I also bet you thought nobody would see this comment too huh? Never underestimate the effect your art has on people! Your work has played a significant part of my life so thanks for that and have a good one!
i never thought all the little things ive loved in the original halo trilogy were things you guys implemented on purpose. Like i always loved the scene of the scarab busting through the tunnel with a leg and then you look through the hole and it just slowly scuttles away and you feel so small and powerless until you finally get to board it and blow it up from the inside out. And the music kicks in with these epic guitar rifts and you feel like a total bad ass. You guys are a treasure to this industry.
@@okankyoto Yea and same with him talking about the Engineers, or as Staten states here at 6:37 "There was an idea at one point to have little Engineers, the character that we never put in the halo games the sort of floating, gas bag character, float by on legendary"
They also took the idea of "ODST's dropping into a Covenant Ship" and used it as the mission Alpha Nine where given at the start of ODST before dare has them go off mission to get Virgil
These three idiots were my childhood heroes. I love SOOOO many games.. But nothing can ever make me feel so connected and so invested as Halo does... Long live Bungie.. (2001-2010)
MarkieTheHuman part of me wants to get these three guys together to make one last legitimate end-all halo game. But knowing that they had to split up makes me un optimistic about the idea.
Yaa. I don't know what is wrong with me sometimes. I have 190+ Games on Xbox One but the ones I have been playing non stop over the year have been Halo: MCC and Halo 5. For some reason Halo is a series that I have an Infinite Affinity for. (2001- For Life.)
What's even funnier is that this was recorded around the time of Halo 3's development. That option was more than likely already a reality at the time of that statement lol.
Its almost like they were joking about how it should've been an obvious feature to implement. I don't blame them though, Halo 2s development was so hectic that given their situation along with the fact that they produced such a great game, I give them a pass.
Halo 2 is the strangest game in the series and definetely the most experimental, I love it to pieces, it's weird to hear these guys feel a little down on some of the stuff they left out, it makes me wonder what would've happened with Halo 2 had they been able to fully realise their vision, when I heard that quarantine zone was just the remaining 20% of an even larger level it blew my mind.
Honestly with mod tools coming to pc, it's up to the fans now to create that version. I think we owe it to them after all of the great games they made.
Yeah, while 343 Incompetencies used many of Bungie’s unused ideas, they forgot the “refine it” part. Plus they hired people who hated Halo. At least they have Joseph Staten now, and I guess decided to listen to the fans who were livid about being ignored and spit on for the past decade.
It is clear they were passionate about they games, but didn’t take themselves too seriously. Love how they can make fun of themselves and their games in a caring way.
The thing that i love most about marty is he wasnt just the composer, he also was someone who helped build the game and loved the game and i dont think there is any composer that worked on a video game that cared so much for it.
@@aelo333 Well he was their composer along with a list of other responsibilities. Wasn't he their sound engineer and primary sound/voice acting director as well? Like, the guy was obviously a HUGE part of the creative team on many levels.
When I first played halo 2 I was one of those people that skipped the centimatic and then the 3rd LvL started and I was like "WTF, PURPLE HUD, ENENGY SWORD WAIT THE COVERNET ARE MY FRIENDS???"
@@coldbeatz3918 They mentioned how in the Drop Pod section here in Halo 2, they wanted to go first-person with windows on the pods where you would see the decent onto the halo ring. This idea would later be adapted into the opening levels of Halo 3: ODST where almost the exact same thing happens. Hope you enjoy the trivia! :)
Watching this and watching them talk about all the really cool mission/story telling content that was cut really makes me want a future halo 2, Uncut edition release maybe a good 5-10 years from now.
i was hoping thas what the anniversary edition was lol couldve made it a directors cut and expanded it with the complete experience and charge $100 easy lmao.
I wish we had this version of halo 2, I can see the difference like the lighting from the official release. I can see why bungie was disappointed at this game despite it being successful, they couldn't put in all the cool stuff (or extra stuff) that made the game look good.
Yeah. People started getting really angry about it some point in the 2010's, but that's the way it's always been. You can't create in a vacuum, everything you write and say goes on to effect people, and when something like that happens, you definitely don't want to remind people of it while you're telling them a story. Not because you can't take the flak or something, but because hurting people like that, rubbing salt over a wound, is always something any good man seeks to avoid.
Halo2 is a masterpiece of a game that came from brilliant men and women at Bungie! Thank you for the best game ever made: multi-player, campaign all came together perfectly!
Honestly my favorite part of this video is listening to all the stuff that they were like "oh, but we couldn't pull it off" or "that got cut" that we saw in ODST. Really helps me appreciate the vision that was there even early in the franchise.
iPlayiOS same i've been playing halo since i was 4 years old xD 2004 Halo CE and Halo 2 then halo 3, odst and my last halo reach. I tried giving 4 a shot I will admit it's story was good but gameplay wasn't good. 5 I don't want to talk about it. Now I just play destiny and other games. But i still play MCC reguardless of the bugs it's still fun to play especially with friends.
