They literally laugh at a plot where cortana turns on master chief and decides to take control over the universe. The first thing that came to my mind was the plot of Halo 5 lmao
And it sucked, so you can tell it was the right call not to do that. Though a large part of why it sucked in Halo 5 was because you had grown to love Cortana and it was out of character, whereas in the first game you can get away with it since the player barely knows the character.
@@Lucifronz It's not just that. _Anyone_ who's payed attention to Asimov could tell you: _STOP HAVING THE FRIENDLY ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS TURN EVIL._ You can have them go rogue, but only as a malfunction, which is nothing an engineer with a spanner and a whole load of duct tape can't fix. Or a Spartan Laser. But honestly. We _did_ blow up someone's 100,000 year old home/solitary prison/purpose in life. And then blow up the replacement. _I don't think Halo had the ability to repair itself from that kind of explosion in Bungie's lore._ Guilty Spark wasn't evil. Just senile. Then he became incorporated. Mind you, wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy for the greater good _is_ pretty damn evil. Haven't they ever heard of a firebreak?
@@Lucifronz it wasn't that it was a bad idea of Cortana being evil. The execution and intro of it is bad. We are not even deep into the whole plot and we had just rmb how Corran sacrificed herself And she came back so soon with a full 180 If it was more later that was revealed, like a cut scene of Locke listening to the comms of Chief going AWOL, then we are purely playing as Locke going thru. Then ltr on we learnt Cortana is alive, and chief is captured. Boom, leave at a cliffhangar
It's somewhat sad to hear these three lead creatives on Halo jostling together happily here and how everything seemed to fall apart with the development of Destiny. Joe Staten left because of story disagreements with Jones reportedly and Marty O'Donnell was fired by both Bungie and Activision management for simply trying to assert some creative authority over the music, which ya know, as the composer isn't exactly surprising. At least they created one of the best FPS trilogies in Halo's 1-3 together.
@@KnoxCarbon Except Activision didnt have anything to do with it. It was Harold Ryan (then president of Bungie) and the rest of Bungie management that decided to fire Marty. Bungie fell apart on its own, stop trying to blame publishers for everything
This game came out when I was only 5 years old. By the time I played it I was 9, and here I am 11 years down the road, 20 years of age, just finishing this campaign for the 4th time a few weeks ago. These guys may be goofy,, but they put together one of the greatest games I've ever played. Thank you bungie. If only things could go back to the way they used to be.
"Now he's got a plasma pistol - someone explain that to me" "Explain to me how you missed that first Sentinel" Wrecked. This is the kind of witty friendly banter that made the Halo games so great - just a bunch of friends who loved video games and happened to be very talented videogame developers. Compare the amount of chemistry between them and love for the game in this commentary with the one for Halo Reach - hugely contrasting. Shows how the passion and chemistry began to die at that point, and thus the last truly legendary Halo games were Halo 1-3.
Back then, it wasn't really about story, either. they had no story to ground themselves with, hell, the legendary ending with Johnson touching an aliens butt before they died was proof that they really had no other plans for this game while making it, and were able to make it far more light hearted and have fun with it. but after ten years of building a massive story, backstory, lore, and universe behind it, they've really grounded themselves in a set of stories they were sort of forced to tell, and i can imagine the sandbox ideology was lost
All in your head. Stop using things to backup your opinion as fact. Reach was kickass. The tone of the fuckin’ commentary doesn’t mean jack shit. And yes, Halo was good because of witty banter...?
Fun fact, At the Flood level, if you pushed a Shadow turret towards the entrance that plays at 28:50 and you played the level up to that moment, the turret would stay there because the designers forgot to set up a map cleaner on that part. If well placed, Jenkins would be stuck on the turret and mess up the cutscene.
+JayHog1992 It's like on AotCR at the end when you can have enemies such as a banshee or hunters follow you into the room and kill you in the cutscene.
Ryan Apperson That was best done in two players where one drives the banshee full speed towards the gate while the other opened the gate. If well done, the character would die in the cutscene and shortly later, the game would skip said cutscene because of it's death... That or the cutscene would play without the chief.
