This is one of the best UA-cam channels to exist right now. Complete opposite of the youtuber "meta" in clickbait and hate trains. No bitching, no crying, no death threats to developers. Just celebration, appreciation, and LOVE for the games we play to enjoy. The real meaning of what "Fandom" was before we lost ourselves in replacing empathy with popularity contests. I hope this bright side of the internet can say with us and thrive for a very long time, because this is the type of stuff we all need way more of these days. 💖
1:05:36 the secret Cortana kept from The Gravemind wasn't Chief, it was something that makes me smile even now, over a decade later: the Index from CE.
I love this walkthrough of the games, most videos nowadays on halo are always negative “halo is dead” “the fall of halo” “343 sucks” this video is so refreshing and such a positive light in the community, yes the games have flaws but all are great in their own right, love your channels and what you do for gaming communities man
I swear if I had 1/2 of a cent each time a guy who probably hated h3 odst and halo reach on release bcuz it's not haloey enough says " but number company bad" I would be Elon musk
At about 54:00 ish, it’s actually a reference to the Halo Machinima that’s Red Vs Blue, every difficulty has different VC’s, with the shown clip being easy (I think) and having Tucker and I think it’s Doc. Later on it’s Griff and Simmons, I think Caboose and Church is one, etc.
@@aaronpearson0909 I actually watched RvB loooong before having played any of the halo games. And then flash back a few months ago (probably around like 6-8) to where I’m playing through the campaigns with friends and then my friend Sam said “I know you like red vs blue, follow me” and then as I walked up to the door I was like “oh it’s just a marine banging on a door- NO SHOT THEY GOT GRIF AND SIMMONS”
53:50 this bit is actually an easteregg, its Roosterteeth members who voiced the main Red vs Blue cast on youtube. They were invited by Bungie to feature in most if not all the rest of the games after CE, and the dialogue changes with the difficulty you're playing on
1:07:40 Arby’s actually mentions in a recent book that he highly values their friendship, they even had a “sanghelios barbecue” after the end of halo 5
That would have been one of the books centered on Buck, right? Not the one that explained why he became a Spartan, but the one set just after 5, where it ends on Balaho (Grunt Homeworld) right? Was kinda touching that MC and Arby basically stayed up most of the night (If I recall right) just updating each other.
Yeah which takes place in halo bad blood from bucks perspective. With that being said the halo waypoint will have content about the BBQ MC and Arby's had it'll have voice lines for them as well. So its gonna be an indepth convo that so many people wanted
The reason spark wants just chiefs head at 19:00 is because that's where cortana's data chip is, he still needs to get the index from her and to destroy it would be 'absolutely unacceptable'
At the end of Halo 3, that last scene, what I love about it, is that they're still in mortal danger, the Halo ring is going off in the background and it could kill both Chief and Cortana, but neither of them care, all that matters is that they're together, Chief blocks the ring from Cortana's view and the only thing he's looking at is her. Another thing: in Halo 3 and 4, you can see how anxious he is, between Cortana being lost, his concern for both her and Johnson, and in 4, Cortana dying before his eyes with nothing he can do about it. In CE and 2 he's in complete control. no doubts, but he's so anxious you can feel it in the way he talks and moves, just like how you pointed it out, and the only time he relaxes during this time frame is after he gets Cortana back in H3. During 4, you can tell he's never been in that kind of situation before, he's never had someone he loves dying with him so helpless, so he does the only thing someone with his emotional development can do, he clings to her, desperately, hoping beyind hope that she can be saved, that something can be done. He never had the chance to be human, he was taken at 6 and forced to fight, he never got the chance to love or grieve anyone outside his fellow soldiers. It shows. In ODST you can see how Buck keeps thinking about Dare, half the time, when someone asks him a question, he's really giving two answers with one, and you can see how he settles down a lot after he reunites with Dare. In the beginning of Reach, when Emile aggressively orders the farmers to their knees, it's subtle but its a nod ot his role, one of the concept Spartans, Rosenda, was slated to take Emiles place on the team if they ever had a counter-Insurrection operation, because he displayed extraordinary aggression toward Insurrectionists, for reasons I can't remember off the top of my head, so to have him be so rough with little more than a poossible rebel is a nice detail. (Jun was the one saying the "don't we have more important things to do than pick up strays" at the beginning, not Emile). A note to make, when Jorge rested his hand on Six's shoulder at Sword base, Six is framed in the EXACT SAME SPOT on screen as he is in the scene where he looks over the wreckage of the Covenant ship after having just lost Jorge and fallen from orbit. There's a lot to talk about with Reach that I couldn't do justice alone, the people playing and reacting to this game speak for me, check out Kai Zammit, film cinematographer who really hits all the points I would love to have the education to talk about. Something that is so overlooked is the emotional subltlety of Halo. Between what I talked about with Chief in 3, 4, 5, and Infinite, of Noble Team and the cinematographic choices in Reach, and the entire atmophere in Halo ODST. Moving away from the grandeur, in ODST, that little detail of Dare taking her finger of the trigger the moment she realizes it's Rookie and the Superintedent's eyes changing to show emotions, like showing concern or joy or irritation, to outright anger, and then when it finally crashes, the eyes are closed.
The thing I’d say about chief and Cortana is it’s more intimate than that, though not romantic Because of the way they interface between the suit and each other they become interlinked and it’s described as quite a personal experience due to that (this might sound odd, but as an example Cortana actually enhanced chiefs reaction speed) He’s seen civilians and soldiers die, people he grew up with die, but he’s never had true intimacy, and while it isn’t romantic between the two, it was chiefs first time being vulnerable (Cortana can also read chiefs mind, and I think talk to her in his head too)
I loved Reach and never understood why it got so much hate. The first time I saw what happened to Kat I literally exclaimed from shock and was depressed for a few days
So fun fact, atleast in the original graphics/original OST for halo CE the “Female” vocals in songs like the warthog run and under cover of night are actually just Marty pitch shifting his voice.
A couple of Fun Facts About Halo as I watch this: Halo CEA 1. The NPC at the start that is with Chief in the tutorial area is supposedly a make-a-wish (Cannot find info to confirm but I saw it on a TikTok) Ill confirm this later 2. The Marines that die in the escape pod with Chief were originally scripted to live and follow Chief but in testing would always fall off the bridge so Bungie Killed them 3. The Cutscene at 12:02 is actually missable. 4. 13:33 Before you enter the structure you can actually see "The Flood" combat forms in the distance. 5. The Library was actually not originally visited by just Chief. There is another Marie (forget his name) that is cannon that Guilty Spark chose to get the index. He almost made it before dying to The Flood. (Magnificent Bastard) 5.5 The Library is my Favorite CE Level cause I'm a Mashocist 6. All Halos were strategically Deployed Near Worlds that are uninhabitable. The Forerunners did this to ensure no one species could get a leg up in tech early on. 7. 20:36 That is a Proto Gravemind (Baby more or less) there is actually a horrifying Halo Video (Waypoint) that shows Keyes slow descent into this form and how hard he really tried to resist the flood and becoming one of them. 8. There is an Elite and Grunt that you kill just before going up an elevator to get a Hog to make your dash to the end of the game. This pair had actually been hunting chief all game. 9. 24:11 At the end of this Dash it is actually explained in a book that right before Chief boards the longsword is one of the few times he truly felt fear. A Flood Infection form actually was moment away from breaking his armor and infecting him. However, Cortana overloaded his shields thus killing it. 10. There is a Legendary Ending cutscene showing Johnson hugging an elite before the Autumn Explodes. Johnson actually does survive with a few others aboard a Pelican they managed to get to space. Johnson also survived a flood infection earlier in the game. This is due to him being in the Spartan One program and the augmentations altering his DNA making him impossible to infect. 11. Some modders manipulated the camera back when CE came out to try and see Chief's face only to see when he took off his helmet that his face was his helmet. Halo 2 1. 26:30 that power supply that Marine throws down is actually a Nod to Fact Number 9 above for CE and Two Betrayals. The reason it is fried is due to Chief and Cortana using his shield to disable those arrays in Two Betrayals and Cortana having to overload Chief's shields. 2. Johnson is Canonically in Halo 2 77/78 years old 3. 30:45 The Covenant Capital Ship Chief destroys is MASSIVE (17,540 ft roughly) and can house tens of thousands of crews. As well this ship was originally going to be a level for you to destroy from the inside but was cut due to time. 4. 31:13 Pelicans are the UNSC main mode of Transport for personal and armaments. They are favored due to the ability to go from planet to space fairly easily. However, they were not built to withstand covenant weapons and thus why they get shot down so easily 5. 32:19 Johnson has Canonically fucked 6. The Invasion on Earth was legit an accident. Regret was just kinda out for a stroll and well Earf 7. 32:54 Shortly after this bridge there are a few tunnels you go through and if you manage to take a banshee through them you can fly to an area and obtain a Scarab Gun 8. 33:47 In Lore Brutes, Jackals and grunts have been observed eating humans 9. 34:00 The Grunt Rebellion Mentioned here, is important. In CE you mentioned how the Elites think of the Grunts. Before CE at one point Grunt were literally slave labor and cannon fodder. However, the Grunts got tired of it and rebelled. Almost Dismantling the Covenant. It Actually took the partial glassing of their home world to stop them. From then on, the Grunt gained respect. their own ranks and the ability to carry weapons into battle. The elites really respected them after that. 10. 36:23 Half of the Shipmasters mandibles are missing. This is due to his previous run-in with the flood where an infection form ripped them off iirc 11. 41:45 The VA who does The Gravemind actually did that voice with no effects added. Super talented but also creepy. (Side note: The Gravemind is my Hear me out of the Halo Franchise) Halo 3 1. 50:15 The Intro with Johnson actually has a few different lines of dialogue depending on the difficulty! 2. 53:35 Just like the intro there are a few different dialogues here depending the difficulty. One of them Being between Geoff and Gus of RoosterTeeth (RvB) also RIP 3. 55:23 This is Obviously a different scarab Model. This Model is actually piloted by the same worms the hunters are made of and the crew aboard were usually only there to protect it. 4. 57:32 At the beginning of this mission. There is a flood combat form on the top of a building that is holding a skull. If you don't shoot them fast enough you can actually miss getting the skull. 5. If you let a flood form hop on a marine or elite with no shields you can watch them transform into a flood combat form. Showing you have fast the infection really is at the stage of the Flood 6. 1:02:09 Here we can see Truth actually infected by the flood but not in the typical way (infection form) Truth was infected by "spores" which can be breathed in and infect you 7. High Charity (iirc) house TRILLIONS of covenant and fell within about a day (iirc) showing you just how dangerous the flood is. 8. Also High Charity is a Literal Piece of the Prophets home world 9. 1:05:44 The Actual secret was the Index and that she has something that could effectively starve him (The Gravemind). Her having that signals to The Gravemind that he has not won yet. 10. The Events of Halo CE to Halo 3 happen within a few months Halo 3 ODST 1. The Rookie is Unfortunately canonically Dead :c 2. 1:14:19 If you look closely you can actually see the In Amber Clad alongside the Capital Ship before it goes into slip space. 3. While New Mombasa is the only place in games that we get to see on Earth being invaded by the Covenant, the Covenant also visited Antarctica and the UK. 4. 1:17:00 Romeo actually doesn't answer Buck whenever they meet up in the flashback. Even though Buck asks him something directly. It's a nod to Buck telling him to shut his mouth as a ""Standing order" Fucking smartass. 5. 1:20:00 On this mission if you collected all of the audio logs there is a bonus "side" story you can complete Halo Reach 1. The Opening is Iconic and really is an in-your-face of "Ha you ain't making it" ALSO NOBLE SIX IS DEAD. THEY ARE DEAD DEAD DEAD. NOT IN A FLIPPING CAVE OR WHATEVER. Stop it. 2. 1:25:15 Kat actually lost her arm in another battle before Reach. There is a trailer showing the battle and the Previous Noble Six. 3. 1:25:55 The reason Emile is so aggressive is due to his history with Insurgents. This is shown here with this dialogue. The dude really HATES the insurgents and was even taken off teams meant to fight them due to his brutality 4. 1:30:13 This cutscene confused a lot of people when Halsey addressed Jorge. Most people believe he said "Mom" but he actually said "Ma'am" it was just due to his accent that it tricks the brain. However, Mom does make sense due to his history with her. 5. 1:39:40 There is an easter egg that if you do you can actually Pilot a Pelican for the entire mission. Really fun! 6. 1:43:12 If you hold Right(?) on your thumb stick or move the mouse right in the shot with the pelican entering the Autumn you can see a Spartan in a Cryo Pod. That is Linda. 7. Once again Noble six lovers, they are dead. Stop it. Get some help. Therapy. pls