You can really tell just how much of an impact Staten had on this game and thus the series. Half the video is him talking. Even our boy Marty shuts up whenever Staten starts talking/explaining/monologuing.
That's why I'm excited on having him as a project lead for Halo Infinite's campaign. We're talking the guy who fleshed out the majority of the original Halo lore!
By the way I have to say that as far as these cinematics/cutscenes go, Halo 2 is by FAR the best Halo.....truly Joseph Staten and his team did great job with it and the story as well! And I mean they did really great job at keeping Arbiter as second playable character completely secret...I remember that some people complained bout Arby's side of the story/game as well, but It think it was absolutely brilliant addition to the game and I was actually really disappointed that they basicly made Arby just an sidekick in Halo 3....one of the things I was expecting from Halo 3 was that it would continue the way Halo 2 did and eventually bring Master Chief and Arbiter together, so I was disappointed when I learned that wasnt the case. I dont know what Staten would have thought about using CGI-cutscenes like they are doing with Halo 2 Anniversary, but perhaps he would have been excited about that possibility?...if it had been possible at that time ;D Ofcourse there is always the thing that the CGI-cutscenes versus ingame-graphics make it feel bit strange experience, but personally I cant wait to see all these great cutscenes in great quality CGI! And one more things...I really HATED it when they changed Truth's voice in Halo 3 =(....I really liked his voice in Halo 2, why they had to change it???
Oh my god I didn't know THAT was the burning wreckage that you entered. A sentinal factory you see fall. God this game is amazing. Thank you guys so much for all the great times.
I thought that Incubus track fitted very well, the whole mission felt so different.. Different character, allies, foes, environment, a new and awesome banshee when the music kicks in..
Someone should just go through and make a very realistic Halo game where you do all of Halo CE like it was in the book. Playing the Chief and marines. Then make Halo 2 the way the devs wanted it. I do have to mention, these guys had fun making this. They told the story not to sell you the game but to laugh with you and talk to you about what could have been and what almost wasn't. Today game companies just make videos like this to sell you the game and hint all this stuff and show off their studio and them working on the game. I just want to go back to this time and enjoy the gaming industry when it still had heart.
@@meowsandstuff Are you now? Get in touch with me ---> billy16802Gmail.com I have the same ambitions but with Halo 2 only. I also have someone who is trying to get a copy of the Halo 2 2003 E3 Demo, no bullshit, I'm doing my best.
Back then companies like Id Software, Deep Silver Volition, Rare, Free Radical Design and Bungie truly felt like a "made for gamers by gamers" thing. Just a bunch of nerds creating video games!
I think its sad that from these guys only Jason Jones is with Bungie anymore =(...Marty got fired and Joseph Staten now works with Microsoft Studios, not sure what he is doing there exactly, but yeah...only very few of the familiar Bungie faces/voices are there anymore...Frank O'Connor also stayed with 343, so all these familiar faces from Bungie arent there anymore =( Really miss the good old days of the original Halo trilogy, but atleast Halo goes on and Halo 2 gets its very deserved Anniversary treatment....just a shame that I cant afford on Xbox One right now =(
57:00 HOLY SHIT! did anyone else see that when he threw the sticky at the jackal the brute behind threw his plasma and the players grenade exploded sending the jackals body into the brutes plasma? :O
It honestly amazes me how much of this game they thought no one would ever notice, but are actually a huge part of my childhood and why I loved the game so much
I can't believe after all these years I've stumbled upon this now. I had no idea this commentary even existed. I see that it's dated as 2007 but did it come out after or before the release of Halo 3?
i noticed nearly everything in this game. im the kind of player that takes a good hour looking at the graphics stuff like that while my friends are beggung me to get a move on and continue playing instead of looking at a wall
I really want them to make the Halo 3 developer commentary sooooo badlyyyyy. Watching these always brings up some many emotions and I pray every time when coming back to rewatch the commentaries that the third one is finally released.
For Spark's issue of his light dimming when he talks... I just thought it was because he was on such a tight power budget that he had to divert power from his light to allow him to speak. Like... Floating, running powerful shields, moving about, processing information, running an AI, and also being able to process the social dynamic of conversation... I just thought that he was so focused on what was going on that he had to budget his energy to let himself speak.
I remember back when Halo 2 first came out and people complained about everything, especially the half assed campaign with the cliffhanger ending. Now it is praised as a god.