+MemoriiiZ If you think about it, 343's Halo's are just recycled Bungie ideas. Bungie was going to do Halo 4, but went with Reach. 343 made Halo 4. Then this plot line XD Quick! Find all of Bungie's cut content/ideas, we can predict Halo 6!
+ShadowVincent3 Well jokes aside you can find quite a lot of lore on Bungie's Halo 4 with Halo 3 Essentials Disk 2, The very thing we are watching was a feature on it.
Marty: (doesn't want the player to witness a marine killing himself) also Marty: (kills the marine 3 seconds later) Jason: [inspiring speech about halo's design] Marty: _lOoK aT tHe SiZe Of ThAt CrEdIt_
I really love the detailed commentary of these legendary Bungie members. Their understanding of physics, chemistry, and computing really adds a layer of depth to their explanations of various mechanics in the game. One would never know how much work and effort goes into a simple cutscene or animation without this kind of detail. Amazing!
I miss the days when developers wanted to make a good game and didn't care about making a lot of money. Heart is better to use in making games and Bungie had heart.
@@inuous it's really sad that it has come to this. Games used to be ambitious and passionate projects. Now they're just money machines because people accept shit. Sad.. so sad.
Them cracking jokes about halo 2 and Miranda strapping a bomb to cheifs back XD, and at 22:18 Cortana being drunk with power, 343 running out of ideas XD I love how they were joking about that story being too good. But that is the story that is killing halo XD
@@Sad_Chief idk, doesn't feel sarcastic, they would honestly feel its a good idea.. I myself find it a good plot line, it's a matter of how well the execution is Greatest example of a plot line but difference in execution in Halo 2 would be, if Bungie had done all the same thing minus the PoV as Arbiter of everything that happens in the covenant side.. And we only stuck at Human PoV, it would've been way less impact for the story. Feels so out of the left field where suddenly there a civil war cux Prophets just wanted Brutes instead Cuz the Elites are now questioning too much on the decisions made. Halo 5 with Cortana would've alot better if we don't know abt Chief side of the story, or if the original wiriting wasnt retconned.. Rmb the old trailer where the buildings were all collapsing and Chief was running thru? That was a sign of retcon somewhere Cuz that nvr happened in the game and I bet you Microsoft Game Studios interfered with it, same goes for Cortana "death" in Halo 4. It would've made the AWOL plot alot better and intense and Locke just don't feel the same as Nightfall Locke
I was 12 years old when this came out and I remember being scared shitless of the flood reveal that i literally stopped playing for a week because I did not want to play the next level. Still to this day one of my personal favorite moments in video game history.
I could have done that but I need a new capture card to do so! If I did get support on this channel, then I could reupload this video again with perfect sound and better picture quality.
Funfact; In order of the levels played; a10 = Pillar of Autumn. a30 = Halo. a50 = The Truth and Reconciliation. b30 = The Silent Cartographer. b40 = Assault on the Control Room. c10 = 343 Guilty Spark. c20 = The Library. c40 = Two Betrayals. d20 = Keyes. d40 = The Maw.
Holy shit. As a kid I would go to bed every night listening to this commentary! I was thinking that I would have to torrent this thing to see it again (the old DVD is probably long gone by now). Thank you so much for uploading these!!!!
Folks in the comments acting like it’s a revelation that Bungie toyed with the idea of having Cortana turn baddy before 343. They’ve always toyed with it - folks who were around for the Halo 2 post-credit stinger and the promotional “this is the way the world ends” Halo 3 cryptic bullshit already know this - the idea of “Rampancy”, etc. It’s a plot point that’s always floated around but they never had the confidence to pull the trigger on it because MC and Cortana are such beloved characters. 343 had desperation instead of confidence.
Why? Because they used an obvious idea previous owners of the game series thought about but disbanded in the IP they have complete rights to? Those cunts... how fucking dare they! Burn them at the stake! Jesus, people love to fucking complain don’t they.
