@@NayaChann I think that's why lasky feels weird about cheif calling him sir...as if lasky doesnt owe that rank and everything he has and will have to chief...chief saved his life when they were both teenagers...at the academy he mentioned I think, not that cheif attended that academy, because of course he was put through the secret spartan program...the first real encounter with the covenant was probably at that academy, or at least that planet...lasky and a handful of others were the only survivors out of millions...thanks to chief he didnt get glassed...they pretty much grew old together
It's kind of sad when you think about it. Chief has been in the military since he was a child and it's all he really knows. He even forgot that he himself, is human
I think the focus of their story line is that Chief is a human designed to be a machine, and Cortana is a machine designed to be human. They meet each other in the middle.
SomeRedGuy Everyone that that has seen the Chief's face except Halsey is dead. It's actually all of that and just the fact that the MC is a fucking legend to everyone. That's like if George Washington or Lincoln showed up at Congress or the White House. Chief also finally gets to take his armor off and get some R&R after 40+ years.
Probably because they had a lot of resources to work with from bungie on the story and how it was suppose to be! Funny enough I can see a lot of resemblences between certain things in Destiny and Halo, one of the things that caught my eye was that the Halo was there to destroy life but the Traveller gave life!
Halo 4 had a much better story that 3. Idk what people are smoking thinking 3 was is amazing. It's the worst out of the CE-4 story-wise. We don't talk about 5.
Lasky is one of the few to think outside the box and outside the UNSC propaganda machine. As was shown inn the movie, Forward Unto Dawn, he was the only one (we see) that didnt blindly blame Insurrectionists for the war, but also tried to see the conflict from their side. UNSC is kinda like the Empire in star wars when you start scratching the surface a bit...
@@Wistbacka Eh, they got dragged into the CAA/CMA's mess, and forced to clean it up. And a LOT of the rebel cells were terrorists. Lasky was right, some rebels are fine people. But you gotta get rid of the insane guys.
it really hits you hard with the struggles you go through in the game. making you question what has chief become most more machine than human or is he still human trying to find his place outside his armor wanting to find closure for those he lost and how to function normally again. this scene makes me cry every time because you can hear the subtle hurt and sadness in chiefs voice.
I want everyone to appreciate the level of grief the chief is experiencing. At 0:26 he was so surprised that someone was behind him you could almost see his surprised expression through the helmet. The master chief is a very experienced soldier who was trained not to let anyone sneak up on him and yet he was surprised here because of his grief.
Because he was lost in thought. Usually he be able to catch on especially considering how Lasky's footsteps weren't quiet but this is a good detail. Shows us how much her death affected him.
ok like MJOLNIR is not equipped with a motion tracker and Chief’s superhuman reflexes that are almost like time being too slow because of his insane reaction speed is delayed because he’s emotional distressed over his ‘virtual space girlfriend’ which he had not romantic connection with until she went Rampant in Halo 4.
When you take into account the fact that their looking at a man who saved the entire galaxy multiple times over, singlehandedly took on and stopped the forerunners, flood, covenant AND their own insurrection, and also has the highest kill streak in human history, still rising mind you, and is renowned for surviving impossible odds. I'd be scared to be in the same room as chief, the stuff he's done and is capable of is almost god like in its own regard
@@Delta-mo6hn The Covenant refer to Spartans as demons, they refer to Chief as The Demon. Multiple alien species that know of 1 man and fear him more than any other living being, enough to call him THE Demon. He really is god-like.
Laskey is one if the few people that have enter John's life and that he actually respects them not only as superiors or combatants, but also as individuals outside of his SPARTAN-II brothers and sisters. - Chief Mendez - Catherine Halsey - Jacob Keyes - Thomas Laskey - Cortana - Sgt. Major A. Johnson - Miranda Keyes - Lord Terrence Hood - Thel Vadam (Arbiter)
Forgot Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias Haverson, Corporal Locklear and Warrant Officer Sheila Polaski and all those who were involved in Operation First Strike.
Lasky: "soldiers aren't machines" "Chief: "what about that Kat lady she's technically robot." Lasky: "What? Chief: "nothing" *Looks into the distance* "She's a robot I know it."
Sosse Bargeld Problem is, most everything up til that point was plausible. Having a nuke a few inches from you explode and NO DAMAGE OCCUR WHATSOEVER is immersion breaking.
The fact that people were pissed that the Chief FINALLY had character development, and emotion, is fucking ridiculous. Halo 4's Campaign was amazing, heart breaking, and fun as Hell.
It's a shame that they threw it all away in Halo 5. I wanted Cortana to come back, but what they made her, it's a farce. She has every right to do what she does and if she would just lay down the facts for John he wouldn't be trying to stop her.
@st @Jonathan Cole You both realize that the Cortana in halo 5 is NOT the Cortana that died in halo 4, right? It’s one of her rampant personality spikes, a remnant, nothing more than an imposter.
Every scene we've seen of Chief was of him either coming out victorious or getting ready to take on the next mission. But this time, we got to see a more human side of him.
Celestial Wing yes in Halo Infinite we will see MC take a shit in the toilet and all the fans will come out praising how much more he is relatable and human now and thank 343i for exposing that side of him to us.
Celestial Wing It will be an interesting take to have Arbitor taking a shit in Burger King as this would be some next level ‘relatability’ shit with the current Halo fanbase.
The story had a lot of redeeming qualities. It didn't give enough context for some elements, and it could of pushed the Didact a tad further, but it was still overall pretty amazing.
Easily the best character work in the entire series. People sleep on this games story. Its just that the campaign gameplay itself was kinda boring. The story was fantastic though. its only flaw was some lack of context and detail because it assumed its players knew a lot of lore for some reason. It also coulda taken the chief and his forerunner connections further. but it was a solid 9/10 in the story department imo.
As well as being incredibly sad, I find this scene heartwarming...back in "Forward Unto Dawn", Chief comforted Lasky and offered his sympathies after Kyler died...and now Lasky is trying his best to help the Chief cope after Cortana's death. Axios, indeed.
Lasky truly is an outstanding officer and human being, he gets the bigger picture, he understand the sacrifices everyone makes and how that impacts them psychologically, he's a wonderfully written character
John Horan Thats true sometimes I forget that John was just once a kid playing in the sun and laughing with friends but it was all taken from him and that takes away from his humanity but you can tell they are trying to give it back to him.
For those of us who have been with Halo since the start (2001) and read the books etc. We can see chief's humanity from the very beginning, when he was playing king of the hill with others at his school and his drive and desperation to win kept him on top, that supreme human instinct of the will to survive. Personally, as much as I really like John's character, I always found myself likened to Frederick 104 as his character traits are similar to mine personally and that's the great thing about HALO, you can really connect with the characters on a personal level, they aren't just like a Mario or Solid Snake or some other basic story where they always manage to get to the end and can be bland character wise. I'm not trying to say they're from bad games, I'm just trying to highlight some of the depth HALO actually has and that underneath all the hardened elite level soldiering in the story, there's also a human in that story.
If you think you’re relatable with a SPARTAN-II Supersoldier in the 26th Century under countless deployments fighting for Humanity’s Survival under multiple Alien threats. Either you’re delusional or 343i have written him wrong to make you think there’s that level of relatability beyond the idea that he’s also Human.
