Its insane to hear this kind of experience from someone who has only just played Halo 3 for the first time after playing the other two all those years ago, after the game has been out for 13 years. Its a shame you never got to witness the community in its prime.
I'm so sad you couldn't experience this game at its peak. Truly the summit of gaming in my opinion. The campaign was so far ahead of every other console FPS campaign at the time in every conceivable aspect. Everyone had a mic. Everyone was in game chat. Each week you'd find an awesome new custom game type and map to play with your friends. Every game you would see something amazing or funny in someone's fileshare before a match. Forge and theatre were revolutionary and jaw dropping additions at the time. My memories of Halo 3 will never be topped by any other game. Ever.
Right now I can't believe the ammount of people I met playing Halo 3 custom games. I trully have no idea how my friends and I could invite 10s or more people to play crazy game modes where we knew as little about how to play them as we knew about each other. I'm really glad I was in time to live that.
It was a wonderful era in gaming that we sadly won't see recreated and one that PC Gaming fails to emulate in my opinion despite everyone literally having even more freedom to communicate. I know there are Steam Communities and such but none of it feels the same, XBL from 2006~2010 was somehow a close-knit but vast community... it's sad really, I feel like what we have now is just an echo of it, PC as a platform is simply either too vast or too close-knit where-as XBL somehow was both, perhaps because of the limitations I'm not sure.
There' a line at the start of the last mission that always gets me. Cortana is worried about what happens when the last ring will fire. Chief simply says "We'll head for the portal, and we'll all go home." It's such a simple, confidently optimistic statement. Chief believes too. It's stirring, and motivating, and also tragic knowing what actually will happen.
I'm not sure if Chief actually believes it, or if he wants others to believe that he believes it. He's considered the best natural leader among the Spartan II's, and a good leader knows the importance of looking unshakable around those who follow him.
Not sure if you meant this but wanted to clear it up they don’t activate the ark to kill the flood they activate the newly re-made Alpha Halo from CE. Just referring the “last ring will fire” part of your comment.
Leadhead: "As you can see I am getting excited just talking about this ad campaign" Me: *Literally starting to tear up because nothing has gotten me as excited as that 20 something looking forward to "finishing" a series he started as a kid*
Fucking same.. I played as a kid and.. with it being readded to the MCC, playing it again.. fuck man. I may have cried tears of joy after beating it again
You were just a kid when you finished the fight and destroyed the brutes, now you got a wife and kids and the battle field calls you back to finish the fight.
I can almost remember the first time I played halo. It was the first flood level on Halo CE. I must've been in 5th grade or something, sleeping over at a friend's house. The clone wars was the newest star wars film and the whole idea of halo excited me. The weird chanting music and cryptic, dark loading screens... And the symphonic, bombastic soundtrack during the battles and how alien, creepy and maze-like the swamp on that flood level felt. I stopped at Halo 3 and ODST. I never got an Xbox one, though I still have my 360. It seems almost like a dream, nowadays. I'm 26 now, almost getting married. I can't believe how much and how little everything has changed.
@@hombreg1 That Flood level is even better when you play through Halo from the start. The first 5 or so levels are about skirmishing with the Covenant, and you seem to be making good progress for a while until you plug Cortana into the Control Room and she frantically yells at you to go save Keyes from something, she doesn't say what. Immediately the tone becomes more sinister, as you move through that swamp, coming across evidence of gruesome battles with both Covenant and Marine bodies alike. All leading up to the moment you meet The Flood. Immediately, the story is flipped on it's head - you're no longer fighting the Covenant or trying to keep them away from Earth, you're fighting just to survive an endless tide of horrors, aided only by the detached, ambiguous 343 Guilty Spark. Even when you're finally reunited with Cortana, everything's different. You and whatever Marines are left aren't even really "fighting" the Covenant anymore, more that you and the Covenant are scrambling over each other to get the hell away from the Flood, and keep them trapped on Halo. It's that contrast with the early game that really left an impression on me in particular. And my eyes were glued to the screen 343 Guilty Spark onwards as a result.
19:00 At first I interpreted "Wake me, when you need me" as "If there's trouble wake me up" but after a while I started seeing it more as "wake me whenever you hit the end of your operational life so you won't have to die alone" which is incredibly poignant and heartbreaking.
@@vancodling42235 years too soon… man that hits different if you imagine halo 4 being the end of Chief’s journey. A trilogy of 3 games telling the story of the reclaimer, precursors and forerunners, ending with a massive battle against the didactic, his defeat but the ultimate demise of Cortana with it. God it hurts to imagine but it’d be a beautiful ending. Think about the last thing you see in halo 4… the eyes of chief. the last you see of him is just his old, wrinkled and weathered eyes staring at you as his armor is removed… that’d be the only glimpse of his face we’d ever see, but seeing his eyes would show him to ultimately just be a man. god that would bring tears to any man.
I always saw it as Chief telling Cortana to wake him whenever she got too lonely or like you said at the end of her lifespan but also as a wink and nod to the players, Cheif's story is done for now but there is a chance he might be back.
Chief’s name is a scripture reference. John 1:17 is “This man came for a witness, to bear the Light, that all through him might *believe* “ He referring to *John* the Baptist (worth noting it’s not the same John wrote the book of John... there’s a lot of John’s in the Bible). John’s job in life was to show the truth of God and turn people away from the corrupt and wicked “religious” leaders of the day. 117 came to stop false prophets from leading people down a path of false faith and exposed the truth of the “gods” will.
Brady Wesson thanks man. I’m a Christian so the first time I heard about Halo I was instantly fascinated by the religious, and particularly Judao-Christian influence.
The Halo 3 trailer, with the ODSTs riding in hard as fuck to find out where the chief was landing. That one has to be my favorite piece of gaming media. So well done, and I'm so happy that I got to experience Halo 3, ODST, and Reach in their primes.
I feel like I'm chasing that high from that era playing video games these days. The community was great. I remember being on bungie.com grabbing halo 3 custom game files to play with all the friends I made outside and in the game.
Something cool to think about. Most marine faces in these games are based on the devs. When the marines are rooting for you and making a big deal out of you it’s like Bungie themselves are saying “we wouldn’t be here without YOU”
Even though I kept playing it on easy, I always went back to the Halo 3 campaign on the 360 when my brother would let me use it. The story, the music, the gameplay, the secrets, it all holds up to this very day. Come the day when it finally came to PC, I was such a happy man. Can't wait for the PC port of ODST, since it's the only classic entry I actually didn't get the chance to play.
@@the_sinister_plum9735 I've seen the campaign once, and I already agree. It's been a long time since I've seen it though so it should feel like a first playthrough. Plus before they release the campaign they're releasing the firefight mode for it first, and being a fan of Reach's firefight I definitely can't wait to try ODST's. I wonder if they'll still keep the option for you to play as Sgt. Johnson in it.
@@FrahdChikun oh ya firefight i forgot that damn that makes this even better and i think they will keep that option because its sgt. johnson plus it was there before so no reason to get rid of it and i think they were also adding weapon skins to halo 3 in the odst port so this ports gonna be loaded
seriously, no one ever takes the time to say this, but those 10$ a month patreons are the true heroes of youtube, it's people like them who really keep this 'free' content moving, and I am grateful. rock on
It's sad because years ago, I was under the impression that society and culture inherently trend upwards over time and that video games, along with their graphics, playstyles, and communities would only get better as the years go by. I remember playing Halo 3 in 2008 thinking "wow I can't even imagine what video games will be like in 2020." Little did I know that when 2020 came, I would be looking back to 2008 as the peak of gaming, wondering where it all started to go wrong.
I can make an argument that stuff has gotten notably better over time. Stories in games now, indie games in general, and communities that surround various platforms have gotten to do things that never would have flown back then. The medium is now far more widely recognised as a legitimate art form. One of the highest selling games of the year has a gay protagonist. Sure there's a lot of bad stuff too and some franchises have fallen by the wayside, but if we get stick backinmydaying we miss the great stuff that is happening.
As someone who played Halo 3 as a kid, and just recently got the chance to replay through the campaign with it coming to the MCC.. this video honestly brought a nostalgic tear to my eye. Believe.
