Jerome is so badass. He was one of the 4 considered to lead the Spartan 2s along with Kurt, Fred and John. He was also crippled after augmentation but recovered. He’s also pretty lethal with a chair.
Isabel being emotional makes sense to me because she's NOT a warship or battle AI. She was a logistical/science AI. She wasn't designed with war and trauma in mind. Idk what the books say about her but I'd agree her being emotional is kinda scary now that she's getting a taste of war
@@primary2630 I always thought the whole "Smart and dumb AI" thing was just a Joke from Red vs Blue, I didn't realize it was actually part of halo lore
@@Captianmex1C0yeah! The dumb ones I’m pretty sure are pure logic only able to designated tasks and can’t improvise while Smart ones are also specialized but can go outside of parameters as well
@@sup3rhyp3r56 yes, Smart AI can grow and change, adapt to whatever is needed of them, but have a limited operational lifespan. Dumb AI are like the stuff we have today, just really advanced, AI capable of managing entire city systems, but not able to do much more than that, like the superintendent in Halo 3 ODST before merging with Vergil (the engineer)
Spartan Red team are still in their mid 20s thanks to being in cryo the whole timeline of Halo games up to Halo 5. They are technically in their prime whereas Chief and Blue Team are in their 50s. Seeing Atriox single handedly take all three of them was terrifying and awesome.
I always thought that Chief and Blue team were in their early to mid 40s, especially when taking cryogenic stasis during interplanetary travel into account.
@@AJSai3007"Prime" is an irrelevant term at this point. Blue team have spent years in cryo + ONI speculates Spartans may be able to be combat effective until 100. Blue Team has far more experience than Red.
Due to augmentation and genetic surgeries, S2s are capable of living up to the age of 250. The remaining S2s including Blue Team are in their 50s, but I'd argue they haven't hit their prime yet. S2s will definitely serve for multiple generations. Off the wall matter to consider, is the cost effectiveness of an S2 v S4. The S2s are expensive, but it's a single time investment. S4s require constant maintenance which empties pockets for service duration. It's a step backward.
The Brutes are smart. They actually managed to achieve their own space travel. But due to their brutal natural and their love for battle, they essentially nuked themselves back to the stone age. But they are still smart
Anders looks different in Halo Wars 2 for two main reasons: 1: They used mocap instead of hand animation, meaning more accurate models of the characters 2: The original voice actor for Anders was unavailable for Halo Wars 2 (I think there was a VA strike going on at the time, not sure) so she had to be recast for the sequel. Also a fun little note about Anders, she was actually a student of Doctor Halsey, we don't know very much about their time together but what we do know is that Anders absolutely _hated_ Halsey. Respected her as a Scientist but hated her as a person.
The saddest credits IMO at 26:20, because Esemble Studios made Halo Wars 1- they were RTS legends for making the "Age of Empires" series, but halo wars was their last game before Microsoft dissolved the Company, I have loved their games (even more than Halo) and even in reading the history of making Halo wars (they were forced to by Msoft) and Bungie wasn't happy to share, so they made their own lore and made the best game they could in-spite of their inevitable end.
It's was one of the best game studios ever imo. They had a rule in their studio that every devs should play their game atleast few hours a week so they know what they're making and know how to make it better. This is why their games usually had very very very few bugs and overall run very good.
from what I read about the development of halo wars, Ensemble was also juggling around resources working on the cancelled Halo MMO. After all the cancelled projects and the inevitable moment of Microsoft telling Ensemble's Director (Spartan Jerome is named after this guy fyi) "We can't provide enough funds now, you'll have to start laying people off. We'll guarantee your position though", he responded with essentially "No, we went through everything together and we're keeping it that way to the very end."
Contact Harvest have Johnson mention how he expended half his time in cryo during Operation: TREBUCHET. If Spartans have even more intense deployment for the war with the Covenant I would take it literally rather than figuratively. That gives Red team 2.5 years awake during the Great War meaning they would be biologically somewhere between 16 and 17 by the time they are get to the Ark
Isabelle is a smart AI like Cortana so she was made using an actual human brain. She has the same emotional range Cortana had, the main difference being Isabelle was a logistics AI charged with looking after the Ark research team. She looked after scientists and contractors, not soldiers and when the Banished arrived she couldn't protect them. She *is* suffering PTSD, it's less scary and more tragic. She's an immensely powerful piece of technology but until the Spirit of Fire showed up she was utterly powerless to protect those in her care.