Halo 4 & 5 1. The Line "I need you" is a Call back to Halo 3 of "Wake me when you need me" 2. Halo 5 (Podcast Hunt the Truth) This and the Marketing around Halo 5 story are the reason Halo 5 left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths regarding Halo and 343. Halo 5 is not a bad game. The story is Okay and expands a few things (Granted them killing the Didact offscreen was dumb) and the Multiplayer was fantastic and had some of THE GREATEST after-launch support any Halo has ever had. EVER! Even the microtransactions weren't terrible as everything could be unlocked through playing and the Req packs were programmed to never give you doubles of armor pieces. 3. 2:18:29 This cutscene gets A LOT of heat due to what is essentially a dumbed-down chief fighting Locke. In Cannon Chief Critically injured 3 ODSTs in a sparring match in his TEENS and on ACCIDENT. All without armor. While I don't hate this scene it is just very unlikely Chief wouldn't have been hit as such. However, if you look in the beginning of Infinite, you'll notice how gentle Chief is with marines' bodies vs a banished body. So, looking back this could just be chief pulling his punches so as to not Critically injure Locke. Halo Infinite 1. 2:30:30 This scene shows a banished ship plowing through the Infinity. What's interesting is most Banished ships do not have shields and actually have more armor and firepower. Making them slow and not as maneuverable. 2. Something to note about the Grapple is I believe it was Neil Degrasse Tyson who said that the grapple makes no sense as it would be impossible to both be able to pull things to you and pull yourself to it as it wouldn't be strong enough considering Chiefs weight in the suit. However, people replied "Space magic go brrr" Also it's explained it uses slipspace tech to accomplish such a feat 3. 2:34:40 During this somewhere Cortina says "It's just dust and echoes" a call back to Halo CE 3. There is an achievement for completing all main missions in less than 8(? or is it 6?) hours. In Cannon that is how long the game actually is. Chief woke up and dismantled what was left of the Banished on that part of Zeta Halo in 6-8 Hours. 4. 2:38:21 The Flood is actually on every Halo ring. Including Zeta. The forerunners did this to study The Flood in the hopes of finding a cure versus a genocidal solution. However, each Monitor never knew about this nor the location of other rings as well as interstellar travel and such to prevent the flood from escaping the rings in the event of an outbreak. Also canonically in the Multiplayer story of Infinite the flood has infected Spartan IVs 5. Something to Note while playing the game when Esparza and Cortina are talking the AI port of Chief's helm flashes different colors. Blue for Cortina and Green for Esparza
Fun thing about the Halo 2 anniversary graphics: they actually look good and stay true to the original artist’s intent because they not only got a different studio to do it, but Blur actually knew what they were doing
1:04:42 I love the way Cortana literally lights up like Tinkerbell does when Chief finds her and basically comforts her back to her right mind. Then how she basically shows shes back fully with her witty comedic commentary, "... And keep your head down.... Theres.. two of us i here now". Classic Cortana banter ❤
This video is reminding me of when my friend and I played through C:E to H3, he had never played an FPS game in his life, he stuck to mainly Nintendo games and a few niches, I was playing FPS like Halo and Destiny 1 and 2 since I was like 13, so he asked me to teach him and play with him, so we did. We stayed up until 3 AM playing Halo 3 as Arbiter and Chief and that game was so phenomenal in having us work on teamwork, coordination, communication, trust, and patience as we played, on the final level we kept dying and learning, we finally beat after I said, "You drive, I shoot." We were tired college kids on Winter break just having fun drinking wine and staying up late playing games. God I miss him.
Those times will forever be like a beautiful picture on glass in your mind. You wont ever forget them. Nothing good lasts forever, unfortunately, but it’s always important to remember you were there to experience it and share the laughs with your friend. The worst part, though? You never realize how fondly you will remember those moments until they’re over
the Reason that Emile said ¨i am ready how about you¨ is because his brother died saving his life trying to protect him and to Emile he would be a failure to he brother if he did'nt repay his debt to him by trying to save 6,s life and the others on reach
No that’s not true Emile says that line because he knew that staying behind to clear a path for the autumn to escape would ultimately lead to him dying… and now it’s up to you
I deeply appreciate that your channel is a rational, positive counter to the negativity market that’s grown for the last 5+ years. Thanks for taking time to reflect on constructive criticism.
Damn, I remember playing the first game and thinking "there's no way they can improve on the Halo theme." Then they brought in Steve Vai in to play guitar in Halo 2
Was some heat. Halo 2 has the best atmosphere music set pieces characters world building dialogue the list goes on. Imo halo 2 is the best and it's my 1# most favorite game
Unfortunately that was retconned and the title isn't based on how covies feel only humans can give a hyper lethal title and most of 6s achievements from said title comes from saber piloting and fighting rebels. Hyper lethal isn't a very good gauge on a Spartans skill comp5are 6s achievements for the title to what MC has done and it's not even in the same ballpark.
A detail I love although not sure if it was intentional on Marty's part- In Halo 3 when Truth activates the rings, their icons in the hallway light up and sound at different keys, but 04's is in E which matches the main halo theme. In Halo 2 when the second halo installation 05 is revealed, it has its own unique theme in D, which matches the ring icon after 04's in the hallway cutscene where the flood forms an alliance with us in Halo 3. If it was intentional would absolutely love for Marty to make themes for the other 5 rings.
Fun fact with Halo 2: In the part where Keyes gets the Index, in the original graphics she uses the Gravemind's tendril to grab it and the gravemind moves his tendril to try and kill keyes since she had the index but Johnson saved her by grabbing the tendril which makes sense since the flood are there and its inside the quarentine zone and the gravemind doesn't want Halo to be activated, its also why the Arbiter is with the Gravemind and the Master Chief when he gets blasted down the hole by Tartarus. In the remastered graphics its a rope/wire instead of the gravemind's tendril and it just so happens to come loose. I LOVE the Blur animations and cutscenes but this one detail is a pet peeve of mine cus it removed the environmental storytelling of the scene.
If I'm not wrong in the og Halo 2 - In the cutscene where Thel falls the inside that hole - that was supposed to be a cable from one of those gigantic sentinels.
Blur's cutscenes are stunning with how real they look, but they're in general not as good. Not as good artstyle, mistakes such as that and the backwards Phantom, and the general inferiority that is in-engine cutscenes than prerendered cutscenes
Just wanted to say that I've been a fan of yours since your The Last of Us Part 2 video, and I have SO enjoyed watching not only your content evolve, but also you! The difference in your cadence and inflection from then to now is extremely commendable, it's very obvious you honed in on the script-writing craft and have continued to perfect it for the past 3 years. Thank you for all the videos, and I can't wait to keep coming back!
56:21 one of the best cutscenes in Halo. This is my favorite cutscene also I agree that cutscene is so badass that is basically just Halo the cutscene. Also the human and elite alliance was so freaking cool. Seeing Rtas come in the Shadow of Intent was so cool. Also Rtas has the coolest most badass lines in the entire series. “One single floor spore can destroy a species.”, “Our fight is through the portal with the brutes and the bastard Truth.”, And “Then it is an even fight. Burn their mongrel hides.” All three lines are so freaking awesome. I honestly think Halo 3 is the absolute best of the games. It had the best soundtrack, the coolest cutscenes, the best voice lines, and such a good story. It’s why it’s my favorite. Also I freaking love the scene where High Charity just arrives to the Ark out of nowhere. Rtas gives an epic line “Now prophet, your end has come.” And then he gives the eerie line “High Charity? By the gods brace for impact!” Anyone who played Halo 2 or listened to the Elites talking to Arbiter would know High Charity is completely full of Flood potentially billions of Flood. Arbiter has such badass lines when you confront Truth. I am Truth, the voice of the Covenant. “And so you must be silenced.” And “We trade one villain for another.” Both are so cool lines. And the ring rising from the forge is just so cool. The epic version of the Halo theme plays as the monumental ring rises from the forge. It also really gives you a sense of scale. The ring is absolutely massive. 1:37:51 that scene is where you know you are losing Reach. You see the effort it took to destroy one ship and now there is an entire fleet that has replaced it. And it stings even more knowing Jorge sacrificed himself thinking he saved Reach only for his death to be immediately in vain. I loved the levels in New Alexandria because it was really hitting home just how bad this war was for humanity. You see dead civilians everywhere, you see civilians being killed, you see civilian ships being shot down mercilessly. And then when you fly in the falcon you see the city completely ablaze the fires burning so bright that it lights the night sky. You see buildings collapsing and smoke rising from the city. And then the amazing environmental storytelling where you see Covenant cruisers flying over the city and then you see them glass the city. It really hits hard seeing them just glass the planet right in front of you and you are powerless to stop them. After Kat’s death you actually see civilians in that bunker. They witnessed a Spartan die and that’s one thing civilians are never supposed to see. If you have subtitles you can see the civilians are scared. They just saw one of humanity’s best soldiers die just like that. It really hits hard because it shows even the civilians are hopeless. And the lines Kat gives shortly before really hit hard. “First Glassing? Me too.” as she misses the elevator button shows she is scared. It humanizes her a ton. And “I know we’re losing I want to know if we have lost.” Just stings because deep down you are thinking the same thing. You know everyone in that room is think the same thing. Fun fact with the last level. The frigate in the ship breaking yard is the same ship from The Fall of Reach movie. The UNSC Commonwealth aka the ship that was carrying all of the Spartan IIs when it was attacked by a Covenant cruiser. It’s a cool callback.
