the grunts from ce even mimicking there voice lines when I fight against them and the rest of the covenant, and even helping the grunts fight against the flood on occasions no matter if they are my enemies.
The Bungie ViDocs remind me of a 5 year old that is super excited about a drawing or painting they made... Going into immense detail on why they made it the way they did.. Proud as hell about it.. Regardless if Halo ended up being good or not, their passion and pride for this project was unmistakable. I'd love to ask MartyOdonnell about certain musical arrangement choices..From Jason Jones and Joe Staten I'd love to hear what deliberate changes were made to make the story beats more digestible as a video game vs movie. From the concept artists I'd love to hear about how they came up with Hunter Designs and anatomy. OR WHAT THE HELL WORT WORT WORT MEANS. Stuff like that... and you know they all could probably talk and nerd out about it all for houuuurrs...The passion they all had for these releases is evident in every moment. From title screen to credits. Those ViDocs didn't feel like marketing at all. Just a bunch of proud parents that love to talk about their kid haha
I think that part about the composer saying the Flood shouldn't come at you immediately after the cut scene is amazing. It's people that are part of it, but not fully in the trenches seeing something, they say what they think would be better, and the leads listen and pay attention. The leads aren't so sold on their own ideas that they ignore other potentially better ideas. That level would have been worse if the Flood attacked immediately. That delay layers on the suspense and gives the story the space it needs to breathe. The game is better for that, and it is emblematic of why it is so good.
Agreed! It was that building tension and a sense of "wtf did this" that makes 343 Guilty Spark one of, if not, my favorite missions I've ever played in an FPS. Other favorites are Truth and Reconciliation and The Ark from Halo 3
Apparently Marty also suggested that Miranda get killed towards the end of Halo 3 to add tension to the story, and tbh it worked! You see that happen right before the final push towards the Prophet of Truth, and you really feel the sense of urgency knowing you’re basically the last person who could save Johnson and deactivate the array.
@@Majin_Fuu one of the best moments in gaming really, up there with the licker buildup in re2, the half life opening, the first time seeing doom in 93 etc etc. I was in my early twenties when halo came out which just proves to me i don’t just miss my childhood. That era of halo 1 and 2 and the LAN parties and story beats were some of the best my 30 some years of gaming.
Been playing CE and 2 since there release…. Die hard fan. Played on XBC and LIVE. Participated in tournaments…. Made montages… I made lots of friends from online that I still stay in touch with till this day…. Lan parties… i’m proud to say that these were the most amazing times of my life… thank you for all that you have done.
Halo 1 - 3 will always be some of my favorite games of all time. I remember being 11 years old, just moved to a new town and a kid my age down the street asked if I wanted to come play his new xbox(first one with halo as his first game). We started playing the campaign on co-op, and all I remember was having the most fun I ever had playing a game. Over pokemon on gameboy, and over all my N64 games like smash bros, Mario kart, golden eye, zelda. We ended up playing all day and night. This went from my first time hanging out with him to sparking a lifelong friendship. Those games bring back some of the best memories, like huge slayer parties, drilling holes through the walls without my parents knowing so we could run system link cables to xboxs in different rooms just to prevent the screen looking haha. The young kids prob wont know nothing about that lol, but man those were some good times.
Seeing so many of these videos come out just makes me smile. Halo has been a major part of my life since I was 5, playing co-op campaign with my dad, getting scared of the flood for the first time, and getting to experience the release of every Halo game there after, being brought into fun new worlds, the comedy, the gameplay, the passion they put behind it. My only hope is to see a developer put this much love into a game again. Thanks for making my day looking back on fond memories.
Truly is one of the greatest shames in gaming history. And Halo goes beyond the games for me - I’ve read most of the books & enjoyed exploring that universe. Sucks that it’s gone from a military sci-fi franchise to some power ranger acrobat garbonza but it is what it is
Halo Combat Evolved is the literal best. It's my absolute favorite and I never, ever get tired of it. I don't get tired of 2 or 3, either. Halo-era Bungie was something else, man. Joe Staten and Marty O'Donnell along with the other amazing folks who forged these master pieces deserve the world. I wish I could personally thank them for all the good times and amazing memories their games have given me. I will never forget.
Under Cover of Night is also my favorite. Playing "Two Betrayals" I remember that epic hill run as you approach to fight a covenant armada and space zombies alone. It captures that moment so well and I love it.
Wow dude, this just began autoplaying after a video I was watching was over, and I have to say, the algorithm killed it here! So very well polished and to the point, subscribed and belled!
Those famous quotes from bungie devs really should be a guide for all devs going forward. Everyone should follow the motto of "good enough sucks" and getting your "30 seconds of fun" down
As someone who is new to the Halo franchise, I absolutely agree with you. I bought and played Halo MCC last year on my first PC that I built that year also. Reach was the first one and I enjoyed it so much I have replayed it completely three times since.
I agree 100% that Halo CE still holds up and is very fun to play all these years later. And it does have the best campaign to play on legendary. Man, I wish it got ported to Switch lol.
Played Halo CE in 2004 8 months before H2 came out as a 10 year old. Changed my entire social and video gaming life forever. Bungie era Halo was and forever will be Top Tier Halo!! Idc what any 343 fan says.. you just had to be there
very well made video, im glad marty shared this on twitter. im also happy you talked about halo being the first to make fps on a controller fun, all the games we play now learned from the control scheme (and aim assist) of halo ce
Despite getting a whole array of games throughout the years, Halo is one game that my brother and I started to play regularly, together. I'm pretty sure if we didn't do that, that we wouldn't be playing the games we did today, or be close the way we are. Since 2008, we play the Halo 1 campaign around every Thanksgiving/Christmas. We used the old Xbox up to the Anniversary remaster, then used the 360 till the Master Chief Collection on PC. Sometimes we throw in 2 to wrap it up, but we always feel that 1 had the most impact to us. This last holidays was the first time we didn't play it, because our entire family got COVID. We all recovered thankfully, and he tells me we'll pick a weekend and play it; but you feel something is sad and amiss that your Halo holiday bash didn't happen. Like a family tradition you quit, and you feel the absence of. I get that we're older now and have gone different paths, but it's one of the few things that I do feel that's remained from growing up. On top of that, original Halo got me into movies like Starship Troopers, and gave me the experience that sci-fi can be something else than Star Wars and Star Trek. I met some cool people who I dub "Xbox bros", and it was the first game I got for a used Xbox I bought with a measly paycheck while working at Food City. Something about the Halo universe always felt real, practical and that it could happen very well today without any issue. I met artists who were big fans of the Elites, and those people were the ones to shape me that the Elites could've been good allies after Halo 2. It was very influential on my life. I was never really good at multiplayer, and I never had an Xbox Live subscription. But I remember all of that. It'll always have a mark on me forever.
