FOR A BRICK HE FLEW PRETTY GOOD WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR ARBITER DO ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE WHAT IF YOU MISS? I WONT IF THEY CAME TO HEAR ME BEG, THEY WILL BE DISAPPOINTED YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THIS GEAR IS SON?
I was running a framing crew back in 04, had 4 younger guys working for me. We all lined up at midnight to get our copies from EB games in SLC. Took a company sponsored day off to play on LAN the next day. So many good memories...
@@shreksnow1918 Yeah 343 sucks but whos to say Bungie wouldn't have done the same thing. I still feel it would have been better than what 343 did though
Halo came out in the 6th generation of consoles. We are much closer to combat evolved today than combat evolved was to say the snes. I wouldn’t call that gamings early life
@@bart3736 I never suggested Halo was made in gaming's early life, I was talking about how effective Halo & Bungie was when they were young, and the effect they had on many future games.
I was 12 years old when it came out. We were third in line at GameStop waiting for it. I remember my grandma waiting in the car while my brother, my friend Brian and I all sat in the cold just waiting. People will never understand how incredible Xbox live was when it first came out. Halo 3 is the pinnacle of online halo for me, but Halo 2 was the catalyst. Goddamn those were the days.
i love that!! thank you for sharing your story bro!! 😄 it really was absolutely mind blowing when it came out! i was 10 at the time when it came out and my buddy would invite me over to his place to play it together🥲 i begged my mom for an xbox for christmas that year, i would get home every day after school and do all my homework immediately and extra chores around the house, then my mom bought me a used xbox off one of her co-workers with a copy of both Halo: CE and Halo 2 and i can’t even describe how happy i was 🥲 that same friend and i spent countless hours playing online together, i still have that xbox and both games to this day 😄
I remember being 9 years old, Christmas Day at my grandmothers house. My dad unwrapped Halo 2 as his present, I couldn’t stop screaming I think I was so jealous and didn’t understand my family put it in his name because of my age. But it was for me. That memory is so vivid I can relive it at any time. Such a crazy time to be alive, the joy it brought me
"Master Chief, You mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?!" "Sir, Finishing this fight!" HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE!!
Thank you for this video. It takes me down memory lane on a true golden age for Halo and video games as a whole. Nail on the head with the focus on social features.
The clips of the voice actors in the booth gives me goosebumps every single time. The cherry on top is that clip of Jeff Steitzer. This cast doesn't know me, but man, I sure know them.
I still remember being 14 and coming home from school that day and my dad had bought the collector’s edition and surprised me. I called my best friend and we played it as long as we could. 20 years later and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
For me, the lore expansion in H2 is unapparelled in gaming. Halo CE was so new and fun, but the world was just interesting. H2, and the consistently amazing music, elevated it to one of the best creative universes that has ever existed. Weird to say, but my biggest moment was just opening the special edition with the grey metal-like sleeve and reading the Writ of Union.
one of my fav memories was halo 3 split-screen pvp with a friend after school. we'd hit up sandtrap, turn the active camo, speed and damage to max. turn the HP, shield and gravity to min. set it to spawn with random weapons with unlimited nades. we'd freak the heck out when we bumped into each other that ended up with us laughing like crazy after the panic kill. we'd also absolutely panic when other said they found a full auto weapon as you could just spray wildly around the map. dropping the landmines in skinny path areas was such a troll move at the time as we moved so fast we often didn't notice them till it was to late.
I remember queuing up with my son for the midnight launch of Halo 2. Halo continues to be an element of bonding between us. My son and his friends were always kind in letting me join their team even though I contributed little, we had a blast and I have many great memories from halo. My default phone ring tone is the halo theme and messages use the Virgil login tone from ODST. I was on holiday in Hawaii (from Australia) on a cruise and my phone rang just before disembarking in one port and a crew member recognised it. Halo truly brings people together!
@sirhambone indeed, it was too mind boggling. I hadn't had so much trouble understanding something since the DaVinci code. That extra "o" was the key to the whole puzzle
It hurts my soul that the Master Chief Collection exists and they didn’t do anything for it, not even a nameplate, but they’re celebrating the H2 anniversary in Halo Infinite.
Indeed, I didn’t feel like the anniversary playlist wasn’t good enough so I just went back to H2A and had a blast, I love the weapons designs, sounds and visuals. I wish the added ODST armor variants with backpacks, and some new dev made remastered maps
I still remember the myth that if you shot the golden warthog advert with rocket launchers on headlong and fill it completely black the golden warthog would spawn on the map :')
Halo 2, game game. The game that eluded me as a kid, cuz only my dad knew how to to run it until I turned eleven and played it for the first time through project cartographer and is my favourite halo game alongside reach
Some of my favorite times in halo was being part of Pratorian Guard h2 videos on RUclips and playing in lobbies that would be open for 24 hours plus. You would wake up and jump back in with the people that have been in the lobby for over 12 hours at a time. What an amazing time. H2 was something special.
