How you feel about Halo as a kid is how I feel about Skyrim as an adult. I wasn't allowed to play Halo as a kid or any game with "violence" and it wasn't until I was living on my own was when I fell in love with Skyrim. I know its "memed" alot and has alot of flaws. But it was the first videogame I played that made me want to do more then just beat the game. Spent probably 200 + hours in that game over the course of several years.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Skyrim gamee here. The games are wonderful because of the flaws, the story, and many other aspects. Love both of them alike.
Skyrim was the first Bethesda game outside fallout 3 that I fell in love with. The lore, quests, tomb raids, graphics, rendering and armor styles were incredible. Skyrim remained relevant for me until 2019.
Honestly up until the release of Halo 4, everything about the franchise was gold. The books built an interesting world, the games were on point and the shorts they did were fantastic. The last time I genuinely felt the franchise could do no wrong was the release of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, that's when it last felt like Halo (right before the release of 4). I had some fun with 5's multiplayer when that launched and a bit with Infinites during beta, but it's not the same.
Honestly Halo 4 is criminally underrated judged on its campaign atleast, incredible settings, graphics, sound track and cutscenes... But it should have been more of a spinoff game rather than a mainstream game. Halo 5 though is a POS and 343 are just a joke now.. We are living in a post-Cult of the Developer world, given how Destiny turned out; any further Halo game they made likely would have sucked worse than 4.
There's always that one mega important game everyone talks about that goes right past you as a child. Halo is that for me. So I'm excited to learn what I missed and what happened to this big monolith I've only ever seen from afar.
Halo is one that passed me by as well. Mainly because I never played console games only PC games. Even when Halo became available for PC my interest in playing it had long gone.
Honestly, if you have $40/£30 and the storage space, get Halo MCC. It's all the Bungie games and Halo 4 (including their multiplayers). A very good price. Make sure to play CE and 2 with their original graphics first. Halo 2's Anniversary graphics are nice, but it's better to experience them 2 the original way first.
Being a fan of the series doesn't mean you blindly love and follow anything with its name on it. I think almost everyone felt Halo after Reach just wasn't what it used to be. Looking forward to your next video on the topic, as a life long fan of the Halo franchise I know it will be a Great Journey.
Just want to say, halo for the majority of my life has been a great source of joy and passion. It is what introduced to expanded universes via its novels and my obsession for lore was born. But as much as I choose to hold on to hope after halo 5 the franchise just hasn't held that same spark with new projects. I'll simply end this comment with me remembering seeing the milky way galaxy from the arc in 3 and realized just how amazing games really are with endless story potential
If Halo Infinite launched with forge, social features, co-op campaign, and many game modes like infection or team snipers then so many people would have stayed. But you only get one chance at first impressions and 343 dropped the ball so hard with Infinites content. And its sad too because people really like the gameplay and art style since 3 and reach for the first time but without any content people got bored and left. 1 or 2 years from now I hope the game will make some kind of comeback like no mans sky or apex legends did, but 343 lost a huge chunk of that casual crowd that they may never get back.
Halo 1 was a game changer. I was never personally invested in the series but I can't count how many times I got sucked into multiplayer back in the day, haha. I honestly think we're still feeling its influence to this day. Here's to hoping they can turn it all around someday, for the fans' sake.
Halo Reach is my personal favourite, but Halo just hasn’t been the same since 4, which is odd for me to say considering that Halo 4 was actually the first one I played and is what introduced me to halo, but despite that it’s still disappointing
While I get your sentiment, you really need to give Halo Infinite and 5 a try. I agree that 5 isn't great and Infinite dropped the ball on offering different environments. However, I thoroughly enjoyed Infinite's campaign, despite these shortcomings. The gameplay is solid. They just went through dev hell to get it focused. As someone that actually managed to get the Recon armor in Halo 3, a true diehard Halo fan, I do think it's worth checking out the whole series and make your own opinion. There is hope, there is light at the end of tunnel. It really just depends on who's left at the wheel of the franchise, as game director, to keep the spark of what made the games fun alive. Also, seriously consider playing Halo Wars 1 + 2. They're super impressive and fun RTSs that shouldn't work on console, but they do.
To comment on a series like halo and say it's dead when you haven't even played the last to entries just shows clear bias and hate towards 343 and a lot of everyone's issues and frustrations are warranted but we also. Played the games. We did that thing. Just silly to make a video like this. It's like me complaining about how call of duty has dropped off but haven't played a cod since bo2.
Campaign is trash and was horrible at launch. Couldn't even co-op the campaign. Spartan cores were bugged af, crashes and glitches abound on PC. Fob mechanic was severely underbaked, just ammo and vehicle depots. Oh yeah, Marines can't drive and the UI doesn't even incorporate Marines like Reach did, you used to have a small list on the UI of nearby Marine names fighting by you. How did it regress? The complete and total lack of any interesting environments. Every single level is Halo from CE. Open grass areas, basic mountains, and all the underground/forerunner stuff looks the exact same. You enjoyed moving batteries around while Cortana just keeps repeating quotes from old Halo quotes, just so New Cortana can talk about them. Oh yeah, half the story is audiologs talking about all the things you missed in Cryo, which is directly ripped from CE again, dropped into a lost/losing fight. Except it doesn't even copy the good things from CE, which had memorable characters throughout on the human side. You spend most of your time with a non-UNSC repairman and New Cortana, never once interacting with any UNSC personnel other than to give them sentinel beams for the Razorback. Halo Infinite is less finished than 5 and the story is only marginally better, but miles below what you from from CE-3, at the very least. Not one cool set-piece moment like giving the covenant back their bomb, blowing up an entire Halo Ring, sneaking around as Covenant fighting covenant. Not one thing like that. Sub-par campaign that only looks great because of how bad 5's was and how 5's campaign was lied about pre-launch. It's bad compared to 4, which let you fly the Pelican! No flying the Pelican in this one, it's the under-equipped and useless civilians job. Couldn't be Master Chief doing everything himself like a Lone Wolf because he failed to stop the banished, or rather, was truly helpless to, just like in CE and waking up out of cryo. Or 4 and waking up out of Cryo. Not to mention if you haven't played Halo Wars, but did play 5. You're gonna be extremely confused why Guardians are nothing anymore, the world ending threat was completely resolved, and why yet another faction of old covenant are simply doing the exact same thing as old covenant, except his time the game acts like you know all about them.
As someone who’s played Halo 4 like ten times in the last year and all of Spartan Ops once solo this video PROBABLY isn’t for me lol Edit: I watched the video and I have to say, after Halo 4 I went from being a diehard Halo guy for YEARS to just like dropping the series But I feel like that’s because I migrated to PS3/4 more than anything. Then back in 2019 I saw the Halo arcade shooter and played it and the audiovisual presentation just took me back to 2001. So I went out and bought an Xbox One and Halo 5 and the MCC and it’s been all over for any shooter since for me. While Halo 5’s story isn’t great, the custom game browser is incredible and MCC might be the greatest video game ever released IMHO. I love the campaign of Infinite it’s like ODST on Steroids and Season 2 of the MP looks great. I love Halo so much, the only franchise that even comes close for me is the first game I ever played, Sonic. Saber I implore you to just give these games another try.
I'm definately one of the jaded bungie fanboys at heart, but there's so many things I love about halo 4. Cortanas arc, plus the whole spartan ops concept/story were so good. If 343 stuck to their guns and made fireteams Mystic/Osiris/Crimson the main cast of their games they could have just left chief in space for a while lol
@@TheRealAmericanMan large is not always a benefit when the majority of the world is empty and fully fleshed out is laughably false. Both Infinite and ODST suffer from the problem of the overworld having nothing of any sort of interest besides audiologs. Filling the world with cosmetic drops for MP and squads to rescue that do nothing are not fleshing anything out. A larger world with less visual diversity than ODST's missions, but on-par with the quality of ODSTs overworld. Which is to say bland looking and minus the atmosphere that sells ODSTs campaign. Nothing new to see here, you've see this exact environment on the CE mission Halo and it's even less visually diverse than the upgraded Halo level from 2, Delta Halo. The one spot where Infinite beats ODSts open world is the occasional vingittes you find. Even purging the mini-dungeons in the open world are on par with things like the major intersection with Hunters in it in the ODST open world. Except on ODST, Phantoms don't disappear in front of your face "because of cloaking". Funnily enough, you also have similar levels of interaction with other UNSC personnel in ODST, a bit more, but it's also not fleshed out much beyond your squad. Edit: funnily enough, ODST makes sense if you've played Halo 1-3, you know exactly who is what. You've seen ODSTs before, you are familiar with New Mombasa being attacked by Covenant. You don't have this jarring moment where ODST takes place after 2, but in a conflict you've never heard of with enemies you have fought before but now the paintjob is different. Which is something two Halos have done now, as made by 343, with the Storm covenant. Which also came out of nowhere in the games and then became a non-threat in the next one. Like Halo 5 to infinite. Halo Infinite requires you to play the infinitely less popular RTS game series to know who the infinites big bads actually are.
I never played Halo, but my first introduction to Bungie was Destiny 1. I’ve been playing it since the beta and am still enjoying Destiny. I’m glad Destiny is a success so I can look back and remember all the hours I spent playing the game I love.
So for me actually, the problem started when 343 changed direction after Halo 4's negative reception. The game's quite dependent on the player to either have read the Forerunner trilogy of novels or spent an inordinate amount of time on the wiki. So my first playthrough of it was certainly baffling in places. But now that I'm quite familiar with everything it's one of my favorites. But because of that negative reaction they killed The Didact off in a comic and ran off in a new direction with Halo 5. And again, it bombed it with fans. So the Banished were introduced in Halo Wars 2, and after that got the (well deserved) extremely positive reception it got from fans, they changed gears yet again. The ending of Halo 5 hypes up the Created Conflict, then we waited six years to find out it was over in a little over a year. I'm very worried that it's just going to keep happening. But if you're planning on reading all the books and everything I think you're going to develop a new appreciation for Halo 4's campaign. I always wonder what could've been had they just stuck to their guns.
All true, my biggest outrage is what they did to the MP. Campaign is my bread and butter but the utter regression in gameplay from H5 to Infinite.... so many game modes, weapons, options - all lost. Even the REQ system, which is probably the TAMEST loot box mechanic of its peer and today, offered so much variety. The cull for a "simpler classic gameplay" is the death knell. Why buy for less when H5 and H4 give more to play with?
Infinite has the foundations to be another great classic experience, but it released with no support, little content and a rough roadmap Original Halos not only had the foundations to support a great experience, it had the great experience and the community there to support it I stand behind Halo Infinite probably being a Halo 2-tier game in 2-3 years from now, but that will never replace what Bungie was capable of from the start
Infinite also had COVID, the engine's difficulty in working remotely, and Microsfot's insane hiring practices. So many specialists and subcontractors being fired every few months, then new teammmebers to replace them, then fired after a few months and repeat and rinse. Modern games need massive teams to support them. Gutting that team every few months... its mindboggling.
@@JcBravo8 All modern AAA games are developed like that. CoD, Fortnite, EA's titles, you name it. That isn't a problem with Halo, that's a problem with the industry. When Bungie held the reigns to Halo, it was just a different industry with different expectations. Bungie was a ground-up, tight-knit studio that could work with great coordination carrying a dedicated and well-worked team. Advanced, realistic physics engines weren't expected, textures need not be higher than the console it was made for. I'm not saying Infinite was the fault of the devs, I think it was mostly fault of circumstance.
@@Kekktye That's not my point. My point is that modern games like you mentioned require big teams. Big teams that require specialist subcontractors. Subcontractors that are fired after half a year, can't be rehired for the remainder,. Meanning between that shuffle you have to hire new people, train them, then fire them, and hope you can get the people you worked with before back in those seats. This is Microsoft's hiring practice.
@@JcBravo8 This isn't just Microsoft's hiring practice. This is all large games studios' practice. This is just how the industry works now. Yeah, it's bad but it probably isn't changing and we definitely aren't getting a Bungie-style team again.