I absolutely loved OG Bungie. Their love and passion for the game speaks for itself playing the original series. I wish we could still see Halo games of the same caliber..
Something I feel like that always brimgs me back to late nights playing Halo with my friends is the music, the beautiful chorus of voices, the drums, the strings, Reach probably has my favorite songs outside of ODST but ODST is cheating, its got smooth Jazz which always hits, but music in Reach felt so important, mainly that part where the Zealots suddenly drop in and take a marine and all you get told is "5, 6, clear the hole" and you and Jorge get to it, that song that plays, that intense almost synth like guitar as you chase after a dangerous foe. I remember 0 moments where the music emphasized the impact of a moment in Halo 4 and 5, the only moment I remember in 5 is when everyone fights Chief and his helmet gets cracked, which I only remember because its a little odd, Chief is, if I remember correctly, one of the like 2 Spartans considered Hyper Lethal, Noble 6 being the other, so Cheif should just be laying this entire team out, they're newer Spartans also so that doesn't help them
@@Majin_Fuu Its so cool, also the Zealots look AMAZING in reach, incredibly scary and that fits, Zealots in lore are terrifying combatants and are basically psychos who are super religious
You utterly nailed what's wrong with current behind-the-scenes documentaries. In the past you felt like you were really finding out how something was made, warts and all. Now it's all presented in the most flattering light possible - it's like they all saw Mr Plinkett making fun of the Phantom Menace behind-the-scenes footage and decided "Well, we can't let anyone see what we've made in anything less than the most flattering light!"
this is an incredibly well articulated video essay on the perspective of halo as of now and then. you are 100% correct they were a lighting in a bottle studio and game...once lighting is out of the bottle it's hard to catch it again. I'm subscribed and can't wait to hear for more things from your perspective!. kudos!
Still remember the first time I played halo. I was probably about 6 or 7. I went to go stay with my older sister who was only 17 or 18 at the time and had an apartment with her boyfriend (now my brother in law) who was a 6’2 Slipknot metal freak who didn’t let no one mess with his shit. I typically would just watch a movie when I went over. Well he told me I could play his Xbox one day but he only had one game. I remember just being so mesmerized and invested in the game and scared when the flood came out and I was at night playing alone. Anytime I went over there he always let me play…. So much that Christmas that year he gave me his Xbox and halo and I just remember crying like a baby being so happy to receive a console and halo. I had never been gifted something personal like that. All these years later I’m 26 going on 27 I will never forget that day. Still have the Xbox and the only game for it. Halo. I’ve played 1-3 so many times. Never cared for 4 or 5 just played once to follow the campaign…. And just barely this past month started playing infinite and I am actually having a lot of fun playing the campaign like I used to. Wished there was more dialogue but I’d say I’m liking it better than 4 & 5. Anywho I’m fortunate to have been able to grown up the series in its golden years. Made a lot of friends who are no longer online. Good times
Good f'ing video dude. So spot on with the ViDocs and Bungie's philosophy on game design. No one cares if your game has a million new and "different" bells and whistles if they all have no character, aren't fun to use/interact with and play around. That one Halo 3 ViDoc where (i forget who) Bungie said "the core of Halo is weapons grenades and melee. When you really think about it that's what is fun about Halo's style of FPS gameplay. Unlike 90% of other popular FPS today Halo has a really fun melee component to it, grenades have different and fun uses (plasma grenades sticking to targets and getting multiple kills), and almost every weapon in the old Halo game sandboxes felt unique and served their own use and realistic playstyle within the sandbox. 343 has added fun weapons but honestly none of them have led to really funny and silly gameplay experiences like the grav hammer or spartan laser or plasma pistol.
Anyone remember ONI on PS2? if memory serves that was a Bungie game and the first I'd played from the studio bringing them to my attention. Halo CE changed the game for me, especially back before Xbox live blew up and you could use a PC to trick the OG Xbox into Online LAN multiplayer in a game with no online, good times. Reach to ODST are not just great games but some of the best Sci fi of all time. Halo should have ended with Bungie, its just not on par under 343. Thank you for the video.
I was super late to the whole Halo thing. Like 2019 or so late. My dad raised us PC gamers and even if we had an Xbox, there's no way my mom would have ever allowing us to play. But playing the games I always heard of as a side note but never really experienced...I can see why they were so loved. I had so much fun playing 1 through Reach, I listen to the soundtrack quite a bit because it gets me pumped, and even hoping to get into the books. I know "bashing modern games" can get old, but it is so common because what passion the devs have is killed by corporate oversight. Early gaming was so special because there was room for what was fun. It was genuine. Perhaps it is a fool's hope, but I want to see all the tech we have now used to achieve ambitious dreams like those of early game developers.
Just the same as you, I find myself always returning to Halo CE to relive some of the most fun I've had in my entire gaming history. Just saying that this game is 21 years old, and still holds that special place as a game that you can return to and have fun in is a testament to how well the game design was for CE. I never thought about that before, but that 30 seconds of fun really makes a lot of sense, and really makes me think back on why some games I've tried to play just don't give that good feel like Halo did. It's because it lacks that 30 seconds of fun aspect. And with how well the OST is for it I know I've listened to the whole thing probably a hundred times or more, it's really one of my favorite things to listen to. Outside of the obvious Halo theme, it's a hard battle between A Walk in the Woods, Under Cover of Night, On a Pale Horse, and Perchance to Dream. They are all so damn good it's hard to pick my favorites.
Halo CE was a paradigm shift in first person shooters compared to earlier DOS and Windows shooters like Doom, Rise of the Triad and others. The physics of driving the Warthog and the tank and throwing grenades didn't exist in the early FPS games. The first time I drove the Warthog in Halo CE or got my first successful plasma grenade stick, I remember thinking how cool it was. It was a brand new experience just moving around, punching enemies and throwing grenades and shooting. Still to this day I play Halo CE and it has aged very well. My favorite weapon in Halo CE is the Needler and the first time I picked it up and tried it out, I was hooked. I enjoyed the early FPS games but Halo CE was a completely new experience.
Woah, I just had a dream last night I was playing Halo 2 with my brother. I should go over to his place and do the campaign all over again. Couch multiplayer will never be beaten. The greatest trilogy in gaming history in my opinion. Excellent video.
The amount of times I've watched that halo 2 behind the scenes disc on my halo green xbox back in the day, is insane. Then ended up soft modding it and ripping the disc on there so I didn't ruin it. Now it's fully on UA-cam, but just something to think about with that green circle while watching it or just starting up any of the bungie games and letting it sit in the main menu is awesome!!
