My memory is blurry,but i will NEVER forget. I was about 5 or 6 when my dad picked this up for our xbox at home. We stayed up for hours,trying to figure out how to play. We got stuck on the crouching bit,on the door in the first level. I was really young,and he was....in his 40's,with little gaming experience. We played and played,and played and played. When i left,he gave it to me. I played it with my half-brothers. My half-brothers played it. We had played and beated this game a whole lot. I'll never forget escaping The Maw,the final stretch on The Pillar Of Autumn,racing to the exit. One of my best memories. My brothers and i did the same with a collectors edition of Halo 2. Had a metal case. We played the multiplayer on it like crazy. We played that game so damn much,it broke,and i was heart broken. Had to buy another copy. I made a promise to my dad in 2017 about finally getting my xbox out of storage,when it sat for years after our old house burned down. I promised we would play it again. It's an old,dated game by todays standards. But you could still see the finesse it had,for it's time. That game is nothing short of a masterpiece,and helped shape FPS games. He passed in October. I'd give anything to play it again with you,Dad. One last run. On Legendary.
It was simple but that is what halo is, simple and fun. It's awe inspiring to watch, focusing you on the main setting and entrancing you to adventure, making you curious to the story it holds
@@VocalDroid I'll never forget staying the night at a friends for his birthday with about 12 others and experiencing this game for the first time having only played the gamecube (luigis mansion/smash bros) this game was like going from golden eye or time splitters 2 to halo for me. Just the tanks alone blew my mind at the time. The only negative memory i have about it was that my friend whose birthday it was had only those original x box controllers which were also a first for me and thinking what the f'k was the deal with these huge controllers lol.
for real, I used to boot up Halo on my pc and just stare at that masterpiece of a menu animation and the music for a couple minutes before playing, great times
This one and left 4 dead/left 4 dead 2 menu screen, too. Love it. But Halo just makes me wanna cry and I get severe chills down my spine it's unbelievable. That beginning is just an untouchable noise.
"You face opponents who've never known defeat, who laugh in alien tongues at your efforts to survive; this is Suicide" Truly a bone chilling paragraph that made the enemies feel "Legendary"
@KGODSMACKC: Totally. I felt the same way when I read that paragraph as well. The laughing in alien tongues part really gave it an eerie and almost sadistic feel to it.
@@jianxiongRaven True but the experience has been fixed for pc players with the master chief collection fixed graphics like the shield and fog effects
Playing Silent Cartographer for the first time at six years old was the most immersed I've ever been in a video game. I left a warthog at one of the entrances into the underground area with a gunner and a passenger and went off exploring. To my surprise, I came back to the passenger and gunner dead. The carnage around them, though, sent my young mind wild. There was a squad of elites and grunts, as well as one hunter, laid out around them. My young mind raced with what this last stand battle must have looked like from their side, and it honestly made me sad at the time that I didn't help them. I'll never forget that memory, so thank you, Bungie, for the great memories.
23 years! Goddamn! Nostalgic yet saddening :( I still remember playing this at my cousin's. Those were the best days of my life, miss that childhood :')
Oh, the nostalgia. This is one of the best intros to a videogame ever; they don't make menus like this anymore. Halo completely changed everything, and will always have a special place in my, and everyone else's heart.
When I was temporarily stationed in Korea, they had an XBOX area set up for 4 players, and this game was the hot one. I played with my partner on co-op mission and we would always troll each other by rifle-butting and grenading each other. One time I got him, and tried to run away by flying off in a jet, except i didnt know how to fly, and just went straight up. He shot me down and killed me, but the jet fell on him, and killed him too, LOL
I'll never forget the first time I heard this. I was only 3 at the time but I never forgot it. Halo was the first video game I ever played and the original is still one of my favorites of all time. Never forgot how free everything felt on that first mission on the ring, how large and open an (sure the graphics weren't good then, but how's a kid gonna notice anyway?) real everything felt. I live in the NW where bungee finished the game and it felt like home, environmental wise. I'll never forget shooting some grunts and being curious about what the hell the blue stuff coming out of them was, or driving a warthog for the first time, or anything about it. Now I make Halo Machinima with my friends (admittedly old and unpopular now) and have been able to meet so many great people from it. I really wish budgie would step back in somehow into Halo.
Its nice to be able to search this song and listen to it on demand. Xbox launch with Halo was the last time that (console) gaming felt like magic to me - like Doc Brown stepped out of a DeLorean and handed you a piece of the future. Thank you Xbox team (not Microsoft Corp.) and also Bungie for leaving such huge impact on a 16-year old kid at the time.
I remember being captivated by the menu alone...completely in awe. The game was so immersive, I remember looking up to see the rest of the ring world and just saying..."Woaaaah" 😄
In 4 years is the 10th anniversary for halo reach, and in 5 years is the 20th anniversary for halo CE, we're all getting old. Hell I remember seeing on the Xbox 360 market the halo CE 10 years anniversary game that just came out.