Isaac King To be fair, the first Halo I played was #2. I didn't play CE until after Halo 3. It was good, but I preferred H2's MP and campaign over CE's by far
It wasn't just the cliff hanger, Halo 1 and 2 were the only games for the original Xbox, then came out xbox 360 and people had to afford 500$ of console to play Halo 3 at that time.
Some of the best cinematic storytelling ever. I was 6 years old when I played through Halo 1 & 2, and I remember being so excited to come home after school and play through this amazing game.
I honestly wanna cry for what a great game you guys had developed, I loved this game as a kid seeing what is possible in a game like Halo 2 made me fall in love with the halo series, and now seeing you guys together after a long time after developing the game made me feel like I could connect even more with the game it's self and the people whom made it.
I always loved playing through H2 I spent countless hours on this campaign and watching this again just makes me appreciate it so much more then I already did, these guys really LOVED what they created 😭
The amount of things they focused on and showed that I never noticed in my hundreds of playthroughs, what on earth were they on when they made Halo 2? perfection
13:33 Favorite scene in Halo 2. Recon suggests going around since the area is hot, Johnson ignores their advice saying, “we’re going in”, then everyone literally immediately dies.
You Guys expanded the universe of Halo with that different point of view while playing as the arbiter. it felt more alive, more organic. it wasnt just shooting the bad guys and all is just black and white. That was a creative way of storry telling that i am really thankfull for. Sry for my bad english. Greetings from Germany :D
Looking back at this, I remember finishing co-op with my dad. I distinctly remember being mad about the ending since I assumed there would be one last level.
The cutscenes in this version of the game look *WAY* better than what shipped. Those improvements Joe Staten mentioned in the beginning aren't just reduced texture pop in or added depth of field, it looks like it's using stencil lighting. For those that don't know, Halo 2 was originally going to have a cutting edge lighting engine using stencil lighting techniques, which are basically really good looking dynamic shadows that calculate a "stencil" based on the position and angle of the light and the models in front of that light. Doom 3 was the first game to ever implement such a system, so imagine if Halo 2 had lighting that looked as good as that game. Problem was, the Xbox just could not handle the calculations necessary at all, and while they were able to get the E3 2002 demo working on that engine, it just wasn't going to work for a whole game. The engine ended up getting scrapped and that led to the major crunch of Halo 2s development. Anyway, if you look up a video of the old cutscenes from the original Xbox version, the lighting doesn't look anywhere near as good as it looks here. It's especially notable during the cutscene between delta halo and regret, where Miranda is looking at the index and the library and whatnot. Jason Jones did mention that he saw him in after affects so perhaps this was an early version of the cutscene that still used the stencil engine they just edited in to the video. But it make me wonder if there is a hidden build of Halo 2 that is playable from start to finish with features of the stencil engine added into it.
So many games come and go over the years and are totally forgettable. The Halo games are rare specimens that have left an indelible impact on history. Like the Mona Lisa, these works will be remembered for all time.
They did a fantastic job. The arbiter is one of my favorite characters in any game. And at his introduction he was one of the bad guys who was just a nameless enemy.
Just watched the Halo commentary from IGN and now this. Started when I was 4 years old and it’s still my favorite story in all of gaming. I love your passions and sincerely thank you for what you do
Them reacting to the halo CE speed run was awesome and filled with so much information we didn’t know before. I seriously hope they do it for the other halos as well
Just wanna say the covenant ship level being cut for the space pickle cutscene worked out so well. Yeah its probably some nostalgia, but that is my favorite cutscene in all of halo, and burned into my memory. It was so awesome!
I honestly never thought anyone would watch this video. Wow.
I also bet you thought nobody would see this comment too huh?
Never underestimate the effect your art has on people! Your work has played a significant part of my life so thanks for that and have a good one!
i never thought all the little things ive loved in the original halo trilogy were things you guys implemented on purpose. Like i always loved the scene of the scarab busting through the tunnel with a leg and then you look through the hole and it just slowly scuttles away and you feel so small and powerless until you finally get to board it and blow it up from the inside out. And the music kicks in with these epic guitar rifts and you feel like a total bad ass. You guys are a treasure to this industry.
Bungie Lost all it's talent when you left.
I love how you guys just ripped on the game and each other for like an hour and a half straight. This is true love.
Thanks for this video , i love halo series and this is a good video for a fan
"There was a covenant-sabotage expedition to take away the human pistol because it was just too good" LOL
44:48
Where that halo novel
I almost liked, but this is a perfect number for Halo 2
Bro!!!!! I fucking literally, and I mean LITERALLY just heard that line in the video when I read your comment lol fuckin crazy!
Man you can tell these guys had some real love and passion for their project.
Shows how much they cared during the Halo days.
+TheBiggaproductions Copy and paste much.
Master Chief Yes and no
I saw that too, xD...
Contrast that with 343 hiring "people who hate Halo." Explains a lot.