2:02 I was in 7th grade at the time and my dad waited in line to get me the game at midnight. He woke me up an hour early for school the next morning so I could play the first two missions before having to go to school. Such an awesome game and a core part of building friendships not only in person but on XBL as well!
Agree, I genuinely believe that more people would talk in Halo infinite if it wasn't because you can only use a microphone while using headphones with a mic integrated and in the controller port (which has an awful delay) I'd live to use a USB microphone
I have two favourite Halo 2 moments, and they're both split screen. Firstly is turning off shields and starting everyone with the human pistol, which eventually resulted in me getting a four kill streak (because one of the other three players respawned in time for me to blast em). That was fantastic. We also did a lot of sword duels, which was great, but it was in a vacuum so we didn't realize just how good we'd all gotten at it (Halo 2 has the best sword combat BECAUSE there is no block) until I went and played with another group of friends and when it came to swords it was extremely one sided. That felt great.
Had a 3 hour capture the flag in a Halo 2 LAN party. Unforgettable. Banshee to banshee jack. 10,000 shots fired. Covering your friend while he went the the bathroom.
I remember the night vividly. It was the first game I ever pre-ordered and my introduction to xbox live. So many happy memories. I can't imagine a better time in history to be a teenager. The morning of the release someone brought the manual to school and had like 12 kids sitting around him. The upgrades from CE were incredible.
🎵Save Us ALLLLLllllll🎵!!!! 🥲 Breaking Benjamin, FTW! The first song that I heard from them was Away, from their We Are Not Alone album, during the summer of '04. It amped me up (lol) for BB. THEN, when I heard their song while playing H2, I went nuts!....might've metaphorically nutted, too. Who knows? 😆😉 Respect, @Promethean7 . 😊
I didn’t get into Halo when it came out because I was only a year old when Halo 2 came out. Me and my younger brother have been playing through the campaigns together and we’ve been enjoying it. We’ve played through Halo Reach, Combat Evolved, and Halo 2 so far.
20 years...damn... I remember going to the midnight release like it was yesterday. Friends and I showed up hours early and were the only ones there for a while. The store was in our mall so we just hung out in the concourse playing MTG and the store brought a TV out for us to watch while we wait. My mom let me take the next day off of school and I played through the entire campaign. Halo 2 multiplayer is still the most fun I've had playing games online. Kids these days have no idea how wild it was on Live back then.
Damn. It was only there for one day on the 20th anniversary of halo 2 release. Still very cool though...maybe even cooler that they only did it for that one one day. Style points: +100 Consistency points: -100
There is much talk and i have listened through rock and metal and time now i shall talk and you shall listen, My favorite line in halo 2 that and i need a weapon
One of my favorite memories with Halo 2: One day I was randomly invited to a custom big team battle with Green team vs. Red team. Started with a shotgun & sword and noticed people changing to green team when they died. That's when people in game told me about the special rules they wanted me to go by with this new custom game mode they called ZOMBIES. Good times.
I can still remember that cool November night, waiting in line outside the local Gamestop, checking my watch hoping that time could just move a little faster, memories of that incredible E3 footage still playing in my head. Everyone around me was so excited. We all knew it was going to live up to the hype.
Sadly, being forced to switch the option on has stopped a lot of talk in games like these. I hate it. The option should be to turn it off, not be off by default. Kills so much of what made these early games fun.
Eh, whenever i have talked people keep complaining that im either not getting enough kills in a social gamemode or that i suck. Im a campaign guy but i do occasionally play multiplayer, those players just kinda take the fun out of it. I could understand that in a competitive match which i dont play at all but not in a gamemode like fiesta slayer for example.
@falloutgamer347 then tell them they suck back or mute them. It's that easy. But apparently people think everyone needs to have a safety shield around their ears at all times. The world sucks, people sometimes suck. You have the power to ignore them and keep them out of your life.
My brother and I used to set up an air mattress in front of the tv and fall asleep to movies on the weekend. Then we would get up early the next day and play Halo 2 co-op all morning. Such a precious memory to me.
As a person who played the original Halo at launch when I was in 11 grade. Today's kids could never handle the level of pure smack talk before , during, and even after the match . Halo 2 really did set the bar for online console playing
I’m a younger halo fan born during the end of 2008 but I’ve had some amazing halo memories. growing up my dad would make sure every morning before he went to work he’d play one match with me. I still enjoy playing all the halos to this day just recently I played through all the campaigns in chronological order.
"Dear humanity, we regret comin' to Earth, we regret being alien bastards, and we most certainly regret that the corp just the hell out of our raggedy-ass fleet! OOH-RAH."
When I was maybe 8-9, I went into my garage and found a box sitting in the corner. Inside it was my dad’s OG Xbox and a bunch of games for it, but there was one that caught my eye. On the cover was a guy in Green Stormtrooper armor wielding a gun in each hand. Behind him, a burning city, and in front of him, five bold, blue characters that spelled “Halo 2.” From that moment on, I was a Halo fan.
