I love how Chief jumps from a station with a bomb, nukes an enemy ship and backflips out of it onto an allied frigate and everyone's just like, "Yeah. It's just a Tuesday."
The Act Man has a great take on it. He uses this scene to show, how actions more than words can convey something. This scene doesn’t have that much dialog, but it shows how important and powerful the Spartans are, just one Spartan, can turn the tide of a battle. I think the Master Chief is a brilliantly written character, even though he doesn’t say much.
Left out the best exchange of the sequence: "Sir, permission to leave the station." "For what purpose, Master Chief?" "To give the Covenant back their bomb." "... Permission granted."
It’s only a small moment but I love that moment sergeant Johnson knocks on chiefs Droppod and he knocks back , chief never shows much camaraderie with other soldiers
Well. In cutscenes he tends to be very kind and cautious with others, and he treats fallen marines with reverence. While playing though, well, I needed that sniper rifle....
There’s so much more beauty to the first cutscene when MC guides the bomb into the covenant cruiser than meets the eye. Yes everyone usually starts out with “Chief is such a badass, he took down an a ship by himself with their own bomb,” but that’s the thing. He didn’t. In the books and the lore the reason humanity gets dumped on by the covenant is their overwhelming superiority in space with both firepower and accurate slipspace jumps. We’ll skip the jumps and stick with the firepower. Ships, even regular cruisers, in the covenant fleet all have plasma shield fields much like the shield systems you see on the elites and Spartans. Besides the orbital MAC cannons (the station you’re fighting to protect) there is no real type of fire power humanity has that has enough stopping power to rip through these ships shields. Essentially if a covenant cruiser wants to, it could turtle up and nothing an average UNSC cruiser could throw at it would break the shields. The Covenant cruisers do need to bring down their shields though when firing their own weapons. Because of this short span humanity began to make more and more desperate plays, realizing their only shot to do harm to these ships would be the small window when they themselves were being fired on. One of those strategies would be to have a UNSC ship “sacrifice” itself, by taking the majority of the blast from a covenant ship, and allowing a ship with larger firepower an opportunity to dump everything they have (MAC cannons, nukes) in an attempt to “trade” kills. I 100% believe the cruiser being hit by the blast was to protect MC. Especially after Admiral Hood realized that Chief was bringing something even stronger than a nuke to the playing field against a cruiser actively aiming at Cairo station. Humanity, within minutes of hearing Cortana’s plan had 1: More than likely a damaged cruiser (or maybe even a fresh one, this is the battle for Earth after all) make the decision to sacrifice themselves to take the covenant blast, almost ensuring instant death to the skeleton crew surviving (and that’s not mentioning the abysmal chances of the escape pods surviving this hectic space dog fight) 2: 2 Longsword interceptors maneuvering together in all this crazy bullshit and managing just in time to open up a blasting door for chief so he doesn’t just splat against the side of a ship. Marines are usually laughed off with how easily they die in game, but these cutscene really exemplifies the extraordinary lengths the UNSC had to go through to survive the war, not just Chief solely carrying them. I really appreciate that.
Where did you read (or where did you get the info) that UNSC ship need to wait for Covenant ships to fire before responding? Every novel I remember reading states (or indicates) that Covenant shield are susceptible to consecutive (3 in the case of the Autumn's guns vs a Covenant cruiser) ship-borne MAC rounds. The archer missiles then kill the Covenant ship once the shields are down. But yes, they had to resort to that tactic just to down a single ship. That means 2 or more UNSC ships need to engage a single Covenant vessel since all UNSC warships save the Autumn have single fire MACs. And timing is crucial. One thing you forgot to mention is that even when the shields are down, Covenant ships are much tougher than UNSC ships. Covenant ships routinely survive hits from ship-borne MAC rounds.
@@TheBananamonger The gravemind has had all the knowledge of other species and is thus extremely cultured and inteligent. What is scary is although it is extremely inteligent his methods are barbaric and don't seem to have a reason. People who have been given the reason in the lore killed themselves.
7:17 I love this part, even though Chief up to that point in the game, has always seemed so emotionless this small sharing of caring of one and another between these too was really nice, especially the circumstances following H3
I've never thought of the Chief as emotionless. He's always been professional. He shows plenty of emotion, it's just not on the scale most modern people are going to pick up on anymore. He's a Stoic, and Stoicism is very rare these days.
"You hit, Marine?" "N-No, sir..." "Then, listen up! You had your chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved Corps. But to guide you back to the true path, I've brought this motivational device! Our big green style CANNOT BE DEFEATED!!!" Man, I wish he had his own game......
@@Broockle I remember reading those first 3 books and wishing we got games based off them. We did for Reach, but like 80% of the book’s storyline was ignored/retconned
@@lildyo Ye... Halo 4 was a complete disaster story wise too. They should have just grabbed a book instead xD The nova bomb in book 3 would have made for quite a scene in game. I can't criticize halo reach too much since they actually made a good campaign there. Though a reference to Linda would have been nice
“Dear humanity, We regret being alien bastards, We regret coming to Earth And we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy ass fleet” “OORAH” “OORAH” “OORAH” I love Johnson, probably one of the most iconic characters of all time 😂
Fun fact: at 3:40, Sgt. Johnson's script changes depending on the difficulty you play with, just like the intro in Halo CE when Sgt. Johnson speaks with his motivational speech
yeah. i like this quote: When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!