"The big argument about whether the snipers should kill you in 1 shot on legendary."
*PTSD kicks in*
*starts crying*
Off the rock, through the bush
haha yoo those damn jackals in new mombasa and and Delta Halo . i played on legendary so much that i started breezing through even those
no doubt about that man, i'm sure i smashed at least one pad bc of those assholes
An Ordinator I think they could still one shot you but their reaction time was much slower
Worst enemy in Halo imo.. I mean my twitch shots improved probably by tenfold after I was done with the last of them but it felt super cheap
It's really interesting to see them make fun of all the long cinematics, considering most Halo fans loved that aspect of Halo 2.
Not at the time
funny how they say halo 2 was their favourite game they ever developed, even thought they also said that they hated halo 2.
Halo 2 cinematics made it feel more like a movie
Them making fun of how ridiculous the whole space bomb cutscene is is the funniest thing I have witnessed.
I always want more cinematics in games. Especially when I was just playing the mission for about 30 minutes. :)
"We were gonna have you be in first person in the ODST drop pods."
Hheelloooo halo ODST!
with a window to see out of
@@okankyoto Yea and same with him talking about the Engineers, or as Staten states here at 6:37 "There was an idea at one point to have little Engineers, the character that we never put in the halo games the sort of floating, gas bag character, float by on legendary"
@@johnnycongdon Yep, I just watched that part and was thinking that.
They also took the idea of "ODST's dropping into a Covenant Ship" and used it as the mission Alpha Nine where given at the start of ODST before dare has them go off mission to get Virgil
These three idiots were my childhood heroes. I love SOOOO many games.. But nothing can ever make me feel so connected and so invested as Halo does... Long live Bungie..
(2001-2010)
Lol c:
MarkieTheHuman part of me wants to get these three guys together to make one last legitimate end-all halo game. But knowing that they had to split up makes me un optimistic about the idea.
I feel you man. Back in the days I knew the names of soo many members of the bungie team. Which 12 year old kid would do that?
Wait a second... Markie? Stronghold Interactive Markie?
Yaa. I don't know what is wrong with me sometimes. I have 190+ Games on Xbox One but the ones I have been playing non stop over the year have been Halo: MCC and Halo 5. For some reason Halo is a series that I have an Infinite Affinity for.
(2001- For Life.)
you know what would be cool is if you could press B and rip that turret off lol
I thought I was the only one that noticed that.
A Dude On The Internet Not the only one
What's even funnier is that this was recorded around the time of Halo 3's development. That option was more than likely already a reality at the time of that statement lol.
Its almost like they were joking about how it should've been an obvious feature to implement. I don't blame them though, Halo 2s development was so hectic that given their situation along with the fact that they produced such a great game, I give them a pass.
They all laughed. It's clear that he only said that because the feature was already present in halo 3 at that point in development.
-Marty?
-Yes?
-Beautiful piece
-Thank you
I love how they love the job of each other
Halo 2 is the strangest game in the series and definetely the most experimental, I love it to pieces, it's weird to hear these guys feel a little down on some of the stuff they left out, it makes me wonder what would've happened with Halo 2 had they been able to fully realise their vision, when I heard that quarantine zone was just the remaining 20% of an even larger level it blew my mind.
holy shit,and to know that I was lost for 4 hours in that level,I miss the H2 vista now
then imagine how much more amzing the remaster would be if we had more halo 2 to play!
@@CoercedJab exactly I wish we could pay them to do this.
If I remember correctly the story of halo 3 was originally 2's 3rd act
Would have made for a worse game, tbh.
Bigger maps don't always equate better, especially not with the amount of backtracking you had to do in Halo 1.
If I ever go to heaven, I wanna play all the Halos as Bungie originally envisioned them, with no cuts.
If I ever go to Heaven I want to witness and explore the beauty of the rings themselves in-person
Yeah, especially Halo 2, the original vision
@@garrettm.6557 the flood might have something to say about that
Honestly with mod tools coming to pc, it's up to the fans now to create that version. I think we owe it to them after all of the great games they made.
@@dessertfox5995 But theyll never be able to create what they original creators had in mind :(
this is prefect. the three faces of bungie in one commentary, kept me laughing every minute
+bailsterbailer you have excellent English there mate. "nad" "does got"
had a smile the whole documentary
@@vaahtobileet uhhhhhh error 404
"It was a pale shadow of what Forerunner Tank was going to bring to this world."
"Hey let's fire 2 of these guys!" - The corpse of Bungie
"Don't get the bomb arc-welded to your armour in one game, do it in the next."
So Halo 4...
Plan B
Also reach
I’m nooottyy sure why this is
Yeah, while 343 Incompetencies used many of Bungie’s unused ideas, they forgot the “refine it” part. Plus they hired people who hated Halo.