Disciple AJ I’ve been with Halo since the start, having read Nylund’s FoR by finding a reference to it from the back of Halo:CE’s manual in 2001 and following it until Bungies departure during Reach’s transition to 343i where I was a Mythic Member (Highest Community status) on the site. If you think Halo 4 is anything remotely similar to anything thematically Nylund’s or Bungie’s Halo at its core than you just don’t know the difference. Halo 4 was fan service to the target audience of Sci-fi nerds who watch anime. It does not follow the mantra of OT Halo and it continues down a new timeline of appeasing to that target audience mentioned above. OT Halo at its core was a grounded with 80’s mindset Sci-FI militarily tropes and Firefly styled humour. Specific reference to films like Alien for visual style and Kurt Russell’s Soldier (1998) for military culture with the lore leaning a lot on Ringworld for the forerunner mythos. 343i Halo leans heavily on 2010-2014 fashionable tropes to humananise main video game characters thanks to the popularity of Mass Effect at the time, Ninja Gaiden 3 did the same thing with Ryu Hayabusa ‘to make them seem human and relatable’. By doing this they shelved their story into BS much like 343i who leaned to heavily on Greg Bears Halo BS on making this some kind of hard nerd series. They chose to sexualise Cortana to rake into the virgin basement dweller crowd and they dumbed down the Chief to make him more pallatable to the dude bros in sport jerseys. They cheapened the Halo Franchise by trying to make it seem darker and more deep without acknowledging the original themes (perhaps as a way to construct their new identity) Either way they fucked up Halo by doing this and it hasn’t been Halo since. So for all that say, ‘for those of us that have been with Halo from the start and read the books’ And not be absolutely disgusted at how much 343i has disrespected that portion of the fanbase and continues to disrespect the current fanbase by releasing ignorant content. Yeah you may have consume the original works but you never absorbed the spirit of the original works to know enough to know what it actually was. It’s like having a dog and then having someone swap the it with a cat and the parent not knowing the difference and then parading that cat to everyone all proud that it’s their dog that they brought up from day 1. That’s the state of it so I cringe so hard when I hear people in 2019 saying they were there with Halo since 2001 and not know the difference. It’s true Nylund’s tried to humanise John as a kid but anything post abduction was straight out to be non-relatable. The whole point of the SPARTAN program was to take away elements of their humanity to elevate them as the best fighters humanity has to offer. That was their sacrifice, they gave it up to be who they are. By denying that sacrifice to appeal to sci-fi fans outside the medium of that Universe is just a joke to how 343i treat MC in this universe.
CE: I think we're just getting started. 2: Sir, finishing this fight. 3: Wake me when you need me. 4: She said that to me once... About being a machine... 5: Negative, Infinity. I don't like it. Infinite: The missions change. They always do.
On top of losing Cortana and basically being fighting since he was at an age where most of us were still barely out of kindergarten, the guy feels even more isolated because when it comes to soldiers, he stands alone at the top, with experiences other people cant even begin to relate to.
I used to hate Halo 4 with a passion (to which I still generally dislike it today) but damn 343 really did well in terms of story. It was a pleasant suprise to have the story focus on chief, his humanity, his soul and emotions. Too bad Halo 5 fucked everything up and took 100 steps back.
Hey, chill the fuck out it’s The Master Chief we’re talking about here and his story OUR story we should respect that just like if we were machines comparable to humans.
TheOkayestGamer I respect your opinion but personally I can’t really think of anything Halo 4 did wrong besides it’s music. It was a step down from Bungies music. But everything from gameplay, the story, to graphics, voice acting, to the forerunner weapons, having chief speak during the cutscenes, I thought was all fantastic.
@@iambuhlockay8007 depends what you like really. Most of the old hands dont like it cos it's not halo. Sprint, killstreaks, loadouts, new unbalanced guns, it just doesn't sit right having the halo name. Good for you if you like it though
@@Sasquatch2696"it's not halo"...I hear that line all the time and it's slightly annoying because its subjective honestly. I think 343 just streamlined the game too fast for classic fans to handle.
I really feel like this was the pivotal moment john realized that he could go after cortona rather than always doing what he is told because he figured out he was human with free will not a tool programmed to fight anything in his way. we sort of see that after he first meet the arbiter but I feel this is really the tiping point.
Capt. Barnes Chasing a Rampant A.I with no foresight beyond a ‘romantic’ emotional attachment is the exact opposite of what Halo 1-3 Master Chief would do. He would have moved on and been upgraded with another A.I much like his MJOLNIR. He does not get attached to anything beyond completing the mission. Making his mission Cortana goes against everything he was trained to do and not only does he betray Humanity by doing that he betrays himself.
Kenjamin7 ummm what about the mission “Cortana” in halo 3 where he literally goes out of his way to save her deep within the flood infested high charity?
koicommander he had to get her to make sure he knows what Cortana knows about gravemind. He didn’t get her because he loved her and wanted to rescue her out of feelings. It’s mentioned in Halo 2 ‘After I’m done with Truth...’ alluding that he will come get her back. In Halo 3 he Truth died and the Cortana mission was him getting her back the same way if he left his MJOLNIR armour behind or anything of strategic significance that could be retrieved. Plus Cortana was spamming him cryptic scripted messages through slipspace transmission that affected him during combat missions. Wouldn’t you want to find a way to get rid of an ad when you’re in combat? He puts the core missions before Cortana. Halo 4 and 5 has this backwards and it’s bad storytelling.
Yes, Chief is always mission first, but he's not a robot. He does have feelings, and he did care about cortana. However, we're looking at a mishandling of Chief as a character by 343i. Chief is not a romantic, but he still feels emotional trauma. As for Cortana, the events of 4-infinite would be better written as Chief feeling both personal responsibility for her betrayal, and a commitment to continue service and defend humanity. In all honesty, I could probably write a better script for the 4-Infinite arc than 343. I just hope to god that 343 doesn't fuck up infinite.
@@Kenjamin7 "You're mistake is seeing them as military hardware..." for you to say Chief doesn't CARE and LOVE humanity and his allies is a huge misstep on your part. Read the books. He feels all the time for his allies.
There's a reason they wanted children for the Spartan 2 program. Their lives don't matter, what they feel doesn't matter, what they want doesn't matter, the mission matters, the cause matters.
St You have it wrong. Under Halsey each candidate lives mattered more. As each S-II was not dispensable. If it was up to her in hindsight she would have taken more. The SPARTAN-II project was in every way Humanity’s best chance at surviving the century and it was proven to be all the most true when the Covenant arrived. The only lives that mattered a little less in that regards where the first few batches of SPARTAN-III’s that were meant to be disposable by carrying out high risk suicide missions with no expectation of survival. They didn’t even have energy shield in their SPI armour. SPARTAN-II were equipped with battleship tier MJOLNIR armour. They were not in any way shape or form meant to be dispensable and there lives not mattering.
Halo 4's campaign is easily my favorite above all other halo campaigns. The story, the emotion, the character development, the designs, the gameplay, I loved it
@@LetsPlayArcanium As much as I like Bungie's universal storytelling (Chief is just a piece of it all), I like 343's focus on diving deeper into who Chief and Cortana really are. I can see they tried to broaden it with H5, but that ended in disaster.
Drawable Halo 4 was actually really overrated when it came out that 343i got delusional enough to carry the same seeds of shit into Halo 5. Just because Halo 5 wasn’t popular on release because advertising straight out lied about its story made it acceptable to have Halo 5 backlash and people put Halo 4 on a pedestal to defend Halo 5 backlash. Halo 4 is still incredibly more so overrated because of the critical reception of Halo 5 now.
luigui 888 look at all the critical reception and reviews of its time. IGN gave it a 9.8 back when IGN reviewed actually mattered more than meta critic for the gaming community. 343i saw it as a success and the only haters were the OG Halo players, a new wave of ‘halo’ players came about and have gradually been replacing the fanbase since. That’s what I’m talking about.
halo 4 definitely suffered a lot of minor issues like aesthetic, weapons, enemies, level design, etc. (heck, I have a list of minor fixes that would have alleviated those gripes!) but it's story is one of the few things that I can say without a shadow of a doubt was alright.
hudsonk1racer every issue you just mentioned was due to the lack of foresight and aim to create a new identity for itself. That went into the story as well. This is as unhalo in story as much as it was in the other departments that you just listed. This is the biggest representation of an imposter Master Chief since Halo 5.