These guys are awesome, they're geniuses, they are artists. Jason jones is realizing how special halo one really was, this game really hits itclose to the heart.
I love everyone at Bungie a ton. Thank you so much for the best fps series of all time. You guys seem passionate and are what made Bungie the company they were at the time I believe. Awesome guys.
"That's because real weapons 500 years in the future are going to be totally boring. A weapon 500 years in the future is going to be a glass of water. And you drink it and all your enemies die."
Damn after H1 they really lost the core of what made Halo great the huge environments and buildings, the silent suspenseful moments, the intimidating introduction of new classes of enemies... oh well atleast the gameplay and multiplayer remained top notch (kinda).
Well not really, halo 2's development was super hellish which lead to halo 3's development being super safe to avoid the same mistakes as halo 2. A lot of those moments you mentioned returned in halo 3 odst and reach.
Lots of issues with this video's audio playback and the subtitles aren't great, but it's still nice to be able to see the developers riff about the original games. Shame there isn't one like this for Halo 3.
Halo CE convinced my whole dorm to convert to xbox so we could system link through the LAN. People forget during this period Halo had to contend with the holy trifecta of fps courtesy of half life in counter strike, team fortress classic and day of defeat. Halo was that good.
Marty 'O'Donell's music is awesome. Gonna buy Halo CE soundtrack, Halo 2 soundtrack, Halo 3 soundtrack, Halo Reach soundtrack, and the Desiny soundtrack.
i remember playing through the first snow valley level alot. i loved that level. driving around in a warthog, marine on the back tearin' shit up... best lvl imo
For me it's mindblowing as they talking about how they made the cutscene look like the autumn is flying above the escape pod, because until I heard this, I was always confused why the pod flying below the ship again, what's the point of this. I never perceived the way they intended haha
IT DOES CRASH! 3:40 you can hear it just get cut off at the end there. 22:20 They must have saved it for 343 to steal later and shoehorn into halo 5's story... Oh my god this is fantastic behind-the-scenes playthrough with the original greats themselves. I am not worthy.
These guys were really passionate about their game. It shows in Halo 1-3. Signing with Microsoft was great $ wise but after CE they couldn't make games how they use to. Not only the immense fan expectations, but obviously publisher (Microsoft) also has their injections into the game. After Halo 3 the fight was finished but they were required to make 2 more Halo games for the Xbox. ODST was an enjoyable reskin and Reach was Destiny Jr. That's where their focus was (Destiny) buy this was ultimately the beginning of the end.. as they decided to sign with Activision to publish Destiny after the split from MS. I could only imagine what the men in these videos were planning for. I imagine their vision and Activision's didn't line up.. as Joseph Staten and Marty were both gone by the release. Sad. It's cool Joseph Staten is back to work on Halo though. Sorry for the paragraph, been on a behind-the-scenes binge of of old Bungie because I loved Halo when I was a child/teen lol.
They literally laugh at a plot where cortana turns on master chief and decides to take control over the universe. The first thing that came to my mind was the plot of Halo 5 lmao
And it sucked, so you can tell it was the right call not to do that.
Though a large part of why it sucked in Halo 5 was because you had grown to love Cortana and it was out of character, whereas in the first game you can get away with it since the player barely knows the character.
@@Lucifronz It's not just that. _Anyone_ who's payed attention to Asimov could tell you: _STOP HAVING THE FRIENDLY ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS TURN EVIL._
You can have them go rogue, but only as a malfunction, which is nothing an engineer with a spanner and a whole load of duct tape can't fix.
Or a Spartan Laser. But honestly. We _did_ blow up someone's 100,000 year old home/solitary prison/purpose in life. And then blow up the replacement. _I don't think Halo had the ability to repair itself from that kind of explosion in Bungie's lore._ Guilty Spark wasn't evil. Just senile. Then he became incorporated.
Mind you, wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy for the greater good _is_ pretty damn evil. Haven't they ever heard of a firebreak?
343i love using all the bad ideas that got cut from other Halo games.
@@Lucifronz it wasn't that it was a bad idea of Cortana being evil. The execution and intro of it is bad.