At least they have Joseph Staten now, and I guess decided to listen to the fans who were livid about being ignored and spit on for the past decade.
Halo 2 anniversary dlc, Forerunner Tank level
***** yes.
+Squitward Testicles OH gawd, I wish I could play that demo so bad.
I’d buy that 10 times over.
And the second dlc is Covenant Ship
The thing that makes Bungie good is that they're able to critique their own work, like with how the Arbiter is able to talk like a normal person.
It is clear they were passionate about they games, but didn’t take themselves too seriously. Love how they can make fun of themselves and their games in a caring way.
When you first saw the cross-fades... Were you blinded by their majesty?
Blinded?!
paralyzed?
Dumbstruck?
Noooo!
Yet the Debra managed to slip the sound in
i wish i could tell them that the parts with the arbiter has always been my favorites
"Awesomeness would ensue."
sums up the entire franchise
“With the angelic gameplay Badassery will commence”.
Man, and it just ends with "play halo 3".
I love these people.
at 1:00:14 you can really hear how genuine Joe is when he tells Marty how beautiful the music is.. sweet moment and very true as well.
These are seriously some of my favorite devs.
The thing that i love most about marty is he wasnt just the composer, he also was someone who helped build the game and loved the game and i dont think there is any composer that worked on a video game that cared so much for it.
He wasn't a composer for halo
He did the music, was not considered by himself as the composer tho
More of a general dev
@@aelo333 Well he was their composer along with a list of other responsibilities. Wasn't he their sound engineer and primary sound/voice acting director as well? Like, the guy was obviously a HUGE part of the creative team on many levels.
@@aelo333 wrong? He had his finger in all audio filed
Yes you idiots he was a GENERAL DEV not the specific audio composer
he was the audio director and composer. he has said this like a million times.
When I first played halo 2 I was one of those people that skipped the centimatic and then the 3rd LvL started and I was like "WTF, PURPLE HUD, ENENGY SWORD WAIT THE COVERNET ARE MY FRIENDS???"
Atomic Horizen I had a similar reaction but I just killed the covenant
Atomic Horizen. I don't understand people who slip cutscences. O well, to each his own.
Atomic Horizen this is the game that made me watch every cutscene in every game ever.
@@dustinarcher6655 children I guess
or you watch it but not understand any of it.
Especially when your copy is using France o.o
36:15 They saved that idea for halo 3 ODST
Yis
I dont wanna skip but what was it
@@coldbeatz3918 They mentioned how in the Drop Pod section here in Halo 2, they wanted to go first-person with windows on the pods where you would see the decent onto the halo ring. This idea would later be adapted into the opening levels of Halo 3: ODST where almost the exact same thing happens. Hope you enjoy the trivia! :)
@@mikesworld6064 ooo
They also used the idea on "Covenant Ship" for the story that the ODST's are told they're doing before Dare has them go towards the city
Jason Jones, Joe Staten, and Marty O’Donnell should have their own Mt. Rushmore
There is no more soul in Halo. You can feel this game oozing with passion.
Watching this and watching them talk about all the really cool mission/story telling content that was cut really makes me want a future halo 2, Uncut edition release maybe a good 5-10 years from now.
Holy shit yes!
How awesome would it be if the halo 2 anniversary edition brought in cut content?
20 year anniversary?
i was hoping thas what the anniversary edition was lol couldve made it a directors cut and expanded it with the complete experience and charge $100 easy lmao.
Problem is they folded a lot of the cut content into existing halo 2 and 3 levels, so it'd feel really redundant. It wouldn't fit
Joseph Staten... Come back. Halo needs you...
you got your wish
BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
Fortune teller over here.
Yeeee
@@calidan777 Right. Personally I won't be happy until Marty is back as well. Don't know a ton about Jason Jones.
I wish we had this version of halo 2, I can see the difference like the lighting from the official release.
I can see why bungie was disappointed at this game despite it being successful, they couldn't put in all the cool stuff (or extra stuff) that made the game look good.
1:08:34 he was referring to the Eugene Armstrong beheading and other beheadings by Al Queda in 2003 and 2004.
Yes, we know
RIP BARRY JENNINGS
@A.A.Ron Davis do do do do do do do do DO SUBSRCIIIIBE
Yeah. People started getting really angry about it some point in the 2010's, but that's the way it's always been. You can't create in a vacuum, everything you write and say goes on to effect people, and when something like that happens, you definitely don't want to remind people of it while you're telling them a story. Not because you can't take the flak or something, but because hurting people like that, rubbing salt over a wound, is always something any good man seeks to avoid.
Reminded me of the cut WTC scenes from the original Raimi Spider-Man film.
Halo2 is a masterpiece of a game that came from brilliant men and women at Bungie! Thank you for the best game ever made: multi-player, campaign all came together perfectly!