The reason as to why Red Team and basically, every Spartan on board of the Spirit of Fire has a similar armor as Master Chief is because that armor is the Standard armor for Spartans at that time and one of the many reasons why the Covenant and every alien species calls every Spartan a Demon and also why they call Master Chief THE Demon. This armor is the Mark 4, before the Mark 5 used in Halo CE and the Mark 5-B used in Halo Reach, every Spartan wore the same armor, so, whenever the Covenant killed one Spartan in a planet but found another in another battle or two at the same time in different places, they would think they are demons, because the armors were the same they thought it was the same Spartan. This also was a problem between the UNSC personel, as they couldn't tell apart each Spartan as they didn't even had their serial numbers in their armors yet, only other Spartans and their "creator" Catherine Halsey could tell each other apart by just looking how the Spartan walked.
The way I understand it, in Halo, sentient AIs gradually become more and more emotional the longer they've existed until eventually they reach the end of their 7 year lifespan and develop rampancy, which begins with everything spiraling out of control rapidly in a direct correlation to everything they've learned over their 7 years of existing, and they literally think themselves to death because it's so much thinking that it's a overload for their programming
5:27 On research matters? Yes. In active combat zones? Absolutely not! She’s a civilian, not a soldier and just because she says she can take care of herself does not mean that the Captain should listen to her as that could put her in jeopardy. She has zero combat training and only knows how to use a pistol judging from the gameplay….
Atriox probably recruited all of the Brutes that had doubts in the Covenant by the end of the war with Humanity, hence why the Prophet of Truth was able to manipulate the remaining Covenant Brutes in Halo 2 and 3 - they were the only ones left that were completely loyal.
I should point out that despite the fighting the Sangheili had decent amount of respect for humanity they also questioned the Higher Archs decision to just engage humanity without diplomatic engagement because they talked to the other species but not humanity
It’s kind of an easily missed detail but the Arbiter from Halo Wars 1 (Ripa ‘Moramee) is, as Forge puts it after Ripa kidnaps Anders, “massive”. And it’s not because he’s really tall, he’s just a bulky boi. Dude has 60 pounds on Thel and all of them went into his upper body and forearms, dude is a genetic freak.
One of the Spartans in Red Team is Douglas 042 - named in reference to Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which his number designation is also a reference to.
The Interesting thing about Red Team is that all 3 of them are what’s know as “washouts”. The process of becoming a Spartan II is extremely invasive and dangerous. There’s 3 outcomes to the procedure: 1) it works and you because a Spartan II 2) it doesn’t work and you die (very common) 3) it doesn’t work and you survive (you’re what’s know as a “washout”). Jerome, Alice and Douglas are all part of that last group. The procedure didn’t work but they survived and then underwent the procedure again (it’s bad enough doing it once, I can’t imagine twice) and the second time it worked.
Anders annoyed me in the beginning she’s being told it’s a combat zone and it’s not safe and she’s just like “ugh quit telling me what to do”. It’s dangerous lady.
58:30 Master Chief being a jesus like figure is more truth than you think. There are a ton of Biblical reference throughout the games some more obvious than others. "Ark" being way to save from the "Flood". One of the song names is "On a pale horse" referencing the pale horse during Armageddon that brings death. And a bunch others I can't remember. Even his name and number John 117 is a direct reference to a bible passage. "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" I am not religious but I love when media references religion as easter eggs or inspiration. Not sure why.
Yeah I'm the same way with religious allegory or themes in media. I wasn't really raised religious but I was baptised and once got like a kid's bible, but even that felt out of nowhere because we never talked about religion. I think it's maybe just powerful emotional shorthand, you know the story behind certain images or concepts and they evoke certain feelings as a result, when used in the exact right way it really hits I think.
@@Armyvet951 Alright alright... Warcrafit was alright, loved Starcraft. Blizzard now is just a nostalgia stamp though these days. Thanks for reminding me of Command and Conquer, no idea how I forgot, since I did play it when I was younger. But I think Age of Empires just stuck with me better overall.
@@superblahman Age of Empires is good, did you know that Blizz just stealth dropped the original warcraft trillogy in remaster? Steam has been doing that too. I can't wait to see TIberian Sun remastered.
The Halo we saw in Halo Wars 2, Installation 09, isn’t the same one in Halo Infinite. Halo Infinite takes place on Installation 07, Zeta Halo, a place with its own unique lore and history.
the brutes were advanced on there world. nuked themselves during there own wars before the covenant found them. there also one of the only species in the games to use there own species tech. brute shot, spiker etc. U can just imagine a 9foot brute doing the first moon landing lmao.
I love seeing people react to the halo wars cutscenes they are so good. I noticed you didn't seem to see the halo wars 2 dlc cutscenes, there are some more awesome ones!!! If you get a chance then I recommend checking them out too, If I remember correctly the dlc was called awakening the nightmare. I hope to see you react to them too.
