I was going to put the long version on the soundtrack but I figured folks would get bored. Thanks for doing this. Brings back lots of memories. Up late at night in the studio trying to figure out how to extend all the music and piecing it together while driving the Warthog or Mongoose every way I could. Good times.
This last warthog run in Halo 3 was actually the happiest I've ever been in a game, I was literally smiling so hard my face cramped and my heart was pounding rapidly, it was so cheesy, you're literally driving full speed away from explosions, it's awesome in every way and I loved it, I loved how it kept on going and going, I thought it was going to go for like 1 minute but it went for 7-8 straight epic minutes, and then OH MY GOSH that final jump into the ship was mind blowingly awesome
@@Farcry5AttackersGamesLegacy i hope so too, but since they'd be using the ring for future games, it may not explode and stuff so i recon they could have us racing around in the warthog with UNSC behind us and we just charge our way too Escharums base while fighting through hoards of Covenant, i think that'd be sick
@@Farcry5AttackersGamesLegacy it'd be so insane! A legitimate war then in future games set on the ring we can ravage through leftovers of the war in Infinite
Can't tell how many times I replayed the last level of Halo 3. I can hear Cortana's voice at every beat. "Gun it, Chief! Floor it! Right into the hanger!" "Hang on!" "Chief!" "If we don't make it..." "We'll make it." "It's been an honor serving with you, John."
My friend and I pulled an all nighter on a school night to finish this game coop Legendary. Stayed up all night, and into the morning, like 10 am. We were 3 hours late to school, and so tired, we both got detention for falling asleep in class. Worth.
My girlfriend never got to play this when she was younger - she got scared right out of the franchise when she played Halo 1 and the Flood was introduced. I convinced her to get the MCC on Steam and we've been making our way through all the games the last few months. When we got to this part of Halo 3, I faked a connection issue so she could start the level as host and therefore be playing as Chief while I would be the Arbiter. We get to the Warthog, and I grab the turret while telling her to drive, drive, drive! We actually got it on the first attempt and we were both ecstatic. I could have driven it easily as I've done it dozens of times over the years - but there was no way I was going to deprive her of one of the greatest experiences in gaming that is driving that mission the first time. EDIT: In true Halo 3 fashion, we made it through the game in one night and finished up at 4 in the morning! EDIT 2: My girlfriend is now my fiancé! We've already joked that when we leave the reception in our car that we're blasting this.
It will always be beautiful. You escape the first Halo after completing a warthog run through the exploding Pillar of Autumn Only fitting that Bungie sent the main trilogy off by making a new, even more intense run over an exploding Halo ring
originally halo 2 would've had a warthog run through high charity, and would've included the ending of the series. a lot of stuff from that planned ending was cut for time and reused in halo 3!
@@beebfajeejy That cliffhanger was brutal... to me the first Halo's final run stays the best, with Echo 419 downed and you still had more to go, very intense it seemed like the game would never end
@@miguelsalas4852 there was i think a reddit post that showed a modded camera do an overhead view of the whole area you drive through and it almost looks identical to the island in the silent cartographer level
@@sagenebula7120 It is, since the incomplete ring, 04B was supposed to be a direct replacement to the original 04. Also more or less it clarifies why the final Terminal room looks like a generator room from the first Halo, the control room's hallways having uncanny similarities, and even the landscape around it.
@@Witch_of_Gains That makes sense. The control room where Johnson dies and you kill the monitor is the exact same one from Assault on the Control Room and Two Betrayals. Come to think of it, the name Two Betrayals has a sense of irony to it. In the first Halo, it's where the Monitor betrays you by unleashing the Sentinels so he can fire the ring. On the the last Halo, he betrays you by killing Johnson for the very same reason.
I remember playing the last mission on this game when I was 6 or so and I felt my heart beating as I was driving to get onto the FuD. Good days... I didn't really understand the story but I still had a blast playing the campaign.
I remember back when I attended these massive gatherings for running miles, I was the guy that brought a party boom box that was strapped to my back, tucked into a backpack so that I could play encouraging music for others to run to. Near the end of each run when there was only a mile to go, I'd take a moment to stop, check my phone, select this song, and then get to hauling like my life depended on it! Those who recognized the chorus gave cheers of joy and joined in with the hard run to knock out that last mile in style. In short, it may not be as glorious as driving a warthog with the world breaking down around you and flood chasing you but damn if it isn't a close second!
I can hardly describe the emotions this song brings up... I'm crying both joyfully and in flustered agony. These games gave me and my best friend the most awesome time spent together.
My final exam is due in an hour and a half and I have this playing in the background on repeat along with 40mg of adderall and maybe 600mg of caffeine in my system, I'm not sure if my heart is going to explode before I get it submitted but damn we're gonna try.
@@mironbarabakh5970 Made it out alive and passed the class with a high enough grade that it counts towards my major. Didn't sleep the entire night and had heart palpations and cold sweats but such is the price we pay 😂
Video games now: “Okay what kind of micro transactions can we put in to make the game shitty? V-bucks? Skins? Video games then: “I want to make this game fun”
1990-2010. Pretty much all the legendary games came out in that 20 year span. The general quality was much higher as well. Things just aren't the same anymore.
Its 2007 you've been on a 6 year journey with your bud from school playing from CE to 3 on a small tv, the run starts, this is where boys become men 'floor it go go go spartan!'
This brings back memories. The Pillar of Autumn blowing up, the destruction of halo, 15 minutes to escape I know that’s not the only time it played, but this song always reminds me of that
I was 23 when the first Halo came out and this song still gets me hyped up. And when Halo 2 came out I was in line at 12am at the mall to get my copy. There was like 300 people there that night. I was even standing next to a airman that got his fellow airmen to cover for him in the hangar he worked in at Robins Airforce Base. He said when nothing was going on they played Halo in their break room. Goodtimes and memories
For me, no game will ever come close to the epicness of HALO 3's Warthog Run, hell, to the entirety of HALO 3 Campaign. I'm not saying that H3 is the best game ever or what, but goddamn, it's the only game I played where I stayed all night finishing the campaign despite knowing I still have class the next day, and that is saying something.