@Philip Manousakis fun fact about Johnson, he was part of the mrk1 spartan program, also he's immune to the flood popcorn for because he had an Uber rare form of space cancer from using covenant municians alot. Also if you want more on his back story look up the book contact harvest. There's an audio version on RUclips.
"I got too old for sleepovers but i never got too old for halo" I want that on a t-shirt. And on a coffee cup. And on a fridge magnet. And as a tacky live laugh love -style wall decor text like karens have.
As a PC player I totally share your feelings as a kid I remember being so excited about Halo 3 I dreamed about it and I was hopping that one day I could finish the fight a decade and a half later I could and part of me it’s finally in peace.
I had a 360 so I was able to finish the fight... but I also was big into PC gaming and wanted to play it on PC for a very long time too. When I heard the MCC was coming to PC, I legit flipped my shit, was super hype for like 3 days before finally calming down about it.
Its brilliant. It's not super in your face, and it doesn't try to force a message down the players throat. It's there, it's clear, but it's also subtle
14:15 Imagine being one of those rocket marines in the transport warthog as Chief reverses to avoid the scarab beam. I would have been shitting bricks lol
It's one of the few games that makes me come back year after year, split screen with gf and finish each campaign or firefight. Multiplayer is brilliant and keeps me in the game for much of the dedicated time to games
after watching this it reminded me of the Just Cause series and how every time Rico's mission ends he leaves the action packed life for just a basic relaxing life which as we always see from whenever he is relaxing, Rico's just sitting at a beach and enjoying a bottle of wine, living as a normal person like everyone else. He hasn't become so legendary to the point of being known as this godsend of a man but he's known by those who've seen what he's capable of. He's just there waiting to come back to the action once again well that's what i thought at least
@@PrinceSilvermane sure we do. Halo 4 story is the best in the series. It expands on forerunner mythology and makes the universe even bigger. Plus the books that followed are amazing. Halo 5 story was weak though.
The coexistence of Forerunners and ancient Humans was established _well_ before 343 got involved with the story. I'm pretty sure the Precursors were established as the creator figures before 343 as well, as I remember reading fanfiction referencing them before 343.
@@Liefx Halo 4 does have a great story.... if you know the lore and read the books. I'm a giant halo fan, so I loved it. But I can recognize 343 did a trash job telling that story to the average halo fan. If they had done better telling the story, I think a lot more people have much more favorable opinions of it.... although the game play of halo 4 is still trash
@@spooky57571 I didn't read the books until after I played Halo 4, so this is why I disagree. Halo 4 is what made me care about the overall universe. Maybe it's cause i found terminals?
I felt this one. I play Halo 1 and 2 on the original XBOX and didn't get the chance at all the others because I got a PS4 and didn't play video games on the previous generation. Now that I have a PC, I got the chance to play Reach and 3 for the first time on the MCC and the games are amazing! I just finished 3 a few days ago and I loved every second of it. Glad to know i'm not the only one.
@@UNSCPILOT Yeah but that's just a thinly veiled commentary on simping. Holographic tarts popping out of alien ruins is no sound basis for a system of government!
What's funny is I had the opposite experience than you did. I only ever got to play Halo 3's campaign. I was too poor to get an xbox live pass and had no friends to play coop with. I have played the halo trilogy, reach, and odst over and over again. I'm actually doing another playthrough of the series now. It is one of those games that has impacted me greatly and has taught me that even when all seems hopeless, even when you think you have put in all the effort you possibly could, and have defied impossible odds, there is always that small chance if you hope and believe strong enough. It kinda saddens me that I never got to experience any of the halo games during the peak of its multiplayer times but I still appreciate all the time that I spent playing it greatly
This video is absolutely beautiful. I grew up playing these games, and I never knew about the ad campaigns and the interviews with the veterans that fought alongside Chief got me really emotional as well as your analysis. I feel the same way about these games, thank you for your inspirational words.
Overall, a bunch of excellent points. The only problems I spotted where some name confusion and a couple things that only deep lore Halo fans like myself know like Master Chief just being John's rank of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
The campaigns in this collection are certainly incredible. I've been doing the legendary pilgrimage through each game solo and co-op as they come. I wish it wasn't essential to move to the US just to play PvP though.
I saw this whole ad campaign when it was first released. Downloading every video when they were released on my xbox 360, leaving them saved on my xbox watching them over and over. I also had the special edition of Halo 2 and I watched the Vid Docs so many times.... Also I LOVED the contrast with Halo 3, and ODST. You go from fighting like a Greek god laying waste to every foe in your path, to feeling vulnerable, human, alone, stories told from a human perspective.
The perspective you take is super unique and your writing is fantastic. So many video essays reminisce on the hype of Halo 3 for the first time, but this video genuinely expresses that emotion. This feels like what it would if video essays were a thing when Halo 3 came out. Good work yo
I was like you, I only played Halo 1 and 2 (because I was too poor to own a console) and when Halo 3 came out on PC I was so hyped. All levels were amazing, so fun to play and I didn't know why. You hit all the correct answers, the game surpassed all my expectations, even the mp. Halo 3 is perfect.
This is a great video, but when you showed those two battles from Halos 1 and 2 and said they were the biggest that simply isn't true. The second mission on Halo CE is huge as well as the bridge fight and scarab mission from Halo 2.
Im so glad you guys get to finally continue the story, I remember experiencing this exact feeling for the first time as a kid. Halo took a rough turn after it left Bungie's hands but the first 3 games aged very well and the community is still very strong.
KBash just did a video about the Halo trilogy and now we have this. Glad to see Halo is still present in people's hearts and that the originals haven't been forgotten. Halo 3 was definitely something very special, from the ad campaign, to the campaign and story, the multiplayer and all the other features and general style of it all. It was one of the few worthy finishers of any game trilogy, especially with such hype; and helped to continue to revolutionize the gaming industry and FPS genre as the series had since Combat Evolved.
@@LARVideos lol I'm sure you're right about him mistaking. And I wasn't being sarcastic at the end I really did like the video but I was saying no it's not grunts its brutes, no they didn't replace elites as the main enemy in the previous game (the second half of Halo 2 they replaced the elites), and no they aren't a tougher enemy (most people think them easier than elites as they cannot recharge their shields once they pop)
i gotta say though, i always get a minor heart attack when i see 3 grunts with fuel rod cannons because they always seem to hit dead on and my god i haven't been this afraid of seeing a grunt up close because i fear the potentially 2 glowing orbs of death in it's hands
The best part is that the covenant start telling stories about the demon who single handedly destroyed a halo ring to the point that the prophet truth is claiming he can burn away the demon with holy cleansing flames to keep his troops in line
What always sealed it for me, from 1-3 was the marines always celebrating your arrival to the fight. They were always upbeat when you arrived on the scene, and the cutscene at the start of the second mission of halo 3, where the marines say, "It's him, we're gonna be ok!" And the blinded one is making sure they're not messing with him. Chefs kiss. I notice so much playing these games on PC that I never saw on the consoles as a kid. I'll play thorugh them all again, and I'll appreciate the story even more the next time I do.
I had a pretty similar experience with Halo 3...not too long after it came out, I went off to Japan for a couple of years to do the whole Mormon Missionary thing. By the time I'd come back Halo 3 had kind of run its course and Reach was the new hotness. I played through the campaign once and did multiplayer for about a month and then I took my Xbox 360 back to CostCo and used the money to buy myself a couple of suits. The MCC has let me rediscover the game. At first I hated it because the FOV is so insanely tight and the BR isn't hitscan anymore, but now that I've spent some time with the campaign and have gotten used to 3's mechanics and playstyle I can say that I really love the game. I think Halo 4 is an underrated gem and has easily the best depiction and characterization of the Master Chief, but 3's campaign is just a blast and the gameplay loop is almost as good as H1's.
