The fact that Nobel Six canonically held off the entire covenant army for hours just as a distraction for everyone else to escape is why he's my favorite Halo character
I like to believe that he survived all of this and returned to the arms of ONI, becoming a Lone Wolf again because he couldn't bear to see anyone he cared about die before his eyes again.
Even the book where they go back to reach after the human covenant war there are a few refeeences to. A ghost on reach. Many have taken it to be a mentally insane noble six.
@@halo129830 lol yea, despite all of the spartans being pumped full of substances killing off as much as emotion as possible, experiencing Reach like Noble Six did would make you insane anyway
"Negative Dispatch, no point." Is one of the saddest lines in the whole game. A ship with hundreds of people is shot down in such a way that there are likely more survivors than dead, but the situation is so hopeless and dire that sending search and rescue would just be sending more to their inevitable deaths.
i always felt that reach was harder then the rest of the games but i love it being harder because it gave me more hope in the power of humanity i also connected with reach more
There are so many stories where, some brave hero decides to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors all cheer, and everybody lives happily ever after. But the hero... never gets to see that ending They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference, they'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith. Ain't that a bitch.
For a game that was one of Bungie's escape game from a contract with Microsoft. Now a days most developers would barely try to make a good game to get out of a contract like that. They updated the engine and built a story that fits perfectly int othe Halo universe video games (yes I knwo it messes with the books IDC). Reach has and proabably always will be my favorite halo game.
I don't even know why people have an issue with it contradicting the book, considering the books contradicted the games all the time. Like, I don't think a bunch of Spartans running around on Earth during Halo 2, as depicted in Ghosts of Onyx, is exactly lore friendly either.
@@nagger8216 I can't recall anything in the games which actually states there are no other Spartans on Earth during HALO 2, so it's only an issue if the book has other Spartans fighting alongside 117 during the battle of Mombasa (it's a long time since I read the books, so I can't remember if they did). The game HALO REACH on the other hand completely invalidates Halsey's surprise when she finds out about the Spartan 3 programme in the books. I still had great fun playing through REACH though; just a shame they couldn't have tied it in with the books better (eg. making the whole of NOBLE team be Spartan 2s and Halsey's "what have you done with my armour" comment being directed at all of them not just Jorge)
@@Rhydgaled My brother in Christ, does the phrase "The Last Spartan" not mean anything to you? Because that is what the Master Chief was meant to be, the last of his kind. So much so there's literally a piece of the soundtrack called that. You can't have Chief be the last hope of humanity when you have a dozen of your Spartan OCs running around in the background. And the fact they survived Reach at all is such an asspull. No, I don't care about Halsey's reaction to the SIII's, let's talk about how Eric Nylund bent over backwards to ensure the entirety of Blue Team got off of Reach after CE. Like sorry, don't care, nothing will beat that level of fanfic. I cannot suspend my disbelief that Blue Team is just around the corner during the beginning of Halo 2 like that one terminal depicts, it's just so fucking stupid.
@@nagger8216 Where in the games does it actually say that 117 is the last Spartan? I can't think of anywhere that is actually said, except perhaps one of the manuals/box-art for the two OG-XBOX games (ie. NOT in the games themselves, just the supporting/promotional material).
The greatest thing about Halo reach is that the colors, visuals, cutscenes and camera movements are very cold and militaristic which TRULY made it look like a bloody war I also loved how auntie dots monotone voice comments and provides information like "slipspace rupture detected" which adds so much to the athmosphere
i think hearing "slipspace rupture detected" over and over again sometimes even repeating over itself while soldiers are yelling in the background is one of the most helpless and emotional moments in the series, chills everytime
In my case I think I took the Chief as mine. I'm not a good person but I think I'm better that how I would have been if I didn't grow up with the Halo series. Real or not, for me the stoic warrior clad in green armor that never gives up, not even in the face of overwhelming odds will always be the man I want to become.
My favourite thing about reach is its cinematography It really sells the idea of the story revolving around the fall of a planet and people as a whole with all these shots from local cctv, first person character perspectives and tactical maps it really cements you in the setting itself.
My first time playing reach when the big ship blew up and Jorge said, "No. Tell me this ain't happening." My genuine reaction was, "This isn't how the story is supposed to go" thinking that reach was like halo ce to 3. When I saw the Objective: Survive, My heart sunk, I felt dread, and was filled with rage. I remember as I was playing lone wolf, one line came to mind, "You'll never stop at one. I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!!!!!"