19:05 “why would spark want to save his head” Because you can see Chief put Cortana chip into the back of his helmet… How am I shocked to see that you did not notice that one. That’s why he wants to save his head.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone enjoy the CE anniversary graphics. Jokes aside, no one talks about how good the Halo 2 graphics are, I love it
A little comment on Captain Del Rio: According to the old head of ONI, Margaret Parangosky, Del Rio was put in command specifically because he was a wet blanket. He always followed protocol, never deviated, and kept a tight ship. He was rigid old brass, which made FLEETCOM more comfortable with him as commander of the super top secret project that was Inifinity and her maiden voyage. In reality, Parangosky wanted Lasky to be in command, but with his low rank and inexperience commanding larger vessels, she compromised with FLEETCOM and had him apointed as second under Del Rio in order to gain the experience necessary to take over as Captain. In the end, Del Rio's time aboard Infinity would most likely have ended after the maiden voyage, but things went differently. On his assholishness, Del Rio is obviously a quintisential bully. He used his position in the military to justify his authority, something common among poor officers. He's also by-the-book, because that's his basis for his power. So when a Master Chief Petty Officer, a senior NCO in the navy, not only directly disobeys him but uses threatening body language to defend and obviously rampant security risk on what is obviously a suicide mission, Del Rio falls back on the only thing he's got: his command.
I might have to make a few comments throughout the video, but at 8:41 I have two thoughts. 1. Rings in sci-fi probably started as a way to deal with the lack of gravity. If a ring spins it can imitate gravity if you stand on the inside. Eventually it just became a trope and we don’t even have to justify it. The second thing is that the assault rifle in this game sounds fantastic to use, but they use the vibrating function on your controller so when you have that feature enabled it would literally shake your hand. I don’t know how to convey how awesome it felt, but I do think that this fact could be lost to the ages if not archived.
4:27 I think there's some lore that they had rules at that point about S2's only being allowed enlisted ranks, not officer. The rest of the humans were probably a bit uneasy of the augmented superhumans.
Yeah, until Kurt was kidnapped to train S-IIIs and was made an officer and then he made Fred a Lt Junior Grade (Highest ranking S-II, I believe) to allow him authority over the remaining IIIs and Blue Team. But then, when Fred, Linda and Kelly get working with John again, higher rank means nothing, Fred becomes John's second without question.
Spark turning on Johnson was the first time I felt genuine righteous fury, maybe in my life, and his death scene was the first time a video game ever made me cry. I honestly didn't appreciate the final level for a long time, even though i had to wait days to be ready to play it, it took until my legendary play-through years later to really enjoy it because I always had Johnson on my mind, and frankly, would've been happy to canonically die there with him.
You sir have done several things I thought impossible. Firstly, you brought new perspective in to a 14 year old franchise. And it was somehow an outside perspective. You managed to also talk about the later entries in a positive light, and actually made 343's story telling look half decent. Somehow you also got me hopeful and almost excited to see what 343 can do. Finally you actually made me feel... something. Don't know how to put it in to words other than "when you finish the last book in a long series that, while it may not have been the ending you wanted, was the perfect ending." I need to go back and play halo again... just not on legendary. I can't begin to think about how long it has been since I just played halo for the sake of playing halo. No skipping cut scenes, no shortcuts, no fancy moves or optimal strats. Just pure halo. Maybe actually let myself be blinded by its majesty for the first time in a long time.
Absolutely love this channel! Been a long time gamer since I was 4 playing CE with my dad and also die hard movie watcher so glad someone with a great personality does this content so I can watch my cinema wins and gamer wins everyday! Plz keep up the amazing work!
what bothered me the most with the Halo CE review was that you never metioned how the world is reacting to you/your decisions. For example if your on the PoA and shoot Keyes security gets called to kill you, Cortana does it. They game devs knew gamer, they know some would try it and do stupid stuff. They could go the lazy route and just make it impossible for you to hurt them or shoot on the bridge, but they didnt. The same in the Halo level, if all Marines die the dialog changes, each time, Marines turn on you but not asap when you shoot at them, such small things make the world believeable and i love how they thought about such stuff. Cant save the marines? Cortana gets a sad tone to be empathic with Chief becuz she shows it bothers him but doesnt go to deep. I really miss such details, this extra mile, those things make good games to great games, even decades later.
From a Halo fan who's been playing the games since he was three years old, thank you for your work on these videos. If anyone ever needs a little help seeing why I hold these games in my heart as much as I do, this is the video being sent to them. I'm looking forward to watching the other videos you've made.
Missed a few important details in ce because the were lost in the remaster. Specifically the flood reveal mission was done pretty dirty in the remaster.
Yeah Marty O Donnell really isn't a fan of the remaster and he lists pretty much every issue I have with it. The fact that they somehow messed up the OG version is weird to me.
In Reach, it's likely that the Elite Marshall you face right before you reach the MAC Cannon is the one that leads the squad of them at the start of the game (and probably the same one that kills Kat). Evidence got this is that he has a slightly stronger shield compared to the other Elite Field Marshalls in the game, and he has unique behaviour where he switches from Concussion Rifle to Energy Sword the first time his shield is broken. He's kind of your personal nemesis throughout the game.
DUDE. You missed out on The Halo Games? i'm so glad you're getting around to them. it's one of my favorite stories / games. I'm jealous you get to experience them for the first time. Getting to ride that wave of joy with you is one of the reasons i'm subscribed. IMPORTANT NOTE: RIP FoeHammer, You are always missed.
I don't know how I missed the full list of the Everything Great with Halo little side tangent, I still get teary eyed remembering playing pretty much most of the franchise with my brother, from Halo 1 - Reach, it brings me so much joy I got to play this series with my brother, and we sometimes go back to them on occasion whenever we get to hang around, we used to play Reach first, than Halo 1-3 including Halo 3 ODST good times
Arbiter’s, “We’re it so easy”, at the memorial monument will forever make me tear up. The level of respect and reverence that he had for his human counterpart is so fitting.
These games are my childhood and I’m so glad to see a long form look at these wonderful games ODST holds a place in my heart so glad helldivers is a spiritual successor to live out childhood fantasy
Halo 2 will always be an all-time favorite game for me. I played through it nonstop as a kid. found all the easter eggs, got all the skulls. had so much fun with that game.
You're a man of culture. Every level has its own personality the set pieces are amazing the dialogue for NPCs is the best out of all halo games the characters are amazing the world building satisfied my lore hungry brain the music unparalleled and all of that is connected with that early 2000s gaming vibe. When I think halo 2 I think of crash bandicoot Spyro ratchet and clank Silent Hill 2 RE3 just the memories of all those games going to block buster and getting pizza after before playing games all night. 🥲 It's bittersweet.
Goddamn... You almots made me cry about halo 3. I played that game so much I think i might be numb to it's story. Yet it remains my all time favorite game. You reminded me of that. Now I'll have to play it again to experience it with your comments in mind. I love this channel.
39:11 also a win for those who watch the terminals and see how much the heretic leader and guilty spark, talk and learn from each other. It also just makes it even sadder that we’ve killed the heretic leader, because he really would’ve been a useful ally.
9:46 it’s a shame you didn’t know about this feature sooner. You could have experienced the halo ring the same way those people did when the game first came out
54:59 my favorite track from the entire score without question: the threat, the struggle, the immediacy, the immensity of consequences that hinges upon victory dancing just beyond your fingertips; you cannot fail, you MUST NOT fail, everything youve ever loved depends on it.
The Password-Please vignette in Halo 3 was voiced by the guys from Roosterteeth! Back before all the... well before it became what RT is (or rather *isn't*) today
i only hate the remastered graphics only because the brightness takes away from the overall vibe the original game had but im glad you enjoyed playing it!
Btw just got it halo infinite and when u said the first piano note got u goosebumps. Dude when I heard it I took 2 days off work for the release date just to hear the full song
Great video I also agree with the cortana slowdown sections I’m a story buff so I absolutely love those. It just adds to the feeling. Kinda had tears during the end of the halo3 part.
I didn't and still don't use the Microsoft game stuff, but a few classmates would invite me over to play these games in middle school. And the multi-player was incredible for the time. Though I often drove the other guys nuts because I'd often find the plasma sword by luck and rip through them like it was nothing.
Still early into this great video but as for the 15:43 "beat", I always took it to be a mix of what you mentioned, while also looking around for Cortana. Seeing as this is the last place they split up all that time ago.
I always took it as the Chief sort of lamenting how easy it was to just teleport straight there instead of the battle it took in the Control Room level
Just a little +1 for me about halo, I’ve watched all of RvB (Red vs Blue) by Rooster Teeth, sad to see them go, but those 2 are voice actors from the series (Tucker and Doc) and every time I replay that mission in halo 3 I always stop by and listen to them. 53:32
About your halo reach zealot head cannon, your only slightly wrong. Its not only one zealot but a whole squad serving as an smaller more personal villain for noble team to fight.
19:08 i was this many years old when i finally realized spark said "Save his head, dispose of the rest". For all these years i thought he said "Simply or Safely Said" like he gets your point now dispose of him. But "Save his head" makes light-years more sense and actually makes the dialogue just that more badass...
Hey @GamingWins huge fan love your work. I love all your views and interpretations on the uniqueness of each and every game. I think another game you should definitely try and make a video on is the Tomb Raider (2013). Its a really great game and i hope you will consider it
One small note, Halsey keeping Miranda's picture is a hidden nod to those who pieced it together that she was Miranda's mother. Not really ever mentioned in the games
Halo CE was actually transcribed into a book, and it's just as good as a book as it is as a game. And of it was ever faithfully adapted into a show, it would be just as good. Especially if they use the books version as it adds more characters and helps with context of many things.