Man I first played halo 1 and 2 back in elementary school and instantly I was hooked on the series, the lore, and mister chief himself. I played the rest of the games at friends' houses and begged my parents for xbox live at home so I could do custom games with friends. Now I'm an adult in university, studying video game art/design, and it's all because Halo captivated me so much as a kid that I had this undying urge to try and make games too. Halo 3 is one of the greatest video game experiences I've ever had, it's just so grand and awe-inspiring from start to finish, and hearing someone else break down why it's that good just really gets me. I haven't been able to put why I feel the way I do about it into words, but you did, explaining why the game feels like such an incredible finale to the original trilogy. I dunno if I'll ever contribute to any games even a fraction as incredible as Halo, but a guy can dream. Anyway, sorry for the rambling, this video was fantastic. Nearly had me tearing up at the end. Thank you for putting into words just how beautiful of a game it is. Great work, really
My brother and one of my cousins got me into Halo by showing me back in the day the Halo 3 trailers and so on, by that time, I remember him playing Halo 2 and I didnt caught much of attention, by that time the one thing that I enjoyed and still do is Star Wars, but when my brother showed me the Halo 3 trailers thats what got me into it, not to mention how awesome it felt when he and me played it, can’t describe how much of a happy childhood this game and the upcoming ones gave to me, I still get emotional whenever I hear the piano and stuff, truly one great game
The Ark isn't a planet, it's also outside of the milkyway. Also, the Dawn ,if I remember correctly, actually got part of the way back and got dumped somewhere random.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 Yep. It's fun to fantasize about the impossible. But it can be even more fun to prove the impossible to be possible. World's like halo's, fallout's, ALIEN's, and more are so captivating because human research suggests that many possibilities presented by them could be achievable. My favorite example is in DOOM, where humanity, desperate for electricity and a way to survive , harvested an energy source that could easily backfire and get everyone killed, which it did (almost). In a theoretical scenario where humanity survives to a point where only black holes exist, studies have shown the possibility of using a massive system of mirrors to generate exponential energy using an area where objects passing inside the black holes actually gain a vast amount of momentum and can escape again. The problem is if were to be constructed improperly or if procedure were not followed it could make the strongest bomb possible for humanity to construct, which would then detonate, instantly killing every last human most likely. The theme of what could happen in a worst case energy scenario and what our forms of power will be is an interesting direction of research that's already conjured such things as solar panels, so taking it to a dangerous extreme is thought provoking, even if it's a thought presented by a violent, simple fun type of game like doom.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I mean it kinda had one, as good as you could get with it's engine. Son of B.J. Blaskovitch from Wolfenstein, doomguy punched a senior officer in the face for telling him to kill Innocents, only to be transfered to Mars for it. Then hell happened. It's why two of the secret levels were Wolfenstein references. Fun fact to think about when playing the modern games, though.
Duel plasma rifles is the best ranged weapon against the flood. Also the biggest fight in Halo 1 is at the end of Two Betrayals when you have to work your way through the Covie line to steal a banshee all while the flood launch a frontal assault. Several ways to tackle that fight, but it has way more enemies and working parts than the Keyes coolant pit Also you still need an index to fire the Halo rings. Humans are just the only species that can actually activate it... Period lol I've never thought about his final line being for the audience or even the human race
I love what Halo invokes in people. I feel it too, still today. Wonderfully put, Lead. This is now jockeying for my favorite Halo essay with Noodle's "Halo is Important." Bravo
"Halo 3 Made Me Believe" I think all of us who grew up with Halo can say that. Those Halo 3 ads might be the only ads I still come back to and enjoy watching.
As a person who never played halo, nor really liked the series. When I played all games when that collection came out, Halo 3 made me LOVE it. When I was done with halo 3 I felt so filled like my life spiked, I hit the top and I’ll never experience it again. I felt inspired, motivated, full, hyped and excited, the other games didn’t make me feel the same. I’ll never forget how Halo 3 made me feel. I’ll always remember that music too, so good.
I feel like that was something that 343 did, in the Bungie era we never had any description of the forerunners. We did see forerunner soldiers in out of game content but never saw under the armor.
@@harrow5664 Since they call you "Reclaimer" but your role is always to blowup their shit, I figured the Mantle was always part of the story. So, I pretty much infer that we were always thought of as their former rivals.
@@harrow5664 It was Bungie. In Halo 3, some creatives wanted them to be Forerunners, some wanted them to be a separate species. Overall Halo 3 leans towards the idea that they're separate. Halo 4 and its tie-in novels were the first time it was really, concretely confirmed in the games, but the idea was 100% planted by Bungie there.
@@tTaseric C3 Sabertooth has an excellent video on this topic. I'll post a link but YT usually blocks those. In short, there was one main bungie employee who favored the "2 different species" idea, and he became the head writer for 343i. He also pushed the idea despite the rest of the bungie writers being against the idea. Even if this is incorrect, I would suggest watching the evidence and considering what it might mean.
@@NotARussianDisinfoBot I dont think thats true. I think it was more of a split, but neither also really cared that much so both sides frequently allowed each other leniancy.
I Played halo 3 at relase. tbh i wouldnt expect anybody to talk about it in 2020 but you sir, you managed to "wake" its dormant glory and shine new light upon one of the most beautiful, astonishing and captivating pieces of art humanity will ever make. I really wish every single player from the new generations would see this and experience it with theyr own eyes
I don't want to be THAT person here, but I will say, Halo 2's legendary is much harder on both PC releases (and MCC on the Xbone) because of some broken firerates across the board in the case of Vista, and broken AI firerates specifically in MCC. Balance is still BS, don't get me wrong, but it's not the complete joke it is in the modern releases
I'm revisiting H2 Legendary on the OG Xbox and man... I didn't remember it being so punishing. I thought it was an exaggeration but nah this difficulty really is hell if you don't master the speedrun tricks.
Hey friend, any idea if this firerate tickrate with increased framerate issue also applies to reach? I never played it on original release so I don’t have personal reference for the 360 version.
Outside of sleepovers I never played any Halo games until I was 14 when I got Halo 4. That game blew me away and a few years later I went through and played the Bungie games and I have never looked at Halo 4 the same way. Halo 3 has become one of my favorite games of all time and I will constantly go back and replay the campaign on a rainy day. The music alone still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
"Wake me when you need me" was such an impactful line, soiled and ruined by Microsoft's greed and 343's inadequacy - it wasn't just Chief talking to Cortana it was Bungie talking to us, that he should have been left drifting until the time was right for the return of the main series and the Chief but instead he and the series were rushed back into action, half-baked and inexperienced. I don't hate 343i or it's employee's and I'm fully aware of the Bungie staff who stayed on but it was a new team that should have never, EVER started with a new main line series game, they were given an amazingly good opportunity by Bungie to have reasonable time to build up their style and experience as a team without Chief with the option to bring him back later when it would have actually had some impact rather than just digging him up straight away, god it's so infuriatingly obvious that it makes my blood boil when I think about just how bad a decision Halo 4 and 5 were and how much better they could have been if they'd been built on the back of multiple spin-off 343i games that continued the story without Chief for a few years.
I agree. Look at Infinite too.The gameplay was actually depressing to watch. I’ve owned every Halo game and Infinite is likely going to be the first that I don’t buy. Very unhappy with how they are approaching the newest game. Halo 3 is and always will be my favorite.
Halo 4's art direction did everything in its power to distance itself from bungie's. I would have been fine with this had they NOT used chief as instead of saying 'this is a new era for new things' they just gave this massive middle finger to those that loved the bungie games and said 'M.C. is ours now and we'll do whatever we like with him now'. I would have been excited to see where 343 could take the halo universe and wouldn't be so attached then disappointed as to how the multiplayer played if that had been the case. P.S. someone did some credits searching in the bungie halos and halo 4/5 and found that a grand total of 2 bungie employees stayed on to become a part of 343I
Brian Wright is it out yet? How much of the story have you seen? Have you actually experienced the gameplay your self? No? Then don’t make an opinion about it before it’s even out. If it is bad when you actually play it then yeah it’s bad but wait until then OK
What amazes me about it is how there is always something new. Not just GeneralHeed finding new glitches to this day, but I never knew that on the final warthog run, you could see the ark if you looked up. Incredible.
weird tangent: I think the reason captain marvel didnt work was that if you have an uber powerful character a lot of the story comes from where they are placed. if they have built in warp speed it writes out a lot of plot beats. sorry is that a strange thing to say?