@@kwewu89_96 Greed. They didn't trust the fanbase and the basic elements of Halo to keep the franchise growing so they handed the franchise over to people who resent the foundation of the series. 343 and Paramount dismantled what was built in a misguided attempt to make Halo "mainstream" by forcing the franchise into boring stereotypical molds that have made other franchises popular resulting in a bland abomination of Halo which today is nearly unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago. Like the corpse of a dear friend it looks like someone you knew but is now lifeless and decaying.
You know what makes "Return to Sender" truly a legendary cutscene? The heroism. The heroism of the Chief doing what it takes to make the greatest impact he can in a hopeless situation, the heroism of the UNSC ship sacrificing itself to get between the Chief and the Covenant weapons, the heroism of the two fighters flying through hell to open a path for the Chief. The level of competence by everyone in Halo 1-3 also stand out. Everyone knew their job, they knew what they needed to do, and they knew what they had to sacrifice to accomplish it. They were competent heroes. This is why the modern Halo is failing, with all of its different media versions. They've taken out the heroism and competency of the characters and replaced them with the only thing modern writers know. Spitefulness, anger, hatred, and stupidity.
@@PlaymoreWoW Man how do you manage to start reeeing about wokeness in literally every discussion. Just let this person complain about the lack of soul in modern halo.
@@EpicGamer-yv5nf because it’s true. Woke culture is by and large the “Debbie downer” of the 21st century. Literally cancer and shit won’t stop fucking spreading.
@@EpicGamer-yv5nf I mean, he's not wrong about it being in the show at least. It's a destructive ideology that's worming its way into everything, so it's becoming omnipresent all on its own.
Still my favorite game to this day. Everything is just flawless; art, story, VOICE ACTING, direction, everything. An absolute masterpiece (overlooking legendary sniper jackels)
I love how chief is always so confident in his ability like he just knows hes a badass. "What of you miss?" "I won't" this this is what the new stupid tv show is missing lol
@@zaer-ezart He is and always has been their leader though. While he technically isn't, he is the de facto leader of all spartans, and have taken command over bigger units than just his team.
@@Paal2005 I mean, why wouldn't you listen to the guy thats survived hundreds of battles with average survival rates of less than 10%, back to back to back. His very presence increases the chances of winning.
Chief: 0:54 Jumps through space and lands hard, at zero resistance, onto another spacecraft and is fine. Also Chief: 10:00 Jumps in some water from not-so-high height. Gets knocked out.
I think the implication is that he was hit by a shockwave from the laser. Something spun him around in the air, after all, since he jumped feet first and landed on his back.
Actually, the Spartan's black underlayer underneath their armor is made entirely of cotton. As soon as it comes into contact with water, it shrinks. Your Spartan then dies of suffocation.
@@jacklewis5394 Considering how heavy they are, there's no practical way they could swim at all. I imagine there'd be some sort of thrust attachment for the armor in aquatic environments.
9:31 I freaking love Halo, but I just realized after all these years... The chief and Blue Team destroyed a Covenant Fleet of about 450 ships, so I don't think it's the largest he's seen lol
The High Charity fleet is much larger than 450 ships though... You're talking about the fleet at the Unyielding Heirophant in the novel First Strike, right? In Ghosts of Onyx it goes a bit into the High Charity fleet and there were literally thousands of ships. I can't remember which book but one of them ended with the Prophets on High Charity talking about... something and it mentioned there were hundreds of "Supercarriers" alone around High Charity.
4:45 probably one of the best scenes in the entire game. Marine: "scared as shit" Master Chief: "walks out of the scarab he has just destroyed like a total badass" Me: I love it :)
The scene of him dragging that bomb off the ship is one of my core memories from my childhood. Can't believe it's been almost 2 decades. That's like my Lotr trilogy days. That perspective zoomout at 1:15 is probably my favorite part.
“Dear humanity we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to earth and we most certainly regret the Corp blowing up our raggedy ass fleet ooh rah!” My favorite piece of dialogue
I LOVE the design of the human ships. Reminds me of the lego ships I'd build as a kid. I think I like them because of the books. They slapped these things together and tossed inexperienced, yet very intelligent, captains on them and just basically did what Admiral Yi did in the Japan Korean conflict. (look Yi up by the way, the guy deserves his own course in school). When things look grim, you really have no other options than to keep going.
@@calumgorman3481 He might of had luck as well. But was carefully selected as a child and then forced to compete against a bunch of other selected kids and he was one of the best out of those. A lot of them didn't survive the drugs they gave them to adapt rapidly and be able to wear the MJOLNIR suit without it ripping the body apart.
@@calumgorman3481 Basically he was one in a million several times over, and they did hint in the books that he might have better luck as well. Curiously the original "Ringworld" book had a character that was born with good luck.
