Shout out to every single one of you who was there until the bitter end of the OG server sunset. That was some of the best Halo I’ve ever played. No gaming experience will ever come close to this era of Xbox 360 Halo. This was more than a game - it was something you grew up with. This shared experience is ours forever
Plenty of good shooters have come out since then but nothing has matched the multiplayer of halo 2 and 3. The attention to detail bungie had back then, and their willingness to support the game after launch is something we might never see again in a modern shooter.
Problem with H3 is the lack of customizability. The game wasn't meant to be played competitively and lacked a few options. For awhile before an update, you couldn't adjust the plant timer on the bomb in Assault, it was instant no matter what. There's no real map editor and Forge was never truly meant to make new maps, just create variations for weapon placement and such (which it does pretty well). As a result, everything turns into Warlock/Midship-like maps in Forge with rarely anything new being created. I like H3 as much as you but the community needed more tools to keep this game alive, and MLG not switching to Reach.
Derrick Hobbs Could you adjust the damage of individual weapons? Could you edit strafe speed and normal walking speed individually? How about having more than one type of custom powerup? We were able to adjust a lot about Halo 3, and thankfully we landed on good settings, but we couldn’t have everything we wanted. I’d say that the lack of a true map editor (and admittedly poor networking on anything but LAN and even then you’re still occasionally getting bloodshots) is what makes this game prone to stagnation more than individual settings. We’ve had MLG v8 forever now. It’s time to change, and hopefully with 343 adding modding support soon next year we can get that.
These were the glory days of gaming. I have never played any game as much as I played Halo 3 and Reach. Matchmaking, Forge and Customs games (fat kid, JengaTowers, Mexican bull, ghost busters, cops n robbers, and countless other game types and maps). Man I miss that shit so much...
You can still play homie . The community is coming back believe it or not. Watch single halo clips on YT also. I play MCC everyday, always find games, I always find games on competitive doubles, H3 Team, and H3 team hardcore. You’d be surprised the OGs are still there. As for MLG, sad what 343 has done to halo with the new ones like 4 & 5 . Halo used to be one of the best competitive games ever now it’s a meme
MLG is just another level! I don't know how they can concentrate on aiming while they're constantly relaying information to each other at a lightning pace!
It’s just practise and being inherently built to play games a bit better than most. Same for any competitive sport. You need the natural talent to go pro, and then you need the practise, because there’s 1000’s of people out there with the potential. That being said, when they say you’re the best in the world, there was only truly a limited field who could truly compete with you.
This was the peak of fps games. The genre has since devolved into tedious subgenres that either involve playing rock paper scissors with overpowered abilities or wandering around a pointlessly big map in an agonizingly slow elimination scenario.
I’ll never put as many hours into a game as I have put in H2 and H3. I’ve been playing both since their releases and I play even more on the MCC there’s no reason we can’t make them last forever IMO. The peak of gaming.
Such a different play style to today’s game, slower pace, slower aim sensitivity, seems human… Today everyone has insane aim, and the game speed is just so fast…
Incorrect The game was a lot more skilled then back then Also they playing on 78 FOV So they only have tunnel vision It's a lot easier to be better when you can see the entire map
Halo 3 was the first game i ever played online for xbox 360 and played it for 3 days straight literally online. Longest game i stayed playing too till mw2 came out.
Me and my friends would dominate online from Halo 2 to Halo 3…one time we won 61 games in a row, that was our longest win streak and record still held today. 8nemUP 💪🏻
@@joerowland2625 We mostly played against 44 ranks or higher. Moons, eclipses, comets, suns and Halo Rings. Once you got past level 43 your rank was a pictures We 100% would’ve beat them 40% of the time, not a single doubt
@@omegakilo871 Nope LAN is a completely different experience Your online rank means nothing Online can't be taken seriously since it's all about ping, location, internet, host etc etc So your friends winning 61 games means absolutely nothing. It would if it was at a MLG event at LAN but online that's means nothing
I hop on MCC every once in a blue moon for fun and man I'm no where near as good as I was back in the H3 glory days, but is all for the nostalgic feeling.
Not even with just the mlg...everything about halo 3 was the best in xbox history....ANY online type of console...pc whatever there will...nothing will beat the memories of halo 3 on xbox 360. Whether it was joking videos on youtube of halo 3, full lobby custom games infection playing all night, just the people on there playing online were the best. Dont rememeber HOW many clans i joined in halo 3 haha..miss those days.
