@@dadoll7099 I would have been there the second the first episode released... But the series was not based on the games... I... Still can't... Understand why they did that...
I love how every fight scene posted online of this show is “FINALLY LORE ACCURATE CHEIF” and then the rest is just “THIS IS THE WORST ABOMINATION EVER”
Yeah because the fight scenes are the only bits that feel like Halo. Although i gotta admit Chief was pretty game accurate in the last few minutes of the final episode.
@@Darek_B52 i feel like the final episode was the most Halo feeling episode of the show. And if Master Chief remains how he was in the last five minutes then I think it could be really good next season
The funny thing is that lore accurate has become a meme for chief being unstoppable but in the books the brutes were a massive threat. Elites and Spartans were close but elites always had a strength advantage still while brutes could man handle Spartans easily, and I'm pretty sure from memory the first encounter with brutes was a big "Oh shit what the fuck are these things" Moment for all of blue team not just the chief So we finally have a scene of lore inaccuracy because it massively overstates his badassery and the chief here should probably be getting ripped apart against 3 brutes in close range like this. Hell even 2 brutes would probably be too much in close quarters.
@@donttouchmysoda7551 bet the cgi guys are fans and wanted this to be really good thats the only thing I can come up with. When they showed his face I was so pissed off I was like who the hell is this!? Idk in halo 4? I think when it only showed his eyes I was like clint eastwood? Is that you? Yeah, I'm ok with that. Lol
Definetly something cuz this s**t is absolutely bonkers with org**m worthy choreography that nearly sort off rivals the likes of john wick and an overwhelming amounts of pure badass black air force energy
he need a raise for this scene i'm a 100% sure it's the camera man that played all halo and said lemme handle this scene and did this wonderful job props to him for saving us with this scene.
It's funny that the only times we get to actually see the real Master Chief is the opening fight from Episode 1 and then the final fight scene in Episode 9
@@Jimothy-723 I don't remember anymore, but I had it. I think the only thing I didn't have was the flaming helmet but I think you had to be an actual Bungie employee to get that didn't you?
I watched that scene many times. Every 5 shots, the number decreases by 1. Sometimes he shoots in 2 or 3 shots, but when it reaches 5, the indicator decreases by 1. Before the gun falls to the ground, after the last 3 shots, there are 2 marks on the upper left of the gun, meaning 10 bullets. There are 2 and 3 shots in between, and the indicator does not decrease until it reaches 5.
Plot Bullets from ep 1, when he butched the elites using the same chaingun that didn't even scratch them 3 minutes earlier, only this time is just infinite ammo
Imagine if every episode was just this kind of mission, and the end just has the Chief sat on the Pelican silently with his helmet on, on the way to the next mission. Then by like season 9, maybe they can take his helmet off. And there's just another helmet underneath.
Not silently. With a lot of complaints and emotions as if it was a teenage drama. Cuz game and books accurate Chief is too low on emotions, which is "UnFoRgIvAbLe FoR tHe MoViE iNdUsTrY".
@@nicholasfly5914 Have you never seen the Mandolarian? A character can convey emotions even with full body armor on and they can do it pretty damn well. When they did take off the mask it was for a reason and it didn’t stay off.
I was thinking this too but then I realized, I think it looks so offputting is because bullets have recoil, a plasma pistol wouldn't. His arms not moving or tensing at all is what makes it uncanny
The most unrealistic part of the entire cinematic is that the assault rifle is killing grunts in like a three round burst. And there is no anxiety inducing beeping of shields being depleted.
To be honest, I was thinking "Hey that's not bad! The HUD is little odd and the Jiralhanae blood is wrong color, but it's pretty damn good for a fan animation!" Then I realized it was from a 200-million dollar TV show that I've never heard of before...
This looks pretty cool. Maybe someone should make a halo tv show. Edit: I figured I should be more constructive in my feedback and follow Mint's example. I think doing their own rewrite of the story was a bad idea. They should have gone with a spin off story in the correct canon. I think it's likely that a high up thought that the show wouldn't be successful without master chief and thus we get a new story because pretty much all of his story is told already and you can't add much to it unless you just rewrite everything.
It looks so aweful. The physics are completely wrong. But the whole serious doesn't know how simple physics work. This cgi combat looks much more fake than the opening cutscenes of halo 6
yes it wasn't a bad job, but you forgot that he is one of the reason why cheeks always took his helmet off. then rant about how people wanted him to put the helmet on at all times.
@@bulldog2000 the actor was the same as the writers tho. When people pointed it out about "Master Cheeks" always being helmet off. He pretty much tried to defend that decision (1 to be recognized as that person who played that character, 2 just to defend that decision)
@ashurad_fox5991 I can understand him wanting to take it off though cause otherwise they could replace him easily if there isn't a face associated with the character
@@bulldog2000 that is true, but he and the writers could've pushed it like the Mandalorian. Pedro Pascal made that character his in the mandalorian, due to his performance. (even with the helmet on, and when it's helmet off... it's not for the sake of showing his face, but to mold the character's personality) Compare that to Master Cheeks, and because of his helmet off behaviour. We can summarize his character as an idiotic soldier that is too overdramatic to make him seem more "human". If the show just shows Cheeks being more cold towards people, but still has a human heart. And always keeping the helmet on until the last ep where he shows his face... The actor would've probably received praise for his acting like Pedro Pascal.
Janky special effects and sloppy execution aside, I really, unironically, love how Chief takes a severe beating in this scene, but then just keeps going. Paradoxically, this makes him look even more OP than if he gracefully dodged every single shot and swing.
Would be better if we saw his armor getting damaged from it. It isn't like some amazing super metal. His armor is made of crap we have today and it would absolutely get janked from those blows.
Although the metal is titanium composite, he has an overshield which takes about 60% of the beating for him. Not to mention that titanium isn’t “crap”, it’s able to stop a 44 magnum and up.
@@Dren69420 I mean their armor is meant to hold up against most arms, with only sustained armor piercing ammo made in that universe can cause it to fail. Then you have the fact it's also made to withstand plasma weapons as well.
@@Nempo13 "his armor is made out of crap we have today" Wait so we have armor that has regenerative shields capable of deflecting most any kinds of small arms fire and is even capable of surviving falls from orbit and still be combat worthy after the fall?
Yeah but that defeats the whole point of their dynamic - the human side of Chief and the robot side of Cortana work in tandem to create an effective overall weapon. If it’s just Cortana controlling everything that makes no sense. 🤷🏻♂️🙄
@@JohnDoe-zj6xf Nonsense! They are just portraying "realistic government accounting" in the show! 🤣 Accountant: "So we spent 10,000 rounds for this battle..." Inspector: "No, 1,000." Accountant: "But sir, you can clearly see...." Inspector: "The government is on a budget, son, and we need to tell the people electing us that we are still keeping to the budget or we'll get the boot next election."
But you have to admit the movements of the animation and the choreography is award winning and hype worthy But the cgi sadly gives me feeling of a kinda sort off unfinished cinematic
@@沈啍yeah the animation is… well it leaves a lot to be desired, but the actual cheography is perfect . A bit janky but very good, its a shame the rest of the show wasn’t like this
I cant decide if this looks like well done miniature stop motion or like someone made it reasonably well in Blender. Either way, the cost of these episodes is hilarious for what it is. Don't get me wrong, its cool, but it doesn't look as good as the price tag would imply.
digital corridor could do better. This animation has zero weight behind the characters and as soon as you start watching, it takes away from the show. It takes away from the fight and choreograph of the fight because ur thinking wow, he has infinite ammo and no weight behind anything. Like Halo infinite the intro with atriox was vastly better in the 20 seconds of it lol scenes nowadays need weight behind the animation
This show could’ve been good if they: -removed all of Kwan’s story -remove all of Makee and replace it some Arbiter hunting for the artifact -tone down by A LOT all of master chiefs emotional scenes Imagine how good it would’ve been if it was an Arbiter instead of Makee. Hunting for the artifact, the he somehow finds Reach and infiltrates using invisibility/cammo. And during the Halsey chaos he manages to steal the artifact. It would’ve been so awesome. Writers dropped the ball
What's worst with Kwan and Makee is the fact you can pretty much replace any of them with the more compelling female characters of the games and it'll make sense and feel less forced.
@@danielgeronimo5538 I guess they just wanted to force their feminine bullshit in the story. Kind of like "I'm not Starfire" or whatever it was called when they self insert their own self
I haven't seen the show, but are master Chiefs scenes like, him being too emotional or there's too much general emotion? Because if it's the former, then yeah, if it's the later, then nah I think that could work
Imagine if the whole show would’ve been like this. This is what we wanted. Maybe it’s just me but it also looks like it was shot in miniature. Maybe it’s the cgi or the lighting idk. This is what we wanted tho. Forget all that melodrama crap and bad writing. Action and mystery. That’s what the halo show should’ve been.
It wasn't shot in miniature. Brutes are actually, canonically fucking HUGE. They tower over Spartans and regular humans are basically ants. Don't forget that Grunts are only like a foot shorter than the average human.
As cool as this is that we finally get to see this, I can't be the only one who thinks the CGI looks a little....goofy? I usually don't even care about bad CGI but for some reason this just felt off, don't get me wrong its not bad but it doesn't feel like a giant studio made this, it almost feels like a big RUclips channel made this.
No this was hot garbage dude poorly choreographed bad cgi and not engaging at all.... the fan made metroid Samus vs masterchief was better than this at least in the weight scale.....and that was made around 2009
It still isn't accurate to the lore either. In the books he could barely take on one berserker Brute who was choking him out and almost killed him. The only reason it didn't is because it finally succumbed to it's wounds. It took 2 full mags from an assault rifle to hurt it.
@@robbielarios9835 In a comic showing what happened whilst chief was on the ark with the prophet he takes on just about every singular brute on the ark there, so it is accurate.
I thought the same, the only issue with that, is that even in that episode we didn't see a real MC, 'cause at the end, he gives up and let Cortana literally take control of himself, the real MC wouldn't give up and still save his team and the artifacts.
@@Barryschitpeas42069 lol Any "Halo" TV show or movie, which is made to also appeal to mainstream audiences who don't play "Halo", would have Chief's helmet off a lot of the time. Pablo Schreiber is a good actor. Chief's helmet will stay off. That's the reality of making a TV show/movie out of a 1st person shooter game.