Cortana : "just one question, what if you miss?" Master Chief : "I won't" Damn! Goosebumps everytime! I been replaying that scene in my head since i first saw the trailer back years ago.. gets me everytime
I think it was just chief that had that moniker. Because he destroyed the sacred rings. Defiled their holy object. Of course he would be seen as a demon.
@@squirrelking4174 if I'm not mistaken they refer to him as "Demon" because he has slaughtered literally scores of the Covenant and come through victorious time and again. To them he is nigh unkillable, and moves inhumanly fast with ridiculous strength (if you go based on the books)
@@squirrelking4174 All Spartan-lls were called demons by the covenant, even before installation-04's destruction. In the eyes of the covenant they were faceless, merciless, nigh unkillable death machines able to singlehandedly dismantle entire platoons and disappear without a trace. Much of the covenant associated masks and resurrection with heresy, and they believed that Spartans were heretical beings. This was mainly because Spartans were all faceless and bore similar armor, so many covenant believed that Spartans literally could not die, as they would simply be resurrected and return to their endless slaughter. Hence, all Spartans were referred to as "demons". Master Chief, however, was THE demon. The covenant made sure he was distinguished between the other Spartans, for obvious reasons.
They're just pre-rendered cutscenes. The actual game doesn't look anywhere close. They basically just replaced the in-game cutscenes with movie clips. No console or PC could render graphics like this in real-time, at least not yet.
@@tyler-hp7oq Yea I figured. I know my gaming PC’s and a game running smooth looking as good as that would take a nasa computer to run lol. But I still find it incredible how they made the cutscenes look so good. I mean, they still hold up against games and movies today and may look better in most cases, it’s just insane
Hands down one of the greatest campaigns ever, ahead of it's time by a decade.. Think about it, it's contemporaries wher Medal of Honour Frontline and the first renditions of COD..
I've never even played any of these games (somehow) and I only started looking into the game, its characters, and its lore today (again, somehow), but already I'm dying from the absolutely ungodly amounts of sass and one liners from cortana.
Me an my buddy had a fantastic laugh at 8:20 because warning labels mean the thing has happened before, and there’s a warning label on the rocket launcher that says “point this way. ➡️” which means somebody held that shit backwards and that can only end hilariously.
Never been in the military, but I’ve seen military guys make a lot of jokes/memes about marines being dumb, so I’d like to think this is something along those lines lol
@@lildyo marines are Frontline, and trust me, does not require a high iq. Just have to be dumb enough to blindly follow orders and humble enough to not plaster marine stickers all over your lifter truck once you're out of the military.
I randomly watched one of these compilations yesterday for like ten minutes and immediately went and downloaded the MC collection just to play through the whole saga again. The TV show couldn’t even come remotely close to scratching that itch so I might as well get it all straight from the source all over again.
At 7:54 chiefs chute propeller thing broke on his drop pod unlike the other marines pods because he’s so heavy just noticed that after all these years that’s why cortona makes the comment about the bump beforehand because it’s failing
For all the yodeling and admiration about the character, why does nobody acknowledge that Johnson is a cut'n'paste of SGT Apone from the film Aliens? He's actually kind of 2D in comparison; everything he says starts with an exclamation point, is boisterous, and overblown. Apone at least had some nuances, some softly-spoken lines and professional, matter-of-fact reports and comments.
I remember when i first saw this scene together with my older brother at 2004, it was so surealistic how a videogame could create this feeling where the entire body get goosebumps & you felt complete euphoria! I don't think i have felt that since maybe WoW Legion at Varians death cinematic. Those years where something else, when gaming was a journey, a story, where it actually meant something to play a game. Today, empty...only money that matters for the companies :(
What everyone forgets about master chief returning the bomb to the covenant is that the unsc is helping him (two longswords bomb the ship so he can get inside) meaning that probably lord hood went: «yeah master chief is going to fly through space with a nuke and hit the ship, so we need to open the ship for him» and the pilots listen to this thinking «did i just hear that correctly?»
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I'm convinced we could have an animated Halo movie like this, no live action, and it would do perfectly fine as a theatrical release.
If they brought a real Halo movie to theaters you're damn right I'm showing up in my $2300 cosplay chief armor
Heck yeah
Wait, this isn't a real movie? I was about to look up the rest of it.
@@John-Scott nah. It’s from Halo 2
Pokémon had a similar following when it's movies and shows came out milk that cow!
I love how Chief jumps from a station with a bomb, nukes an enemy ship and backflips out of it onto an allied frigate and everyone's just like, "Yeah. It's just a Tuesday."
Oh yeah. "Return to Sender" is my favorite Halo 2 cutscene.
Yup! Agreed! I especially love Johnson's "for a brick, he flew pretty good" line. Gotta love Johnson!
@@joeydahl9594 R.I.P Sgt.Avery Johnson
That's just chief, he does this shit so often it's normal for his colleagues
The Act Man has a great take on it. He uses this scene to show, how actions more than words can convey something. This scene doesn’t have that much dialog, but it shows how important and powerful the Spartans are, just one Spartan, can turn the tide of a battle. I think the Master Chief is a brilliantly written character, even though he doesn’t say much.