"You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!"
"The kingdom of god is not in one man, nor a group of men, but in you! You the people have the power! The power to create happiness! The power to create peace! You the people have the power to make this life a wonderful adventure! To make this life free and beautiful!..."
Every time somebody wants to talk shit on 343 for “not caring about Halo” I think to this moment. They’ve made mistakes, sure, but how dare anyone look at these two conversations and say they don’t care. This is heart put into Halo, period.
117 was raised to to just follow orders and nothing more. Like a machine. Cortana tried to show him there's more to life than living in the darkness of military and government. Only until Laskey told him that soldiers were people also did that made him come to what Cortana originally said.
The military and government ain't all darkness. Some war-torn veterans out there miss military service and/or the frontlines for various reasons. They often mention the brotherhood of soliders, honor, service, courage, and pride. They also mention that civilian life is nothing. The military can teach you many things about life and war can change how you view it. And the government is a tool. A system used by those who abuse it. The darkness lies in the hearts of those who abuse the government.
The Hunter Squad This game was made for the target audience for those that cry at video games about a military sci-fi supersoldier having feelings like a teenager.
you know, how far chief would go for Cortana is second to what wander did for his girl in "shadow of the colossus" except chief is more epic protagonist.
You don't understand how much that sentence hurt chief. He was trained from 6 to kill and all he knows is to take orders. And deep inside (if you've read the comics) he wants people to know that he is more than a killing machine. That he is a caring, living being, that was *born* . And just imagine how hard it is for him, Cortana, his ONLY friend to disappear like that. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to commit some sort of suicide. It must be really cool, but EXTREMELY depressing to be chief.
She wasn’t his only friend, he had blue team even before Cortana, in fact he was leader of all Spartan 2’s after the augmentations and personally felt the guilt of each Spartan who died in training or from augmentations or even the ones who were just crippled. As poor as halo 5 was it did also for a split second show us a glimpse into chief’s suicidal thoughts, taking mission after mission without rest, like veterans who can’t adjust to normal life after conflict, they’re just looking for peace in the battlefield which sadly means he/they are liable to fight until they die.
the thing I love about Chief, is that, to everyone who sees him, he is the best, the pinnacle of what humanity could be. he has almost never failed a mission, and that and his abilities and armor make him seem unstoppable and a beacon of hope for humanity in it's darkest hour. the Covenant was wiping ut our colonies, Chief and the Spartans tried to hold the line, when Reach fell Chief escaped with our last hope and destroyed the 1st ring, the Covenant invaded Earth and he fought in New Mombasa and for the brief time he was on Earth he started to turn the tide, he did not finish the fight on Earth and left early in it, but he inspired all of Earth's Defenders and citizens to fight back for EVERY inch of our planet, and as Halo 2 and 3 happened we held on for a month long battle. when Truth attempted to activate the Ark, Cheif led the assault to stop him and the Flood. and when the Didact planned to compose Earth, Chief stayed on Requiem to try and stop the Didact solo. through all his battles and toughest moments he persevered, and inspired everyone, including us in the real world. but under the stoic roboticlly efficient exterior, lied he best qualities of the Chief, the real reason we all love him, is that no matter the odds, Chief still does all he can and with the augmentations and skill, the turned a child into a machine like super soldier, this caused him to harden and always focus on the objective, the next mission, being a soldier is all he has known. after he lost Cortana Chief went on non stop missions. focusing on the next mission helped Chief cope with the loss. he has a heart underneath all that armor. but he has lost almost everyone he has ever loved. Chief is efficient, but is still human.
I couldn't remember how this scene went so I looked up, yup still hits the feels. Lasky is holding a piece of a hunter Chief saved him from at Corbulo Academy. They have both losted someone truely dear to them and helped each other in their time of need, this scene holds a lot of weight if you love the series.Happy Reach Day everyone (Reach comes to MCC and PC today!!)
I don't see Lasky get as much praise as I think he deserves in Halo 4 and 5. I find him to be a very likable character and pretty rounded, even without the Forward Unto Dawn mini series. I hope to see much more of him in Halo Infinite, and hopefully he lives to see the end of it (pretty bad track record of KIA ship commanders in Halo).
This is why Lasky is the best character of the Halo Universe, he's real good when it comes to talking with the Chief. I hope he survived the Events of Halo Infinite.
Soldiers are clockworks. Replaceable, on their own insignificant. Most soldiers are part of a machine that will take try everything to form this perfect clock. Unrelenting, unending, unhumain and yet created to protect their fragile idea of humanity. War is a damn tragedy that breaks down everything that makes this works bright and paints it black, with dark sticky colors that suffocate all that is good, slowly, day after day, night after night. The soldier on his own is still a human. But this humanity is his flaw. "A good soldier doesn't ask questions/runs in the park until his legs fail him." He is not who is responsible but if soldiers really do see war, it's an image they won't ever forget. We are lucky to live in times where real war had become a distant, unpleasant memory. Peace is a luxury that shouldn't be taken for granted and for the sake of all sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers - we must remember that all the money in the world doesn't bring back the dead. That 'calculated risk' is cold hearted, a game that feeds of lives. Remember this. War is the most terrible necessary evil on this planet. So keep the peace in your countries. For your sake and the sake of those who fall for generals in retirement homes, because of reasons that are important to rulers not people. Elect capable politicians and be responsible and reflective with our shared voice.
yeah. He is already pretty tall. Plus the Gen 2 armor adds around another foot to their height. So Chief is taller than gen 4 spartans in armor when he is out of his.
Everyone's always talking about how games nowadays are super realistic with cutscenes and dialogue, but this absolutely blows me away, and it's from 2012
Halo four and five were good. Not every story can be the best you know, and yes halo 5 could have done something’s different but I like the idea that chief can’t live without cortana because he’s a human who has feelings. And that’s why he went on a quest to bring her back. Hopefully in halo infinite they show chiefs human side more and not so much of him being a bad ass. Don’t get me wrong I still want to shoot my why through an army of brutes and elites but I would also want to see chief cry over everything he’s lost.
Anyone know why we never see chief's face. It's because we are chief we are the man or women in the armor we all have that cortana that we will do anything for the love that if he or she ever leaves we will feel empty.
Chief was supposed to be whatever you believe Chief to be. In the first game they planned to not have him speak so that way he could be anyone. White, black, Latin, Asian, male or female. Then they gave him a name to make him more human instead of just calling him 117. Think Noble Six from Halo Reach. They never showed you his face until they started remastering stuff and expanding the Halo universe. That way he could still relate to of any colour or national origin and thus a hero of your own make. I personally don't car about his appearance believing that once we expand to the star and other worlds, we will leave all of that petty bs behind. He is The Master Chief savior of mankind.
Master chief's story should have ended here; Cortana has died, he has lost every person he cared about... but in the end, Cortana passed on, and her sacrifice gave chief his humanity back. He is a man once more, free to live in peace as Cortana wanted.
My entry into the series, my first Halo experience. Nevertheless you were forgettable in some ways, and revolutionary in others. Regardless, you created memories, you conjured emotion. Most importantly you never quite felt like a machine, always far more human than that…
less than 5 minutes. that's all it takes this amazing remix of game, cinematic, orchestral music to encapsulate so much from the halo series. this video was made almost a decade ago, and i wish i saw this; when i was going through something very painful at the time. And i wish the new halo show on paramount+ could just do something like this, a story true to that of halo.