@breaking the 4th wall like bro literally from the first time when Cortana shows up, Halsey told her that she would take control of the MC progressively, TAKE CONTROL of him, not unlocking some killer shit. That's why she told the MC when he gives up, that she wasn't sure if she can bring him back. so no, he is still not the Master Chief, it's just Cortana in command, you can see that even the info in his helmet changes as Cortana was taking control of him
I find it painful that the only actual time we see Chief be lore accurate are in action sequences which even then have continuity issues. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. $10million per episode was not put into this show. Clearly someone’s been filling their bank accounts on the sidelines or something like that.
I don't believe 10 million goes exactly for each episode, some could have double that. This kind of shows and movies with lots of cgi, costumes and all that are really expensive, then you take into account all the extra expenses for executives, manager and all that useless stuff and 90 million for 9 hours of episodes isn't a unreasonable number. A 2 hour movie with cgi on the level of the show can go up to 50 million alone, so you do the math
Then they should have made just 3 or 4 episodes with total runtime of 5 hrs per season. Kept it Lore accurate and no fillers no need for character development no mindless changes, no alternate timeline. Just 3 or 4 episodes of high adrenaline high stakes Humanity Vs Covenant War.
If you look closely at Chief’s HUD when he was holding and firing the AR, you can see the bullets started dropping slowly and just stopped counting the last few. The fight choreography is great, don’t get me wrong
You kind of have to use tricks like that. Considering the suits are improperly designed, as they lack proper ammo storage. If they went realistic the suit's silhouette is going be altered by all the gear on it. Defeating the viewers ability to recognize it as Master Chief.
@@KSmithwick1989 at the same time... The suit is supposed to be a something of a mini tank platform. Having ammo outside would interfere with systems and give the enemy an easy target (either the ammo itself or the mechanism that retrieves the ammo) on a tank. So... It'd make sense if there were some sort of pockets in the suit to place ammo into. I think I remember a cutscene or something where there's pockets in the legs. Might be thinking of the movie Edge of Tomorrow though... I know they had something like that with their exosuits. All this to see... There are legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want ammo outside the suit. But... There's not really the room for it.
I kind of like the weird movements. In Warhammer 40K, Space Marines running supposedly looks weird because nature doesn't normally let something that large run 40+ mph.
They have some really good assets to work with, but I cant help but think that this scene was rushed out the door. The animation is just so weightless and the camera has no physical presence.
@@existentialselkath1264 yeah that’s what makes it feel so weird to watch, there’s absolutely no weight or punch to a lot of chiefs movement, he’s so floaty when he moves.
I was shocked to learn this was in the official Halo show. For $10 mil per episode they really know how to make it look like a RUclips fan animation someone made in their spare time. EDIT: I was wrong, the budget for this entire show was $200 MILLION. That makes this absolutely unacceptable. EDIT 2: I've had a few people try to tell me "No the CGI looks good for a $10 mil budget." No it doesn't. Game of Thrones had a similar budget of $10 mil an episode and that show's CGI was extraordinarily good. Not to mention this show had an overall budget of $200 mil, meaning they very well could afford good CGI. The CGI is bad, much like the show itself. I really do not understand why people are trying to defend it.
@@marcusaurelis I don't watch the Halo show but bruh, that's gotta be one of the coolest looking fights we've gotten that wasn't RvB or Lone Wolf. C'mon man 🙄.
This action scene looks like it fits exactly with that budget. The scene looks awesome.. Plenty of wide angles, long takes of choreography and plenty of dynamic camera angles changes. The filmmaking is great in this scene, doesn’t even look like a fan animation.
@@petierodriguez101 The CGI is shit for a $10 mil scene and they don't even pay attention to the ammo counter they include in the scene. Just because it has flashy camera angles or whatever does not make it a good scene when it doesn't even look real to begin with. Half the animated moves look more like stop motion than actual fluid combat and the lighting is so weird all the on screen characters appears almost like plastic or rubber rather than organic mass and metal. Hell sometimes it flat out looks like they booted up the game itself from 2013. Like seriously Red Vs Blue by rooster teeth had better animation to some of it's fight scenes.
When they announced that Halo would be getting a tv show this is what everyone was expecting. Instead we got about 12 minutes total of stuff like this out of 9 episodes of a poor man’s space game of thrones.
Gotta give them props for making it look artistically like Halo. Even the environment has this dreamy scifi halo feel. Too bad everything else sucks. I'm done with Halo because it hurts me how everything is just 'meh'
The only thing that’s keeping me into halo is Infinite (I know: Infinite doesn’t have a lot of content, but the art style and the core gameplay are just like older halo games if not better, and the story while not the best is still reasonably good, so Infinite is the only thing keeping me in the halo community)
@@mrsoisauce9017 Can someone explain what's so bad about infinite? Everyone's talking about how trash season 2 is but i grew up with NO season rewards lmao. Old halo games didnt even have dlc! And if a game did have dlc (for example cod) you had to pay 15 bucks for 2 new maps and a calling card. Maybe infinite isn't bad, maybe the community has gotten greedy lol
@@mrsoisauce9017 mp is okay. I've always loved the campaigns/story as a kid and this one had fun gameplay but left a bitter taste in my mouth when it came to environments and story. Its far from the epic story it could have been and is unfinished for sure
Feels like im watching a mountain dew ad. Was half expecting for chief to turn to the camera and talk about how you can win an xbox one if you buy a pack of doritos.
Fuck yea... Everytime he took it off.. i was like. "There goes my game hero... " Fucking dumb. Such a let down bro... I BEAT THEIR GAMES ON LEGENDARY trying to see his face. So he can show case it like I didn't wait years for a glimpse... But not continuous af! Ruined too much emotions and they didn't stick to the Halo Games and books !
Chief doesn't even need to show his face to express his emotions. It might be easier that way, but we already have video games of him showing his emotions in his own stoic way.
In one of the official HALO books there's a lot of episodes where Chief wasn't wearing helmet and even armor. Everywhere else - "The armor is part of my body".
The animation was apparent, the choreography was stiff, things didn't look like they weighed the right amount, and chief fired extra bullets after his magazine reader should have read empty, but it was still awesome to see him actually behaving like the "hyper-lethal" soldier he is supposed to be.
Showing him being a super soldier is good, but honestly all this rolling-flipping fancy melee choreography just looks ridiculous and cartoony to me. What exactly is "lore accurate" about simply catching a gravity hammer blow? Even if chief was strong enough for that, the rifle used to stop it here would snap like a twig. Compare what we see here, with the depiction of a super soldier portrayed in the "Astartes" 40k fan film (not to mention the shameful quality disparity). When I imagine Chief being shown at his best, I don't imagine silly Naruto fight scenes pulling highly implausible dancey combat moves. I imagine a ruthlessly fast, methodical and precise soldier. One who's facing entirely lethal foes, but is in control and expertly guiding the situation, not just getting stuck in a suicidal moshpit and relying on the god of conveniently scripted choreography to save him.
it’s a cool scene that we’ve been wanting more spread across episodes, but there’s a lot of jarring errors still (discounting it being not close to lore or the games). i think the live action fights in halo 3/reach/infinites trailers are more convincing in the tactics and decisions chief makes in combat.
So that brute at the beginning tries to axe him with his spiker- and Chief blocks the attack with his AR, and staggers the brute? This is AtLA movie and Power Rangers level fight choreography.
yea it doesn't make much sense to blow their budget load on these bombastic action scenes. Would much rather have more muted gun play with a sprinkle of the bombastic moments
@@bendynamic2150 But also in the books a single brute could take down master chief. There's actual realism there, where here it's just Hollywood bullshit
Anyone else notice the bullet count continuing to go down and reset back to 8 or 4. Then one burst leaves the number count at 4 for 2 or 3 rounds and he never reloads
I like how the ammo counter goes from 04 to 10 in one of the frames to justify him shooting it 8 more times without reloading. Also... Is this the combat evolved AR? Cause that was a lot of rounds.
Looks like an HD rendering of a PS2/3 cutscene. Edit: I'm not usually one for noticing graphics and things like that, but the uninspiring greenscreen, the jarring flat color palette and background, and the unrealistic smoothness of the character motions and lack of cosmetic detailing... a community college summer course would have done a better presentation.
Try making a cgi show with the budget, seriously. 200+ mil goes way farther in a 1hour 30minute movie than a show that last 9+ hours. Seriously. Criticize the freaking writing, not the CGI
To be fair canonically the actual gravity part of the gravity hammer has to be activated before use, and you can otherwise just use the thing as a normal hammer - and it makes sense to want to use it as a normal hammer here, considering there's half a dozen of them right next to each other.
at 0:03 secs was the only point where the gravity part of the hammer was used. When Master chief got hit with the hammer it was with the back end of the hammer as a backswing after missing with the gravity end of the hammer at 0:19 secs. But after that it doesnt make since or follow the logic of what was happening so far since the gravity hammer still goes off even tho the gravity end land on the Brute at 0:22 secs. So gonna have to go with because PLOT!
What i kinda found annoying about this was that the elites were doubled down to these "slow lumbering monsters" then the actual sleek and cunning beings but the brutes are depicted as the more badass enemies that were more swift and for some reason could do more then those elites in the first episode(Granted those brutes were more experienced but still) But i guess thats my opinion.
I watched this show with my father, who’s not a fan of video games and knew very little about Halo. About midway through the series, I showed him the cutscene where chief meets the gravemind, showing how calm and calculated Chief is. Even he agreed that it was a much better characterization than Cheeks. Thing is, while a laconic Clint Eastwood sort of character would be run of the mill twenty years ago, it’s pretty rare to see nowadays. Cheeks is a paltry replacement for the green man.
I legitimately didn't think this was from the show because of how good it was.. which is really not a great thing to say, but it is a sign that this thing could go in a more entertaining direction with Season 2. I would actually sit down to watch this show in its entirety if they focused mainly on the action and fighting, with over arcing stories simply being the conflicts and actions that take place during them. I think Halo got popular not because of the story itself being very dramatic or intricate, but because the actions the character take within it feel so larger-than-life. Chief literally piloted a NUKE. He's the most iconic badass in gaming imo and its all the crazy stuff he does during fights that keeps him so interesting.