No sry :/ but i played the first halo game on the Normal xbox! Oh and when you like, i try to lets play Halo on this channel next time :D (but itson German :/ )
I can remember being in elementary school and always heard about “Halo” from my friends. I didn’t own an Xbox at the time and we didn’t have internet so I had no idea what or why my friends were always talking about it. Then I finally spent the night at a friends house and he introduced me to the game. I can still recall sitting in front of the TV and my friend asking me “are you ready?” moments before he turned on the Xbox. If I’m lucky enough to die in a hospital my time with this game and the people I played it with will forever be in my memory. It was a time filled with friendship that I wish I could get back.
I had a similar experience. I remember hearing talk of “Halo” and even though it was my first time even hearing that word something about simply “Halo” felt mysterious, grand and majestic. Fast forward a couple months and I played like the first two levels at my dad’s friend’s house and I damn near felt the seismic shift in the gaming landscape in just those few minutes
Man how this brings back memories when I was just a kid, almost makes me cry just knowing how time flies in the blink of an eye, this will always bring a smile to my face 🥲
I was 9-10 years old, i never in my life played or heard about Halo, there it was this driver who my parents hired, he was a fan of Halo and told me about, recommended me to play it, i remember downloading it for PC, the custom edition though, I absolutely loved it and the reason was pretty much because the spartans had a similar look to clone troopers from Star wars, after that i never cease playing the game.. it was just amazing
I remember I used to just sit at this screen and just listened to the music as the camera was looking around the Halo ring. I didn't know how to play video games because I was about 6, but my older brothers would play it and I tried to play, but it was weird trying to figure out how to get used to it. So I just sat there at the screen. It was so majestic, I tell you. Just the beginning of the song and the slow pan of the camera was just...fucking cool.
Man that last part of the bubbling to the surface in the distance just hit me. I hear that after all the bombastic and contemplative music, all elements of the game and story, so the last part is like the Flood creeping, quietly in the distance
I think I was 6 when my uncle first got this with the OG Xbox. (He was living with my family). My two brothers and I would come to his room to play it. It was breathtaking, unfortunately we only had 2 controllers so we couldn't 4 player split screen but Damn was it fun just watching. I hated the Library mission so much! Everytime we'd reach that part of the campaign, we all sighed and told each other we'll just rush it. I also remember getting Halo 2 when I was slightly older. I would go over my mates place with the heavy ass OG Xbox and we'd play the campaign together. I miss the days of going over peoples houses and playing on a couch together.
I loved the main menus from the other Halo’s but for me, this one takes the cake. The mystery and eerie-ness as well as the absolutely beautiful skybox(galaxybox) just resonates so deeply in my mind and memory.
As much as l absolutely fucking love H2; Combat Evolved's eeriness is truly unreal and really never, ever genuinely matched by later Halo; even,(for those like me who hold O.D.S.T and Reach in VERY high regard
My god! The nostalgia is hittin me big time and the choir bit before the music kicks in, still gives me goosebumps now, as it did when I first got the game and an xbox on release day :)
SuperPonySaiyan9000 me too!! and i was only 4 ^-^ i didn't know how to play it. especially at the begin when you need to make the lights from red to green to show that you response so they can let you out of this thing they were keeping you! So many memories...
I remember being awestruck the first time I turned on the game the morning after my mom brought it home for me. The visual and the sound was incredible. I got the game late (Halo 2 was out and 3 was in production, I think), but I remember being obsessed with the game reading about how great it was and seeing short gameplay clips. Finally getting it was an unforgettable experience.
Don't know if it was the case globally, but in Ireland when the xbox first released at Christmas time in 01, my dad, rest his soul, got me the console with a three game bundle. Those three games are forever a part of my life and they are of course, the amazing Halo CE in its own case, which I still have to this day, and the other two games that came with it were both on the one disc, and the sleeve on that disc was split across the middle with a half for each title. Those two games that came with Halo for me were Sega GT 2002, and the other was Jet Set Radio Future. Like I said, three games that were a big part of my formative years and, being 11 years old, I had no clue just how big Halo would become, and it's been one hell of a ride!
I will never forget halo and especially combat evolved....it was my first game on a pc that my brother used to play and i just sit beside him to watch because i was scared of the aliens at first and then when i played it wasn't scary anymore...first mission i played was the silent cartographer... it was my favourite mission of all time.... man this makes me nostalgic and wanting to live those moments again
We used to have drinking parties back in the day, beer, pizza, and 4 xbox's set up in different rooms of my friends house. System link 16 player Halo is one of those things that will stand out as some of the greatest times I had with my friends.