Halo 3 shouldn’t have been dropped from MLG. They should have kept it going. Top pros didn’t like the game, I get it but lots of people did. When they left a new group would come. I’d the support from bungie and mlg stayed Halo would have remained. Reach, 343, and MLG effectively killed the greatest console competitive shooter of all time
This was peak of gaming in my opinion. I don’t think it will ever reach this. No matter what the grand prize is. Also games you listed off were solid games because the original creative minds behind them were in their primes. Companies like 343 or others taking over these legacies will never be able to hold a candle to these games.
@@karievsthewrld Oh trust me, I know it was much more than just online with Bungie but its crazy how the online part alone destroys everything 343 has ever made. Add Bungie's storymode and its not even fair. I hate Infinite so much too man, its hurts. Why are they almost purposely trying to make us mad?
Skill gap isn't as much as before in modern shooters, and no pro tournament gameplay looks "over the top" unless there's a huge skill difference between teams. I mean you are playing against an organized team of pro players. I'm way more impressed on how some of those guys survived in specific situations than someone pulling an overkill in modern Halo
@@johnathanshakewellesquirei8615 yes, on controller. In my opinion who hasn't played Competitive halo can't fully understand how over the top bananas skilled those guys were. The movement some of them had felt like they were everywhere and nowhere at the same time
@@johnathanshakewellesquirei8615 thats not the case for Halo Esports. Pros all use controller still. I believe it's required to play controller for LAN events.
man this community could of been greater than smash... but they left a sure thing halo3 for the unknown reach i like reach but h3 had much better games for MLG.
Back when H3 wasnt garbage... Mcc isnt the same at all... They changed H3 in mcc and its annoying the spawns r a all fucked so teams literally spawn randomly on the map when they die... Smh I just want this exact game back so me and my friends can play... All they had to do was just completely remaster H3 that's it. Every halo after H3 is complete garbage. I miss when video games were about the players and not about the money.
@@KobeJordanHakeem Reach is dog shit that's why all the pros stopped playing it and also why halo was taken off the MLG circuit 😂... But yeah reach is a classic.
@@airconditioningunit9777 stuck in the past to play a game that actually took skill and not the trash modern day generic shooter they r trying to sell now? Yeah I'll stay stuck in the past easily. That's why classic halo is still played more then modern day halo.
@@rknisple big facts do you think players should be allowed to play on addys? Because anytime I have games on them Ive demolished people in the game I’m playing it’s truly a cheat haha
A long time ago I remember getting matched with Fearitself (Unless someone else had that Gamertag) on this exact map when I was 16 or 17 at the time and completely shook I was in a match with him lol. I'm pretty sure it was him though because they were a 50 and good lol.
Shout out to every single one of you who was there until the bitter end of the OG server sunset. That was some of the best Halo I’ve ever played. No gaming experience will ever come close to this era of Xbox 360 Halo. This was more than a game - it was something you grew up with. This shared experience is ours forever
It hurt to see that player count map go blank
Amen
Plenty of good shooters have come out since then but nothing has matched the multiplayer of halo 2 and 3. The attention to detail bungie had back then, and their willingness to support the game after launch is something we might never see again in a modern shooter.
Amen
Dude, yeah
I'm convinced that Halo3 does not need to be replaced...it needs to be maintained. Just like Counter Strike. Halo 3 can last forever.
I agree wholeheartedly. It’s timeless.
Watching competitive play is so satisfying & engaging everytime I watch it. Halo 3 deserves to still maintain is competitive scene.
Problem with H3 is the lack of customizability. The game wasn't meant to be played competitively and lacked a few options. For awhile before an update, you couldn't adjust the plant timer on the bomb in Assault, it was instant no matter what. There's no real map editor and Forge was never truly meant to make new maps, just create variations for weapon placement and such (which it does pretty well). As a result, everything turns into Warlock/Midship-like maps in Forge with rarely anything new being created.
I like H3 as much as you but the community needed more tools to keep this game alive, and MLG not switching to Reach.
@@jktwiceft ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID? You CAN Adjust everything!
Derrick Hobbs Could you adjust the damage of individual weapons? Could you edit strafe speed and normal walking speed individually? How about having more than one type of custom powerup?
We were able to adjust a lot about Halo 3, and thankfully we landed on good settings, but we couldn’t have everything we wanted. I’d say that the lack of a true map editor (and admittedly poor networking on anything but LAN and even then you’re still occasionally getting bloodshots) is what makes this game prone to stagnation more than individual settings. We’ve had MLG v8 forever now. It’s time to change, and hopefully with 343 adding modding support soon next year we can get that.
watching this as an adult almost 30 now is insane. Where has the time gone!? truly some of the best days of my life with this game.