@@3starperfectdeer233 When I first played Halo Reach I didn't like it....came back to it like 8 years later and it's my favorite Halo game....that or 2. Also didn't particularly like 2 when it first came out strangely enough.
I still remember my friend calling me 10 mins before he has to be at work on his final attendance strike from walmart I said give me a minute to get dressed and head to your house, I pull up with this gem blaring at max volume pull into his work on the 7:45 mark as the song begins to end, one of the best and hilarious memories I have of this song
I was maybe 10/11 when I first played halo 2, my uncle showed me the game back on the XBOX, and we'd try and beat the game on legendary co-op all nighters, but when Halo 3 came out I was 13 years old and we played all night on legendary (like old times) but when we got to this part and the music turned up I felt shivers of nostalgia hitting me in the face, this game and it's music were my entire childhood... I'm 25 now and I still get shivers and tear up some, this game franchise holds a place in my heart and memories, knowing that Halo Infinite is coming... This old Spartan will be picking up his assault rifle again when the game releases. See you out on the battlefield.
Not to be that guy man, but I think your math is off. If you were 13 in 2007 when it came out, you would be around 28 now. Of course your post is a year old, but you still wouldnt have been 13 based on that math.
Every time I hear this song it takes me back to when my childhood friend and I played coop on this mission for the first time. Yesterday I got to be a groomsman to same friend for his wedding and we played this mission again while we waited for the wedding to start. Something’s never change and I’m here for it
I still maintain that Halo 3 might actually be the greatest videogame of all time, thanks in no small part to its perfect score the entire way through the game.
I will never forget it... When I got to this part of the game, and I realized that Halo 3 would end the same way Halo: Combat Evolved did - with an all-or-nothing mad dash to safety in a Warthog - the surge of joy I felt was like nothing else I've ever experienced in gaming.
Ah this hits so deep, i was 6 when i first played this legendary game. Halo 3 was my first out of all the games. I can remember all the emotions of excitement and badassery i felt finishing the campaign. I was a kid then so i never really understood the gravity of the ending and all it meant till Christmas 8 years later. My aunt got me mcc and i played all the campaigns start to finish. And when i finished this long heart aching drive through what turned out to be the replacement ring from the one we destroyed in 1, i cried like a lil bitch through it all. I felt all the memories, the ones who died, the ones who lived and all the things this game gave me. Halo gave me light when my life was nothing but darkness for years. So finishing this fight gave me peace and almost fulfillment for my life. Thank you bungie, for giving a lil kid, the courage to finish the fight
same thing happened to me just last month, bought the game and re-experienced my childhood with new eyes, i always loved the game but when you can understand whats going on it just hits different
There is no better feeling than going off a huge ramp on the warthog as halo explodes all around you whilst the triumphant part of this theme kicks in. Absolutely unforgettable
This was a hard one for me on a personal level. I got the game on a Saturday, played it with my cousin that Sunday and he was sadly killed in a wreck that Monday. Playing this part knowing at the time this was the end, and remembering all the times we had playing Halo, was indeed bittersweet.
its so hard to explain but if you missed this and all the nostaliga we get from it, you simply missed it. genuinely unparralled time for gaming and what games used to be like. this was a monumental moment in gaming.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just incredible! Halo is probably the only thing in my life that can bring back at least for a moment this feeling of life and the moment. When I listen to this music, I seem to remember why I live, why I was born. She inspires and most importantly! This will last for many many days! It's like an energy drink! I really feel like I have to do something really great. Since people on planet Earth have created a game like Halo! I believe that this is the best connector game, with each of the Halo fans I would be ready to chat incessantly day and night until our time on this planet is over! Friends, everyone who feels it there, I am immensely glad to be with you on the same globe! Be strong, like John 117. Forward and only forward!
They played some of this theme in the season 1 finale, when the Spartans did a stratosphere battle drop onto the Covenant temple. Not nearly enough of this music though, and a missed opportunity to not play it when they were actually IN a Warthog on Eridanus when the Covenant attacked. Maybe we'll get more of the Warthog Theme in season 2. It's by far the best music in the games.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. As long as the memories remain, the fight never ends. And remember above everything : Spartans never die, they're just missing in action
Gives me memories of playing this with my friend on coop for the first time playing all of ce, reach, odst, 3, and 4 a few years back and at 2 am playing this was the best night of gaming I've had in a long while
I’m really thankful to one of my friends for introducing me to Halo. He would talk about it all the time in elementary school and some weekends I would go to his house and we would play Halo 3 and CE. On his birthday Halo 3: ODST came out and we all sat by the tv watching as another friend played. I remember Reach coming out and we played it together as well. We hardly ever talk much now but I’m thankful that I got to share some magical moments with a friend who introduced me to a franchise that I still love today.
When I first started the halo series, I finished halo CE and I went to myself: "man, I wonder what it would be like to activate a ring" and when I found out thats what you do in halo 3 I went insane. PEAK
There will never be a greater rush of emotion you get from a game like this final warthog run after growing up playing every halo game with your friends from school and watching the end of an era unfold right In front of your eyes with every bit of the map blowing up behind you. I just remember beating it on legendary and getting misty eyed cause it was so perfect.
When I was younger, me and my older sister played all the way through the campaign. I got to drive the warthog in the last section and it was such a thrilling moment that I'll never forget. Halo is at it's best with friends or family.