What makes the chief different from people like Superman is that the chief isnt indestructible, he doesn't have a kryptonite, he doesn't have any powers beyond enhanced human ability. He can die, very easily. He just doesn't. The comment from Cortana about luck isn't a joke, and legendary difficulty shows that. Chief survives things that should be literally impossible to and does insane feats while having nothing more than human tech on his side. Human tech that is still an active topic of research in real life, much of which has been achieved since halo 3 on some level. Also, where Captain marvel was already an indestructible hero, Master chief has to fight to obtain the title of hero. WE, the players, are there every single step of the way both witnessing and performing the feats the chief does to survive and finish the fight. We can *believe* that he did every single thing shown on screen as far as the legend and story of the chief is concerned, because we have the knowledge that we genuinely aren't far off from some of it. We'll never have crazy superpowers, we only have human tech and ability. Master Chief is an example of the theoretical height of human tech and ability, with a dosage of luck to boot, shown in a theoretical worst case combat scenario time and time again. Captain marvel is one of many fairly generic superheros.
The way you described halo 1 and halo 2 is exactly how I would say halo 4 and halo 5 are. Halo 4 is dull after playing through it so many times but sorta sets up a new trilogy, halo 5 builds up stuff then ends on a somewhat cliffhanger. This is why i hope halo infinite will be like halo 3 with its story and ending. It seems like you'll be fighting an entire army hopefully from the one gameplay trailer
Quite possibly one of the best shooters ever made in my eyes. I always loved how it took a typical sci fi story and told it in the form of a myth instead of as just a generic "us vs them but sometimes with slightly self loathing implications" story that most sci fi stories use. It's told more in the style of The Odyssey than in the style of, say, Alien or Avatar.
Halo is a great game. It's one of the reasons I want to join the military,. 117 is so inspiring . The fact that he would give his life for anyone, even a marine is so inspirational.
The game came out when I was 7 and set me on my dream to join the military which set me on a 10 year crusade to train to be able to join. Sadly when I was 17 and a half I got a medical condition that stops me from even walking at times but I still look up to the master chief when trying to overcome challenges and taking it upon myself to help those in need as much as I can
@@drb8777 You can still join the military as something that isn't combat. I believe you will be able to do it. 117 gave hope to the marines who fought beside him. They didn't believe they could fight, but then 117 gave then hope. If you believe in it you can do anything.
One thing I can say about halo 2 legendary is that it’s a major test of friendship when playing it though with your best friend. Me and my friend beat all the halo games together on legendary and it was absolutely one of the best times of my life. We plan on going back through the games in LASO.
In terms of lore its important to note that Humanity is NOT decedent of Forerunners. We are two separate species. Humanity however was CHOSEN by the Forerunners(Well some of them anyway) as reclaimers of all they left behind.
343 era lore that is. It was otherwise heavily implied prior to the 343 era that Humanity *is* Forerunner, at least when taking just the games into account. The 343 era however jossed quite a bit of old lore and speculation, for better or worse that gives us the Halo for the modern era.
@@ForlanceAbiceno. The Forerunner stuff is from the terminals in-game and was used as the basis of future Forerunner stuff. Bungie were always wishy washy until the end on the topic. Just taking the games into account. If you want to go past that the 2007 comic The Cradle of Life also shows the humans and Forerunners as separate.
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Its insane to hear this kind of experience from someone who has only just played Halo 3 for the first time after playing the other two all those years ago, after the game has been out for 13 years. Its a shame you never got to witness the community in its prime.
Best community I've ever seen
@Brendan F I came late to the party with ODST since it came with halo 3 multiplayer. Best multiplayer I've ever played.
All the late nights of custom infection...
Free Speech Extremist best and funniest Shit I’ve ever seen
I remember everything, this guy is happy with a 13 year old, i mean, the series of arby n chief, red and blue. God it was a good comunity...
I'm so sad you couldn't experience this game at its peak. Truly the summit of gaming in my opinion. The campaign was so far ahead of every other console FPS campaign at the time in every conceivable aspect. Everyone had a mic. Everyone was in game chat. Each week you'd find an awesome new custom game type and map to play with your friends. Every game you would see something amazing or funny in someone's fileshare before a match. Forge and theatre were revolutionary and jaw dropping additions at the time. My memories of Halo 3 will never be topped by any other game. Ever.
Right now I can't believe the ammount of people I met playing Halo 3 custom games. I trully have no idea how my friends and I could invite 10s or more people to play crazy game modes where we knew as little about how to play them as we knew about each other.
I'm really glad I was in time to live that.
It was a wonderful era in gaming that we sadly won't see recreated and one that PC Gaming fails to emulate in my opinion despite everyone literally having even more freedom to communicate.
I know there are Steam Communities and such but none of it feels the same, XBL from 2006~2010 was somehow a close-knit but vast community... it's sad really, I feel like what we have now is just an echo of it, PC as a platform is simply either too vast or too close-knit where-as XBL somehow was both, perhaps because of the limitations I'm not sure.
I had the same thing with gta 5 online on ps3
What a golden era of gaming :')
@Dam Sen thank you for telling my your opinion is better than my opinion. I played lots of tf2 in 2011 and 2012 and Halo 3 was more fun to me
There' a line at the start of the last mission that always gets me. Cortana is worried about what happens when the last ring will fire. Chief simply says
"We'll head for the portal, and we'll all go home."
It's such a simple, confidently optimistic statement. Chief believes too. It's stirring, and motivating, and also tragic knowing what actually will happen.
I'm not sure if Chief actually believes it, or if he wants others to believe that he believes it. He's considered the best natural leader among the Spartan II's, and a good leader knows the importance of looking unshakable around those who follow him.
The statement was simple yet powerful coming from chief.
Not sure if you meant this but wanted to clear it up they don’t activate the ark to kill the flood they activate the newly re-made Alpha Halo from CE. Just referring the “last ring will fire” part of your comment.
@@echo1180 that’s not the last ring then, that’s the first ring!!! Or, the last ring?…
You're correct. It is truly tragic that Halo 4 and 5 happened
Leadhead: "As you can see I am getting excited just talking about this ad campaign"
Me: *Literally starting to tear up because nothing has gotten me as excited as that 20 something looking forward to "finishing" a series he started as a kid*
Fucking same.. I played as a kid and.. with it being readded to the MCC, playing it again.. fuck man. I may have cried tears of joy after beating it again
You were just a kid when you finished the fight and destroyed the brutes, now you got a wife and kids and the battle field calls you back to finish the fight.
I can almost remember the first time I played halo. It was the first flood level on Halo CE. I must've been in 5th grade or something, sleeping over at a friend's house. The clone wars was the newest star wars film and the whole idea of halo excited me. The weird chanting music and cryptic, dark loading screens... And the symphonic, bombastic soundtrack during the battles and how alien, creepy and maze-like the swamp on that flood level felt. I stopped at Halo 3 and ODST. I never got an Xbox one, though I still have my 360. It seems almost like a dream, nowadays. I'm 26 now, almost getting married. I can't believe how much and how little everything has changed.
@@hombreg1 That Flood level is even better when you play through Halo from the start. The first 5 or so levels are about skirmishing with the Covenant, and you seem to be making good progress for a while until you plug Cortana into the Control Room and she frantically yells at you to go save Keyes from something, she doesn't say what. Immediately the tone becomes more sinister, as you move through that swamp, coming across evidence of gruesome battles with both Covenant and Marine bodies alike. All leading up to the moment you meet The Flood. Immediately, the story is flipped on it's head - you're no longer fighting the Covenant or trying to keep them away from Earth, you're fighting just to survive an endless tide of horrors, aided only by the detached, ambiguous 343 Guilty Spark. Even when you're finally reunited with Cortana, everything's different. You and whatever Marines are left aren't even really "fighting" the Covenant anymore, more that you and the Covenant are scrambling over each other to get the hell away from the Flood, and keep them trapped on Halo.
It's that contrast with the early game that really left an impression on me in particular. And my eyes were glued to the screen 343 Guilty Spark onwards as a result.
“Master chief turns the tide of a major battle with a single plasma grenade”
That has to be the most legendary and fitting thing for chief
Well yeah one well placed plasma grenade can turn a hopeless situation into a victory.
