You forgot the best part. A Microsoft spokesperson is the reason they got the name “Noble 14.” They said “A small band of committed few are engaged in a battle of insurmountable odds. It’s not Noble team from Halo: Reach, it’s the final, passionate few who are still playing Halo 2. We wish them the best in their battle against time.”
@@twelvevfxofficial microsoft handled the situation much more gracefully than a corp normally would. Instead of booting the stragglers, they let them keep playing as long as they could and only booted the last guy when he had nobody left to play with.
This was a go touch grass moment long before it was a meme. Also, there is no way to verify this is real. This could be an AI generated story for all you and I know...
@@croaleu8820while I agree with you that that's probably not where they got the idea for Noble team 6, it is worth mentioning that Halo reach came out four months after Noble 14 got booted from the server
I think the name of Noble Team was inspired by this incident. It’s also interesting that there are thirteen dead Spartans in the final level of Halo: Reach (Lone Wolf). In a meta sense, those who played Halo: Reach are basically reliving the experience of Apache N4/SIR as the “lone wolf” while the servers began shutting down. YMMV, but hey. :)
Some interesting head canon, but with halo: reach being released just over 5 months after the shutdown of halo 2 servers, there's likely little to no chance a whole level was designed as a memento to the noble 14. There might be some easter eggs in reach referencing the 14, but I never played past halo 3 to be honest. After 3 I said "no chief no thanks", then halo 4 came around and I said "no bungie no thanks", I was gaming much during those years either.
@@4ja2vi0”no chief no thanks” is crazy Reach might have one of the best war story ever told through gaming and to miss that ride of a game is sad it also makes Master Chief’s story hit that much harder being in the shoes of a spartan who gave everything so Master Chief could one day save everyone.
I ain't even play Halo 2, but I know the feeling of having a part of my childhood passing away, it's it a vibe, very strong feelings. @@stevenrostek2788
Genuinely sounds like an actual story out of the Halo universe. Fourteen Spartans left abandoned or unable to get help out somewhere in space, each fighting for their lives for over a month until the final one is left alone. Something about a Spartan almost making it a full Earth day all alone but failing without his comrades seems poetic and bittersweet.
@@ceboz SPOILERS!!!!! At the end of Halo 3, there was a discussion with (IIRC) Lord Hood and the Arbiter. Lord Hood laments that the Chief is dead, the Arbiter responds with “Were it so easy.” It’s an homage to the “Spartans never die” mentality in the UNSC, where Spartans were never listed as KIA and instead are always listed as MIA. There’s also the double meaning of their first encounter on Installation 04, the Arbiter was in charge of the Covenant forces when the Pillar of Autumn crashed landed. The line hits so hard when you know the whole lore behind it. Iconic.
"It didn't take long for Halo 2 to fall: our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough. For you had already logged into the game. And because of you, we kept Halo 2 alive, unlocked more memories, shook our enemy's resolve. Our victory - your victory - was so close, I wish you could have stayed logged in to see it. But you belong to the Halo community. Your gamertag, your console - all quiet and turned to silence. Everything... except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can play Halo: MCC."
One of the best quotes from infinite. Chief shows respect for his fellow Spartans because even though they're spartan ivs, he doesn't share halseys elitist mindset that the ivs are inferior to the iis, he just sees a fellow soldier
@@Privatepain1234I remember getting the guass warthog all the way up the stairs in that tiny building to the part where we board the scarab and destroy it on Metropolis
@Privatepain1234 I brought a banshee into the last spot of halo2 story and used it for the boss fight was pretty interesting it stayed even after the cut scene just before the fight
@@matthewtedeschi5646that’s a classic one. That or the Johnson trick with the spectre. Or luring the banshee all the way through the tunnel to get the scarab gun
The first noble team suffered the same fate as the next noble team. Taken out one by one till one made their final stand even though it was all in vain. True heroes.
Classic halo community... I miss those days, the halo community created so many tropes like teabagging, MLG... And so many of my early memories are of these games, ce to reach is canon in my mind everything made by 343 is just shitty fanfic
These guys deserve a cameo in a Halo game. Not a little thing that you can miss, but as side characters who play a major role in the game. We salute you, Noble 14. Edit: if 343 Industries ever decides to do this, they’d have to track down the real Noble 14 and get those men to voice themselves
@@crustaceanking3293other way around is probably how they got the name but, would have been cool if there was some reference in reach to the other legendary Nobel team
Halo 2 is where I found my true passion of driving the hog. Till this day, I’m still sliding that ass end around in Infinite. I be driving it like it has slicks on. Forever in love with halo because of the hog.
Can’t forget the 2nd to last guy saying to Apache “Good job Apache, you’re the last one” must’ve been one helluva thing to hear before being left to wander maps you’ve made so many memories with
“This war… It was brought on by a power that none of us could have imagined. Whatever it was, it made the Covenant stand by our side. Enemy of my enemy, ya know? Thousands of us stood shoulder and shoulder, fighting something greater than us. The thousands became hundreds, and hundreds became… us. 14 warriors who refused to back down. One of the guys even tried to lighten the mood, “The Noble 14!” We had a good laugh. Funny how it took the end of our universe to bring two polar opposites together. They’re… they’re gone now… I miss them. It’s getting closer as I record this, I can hear it. I’ve got one last fight in me. This is Apache N4SIR, signing off.”