The brutes are a very honor in strength based society. Pre-covenant a chieftain would lead a town or even city of brutes and at any point someone could challenge the chieftain for power. Originally they had to rebuild their society because they wiped themselves out from nuclear war
FINALLY, YES, THIS IS LITERAL PEAK! I've been waiting for you to do this one for a while, these are my favorite Halo games next to Reach and 2 anniversary in terms of story telling, campaign, and cutscenes.
My theory about Isabel when she made the Banished super carrier fire its glassing cannon is that she's actively hearing the responses of the sentinels through those voices she was hearing. That or she was actually having a PTSD moment to when the Banished arrived and slaughtered every human on the Ark Isabel had to witness, and that she finally gets to have her revenge on them.
They are ‘sangheli’, sanghelio(s) is their home world. The spirit of Fire that captain cutter commands was a Colony ship meant for only for colonization and yet it was able to take on a super carrier. Harvest was technically the first contact with the covenant before that there was one other time. But they never made contact officially.
Spirit of Fire, while originally a colony ship, is heavily retrofitted ship. Not a colony ship anymore but rather a heavy carrier with factories inside which are able to produce war vehicles to war effort in demand and also has extra weapons added. It fits perfectly to Halo Wars rts genre as that. Similar like how Pillar of Autumn was retrofitted from light cruiser to basically heavy cruiser/ destroyer with more guns, greater generator and mac gun that can fire basically three round bursts to be more effective for it's original missions.
Wait,are you saying the Covenant came into contact with humanity before Harvest?If so could you elaborate on that or provide a link/search term that will clear my confusion?
@@NeuMaster9 It's in the book contact harvest. If you want to read it, and you should, don't read futher from this! ! ! ! ! Some jackals and grunts from their missionary vessel came upon an unmanned human cargo ship and decided to raid it for plunder and after their luminary showed hundreds of forerunner artifacts near this are of space they decided to plunder more ships and eventually came upon a manned cargo ship. These raids were, at first, thought to be insurrection raids on civilian and UNSC cargo ships so ONI decided to plant a trap to there raiders and planted our dear sergeant Johnsson and other possible spartan-I Byrne to capture these raiders but little did they know they would face jackals, thus them two becoming first humans to face covenant and live. Johnsson and Byrne won but with some injuries and after that happened things that at first was to be peace talks with the covenant led by Tartarus's father Maccabeus which was escalated by cowardly grunt who accidentally shot one of the harvest militiamen at the peace talks. This caused the first battle of harvest which was just minor campaigns led by one covenant ship and it's crew of mostly brutes and grunts. However this ship ultimately alone glassed relatively huge amounts of Harvest before Halo wars 1 and some other things happened.
@ I believe so although it was only with probes. ONI in typical fashion knew they existed and tried multiple times to make contact but the covenant kept ignoring them. And kept evading ONI’s probes. I’ll try to find where I read it.
@@NeuMaster9 In the book contact harvest it's said that before initial contact, some jackal and grunt vessel raided civial unmanned cargo ships and eventually raided one manned ones too. However none of the crew survived these encounters so ONI planned a trap on one of the manned freighter and managed to lure this raiding ship to raid it but there was our beloved sargeant johnsson and other possible spartan-I waiting the raiders thus it becoming the initial first contact with the covenant which was cencored from public. However it soon led to things that eventually became the first battle of harvest. If you haven't read that book, i heartly recommend it! One of my favorites.
You should check out some of the special units in Halo Wars, alot of the vehicles are awesome...Rhino double barrel tanks, EMP vehicles, Sparrowhawk hornets that make the Halo 3 and Reach ones look like a joke, artillery tanks, Cyclops mechs, MAC guns blasts, cryobombs, Vulture gunships and that's just the Human side As fun as an RTS is I would love to have any of them controllable in the FPS/TPS games
Ensembke studios did a amazing job with Halo wars 1, despite what they had to go though. Bungie refuse to help the studio with the story, because they had a stick up there arse when it came to others adding to the Halo lore But also they where told by mircosoft that the studio was going to get shut down when they completed the game. And some other stuff. So its a amazing it came out as well as it did.
Alrighty pals, you know the drill! Please be mindful of discussing Halo lore which Meg has yet to encounter (such as the rest of the books or the TV show), thank you!
There are three other dlc cutscenes for a campaign where you play as the Banished as well. Somewhat unimportant to the overall story but still high quality Blur cinematics
It's not quite halo canon, more Halo Adjacent, but i think you should give Red VS Blue a try. I feel like the humour would be right up your alley. It was so popular at the time that the Bungie and 343 have referenced it a bunch in the games too
@@Mabswer Most Rooster Teeeth controversies had nothing or little to do with the team behind RvB, or at least the first ten seasons of RvB, which make up the main story.