Honestly, this was nice. I’d love this because it showed me another point of view from someone who didn’t grow up with the game. It gives me that hope that this could be something again. I’ve been playing this game since Halo 3 and it’s nice to, kind of see it from the other side and see all the ups and downs with the series that yes I grew up with and I and I loved and hated every bit of it but from an outside the series turned out much better than I remember. So thanks for sparking that hope i had halo again.
Im so surprised this was the first comment I could find on this. I've never clutched my pearls harder, I can't even give a pass for not knowing when he had to look up how to pronounce it
Fun fact for ODST, durring the drop at the beginning you can catch Keyes's ship screaming in behind the Carrier just before the jump, little details that are always fun to catch
15:44, I always interpreted it as either: A: He was curious where Cortana was since this was the last place he left her and is surprised everything looks the same despite him leaving her in the computer. B: He's mystified since he fought through hordes of Covenant to get to this control room earlier with all his marine pals on the tank and now the floating orb just teleported them into it like it was nothing.
1:07:57 Definitely the most beautiful shot in the game possibly all of the Bungie produced Halo trilogy, Chief standing with Cortana in front of him and the Ark in the background with ironically a Halo ring for once firing in the background when in every other game the absolute most drastic of measures were taken to prevent this, now becomes thier saving grace
1:38:55 there were civilian workers in halo 3 in the mission before the flood came to earth right before we had to take down the aa gun, they were all in lab coats and hard hats, and were fighting with us, but they were definitely civilians
"This one throwaway line about Reach sparking a whole game later on, despite us knowing nothing about Reach" "If CE was written into a book or a film, everyone would HATE it" Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: The Flood😐 (TFOR released before Halo CE, The Flood at the same time i believe) For anyone who hasn't read the books, The Flood is a much more detailed form of CE, in novel form, going over the Chief's perspective, as well as some of the marines on the Halo while Chief was fighting, and an added storyline not shown in game with an elite hunting the Chief throughout the book (told through the perspective of his grunt assistant.) The Fall of Reach, on the other hand, is possibly one of my favorite books of all time. The movie sharing the same name is based on the first Act of this book and does not actually show the Fall of Reach literally at all, but the rest of the book does show the battle for Reach from the perspective of the Spartan IIs. Phenomenal book, not connected to Reach, which tells of what went on before the book's battle as the Covenant arrived, cloaked, to set up an invasion force, shown through the eyes of Six and Noble Team as they fight to prevent the Fall. Canon breaks a little, but all media of Reach is canon and with some retconning of times and dates, can plausibly exist at the same time I suggest reading these, as well as Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and Halo: First Strike. These two are what I would consider to be the other two best written books, followed by the Kilo-5 Trilogy (Halo: Glasslands, Halo: The Thursday War, and Halo: Mortal Dictata), books which heavily display the black-ops side of the UNSC, as well as the political war between the UNSC and ONI. Phenomenal series as well, and worth much more of a read than I described without spoiling.
Let's not forget the 2 books Buck was in. Where he becomes a Spartan IV and we get confirmation of Jun's survival, and the one set after 5 where we find out MC and Arby basically stay up all night talking when they return from Genesis.
@@pelicanofpunishment6 yes, New Blood and Bad Blood are great as well. I like them a lot but if it was a Tier List, everything I mentioned before is S tier and these two are A tier. I still love those books. Forerunner trilogy prob B tier, the whole saga for the Ferrets is A tier, Cole Protocol is S tier, that other Grey Team one is S Tier, Silent Storm and Oblivion are A tier, Rubicon Protocol is A Tier, havent read the new book yet, still havent finished whatever the one with Arby and Vale is but its C tier so far
Halo is THE game that got my brother and I into gaming. Besides my father being a gamer himself, I am thankful Halo had co-op. It’s also incredibly cool it did. We were so invested into the story and gameplay. Besides superheroes, kid me would act like Chief. We first started with Halo:CE and onward. Haven’t played CE since 2006 when I was 3, and now JUST replaying it with the MCC is a pure wholehearteded experience especially 2’a Anniversary (just finished it, can’t wait for 3. My favorite as a kid.). Really wished a movie/show in that style of the cutscenes were made with Blur Studios, also THATS how you do a remaster cutscene and gameplay wise. My brother also bought it, so we could play once again especially whilst he is in the Air Force. Halo is such a core part of my life. I fell off at Reach, but it’s amazing to see Halo again after all these years. Another win, which is a major win, I’d say is that originally Chief was gonna be a robotic voice till they hired Downes. I pray no other alternate universe has anyone voice Chief besides Downes.
So cool to see positive talk about disliked games and wjat you said about him having more lines and imprinting on the character i completely agree and have never heard b4
1:42:23 Thats because its a living creature. There are hunter worms in the scarsb and they are piloting it. Then theres a squad on the scarab to not only defend it, but to keep them in check.
The nostalgia of the first 3 games is insane, I was explaining to my wife how Halo CE revolutionized FPS and gaming in general and it was making me emotional. I don’t care what anyone says about gaming as an adult, I’ve literally been playing video games since before I could even read. Gaming is a part of my soul and I could never give it up
53:32 Props to Bungie for roping in the fan base for Halo 3. This vignette is different depending on what difficulty you're playing and features the voice actors for the Halo machinima series Red vs Blue. The comedy of the series is conveyed in this vignette. Also, go watch the seasons of Red vs Blue that were made before Halo 4 came out those seasons are golden.
@08:53 you should play Body Harvest. It came out for N64. one if the first ever 3d open world console games made by what is now known as Rockstar. They made an open world game where you could shoot stuff & drive before Grand Theft Auto.
1:46:44 IIRC those reasons for why master chief's armor looked different then CE/Halo 3 was originally just because of the art style change. But fans got upset at that so they tried to come up with an explanation even if it made no sense.
48:59 hahahaha, well at the time of Battle of the Bastards release, we thought Jon Snow had plot armor for a reason, being the rightful heir to the throne and all. Turns out, we like the Covenant, were DECEIVED!
Something I love about Halo 2 that is sorely lacking from other entries is how "all out" they went with the music to lessen the sting of how much content was scrapped and rewritten. Nothing emphasizes that "all out" -ness more than getting Incubus to do the Arbiter flying section in OG and then getting Misha Mansoor (the guitarist behind Bulb and Periphery) to do the Remastered version, and then doing it again during Master Chief's journey through High Charity with Breaking Benjamin for OG and once again Misha Mansoor doing Remastered. I've always wanted to see 343 (and in conjunction, Bungie, for Destiny) use bands for music again, especially Breaking Benjamin.
The original 3 Halos, ODST, and Reach hold very special parts in my heart. Ive played the original 3 with my dad and brothers, ODST came out on my birthday, and Reach i played the beta for, my dad got the special edition, and he passed away on my birthday so i never got a chance to play it with him. Years later i would eventually beat ODST and Reach on my own. But these games make me feel so special, i love the Halo series and im sad i have fallen off with the series after 5. Another sad thing with Reach, it was supposed to be largest and strongest world next to Earth itself, yet it fell and was lost to almost ease for the Covenant. The sheer hopelessness for Reach is just overwritten by Halo's story that 117 won.
This is one of the best UA-cam channels to exist right now. Complete opposite of the youtuber "meta" in clickbait and hate trains. No bitching, no crying, no death threats to developers. Just celebration, appreciation, and LOVE for the games we play to enjoy. The real meaning of what "Fandom" was before we lost ourselves in replacing empathy with popularity contests. I hope this bright side of the internet can say with us and thrive for a very long time, because this is the type of stuff we all need way more of these days. 💖
Yes
I completely agree, in fact this is the UA-camr who I watch the most compared to some.
@@BAT2000-n8p nice
Should watch Cinema wins as well ❤
People should be banned from using the word empathy in such ridiculous contexts
"You know why they call me Captain Keyes, Mr. Green? Because only I have the keys to Halo."
-Captain Reach or something I never played Gears of War
😂😂
Goburins?
dunkey reference detected
Classic dunkey
He got the keys the keys the keys
1:05:36 the secret Cortana kept from The Gravemind wasn't Chief, it was something that makes me smile even now, over a decade later: the Index from CE.
Didn’t know this until now. 17 years later 😂😂 thanks
Yeah that was her plan. A callback to how they stopped the flood in installation 04
When you realize Steve downs is 73 and sadly soon. Next 10 years? 20? The most iconic voice in all of video game history will leave us.
AI will save us in terms of actors, sad to lose such people but that will not be an issue in the future
@@mrreziik I get what you're saying but AI can never replicate the incredible abilities of these voice actors.
Spartans never die. They’re just missing an action.
@@mrreziik genuinely fuck you. How dare you disrespect somebody like that?
This is either willing ignorance or disregard for somebody’s identity.
Would you want your voice to be used like a puppet after you die?
I love this walkthrough of the games, most videos nowadays on halo are always negative “halo is dead” “the fall of halo” “343 sucks” this video is so refreshing and such a positive light in the community, yes the games have flaws but all are great in their own right, love your channels and what you do for gaming communities man
What I also noticed is, that no one wants to give 343 a chance. Their games aren’t bad by any means (imo!). It’s just different to bungies iterations.
@@nicopinzelwhat's even funnier is that these idiots crapping on 343 don't realize that 343 is literally the entire team that made Halo what it was.
@@nicopinzeli dont like all of their style choices or game design choices but overall i like the games i guess
I swear if I had 1/2 of a cent each time a guy who probably hated h3 odst and halo reach on release bcuz it's not haloey enough says " but number company bad" I would be Elon musk
@@Drums_of_Liberation The only Bungie employee who stuck around was Frank O'Connor and all the bastardized of the story is solely his fault.