Another thing about this game is the levels of finesse and detail they put into the cinematography, scripts and line delivery. There's so little schlock here and it truly was their Magnum Opus before not only the fall of Halo, but the fall of Bungie as well. Fun fact about Reach: there is a second hidden plot in the game; the Zealots that you encounter at the end of the first mission are part of a spec ops legion called the Devoted Sentries whose main task on Reach originally was to search for Forerunner artifacts. After their deadly encounter with Noble team, they were then tasked with the mission of hunting down Noble team and if you pay attention you will see that throughout the entire campaign they reappear again and again most notably when Kat is sniped, Emile is ambushed at the mac cannon, and finally they are the team to take Noble 6 down after many hours of fighting back waves and waves of Covenant.
i remember staying up until 4am playing assassination tower, sword tourney, clan tryouts and training, searching up spartan names and changing our gamertag to them to be more immersed, i love reach so much bro and dont get me started on D1. 2v3ing on trials and going flawless, crota, kings fall or w.e the raid with oryx was called, these games were my life bro
The greatest warrior's death in my opinion is not that of the warrior who gives their life in hopes that they are remembered forever in glory. It is the death of the warrior who accepts that they will someday be forgotten and chose to die regardless for a purpose beyond themselves.
When Jorge sacrifice herself and then the covenant fleet jump to Reach and you reach to New Alejandria, the first thing that you see are dead civilians, you can heard screams and covenant gunshoots with fire around the buildings. That moment alone make me understand that this game was diferent and hell yeah it was, depressing but soo fucking epic, Noble Team, are the best fucking characters, real charcters in a war against and unstopable enemie.
Great use of theatre for this video man, you really unpacked noble team and reach as a whole and it makes me feel less depressed about how this game used to be what I played every single day. I made best friends through this game, met extremely talented players and video creators who kept this game alive for so long. I lived for this game as a 17 year old living with my parents. I hit inheritor and kept playing for almost 4 more years. I honestly can’t think of a better game till this day, this game hit different. Thanks for the tribute 👍🏼 makes me miss the days
My first playthrough, by the end I had forgotten about the helmet in the beginning so I thought I was gonna be able to make it off reach, than the “Objective: Survive” showed in screen
Halo Reach was definitely Bungie's swan song to both the Halo franchise AND the community as well, so much so they went as far as making everyone in the Halo community canon through the eyes and armor of Noble Six, since this SPARTAN avatar is you, the player. You helped Noble Team evacuate Reach, you delivered Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn, and your sacrifice resulted in the discovery of the Halo ring, giving humanity another chance to fight against the Covenant.
It’s been my favorite Halo story since forever. Every time I play I about shed a tear. I think Reach has the best directing in the series. Even though the characters aren’t super original, they’re written really confidently which in turn makes all their deaths so impactful and they get me every time. And the music, my god the music, it’s always been my favorite OST. This game will always be near and dear to my heart.❤️
This was halo peak during my time as im a early 2000’s child (2003) I started with halo 3 and played halo 2 here and there, but shortly after there would be odst and Halo: Reach one of my most influential childhood game which gave me more memories than all the other games combined. The story, which places YOU or as he was named noble 6 taking on the first contact with Covenant on Reach with all these awesome and amazing designed original guns, and abilities through the power armor pickups, this blew my mind and showed me that games can have so much more variation within the gameplay loop and story.
Im 13, when I was 6 years old I completed the halo reach campaign on normal mode, now earlier this year in december, I completed halo reach on heroic. Im now currently trying to complete legendary. Halo reach is by far my most favorite halo ever. Nothing will replace it.
Teach holds a special part in my heart where others have halo 2 or 3. They multiplayer was insane and it came out during my middle school years. Made some great memories and met some great people. Experiencing reach at its peak is one of my favorite memories. Being apart of the community at that time, the custom games browser, the campaign, firefight, everything. So much nostalgia and for good reason. The progression system was also amazing. Loved sitting in lobbies looking at all the unique armor and emblems people had.
Something I've seen recently about the fall of reach vs the reach game is some people actually splicing the two stories together in a way that makes a coherent, connected timeline between the two. The summary basically being the spartan 2s we know about (master chief and all his crew) are basically kept out of the fight for a while (the start to middle of the game, basically) due to a desperate attempt to stick to ONI's plan to kidnap a prophet to sue for peace. Then the events of the book start happening about midway through the game effectively, basically when ONI realized they had no choice but to field everything and everyone to protect reach because without reach humanity loses the vast majority of its military production anyway. That's just an interpretation of the two that I like because it allows for a view that lets the book and the game co-exist, sure there may still be problems lore wise or whatever, but at the end of the day it's about fun, and that's the view that's the most fun for me. On another note, something I love about halo reach thematically is the use of the color blue to indicate hope throughout the game as well as reds and oranges to indicate despair. At the start of the game there is an abundance of hope, and this is seen with light blues everywhere (I specify light blues and will explain in a moment because it ties into something I noticed in the video), in the water, in the skies and in the ice the first time we visit sword base. Then as we fight through the game those blues dwindle, first disappearing after the first major setback when the supercarrier shows up, but when Kat comes up with a plan to destroy said supercarrier, we see the blues return as we fight our way to space and again in space as we look down on the blue oceans of reach...which are being destroyed. Then we get the blue of hope again, not when noble 6 crash lands, but instead when we reach exodus and fight for the future: the civilians and soldiers we save on that mission representing our chance to continue fighting this hopeless war. The blues then disappear again in the next mission where we continue fighting to salvage what military resources we can, then Kat, the member of the team coming up with these brilliant plans and giving us hope to actually win, the one wearing the light blue armor that matches the light blue of hope in the game, dies. After that, the only time we see the light blue of hope again is when we reach Halsey's underground lab and Cortana.