We are not even deep into the whole plot and we had just rmb how Corran sacrificed herself
And she came back so soon with a full 180
If it was more later that was revealed, like a cut scene of Locke listening to the comms of Chief going AWOL, then we are purely playing as Locke going thru.
Then ltr on we learnt Cortana is alive, and chief is captured. Boom, leave at a cliffhangar
@@Vonmoonlight No, it's a horrid idea full stop
I love how they're basically roasting the game the entire time
It's not that it's them roasting the entire game, but that it's them roasting *their* entire game.
Gotta' love Bungie.
Vicious Zero "old bungie"
How dare they roast this masterpiece!
@Uncle Ho Marty isn't the only Bungie vet in the Reach doc.
Uncle Ho still play reach to this day though
It's kinda cool how they remember who created every animation.
Sloth from The Goonies with a team of 11 people, it kind of easy
TG - GreatfulGert - Chedder - OddBall Not when they were responsible for literally thousands of animations between them.
Just goes to show how much old Bungie cared about the people they worked with.
Small team, big names.
@@GreatfulGert no, its because they actually gave a shit
It's somewhat sad to hear these three lead creatives on Halo jostling together happily here and how everything seemed to fall apart with the development of Destiny. Joe Staten left because of story disagreements with Jones reportedly and Marty O'Donnell was fired by both Bungie and Activision management for simply trying to assert some creative authority over the music, which ya know, as the composer isn't exactly surprising. At least they created one of the best FPS trilogies in Halo's 1-3 together.
Ya :/. Maybe some more years down the line, they can get together and do an informal Halo 3 developers' commentary
Activision ruins everything they touch.
Bungie really is a shell of its former self, tbh
@@KnoxCarbon Except Activision didnt have anything to do with it. It was Harold Ryan (then president of Bungie) and the rest of Bungie management that decided to fire Marty. Bungie fell apart on its own, stop trying to blame publishers for everything
They should get back together and do another series similar to halo. Destiny was whack.
Pvt. Dustin Echoes.
How have I never heard that before? That's hilarious.
He was all that was left 😂
RIP Dustin Echoes.
May we never forget that brave bastard.
Heartful Shields legend tells of a lone human who survived the ring exploding, beating down any threat that dares approach.
I like how they said they fixed the Warthog crash and you can actually still hear it right before Joe says "Noooo, they fixed it."
I had the honor to give this comment the 117th like.
It's so quiet in this version, MCC's intro for CE is SOOO loud😂
MC: "Did anyone else make it?
C: "Just Dust and Echoes"
Marty: "WELL LETS GO BACK FOR THEM!"
Pvt. Dustin Echoes (32M)
I've watched this commentary so many times, and each time it shows how much they love the game, as much as they roast it.
Bungie FTW
Can you truly claim to love a thing if you aren't comfortable enough to playfully mock that thing?
Old Bungie*
watch it again
>:))
@@littlebluebird5189 I definitely will XD
22:20 Halo 5's story! Wow they are laughing about it back then hahah they knew it wasn't a great idea
Squidward Tortellini I like ur profile pic, Green Day is awesome
Na they clearly thought it was great.
I think the original squad would have pulled it off good
RIP the Bungie era of Halo, it was nice knowing you.
+SonicChaocc RIP Bungie in 2007
Bungie was good all the way til the end of Halo Reach's lifespan.
This game came out when I was only 5 years old. By the time I played it I was 9, and here I am 11 years down the road, 20 years of age, just finishing this campaign for the 4th time a few weeks ago. These guys may be goofy,, but they put together one of the greatest games I've ever played. Thank you bungie. If only things could go back to the way they used to be.
-_-7
Jake Azz no doubt
WITHOUT foreign anybody IMPORTANT maybe
wow just wow.
+wisethought24 I played Halo 1 on the PC all the way until we got an XBOX 360. I still remember playing Custom Edition maps based on Halo 2 and 3.
22:32 "We needed to leave something for Brian Reed to screw up with."