Just stumbled across your channel and I am so impressed! Editing, voiceover, everything. Really gripping even though I've heard all this stuff before from other creators and Bungie vidocs. Top job my guy, keep it up! Hope to see you up there with the top creators one day.
Ooof that bit about the behind the scenes is really true. Nowadays bungie vidocs are “spoilers” or reveals”, or more commercial and less here’s our team doing what they love and here’s why they love it.
A big success so early in the channel’s history! As many have said, the editing is spot on. May my sub today multiply to many more for you in the future!
I really appreciate that you shared your opinion with out being condescending or super negative, and that you shared something you were super passionate about in a really objective way. Great vídeo man!!!
Great video man. Really went all in and captured what I think about the bungie installments of halo. Video essays like this are really fun to watch, and to make! So I understand how much work this stuff takes and it deserves more views. I originally wanted to make my channel halo focused but that fell through. But it's nice to see some great halo content still being made.
I still can't get over how great this game is that it is being talked about decades later. I never would've thought about that at the time, but I grew up in the era of legendary gaming that would forever change gaming history
And speaking of an amazing team, I don't think I'd make it through studying without the musical genius of Michael and Martin's music and audio team pushing me through COUNTLESS hours of undergrad and medical school. My patients and I owe them a million lol
I still remember the day I went to GameStop (or whatever is was called at the time) in the mall with my dad and he bought me the Xbox 1 with Halo. I was so excited I never seen anything like it before. Then Halo 2 upped the bar bringing multiplayer in, probably the most memorable times I have playing a video game. Ngl Halo ruined my life as a youth. I got bad grades, didn’t care about anything else except getting home and playing customs/matchmaking with the boys.
I love CE so so much. Jammed it as a kid on a friend's xbox everytime I went over, and then as a teenager I played it over and over on my laptop. When MCC came to PC, I played it more on my gaming pc I finally saved up for. CE has been with me for most of my life and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. I wish I could meet the people who made it and shake their hands. I've beaten it on Legendary but I prefer Heroic for most play throughs. Normal mode makes you feel like a super soldier, it's super easy but you just shred those alien bastards with the AR. Love CE, love Halo, won't say anything about the current state of the series because I want to end on a high note haha!
Some of my best memories as a kid, having Lan parties at my friend’s house playing Halo 2 and playing Halo 3 on Xbox live with all of my friends in Jr High. I’ve watched the Halo 3 Special Editions Behind the Scenes over and over again.
Excellent video and really hit the nail on the head. Making video games is an art form and that’s something Bungie put love into. Most developers see games as a means to profit now.
A very good video ! Amazing you've only put out 4 videos and already almost 400 subs ! Shows the great work you have done ! I will have to try harder to reach your level of success so fast. Also I am subbed now, love the content man
@@frogarchist yeah definitely the better mentality to have for sure! It just feels so satisfying when you get a new sub like and even view. Like as good as playing the games themselves haha but yeah I've got no experience whatsoever. First one was just put out in August, thank you man. Your comment is actually really inspiring for me, and please keep the content coming, it's great !
I keep re-visiting halo ce and 2 again and again, sometimes with mods, sometimes vanilla... On the other hand I cant even get myself to play through the first mission of halo 4 without pressing alt f4 Also, great video! This is the content i'd expect from a 100k+ subs channel : )
@@SavingSoulsMinistries I feel you... Personally, I didnt have a pc good enough to play halo 4 at that time anyway so I just watched a walkthrough on youtube. Now that I can play it, I still dont want to. Everything that made halo special doesnt exist in that game. I never even completed the game myself and will probably never will...
Just like the game you're talking about, this video was pretty perfect. You earned a sub from me with the quality of this video. Look forward to see some more content from you
I'll never forget 7/7/2007. Halo 3 online challenge. For 24 hours Bungie employees would rotate and play a certain matchmaking mode, if you matched up against them and your team won. Everyone on the team would get recon armor. I got recon armor right before it became not rare anymore. I got to experience a few kids freaking out about my armor 1 time. I'll never forget that day or the incredible amount of fun trying to glitch the campaign with friends was or messing around in the crazy forge. 343 had ruined halo. However, what Bungie did with it, it would be hard for any company to follow up.
Hey dude, that's a nice video. Such a neat covering of all the things that made Halo one of the best series ever. I'd also add that Bungie's old school lore about humans being Forerunners was also much better than the new 343 lore (I know Halo 3 had a murky direction with that, but the mainline story was still very much according to the formula that was built up in Halo CE and Halo 2. Keep uploading such videos. Thanks for the insight and factual content.
great work, i think you nailed this vid. i've wanted to make a halo vid for a while but can't figure out an approach or hook that i like because i don't feel i'll do my childhood self justice in describing how pivotal they were for me growing up (as cheesy as that sounds I know, but good god they were so great to my tiny brain). anyway, i'm trying to start a discord/writers room for youtubers if you wanna join. just lmk, really like your vids so far.
@@frogarchist word no worries, i'm just trying to start a group of people we can all bounce ideas off of and communicate with about youtube. thanks so much! dropping my dead space vid tomorrow. i'll keep an eye out for your next vid.
I remember coming home from school every day thinking about Halo. It didn't matter how many times I've repeated each and every activity. I had fun no matter how many times I replayed a mission. But when Halo 4 came around, I couldn't agree more that the prometheans just are not as fun to fight as elites for example. In Halo CE, the elites would actually catch me by surprise. They would evade, side step, and even duck when I went in for a melee. Bungie knew what they were doing when making worthy adversaries for the player.
My parents were too broke for halo 2, but my step father had rented it the day it came out. I finished it before I had to return it. I tried so hard to actually own the game as I had so much fun that I was nonstop pestering my parents. It got so bad that when ebgames was a new thing that we drove two hours to one thinking we could trade any three games in to get a copy of halo 2, I actually legit cried when the guy told me the games were too old to trade in. My parents still didn't get it for me after that. I even tried to save up, just back then getting 20$ to me was like a kid getting 100$ now. I don't even actually remember getting it. All I remember is spending HOURS replaying the game. I even some how managed to get xbox live as it was gonna be a "family" thing LOL. No one got to play online. I was always on custom games back when zombies in halo 2, you had to switch teams mid game to green and only use sword, or you got the boot. Lolol the glitches were fun too.
People seem to either forget, or never knew how much Marty contributed to the games' 'Sound Design' beyond just being the Songwriter. That had to have been very exhausting back then compared to the ease of use with the software and hardware available in our current times. He and others worked really hard at making sure that not only the music was dynamic in relation to the on-screen action, but also the way that proximity sound (and voice chatter) worked, coupled with blending the actual recordings of live fired weapons being tweaked and balanced so that a sniper shot that was far away, and even perhaps around a curve of a large map like Sidewinder, actually sounded very close to what the true sound would've been. It helped players dial in on where certain shots or grenades were leaving audibly traceable conflagrations so that players could truly benefit using a good sound setup alongside the visual input being received. To me, especially back then, that attention to such detail was paramount for winning battles. Amazing, cutting edge -BLAM!- at the time.