Legitimately just woke up almost late for school and I usually play music to help wake me up so I clicked on this half asleep not realizing what it was and was ready in two minutes then my sister legit said “I don’t think we’ll make it” so I finally got to say “we’ll make it,” 10/10 moment best morning for school ever
When I was in college, a girl I was friends with found out I'd never played Halo before. When she finished hanging her mouth open, she straightened up and declared, "Okay, here's what's happening. Do whatever you have to do this afternoon, and be at my dorm room directly after dinner. We are playing through the campaign in one shot. I've got mountain dew and chips and two controllers. This is non negotiable." Of course I said yes. We stayed up all night and knocked that whole campaign out, and when we reached the end, I was driving. Got to hear this song a few times as I kept falling through the holes in the floor in that one part. Awesome track, brings back great memories. Edit: Fun fact - in a year plus, no one else has read this story before you and no other conversation happened in the comments, so go ahead and leave a comment like "bro I hope you married her". It'll show how smart and thoughtful you are.
@@uthergoodman401 Haha, there was a time when that wouldn't have seemed so far-fetched. But things didn't work out romantically between us and she married a different dude after college. He seems nice, so good for her.
I always loved this part because my friend, who often likes to lead the way, would always let me drive the Warthog. On account of him sucking at it, and me being awesome. He carried us through a Legendary campaign, but THIS part right at the end? All my driving.
Halo 3 was my first halo game and I started playing it at my sister's when i was like 10 and when this song and mission came along, I was so into it!!! As soon as the music kicked in I was full speed crashing into the flood as they passed. The exposions around me and the falling land peices really put into the mood. Being a 10 year old, seeing this was THE BEST thing I had ever witnessed. Sadly I still dont have a halo 3 copy of my own lol!
God, the slow build up, with music referencing how far you've come in the series ramping up as the run continues. Truly a master piece of music for a master piece of a game.
I've always played on pc. The last Halo I played up until last year was Halo 2, like 15 years ago. After finishing Halo 3 for the first time with the MCC on pc i said to myself: "Ok, now I get it."
The Piano in my eyes symbolizes the ring falling apart with the 3 armies fighting at once. With the harp adding that otherworldly aspect of the conflict.
I can say that Halo 3 is the only game I beat first night. I still remember yelling at my brother to drive as we sped down the road as the buildings fell around us. The nostalgia is massive.
This songs name, "Greatest Journey", fit so well. A send off to the original trilogy. With two legends making their grand escape as the instillation falls apart around them. What a way to end it.
My cousins and I still jam out to this when we play racing games. Makes our heart race a little more. The old days when toxicity was at an all time low...
One of the many times my heart ran with excitement when playing a game. A legendary moment that will go down in the gaming history books as one of the grandest finishes to a game of all time.
Tbh I think the Halo soundtrack was a once in a lifetime experience, I can't think of a game that comes close. It is just so raw and full of nostalgia.
The only way this final run could have been ANY better is if Johnson somehow showed up on a Brute Chopper, scarred and beaten, racing to the ship with you going “Come on Chief! What, you didn’t think I was really dead, didja?! Not in your lifetime, soldier! Now c’mon! Floor it!”
This is the song I had playing in my head when I rushed my mom to the ER last July, it helps that my car's green like a warthog lol except much brighter She made it ok btw
This theme means so much,no matter how low I get in life no matter how many bad cards I'm delt this theme makes me feel impowered, I feel like I can do anything, thank you Bungie for making this masterpiece 🙏🙏🙏
One of the greatest segments in video game history, and story telling history. F me this was so epic, makes me tremble as the kid I was back then with this segment.
4:44 - I can hear Cortana panicking as the Installation 04 MKII reaches 70% charge of its firing sequence... the explosions as the new Halo starts to shake itself apart! God, this final mission...
A week ago me and a friend convinced another friend to download and play Halo 3. He just beat it tonight for the first time and we had so much fun. Especially on this final warthog run. Thank you Halo for the great memories that still keep coming over 16 years later!
The Halo 3 vidmaster achievement with coop LASO on Halo, one of the most harrowing yet unshakably epic thing to complete and it's forever burned into my memory, right alongside the matching Vidmaster for Halo 3 ODST. The achievements themselves are just trophies, the experience of earning it is unlike anything else I've played since. Should gather my current group of friends together and challenge them once again on MCC...
We all know Helldivers will eventually come to Xbox we just dont know when i REALLY hope when we finally get ODST support that they get Xbox only ODST Suits imagin calling an SoS this song starts playing and a level 50 Diver Vet in full ODST gear comes out saying over the open mic "Dont worry lads ... Reinforcements are here" i think this would be one of the greatest videogame crossovers
I never got to play the Halo franchise back in the day. Just found that the MCC was available on Steam for 10 bucks during the Black Friday sales, so I thought 'why not?' I was on the edge of my seat during this mission, the adrenaline rush was insane. Simply put, I felt like a kid again. Hope more people enjoy this classic in the future!
When MCC on PC was announced and your friends who have been offline for 10 suddenly appear online
*Spartans never die, they're just missing in action*
@@UNSCPILOT always
@@UNSCPILOT were it that easy
@@astroturf2957 get it right wtf
@@timestampterry5415 *were it so easy
RIP To the original Halo 3 servers Spartans never die they’re just missing in action
They never die they are just mortally wounded
We all r Spartans
That's is a drug store name spartan drug
@@dioncaldwell3357 THIS IS HERECY!!!
Spartans never die...they're on patrol.
I was going to put the long version on the soundtrack but I figured folks would get bored. Thanks for doing this. Brings back lots of memories. Up late at night in the studio trying to figure out how to extend all the music and piecing it together while driving the Warthog or Mongoose every way I could.
Good times.
The Man!!!!!!
Soundtrack is amazing! Thank you for the work you did on it!