Until...What replaced it?
Halo 3's campaign is the best.
Honestly my favorite part of this video is listening to all the stuff that they were like "oh, but we couldn't pull it off" or "that got cut" that we saw in ODST. Really helps me appreciate the vision that was there even early in the franchise.
52:14
Almost 10 years later, I'm still listening. :)
iPlayiOS same i've been playing halo since i was 4 years old xD 2004 Halo CE and Halo 2 then halo 3, odst and my last halo reach. I tried giving 4 a shot I will admit it's story was good but gameplay wasn't good. 5 I don't want to talk about it. Now I just play destiny and other games. But i still play MCC reguardless of the bugs it's still fun to play especially with friends.
... Still listening ;)
You can really tell just how much of an impact Staten had on this game and thus the series. Half the video is him talking. Even our boy Marty shuts up whenever Staten starts talking/explaining/monologuing.
That's why I'm excited on having him as a project lead for Halo Infinite's campaign. We're talking the guy who fleshed out the majority of the original Halo lore!
1:59 Tartarus laughs with the Devs.
By the way I have to say that as far as these cinematics/cutscenes go, Halo 2 is by FAR the best Halo.....truly Joseph Staten and his team did great job with it and the story as well! And I mean they did really great job at keeping Arbiter as second playable character completely secret...I remember that some people complained bout Arby's side of the story/game as well, but It think it was absolutely brilliant addition to the game and I was actually really disappointed that they basicly made Arby just an sidekick in Halo 3....one of the things I was expecting from Halo 3 was that it would continue the way Halo 2 did and eventually bring Master Chief and Arbiter together, so I was disappointed when I learned that wasnt the case.
I dont know what Staten would have thought about using CGI-cutscenes like they are doing with Halo 2 Anniversary, but perhaps he would have been excited about that possibility?...if it had been possible at that time ;D Ofcourse there is always the thing that the CGI-cutscenes versus ingame-graphics make it feel bit strange experience, but personally I cant wait to see all these great cutscenes in great quality CGI!
And one more things...I really HATED it when they changed Truth's voice in Halo 3 =(....I really liked his voice in Halo 2, why they had to change it???
Oh my god I didn't know THAT was the burning wreckage that you entered. A sentinal factory you see fall. God this game is amazing. Thank you guys so much for all the great times.
I thought that Incubus track fitted very well, the whole mission felt so different.. Different character, allies, foes, environment, a new and awesome banshee when the music kicks in..
Someone should just go through and make a very realistic Halo game where you do all of Halo CE like it was in the book. Playing the Chief and marines. Then make Halo 2 the way the devs wanted it.
I do have to mention, these guys had fun making this. They told the story not to sell you the game but to laugh with you and talk to you about what could have been and what almost wasn't. Today game companies just make videos like this to sell you the game and hint all this stuff and show off their studio and them working on the game. I just want to go back to this time and enjoy the gaming industry when it still had heart.
I'm thinking of doing something like this soon.
@@meowsandstuff Are you now? Get in touch with me ---> billy16802Gmail.com I have the same ambitions but with Halo 2 only. I also have someone who is trying to get a copy of the Halo 2 2003 E3 Demo, no bullshit, I'm doing my best.
Back then companies like Id Software, Deep Silver Volition, Rare, Free Radical Design and Bungie truly felt like a "made for gamers by gamers" thing. Just a bunch of nerds creating video games!
@@aeronautisch Man my inititial comment is 4 years old haha. Bold move commenting on this despite its age.
You know what's funny, 343 did put a bomb on the Chief's back in Halo 4! Ha!
OMG they did
anthony199757 OMG so right DAE see the bomb? wOW!
When was that?
clayman518
The last level...he placed a nuclear warhead to his back.
Thor Odinson I thought he just had a detonator for blowing up the composer.
no halo 3 developer commentary playthrough?
+killer spark117 Halo 3 Developer Commentary does not exist unfortunately.
i wish it did...
+SimKitt Damn... Well thanks for uploading these! I never did watch these. Glad I did now.
+SimKitt What's the song at 1:01:115?
+MrSnoCone I mean 1:01:15
Marty and Joe are both gone now for Destiny. Maketh me want to cry
Marty isn't working on Destiny. He was fired. Joe is leaving Bungie in September.
JHenry thats what he meant about marty and joe left last year and is working on halo live action stuff i believe
expesialy now 343 is doing halo now (which is worse than bungie)
Joe is back at Microsoft
Isaac King *especially
Sorry, just had to.