Isabel overestimated Banished due to her inexperience. Atriox is a great warrior and commander, but when she said Covenant never came close to hunting down Banished, she was definitely delusional. We know that Covenant never took kindly to heretics (Halo 2 for example). If Atriox was such a great threat Covenant would have glassed him and his forces across the galaxy. This is just another attempt by 343 to downplay the Covenant to put their new baddie on the pedestal.
Truthfully as much as I loved Halo growing up I never cared too much about the main villains (sans Arbiter and he became a protagonist soon enough). I likewise didn’t care much for the Brutes, they were just more bodies to put down when playing. Atriox was the first Halo villain and Brute I actually liked, that opening cutscene and his backstory did a wonderful job establishing him as a threat and his motivations
They couldn't get the same actors unfortunately, Rather than try to CGI the new actors to look like the old ones they stuck with keeping the mocap actors faces. It's a shame but I get it
to be fair, its only an issue when you watch the cutscenes back to back.. gotta remmember there was several year gap between the games, to the point that it was uncertain that there would ever bee a second one , what with the lackluster sell of first halo wars and overall uncertainty with 343 as a whole.
5:21 Should we genuinely defer to counsel from an individual devoid of combat experience confronting extraterrestrial religious fanatics? It appears to be a highly hazardous course of action. 23:35 @paperstainedink What state has the most muslims? Allahbama 1. How is God just like a regular man? If you’re not on your knees, he’s not interested. 2. Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers. 3. What do a Christmas tree and a priest have in common? Their balls are just for decoration.
@@FrostbiteDigital I don't think it's insulting, rts games are not for everyone, And this is one of the better ways to get the context and story. I love both games, And I've played them multiple times but I also get that they're not for everyone
@@yourpancake652 Except she didn't get any story context whatsoever because she only watched the pre-rendered cutscenes. There are story elements during the gameplay that she doesn't know
Jerome is so badass. He was one of the 4 considered to lead the Spartan 2s along with Kurt, Fred and John. He was also crippled after augmentation but recovered. He’s also pretty lethal with a chair.
WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT
ITS JEROME FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH A STEEL CHAIR
@@NeuMaster9 😂😂😂😂
Isabel being emotional makes sense to me because she's NOT a warship or battle AI. She was a logistical/science AI. She wasn't designed with war and trauma in mind. Idk what the books say about her but I'd agree her being emotional is kinda scary now that she's getting a taste of war
It's because she is a smart ai. All of them are like that now. That is why tons of them joined Cortana but why a bunch also stayed loyal.
@@primary2630 I always thought the whole "Smart and dumb AI" thing was just a Joke from Red vs Blue, I didn't realize it was actually part of halo lore
@@Captianmex1C0yeah! The dumb ones I’m pretty sure are pure logic only able to designated tasks and can’t improvise while Smart ones are also specialized but can go outside of parameters as well
@@sup3rhyp3r56 yes, Smart AI can grow and change, adapt to whatever is needed of them, but have a limited operational lifespan. Dumb AI are like the stuff we have today, just really advanced, AI capable of managing entire city systems, but not able to do much more than that, like the superintendent in Halo 3 ODST before merging with Vergil (the engineer)
dumb ai are made from traditional programming, just a much more advanced version of ai systems today
Spartan Red team are still in their mid 20s thanks to being in cryo the whole timeline of Halo games up to Halo 5.
They are technically in their prime whereas Chief and Blue Team are in their 50s. Seeing Atriox single handedly take all three of them was terrifying and awesome.
I always thought that Chief and Blue team were in their early to mid 40s, especially when taking cryogenic stasis during interplanetary travel into account.
@@AJSai3007"Prime" is an irrelevant term at this point. Blue team have spent years in cryo + ONI speculates Spartans may be able to be combat effective until 100. Blue Team has far more experience than Red.
@Connor8609 yeah and they have been compared to gods in reaction time and capabilities.
Due to augmentation and genetic surgeries, S2s are capable of living up to the age of 250. The remaining S2s including Blue Team are in their 50s, but I'd argue they haven't hit their prime yet. S2s will definitely serve for multiple generations.
Off the wall matter to consider, is the cost effectiveness of an S2 v S4. The S2s are expensive, but it's a single time investment. S4s require constant maintenance which empties pockets for service duration. It's a step backward.