I hear ya brotha. Almost 31 and man those were some good times
I know bro 😢
35 and counting, I miss the H3 Days, such nostalgic to watch these old videos with the awful quality, but it somehow makes it a lot better!
32 here made top 24 twice. The glory days
Glory days…😢
Watching in 2021 and missing these days... simpler times.
Amen
You should have seen the 80s and 90s then. The world changed so much after 911.
@@johnnyvt9 *the US changed so much after 911
These were the glory days of gaming. I have never played any game as much as I played Halo 3 and Reach. Matchmaking, Forge and Customs games (fat kid, JengaTowers, Mexican bull, ghost busters, cops n robbers, and countless other game types and maps). Man I miss that shit so much...
You can still play homie . The community is coming back believe it or not. Watch single halo clips on YT also. I play MCC everyday, always find games, I always find games on competitive doubles, H3 Team, and H3 team hardcore. You’d be surprised the OGs are still there. As for MLG, sad what 343 has done to halo with the new ones like 4 & 5 . Halo used to be one of the best competitive games ever now it’s a meme
Eww reach lol... Anything after H3 is dog shit. But I get its opinions.
@@subzero308 odst is pretty good
Halo 3 is about to get a custom game browser on MCC. There is still a decent number players wanting to play those kinds of custom games.
@@subzero308 your one of those lol, reach was great, you just hated change
There will never be another era in gaming like the Halo 3 era.
It was the absolute pinnacle of online gaming.
Pun intended??
I'm still watching these in 2020!
Me too
Same
Same
Big thing I notice is how much better the strafing was at 30fps
nostalgic AF
Like this if you're viewing this in 2024
MLG is just another level! I don't know how they can concentrate on aiming while they're constantly relaying information to each other at a lightning pace!
It’s just practise and being inherently built to play games a bit better than most.
Same for any competitive sport.
You need the natural talent to go pro, and then you need the practise, because there’s 1000’s of people out there with the potential.
That being said, when they say you’re the best in the world, there was only truly a limited field who could truly compete with you.
Theyre the best of the best, they train their in game and game communication skills daily like a full time job and finally adderall (in some cases)
You hear that crowd? That's REAL hype.
5:27
11:54
"He's (Ogre2) is going to be the greater halo player ever"
Still true 12 years later
If only we could get this Legendary franchise back from the dead and respawn it with the same passion and vibe . ❤
Best game ever, someone has to bring this back, i
This is heaven to watch these matches
This was the peak of fps games. The genre has since devolved into tedious subgenres that either involve playing rock paper scissors with overpowered abilities or wandering around a pointlessly big map in an agonizingly slow elimination scenario.
Bring back h3 MLG how it used to be
Yeeeeessssss!!!!
2024 Anyone?
Yep
Man I remember playing mlg rank back in the days when halo 3 came out, amazing times
For sure these guys were on adderall back in the day
Most pros still are in most fps games haha
Back in the day? Things haven't changed with that lol
@@coldsteel50ae82 they do drug test it’s kinda funny
These were the fuckin days man... nothing will ever come close to the Halo 3 days.
At least they made Final Boss sweat a little at the end. For the first half, it was very one sided.
These are the real gamers.
Pistola: best h3 4v4 player for a reason
Nah Roy is better
Pistola was cutest.
Look at those wired controllers at the end 👀 i forgot we used to roll them up like that when we finished a session 😂
Or you had to fiddle with the wire to make it work
Here after HCS Kansas City Sentinels/cloud9/Optic reminded me of these days.
roy was the coldest man. every 1v he had he won.
Ogre 2 “back down, Kyle!” Love it
Miss OG Halo 3. Idk why, but I played so much better at 30fps, or maybe it was the OG hit reg, but it felt so much better.
I’ll never put as many hours into a game as I have put in H2 and H3. I’ve been playing both since their releases and I play even more on the MCC there’s no reason we can’t make them last forever IMO. The peak of gaming.
Yep they are all there preserved in MCC
Anyone remember waking up to watch this ?!? Miss soo much 🥺🙌🏽🙌🏽
Such a different play style to today’s game, slower pace, slower aim sensitivity, seems human…
Today everyone has insane aim, and the game speed is just so fast…
Loved this and it's such a throwback, but holy cow people have really evolved since. The standards was so bad back then
Incorrect
The game was a lot more skilled then back then
Also they playing on 78 FOV
So they only have tunnel vision
It's a lot easier to be better when you can see the entire map
The fact that most of the comments here are recent means something. We need a game like Halo 3 again
Or it means Halo infinite came out and we all remembering the glory days
@@Bramon83 note: halo infinite is pure dog shit lmao
Hi
I don't how this go recommended to me but I'm glad it did. What a rush of memories
I remember watching this live staying up late in grade 7-8. Using the neighbours wifi man much simpler times in life
Halo 3 was the first game i ever played online for xbox 360 and played it for 3 days straight literally online. Longest game i stayed playing too till mw2 came out.