I really wish mcc had a feature where you could change menu screens for the game and choose to use halo ce, reach 3, 2 or whatever. You name it. It'd be so cool and nostalgic to be able to play halo 2 and select the level like you would how it was back in the days of xbox and xbox 360
halo... such a game that made me a gamer... how wonderful, split screen was amazing with friends to play, and campaign was a breath taker story, such a memorable time, the soundtrack was flawless and the game itself was no doubt a legendary title. No game should embrace better than this...ever
The year is 2009, you are 9 years old, it's 8pm, you're having a sleep-over with your friends. After praying to all gods for the Xbox to read the disc, it finally launches: "HALO". Everyone grabs a remote and chooses their character. You have all the time in the world. Life is good.
This is the very first xbox game I ever played and the one game that made me into the gamer I am today. This game has a very special place in my heart because my uncle was the one who showed me this magnificent game. Sadly he passed away a year ago from a tumor but I will always cherish the memories me and him shared playing all the halos together. I promised myself that I will be an awesome uncle to my future nieces and nephews just like how my uncle was. R.I.P. Uncle Bobby. I miss you bro. Until we meet again my dear friend. Just like halo, the life he lived was....... Legendary.
I wasn't even 3 when this game came out but I loved it. Me and my dad played it when I was little, now im 25 and about to have my own kid. How time flies...
+King Shrykull one is probably Bc it's not bungie... Not to mention the story just isn't the same. I find halo amazing it's been my facility's game since I was 5 and halo 3 will forever be my favorite
FOTUS Syndicate Yes, it's not Bungie. That much is true, but I find it interesting how nobody considers what Halo 4 would have been if Bungie had developed it. Everyone acts as if everything after Halo Reach would have been a masterpiece if Bungie made it. People forget, the majority of 343i are former Bungie employees that didn't want to leave Halo behind. Think about it...what's better; the Halo we have now made by people that still have a passion for Halo, or a different, potentially worse Halo made by those who are simply tired, burned out and just uninspired by the story of the Master Chief at this point? I agree with you though, Halo 3 is my absolute favourite Halo game...however, I can accept the direction Halo is going in. I'd say try to keep an open mind about what 343 are doing. Yes, they could do better, but I honestly doubt that Bungie would do better than 343i.
20 years later and I still remember seeing that menu for the first time. Crazy how we could only do split screen multiplayer (or system link) back then because Live didn’t exist haha
I remember my brother came home with this game. He had gotten an Xbox aswell with a second controller and he let me play. I remember just walking around the starting lab for about 20 min because i was so fascinated until he took control and made me go through the path to the bridge. I also remember on this same day my mom catching us playing and beating his ass for letting me play the game because it had guns. He was about 16 or 17 and i was 3 lmao. I finished the game a few years later discreetly of course
2:54 this song of the menu always gave me chills and a creepy vibe of the game as a kid and it still does as an adult. Gives the game a darker feeling even scarier when you run into the flood and you have more creepy music playing 😂
The monks chanting over the image of a ringworld floating in space was a really outlandish visual/audio combination for me when I was 8 years old, and then when the inside of the ring is revealed, and the rock music kicks in, it's when this menu shows you the journey across this strange world that you are about to begin soon. And surely, the game reinforces this idea of a journey by throwing you into different biomes in each mission, really making you feel like travelling through Halo which you had a brief glimpse at in the menu before even starting the game. Then, the low, waving electronic hum reminds you that for all the wonders that you are experiencing, you are still stranded in space, on an alien construction, far away from home, surrounded by hostile aliens and ancient mysteries yet to be uncovered. I don't think any other game in the series reinforced the feeling and first impression of a Halo ring and this universe as strongly as Combat Evolved has. And it's fair, this is the first game of the series after all. And it's a special one.
As much as I love Doom with a burning passion, this game also holds a special place in my heart as my first exposure to the FPS genre. While It wasn't the first game I ever played, it marks as my earliest as a child. I still have my copy and it's sequel to this very day. Alongside with my OG Xbox console.
That moment when you're playing this with little siblings and they're screaming and crying because they lost to you, and the Halo main music plays in the background.
its amazing how even though this game is 14 years old, bungie still put so much detail into it. like they would say stuff that know body knew until games like 8 years later. and the graphic detail was amazing.
19 years ago, remenber playing this at my cousins home, i had a PS2, The first i played this game, tell my parents to sell my PS2 so they can give me the Xbox, and they did'it, months later they give me Halo, i was so happy, now im 30 years old. Long live Spartam 117!!
I played this game to death and then the second one came out, bought it on Christmas and played that one like crazy too, soo many memories ! I love Halo ❣
Spartans never die. So many memories made here, my cousin and I as kids lived on this and 2 for years. Nostalgic for those days, when beating the game on LASO was the hardest thing you had to do in life.