Imagine if the whole show was like this. Some people just believe halo fans are being negative for the sake of it but I saw plenty of moments where halo fans like things for example the armor and weapon props, action scenes, soren, and Cortana the problem is mostly the writing decisions.
@@Muizemullard414 You cant make a whole show like this. Eventually it would get boring pretty quickly. They havent developed any of the characters in any meaningful way. If they had we might feel something when characters lives are in danger. Instead I watched it like I was watching a game which is fun, but it isnt very deep.
E9 was a tremendous sigh of relief. All of it. Every portion. The best part was not having a second of Madrigal in it 😂, even though I'm sure that will come full circle in S2. Lots of twists and turns that I fully cringed at along with many moments that were just, bad. With that said, they turned it around for the better. When taken at face value as a space drama, it's not horrible, but it NEEDS to focus more on the relationship between Chief and Cortana. That relationship is key to solidifying this silver screen adaptation and it appears to be in the beginning stages of something actually good.
@@TwiceTheBitsGames hell there are games with more depth. This was just a bunch of tropes stuffed into a show and given a halo skin mod. I liked the casting though.
It never ceases to amaze me that professional screenwriters nowadays can manage to fuck up such simple concepts. All ya needed to do was give my a badass faceless soldier who barely speaks unless it’s to his AI waifu, maybe a couple extra Spartans in the squad that flesh out the character needed in the show, or give chief his own platoon of marines under his command, give me some alien politikin, a couple epic fights, a quick “sir, finishing this fight” and be done with it.
So when the Covenant shot at all the high kids in Kwans friend group, in the first episode, they exploded. (which is accurate because the plasma would vaporize any liquid in the body causeing it to erupt violently, we read this in the books aswell.) But when chief shoot at the grunts (whom we know to be cannon fodder and have ridiculously weak armor from a Covenant stand point) they just collapse were they die. No recoil in the direction of momentum, no blue guey explosion just *boop* on the floor, next enemy.
A grunt is not just fodder. Grunts are about 260 and are naturally stronger than humans. Their body is denser than a human kids so it's more likely that a kids body would vaporize but a grunts wouldn't. Maybe some insight, I may be wrong but it's a thought.
@Benjuicyy it's not. At all. Even close. In lore, the *average* Jiralhanae is much, much stronger than a Spartan. And certainly won't be effected by a puny AR as shown here. Not to mention, 2 hits to the head from a grav hammer? He's dead. Cal died after 1 hit from a badly wounded chieftan.
What bothers me is how long it took that brute at 0:04 to take another swing at the chief. It was like he was just waiting for the chief to be ready to block it.
👍I second that, though it can explained by a combo of: *1)* He actively raised his left arm to block the AR-rounds, shakes it off/recomposes, *_and then_* starts grabbing the G-hammer with *both* -hands- *Paws.* *2)* Arrogance. These "Demons" smack down into their world-turf, with one getting bodied, and the "UNSC's best weapon" is surrounded by his other Brute brothers. _Not _*_too_* out of the question that they would be €o€ky and savor [Mastur-Cheef]'s the beatdown, _BUUUT I would've added_ that Brute Laughing blocking the gunshots - _a subtle yet distinct add-in_ that could get that message across more clearly. 🤷♂️😅 Speaking of laughter, *am I the only one who misses the [H-CE Elites] laughing after taking out Chief?* 😆 I want _(More of)_ such personalities back in the games, Especially for Banished-enemies and/or non-faction Alien Pirates/Mercs. lol
I am convinced, everyone involved with this show... besides the show-runners... loves the content as Halo. The Sets, the action pieces, all superb. Everything else reeks of "Eh! How can they empathize if they don't see the face?! Put a sex scene in here! We can just say that it isn't canon, we're fine."
Fun fact: this scene is not actually accurate to MC in the books. In the book "First Strike", the Chief has his first run-in with brutes aboard the supply ship "Unyielding Hierophant", who are wielding brute shots. There's a long fight/grappling section where it's said specifically that the Chief *cannot* overcome the raw physical strength of the Jiralhanae. The only way he can break out of the grapple is by application of his training in wrestling, and relying on his dexterity and core strength to spring himself from the grapple
I know the passage in the book you're talking about and what you're saying is essentially who would win in an arm wrestling match in terms of raw strength. What does that have to do with this scene where MC is using his agility here, to borrow a phrase: "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".
@@SeanUCF he literally blocks a full-force strike from a Grav Hammer with his forearms. I feel like that has correlation to the raw strength of the brute vs the raw strength of the chief
I think if they pay attention to feedback and act accordingly the show can turn around because the action and design are outstanding. The show has potential so it would be a shame not to go further with it.
I don’t understand this take. The action sequences cannot make up for the insanely inaccurate rendition of Chief being portrayed during the non-helmet drama and dialogue sequences. There’s absolutely no way to reform it at this point.
@@gravy7944 Uhh, not if it was all CGI. Cut out all the expensive live action stuff. Hell, they could have reused models from the Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes if they really wanted to save a few dollars.
@@gravy7944 It's estimated that a high quality 3d animated show costs $100,000 a minute. Say each episode is 60 minutes long that's $6million an episode. The halo tv show costs $10million an episode. So it would save a lot of money doing it animated and probably be a better show for it. For comparison, each episode of Clone Wars was said to cost $1million an episode allegedly.
@@SourRobo8364 The issue with that, is the $9M an episode figure is basically fake. The $90M budget was not solely a production budget, it was also used for marketing, licensing, and legal/administrative purposes. Not to mention the retainers they paid, when production was suspended in 2020, due to the pandemic.
Agreed it really felt like chief like this legend just walked in but in this show it felt like some random spartan i dont know walked in pretending to be chief
My headcanon is that you gotta use it a certain way to create the 'gravity' effect. Also, he never gets hit with the blunt side of it, only the blade. Which to be fair, should absolutely split his head from his shoulders. A nearly half tonne hammer swung by an 8 foot gorilla would do that to you
Man, in all honesty, i was fine with them making up their own story. I really wanted to like it. I mean, i've read most of the books and played every game in the franchise. Something new and different? Fine. Could be fun to see a different take on the story. But come on, i expected better or at least similar than what we already have established in terms of quality (story telling and action). I never get why big companies take something that already has a great foundation only to make their own thing up and wind up making it worse. That's my opinion though. For people that enjoyed it, well awesome. I just feel like this won't get many more seasons or even a full fledged movie like i've always hoped for. Plus, what happened to the cgi here? Budget took a nose dive?
im confused because (i have not read the books) a friend of mine was saying how much he likes it and said the reason ppl are complaining about it is because they haven’t read the books or explored the lore. I really couldn’t argue because i have not really had a chance to read them to form a solid argument
Weird because its not Lore accurate at all.. the covenant working with humans?? Spartans not knowing they where kidnapped??? Lots of inconsistencies that the show should’ve kept In order for the story to make sense. The TV show doesn’t even make sense on its own story
Its because the people running the show and writing it don't want Halo. They want to do their own thing, so they do. The Halo name and aesthetic is just the way they finance it.
What're you talking about? It goes from 15 at 0:10, then 8 at 0:13 to 2 at 0:15 for both gun and HUD? Of course, it seems not exactly in sync with actual fire, and then some more fire after that which doesn't update the HUD, so I won't say they got it perfect or anything, but unless I missed something that bit at least seems reasonable?
We went a whole season without them ever stopping to explain to their new "broad audience" how shields work. Arguably the most important mechanic of the franchise for action scenes. And it's probably for the best, cause it's so damn inconsistent in the show. That's my biggest problem with all of the big action scenes. Only sometimes there is a shield flare vfx, only sometimes there is sound effect, only sometimes the Elites have shields, Characters can lose shields and then continue to take massive damage for ages, etc. And I know it's a bunch of silly nit-picks, but why is the plasma pistol so good in this? Why doesn't Cortana call in the condor sooner. Why do the Spartans insist on standing out in the open and getting shot? The Prophets don't have laser chairs in this timeline? Why no covenant ships in orbit? Okay, they weren't expecting humans to show up. But then why are there hundreds of battle ready Elites hiding in the mountain? And where did the brutes drop in from if not from a ship? I could go on. Hard for me to take seriously. No faith in Season 2.
Depends on how they are using the armor type. In the books they didn’t have recharged shields until the battle of reach and up to then they had a different system to diffuse the plasma blast
@Gorgoth well friend, that's just because the shields are of the Mjolnir Plot Armor variant 😂 Seriously tho, this fight being kinda cool and all, think I'd much prefer scenes of the Spartan squads fighting like modern day spec ops (just with crazy reflexes) or some super coordinated/elite fighting force (sort of like how Halo Wars 2 portrayed Red team), rather than these brawleresque fights which don't really ring "Halo" that much to me
For those wondering, the ost in this video is called Genesong and it’s from the halo 2 anniversary official soundtrack. If you just want the part of the song that is in the video, it begins at 2:14 of the soundtrack
This just makes me sad, because it just shows that this show COULD have been amazing if they just portrayed Chief correctly. I don't understand why they had to butcher the series so hard. There are plenty of stories from the extended Canon universe that they could have used for a premise for the show.
If they expanded on almost ANY of the stories from Legends it would've been pretty good. Or just made another anthology series based entirely around the way Legends was. I would've like having more than just Chief again. Or an ODST series.
@@stargate4847 "Not being like the video game" is not the same as "spitting in the face of the franchise and characters that millions of people love and grew up with."
@@lunardeathblade2570 As somebody who's spent years and years working in large marketing agencies, I can tell you that the people in charge of this show almost certainly are "marketing" types who are looking to do anything they can to "shake it up". They severely misunderstood what it meant to show chief's face. It was a huge mistake and immediately delegitimized the show in my eyes, which sucks because I absolutely love this franchise. Too bad career ego moves had to ruin this show because if it weren't for that, I would have been on board all the way.
@@SatisfactionedEdits nah, it definitely hit his back of the head. I watched the vid slowed down. and he gets bonked hard. the swing is pretty much at the top of his head.