Absolutely fantastic work, you practically scored my childhood.
YO ITS HIM LETS GO!!!
Oh shit 5 years later the king arrived
Everyone talks about when the doom music kicks in but no one talks about when the halo music kicks in
Dude to many fax
That would be some good quality content!!
Both
Both are good
That's because doom is more violent with there sound track
@@linktriforce9669 obviously. doom is just more violent period
This last warthog run in Halo 3 was actually the happiest I've ever been in a game, I was literally smiling so hard my face cramped and my heart was pounding rapidly, it was so cheesy, you're literally driving full speed away from explosions, it's awesome in every way and I loved it, I loved how it kept on going and going, I thought it was going to go for like 1 minute but it went for 7-8 straight epic minutes, and then OH MY GOSH that final jump into the ship was mind blowingly awesome
I comepletely agree of what you said i hope halo infinite has a warthog run
@@Farcry5AttackersGamesLegacy i hope so too, but since they'd be using the ring for future games, it may not explode and stuff so i recon they could have us racing around in the warthog with UNSC behind us and we just charge our way too Escharums base while fighting through hoards of Covenant, i think that'd be sick
@@ryanmuller1994 bro that is the perfect idea for halo nej
@@Farcry5AttackersGamesLegacy it'd be so insane! A legitimate war then in future games set on the ring we can ravage through leftovers of the war in Infinite
@@ryanmuller1994 truee
Can't tell how many times I replayed the last level of Halo 3. I can hear Cortana's voice at every beat.
"Gun it, Chief! Floor it! Right into the hanger!"
"Hang on!"
"Chief!"
"If we don't make it..."
"We'll make it."
"It's been an honor serving with you, John."
DUH DUM DUUU DUH DUM DUUUUU DUH DUDUMMMM DUHDUDUM
"Gun it, Chief - jump! Floor it! Right into the hanger!"
The honor was mine, old friend....
Wake me...when you need me...
"90 percent! Firing sequence initiated!"
Only bad thing about this theme is that it ends
Not if you put it on loop
But wat if ur on mobile
@@Silkyfin_ a recent update allows mobile to do it you should be able to the same way you would change your resolution
@@Silkyfin_ copy the link.
Go to mp3 juice of Google. Use your music player and set the track on repeat.
Boom. One final effort loop!
L O O P
My friend and I pulled an all nighter on a school night to finish this game coop Legendary. Stayed up all night, and into the morning, like 10 am. We were 3 hours late to school, and so tired, we both got detention for falling asleep in class. Worth.
You and your comrade are legends mate
Fuck your school. You and your friend finished the fight. Oorah
Master chief, you mind telling me why you be falling asleep in class?
Fucking Legend, nuff said
Why go after 3 hours?
Halo 3 wasn't just a game, it was an experience.
For a lot of us it was a rite of passage
Amen
and a lifestyle
and a cult
For real I feel bad for the people who will never experience it one of the craziest things ever.
F for all the gamers who know the true emotion and feeling of doing this while running LASO.....I still have PTSD.
I tried halo 2 LASO let's just say SnipPer JaCKles
F- I did it again on MCC...
Don't... if you have done it once, you don't need to prove anything.
😭
Never feared sentinels until LASO h3 warthog run
Sometimes a crying towel is your best friend
when your friend gets a text from his mom saying “get home right now” and his house is 30 mins away
SHIIIIT
Omg your so right
Then he start running like a hog he is
Yes5
When The friend gets home: I'm ready, How-bout you!
My girlfriend never got to play this when she was younger - she got scared right out of the franchise when she played Halo 1 and the Flood was introduced. I convinced her to get the MCC on Steam and we've been making our way through all the games the last few months.
When we got to this part of Halo 3, I faked a connection issue so she could start the level as host and therefore be playing as Chief while I would be the Arbiter. We get to the Warthog, and I grab the turret while telling her to drive, drive, drive! We actually got it on the first attempt and we were both ecstatic.
I could have driven it easily as I've done it dozens of times over the years - but there was no way I was going to deprive her of one of the greatest experiences in gaming that is driving that mission the first time.
EDIT: In true Halo 3 fashion, we made it through the game in one night and finished up at 4 in the morning!
EDIT 2: My girlfriend is now my fiancé! We've already joked that when we leave the reception in our car that we're blasting this.
You my friend, are a wonderful person
You're a keeper
Your just a straight legend my man
Absolute Big Chad energy right here
No wonder you have a gf
It will always be beautiful. You escape the first Halo after completing a warthog run through the exploding Pillar of Autumn
Only fitting that Bungie sent the main trilogy off by making a new, even more intense run over an exploding Halo ring
originally halo 2 would've had a warthog run through high charity, and would've included the ending of the series. a lot of stuff from that planned ending was cut for time and reused in halo 3!
@@beebfajeejy That cliffhanger was brutal... to me the first Halo's final run stays the best, with Echo 419 downed and you still had more to go, very intense it seemed like the game would never end
@@NKWittmann brohammer is back in halo infinite
It is a lot better on ghosts though, just works so well.
I want to like this comment, but I can't. We must leave it at 343 forever.
Amazing how this whole run is on a under construction version of the silent cartographer level from CE
Not the whole run. I know the very last part is, at least.
For real? I've never noticed that, how so?
@@miguelsalas4852 there was i think a reddit post that showed a modded camera do an overhead view of the whole area you drive through and it almost looks identical to the island in the silent cartographer level
@@sagenebula7120 It is, since the incomplete ring, 04B was supposed to be a direct replacement to the original 04.
Also more or less it clarifies why the final Terminal room looks like a generator room from the first Halo, the control room's hallways having uncanny similarities, and even the landscape around it.