"Now he's got a plasma pistol - someone explain that to me"
"Explain to me how you missed that first Sentinel"
Wrecked.
This is the kind of witty friendly banter that made the Halo games so great - just a bunch of friends who loved video games and happened to be very talented videogame developers.
Compare the amount of chemistry between them and love for the game in this commentary with the one for Halo Reach - hugely contrasting. Shows how the passion and chemistry began to die at that point, and thus the last truly legendary Halo games were Halo 1-3.
Back then, it wasn't really about story, either. they had no story to ground themselves with, hell, the legendary ending with Johnson touching an aliens butt before they died was proof that they really had no other plans for this game while making it, and were able to make it far more light hearted and have fun with it. but after ten years of building a massive story, backstory, lore, and universe behind it, they've really grounded themselves in a set of stories they were sort of forced to tell, and i can imagine the sandbox ideology was lost
All in your head. Stop using things to backup your opinion as fact. Reach was kickass. The tone of the fuckin’ commentary doesn’t mean jack shit. And yes, Halo was good because of witty banter...?
@@TheJayson8899 Are you dense? Halo 1-3 are 10/10 because those games are made by gamers, for gamers.
This is where 343 got the story for Halo 5. 22:00
I think "This seems interesting, I guess I'll watch a bit"
guy squeals "Oh my god, it's Captain Keyes"
I fall in love.
Fun fact, At the Flood level, if you pushed a Shadow turret towards the entrance that plays at 28:50 and you played the level up to that moment, the turret would stay there because the designers forgot to set up a map cleaner on that part. If well placed, Jenkins would be stuck on the turret and mess up the cutscene.
U can blow the warthog over the barrels and drive your way through
+JayHog1992 It's like on AotCR at the end when you can have enemies such as a banshee or hunters follow you into the room and kill you in the cutscene.
Ryan Apperson That was best done in two players where one drives the banshee full speed towards the gate while the other opened the gate. If well done, the character would die in the cutscene and shortly later, the game would skip said cutscene because of it's death...
That or the cutscene would play without the chief.
@@ryanapperson8932 happens in keyes too, when you are punching keyes a combat form would smack the shit out of ya
I did that on accident once
Lol 22:40 basically describing halo 5 (don't look if you don't want spoilers)
Oops just 22:00 on
+MemoriiiZ If you think about it, 343's Halo's are just recycled Bungie ideas. Bungie was going to do Halo 4, but went with Reach. 343 made Halo 4. Then this plot line XD
Quick! Find all of Bungie's cut content/ideas, we can predict Halo 6!
+ShadowVincent3 Well jokes aside you can find quite a lot of lore on Bungie's Halo 4 with Halo 3 Essentials Disk 2, The very thing we are watching was a feature on it.
+Jake Azz how does that make any sense?
+Jake Azz cod rips off halo... It's not the other way. Don't get it twisted
49:25 Did anyone else notice that he got to the ship with 0,2 seconds left?
There’s something magical about the founder, the writer, and the composer in one room, playing the game together
Marty: (doesn't want the player to witness a marine killing himself)
also Marty: (kills the marine 3 seconds later)
Jason: [inspiring speech about halo's design]
Marty: _lOoK aT tHe SiZe Of ThAt CrEdIt_
*"MaRtY, hE's KiLLiNg ThE MaRiNeS."*
22:18 unfucking real
That's pretty crazy. It's a good thing they decided not to go with it, it would have been really stupid and ... oh.
JAG Gaming
I agree.
22:18 Holy shit... Sounds familiar doesn't it?
"It's too good"
goosebumps
The storyline makes some sense. It's the way 343i did it that sucked.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Halo 5's own twist story!?
How nuts is it that they mention it during that particular scene... and the most recent Halo Infinite teaser sees Chief in that room again?
Imagine the Halo series with Cortana as an antagonist...
That would be too good.
Imagine a dude ai and female protagonist
Matthew Hagerty You mean, imagine a naked dude AI and fully armored(not that typical MMO clothing) female protagonist?
MrKatakatt You mean Halo 4?