![Halo 3 - Main Menu Music [1 HOUR]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-utZDbX5g3s/mqdefault.jpg)
![Halo 3 - Main Menu Music [1 HOUR]](/img/tr.png)
My memory is blurry,but i will NEVER forget. I was about 5 or 6 when my dad picked this up for our xbox at home. We stayed up for hours,trying to figure out how to play. We got stuck on the crouching bit,on the door in the first level. I was really young,and he was....in his 40's,with little gaming experience. We played and played,and played and played. When i left,he gave it to me. I played it with my half-brothers. My half-brothers played it. We had played and beated this game a whole lot. I'll never forget escaping The Maw,the final stretch on The Pillar Of Autumn,racing to the exit. One of my best memories.
My brothers and i did the same with a collectors edition of Halo 2. Had a metal case. We played the multiplayer on it like crazy. We played that game so damn much,it broke,and i was heart broken. Had to buy another copy.
I made a promise to my dad in 2017 about finally getting my xbox out of storage,when it sat for years after our old house burned down. I promised we would play it again. It's an old,dated game by todays standards. But you could still see the finesse it had,for it's time. That game is nothing short of a masterpiece,and helped shape FPS games.
He passed in October.
I'd give anything to play it again with you,Dad. One last run. On Legendary.
Awww I'm sorry for your dad I relate to your entire comment
Bio Fox Gotta do Halo 2 on legendary too Spartan
:(
Memories never die, Jeorge. They're just missing in Action.
I know this is kinda late but this is my first time seeing this comment but this hurts me although I don’t know who you are may he Rest In Peace
The Halo CE menu really is perfect, just that slow pan around the Halo ring, what a perfect game.
It was simple but that is what halo is, simple and fun. It's awe inspiring to watch, focusing you on the main setting and entrancing you to adventure, making you curious to the story it holds
@@VocalDroid I'll never forget staying the night at a friends for his birthday with about 12 others and experiencing this game for the first time having only played the gamecube (luigis mansion/smash bros) this game was like going from golden eye or time splitters 2 to halo for me. Just the tanks alone blew my mind at the time. The only negative memory i have about it was that my friend whose birthday it was had only those original x box controllers which were also a first for me and thinking what the f'k was the deal with these huge controllers lol.
@@commycasty It sounds like you all had a good night regardless. I'm glad that I'm not alone in that statement towards the controller though XD
it's just legendary
for real, I used to boot up Halo on my pc and just stare at that masterpiece of a menu animation and the music for a couple minutes before playing, great times
Even if you weren't an xbox person, You have to admit you loved this game
Alex.2001 played it on pc when I was a kid, one of the first fps games I've played. I'm a playstation person but halo 1 and 2 are legendary
Alex.2001 I had never played it xD
We need to fix you
It's the only Halo game I liked myself.
Agree
2:22 the nostalgia hits hard on this one, honestly.
Es la mejor parte
halo 2 epilogue. No se cual sea en el soundtrack de halo ce
Alejandro Quintal it’s in brothers and arms. Played during the last cutscene of pillar of autumn
Lol I never made it this far.
Reminds me of my Chihuahuas death
This is still one of my most favorite menu screens of all time.
I agree bro!!
Indeed is the best
This one and left 4 dead/left 4 dead 2 menu screen, too. Love it. But Halo just makes me wanna cry and I get severe chills down my spine it's unbelievable. That beginning is just an untouchable noise.
Word.
Amen to that my Spartans.
Coolest main menu ever, really gives you a sense of the scale and the mysteriousness of Halo. You can tell Bungie were proud of that ring.
my childhood right here
Lord Art Same this menu is soo freaking awesome I gots goosebumps.
I played think game when I was very younger
Your childhood is in ooooo..?
Aerial Spider yes
Aerial Spider I played this when I was 4 years old
"You face opponents who've never known defeat, who laugh in alien tongues at your efforts to survive; this is Suicide"
Truly a bone chilling paragraph that made the enemies feel "Legendary"
@KGODSMACKC: Totally. I felt the same way when I read that paragraph as well. The laughing in alien tongues part really gave it an eerie and almost sadistic feel to it.
It was so difficult on legendary. You were mince meat
Two Betrayals on Legendry is pure chaos. It took me to 2 and a half hours to beat it my first time
@@I_luv_my_fansI remember someone mentioned halo when I was young that if it was in real life the difficulty would be set in legendary 💀
@@I_luv_my_fansmakes you appreciate how badass master chief is
Anyone still here in 2024 halo was just goated
The memories, and the clicky sound the cursor makes whenever it goes over of the menu option words.
Yeah I would whip my mouse up and down sometimes because the clicks were so responsive. It was a great sound
Schuchk!
Well the PC port is inferior
@@jianxiongRaven True but the experience has been fixed for pc players with the master chief collection fixed graphics like the shield and fog effects
@@Joestarrr1337 is it ?
Cant rmb exactly..