Halo 2 was the game I grew up with. Did not play Halo CE much since i was too young but Halo 2 was my present for Christmas. I can even count how many times I replayed the campaign, i was absolutely in love with it. I loved playing as Arbiter, i thought it was the coolest thing ever turning invis. I remember I created a different profile for each and every skull where I had the profile saved at a near or exact moment in the campaign where i needed to get a certain skull.
This was the first video game I played. I was 3 years old when my dad introduced me to Halo and gaming as a whole. I'll never forget that moment. Halo 2 will forever be my favorite video game of all time
Man, I remember staying up all night with my friends trying to perfect super bounces. The custom games and social aspects were legendary. That was a special time in gaming.
When Halo 2 came out, me and a friend played Killzone so much online in preparation and excitement for it. It finally came out and I swear the slow pace of Killzone made us better at strategy for Halo 2. We would meet at my place every day after school to play, we would order 2 pizzas for ourselves and play split screen non-stop. I remember trying the super bounces in custom lobbies with people. I even remember when Zombies was a team deathmatch mode with an honor system that everyone kept honest via the mic. It was so funny having people yell out someone’s name and say “hey hey hey no man you died you have to switch to the zombie side now” or call out a “human” player for using the sword since it was just pistol and sword starts to differentiate the teams. And before all of that I remember playing online without my friends, first game online and I played solo in matchmaking. It was CTF on Zanzibar. A teammate had captured the flag and I helped escort them back to the beach. We fought our way back, the occasional teammate would die and respawn and catch up with us, but I remember being maybe 100ft from capturing the game winning point and looking back at the team and just seeing this group of strangers come together and complete this objective together. Most satisfying moment in gaming for me. I had played online in some PC games before but there was something about the mics and casual console experience that made everything feel more genuine and more like that virtual couch they were going for. If Halo doesn’t go back to that then there’s no reason to make another game at all.
I'll never forget my brother getting the Halo 2 anniversary edition with the metal case on this day 20 years ago, we sat and played the entire campaign from start to finish as co-op until 4am. He died last year and I still haven't managed to bring myself to replay halo.
Sitting in my basment living room as a preteen with my best friend,little brother, and cousin playing Halo 2 split screen FFA slayer was some of the most fun I had back then. I'm thankful that I can share that kind of joy when the rest of my siblings visit my appartment and I play MCC split screen FFA Slayer modes with them. I still hope that the next Halo will have features like that so future generatioms of kids can make memories like that, feel a similar sense of joy and fun while duking it out with friends/family in a slayer match on their couch.
@@ThePilleroflightning True, but it was playable before the mcc updates broke it. The only way you can play it and his other mods now is by downgrading mcc. I'd still leave it at No. 1 tho just based on all the stuff that he's adding: New areas, encounters, cut dialougue, weapons, lighting ect.
20 year's, warm fuzzy feels. I remember myself and my mate leaving work on a Friday to go smoke some jazz cabbage and hammer down on halo. If it wasn't multiplayer it was legendary co-op.
Too think that I'm older then Halo 2 by 1 year, yet having so many fond memories of the campaign as a kid. But thinking about it now as I'm 21. Halo 2 feels old, I feel old.
I do remember having the OG Player's Guide and the metallic case... I remember sitting, outside in the cold just for a 'friend' to come home. To play on THEIR XBOX at that time... I MISS THE OLD TIMES...
I cannot believe Halo 2 is twenty years old. I was a freshman in high school and the build up to that game was insane. The E3 demo had me damn near sleepless until the release. Crazy how fast time goes…
Still have my original collectors edition steelbook copy and the multiplayer map pack dvd in its case as well. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years already….Happy 20 to my favorite Halo in the franchise!
I remember people bringing in the special edition metal box to middle school. Everyone was so excited just to hold it and talk about the game. Man, what a time to be alive.
My best mates and I used to quickly drive home from school during our lunch hour to play a couple rounds of Halo 2 online before going back to class for the afternoon. We had LAN parties most weekends. I used to regularly walk a couple blocks with my CRT TV in hand and my Xbox in my backpack between my house and my friend's places all the time! It truly was the Pinnacle of social gaming.
My favorite memory was the unique ranking system with numbers that eventually turned into symbols around level 43 if i remember correctly. Level 50 was a halo ring and was mostly owned by cheaters. Although Tsquared was the first pro player to get it legitimately.
Mint please spread the word of adding a real CLASSIC PLAYLIST to infinite PERMANENTLY. Halo 2/3 maps, no zoom for weapons without optics, classic strafe. ALSO MORE WAYS TO GET CAREER XP, CHALLENGES, DOUBLE CAREER XP FEATURED PLAYLISTS, ETC As someone who’s almost MSgt in onyx, the fact that I can lose XP by simply getting killed by my teammate who’s griefing (hitting me off the map), accidentally jumping off the map or killing a teammate, is insane.
my fiancé and I randomly played halo 2 last night (for the first time in years) on my original crystal xbox, and I didn't even know it was the 20 year anniversary, that's amazing!