At about 54:00 ish, it’s actually a reference to the Halo Machinima that’s Red Vs Blue, every difficulty has different VC’s, with the shown clip being easy (I think) and having Tucker and I think it’s Doc. Later on it’s Griff and Simmons, I think Caboose and Church is one, etc.
its based on the difficulty im pretty sure i think gus and geoff are heroic
So happy I didn't have to scroll very far to find someone else who knew🤣👍
@@aaronpearson0909 I actually watched RvB loooong before having played any of the halo games. And then flash back a few months ago (probably around like 6-8) to where I’m playing through the campaigns with friends and then my friend Sam said
“I know you like red vs blue, follow me” and then as I walked up to the door I was like “oh it’s just a marine banging on a door- NO SHOT THEY GOT GRIF AND SIMMONS”
Is it only on mcc bcs it doesnt happen to me on xbox 360
@@Pandnn216 I guess, rare 343 w
53:50 this bit is actually an easteregg, its Roosterteeth members who voiced the main Red vs Blue cast on youtube. They were invited by Bungie to feature in most if not all the rest of the games after CE, and the dialogue changes with the difficulty you're playing on
1:07:40 Arby’s actually mentions in a recent book that he highly values their friendship, they even had a “sanghelios barbecue” after the end of halo 5
That would have been one of the books centered on Buck, right? Not the one that explained why he became a Spartan, but the one set just after 5, where it ends on Balaho (Grunt Homeworld) right? Was kinda touching that MC and Arby basically stayed up most of the night (If I recall right) just updating each other.
@@pelicanofpunishment6yes, Halo: Bad Blood.
Yeah which takes place in halo bad blood from bucks perspective. With that being said the halo waypoint will have content about the BBQ MC and Arby's had it'll have voice lines for them as well. So its gonna be an indepth convo that so many people wanted
@@rushpatriot2866when?
Lmao chief and arby had bbq?
The reason spark wants just chiefs head at 19:00 is because that's where cortana's data chip is, he still needs to get the index from her and to destroy it would be 'absolutely unacceptable'
At the end of Halo 3, that last scene, what I love about it, is that they're still in mortal danger, the Halo ring is going off in the background and it could kill both Chief and Cortana, but neither of them care, all that matters is that they're together, Chief blocks the ring from Cortana's view and the only thing he's looking at is her.
Another thing: in Halo 3 and 4, you can see how anxious he is, between Cortana being lost, his concern for both her and Johnson, and in 4, Cortana dying before his eyes with nothing he can do about it. In CE and 2 he's in complete control. no doubts, but he's so anxious you can feel it in the way he talks and moves, just like how you pointed it out, and the only time he relaxes during this time frame is after he gets Cortana back in H3. During 4, you can tell he's never been in that kind of situation before, he's never had someone he loves dying with him so helpless, so he does the only thing someone with his emotional development can do, he clings to her, desperately, hoping beyind hope that she can be saved, that something can be done. He never had the chance to be human, he was taken at 6 and forced to fight, he never got the chance to love or grieve anyone outside his fellow soldiers. It shows.
In ODST you can see how Buck keeps thinking about Dare, half the time, when someone asks him a question, he's really giving two answers with one, and you can see how he settles down a lot after he reunites with Dare.
In the beginning of Reach, when Emile aggressively orders the farmers to their knees, it's subtle but its a nod ot his role, one of the concept Spartans, Rosenda, was slated to take Emiles place on the team if they ever had a counter-Insurrection operation, because he displayed extraordinary aggression toward Insurrectionists, for reasons I can't remember off the top of my head, so to have him be so rough with little more than a poossible rebel is a nice detail. (Jun was the one saying the "don't we have more important things to do than pick up strays" at the beginning, not Emile). A note to make, when Jorge rested his hand on Six's shoulder at Sword base, Six is framed in the EXACT SAME SPOT on screen as he is in the scene where he looks over the wreckage of the Covenant ship after having just lost Jorge and fallen from orbit. There's a lot to talk about with Reach that I couldn't do justice alone, the people playing and reacting to this game speak for me, check out Kai Zammit, film cinematographer who really hits all the points I would love to have the education to talk about.
Something that is so overlooked is the emotional subltlety of Halo. Between what I talked about with Chief in 3, 4, 5, and Infinite, of Noble Team and the cinematographic choices in Reach, and the entire atmophere in Halo ODST.
Moving away from the grandeur, in ODST, that little detail of Dare taking her finger of the trigger the moment she realizes it's Rookie and the Superintedent's eyes changing to show emotions, like showing concern or joy or irritation, to outright anger, and then when it finally crashes, the eyes are closed.
The thing I’d say about chief and Cortana is it’s more intimate than that, though not romantic
Because of the way they interface between the suit and each other they become interlinked and it’s described as quite a personal experience due to that (this might sound odd, but as an example Cortana actually enhanced chiefs reaction speed)
He’s seen civilians and soldiers die, people he grew up with die, but he’s never had true intimacy, and while it isn’t romantic between the two, it was chiefs first time being vulnerable (Cortana can also read chiefs mind, and I think talk to her in his head too)
I loved Reach and never understood why it got so much hate. The first time I saw what happened to Kat I literally exclaimed from shock and was depressed for a few days
Cortana going full on galactic dictator was so tragic especially because she's dead and gone now. I feel bad for MC
So fun fact, atleast in the original graphics/original OST for halo CE the “Female” vocals in songs like the warthog run and under cover of night are actually just Marty pitch shifting his voice.
I thought it was just him singing? I don't think he pitched it up, its just when he was younger he could hit those notes
Bro was literally the first v-tuber
Bullshit. It sounds so naturally feminine
A couple of Fun Facts About Halo as I watch this:
Halo CEA
1. The NPC at the start that is with Chief in the tutorial area is supposedly a make-a-wish (Cannot find info to confirm but I saw it on a TikTok) Ill confirm this later
2. The Marines that die in the escape pod with Chief were originally scripted to live and follow Chief but in testing would always fall off the bridge so Bungie Killed them
3. The Cutscene at 12:02 is actually missable.
4. 13:33 Before you enter the structure you can actually see "The Flood" combat forms in the distance.
5. The Library was actually not originally visited by just Chief. There is another Marie (forget his name) that is cannon that Guilty Spark chose to get the index. He almost made it before dying to The Flood. (Magnificent Bastard)
5.5 The Library is my Favorite CE Level cause I'm a Mashocist
6. All Halos were strategically Deployed Near Worlds that are uninhabitable. The Forerunners did this to ensure no one species could get a leg up in tech early on.
7. 20:36 That is a Proto Gravemind (Baby more or less) there is actually a horrifying Halo Video (Waypoint) that shows Keyes slow descent into this form and how hard he really tried to resist the flood and becoming one of them.
8. There is an Elite and Grunt that you kill just before going up an elevator to get a Hog to make your dash to the end of the game. This pair had actually been hunting chief all game.
9. 24:11 At the end of this Dash it is actually explained in a book that right before Chief boards the longsword is one of the few times he truly felt fear. A Flood Infection form actually was moment away from breaking his armor and infecting him. However, Cortana overloaded his shields thus killing it.
10. There is a Legendary Ending cutscene showing Johnson hugging an elite before the Autumn Explodes. Johnson actually does survive with a few others aboard a Pelican they managed to get to space. Johnson also survived a flood infection earlier in the game. This is due to him being in the Spartan One program and the augmentations altering his DNA making him impossible to infect.
11. Some modders manipulated the camera back when CE came out to try and see Chief's face only to see when he took off his helmet that his face was his helmet.
Halo 2
1. 26:30 that power supply that Marine throws down is actually a Nod to Fact Number 9 above for CE and Two Betrayals. The reason it is fried is due to Chief and Cortana using his shield to disable those arrays in Two Betrayals and Cortana having to overload Chief's shields.
2. Johnson is Canonically in Halo 2 77/78 years old
3. 30:45 The Covenant Capital Ship Chief destroys is MASSIVE (17,540 ft roughly) and can house tens of thousands of crews. As well this ship was originally going to be a level for you to destroy from the inside but was cut due to time.
4. 31:13 Pelicans are the UNSC main mode of Transport for personal and armaments. They are favored due to the ability to go from planet to space fairly easily. However, they were not built to withstand covenant weapons and thus why they get shot down so easily
5. 32:19 Johnson has Canonically fucked
6. The Invasion on Earth was legit an accident. Regret was just kinda out for a stroll and well Earf
7. 32:54 Shortly after this bridge there are a few tunnels you go through and if you manage to take a banshee through them you can fly to an area and obtain a Scarab Gun
8. 33:47 In Lore Brutes, Jackals and grunts have been observed eating humans
9. 34:00 The Grunt Rebellion Mentioned here, is important. In CE you mentioned how the Elites think of the Grunts. Before CE at one point Grunt were literally slave labor and cannon fodder. However, the Grunts got tired of it and rebelled. Almost Dismantling the Covenant. It Actually took the partial glassing of their home world to stop them. From then on, the Grunt gained respect. their own ranks and the ability to carry weapons into battle. The elites really respected them after that.
10. 36:23 Half of the Shipmasters mandibles are missing. This is due to his previous run-in with the flood where an infection form ripped them off iirc
11. 41:45 The VA who does The Gravemind actually did that voice with no effects added. Super talented but also creepy. (Side note: The Gravemind is my Hear me out of the Halo Franchise)
Halo 3
1. 50:15 The Intro with Johnson actually has a few different lines of dialogue depending on the difficulty!
2. 53:35 Just like the intro there are a few different dialogues here depending the difficulty. One of them Being between Geoff and Gus of RoosterTeeth (RvB) also RIP
3. 55:23 This is Obviously a different scarab Model. This Model is actually piloted by the same worms the hunters are made of and the crew aboard were usually only there to protect it.
4. 57:32 At the beginning of this mission. There is a flood combat form on the top of a building that is holding a skull. If you don't shoot them fast enough you can actually miss getting the skull.
5. If you let a flood form hop on a marine or elite with no shields you can watch them transform into a flood combat form. Showing you have fast the infection really is at the stage of the Flood
6. 1:02:09 Here we can see Truth actually infected by the flood but not in the typical way (infection form) Truth was infected by "spores" which can be breathed in and infect you
7. High Charity (iirc) house TRILLIONS of covenant and fell within about a day (iirc) showing you just how dangerous the flood is.
8. Also High Charity is a Literal Piece of the Prophets home world
9. 1:05:44 The Actual secret was the Index and that she has something that could effectively starve him (The Gravemind). Her having that signals to The Gravemind that he has not won yet.
10. The Events of Halo CE to Halo 3 happen within a few months
Halo 3 ODST
1. The Rookie is Unfortunately canonically Dead :c
2. 1:14:19 If you look closely you can actually see the In Amber Clad alongside the Capital Ship before it goes into slip space.
3. While New Mombasa is the only place in games that we get to see on Earth being invaded by the Covenant, the Covenant also visited Antarctica and the UK.
4. 1:17:00 Romeo actually doesn't answer Buck whenever they meet up in the flashback. Even though Buck asks him something directly. It's a nod to Buck telling him to shut his mouth as a ""Standing order" Fucking smartass.