Halo was a turning point in fps games, where it really felt immersive, like a sandbox experience. Playing with the physics, launching overshielded players off of warthogs, it all lended to that experience. Not only that, but the ai behavior and setting/plot of story were quite compelling. It's not perfect though. The enemies are silly at times, some of the guns are a bit underwhelming, but the game play loop is spot on, and it really was fun to play with friends or alone. It's a great memory for me.
Man, I miss Bungie Halo. But I also miss this era of Bungie and gaming in general. I was 16 when Halo came out and it was my reason for buying an Xbox. I am still playing Bungie Halo to this day.
4:05 It's kind of a shame we don't talk about the Dreamcast anymore. Always loved that one, even if it's only for a handful of games. Still love Frogger 2 and Sonic Adventure.
Growing up with these games and remember watching my older brother play Halo 1, I was obsessed. Halo 3 and Reach were by far my favourite games, being 11 and learning you could play Halo 3 online was mind blowing for me and then Reach came out and me and my mates had years of fun on it
I still remember hauling TV's, in wagons, behind bicycles, summer of 2002 (we were all kids between 11 & 13 years old) to Josh Valentine's house. The sound of 8 boys in another room all screaming because a rocket hit their warthog when they had the flag is still embedded in my memory.
I smiled the whole time watching this. Nice.
Marty is always watching us Halo fans 🙂
Marty we need you and all the OG Bungie devs to give us the proper Halo 4 we’ve waited for since H3
By the way, at 12:00 I’m pretty sure you meant Microsoft not 343. (Oops, didn’t read)
HOLY SHIT REAL MARTY.
such a blessing
I like baseball
Halo 1-3 in my opinion is the greatest stretch of games we've ever seen. So ahead of there time, comparing them to modern games today they still are so much better. You can tell the devs really put their heart and soles into whereas devs and game studios now just focus on maximizing profits:(((
In terms oh horror, dead space 1 and 2 are the very best, the new remake is a good sign for games imo
I would argue Halo 3 had a lot of competition around its release, cod4 and gears of war, and still managed to become an ultimate experience, only thing that I think they missed on is graphics and story
Maximising their Corporate Equality Indexes*
yeah games just aren’t the same anymore, ive basically given up on new games and im about to just start playing all my old favorites again
I haven’t bought a new game since Sniper Elite 5, and the only one I’ve recently bought before that was RDR2. The game industry is too hyper-focused on graphics now, and the games suffer for it. Take Sniper Elite 5. The graphics aren’t the greatest, but the gameplay is fun and takes skill. Can that be said about CoD Vanguard? No. Sure, the graphics look beautiful, but does that matter if the gameplay sucks? No. Even when the game objectively looks better (Like Fo4 or BO3 zombies) it looses it’s charm that made it fun to experience. In my opinion, SE5 is the last good AAA title to come out in the past 2 years.
Just replayed Halo CE again and had a huge smile on my face the entire time! One of the greatest ever.
Halo CE through Reach is the greatest 5 game run of any franchise in video game history. They're all absolute bangers.
Yes I play them in order (the bungie games!) then start all over again 😂 on legendary it takes me the whole year to get through them all. Just playing when I get time, i honestly think if I only had an Xbox and these games I’d be happy forever.
I don't think you smiled in the library.
@@Sparecards I really enjoy the library 🤷🏻♂️
@@Sparecards The Library isn’t as scary or repetitive as everyone claims. 343 Guilty Spark talking to you about containment makes the whole level a lot of fun. I was definitely smiling :)
Showing DICE's Battlefront as the example of proritizing pretty graphics over fun gameplay was extremely cathartic. Way too many people gave that game a pass.
That sounds about right.
@Ya Mum There was, and still are, an absolutely staggering amount of people that simp and make excuses for BF2015 for one reason or another.
Yeah I've easily put 1000 hours into Battlefront II, but I've maybe put 60 hours into the newer Battlefront 2. Yeah after DICE was able to make the game it was kinda fun to play. But it was so limited. In Battlefront I could take a ship, fly it around a map, land on a sand crawler or a AT-AT, or a big rock. Get out of the ship shoot at people, get back into my ship and fly around some more
i enjoyed one of DICE BF as well as i enjoyed the 343 games. sorry but i think their gameplay aren't so bad , it's my right it doesn't mean i don't have bad tastes. i can see where's the probs though they just doesn't put their potential hight
Yeah no bullshit. 2015 became a great game down the line. Cope and seeth.
30 seconds of fun. That is it. Nothing is better than Bungie Halo.
I dunno I tell my wife I like 30 seconds of fun......
@@supersawyer358 Noob
@@thetrickster9885 yup
@@supersawyer358 Hey man, that’s all you need! 🤣
@@allbottledup9513 amen brother
My fondest memory of CE was when rescuing Captain Keyes. I had a glitch where if you fight the jackals outside and then trigger the cut scene, they continue to attack during the cut scene! So while Keyes is talking, plasma is flying everywhere, marines are getting hit. And then Keyes himself gets hit...and dies....and then comes back to life! Funniest shit I ever saw. Good times, Bungie. 😂
I found a similar glitch during the first time entering the control room, if you time it right and fly the banshee up high with enough speed in the direction of the door opening, chief will be teleported out of the banshee for the cutscene, and the banshee will fall and kill him leaving a disemodied voice for the cutscene.
11:53 totally agree. Great video mate! I miss Bungie and Halo.
Thanks a ton, Karl
Haha no way Karl is a Halo fan 👍🏽
Your channel is legit a diamond in the rough. The editing on these videos is incredibly solid.
I am just so sad that i started at the tail end of the bungie era, but the memories I do have from playing reach with my brother and dad are some of the best.
Same for me. I was 19 when I first played Halo back in 2010. My first Halo was ODST, and then a few months later, Halo Reach came out. What a time!! I'm grateful to have experienced it, even if at the tail end.
That’s how I felt about Halo 2. I didn’t get into matchmaking and online custom games till Halo 3. My most fond memories is playing 3 and Reach with my dad and friends.
Halo is the ultimate masterpiece
One of them!
@@IceSick90 among
This was an incredible video dude, I really miss the feeling of the Bungie era games. You hit the nail on the head with everything mentioned, definitely keep doing videos like these! By the end of the year, your channel is going to be huge!