@@Witch_of_Gains That makes sense. The control room where Johnson dies and you kill the monitor is the exact same one from Assault on the Control Room and Two Betrayals. Come to think of it, the name Two Betrayals has a sense of irony to it. In the first Halo, it's where the Monitor betrays you by unleashing the Sentinels so he can fire the ring. On the the last Halo, he betrays you by killing Johnson for the very same reason.
When DOOM kicks in, you can fight an army. When HALO kicks in..... you can fight an army WITH DA BOIZZZ
When DOOM music kicks in you are the Army
When Halo music kicks in the army fights with you
Two sides, same coin.
if u put this music on a speaker evryone will become a halo chad for 8:20 minutes
yesssirrrrr
"Wort."
There's nothing more satisfying than getting slapped around on Legendary by the Flood and getting this last warthog run as a reward.
heyo whatsup weeblet
He’s Returned
Bruv what r u doing here??
@@lordjohnny2026 He's everywhere
@@thejackal5099 Yeah I know.....the king is everywhere.
Doom music- Onslaught & Rage
Halo music- Valorous in the face of hopelessness
Two different tones. Both Rock.
Elder scrolls - adventurous in peril
Monster Hunter - Triumph over the unimaginable.
Whenever sailing a stormy night at sea:
Fallout music- Being watched as you wander a desolate wasteland
@@nighteye4042 "patrolling the mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter" -NCR solider
The piano at 4:45 is what makes this particular version of the Halo theme the warthog run, I get emotional just hearing it! Good times...
I remember feeling embarrassed at that piano by listening to it lmao idk why
I don't know why, but I think of Sangheili energy swordmen charging at helpless Marines when I listen to the piano part.
Maybe with some *heavy-metal guitar riffs and power chords* à la *Metallica* added in...?
I remember playing the last mission on this game when I was 6 or so and I felt my heart beating as I was driving to get onto the FuD. Good days... I didn't really understand the story but I still had a blast playing the campaign.
lol same
I can relate completely to this
never really understood but never cared
@@CoolName5383 same like i saw the flood and me and my friends are like are those rock monsters??!!
as a small kid i woyld just skip all cutscenes
Thats exactly my experience with this masterpiece also ;)
The picture tho reminds me that Halo 3 Anniversary isn't happening ... yet
I KNOW RIGHT!
Halo 3 PC *is* happening though. Prepare your anus.
it's a shame, they've missed halo 3's 10 year anniversary so it ain't happening
Halo 3 does not need a remaster, seriously. The game is still ahead of its time visually speaking.
@@scifiismyjam4387 false
I remember back when I attended these massive gatherings for running miles, I was the guy that brought a party boom box that was strapped to my back, tucked into a backpack so that I could play encouraging music for others to run to.
Near the end of each run when there was only a mile to go, I'd take a moment to stop, check my phone, select this song, and then get to hauling like my life depended on it!
Those who recognized the chorus gave cheers of joy and joined in with the hard run to knock out that last mile in style. In short, it may not be as glorious as driving a warthog with the world breaking down around you and flood chasing you but damn if it isn't a close second!
🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
Now that is *awesome*!
True Spartan there, well I'ma sleep in glass bye
Based.
Unfathomably based
Marty o Donnell always made the music in halo full of emotion.
Bluddy oath he did.
He sure did. It's a shame 343's Halo games are completely devoid of any emotion.
I can always hear the echo of the warthog whenever I listen to this. Engrained into my mind
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….
The engine, the roar of the M41 as the Arbiter rips through Sentinels, the shattering of metal and explosions...
Same
You know the power of music when it still gives you chills after all these years...
Yep
True beauty is everlasting.
No lie!
Holy shit this is what I always wanted.
Please never delete this.
Perfect amount of likes dude
@@cobrademon761 now we have to wait until 420
@@ADUUM_ quick loooooook
Like number 699 nice.
@@lul911 do I make it 700?
I can hardly describe the emotions this song brings up... I'm crying both joyfully and in flustered agony. These games gave me and my best friend the most awesome time spent together.
even though i played it alone, it felt like you and the arbiter where actually sitting next to eachother
Respect
5:07 literally gives me goosebumps every time.
Same, but tbh when I first heard the piano part I felt a bit embarrassed lmao just listening to it lmao idk why
@@grandlethal1813 It's called having goosebumps my friend
@@thelonecommentor4175 no I didnt have goosebumps lmao
Specially when that chorus sounds, I dunno....it felt somewhat majestic
I was about to say I haven't heard this in almost a year and almost every key change I can feel my goosebumps like reactivating
My final exam is due in an hour and a half and I have this playing in the background on repeat along with 40mg of adderall and maybe 600mg of caffeine in my system, I'm not sure if my heart is going to explode before I get it submitted but damn we're gonna try.
Hope you got it done and are alive brother 🤘
Damn bro thats the good stuff
Rip. You made it out alive soldier?
@@mironbarabakh5970 Made it out alive and passed the class with a high enough grade that it counts towards my major. Didn't sleep the entire night and had heart palpations and cold sweats but such is the price we pay 😂
@@BlueStreakActual The Trial of the ~grasses~ uppers. 3 in 10 make it.
Gg
the 2000’s and early were the golden age of video games I swear to god.
Because that's when game companies didn't give a damn about what people thought about like"BuT muH FeeLIngs" they just made games that were fun.
@@SlavaUkraini345 it’s even funnier that back at those times when video games were made are more relevant than games nowadays.
@@schoolspirit2751 I know right.
Video games now: “Okay what kind of micro transactions can we put in to make the game shitty? V-bucks? Skins?
Video games then: “I want to make this game fun”
1990-2010. Pretty much all the legendary games came out in that 20 year span. The general quality was much higher as well. Things just aren't the same anymore.
It's been 15 years since H3 released, and the music still gives me chills to this day. Truly amazing and awe inspiring music.