MLG was a different breed back in those days.
2021 reliving the glory days
2022
Me and my friends would dominate online from Halo 2 to Halo 3…one time we won 61 games in a row, that was our longest win streak and record still held today.
8nemUP 💪🏻
Good
But your friends would get destroyed by these guys back in the day
@@joerowland2625
Guaranteed they’d win 6 out of 10 games.
We would win 4, without a doubt.
@@omegakilo871 Nope
These guys would win every game
You were playing against noobs
@@joerowland2625
We mostly played against 44 ranks or higher. Moons, eclipses, comets, suns and Halo Rings.
Once you got past level 43 your rank was a pictures
We 100% would’ve beat them 40% of the time, not a single doubt
@@omegakilo871 Nope LAN is a completely different experience
Your online rank means nothing
Online can't be taken seriously since it's all about ping, location, internet, host etc etc
So your friends winning 61 games means absolutely nothing. It would if it was at a MLG event at LAN but online that's means nothing
kids these days have no idea... golden era has been gone for years and years and will not return unless someone creates an Xbox/Microsoft killer
I hop on MCC every once in a blue moon for fun and man I'm no where near as good as I was back in the H3 glory days, but is all for the nostalgic feeling.
I love you all. This was the greatest thing to ever happen to some of us :(
Damn right it is.
Imagine if Ogre 2 & Pistola teamed with Roy & Lunchbox in Halo 3….
Not even with just the mlg...everything about halo 3 was the best in xbox history....ANY online type of console...pc whatever there will...nothing will beat the memories of halo 3 on xbox 360. Whether it was joking videos on youtube of halo 3, full lobby custom games infection playing all night, just the people on there playing online were the best.
Dont rememeber HOW many clans i joined in halo 3 haha..miss those days.
Dudeee pistolas whip around 4 shot was insane. Unless enemy was weak already. 5:20
Crazy this was 11 years ago.
Halo 3 shouldn’t have been dropped from MLG. They should have kept it going. Top pros didn’t like the game, I get it but lots of people did. When they left a new group would come. I’d the support from bungie and mlg stayed Halo would have remained. Reach, 343, and MLG effectively killed the greatest console competitive shooter of all time
The pro players from that time didnt like the game? I thought they viewed Halo 3 as one of the best, if not the best, halo
@@ciro7765 nah most of the H2 OGs didn’t like the game and were tired of playing it by the end. The community itself tho loved halo 3 passionately
Halo was so good, gears of war was so good, cod was so good. Now they all are jokes. Oh these were the days
This was peak of gaming in my opinion. I don’t think it will ever reach this. No matter what the grand prize is. Also games you listed off were solid games because the original creative minds behind them were in their primes. Companies like 343 or others taking over these legacies will never be able to hold a candle to these games.
This was the peak of console gaming
2024 people still playing this beautiful game
Yes
If you think any other Halo after 3 was better than this, explain to me why those competitive scenes never matched this energy?
Bungie put all their love into this game, not just for *coughs* comp. [I still hate Halo Infinite]
@@karievsthewrld Oh trust me, I know it was much more than just online with Bungie but its crazy how the online part alone destroys everything 343 has ever made. Add Bungie's storymode and its not even fair. I hate Infinite so much too man, its hurts. Why are they almost purposely trying to make us mad?
I cannot believe gamers think they are athletes now. 😂😂
They knew how boring it would be to commentate on a Halo 3 match, which is why they switched it over to team comms.
The greatest game
take me back please
No halo infinite guys touch these dudes lol
Funny how back in the day this was peak perfection gameplay and nowadays this skill level in modern shooters is like barely average lol
Thats likely true for every sport
Skill gap isn't as much as before in modern shooters, and no pro tournament gameplay looks "over the top" unless there's a huge skill difference between teams. I mean you are playing against an organized team of pro players. I'm way more impressed on how some of those guys survived in specific situations than someone pulling an overkill in modern Halo
Wasn't this played on controller? Most people who are known to play competitive today play on mouse & keyboard. Aka the easier way to play.