@@DatAsianGuy i also slowed it down, and i see what your saying. i also noticed that one of the hammers hit him directly in the visor in the beginning of the vid. now he definitely wouldn’t survive that
That's what I'm saying. I was hoping to see Chief get his ass kicked by Brutes, since they were such a hassle to deal with in the novels. But hey, this is badass as fuck
Do note that was an extremely exhausted chief that hadn’t slept in days wearing failing Mark V who got ambushed by the brute. In the majority of encounters Spartans dominate brutes even in melee
I like how chief is constantly getting headshotted by these brutes and his helmet hasn’t cracked or broke off. Then you have Spartan Locke doing a backslap to the face and thats affective enough to make it crack.
Thoughts on the Final Episode of Season 1?
Haven’t even started watching the whole series
@@dadoll7099 I would have been there the second the first episode released...
But the series was not based on the games...
I... Still can't... Understand why they did that...
@@alextsukishima7666 No, malice.
@@dadoll7099 same
I saw that if you have subtitles on, the big brute is called Atriox.
I love how every fight scene posted online of this show is “FINALLY LORE ACCURATE CHEIF” and then the rest is just “THIS IS THE WORST ABOMINATION EVER”
Yeah because the fight scenes are the only bits that feel like Halo. Although i gotta admit Chief was pretty game accurate in the last few minutes of the final episode.
Kinda shows what the show should've been.
Even then the action I've seen isn't anything great.
The show is trash from story to choreography.
@@Darek_B52 i feel like the final episode was the most Halo feeling episode of the show. And if Master Chief remains how he was in the last five minutes then I think it could be really good next season
@@caelanathey124 meh it feels like it's nice windows on a house with rotten foundation.
The funny thing is that lore accurate has become a meme for chief being unstoppable but in the books the brutes were a massive threat.
Elites and Spartans were close but elites always had a strength advantage still while brutes could man handle Spartans easily, and I'm pretty sure from memory the first encounter with brutes was a big "Oh shit what the fuck are these things" Moment for all of blue team not just the chief
So we finally have a scene of lore inaccuracy because it massively overstates his badassery and the chief here should probably be getting ripped apart against 3 brutes in close range like this.
Hell even 2 brutes would probably be too much in close quarters.
They even got the "burst with an assault rifle, then melee to finish them off" loop that everyone does in Halo
that is the only similarity between the games and the show then, good job u found it!
@@donttouchmysoda7551 bet the cgi guys are fans and wanted this to be really good thats the only thing I can come up with. When they showed his face I was so pissed off I was like who the hell is this!? Idk in halo 4? I think when it only showed his eyes I was like clint eastwood? Is that you? Yeah, I'm ok with that. Lol
They don’t really do that in this scene…
I never burst the ar unless fighting ai
This proves there were some genuine halo fans in the production crew.
i love how this show goes from genuinely good action scenes to the worst bastardization of a main character I think I've ever seen
It’s not bad the problem is they made Chief way too fucking human for the shows good
Swear to god the action team is working independently from the story team
Bipolar as hell 🤣😂🤦🏻
@@ClearlyInPeril So just like RWBY?
@@wizardmon1337 As a RWBY fan that truth hurts harder than a flying slipper
Whoever directed the fights in this show obviously loved Halo a lot.
No one else on the writing or directing staff did but hey it's something
Definetly something cuz this s**t is absolutely bonkers with org**m worthy choreography that nearly sort off rivals the likes of john wick and an overwhelming amounts of pure badass black air force energy
The people who made this show wanted Mass Effect.
he need a raise for this scene i'm a 100% sure it's the camera man that played all halo and said lemme handle this scene and did this wonderful job props to him for saving us with this scene.
The sound work is complete ass tho
There's a lot of game play Easter eggs in the show, but the lore side feels like someone's yanking diarrhea out of a cocktail made dried fecal matter.
This looks more like a very well made fan animation than an actual studio produced show.
Yeah holy sh*t
Fan made?
Halo CE looks better lmaooo
I didn't watch the show and am now confused : is this video not a fan animation ? Is it from a professional studio ??
Agreed 100%
It's funny that the only times we get to actually see the real Master Chief is the opening fight from Episode 1 and then the final fight scene in Episode 9
Did you forget Episode 5?
@Private117 chief isnt a whining reckless teenager in the books lmao
This series focus more on Jhon than Master Chief, its trying to show us more about his human side, but i think we will see a lot of 117 on season 2
@@VictorGarcia321 and somehow halo 4, 5, and infinite was able to do that without butchering the character
@Private117 Which book? Game of Thrones? 'Cause this show is trying to be exactly that.
Writers: "We never looked at the games"
Animators: "Every one of us EARNED Recon."
This comment is underrated AF. I actually wonder how many current halo fans are old enough to understand what this means.,
@@laytonmiller5865
you still remember how to get the hayabusa?
@@Jimothy-723 I don't remember anymore, but I had it. I think the only thing I didn't have was the flaming helmet but I think you had to be an actual Bungie employee to get that didn't you?
@@laytonmiller5865 Currently? 67, by the looks of the likes.
@@laytonmiller5865 earning recon through community creatons or beating Bungie in multiplayer match was a pain, but it was such an achievement.
I love how his ammo display on his gun at the end shows he has 4 shots left but he pops off like another 10... Lol
Yeah it was only counting down one every three or so shots
One burst was counted as 1
On board bullet recimg
I watched that scene many times. Every 5 shots, the number decreases by 1. Sometimes he shoots in 2 or 3 shots, but when it reaches 5, the indicator decreases by 1. Before the gun falls to the ground, after the last 3 shots, there are 2 marks on the upper left of the gun, meaning 10 bullets. There are 2 and 3 shots in between, and the indicator does not decrease until it reaches 5.
this part was sick but i cant be the only one noticing chief running out of ammo constantly but his rifle keeps firing anyways
Very quick at reloading I guess
halo 4 campaign
Plot Bullets from ep 1, when he butched the elites using the same chaingun that didn't even scratch them 3 minutes earlier, only this time is just infinite ammo
Bullets are some of the most inconsistent things in Hollywood
i just came up with a better comment. Master Chief simply has the Famine skull turned on
Imagine if every episode was just this kind of mission, and the end just has the Chief sat on the Pelican silently with his helmet on, on the way to the next mission.
Then by like season 9, maybe they can take his helmet off.
And there's just another helmet underneath.
Boring ass "big green robot guy killing aliens"
Just as halo 3
Hell yeah
Not silently. With a lot of complaints and emotions as if it was a teenage drama.
Cuz game and books accurate Chief is too low on emotions, which is "UnFoRgIvAbLe FoR tHe MoViE iNdUsTrY".
As the camera pans up to viewpoint where we can't see his face yeah. Sounds good.
@@nicholasfly5914 Have you never seen the Mandolarian? A character can convey emotions even with full body armor on and they can do it pretty damn well. When they did take off the mask it was for a reason and it didn’t stay off.
I like how this looks amazing then when he's dual wielding the plasma pistols the budget drops to like 5 bucks
YUP
Real chief would do a bxr then tbag
I read this comment before watching, and... jesus H Tapdancing christ. You were not exaggerating. his HUD changes for goodness sake.
I was thinking this too but then I realized, I think it looks so offputting is because bullets have recoil, a plasma pistol wouldn't. His arms not moving or tensing at all is what makes it uncanny
They most have used the nerf gun versions to save money.
The most unrealistic part of the entire cinematic is that the assault rifle is killing grunts in like a three round burst. And there is no anxiety inducing beeping of shields being depleted.
There is a scene where the shield gets depleted and beeps. But this video is a combination of 2 scenes and cuts out that part.
This is easy mode not legendary
To be honest, I was thinking "Hey that's not bad! The HUD is little odd and the Jiralhanae blood is wrong color, but it's pretty damn good for a fan animation!"
Then I realized it was from a 200-million dollar TV show that I've never heard of before...
What’s the show called?
@@sebastianaguilar3924 Master Cheeks
same 😆
@@ShaBoop11 Lol
@@sebastianaguilar3924the show is trash.
They butchered masterchief and even showed his face.
This looks pretty cool. Maybe someone should make a halo tv show.
Edit:
I figured I should be more constructive in my feedback and follow Mint's example. I think doing their own rewrite of the story was a bad idea. They should have gone with a spin off story in the correct canon. I think it's likely that a high up thought that the show wouldn't be successful without master chief and thus we get a new story because pretty much all of his story is told already and you can't add much to it unless you just rewrite everything.
It looks so aweful. The physics are completely wrong. But the whole serious doesn't know how simple physics work. This cgi combat looks much more fake than the opening cutscenes of halo 6
@@SilverViper1000 because this show has a budget of 90 million, while halo infinite had a budget of 500 million.
@@pianoxcovers5312 Budget doesn’t equate the quality of the script. If the writing was good, people would be more forgiving.
@@pianoxcovers5312 the budget of 500 million has been proven false I think
@@SilverViper1000 yeah the characters in the scene lack weight. They look plastic and light because of it.
I don’t even think the actor who played chief did a bad job… just the writers man, brutal.
yes it wasn't a bad job, but you forgot that he is one of the reason why cheeks always took his helmet off.
then rant about how people wanted him to put the helmet on at all times.
Really though I don't even fault the actor I just heavily what the writers were smoking
@@bulldog2000 the actor was the same as the writers tho. When people pointed it out about "Master Cheeks" always being helmet off. He pretty much tried to defend that decision (1 to be recognized as that person who played that character, 2 just to defend that decision)
@ashurad_fox5991 I can understand him wanting to take it off though cause otherwise they could replace him easily if there isn't a face associated with the character
@@bulldog2000 that is true, but he and the writers could've pushed it like the Mandalorian. Pedro Pascal made that character his in the mandalorian, due to his performance. (even with the helmet on, and when it's helmet off... it's not for the sake of showing his face, but to mold the character's personality)
Compare that to Master Cheeks, and because of his helmet off behaviour. We can summarize his character as an idiotic soldier that is too overdramatic to make him seem more "human".
If the show just shows Cheeks being more cold towards people, but still has a human heart. And always keeping the helmet on until the last ep where he shows his face... The actor would've probably received praise for his acting like Pedro Pascal.
Janky special effects and sloppy execution aside, I really, unironically, love how Chief takes a severe beating in this scene, but then just keeps going.