Halo CE is my childhood gem. As someone who's born in 2002 and only started playing 6-7 years after the release for the first at my dad's house every weekend was a very fun time. As a kid playing it on easy all the way to Assault on the Control room when I completed it and mission 343 Guilty Spark was next with it's dark and foggy atmosphere and level design it had me scared as a kid, I only completed it and the other missions later when I grow up more and then completed halo ce's campaign for the first time. I remember back then always chilling and messing around with sleeping grunts and Perchance to Dream starts playing in the background after you gone down the first lift. I still have my original copy of CE backwards compatible on the Xbox 360 and I even play it sometimes. Halo CE is my most played halo game to this day campaign wise, now it day's I'm playing it on legendary with skulls on MCC to make it even more chaotic, challenging and fun to fight against the A.i. I also adore the grunts from ce even mimicking there voice lines when I fight against them and the rest of the covenant, and even helping the grunts fight against the flood on occasions no matter if they are my enemies.
The Bungie ViDocs remind me of a 5 year old that is super excited about a drawing or painting they made... Going into immense detail on why they made it the way they did.. Proud as hell about it..
Regardless if Halo ended up being good or not, their passion and pride for this project was unmistakable.
I'd love to ask MartyOdonnell about certain musical arrangement choices..From Jason Jones and Joe Staten I'd love to hear what deliberate changes were made to make the story beats more digestible as a video game vs movie. From the concept artists I'd love to hear about how they came up with Hunter Designs and anatomy. OR WHAT THE HELL WORT WORT WORT MEANS. Stuff like that...
and you know they all could probably talk and nerd out about it all for houuuurrs...The passion they all had for these releases is evident in every moment. From title screen to credits.
Those ViDocs didn't feel like marketing at all.
Just a bunch of proud parents that love to talk about their kid haha
I think that part about the composer saying the Flood shouldn't come at you immediately after the cut scene is amazing. It's people that are part of it, but not fully in the trenches seeing something, they say what they think would be better, and the leads listen and pay attention. The leads aren't so sold on their own ideas that they ignore other potentially better ideas. That level would have been worse if the Flood attacked immediately. That delay layers on the suspense and gives the story the space it needs to breathe. The game is better for that, and it is emblematic of why it is so good.
Agreed! It was that building tension and a sense of "wtf did this" that makes 343 Guilty Spark one of, if not, my favorite missions I've ever played in an FPS. Other favorites are Truth and Reconciliation and The Ark from Halo 3
Details. I remember playing that level when I was 11 and being nervous about the flood bc you never knew when they were going to come out
Apparently Marty also suggested that Miranda get killed towards the end of Halo 3 to add tension to the story, and tbh it worked! You see that happen right before the final push towards the Prophet of Truth, and you really feel the sense of urgency knowing you’re basically the last person who could save Johnson and deactivate the array.
@@Majin_Fuu one of the best moments in gaming really, up there with the licker buildup in re2, the half life opening, the first time seeing doom in 93 etc etc. I was in my early twenties when halo came out which just proves to me i don’t just miss my childhood. That era of halo 1 and 2 and the LAN parties and story beats were some of the best my 30 some years of gaming.
@@sealboy1211 that's awesome to hear! I'm just hitting 30 so you've got some yrs on me my fellow gamer
Been playing CE and 2 since there release…. Die hard fan. Played on XBC and LIVE. Participated in tournaments…. Made montages… I made lots of friends from online that I still stay in touch with till this day…. Lan parties… i’m proud to say that these were the most amazing times of my life… thank you for all that you have done.
Halo 1 - 3 will always be some of my favorite games of all time. I remember being 11 years old, just moved to a new town and a kid my age down the street asked if I wanted to come play his new xbox(first one with halo as his first game). We started playing the campaign on co-op, and all I remember was having the most fun I ever had playing a game. Over pokemon on gameboy, and over all my N64 games like smash bros, Mario kart, golden eye, zelda. We ended up playing all day and night. This went from my first time hanging out with him to sparking a lifelong friendship. Those games bring back some of the best memories, like huge slayer parties, drilling holes through the walls without my parents knowing so we could run system link cables to xboxs in different rooms just to prevent the screen looking haha. The young kids prob wont know nothing about that lol, but man those were some good times.
Seeing so many of these videos come out just makes me smile. Halo has been a major part of my life since I was 5, playing co-op campaign with my dad, getting scared of the flood for the first time, and getting to experience the release of every Halo game there after, being brought into fun new worlds, the comedy, the gameplay, the passion they put behind it. My only hope is to see a developer put this much love into a game again. Thanks for making my day looking back on fond memories.
The old Bungie Halos were really something special man. It's a shame to see the series so mishandled these days.
It makes no sense. The people know what they want and the people who used to work there can produce that. Just a shame
Truly is one of the greatest shames in gaming history. And Halo goes beyond the games for me - I’ve read most of the books & enjoyed exploring that universe. Sucks that it’s gone from a military sci-fi franchise to some power ranger acrobat garbonza but it is what it is
It should have just been laid to rest after Halo 3 (subsequently Reach) and no more after it. Microsoft just can't resist milking the cash cow dry
You earned my subscription. You sufficiently summarized my thoughts and feelings on the old Bungie/Halo. Man, I miss the Seventh Column 😢.
I'm so glad that other people still remember the 7th column ❤️
@@C6Z_Bob I got 7 likes too :' )
@@pillarofdavidson sorry brother, couldn't leave it at 7. that hit me in the feels
As a Destiny player that got into Halo only in 2018,
I am good with Modern Bungie.
Halo never dies, it's just goes missing in action. 💛
wake me when you need me
Bro, right in the feels.
Halo Combat Evolved is the literal best. It's my absolute favorite and I never, ever get tired of it. I don't get tired of 2 or 3, either. Halo-era Bungie was something else, man. Joe Staten and Marty O'Donnell along with the other amazing folks who forged these master pieces deserve the world. I wish I could personally thank them for all the good times and amazing memories their games have given me. I will never forget.
Marty approved and under 400 views! 👀👀 Very well done sir, deserves much more views!
This video sums up halo perfectly we aren’t alone in this thought
*in sergeant johnson's voice* "hold me"
Under Cover of Night is also my favorite.
Playing "Two Betrayals" I remember that epic hill run as you approach to fight a covenant armada and space zombies alone. It captures that moment so well and I love it.
Wow dude, this just began autoplaying after a video I was watching was over, and I have to say, the algorithm killed it here! So very well polished and to the point, subscribed and belled!
Those famous quotes from bungie devs really should be a guide for all devs going forward. Everyone should follow the motto of "good enough sucks" and getting your "30 seconds of fun" down
Beautifully explained. Something so magical about the original games. Glad you made this video man. Mad respect
As someone who is new to the Halo franchise, I absolutely agree with you. I bought and played Halo MCC last year on my first PC that I built that year also. Reach was the first one and I enjoyed it so much I have replayed it completely three times since.