Left out the best exchange of the sequence:
"Sir, permission to leave the station."
"For what purpose, Master Chief?"
"To give the Covenant back their bomb."
"... Permission granted."
Chief doesnt ask for permission!
I love how cortana is the person who talks for them both and chief just stands their while she explains everything
I'd be the same if I had a hot AI assistant.
kinda like the ghost in destiny 1 and 2
My man has a multimillion dollar AI more powerful than a supercomputer as his personal liason/waifu
He just needs to stand there..................menacingly.
Introverted quiet BF/dominant loud mouth GF energy
It’s only a small moment but I love that moment sergeant Johnson knocks on chiefs Droppod and he knocks back , chief never shows much camaraderie with other soldiers
The knocks were basically "you ready?" "Ready". It's common
Johnson is spartan 1 though
Except blue team of course
@@knightmare21627 yeah, this comment should say "his camaraderie will other spartans"
Well. In cutscenes he tends to be very kind and cautious with others, and he treats fallen marines with reverence. While playing though, well, I needed that sniper rifle....
There’s so much more beauty to the first cutscene when MC guides the bomb into the covenant cruiser than meets the eye.
Yes everyone usually starts out with “Chief is such a badass, he took down an a ship by himself with their own bomb,” but that’s the thing.
He didn’t.
In the books and the lore the reason humanity gets dumped on by the covenant is their overwhelming superiority in space with both firepower and accurate slipspace jumps. We’ll skip the jumps and stick with the firepower. Ships, even regular cruisers, in the covenant fleet all have plasma shield fields much like the shield systems you see on the elites and Spartans. Besides the orbital MAC cannons (the station you’re fighting to protect) there is no real type of fire power humanity has that has enough stopping power to rip through these ships shields. Essentially if a covenant cruiser wants to, it could turtle up and nothing an average UNSC cruiser could throw at it would break the shields. The Covenant cruisers do need to bring down their shields though when firing their own weapons.
Because of this short span humanity began to make more and more desperate plays, realizing their only shot to do harm to these ships would be the small window when they themselves were being fired on. One of those strategies would be to have a UNSC ship “sacrifice” itself, by taking the majority of the blast from a covenant ship, and allowing a ship with larger firepower an opportunity to dump everything they have (MAC cannons, nukes) in an attempt to “trade” kills.
I 100% believe the cruiser being hit by the blast was to protect MC. Especially after Admiral Hood realized that Chief was bringing something even stronger than a nuke to the playing field against a cruiser actively aiming at Cairo station.
Humanity, within minutes of hearing Cortana’s plan had
1: More than likely a damaged cruiser (or maybe even a fresh one, this is the battle for Earth after all) make the decision to sacrifice themselves to take the covenant blast, almost ensuring instant death to the skeleton crew surviving (and that’s not mentioning the abysmal chances of the escape pods surviving this hectic space dog fight)
2: 2 Longsword interceptors maneuvering together in all this crazy bullshit and managing just in time to open up a blasting door for chief so he doesn’t just splat against the side of a ship.
Marines are usually laughed off with how easily they die in game, but these cutscene really exemplifies the extraordinary lengths the UNSC had to go through to survive the war, not just Chief solely carrying them.
I really appreciate that.
Very well said! It really puts into perspective just how much faith the UNSC puts into chief.
nerd
@@GerNiels sorry trump made you out to be the fool that you are on live national TV🤡
@@meltylego Not just Chief but every Spartan II
Where did you read (or where did you get the info) that UNSC ship need to wait for Covenant ships to fire before responding? Every novel I remember reading states (or indicates) that Covenant shield are susceptible to consecutive (3 in the case of the Autumn's guns vs a Covenant cruiser) ship-borne MAC rounds. The archer missiles then kill the Covenant ship once the shields are down. But yes, they had to resort to that tactic just to down a single ship. That means 2 or more UNSC ships need to engage a single Covenant vessel since all UNSC warships save the Autumn have single fire MACs. And timing is crucial.
One thing you forgot to mention is that even when the shields are down, Covenant ships are much tougher than UNSC ships. Covenant ships routinely survive hits from ship-borne MAC rounds.
"For a brick, he flew pretty good!"
Wow you are hilarious
@@A_real_brick lmao
@@A_real_brick You made this account just for the comment, didn't you.
@@MTG9745 I have had this account for like 2 years like this but I’ve made so many brick jokes I cannot change it
@@MTG9745 The account was made in 2014
"This is not your grave... but you are welcome in it"
The Gravemind is so badass
Its hilarious how he rhymes everything he says lmao
@@collinb.8542 Dude's literally a zombie plant Eminem.
no no no Gravemind isnt badass he just says badass things he doesnt really do much
@@zachsmith4946 gravemind controls every flood form
@@TheBananamonger The gravemind has had all the knowledge of other species and is thus extremely cultured and inteligent. What is scary is although it is extremely inteligent his methods are barbaric and don't seem to have a reason. People who have been given the reason in the lore killed themselves.