Paradoxically, this makes him look even more OP than if he gracefully dodged every single shot and swing.
Would be better if we saw his armor getting damaged from it. It isn't like some amazing super metal. His armor is made of crap we have today and it would absolutely get janked from those blows.
No it’s not.
Although the metal is titanium composite, he has an overshield which takes about 60% of the beating for him. Not to mention that titanium isn’t “crap”, it’s able to stop a 44 magnum and up.
@@Dren69420 I mean their armor is meant to hold up against most arms, with only sustained armor piercing ammo made in that universe can cause it to fail. Then you have the fact it's also made to withstand plasma weapons as well.
@@Nempo13 "his armor is made out of crap we have today" Wait so we have armor that has regenerative shields capable of deflecting most any kinds of small arms fire and is even capable of surviving falls from orbit and still be combat worthy after the fall?
I’m impressed. He didn’t take off his helmet or see his face for a good 30 seconds.
I don't think this is the show isn't this Halo Infinite?
It’s because he’s dead
there are a couple of inside the helmet shots in this battle, Mint Blitz edited them out
Haha 😂 Amen!
@@MrSarcasticGaming it’s the season finale of the show
Cortana taking over chief is the most chiefest moment there is. No talks, no voice, just action
For real that’s the chief we wanted!!!
And he didn't say a word after being taken over
It was the dumbest moment of the fight and there was absolutely no need for it besides Chief and Cortana having a bonding moment.
Honestly though in my opinion that's kinda boring
Yeah but that defeats the whole point of their dynamic - the human side of Chief and the robot side of Cortana work in tandem to create an effective overall weapon. If it’s just Cortana controlling everything that makes no sense. 🤷🏻♂️🙄
He definitely had the Halo CE assault rifle with that many rounds being let off without reloading
You can see the ammo count and the funniest part was when he fired about 10 rounds into a brute. And the count went down by one number
@@theblubanshee8027 Shh... I know he's hacking, you know he's hacking, let's just keep it under our hats lol.
😅for someone who made such an atrocious halo show its evident that they failed in math too.
@@JohnDoe-zj6xf Nonsense! They are just portraying "realistic government accounting" in the show! 🤣
Accountant: "So we spent 10,000 rounds for this battle..."
Inspector: "No, 1,000."
Accountant: "But sir, you can clearly see...."
Inspector: "The government is on a budget, son, and we need to tell the people electing us that we are still keeping to the budget or we'll get the boot next election."
@@danielc2701 😁
I love how they stayed true to Halo CE’s graphics😂
Seriously this look like it came straight out of an episode of Red vs Blue.
But you have to admit the movements of the animation and the choreography is award winning and hype worthy
But the cgi sadly gives me feeling of a kinda sort off unfinished cinematic
@@JunniferLuzeytonz Yeah for a full scale tv production with motion capture technology and a staff of professional stunt team they better nail it.
@@沈啍yeah the animation is… well it leaves a lot to be desired, but the actual cheography is perfect . A bit janky but very good, its a shame the rest of the show wasn’t like this
RIP RvB BTW, we'll miss ya Rooster Teeth.
I cant decide if this looks like well done miniature stop motion or like someone made it reasonably well in Blender. Either way, the cost of these episodes is hilarious for what it is. Don't get me wrong, its cool, but it doesn't look as good as the price tag would imply.
digital corridor could do better. This animation has zero weight behind the characters and as soon as you start watching, it takes away from the show. It takes away from the fight and choreograph of the fight because ur thinking wow, he has infinite ammo and no weight behind anything. Like Halo infinite the intro with atriox was vastly better in the 20 seconds of it lol scenes nowadays need weight behind the animation
was about to say this lol
Looks like how I remember Spy Kids 3
Idk wtf you guys are on but this was better then mandos action scenes
I say scrap the live action and give it to blur studios
This show could’ve been good if they:
-removed all of Kwan’s story
-remove all of Makee and replace it some Arbiter hunting for the artifact
-tone down by A LOT all of master chiefs emotional scenes
Imagine how good it would’ve been if it was an Arbiter instead of Makee. Hunting for the artifact, the he somehow finds Reach and infiltrates using invisibility/cammo. And during the Halsey chaos he manages to steal the artifact. It would’ve been so awesome.
Writers dropped the ball
What's worst with Kwan and Makee is the fact you can pretty much replace any of them with the more compelling female characters of the games and it'll make sense and feel less forced.
@@danielgeronimo5538 I guess they just wanted to force their feminine bullshit in the story. Kind of like "I'm not Starfire" or whatever it was called when they self insert their own self
That moment when you accidentally ask for a sex scene between Chief and Arbiter O.o
I haven't seen the show, but are master Chiefs scenes like, him being too emotional or there's too much general emotion? Because if it's the former, then yeah, if it's the later, then nah I think that could work
@@DigitalEWhore master chief acts like a depressed teenager angry at his mom.
He is way too depressed, he looks like he is about to cry every second
Imagine if the whole show would’ve been like this. This is what we wanted. Maybe it’s just me but it also looks like it was shot in miniature. Maybe it’s the cgi or the lighting idk. This is what we wanted tho. Forget all that melodrama crap and bad writing. Action and mystery. That’s what the halo show should’ve been.
The irony is, if this was a fan short, everyone would have screamed "why don't the idiots in Hollywood hire these guys to make a tv show?!".
This wasn't even a well done scene dude. Compare this to cinematics from 2007-2008 and this looks like it was fanmade. It's actually pathetic
It wasn't shot in miniature. Brutes are actually, canonically fucking HUGE. They tower over Spartans and regular humans are basically ants. Don't forget that Grunts are only like a foot shorter than the average human.
@@Ekajje you missed his point. He's saying they look like action figures. Not chief looks small compared to the alien races.
@@hellcatdave1 Yeah the animation is just really bad.
I love how at one point, the assault rifle has 2 bullets in it, and then it immediately fires 6 more shots
On board tecyckieng
As cool as this is that we finally get to see this, I can't be the only one who thinks the CGI looks a little....goofy? I usually don't even care about bad CGI but for some reason this just felt off, don't get me wrong its not bad but it doesn't feel like a giant studio made this, it almost feels like a big RUclips channel made this.
from the action it depicted it was pretty good for a Tv Show
No this was hot garbage dude poorly choreographed bad cgi and not engaging at all.... the fan made metroid Samus vs masterchief was better than this at least in the weight scale.....and that was made around 2009
@@Zoltoks Oooooo you talking about Haliod lmao lets go! I miss Monty
Yeah, i felt like i could watch this from a modern RvB video with some extra budget.
I think mint accelerated a little the scene, you know, for the copyright, maybe that's why it looks a little weird
This looks both awesome and super janky at the same time.
Halo 4s cutscenes looked better in 2012. And they’re the same amount of CGI as anything in this scene. It’s a joke
I’d like to add, this series had a budget of $200 MILLION
Yeah I don't know how they managed that. I want to like the scene, but at the same time I hate how awful it looks.
@@tyler_bt3326 what the fuck did they spend the 200 million on
Did they launder it
@@zetasann fuck knows mate
The fight choreographers of this show were really doing something entirely different from the writers.
Lol sad isn't it. Motion to have the Choreography team write season 2 if we are forced to get a season 2.
@@wadeash2937 seconded
Definitely feels out of place
They actually played the games
@@420lildonn this is probably true lmao
It started good, then he decided to suddenly fight like starlord
So this is what Master Chief should look like.
correction: looks like.
Pretty much yeah. He’s ain’t too complicated.
a bot control him? lol
It still isn't accurate to the lore either. In the books he could barely take on one berserker Brute who was choking him out and almost killed him. The only reason it didn't is because it finally succumbed to it's wounds. It took 2 full mags from an assault rifle to hurt it.
@@robbielarios9835 In a comic showing what happened whilst chief was on the ark with the prophet he takes on just about every singular brute on the ark there, so it is accurate.
I thought the same, the only issue with that, is that even in that episode we didn't see a real MC, 'cause at the end, he gives up and let Cortana literally take control of himself, the real MC wouldn't give up and still save his team and the artifacts.
yeah but remember he couldn't touch the artifacts, that's why he had cortana take over.
plot line babyyyyy
Wouldn't be surprised if next season she "restores control" and his voice is different and his helmet stays on
@@Barryschitpeas42069 lol
Any "Halo" TV show or movie, which is made to also appeal to mainstream audiences who don't play "Halo", would have Chief's helmet off a lot of the time.
Pablo Schreiber is a good actor. Chief's helmet will stay off. That's the reality of making a TV show/movie out of a 1st person shooter game.
@breaking the 4th wall like bro literally from the first time when Cortana shows up, Halsey told her that she would take control of the MC progressively, TAKE CONTROL of him, not unlocking some killer shit. That's why she told the MC when he gives up, that she wasn't sure if she can bring him back. so no, he is still not the Master Chief, it's just Cortana in command, you can see that even
the info in his helmet changes as Cortana was taking control of him
Yeah all he had to do was just hold out for 2mins, he died for nothing.
I find it painful that the only actual time we see Chief be lore accurate are in action sequences which even then have continuity issues.
I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. $10million per episode was not put into this show. Clearly someone’s been filling their bank accounts on the sidelines or something like that.
Looks like they spent quite a lot on this last episode which is why we got so much filler in the middle of the season.
I have had the same thought
I don't believe 10 million goes exactly for each episode, some could have double that. This kind of shows and movies with lots of cgi, costumes and all that are really expensive, then you take into account all the extra expenses for executives, manager and all that useless stuff and 90 million for 9 hours of episodes isn't a unreasonable number. A 2 hour movie with cgi on the level of the show can go up to 50 million alone, so you do the math
@@Bojoschannel But they couldn’t get good writers now could they
Then they should have made just 3 or 4 episodes with total runtime of 5 hrs per season. Kept it Lore accurate and no fillers no need for character development no mindless changes, no alternate timeline. Just 3 or 4 episodes of high adrenaline high stakes Humanity Vs Covenant War.
It looks very good for a fan project.
...wait.
If you look closely at Chief’s HUD when he was holding and firing the AR, you can see the bullets started dropping slowly and just stopped counting the last few. The fight choreography is great, don’t get me wrong
Nvm. Thought I saw the ammo counter on the rifle glitch. But yeah... He has four rounds, and then can suddenly fire like 8-10 more.