I was there for this :’) I was 16 at the time and wanted to take part in a historic moment; I was among the last 100 players left but had to leave due to school, unfortunately. It was a beautiful moment in time
@@prayushsinha5005 I will say that I am so, so grateful to have been able to take part in the Golden Age of Halo. I don’t think anything in gaming will ever compare to the glory days of Halo 2 and Halo 3. Gaming’s never been the same since I wish you could have enjoyed it with all of us, but I’m just happy that you enjoy Halo! The next generation is what’ll keep it alive. Eyes up, Spartan!
@@_Cato_You RACIST!!! The only reason you liked that era is because you werent yet trained to control your speech and we still gave you uncensored proximity chat. Now you cant say your hatred and jokes like before filth
@@_Cato_ its the duty of people like us who got to experience that past, to pave the way for gamers to have the same enjoyment in the future. I know we are older and have responsibilities of our own, but people like us need to get through to some companies (cough 343 cough) and get them to make something that makes new memories for the next generation of gamers. It may never be the same, but it shouldn't be, it should be better!
Halo 2 was such a big part of my life and my friends' lives. It was so great to log in and see 5 or 10 of my classmates online. "You were killed by Mesothelioma"
@@thatsaysalotabout-man9547 they're called Noble. they started off with 14. half that is 7, Noble Team had 7 members in total. they were slowly whittled to just 1 who even after a long valiant effort was defeated due to an unwinnable situation. doesn't take a genius to connect the dots, hell the A.I in the game is even named D.O.T
@@DigitalDNAit was, Bungie immortalized these guys, they are the 13 fallen Spartans in Objective: Survive on Halo Reach with Noble 6 being no: 14, aka apache, that final objective was an ode to these guys
I remember this bright as day as I was there. I was not apart of the noble 14 but I was apart of the final reaming 50. I stayed as long as I could but ironically because there was a bad thunderstorm that night it killed my power, I quickly switched to a power generator, and used my phone as a hot spot. Needles go say, I tried very quickly to get back on but was unable to. I messaged the other players stating what happened. But also Fun fact, the last player wasn’t booted he was actually made an offer by bungie. He was actually offered a free copy of Halo 3 on release date and a free year of Xbox live because of his outstanding determination. And lastly, on PC you can still play Halo 2 as online with all maps for free, people tend to play here and there it’s very very fun. (Through a third party company)
@@xFAM3xSkollxHalo 3 when they are leaving the base in the second mission. Its the name of one of the "chapters" as i call it. As you progress through the mission you see a chapter name and the part of the second mission where everyone leaves the base but you have to go back and disarm the the bomb by yourself and that's the name of the second mission's chapter. So it's not spoken i suppose but does appear at least
It is crazy how fitting this last stand is given the lore of the games themselves. There definitely needs to be some kind of tribute given to these noble 14!
@@Silentlib what he meant is that a peer to peer connection doesnt have a central server, hence if the game was using this connection model, there would be no way microsoft could just turn off the server. An example of this would be Splatoon. if you have a copy of the first game, you can still hop on and look for a lobby despite nintendo themselves having completely dropped support for online services of that generation of consoles.
I think I was in the top 30 before my internet lagged out. It was such a great experience and all the people that played were awesome. It was a good memory.
I imagine that feeling when you load into a forge map, or I guess any map just by yourself. That sense of isolation, walking through these big museum like maps that are just empty, but amplified by like a thousand knowing you're the last player left on the game. It's got to be unmatched.
I was watching some RUclips shorts on my Roku TV on my Xbox series s and saw a video called The "The legend of Apache N4SIR" where I then came across an ad titled "Season 13: Dig is available now." Where I then came across this video.
Their mission was impossible, but they took it upon themselves none the less. These Spartans will always be remembered as the heroes in our time of need. _😔_
Makes you wonder if the Noble 14 was the inspiration for calling the spartan team in Reach “Noble Team” and the final mission in Reach was a last stand too
Just imagine that from the player character's pov. All alone...wandering an empty world until finally...he sees his friends and enemies on the horizon beckoning him to take that final step.
i am proud to say i was a part of this effort. i am ashamed to say i failed to see the mission through. we had a blackout which disconnected me :( for those who fought on. you are legend.
@@-DeathKnightnaw... that's not correct The odds would be much greater due to the fact that a much smaller number than 8 billion would be recommended or find this video. It would be incredibly unlikely for someone who isn't a fan of Halo to watch this video and care to comment this.
Mad respect to the developers for actually giving people this last rite. even letting the last guy stay for a full day almost before saying "alright.. you gotta go you won/bragging rites/etc" click
Did I hear wrong, but wasn't it almost a month after the planned shutdown? I agree with you though. Nice to allow a stubborn final stand for the Noble14. Very fitting to the Halo lore.