Another notable small detail in Reach is in the level Lone Wolf. There are corpses of various other Spartan 3s around the level. If you count all of them there are 13 in total. Including Noble 6 that makes 14. This is a reference to the "Noble 14" which were a group of players that tried to keep the multiplayer servers for Halo 2 running as long as possible. It happened a few months before Reach launched and Bungie almost certainly thought the idea of players trying to keep fighting to keep the game going against impossible odds was unusually similar to the last level of the game they were working on.
Halo Reach is my favorite game, even passing Rain World in the gameplay and story. This is truly a game that can make you cry while you have fun. 11/10
Reach and ODST are tied for my favorite campaigns. They are both so bleak and somber that it's refreshing and heartfelt. I spent so many hours on reach multiplayer. God take me back🥹🥹
Halo CE, 2, and 3 were so fun. I was a super soldier saving the world. Halo Reach put me there, on reach, losing hope. Absolutely the best campaign I've ever played.
It was really ballsy storytelling and I'd love to play another game like that soon. You did a great job with the voice-over and the classical music at the end too.
Putting some of Sodaz remember video in here is 🫡 I will forever remember reach and what Bungie gave us. The state of current halo is something I wish never happened. I want more good ole stop the Covies war story’s like reach, The war lasted 28 years and is ripe for exploration. Thank you for making this video.
I played the campaign over & over & over again. I can’t do that anymore with campaign games. Had every achievement, made awesome friends on multiplayer. A true gem of the past.
This video explained everything well. Don't forget that when you're dropped off at the beach to get to the base to fly into space, once you clear the beach, more enemies arrive which gives more of a subtle tone that your efforts are futile
“Slipspace rupture detected” over and over again still gives me chills. This game didn’t have to be this good, but turned out to be a masterpiece. Remember Reach. 😢
I have a passionate love for this game, I first played a goofy playthrough with my friend at first, and we took basically nothing seriously. But once I saw lone wolf, we shut the hell up. I knew that I HAD to go back and try and win what I knew was a hopeless stride for victory. And so after trying five more times, I replayed the game in heroic. It was incredible, all the character’s tiny subtle reactions, the fucking incredible cinematography, all of that, was right under my nose for this whole time. Halo Reach now sits at the top, as my favorite game, and my favorite game experience.
Thank you For this, halo reach was the game that took the most time out of my life, with all due respect, thank you for showing appreciation to a game that made a significant fraction of my life
Great video as always. My one criticism / comment is based on a comment that I saw on someone else's video essay about reach. It said something to the effect of Emile's final line being "I'm ready, how about you" not being directed to the zealot that killed him, but rather a question for Noble 6, asking if Noble 6 was ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the mission, and for reach.
Very recently, I played Reach for the first time, without spoilers for most of the story. I only knew what happened to Noble 6 in the end, other than that, pretty much a blind playthrough. This game is amazing, and definitely stuck with me to the point that I had to play the campaign again (First time was split screen on normal, second solo on Legendary). The ending hits even harder when you see the death of YOUR Spartan, the custom avatar that you chose to be... The only other Halo I've played completely was 3, I'm currently trying them out in chronological order and starting with Reach was amazing
This is what halo meant to me, a reason for hope, when I'm all alone, a reason to reach out to others and to achieve more together. There are 2 things that have defined my life, loneliness, and hope against an impossible and ever closing in despair. They are my favorite subjects to watch and experience, and I can't say why, I just connect with them more than any other subject. The Fox and the Hound, Bungie's Halo, Fable 2, Darksiders, Yoko Taro's works, FromSoftware's works, Star Wars 1-6, LoTR, DOOM, and Portal all fit the criteria above. Portal, and The Fox and the Hound are franchises that were left to die, and it's sad that 4 out of 10 of these series have gotten sold off and amalgamated into something it was never meant to be, it really just boils down to poor management and bad leadership.
The Covenant fleet wasn't entirely made of supercarriers. Losing even one was a serious blow to the invasion, and it bought some time to get the information about Halo.
Halo reach might just be my most played game, at least it feels like it- I made so many friends on it, we played for years and years, we only truly stopped when the servers were shut down. I still talk to some of them today.
Damn, this video really has me thinking how playing a game that I considered just being bad ass as a little kid could turn into a well written story, finding out very small but yet very important details that add a lot of value to the story. This video gave me goosebumps, love it.