I think its sad that from these guys only Jason Jones is with Bungie anymore =(...Marty got fired and Joseph Staten now works with Microsoft Studios, not sure what he is doing there exactly, but yeah...only very few of the familiar Bungie faces/voices are there anymore...Frank O'Connor also stayed with 343, so all these familiar faces from Bungie arent there anymore =(
Really miss the good old days of the original Halo trilogy, but atleast Halo goes on and Halo 2 gets its very deserved Anniversary treatment....just a shame that I cant afford on Xbox One right now =(
And unfortunately 343 Industries is not the developer Bungie was back in the day... At least they released MCC though.
Dagger 323 Yeah they released it. Completely unfinished..
Luke Jacobson 343 never fails to disappoint, just when you think they can't possibly screw up any worse.
***** we know...
Dagger 323 Than stop crying about it.
this is what has inspired me to become a games developer as I share the same passion as these great people
I really love halo 2, thank you Bungie for making some of the best games i have ever played.
57:00 HOLY SHIT! did anyone else see that when he threw the sticky at the jackal
the brute behind threw his plasma and the players grenade exploded sending the jackals body into the brutes plasma? :O
Thats why he said... nice stick
Hey are you still alive? *im going to turn into a call of duty if you don’t! :V* I’m some kind of terrorist.
@@poopsk8s 15 year old me wasn't very smart.
@@rocketstoat152 sorry, there was traffic
It honestly amazes me how much of this game they thought no one would ever notice, but are actually a huge part of my childhood and why I loved the game so much
I can't believe after all these years I've stumbled upon this now. I had no idea this commentary even existed. I see that it's dated as 2007 but did it come out after or before the release of Halo 3?
Probably before. I like the little Halo 3 inside joke at 14:54 haha
at one point you hear the game recording you hear a VCR style audio bug its after the second "door slam" effect.
It was included with the bonus materials in the Legendary Edition of Halo 3.
The amount of creative genius that is in this recording room right now is unbelievable
i noticed nearly everything in this game. im the kind of player that takes a good hour looking at the graphics stuff like that while my friends are beggung me to get a move on and continue playing instead of looking at a wall
+Julien Santilli Yeah Im the same, especially when the Athens blows up in the first mission.
I'd be one of those friends that would ask where it is and look for it lmao
36:25 foreshadowing to Halo 3: ODST!
I watch this developer commentary about once a year, never gets old.
23:23 I love how he was just gushing over the game with "yeah" and then realized what he said and was like "WAIT WHAT NO!"
Shits hilarious lmao
yeah i replayed that a few times. made me laugh so hard lol
Lmao.
It's like when Spongebob is pouring over the Krusty Krab Pizza
I really want them to make the Halo 3 developer commentary sooooo badlyyyyy. Watching these always brings up some many emotions and I pray every time when coming back to rewatch the commentaries that the third one is finally released.
For Spark's issue of his light dimming when he talks... I just thought it was because he was on such a tight power budget that he had to divert power from his light to allow him to speak. Like... Floating, running powerful shields, moving about, processing information, running an AI, and also being able to process the social dynamic of conversation... I just thought that he was so focused on what was going on that he had to budget his energy to let himself speak.
I remember back when Halo 2 first came out and people complained about everything, especially the half assed campaign with the cliffhanger ending. Now it is praised as a god.
Because those people were idiots. Halo 2 is by far the best Halo game to date
RZIBARA i say halo 1 but halo 2 is my second favorite
Isaac King To be fair, the first Halo I played was #2. I didn't play CE until after Halo 3. It was good, but I preferred H2's MP and campaign over CE's by far
It wasn't just the cliff hanger, Halo 1 and 2 were the only games for the original Xbox, then came out xbox 360 and people had to afford 500$ of console to play Halo 3 at that time.
***** Still expensive.
Some of the best cinematic storytelling ever. I was 6 years old when I played through Halo 1 & 2, and I remember being so excited to come home after school and play through this amazing game.
It's so funny hearing them rip certain scenes to shreds while I literally have goosebumps from the nostalgia and how legendary it actually was lmao
i really wish we could get another proper halo game. i miss this line up terribly.
I loled hardly at the Covenant "pickle" part xDDD
+carjasssso2 43:01 This *exchange* of hats
I honestly wanna cry for what a great game you guys had developed, I loved this game as a kid seeing what is possible in a game like Halo 2 made me fall in love with the halo series, and now seeing you guys together after a long time after developing the game made me feel like I could connect even more with the game it's self and the people whom made it.
14:53 LOL thats where we got detachable turrets
I always loved playing through H2 I spent countless hours on this campaign and watching this again just makes me appreciate it so much more then I already did, these guys really LOVED what they created 😭
It honestly just feels like some bros sitting down and playing a game together. I love that about Bungie. They just feel like AMAZING friends.
I love the irreverence that can only be had for something so incredible by the people who toiled endlessly on it.