@@rjbourgeois5490 oh they DID disconnect (or boot 🥾) him. And no, he wasn’t hosting his own lobby… he kinda was but on someone else’s server. He was connected for 673 hours 58 minutes past the time they said they were shutting down the servers. Source: I *AM* APACHE N4SIR (yes! That one!) Twitch.tv/apache_n4sir
at least a fan story turning their fight into something more, getting that raw epic feeling that comes from their efforts to keep the game alive and then dramatazied into a fully fledged story could do something with fighting the good fight, turning it into a story of survival, bringing it down to the last 14, and then following the timeline as bit by bit, one by one, something happens until the final member stands along and then, after he spends 20 hours alone, in an empty world, empty map, and empty server darkness game over, servers closed, time, up
@@ZoraEpsilon571 I feel like it should be a 10 episode series or 14 episode series. With episodes 1-3 beings normal episodes introducing characters and grouping up noble 14. Then the remaining episodes go into the server shut down and then the end of the servers all together
A movie/story about a parallel universe where the rings are successfully activated. The Last 14, standing with elites, fighting off the Flood as the rings activate (microsoft closing servers) that would be one hell of a story
@@blackghost9627you mean titanfall that came out years later. War thunder had no lore and halo 2 was the birth place of online competitive fps multi-player. In which brought online play to COD later. Halo lead the country to making multi-player fps games don't compare other games to it.
When the halo 3 servers shut down, i had this same situation, i was part of a single game server along 3 of my friends and some pro players, its really sad.
Bungie: “noble 14 you mind telling me what you’re doing on that console”
Noble 14: “sir continuing this fight”
(Salute)
@@redbarret123o7
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Carry on solider
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You forgot the best part. A Microsoft spokesperson is the reason they got the name “Noble 14.” They said “A small band of committed few are engaged in a battle of insurmountable odds. It’s not Noble team from Halo: Reach, it’s the final, passionate few who are still playing Halo 2. We wish them the best in their battle against time.”
They wished the opposite and shut the servers down 😂
They chose the nuclear option at Microsoft 😂
@@twelvevfxofficial microsoft handled the situation much more gracefully than a corp normally would. Instead of booting the stragglers, they let them keep playing as long as they could and only booted the last guy when he had nobody left to play with.
@@nnelg8139 We back anyways we got Halo MCC. Or could play Destiny. 🤣
to be fair it costs money to keep the servers up and they need a profit to do so.
Imagine the heartbbreak.
"Gentlemen, my console has started to smoke, it has been an honour serving with all of you..."
Underrated comment😂
My Hard Drive took a direct hit It's been an honor boys🫡
"A duty..honorably....discharrrr...ged"
The final mission. Throw your Halo into Kilimanjaro
“Tell them to make it count”
“Your on your own Noble Carter out”
The conversations they had when there were less than 30 of them must've been peak wholesomeness
More like peak shower thoughts
I could swear that I’ve heard some audio one of them recorded, but maybe I’m misremembering
@@jacobstammnah you are correct there is a documentary about it by punny88
@@jacobstammit’s definitely out there. I remember watching goodbye halo 2 montages with clips of conversations from after the servers were “down”
You have a little too much faith in your average Halo player😂
To be the final player ever on a game you love dearly and to know it'll die when you leave has to be a very heartbreaking feeling
This was a go touch grass moment long before it was a meme.
Also, there is no way to verify this is real. This could be an AI generated story for all you and I
know...
@@SmokeymcJoint420😐
@@SmokeymcJoint420bruh google it?
@@SmokeymcJoint420its true
@@alexseisimonetti1382 bro's voices are speaking to him
“The Last Surviving Halo 2 player” is a pretty solid legacy to have
It’s a nice tidbit to add to a resume:
“Undefeated Guinness World Record Holder”
Source: I *AM* APACHE N4SIR
(yes! That one!)
@@apachen4sir63114 Years ago nearly now, mad respect noble
@@apachen4sir631o7
@@apachen4sir631 🫡🫡
@@apachen4sir631🫡
"apache, you mind telling me what you're, doing on that server?" "sir, finishing this game"
You sounded like my boss at that time.
Source: I *AM* APACHE N4SIR
(yes! That one!)
@@apachen4sir631 NO WAY
@@ryankaufman8788 👋
No, it's finishing the fight,
@@apachen4sir631respect.
The final 1v1 had to go crazy
Ong that shit must've been hard
FR!
“I didn’t hear no bell”
@@Horchata44xD
I imagine it to be kinda clumsy, with both players severely sleep deprived and just stumbling around
Bro was the real life noble 6 who refused to die despite insurmountable odds
Where do you think they got the idea of the noble team 6? 😂
@@kaithomsen2336no way!