Now perhaps a sequel to Halo Infinite is a possibility and that sequel may end up being the last game of the Halo mainline games to put the total of mainline games at 7 in reference to how many times the number 7 has been reference throughout the Halo series (due to it being Bungie’s favorite number). The sequel to Halo Infinite should perhaps be the most realistic Halo game (even more realistic than Halo: Reach) in order to make it so good as possible as the developers can.
Halo 3 came out during my senior year of high school. So many memories with that game. I loved Halo 1 & 2, but always enjoyed 3 the most. The 4-player co-op is why I preferred the game over the first two. I remember trying to complete the game 4-player legendary with the Mythic skull on. Staying up all night with so many deaths inflicted upon us. Trying to get the achievement on the last level with all 4 players each riding a ghost. It still haunts me the first time finishing it, my friend jumped out of his ghost at the last second, right when one of our ghosts was entering the ship. The achievement did not count since he was no longer technically in a ghost. And we had to start all over again. Good times. ODST had a nice callback to this achievement with the last level in 4-player Mythic on Mongooses. Reach still gives chills on the last level. “Mission: Survive” Seeing your visor crack for the first time all alone always gets me emotional. That was my ending for Halo. Then I played Halo 4. Game felt lifeless. Felt like a generic Call of Duty. Never returned to it. I pretend like the journey ended dying in Reach.
I share your sentiments exactly. but I also feel like what happened to Halo has happened to the majority of art from our childhood. every song I hear on the radio samples a hit from 2005, NFTs were almost a thing, and classic IPs are being “rebooted” in idiotic ways all over culture. lots and lots of interesting stuff results from these efforts, but at the same time the purity of its immersion is reduced. But to sit back and think about all the great art that’s been wrecked for cash-Lion King, Star Wars (my god), pokémon-is way too uncomfortable.
This video makes me want to help you because of the personal impact halo had on me and my brother’s relationship. I remember halo4 actually helping me through the time that I actually Remember my brothers abusive tendencies come out. I’ve kept up with the series, but returning leaves my heart crumbling
I'm so excited for your video on this! I want to know what caused Halo to start its downward spiral, and I especially want to know how the same mistakes keep being made with no sense of improvement. What makes it so hard to just keep your old fans happy, but introduce new fans to the franchise?
Omg I wish I could share pictures here. I had two phone notifications come up almost simultaneously. One, this video saying, "How Halo Left Me Heartbroken," and the other from Paramount Plus saying, "Halo is a hit! The 'thrilling' (The Daily Beast) new series is streaming exclusively on Paramount+. Watch now!"
I only got into Halo because of RvB somewhere in my early to mid 20s. ...Those were better times for both franchises... Halo 4 is also my last (five minutes of Spartan Ops on Steam notwithstanding) but mostly because the 360 was my first and last Xbox for lack of proper exclusives on Xbone and Series X/S. I do have MCC on Steam though (I still need to beat Halo 2, which I couldn't play before because Windows Live died).
I stopped after Halo 3, loved those three games, but never got into anything after, but I have so many good memories of a childhood with my friends, watching Red vs. Blue and playing multiplayer while drinking way too much Red Bull. I was an adult when Halo 4 hit, it just wasn’t the same to me. I love the campaigns, I’d even like to replay them as well as the new games, but even if I manage the time, nostalgia is a powerful thing and I just don’t think it’d feel the same.
Your feelings on Halo pretty much mirror my own. I loved Halo when I was younger. First played the orig8nal Halo back in early high school, and was instantly hooked to the franchise. I'm not a multiplayer person, so I never really got that online experience (did try out multiplayer on Halo 3 a couple of times), but I couldn't tell you how many times I played and replayed the campaigns. 1, 2, 3, Wars, ODST, Reach. I was all over these games and adored them. When 4 came out, I was excited to get back into the series to see where the story goes. I got it, played the campaign from start to finish, and never touched it again. I can barely tell you what happens in it. Took a while for me to realize that I just didn't care about it as much as I did the previous games. After that, I never went back to Halo. I had no interest in Wars 2, and just watching a playthrough of 5 told me enough to know I would not enjoy this game. By the time Infinite was being marketed, I had lost any care for the series, and just blew it off as another bland entry into a franchise i used to love. It hurts to look at a game series you used to care so much about and just go "whatever" like it's lost all meaning.
Honestly, I respect how you feel on halo, sure it may not be in it's prime right now but I still loved every single release. I can't wait to see your vid on what's ruining halo, also I'd like you to make another video on the halo show. The first 4 we're kinda meh but episode 5 is really good so I recommend making a video on that episode. Thanks for making great content that I can always come back to watch.
Agreed. I played Halo 1-3 none stop, and ODST and Reach when they came out. I had so many fond memories playing with friends . But Halo 4 I played once and just ended there. I went back to the old games. And haven't touched the new ones since.. mostly because I also split screen with my sis and friends and that option wasn't there, so I didn't feel the need to get the next system for it. I really hope they bring couch coop gaming back because thats what made me find Halo and fall in love with it.
Looking forward to the video, I personally never connected to Halo, and even the best games in the saga seemed just good when I played them for the first time in the MCC last year so hearing what "ruined it" for diehard fans is gonna be interesting.
I was actually introduced to Halo through playing the theme in orchestra in middle school. I loved it. Halo 3 was the first game I played, and my first "next gen" game as well (before that, PS2 was the newest I had played). The scale, the gameplay, and the music were awesome. I just recently replayed everything except the Halo Wars games (not my thing). The first trilogy is amazing; so satisfying. ODST is a unique game, and - although crossing the city can get boring - the missions are replayable and the characters are likable. Reach is tied with 3 as my favorite. I like having a team of Spartans with different personalities. The gameplay is probably the most diverse in the series. There's a lot of variety, and you go a lot of places for just being on one planet. I love these games, their visuals, and their soundtracks. I remember buying Halo 4 on release and being...confused. It grew on me over time, but I didn't like it at first. I didn't like being so isolated, the music was mostly forgettable, and the stakes were a lot lower. Today, there are things I like about it, and "117" is a good track. I remember being excited about Halo 5 at first. The opening cut scene was amazing to me; just like a movie. I probably rode that through most of the game. Today, I definitely think it's not as horrible as people make it out to be. It introduced vertical gameplay, jumped between varied locations (including Sanghelios, which we've never seen before), and brought back Buck. Music, again, was forgettable. Visuals were cool, and some gameplay was fun (like going down the side of a Guardian). I was excited for Infinite, although I was worried once I saw it was open world. Open world, in my opinion, means death for story-based games. It kills the flow of the narrative. "We have to get to get to X before everyone dies!" (2 hours of side missions). Ultimately, Infinite was disappointing. It tried to hastily cut off everything 5 set up, it introduced one interesting new character, the villains were forgettable and a waste of time, the "story" was just go here and push the thing, there was a lame "twist" where the obvious copy of Cortana was revealed to be a copy of Cortana, they teased some replacement for The Flood but didn't show us anything to make us care, I could go on. In short: Bungie games are great and I will replay them many more times. 343 games are okay, and I might replay 4 on a rare occasion, and 5 on an even rarer occasion. Infinite I never want to play again. The only reason I haven't sold it back is because I'm hoping they'll redeem themselves.
This touches home in many ways for me. I first got into online play with halo 2 and up to 3 and just before 4 got together with some dear friends and just sandbox thrash for hours on end. Story line was also memorable and ground breaking. After 5 though I realized this game has focused so much on looks and less on gameplay. I only touched a half week of infinite and that was half assed and is frankly another lost soul to the microtransaction void. No more covenant, no more cortana, and now a lack luster chief. It's just ghosts floating in the void of space now.
I had my moments with some halo games even in halo 4 and 5. Back in reach/3 days I remember making my emblem seeing witch one I will stick with and the one I made stuck through out the years on my socials to this day
Halo to me was the bond with my cousin who I played A LOT with as we grew up...sadly, after my dear Grandmom passed away in 2017, my aunt (that cousin's mom) sued my dad and my other uncle to try to take away our house and my uncle's because my Grandma didn't have a will, needless to say, that tore the family apart and while I still talk to my cousin from time to time (neither of us has ever even acknowledged what happened between our parents), things have never been the same. The fact that he didn't like the new games enough to fall out of love with the franchise feels extra sad for me.
Honestly, that's a genuine reaction to the series. I still love Halo to death; I've read some of the books and want to read more, I've beaten Halo numerous times and never got tired of it, I'm trying to work up the time to attempt LASO runs... But I refuse to think about anything after Reach and ODST because of how disappointed I was in 4 and 5. They were such a let down, and I'm looking forward to that "What's Ruining" video.
I remember when Halo 5 started and you were hunting Juul N'dama and I was thinking "Yes I can get behind this were hunting down what's left of the Covenant with the Arbiter.....and then you kill him in a cutscene at the end of the mission. That's when I knew something was off and just didn't want to admit it to myself.
I still remember playing Halo 4 multiplayer as a kid. I grew up on Nintendo, so I had no prior halo experience or much shooter experience. So I would go to my friends house and play halo 4 multiplayer, and honestly it was amazing for me. I’d seen nothing else like it! A colorful sci-fi alien weapon shooter game. So when I finally got an Xbox, I got the mcc and decided to play the whole series. From combat evolved to ODST, I was enthralled. I knew the games looked good and were fun, but I was absolutely surprised that the story mode was amazing as well! I got sucked in to the whole covenants vs. UNSC finding the Halos, and the Elites eventually joining up and everything. So when it came time to play halo 4, which I remembered being amazing, I was a bit shocked. It was just different. The mystery of the forerunners wasn’t there, you were fighting elites again cause they’re just “back at it again” I guess, and the atmosphere was just… gone. Since then, I’ve had a little bit of fun playing around in multiplayer vs. with my friends in the new games. But it’s just not halo. When I want to play halo, I grab some buds, and hop on halo 1-3 (and odst) to have a great time
I came upon the halo franchise just a few years after Saber where Halo 2 was already out. I immediately knew this game franchise was something special. It got me to buy an Xbox where as I was fine playing on my gamecube before. But I was there for Halo 3 big time. I was there to Finish the Fight. I got my copy of Halo 3 before I even had gotten a 360 to play it on because I was still saving up for one. I played the hell out of Halo 3 and made good friends online from it. Halo 3: ODST and Halo reach were more of the same with each addition bringing something new and unique to the franchise. I missed out on being able to afford the legendary edition of the Halo 3 release, so I made sure I wouldn't miss out for the Halo 4 release. I got some fake documents and a metal case for the game, but it honestly felt like a letdown after playing through the Campaign and trying out the multiplayer. I had this mental picture in my head that the Halo I loved ended perfectly as a trilogy with Chief going back into a cryo chamber. Between the odd new designs of the various species and Chief himself, the lack of a soundtrack that was memorable, and a sad replacement for the flood as an opponent it was enough to kill the 343 era franchise in my head pretty quickly. I also did not even pick up Halo 5 until years after it came out when it was on sale. I just had no urge to try it at launch especially as reviews started coming in. I can mentally separate the Bungie era from the 343 era, so I'm happy that I have the Bungie era games to cherish, and I can at least wish 343 luck, cause they cant seem to catch a break.
For those who're saying about Halo Infinite, E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2020 (and eventually, 2022) was event-cancelled, but not exactly completely, and redistributed into mostly fragmented announcements. So the event therefore still lived on. (E3 2021 was an digital thing that's long considered dumpster fire though). Halo Infinite was intended to be represented/announced in E3 2020. Please keep all of this in mind.
I started with Destiny. Never had an Xbox as a kid but I had a PlayStation growing up. Now that I’m on PC I went back and played the original Halo trilogy and Reach. In doing so I gained a better understanding of and respect for Bungie as a studio. Bungie continues to do good work with Destiny, while 343i has put up its own obstacles in its management of the Halo franchise.
This is a slightly different take, but I actually love (what's called now) Y2K aesthetic that was so prevalent around that era of the first Xbox, and Halo 1 makes up a big part of the nostalgia for that era for me too. I remember playing the game and listening to the soundtrack while doing super early digital art and uploading it to DeviantART. Whenever I hear a youtube video use "A walk int he woods" for background music it like, arrests me and throws me for a nostalgia sucker-punch every time. I'm like "nope, you used this song, it's all I can pay attention to now. Stop talking. Let the song play." I played Halo 2 and 3, but it was 1 that holds this especially strong nostalgia with me that is just a perfect blend of elements that can't be recreated outside of precisely when it was made.