Also, the mini-map rotates, but nothing else on it moves lol
You kind of have to use tricks like that. Considering the suits are improperly designed, as they lack proper ammo storage. If they went realistic the suit's silhouette is going be altered by all the gear on it. Defeating the viewers ability to recognize it as Master Chief.
@@KSmithwick1989
Can't they use this??
ruclips.net/video/rdTKUaWMYvo/видео.html
@@KSmithwick1989 at the same time... The suit is supposed to be a something of a mini tank platform. Having ammo outside would interfere with systems and give the enemy an easy target (either the ammo itself or the mechanism that retrieves the ammo) on a tank. So... It'd make sense if there were some sort of pockets in the suit to place ammo into.
I think I remember a cutscene or something where there's pockets in the legs. Might be thinking of the movie Edge of Tomorrow though... I know they had something like that with their exosuits.
All this to see... There are legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want ammo outside the suit. But... There's not really the room for it.
Throwing the gravity hammer to block the other Brute’s gravity hammer from hitting the marine is absolutely insane.
Was that not a spartan?
@@puddimcdunns3958 it was kai, the OP made a huge typo
@@vitobratta_WL No it wasn't dumbass, the marine was a spartan but he was talking about the person Chief was protecting
They show it like Master chief could barrelly lift it while in the game we sprint jump and attack fast with them.
No one involved with this show read the books, watched any content, or played any of the games. They have said so several times
this is the chief we want, however the cgi is so of putting in some of his movements, especially his running. However, that hammer throw was badass
Yeah, bad cgi for sure…
I prefer that running over his robocop walk
I kind of like the weird movements. In Warhammer 40K, Space Marines running supposedly looks weird because nature doesn't normally let something that large run 40+ mph.
They have some really good assets to work with, but I cant help but think that this scene was rushed out the door. The animation is just so weightless and the camera has no physical presence.
@@existentialselkath1264 yeah that’s what makes it feel so weird to watch, there’s absolutely no weight or punch to a lot of chiefs movement, he’s so floaty when he moves.
These fight scenes are fucking amazing. The choreography is almost on par with Monty Oum's work on Red Vs Blue
I was shocked to learn this was in the official Halo show. For $10 mil per episode they really know how to make it look like a RUclips fan animation someone made in their spare time.
EDIT: I was wrong, the budget for this entire show was $200 MILLION. That makes this absolutely unacceptable.
EDIT 2: I've had a few people try to tell me "No the CGI looks good for a $10 mil budget." No it doesn't. Game of Thrones had a similar budget of $10 mil an episode and that show's CGI was extraordinarily good. Not to mention this show had an overall budget of $200 mil, meaning they very well could afford good CGI. The CGI is bad, much like the show itself. I really do not understand why people are trying to defend it.
Thats what I thought it was...
wait..... so this isn't fan animated?! Pretty goddamn bad.
It also doesn't look like the same CGI in the first few episodes...?
@@marcusaurelis I don't watch the Halo show but bruh, that's gotta be one of the coolest looking fights we've gotten that wasn't RvB or Lone Wolf. C'mon man 🙄.
This action scene looks like it fits exactly with that budget. The scene looks awesome.. Plenty of wide angles, long takes of choreography and plenty of dynamic camera angles changes. The filmmaking is great in this scene, doesn’t even look like a fan animation.
@@petierodriguez101 The CGI is shit for a $10 mil scene and they don't even pay attention to the ammo counter they include in the scene. Just because it has flashy camera angles or whatever does not make it a good scene when it doesn't even look real to begin with. Half the animated moves look more like stop motion than actual fluid combat and the lighting is so weird all the on screen characters appears almost like plastic or rubber rather than organic mass and metal. Hell sometimes it flat out looks like they booted up the game itself from 2013.
Like seriously Red Vs Blue by rooster teeth had better animation to some of it's fight scenes.
When they announced that Halo would be getting a tv show this is what everyone was expecting. Instead we got about 12 minutes total of stuff like this out of 9 episodes of a poor man’s space game of thrones.
Without any of the good writing that makes GoT good lmao
@@graphite7898 beside the last 2 season
MISTER CHEEKS, DID YOU PUT A BABY IN THAT TRAITOR?
Okay but this is a horrible fight scene. Did we watch the same video?
@@sandman4663 it at least somewhat resembles what people think of when they think halo.
Gotta give them props for making it look artistically like Halo. Even the environment has this dreamy scifi halo feel. Too bad everything else sucks. I'm done with Halo because it hurts me how everything is just 'meh'
I'm pretty sure that was actually the map from halo 3 in this vid, so that's pretty cool lol
@@KalebThomasisdead If it wasn't it was probably at least deliberately styled to look pretty much exactly the same.
The only thing that’s keeping me into halo is Infinite (I know: Infinite doesn’t have a lot of content, but the art style and the core gameplay are just like older halo games if not better, and the story while not the best is still reasonably good, so Infinite is the only thing keeping me in the halo community)
@@mrsoisauce9017 Can someone explain what's so bad about infinite? Everyone's talking about how trash season 2 is but i grew up with NO season rewards lmao. Old halo games didnt even have dlc! And if a game did have dlc (for example cod) you had to pay 15 bucks for 2 new maps and a calling card. Maybe infinite isn't bad, maybe the community has gotten greedy lol
@@mrsoisauce9017 mp is okay. I've always loved the campaigns/story as a kid and this one had fun gameplay but left a bitter taste in my mouth when it came to environments and story. Its far from the epic story it could have been and is unfinished for sure
The worst part is when you remember that Chief is like this only because Cortana is controlling his body. At least, that's what I remember.
She helps predict incoming attacks and definitely augments certain movements, but it's still 90% chief doing the shit.
@@McCowskino that's not what's happening here.
Cortana is completely controlling MC here. That's why he stops talking.
@@whothou I read some more comments and figured out whatever the hell the show runners did to butcher the lore and the game.
@@whothouno she wasn’t, it wasn’t until you see the dual wield pistol that she had control.the beginning was all Chief.
@@McCowskiThe first thing you said is what it would have been if the show's writers actually followed the lore and games at all lol
Still feels "cartoony" compared to the fighting and action of the Bungie Halo Landfall
It is cartoony,
Nothing of this garbage series even comes close to halo landfall.
Feels like im watching a mountain dew ad. Was half expecting for chief to turn to the camera and talk about how you can win an xbox one if you buy a pack of doritos.
@@DynamicDurge I honestly thought that this was a fan animation until I saw the description and other comments.
Landfall was about Marines and ODSTs though. Ya’ll are getting weird with wanting something edgy. Halo was never edgy, it was always based on Aliens.
@@hurrhurrmurr same
I love how you can see his ammo count going down consistently until he gets to 4 shots left and then he just has infinite ammo
Probably just lag
Infinite ammo skull
Feature not a bug
He just a marine in Chief armor
Recycling bulteed nsgic biketeds invterdd
This is all the show needs to be, Master Chief being a badass without showing his face.
Fuck yea... Everytime he took it off.. i was like. "There goes my game hero... " Fucking dumb. Such a let down bro... I BEAT THEIR GAMES ON LEGENDARY trying to see his face. So he can show case it like I didn't wait years for a glimpse... But not continuous af! Ruined too much emotions and they didn't stick to the Halo Games and books !
And committing treason
Chief doesn't even need to show his face to express his emotions. It might be easier that way, but we already have video games of him showing his emotions in his own stoic way.
In one of the official HALO books there's a lot of episodes where Chief wasn't wearing helmet and even armor. Everywhere else - "The armor is part of my body".
i love how they did the first person cam during these fights... kinda wish they continued to do them in season 2.
The animation was apparent, the choreography was stiff, things didn't look like they weighed the right amount, and chief fired extra bullets after his magazine reader should have read empty, but it was still awesome to see him actually behaving like the "hyper-lethal" soldier he is supposed to be.
Oh I thought this was a well done fan animation this actually came from the show...
Yup so much to critisize but it is always cool to se action scenes with at least okay presentation of spartan abilities.
I’d give you a like but you’ve already have 117
@@keagasourus9883 thought so too
Showing him being a super soldier is good, but honestly all this rolling-flipping fancy melee choreography just looks ridiculous and cartoony to me. What exactly is "lore accurate" about simply catching a gravity hammer blow? Even if chief was strong enough for that, the rifle used to stop it here would snap like a twig.
Compare what we see here, with the depiction of a super soldier portrayed in the "Astartes" 40k fan film (not to mention the shameful quality disparity). When I imagine Chief being shown at his best, I don't imagine silly Naruto fight scenes pulling highly implausible dancey combat moves. I imagine a ruthlessly fast, methodical and precise soldier. One who's facing entirely lethal foes, but is in control and expertly guiding the situation, not just getting stuck in a suicidal moshpit and relying on the god of conveniently scripted choreography to save him.
it’s a cool scene that we’ve been wanting more spread across episodes, but there’s a lot of jarring errors still (discounting it being not close to lore or the games). i think the live action fights in halo 3/reach/infinites trailers are more convincing in the tactics and decisions chief makes in combat.
He's basically fighting stationary. When did Chief ever stop moving to fight?
So that brute at the beginning tries to axe him with his spiker- and Chief blocks the attack with his AR, and staggers the brute? This is AtLA movie and Power Rangers level fight choreography.
yea it doesn't make much sense to blow their budget load on these bombastic action scenes. Would much rather have more muted gun play with a sprinkle of the bombastic moments
To be fair in the books and comics Chief and his team are like insanely good and pull crazy stuff off.
@@bendynamic2150 But also in the books a single brute could take down master chief. There's actual realism there, where here it's just Hollywood bullshit
Anyone else notice the bullet count continuing to go down and reset back to 8 or 4. Then one burst leaves the number count at 4 for 2 or 3 rounds and he never reloads
Ammo count on HUD just stuck at 28, btw.
@@nicholasfly5914 think that's ammo not in the gun the bullet count to the left does go down but still incorrectly
It was infuriating me, so good to know you noticed too
They’ll patch that glitch in the next season
its the story lore luck
S2 action scenes will give you headaches
I like how the ammo counter goes from 04 to 10 in one of the frames to justify him shooting it 8 more times without reloading.