@@radicallybeanbro halo reach came out in 2010 😂 dont let that dude troll you 💀
@@croaleu8820while I agree with you that that's probably not where they got the idea for Noble team 6, it is worth mentioning that Halo reach came out four months after Noble 14 got booted from the server
Yeah halo reach came out in September 10th servers were shut down in april older halo games did not take as long to make compared to now@@croaleu8820
“It’s over soldier, give the game a rest”
Noble 14: “You’ll have to pry it from my cold dead hands”
"AND EVEN THEN, I GLUED IT TO MY COLD DRAD HANDS"
@@orionriftclan2727Microsoft: well i guess im gonna have to take those hands, *1 by 1*
@@blazeburner4832and if you take my hands I’ll learn how to play with my feet!😂
@@BlickBear17Microsoft: fine then, I will destroy the controller itself then
@@orionriftclan2727"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"
"You're on your own, Noble."
"Carter out."
*Insert Fortnite downed sound effect as Carter’s ship crashes*
@@Jony_1285💀
@@Jony_1285you fucking jackass get Fortnite out of every Halo Conversation ever
@@kabosui "*Microsoft out."
I think the name of Noble Team was inspired by this incident. It’s also interesting that there are thirteen dead Spartans in the final level of Halo: Reach (Lone Wolf).
In a meta sense, those who played Halo: Reach are basically reliving the experience of Apache N4/SIR as the “lone wolf” while the servers began shutting down.
YMMV, but hey. :)
Well I never thought of that holy shit
Some interesting head canon, but with halo: reach being released just over 5 months after the shutdown of halo 2 servers, there's likely little to no chance a whole level was designed as a memento to the noble 14.
There might be some easter eggs in reach referencing the 14, but I never played past halo 3 to be honest. After 3 I said "no chief no thanks", then halo 4 came around and I said "no bungie no thanks", I was gaming much during those years either.
@@4ja2vi0”no chief no thanks” is crazy Reach might have one of the best war story ever told through gaming and to miss that ride of a game is sad it also makes Master Chief’s story hit that much harder being in the shoes of a spartan who gave everything so Master Chief could one day save everyone.
@JustAS1nk Also ODST is amazing
Imagine being literally the last Spartan in the entirety Halo 2 online. Must've been bittersweet for him.
memento mori
Unironically makes me wanna cry but I genuinely don’t know why
I ain't even play Halo 2, but I know the feeling of having a part of my childhood passing away, it's it a vibe, very strong feelings. @@stevenrostek2788
"I"VE WON!!!!"
looks around
"But I guess, time makes fools of us all."
I would cry
Mad respect to the noble 14🫡
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Leaving it at 420 o7
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Salute🫡
Imagine being Apache N4SIR, your last friend logs off, you're all alone, and the top of your TV screen suddenly says "Current Objective: Survive" 💀
Now this, this is a good comment.
Except… he wasn’t “my last friend”.
Lone wolf mission in halo reach
@@apachen4sir631 it’s the the man himself!
@@apachen4sir631The man , the myth , the legend ?
Current objective: Survive.
Spartans never die, and they never quit.
They just retire
MIA... never K.
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@mikemasaki8193Or fall from two feet into shallow water
“Spartans don’t go quietly”
*They are just missing in action (MIA)*
Genuinely sounds like an actual story out of the Halo universe. Fourteen Spartans left abandoned or unable to get help out somewhere in space, each fighting for their lives for over a month until the final one is left alone. Something about a Spartan almost making it a full Earth day all alone but failing without his comrades seems poetic and bittersweet.
sounds like it would make a good fan novel.
Isn't that basically a part of one of the Halo games story?
@@timidb i suppose it's comparable to the end of Reach
@@seventhbeanofaseventhbean yeah that's the one
It's a hopeless fight. you have no chance of victory, just prolonging the end.
@@timidb For it was on Noble 6’s shoulders that the hope of humanity lived on
Bungie: We’re shutting the servers down.
Noble 14: Were it so easy…
Greatest comment
@@harrisonrobbins017 Thank you, I appreciate your kindness!
Every fucking halo video on the internet. We get it. The quote exists.
Jesus fucking christ
Could you please translate in English?
@@ceboz SPOILERS!!!!!
At the end of Halo 3, there was a discussion with (IIRC) Lord Hood and the Arbiter. Lord Hood laments that the Chief is dead, the Arbiter responds with “Were it so easy.” It’s an homage to the “Spartans never die” mentality in the UNSC, where Spartans were never listed as KIA and instead are always listed as MIA. There’s also the double meaning of their first encounter on Installation 04, the Arbiter was in charge of the Covenant forces when the Pillar of Autumn crashed landed. The line hits so hard when you know the whole lore behind it. Iconic.
I experienced that and remember we stayed on as long as we could while doing bounce glitches and enjoying what was halo before it came to an end.
Yea sure.
Yeah me too
Same here. I remember reading about it on the bungie forums and left the game running but my xbox crashed eventually
“This will be the end of Halo 2”
“Then it will be the noblest ending in history”
Well played...
Those some real Spartans that’s crazy😭
And elites
the last stand
Current Objective: Survive
Yes… It’s sad Microsoft did that.
Noble 14 sounds like an actual military squad. Absolute legends.
maybe cause halo is a military war game ?