7:17 I love this part, even though Chief up to that point in the game, has always seemed so emotionless this small sharing of caring of one and another between these too was really nice, especially the circumstances following H3
I've never thought of the Chief as emotionless. He's always been professional. He shows plenty of emotion, it's just not on the scale most modern people are going to pick up on anymore. He's a Stoic, and Stoicism is very rare these days.
The first book on his childhood is really cool for that !
Johnson getting on that gun and saying "Oh I know what the ladies like." Will forever be my favorite Halo cutscene moment.
Ha, I was finding this comment
To me the line felt a little forced.
Sergeant Johnson: "B*tches love cannons"
Mine is the legendary Halo CE cutscene where Johnson and the Elite stop fighting and hug it out
Apparentally there is a chance he says something else.
"You hit, Marine?"
"N-No, sir..."
"Then, listen up! You had your chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved Corps.
But to guide you back to the true path, I've brought this motivational device!
Our big green style CANNOT BE DEFEATED!!!"
Man, I wish he had his own game......
He should have always been the main playable character. Master chief is badass but Sgt. Johnson just hits different.
He has his own book if that helps. He's the main character in Harvest.
Contact Harvest Bro
@@Broockle I remember reading those first 3 books and wishing we got games based off them. We did for Reach, but like 80% of the book’s storyline was ignored/retconned
@@lildyo
Ye... Halo 4 was a complete disaster story wise too. They should have just grabbed a book instead xD
The nova bomb in book 3 would have made for quite a scene in game.
I can't criticize halo reach too much since they actually made a good campaign there. Though a reference to Linda would have been nice
Johnson: Best character.
Cortana: Best girl.
Chief: Best brick.
Best flying brick
@@kyberjedi9749 also the most fucking expensive brick.
A brick that flew pretty good
“Dear humanity,
We regret being alien bastards,
We regret coming to Earth
And we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy ass fleet”
“OORAH” “OORAH” “OORAH”
I love Johnson, probably one of the most iconic characters of all time 😂
He is a rip off of the sergeant from the film aliens.
Not iconic at all...
@@dimwitsixtytwelve if you don’t shut your dim wit ass up
@@dimwitsixtytwelve exactly
Avery is great.
But to me the most iconic character from halo is an unseen one.
Carol 'Foe Hammer' Rawley.
That's an overstatement
Cortana: could we possibly make any more noise
Chief: *grabs a rocket launcher*
"I guess so."
Makes sense
There shouldn’t even be noise
Chief whit a rocket launcher. Cant think of anything more silent
*Loads rocket launcher with malicious intent :D
Fun fact: at 3:40, Sgt. Johnson's script changes depending on the difficulty you play with, just like the intro in Halo CE when Sgt. Johnson speaks with his motivational speech
A couple of cutscenes change depending on difficulty. Which makes it kind of an incentive not to skip cutscenes to try and find differences.
@@Firan25 yes
yeah. i like this quote: When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!
Halo 3: "They must love the smell of...."
@@gigantor6519 still love the delivery of "and we had to share the rock"
"Our big green style, cannot be defeated!" Love it
I don’t remember him saying that I thought that it was the 2 sticks and a rock speech
One game before being defeated
@@maxtastic0864 The dialog can change, there's quite a few actually
*IF GOD IS LOVE YOU CAN CALL ME CUPID!*
@@maxtastic0864 depends on the difficulty you’re playing oh
How can the Halo TV series exist without all this amazing lore and story telling. Truly a sin.
Halo tv is prequel to halo
@@Farivar313 Halo TV Series is an abomination of Halo.
@@TitaniumTomcat it really is, how do you have so much material to work with and make it a dumpster fire
@@kwewu89_96 Greed. They didn't trust the fanbase and the basic elements of Halo to keep the franchise growing so they handed the franchise over to people who resent the foundation of the series. 343 and Paramount dismantled what was built in a misguided attempt to make Halo "mainstream" by forcing the franchise into boring stereotypical molds that have made other franchises popular resulting in a bland abomination of Halo which today is nearly unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago. Like the corpse of a dear friend it looks like someone you knew but is now lifeless and decaying.
because it was made for everyone. Not JUST people who played Halo.
Wow, whoever made this cutscene really amped up the quality, this is so much better than the one I got to watch as a child
Halo 2 Anniversary cut scenes ate jaw dropping. Get the MCC and see em for yourself!
Blur studios, They are amazing.
@@mudmonkeymagic If only I could connect myself to xboxlive
@@enzocrespin5806 MCC disc has the cutscenes - you don't need live 👍
@@mudmonkeymagic Sorry I should have been clearer I'm on PC and the steam version requires x-live to even get to the main menu
SgtMaj. Johnson is my favorite character out of any military shooter I have ever played. Perfectly captures that salt dog feel, man.
The voice actor for master chief must if had a really easy time. Just say the scripted lines with no emotion other than confidence.
The voice actor, Steve Downs, is extremely talented.