For someone who read the book and played the game, I was not disappointed. The only thing I would have added to Reach, and spoiler alert... I guess Was the legendary space battle where the massive ship that repaired other large ships blocks the covenant salvo giving the UNSC the opportunity to reload and wreck the covenant armada. I will never forget those few paragraphs.
Kingdom hearts and Halo were and still are my obsession. Specifically Reach and 358/2days. The reason for that is because it takes the perception of those just as talented as the MC, who won their battle. Only to realized they were destined to be forgotten, unlike the MC. A bitter pill since glory is part of what makes it worth being a Hero.
I appreciate the fact that you bring up the original source material as someone who has read the books up until ghosts of onyx and contact harvest, those books were the shit. Spartans 3’s wouldn’t have been introduced until ghosts of onyx when spartan 2 Kurt trains them after a staged Mia. The Spartans 3’s also don’t have mjolnir armor but a cheaper spi armor. The halo reach campaign is still a masterpiece and the last halo campaign i enjoyed
Another crazy thing I noticed is that Reach is the literal home to not only the people who colonized it, but the Spartans that were forged there by ONI and the UNSC. No wonder so many Spartans died on Reach, they wouldn’t have wanted it any other way
I don’t know you but man I want to shake your hand, this is why this game is one of the greatest games while also being a final installment for bungies halo. Sub earned brother 🤝
Halo: Reach is a Masterpiece we all deserve. I only gotta say one thing: "You know the end from the start. Remember Reach.". Kat's Death is the most horrific out of the whole franchise, because civilians watch one of their Humanities greatest Super Soldier just drop dead so easily.
The score in this game is so perfect with the tone, marty did great, I still get emotional replaying this game, beating it on laso made it even more visceral
I agree with most everything you said about Reach. My favorite is Halo 3 but mostly for the good memories. Reach is definitely the best of the franchise.
This game taught me a lesson that hope will pay off, but it won't always pay off with you. Sometimes you're a necessary step towards that hope but aren't the true avatar of it. But being that necessary step is just as important
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We did this for you Nathaniel 🫡
you finally got what you want
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The fact that Nobel Six canonically held off the entire covenant army for hours just as a distraction for everyone else to escape is why he's my favorite Halo character
I like to believe that he survived all of this and returned to the arms of ONI, becoming a Lone Wolf again because he couldn't bear to see anyone he cared about die before his eyes again.
@@carmine3a74 the ol survived in a cave theory
Honestly. They required an entire battalion to finally take him down
Even the book where they go back to reach after the human covenant war there are a few refeeences to. A ghost on reach. Many have taken it to be a mentally insane noble six.
@@halo129830 lol yea, despite all of the spartans being pumped full of substances killing off as much as emotion as possible, experiencing Reach like Noble Six did would make you insane anyway
“I’m ready! How bout you!?” still gives me chills
I don’t think I’ll ever forget something like that.
117 likes big ups bombaclad
I notice now he was saying he’s ready to die and asking if the elite was too
"Negative Dispatch, no point." Is one of the saddest lines in the whole game. A ship with hundreds of people is shot down in such a way that there are likely more survivors than dead, but the situation is so hopeless and dire that sending search and rescue would just be sending more to their inevitable deaths.
Facts also cant forget when Six told Keyes Negative sir I have The Gun
Halo Reach has always been my favorite halo ever since I played it with my siblings on our 360 back in like 2012.
i always felt that reach was harder then the rest of the games but i love it being harder because it gave me more hope in the power of humanity i also connected with reach more
There are so many stories where, some brave hero decides to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors all cheer, and everybody lives happily ever after. But the hero... never gets to see that ending They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference, they'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith. Ain't that a bitch.
Jorge died believing he saved a planet. Should we all be so lucky.
Okay church, bye bye now
Aw man... thanks for the reminders about a classic web series.
We all know Caboose has his experience with the Reach campaign...
Bow chicka bye now!
For a game that was one of Bungie's escape game from a contract with Microsoft. Now a days most developers would barely try to make a good game to get out of a contract like that. They updated the engine and built a story that fits perfectly int othe Halo universe video games (yes I knwo it messes with the books IDC). Reach has and proabably always will be my favorite halo game.
I don't even know why people have an issue with it contradicting the book, considering the books contradicted the games all the time. Like, I don't think a bunch of Spartans running around on Earth during Halo 2, as depicted in Ghosts of Onyx, is exactly lore friendly either.