The beauty of this scene always gets me. In full view of earth, the cradle of humanity, which has survived endless war throughout its entire history, even from relentless invasion by a massively superior enemy, earth still stands through all its been through and Lasky talking about soldiers being human, talking to a man who he isn't even sure is a real person but in reality, chief is absolutely as human as it gets, even though being a soldier and living his life in a suit he never takes off is all he's ever known.
Halo 4 had such a beautiful story. They balanced the rawness of chief's spartan side and his human side very well. Say what you will about the didact, but the relationship between chief and cortana in this game was a masterpiece. Shame they threw it away in Halo 5 and now, Infinite. Had so much potential to play out like a movie -- in the best way possible.
Man, watching this a decade after it came, shit still breaks my heart when he says it. Spartans are basically programmed machines yes, but they can still love Cortana and chief went through so much together. There was definitely love there like you love a family member.
This game had a beautiful story and a heartwrenching ending. It took the death of Cortana for Chief to start showing some emotion. To realize maybe there's more to life than being a soldier of the UNSC. And then Halo 5 fucks up everything Halo 4 set up. Cortana shouldn't have come back. Chief should have spent Halo 5 with Blue Team, mourning Cortana but slowly but surely developing his own unique personality, and opening up to people (specifically Blue Team). The main villain could have been either the Warden or a similar Forerunner AI gone rampant alongside Jul M'dama, activating the Guardians in a misguided belief that the AI are the ones who deserve the Mantle of Responsibility. Jul could aid the Prometheans, similarly misguided in believing that they are helping him achieve the Great Journey. That's just a suggestion though. Literally anything would be better than what he ended up as in Halo 5 (all those Spartan Ops missions just so he can get killed in the first mission of the next game? Really?)
![[HD] HALO 4 Cortana shows her love to John 117](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hnkOLCwu-HM/mqdefault.jpg)
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Lasky is a extremely underrated character
The man met chief when he was 15. During Halo 4’s movie.
@@NayaChann and chief being only being 2 to 3 years older than him.
@@hourz actually Chief is a year younger than him! Imagine that...
And an extremely capable captain.
@@NayaChann I think that's why lasky feels weird about cheif calling him sir...as if lasky doesnt owe that rank and everything he has and will have to chief...chief saved his life when they were both teenagers...at the academy he mentioned I think, not that cheif attended that academy, because of course he was put through the secret spartan program...the first real encounter with the covenant was probably at that academy, or at least that planet...lasky and a handful of others were the only survivors out of millions...thanks to chief he didnt get glassed...they pretty much grew old together
It's kind of sad when you think about it. Chief has been in the military since he was a child and it's all he really knows. He even forgot that he himself, is human
I think the focus of their story line is that Chief is a human designed to be a machine, and Cortana is a machine designed to be human. They meet each other in the middle.
Brian Becker and completed each other. And when he finally learned how to be human, she left him.
Human.. I think that's the worst thing anyone can become.. Inherently flawed, weak, fragile and insignificant..
1998 Cadillac DeVille d'Elegance Damn...
@@lavatun No it isn't.
This scene alone is better than the entirety of Halo 5's campaign
Starbite Productions tru
Halo 5 was a letdown, but it was good to see Buck again.
no shit
But still halo 5 ends on a cliffhanger
Young Gloom irony, in halo reach you could buy his voice, description of it “if he was any better, hed be a spartan”
I love how all the spartan 4s watch as the chief takes off his armor.
Jaime Ramos cuz no one really has seen chefs face
Mega construx maker No they know how he looks it's because they haven't seen a S-II in a while.
SomeRedGuy Everyone that that has seen the Chief's face except Halsey is dead. It's actually all of that and just the fact that the MC is a fucking legend to everyone. That's like if George Washington or Lincoln showed up at Congress or the White House. Chief also finally gets to take his armor off and get some R&R after 40+ years.
Mega construx maker they have. In the books, the chief doesn't wear his armor all the time like in the games.
Mr. Rainbow Sprinkles that's not true. In the books a lot of people see the chief without his helmet. They even describe him in depth.
Ignoring all the flak 343 gets with H5, Halo 4 was pretty damn good
Probably because they had a lot of resources to work with from bungie on the story and how it was suppose to be! Funny enough I can see a lot of resemblences between certain things in Destiny and Halo, one of the things that caught my eye was that the Halo was there to destroy life but the Traveller gave life!
WhackyJ in AK halo 4 had a great story. Multiplayer was absolute shit though
Story was good, campaign missions felt very on rails
Halo 4 had a much better story that 3. Idk what people are smoking thinking 3 was is amazing. It's the worst out of the CE-4 story-wise. We don't talk about 5.
@@Oozywolf i 100% agree... Halo 3's story is pretty bad... And halo 4 is honestly a masterpiece
I love Lasky's character, hes the only one within the standard UNSC that really understands how the Chief feels and is always on his side.
It’s because he was there with Chief from the beginning. He was saved by him. And knows his compassion
@@aaronluna4341 God Halo 4 really did have a TON of character depth in all the characters that was just swept away in H5.
master chief became the inspiration for lasky to pursue military even though he wasnt meant to be part of one due to health complications
Lasky is one of the few to think outside the box and outside the UNSC propaganda machine. As was shown inn the movie, Forward Unto Dawn, he was the only one (we see) that didnt blindly blame Insurrectionists for the war, but also tried to see the conflict from their side. UNSC is kinda like the Empire in star wars when you start scratching the surface a bit...
@@Wistbacka Eh, they got dragged into the CAA/CMA's mess, and forced to clean it up. And a LOT of the rebel cells were terrorists.
Lasky was right, some rebels are fine people. But you gotta get rid of the insane guys.
Im honestly gonna say that I teared up in this scene. Big fan of halo since the beginning.
it really hits you hard with the struggles you go through in the game. making you question what has chief become most more machine than human or is he still human trying to find his place outside his armor wanting to find closure for those he lost and how to function normally again. this scene makes me cry every time because you can hear the subtle hurt and sadness in chiefs voice.
Cakeomnom808 same
Same
Since the Xbox demo disc of the cartographer.😂
Same I played every single halo game
I want everyone to appreciate the level of grief the chief is experiencing. At 0:26 he was so surprised that someone was behind him you could almost see his surprised expression through the helmet. The master chief is a very experienced soldier who was trained not to let anyone sneak up on him and yet he was surprised here because of his grief.
Because he was lost in thought. Usually he be able to catch on especially considering how Lasky's footsteps weren't quiet but this is a good detail. Shows us how much her death affected him.
And maybe he was surprised someone was with him.
And let’s give 343 credit for the animation detail so we can perceive that emotion through the armor
Miguel blur studios did the CGI cutscenes.
ok like MJOLNIR is not equipped with a motion tracker and Chief’s superhuman reflexes that are almost like time being too slow because of his insane reaction speed is delayed because he’s emotional distressed over his ‘virtual space girlfriend’ which he had not romantic connection with until she went Rampant in Halo 4.
I always loved how collosal the Master Chief appears as he walks past Palmers. Really shows why the Spartan IIs are held in such a legendary regard
When you take into account the fact that their looking at a man who saved the entire galaxy multiple times over, singlehandedly took on and stopped the forerunners, flood, covenant AND their own insurrection, and also has the highest kill streak in human history, still rising mind you, and is renowned for surviving impossible odds. I'd be scared to be in the same room as chief, the stuff he's done and is capable of is almost god like in its own regard
Delta 1642 imagine pissing the chief off...