5. 1:20:00 On this mission if you collected all of the audio logs there is a bonus "side" story you can complete
Halo Reach
1. The Opening is Iconic and really is an in-your-face of "Ha you ain't making it" ALSO NOBLE SIX IS DEAD. THEY ARE DEAD DEAD DEAD. NOT IN A FLIPPING CAVE OR WHATEVER. Stop it.
2. 1:25:15 Kat actually lost her arm in another battle before Reach. There is a trailer showing the battle and the Previous Noble Six.
3. 1:25:55 The reason Emile is so aggressive is due to his history with Insurgents. This is shown here with this dialogue. The dude really HATES the insurgents and was even taken off teams meant to fight them due to his brutality
4. 1:30:13 This cutscene confused a lot of people when Halsey addressed Jorge. Most people believe he said "Mom" but he actually said "Ma'am" it was just due to his accent that it tricks the brain. However, Mom does make sense due to his history with her.
5. 1:39:40 There is an easter egg that if you do you can actually Pilot a Pelican for the entire mission. Really fun!
6. 1:43:12 If you hold Right(?) on your thumb stick or move the mouse right in the shot with the pelican entering the Autumn you can see a Spartan in a Cryo Pod. That is Linda.
7. Once again Noble six lovers, they are dead. Stop it. Get some help. Therapy. pls
Halo 4 & 5
1. The Line "I need you" is a Call back to Halo 3 of "Wake me when you need me"
2. Halo 5 (Podcast Hunt the Truth) This and the Marketing around Halo 5 story are the reason Halo 5 left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths regarding Halo and 343. Halo 5 is not a bad game. The story is Okay and expands a few things (Granted them killing the Didact offscreen was dumb) and the Multiplayer was fantastic and had some of THE GREATEST after-launch support any Halo has ever had. EVER! Even the microtransactions weren't terrible as everything could be unlocked through playing and the Req packs were programmed to never give you doubles of armor pieces.
3. 2:18:29 This cutscene gets A LOT of heat due to what is essentially a dumbed-down chief fighting Locke. In Cannon Chief Critically injured 3 ODSTs in a sparring match in his TEENS and on ACCIDENT. All without armor. While I don't hate this scene it is just very unlikely Chief wouldn't have been hit as such. However, if you look in the beginning of Infinite, you'll notice how gentle Chief is with marines' bodies vs a banished body. So, looking back this could just be chief pulling his punches so as to not Critically injure Locke.
Halo Infinite
1. 2:30:30 This scene shows a banished ship plowing through the Infinity. What's interesting is most Banished ships do not have shields and actually have more armor and firepower. Making them slow and not as maneuverable.
2. Something to note about the Grapple is I believe it was Neil Degrasse Tyson who said that the grapple makes no sense as it would be impossible to both be able to pull things to you and pull yourself to it as it wouldn't be strong enough considering Chiefs weight in the suit. However, people replied "Space magic go brrr" Also it's explained it uses slipspace tech to accomplish such a feat
3. 2:34:40 During this somewhere Cortina says "It's just dust and echoes" a call back to Halo CE
3. There is an achievement for completing all main missions in less than 8(? or is it 6?) hours. In Cannon that is how long the game actually is. Chief woke up and dismantled what was left of the Banished on that part of Zeta Halo in 6-8 Hours.
4. 2:38:21 The Flood is actually on every Halo ring. Including Zeta. The forerunners did this to study The Flood in the hopes of finding a cure versus a genocidal solution. However, each Monitor never knew about this nor the location of other rings as well as interstellar travel and such to prevent the flood from escaping the rings in the event of an outbreak. Also canonically in the Multiplayer story of Infinite the flood has infected Spartan IVs
5. Something to Note while playing the game when Esparza and Cortina are talking the AI port of Chief's helm flashes different colors. Blue for Cortina and Green for Esparza
@@TheJettttIm going to look up Hunt The Truth rn, thanks for the lore dude!
@@NOBLESIX-UNSC haha didn’t expect this to be seen six months later! Enjoy!!
To add to star was and halo references, gravemind's VA is the same VA of the clones from SW The clone wars series
Had fun reading this 👍🏻 i allready knew nost of it but even as a "zero hour" halo fan i learned a bit 🫶🏻
Fun thing about the Halo 2 anniversary graphics: they actually look good and stay true to the original artist’s intent because they not only got a different studio to do it, but Blur actually knew what they were doing
1:04:42 I love the way Cortana literally lights up like Tinkerbell does when Chief finds her and basically comforts her back to her right mind. Then how she basically shows shes back fully with her witty comedic commentary, "... And keep your head down.... Theres.. two of us i here now". Classic Cortana banter ❤
This video is reminding me of when my friend and I played through C:E to H3, he had never played an FPS game in his life, he stuck to mainly Nintendo games and a few niches, I was playing FPS like Halo and Destiny 1 and 2 since I was like 13, so he asked me to teach him and play with him, so we did. We stayed up until 3 AM playing Halo 3 as Arbiter and Chief and that game was so phenomenal in having us work on teamwork, coordination, communication, trust, and patience as we played, on the final level we kept dying and learning, we finally beat after I said, "You drive, I shoot." We were tired college kids on Winter break just having fun drinking wine and staying up late playing games. God I miss him.
Those times will forever be like a beautiful picture on glass in your mind. You wont ever forget them. Nothing good lasts forever, unfortunately, but it’s always important to remember you were there to experience it and share the laughs with your friend. The worst part, though? You never realize how fondly you will remember those moments until they’re over
Well, Bungie devs have said that the halo sandbox, specially Halo CE multiplayer is their vesion of a party game like Mario Party
57:53 I kept throwing regenerators at him hoping that it regenerated mental health lmao
This is funny af
the Reason that Emile said ¨i am ready how about you¨ is because his brother died saving his life trying to protect him and to Emile he would be a failure to he brother if he did'nt repay his debt to him by trying to save 6,s life and the others on reach
No that’s not true Emile says that line because he knew that staying behind to clear a path for the autumn to escape would ultimately lead to him dying… and now it’s up to you
I deeply appreciate that your channel is a rational, positive counter to the negativity market that’s grown for the last 5+ years. Thanks for taking time to reflect on constructive criticism.
Damn, I remember playing the first game and thinking "there's no way they can improve on the Halo theme."
Then they brought in Steve Vai in to play guitar in Halo 2
Was some heat. Halo 2 has the best atmosphere music set pieces characters world building dialogue the list goes on. Imo halo 2 is the best and it's my 1# most favorite game
Best part about the noble 6 is that he was seen by the covenant as a threat at the same level of master chief.
They’re all hyper lethal now, that was retconned
Every Spartan is
@@joshuagray3601which makes perfect sense.
@@joshuagray3601nobody cares about Retcons by 343
Unfortunately that was retconned and the title isn't based on how covies feel only humans can give a hyper lethal title and most of 6s achievements from said title comes from saber piloting and fighting rebels. Hyper lethal isn't a very good gauge on a Spartans skill comp5are 6s achievements for the title to what MC has done and it's not even in the same ballpark.
A detail I love although not sure if it was intentional on Marty's part-
In Halo 3 when Truth activates the rings, their icons in the hallway light up and sound at different keys, but 04's is in E which matches the main halo theme. In Halo 2 when the second halo installation 05 is revealed, it has its own unique theme in D, which matches the ring icon after 04's in the hallway cutscene where the flood forms an alliance with us in Halo 3. If it was intentional would absolutely love for Marty to make themes for the other 5 rings.
Fun fact with Halo 2: In the part where Keyes gets the Index, in the original graphics she uses the Gravemind's tendril to grab it and the gravemind moves his tendril to try and kill keyes since she had the index but Johnson saved her by grabbing the tendril which makes sense since the flood are there and its inside the quarentine zone and the gravemind doesn't want Halo to be activated, its also why the Arbiter is with the Gravemind and the Master Chief when he gets blasted down the hole by Tartarus. In the remastered graphics its a rope/wire instead of the gravemind's tendril and it just so happens to come loose. I LOVE the Blur animations and cutscenes but this one detail is a pet peeve of mine cus it removed the environmental storytelling of the scene.
If I'm not wrong in the og Halo 2 - In the cutscene where Thel falls the inside that hole - that was supposed to be a cable from one of those gigantic sentinels.
@@TortugaAWyou are correct
Blur's cutscenes are stunning with how real they look, but they're in general not as good. Not as good artstyle, mistakes such as that and the backwards Phantom, and the general inferiority that is in-engine cutscenes than prerendered cutscenes
Just wanted to say that I've been a fan of yours since your The Last of Us Part 2 video, and I have SO enjoyed watching not only your content evolve, but also you! The difference in your cadence and inflection from then to now is extremely commendable, it's very obvious you honed in on the script-writing craft and have continued to perfect it for the past 3 years. Thank you for all the videos, and I can't wait to keep coming back!
Clocks done ticking so I need to mail the collection of aliens back their boom boom
I love the Red vs.. Blue cameo. That show is so funny with my one of my favorite being "What in Sam Hell is a puma? You're making that up."
56:21 one of the best cutscenes in Halo. This is my favorite cutscene also I agree that cutscene is so badass that is basically just Halo the cutscene. Also the human and elite alliance was so freaking cool. Seeing Rtas come in the Shadow of Intent was so cool. Also Rtas has the coolest most badass lines in the entire series. “One single floor spore can destroy a species.”, “Our fight is through the portal with the brutes and the bastard Truth.”, And “Then it is an even fight. Burn their mongrel hides.” All three lines are so freaking awesome. I honestly think Halo 3 is the absolute best of the games. It had the best soundtrack, the coolest cutscenes, the best voice lines, and such a good story. It’s why it’s my favorite. Also I freaking love the scene where High Charity just arrives to the Ark out of nowhere. Rtas gives an epic line “Now prophet, your end has come.” And then he gives the eerie line “High Charity? By the gods brace for impact!” Anyone who played Halo 2 or listened to the Elites talking to Arbiter would know High Charity is completely full of Flood potentially billions of Flood. Arbiter has such badass lines when you confront Truth. I am Truth, the voice of the Covenant. “And so you must be silenced.” And “We trade one villain for another.” Both are so cool lines. And the ring rising from the forge is just so cool. The epic version of the Halo theme plays as the monumental ring rises from the forge. It also really gives you a sense of scale. The ring is absolutely massive. 1:37:51 that scene is where you know you are losing Reach. You see the effort it took to destroy one ship and now there is an entire fleet that has replaced it. And it stings even more knowing Jorge sacrificed himself thinking he saved Reach only for his death to be immediately in vain. I loved the levels in New Alexandria because it was really hitting home just how bad this war was for humanity. You see dead civilians everywhere, you see civilians being killed, you see civilian ships being shot down mercilessly. And then when you fly in the falcon you see the city completely ablaze the fires burning so bright that it lights the night sky. You see buildings collapsing and smoke rising from the city. And then the amazing environmental storytelling where you see Covenant cruisers flying over the city and then you see them glass the city. It really hits hard seeing them just glass the planet right in front of you and you are powerless to stop them. After Kat’s death you actually see civilians in that bunker. They witnessed a Spartan die and that’s one thing civilians are never supposed to see. If you have subtitles you can see the civilians are scared. They just saw one of humanity’s best soldiers die just like that. It really hits hard because it shows even the civilians are hopeless. And the lines Kat gives shortly before really hit hard. “First Glassing? Me too.” as she misses the elevator button shows she is scared. It humanizes her a ton. And “I know we’re losing I want to know if we have lost.” Just stings because deep down you are thinking the same thing. You know everyone in that room is think the same thing. Fun fact with the last level. The frigate in the ship breaking yard is the same ship from The Fall of Reach movie. The UNSC Commonwealth aka the ship that was carrying all of the Spartan IIs when it was attacked by a Covenant cruiser. It’s a cool callback.