@@Tigershark_3082 Nobody said otherwise
takes real skill to eliminate everything other than natural confidence from your voice
@@beneko1127 Nani
Hey now...thems fighting words
You know what makes "Return to Sender" truly a legendary cutscene? The heroism. The heroism of the Chief doing what it takes to make the greatest impact he can in a hopeless situation, the heroism of the UNSC ship sacrificing itself to get between the Chief and the Covenant weapons, the heroism of the two fighters flying through hell to open a path for the Chief.
The level of competence by everyone in Halo 1-3 also stand out. Everyone knew their job, they knew what they needed to do, and they knew what they had to sacrifice to accomplish it. They were competent heroes.
This is why the modern Halo is failing, with all of its different media versions. They've taken out the heroism and competency of the characters and replaced them with the only thing modern writers know. Spitefulness, anger, hatred, and stupidity.
and wokeness**
@@PlaymoreWoW Man how do you manage to start reeeing about wokeness in literally every discussion. Just let this person complain about the lack of soul in modern halo.
@@EpicGamer-yv5nf because it’s true. Woke culture is by and large the “Debbie downer” of the 21st century. Literally cancer and shit won’t stop fucking spreading.
Are you sure the ship sacrificed itself? The laser beam didn't seem nowhere near chief. I think they were shooting directly for the ship
@@EpicGamer-yv5nf I mean, he's not wrong about it being in the show at least. It's a destructive ideology that's worming its way into everything, so it's becoming omnipresent all on its own.
Still my favorite game to this day. Everything is just flawless; art, story, VOICE ACTING, direction, everything. An absolute masterpiece (overlooking legendary sniper jackels)
what game is it?
@@ThefamousRemirezZz Halo 2
I love how chief is always so confident in his ability like he just knows hes a badass.
"What of you miss?"
"I won't" this this is what the new stupid tv show is missing lol
According to the lore, it's because Chief is "lucky"
Read the books if you haven't already.
@@MasonC93 He truly is. He's not the best Spartan in terms of skill but he's the luckiest of them all
@@zaer-ezart He is and always has been their leader though. While he technically isn't, he is the de facto leader of all spartans, and have taken command over bigger units than just his team.
If*
@@Paal2005 I mean, why wouldn't you listen to the guy thats survived hundreds of battles with average survival rates of less than 10%, back to back to back. His very presence increases the chances of winning.
"Sir. The Prophet is bugging out!"
Immediately cuts to T-posing Prophet.
Chief: 0:54 Jumps through space and lands hard, at zero resistance, onto another spacecraft and is fine.
Also Chief: 10:00 Jumps in some water from not-so-high height. Gets knocked out.
I think the implication is that he was hit by a shockwave from the laser. Something spun him around in the air, after all, since he jumped feet first and landed on his back.
After reading the books the way I understand it is that the monjilnr armour swells when in water and gets way to heavy to swim in
Actually, the Spartan's black underlayer underneath their armor is made entirely of cotton. As soon as it comes into contact with water, it shrinks. Your Spartan then dies of suffocation.
@@jacklewis5394 Considering how heavy they are, there's no practical way they could swim at all. I imagine there'd be some sort of thrust attachment for the armor in aquatic environments.
@@granolapancake you would think but at least the gen 3 Spartans couldnt swim according to the ghost of onyx book
9:31 I freaking love Halo, but I just realized after all these years... The chief and Blue Team destroyed a Covenant Fleet of about 450 ships, so I don't think it's the largest he's seen lol
Its High Charity with the fleet who protects it, so its very likely that was the largets fleet ever been seen by the humanity until that point of war
The High Charity fleet is much larger than 450 ships though...
You're talking about the fleet at the Unyielding Heirophant in the novel First Strike, right?
In Ghosts of Onyx it goes a bit into the High Charity fleet and there were literally thousands of ships.
I can't remember which book but one of them ended with the Prophets on High Charity talking about... something and it mentioned there were hundreds of "Supercarriers" alone around High Charity.
4:45 probably one of the best scenes in the entire game.
Marine: "scared as shit"
Master Chief: "walks out of the scarab he has just destroyed like a total badass"
Me: I love it :)
The scene of him dragging that bomb off the ship is one of my core memories from my childhood. Can't believe it's been almost 2 decades. That's like my Lotr trilogy days.
That perspective zoomout at 1:15 is probably my favorite part.
Cortana: I like crazy...
We missed it boys, the warnings were there.
“Dear humanity we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to earth and we most certainly regret the Corp blowing up our raggedy ass fleet ooh rah!” My favorite piece of dialogue
After watching 10 minutes of new HALO show, I am here watching the Real Chief and not some imposter.
Cortana: could we make any more noise!?
Chief: grabs rocket launcher
Cortana: I guess so.
I LOVE the design of the human ships. Reminds me of the lego ships I'd build as a kid. I think I like them because of the books. They slapped these things together and tossed inexperienced, yet very intelligent, captains on them and just basically did what Admiral Yi did in the Japan Korean conflict. (look Yi up by the way, the guy deserves his own course in school). When things look grim, you really have no other options than to keep going.