Dude I remember having arguments with a classmate in 3rd grade about whether the arbiter’s or the chief’s sections were better. Also Jeff is such a legend, I’m so glad he’s been embracing the community’s silly cameo requests, like he gets that community can go both ways
Listening to Jeff Steitzer gush is so freaking heartwarming. Nothing will ever be like Halo 2 again. Not for me anyway, what a freaking time to be alive
Honestly my favourite Halo memory is still my first Halo memory. Going over a friend's place and playing Two Betrayals to help him complete the level. I had no idea shooter games could look so good and be so fun. I was hooked and *had* to get the game for myself.
Halo 2 was pretty much my first ever console game that I was conscious enough to remember playing. I was 4 when it came out and it’s filled with great memories between my brothers and I.
Still to this day i don't know of a game where 3 dudes can get in one vehicle, do jumps, skids, run over people, fire off weapons, have the driver highjacked, the passenger beats the driver, drive of cliff and jump out prior killing the passengers, CTF whilst doing all of this, passenger firing a flying at a flying vehicle, a simply amazing concept.
I was 12 when it released, and I spent so many hours playing that game, beating it on every difficulty, over and over again. I remember just before Halo 3 came out, jumping on to xBox live and playing matchmaking in Halo 2 with all the whacky mods, flying warthogs, shotguns that fired grenades, plasma pistol scarab guns. Like Fiesta cranked to 11. Good times.
My favorite Halo memory is spending countless hours, days and nights on Reach with a group I randomly met and befriended in matchmaking. If UE5 Halo doesn't have social features it's the biggest missed opportunity ever.
The combination of revolutionary (at the time) gameplay, stunning visuals and level design and amazing, unique music really gives halo a sort of lightening in a bottle feel. Such amazing atmosphere and experience. Games like halo that do everything so well really are special.
Halo 2 was my first ever game, I am now 23 so many great memories with my dad. I remember being beyond scared of the flood and my dad had to carry me through those parts.Great times
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FOR A BRICK HE FLEW PRETTY GOOD
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR ARBITER DO
ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE
WHAT IF YOU MISS? I WONT
IF THEY CAME TO HEAR ME BEG, THEY WILL BE DISAPPOINTED
YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THIS GEAR IS SON?
..Oh I know what the ladies like
NAY, IT WAS HERESY
Tell that to the covenant
you need to play destiny 2, you have no choise
-AND WE HAD TO SHARE THE ROCK!!
I was running a framing crew back in 04, had 4 younger guys working for me. We all lined up at midnight to get our copies from EB games in SLC. Took a company sponsored day off to play on LAN the next day. So many good memories...
Core memory 🥰
That’s awesome! 👏🏻
HE ACTUALLY TOLD IT TO THE COVENANT I CANT BREATHE
(4:48)
😂
MAMA... I CAN'T
Caught me off guard too 😂
Was that a bonus clip for the collector edition?
@@jefflukey123 "credit: GeneralKidd" yeah, definitely made by bungie
It's still impressive to me how much Halo and og Bungie affected gaming in It's early life.
It’s a shame that both Bungie and Halo became complete dumpster fires shortly after parting ways.
@@shreksnow1918 Funny how much humanity likes to set itself on fire, isn't it?
@@shreksnow1918 Yeah 343 sucks but whos to say Bungie wouldn't have done the same thing. I still feel it would have been better than what 343 did though
Halo came out in the 6th generation of consoles. We are much closer to combat evolved today than combat evolved was to say the snes. I wouldn’t call that gamings early life
@@bart3736 I never suggested Halo was made in gaming's early life, I was talking about how effective Halo & Bungie was when they were young, and the effect they had on many future games.
Happy birthday halo 2. It's been a good 20 years. Man, I feel old.
Older but never too old to play 😎
I had no idea it was today, I just played Halo two as normal without realising this
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Halo 2 still cant drink
He can serve though! So cheers to that
He can drive and use guns. Good enough
Depends which server you're playing on lol.
I don't drink anyway
There's something mind blowing about that. Xbox itself could only legally drink from two years ago.
Halo 2 is already drunk in Canada
I was 12 years old when it came out. We were third in line at GameStop waiting for it. I remember my grandma waiting in the car while my brother, my friend Brian and I all sat in the cold just waiting. People will never understand how incredible Xbox live was when it first came out. Halo 3 is the pinnacle of online halo for me, but Halo 2 was the catalyst. Goddamn those were the days.
i love that!! thank you for sharing your story bro!! 😄 it really was absolutely mind blowing when it came out! i was 10 at the time when it came out and my buddy would invite me over to his place to play it together🥲 i begged my mom for an xbox for christmas that year, i would get home every day after school and do all my homework immediately and extra chores around the house, then my mom bought me a used xbox off one of her co-workers with a copy of both Halo: CE and Halo 2 and i can’t even describe how happy i was 🥲 that same friend and i spent countless hours playing online together, i still have that xbox and both games to this day 😄
Your grandmother is a goat
@@RizzYbBabY No she is a human being sir
Me too!
Hell yeah take me back
I remember being 9 years old, Christmas Day at my grandmothers house. My dad unwrapped Halo 2 as his present, I couldn’t stop screaming I think I was so jealous and didn’t understand my family put it in his name because of my age. But it was for me. That memory is so vivid I can relive it at any time. Such a crazy time to be alive, the joy it brought me
"Master Chief, You mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?!"