Seriously, I remember getting Halo:CE at the same time as getting my original Xbox. It pulled me through when my little brother was in the hospital at the time. Then came Halo 2 . That one my Dad surprised me with the Limited Edition Steelbook case of the game with the making of DVD. That's where my Halo experience blew up as I used to spend a lot of weekends over at my childhood friend's place. He, his half brother and I would stay up all night playing co-op or messing around in Multiplayer. Then came Halo 3... Those where the best days of my life as a senior in Highschool, I had brought it over to my high school best friend's place. He had never played Halo or owned an Xbox a day in his life. I remember when we first got on the Warthog on Salvo Highway as he hopped in the driver seat and I qoute: "Him: So what can the Warthog do? does it have speed boosters or-" Me: "It has a horn. :D" Him: "A hor- *he presses the trigger twice*" *Beep beep* The look on his face... Priceless. After that day of hanging out, the following weekend he told me he got a 360 and then the following weekend we took our 360s to our 3rd friend's place and she fell in love with the game and you guessed it, she got her 360 the next weekend too after that it was a domino effect. the 3 of us got XBL Gold, found out more of our friends had XBL accounts and the rest is history of us BSing in forge mode, multiplayer and trying to make our own Machinima... Playing the RTS Halo Wars. Then Reach was our final Bastion of fun... We began to slowly wither away from the series. It was at the time of Halo 4 where we began to separate. It was fun? At a cost... Then I traded in my 360 for a PS4 cause Destiny. It wouldn't be until 2018 I bought an Xbox One from my old manager and begrudgingly bought Halo 5... I dunno what was harder to get through, that or the Paramount+ series so far... I'm still playing Infinite, making people rage knowing they lost to a kitty eared Spartan. But since the beginning with CE, the books, comics and various film adaptations such as the Legends series and Forward Unto Dawn and such. It's a far cry from the days of Bungie. 343i has to really step up their game if they want to bring us fans back and where we can say... I'm actually having fun... Halo is as fun as it used to be... I dunno maybe we're just old and bitter 30yo Halo fans hoping for days of old lol. tl;dr: Halo got me through tough times and brought my friends and I closer together. As Halo progressed we all went our separate ways. Maybe we're old and bitter lol. Random! But did you see the ODST cosplayer at BabsCon this year? Got a couple of pics with him. I was impressed by the amount of detail and time he put into his suit. All the way down to the blood type patch on the shoulder.
I love it hot deep Spark goes with research with games n' movies. I would love to see the 'What ruined'' the Halo fanchise. Tis' so sad to see the downfall of such a majestic game masterpiece, though. I really feel the dissapointment in air. Keep it up Spark!
I love playing the game, but have never played the story. For me, Halo is my favorite game to play with my brother. We have the anniversary edition, and I love just playing on all the different maps. It’s a game I love playing with others
I remember Halo 1, high school senior year we secretly installed the DEMO for the game on mulitple computers and during free periods we'd get a bunch of people online to play. Because the demo let us play in the classic blood gulch map, sure we could only play the first level of campaign mode but we didn't care. And i've since played and beaten at least the primary first four titles. I got stuck on ODST a bit , and never had the chance to do Reach minus the initial DEMO for the game which made me soooooo mad i couldn't afford it when it came out because even the DEMO was spectacular. But for me the games i was the most disappointed with were the "Wars" series. Not in terms of story but gameplay mechanics. Don't get me wrong they're great games, but the mechanics were remniscent of "StarCraft" and the original "WarCraft" (not world of warcraft, the OG one) franchises by Blizzard. So playing that kind of game on console felt awkward in spite of the story elements. But i'll agree Halo 4 is where the main titles began going downhill, graphically and gameplay-wise they were great still but something felt "off". I think i had the same feeling regarding the franchise from that point as the O.G. Fallout gamers did when Bethesda bought the franchise from Black Isle. Mind i fully appreciate and enjoy the original titles (and i'm one of those rare people who actually enjoys Brotherhood of Steel as well). Though just as the games from Fallout 3 onward were a departure from the originals so too was Halo 4, it's like the heart of the franchise went away. Of course i freaking love Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4, and 76 but i have to admit that there are elements that are in the original two games that Bethesda just hasn't been able to recapture in spite of their efforts. And that goes for 343 with the Halo franchise too, they've kept the visuals and the gameplay high tier, but something is lacking now and it's really hard to put an exact finger on it for me personally. There's just no denying that the first games before 4 it was like watching the moon wax until it reached a Full state, and after it began to wane, and that beautiful bright globe has faded and is not that marvel that it once was. Perhaps in time it'll manage to recapture that magic if only for one brief glorious moment in a future title, much as Fallout New Vegas managed to do unifying the OG fans with the newer ones after Bethesda's Acquisition (due in no small part to Obsidian comprised of former Black Isle employees working tirelessly to bring elements of the cancelled "Fallout 3: Van Buren" title to a new era and with it a sprinkle of that old magic). Fingers crossed that a future Halo title manages to do the same, even if it's but a fleeting moment of a grand display before it takes an exhausted breath.
2:55 If that was mindblowing, imagine having picked up Phantasy Star Online when you were still young lol. I was in my mid to late teens when I got it and Episode III CARD Revolution for the Gamecube but I honestly barely played it. I did sometimes play Episode III offline with my old best friend (who called Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex on his PS2 "Wrath of Load Screen") though. He would mimick the announcer: "Change! Dice!"
Halo 3 and Reach were big parts of my high-school years and i was a diehard fan of the series i played Halo 2, 3,ODST and Reach. Reach to me was the peak of the series. I remember when 4 came out. And my oldest brother coming home with the limi edition Halo 4 Xbox, i had the same experience Saber. I played it gaslit myself into playing it into liking it. After awhile my friends and i found ourselves going back to Reach Even now. With how poorly Halo infinite has been handled i have gone back to Reach, back to better times. Halo went from very passionate devs and a community Halo was the shooter every company wanted its a shell. Chasing popular games, it's become another soulless corporate series. Very few people at 343 have shown passion for the series, it stopped being about a passion for video games after 343 took over, since 343 took over it became a business money focused how to emulate other popular games to draw in their audiences so they could make more money instead of "our loyal fans will bring more if they are raving about halo". The only people who seem to have any care for the series at 343 are Joe Staten and Brian Jarrard everyone else seems indifferent
The more I’ve been venting my frustration to my friends and seeing the reviews of this Loved franchise. The more I start to dwell on the thoughts of each review/ argument. We all know “from those that have started with the HALO trilogy” the impact that it has left, but let me put it this way. Another thing I’ve grown up with… Gojira otherwise know as Godzilla. Everyone loves the big green atomic lizard.. but the more the times have changed, so did the Subtlety of the message and The design of the character and the films… yet We still respect the message about the chaos that comes out from our “mutually assured destruction and cause of humanities power to create such Destruction, such as the consequences after” hints on the birth of Gojira. Now with halo I’ve always seen the message was About simply The consequences of the past with it’s History behind it all, referring to the Forerunner/Precursor war and how humanity is now Reliable to hold the “Mantle of Responsibility” Now that we dive into that history the more the story changes as well as the characters and including the overall message now it’s the “Consequences of creation.” Precursors creating life in the halo universe, as the Forerunners created the rings, Halsey’s creation of the Spartans, with now The consequences of creating Smart AI. Yet it still keeps it’s Mystery. Which people have complained about a lack of sense 4 and 5, and from what people remember, especially art Design, including gameplay. To also be fair a lot of People agree to disagree when it comes to those topics , because times change.. especially when companies want to look at these things a business instead of proper story telling especially when it comes to creativity, Your Armor, your Custom games and your Multiplayer. So to summarize everything you’ve just read I believe 343 has the right to have the Shift of message yes.. especially with EXTREME character development but have they Executed it properly especially from their past game halo 5? No, yet with what they’ve noticed from past mistakes when it comes to their “writing” and “Art design” Yes Is it wrong to look at the halo franchise as a Business? Yes because you loose what built the franchise from the ground up which is the “community.” But is it wrong to try and reach out to a Broader audience? No, cause halo is a franchise therefore they can easily make more games based off of other characters or new! Without sacrificing the growth of other well established and loved characters. Reach proved it such as ODST. So why not more?
I feel ya saber. I played the halo series so much growing up. However after reach the series took a nose dive. They retconed their own lore and the games lost the personality that they once had. I think one of the moments that really caught me off guard was in halo 3 right after killing a brute another nearby yells out "You just killed my lover!" Moments like that are subtle, but really made those games the series personality and I miss those glory days.
man i feel the exact same way about Halo. how it started my true love for video games, especially since it was the first time ive played an fps. ive played games from ps1 like crash and spyro, and i still adore those games for being my first experience, but Halo was THE game that got me hooked on behind the scene stuff, how the game was made, how it' started from an rts to a masterclass fps, etc. tbh i still follow Bungo and play some Destiny 2. And i gotta say, they still got that old "Halo" hook to it, just in a more open setting. I really do miss the old halo tho, so i do jump into mcc most of the time to play the classics. If y'all ever wanna play together for some halo or some other game, we should get together some time and have a blast!
I was a huge fan of Bungie's earlier shooters, Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon trilogy, back in the 90s. Halo was amazing for an old-school Bungie fan for that reason, because the games showed that once they found that audience, the studio had the technical and story know-how to knock their socks off. It's honestly a little sad to see that their biggest IP is being served as leftovers by another studio while they themselves are locked into Destiny seemingly forever. On that note though, everyone should give Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon trilogy a try! They are free to play these days and well worth it if you can tolerate Wolfenstein and Doom style graphics.
Halo is a very special game to me and it's one of the first Xbox games I ever played, it's such a shame to see this masterpiece failing to be what it used to be.
Honestly, Marty O’Donnel has his own channel on RUclips, if you guys ask him to do an interview, I’m sure he’d be happy to do it, he’s always happy to do interviews with people of the community
@@absoluterainbow so of course not even like a day or 2 after I commented this, Marty O’Donnel shut down said RUclips channel due to all the hate and toxicity he’s had thrown at him online, so I’m not so sure you can even get into contact with him anymore
I watched all the new episodes from the Halo series and only the 4th episode wasn't so bad at all. I forgot how many episodes are there now, but Cortana in the series seemed a bit too much to handle how she looks but on the other hand, they did quite show like how Spartans were supposed to be used as weapons for humanity to fight off the war or whatever the story was, especially the origins behind Master Chief. I thought it was the only thing that's interesting to me, especially (sorry for spoilers) the cliff hangar itself. It's not that I'm a fan of Halo, but watching the series and my baby brother playing the games made me want to try out playing Halo myself. So yeah, you speak the truth Saberspark.
Well... my first Halo was 4, wich I buyed in the launch when I was 11 or 12. It was my introduction to the franchise and I fell in love with it. I had with Halo 4 all the feeling you had with Halo CE. I played it a lot but something went wrong with my copy and the campaing started not working after after it's first half. I still love that game, despite agreeing with all the critics towards it's gameplay, it's level design, it's story and it's art style. After that I buyed Halo Reach, I played with friends and cousins and I love to death that game. It's not just my favorite Halo but also one if not my favorite game. I searched more about the franchise: videos summarizing the lore, the Halo Legends animations, Forward Unto Dawn. When I couldn't decide between a Playstation 4 or a Xbox X, I waited for the next Halo. Then I saw how disappointing it was. In the end, the PS5 just came out and I wasn't able to buy a PS4 or a Xbox One Then I buyed Halo 3 odst and Halo 3 and played an emulator for Halo 2 and also loved all those games. When MCC was announced to PC with Reach, I new I had to buy a gamer PC and then I buyed a good laptop for the family and College projects ;) . I finally buyed MCC recently and played CE and H2A. I'm playing in lauch order and can't wait to play Halo 4 again after all those years. But before buying MCC, I started playing Infinite's multiplayer when it came out (because it's free to play and I couldn't lose it). I still haven't buyed the campaing. Even with everyone saying the game has no content and it's a failed game service, I love playing it. It's so relaxing and fun. Maybe I don't care about what people say about Infinite because I spent the last 6 years only playing League of Legends and Halo Infinite basically saved me from that horrible place. The Paramount series, I haven't wantched yet because I don't want to pay a stream service for just one series. So what can I say? I love Halo! It's my childhood and my favorite game series. I'll like H4 forever despite it's flaws as I love the first 3 Michael Bay's Transformers (another great part of my life). I love Haoo Reach. With a PC gamer, Halo Infinite's multiplayer and MCC, I feel like a gamer again and not just a masoch... I mean, a League of Legends player.