@@AceTheMenace.ACTUAL
They are not "absolute legends" just a bunch of fat sloths ,losers,and or virgins😂🤣
@@AceTheMenace.no shit Sherlock hes just saying that its sounds Like an actual realife millitary
Remembered me to the ship Ecco 419 of Halo CE
"It didn't take long for Halo 2 to fall: our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough. For you had already logged into the game. And because of you, we kept Halo 2 alive, unlocked more memories, shook our enemy's resolve. Our victory - your victory - was so close, I wish you could have stayed logged in to see it. But you belong to the Halo community. Your gamertag, your console - all quiet and turned to silence. Everything... except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can play Halo: MCC."
o7
O7
o7
O7
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“Spartans Don’t go quietly” - Master Chief
Truth!
“Were it so easy”
Love that!!!
@@MidnightRoselle222and reconciliation
One of the best quotes from infinite. Chief shows respect for his fellow Spartans because even though they're spartan ivs, he doesn't share halseys elitist mindset that the ivs are inferior to the iis, he just sees a fellow soldier
"Why don't you just give up? Because they never did."
😅
Had a fucking stroke
@@eluci2700 huh? Are you okay? What's that got to do with Halo? Or youtube?
Are you dyslexic? 😅 just curious
@TheRealHaloLover What on Earth is everyone on about? You're not making sense.
@@tigerguyTDS oh shit I did too hahahahahahaa
Noble 14: we’ll be damned if we go down without a fight.
*We’re finishing the fight.*
I can’t imagine being the last player and taking whatever time you have to just walk around and admire the map one last time.
You gotta admire the wit and stubbornness of halo fans
You've never seen a halo player try and take a warthog further then its supposed to go in a mission before, have you?
@@Privatepain1234I remember getting the guass warthog all the way up the stairs in that tiny building to the part where we board the scarab and destroy it on Metropolis
@@Privatepain1234 you fool I’ve done it more times than anyone ever has
@Privatepain1234 I brought a banshee into the last spot of halo2 story and used it for the boss fight was pretty interesting it stayed even after the cut scene just before the fight
@@matthewtedeschi5646that’s a classic one. That or the Johnson trick with the spectre. Or luring the banshee all the way through the tunnel to get the scarab gun
"Die? Didn't you know? Spartans never die."
- Kurt's last words
Lt cdr Kurt’s last words*
The team more important than noble 6
So important there were 8 more of em
I would agree
A mission so important and dangerous an entire halo was at stake
I agree.
@@Nikos.They were just that important.
For a moment in time, Apache N4sir was truly "The Last Spartan".
The first noble team suffered the same fate as the next noble team. Taken out one by one till one made their final stand even though it was all in vain. True heroes.
Our condolences go out to all their families..
That’s the most halo thing I’ve heard people do.
I salute you, noble 14.
Classic halo community... I miss those days, the halo community created so many tropes like teabagging, MLG... And so many of my early memories are of these games, ce to reach is canon in my mind everything made by 343 is just shitty fanfic
These guys deserve a cameo in a Halo game. Not a little thing that you can miss, but as side characters who play a major role in the game. We salute you, Noble 14.
Edit: if 343 Industries ever decides to do this, they’d have to track down the real Noble 14 and get those men to voice themselves
*on the brink of tears* they were the ones who were on reach
honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if Noble team from Halo Reach was based on the Noble 14 (especially the story of one last guy making a final stand)
They deserve to be an entire company in halo
@@crustaceanking3293no but they did give them reach beta codes iirc or something along those lines to do with reach
@@crustaceanking3293other way around is probably how they got the name but, would have been cool if there was some reference in reach to the other legendary Nobel team
Halo 2 is where I found my true passion of driving the hog. Till this day, I’m still sliding that ass end around in Infinite. I be driving it like it has slicks on. Forever in love with halo because of the hog.
I’m a hog enthusiast myself 😅
Can’t forget the 2nd to last guy saying to Apache
“Good job Apache, you’re the last one”
must’ve been one helluva thing to hear before being left to wander maps you’ve made so many memories with
"No life left,Last man standing"
He walked around every map alone as the last Spartan to ever experience halo 2 Original servers, Wow for a month bungie said f that guy 😂
@@BigGleemRecordsapache absolute g
@@BrunoDiaz-dr6kw absolute g, 🙏🏽
Objective, survive
“This war… It was brought on by a power that none of us could have imagined. Whatever it was, it made the Covenant stand by our side. Enemy of my enemy, ya know? Thousands of us stood shoulder and shoulder, fighting something greater than us. The thousands became hundreds, and hundreds became… us. 14 warriors who refused to back down. One of the guys even tried to lighten the mood, “The Noble 14!” We had a good laugh. Funny how it took the end of our universe to bring two polar opposites together. They’re… they’re gone now… I miss them. It’s getting closer as I record this, I can hear it. I’ve got one last fight in me. This is Apache N4SIR, signing off.”
They fought Time, and Won.