One of the most iconic scenes that helped extened action games into the next generation of gaming
The nostalgia I can’t even count how many times I’ve played this game the story is seamless and heartfelt the cinematics truly captivating
Which one is this? Halo 2 or 3?
man, I forgot how nostalgic and such a great story the first 3 halo games had. I wish that was brought back into the franchise
"For a brick, he flew pretty good."
All these years later and that still makes me laugh.
He may not be the strongest or the fastest Spartan but his existence is an absolute unstoppable indomitable force that annihilates any obstacle.
He is the strongest spartan
@@PMMA116 No he Isnt look it up
@@PMMA116 no he's just lucky
@@calumgorman3481 He might of had luck as well. But was carefully selected as a child and then forced to compete against a bunch of other selected kids and he was one of the best out of those. A lot of them didn't survive the drugs they gave them to adapt rapidly and be able to wear the MJOLNIR suit without it ripping the body apart.
@@calumgorman3481 Basically he was one in a million several times over, and they did hint in the books that he might have better luck as well. Curiously the original "Ringworld" book had a character that was born with good luck.
Cortana : "just one question, what if you miss?"
Master Chief : "I won't"
Damn! Goosebumps everytime! I been replaying that scene in my head since i first saw the trailer back years ago.. gets me everytime
Spartans have been called demons has their reasons.
"This demon... This Master Chief..."
Chief IS The Demon. That's the Covies name for him.
I think it was just chief that had that moniker. Because he destroyed the sacred rings. Defiled their holy object. Of course he would be seen as a demon.
@@squirrelking4174 if I'm not mistaken they refer to him as "Demon" because he has slaughtered literally scores of the Covenant and come through victorious time and again. To them he is nigh unkillable, and moves inhumanly fast with ridiculous strength (if you go based on the books)
@@squirrelking4174 All Spartan-lls were called demons by the covenant, even before installation-04's destruction. In the eyes of the covenant they were faceless, merciless, nigh unkillable death machines able to singlehandedly dismantle entire platoons and disappear without a trace. Much of the covenant associated masks and resurrection with heresy, and they believed that Spartans were heretical beings.
This was mainly because Spartans were all faceless and bore similar armor, so many covenant believed that Spartans literally could not die, as they would simply be resurrected and return to their endless slaughter. Hence, all Spartans were referred to as "demons". Master Chief, however, was THE demon. The covenant made sure he was distinguished between the other Spartans, for obvious reasons.
“I know what the ladies like” 😂
H2A Johnson and chief look freaking great dude. That moment at 7:17 is awesome
How did they make this game look so good? I mean, the cutscenes literally look like something straight out of a movie…
This was YEARS ago too...
They're just pre-rendered cutscenes. The actual game doesn't look anywhere close. They basically just replaced the in-game cutscenes with movie clips. No console or PC could render graphics like this in real-time, at least not yet.
@@jaybird0312 right, it looks like a movie, it’s insane how the graphics in the cutscenes still hold up against most games and movies today
@@tyler-hp7oq Yea I figured. I know my gaming PC’s and a game running smooth looking as good as that would take a nasa computer to run lol. But I still find it incredible how they made the cutscenes look so good. I mean, they still hold up against games and movies today and may look better in most cases, it’s just insane
@@Rschont11 yeah they definitely used some of the best CGI available when they did the remaster
It just breaks my heart looking at how great the game is and the tv series completely killed it and spit of the carcass of the dead,
This series has brought me so much joy through the years.
"For a brick. He flew pretty good." That line gets me everytime. Doesn't matter how many years have passed.
"Could we make any more noise?!"
*Grabs rocket launcher*
"Oh. I guess so."
"To give the covenant back their bomb" is the greatest line in gaming history, and nothing u say can change my mind
Where is the rest of your platoon? Wasted Sarge! Dammit I told them to lay off the Busch beer!
Chipps Dubbo: "they got wasted on Busch?! I didn't know that was possible!"
lol
The amount of masculinity coming out of master chief is equivalent to doom slayer.
Maybe the doom slayers left nut.
@@myrixica4222 there’s a difference knowing you can’t die compared to knowing you can and probably will, but doing what is needed
@@myrixica4222 Imagine being this incorrect.
@@ajfite1277 Well being a demigod is badass but being a human in a 1000 pounds suit alone and doing godlike stuff is way more badass to me.
@@Manoooolo Then you don't know how the Doom Slayer became a Demigod.
Hands down one of the greatest campaigns ever, ahead of it's time by a decade..
Think about it, it's contemporaries wher Medal of Honour Frontline and the first renditions of COD..
"Could we possibly make any more noise?"
_>grabs rocket launcher
Imagine being the guy who just finished waxing and buffing that stations floor, AND here comes Chief, just scratching the hell out of it...
Cortana: Thanks for the tank he never gets me anything
The bad ass himself: oh I know what the ladies like
God halo 2 anniversary’s cutscenes just look SO GODDAMN GOOD
Imagine if they animated the whole original trilogy like this and put it into three movies. I'd watch that
“You had your chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved core thats why I brought this motivational device”
Watching this brings back so many memories.