I can imagine what I would say in his shoes, something along the lines of “tall enough for you bitch”
@@Delta-mo6hn The Covenant refer to Spartans as demons, they refer to Chief as The Demon. Multiple alien species that know of 1 man and fear him more than any other living being, enough to call him THE Demon. He really is god-like.
Comparing a Spartan 4 to a Spartan 2 is like comparing the average bull shark to a 20+ foot great white shark.
Laskey is one if the few people that have enter John's life and that he actually respects them not only as superiors or combatants, but also as individuals outside of his SPARTAN-II brothers and sisters.
- Chief Mendez
- Catherine Halsey
- Jacob Keyes
- Thomas Laskey
- Cortana
- Sgt. Major A. Johnson
- Miranda Keyes
- Lord Terrence Hood
- Thel Vadam (Arbiter)
What about Sgt. Avery Johnson
Forgot Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias Haverson, Corporal Locklear and Warrant Officer Sheila Polaski and all those who were involved in Operation First Strike.
@@b4nd1t9 Sgt Major A. Johnson is Avery Johnson, the supporting character from the first three games.
You forgot Blue Team
staff sergeant marvin mobuto as well
Lasky: "soldiers aren't machines"
"Chief: "what about that Kat lady she's technically robot."
Lasky: "What?
Chief: "nothing"
*Looks into the distance*
"She's a robot I know it."
Sounds like a Caboose line
I can definitely hear Caboose saying that.
jorge did the right hing in throwing him out lol, too late though, they were all already fucked
"Caboose! Get out of that armor!"
in a way soldiers are they sign on to fight and obey anyone that did so was once a machine under the control of a politician
Master Chief, the Man who puched a nuke and lived to tell the tale.
Deadeye Cpt. That’s 343i space magic canon and it doesn’t t belong in Halo.
@@Kenjamin7 Ur playing a sci fi game while complaining about "space magic"
Sosse Bargeld Problem is, most everything up til that point was plausible. Having a nuke a few inches from you explode and NO DAMAGE OCCUR WHATSOEVER is immersion breaking.
@@TheBlightMonkey but the flood being able to use hyperspace in Halo 3 wasn't immersion breaking...ok
amacze4 The hyper intelligent, forever learning species learned how to use hyperspace and you’re confused why?
The fact that people were pissed that the Chief FINALLY had character development, and emotion, is fucking ridiculous. Halo 4's Campaign was amazing, heart breaking, and fun as Hell.
It's a shame that they threw it all away in Halo 5. I wanted Cortana to come back, but what they made her, it's a farce. She has every right to do what she does and if she would just lay down the facts for John he wouldn't be trying to stop her.
@@St-hj1ux Power corrupts. Cortana has a human side of her, which got corrupted by power.
@@jonathancole3149 or the gavemind
@st @Jonathan Cole
You both realize that the Cortana in halo 5 is NOT the Cortana that died in halo 4, right? It’s one of her rampant personality spikes, a remnant, nothing more than an imposter.
no we were pissed because thats not how chief's character reacts to things
Every scene we've seen of Chief was of him either coming out victorious or getting ready to take on the next mission. But this time, we got to see a more human side of him.
Celestial Wing yes in Halo Infinite we will see MC take a shit in the toilet and all the fans will come out praising how much more he is relatable and human now and thank 343i for exposing that side of him to us.
@@Kenjamin7 lol that would be awesome, maybe they can have a scene of him ordering from Burger King with Johnson and Arby.
Celestial Wing It will be an interesting take to have Arbitor taking a shit in Burger King as this would be some next level ‘relatability’ shit with the current Halo fanbase.
@@Celestial_Wing Arby eating at Arby's
@@MoneyTrees2012 no
This makes me take back a lot of what I said about this games story
The gameplay is what was kind of a miss. The story itself was amazing. Made halo 5 look like total garbage
The story had a lot of redeeming qualities. It didn't give enough context for some elements, and it could of pushed the Didact a tad further, but it was still overall pretty amazing.
Easily the best character work in the entire series. People sleep on this games story. Its just that the campaign gameplay itself was kinda boring. The story was fantastic though. its only flaw was some lack of context and detail because it assumed its players knew a lot of lore for some reason. It also coulda taken the chief and his forerunner connections further. but it was a solid 9/10 in the story department imo.
Same here.
@@saifa.3950
Yep with odst
As well as being incredibly sad, I find this scene heartwarming...back in "Forward Unto Dawn", Chief comforted Lasky and offered his sympathies after Kyler died...and now Lasky is trying his best to help the Chief cope after Cortana's death. Axios, indeed.
Lasky truly is an outstanding officer and human being, he gets the bigger picture, he understand the sacrifices everyone makes and how that impacts them psychologically, he's a wonderfully written character
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 Agreed. I sincerely hope that Halo Infinite gives him a role.
Crimson Quill I just watch forward unto dawn for about the 4th time and now this scene makes me tear up.
And John knew what Lasky was going though because not even a year ago Sam had died. They both helped each other during rough times.
Best story out there. It's ironic how relatable the MC is despite all he has done and who he is.
John Horan Thats true sometimes I forget that John was just once a kid playing in the sun and laughing with friends but it was all taken from him and that takes away from his humanity but you can tell they are trying to give it back to him.
john horan
not only solders but fellow twos as well their deaths didn't hit him as hard as Cortana's
For those of us who have been with Halo since the start (2001) and read the books etc. We can see chief's humanity from the very beginning, when he was playing king of the hill with others at his school and his drive and desperation to win kept him on top, that supreme human instinct of the will to survive.
Personally, as much as I really like John's character, I always found myself likened to Frederick 104 as his character traits are similar to mine personally and that's the great thing about HALO, you can really connect with the characters on a personal level, they aren't just like a Mario or Solid Snake or some other basic story where they always manage to get to the end and can be bland character wise. I'm not trying to say they're from bad games, I'm just trying to highlight some of the depth HALO actually has and that underneath all the hardened elite level soldiering in the story, there's also a human in that story.
If you think you’re relatable with a SPARTAN-II Supersoldier in the 26th Century under countless deployments fighting for Humanity’s Survival under multiple Alien threats.
Either you’re delusional or 343i have written him wrong to make you think there’s that level of relatability beyond the idea that he’s also Human.
Disciple AJ I’ve been with Halo since the start, having read Nylund’s FoR by finding a reference to it from the back of Halo:CE’s manual in 2001 and following it until Bungies departure during Reach’s transition to 343i where I was a Mythic Member (Highest Community status) on the site.
If you think Halo 4 is anything remotely similar to anything thematically Nylund’s or Bungie’s Halo at its core than you just don’t know the difference. Halo 4 was fan service to the target audience of Sci-fi nerds who watch anime.
It does not follow the mantra of OT Halo and it continues down a new timeline of appeasing to that target audience mentioned above. OT Halo at its core was a grounded with 80’s mindset Sci-FI militarily tropes and Firefly styled humour. Specific reference to films like Alien for visual style and Kurt Russell’s Soldier (1998) for military culture with the lore leaning a lot on Ringworld for the forerunner mythos.
343i Halo leans heavily on 2010-2014 fashionable tropes to humananise main video game characters thanks to the popularity of Mass Effect at the time, Ninja Gaiden 3 did the same thing with Ryu Hayabusa ‘to make them seem human and relatable’. By doing this they shelved their story into BS much like 343i who leaned to heavily on Greg Bears Halo BS on making this some kind of hard nerd series. They chose to sexualise Cortana to rake into the virgin basement dweller crowd and they dumbed down the Chief to make him more pallatable to the dude bros in sport jerseys.
They cheapened the Halo Franchise by trying to make it seem darker and more deep without acknowledging the original themes (perhaps as a way to construct their new identity)
Either way they fucked up Halo by doing this and it hasn’t been Halo since.