Halo 5
I really love the detailed commentary of these legendary Bungie members. Their understanding of physics, chemistry, and computing really adds a layer of depth to their explanations of various mechanics in the game. One would never know how much work and effort goes into a simple cutscene or animation without this kind of detail. Amazing!
So, basically, the original making of Halo was all one big Machinima.
I miss the days when developers wanted to make a good game and didn't care about making a lot of money. Heart is better to use in making games and Bungie had heart.
As a developer, I can tell you that working on games which focus on building gameplay around monetization mechanisms is soul draining.
@@inuous I can imagine. Shit. 😓
@@inuous it's really sad that it has come to this. Games used to be ambitious and passionate projects. Now they're just money machines because people accept shit. Sad.. so sad.
I absolutely love coming back to these every few months (or several). Every time it’s enjoyable. Am I alone?
Nope
Not at all, I do the same thing
I wish they showed their easter eggs in the commentary.
Them cracking jokes about halo 2 and Miranda strapping a bomb to cheifs back XD, and at 22:18 Cortana being drunk with power, 343 running out of ideas XD I love how they were joking about that story being too good. But that is the story that is killing halo XD
"It's too good"
Dan yup
It's a good story plot line but not well executed
@@Vonmoonlight they were sarcastic when they were saying how good it was.
@@Sad_Chief idk, doesn't feel sarcastic, they would honestly feel its a good idea..
I myself find it a good plot line, it's a matter of how well the execution is
Greatest example of a plot line but difference in execution in Halo 2 would be, if Bungie had done all the same thing minus the PoV as Arbiter of everything that happens in the covenant side..
And we only stuck at Human PoV, it would've been way less impact for the story. Feels so out of the left field where suddenly there a civil war cux Prophets just wanted Brutes instead Cuz the Elites are now questioning too much on the decisions made.
Halo 5 with Cortana would've alot better if we don't know abt Chief side of the story, or if the original wiriting wasnt retconned.. Rmb the old trailer where the buildings were all collapsing and Chief was running thru? That was a sign of retcon somewhere Cuz that nvr happened in the game and I bet you Microsoft Game Studios interfered with it, same goes for Cortana "death" in Halo 4. It would've made the AWOL plot alot better and intense and Locke just don't feel the same as Nightfall Locke
It is really funny listening to these guys talk about a game they've created.
I was 12 years old when this came out and I remember being scared shitless of the flood reveal that i literally stopped playing for a week because I did not want to play the next level. Still to this day one of my personal favorite moments in video game history.
I love how much they joke and laugh about every tiny flaw they find in the game. It's so damn awesome
shit load of video glitches with this
Capture card issues. Fixed on Halo 2 commentary.
SimKitt I wonder if they were using a Roxio. This always happened with mine.
I could have done that but I need a new capture card to do so! If I did get support on this channel, then I could reupload this video again with perfect sound and better picture quality.
You got support fam do it
52:16 Why Halo is such a memorable game as described by Project Lead Jason Jones.
22:27 "What happened to that story?" That story ended up in Halo 5
22:20 is describing the plot of Halo 5, correct?
Funfact; In order of the levels played;
a10 = Pillar of Autumn.
a30 = Halo.
a50 = The Truth and Reconciliation.
b30 = The Silent Cartographer.
b40 = Assault on the Control Room.
c10 = 343 Guilty Spark.
c20 = The Library.
c40 = Two Betrayals.
d20 = Keyes.
d40 = The Maw.
Holy shit. As a kid I would go to bed every night listening to this commentary! I was thinking that I would have to torrent this thing to see it again (the old DVD is probably long gone by now). Thank you so much for uploading these!!!!
HALO 5 (343) you just used and old idea from bungie wow. 22:18
+John Maksym Don't have Cortana go mad in one game do it in another. Unfortunatly, in my opinion, awesomeness did NOT ensue.
yeah, but then we didn't have the original team do it. So sad.
Too bad... (did you catch the Halo 2 dev commentary joke)
yeah. Those were the good old days.