"Sir, Finishing this fight!"
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE!!
Goosebumps hearing all the voice lines even years later ! So good !
Thank you for this video. It takes me down memory lane on a true golden age for Halo and video games as a whole. Nail on the head with the focus on social features.
The clips of the voice actors in the booth gives me goosebumps every single time. The cherry on top is that clip of Jeff Steitzer.
This cast doesn't know me, but man, I sure know them.
I still remember being 14 and coming home from school that day and my dad had bought the collector’s edition and surprised me. I called my best friend and we played it as long as we could. 20 years later and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
one of the legendary facts is that the cut part in this game is literally now called halo 3
Truly on of the best halos
Happy anniversary halo 2
For me, the lore expansion in H2 is unapparelled in gaming. Halo CE was so new and fun, but the world was just interesting. H2, and the consistently amazing music, elevated it to one of the best creative universes that has ever existed. Weird to say, but my biggest moment was just opening the special edition with the grey metal-like sleeve and reading the Writ of Union.
Slaps 343 on back of it's head "See this is how you do halo"
Those social menus give me chills - sheer nostalgia. I wish Halo was like this now.
one of my fav memories was halo 3 split-screen pvp with a friend after school.
we'd hit up sandtrap, turn the active camo, speed and damage to max. turn the HP, shield and gravity to min. set it to spawn with random weapons with unlimited nades.
we'd freak the heck out when we bumped into each other that ended up with us laughing like crazy after the panic kill.
we'd also absolutely panic when other said they found a full auto weapon as you could just spray wildly around the map.
dropping the landmines in skinny path areas was such a troll move at the time as we moved so fast we often didn't notice them till it was to late.
for real, growing up we would play l4d and halo 3 splitscreen. golden age of video games honestly.
Thanks for the shoutout, brother :D
I remember queuing up with my son for the midnight launch of Halo 2. Halo continues to be an element of bonding between us. My son and his friends were always kind in letting me join their team even though I contributed little, we had a blast and I have many great memories from halo. My default phone ring tone is the halo theme and messages use the Virgil login tone from ODST. I was on holiday in Hawaii (from Australia) on a cruise and my phone rang just before disembarking in one port and a crew member recognised it. Halo truly brings people together!
0:20 Dude, you can’t just casually have that in the background. It’s to mind blowing!
....too*
@@MrPantsyThanks, I would've had no idea what he meant
That sticky was insane 😂
@sirhambone indeed, it was too mind boggling. I hadn't had so much trouble understanding something since the DaVinci code. That extra "o" was the key to the whole puzzle
Imagine that, Jimmy Kimmel was a complete tool 20 years ago too.
I caught that as well. 😂😂😂😂
Lol he was. Probably still is.
his style of "humor" has always been heavily insult driven and being weird and creepy
Pff, Jimmy Kimmel "Live"
.....several hours ago. He has always been a schmuck/gobshite.
@@Padlock_Steve ask him about his black face again
It hurts my soul that the Master Chief Collection exists and they didn’t do anything for it, not even a nameplate, but they’re celebrating the H2 anniversary in Halo Infinite.
Indeed, I didn’t feel like the anniversary playlist wasn’t good enough so I just went back to H2A and had a blast, I love the weapons designs, sounds and visuals. I wish the added ODST armor variants with backpacks, and some new dev made remastered maps
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Halo 2 E3 demo being made playable via the Steam Workshop for the anniversary?
@@NeuMaster9you are correct I came here to say this lol.
Ummm they added the E3 demo to it
did anyone figure out how to download it? i can’t seem to find the e3 demo on the workshop
I still remember the myth that if you shot the golden warthog advert with rocket launchers on headlong and fill it completely black the golden warthog would spawn on the map :')
Do 'X' to get the Golden Hog.. can relate :') good times
Halo 2, game game. The game that eluded me as a kid, cuz only my dad knew how to to run it until I turned eleven and played it for the first time through project cartographer and is my favourite halo game alongside reach
Some of my favorite times in halo was being part of Pratorian Guard h2 videos on RUclips and playing in lobbies that would be open for 24 hours plus. You would wake up and jump back in with the people that have been in the lobby for over 12 hours at a time. What an amazing time. H2 was something special.
2:02 I was in 7th grade at the time and my dad waited in line to get me the game at midnight. He woke me up an hour early for school the next morning so I could play the first two missions before having to go to school. Such an awesome game and a core part of building friendships not only in person but on XBL as well!
People just ignore each other now in games
I still wear a mic and talk even if nobody else does...grew up with Halo and mics and will never change for me
When other people jump on their mic after hearing me, it makes the game so much more fun
@@CaffeinatedAlien Same!
@@CaffeinatedAlienOh so you're the btch I always gotta mute.
Agree, I genuinely believe that more people would talk in Halo infinite if it wasn't because you can only use a microphone while using headphones with a mic integrated and in the controller port (which has an awful delay) I'd live to use a USB microphone
I was 24 when it came out. A good age to be. A whole different world back then.