@@DigitalDNAS3s seem like a good compromise don't ya think
Anders was a student of Halsey by the way. They hated each other but Halsey still recommended her as a consultant because she was so smart.
i never knew that thanks
The Brutes are smart. They actually managed to achieve their own space travel. But due to their brutal natural and their love for battle, they essentially nuked themselves back to the stone age. But they are still smart
Anders looks different in Halo Wars 2 for two main reasons:
1: They used mocap instead of hand animation, meaning more accurate models of the characters
2: The original voice actor for Anders was unavailable for Halo Wars 2 (I think there was a VA strike going on at the time, not sure) so she had to be recast for the sequel.
Also a fun little note about Anders, she was actually a student of Doctor Halsey, we don't know very much about their time together but what we do know is that Anders absolutely _hated_ Halsey. Respected her as a Scientist but hated her as a person.
Its not hard to hate Halsey. She also got a mouth as big as her brain.
The saddest credits IMO at 26:20, because Esemble Studios made Halo Wars 1- they were RTS legends for making the "Age of Empires" series, but halo wars was their last game before Microsoft dissolved the Company, I have loved their games (even more than Halo) and even in reading the history of making Halo wars (they were forced to by Msoft) and Bungie wasn't happy to share, so they made their own lore and made the best game they could in-spite of their inevitable end.
It's was one of the best game studios ever imo. They had a rule in their studio that every devs should play their game atleast few hours a week so they know what they're making and know how to make it better. This is why their games usually had very very very few bugs and overall run very good.
from what I read about the development of halo wars, Ensemble was also juggling around resources working on the cancelled Halo MMO. After all the cancelled projects and the inevitable moment of Microsoft telling Ensemble's Director (Spartan Jerome is named after this guy fyi) "We can't provide enough funds now, you'll have to start laying people off. We'll guarantee your position though", he responded with essentially "No, we went through everything together and we're keeping it that way to the very end."
there is a short comic about a flood outbreak onboard while they were sleep. Serina and Jerome save the day!
Correction, Serina, Jerome, and BY GAWD A STEEL CHAIR!!!
The third book of the Ferret Trilogy takes place on the Ark after Halo wars 2 and shortly before Infinite. Honestly one of my favorite Halo books.
The Spartan II are only around 20 years old at this time.
Biologically speaking at least. Chronologically they're in their mid to late 40s. The wonders of Cryo Sleep
Contact Harvest have Johnson mention how he expended half his time in cryo during Operation: TREBUCHET. If Spartans have even more intense deployment for the war with the Covenant I would take it literally rather than figuratively. That gives Red team 2.5 years awake during the Great War meaning they would be biologically somewhere between 16 and 17 by the time they are get to the Ark
Isabelle is a smart AI like Cortana so she was made using an actual human brain. She has the same emotional range Cortana had, the main difference being Isabelle was a logistics AI charged with looking after the Ark research team. She looked after scientists and contractors, not soldiers and when the Banished arrived she couldn't protect them. She *is* suffering PTSD, it's less scary and more tragic. She's an immensely powerful piece of technology but until the Spirit of Fire showed up she was utterly powerless to protect those in her care.
The reason as to why Red Team and basically, every Spartan on board of the Spirit of Fire has a similar armor as Master Chief is because that armor is the Standard armor for Spartans at that time and one of the many reasons why the Covenant and every alien species calls every Spartan a Demon and also why they call Master Chief THE Demon.
This armor is the Mark 4, before the Mark 5 used in Halo CE and the Mark 5-B used in Halo Reach, every Spartan wore the same armor, so, whenever the Covenant killed one Spartan in a planet but found another in another battle or two at the same time in different places, they would think they are demons, because the armors were the same they thought it was the same Spartan.
This also was a problem between the UNSC personel, as they couldn't tell apart each Spartan as they didn't even had their serial numbers in their armors yet, only other Spartans and their "creator" Catherine Halsey could tell each other apart by just looking how the Spartan walked.
More specifically they thought they rose from the dead
The way I understand it, in Halo, sentient AIs gradually become more and more emotional the longer they've existed until eventually they reach the end of their 7 year lifespan and develop rampancy, which begins with everything spiraling out of control rapidly in a direct correlation to everything they've learned over their 7 years of existing, and they literally think themselves to death because it's so much thinking that it's a overload for their programming
5:27 On research matters? Yes. In active combat zones? Absolutely not! She’s a civilian, not a soldier and just because she says she can take care of herself does not mean that the Captain should listen to her as that could put her in jeopardy. She has zero combat training and only knows how to use a pistol judging from the gameplay….
Atriox probably recruited all of the Brutes that had doubts in the Covenant by the end of the war with Humanity, hence why the Prophet of Truth was able to manipulate the remaining Covenant Brutes in Halo 2 and 3 - they were the only ones left that were completely loyal.