A few old bungie devs have since started their own studios such as Marty ODonnell and friends (Highwire Games) and marcus lehto (V1 Interactive)
22:20 Lol 343
+HalaMadridGoals2 Even the bungie guys think it was a good idea!
Man, I wish more Developers would do commentaries like these.
Folks in the comments acting like it’s a revelation that Bungie toyed with the idea of having Cortana turn baddy before 343. They’ve always toyed with it - folks who were around for the Halo 2 post-credit stinger and the promotional “this is the way the world ends” Halo 3 cryptic bullshit already know this - the idea of “Rampancy”, etc. It’s a plot point that’s always floated around but they never had the confidence to pull the trigger on it because MC and Cortana are such beloved characters. 343 had desperation instead of confidence.
I’ve watched this sl many times over the years it’s ridiculous. Everytime I get back into Halo. These guys are hilarious and mean a lot to me.
22:22 Oh my god... Those slimy bastards at 343...
More like, they fished an idea out of Bungie's trash can.
Olivier Schultheiss yeah xD
Why? Because they used an obvious idea previous owners of the game series thought about but disbanded in the IP they have complete rights to? Those cunts... how fucking dare they! Burn them at the stake!
Jesus, people love to fucking complain don’t they.
Love how they call the infection forms party hats, I keep calling them pop-corns
22:18 Right. How smart of 343 to use a concept Bungie didn't use because it was so ridiculous.
Watching this is kind of awkward because Marty got fired from Bungie and he sued them for not paying off his vacation days.
EliteZealotMASTER They are an independent developer now. That's the opposite of corporate.
Spectrum Bravo
Yeah, independent. That's why they've shackled themselves to Activision, with Destiny as a chain.
***** It's a partnership, not an acquisition.
Spectrum Bravo
It's a contract, ain't it?
***** Yes, but Activision still does not own them.
That Dustin Echoes thing had me cracking up
These guys are awesome, they're geniuses, they are artists. Jason jones is realizing how special halo one really was, this game really hits itclose to the heart.
I always come back to these when I’m feeling lonely, these guys and this era and Halo in general is so comforting to me
The part where they're talking about Cortana going crazy with power xD foreshadowing
I love everyone at Bungie a ton. Thank you so much for the best fps series of all time. You guys seem passionate and are what made Bungie the company they were at the time I believe. Awesome guys.
“It was better than having it stand up and spin around” now this saved halo
I totally agree about how cool the flashlights were! At the time it added so much to the level.
22:45
Marty says “sensitive” because Joe was making a subtle joke about Jason’s divorce, IIRC.
one of the best games of all time, so many memorable moments, i played this for half a decade...
22:20 kinda like Halo 5? Bungie thought it first. 343 took it and ran with it, and fucked it up in the process.
343 is good at taking things Bungie made and screwing it up hardcore.
This sounds like a somewhat Red Letter Media Half in the bag episode and I love it and I want more. #makeithappenBungie
Dustin Echoes lmao
WELL WE GOTTA GO BACK FOR HIM!
Maybe jonsons name is dustin echoes 🙀
RIP Dustin Echoes
343 Please make Private Dustin Echos a canon character.
22:28 what happened to that story was it got pushed back to halo 5.
I already thought 343 were shit but this
it's almost like people that were in Bungie are working with 343 now. Hmmmm
only one is and its Cranky OFonnor
Master Chief Lol no. Not just one. A lot of people actually.
How much music did Michael write? ( I love how Marty avoided awnsering that question)
I can watch this and listen to it from start to finish without being bored
"That's because real weapons 500 years in the future are going to be totally boring. A weapon 500 years in the future is going to be a glass of water. And you drink it and all your enemies die."
Now THAT’S a weed thought
@@mannersmatter_ he’s right tho. Likely won’t use guns. I mean the halo universe doesn’t really make sense when you think about it.
51:37-51:52 = pure awesomeness
22:19 Funny because that ends up being Halo 5's plot...