I know the feeling! I did the Midnight release pick up for Halo and played it madly. Could 2 shot pistol everyone to the point no one wanted to play with me. Played all the other release too but stopped after 4. even now I haven't played 5 or Inifinity. something's wrong and I don't know how to articulate it. It could be that I'm grown now? But then I still greatly enjoy single player games with amazing story telling like God of War and Spiderman so I don't think that's it? Hopefully your video will help me realise what it is but I can say that the whole live service thing is definitely not going in the pro's column!
Your getting into a monumental task making a "what's wrong with Halo" video without being acutely engaged in the community There have been people going on 10 years now critiquing every element of Halo, seeing its defining aspects and breaking apart what differentiates each title Having an "outsiders" perspective is super valuable, but its such a wide-spanning, intricate topic that I don't know if anyone could do it justice in just one video
I also went through all the original Halos in my youth, and I FEEL this video. I mean, I actually love Halo 4, but I agree that it wasn't as glorious as the classics. Cortana dying hit me just as hard as when Jorge sacrificed himself and it didn't matter.
While I am not a big fan of Halo I understand that pain. I have played halo 1-4 I didn’t have an Xbox growing up so I wasn’t able to play them until recent rereleases and honestly Halo 4 is actually probably my favorite out of the Halo games I have played. Although give the latest Halo TV series I do think fans deserved better than what has been shown so far.
My Halo video game experience was pretty similar. I got halfway through Halo 4's campaign then just stopped and got bored of it. Left the series alone until I got MCC in 2020. I never played Halo online though due to poor internet and instead relied on my siblings for coop. I was born in 2000 and had older siblings who had an xbox so I literally was around the game before I could speak and is the main game of my early childhood. I liked Infinite's campaign. Too bad there is no replay mission option. I don't play on xbox live so that was never part of my experience. I played so much of halo 3 amd Reach with my brothers with couch coop. My most nostalgic memories of Halo is playing slayer on Sandbox with my brothers dual wielding maulers and playing Delta Halo.
Halos pretty important to me. I started with H2 in the day and it blew kid me's mind. This world of cool looking aliens going through the motions was something I'd never seen before. The opening cutscene of H2 classic remains my favourite moment from any video game. CE unfortunately doesn't elicit the same level of love from me merely from it being a bit more of a mystery to me back then, but that in turn increased the mystery found in H2, I knew that chief destroyed halo, that Thel had failed at safeguarding it, but no idea on what had actually happened. H3, while a bit of a sore/low point for me now was a banger back then, and while part of me will always treasure it, narratively and visually I don't really think it's the kind of sequel H2 should have gotten. ODST was always epic and the RTS followed suite but Reach gave me a cut that developed into an open wound. I had a ton of difficulty with dyslexia as a kid, but the halo novels provided an avenue to allow me to really want to read and seeing Fall of Reach get spat on by Bungie the way it did, while not bothering me much at first slowly festered into distaste. Between that and some artstyle problems that grew over time, Halo 4 tramped in as my saving grace, a game who's whole story panders to a book worm like me and gets back into that character based story that I loved from Halo 2 (and I love it's art). Halo 4s my perfect epilogue to bungies story, and I've always felt that way, regardless of my thoughts have changed on some of those bungie games. Halo 5 served as 343 trying a backpedle on H4s story, and Infinite a backpedle on H5, and both just feel like husks, trying parade the franchise along with an endless string of soft reboots. Between those two and the likes of H2 anniversary the series in a modern sense just feels hollow, with vapid art that can't figure out what made HCE/H2, HW and H4 look so cool and continue to show 343s complete lack of confidence when it comes to their story telling. If you asked me, "what's ruining Halo?" Outside of general franchise fatigue from a series that's tried to last continuously for this long, it's lack of confidence from its uppermanagment an unwillingness to just pick a direction or an idea and go all in on it.
Halo 2 was my childhood, I spent every free hour I had playing that game at some points, I had lan parties for multiple birthdays and played it all night and they're some of my greatest memories. Halo 4 was different, I remember the emotions the final cutscenes gave me which were deep, but I didn't spend any time in the multiplayer, I played it once. Halo 5 was pure pain, I played that game hoping for a redemption to the series and all I got was disappointment and rage, pure unadulterated rage at 343 for ruining my franchise, for ruining a game that meant the world to me.
I remember having a friend named Sora on Halo 1 and 2. I was known as Kairi Sohma on there after a Fruits Basket OC of mine (which I will be honest, I don't remember much about that said Fruits Basket OC other than she was year of the horse I think. This was before I read the manga). And yeah, it was funny because we both never played Kingdom Hearts but it was just coincidental that his name was actually Sora and I had my name as Kairi. We were the best of friends online, like we would chat, we would make jokes, watch Red vs Blue over chat (Does anyone remember MSN Messenger?) and sometimes just experiment with mods because he knew how to use them and I didn't. I will admit, I even had a crush on him. However, times changed and he ended up going off to college. So, we haven't seen or talked to each other since. And I haven't played Halo since then either. But he was the reason why I got really into Halo for a while and also into Kingdom Hearts... up until 2 which I never beat.
I know how you feel. I never played Halo but I do play lots of Pokemon and when playing BD/SP I started dreading to play the game again and finish it 😅, after the letdown OF SW/SH + BD/SP I really started to feel the games where losing there magic for sure 😖. But then Legends Arceus came around and my spark whas revived, it whas the mpst enjoyeble Pokemon game in years and felt so nice fresh😊 . let's hope there's a a big change coming in halo soon as well that could spark things up for you and other dissapointed Halo fans as well 😁.
Halo was my first console game. You can tell by my pfp, I still hold it in high regards. I fell out after Reach. 4 was too different. It was too much of a stretch for me, and 5 was even worse. 5 almost killed Halo to me. Infinite brought it back. Infinite is still pretty good
I felt that way about final fantasy.. I was bullied and my freinds ditched me because I was not popular.. I poured hours into the few games i had and would spend all the money I have to collect the ps2 games .. it was final fantasy 13 that made me stop continuing foward. Though all final fantasy fans have a preference of what generation their attached to ..my start was 10 and 10-2 ..and for alot of fans that is the gen is when it died .
Played though halo to halo reach was the best in my teenage days. Funny enough halo reach was my first Xbox live multiplayer back when I was in early 10th grade I had the best memories of it.. especially playing lan party’s. But after halo 4 I just stop playing but at my mid 20s I went back playing halo mmc and remembering why I fall in love with halo series replaying halo 3.
Ok when you said you played ace combat 4 you immediately caught my attention as someone that’s played 4 5 0 and 7 I still consider my favourite ace combat and I have no idea why you haven’t already made a video on it sure the game is easy even on ace and the gameplay is simple but the story is amazing
As a person who came into the halo games later in life (Halo 3) and has played all of them the one thing that seems to stick out the most to me apart from the gameplay and aesthetic differences between the Bungie games and the 343 ones, is that I feel like the new games take themselves way too seriously where The original ones (less so Reach) Always knew when to crack a joke or lighten the situation when we needed it to happen.
Oh wow you have played halo beffore. Well i want to know whats your favorite mine is halo 2, 3, odst, reach, 5 just because of the grate multiplayer and infinte i think i was just too late to halo 1 and the graphics to me is really old
Here ill give my perspective as a halo fan on the current state of halo and what lead to its downfall. Halo was pretty much at the top before halo 4 but in decline. We had good books, Movies (halo legends is seriously underrated) and games. Then halo 4 released and most of the people who where still sticking around from reach left the franchise. Halo 4 itself had alot of potetional. I really did enjoy the story it told. The halo TV show should have used halo 4 as a point of refernce for chiefs mannerisms and body movements to show emotion and character. But alot of small annoying things really bogged down halo 4 and I noticed its a trend with 343s games and even with the show that theres alot of good, but then theres alot of bad. Its like they get one thing right and 2 other things wrong about halo. Alot of the annoying things from halo 4 like the Prometheans, The art style, the loadouts, sprint and much more bog down the whole game and playing the game with mods that fix these issues makes it feel like I am playing reach and thats the worst part about it for me. There is something good that could have been done here but all these minor things prevented the good from shining and it most of it was an easy fix anyways (aside from the art style). I wouldn't say halo 4 is a bad a game, It had a lot of great campaign moments. however I wouldn't say it was a good game either. since the multiplayer was just discount cod meant to appeal to the "boarder audience" which is a trend with 343 where they only want to appeal to people who wouldn't like halo games. The main problem I see with 343s handling of halo is that they never seem to innovate what they do right or they never seem to fix what could be made into an amazing thing. Its kind of like Sonic team where instead of improving upon something they just ditch it all and throw it away to try something new while also claiming to go back to the roots of the series. I mean halo 4, 5 and infinite's storys are all disconnected from each other and it feels really jarring. About infinite, The gameplay is amazing and everyone agrees that it is, however the story is kind of just fine, the open world is fine if you like to explore things but can be annoying to people who want something more indepth and just want action. But its the best game 343 has made so far, but its bogged down by the multiplayers greedy challenge system and store and lots of development issues in the background of things.
For me Halo was the cool game since you got to battle aliens (and one game I like with weapons) I played some if it with my brother and it was halo 4 We played the other first games and then the 5th one and the Wars 2. It got a bit boring Really sad the series flopped because no one played the games :| But I just hope they bring it back to its roots It was a fun game and with cool weapons
This is exactly how I feel. Especially with convincing myself that Halo 4 was good, yet never actually giving a shit about it once I was done. If there is one optimistic side to this, I do respect 343 for what they did with MCC. Even with a very rough and rocky start, they didn't give up and continued to improve and add upon it to ensure one of the best ways to play this amazing series at its best. Something I feel people don't talk about enough though is these games being brought to the PC and the evolving support for mods and other user generated content that appeared as a result. I may not have all that much hope for what 343 and Microsoft are doing with Infinite and the TV show and such, but I at least look forward to the fact that fans can now redefine and breathe new life into these games that mean so much to me. I've been playing through Halo SPV3 recently, and it's just mind blowing to see what fans can do with Halo, yet big companies like 343 struggle to capture any of that magic
My brother thinks the exact thing, halo 1,2,3 reach odst. Has that charm while the recent games just dont. Halo wars is another good one too, commanding your units and making your base, play as the covenant or humans. All I see the new halo games as are just cash grabs and rushed projects all about that sweet fandom cash grabs. When before it had that passion to the music, story, designs, cutscenes and overall non forgettable moments. I still adore halo till this day, only thing we should be thankful for is that they brought back the old halo games on steam for pc. With zero chance of the servers going offline this time.
Halo was my teen years. Me and my friends would all hang out and play together. We're talking multiple t.v.s and systems hooked together thru landlines. Just playing and having fun. Then 2 and 3 came out and we relatively enjoyed them with how the story expanded. Followed with the books, the shorts, the rooster teeth hilarity. Halo 4 was meh to me still okay but more for the multiplayer aspect. But 5 I hated 5 that is where the franchise died for me where they essentially made master chief a pseudo-villian by him going Awol to search for cortana and that bothered me due to me just getting out of the military. But definitely when Microsoft created 343 studios they destroyed the franchise. And don't get me started on the live action t.v. series I loath that series with a burning passion.
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How you feel about Halo as a kid is how I feel about Skyrim as an adult. I wasn't allowed to play Halo as a kid or any game with "violence" and it wasn't until I was living on my own was when I fell in love with Skyrim. I know its "memed" alot and has alot of flaws. But it was the first videogame I played that made me want to do more then just beat the game. Spent probably 200 + hours in that game over the course of several years.