Besides that one time in a comic where he stuck a plasma grenade onto a brutes balls
I've personally turned the tide of many battles with a simple plasma grenade...
"Bet you can't stick it."
Is still part of my verbal repertoire.
19:00 At first I interpreted "Wake me, when you need me" as "If there's trouble wake me up" but after a while I started seeing it more as "wake me whenever you hit the end of your operational life so you won't have to die alone" which is incredibly poignant and heartbreaking.
I think halo 4s story was ok but it just had a little bit too much missing potential
@@sealcoit was 5 years too soon... and heresy
@@vancodling42235 years too soon… man that hits different if you imagine halo 4 being the end of Chief’s journey. A trilogy of 3 games telling the story of the reclaimer, precursors and forerunners, ending with a massive battle against the didactic, his defeat but the ultimate demise of Cortana with it. God it hurts to imagine but it’d be a beautiful ending. Think about the last thing you see in halo 4… the eyes of chief. the last you see of him is just his old, wrinkled and weathered eyes staring at you as his armor is removed… that’d be the only glimpse of his face we’d ever see, but seeing his eyes would show him to ultimately just be a man. god that would bring tears to any man.
I always saw it as Chief telling Cortana to wake him whenever she got too lonely or like you said at the end of her lifespan but also as a wink and nod to the players, Cheif's story is done for now but there is a chance he might be back.
Hits especially hard after the end of Halo Wars and the beginning of Halo Wars 2.
I always forget these videos come out on Mondays and it always makes my day great.
Same bruh
These videos are how I know it's Monday 😅
Dude same
666 likes moment
I love to hear people gush about the halo advertisements. This was up there with jakey
Jakey of the nakey kind?
@@Yourlibrarian nakey of the jakey variety.
I’m trying to get my best friend to watch the believe ad campaign before he starts Halo 3 for the first time.
@@gabethebabe3337 oh i hope he does, its just so good, probably the best ad campaign ever
I just realized I'm the 400th like, well thats satisfying.
Chief’s name is a scripture reference.
John 1:17 is “This man came for a witness, to bear the Light, that all through him might *believe* “
He referring to *John* the Baptist (worth noting it’s not the same John wrote the book of John... there’s a lot of John’s in the Bible).
John’s job in life was to show the truth of God and turn people away from the corrupt and wicked “religious” leaders of the day.
117 came to stop false prophets from leading people down a path of false faith and exposed the truth of the “gods” will.
Wow, underrated comment.
Philomanjaro haha, thanks man.
Wow that's so cool. Master Chief is such an inspiring character.
Holy shit...this is amazing
Brady Wesson thanks man.
I’m a Christian so the first time I heard about Halo I was instantly fascinated by the religious, and particularly Judao-Christian influence.
The Halo 3 trailer, with the ODSTs riding in hard as fuck to find out where the chief was landing.
That one has to be my favorite piece of gaming media.
So well done, and I'm so happy that I got to experience Halo 3, ODST, and Reach in their primes.
I feel like I'm chasing that high from that era playing video games these days. The community was great. I remember being on bungie.com grabbing halo 3 custom game files to play with all the friends I made outside and in the game.
Which one is that?
@@andrewmurphy5403 He's talking about Landfall.
Something cool to think about. Most marine faces in these games are based on the devs. When the marines are rooting for you and making a big deal out of you it’s like Bungie themselves are saying “we wouldn’t be here without YOU”
That's actually extremely touching
Beautifully written dude :)
oh shit its hugbox
Woah, didn't expect to see you here Noah!
Ey it’s the guy!
What are u doing here?
0:59 you're never too old for a sleepover with the right friends
Exact thoughts
Depends if I get the couch or the floor.
Trippy Bruh ??? Share the bed with your homies man
@@MediQate thats kinda hot
MediQate it’s a twin mattress and I’m 6’1ft I won’t fit with another human on it
"halo, at his most spartan"
yeah he was a pretty cool dude.
Kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything
Oh yeah I love playing as halo /s
Love that guy
I love playing as Zelda in the Link games
@@Kay_213_ thanks for the /s because we're too dumb to get it.
Even though I kept playing it on easy, I always went back to the Halo 3 campaign on the 360 when my brother would let me use it. The story, the music, the gameplay, the secrets, it all holds up to this very day. Come the day when it finally came to PC, I was such a happy man. Can't wait for the PC port of ODST, since it's the only classic entry I actually didn't get the chance to play.
lemme tell ya odst is epic your gonna love it
@@the_sinister_plum9735 I've seen the campaign once, and I already agree. It's been a long time since I've seen it though so it should feel like a first playthrough.
Plus before they release the campaign they're releasing the firefight mode for it first, and being a fan of Reach's firefight I definitely can't wait to try ODST's. I wonder if they'll still keep the option for you to play as Sgt. Johnson in it.
@@FrahdChikun oh ya firefight i forgot that damn that makes this even better and i think they will keep that option because its sgt. johnson plus it was there before so no reason to get rid of it and i think they were also adding weapon skins to halo 3 in the odst port so this ports gonna be loaded
seriously, no one ever takes the time to say this, but those 10$ a month patreons are the true heroes of youtube, it's people like them who really keep this 'free' content moving, and I am grateful. rock on
It's sad because years ago, I was under the impression that society and culture inherently trend upwards over time and that video games, along with their graphics, playstyles, and communities would only get better as the years go by. I remember playing Halo 3 in 2008 thinking "wow I can't even imagine what video games will be like in 2020."
Little did I know that when 2020 came, I would be looking back to 2008 as the peak of gaming, wondering where it all started to go wrong.
Danky Kang correct, also diversity hires and quotas really bring in people with a political message they want to push behind the scenes.
Yeah but Doom Eternal and Cyberpunk this year so....
I can make an argument that stuff has gotten notably better over time. Stories in games now, indie games in general, and communities that surround various platforms have gotten to do things that never would have flown back then. The medium is now far more widely recognised as a legitimate art form. One of the highest selling games of the year has a gay protagonist. Sure there's a lot of bad stuff too and some franchises have fallen by the wayside, but if we get stick backinmydaying we miss the great stuff that is happening.
@Брандон Кeллeр go play Firewatch and Oxenfree and see me again
@Брандон Кeллeр just pointing out that by making an all encompassing statement, your argument can be dismantled more easily.
As someone who played Halo 3 as a kid, and just recently got the chance to replay through the campaign with it coming to the MCC.. this video honestly brought a nostalgic tear to my eye.
Believe.
T-minus 24 hours until Halo Infinite premiere. Believe.
this was uploaded a veck ago?
Photography Craze
They’re a patron so they get to see it early
Halo infinity war looks so amazing it's like Just Cause 2 mixed with mega blocks
How tf this was uploaded a week ago?
@@darthlazer8895 As i got the answer. There are patron members who can see the video earlier than us normal subscribers
“Master chief is Jesus”
*why would you say something so bold but yet so true*
yet he cant walk on water ;)
@@thelvadam2884 needed a need maybe?
@@TheArrivalProductions
What?
@Philip Manousakis fun fact about Johnson, he was part of the mrk1 spartan program, also he's immune to the flood popcorn for because he had an Uber rare form of space cancer from using covenant municians alot. Also if you want more on his back story look up the book contact harvest. There's an audio version on RUclips.
@@007wmd7 Yes, _space cancer..._ _Definitely_ space cancer... -ONI
"I got too old for sleepovers but i never got too old for halo"
I want that on a t-shirt. And on a coffee cup. And on a fridge magnet. And as a tacky live laugh love -style wall decor text like karens have.
As a PC player I totally share your feelings as a kid I remember being so excited about Halo 3 I dreamed about it and I was hopping that one day I could finish the fight a decade and a half later I could and part of me it’s finally in peace.
I had a 360 so I was able to finish the fight... but I also was big into PC gaming and wanted to play it on PC for a very long time too. When I heard the MCC was coming to PC, I legit flipped my shit, was super hype for like 3 days before finally calming down about it.
What is he doing?
"He's beginning to believe"
Heyyy I just watched The Matrix the other day lol
Non halo players: what’s your favorite halo 3 level?