I guess so
Playing Silent Cartographer for the first time at six years old was the most immersed I've ever been in a video game. I left a warthog at one of the entrances into the underground area with a gunner and a passenger and went off exploring. To my surprise, I came back to the passenger and gunner dead. The carnage around them, though, sent my young mind wild. There was a squad of elites and grunts, as well as one hunter, laid out around them. My young mind raced with what this last stand battle must have looked like from their side, and it honestly made me sad at the time that I didn't help them. I'll never forget that memory, so thank you, Bungie, for the great memories.
My best memories are from silent cartographer as well! I used to take our allies into the ocean and leave them stranded
BUT DID YOU HAVE THE DISC THAT CAME WITH THE FUZION FRENZY DEMO?!?!
Yep
Matt T i did
Still do.😅
Holy fuck that brings me back
Oh bless, some people are cultured
23 years! Goddamn! Nostalgic yet saddening :(
I still remember playing this at my cousin's.
Those were the best days of my life, miss that childhood :')
Oh, the nostalgia. This is one of the best intros to a videogame ever; they don't make menus like this anymore. Halo completely changed everything, and will always have a special place in my, and everyone else's heart.
When I was temporarily stationed in Korea, they had an XBOX area set up for 4 players, and this game was the hot one.
I played with my partner on co-op mission and we would always troll each other by rifle-butting and grenading each other. One time I got him, and tried to run away by flying off in a jet, except i didnt know how to fly, and just went straight up. He shot me down and killed me, but the jet fell on him, and killed him too, LOL
Stationed in korea so u were in the army with xboxes i didnt know they had xboxes in the army but sounds like it was fun playing halo i know i had fun
Lol flying straight up, haha that's how u lose your banshee virginity!
I'll never forget the first time I heard this. I was only 3 at the time but I never forgot it. Halo was the first video game I ever played and the original is still one of my favorites of all time. Never forgot how free everything felt on that first mission on the ring, how large and open an (sure the graphics weren't good then, but how's a kid gonna notice anyway?) real everything felt. I live in the NW where bungee finished the game and it felt like home, environmental wise. I'll never forget shooting some grunts and being curious about what the hell the blue stuff coming out of them was, or driving a warthog for the first time, or anything about it. Now I make Halo Machinima with my friends (admittedly old and unpopular now) and have been able to meet so many great people from it. I really wish budgie would step back in somehow into Halo.
+Random Tree Productions YES me too bro....me too ...i miss this FUCKING FUCKING FUUUUUUUUCKIJNG GOOD TIME AS A KID ;(
+ZayMokeyy So when are we going to play this online together?! :D
i dont know sister i dont know xD
+ZayMokeyy Affraid to get owned? :P
:D no ;P
To me, this is the greatest game ever made. So many good memories from my teenage years I have with this game. Thank you bungie.
When I popped the game into my 360 for the first time this christmas, I sat here on this main menu; absorbing the childhood path I missed out on.
Same, I came into Halo much after everyone else but it's nice to be able to still play these old games on newer consoles.
THE NOSTALGIA
Its nice to be able to search this song and listen to it on demand. Xbox launch with Halo was the last time that (console) gaming felt like magic to me - like Doc Brown stepped out of a DeLorean and handed you a piece of the future. Thank you Xbox team (not Microsoft Corp.) and also Bungie for leaving such huge impact on a 16-year old kid at the time.
I remember being captivated by the menu alone...completely in awe. The game was so immersive, I remember looking up to see the rest of the ring world and just saying..."Woaaaah" 😄
Yeah they did a great job capturing a sense of awe and grandeur with the music kicking in at the right moments, haven't felt anything like that since.
As the title music went “ooooooohh”...so did you too :)
14 years ago.. makes me sick in the stomach
In 4 years is the 10th anniversary for halo reach, and in 5 years is the 20th anniversary for halo CE, we're all getting old. Hell I remember seeing on the Xbox 360 market the halo CE 10 years anniversary game that just came out.
18 years ago :(
19 years, christ.
@@AnakinSkywakka Actually 18. It came out in November 2001.
@@jtw.111 Ah oops, thanks.
02:22....im crying that my childhood is over...4 EVER :,(!!!
Me to brother!:,(
:((
+ZayMokeyy Do ou have xbox one with mcc?
No sry :/ but i played the first halo game on the Normal xbox! Oh and when you like, i try to lets play Halo on this channel next time :D (but itson German :/ )
+ZayMokeyy Nice! same here. I didnt really understand what you meant by the rest of your comment though?
I can remember being in elementary school and always heard about “Halo” from my friends. I didn’t own an Xbox at the time and we didn’t have internet so I had no idea what or why my friends were always talking about it. Then I finally spent the night at a friends house and he introduced me to the game. I can still recall sitting in front of the TV and my friend asking me “are you ready?” moments before he turned on the Xbox. If I’m lucky enough to die in a hospital my time with this game and the people I played it with will forever be in my memory. It was a time filled with friendship that I wish I could get back.