Amen brother
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Skyrim gamee here. The games are wonderful because of the flaws, the story, and many other aspects. Love both of them alike.
Skyrim was the first Bethesda game outside fallout 3 that I fell in love with. The lore, quests, tomb raids, graphics, rendering and armor styles were incredible. Skyrim remained relevant for me until 2019.
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Honestly up until the release of Halo 4, everything about the franchise was gold.
The books built an interesting world, the games were on point and the shorts they did were fantastic.
The last time I genuinely felt the franchise could do no wrong was the release of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, that's when it last felt like Halo (right before the release of 4).
I had some fun with 5's multiplayer when that launched and a bit with Infinites during beta, but it's not the same.
Honestly Halo 4 is criminally underrated judged on its campaign atleast, incredible settings, graphics, sound track and cutscenes... But it should have been more of a spinoff game rather than a mainstream game. Halo 5 though is a POS and 343 are just a joke now..
We are living in a post-Cult of the Developer world, given how Destiny turned out; any further Halo game they made likely would have sucked worse than 4.
i apreciate every halo game for their positive elements
@@anasevi9456 they messed up trying to make chief overly human & gaining feelings for cortana
Reach was okay and Infinite has lots of potential
Halo 4 was great, and I’m tired of saying it’s not
There's always that one mega important game everyone talks about that goes right past you as a child. Halo is that for me. So I'm excited to learn what I missed and what happened to this big monolith I've only ever seen from afar.
Halo is one that passed me by as well. Mainly because I never played console games only PC games. Even when Halo became available for PC my interest in playing it had long gone.
Honestly, if you have $40/£30 and the storage space, get Halo MCC. It's all the Bungie games and Halo 4 (including their multiplayers). A very good price.
Make sure to play CE and 2 with their original graphics first. Halo 2's Anniversary graphics are nice, but it's better to experience them 2 the original way first.
You are the chosen one. Start with CE, play straight through to Reach and stop, go no further and know that you've made the right choice.
Being a fan of the series doesn't mean you blindly love and follow anything with its name on it. I think almost everyone felt Halo after Reach just wasn't what it used to be. Looking forward to your next video on the topic, as a life long fan of the Halo franchise I know it will be a Great Journey.
Just want to say, halo for the majority of my life has been a great source of joy and passion. It is what introduced to expanded universes via its novels and my obsession for lore was born. But as much as I choose to hold on to hope after halo 5 the franchise just hasn't held that same spark with new projects.
I'll simply end this comment with me remembering seeing the milky way galaxy from the arc in 3 and realized just how amazing games really are with endless story potential
If Halo Infinite launched with forge, social features, co-op campaign, and many game modes like infection or team snipers then so many people would have stayed. But you only get one chance at first impressions and 343 dropped the ball so hard with Infinites content. And its sad too because people really like the gameplay and art style since 3 and reach for the first time but without any content people got bored and left. 1 or 2 years from now I hope the game will make some kind of comeback like no mans sky or apex legends did, but 343 lost a huge chunk of that casual crowd that they may never get back.
Halo 1 was a game changer. I was never personally invested in the series but I can't count how many times I got sucked into multiplayer back in the day, haha. I honestly think we're still feeling its influence to this day. Here's to hoping they can turn it all around someday, for the fans' sake.
Halo Reach is my personal favourite, but Halo just hasn’t been the same since 4, which is odd for me to say considering that Halo 4 was actually the first one I played and is what introduced me to halo, but despite that it’s still disappointing
I’m there with you my man.
Chills every time.
Halo: Reach was always and will always be my favourite
It's not even the best one though
While I get your sentiment, you really need to give Halo Infinite and 5 a try. I agree that 5 isn't great and Infinite dropped the ball on offering different environments. However, I thoroughly enjoyed Infinite's campaign, despite these shortcomings. The gameplay is solid. They just went through dev hell to get it focused.
As someone that actually managed to get the Recon armor in Halo 3, a true diehard Halo fan, I do think it's worth checking out the whole series and make your own opinion. There is hope, there is light at the end of tunnel. It really just depends on who's left at the wheel of the franchise, as game director, to keep the spark of what made the games fun alive.
Also, seriously consider playing Halo Wars 1 + 2. They're super impressive and fun RTSs that shouldn't work on console, but they do.
The multiplayer in Infinite feels like a freaking Halo game again, which is more than I can say about 4 and 5.
@@Kreeschon even if it has almost alot of flaws , it does feel like a good halo game , just with lack of content
To comment on a series like halo and say it's dead when you haven't even played the last to entries just shows clear bias and hate towards 343 and a lot of everyone's issues and frustrations are warranted but we also. Played the games. We did that thing. Just silly to make a video like this. It's like me complaining about how call of duty has dropped off but haven't played a cod since bo2.
Campaign is trash and was horrible at launch. Couldn't even co-op the campaign. Spartan cores were bugged af, crashes and glitches abound on PC. Fob mechanic was severely underbaked, just ammo and vehicle depots. Oh yeah, Marines can't drive and the UI doesn't even incorporate Marines like Reach did, you used to have a small list on the UI of nearby Marine names fighting by you. How did it regress? The complete and total lack of any interesting environments. Every single level is Halo from CE. Open grass areas, basic mountains, and all the underground/forerunner stuff looks the exact same. You enjoyed moving batteries around while Cortana just keeps repeating quotes from old Halo quotes, just so New Cortana can talk about them. Oh yeah, half the story is audiologs talking about all the things you missed in Cryo, which is directly ripped from CE again, dropped into a lost/losing fight. Except it doesn't even copy the good things from CE, which had memorable characters throughout on the human side. You spend most of your time with a non-UNSC repairman and New Cortana, never once interacting with any UNSC personnel other than to give them sentinel beams for the Razorback. Halo Infinite is less finished than 5 and the story is only marginally better, but miles below what you from from CE-3, at the very least. Not one cool set-piece moment like giving the covenant back their bomb, blowing up an entire Halo Ring, sneaking around as Covenant fighting covenant. Not one thing like that.
Sub-par campaign that only looks great because of how bad 5's was and how 5's campaign was lied about pre-launch. It's bad compared to 4, which let you fly the Pelican! No flying the Pelican in this one, it's the under-equipped and useless civilians job. Couldn't be Master Chief doing everything himself like a Lone Wolf because he failed to stop the banished, or rather, was truly helpless to, just like in CE and waking up out of cryo. Or 4 and waking up out of Cryo. Not to mention if you haven't played Halo Wars, but did play 5. You're gonna be extremely confused why Guardians are nothing anymore, the world ending threat was completely resolved, and why yet another faction of old covenant are simply doing the exact same thing as old covenant, except his time the game acts like you know all about them.
Halo 5 is great if you want to convince someone to give up on Halo.
As someone who’s played Halo 4 like ten times in the last year and all of Spartan Ops once solo this video PROBABLY isn’t for me lol
Edit: I watched the video and I have to say, after Halo 4 I went from being a diehard Halo guy for YEARS to just like dropping the series
But I feel like that’s because I migrated to PS3/4 more than anything.
Then back in 2019 I saw the Halo arcade shooter and played it and the audiovisual presentation just took me back to 2001.
So I went out and bought an Xbox One and Halo 5 and the MCC and it’s been all over for any shooter since for me.
While Halo 5’s story isn’t great, the custom game browser is incredible and MCC might be the greatest video game ever released IMHO.
I love the campaign of Infinite it’s like ODST on Steroids and Season 2 of the MP looks great. I love Halo so much, the only franchise that even comes close for me is the first game I ever played, Sonic.
Saber I implore you to just give these games another try.
I'm definately one of the jaded bungie fanboys at heart, but there's so many things I love about halo 4. Cortanas arc, plus the whole spartan ops concept/story were so good. If 343 stuck to their guns and made fireteams Mystic/Osiris/Crimson the main cast of their games they could have just left chief in space for a while lol
Infinites campaign is like ODST in exactly one capacity, audiologs. It fails in ambience, characters, and story quality.
@@JimJamTheAdmin it’s also a giant open sandbox hub world, except unlike ODST it’s large and fully fleshed out that leads to linear missions but okay.
@@TheRealAmericanMan large is not always a benefit when the majority of the world is empty and fully fleshed out is laughably false. Both Infinite and ODST suffer from the problem of the overworld having nothing of any sort of interest besides audiologs. Filling the world with cosmetic drops for MP and squads to rescue that do nothing are not fleshing anything out. A larger world with less visual diversity than ODST's missions, but on-par with the quality of ODSTs overworld. Which is to say bland looking and minus the atmosphere that sells ODSTs campaign. Nothing new to see here, you've see this exact environment on the CE mission Halo and it's even less visually diverse than the upgraded Halo level from 2, Delta Halo. The one spot where Infinite beats ODSts open world is the occasional vingittes you find. Even purging the mini-dungeons in the open world are on par with things like the major intersection with Hunters in it in the ODST open world. Except on ODST, Phantoms don't disappear in front of your face "because of cloaking". Funnily enough, you also have similar levels of interaction with other UNSC personnel in ODST, a bit more, but it's also not fleshed out much beyond your squad.
Edit: funnily enough, ODST makes sense if you've played Halo 1-3, you know exactly who is what. You've seen ODSTs before, you are familiar with New Mombasa being attacked by Covenant. You don't have this jarring moment where ODST takes place after 2, but in a conflict you've never heard of with enemies you have fought before but now the paintjob is different. Which is something two Halos have done now, as made by 343, with the Storm covenant. Which also came out of nowhere in the games and then became a non-threat in the next one. Like Halo 5 to infinite. Halo Infinite requires you to play the infinitely less popular RTS game series to know who the infinites big bads actually are.
As a fellow halo fan I'll warn u there is like 30 novels
I never played Halo, but my first introduction to Bungie was Destiny 1. I’ve been playing it since the beta and am still enjoying Destiny. I’m glad Destiny is a success so I can look back and remember all the hours I spent playing the game I love.
And considering they split away from Activision now they have more freedom of creativity on how they want to make Destiny
So for me actually, the problem started when 343 changed direction after Halo 4's negative reception. The game's quite dependent on the player to either have read the Forerunner trilogy of novels or spent an inordinate amount of time on the wiki. So my first playthrough of it was certainly baffling in places. But now that I'm quite familiar with everything it's one of my favorites.
But because of that negative reaction they killed The Didact off in a comic and ran off in a new direction with Halo 5. And again, it bombed it with fans. So the Banished were introduced in Halo Wars 2, and after that got the (well deserved) extremely positive reception it got from fans, they changed gears yet again. The ending of Halo 5 hypes up the Created Conflict, then we waited six years to find out it was over in a little over a year.
I'm very worried that it's just going to keep happening. But if you're planning on reading all the books and everything I think you're going to develop a new appreciation for Halo 4's campaign. I always wonder what could've been had they just stuck to their guns.
All true, my biggest outrage is what they did to the MP. Campaign is my bread and butter but the utter regression in gameplay from H5 to Infinite.... so many game modes, weapons, options - all lost. Even the REQ system, which is probably the TAMEST loot box mechanic of its peer and today, offered so much variety. The cull for a "simpler classic gameplay" is the death knell. Why buy for less when H5 and H4 give more to play with?
I never played Halo, but i had many friends love the games. Seeing thier love disipate over the years was sad.
I’m sorry for your loss.
I love seeing you talk about this. I love your content and I love HALO so its an awsome video to see
played halo 1-3 with my older cousin and his friends . it was the only thing at the time we didn’t fight each other .good times
I still have fond memories of using XB Connect to play Halo 1 online with random people. It was something else.
Infinite has the foundations to be another great classic experience, but it released with no support, little content and a rough roadmap
Original Halos not only had the foundations to support a great experience, it had the great experience and the community there to support it
I stand behind Halo Infinite probably being a Halo 2-tier game in 2-3 years from now, but that will never replace what Bungie was capable of from the start
Infinite also had COVID, the engine's difficulty in working remotely, and Microsfot's insane hiring practices. So many specialists and subcontractors being fired every few months, then new teammmebers to replace them, then fired after a few months and repeat and rinse. Modern games need massive teams to support them. Gutting that team every few months... its mindboggling.