Halo players: YES
voxel spec flood but then scarab DAM
EVEN U GET A CHOICE U COULD BE AN IDIOT AND NOT SAVE HIM OR SAVE HIM AAAAAA
If everyone’s favorite halo 3 mission isn’t the final mission, then we’ve got a problem, cause that is the funniest mission to play with friends
Not cortana that’s for sure
They’re all fantastic...EXCEPT rescuing cortana from the grave mind on high charity. FUCK that level
Covenant. Hands down. But the storm, sierra 117, the ark and Halo are top tier.
Just finished Halo 3 with my friend who never played the series before until now, and it really felt great experiencing my childhood game with him
The religious imagery in halo is actually quite beautiful in a way
Its brilliant. It's not super in your face, and it doesn't try to force a message down the players throat. It's there, it's clear, but it's also subtle
What imagery?
@@thenothingking The game is called “halo”
@@HoagsObject00 a name and shape isn’t that much lmao
@@thenothingking the ark and the flood is a biblical reference to Noah's ark that was supposed to save everything from a literal flood
This was amazing!!! I hope you talk about reach next.
You know... Maybe I *will*
Leadhead that would be awesome!
Reach was a great game but had themes of existential dread
I loved reach. because of it I bought halo 3.
I still have the 360 Reach disc. Horribly sad but a lotta fun.
Video Summary: I think halo is a pretty cool guy, hes shoots aliens and doesnt afraid of anything
And his blue waifu is pretty cool
you know what's the difference between me and the enemy?
Their head is full of lead.
they are also dead and im not and thats what important
14:15 Imagine being one of those rocket marines in the transport warthog as Chief reverses to avoid the scarab beam. I would have been shitting bricks lol
It's one of the few games that makes me come back year after year, split screen with gf and finish each campaign or firefight. Multiplayer is brilliant and keeps me in the game for much of the dedicated time to games
To this day the Halo 3 believe marketing campaign is some of the best I've seen in gaming. Those trailer's were incredible.
It really made you Believe. I consider it I C O N I C tbh.
Man, you can tell Leadhead had a blast with Theater mode. Really shows
Alright this video convinced me
Downloading the master chief collection soon
after watching this it reminded me of the Just Cause series and how every time Rico's mission ends he leaves the action packed life for just a basic relaxing life which as we always see from whenever he is relaxing, Rico's just sitting at a beach and enjoying a bottle of wine, living as a normal person like everyone else. He hasn't become so legendary to the point of being known as this godsend of a man but he's known by those who've seen what he's capable of. He's just there waiting to come back to the action once again
well that's what i thought at least
Man just cause 3 was great
i remember having dreams about that specific scarab fight holy shit
"HUmans are descendants of the Forerunners"
Ohhh little does he know how much that changes later on :P
We don't talk about 343 Halo
@@PrinceSilvermane sure we do. Halo 4 story is the best in the series. It expands on forerunner mythology and makes the universe even bigger. Plus the books that followed are amazing. Halo 5 story was weak though.
The coexistence of Forerunners and ancient Humans was established _well_ before 343 got involved with the story. I'm pretty sure the Precursors were established as the creator figures before 343 as well, as I remember reading fanfiction referencing them before 343.
@@Liefx Halo 4 does have a great story.... if you know the lore and read the books.
I'm a giant halo fan, so I loved it. But I can recognize 343 did a trash job telling that story to the average halo fan. If they had done better telling the story, I think a lot more people have much more favorable opinions of it.... although the game play of halo 4 is still trash
@@spooky57571 I didn't read the books until after I played Halo 4, so this is why I disagree. Halo 4 is what made me care about the overall universe. Maybe it's cause i found terminals?
You’re never too old for sleep overs
I felt this one. I play Halo 1 and 2 on the original XBOX and didn't get the chance at all the others because I got a PS4 and didn't play video games on the previous generation. Now that I have a PC, I got the chance to play Reach and 3 for the first time on the MCC and the games are amazing! I just finished 3 a few days ago and I loved every second of it. Glad to know i'm not the only one.
I have to go watch those ads again they were amazing
We could make a religion out of this
Ironically part of the message of halo is to *not* make a religion about Halos XD
@@UNSCPILOT the great journey is upon us
@@UNSCPILOT Yeah but that's just a thinly veiled commentary on simping. Holographic tarts popping out of alien ruins is no sound basis for a system of government!
@@fnamelname9077 I guess supreme executive power derive from the masses would work?
@@snimon5824 Yeeee
Love you dad :)
The what
daddy leadhead
Stop
What's funny is I had the opposite experience than you did. I only ever got to play Halo 3's campaign. I was too poor to get an xbox live pass and had no friends to play coop with. I have played the halo trilogy, reach, and odst over and over again. I'm actually doing another playthrough of the series now. It is one of those games that has impacted me greatly and has taught me that even when all seems hopeless, even when you think you have put in all the effort you possibly could, and have defied impossible odds, there is always that small chance if you hope and believe strong enough. It kinda saddens me that I never got to experience any of the halo games during the peak of its multiplayer times but I still appreciate all the time that I spent playing it greatly
When that one guy says. “We knew chief was still in the fight, he gave us hope” gives me chills and makes me feel something
Watching the montage in the middle of the video almost made me cry of nostalgia. I am not joking when I say this.
20 SECONDS AGO LET'S GO BABY
WAIT WHAT THE HELL WHY ARE ALL THE COMMENTS A WEEK OLD
Patreon gets access a week early
This video is absolutely beautiful. I grew up playing these games, and I never knew about the ad campaigns and the interviews with the veterans that fought alongside Chief got me really emotional as well as your analysis. I feel the same way about these games, thank you for your inspirational words.
Looking forward to watching another excellent video from one of if not my favourite youtuber. Keep up the good work dude.
The way you talk about chief nearly made me cry tears of joy.
Halo has always been such a massive part of my childhood and life in general.
*monotone voice:* as you can see I'm getting excited just talking about this ad campaign
Overall, a bunch of excellent points. The only problems I spotted where some name confusion and a couple things that only deep lore Halo fans like myself know like Master Chief just being John's rank of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
The campaigns in this collection are certainly incredible. I've been doing the legendary pilgrimage through each game solo and co-op as they come. I wish it wasn't essential to move to the US just to play PvP though.
I saw this whole ad campaign when it was first released. Downloading every video when they were released on my xbox 360, leaving them saved on my xbox watching them over and over.
I also had the special edition of Halo 2 and I watched the Vid Docs so many times....
Also I LOVED the contrast with Halo 3, and ODST. You go from fighting like a Greek god laying waste to every foe in your path, to feeling vulnerable, human, alone, stories told from a human perspective.
"second coming of the Chief" yup.
"I'd never finish the fight" has to be one of the saddest things I've ever heard
I love how the comments say 1 week ago while it's been 1 minute
Yes. These comments are by patrons, they get to see the video early
patreon.
The perspective you take is super unique and your writing is fantastic. So many video essays reminisce on the hype of Halo 3 for the first time, but this video genuinely expresses that emotion. This feels like what it would if video essays were a thing when Halo 3 came out. Good work yo
If only Halo: Infinite has the halo 3 level of marketting
It’s just some ea marketing like: LOOK GRAPHIC GOOD UR BRAIN THINK GRRAPHIC GOOD DLC CONTENT GOOD BUYYY
Nope
Tbh Infinite marketing has been pretty great so far, not Halo 3 level just yet, but every trailer has given me chills (aside from the gameplay)
I was like you, I only played Halo 1 and 2 (because I was too poor to own a console) and when Halo 3 came out on PC I was so hyped. All levels were amazing, so fun to play and I didn't know why. You hit all the correct answers, the game surpassed all my expectations, even the mp.
Halo 3 is perfect.
This is a great video, but when you showed those two battles from Halos 1 and 2 and said they were the biggest that simply isn't true. The second mission on Halo CE is huge as well as the bridge fight and scarab mission from Halo 2.
Im so glad you guys get to finally continue the story, I remember experiencing this exact feeling for the first time as a kid. Halo took a rough turn after it left Bungie's hands but the first 3 games aged very well and the community is still very strong.