So for all that say, ‘for those of us that have been with Halo from the start and read the books’
And not be absolutely disgusted at how much 343i has disrespected that portion of the fanbase and continues to disrespect the current fanbase by releasing ignorant content.
Yeah you may have consume the original works but you never absorbed the spirit of the original works to know enough to know what it actually was.
It’s like having a dog and then having someone swap the it with a cat and the parent not knowing the difference and then parading that cat to everyone all proud that it’s their dog that they brought up from day 1.
That’s the state of it so I cringe so hard when I hear people in 2019 saying they were there with Halo since 2001 and not know the difference.
It’s true Nylund’s tried to humanise John as a kid but anything post abduction was straight out to be non-relatable. The whole point of the SPARTAN program was to take away elements of their humanity to elevate them as the best fighters humanity has to offer. That was their sacrifice, they gave it up to be who they are.
By denying that sacrifice to appeal to sci-fi fans outside the medium of that Universe is just a joke to how 343i treat MC in this universe.
CE: I think we're just getting started.
2: Sir, finishing this fight.
3: Wake me when you need me.
4: She said that to me once... About being a machine...
5: Negative, Infinity. I don't like it.
Infinite: The missions change. They always do.
;-;
5: *Silence*
Halo 5 chief: cortana!
Where's cortana!
Do you know where's cortana?
Come home cortana!
Cortana no!
Cortana...
Soldiers aren't machines, we're just people; tattoo level right there.
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JUStCALLMEZIMM “give me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy” tattoo level
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@@theman7140 * they're. If ur gonna correct him know the right answer😂
@Isaac Billeter r/woooooosh
“Before all of this is over, promise me you’ll figure out which one of us is the machine” Beautifully written.
she said that to me once...about being a machine.
man shaya f
On top of losing Cortana and basically being fighting since he was at an age where most of us were still barely out of kindergarten, the guy feels even more isolated because when it comes to soldiers, he stands alone at the top, with experiences other people cant even begin to relate to.
Cortona gave him a level head. A whole new purpose without her everything hit him all of reality hit him
Halo 4 didn't do a lot right, but holy shit, this scene is one of the best moments in the series.
I used to hate Halo 4 with a passion (to which I still generally dislike it today) but damn 343 really did well in terms of story. It was a pleasant suprise to have the story focus on chief, his humanity, his soul and emotions. Too bad Halo 5 fucked everything up and took 100 steps back.
Hey, chill the fuck out it’s The Master Chief we’re talking about here and his story OUR story we should respect that just like if we were machines comparable to humans.
TheOkayestGamer I respect your opinion but personally I can’t really think of anything Halo 4 did wrong besides it’s music. It was a step down from Bungies music. But everything from gameplay, the story, to graphics, voice acting, to the forerunner weapons, having chief speak during the cutscenes, I thought was all fantastic.
@@iambuhlockay8007 depends what you like really. Most of the old hands dont like it cos it's not halo. Sprint, killstreaks, loadouts, new unbalanced guns, it just doesn't sit right having the halo name. Good for you if you like it though
@@Sasquatch2696"it's not halo"...I hear that line all the time and it's slightly annoying because its subjective honestly. I think 343 just streamlined the game too fast for classic fans to handle.
I really feel like this was the pivotal moment john realized that he could go after cortona rather than always doing what he is told because he figured out he was human with free will not a tool programmed to fight anything in his way. we sort of see that after he first meet the arbiter but I feel this is really the tiping point.
Capt. Barnes Chasing a Rampant A.I with no foresight beyond a ‘romantic’ emotional attachment is the exact opposite of what Halo 1-3 Master Chief would do.
He would have moved on and been upgraded with another A.I much like his MJOLNIR. He does not get attached to anything beyond completing the mission.
Making his mission Cortana goes against everything he was trained to do and not only does he betray Humanity by doing that he betrays himself.
Kenjamin7 ummm what about the mission “Cortana” in halo 3 where he literally goes out of his way to save her deep within the flood infested high charity?
koicommander he had to get her to make sure he knows what Cortana knows about gravemind.
He didn’t get her because he loved her and wanted to rescue her out of feelings.
It’s mentioned in Halo 2 ‘After I’m done with Truth...’ alluding that he will come get her back. In Halo 3 he Truth died and the Cortana mission was him getting her back the same way if he left his MJOLNIR armour behind or anything of strategic significance that could be retrieved.
Plus Cortana was spamming him cryptic scripted messages through slipspace transmission that affected him during combat missions. Wouldn’t you want to find a way to get rid of an ad when you’re in combat?
He puts the core missions before Cortana.
Halo 4 and 5 has this backwards and it’s bad storytelling.
Yes, Chief is always mission first, but he's not a robot. He does have feelings, and he did care about cortana. However, we're looking at a mishandling of Chief as a character by 343i. Chief is not a romantic, but he still feels emotional trauma. As for Cortana, the events of 4-infinite would be better written as Chief feeling both personal responsibility for her betrayal, and a commitment to continue service and defend humanity. In all honesty, I could probably write a better script for the 4-Infinite arc than 343. I just hope to god that 343 doesn't fuck up infinite.
@@Kenjamin7 "You're mistake is seeing them as military hardware..." for you to say Chief doesn't CARE and LOVE humanity and his allies is a huge misstep on your part. Read the books. He feels all the time for his allies.
some of the most amazing words ever,,, unbelievable way to end the game.
Forgive me for a meme (the shame!) in this sad moment, but I think you mean...
Some of the most amazing words ever....of all time.
scliku sprick maannndennene
I'll never know how a man goes through this much pain and emotion and continues moving on.
There's a reason they wanted children for the Spartan 2 program. Their lives don't matter, what they feel doesn't matter, what they want doesn't matter, the mission matters, the cause matters.
St You have it wrong. Under Halsey each candidate lives mattered more. As each S-II was not dispensable.
If it was up to her in hindsight she would have taken more. The SPARTAN-II project was in every way Humanity’s best chance at surviving the century and it was proven to be all the most true when the Covenant arrived.
The only lives that mattered a little less in that regards where the first few batches of SPARTAN-III’s that were meant to be disposable by carrying out high risk suicide missions with no expectation of survival. They didn’t even have energy shield in their SPI armour.
SPARTAN-II were equipped with battleship tier MJOLNIR armour. They were not in any way shape or form meant to be dispensable and there lives not mattering.
Simple. If he stops, he might not be able to start again.
You acknowledge the pain but never let it define you
Halo 4's campaign is easily my favorite above all other halo campaigns. The story, the emotion, the character development, the designs, the gameplay, I loved it
Halo 4 only had a couple good moments but sadly the story lacked a lot
@@LetsPlayArcanium As much as I like Bungie's universal storytelling (Chief is just a piece of it all), I like 343's focus on diving deeper into who Chief and Cortana really are. I can see they tried to broaden it with H5, but that ended in disaster.
Got to be honest Halo 4 was very underrated. Often thrown in with the trash that is Halo 5.
Drawable Halo 4 was actually really overrated when it came out that 343i got delusional enough to carry the same seeds of shit into Halo 5.
Just because Halo 5 wasn’t popular on release because advertising straight out lied about its story made it acceptable to have Halo 5 backlash and people put Halo 4 on a pedestal to defend Halo 5 backlash.
Halo 4 is still incredibly more so overrated because of the critical reception of Halo 5 now.
@@Kenjamin7 What
Who's defending Halo 5's story
@@Kenjamin7
Halo 4 got a lot of criticism and unneeded hate when it was released. What are you talking about.
@@Kenjamin7 Everybody hated Halo 4 when it came out. You're delusional.
luigui 888 look at all the critical reception and reviews of its time. IGN gave it a 9.8 back when IGN reviewed actually mattered more than meta critic for the gaming community.