@@JcBravo8 All modern AAA games are developed like that. CoD, Fortnite, EA's titles, you name it.
That isn't a problem with Halo, that's a problem with the industry. When Bungie held the reigns to Halo, it was just a different industry with different expectations. Bungie was a ground-up, tight-knit studio that could work with great coordination carrying a dedicated and well-worked team. Advanced, realistic physics engines weren't expected, textures need not be higher than the console it was made for.
I'm not saying Infinite was the fault of the devs, I think it was mostly fault of circumstance.
@@Kekktye That's not my point. My point is that modern games like you mentioned require big teams. Big teams that require specialist subcontractors. Subcontractors that are fired after half a year, can't be rehired for the remainder,. Meanning between that shuffle you have to hire new people, train them, then fire them, and hope you can get the people you worked with before back in those seats. This is Microsoft's hiring practice.
@@JcBravo8 This isn't just Microsoft's hiring practice. This is all large games studios' practice. This is just how the industry works now. Yeah, it's bad but it probably isn't changing and we definitely aren't getting a Bungie-style team again.
Now perhaps a sequel to Halo Infinite is a possibility and that sequel may end up being the last game of the Halo mainline games to put the total of mainline games at 7 in reference to how many times the number 7 has been reference throughout the Halo series (due to it being Bungie’s favorite number). The sequel to Halo Infinite should perhaps be the most realistic Halo game (even more realistic than Halo: Reach) in order to make it so good as possible as the developers can.
Halo 3 came out during my senior year of high school. So many memories with that game. I loved Halo 1 & 2, but always enjoyed 3 the most. The 4-player co-op is why I preferred the game over the first two. I remember trying to complete the game 4-player legendary with the Mythic skull on. Staying up all night with so many deaths inflicted upon us. Trying to get the achievement on the last level with all 4 players each riding a ghost. It still haunts me the first time finishing it, my friend jumped out of his ghost at the last second, right when one of our ghosts was entering the ship. The achievement did not count since he was no longer technically in a ghost. And we had to start all over again. Good times.
ODST had a nice callback to this achievement with the last level in 4-player Mythic on Mongooses.
Reach still gives chills on the last level. “Mission: Survive” Seeing your visor crack for the first time all alone always gets me emotional. That was my ending for Halo.
Then I played Halo 4. Game felt lifeless. Felt like a generic Call of Duty. Never returned to it. I pretend like the journey ended dying in Reach.
Good ol days of H3 multiplayer was amazing. Lot of shittalking and laughs. Lot of fun with doing racing maps and grift ball.
I miss playing Duck Hunt in Halo 3.
I agree with you 100% Halo got me and my family through some really hard times and seeing what happened to the franchise makes me sad
I share your sentiments exactly. but I also feel like what happened to Halo has happened to the majority of art from our childhood. every song I hear on the radio samples a hit from 2005, NFTs were almost a thing, and classic IPs are being “rebooted” in idiotic ways all over culture. lots and lots of interesting stuff results from these efforts, but at the same time the purity of its immersion is reduced.
But to sit back and think about all the great art that’s been wrecked for cash-Lion King, Star Wars (my god), pokémon-is way too uncomfortable.
As someone who has never played Halo, I nonetheless look forward to seeing your future video on the subject.
Play it, halo with the boys is a really good time
This video makes me want to help you because of the personal impact halo had on me and my brother’s relationship. I remember halo4 actually helping me through the time that I actually Remember my brothers abusive tendencies come out. I’ve kept up with the series, but returning leaves my heart crumbling
I'm so excited for your video on this! I want to know what caused Halo to start its downward spiral, and I especially want to know how the same mistakes keep being made with no sense of improvement. What makes it so hard to just keep your old fans happy, but introduce new fans to the franchise?
Omg I wish I could share pictures here. I had two phone notifications come up almost simultaneously. One, this video saying, "How Halo Left Me Heartbroken," and the other from Paramount Plus saying, "Halo is a hit! The 'thrilling' (The Daily Beast) new series is streaming exclusively on Paramount+. Watch now!"
I only got into Halo because of RvB somewhere in my early to mid 20s. ...Those were better times for both franchises...
Halo 4 is also my last (five minutes of Spartan Ops on Steam notwithstanding) but mostly because the 360 was my first and last Xbox for lack of proper exclusives on Xbone and Series X/S. I do have MCC on Steam though (I still need to beat Halo 2, which I couldn't play before because Windows Live died).
Its good to know that I was not alone with this feeling and Halo series (pre-343)
Camping outside Gamestops was so nice, making friends right there at midnight
I stopped after Halo 3, loved those three games, but never got into anything after, but I have so many good memories of a childhood with my friends, watching Red vs. Blue and playing multiplayer while drinking way too much Red Bull. I was an adult when Halo 4 hit, it just wasn’t the same to me. I love the campaigns, I’d even like to replay them as well as the new games, but even if I manage the time, nostalgia is a powerful thing and I just don’t think it’d feel the same.
Your feelings on Halo pretty much mirror my own.
I loved Halo when I was younger. First played the orig8nal Halo back in early high school, and was instantly hooked to the franchise. I'm not a multiplayer person, so I never really got that online experience (did try out multiplayer on Halo 3 a couple of times), but I couldn't tell you how many times I played and replayed the campaigns. 1, 2, 3, Wars, ODST, Reach. I was all over these games and adored them.
When 4 came out, I was excited to get back into the series to see where the story goes. I got it, played the campaign from start to finish, and never touched it again. I can barely tell you what happens in it. Took a while for me to realize that I just didn't care about it as much as I did the previous games.
After that, I never went back to Halo. I had no interest in Wars 2, and just watching a playthrough of 5 told me enough to know I would not enjoy this game. By the time Infinite was being marketed, I had lost any care for the series, and just blew it off as another bland entry into a franchise i used to love. It hurts to look at a game series you used to care so much about and just go "whatever" like it's lost all meaning.
Honestly, I respect how you feel on halo, sure it may not be in it's prime right now but I still loved every single release. I can't wait to see your vid on what's ruining halo, also I'd like you to make another video on the halo show. The first 4 we're kinda meh but episode 5 is really good so I recommend making a video on that episode. Thanks for making great content that I can always come back to watch.
My feelings about halo right now are so utterly mixed but everything you said here really, really resonates with the sonic fan in me.
I can attest I've never played halo but that title theme is goosebump inducing.
Play the games, they aren't perfect but they are some damn good fun, a little slow though
@@didyfinkise9033 FPSes wernt always about super precise running around twitch reflexes.
Yeah
Agreed. I played Halo 1-3 none stop, and ODST and Reach when they came out. I had so many fond memories playing with friends . But Halo 4 I played once and just ended there. I went back to the old games. And haven't touched the new ones since.. mostly because I also split screen with my sis and friends and that option wasn't there, so I didn't feel the need to get the next system for it. I really hope they bring couch coop gaming back because thats what made me find Halo and fall in love with it.
Looking forward to the video, I personally never connected to Halo, and even the best games in the saga seemed just good when I played them for the first time in the MCC last year so hearing what "ruined it" for diehard fans is gonna be interesting.
I was actually introduced to Halo through playing the theme in orchestra in middle school. I loved it. Halo 3 was the first game I played, and my first "next gen" game as well (before that, PS2 was the newest I had played). The scale, the gameplay, and the music were awesome. I just recently replayed everything except the Halo Wars games (not my thing). The first trilogy is amazing; so satisfying. ODST is a unique game, and - although crossing the city can get boring - the missions are replayable and the characters are likable. Reach is tied with 3 as my favorite. I like having a team of Spartans with different personalities. The gameplay is probably the most diverse in the series. There's a lot of variety, and you go a lot of places for just being on one planet. I love these games, their visuals, and their soundtracks.
I remember buying Halo 4 on release and being...confused. It grew on me over time, but I didn't like it at first. I didn't like being so isolated, the music was mostly forgettable, and the stakes were a lot lower. Today, there are things I like about it, and "117" is a good track. I remember being excited about Halo 5 at first. The opening cut scene was amazing to me; just like a movie. I probably rode that through most of the game. Today, I definitely think it's not as horrible as people make it out to be. It introduced vertical gameplay, jumped between varied locations (including Sanghelios, which we've never seen before), and brought back Buck. Music, again, was forgettable. Visuals were cool, and some gameplay was fun (like going down the side of a Guardian). I was excited for Infinite, although I was worried once I saw it was open world. Open world, in my opinion, means death for story-based games. It kills the flow of the narrative. "We have to get to get to X before everyone dies!" (2 hours of side missions). Ultimately, Infinite was disappointing. It tried to hastily cut off everything 5 set up, it introduced one interesting new character, the villains were forgettable and a waste of time, the "story" was just go here and push the thing, there was a lame "twist" where the obvious copy of Cortana was revealed to be a copy of Cortana, they teased some replacement for The Flood but didn't show us anything to make us care, I could go on.
In short: Bungie games are great and I will replay them many more times. 343 games are okay, and I might replay 4 on a rare occasion, and 5 on an even rarer occasion. Infinite I never want to play again. The only reason I haven't sold it back is because I'm hoping they'll redeem themselves.
This touches home in many ways for me. I first got into online play with halo 2 and up to 3 and just before 4 got together with some dear friends and just sandbox thrash for hours on end. Story line was also memorable and ground breaking. After 5 though I realized this game has focused so much on looks and less on gameplay. I only touched a half week of infinite and that was half assed and is frankly another lost soul to the microtransaction void. No more covenant, no more cortana, and now a lack luster chief. It's just ghosts floating in the void of space now.
I had my moments with some halo games even in halo 4 and 5. Back in reach/3 days I remember making my emblem seeing witch one I will stick with and the one I made stuck through out the years on my socials to this day
Halo to me was the bond with my cousin who I played A LOT with as we grew up...sadly, after my dear Grandmom passed away in 2017, my aunt (that cousin's mom) sued my dad and my other uncle to try to take away our house and my uncle's because my Grandma didn't have a will, needless to say, that tore the family apart and while I still talk to my cousin from time to time (neither of us has ever even acknowledged what happened between our parents), things have never been the same. The fact that he didn't like the new games enough to fall out of love with the franchise feels extra sad for me.
Honestly, that's a genuine reaction to the series. I still love Halo to death; I've read some of the books and want to read more, I've beaten Halo numerous times and never got tired of it, I'm trying to work up the time to attempt LASO runs... But I refuse to think about anything after Reach and ODST because of how disappointed I was in 4 and 5. They were such a let down, and I'm looking forward to that "What's Ruining" video.
I remember when Halo 5 started and you were hunting Juul N'dama and I was thinking "Yes I can get behind this were hunting down what's left of the Covenant with the Arbiter.....and then you kill him in a cutscene at the end of the mission. That's when I knew something was off and just didn't want to admit it to myself.
I still remember playing Halo 4 multiplayer as a kid. I grew up on Nintendo, so I had no prior halo experience or much shooter experience. So I would go to my friends house and play halo 4 multiplayer, and honestly it was amazing for me. I’d seen nothing else like it! A colorful sci-fi alien weapon shooter game. So when I finally got an Xbox, I got the mcc and decided to play the whole series. From combat evolved to ODST, I was enthralled. I knew the games looked good and were fun, but I was absolutely surprised that the story mode was amazing as well! I got sucked in to the whole covenants vs. UNSC finding the Halos, and the Elites eventually joining up and everything. So when it came time to play halo 4, which I remembered being amazing, I was a bit shocked. It was just different. The mystery of the forerunners wasn’t there, you were fighting elites again cause they’re just “back at it again” I guess, and the atmosphere was just… gone. Since then, I’ve had a little bit of fun playing around in multiplayer vs. with my friends in the new games. But it’s just not halo. When I want to play halo, I grab some buds, and hop on halo 1-3 (and odst) to have a great time
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I came upon the halo franchise just a few years after Saber where Halo 2 was already out. I immediately knew this game franchise was something special. It got me to buy an Xbox where as I was fine playing on my gamecube before. But I was there for Halo 3 big time. I was there to Finish the Fight. I got my copy of Halo 3 before I even had gotten a 360 to play it on because I was still saving up for one. I played the hell out of Halo 3 and made good friends online from it.