@@nagger8216 I can't recall anything in the games which actually states there are no other Spartans on Earth during HALO 2, so it's only an issue if the book has other Spartans fighting alongside 117 during the battle of Mombasa (it's a long time since I read the books, so I can't remember if they did). The game HALO REACH on the other hand completely invalidates Halsey's surprise when she finds out about the Spartan 3 programme in the books. I still had great fun playing through REACH though; just a shame they couldn't have tied it in with the books better (eg. making the whole of NOBLE team be Spartan 2s and Halsey's "what have you done with my armour" comment being directed at all of them not just Jorge)
@@Rhydgaled My brother in Christ, does the phrase "The Last Spartan" not mean anything to you? Because that is what the Master Chief was meant to be, the last of his kind. So much so there's literally a piece of the soundtrack called that. You can't have Chief be the last hope of humanity when you have a dozen of your Spartan OCs running around in the background. And the fact they survived Reach at all is such an asspull. No, I don't care about Halsey's reaction to the SIII's, let's talk about how Eric Nylund bent over backwards to ensure the entirety of Blue Team got off of Reach after CE. Like sorry, don't care, nothing will beat that level of fanfic. I cannot suspend my disbelief that Blue Team is just around the corner during the beginning of Halo 2 like that one terminal depicts, it's just so fucking stupid.
@@nagger8216 Where in the games does it actually say that 117 is the last Spartan? I can't think of anywhere that is actually said, except perhaps one of the manuals/box-art for the two OG-XBOX games (ie. NOT in the games themselves, just the supporting/promotional material).
The greatest thing about Halo reach is that the colors, visuals, cutscenes and camera movements are very cold and militaristic which TRULY made it look like a bloody war I also loved how auntie dots monotone voice comments and provides information like "slipspace rupture detected" which adds so much to the athmosphere
New Alexandria mission perfectly describes this
i think hearing "slipspace rupture detected" over and over again sometimes even repeating over itself while soldiers are yelling in the background is one of the most helpless and emotional moments in the series, chills everytime
This one’s for you Nathanial 🫡
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You’re a good editor
I'm 85% sure that Jorge became the model of masculinity in my subconscious. Strength tempered by compassion and gentleness.
In my case I think I took the Chief as mine. I'm not a good person but I think I'm better that how I would have been if I didn't grow up with the Halo series. Real or not, for me the stoic warrior clad in green armor that never gives up, not even in the face of overwhelming odds will always be the man I want to become.
21:22 min long pure goosebumps. Reach is imp a masterpiece and the way u tell the story is just as good.
What Halo Reach did really well was showing that the true heroes are the ones who gave their lives, and who's memories have faded into history.
My favourite thing about reach is its cinematography
It really sells the idea of the story revolving around the fall of a planet and people as a whole with all these shots from local cctv, first person character perspectives and tactical maps it really cements you in the setting itself.
Sending you five steps back when you were already five steps back. I felt that
I'm a little older, so Halo 3 was always my favorite; but Reach is still special.
My first time playing reach when the big ship blew up and Jorge said, "No. Tell me this ain't happening." My genuine reaction was, "This isn't how the story is supposed to go" thinking that reach was like halo ce to 3.
When I saw the Objective: Survive, My heart sunk, I felt dread, and was filled with rage. I remember as I was playing lone wolf, one line came to mind, "You'll never stop at one. I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!!!!!"
Last one out, turns off the lights
Another thing about this game is the levels of finesse and detail they put into the cinematography, scripts and line delivery. There's so little schlock here and it truly was their Magnum Opus before not only the fall of Halo, but the fall of Bungie as well.
Fun fact about Reach: there is a second hidden plot in the game; the Zealots that you encounter at the end of the first mission are part of a spec ops legion called the Devoted Sentries whose main task on Reach originally was to search for Forerunner artifacts. After their deadly encounter with Noble team, they were then tasked with the mission of hunting down Noble team and if you pay attention you will see that throughout the entire campaign they reappear again and again most notably when Kat is sniped, Emile is ambushed at the mac cannon, and finally they are the team to take Noble 6 down after many hours of fighting back waves and waves of Covenant.
i remember staying up until 4am playing assassination tower, sword tourney, clan tryouts and training, searching up spartan names and changing our gamertag to them to be more immersed, i love reach so much bro and dont get me started on D1. 2v3ing on trials and going flawless, crota, kings fall or w.e the raid with oryx was called, these games were my life bro
The greatest warrior's death in my opinion is not that of the warrior who gives their life in hopes that they are remembered forever in glory. It is the death of the warrior who accepts that they will someday be forgotten and chose to die regardless for a purpose beyond themselves.
Kat missing the elevator button is something I had never noticed. Man I love this game. Great video dude
When Jorge sacrifice herself and then the covenant fleet jump to Reach and you reach to New Alejandria, the first thing that you see are dead civilians, you can heard screams and covenant gunshoots with fire around the buildings. That moment alone make me understand that this game was diferent and hell yeah it was, depressing but soo fucking epic, Noble Team, are the best fucking characters, real charcters in a war against and unstopable enemie.
“Okay. So we take R6 Extraction, and we do NONE OF THAT.”