"If we don't make it-"
"We'll make it."
"..."
"It's been a pleasure serving with you, John."
*an honour
*lays head back tiredly*
I think that's the only line in the original trilogy where the chief is called by his actual name
@@Aldo-lq8fd it is.
@@cyber_dragon_123 *_*Honor_* 🇺🇸
To those who have disliked
The weight of your heresy shall stay your feet and you shall be left behind on our great journey to glorious salvation.
:/
Hehe
When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
@@salicyl3350 Blinded?
@@charlietavae5284 Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?!
I can't believe 16 years have passed by. Best game I ever preordered. I was to young for H2 on launch.
Its 2007 you've been on a 6 year journey with your bud from school playing from CE to 3 on a small tv, the run starts, this is where boys become men 'floor it go go go spartan!'
Wish I could go back in time... To the time where you were chilling with your friends kicking ass and taking names HOORAH!
This appeared in my recommended the day after the servers went down. On this say I shed a tear. Farewell, Halo 3
So wait does that mean we cant play the campaign mode or what
@@grandlethal1813 online can't be played anymore
Farewell
Welcome to Halo MCC, friend
@@randomcatdude halo 4 multiplayer is still playable cause of playlists/xbox live
This brings back memories. The Pillar of Autumn blowing up, the destruction of halo, 15 minutes to escape
I know that’s not the only time it played, but this song always reminds me of that
I was 23 when the first Halo came out and this song still gets me hyped up. And when Halo 2 came out I was in line at 12am at the mall to get my copy. There was like 300 people there that night. I was even standing next to a airman that got his fellow airmen to cover for him in the hangar he worked in at Robins Airforce Base. He said when nothing was going on they played Halo in their break room. Goodtimes and memories
For me, no game will ever come close to the epicness of HALO 3's Warthog Run, hell, to the entirety of HALO 3 Campaign.
I'm not saying that H3 is the best game ever or what, but goddamn, it's the only game I played where I stayed all night finishing the campaign despite knowing I still have class the next day, and that is saying something.
Halo 3 was the last game I skipped school to wait in line for...I kinda miss waiting in line at the ass crack of dawn for a new release of something.
Halo Reach has the better campaign hands done. Its more fleshed out and "real". As the chief you know only one thing and that is nothing can stop you.
@@3starperfectdeer233 When I first played Halo Reach I didn't like it....came back to it like 8 years later and it's my favorite Halo game....that or 2. Also didn't particularly like 2 when it first came out strangely enough.
I still remember my friend calling me 10 mins before he has to be at work on his final attendance strike from walmart I said give me a minute to get dressed and head to your house, I pull up with this gem blaring at max volume pull into his work on the 7:45 mark as the song begins to end, one of the best and hilarious memories I have of this song
The true warthog run
07 A true Spartan and friend
I was maybe 10/11 when I first played halo 2, my uncle showed me the game back on the XBOX, and we'd try and beat the game on legendary co-op all nighters, but when Halo 3 came out I was 13 years old and we played all night on legendary (like old times) but when we got to this part and the music turned up I felt shivers of nostalgia hitting me in the face, this game and it's music were my entire childhood... I'm 25 now and I still get shivers and tear up some, this game franchise holds a place in my heart and memories, knowing that Halo Infinite is coming... This old Spartan will be picking up his assault rifle again when the game releases.
See you out on the battlefield.
You enjoying the game????
Ei amigo, você gostou do halo infinite ?
Not to be that guy man, but I think your math is off. If you were 13 in 2007 when it came out, you would be around 28 now. Of course your post is a year old, but you still wouldnt have been 13 based on that math.
Both Michael Salvatori and Marty O' Donnel have the necessary knowledge to create music that gives both nostalgia and a huge self-esteem boost.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve played the games or not, everyone can agree this is a legendary song.
yeah, I haven't touched a halo game in my life but this theme slaps
@@DCharb1o ngl ur pfp looks like the chedaki flag from arma2
Yes I love the halo theme
This moment... Man..... Life was good.
Simpler fucking times
Yes...all..the..way.
Halo 3 is without a doubt one of the best campaigns ever. Perfect balance of action gameplay and story telling with fantastic missions.
Every time I hear this song it takes me back to when my childhood friend and I played coop on this mission for the first time. Yesterday I got to be a groomsman to same friend for his wedding and we played this mission again while we waited for the wedding to start. Something’s never change and I’m here for it
some things*
I still maintain that Halo 3 might actually be the greatest videogame of all time, thanks in no small part to its perfect score the entire way through the game.
all 3 original trilogy halo games are goated
There Is no such thing as "the best" in video games
@@Azure9577 your heresy shall stay your feet, and when the great journey begins you shall be left behind.
@@cyanyde4950 my point still stands
@@cyanyde4950 "you are a fine soldier
Call me sentimental
But I wish we met under different circumstances"
-Berlioz, armored core 4
I will never forget it...
When I got to this part of the game, and I realized that Halo 3 would end the same way Halo: Combat Evolved did - with an all-or-nothing mad dash to safety in a Warthog - the surge of joy I felt was like nothing else I've ever experienced in gaming.
Ah this hits so deep, i was 6 when i first played this legendary game. Halo 3 was my first out of all the games. I can remember all the emotions of excitement and badassery i felt finishing the campaign. I was a kid then so i never really understood the gravity of the ending and all it meant till Christmas 8 years later. My aunt got me mcc and i played all the campaigns start to finish. And when i finished this long heart aching drive through what turned out to be the replacement ring from the one we destroyed in 1, i cried like a lil bitch through it all. I felt all the memories, the ones who died, the ones who lived and all the things this game gave me. Halo gave me light when my life was nothing but darkness for years. So finishing this fight gave me peace and almost fulfillment for my life.