343i saw it as a success and the only haters were the OG Halo players, a new wave of ‘halo’ players came about and have gradually been replacing the fanbase since.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Is it just me or is Lasky like the more soft hearted Johnson especially this
halo 4 definitely suffered a lot of minor issues like aesthetic, weapons, enemies, level design, etc. (heck, I have a list of minor fixes that would have alleviated those gripes!) but it's story is one of the few things that I can say without a shadow of a doubt was alright.
hudsonk1racer every issue you just mentioned was due to the lack of foresight and aim to create a new identity for itself.
That went into the story as well. This is as unhalo in story as much as it was in the other departments that you just listed.
This is the biggest representation of an imposter Master Chief since Halo 5.
@@Kenjamin7 Did you honestly reply to literally every comment under this video with your bias 343i hate? Jesus christ dude
@@Kenjamin7 thats the problem with you. halo 4 isnt about the master chief, its about the man inside the armour, John.
"She said that to me once. About being a machine."
Honestly, my favourite quote from him.
Can I cry now?
"You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!"
"The kingdom of god is not in one man, nor a group of men, but in you! You the people have the power! The power to create happiness! The power to create peace! You the people have the power to make this life a wonderful adventure! To make this life free and beautiful!..."
Then in the name of democracy! Let us use that power!
"We all make mistakes, it's what makes us human"
Honestly just love how everyone stops what they’re doing to look upon a legendary spartan
Halo 4’s visuals and story were amazing to me, one of my favourite halos. Gameplay was great aswell.
"Don't you ever let her go chief never let her go"
I would love to hear Johnson saying that to begin Halo:Infinite, and somehow, to be able to keep that promise.
Every time somebody wants to talk shit on 343 for “not caring about Halo” I think to this moment. They’ve made mistakes, sure, but how dare anyone look at these two conversations and say they don’t care. This is heart put into Halo, period.
For real. Halo 4 had a great story.
@@lukester102d6 and I put that on my on my 3 centimeter defeater
Hearing Lasky in audio files on Infinite hurts
They so fucked up. H4 was beautiful but all the H3 homos derailed the franchise
Cheifs armor looked so badass in 4
117 was raised to to just follow orders and nothing more. Like a machine. Cortana tried to show him there's more to life than living in the darkness of military and government. Only until Laskey told him that soldiers were people also did that made him come to what Cortana originally said.
The military and government ain't all darkness.
Some war-torn veterans out there miss military service and/or the frontlines for various reasons. They often mention the brotherhood of soliders, honor, service, courage, and pride. They also mention that civilian life is nothing.
The military can teach you many things about life and war can change how you view it.
And the government is a tool. A system used by those who abuse it. The darkness lies in the hearts of those who abuse the government.
Looks like Chief needs to join Outer Heaven and help Big Boss
This chief is more human than whatever paramount created
I just love the small detail of Chief fixing his posture and getting into attention once he notices Lasky.
Roses are Red
The Grass Is Green
She Said That To Me Once
About Being A Machine
This scene is better than the Halo show on Paramount Plus, and it's not even close.
Captain Lasky is probably my favorite Halo character, from the post Bungie era.
Halo 4 doesn't get enough credit
I wish halo 4 would get a remake with the classic art style and classic gameplay
Not nearly....
"Even with all your upgrades, you're human. Just like the rest of us."
- Commander Shepard
3:37 is it just me or was palmer trying to say hi to chief but was rejected😂😂😂
343 did a good job with Halo 4's story
Helo 4’s ending was so sad I cried..
The Hunter Squad This game was made for the target audience for those that cry at video games about a military sci-fi supersoldier having feelings like a teenager.
WHO'S CUTTING ONIONS RIGHT NOW OMFG😢😢😢😢
you know, how far chief would go for Cortana is second to what wander did for his girl in "shadow of the colossus" except chief is more epic protagonist.
Beautiful, just beautiful.
This game had so much character and emotion, this game is like the top 3 best games ever made
Halo 2 has the best cutscenes.
i agree this and odst has a huge impact to me.
halo 2 is better at balancing both the world and characters but the impact? ill give it to 4
halo infinite takes like the word philosphy from halo 4 to a next level exposing the mistakes john and cortana made and learning from them
You don't understand how much that sentence hurt chief. He was trained from 6 to kill and all he knows is to take orders. And deep inside (if you've read the comics) he wants people to know that he is more than a killing machine. That he is a caring, living being, that was *born* . And just imagine how hard it is for him, Cortana, his ONLY friend to disappear like that. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to commit some sort of suicide. It must be really cool, but EXTREMELY depressing to be chief.
communistcat You've just described what a lot of veterans feel coming back from a warzone.
Yeaaaa... I was sad that he had to support that kind of pain... He was like a kid when he said. Wait... And cortana said welcome home john...
She wasn’t his only friend, he had blue team even before Cortana, in fact he was leader of all Spartan 2’s after the augmentations and personally felt the guilt of each Spartan who died in training or from augmentations or even the ones who were just crippled. As poor as halo 5 was it did also for a split second show us a glimpse into chief’s suicidal thoughts, taking mission after mission without rest, like veterans who can’t adjust to normal life after conflict, they’re just looking for peace in the battlefield which sadly means he/they are liable to fight until they die.
@@999Nightwing don't forget jonson in halo 3
then halo 5 came and ruined it all
Master chief and Cortanas voices has more emotional impact in this game.
ite beautiful
This hits differently after watching Halo Forward Unto Dawn
the thing I love about Chief, is that, to everyone who sees him, he is the best, the pinnacle of what humanity could be. he has almost never failed a mission, and that and his abilities and armor make him seem unstoppable and a beacon of hope for humanity in it's darkest hour. the Covenant was wiping ut our colonies, Chief and the Spartans tried to hold the line, when Reach fell Chief escaped with our last hope and destroyed the 1st ring, the Covenant invaded Earth and he fought in New Mombasa and for the brief time he was on Earth he started to turn the tide, he did not finish the fight on Earth and left early in it, but he inspired all of Earth's Defenders and citizens to fight back for EVERY inch of our planet, and as Halo 2 and 3 happened we held on for a month long battle. when Truth attempted to activate the Ark, Cheif led the assault to stop him and the Flood. and when the Didact planned to compose Earth, Chief stayed on Requiem to try and stop the Didact solo. through all his battles and toughest moments he persevered, and inspired everyone, including us in the real world. but under the stoic roboticlly efficient exterior, lied he best qualities of the Chief, the real reason we all love him, is that no matter the odds, Chief still does all he can and with the augmentations and skill, the turned a child into a machine like super soldier, this caused him to harden and always focus on the objective, the next mission, being a soldier is all he has known. after he lost Cortana Chief went on non stop missions. focusing on the next mission helped Chief cope with the loss. he has a heart underneath all that armor. but he has lost almost everyone he has ever loved. Chief is efficient, but is still human.
When i heard that being a machine it reminded me of that halo legends anime where the prototype pilot died being human.
I couldn't remember how this scene went so I looked up, yup still hits the feels. Lasky is holding a piece of a hunter Chief saved him from at Corbulo Academy. They have both losted someone truely dear to them and helped each other in their time of need, this scene holds a lot of weight if you love the series.Happy Reach Day everyone (Reach comes to MCC and PC today!!)
Love lasky. Such a likeable and relatable character
Seeing what he went through in forward until dawn I hope they didn’t kill him off in infinite story.
I don't see Lasky get as much praise as I think he deserves in Halo 4 and 5. I find him to be a very likable character and pretty rounded, even without the Forward Unto Dawn mini series. I hope to see much more of him in Halo Infinite, and hopefully he lives to see the end of it (pretty bad track record of KIA ship commanders in Halo).