Halo nerds- In-depth analysis of the significance of the somber piece at the beginning of Uprising
Marty O'Donnell- "Thank you. Halo-y"
When I first played The Arbiter, I shot everything in sight.
Spritz my same reaction
dear god I love halo, One of the best video game series EVER!
I still love halo 😇
Still my Favorite „Go to sleep“ Video. This and the halo CE dev commentary
The amount of things they focused on and showed that I never noticed in my hundreds of playthroughs, what on earth were they on when they made Halo 2? perfection
I love how multiple suggestions they made ultimately appeared in Halo 3 and ODST.
I wish it were more common for game devs to do these commentary playthroughs. I could watch these for hours. Very insightful and entertaining.
13:33 Favorite scene in Halo 2. Recon suggests going around since the area is hot, Johnson ignores their advice saying, “we’re going in”, then everyone literally immediately dies.
You Guys expanded the universe of Halo with that different point of view while playing as the arbiter. it felt more alive, more organic. it wasnt just shooting the bad guys and all is just black and white. That was a creative way of storry telling that i am really thankfull for. Sry for my bad english. Greetings from Germany :D
Looking back at this, I remember finishing co-op with my dad. I distinctly remember being mad about the ending since I assumed there would be one last level.
I wish there were more commentaries like this. It's fascinating to see the decisions and compromises that are made in game design.
It'll probably never happen, but a Halo 2 Director's Cut release (or Developer or whatever you want to call it) would be absolutely amazing!
This will always be my favorite halo. Storytelling got to a whole new level in this one
Always will be my favorite too the Campaign & Multiplayer Everything I still go back to the game.
The good chemistry between team members and fun working enviroment can be felt in the product.
Now look this feeling on halo 5 ... its not there.
The cutscenes in this version of the game look *WAY* better than what shipped. Those improvements Joe Staten mentioned in the beginning aren't just reduced texture pop in or added depth of field, it looks like it's using stencil lighting. For those that don't know, Halo 2 was originally going to have a cutting edge lighting engine using stencil lighting techniques, which are basically really good looking dynamic shadows that calculate a "stencil" based on the position and angle of the light and the models in front of that light. Doom 3 was the first game to ever implement such a system, so imagine if Halo 2 had lighting that looked as good as that game. Problem was, the Xbox just could not handle the calculations necessary at all, and while they were able to get the E3 2002 demo working on that engine, it just wasn't going to work for a whole game. The engine ended up getting scrapped and that led to the major crunch of Halo 2s development. Anyway, if you look up a video of the old cutscenes from the original Xbox version, the lighting doesn't look anywhere near as good as it looks here. It's especially notable during the cutscene between delta halo and regret, where Miranda is looking at the index and the library and whatnot. Jason Jones did mention that he saw him in after affects so perhaps this was an early version of the cutscene that still used the stencil engine they just edited in to the video. But it make me wonder if there is a hidden build of Halo 2 that is playable from start to finish with features of the stencil engine added into it.
So many games come and go over the years and are totally forgettable. The Halo games are rare specimens that have left an indelible impact on history. Like the Mona Lisa, these works will be remembered for all time.
Halo 2 was and will forever be my favorite Halo game. Thanks for making the hours of my boring childhood great!
Is it normal to watch this whole thing smiling happily?
Arbiter is BEST BOI!
20:00 I won't lie, the pilot's and Keyes' lines are delivered terribly here, in my opinion. It's stood out to me as long as I've been a Halo fan.
They did a fantastic job. The arbiter is one of my favorite characters in any game. And at his introduction he was one of the bad guys who was just a nameless enemy.
This is gold. Thanks for posting!
I love how the Bungie devs used to voice crack so much
those first few seconds with the microsoft studios logo, so much nostalgia
This was such a fun video to watch
I wish these were longer. such a legendary game
Every time they said
“This is something nobody saw.”
*I did. I paid attention* 🥺
I can't go on in this world without seeing Forerunner Tank.
These guys are so funny and clearly really good friends. The roasting is hilarious
Just watched the Halo commentary from IGN and now this. Started when I was 4 years old and it’s still my favorite story in all of gaming. I love your passions and sincerely thank you for what you do
Them reacting to the halo CE speed run was awesome and filled with so much information we didn’t know before. I seriously hope they do it for the other halos as well
every time they said "something no body saw" i saw all of them!
I saw all of them too except the giant Assault Carrier, which of course I missed XD
Just wanna say the covenant ship level being cut for the space pickle cutscene worked out so well. Yeah its probably some nostalgia, but that is my favorite cutscene in all of halo, and burned into my memory. It was so awesome!
Every halo fan should watch this and the first one.
2 years later but good taste in games and music
I feel bad that the devs think we didn't notice all the things they said and did. And the arbiter cut scenes? Thats what made halo 2. We loved it man