I agree 100% that Halo CE still holds up and is very fun to play all these years later. And it does have the best campaign to play on legendary. Man, I wish it got ported to Switch lol.
Played Halo CE in 2004 8 months before H2 came out as a 10 year old. Changed my entire social and video gaming life forever.
Bungie era Halo was and forever will be Top Tier Halo!! Idc what any 343 fan says.. you just had to be there
I think Jeremy Soule is on par with Marty. Those two are the best game composers of all time IMO.
The bungee era Halo games are exceptional epic games, truly great - one of my favourite series.
Halo CE has the best replay value. It just never gets old. I've replayed it countless times.
very well made video, im glad marty shared this on twitter. im also happy you talked about halo being the first to make fps on a controller fun, all the games we play now learned from the control scheme (and aim assist) of halo ce
Where are all the subs at? I was expecting a couple thousand after watching this video but .. not even 1k? Wow.
You got a clear cut talent lad!
good essay style vid, you really found something new to add to the halo timeline
Love it and so accurate. Thanks for uploading this!
Despite getting a whole array of games throughout the years, Halo is one game that my brother and I started to play regularly, together. I'm pretty sure if we didn't do that, that we wouldn't be playing the games we did today, or be close the way we are.
Since 2008, we play the Halo 1 campaign around every Thanksgiving/Christmas. We used the old Xbox up to the Anniversary remaster, then used the 360 till the Master Chief Collection on PC. Sometimes we throw in 2 to wrap it up, but we always feel that 1 had the most impact to us.
This last holidays was the first time we didn't play it, because our entire family got COVID. We all recovered thankfully, and he tells me we'll pick a weekend and play it; but you feel something is sad and amiss that your Halo holiday bash didn't happen. Like a family tradition you quit, and you feel the absence of. I get that we're older now and have gone different paths, but it's one of the few things that I do feel that's remained from growing up.
On top of that, original Halo got me into movies like Starship Troopers, and gave me the experience that sci-fi can be something else than Star Wars and Star Trek. I met some cool people who I dub "Xbox bros", and it was the first game I got for a used Xbox I bought with a measly paycheck while working at Food City. Something about the Halo universe always felt real, practical and that it could happen very well today without any issue. I met artists who were big fans of the Elites, and those people were the ones to shape me that the Elites could've been good allies after Halo 2.
It was very influential on my life. I was never really good at multiplayer, and I never had an Xbox Live subscription. But I remember all of that. It'll always have a mark on me forever.
I absolutely loved OG Bungie. Their love and passion for the game speaks for itself playing the original series. I wish we could still see Halo games of the same caliber..
I am good with Modern too.
Back when Halo was great
You’re a phenomenal content creator, can’t wait to see you blow up and say I have been here since day one
You nailed how I've always felt about this. Funny how hundreds of videos go over the same thing but this one hit the most. Nicely done.
Something I feel like that always brimgs me back to late nights playing Halo with my friends is the music, the beautiful chorus of voices, the drums, the strings, Reach probably has my favorite songs outside of ODST but ODST is cheating, its got smooth Jazz which always hits, but music in Reach felt so important, mainly that part where the Zealots suddenly drop in and take a marine and all you get told is "5, 6, clear the hole" and you and Jorge get to it, that song that plays, that intense almost synth like guitar as you chase after a dangerous foe.
I remember 0 moments where the music emphasized the impact of a moment in Halo 4 and 5, the only moment I remember in 5 is when everyone fights Chief and his helmet gets cracked, which I only remember because its a little odd, Chief is, if I remember correctly, one of the like 2 Spartans considered Hyper Lethal, Noble 6 being the other, so Cheif should just be laying this entire team out, they're newer Spartans also so that doesn't help them
one of my favorite scenes in reach! got me so hyped to open a can of whoop ass!
@@Majin_Fuu Its so cool, also the Zealots look AMAZING in reach, incredibly scary and that fits, Zealots in lore are terrifying combatants and are basically psychos who are super religious
You utterly nailed what's wrong with current behind-the-scenes documentaries. In the past you felt like you were really finding out how something was made, warts and all. Now it's all presented in the most flattering light possible - it's like they all saw Mr Plinkett making fun of the Phantom Menace behind-the-scenes footage and decided "Well, we can't let anyone see what we've made in anything less than the most flattering light!"
This little slice into halo and Bungie was lovely, thank you for making this. Hope people catch on to how great your videos are Frog.
this is an incredibly well articulated video essay on the perspective of halo as of now and then. you are 100% correct they were a lighting in a bottle studio and game...once lighting is out of the bottle it's hard to catch it again. I'm subscribed and can't wait to hear for more things from your perspective!. kudos!
Still remember the first time I played halo. I was probably about 6 or 7. I went to go stay with my older sister who was only 17 or 18 at the time and had an apartment with her boyfriend (now my brother in law) who was a 6’2 Slipknot metal freak who didn’t let no one mess with his shit.
I typically would just watch a movie when I went over. Well he told me I could play his Xbox one day but he only had one game. I remember just being so mesmerized and invested in the game and scared when the flood came out and I was at night playing alone. Anytime I went over there he always let me play…. So much that Christmas that year he gave me his Xbox and halo and I just remember crying like a baby being so happy to receive a console and halo. I had never been gifted something personal like that. All these years later I’m 26 going on 27 I will never forget that day. Still have the Xbox and the only game for it. Halo. I’ve played 1-3 so many times. Never cared for 4 or 5 just played once to follow the campaign…. And just barely this past month started playing infinite and I am actually having a lot of fun playing the campaign like I used to. Wished there was more dialogue but I’d say I’m liking it better than 4 & 5. Anywho I’m fortunate to have been able to grown up the series in its golden years. Made a lot of friends who are no longer online. Good times
What a wholesome story...ONE OF US!
Beautiful story, but get that clock capacitor out of the Xbox before the battery acid eats the mobo!
Damn good video. Was surprised when I saw this wasn't a 100k sub channel
Good f'ing video dude. So spot on with the ViDocs and Bungie's philosophy on game design. No one cares if your game has a million new and "different" bells and whistles if they all have no character, aren't fun to use/interact with and play around. That one Halo 3 ViDoc where (i forget who) Bungie said "the core of Halo is weapons grenades and melee. When you really think about it that's what is fun about Halo's style of FPS gameplay. Unlike 90% of other popular FPS today Halo has a really fun melee component to it, grenades have different and fun uses (plasma grenades sticking to targets and getting multiple kills), and almost every weapon in the old Halo game sandboxes felt unique and served their own use and realistic playstyle within the sandbox. 343 has added fun weapons but honestly none of them have led to really funny and silly gameplay experiences like the grav hammer or spartan laser or plasma pistol.