“H A L O R E A C H”
Been drinking that Guacamole Gamer Fart?
They put the master chief in the soda!
@@TurokRevolution THEY PUT DE MASDERCHEIF IN DE SODA
MASDERCHIEFINDASHODA
@@TurokRevolutionDey put da mamsther cehfde in da soahder
played Reach back in lockdowns with my brother and friends, it was so fun, they just dont make multiplayer like they used to in the games industry
Great use of theatre for this video man, you really unpacked noble team and reach as a whole and it makes me feel less depressed about how this game used to be what I played every single day. I made best friends through this game, met extremely talented players and video creators who kept this game alive for so long. I lived for this game as a 17 year old living with my parents. I hit inheritor and kept playing for almost 4 more years. I honestly can’t think of a better game till this day, this game hit different.
Thanks for the tribute 👍🏼 makes me miss the days
The way you watch trough in universe cameras is so cool, makes you feel like your watching a documentary, instead of fiction
Absolutely fricking gorgeous! This is one of, if not the, best retrospectives on Reach. Thank you
My first playthrough, by the end I had forgotten about the helmet in the beginning so I thought I was gonna be able to make it off reach, than the “Objective: Survive” showed in screen
Halo Reach was definitely Bungie's swan song to both the Halo franchise AND the community as well, so much so they went as far as making everyone in the Halo community canon through the eyes and armor of Noble Six, since this SPARTAN avatar is you, the player. You helped Noble Team evacuate Reach, you delivered Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn, and your sacrifice resulted in the discovery of the Halo ring, giving humanity another chance to fight against the Covenant.
Reach has always been my favorite halo. For the story, multiplayer, and custom games. I’ll die on this hill
One of the first halo video's to get me to cry. good video.
I could feel your love for reach in each edit and each animated moment doc, your passion comes through great for a game no less than deserving
It’s been my favorite Halo story since forever. Every time I play I about shed a tear. I think Reach has the best directing in the series. Even though the characters aren’t super original, they’re written really confidently which in turn makes all their deaths so impactful and they get me every time. And the music, my god the music, it’s always been my favorite OST. This game will always be near and dear to my heart.❤️
This was halo peak during my time as im a early 2000’s child (2003) I started with halo 3 and played halo 2 here and there, but shortly after there would be odst and Halo: Reach one of my most influential childhood game which gave me more memories than all the other games combined. The story, which places YOU or as he was named noble 6 taking on the first contact with Covenant on Reach with all these awesome and amazing designed original guns, and abilities through the power armor pickups, this blew my mind and showed me that games can have so much more variation within the gameplay loop and story.
Slipspace rupture detected still gives me chills to this day. This campaign is on another level. Truly the masterpiece of a a campaign
Finally found the video to perfectly describe how amazing Halo Reach is. Easily one of the best video games ever made.
Im 13, when I was 6 years old I completed the halo reach campaign on normal mode, now earlier this year in december, I completed halo reach on heroic. Im now currently trying to complete legendary. Halo reach is by far my most favorite halo ever. Nothing will replace it.
This story is a real tear jerker in a good way dang man….dang
Teach holds a special part in my heart where others have halo 2 or 3. They multiplayer was insane and it came out during my middle school years. Made some great memories and met some great people. Experiencing reach at its peak is one of my favorite memories. Being apart of the community at that time, the custom games browser, the campaign, firefight, everything. So much nostalgia and for good reason. The progression system was also amazing. Loved sitting in lobbies looking at all the unique armor and emblems people had.
holy shit I didn't even realize the bit with Kat in the elevator. The delay killed her!
Something I've seen recently about the fall of reach vs the reach game is some people actually splicing the two stories together in a way that makes a coherent, connected timeline between the two. The summary basically being the spartan 2s we know about (master chief and all his crew) are basically kept out of the fight for a while (the start to middle of the game, basically) due to a desperate attempt to stick to ONI's plan to kidnap a prophet to sue for peace. Then the events of the book start happening about midway through the game effectively, basically when ONI realized they had no choice but to field everything and everyone to protect reach because without reach humanity loses the vast majority of its military production anyway. That's just an interpretation of the two that I like because it allows for a view that lets the book and the game co-exist, sure there may still be problems lore wise or whatever, but at the end of the day it's about fun, and that's the view that's the most fun for me.
On another note, something I love about halo reach thematically is the use of the color blue to indicate hope throughout the game as well as reds and oranges to indicate despair. At the start of the game there is an abundance of hope, and this is seen with light blues everywhere (I specify light blues and will explain in a moment because it ties into something I noticed in the video), in the water, in the skies and in the ice the first time we visit sword base. Then as we fight through the game those blues dwindle, first disappearing after the first major setback when the supercarrier shows up, but when Kat comes up with a plan to destroy said supercarrier, we see the blues return as we fight our way to space and again in space as we look down on the blue oceans of reach...which are being destroyed. Then we get the blue of hope again, not when noble 6 crash lands, but instead when we reach exodus and fight for the future: the civilians and soldiers we save on that mission representing our chance to continue fighting this hopeless war. The blues then disappear again in the next mission where we continue fighting to salvage what military resources we can, then Kat, the member of the team coming up with these brilliant plans and giving us hope to actually win, the one wearing the light blue armor that matches the light blue of hope in the game, dies. After that, the only time we see the light blue of hope again is when we reach Halsey's underground lab and Cortana.