I have two favourite Halo 2 moments, and they're both split screen. Firstly is turning off shields and starting everyone with the human pistol, which eventually resulted in me getting a four kill streak (because one of the other three players respawned in time for me to blast em). That was fantastic. We also did a lot of sword duels, which was great, but it was in a vacuum so we didn't realize just how good we'd all gotten at it (Halo 2 has the best sword combat BECAUSE there is no block) until I went and played with another group of friends and when it came to swords it was extremely one sided. That felt great.
Had a 3 hour capture the flag in a Halo 2 LAN party. Unforgettable. Banshee to banshee jack. 10,000 shots fired. Covering your friend while he went the the bathroom.
I remember the night vividly. It was the first game I ever pre-ordered and my introduction to xbox live. So many happy memories. I can't imagine a better time in history to be a teenager. The morning of the release someone brought the manual to school and had like 12 kids sitting around him. The upgrades from CE were incredible.
man i could cry right now, thank you so much halo 2
Hearing Blow Me Away in the video also made me remember how Marty collabed with my favorite band, Breaking Benjamin, which still blows my mind
🎵Save Us ALLLLLllllll🎵!!!! 🥲
Breaking Benjamin, FTW! The first song that I heard from them was Away, from their We Are Not Alone album, during the summer of '04. It amped me up (lol) for BB. THEN, when I heard their song while playing H2, I went nuts!....might've metaphorically nutted, too. Who knows? 😆😉
Respect, @Promethean7 . 😊
I didn’t get into Halo when it came out because I was only a year old when Halo 2 came out. Me and my younger brother have been playing through the campaigns together and we’ve been enjoying it. We’ve played through Halo Reach, Combat Evolved, and Halo 2 so far.
20 years...damn... I remember going to the midnight release like it was yesterday. Friends and I showed up hours early and were the only ones there for a while. The store was in our mall so we just hung out in the concourse playing MTG and the store brought a TV out for us to watch while we wait. My mom let me take the next day off of school and I played through the entire campaign. Halo 2 multiplayer is still the most fun I've had playing games online. Kids these days have no idea how wild it was on Live back then.
Wait!!! Am I dreaming?? I just booted up halo and I hear old Halo music in the menu?😯😯😯 YES PLEASE!!!
Damn. It was only there for one day on the 20th anniversary of halo 2 release. Still very cool though...maybe even cooler that they only did it for that one one day.
Style points: +100
Consistency points: -100
There is much talk and i have listened through rock and metal and time now i shall talk and you shall listen,
My favorite line in halo 2 that and i need a weapon
One of my favorite memories with Halo 2:
One day I was randomly invited to a custom big team battle with Green team vs. Red team.
Started with a shotgun & sword and noticed people changing to green team when they died.
That's when people in game told me about the special rules they wanted me to go by with this new custom game mode they called ZOMBIES.
Good times.
I can still remember that cool November night, waiting in line outside the local Gamestop, checking my watch hoping that time could just move a little faster, memories of that incredible E3 footage still playing in my head. Everyone around me was so excited. We all knew it was going to live up to the hype.
PLAYERS OF HALO, PLEASE WEAR MICS AND TALK!! It's so much more fun to play MP when people talk and communicate.
Agreed
I use a mic & talk, even when no one else reciprocates. Sometimes, others bust out their verbal abilities, too... I try to promote said activity. 😊
Sadly, being forced to switch the option on has stopped a lot of talk in games like these. I hate it. The option should be to turn it off, not be off by default. Kills so much of what made these early games fun.
Eh, whenever i have talked people keep complaining that im either not getting enough kills in a social gamemode or that i suck. Im a campaign guy but i do occasionally play multiplayer, those players just kinda take the fun out of it. I could understand that in a competitive match which i dont play at all but not in a gamemode like fiesta slayer for example.
@falloutgamer347 then tell them they suck back or mute them. It's that easy. But apparently people think everyone needs to have a safety shield around their ears at all times. The world sucks, people sometimes suck. You have the power to ignore them and keep them out of your life.
My brother and I used to set up an air mattress in front of the tv and fall asleep to movies on the weekend. Then we would get up early the next day and play Halo 2 co-op all morning. Such a precious memory to me.
Halo 2 Truth’s voice actor was peak
As a person who played the original Halo at launch when I was in 11 grade. Today's kids could never handle the level of pure smack talk before , during, and even after the match . Halo 2 really did set the bar for online console playing
Still looking for a pizza that looks that good 1:01
I’m a younger halo fan born during the end of 2008 but I’ve had some amazing halo memories. growing up my dad would make sure every morning before he went to work he’d play one match with me. I still enjoy playing all the halos to this day just recently I played through all the campaigns in chronological order.
You should and up the difficulty! Its cool!
Oh dude….THE TOWER OF POWER!? You’re gonna make a grown man cry right now…holy shit
Oh you know ball!
1:09 is that Macaulay Culkin??