Also... Is this the combat evolved AR? Cause that was a lot of rounds.
He’s just really fast bro
assuming this was even before the events of FoR then yeah this looks like the CE AR LMAO
He just swapped weapons and had 10 left in the other mag
Don't doubt the Chiefs active reload speed!
Looks like an HD rendering of a PS2/3 cutscene.
Edit: I'm not usually one for noticing graphics and things like that, but the uninspiring greenscreen, the jarring flat color palette and background, and the unrealistic smoothness of the character motions and lack of cosmetic detailing... a community college summer course would have done a better presentation.
Bro they do not have the money to try this
Seriously I have seen old fan made animations on RUclips back in like 2009 that are better than this
Try making a cgi show with the budget, seriously. 200+ mil goes way farther in a 1hour 30minute movie than a show that last 9+ hours. Seriously. Criticize the freaking writing, not the CGI
@@davidhowell1415 link me some, I want to see if the brutes and grunts look that good
@@zoomunzoom5893 budget is no excuse if people can render better stuff for RUclips videos
Master Chief: *Gets his back slapped with a damn gravity hammer*
The fandom: WAIT WHAT?!
Chief: *Stands back up*
The fandom: *WAIT, WHAT?!!*
To be fair canonically the actual gravity part of the gravity hammer has to be activated before use, and you can otherwise just use the thing as a normal hammer - and it makes sense to want to use it as a normal hammer here, considering there's half a dozen of them right next to each other.
It looks like he got hit with the melee end of a spiker not the hammer.
at 0:03 secs was the only point where the gravity part of the hammer was used. When Master chief got hit with the hammer it was with the back end of the hammer as a backswing after missing with the gravity end of the hammer at 0:19 secs. But after that it doesnt make since or follow the logic of what was happening so far since the gravity hammer still goes off even tho the gravity end land on the Brute at 0:22 secs. So gonna have to go with because PLOT!
@@sparkrock9134 he didn’t get hit in the back by a hammer it looks like a mauler
If you mean 0:19, it was actually just him dodging. Hammer didn't hit at all.
BTW at 0:14, the ammo counter stopped before the count moved. COME ON!
What i kinda found annoying about this was that the elites were doubled down to these "slow lumbering monsters" then the actual sleek and cunning beings but the brutes are depicted as the more badass enemies that were more swift and for some reason could do more then those elites in the first episode(Granted those brutes were more experienced but still) But i guess thats my opinion.
Fuck the show. The writers made it a point of pride that they don't care about the games, and it shows.
I wanna like this...but crap! It has 117 likes
Man this new halo cinematic looks amazing, cant wait to see the graphics get finished.
Atleast we get a badass scene of chief destroying brutes and other aliens in the TV series.
That little rifle whip followed by gun shots at 00:07. Someone watched haloid.
I watched this show with my father, who’s not a fan of video games and knew very little about Halo. About midway through the series, I showed him the cutscene where chief meets the gravemind, showing how calm and calculated Chief is. Even he agreed that it was a much better characterization than Cheeks. Thing is, while a laconic Clint Eastwood sort of character would be run of the mill twenty years ago, it’s pretty rare to see nowadays. Cheeks is a paltry replacement for the green man.
The cheif had sex I can't put this plainer
"Cheeks" lmfao
Needs personality for TV
@@gamingonwheels2502 Chief has personality in the games wym???
@@gamingonwheels2502 nope
Imagine if these action sequences had a good story to go with them...
It's enough to make me forget them showing Master Chief's cheeks
If the price for this moment is to endure character assassination, it's not worth it
Master Cheeks
Yeah I'm 3.. well I'll be 3 in June actually
@@scarletpsychowolf3578 you assassinated your own character when you let master chief get bitches before you.
@@willferrellssweetnips wow creed! Lookin fresh!
Lore accurate brutes too. They pretty much just yank everything even without shields
Love how at 0:23 he slings the hammer to save his buddy instead of directly at the brute
I legitimately didn't think this was from the show because of how good it was.. which is really not a great thing to say, but it is a sign that this thing could go in a more entertaining direction with Season 2. I would actually sit down to watch this show in its entirety if they focused mainly on the action and fighting, with over arcing stories simply being the conflicts and actions that take place during them. I think Halo got popular not because of the story itself being very dramatic or intricate, but because the actions the character take within it feel so larger-than-life. Chief literally piloted a NUKE. He's the most iconic badass in gaming imo and its all the crazy stuff he does during fights that keeps him so interesting.
doom guy is more badass, chief became a bitch in 4 & 5
Imagine if the whole show was like this. Some people just believe halo fans are being negative for the sake of it but I saw plenty of moments where halo fans like things for example the armor and weapon props, action scenes, soren, and Cortana the problem is mostly the writing decisions.
@@Muizemullard414 You cant make a whole show like this. Eventually it would get boring pretty quickly. They havent developed any of the characters in any meaningful way. If they had we might feel something when characters lives are in danger. Instead I watched it like I was watching a game which is fun, but it isnt very deep.
E9 was a tremendous sigh of relief. All of it. Every portion. The best part was not having a second of Madrigal in it 😂, even though I'm sure that will come full circle in S2. Lots of twists and turns that I fully cringed at along with many moments that were just, bad. With that said, they turned it around for the better. When taken at face value as a space drama, it's not horrible, but it NEEDS to focus more on the relationship between Chief and Cortana. That relationship is key to solidifying this silver screen adaptation and it appears to be in the beginning stages of something actually good.
@@TwiceTheBitsGames hell there are games with more depth. This was just a bunch of tropes stuffed into a show and given a halo skin mod. I liked the casting though.
It never ceases to amaze me that professional screenwriters nowadays can manage to fuck up such simple concepts. All ya needed to do was give my a badass faceless soldier who barely speaks unless it’s to his AI waifu, maybe a couple extra Spartans in the squad that flesh out the character needed in the show, or give chief his own platoon of marines under his command, give me some alien politikin, a couple epic fights, a quick “sir, finishing this fight” and be done with it.
when the show finaly shuts the fuck up and decides to be badass halo action its genuanly some of the best halo content ever
So when the Covenant shot at all the high kids in Kwans friend group, in the first episode, they exploded. (which is accurate because the plasma would vaporize any liquid in the body causeing it to erupt violently, we read this in the books aswell.)
But when chief shoot at the grunts (whom we know to be cannon fodder and have ridiculously weak armor from a Covenant stand point) they just collapse were they die. No recoil in the direction of momentum, no blue guey explosion just *boop*
on the floor,
next enemy.
Not to mention that there's a very high chance their methane tanks would ignite and explode.
A grunt is not just fodder. Grunts are about 260 and are naturally stronger than humans. Their body is denser than a human kids so it's more likely that a kids body would vaporize but a grunts wouldn't. Maybe some insight, I may be wrong but it's a thought.
I mean, it's game accurate.
@@thepotato9317 Agreed. Grunts have very tough outer skins that IIRC scan survive exposure to the vacuum of space (with a helmet).
@@thepotato9317 In the overall Covenany hierchy, they're fodder.
This was so lore accurate I thought it was an ambitious fan project.
I mean.. it is
But the only ones who appear to like it's source material are the action choreographers
What? You mean you can't block a gravity hammer with your shields? *SPLAT*!!! lol.
@Benjuicyy it's not. At all. Even close.
In lore, the *average* Jiralhanae is much, much stronger than a Spartan. And certainly won't be effected by a puny AR as shown here. Not to mention, 2 hits to the head from a grav hammer? He's dead. Cal died after 1 hit from a badly wounded chieftan.
@@mitchell1091 But it's chief, he would've punched through all 3 of them in 1 hit causing them to explode
@vitobratta_WL wrong again.
Love the background fight Chief's pressing his way toward, to save a fellow Spartan--that act definitely captures the spirit of the Master Chief!
Ues he dise Hina alws sleepers a d spartan like master chef
the ONLY moment that felt like halo.
What bothers me is how long it took that brute at 0:04 to take another swing at the chief. It was like he was just waiting for the chief to be ready to block it.
👍I second that, though it can explained by a combo of: *1)* He actively raised his left arm to block the AR-rounds, shakes it off/recomposes, *_and then_* starts grabbing the G-hammer with *both* -hands- *Paws.*
*2)* Arrogance. These "Demons" smack down into their world-turf, with one getting bodied, and the "UNSC's best weapon" is surrounded by his other Brute brothers.
_Not _*_too_* out of the question that they would be €o€ky and savor [Mastur-Cheef]'s the beatdown, _BUUUT I would've added_ that Brute Laughing blocking the gunshots - _a subtle yet distinct add-in_ that could get that message across more clearly. 🤷♂️😅
Speaking of laughter, *am I the only one who misses the [H-CE Elites] laughing after taking out Chief?* 😆
I want _(More of)_ such personalities back in the games, Especially for Banished-enemies and/or non-faction Alien Pirates/Mercs. lol
I am convinced, everyone involved with this show... besides the show-runners... loves the content as Halo. The Sets, the action pieces, all superb. Everything else reeks of "Eh! How can they empathize if they don't see the face?! Put a sex scene in here! We can just say that it isn't canon, we're fine."
The notion that you NEED to see a face needs to be put to death honestly
Wrbg sex is oaret if doart rry a cruetts
Fun fact: this scene is not actually accurate to MC in the books. In the book "First Strike", the Chief has his first run-in with brutes aboard the supply ship "Unyielding Hierophant", who are wielding brute shots. There's a long fight/grappling section where it's said specifically that the Chief *cannot* overcome the raw physical strength of the Jiralhanae. The only way he can break out of the grapple is by application of his training in wrestling, and relying on his dexterity and core strength to spring himself from the grapple
NERD!
...I was coming to say the same thing, but I realized the title was sarcastic
I think I remember this part
I know the passage in the book you're talking about and what you're saying is essentially who would win in an arm wrestling match in terms of raw strength.
What does that have to do with this scene where MC is using his agility here, to borrow a phrase: "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".
@@SeanUCF he literally blocks a full-force strike from a Grav Hammer with his forearms. I feel like that has correlation to the raw strength of the brute vs the raw strength of the chief
they are not doing a grapple in this scene and eh is not overpowering them by brute force, if much he uses their own strenght against them
Halo played on Baby difficulty.