I should point out that despite the fighting the Sangheili had decent amount of respect for humanity they also questioned the Higher Archs decision to just engage humanity without diplomatic engagement because they talked to the other species but not humanity
The book Contact Harvest more or less explains it.They were lied to and told humans were heretics by the current prophets.
It’s kind of an easily missed detail but the Arbiter from Halo Wars 1 (Ripa ‘Moramee) is, as Forge puts it after Ripa kidnaps Anders, “massive”. And it’s not because he’s really tall, he’s just a bulky boi. Dude has 60 pounds on Thel and all of them went into his upper body and forearms, dude is a genetic freak.
One of the Spartans in Red Team is Douglas 042 - named in reference to Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which his number designation is also a reference to.
Now Atriox is wearing powered combat armor so it increases his brutish strength
The Interesting thing about Red Team is that all 3 of them are what’s know as “washouts”.
The process of becoming a Spartan II is extremely invasive and dangerous. There’s 3 outcomes to the procedure:
1) it works and you because a Spartan II
2) it doesn’t work and you die (very common)
3) it doesn’t work and you survive (you’re what’s know as a “washout”).
Jerome, Alice and Douglas are all part of that last group. The procedure didn’t work but they survived and then underwent the procedure again (it’s bad enough doing it once, I can’t imagine twice) and the second time it worked.
Anders annoyed me in the beginning she’s being told it’s a combat zone and it’s not safe and she’s just like “ugh quit telling me what to do”. It’s dangerous lady.
Can't wait for you to see the Halo Wars 2 DLC cutscenes.
she almost saw it ;-;
The legend, MAGE IS BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH HALO, I AM SO PROUD.
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Master Chief being a jesus like figure is more truth than you think. There are a ton of Biblical reference throughout the games some more obvious than others. "Ark" being way to save from the "Flood". One of the song names is "On a pale horse" referencing the pale horse during Armageddon that brings death. And a bunch others I can't remember.
Even his name and number John 117 is a direct reference to a bible passage. "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ"
I am not religious but I love when media references religion as easter eggs or inspiration. Not sure why.
It's such a huge part of our culture, religious or not! And Jesus' story is really inspiring and unique, so thanks for this confirmation :)
Also look into passage John 1:1-7
Yeah I'm the same way with religious allegory or themes in media. I wasn't really raised religious but I was baptised and once got like a kid's bible, but even that felt out of nowhere because we never talked about religion. I think it's maybe just powerful emotional shorthand, you know the story behind certain images or concepts and they evoke certain feelings as a result, when used in the exact right way it really hits I think.
The Halo Wars thing was Serina saying, "Something has happened."
This is why i love the arbiter in general
RIP Ensemble Studios, the best company ever to make RTS.
Nah, Blizzard blew everything out of the water with Warcraft, especially 3.
Whoa whoa whoa well calm down there I think I'm going to have to raise you blizzard and Westwood Studios.
@@Armyvet951 Alright alright... Warcrafit was alright, loved Starcraft. Blizzard now is just a nostalgia stamp though these days.
Thanks for reminding me of Command and Conquer, no idea how I forgot, since I did play it when I was younger. But I think Age of Empires just stuck with me better overall.
@@superblahman Age of Empires is good, did you know that Blizz just stealth dropped the original warcraft trillogy in remaster? Steam has been doing that too. I can't wait to see TIberian Sun remastered.
The Halo we saw in Halo Wars 2, Installation 09, isn’t the same one in Halo Infinite. Halo Infinite takes place on Installation 07, Zeta Halo, a place with its own unique lore and history.
Cutter's speech always gives me goosebumps, no matter how many times I watch it. OORAH!
the brutes were advanced on there world. nuked themselves during there own wars before the covenant found them. there also one of the only species in the games to use there own species tech. brute shot, spiker etc. U can just imagine a 9foot brute doing the first moon landing lmao.
So happy to see a megmage halo upload!!
I won't spoil too much, but read the book Contact Harvest. Lots of juicy pre-Human/Covenant war lore.
They should've laid out the bacon lol
When Slayer saw those guns I bet he was thinking “…. I could dodge it”
One guy in chat said Red Team are the only Spartan-2s left. Not true. Black team should still be left too.
Black team was killed by the Didact
"how it all connects" ha..hahahah...hahahahaha.
Cutter speech(in halo wars 2) about being an old ship and crew still gives me pumped up/motivate that we can still win haha
Recalling surface squads so we can all die together. Aye, sir!" -Serina has sass that is next level
I love seeing people react to the halo wars cutscenes they are so good. I noticed you didn't seem to see the halo wars 2 dlc cutscenes, there are some more awesome ones!!!
If you get a chance then I recommend checking them out too, If I remember correctly the dlc was called awakening the nightmare. I hope to see you react to them too.