Im glad to say i discovered your channel early man these videos are pure quality
Anyone remember ONI on PS2? if memory serves that was a Bungie game and the first I'd played from the studio bringing them to my attention. Halo CE changed the game for me, especially back before Xbox live blew up and you could use a PC to trick the OG Xbox into Online LAN multiplayer in a game with no online, good times. Reach to ODST are not just great games but some of the best Sci fi of all time. Halo should have ended with Bungie, its just not on par under 343.
Thank you for the video.
One minute in and I am a new subscriber! Hope your channel keeps growing man!
I was super late to the whole Halo thing. Like 2019 or so late. My dad raised us PC gamers and even if we had an Xbox, there's no way my mom would have ever allowing us to play.
But playing the games I always heard of as a side note but never really experienced...I can see why they were so loved. I had so much fun playing 1 through Reach, I listen to the soundtrack quite a bit because it gets me pumped, and even hoping to get into the books.
I know "bashing modern games" can get old, but it is so common because what passion the devs have is killed by corporate oversight. Early gaming was so special because there was room for what was fun. It was genuine. Perhaps it is a fool's hope, but I want to see all the tech we have now used to achieve ambitious dreams like those of early game developers.
Just the same as you, I find myself always returning to Halo CE to relive some of the most fun I've had in my entire gaming history. Just saying that this game is 21 years old, and still holds that special place as a game that you can return to and have fun in is a testament to how well the game design was for CE.
I never thought about that before, but that 30 seconds of fun really makes a lot of sense, and really makes me think back on why some games I've tried to play just don't give that good feel like Halo did. It's because it lacks that 30 seconds of fun aspect.
And with how well the OST is for it I know I've listened to the whole thing probably a hundred times or more, it's really one of my favorite things to listen to. Outside of the obvious Halo theme, it's a hard battle between A Walk in the Woods, Under Cover of Night, On a Pale Horse, and Perchance to Dream. They are all so damn good it's hard to pick my favorites.
Halo CE was a paradigm shift in first person shooters compared to earlier DOS and Windows shooters like Doom, Rise of the Triad and others. The physics of driving the Warthog and the tank and throwing grenades didn't exist in the early FPS games. The first time I drove the Warthog in Halo CE or got my first successful plasma grenade stick, I remember thinking how cool it was. It was a brand new experience just moving around, punching enemies and throwing grenades and shooting. Still to this day I play Halo CE and it has aged very well. My favorite weapon in Halo CE is the Needler and the first time I picked it up and tried it out, I was hooked. I enjoyed the early FPS games but Halo CE was a completely new experience.
Man did I play so much Halo 3 custom games and love the game soo much. Awesome video
Woah, I just had a dream last night I was playing Halo 2 with my brother. I should go over to his place and do the campaign all over again. Couch multiplayer will never be beaten. The greatest trilogy in gaming history in my opinion. Excellent video.
I love how there are nods to marathon in both destiny and halo. Marathon was my jam in the 90s.
The amount of times I've watched that halo 2 behind the scenes disc on my halo green xbox back in the day, is insane. Then ended up soft modding it and ripping the disc on there so I didn't ruin it. Now it's fully on UA-cam, but just something to think about with that green circle while watching it or just starting up any of the bungie games and letting it sit in the main menu is awesome!!
“My personal favorite is Under Cover of Night.”
MY MAN! It’s the best!
Just stumbled across your channel and I am so impressed! Editing, voiceover, everything. Really gripping even though I've heard all this stuff before from other creators and Bungie vidocs. Top job my guy, keep it up! Hope to see you up there with the top creators one day.
9:25 I remember having Et to, Brute? installed in my 360’s hard drive as a kid. Watched religiously.
We need more good video game essay videos-never played Halo or Dead Space but these videos make me happy
If you get a chance you should pick up the MCC and give Halo a chance.
@Phillibetrus just make sure you play halo CE with the OG graphics on. Anniversary graphics kill the game
@@axle1717 Oh agreed CE has to be original. Halo 2 Anniversary on the other hand... those new graphics are amazing.
@@Phillibetrus H2A is terrible too. 🤦
@@WonderMePartyStrip it is matter of opinion lol.
Ooof that bit about the behind the scenes is really true. Nowadays bungie vidocs are “spoilers” or reveals”, or more commercial and less here’s our team doing what they love and here’s why they love it.
A big success so early in the channel’s history! As many have said, the editing is spot on. May my sub today multiply to many more for you in the future!
I really appreciate that you shared your opinion with out being condescending or super negative, and that you shared something you were super passionate about in a really objective way. Great vídeo man!!!
Great video man. Really went all in and captured what I think about the bungie installments of halo. Video essays like this are really fun to watch, and to make! So I understand how much work this stuff takes and it deserves more views. I originally wanted to make my channel halo focused but that fell through. But it's nice to see some great halo content still being made.
I still can't get over how great this game is that it is being talked about decades later. I never would've thought about that at the time, but I grew up in the era of legendary gaming that would forever change gaming history
And speaking of an amazing team, I don't think I'd make it through studying without the musical genius of Michael and Martin's music and audio team pushing me through COUNTLESS hours of undergrad and medical school. My patients and I owe them a million lol
I still remember the day I went to GameStop (or whatever is was called at the time) in the mall with my dad and he bought me the Xbox 1 with Halo. I was so excited I never seen anything like it before. Then Halo 2 upped the bar bringing multiplayer in, probably the most memorable times I have playing a video game. Ngl Halo ruined my life as a youth. I got bad grades, didn’t care about anything else except getting home and playing customs/matchmaking with the boys.
I love CE so so much. Jammed it as a kid on a friend's xbox everytime I went over, and then as a teenager I played it over and over on my laptop. When MCC came to PC, I played it more on my gaming pc I finally saved up for. CE has been with me for most of my life and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. I wish I could meet the people who made it and shake their hands.
I've beaten it on Legendary but I prefer Heroic for most play throughs. Normal mode makes you feel like a super soldier, it's super easy but you just shred those alien bastards with the AR. Love CE, love Halo, won't say anything about the current state of the series because I want to end on a high note haha!
This video was incredible. You certainly earned my sub
Some of my best memories as a kid, having Lan parties at my friend’s house playing Halo 2 and playing Halo 3 on Xbox live with all of my friends in Jr High. I’ve watched the Halo 3 Special Editions Behind the Scenes over and over again.
This made me cry from nostalgia.
Thank you. 🌹
its crazy how good Halo CE + 2 + 3 were, and ODST too.