Bro this gave me goosebumps. It's so sad to see the end of something so beautiful
You'r never out of the fight😢 we will be waiting for Apaches return because Spartans never die and never quit
Fockin brilliant
Wait are you Apache?
I was there for this :’) I was 16 at the time and wanted to take part in a historic moment; I was among the last 100 players left but had to leave due to school, unfortunately. It was a beautiful moment in time
Bro I wish I could've been there but i just a child back then who got to play it in like 2012 or 2014 when it was all gone
@@prayushsinha5005 I will say that I am so, so grateful to have been able to take part in the Golden Age of Halo. I don’t think anything in gaming will ever compare to the glory days of Halo 2 and Halo 3. Gaming’s never been the same since
I wish you could have enjoyed it with all of us, but I’m just happy that you enjoy Halo! The next generation is what’ll keep it alive. Eyes up, Spartan!
@@_Cato_You RACIST!!! The only reason you liked that era is because you werent yet trained to control your speech and we still gave you uncensored proximity chat. Now you cant say your hatred and jokes like before filth
@@_Cato_ its the duty of people like us who got to experience that past, to pave the way for gamers to have the same enjoyment in the future.
I know we are older and have responsibilities of our own, but people like us need to get through to some companies (cough 343 cough) and get them to make something that makes new memories for the next generation of gamers.
It may never be the same, but it shouldn't be, it should be better!
Salute
Halo 2 was such a big part of my life and my friends' lives. It was so great to log in and see 5 or 10 of my classmates online. "You were killed by Mesothelioma"
which is why Halo Reach's final mission has us fight an unending wave of enemies
cool, is this true? where are the sources?
@@thatsaysalotabout-man9547 they're called Noble. they started off with 14. half that is 7, Noble Team had 7 members in total. they were slowly whittled to just 1 who even after a long valiant effort was defeated due to an unwinnable situation. doesn't take a genius to connect the dots, hell the A.I in the game is even named D.O.T
@themeta4191 What is the D.O.T. significance? (Sorry i don't know all the lore and am not getting it rn)
@@Joe--he is making shit up
@@optimuslime923 Thank you👍 wasn't thinking clearly when asked. Jist realized you might be right
“Spartans never die they’re just missing in action”
They're
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That Apache guy was Spartan B-312 (Noble 6) The Last Man Standing
At this point in time, B-312 wasn't even a thing.
@@DigitalDNA Neither your momma
@@DigitalDNAit was, Bungie immortalized these guys, they are the 13 fallen Spartans in Objective: Survive on Halo Reach with Noble 6 being no: 14, aka apache, that final objective was an ode to these guys
@@DivineHellas is that a book? I prolly missed that.
Bro I got chills from just watching this youtube short, *taps begins playing for "The Noble 14 of Halo 2* farewell halo 2 😢😢😢😢
that last guy took sheer fucking dedication, patience and power bills to the next level
It's the power bill part that got me to cringe from familiarity.
Electricity bills for my apartment is about 200 dollars a month 😭
A blender be more stressing than a Xbox 360,
Just looked it up 180Watts per hour, bro my GPU pushing that just play a game gtx 1080 non ti.
Leaving a console on isn’t heroic bro. Chill
@@TheMsr47gamingbut this is the original xbox
@@TheLasombra077Yep. Profile Pic checks out.
There's a great machinima based on this story! It's called "Endgame" a Halo 2 Anniversary Machinima.
That's insane, just looked it up!
@Nikos. It's very well written for a machinima about guys playing halo 2 😆
I never knew if it and you think I would know if it. Where would one find this?
@@apachen4sir631It's on RUclips somewhere. It's a dramatized depiction, but it still portrays everything very well.
@@apachen4sir631It's here on RUclips, by SNAPT Films
The video title is " END GAME (Halo 2 anniversary machinima)", just as OC said
Moments like these makes me happy that the Master Chief Collection exists
It's not the same as the original
@@ThatLazyOtakuVT No, it's better (Apart from lack of split screen on PC).
Likewise.
Halo 2 absolutely sucks on MCC ironically.
@@billyidol4354 I truly miss the backhand energy sword slice. 😓
I remember this bright as day as I was there. I was not apart of the noble 14 but I was apart of the final reaming 50. I stayed as long as I could but ironically because there was a bad thunderstorm that night it killed my power, I quickly switched to a power generator, and used my phone as a hot spot. Needles go say, I tried very quickly to get back on but was unable to. I messaged the other players stating what happened. But also Fun fact, the last player wasn’t booted he was actually made an offer by bungie. He was actually offered a free copy of Halo 3 on release date and a free year of Xbox live because of his outstanding determination. And lastly, on PC you can still play Halo 2 as online with all maps for free, people tend to play here and there it’s very very fun. (Through a third party company)
Are you sure that he wasn't offended a free copy of halo: reach, as halo 3 came out in 07, three years before the shutdown of halo 2 servers.
@@4ja2vi0 yes I’m sure it was a copy of halo 3 and a year of Xbox live
"Spartans never die, they only go missing in action."
We fought to the end. I FUCKING LOVE YOU GUYS FOR BEING THERE WITH ME
You're one of the 14?