I'm crying out of pure nostalgia, thank you, Lead
KBash just did a video about the Halo trilogy and now we have this. Glad to see Halo is still present in people's hearts and that the originals haven't been forgotten.
Halo 3 was definitely something very special, from the ad campaign, to the campaign and story, the multiplayer and all the other features and general style of it all. It was one of the few worthy finishers of any game trilogy, especially with such hype; and helped to continue to revolutionize the gaming industry and FPS genre as the series had since Combat Evolved.
"The grunts replaced the elites from the previous game, and they're way beefier"... Uh no, no, and no lol. Good video though fam
He probably meant Brutes and just misspoke.
@@LARVideos lol I'm sure you're right about him mistaking. And I wasn't being sarcastic at the end I really did like the video but I was saying no it's not grunts its brutes, no they didn't replace elites as the main enemy in the previous game (the second half of Halo 2 they replaced the elites), and no they aren't a tougher enemy (most people think them easier than elites as they cannot recharge their shields once they pop)
i gotta say though, i always get a minor heart attack when i see 3 grunts with fuel rod cannons because they always seem to hit dead on and my god i haven't been this afraid of seeing a grunt up close because i fear the potentially 2 glowing orbs of death in it's hands
That would've been funny if it happen
The grunts go from comic relief cowards to rushless enemies
I do hope you’ve read Greg Bears Forerunner Saga, really makes guilty spark come to life!
The best part is that the covenant start telling stories about the demon who single handedly destroyed a halo ring to the point that the prophet truth is claiming he can burn away the demon with holy cleansing flames to keep his troops in line
You reminded me why I loved halo 3 so much. Thank you
Halo 3 is one of my favorite pieces of media ever. It just hits different
What always sealed it for me, from 1-3 was the marines always celebrating your arrival to the fight. They were always upbeat when you arrived on the scene, and the cutscene at the start of the second mission of halo 3, where the marines say,
"It's him, we're gonna be ok!"
And the blinded one is making sure they're not messing with him. Chefs kiss. I notice so much playing these games on PC that I never saw on the consoles as a kid. I'll play thorugh them all again, and I'll appreciate the story even more the next time I do.
I had a pretty similar experience with Halo 3...not too long after it came out, I went off to Japan for a couple of years to do the whole Mormon Missionary thing. By the time I'd come back Halo 3 had kind of run its course and Reach was the new hotness. I played through the campaign once and did multiplayer for about a month and then I took my Xbox 360 back to CostCo and used the money to buy myself a couple of suits.
The MCC has let me rediscover the game. At first I hated it because the FOV is so insanely tight and the BR isn't hitscan anymore, but now that I've spent some time with the campaign and have gotten used to 3's mechanics and playstyle I can say that I really love the game.
I think Halo 4 is an underrated gem and has easily the best depiction and characterization of the Master Chief, but 3's campaign is just a blast and the gameplay loop is almost as good as H1's.
Man I first played halo 1 and 2 back in elementary school and instantly I was hooked on the series, the lore, and mister chief himself. I played the rest of the games at friends' houses and begged my parents for xbox live at home so I could do custom games with friends. Now I'm an adult in university, studying video game art/design, and it's all because Halo captivated me so much as a kid that I had this undying urge to try and make games too. Halo 3 is one of the greatest video game experiences I've ever had, it's just so grand and awe-inspiring from start to finish, and hearing someone else break down why it's that good just really gets me. I haven't been able to put why I feel the way I do about it into words, but you did, explaining why the game feels like such an incredible finale to the original trilogy. I dunno if I'll ever contribute to any games even a fraction as incredible as Halo, but a guy can dream. Anyway, sorry for the rambling, this video was fantastic. Nearly had me tearing up at the end. Thank you for putting into words just how beautiful of a game it is. Great work, really
It was the prophets that disliked.
My brother and one of my cousins got me into Halo by showing me back in the day the Halo 3 trailers and so on, by that time, I remember him playing Halo 2 and I didnt caught much of attention, by that time the one thing that I enjoyed and still do is Star Wars, but when my brother showed me the Halo 3 trailers thats what got me into it, not to mention how awesome it felt when he and me played it, can’t describe how much of a happy childhood this game and the upcoming ones gave to me, I still get emotional whenever I hear the piano and stuff, truly one great game
Me when my family asks why I like the Mondays (unlike the orange cat):
The Ark isn't a planet, it's also outside of the milkyway.
Also, the Dawn ,if I remember correctly, actually got part of the way back and got dumped somewhere random.
man he's gonna be dissapointed by halo 4.
4 was _ok_ for being made by an entirely new team who were apparently unexposed to halo prior to it.
5 was literal shit and had no excuse.
@@fusrosandvich3738 a bit like Fallout 3 and Fallout 4.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 Yep.
It's fun to fantasize about the impossible. But it can be even more fun to prove the impossible to be possible. World's like halo's, fallout's, ALIEN's, and more are so captivating because human research suggests that many possibilities presented by them could be achievable.
My favorite example is in DOOM, where humanity, desperate for electricity and a way to survive , harvested an energy source that could easily backfire and get everyone killed, which it did (almost).
In a theoretical scenario where humanity survives to a point where only black holes exist, studies have shown the possibility of using a massive system of mirrors to generate exponential energy using an area where objects passing inside the black holes actually gain a vast amount of momentum and can escape again.
The problem is if were to be constructed improperly or if procedure were not followed it could make the strongest bomb possible for humanity to construct, which would then detonate, instantly killing every last human most likely.
The theme of what could happen in a worst case energy scenario and what our forms of power will be is an interesting direction of research that's already conjured such things as solar panels, so taking it to a dangerous extreme is thought provoking, even if it's a thought presented by a violent, simple fun type of game like doom.
@@fusrosandvich3738 i'm glad Doom has a story now, it's the one thing it was missing.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I mean it kinda had one, as good as you could get with it's engine. Son of B.J. Blaskovitch from Wolfenstein, doomguy punched a senior officer in the face for telling him to kill Innocents, only to be transfered to Mars for it. Then hell happened.
It's why two of the secret levels were Wolfenstein references.
Fun fact to think about when playing the modern games, though.
Duel plasma rifles is the best ranged weapon against the flood.
Also the biggest fight in Halo 1 is at the end of Two Betrayals when you have to work your way through the Covie line to steal a banshee all while the flood launch a frontal assault. Several ways to tackle that fight, but it has way more enemies and working parts than the Keyes coolant pit
Also you still need an index to fire the Halo rings. Humans are just the only species that can actually activate it... Period lol
I've never thought about his final line being for the audience or even the human race
Someone finally made a video about the ad campaign for halo 3. It was amazing. Even halo 3: odst ad campaign.
I love what Halo invokes in people. I feel it too, still today. Wonderfully put, Lead. This is now jockeying for my favorite Halo essay with Noodle's "Halo is Important." Bravo
"Halo 3 Made Me Believe" I think all of us who grew up with Halo can say that. Those Halo 3 ads might be the only ads I still come back to and enjoy watching.
As a person who never played halo, nor really liked the series. When I played all games when that collection came out, Halo 3 made me LOVE it. When I was done with halo 3 I felt so filled like my life spiked, I hit the top and I’ll never experience it again. I felt inspired, motivated, full, hyped and excited, the other games didn’t make me feel the same. I’ll never forget how Halo 3 made me feel. I’ll always remember that music too, so good.
The descendants of the forerunner thing is actually frustrating to listen to knowing what actually happened
I feel like that was something that 343 did, in the Bungie era we never had any description of the forerunners. We did see forerunner soldiers in out of game content but never saw under the armor.
@@harrow5664 Since they call you "Reclaimer" but your role is always to blowup their shit, I figured the Mantle was always part of the story. So, I pretty much infer that we were always thought of as their former rivals.
@@harrow5664 It was Bungie. In Halo 3, some creatives wanted them to be Forerunners, some wanted them to be a separate species. Overall Halo 3 leans towards the idea that they're separate.
Halo 4 and its tie-in novels were the first time it was really, concretely confirmed in the games, but the idea was 100% planted by Bungie there.