"Dear humanity, we regret comin' to Earth, we regret being alien bastards, and we most certainly regret that the corp just the hell out of our raggedy-ass fleet! OOH-RAH."
Im playing Halo 2 right now and having a few drinks to celebrate this AMAZING masterpiece of a game Happy Birthday Halo 2
When I was maybe 8-9, I went into my garage and found a box sitting in the corner. Inside it was my dad’s OG Xbox and a bunch of games for it, but there was one that caught my eye. On the cover was a guy in Green Stormtrooper armor wielding a gun in each hand. Behind him, a burning city, and in front of him, five bold, blue characters that spelled “Halo 2.” From that moment on, I was a Halo fan.
Sir, you are the Halo Messiah, what a great summary of the last 20 years
Sharing a birthday with Halo 2 and Black Ops 1 is definitely very cool
Halo 2 was the game I grew up with. Did not play Halo CE much since i was too young but Halo 2 was my present for Christmas. I can even count how many times I replayed the campaign, i was absolutely in love with it. I loved playing as Arbiter, i thought it was the coolest thing ever turning invis. I remember I created a different profile for each and every skull where I had the profile saved at a near or exact moment in the campaign where i needed to get a certain skull.
20yrs .. god i feel old
This was the first video game I played. I was 3 years old when my dad introduced me to Halo and gaming as a whole.
I'll never forget that moment. Halo 2 will forever be my favorite video game of all time
eyyy we played halo 2 og recently, super fun! - Dusti
9:09 haha
This is LITERALLY on my birthday and my ACTUAL age, wtf, this is an insane coincidence that I should've known sooner
Also the music. The music is awesome :)
Man, I remember staying up all night with my friends trying to perfect super bounces. The custom games and social aspects were legendary. That was a special time in gaming.
When Halo 2 came out, me and a friend played Killzone so much online in preparation and excitement for it.
It finally came out and I swear the slow pace of Killzone made us better at strategy for Halo 2. We would meet at my place every day after school to play, we would order 2 pizzas for ourselves and play split screen non-stop.
I remember trying the super bounces in custom lobbies with people. I even remember when Zombies was a team deathmatch mode with an honor system that everyone kept honest via the mic.
It was so funny having people yell out someone’s name and say “hey hey hey no man you died you have to switch to the zombie side now” or call out a “human” player for using the sword since it was just pistol and sword starts to differentiate the teams.
And before all of that I remember playing online without my friends, first game online and I played solo in matchmaking. It was CTF on Zanzibar. A teammate had captured the flag and I helped escort them back to the beach. We fought our way back, the occasional teammate would die and respawn and catch up with us, but I remember being maybe 100ft from capturing the game winning point and looking back at the team and just seeing this group of strangers come together and complete this objective together.
Most satisfying moment in gaming for me. I had played online in some PC games before but there was something about the mics and casual console experience that made everything feel more genuine and more like that virtual couch they were going for.
If Halo doesn’t go back to that then there’s no reason to make another game at all.
Removing the ability to hear the enemy team destroyed a huge element of strategy from the game.
I'll never forget my brother getting the Halo 2 anniversary edition with the metal case on this day 20 years ago, we sat and played the entire campaign from start to finish as co-op until 4am.
He died last year and I still haven't managed to bring myself to replay halo.
0:41 Master Chief with a MP5? Wild
Lmfaooo
Chaining super bounces on top of Headlong was so dang fun…
Sitting in my basment living room as a preteen with my best friend,little brother, and cousin playing Halo 2 split screen FFA slayer was some of the most fun I had back then. I'm thankful that I can share that kind of joy when the rest of my siblings visit my appartment and I play MCC split screen FFA Slayer modes with them. I still hope that the next Halo will have features like that so future generatioms of kids can make memories like that, feel a similar sense of joy and fun while duking it out with friends/family in a slayer match on their couch.
Whoa...it's like a postcard! Dear Sarge: kicking ass in outer space. Wish you were here."
3:56 REACH?!?!!?!
Top 5 Halo 2 Mods.
1. Ruby's Rebalanced Halo 2
2. Halo 2 Uncut
3. With Sprinkles
4. Flood Firefight
5. Gravemind Revamped
Honarable Mentions: Halo 2 SPV3, Ultimate Campaign Tweaks, Campaign Difficulty Adjustment, E3 2003 Demo & Purps Campaign Overhaul.
Rubys rebalanced isn’t out yet 🥲 it prolly wont be out for another year or 2
@@ThePilleroflightning True, but it was playable before the mcc updates broke it. The only way you can play it and his other mods now is by downgrading mcc. I'd still leave it at No. 1 tho just based on all the stuff that he's adding: New areas, encounters, cut dialougue, weapons, lighting ect.
20 year's, warm fuzzy feels. I remember myself and my mate leaving work on a Friday to go smoke some jazz cabbage and hammer down on halo. If it wasn't multiplayer it was legendary co-op.
Too think that I'm older then Halo 2 by 1 year, yet having so many fond memories of the campaign as a kid. But thinking about it now as I'm 21. Halo 2 feels old, I feel old.