I salute you for this truly Legendary moment in Halo history
@girthquake2390 my old tag was Z0mbie Stench 😃
@MrSkeletonman69 Holy fuck no way, I was there with you guys do you remember me? I was Rob2D and I remember you running me over
@@NickBoss-tb8iw it was all great. I'll never look at another game the same way I do Halo 2 with all th happiness it brought me
He truly was the final Spartan. The real master chief
Technically, he would be more in common with Noble 6, who fights to his last breath in Halo Reach.
No
Microsoft: Mind telling us what you are still doing in here?
Apache: "I need a weapon."
Rest in peace Noble 14.
Spartans never die. They're just missing in action. 🫡
Crimson One?
@@GW-lw8nt Yeah?
@@GW-lw8nt who are you?
@@Interstellar.424 I have no clue tbh
"Last one out, get the lights."
Love that mission.
Children of Men reference
Where in halo is that from
@@xFAM3xSkollxHalo 3 when they are leaving the base in the second mission. Its the name of one of the "chapters" as i call it. As you progress through the mission you see a chapter name and the part of the second mission where everyone leaves the base but you have to go back and disarm the the bomb by yourself and that's the name of the second mission's chapter. So it's not spoken i suppose but does appear at least
The last man standing was properly named for the occasion. Mad respect
Just glad the final player standing didn’t have a handle like “xxXa55m4n420Xxx”😂😂😂
The noble 14🫡
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The original story of Noble team. Reach was just a glorified representation of these guys. Your courage will never be forgotten
Maybe Jun was reference to the one guy leaving to go play Reach lol
It is crazy how fitting this last stand is given the lore of the games themselves. There definitely needs to be some kind of tribute given to these noble 14!
Noble team 6? 😂😂😂
The last guy was the lone wolf
The thing is Microsoft acknowledged what they were doing, and had respect for them
It was because Halo 2 (and the entirety of Xbox Live at the time) was a peer-to-peer network.
If it was P2P, then it wouldn't have shut down.
@@yapflipthegrunt4687?
@yapflipthegrunt4687 their 1st gen consoles crashed overheated or just bricked
@@Silentlib what he meant is that a peer to peer connection doesnt have a central server, hence if the game was using this connection model, there would be no way microsoft could just turn off the server.
An example of this would be Splatoon. if you have a copy of the first game, you can still hop on and look for a lobby despite nintendo themselves having completely dropped support for online services of that generation of consoles.
@@fenchellforelle oh ok I didn't know that
I think I was in the top 30 before my internet lagged out. It was such a great experience and all the people that played were awesome. It was a good memory.
The noble 30🫡
I like to imagine the guy who pressed the button shed a tear and almost couldn’t do it.
That "Noble 14" part gave me goosebumps and made me salute at my monitor
I have a feeling Noble team was named after these guys
@@RevkorI wish that were the case
"Gentlemen, synchronise your death watches,"
Dear god@sharpdressedcat230
Can I have the bucket?
@@mattyv9678 yes soldier you may have the bucket
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Being the final player in a game for 20+ hours has to be so eerie
I imagine that feeling when you load into a forge map, or I guess any map just by yourself. That sense of isolation, walking through these big museum like maps that are just empty, but amplified by like a thousand knowing you're the last player left on the game. It's got to be unmatched.
Eerie? It’s just a game 😂
Its a multiplayer game imagine walking around something like cod etc with nobody else there its just unerving@@frjcde9392
@@frjcde9392if youve never tried wandering og halo maps by urself, try it out. the liminal map designs and ambient background noise is quite creepy
@@frjcde9392it's a specific type of feeling you wouldn't get. It requires a brain
I was watching some RUclips shorts on my Roku TV on my Xbox series s and saw a video called The "The legend of Apache N4SIR" where I then came across an ad titled "Season 13: Dig is available now." Where I then came across this video.
Noble 6 sees your valiant last stand and recognizes you as brother in Arms
Their mission was impossible, but they took it upon themselves none the less. These Spartans will always be remembered as the heroes in our time of need. _😔_
I remember they interviewed him for halo waypoint on the 360 😂😂😂
Makes you wonder if the Noble 14 was the inspiration for calling the spartan team in Reach “Noble Team” and the final mission in Reach was a last stand too
god that last guy must have been suffering holy shit
Carving ancient messages of pain into his controller
i bet, id be so sad tbh to be the last one, alone, in my favorite game that i loved so much to stay online after most the other players were gone
@@sparkthedragon thanks. Kind words.
Just imagine that from the player character's pov. All alone...wandering an empty world until finally...he sees his friends and enemies on the horizon beckoning him to take that final step.
A gamer is one of the most committed man you can find
You haven't seen that screenshot of the "boycott MW2" group on Steam where nearly all of the members were playing MW2, huh
@@n_tas still “gamers” be in in steam or XBL.
But no. I haven’t seen that photo.
i am proud to say i was a part of this effort. i am ashamed to say i failed to see the mission through. we had a blackout which disconnected me :( for those who fought on. you are legend.