DROPPED A VIDEO ABOUT MY FAVORITE HALO!!!! LETS GO!!!
Another notable small detail in Reach is in the level Lone Wolf. There are corpses of various other Spartan 3s around the level. If you count all of them there are 13 in total. Including Noble 6 that makes 14. This is a reference to the "Noble 14" which were a group of players that tried to keep the multiplayer servers for Halo 2 running as long as possible. It happened a few months before Reach launched and Bungie almost certainly thought the idea of players trying to keep fighting to keep the game going against impossible odds was unusually similar to the last level of the game they were working on.
Halo reach will be forever my favorite halo and fps ever! I LOVE REACH
that medley of clips at the end almost made me cry. Jorge is the GOAT of Reach, on the same level as Sargent Johnson
Halo Reach is my favorite game, even passing Rain World in the gameplay and story. This is truly a game that can make you cry while you have fun. 11/10
Reach and ODST are tied for my favorite campaigns. They are both so bleak and somber that it's refreshing and heartfelt. I spent so many hours on reach multiplayer. God take me back🥹🥹
Halo CE, 2, and 3 were so fun. I was a super soldier saving the world.
Halo Reach put me there, on reach, losing hope. Absolutely the best campaign I've ever played.
It was really ballsy storytelling and I'd love to play another game like that soon. You did a great job with the voice-over and the classical music at the end too.
Putting some of Sodaz remember video in here is 🫡 I will forever remember reach and what Bungie gave us. The state of current halo is something I wish never happened. I want more good ole stop the Covies war story’s like reach, The war lasted 28 years and is ripe for exploration.
Thank you for making this video.
I played the campaign over & over & over again. I can’t do that anymore with campaign games. Had every achievement, made awesome friends on multiplayer. A true gem of the past.
This video explained everything well. Don't forget that when you're dropped off at the beach to get to the base to fly into space, once you clear the beach, more enemies arrive which gives more of a subtle tone that your efforts are futile
“Slipspace rupture detected” over and over again still gives me chills. This game didn’t have to be this good, but turned out to be a masterpiece. Remember Reach. 😢
Last game i actualy enjoy before becoming a cinical bastard that hates everything
It aint perfect but sure as hell is my favorite
I have a passionate love for this game, I first played a goofy playthrough with my friend at first, and we took basically nothing seriously. But once I saw lone wolf, we shut the hell up. I knew that I HAD to go back and try and win what I knew was a hopeless stride for victory. And so after trying five more times, I replayed the game in heroic. It was incredible, all the character’s tiny subtle reactions, the fucking incredible cinematography, all of that, was right under my nose for this whole time. Halo Reach now sits at the top, as my favorite game, and my favorite game experience.
Pride, Fear, Zeal, Humanity, Hope and Death
the best words to describe Halo: Reach
God I loved Reach.
Thank you For this, halo reach was the game that took the most time out of my life, with all due respect, thank you for showing appreciation to a game that made a significant fraction of my life
Great video as always. My one criticism / comment is based on a comment that I saw on someone else's video essay about reach. It said something to the effect of Emile's final line being "I'm ready, how about you" not being directed to the zealot that killed him, but rather a question for Noble 6, asking if Noble 6 was ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the mission, and for reach.
The saddest thing is if 343 didn’t continue the Halo series the franchise would have remained one of the greatest game franchises ever.
I think we can all agree that REACH had the best sound score. 🔥
Just completed Halo Reach on Legendary for the first time! What an experience ❤
1st game to make me cry, I love the OG bungie team and wouldn't be where I am right now without this game
Very recently, I played Reach for the first time, without spoilers for most of the story. I only knew what happened to Noble 6 in the end, other than that, pretty much a blind playthrough.
This game is amazing, and definitely stuck with me to the point that I had to play the campaign again (First time was split screen on normal, second solo on Legendary). The ending hits even harder when you see the death of YOUR Spartan, the custom avatar that you chose to be... The only other Halo I've played completely was 3, I'm currently trying them out in chronological order and starting with Reach was amazing
Halo Reach will always be the most special game to me I have and ever will play, truly changed me as a person.
This is what halo meant to me, a reason for hope, when I'm all alone, a reason to reach out to others and to achieve more together.
There are 2 things that have defined my life, loneliness, and hope against an impossible and ever closing in despair. They are my favorite subjects to watch and experience, and I can't say why, I just connect with them more than any other subject.