19:05 “why would spark want to save his head”
Because you can see Chief put Cortana chip into the back of his helmet… How am I shocked to see that you did not notice that one. That’s why he wants to save his head.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone enjoy the CE anniversary graphics. Jokes aside, no one talks about how good the Halo 2 graphics are, I love it
A little comment on Captain Del Rio:
According to the old head of ONI, Margaret Parangosky, Del Rio was put in command specifically because he was a wet blanket. He always followed protocol, never deviated, and kept a tight ship. He was rigid old brass, which made FLEETCOM more comfortable with him as commander of the super top secret project that was Inifinity and her maiden voyage. In reality, Parangosky wanted Lasky to be in command, but with his low rank and inexperience commanding larger vessels, she compromised with FLEETCOM and had him apointed as second under Del Rio in order to gain the experience necessary to take over as Captain.
In the end, Del Rio's time aboard Infinity would most likely have ended after the maiden voyage, but things went differently.
On his assholishness, Del Rio is obviously a quintisential bully. He used his position in the military to justify his authority, something common among poor officers. He's also by-the-book, because that's his basis for his power. So when a Master Chief Petty Officer, a senior NCO in the navy, not only directly disobeys him but uses threatening body language to defend and obviously rampant security risk on what is obviously a suicide mission, Del Rio falls back on the only thing he's got: his command.
I might have to make a few comments throughout the video, but at 8:41 I have two thoughts. 1. Rings in sci-fi probably started as a way to deal with the lack of gravity. If a ring spins it can imitate gravity if you stand on the inside. Eventually it just became a trope and we don’t even have to justify it.
The second thing is that the assault rifle in this game sounds fantastic to use, but they use the vibrating function on your controller so when you have that feature enabled it would literally shake your hand. I don’t know how to convey how awesome it felt, but I do think that this fact could be lost to the ages if not archived.
4:27 I think there's some lore that they had rules at that point about S2's only being allowed enlisted ranks, not officer. The rest of the humans were probably a bit uneasy of the augmented superhumans.
Yeah, until Kurt was kidnapped to train S-IIIs and was made an officer and then he made Fred a Lt Junior Grade (Highest ranking S-II, I believe) to allow him authority over the remaining IIIs and Blue Team. But then, when Fred, Linda and Kelly get working with John again, higher rank means nothing, Fred becomes John's second without question.
1:38:11 my brother and I were like, “NOT COOL GUYS! We were finally somewhat winning!”
Spark turning on Johnson was the first time I felt genuine righteous fury, maybe in my life, and his death scene was the first time a video game ever made me cry. I honestly didn't appreciate the final level for a long time, even though i had to wait days to be ready to play it, it took until my legendary play-through years later to really enjoy it because I always had Johnson on my mind, and frankly, would've been happy to canonically die there with him.
Damn bro you always got Johnson on your mind too huh?
@@rushpatriot2866when I cry Jesus is on my left side and Johnson is on my right
You sir have done several things I thought impossible.
Firstly, you brought new perspective in to a 14 year old franchise. And it was somehow an outside perspective.
You managed to also talk about the later entries in a positive light, and actually made 343's story telling look half decent.
Somehow you also got me hopeful and almost excited to see what 343 can do.
Finally you actually made me feel... something. Don't know how to put it in to words other than "when you finish the last book in a long series that, while it may not have been the ending you wanted, was the perfect ending."
I need to go back and play halo again... just not on legendary. I can't begin to think about how long it has been since I just played halo for the sake of playing halo. No skipping cut scenes, no shortcuts, no fancy moves or optimal strats. Just pure halo. Maybe actually let myself be blinded by its majesty for the first time in a long time.
Absolutely love this channel! Been a long time gamer since I was 4 playing CE with my dad and also die hard movie watcher so glad someone with a great personality does this content so I can watch my cinema wins and gamer wins everyday! Plz keep up the amazing work!
what bothered me the most with the Halo CE review was that you never metioned how the world is reacting to you/your decisions.
For example if your on the PoA and shoot Keyes security gets called to kill you, Cortana does it. They game devs knew gamer, they know some would try it and do stupid stuff. They could go the lazy route and just make it impossible for you to hurt them or shoot on the bridge, but they didnt.
The same in the Halo level, if all Marines die the dialog changes, each time, Marines turn on you but not asap when you shoot at them, such small things make the world believeable and i love how they thought about such stuff. Cant save the marines? Cortana gets a sad tone to be empathic with Chief becuz she shows it bothers him but doesnt go to deep.
I really miss such details, this extra mile, those things make good games to great games, even decades later.
From a Halo fan who's been playing the games since he was three years old, thank you for your work on these videos. If anyone ever needs a little help seeing why I hold these games in my heart as much as I do, this is the video being sent to them. I'm looking forward to watching the other videos you've made.
Missed a few important details in ce because the were lost in the remaster. Specifically the flood reveal mission was done pretty dirty in the remaster.
Yeah Marty O Donnell really isn't a fan of the remaster and he lists pretty much every issue I have with it. The fact that they somehow messed up the OG version is weird to me.
In Reach, it's likely that the Elite Marshall you face right before you reach the MAC Cannon is the one that leads the squad of them at the start of the game (and probably the same one that kills Kat). Evidence got this is that he has a slightly stronger shield compared to the other Elite Field Marshalls in the game, and he has unique behaviour where he switches from Concussion Rifle to Energy Sword the first time his shield is broken. He's kind of your personal nemesis throughout the game.
DUDE. You missed out on The Halo Games? i'm so glad you're getting around to them. it's one of my favorite stories / games. I'm jealous you get to experience them for the first time. Getting to ride that wave of joy with you is one of the reasons i'm subscribed.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
RIP FoeHammer, You are always missed.
I don't know how I missed the full list of the Everything Great with Halo
little side tangent, I still get teary eyed remembering playing pretty much most of the franchise with my brother, from Halo 1 - Reach, it brings me so much joy I got to play this series with my brother, and we sometimes go back to them on occasion whenever we get to hang around, we used to play Reach first, than Halo 1-3 including Halo 3 ODST
good times
For me 3, odst and reach are my favorite games
3 for the story
Odst for the atmosphere
and reach for the feeling of hopelessness
Also Reach for the customization. That's YOUR Spartan helmet in the opening scene
2+ HOURS OF GAMINGWINS!? *Grabs popcorn with recreational intent*
Amen to that.
Could’ve just said almost 3hrs
Arbiter’s, “We’re it so easy”, at the memorial monument will forever make me tear up. The level of respect and reverence that he had for his human counterpart is so fitting.
These games are my childhood and I’m so glad to see a long form look at these wonderful games ODST holds a place in my heart so glad helldivers is a spiritual successor to live out childhood fantasy
Halo 2 will always be an all-time favorite game for me. I played through it nonstop as a kid. found all the easter eggs, got all the skulls. had so much fun with that game.
You're a man of culture. Every level has its own personality the set pieces are amazing the dialogue for NPCs is the best out of all halo games the characters are amazing the world building satisfied my lore hungry brain the music unparalleled and all of that is connected with that early 2000s gaming vibe. When I think halo 2 I think of crash bandicoot Spyro ratchet and clank Silent Hill 2 RE3 just the memories of all those games going to block buster and getting pizza after before playing games all night. 🥲 It's bittersweet.
Goddamn... You almots made me cry about halo 3.
I played that game so much I think i might be numb to it's story. Yet it remains my all time favorite game. You reminded me of that. Now I'll have to play it again to experience it with your comments in mind. I love this channel.
39:11 also a win for those who watch the terminals and see how much the heretic leader and guilty spark, talk and learn from each other. It also just makes it even sadder that we’ve killed the heretic leader, because he really would’ve been a useful ally.
9:46 it’s a shame you didn’t know about this feature sooner. You could have experienced the halo ring the same way those people did when the game first came out
54:59 my favorite track from the entire score without question: the threat, the struggle, the immediacy, the immensity of consequences that hinges upon victory dancing just beyond your fingertips; you cannot fail, you MUST NOT fail, everything youve ever loved depends on it.
Finished Halo Reach for the first time yesterday, sleep, wake up and jump straight to this video to watch the Reach section. What a great video
fun fact 21:27 if you turn and look down at the start of ‘the maw’ in game you can see the crashed banshee they flew in the cutscene.
Dude, you are a blessing on UA-cam. It's always nice to see positivity for a change. Thank you for helping us see the positives, even in Halo 5!
Dude, your love for the game brought back memories and made me tear up. Good shit man
The Password-Please vignette in Halo 3 was voiced by the guys from Roosterteeth! Back before all the... well before it became what RT is (or rather *isn't*) today
i only hate the remastered graphics only because the brightness takes away from the overall vibe the original game had but im glad you enjoyed playing it!
Btw just got it halo infinite and when u said the first piano note got u goosebumps. Dude when I heard it I took 2 days off work for the release date just to hear the full song
Great video I also agree with the cortana slowdown sections I’m a story buff so I absolutely love those. It just adds to the feeling. Kinda had tears during the end of the halo3 part.
I didn't and still don't use the Microsoft game stuff, but a few classmates would invite me over to play these games in middle school. And the multi-player was incredible for the time. Though I often drove the other guys nuts because I'd often find the plasma sword by luck and rip through them like it was nothing.
Still early into this great video but as for the 15:43 "beat", I always took it to be a mix of what you mentioned, while also looking around for Cortana. Seeing as this is the last place they split up all that time ago.