As a dude born in 2000, Halo CE and Halo 2 were my frickin’ childhood. Played on dads old Xbox.
Video made me shed a single tear.
Comment made me feel old lol
2k5 the good old days
You were barely a year old when the first one came out. I was 13 when the first one came. Thanks for aging me..
@@travisvanalst4698 bro i grew up on vhs n 8 track ive always been older than what i am 😂
For us final 14, this was beyond personal.
Were you one of them?
@@paulgiovanni1136good chance he wasn't. it's a 14/8billion+ chance that it's one of them.
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@@-DeathKnightnaw... that's not correct
The odds would be much greater due to the fact that a much smaller number than 8 billion would be recommended or find this video. It would be incredibly unlikely for someone who isn't a fan of Halo to watch this video and care to comment this.
Most legendary story of a game shutting down, they lived up to the spartan legacy
Wow!! They're Noble in real life. They don't want to waste time instead they choosen to Enjoy Last Moment.
Dude turned into noble 6 fr 😢
This is the kind of stories the community of halo was built on tbh. Makes me happy to know how passionate fans were.
Now that's a true Spartan.
Spartans be fartin' yo
Mad respect to the developers for actually giving people this last rite. even letting the last guy stay for a full day almost before saying "alright.. you gotta go you won/bragging rites/etc" click
Did I hear wrong, but wasn't it almost a month after the planned shutdown? I agree with you though. Nice to allow a stubborn final stand for the Noble14. Very fitting to the Halo lore.
*Right/rights
@@Paal2005yeah the whole community and especially the 14 pushed it a month but OP is saying they let the last guy hang out alone for 20 hours
They didn't let him stay. They couldn't disconnect him. He was hosting his own lobby.
@@rjbourgeois5490 oh they DID disconnect (or boot 🥾) him. And no, he wasn’t hosting his own lobby… he kinda was but on someone else’s server.
He was connected for 673 hours 58 minutes past the time they said they were shutting down the servers.
Source: I *AM* APACHE N4SIR
(yes! That one!)
Twitch.tv/apache_n4sir
Man I remember hearing about this at the time. Unfortunately I was only ever able to play through my cousin's Xbox so I was unable to take part.
Someone needs to make a halo show about the noble 14
I’d watch that documentary just as long as Paramount isn’t involved.
at least a fan story turning their fight into something more, getting that raw epic feeling that comes from their efforts to keep the game alive and then dramatazied into a fully fledged story
could do something with fighting the good fight, turning it into a story of survival, bringing it down to the last 14, and then following the timeline as bit by bit, one by one, something happens until the final member stands along
and then, after he spends 20 hours alone, in an empty world, empty map, and empty server
darkness
game over, servers closed, time, up
@@ZoraEpsilon571 I feel like it should be a 10 episode series or 14 episode series.
With episodes 1-3 beings normal episodes introducing characters and grouping up noble 14. Then the remaining episodes go into the server shut down and then the end of the servers all together
A movie/story about a parallel universe where the rings are successfully activated. The Last 14, standing with elites, fighting off the Flood as the rings activate (microsoft closing servers)
that would be one hell of a story
@@GoldPrince2468why not with paramount
🍺 to the Noble 14. You Fought the Good Fight. May you never be Forgotten.
Microsoft: this is just a cost cutting measure, stop being so dramatic
I could only imagine how the dude felt being the last player on a server that was going to shut down. I hope he at least made peace with it.
I believe he did as he had no choice. Sometimes that makes it easier to accept.
Bro was the real life Noble 6 🫡
That last 2 hours for them basically...
Objective Updated: *SURVIVE*
Halo fans have a deeper passion than fans of any other game
Ever Heard War thunder and titanfall?
@@blackghost9627you mean titanfall that came out years later. War thunder had no lore and halo 2 was the birth place of online competitive fps multi-player. In which brought online play to COD later. Halo lead the country to making multi-player fps games don't compare other games to it.
Warhammer 40k fans?
@@BigWheel. hello would you like to talk about our lord and savior the God-Emperor of mankind
@@williamhuffman5910praise the omnisssiah
They are true Spartans
This has happened with every Halo when the servers were to be shut down.
For some reason this short made me tear up.
The good noble 14 was one of the reasons we had a community that could always come together
These dudes became more infamous than the number 117
Infamous?
How is 117 significant?
@@117Tennessine it’s master chiefs spartan number. It’s referenced a handful of times in the story and is part of his identity
Oh thanks so much.@@kx7500
@kx7500 he's joking.
When the halo 3 servers shut down, i had this same situation, i was part of a single game server along 3 of my friends and some pro players, its really sad.
You can play halo 3 MCC
@@joerowland9128 I know this was before MCC
Rest in Peace Brothers. Long live the Noble 14, the most devoted of us all
The sole survivor shall never be forgotten for his heroic sacrifice.
There's a full length video about Noble 14 with interviews with a few of them, definitely worth the watch. Had me crying at some parts.
Calling all lone wolves... The old ways are returning, and without us... The flood will destroy us all.