*MC curled his fingers: One does not simply kill a Brute.
I think if they pay attention to feedback and act accordingly the show can turn around because the action and design are outstanding. The show has potential so it would be a shame not to go further with it.
They changed writers not hoping too much improvement but God hope next season is nothing like this shit
I don’t understand this take. The action sequences cannot make up for the insanely inaccurate rendition of Chief being portrayed during the non-helmet drama and dialogue sequences. There’s absolutely no way to reform it at this point.
@@ryanmadej6694 стоп они поменяли сценаристов этого шоу?
I agree, but It's hard to fix what they broke. THANK. GOD. MAKEE. DED....
It's to late to turn this around, the ship has already struck the iceberg and is taking on water fast
who could've guessed in this universe, the plasma pistol would be stronger in a fight than an energy sword.
Well I mean that is accurate to lore, plasma pistol is S tier
@@philipfahy9658 isn't every covenant weapon?
@@gcwishbone yeah if you get hit with any plasma weapon then your blood will explode.
They just should have had Blur make a 3D animated halo show. All the best parts are heavily CGI anyways.
Budget would have to be through the roof
I was thinking the exact same thing……
@@gravy7944 Uhh, not if it was all CGI. Cut out all the expensive live action stuff. Hell, they could have reused models from the Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes if they really wanted to save a few dollars.
@@gravy7944 It's estimated that a high quality 3d animated show costs $100,000 a minute. Say each episode is 60 minutes long that's $6million an episode. The halo tv show costs $10million an episode. So it would save a lot of money doing it animated and probably be a better show for it.
For comparison, each episode of Clone Wars was said to cost $1million an episode allegedly.
@@SourRobo8364 The issue with that, is the $9M an episode figure is basically fake. The $90M budget was not solely a production budget, it was also used for marketing, licensing, and legal/administrative purposes. Not to mention the retainers they paid, when production was suspended in 2020, due to the pandemic.
Shoots 4-5 rounds.
Ammo counter goes from 4 to 3.
Amazing.
As much as I like this action scene the forward unto dawn chief fighting still felt more impressive for some reason
Agreed!!
yes, forward unto dawn chief was great.
Yeah but I like the one in the halo series tho
Agreed it really felt like chief like this legend just walked in but in this show it felt like some random spartan i dont know walked in pretending to be chief
0:12 i just love the ammo counter here.
I would think the "lore accurate" version of Master Chief taking a gravity hammer shot directly to the head would be Chief's death.
Mmmmm no. Because that's exactly what happened at the beginning of Infinite. Atriox bopped him on the head with his gravity hammer and he survived
@@GoofysBandit 343 lore isn’t exactly spot on either
to be fair, it looked like a backswing to wind up another proper 'gravity' swing
My headcanon is that you gotta use it a certain way to create the 'gravity' effect. Also, he never gets hit with the blunt side of it, only the blade. Which to be fair, should absolutely split his head from his shoulders. A nearly half tonne hammer swung by an 8 foot gorilla would do that to you
@@GoofysBandit it was stupid there too.
Cortana: Jhon come home
Jhon: I'm on a mission
Cortana: I'm home alone and rampant.
Man, in all honesty, i was fine with them making up their own story. I really wanted to like it. I mean, i've read most of the books and played every game in the franchise. Something new and different? Fine. Could be fun to see a different take on the story. But come on, i expected better or at least similar than what we already have established in terms of quality (story telling and action). I never get why big companies take something that already has a great foundation only to make their own thing up and wind up making it worse. That's my opinion though. For people that enjoyed it, well awesome. I just feel like this won't get many more seasons or even a full fledged movie like i've always hoped for. Plus, what happened to the cgi here? Budget took a nose dive?
Compare this to the CGI in the Star Wars prequels. They look more refined than this.
im confused because (i have not read the books) a friend of mine was saying how much he likes it and said the reason ppl are complaining about it is because they haven’t read the books or explored the lore. I really couldn’t argue because i have not really had a chance to read them to form a solid argument
Weird because its not Lore accurate at all.. the covenant working with humans?? Spartans not knowing they where kidnapped??? Lots of inconsistencies that the show should’ve kept In order for the story to make sense. The TV show doesn’t even make sense on its own story
@@BuddhaMata your friend has it backwards lol
Its because the people running the show and writing it don't want Halo. They want to do their own thing, so they do. The Halo name and aesthetic is just the way they finance it.
I love that Chief saves the marine's life only to literally kick him 20 feet away
Bruised ribs or death. That was the choice he made
That’s lore accurate Chief for u
That's not a marine...
@@Dellser i mean it might as well be one LOL
@@SirDieselz1 mabye but still what happens in spartanville stays in spartanville
This is what the "broader" audience shouldve been getting this whole time to get an understanding of who Master Chief really is.
a badass space marine.
but not as badass as doomslayer.
@@seasonalgithicmoth space marines are nothing compared to chief tho
The brute fighting thing was actually very clean with the bits of first pov
I like that it took Jimmy Rings being killed and Cortana taking control of his body for him to actually act like the Master Chief
It said 06 on the ammo counter all the way through
Good pick up :)
It actually counted down but reset every time the gun came back on screen
What're you talking about? It goes from 15 at 0:10, then 8 at 0:13 to 2 at 0:15 for both gun and HUD? Of course, it seems not exactly in sync with actual fire, and then some more fire after that which doesn't update the HUD, so I won't say they got it perfect or anything, but unless I missed something that bit at least seems reasonable?
For a full 47 seconds he was what we all wanted. The shame is they decided to carry on for another 30 hours…
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chief killing brutes man halo 3 and 2 vibes I'm getting man
This one scene is easily better than 90% of what we got.
We went a whole season without them ever stopping to explain to their new "broad audience" how shields work. Arguably the most important mechanic of the franchise for action scenes. And it's probably for the best, cause it's so damn inconsistent in the show. That's my biggest problem with all of the big action scenes. Only sometimes there is a shield flare vfx, only sometimes there is sound effect, only sometimes the Elites have shields, Characters can lose shields and then continue to take massive damage for ages, etc.
And I know it's a bunch of silly nit-picks, but why is the plasma pistol so good in this? Why doesn't Cortana call in the condor sooner. Why do the Spartans insist on standing out in the open and getting shot? The Prophets don't have laser chairs in this timeline? Why no covenant ships in orbit? Okay, they weren't expecting humans to show up. But then why are there hundreds of battle ready Elites hiding in the mountain? And where did the brutes drop in from if not from a ship? I could go on.
Hard for me to take seriously. No faith in Season 2.
im surprised you had faith in season one haha 😅
Ikr, had pretty much the same thoughts while watching the show ! Want to remain hopeful though
Depends on how they are using the armor type. In the books they didn’t have recharged shields until the battle of reach and up to then they had a different system to diffuse the plasma blast
@Gorgoth well friend, that's just because the shields are of the Mjolnir Plot Armor variant 😂 Seriously tho, this fight being kinda cool and all, think I'd much prefer scenes of the Spartan squads fighting like modern day spec ops (just with crazy reflexes) or some super coordinated/elite fighting force (sort of like how Halo Wars 2 portrayed Red team), rather than these brawleresque fights which don't really ring "Halo" that much to me
@@austinperry1671 In the very first episode we see his shields recharge.
Awesome. I can tell you worked very hard in the beginning sequence
After everything is said and done I can finally say "yeah, the whole Kwan thing was the most pointless side plot."
For those wondering, the ost in this video is called Genesong and it’s from the halo 2 anniversary official soundtrack. If you just want the part of the song that is in the video, it begins at 2:14 of the soundtrack
Thank you! You're a lifesaver
@@vinegar3617 👍
This just makes me sad, because it just shows that this show COULD have been amazing if they just portrayed Chief correctly.
I don't understand why they had to butcher the series so hard.
There are plenty of stories from the extended Canon universe that they could have used for a premise for the show.
The director stated clearly that the TV show was not going to be like the video game.
If they expanded on almost ANY of the stories from Legends it would've been pretty good. Or just made another anthology series based entirely around the way Legends was. I would've like having more than just Chief again. Or an ODST series.
@@stargate4847 "Not being like the video game" is not the same as "spitting in the face of the franchise and characters that millions of people love and grew up with."
@@lunardeathblade2570 As somebody who's spent years and years working in large marketing agencies, I can tell you that the people in charge of this show almost certainly are "marketing" types who are looking to do anything they can to "shake it up". They severely misunderstood what it meant to show chief's face. It was a huge mistake and immediately delegitimized the show in my eyes, which sucks because I absolutely love this franchise.
Too bad career ego moves had to ruin this show because if it weren't for that, I would have been on board all the way.
Needs more Locke ball destruction
0:40 the lighting pass render crashed! XD
I don’t think MC would survive a gravity hammer to the back of the head though. That would break his shields and his brain.
i think it hit his upper back, but your point still stands
@@SatisfactionedEdits nah, it definitely hit his back of the head. I watched the vid slowed down. and he gets bonked hard. the swing is pretty much at the top of his head.
@@DatAsianGuy i also slowed it down, and i see what your saying. i also noticed that one of the hammers hit him directly in the visor in the beginning of the vid. now he definitely wouldn’t survive that
He also wouldn't fight like some marvel superhero.
Um.. isn't this after he's fucked and Cortana takes over his body and suit? So yeah, grav hammer hitting him means nothing.
I like how 1 brute minor almost killed chief in the books and now he’s taking on like 4 of them at once lol
That's what I'm saying. I was hoping to see Chief get his ass kicked by Brutes, since they were such a hassle to deal with in the novels. But hey, this is badass as fuck
@@WAcrobat19 right! This scene is still really badass!
Do note that was an extremely exhausted chief that hadn’t slept in days wearing failing Mark V who got ambushed by the brute. In the majority of encounters Spartans dominate brutes even in melee
Chief doesn't have experience with Brute yet since he was injured and not focused on his target. So, let's assume this is after, I guess?
@@tylerellis9097 ah, I didn’t know about those details. Nice to know!
I like how chief is constantly getting headshotted by these brutes and his helmet hasn’t cracked or broke off. Then you have Spartan Locke doing a backslap to the face and thats affective enough to make it crack.