Halo 3: ODST and Halo reach were more of the same with each addition bringing something new and unique to the franchise.
I missed out on being able to afford the legendary edition of the Halo 3 release, so I made sure I wouldn't miss out for the Halo 4 release. I got some fake documents and a metal case for the game, but it honestly felt like a letdown after playing through the Campaign and trying out the multiplayer. I had this mental picture in my head that the Halo I loved ended perfectly as a trilogy with Chief going back into a cryo chamber. Between the odd new designs of the various species and Chief himself, the lack of a soundtrack that was memorable, and a sad replacement for the flood as an opponent it was enough to kill the 343 era franchise in my head pretty quickly. I also did not even pick up Halo 5 until years after it came out when it was on sale. I just had no urge to try it at launch especially as reviews started coming in.
I can mentally separate the Bungie era from the 343 era, so I'm happy that I have the Bungie era games to cherish, and I can at least wish 343 luck, cause they cant seem to catch a break.
I feel exactly the same bro
For those who're saying about Halo Infinite, E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2020 (and eventually, 2022) was event-cancelled, but not exactly completely, and redistributed into mostly fragmented announcements. So the event therefore still lived on. (E3 2021 was an digital thing that's long considered dumpster fire though).
Halo Infinite was intended to be represented/announced in E3 2020. Please keep all of this in mind.
I was an offline Reach kid. I really dug into a main Halo title very late. But I love the Halo universe so much!
I started with Destiny. Never had an Xbox as a kid but I had a PlayStation growing up. Now that I’m on PC I went back and played the original Halo trilogy and Reach. In doing so I gained a better understanding of and respect for Bungie as a studio.
Bungie continues to do good work with Destiny, while 343i has put up its own obstacles in its management of the Halo franchise.
This is a slightly different take, but I actually love (what's called now) Y2K aesthetic that was so prevalent around that era of the first Xbox, and Halo 1 makes up a big part of the nostalgia for that era for me too. I remember playing the game and listening to the soundtrack while doing super early digital art and uploading it to DeviantART. Whenever I hear a youtube video use "A walk int he woods" for background music it like, arrests me and throws me for a nostalgia sucker-punch every time. I'm like "nope, you used this song, it's all I can pay attention to now. Stop talking. Let the song play." I played Halo 2 and 3, but it was 1 that holds this especially strong nostalgia with me that is just a perfect blend of elements that can't be recreated outside of precisely when it was made.
Seriously, I remember getting Halo:CE at the same time as getting my original Xbox. It pulled me through when my little brother was in the hospital at the time. Then came Halo 2 . That one my Dad surprised me with the Limited Edition Steelbook case of the game with the making of DVD. That's where my Halo experience blew up as I used to spend a lot of weekends over at my childhood friend's place. He, his half brother and I would stay up all night playing co-op or messing around in Multiplayer. Then came Halo 3... Those where the best days of my life as a senior in Highschool, I had brought it over to my high school best friend's place. He had never played Halo or owned an Xbox a day in his life. I remember when we first got on the Warthog on Salvo Highway as he hopped in the driver seat and I qoute:
"Him: So what can the Warthog do? does it have speed boosters or-"
Me: "It has a horn. :D"
Him: "A hor- *he presses the trigger twice*"
*Beep beep*
The look on his face... Priceless. After that day of hanging out, the following weekend he told me he got a 360 and then the following weekend we took our 360s to our 3rd friend's place and she fell in love with the game and you guessed it, she got her 360 the next weekend too after that it was a domino effect. the 3 of us got XBL Gold, found out more of our friends had XBL accounts and the rest is history of us BSing in forge mode, multiplayer and trying to make our own Machinima... Playing the RTS Halo Wars. Then Reach was our final Bastion of fun... We began to slowly wither away from the series. It was at the time of Halo 4 where we began to separate. It was fun? At a cost... Then I traded in my 360 for a PS4 cause Destiny. It wouldn't be until 2018 I bought an Xbox One from my old manager and begrudgingly bought Halo 5... I dunno what was harder to get through, that or the Paramount+ series so far... I'm still playing Infinite, making people rage knowing they lost to a kitty eared Spartan. But since the beginning with CE, the books, comics and various film adaptations such as the Legends series and Forward Unto Dawn and such. It's a far cry from the days of Bungie. 343i has to really step up their game if they want to bring us fans back and where we can say... I'm actually having fun... Halo is as fun as it used to be... I dunno maybe we're just old and bitter 30yo Halo fans hoping for days of old lol.
tl;dr: Halo got me through tough times and brought my friends and I closer together. As Halo progressed we all went our separate ways. Maybe we're old and bitter lol.
Random! But did you see the ODST cosplayer at BabsCon this year? Got a couple of pics with him. I was impressed by the amount of detail and time he put into his suit. All the way down to the blood type patch on the shoulder.
I love it hot deep Spark goes with research with games n' movies. I would love to see the 'What ruined'' the Halo fanchise. Tis' so sad to see the downfall of such a majestic game masterpiece, though. I really feel the dissapointment in air.
Keep it up Spark!
Halo 4 broke my heart just with the credit track
I love playing the game, but have never played the story. For me, Halo is my favorite game to play with my brother. We have the anniversary edition, and I love just playing on all the different maps. It’s a game I love playing with others
I remember Halo 1, high school senior year we secretly installed the DEMO for the game on mulitple computers and during free periods we'd get a bunch of people online to play. Because the demo let us play in the classic blood gulch map, sure we could only play the first level of campaign mode but we didn't care. And i've since played and beaten at least the primary first four titles. I got stuck on ODST a bit , and never had the chance to do Reach minus the initial DEMO for the game which made me soooooo mad i couldn't afford it when it came out because even the DEMO was spectacular. But for me the games i was the most disappointed with were the "Wars" series. Not in terms of story but gameplay mechanics. Don't get me wrong they're great games, but the mechanics were remniscent of "StarCraft" and the original "WarCraft" (not world of warcraft, the OG one) franchises by Blizzard. So playing that kind of game on console felt awkward in spite of the story elements. But i'll agree Halo 4 is where the main titles began going downhill, graphically and gameplay-wise they were great still but something felt "off".
I think i had the same feeling regarding the franchise from that point as the O.G. Fallout gamers did when Bethesda bought the franchise from Black Isle. Mind i fully appreciate and enjoy the original titles (and i'm one of those rare people who actually enjoys Brotherhood of Steel as well). Though just as the games from Fallout 3 onward were a departure from the originals so too was Halo 4, it's like the heart of the franchise went away. Of course i freaking love Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4, and 76 but i have to admit that there are elements that are in the original two games that Bethesda just hasn't been able to recapture in spite of their efforts. And that goes for 343 with the Halo franchise too, they've kept the visuals and the gameplay high tier, but something is lacking now and it's really hard to put an exact finger on it for me personally.
There's just no denying that the first games before 4 it was like watching the moon wax until it reached a Full state, and after it began to wane, and that beautiful bright globe has faded and is not that marvel that it once was. Perhaps in time it'll manage to recapture that magic if only for one brief glorious moment in a future title, much as Fallout New Vegas managed to do unifying the OG fans with the newer ones after Bethesda's Acquisition (due in no small part to Obsidian comprised of former Black Isle employees working tirelessly to bring elements of the cancelled "Fallout 3: Van Buren" title to a new era and with it a sprinkle of that old magic). Fingers crossed that a future Halo title manages to do the same, even if it's but a fleeting moment of a grand display before it takes an exhausted breath.
2:55 If that was mindblowing, imagine having picked up Phantasy Star Online when you were still young lol. I was in my mid to late teens when I got it and Episode III CARD Revolution for the Gamecube but I honestly barely played it. I did sometimes play Episode III offline with my old best friend (who called Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex on his PS2 "Wrath of Load Screen") though. He would mimick the announcer: "Change! Dice!"
Halo 3 and Reach were big parts of my high-school years and i was a diehard fan of the series i played Halo 2, 3,ODST and Reach. Reach to me was the peak of the series.
I remember when 4 came out. And my oldest brother coming home with the limi edition Halo 4 Xbox, i had the same experience Saber. I played it gaslit myself into playing it into liking it. After awhile my friends and i found ourselves going back to Reach Even now. With how poorly Halo infinite has been handled i have gone back to Reach, back to better times.
Halo went from very passionate devs and a community Halo was the shooter every company wanted its a shell. Chasing popular games, it's become another soulless corporate series. Very few people at 343 have shown passion for the series, it stopped being about a passion for video games after 343 took over, since 343 took over it became a business money focused how to emulate other popular games to draw in their audiences so they could make more money instead of "our loyal fans will bring more if they are raving about halo". The only people who seem to have any care for the series at 343 are Joe Staten and Brian Jarrard everyone else seems indifferent
I actually teared up when Bungie left it was like losing a family member at the time.
The more I’ve been venting my frustration to my friends and seeing the reviews of this Loved franchise. The more I start to dwell on the thoughts of each review/ argument. We all know “from those that have started with the HALO trilogy” the impact that it has left, but let me put it this way.
Another thing I’ve grown up with… Gojira otherwise know as Godzilla. Everyone loves the big green atomic lizard.. but the more the times have changed, so did the Subtlety of the message and The design of the character and the films… yet We still respect the message about the chaos that comes out from our “mutually assured destruction and cause of humanities power to create such Destruction, such as the consequences after” hints on the birth of Gojira.
Now with halo I’ve always seen the message was About simply The consequences of the past with it’s History behind it all, referring to the Forerunner/Precursor war and how humanity is now Reliable to hold the “Mantle of Responsibility”
Now that we dive into that history the more the story changes as well as the characters and including the overall message now it’s the “Consequences of creation.” Precursors creating life in the halo universe, as the Forerunners created the rings, Halsey’s creation of the Spartans, with now The consequences of creating Smart AI. Yet it still keeps it’s Mystery. Which people have complained about a lack of sense 4 and 5, and from what people remember, especially art Design, including gameplay.
To also be fair a lot of People agree to disagree when it comes to those topics , because times change.. especially when companies want to look at these things a business instead of proper story telling especially when it comes to creativity, Your Armor, your Custom games and your Multiplayer.
So to summarize everything you’ve just read I believe 343 has the right to have the Shift of message yes.. especially with EXTREME character development but have they Executed it properly especially from their past game halo 5? No, yet with what they’ve noticed from past mistakes when it comes to their “writing” and “Art design” Yes
Is it wrong to look at the halo franchise as a Business? Yes because you loose what built the franchise from the ground up which is the “community.”
But is it wrong to try and reach out to a Broader audience? No, cause halo is a franchise therefore they can easily make more games based off of other characters or new! Without sacrificing the growth of other well established and loved characters. Reach proved it such as ODST.
So why not more?
I feel ya saber. I played the halo series so much growing up. However after reach the series took a nose dive. They retconed their own lore and the games lost the personality that they once had. I think one of the moments that really caught me off guard was in halo 3 right after killing a brute another nearby yells out "You just killed my lover!" Moments like that are subtle, but really made those games the series personality and I miss those glory days.
man i feel the exact same way about Halo. how it started my true love for video games, especially since it was the first time ive played an fps.
ive played games from ps1 like crash and spyro, and i still adore those games for being my first experience, but Halo was THE game that got me hooked on behind the scene stuff,
how the game was made, how it' started from an rts to a masterclass fps, etc.
tbh i still follow Bungo and play some Destiny 2. And i gotta say, they still got that old "Halo" hook to it, just in a more open setting.
I really do miss the old halo tho, so i do jump into mcc most of the time to play the classics.
If y'all ever wanna play together for some halo or some other game, we should get together some time and have a blast!
I thought this was your other channel and was really confused when the video ended without you talking about the new apparently rough show
Did you ever get the scarab gun saberspark?
I was a huge fan of Bungie's earlier shooters, Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon trilogy, back in the 90s. Halo was amazing for an old-school Bungie fan for that reason, because the games showed that once they found that audience, the studio had the technical and story know-how to knock their socks off. It's honestly a little sad to see that their biggest IP is being served as leftovers by another studio while they themselves are locked into Destiny seemingly forever.