@@johnathanshakewellesquirei8615 yes, on controller. In my opinion who hasn't played Competitive halo can't fully understand how over the top bananas skilled those guys were. The movement some of them had felt like they were everywhere and nowhere at the same time
@@johnathanshakewellesquirei8615 thats not the case for Halo Esports. Pros all use controller still. I believe it's required to play controller for LAN events.
Never gets old 🔥
Halo 3 golden age of gaming ... wish i can relive these moments.
Never gets old.
Also, Pistola is cutest.
Miss my '15 team8 Cloud from LoL he's rank 1 CN wild how far eSports has come
Don't challenge Cloud on Green if you have camo.....
1000% more fun to watch than infinite.
how the hell was this game played on 70 fov
bro fearitselfs hair 😭
I love the mid-game trash talking. Good memories...
The class Listen in, it sucks new esport games don’t really do this anymore as much.
Man the comms semmed so chaotic back then compared to now 😂
Is it me or do the listen-ins sound a lot better than the ones at H5 events? Weird.
Halo 2-3 competitive were so good. Reach was decent but killed competitive with sprint
Agreed, halo 3 was definitely the peak as far as mlg, Reach and Halo 4 had potential but just weren’t as fun to watch
*killed halo. Hasn’t been the same since sprint was introduced
Watching Halo 3 MLG is like watching someone surf who is good at it.
man this community could of been greater than smash... but they left a sure thing halo3 for the unknown reach i like reach but h3 had much better games for MLG.
Instinct was a stacked team
yes they fucking were
@@En_Hiver haha
Insane how good the gameplay was on halo 3.
If only people still played H3 competitive playlists... I'd be in heaven
i need a someone to play with you down to play some time my GT is HorrorST i’m a rank 4 in team slayer
Miss these days over Esports
Halo infinite has just been released, things have gone backwards, I miss the halo 3 days, take me back
what are you talking about I played halo 3 my whole life and infinite is the closest thing ive came to enjoying it as much as h3
You’re crazy .. infinite is the best halo since H3. Everyone is saying Halo is finally back especially the competitive scene. Halo is back for real🔥
@@nightmar4056I know damn well you’re still not playing infinite
Stay fucking ALIVE!
Great effort with the comeback
Its crazy to see how much aim has developed thanks to higher FPS/Refresh rates in games.
Better controllers/settings too. Deadzones, Accel, and smoother sticks helps a lot.
2021, still watching it...
Miss these days 🥲
Back when H3 wasnt garbage... Mcc isnt the same at all... They changed H3 in mcc and its annoying the spawns r a all fucked so teams literally spawn randomly on the map when they die... Smh I just want this exact game back so me and my friends can play... All they had to do was just completely remaster H3 that's it. Every halo after H3 is complete garbage. I miss when video games were about the players and not about the money.
some people really are just stuck in the past
Halo reach is a classic and that’s just a fact
4 and 5 suck but MCC is fine idk what ur saying and infinite is really fun so far 2
@@KobeJordanHakeem Reach is dog shit that's why all the pros stopped playing it and also why halo was taken off the MLG circuit 😂... But yeah reach is a classic.
@@airconditioningunit9777 stuck in the past to play a game that actually took skill and not the trash modern day generic shooter they r trying to sell now? Yeah I'll stay stuck in the past easily. That's why classic halo is still played more then modern day halo.
Lmao the comms always kill me idk how they hear anything at all
They're really good
Also adderall
@@rknisple big facts do you think players should be allowed to play on addys? Because anytime I have games on them Ive demolished people in the game I’m playing it’s truly a cheat haha
Miss these events
Who else came back to this after playing infinite?
Mam Ogre 2 choked with the snipe
no he didn't. ...taylor
the good old days, Str8 rippin, dr pepper, FB and the fucking twins lunchbox and roy
A long time ago I remember getting matched with Fearitself (Unless someone else had that Gamertag) on this exact map when I was 16 or 17 at the time and completely shook I was in a match with him lol. I'm pretty sure it was him though because they were a 50 and good lol.
Looking back on this.. why do most of these guys look so bad LOL. This is not how I remember it, but still goated.
cuz MLG settings make it tougher forcing you to not be aggressive af
MLG settings and the fact that players today are outright better than back then
Thank you algorithm
Bless them really
Yeah halo 3 needs to come back I would buy an Xbox again lol this game was the shit
You know you can still play it on MCC right?
I hope this is in halo guardian. 3 to the body and one headshot 🙏🏾
BACK DOWN KYLE
Peak gaming
Didn't know XQC used to be a Halo pro
Halo without sprint was beautiful.
Please come back together for halo infinite!!!
Seeing this FOV in 2023 is making me feel super uncomfortable lol.