Every spartan: *thinks that they are killing machines*
Titans from titanfall 2: Am I a joke to you?
This is why Lasky is the best character of the Halo Universe, he's real good when it comes to talking with the Chief. I hope he survived the Events of Halo Infinite.
Soldiers are clockworks. Replaceable, on their own insignificant.
Most soldiers are part of a machine that will take try everything to form this perfect clock.
Unrelenting, unending, unhumain and yet created to protect their fragile idea of humanity. War is a damn tragedy that breaks down everything that makes this works bright and paints it black, with dark sticky colors that suffocate all that is good, slowly, day after day, night after night.
The soldier on his own is still a human. But this humanity is his flaw. "A good soldier doesn't ask questions/runs in the park until his legs fail him."
He is not who is responsible but if soldiers really do see war, it's an image they won't ever forget. We are lucky to live in times where real war had become a distant, unpleasant memory.
Peace is a luxury that shouldn't be taken for granted and for the sake of all sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers - we must remember that all the money in the world doesn't bring back the dead.
That 'calculated risk' is cold hearted, a game that feeds of lives.
Remember this. War is the most terrible necessary evil on this planet. So keep the peace in your countries. For your sake and the sake of those who fall for generals in retirement homes, because of reasons that are important to rulers not people. Elect capable politicians and be responsible and reflective with our shared voice.
Damn is Halo 4 a good game, story gives the feels like no other.
Not even the newer spartans on the infinity waited as long as we did to see Chief relieve himself of his armor.
Realized that the Chief is huge.
yeah. He is already pretty tall. Plus the Gen 2 armor adds around another foot to their height. So Chief is taller than gen 4 spartans in armor when he is out of his.
Chief is 6'10 out of his armour
Elemental so he is around 7'10" case and point
Alexander Cuevas 7'2
@@alexandercuevas6783 Chief is 7'2 in armor. If you want a real giant then look at Kurt who was 8'2 in SPI armor if I recall correctly
Everyone's always talking about how games nowadays are super realistic with cutscenes and dialogue, but this absolutely blows me away, and it's from 2012
Halo four and five were good. Not every story can be the best you know, and yes halo 5 could have done something’s different but I like the idea that chief can’t live without cortana because he’s a human who has feelings. And that’s why he went on a quest to bring her back. Hopefully in halo infinite they show chiefs human side more and not so much of him being a bad ass. Don’t get me wrong I still want to shoot my why through an army of brutes and elites but I would also want to see chief cry over everything he’s lost.
Naturally Noah I really like halo 4s master chief. Probably more than any other version of him. He’s not just a killing machine bro, he’s only human.
One of the tiny details that I just love is the little divots in John's visor that look like tears
sheds 1 lonely tear 😢
this game really changed me in so many ways...
R.I.P cortana 💔
Anyone know why we never see chief's face. It's because we are chief we are the man or women in the armor we all have that cortana that we will do anything for the love that if he or she ever leaves we will feel empty.
That is true I guess I was thinking he or she because in multi player you can change your spartan
The idea of love and always fighting for who I love (cortana) is still there and with the release of Halo 5.
Chief was supposed to be whatever you believe Chief to be. In the first game they planned to not have him speak so that way he could be anyone. White, black, Latin, Asian, male or female. Then they gave him a name to make him more human instead of just calling him 117. Think Noble Six from Halo Reach. They never showed you his face until they started remastering stuff and expanding the Halo universe. That way he could still relate to of any colour or national origin and thus a hero of your own make. I personally don't car about his appearance believing that once we expand to the star and other worlds, we will leave all of that petty bs behind. He is The Master Chief savior of mankind.
Ryan Martin I lost my Cortana So now I'm empty
ShadyCesar me too buddy. It's a never ending void
Yup seems pretty clear that most legends have depression lol.
Watch you’r mouth.
3:38 He just dwarfs the IV’s, I was wondering why the elites seemed so much taller while playing as Osiris.
he actually doesn't it's a camera trick
That’s what they make you think.
Mom, can we have Captain Lasky at home ? Mom : No, we have Captain Lasky at home. Captain Lasky at home : Captain Del Rio
Lol
I imagine a scene like this having some sort of impact on vets who have seen combat and all the other horrors of war and lived to tell the tale.
Captain Keyes would be proud of the leader Lasky turned into.
Honestly as a veteran this hits home harder then I'd like
"you can't portray emotion with a helmet on." -Paramount
Says the film studio who doesn't know how body language works...
Master chief's story should have ended here; Cortana has died, he has lost every person he cared about... but in the end, Cortana passed on, and her sacrifice gave chief his humanity back. He is a man once more, free to live in peace as Cortana wanted.
My entry into the series, my first Halo experience. Nevertheless you were forgettable in some ways, and revolutionary in others. Regardless, you created memories, you conjured emotion. Most importantly you never quite felt like a machine, always far more human than that…
Thank you...and never forget.
less than 5 minutes. that's all it takes this amazing remix of game, cinematic, orchestral music to encapsulate so much from the halo series. this video was made almost a decade ago, and i wish i saw this; when i was going through something very painful at the time. And i wish the new halo show on paramount+ could just do something like this, a story true to that of halo.
Love it or hate it halo 4's campaign was amazing
The beauty of this scene always gets me. In full view of earth, the cradle of humanity, which has survived endless war throughout its entire history, even from relentless invasion by a massively superior enemy, earth still stands through all its been through and Lasky talking about soldiers being human, talking to a man who he isn't even sure is a real person but in reality, chief is absolutely as human as it gets, even though being a soldier and living his life in a suit he never takes off is all he's ever known.
Halo 4 had such a beautiful story. They balanced the rawness of chief's spartan side and his human side very well. Say what you will about the didact, but the relationship between chief and cortana in this game was a masterpiece. Shame they threw it away in Halo 5 and now, Infinite. Had so much potential to play out like a movie -- in the best way possible.
This might be the best Halo scene ever out of all the entire series!!!!!
Halo 4 is still underrated to this day.
Out of all the Halo games, Halo 4 had the best dialogue and impactful talks.
Damn memories when It first came out I spent night and day completing it on legendary to get the legendary ending what a game
I wish they continued with fireteam crimson and the direction halo 4 was going.
Halo 4 is one of the best games of all time.
Man, watching this a decade after it came, shit still breaks my heart when he says it. Spartans are basically programmed machines yes, but they can still love Cortana and chief went through so much together. There was definitely love there like you love a family member.
I kinda like that face reveal design. John's been in his armor for so long that his skin's gotten incredibly pale.
One of the best cutscenes in all of Halo.
This game had a beautiful story and a heartwrenching ending.
It took the death of Cortana for Chief to start showing some emotion. To realize maybe there's more to life than being a soldier of the UNSC.
And then Halo 5 fucks up everything Halo 4 set up. Cortana shouldn't have come back. Chief should have spent Halo 5 with Blue Team, mourning Cortana but slowly but surely developing his own unique personality, and opening up to people (specifically Blue Team).
The main villain could have been either the Warden or a similar Forerunner AI gone rampant alongside Jul M'dama, activating the Guardians in a misguided belief that the AI are the ones who deserve the Mantle of Responsibility. Jul could aid the Prometheans, similarly misguided in believing that they are helping him achieve the Great Journey. That's just a suggestion though. Literally anything would be better than what he ended up as in Halo 5 (all those Spartan Ops missions just so he can get killed in the first mission of the next game? Really?)
“Big man forgets what he is sometimes”
Still hate the redesign of chiefs armor, but dope scene
This was probably my favorite scene in the entire game.