I had a similar experience. I remember hearing talk of “Halo” and even though it was my first time even hearing that word something about simply “Halo” felt mysterious, grand and majestic. Fast forward a couple months and I played like the first two levels at my dad’s friend’s house and I damn near felt the seismic shift in the gaming landscape in just those few minutes
2:20 that part. Forever stuck in my head
16 years later... still fucking amazing.
Ik I’m late but so damn true
@@void_shadowx1771 WHAT THE FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT THIS COMMENT
@@snek7535 22 years now. Damn
@@OBAMNASODA761time flies smh
U probably forgot again. Im here to remind
The Halo Master Chief collection needs this menu.
2:21 is my favorite part of the theme. Best listened to on a clear summer night looking up at the stars.
I know I'm late, but Happy 22nd Birthday Halo. Thank you for the incredible late nights and early mornings.
I wanna cry. I remember my dad buying this game, I was around 5-6; this being my first game ever. Best moment of my entire life.
The mini track at 2:22 holy cow its beautiful... id sooo love if a longer version of it existed!
Techben16 that part tears me up from the immense nostalgia it brings up
Halo 2s Epilogue seems to be a continuation of that piece
I miss when games made me feel things
From 0:00 to 0:30 i just close my eyes and imagine my childhood
... this game was the best
Man how this brings back memories when I was just a kid, almost makes me cry just knowing how time flies in the blink of an eye, this will always bring a smile to my face 🥲
I'm about to cry
same:(
I'm already crying 😭😭😭
same
majesticgoatee why you can still play the boring game hahha
@clade shut up your boring yourself
that camera movement on the main menu made that Halo ring look massive
I'd feel more at home on that ring than my own home
I was 9-10 years old, i never in my life played or heard about Halo, there it was this driver who my parents hired, he was a fan of Halo and told me about, recommended me to play it, i remember downloading it for PC, the custom edition though, I absolutely loved it and the reason was pretty much because the spartans had a similar look to clone troopers from Star wars, after that i never cease playing the game.. it was just amazing
awesome! i'm even younger
Memories, great old memories!
first xbox game i ever played at 9 years old..... still my favorite game to this very day
+G1itchcraf7 19!
+G1itchcraf7. hell fucking yeah brotha👊
I remember I used to just sit at this screen and just listened to the music as the camera was looking around the Halo ring. I didn't know how to play video games because I was about 6, but my older brothers would play it and I tried to play, but it was weird trying to figure out how to get used to it. So I just sat there at the screen. It was so majestic, I tell you. Just the beginning of the song and the slow pan of the camera was just...fucking cool.
I still get chills
Man that last part of the bubbling to the surface in the distance just hit me. I hear that after all the bombastic and contemplative music, all elements of the game and story, so the last part is like the Flood creeping, quietly in the distance
I think I was 6 when my uncle first got this with the OG Xbox. (He was living with my family).
My two brothers and I would come to his room to play it.
It was breathtaking, unfortunately we only had 2 controllers so we couldn't 4 player split screen but Damn was it fun just watching.
I hated the Library mission so much! Everytime we'd reach that part of the campaign, we all sighed and told each other we'll just rush it.
I also remember getting Halo 2 when I was slightly older. I would go over my mates place with the heavy ass OG Xbox and we'd play the campaign together.
I miss the days of going over peoples houses and playing on a couch together.
Man i remember playing this on my cousins pc ,particularly multiplayer i dont remember playing campaign . man the simpler times
@@ollie20 The good ol' days. Halo MCC is coming out on PC soon. It wont be the same but at least everyone else will be playing again.
@@aussieraver7182 Yeah true, im definitely getting it ima halo fan for life.
MCC not having this... a grave mistake
I loved the main menus from the other Halo’s but for me, this one takes the cake. The mystery and eerie-ness as well as the absolutely beautiful skybox(galaxybox) just resonates so deeply in my mind and memory.
As much as l absolutely fucking love H2; Combat Evolved's eeriness is truly unreal and really never, ever genuinely matched by later Halo; even,(for those like me who hold O.D.S.T and Reach in VERY high regard
Man, when you popped this in your Xbox and watched the intro and menu for the first time you just knew this was going to be something special.
My god! The nostalgia is hittin me big time and the choir bit before the music kicks in, still gives me goosebumps now, as it did when I first got the game and an xbox on release day :)
Now this is where positive nostalgia and amazing childhood memories come in play. This is why I love HALO!!
When i had 6 years, my father gaven me my first Xbox and my first videogame was Halo CE
SuperPonySaiyan9000
me too!!
and i was only 4 ^-^
i didn't know how to play it.
especially at the begin when you need to make the lights from red to green to show that you response so they can let you out of this thing they were keeping you!
So many memories...