Thank you bungie, for giving a lil kid, the courage to finish the fight
same thing happened to me just last month, bought the game and re-experienced my childhood with new eyes, i always loved the game but when you can understand whats going on it just hits different
❤❤😢😢😢 love you man
There is no better feeling than going off a huge ramp on the warthog as halo explodes all around you whilst the triumphant part of this theme kicks in. Absolutely unforgettable
0:18 this moment right here gives you the "we've worked up to this moment. And now its time to finish it!" Vibes
your pfp is horrifying
@demonicturtl1235 I was once Dale gribble
No matter how many times I beat this game, I ALWAYS get goosebumps during the Warthog run. Like goddamn, that whole sequence is perfectly executed.
If the world ever ends, and I'm in my car when it happens, I'm playing this song. No cap
It really is that kind of song honestly
This was a hard one for me on a personal level. I got the game on a Saturday, played it with my cousin that Sunday and he was sadly killed in a wreck that Monday.
Playing this part knowing at the time this was the end, and remembering all the times we had playing Halo, was indeed bittersweet.
That's rough. I hope you're alright now.
I’m sorry for your loss
I can only imagine, the memories certain music triggers 😢
Another one MIA, lads. 😢
Spartans never die. They're just missing in action. Keep moving forward brother
its so hard to explain but if you missed this and all the nostaliga we get from it, you simply missed it. genuinely unparralled time for gaming and what games used to be like. this was a monumental moment in gaming.
" We're not going to make it. "
" We'll make it. "
" It's been an honor serving with you....John. "
“Come over”
“I can’t, I’m outside the Milky Way galaxy”
“My parents aren’t home”
Chief no make it :( Arby do be on his way pretty quick tho lmao.
This is incredibly underrated
*Immediately crafts a forerunner artifact out of nowhere to create a perfect slipspace trajectory*
Cortana: come over
Chief: i can't, i'm fighting the covenants and the flood
Cortana: the supreme intelligence isn't at home
Chief:
"Come over."
"Can't - busy saving the galaxy."
"My parents aren't home."
"Did I stutter? 🧐"
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just incredible! Halo is probably the only thing in my life that can bring back at least for a moment this feeling of life and the moment. When I listen to this music, I seem to remember why I live, why I was born. She inspires and most importantly! This will last for many many days! It's like an energy drink! I really feel like I have to do something really great. Since people on planet Earth have created a game like Halo! I believe that this is the best connector game, with each of the Halo fans I would be ready to chat incessantly day and night until our time on this planet is over! Friends, everyone who feels it there, I am immensely glad to be with you on the same globe! Be strong, like John 117. Forward and only forward!
if you played that last mission and weren’t entertained you did it wrong because that shit had you feeling powerful but extremely stressed
Me and my brother used to mimic the sound track while racing towards the end in co-op when Halo 3 first came out.
Fun times.
This Halo 3 theme blows the Halo TV Series theme blow out of the water.
They played some of this theme in the season 1 finale, when the Spartans did a stratosphere battle drop onto the Covenant temple. Not nearly enough of this music though, and a missed opportunity to not play it when they were actually IN a Warthog on Eridanus when the Covenant attacked. Maybe we'll get more of the Warthog Theme in season 2. It's by far the best music in the games.
Wtf wemen in a halo video?
Being so young I never really appreciated just how beautiful this game was
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. As long as the memories remain, the fight never ends.
And remember above everything :
Spartans never die, they're just missing in action
I felt the chills run through my whole body, my blood froze and I got goosebumps
"I'm ready! How bout you!?"
Some very nice memories and great social games.
Halo Reach another Classic @@v.k5587
The chills 😮💨
Gives me memories of playing this with my friend on coop for the first time playing all of ce, reach, odst, 3, and 4 a few years back and at 2 am playing this was the best night of gaming I've had in a long while
I’m really thankful to one of my friends for introducing me to Halo. He would talk about it all the time in elementary school and some weekends I would go to his house and we would play Halo 3 and CE. On his birthday Halo 3: ODST came out and we all sat by the tv watching as another friend played. I remember Reach coming out and we played it together as well. We hardly ever talk much now but I’m thankful that I got to share some magical moments with a friend who introduced me to a franchise that I still love today.
that's wholesome.
Honestly my favorite part starts at 8:04 I love the sad yet beautiful moment you know the job is truly finished.
Seeing this image is just enough to make me hope....... one day.
When you’re on the way home and you have to shit.
This is my life. Thanks for the belly laugh
@@TheRyndiculous no problem lmao.
When I first started the halo series, I finished halo CE and I went to myself: "man, I wonder what it would be like to activate a ring" and when I found out thats what you do in halo 3 I went insane. PEAK
There will never be a greater rush of emotion you get from a game like this final warthog run after growing up playing every halo game with your friends from school and watching the end of an era unfold right In front of your eyes with every bit of the map blowing up behind you. I just remember beating it on legendary and getting misty eyed cause it was so perfect.
When I was younger, me and my older sister played all the way through the campaign. I got to drive the warthog in the last section and it was such a thrilling moment that I'll never forget. Halo is at it's best with friends or family.
Legitimately just woke up almost late for school and I usually play music to help wake me up so I clicked on this half asleep not realizing what it was and was ready in two minutes then my sister legit said “I don’t think we’ll make it” so I finally got to say “we’ll make it,”
10/10 moment best morning for school ever
Pretty sure he made it
When I was in college, a girl I was friends with found out I'd never played Halo before. When she finished hanging her mouth open, she straightened up and declared, "Okay, here's what's happening. Do whatever you have to do this afternoon, and be at my dorm room directly after dinner. We are playing through the campaign in one shot. I've got mountain dew and chips and two controllers. This is non negotiable." Of course I said yes. We stayed up all night and knocked that whole campaign out, and when we reached the end, I was driving. Got to hear this song a few times as I kept falling through the holes in the floor in that one part. Awesome track, brings back great memories.