@@tTaseric C3 Sabertooth has an excellent video on this topic. I'll post a link but YT usually blocks those. In short, there was one main bungie employee who favored the "2 different species" idea, and he became the head writer for 343i. He also pushed the idea despite the rest of the bungie writers being against the idea. Even if this is incorrect, I would suggest watching the evidence and considering what it might mean.
@@NotARussianDisinfoBot I dont think thats true. I think it was more of a split, but neither also really cared that much so both sides frequently allowed each other leniancy.
I Played halo 3 at relase. tbh i wouldnt expect anybody to talk about it in 2020 but you sir, you managed to "wake" its dormant glory and shine new light upon one of the most beautiful, astonishing and captivating pieces of art humanity will ever make. I really wish every single player from the new generations would see this and experience it with theyr own eyes
your theater and blind skull work is amazing btw
I don't want to be THAT person here, but I will say, Halo 2's legendary is much harder on both PC releases (and MCC on the Xbone) because of some broken firerates across the board in the case of Vista, and broken AI firerates specifically in MCC. Balance is still BS, don't get me wrong, but it's not the complete joke it is in the modern releases
I'm revisiting H2 Legendary on the OG Xbox and man... I didn't remember it being so punishing. I thought it was an exaggeration but nah this difficulty really is hell if you don't master the speedrun tricks.
@@AlayoAgua Like I said, still difficult as hell, but it isn't quite as hellish. You never die before your hud appears on screen
Hey friend, any idea if this firerate tickrate with increased framerate issue also applies to reach? I never played it on original release so I don’t have personal reference for the 360 version.
@@noobishmacgaming None that I'm aware of, but I can confirm that the 360 version ran at 30 tick so I wouldn't be shocked
Outside of sleepovers I never played any Halo games until I was 14 when I got Halo 4. That game blew me away and a few years later I went through and played the Bungie games and I have never looked at Halo 4 the same way. Halo 3 has become one of my favorite games of all time and I will constantly go back and replay the campaign on a rainy day. The music alone still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
"Wake me when you need me" was such an impactful line, soiled and ruined by Microsoft's greed and 343's inadequacy - it wasn't just Chief talking to Cortana it was Bungie talking to us, that he should have been left drifting until the time was right for the return of the main series and the Chief but instead he and the series were rushed back into action, half-baked and inexperienced.
I don't hate 343i or it's employee's and I'm fully aware of the Bungie staff who stayed on but it was a new team that should have never, EVER started with a new main line series game, they were given an amazingly good opportunity by Bungie to have reasonable time to build up their style and experience as a team without Chief with the option to bring him back later when it would have actually had some impact rather than just digging him up straight away, god it's so infuriatingly obvious that it makes my blood boil when I think about just how bad a decision Halo 4 and 5 were and how much better they could have been if they'd been built on the back of multiple spin-off 343i games that continued the story without Chief for a few years.
I agree. Look at Infinite too.The gameplay was actually depressing to watch. I’ve owned every Halo game and Infinite is likely going to be the first that I don’t buy. Very unhappy with how they are approaching the newest game. Halo 3 is and always will be my favorite.
Halo 4's art direction did everything in its power to distance itself from bungie's. I would have been fine with this had they NOT used chief as instead of saying 'this is a new era for new things' they just gave this massive middle finger to those that loved the bungie games and said 'M.C. is ours now and we'll do whatever we like with him now'. I would have been excited to see where 343 could take the halo universe and wouldn't be so attached then disappointed as to how the multiplayer played if that had been the case.
P.S. someone did some credits searching in the bungie halos and halo 4/5 and found that a grand total of 2 bungie employees stayed on to become a part of 343I
@@Radian333 ill play it with game pass
Well said!
Brian Wright is it out yet? How much of the story have you seen? Have you actually experienced the gameplay your self? No? Then don’t make an opinion about it before it’s even out. If it is bad when you actually play it then yeah it’s bad but wait until then OK
What amazes me about it is how there is always something new. Not just GeneralHeed finding new glitches to this day, but I never knew that on the final warthog run, you could see the ark if you looked up. Incredible.
weird tangent: I think the reason captain marvel didnt work was that if you have an uber powerful character a lot of the story comes from where they are placed. if they have built in warp speed it writes out a lot of plot beats.
sorry is that a strange thing to say?
Spend 66 more seconds to compare this to da chief
What makes the chief different from people like Superman is that the chief isnt indestructible, he doesn't have a kryptonite, he doesn't have any powers beyond enhanced human ability. He can die, very easily.
He just doesn't.
The comment from Cortana about luck isn't a joke, and legendary difficulty shows that. Chief survives things that should be literally impossible to and does insane feats while having nothing more than human tech on his side. Human tech that is still an active topic of research in real life, much of which has been achieved since halo 3 on some level.
Also, where Captain marvel was already an indestructible hero, Master chief has to fight to obtain the title of hero. WE, the players, are there every single step of the way both witnessing and performing the feats the chief does to survive and finish the fight. We can *believe* that he did every single thing shown on screen as far as the legend and story of the chief is concerned, because we have the knowledge that we genuinely aren't far off from some of it. We'll never have crazy superpowers, we only have human tech and ability.
Master Chief is an example of the theoretical height of human tech and ability, with a dosage of luck to boot, shown in a theoretical worst case combat scenario time and time again.
Captain marvel is one of many fairly generic superheros.
@@fusrosandvich3738 A perfect description.
The way you described halo 1 and halo 2 is exactly how I would say halo 4 and halo 5 are. Halo 4 is dull after playing through it so many times but sorta sets up a new trilogy, halo 5 builds up stuff then ends on a somewhat cliffhanger. This is why i hope halo infinite will be like halo 3 with its story and ending. It seems like you'll be fighting an entire army hopefully from the one gameplay trailer
Jesus wanted to be Master Chief, he looked up to him.
Quite possibly one of the best shooters ever made in my eyes. I always loved how it took a typical sci fi story and told it in the form of a myth instead of as just a generic "us vs them but sometimes with slightly self loathing implications" story that most sci fi stories use. It's told more in the style of The Odyssey than in the style of, say, Alien or Avatar.
Halo is a great game. It's one of the reasons I want to join the military,. 117 is so inspiring . The fact that he would give his life for anyone, even a marine is so inspirational.
The game came out when I was 7 and set me on my dream to join the military which set me on a 10 year crusade to train to be able to join. Sadly when I was 17 and a half I got a medical condition that stops me from even walking at times but I still look up to the master chief when trying to overcome challenges and taking it upon myself to help those in need as much as I can
@@drb8777 You can still join the military as something that isn't combat. I believe you will be able to do it. 117 gave hope to the marines who fought beside him. They didn't believe they could fight, but then 117 gave then hope. If you believe in it you can do anything.
Jesus Christ is God and died for your sins!(‘:
One thing I can say about halo 2 legendary is that it’s a major test of friendship when playing it though with your best friend. Me and my friend beat all the halo games together on legendary and it was absolutely one of the best times of my life. We plan on going back through the games in LASO.
In terms of lore its important to note that Humanity is NOT decedent of Forerunners. We are two separate species. Humanity however was CHOSEN by the Forerunners(Well some of them anyway) as reclaimers of all they left behind.
343 era lore that is.
It was otherwise heavily implied prior to the 343 era that Humanity *is* Forerunner, at least when taking just the games into account.
The 343 era however jossed quite a bit of old lore and speculation, for better or worse that gives us the Halo for the modern era.
@@ForlanceAbiceno. The Forerunner stuff is from the terminals in-game and was used as the basis of future Forerunner stuff. Bungie were always wishy washy until the end on the topic. Just taking the games into account. If you want to go past that the 2007 comic The Cradle of Life also shows the humans and Forerunners as separate.
i love halo 2 because of the story line and the characters it was my first halo game i played.
The only question is why you’d wait 10 years for halo 3 when you can just spend like $40 for an Xbox 360 and a copy of halo 3
b/c you'd still be playing it with controllers.
@@babapambazuka2845 Heretic! Heretic!
Best video yet imo love the perspectives you put on this. Thanks for giving my childhood a voice
“John One-Seventeen”
Say John 1-1-7, it’s just the right way to say it.
Top Keksis one seventeen
This was an excellent video. Man those three Halo games were something else. Something that thrived during the peak of gaming.