You KNOW that if 343 did a developer commentary for Halo 4 or 5 nobody would give a shit for it
Damn after H1 they really lost the core of what made Halo great the huge environments and buildings, the silent suspenseful moments, the intimidating introduction of new classes of enemies... oh well atleast the gameplay and multiplayer remained top notch (kinda).
Well not really, halo 2's development was super hellish which lead to halo 3's development being super safe to avoid the same mistakes as halo 2. A lot of those moments you mentioned returned in halo 3 odst and reach.
@@deafbyhiphop He's right Halo 2 & 3 took different steps sadly.
Lots of issues with this video's audio playback and the subtitles aren't great, but it's still nice to be able to see the developers riff about the original games. Shame there isn't one like this for Halo 3.
22:30 Halo 5's plot
Halo CE convinced my whole dorm to convert to xbox so we could system link through the LAN. People forget during this period Halo had to contend with the holy trifecta of fps courtesy of half life in counter strike, team fortress classic and day of defeat. Halo was that good.
Jones wasn’t kiddin in the halo 3 film when he said they were the biggest critics ever
Funnest video forever award to this guys lol
Marty 'O'Donell's music is awesome. Gonna buy Halo CE soundtrack, Halo 2 soundtrack, Halo 3 soundtrack, Halo Reach soundtrack, and the Desiny soundtrack.
i remember playing the single player many, many, many times
lazychino many many many many many many many many many many times. This is still one of my favourite games.
Not enough many times.
i remember playing through the first snow valley level alot. i loved that level. driving around in a warthog, marine on the back tearin' shit up... best lvl imo
I would like to watch the part when Johnson gets a hug from the elite with the audio commentary
22:20 Halo 5 lol
Honestly this alone was worth buying the legendary edition. I've watched it so many times.
I love the way they just made fun out of their own story and game!
I like how the Assault on the Control room section is just the cutscenes, so they skip over like a full hour of the game with how long that level was.
20:00 Huh, so 343 is just taking old ideas now
For me it's mindblowing as they talking about how they made the cutscene look like the autumn is flying above the escape pod, because until I heard this, I was always confused why the pod flying below the ship again, what's the point of this. I never perceived the way they intended haha
and to think they fired Marty :(
"Earth" I died.
22:20 And it's how Halo 5 scenario was created
To repeat what others have said. 22:18. LOL 343
22:22
I bet you everything that the guy who wrote Halo 5's story watched this same commentary
"He's got at least 12 polygons." - Marty O' Donnel.
Joe Staten is back with halo now and I love it
At 3:40(with good headphones) you can slightly hear the warthog crash
Audio sounds weird? :(
Age+capture card issues. The original commentary was made a decade ago.
IT DOES CRASH! 3:40 you can hear it just get cut off at the end there.
22:20 They must have saved it for 343 to steal later and shoehorn into halo 5's story...
Oh my god this is fantastic behind-the-scenes playthrough with the original greats themselves. I am not worthy.
Years later and now the idea of cortana being drunk with power has now come to pass in halo infinite
I had more than 30 seconds of fun here, I had 31
I had 55:52 minuets of fun
19:24 damn that was a smooth transition!
For the record, I heard the crash of the warthog off screen.
i really enjoi these
The warble in this video made the keyes death scene fucking terrifying
These guys were really passionate about their game. It shows in Halo 1-3. Signing with Microsoft was great $ wise but after CE they couldn't make games how they use to. Not only the immense fan expectations, but obviously publisher (Microsoft) also has their injections into the game. After Halo 3 the fight was finished but they were required to make 2 more Halo games for the Xbox. ODST was an enjoyable reskin and Reach was Destiny Jr. That's where their focus was (Destiny) buy this was ultimately the beginning of the end.. as they decided to sign with Activision to publish Destiny after the split from MS. I could only imagine what the men in these videos were planning for. I imagine their vision and Activision's didn't line up.. as Joseph Staten and Marty were both gone by the release. Sad. It's cool Joseph Staten is back to work on Halo though. Sorry for the paragraph, been on a behind-the-scenes binge of of old Bungie because I loved Halo when I was a child/teen lol.