Harvest was the first planet to invade from the covenant
Isabel performance 10/10
Tactics Wins Battles but Logistics Wins Wars.
Isabel ISA 1307-2, Logistics ❤ o7
The brutes are a very honor in strength based society. Pre-covenant a chieftain would lead a town or even city of brutes and at any point someone could challenge the chieftain for power. Originally they had to rebuild their society because they wiped themselves out from nuclear war
FINALLY, YES, THIS IS LITERAL PEAK! I've been waiting for you to do this one for a while, these are my favorite Halo games next to Reach and 2 anniversary in terms of story telling, campaign, and cutscenes.
forge is so corny just the entire time. but most vets i know are equally corny so his dialog is pretty spot on
My theory about Isabel when she made the Banished super carrier fire its glassing cannon is that she's actively hearing the responses of the sentinels through those voices she was hearing. That or she was actually having a PTSD moment to when the Banished arrived and slaughtered every human on the Ark Isabel had to witness, and that she finally gets to have her revenge on them.
They are ‘sangheli’, sanghelio(s) is their home world.
The spirit of Fire that captain cutter commands was a Colony ship meant for only for colonization and yet it was able to take on a super carrier.
Harvest was technically the first contact with the covenant before that there was one other time. But they never made contact officially.
Spirit of Fire, while originally a colony ship, is heavily retrofitted ship. Not a colony ship anymore but rather a heavy carrier with factories inside which are able to produce war vehicles to war effort in demand and also has extra weapons added. It fits perfectly to Halo Wars rts genre as that. Similar like how Pillar of Autumn was retrofitted from light cruiser to basically heavy cruiser/ destroyer with more guns, greater generator and mac gun that can fire basically three round bursts to be more effective for it's original missions.
Wait,are you saying the Covenant came into contact with humanity before Harvest?If so could you elaborate on that or provide a link/search term that will clear my confusion?
@@NeuMaster9 It's in the book contact harvest. If you want to read it, and you should, don't read futher from this!
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Some jackals and grunts from their missionary vessel came upon an unmanned human cargo ship and decided to raid it for plunder and after their luminary showed hundreds of forerunner artifacts near this are of space they decided to plunder more ships and eventually came upon a manned cargo ship. These raids were, at first, thought to be insurrection raids on civilian and UNSC cargo ships so ONI decided to plant a trap to there raiders and planted our dear sergeant Johnsson and other possible spartan-I Byrne to capture these raiders but little did they know they would face jackals, thus them two becoming first humans to face covenant and live. Johnsson and Byrne won but with some injuries and after that happened things that at first was to be peace talks with the covenant led by Tartarus's father Maccabeus which was escalated by cowardly grunt who accidentally shot one of the harvest militiamen at the peace talks. This caused the first battle of harvest which was just minor campaigns led by one covenant ship and it's crew of mostly brutes and grunts. However this ship ultimately alone glassed relatively huge amounts of Harvest before Halo wars 1 and some other things happened.
@ I believe so although it was only with probes. ONI in typical fashion knew they existed and tried multiple times to make contact but the covenant kept ignoring them. And kept evading ONI’s probes. I’ll try to find where I read it.
@@NeuMaster9 In the book contact harvest it's said that before initial contact, some jackal and grunt vessel raided civial unmanned cargo ships and eventually raided one manned ones too. However none of the crew survived these encounters so ONI planned a trap on one of the manned freighter and managed to lure this raiding ship to raid it but there was our beloved sargeant johnsson and other possible spartan-I waiting the raiders thus it becoming the initial first contact with the covenant which was cencored from public. However it soon led to things that eventually became the first battle of harvest. If you haven't read that book, i heartly recommend it! One of my favorites.
"general tartarus" lol hes a chieftain
9:30 Stauuup... 😭 It's perfect
It crazy to think about that those Spartans were only around 20 in Halo Wars and in Halo Wars 2 they were still practically 20 because of the cryo
Yessss! Been waiting for this. Love the characters in this side story and I'm happy you're experiencing it.
You should check out some of the special units in Halo Wars, alot of the vehicles are awesome...Rhino double barrel tanks, EMP vehicles, Sparrowhawk hornets that make the Halo 3 and Reach ones look like a joke, artillery tanks, Cyclops mechs, MAC guns blasts, cryobombs, Vulture gunships and that's just the Human side
As fun as an RTS is I would love to have any of them controllable in the FPS/TPS games
I mean she’s technically right about him not being the villain
Atriox may have blew your mind, but Atriox blew me.... away. 🎶
I keep saying it and I will say it until I can speak and type no more; if we ever lose Chief, Jerome-092 better be the replacement with Isabel.