Excellent video and really hit the nail on the head. Making video games is an art form and that’s something Bungie put love into. Most developers see games as a means to profit now.
under cover of night is my favorite tooo it's such a bangerrrr,, those synths omg
A very good video ! Amazing you've only put out 4 videos and already almost 400 subs ! Shows the great work you have done ! I will have to try harder to reach your level of success so fast. Also I am subbed now, love the content man
@@frogarchist yeah definitely the better mentality to have for sure! It just feels so satisfying when you get a new sub like and even view. Like as good as playing the games themselves haha but yeah I've got no experience whatsoever. First one was just put out in August, thank you man. Your comment is actually really inspiring for me, and please keep the content coming, it's great !
Halo-era Bungie and Bungie-era Halo are both the peaks in their own worlds
I keep re-visiting halo ce and 2 again and again, sometimes with mods, sometimes vanilla... On the other hand I cant even get myself to play through the first mission of halo 4 without pressing alt f4
Also, great video! This is the content i'd expect from a 100k+ subs channel : )
@@SavingSoulsMinistries I feel you...
Personally, I didnt have a pc good enough to play halo 4 at that time anyway so I just watched a walkthrough on youtube. Now that I can play it, I still dont want to. Everything that made halo special doesnt exist in that game. I never even completed the game myself and will probably never will...
Just like the game you're talking about, this video was pretty perfect. You earned a sub from me with the quality of this video.
Look forward to see some more content from you
I'll never forget 7/7/2007. Halo 3 online challenge. For 24 hours Bungie employees would rotate and play a certain matchmaking mode, if you matched up against them and your team won. Everyone on the team would get recon armor. I got recon armor right before it became not rare anymore. I got to experience a few kids freaking out about my armor 1 time. I'll never forget that day or the incredible amount of fun trying to glitch the campaign with friends was or messing around in the crazy forge.
343 had ruined halo. However, what Bungie did with it, it would be hard for any company to follow up.
Hey dude, that's a nice video. Such a neat covering of all the things that made Halo one of the best series ever.
I'd also add that Bungie's old school lore about humans being Forerunners was also much better than the new 343 lore (I know Halo 3 had a murky direction with that, but the mainline story
was still very much according to the formula that was built up in Halo CE and Halo 2.
Keep uploading such videos. Thanks for the insight and factual content.
the simple fact is back then it was about making fun games today it's only about whats good enough to make the most money
great work, i think you nailed this vid. i've wanted to make a halo vid for a while but can't figure out an approach or hook that i like because i don't feel i'll do my childhood self justice in describing how pivotal they were for me growing up (as cheesy as that sounds I know, but good god they were so great to my tiny brain). anyway, i'm trying to start a discord/writers room for youtubers if you wanna join. just lmk, really like your vids so far.
@@frogarchist word no worries, i'm just trying to start a group of people we can all bounce ideas off of and communicate with about youtube. thanks so much! dropping my dead space vid tomorrow. i'll keep an eye out for your next vid.
Holy crap, 3:29 is pretty much the opposite now for destiny 2, they even said that’s how live service works best
I re-played the original trilogy recently (on legendary), and I enjoyed them all but enjoyed CE most.
I remember coming home from school every day thinking about Halo. It didn't matter how many times I've repeated each and every activity. I had fun no matter how many times I replayed a mission. But when Halo 4 came around, I couldn't agree more that the prometheans just are not as fun to fight as elites for example. In Halo CE, the elites would actually catch me by surprise. They would evade, side step, and even duck when I went in for a melee. Bungie knew what they were doing when making worthy adversaries for the player.
"My personal favourite is Under Cover of Night"
YES. Absolute chad take. Subscribed.
I'm proud to be there playing halo since 2004 it was great days. Halo custom edition had everyone going crazy. Thank you bungie and old Microsoft
Caught myself bopping my head with the cat hahaha
My parents were too broke for halo 2, but my step father had rented it the day it came out. I finished it before I had to return it. I tried so hard to actually own the game as I had so much fun that I was nonstop pestering my parents. It got so bad that when ebgames was a new thing that we drove two hours to one thinking we could trade any three games in to get a copy of halo 2, I actually legit cried when the guy told me the games were too old to trade in. My parents still didn't get it for me after that. I even tried to save up, just back then getting 20$ to me was like a kid getting 100$ now. I don't even actually remember getting it. All I remember is spending HOURS replaying the game. I even some how managed to get xbox live as it was gonna be a "family" thing LOL. No one got to play online. I was always on custom games back when zombies in halo 2, you had to switch teams mid game to green and only use sword, or you got the boot. Lolol the glitches were fun too.
People seem to either forget, or never knew how much Marty contributed to the games' 'Sound Design' beyond just being the Songwriter. That had to have been very exhausting back then compared to the ease of use with the software and hardware available in our current times. He and others worked really hard at making sure that not only the music was dynamic in relation to the on-screen action, but also the way that proximity sound (and voice chatter) worked, coupled with blending the actual recordings of live fired weapons being tweaked and balanced so that a sniper shot that was far away, and even perhaps around a curve of a large map like Sidewinder, actually sounded very close to what the true sound would've been. It helped players dial in on where certain shots or grenades were leaving audibly traceable conflagrations so that players could truly benefit using a good sound setup alongside the visual input being received. To me, especially back then, that attention to such detail was paramount for winning battles. Amazing, cutting edge -BLAM!- at the time.
Amazing review of what made Bungie's Halo great. Great writing, great narration.
Halo was a turning point in fps games, where it really felt immersive, like a sandbox experience. Playing with the physics, launching overshielded players off of warthogs, it all lended to that experience. Not only that, but the ai behavior and setting/plot of story were quite compelling. It's not perfect though. The enemies are silly at times, some of the guns are a bit underwhelming, but the game play loop is spot on, and it really was fun to play with friends or alone. It's a great memory for me.
30 seconds of fun for the last 20 years! This vid explains it best, great video
Man, I miss Bungie Halo. But I also miss this era of Bungie and gaming in general. I was 16 when Halo came out and it was my reason for buying an Xbox. I am still playing Bungie Halo to this day.
4:05 It's kind of a shame we don't talk about the Dreamcast anymore. Always loved that one, even if it's only for a handful of games.
Still love Frogger 2 and Sonic Adventure.
Growing up with these games and remember watching my older brother play Halo 1, I was obsessed. Halo 3 and Reach were by far my favourite games, being 11 and learning you could play Halo 3 online was mind blowing for me and then Reach came out and me and my mates had years of fun on it
I still remember hauling TV's, in wagons, behind bicycles, summer of 2002 (we were all kids between 11 & 13 years old) to Josh Valentine's house. The sound of 8 boys in another room all screaming because a rocket hit their warthog when they had the flag is still embedded in my memory.
Excellent video!