9:53 me evading the swarm of IRS nanobots trying to get me to pay property tax
I've never even played any of these games (somehow) and I only started looking into the game, its characters, and its lore today (again, somehow), but already I'm dying from the absolutely ungodly amounts of sass and one liners from cortana.
Do it. Play the games.
Me an my buddy had a fantastic laugh at 8:20 because warning labels mean the thing has happened before, and there’s a warning label on the rocket launcher that says “point this way. ➡️” which means somebody held that shit backwards and that can only end hilariously.
Never been in the military, but I’ve seen military guys make a lot of jokes/memes about marines being dumb, so I’d like to think this is something along those lines lol
@@lildyo marines are Frontline, and trust me, does not require a high iq.
Just have to be dumb enough to blindly follow orders and humble enough to not plaster marine stickers all over your lifter truck once you're out of the military.
cortana: "just one question... what if you miss"
chief: "i won't"
^ the single greatest line from any video game cinematic, EVER
Bro Sgt Johnson 😭
This is better than any live action thing they've put out so far. This will never stop being the best of halo imo.
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the..." - Hicks
"Okay." - Master Chief.
"Wait... what?!" - Burke
I randomly watched one of these compilations yesterday for like ten minutes and immediately went and downloaded the MC collection just to play through the whole saga again.
The TV show couldn’t even come remotely close to scratching that itch so I might as well get it all straight from the source all over again.
At 7:54 chiefs chute propeller thing broke on his drop pod unlike the other marines pods because he’s so heavy just noticed that after all these years that’s why cortona makes the comment about the bump beforehand because it’s failing
I never realized it was only MC’s parachute that broke. I always wondered how the rest of them could survive the g-force of such a landing
No. If you look closely right before they hit the ground, none of them have that propeller.
117 is one lucky SOB. He became friendly with a powerful Elite, made an alliance with the GraveMind, and took Cortana's heart.
4:32 Best line entire franchise.
Master Chief is the ultimate badass
That Sergeant is the greatest gift to the franchise...Can we please get a live action with SLJ in this role?
For all the yodeling and admiration about the character, why does nobody acknowledge that Johnson is a cut'n'paste of SGT Apone from the film Aliens? He's actually kind of 2D in comparison; everything he says starts with an exclamation point, is boisterous, and overblown. Apone at least had some nuances, some softly-spoken lines and professional, matter-of-fact reports and comments.
@@stevejordan7275 perhaps because most halo fans today weren't born in the 80s
Don’t mind me, just finished the Halo show and I need to rinse my mind of that
The remaster of this game is so dang epic !
I remember when i first saw this scene together with my older brother at 2004, it was so surealistic how a videogame could create this feeling where the entire body get goosebumps & you felt complete euphoria! I don't think i have felt that since maybe WoW Legion at Varians death cinematic. Those years where something else, when gaming was a journey, a story, where it actually meant something to play a game. Today, empty...only money that matters for the companies :(
One of my favourite scenes in gaming history 💚😍
"For a brick, he flew pretty good."
Translation: "Just another day in the office."
I remember playing Halo with my friends in school and we always got in trouble for downloading it on the computer 😂 good times
Downloading Halo on the computer?
@@Grintock Probably meant downloading onto the school computers
Loved those multiplayer maps
@@robertdahammer4850 I think he means how did u download an Xbox game onto the computer especially back in the day
No styles download virus into your minds
So, no one's able to capture this magic in live action? That's a shame.
Drop pods slamming into the ground at an impact over 250 Gs. All the now liquified Marines - "This is fine."
I remember back playing Halo 2 and I was just a kid so imagine how my jaw dropped when Cortana goes "That, is another Halo"
Her: come over
Me: can't, too busy killing aliens
Her: I have a weapon
Me: 2:48
I love Johnson's responses. "We had two stick and one rock and that was for the whole platoon." LOL
"Oh, I know what the ladies like."
Better story writing in one clip then the whole TV series
This is how the Halo show should've been.
The synchronized OOH RAH is just the best part
The people writing and creating these cut scenes need to be the people making a halo movie
This would be the best television show ever , 50 seasons , 20 episodes a seasom
Well, we had a halo show in 2021 but we all know how that went😕
"Just one question... what if you miss?" "I won't"
What!?! You mean Master Chief keep his helmet on and we still loved the show!
That was the best "HOORAH" of humanity XD
"Cheif, what are you doing?"
"Sir. Giving the Covenant back their bomb."
2:39 me and the boys on any and all occasions
"I brought this motivational device" cracks me up every time
I'd rather watch this than new TV Show
What everyone forgets about master chief returning the bomb to the covenant is that the unsc is helping him (two longswords bomb the ship so he can get inside) meaning that probably lord hood went: «yeah master chief is going to fly through space with a nuke and hit the ship, so we need to open the ship for him» and the pilots listen to this thinking «did i just hear that correctly?»
i love this so much his face at 4:00 is amazing
Jermafear
Such a goated character man 😢
And Locke thought he could take this guy with only three friends.
He almost did take cutscene Chief.
"I brought this motivational device" big fucking tank 😄🤣