Ensembke studios did a amazing job with Halo wars 1, despite what they had to go though.
Bungie refuse to help the studio with the story, because they had a stick up there arse when it came to others adding to the Halo lore
But also they where told by mircosoft that the studio was going to get shut down when they completed the game.
And some other stuff.
So its a amazing it came out as well as it did.
this takes place 20 years before halo ce
Oh so we’re finally doing these
keep in mind spartan red team is on the level of master chief
The holy highrack has blessed us with Halo
I guess all that is left is Halo Wars 2 DLC cutscenes. the Brutes have there own story!
Atriox is an absolute animal man!
Alrighty pals, you know the drill! Please be mindful of discussing Halo lore which Meg has yet to encounter (such as the rest of the books or the TV show), thank you!
18:50 those are actually human ships, before the fall. Which very ironic.
There are three other dlc cutscenes for a campaign where you play as the Banished as well. Somewhat unimportant to the overall story but still high quality Blur cinematics
It's not quite halo canon, more Halo Adjacent, but i think you should give Red VS Blue a try. I feel like the humour would be right up your alley. It was so popular at the time that the Bungie and 343 have referenced it a bunch in the games too
I don't think there's anywhere to watch it at the moment without getting copyright.
just dont go looking for the guys behind the RvB or the company. better not knowing.
@@ryan_1099 theres dvd's / bluerays.. not that i'd recommend to Give rooster teeth any form of currency or rather the obnoxious parent company..
@@Mabswer Most Rooster Teeeth controversies had nothing or little to do with the team behind RvB, or at least the first ten seasons of RvB, which make up the main story.
@@--mr4yo yea.. Sure... Nothing to do with joel, or gus.. Or etc etc..
was looking forward to this, was fun to watch, can't wait for your infinite video
I Think she will love the Opening of Halo Infinity
also forge is the only human to kill an arbiter
u really need to read the halo book "Contact harvest and then this whole game will make way more sense
Isabel overestimated Banished due to her inexperience. Atriox is a great warrior and commander, but when she said Covenant never came close to hunting down Banished, she was definitely delusional. We know that Covenant never took kindly to heretics (Halo 2 for example). If Atriox was such a great threat Covenant would have glassed him and his forces across the galaxy. This is just another attempt by 343 to downplay the Covenant to put their new baddie on the pedestal.
Halo wars 2 content lets go baybeee
Meg needs to watch the Halo Wars 2 commercials with Atriox and Cutter. Amazing video! Serina > Cortana for me :)
Les cinématiques sont magnifiques😊😊😊
When atrox fight back the covenant was long over sadly
Truthfully as much as I loved Halo growing up I never cared too much about the main villains (sans Arbiter and he became a protagonist soon enough). I likewise didn’t care much for the Brutes, they were just more bodies to put down when playing. Atriox was the first Halo villain and Brute I actually liked, that opening cutscene and his backstory did a wonderful job establishing him as a threat and his motivations
Biggest disappointment was how much they changed the appearance of characters! I know it was a big gap of time between games but dang.
They couldn't get the same actors unfortunately, Rather than try to CGI the new actors to look like the old ones they stuck with keeping the mocap actors faces. It's a shame but I get it
It is what it is. They all did a good job still
to be fair, its only an issue when you watch the cutscenes back to back.. gotta remmember there was several year gap between the games, to the point that it was uncertain that there would ever bee a second one , what with the lackluster sell of first halo wars and overall uncertainty with 343 as a whole.
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Should we genuinely defer to counsel from an individual devoid of combat experience confronting extraterrestrial religious fanatics? It appears to be a highly hazardous course of action.
23:35 @paperstainedink
What state has the most muslims? Allahbama
1. How is God just like a regular man?
If you’re not on your knees, he’s not interested.
2. Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
3. What do a Christmas tree and a priest have in common?
Their balls are just for decoration.
Transformers wat for Cybertron video game cutscenes
Yeeeeeeee al fin!!!!
I would love Meg to react to Halo 2’s original humans are forerunners story.
I hope you get to watch Halo RedvsBlue
Finally :D
Was liking the video until you said you enjoyed Veilguard.
Yikes.
Hi Meg hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Are you playing the game or just watching the cutscenes
She just watched the cutscenes for these games, but I believe she started playing Halo infinite right after this chunk of the stream
@@FrostbiteDigital I don't think it's insulting, rts games are not for everyone, And this is one of the better ways to get the context and story. I love both games, And I've played them multiple times but I also get that they're not for everyone
@@yourpancake652 Except she didn't get any story context whatsoever because she only watched the pre-rendered cutscenes. There are story elements during the gameplay that she doesn't know