Edit: Fun fact - in a year plus, no one else has read this story before you and no other conversation happened in the comments, so go ahead and leave a comment like "bro I hope you married her". It'll show how smart and thoughtful you are.
she was a real one for that
Now that is a great friend
Marry her
@@uthergoodman401 Haha, there was a time when that wouldn't have seemed so far-fetched. But things didn't work out romantically between us and she married a different dude after college. He seems nice, so good for her.
@@ActionScripter that's too bad. Good thing she was still such a good friend. Any friend that introduces you to Halo is definitely worth keeping
I always loved this part because my friend, who often likes to lead the way, would always let me drive the Warthog.
On account of him sucking at it, and me being awesome. He carried us through a Legendary campaign, but THIS part right at the end? All my driving.
Teamwork makes the Dream work
Halo 3 was my first halo game and I started playing it at my sister's when i was like 10 and when this song and mission came along, I was so into it!!! As soon as the music kicked in I was full speed crashing into the flood as they passed. The exposions around me and the falling land peices really put into the mood. Being a 10 year old, seeing this was THE BEST thing I had ever witnessed. Sadly I still dont have a halo 3 copy of my own lol!
God, the slow build up, with music referencing how far you've come in the series ramping up as the run continues. Truly a master piece of music for a master piece of a game.
I've always played on pc. The last Halo I played up until last year was Halo 2, like 15 years ago.
After finishing Halo 3 for the first time with the MCC on pc i said to myself: "Ok, now I get it."
The Piano in my eyes symbolizes the ring falling apart with the 3 armies fighting at once. With the harp adding that otherworldly aspect of the conflict.
This is honestly the perfect ending to any videogame.
I can say that Halo 3 is the only game I beat first night. I still remember yelling at my brother to drive as we sped down the road as the buildings fell around us. The nostalgia is massive.
This songs name, "Greatest Journey", fit so well. A send off to the original trilogy. With two legends making their grand escape as the instillation falls apart around them. What a way to end it.
My cousins and I still jam out to this when we play racing games. Makes our heart race a little more. The old days when toxicity was at an all time low...
Well it's a tragedy to see Xbox 360 servers shutting down but Halos multiplayer it's self remains good as a memory
One of the many times my heart ran with excitement when playing a game. A legendary moment that will go down in the gaming history books as one of the grandest finishes to a game of all time.
one of the best missions that ever existed.
Tbh I think the Halo soundtrack was a once in a lifetime experience, I can't think of a game that comes close. It is just so raw and full of nostalgia.
DO NOT PLAY THIS MUSIC WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY! I REPEAT, DO NOT PLAY THIS MUSIC WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY!
To late
I cant imagine lol. Then if you seen a powerline cut thru😂... my chevy sonic would be treated like a Warthog😅
LOL SPEEDING ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED. Covenant inbound (highway police)
I’m doing 120mph on the 15 hwy to Vegas
Omg am driving rigth now!! Please! Help!
The only way this final run could have been ANY better is if Johnson somehow showed up on a Brute Chopper, scarred and beaten, racing to the ship with you going “Come on Chief! What, you didn’t think I was really dead, didja?! Not in your lifetime, soldier! Now c’mon! Floor it!”
This is the song I had playing in my head when I rushed my mom to the ER last July, it helps that my car's green like a warthog lol except much brighter
She made it ok btw
Valiant driving Spartan. You do your family proud.
This theme means so much,no matter how low I get in life no matter how many bad cards I'm delt this theme makes me feel impowered, I feel like I can do anything, thank you Bungie for making this masterpiece 🙏🙏🙏
Idk wtf it is, but few games make me emotional like halo does. I've played a lot of games in my 30+ years. Nothing touches halo
One of the greatest segments in video game history, and story telling history. F me this was so epic, makes me tremble as the kid I was back then with this segment.
15 years....time really does fly
4:44 - I can hear Cortana panicking as the Installation 04 MKII reaches 70% charge of its firing sequence... the explosions as the new Halo starts to shake itself apart! God, this final mission...
Good luck Marty in your run for Congress!
A week ago me and a friend convinced another friend to download and play Halo 3. He just beat it tonight for the first time and we had so much fun. Especially on this final warthog run. Thank you Halo for the great memories that still keep coming over 16 years later!
brings tears to my eyes, such an unbelievable game. i hope to play it again soon
I have the Master Chief collection, you should get it.
We should do a 3 man warthog run. This also brings a tear to my eye
God I can't remember how many times I replayed this mission, my favorite part of halo 3 for sure! Even now, the music is still phenomenal!
The Halo 3 vidmaster achievement with coop LASO on Halo, one of the most harrowing yet unshakably epic thing to complete and it's forever burned into my memory, right alongside the matching Vidmaster for Halo 3 ODST.
The achievements themselves are just trophies, the experience of earning it is unlike anything else I've played since.
Should gather my current group of friends together and challenge them once again on MCC...
Makes me cry. So many hours spent on this game. So many friends made. Endless enjoyment and memories.
We all know Helldivers will eventually come to Xbox we just dont know when
i REALLY hope when we finally get ODST support
that they get Xbox only ODST Suits
imagin calling an SoS this song starts playing
and a level 50 Diver Vet in full ODST gear comes out saying over the open mic "Dont worry lads ... Reinforcements are here"
i think this would be one of the greatest videogame crossovers
I never got to play the Halo franchise back in the day. Just found that the MCC was available on Steam for 10 bucks during the Black Friday sales, so I thought 'why not?' I was on the edge of my seat during this mission, the adrenaline rush was insane. Simply put, I felt like a kid again. Hope more people enjoy this classic in the future!