I always took it as the Chief sort of lamenting how easy it was to just teleport straight there instead of the battle it took in the Control Room level
Thank you for this I was gonna start to watch the playlist caused I missed your positivity. Thanks big guy
1:08:28 I cried. I remember watching the believe campaign and thought, " there's no way he dies at the end" AND THEN seeing that funeral scene........
Just a little +1 for me about halo, I’ve watched all of RvB (Red vs Blue) by Rooster Teeth, sad to see them go, but those 2 are voice actors from the series (Tucker and Doc) and every time I replay that mission in halo 3 I always stop by and listen to them. 53:32
I love how your literal first point was the thing you said you weren't gonna do. Hey, not complaining, a good point!
About your halo reach zealot head cannon, your only slightly wrong. Its not only one zealot but a whole squad serving as an smaller more personal villain for noble team to fight.
19:08 i was this many years old when i finally realized spark said "Save his head, dispose of the rest". For all these years i thought he said "Simply or Safely Said" like he gets your point now dispose of him. But "Save his head" makes light-years more sense and actually makes the dialogue just that more badass...
Hey @GamingWins huge fan love your work. I love all your views and interpretations on the uniqueness of each and every game.
I think another game you should definitely try and make a video on is the Tomb Raider (2013). Its a really great game and i hope you will consider it
This is how i found your channel. And i gotta say im sorry you missed out on halo. Its my absolute goat of video games. Its my child hood in a media
One small note, Halsey keeping Miranda's picture is a hidden nod to those who pieced it together that she was Miranda's mother. Not really ever mentioned in the games
Favorite game series and favorite channel. hopefully when the next halo game comes out we get another halo gaming wins video
15:40 I'm pretty sure it's Chief thinking "I left Cortana here, where is she?"
Halo CE was actually transcribed into a book, and it's just as good as a book as it is as a game. And of it was ever faithfully adapted into a show, it would be just as good. Especially if they use the books version as it adds more characters and helps with context of many things.
Honestly, this was nice. I’d love this because it showed me another point of view from someone who didn’t grow up with the game. It gives me that hope that this could be something again. I’ve been playing this game since Halo 3 and it’s nice to, kind of see it from the other side and see all the ups and downs with the series that yes I grew up with and I and I loved and hated every bit of it but from an outside the series turned out much better than I remember. So thanks for sparking that hope i had halo again.
And sry for the rambling in my comment but this really makes want to replay the game for fun and enjoy the story again.
Oh god that whole Natasha McElhone bit in Two Betrayals when its Jen Taylor lmfao
Im so surprised this was the first comment I could find on this. I've never clutched my pearls harder, I can't even give a pass for not knowing when he had to look up how to pronounce it
Fun fact for ODST, durring the drop at the beginning you can catch Keyes's ship screaming in behind the Carrier just before the jump, little details that are always fun to catch
With the crazed marine in Halo 3, I distinctly remember leading infection forms back to him just so he could get infected and I can watch.
15:44, I always interpreted it as either: A: He was curious where Cortana was since this was the last place he left her and is surprised everything looks the same despite him leaving her in the computer. B: He's mystified since he fought through hordes of Covenant to get to this control room earlier with all his marine pals on the tank and now the floating orb just teleported them into it like it was nothing.
I'm so glad you found the graphical change button... It's literally my favorite addition to the game
1:07:57 Definitely the most beautiful shot in the game possibly all of the Bungie produced Halo trilogy, Chief standing with Cortana in front of him and the Ark in the background with ironically a Halo ring for once firing in the background when in every other game the absolute most drastic of measures were taken to prevent this, now becomes thier saving grace
1:38:55 there were civilian workers in halo 3 in the mission before the flood came to earth right before we had to take down the aa gun, they were all in lab coats and hard hats, and were fighting with us, but they were definitely civilians
"This one throwaway line about Reach sparking a whole game later on, despite us knowing nothing about Reach"
"If CE was written into a book or a film, everyone would HATE it"
Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: The Flood😐 (TFOR released before Halo CE, The Flood at the same time i believe)
For anyone who hasn't read the books, The Flood is a much more detailed form of CE, in novel form, going over the Chief's perspective, as well as some of the marines on the Halo while Chief was fighting, and an added storyline not shown in game with an elite hunting the Chief throughout the book (told through the perspective of his grunt assistant.)
The Fall of Reach, on the other hand, is possibly one of my favorite books of all time. The movie sharing the same name is based on the first Act of this book and does not actually show the Fall of Reach literally at all, but the rest of the book does show the battle for Reach from the perspective of the Spartan IIs. Phenomenal book, not connected to Reach, which tells of what went on before the book's battle as the Covenant arrived, cloaked, to set up an invasion force, shown through the eyes of Six and Noble Team as they fight to prevent the Fall. Canon breaks a little, but all media of Reach is canon and with some retconning of times and dates, can plausibly exist at the same time
I suggest reading these, as well as Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and Halo: First Strike. These two are what I would consider to be the other two best written books, followed by the Kilo-5 Trilogy (Halo: Glasslands, Halo: The Thursday War, and Halo: Mortal Dictata), books which heavily display the black-ops side of the UNSC, as well as the political war between the UNSC and ONI. Phenomenal series as well, and worth much more of a read than I described without spoiling.
Let's not forget the 2 books Buck was in. Where he becomes a Spartan IV and we get confirmation of Jun's survival, and the one set after 5 where we find out MC and Arby basically stay up all night talking when they return from Genesis.
@@pelicanofpunishment6 yes, New Blood and Bad Blood are great as well. I like them a lot but if it was a Tier List, everything I mentioned before is S tier and these two are A tier. I still love those books. Forerunner trilogy prob B tier, the whole saga for the Ferrets is A tier, Cole Protocol is S tier, that other Grey Team one is S Tier, Silent Storm and Oblivion are A tier, Rubicon Protocol is A Tier, havent read the new book yet, still havent finished whatever the one with Arby and Vale is but its C tier so far
Halo is THE game that got my brother and I into gaming. Besides my father being a gamer himself, I am thankful Halo had co-op. It’s also incredibly cool it did. We were so invested into the story and gameplay. Besides superheroes, kid me would act like Chief. We first started with Halo:CE and onward. Haven’t played CE since 2006 when I was 3, and now JUST replaying it with the MCC is a pure wholehearteded experience especially 2’a Anniversary (just finished it, can’t wait for 3. My favorite as a kid.). Really wished a movie/show in that style of the cutscenes were made with Blur Studios, also THATS how you do a remaster cutscene and gameplay wise. My brother also bought it, so we could play once again especially whilst he is in the Air Force. Halo is such a core part of my life. I fell off at Reach, but it’s amazing to see Halo again after all these years.
Another win, which is a major win, I’d say is that originally Chief was gonna be a robotic voice till they hired Downes. I pray no other alternate universe has anyone voice Chief besides Downes.
So cool to see positive talk about disliked games and wjat you said about him having more lines and imprinting on the character i completely agree and have never heard b4
I think my favorite thing in Halo 5 has to be the lore accurate armor abilities that the spartans have, it shows just how much a Spartan can really do
Dang, no win for Ron Pearlman voicing Lord Hood. His voice, as being the “Lord Admiral of the Navy” was great. Such a calm authority voice
My timetook me twelve days, but i finally finished it. Great job man.
Glad you said you liked the CE remaster graphics, I liked them and people truly hate on it. I get the style is different but i still liked it
1:42:23
Thats because its a living creature. There are hunter worms in the scarsb and they are piloting it. Then theres a squad on the scarab to not only defend it, but to keep them in check.
The nostalgia of the first 3 games is insane, I was explaining to my wife how Halo CE revolutionized FPS and gaming in general and it was making me emotional. I don’t care what anyone says about gaming as an adult, I’ve literally been playing video games since before I could even read. Gaming is a part of my soul and I could never give it up
53:32 Props to Bungie for roping in the fan base for Halo 3. This vignette is different depending on what difficulty you're playing and features the voice actors for the Halo machinima series Red vs Blue. The comedy of the series is conveyed in this vignette. Also, go watch the seasons of Red vs Blue that were made before Halo 4 came out those seasons are golden.
@08:53 you should play Body Harvest. It came out for N64. one if the first ever 3d open world console games made by what is now known as Rockstar. They made an open world game where you could shoot stuff & drive before Grand Theft Auto.
I love these vids, man! Keep up the Great Work!
I still love the line in Halo 3 "Shipmaster! They outnumber us 3 to 1, then it is an even fight" just such a good line
Recently started playing Halo, done Halo wars and also just finished halo reach. Really happy so far and cant wait to get started on Halo 2 😊
1:46:44 IIRC those reasons for why master chief's armor looked different then CE/Halo 3 was originally just because of the art style change. But fans got upset at that so they tried to come up with an explanation even if it made no sense.
48:59 hahahaha, well at the time of Battle of the Bastards release, we thought Jon Snow had plot armor for a reason, being the rightful heir to the throne and all. Turns out, we like the Covenant, were DECEIVED!
Something I love about Halo 2 that is sorely lacking from other entries is how "all out" they went with the music to lessen the sting of how much content was scrapped and rewritten. Nothing emphasizes that "all out" -ness more than getting Incubus to do the Arbiter flying section in OG and then getting Misha Mansoor (the guitarist behind Bulb and Periphery) to do the Remastered version, and then doing it again during Master Chief's journey through High Charity with Breaking Benjamin for OG and once again Misha Mansoor doing Remastered.
I've always wanted to see 343 (and in conjunction, Bungie, for Destiny) use bands for music again, especially Breaking Benjamin.
The original 3 Halos, ODST, and Reach hold very special parts in my heart.
Ive played the original 3 with my dad and brothers, ODST came out on my birthday, and Reach i played the beta for, my dad got the special edition, and he passed away on my birthday so i never got a chance to play it with him. Years later i would eventually beat ODST and Reach on my own. But these games make me feel so special, i love the Halo series and im sad i have fallen off with the series after 5.
Another sad thing with Reach, it was supposed to be largest and strongest world next to Earth itself, yet it fell and was lost to almost ease for the Covenant. The sheer hopelessness for Reach is just overwritten by Halo's story that 117 won.
Been watching the original videos playing through. It’s like you read my mind. Now I don’t have to go through each video👍🏻
Is no one gonna tell him that the part at 53:52 is with the guys from rooster teeths Red Vs Blue. Its Simmons and Tucker.
I dont think it is?
@@hal0justcal865 im telling you it is listen to the voices
@@hal0justcal865it is, a direct reference to Red vs Blue