Exactly the same for me! =D
SuperPonySaiyan9000 me too man
Halo Combat Evolved (and Custom edition for PC) was a legendary game for both PC gamers, Mac gamers, and Xbox gamers.
I was born the year the first halo came out and I grew up playing it ever since I was a baby. I am a well raised child. 2001 baby!
I remember being awestruck the first time I turned on the game the morning after my mom brought it home for me. The visual and the sound was incredible. I got the game late (Halo 2 was out and 3 was in production, I think), but I remember being obsessed with the game reading about how great it was and seeing short gameplay clips. Finally getting it was an unforgettable experience.
Don't know if it was the case globally, but in Ireland when the xbox first released at Christmas time in 01, my dad, rest his soul, got me the console with a three game bundle. Those three games are forever a part of my life and they are of course, the amazing Halo CE in its own case, which I still have to this day, and the other two games that came with it were both on the one disc, and the sleeve on that disc was split across the middle with a half for each title. Those two games that came with Halo for me were Sega GT 2002, and the other was Jet Set Radio Future. Like I said, three games that were a big part of my formative years and, being 11 years old, I had no clue just how big Halo would become, and it's been one hell of a ride!
brings a tear to my eye
I will never forget halo and especially combat evolved....it was my first game on a pc that my brother used to play and i just sit beside him to watch because i was scared of the aliens at first and then when i played it wasn't scary anymore...first mission i played was the silent cartographer... it was my favourite mission of all time.... man this makes me nostalgic and wanting to live those moments again
2:21 - 2:49 I love that part so much!
What’s the name of the music piece
It's really depressing for me
Reminds me of my dogs death
@@rickymonfil9236 late rip to your dog my cat recently passed away music makes me sad
Thank you Gamestop man for recommending this as my first Xbox game all those years ago.
Dude: Gets hit in the balls
Every guy in a 10 mile radius:
37 and still playing Halo campaign this game just takes you away to another place
I'm in love with the music
We used to have drinking parties back in the day, beer, pizza, and 4 xbox's set up in different rooms of my friends house. System link 16 player Halo is one of those things that will stand out as some of the greatest times I had with my friends.
Yo sí me acuerdo que cuando estaba pequeña mis hermanos me dejaban jugarlo recuerdos hermosos
I really wish mcc had a feature where you could change menu screens for the game and choose to use halo ce, reach 3, 2 or whatever. You name it. It'd be so cool and nostalgic to be able to play halo 2 and select the level like you would how it was back in the days of xbox and xbox 360
halo... such a game that made me a gamer... how wonderful, split screen was amazing with friends to play, and campaign was a breath taker story, such a memorable time, the soundtrack was flawless and the game itself was no doubt a legendary title. No game should embrace better than this...ever
Halo CE was the best game i've ever played when i was a kid on the OG xbox. this game bring back so many memories.
My Childhood still goes...I miss the days when I was 5 years old playing this over and over again...
2:22 makes me depressive and sad.
I was a senior in highschool when Halo came out. Bought an Xbox just to enjoy its majesty.
I played Halo for the first time last year, and when I saw the menu with this music I isntantly knew that what I was about to play was good stuff
The year is 2009, you are 9 years old, it's 8pm, you're having a sleep-over with your friends. After praying to all gods for the Xbox to read the disc, it finally launches: "HALO". Everyone grabs a remote and chooses their character. You have all the time in the world. Life is good.
It was indeed.
2:20 man this is the best soundtrack ever made, i specially love how they put it on sad parts on halo 2
This is the very first xbox game I ever played and the one game that made me into the gamer I am today. This game has a very special place in my heart because my uncle was the one who showed me this magnificent game. Sadly he passed away a year ago from a tumor but I will always cherish the memories me and him shared playing all the halos together. I promised myself that I will be an awesome uncle to my future nieces and nephews just like how my uncle was. R.I.P. Uncle Bobby. I miss you bro. Until we meet again my dear friend. Just like halo, the life he lived was....... Legendary.
Oh the memories! THIS game was my childhood, miss it. Might just whip out the xbox and stick Halo on. Such a good game!!!!
I wasn't even 3 when this game came out but I loved it. Me and my dad played it when I was little, now im 25 and about to have my own kid. How time flies...
Coming back to PC soon. All of them...
Can't wait.
Just 1 more month to finally finish the fight
@@znspyder 1 more month? How come?
@@Blue-jn1ph I haven't played halo 3
It's been on PC since 2003.
@@EarFarce4 They're talking about Anniversary edition with better graphics with halo 3,4, reach, 3:odst
The epicness is beyond comprehension. What a time to be a kid.
I hate what this game has become. I'm devastated.
Rest in peace, Halo.
+NJ93 Honestly, it's really not as bad as people seem to think. What do you dislike about the newer Halo games if I may ask?