The Fox and the Hound, Bungie's Halo, Fable 2, Darksiders, Yoko Taro's works, FromSoftware's works, Star Wars 1-6, LoTR, DOOM, and Portal all fit the criteria above.
Portal, and The Fox and the Hound are franchises that were left to die, and it's sad that 4 out of 10 of these series have gotten sold off and amalgamated into something it was never meant to be, it really just boils down to poor management and bad leadership.
The Covenant fleet wasn't entirely made of supercarriers. Losing even one was a serious blow to the invasion, and it bought some time to get the information about Halo.
I remember a funny review of this game awhile back. 'Oh, someone is giving their life story. That means they are next to go.'.
YO NATHANIEL YOUR GIFT IS HERE BUD! And god bless you skipper made my Friday. And up the Mavs
Boston ain’t got nothing on my scrumptious duo LuKai
Halo reach might just be my most played game, at least it feels like it- I made so many friends on it, we played for years and years, we only truly stopped when the servers were shut down. I still talk to some of them today.
Damn, this video really has me thinking how playing a game that I considered just being bad ass as a little kid could turn into a well written story, finding out very small but yet very important details that add a lot of value to the story. This video gave me goosebumps, love it.
bought strawberry nesquik milk to celebrate nathaniel
For someone who read the book and played the game, I was not disappointed. The only thing I would have added to Reach, and spoiler alert... I guess
Was the legendary space battle where the massive ship that repaired other large ships blocks the covenant salvo giving the UNSC the opportunity to reload and wreck the covenant armada. I will never forget those few paragraphs.
Kingdom hearts and Halo were and still are my obsession. Specifically Reach and 358/2days. The reason for that is because it takes the perception of those just as talented as the MC, who won their battle. Only to realized they were destined to be forgotten, unlike the MC. A bitter pill since glory is part of what makes it worth being a Hero.
"Could this day get any worse?" The game.
beautiful video. reminds me of why i loved reach so much and its value in my childhood. great job man 👏
This game was what got me into Halo back then. W to a legendary game
Noble six may not have a known legacy but he has a legacy, he delivered Cortana
Hope is not the belief that it will end well. Hope is the knowledge, that what you are doing matters, regardless of how it ends.
-Vaclav Havel
I dont think any of noble team will be forgotten but i get your point
I appreciate the fact that you bring up the original source material as someone who has read the books up until ghosts of onyx and contact harvest, those books were the shit. Spartans 3’s wouldn’t have been introduced until ghosts of onyx when spartan 2 Kurt trains them after a staged Mia. The Spartans 3’s also don’t have mjolnir armor but a cheaper spi armor. The halo reach campaign is still a masterpiece and the last halo campaign i enjoyed
This game changed everything for me specifically the story
Another crazy thing I noticed is that Reach is the literal home to not only the people who colonized it, but the Spartans that were forged there by ONI and the UNSC. No wonder so many Spartans died on Reach, they wouldn’t have wanted it any other way
I don’t know you but man I want to shake your hand, this is why this game is one of the greatest games while also being a final installment for bungies halo. Sub earned brother 🤝
Halo reach feels like the clone wars of halo. A more gritty and militaristic take on a mainly fantasy military movie/game
I’ve yet to read halo novels but even so I doubt my opinion will change, Carter is my favourite spartan
Reach still hits me in the feels
Halo: Reach is a Masterpiece we all deserve. I only gotta say one thing: "You know the end from the start. Remember Reach.". Kat's Death is the most horrific out of the whole franchise, because civilians watch one of their Humanities greatest Super Soldier just drop dead so easily.
I’ve known this game for over a decade, and never connected that the Zealot from the beginning and the end is the same Elite.
I read fall of reach and still loved reach. My favorite halo game till this day. If I play halo mcc it's mainly reach
this video is amazing! loved how you conveyed such emotion thru your voice along with the video at the same time! keep up the good work g!
Just finished reach for the first time...mah heart...mah soul...
noble 6 might have been forgotten in time but he will always live on in our hearts.
The score in this game is so perfect with the tone, marty did great, I still get emotional replaying this game, beating it on laso made it even more visceral
"I repeat covenant is on reach I repeat covenant is on reach "-Carter
It proved that just because something is different, it doesn't mean it's better.
Great Vid Doc, hope your channel gets the attention it deserves with these quality budeos
I agree with most everything you said about Reach. My favorite is Halo 3 but mostly for the good memories. Reach is definitely the best of the franchise.
I liked to believe Kat missed the button because of the EMP/radiation, she missed with her robotic arm and it also explains why her shield was down
You've got Spartans on the ground. We're going nowhere.
This game taught me a lesson that hope will pay off, but it won't always pay off with you. Sometimes you're a necessary step towards that hope but aren't the true avatar of it. But being that necessary step is just as important