Halo 2 was my first Console Multiplayer game and to this day its still one of the best Multiplayer experiences I've ever experienced.
I do remember having the OG Player's Guide and the metallic case... I remember sitting, outside in the cold just for a 'friend' to come home. To play on THEIR XBOX at that time... I MISS THE OLD TIMES...
I cannot believe Halo 2 is twenty years old. I was a freshman in high school and the build up to that game was insane. The E3 demo had me damn near sleepless until the release. Crazy how fast time goes…
Still have my original collectors edition steelbook copy and the multiplayer map pack dvd in its case as well. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years already….Happy 20 to my favorite Halo in the franchise!
Mint thanks so much for the content.. halo stretches deep for alot of us back to childhood into todays 2024 big shout out to you
I remember people bringing in the special edition metal box to middle school. Everyone was so excited just to hold it and talk about the game. Man, what a time to be alive.
My best mates and I used to quickly drive home from school during our lunch hour to play a couple rounds of Halo 2 online before going back to class for the afternoon. We had LAN parties most weekends. I used to regularly walk a couple blocks with my CRT TV in hand and my Xbox in my backpack between my house and my friend's places all the time! It truly was the Pinnacle of social gaming.
My favorite memory was the unique ranking system with numbers that eventually turned into symbols around level 43 if i remember correctly. Level 50 was a halo ring and was mostly owned by cheaters. Although Tsquared was the first pro player to get it legitimately.
Mint please spread the word of adding a real CLASSIC PLAYLIST to infinite PERMANENTLY. Halo 2/3 maps, no zoom for weapons without optics, classic strafe. ALSO MORE WAYS TO GET CAREER XP, CHALLENGES, DOUBLE CAREER XP FEATURED PLAYLISTS, ETC
As someone who’s almost MSgt in onyx, the fact that I can lose XP by simply getting killed by my teammate who’s griefing (hitting me off the map), accidentally jumping off the map or killing a teammate, is insane.
LISTEN TO THIS MAN MINT HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH
Dude fucking great video. I miss halo 2 days and the zombies/cops and robbiers/ super bounces
Man, you gotta splatter me like that in the beginning Minty! 😂😂😂😂
Y’all wrecked us last night in that match 😭😂😂
my fiancé and I randomly played halo 2 last night (for the first time in years) on my original crystal xbox, and I didn't even know it was the 20 year anniversary, that's amazing!
Dude I remember having arguments with a classmate in 3rd grade about whether the arbiter’s or the chief’s sections were better. Also Jeff is such a legend, I’m so glad he’s been embracing the community’s silly cameo requests, like he gets that community can go both ways
Listening to Jeff Steitzer gush is so freaking heartwarming.
Nothing will ever be like Halo 2 again. Not for me anyway, what a freaking time to be alive
Honestly my favourite Halo memory is still my first Halo memory. Going over a friend's place and playing Two Betrayals to help him complete the level. I had no idea shooter games could look so good and be so fun. I was hooked and *had* to get the game for myself.
Halo 2 was pretty much my first ever console game that I was conscious enough to remember playing. I was 4 when it came out and it’s filled with great memories between my brothers and I.
I really like this format! You should make more deep dive videos!
Still to this day i don't know of a game where 3 dudes can get in one vehicle, do jumps, skids, run over people, fire off weapons, have the driver highjacked, the passenger beats the driver, drive of cliff and jump out prior killing the passengers, CTF whilst doing all of this, passenger firing a flying at a flying vehicle, a simply amazing concept.
I remember how it felt shooting the Battle Rifle for the first time. It's as if I was given a divine weapon by the gods themselves.
Yo Mint that clip at 0:20 is crazy broo
I was 12 when it released, and I spent so many hours playing that game, beating it on every difficulty, over and over again. I remember just before Halo 3 came out, jumping on to xBox live and playing matchmaking in Halo 2 with all the whacky mods, flying warthogs, shotguns that fired grenades, plasma pistol scarab guns. Like Fiesta cranked to 11. Good times.
My favorite Halo memory is spending countless hours, days and nights on Reach with a group I randomly met and befriended in matchmaking. If UE5 Halo doesn't have social features it's the biggest missed opportunity ever.
I was born in 2001 so I was too young to experience Halo 2 when it was first released. But that doesn’t stop me from loving it now ☺️
I’m glad they give Halo 2 the respect it deserves. I just wish they did that for Halo CE and Halo 3.
Didn’t they say they were working on another remake or remaster of CE? I’m hoping for something someday to celebrate Halo 3.
Halo 2 is so unique! Awesome video to celebrate its anniversary man. Jeff is a gem and we really are lucky to have him.
The combination of revolutionary (at the time) gameplay, stunning visuals and level design and amazing, unique music really gives halo a sort of lightening in a bottle feel. Such amazing atmosphere and experience. Games like halo that do everything so well really are special.
2:48 MEDIC!
OMG!
Halo 2 was my first ever game, I am now 23 so many great memories with my dad. I remember being beyond scared of the flood and my dad had to carry me through those parts.Great times