+King Shrykull one is probably Bc it's not bungie... Not to mention the story just isn't the same. I find halo amazing it's been my facility's game since I was 5 and halo 3 will forever be my favorite
FOTUS Syndicate
Yes, it's not Bungie. That much is true, but I find it interesting how nobody considers what Halo 4 would have been if Bungie had developed it. Everyone acts as if everything after Halo Reach would have been a masterpiece if Bungie made it.
People forget, the majority of 343i are former Bungie employees that didn't want to leave Halo behind. Think about it...what's better; the Halo we have now made by people that still have a passion for Halo, or a different, potentially worse Halo made by those who are simply tired, burned out and just uninspired by the story of the Master Chief at this point?
I agree with you though, Halo 3 is my absolute favourite Halo game...however, I can accept the direction Halo is going in. I'd say try to keep an open mind about what 343 are doing. Yes, they could do better, but I honestly doubt that Bungie would do better than 343i.
+King Shrykull I was a huge fan of halo 4, but i hated what they did with cortana in halo 5.
Well I think halo 3 was pretty solid
One of the best parts of my childhood was staying over at my cousin's house since he's the one with the Xbox.
20 years later and I still remember seeing that menu for the first time. Crazy how we could only do split screen multiplayer (or system link) back then because Live didn’t exist haha
bro i remember sitting their on split screen changing the color of my spartan thinking that was the coolest thing ever
I remember my brother came home with this game. He had gotten an Xbox aswell with a second controller and he let me play. I remember just walking around the starting lab for about 20 min because i was so fascinated until he took control and made me go through the path to the bridge. I also remember on this same day my mom catching us playing and beating his ass for letting me play the game because it had guns. He was about 16 or 17 and i was 3 lmao. I finished the game a few years later discreetly of course
Best Main menu to any game ever. Period.
2:54 this song of the menu always gave me chills and a creepy vibe of the game as a kid and it still does as an adult. Gives the game a darker feeling even scarier when you run into the flood and you have more creepy music playing 😂
2:53 onwards used to creep me out as a kid. Kinda alien and mysterious... pretty cool tbh
man this makes me cry.
This game came out on the year I was born. Best gift ever
Amen brother
The monks chanting over the image of a ringworld floating in space was a really outlandish visual/audio combination for me when I was 8 years old, and then when the inside of the ring is revealed, and the rock music kicks in, it's when this menu shows you the journey across this strange world that you are about to begin soon.
And surely, the game reinforces this idea of a journey by throwing you into different biomes in each mission, really making you feel like travelling through Halo which you had a brief glimpse at in the menu before even starting the game. Then, the low, waving electronic hum reminds you that for all the wonders that you are experiencing, you are still stranded in space, on an alien construction, far away from home, surrounded by hostile aliens and ancient mysteries yet to be uncovered.
I don't think any other game in the series reinforced the feeling and first impression of a Halo ring and this universe as strongly as Combat Evolved has. And it's fair, this is the first game of the series after all. And it's a special one.
Best main menu theme ever. Played this as a 9 year old kid on first xbox
the start of the best game series ever
"alright man, see you tomorrow."
Last online: 11 years ago
That intro melody, so haunting. It resonates with my soul, and in men's rooms around the world.
産まれて初めてやったゲームがこれだったから本当に懐かしい よく兄と前作やってたな... 本当に懐かしい
As much as I love Doom with a burning passion, this game also holds a special place in my heart as my first exposure to the FPS genre. While It wasn't the first game I ever played, it marks as my earliest as a child. I still have my copy and it's sequel to this very day. Alongside with my OG Xbox console.
That moment when you're playing this with little siblings and they're screaming and crying because they lost to you, and the Halo main music plays in the background.
its amazing how even though this game is 14 years old, bungie still put so much detail into it. like they would say stuff that know body knew until games like 8 years later. and the graphic detail was amazing.
19 years ago, remenber playing this at my cousins home, i had a PS2, The first i played this game, tell my parents to sell my PS2 so they can give me the Xbox, and they did'it, months later they give me Halo, i was so happy, now im 30 years old. Long live Spartam 117!!
I played this game to death and then the second one came out, bought it on Christmas and played that one like crazy too, soo many memories ! I love Halo ❣
2004 baby! Thank you Dad for making my childhood when you came home with the Xbox and Halo from Singapore ❤
Even tho I started with sega Dreamcast But I had every game system in tht time. Because of my family members.
@@djmarkndasia94uxgthigpenn79 I started on the super nintendo. I still remember picking up the ps1 with the fam
Lo que escuchas cua do llegas al cielo según la biblia
😁...
when u played this on a geforce 6600 and thought getting 30fps was the pinnacle of human achievement
Marty brought me here
Same here
Spartans never die. So many memories made here, my cousin and I as kids lived on this and 2 for years. Nostalgic for those days, when beating the game on LASO was the hardest thing you had to do in life.