On that note though, everyone should give Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon trilogy a try! They are free to play these days and well worth it if you can tolerate Wolfenstein and Doom style graphics.
I love Oni. Wish it could’ve continued.
Halo is a very special game to me and it's one of the first Xbox games I ever played, it's such a shame to see this masterpiece failing to be what it used to be.
Honestly, Marty O’Donnel has his own channel on RUclips, if you guys ask him to do an interview, I’m sure he’d be happy to do it, he’s always happy to do interviews with people of the community
Good idea!
@@absoluterainbow so of course not even like a day or 2 after I commented this, Marty O’Donnel shut down said RUclips channel due to all the hate and toxicity he’s had thrown at him online, so I’m not so sure you can even get into contact with him anymore
I watched all the new episodes from the Halo series and only the 4th episode wasn't so bad at all. I forgot how many episodes are there now, but Cortana in the series seemed a bit too much to handle how she looks but on the other hand, they did quite show like how Spartans were supposed to be used as weapons for humanity to fight off the war or whatever the story was, especially the origins behind Master Chief. I thought it was the only thing that's interesting to me, especially (sorry for spoilers) the cliff hangar itself.
It's not that I'm a fan of Halo, but watching the series and my baby brother playing the games made me want to try out playing Halo myself. So yeah, you speak the truth Saberspark.
Well... my first Halo was 4, wich I buyed in the launch when I was 11 or 12. It was my introduction to the franchise and I fell in love with it. I had with Halo 4 all the feeling you had with Halo CE. I played it a lot but something went wrong with my copy and the campaing started not working after after it's first half. I still love that game, despite agreeing with all the critics towards it's gameplay, it's level design, it's story and it's art style.
After that I buyed Halo Reach, I played with friends and cousins and I love to death that game. It's not just my favorite Halo but also one if not my favorite game.
I searched more about the franchise: videos summarizing the lore, the Halo Legends animations, Forward Unto Dawn.
When I couldn't decide between a Playstation 4 or a Xbox X, I waited for the next Halo. Then I saw how disappointing it was. In the end, the PS5 just came out and I wasn't able to buy a PS4 or a Xbox One
Then I buyed Halo 3 odst and Halo 3 and played an emulator for Halo 2 and also loved all those games.
When MCC was announced to PC with Reach, I new I had to buy a gamer PC and then I buyed a good laptop for the family and College projects ;) .
I finally buyed MCC recently and played CE and H2A. I'm playing in lauch order and can't wait to play Halo 4 again after all those years.
But before buying MCC, I started playing Infinite's multiplayer when it came out (because it's free to play and I couldn't lose it). I still haven't buyed the campaing. Even with everyone saying the game has no content and it's a failed game service, I love playing it. It's so relaxing and fun. Maybe I don't care about what people say about Infinite because I spent the last 6 years only playing League of Legends and Halo Infinite basically saved me from that horrible place.
The Paramount series, I haven't wantched yet because I don't want to pay a stream service for just one series.
So what can I say? I love Halo! It's my childhood and my favorite game series. I'll like H4 forever despite it's flaws as I love the first 3 Michael Bay's Transformers (another great part of my life). I love Haoo Reach. With a PC gamer, Halo Infinite's multiplayer and MCC, I feel like a gamer again and not just a masoch... I mean, a League of Legends player.
I played quite a bit of halo, have found memories of playing with my friends. For some reason 2 and beyond just didn't do it for me.
I know the feeling! I did the Midnight release pick up for Halo and played it madly. Could 2 shot pistol everyone to the point no one wanted to play with me. Played all the other release too but stopped after 4. even now I haven't played 5 or Inifinity. something's wrong and I don't know how to articulate it. It could be that I'm grown now? But then I still greatly enjoy single player games with amazing story telling like God of War and Spiderman so I don't think that's it? Hopefully your video will help me realise what it is but I can say that the whole live service thing is definitely not going in the pro's column!
Your getting into a monumental task making a "what's wrong with Halo" video without being acutely engaged in the community
There have been people going on 10 years now critiquing every element of Halo, seeing its defining aspects and breaking apart what differentiates each title
Having an "outsiders" perspective is super valuable, but its such a wide-spanning, intricate topic that I don't know if anyone could do it justice in just one video
I'm a outsider who never played Halo. However, I do know a fair bit about this franchise.
I also went through all the original Halos in my youth, and I FEEL this video. I mean, I actually love Halo 4, but I agree that it wasn't as glorious as the classics. Cortana dying hit me just as hard as when Jorge sacrificed himself and it didn't matter.
While I am not a big fan of Halo I understand that pain. I have played halo 1-4 I didn’t have an Xbox growing up so I wasn’t able to play them until recent rereleases and honestly Halo 4 is actually probably my favorite out of the Halo games I have played. Although give the latest Halo TV series I do think fans deserved better than what has been shown so far.
My Halo video game experience was pretty similar. I got halfway through Halo 4's campaign then just stopped and got bored of it. Left the series alone until I got MCC in 2020. I never played Halo online though due to poor internet and instead relied on my siblings for coop. I was born in 2000 and had older siblings who had an xbox so I literally was around the game before I could speak and is the main game of my early childhood.
I liked Infinite's campaign. Too bad there is no replay mission option. I don't play on xbox live so that was never part of my experience. I played so much of halo 3 amd Reach with my brothers with couch coop.
My most nostalgic memories of Halo is playing slayer on Sandbox with my brothers dual wielding maulers and playing Delta Halo.
Yeah. No joke when I was like 6 I got Halo 2 and was hooked not just on Halo but games in general
Halos pretty important to me. I started with H2 in the day and it blew kid me's mind. This world of cool looking aliens going through the motions was something I'd never seen before. The opening cutscene of H2 classic remains my favourite moment from any video game. CE unfortunately doesn't elicit the same level of love from me merely from it being a bit more of a mystery to me back then, but that in turn increased the mystery found in H2, I knew that chief destroyed halo, that Thel had failed at safeguarding it, but no idea on what had actually happened. H3, while a bit of a sore/low point for me now was a banger back then, and while part of me will always treasure it, narratively and visually I don't really think it's the kind of sequel H2 should have gotten. ODST was always epic and the RTS followed suite but Reach gave me a cut that developed into an open wound. I had a ton of difficulty with dyslexia as a kid, but the halo novels provided an avenue to allow me to really want to read and seeing Fall of Reach get spat on by Bungie the way it did, while not bothering me much at first slowly festered into distaste. Between that and some artstyle problems that grew over time, Halo 4 tramped in as my saving grace, a game who's whole story panders to a book worm like me and gets back into that character based story that I loved from Halo 2 (and I love it's art). Halo 4s my perfect epilogue to bungies story, and I've always felt that way, regardless of my thoughts have changed on some of those bungie games.
Halo 5 served as 343 trying a backpedle on H4s story, and Infinite a backpedle on H5, and both just feel like husks, trying parade the franchise along with an endless string of soft reboots. Between those two and the likes of H2 anniversary the series in a modern sense just feels hollow, with vapid art that can't figure out what made HCE/H2, HW and H4 look so cool and continue to show 343s complete lack of confidence when it comes to their story telling. If you asked me, "what's ruining Halo?" Outside of general franchise fatigue from a series that's tried to last continuously for this long, it's lack of confidence from its uppermanagment an unwillingness to just pick a direction or an idea and go all in on it.
Never played Halo but as a Pokemon fan I feel you.
Halo 2 was my childhood, I spent every free hour I had playing that game at some points, I had lan parties for multiple birthdays and played it all night and they're some of my greatest memories.
Halo 4 was different, I remember the emotions the final cutscenes gave me which were deep, but I didn't spend any time in the multiplayer, I played it once.
Halo 5 was pure pain, I played that game hoping for a redemption to the series and all I got was disappointment and rage, pure unadulterated rage at 343 for ruining my franchise, for ruining a game that meant the world to me.
I remember having a friend named Sora on Halo 1 and 2. I was known as Kairi Sohma on there after a Fruits Basket OC of mine (which I will be honest, I don't remember much about that said Fruits Basket OC other than she was year of the horse I think. This was before I read the manga). And yeah, it was funny because we both never played Kingdom Hearts but it was just coincidental that his name was actually Sora and I had my name as Kairi.
We were the best of friends online, like we would chat, we would make jokes, watch Red vs Blue over chat (Does anyone remember MSN Messenger?) and sometimes just experiment with mods because he knew how to use them and I didn't.
I will admit, I even had a crush on him.
However, times changed and he ended up going off to college. So, we haven't seen or talked to each other since. And I haven't played Halo since then either. But he was the reason why I got really into Halo for a while and also into Kingdom Hearts... up until 2 which I never beat.
Yeah, I know the feeling man.
My game growing up was Final Fantasy. After 7, with the exception of 9, have all been awful to me.
I know how you feel. I never played Halo but I do play lots of Pokemon and when playing BD/SP I started dreading to play the game again and finish it 😅, after the letdown OF SW/SH + BD/SP I really started to feel the games where losing there magic for sure 😖. But then Legends Arceus came around and my spark whas revived, it whas the mpst enjoyeble Pokemon game in years and felt so nice fresh😊 . let's hope there's a a big change coming in halo soon as well that could spark things up for you and other dissapointed Halo fans as well 😁.
Sir that is to many emojis
I treat four and onwards the same as I treat the starwars sequel trilogy, nothing more than expensive fanfiction.
its been a year wheres the halo video????
Halo was my first console game. You can tell by my pfp, I still hold it in high regards. I fell out after Reach. 4 was too different. It was too much of a stretch for me, and 5 was even worse. 5 almost killed Halo to me. Infinite brought it back. Infinite is still pretty good
This sounds like my eulogy for star wars
I felt that way about final fantasy.. I was bullied and my freinds ditched me because I was not popular.. I poured hours into the few games i had and would spend all the money I have to collect the ps2 games .. it was final fantasy 13 that made me stop continuing foward. Though all final fantasy fans have a preference of what generation their attached to ..my start was 10 and 10-2 ..and for alot of fans that is the gen is when it died .
The moment the old movies are better than the paramount plus one
wow...
Played though halo to halo reach was the best in my teenage days. Funny enough halo reach was my first Xbox live multiplayer back when I was in early 10th grade I had the best memories of it.. especially playing lan party’s. But after halo 4 I just stop playing but at my mid 20s I went back playing halo mmc and remembering why I fall in love with halo series replaying halo 3.
Ok when you said you played ace combat 4 you immediately caught my attention as someone that’s played 4 5 0 and 7 I still consider my favourite ace combat and I have no idea why you haven’t already made a video on it sure the game is easy even on ace and the gameplay is simple but the story is amazing
As a person who came into the halo games later in life (Halo 3) and has played all of them the one thing that seems to stick out the most to me apart from the gameplay and aesthetic differences between the Bungie games and the 343 ones, is that I feel like the new games take themselves way too seriously where The original ones (less so Reach) Always knew when to crack a joke or lighten the situation when we needed it to happen.
Infinite has plenty of humor within the campaign
@@koichidignitythief7429 It does but not nearly to the extent of any of the originals.
Oh wow you have played halo beffore. Well i want to know whats your favorite mine is halo 2, 3, odst, reach, 5 just because of the grate multiplayer and infinte i think i was just too late to halo 1 and the graphics to me is really old
Here ill give my perspective as a halo fan on the current state of halo and what lead to its downfall.
Halo was pretty much at the top before halo 4 but in decline. We had good books, Movies (halo legends is seriously underrated) and games. Then halo 4 released and most of the people who where still sticking around from reach left the franchise. Halo 4 itself had alot of potetional. I really did enjoy the story it told. The halo TV show should have used halo 4 as a point of refernce for chiefs mannerisms and body movements to show emotion and character. But alot of small annoying things really bogged down halo 4 and I noticed its a trend with 343s games and even with the show that theres alot of good, but then theres alot of bad. Its like they get one thing right and 2 other things wrong about halo.
Alot of the annoying things from halo 4 like the Prometheans, The art style, the loadouts, sprint and much more bog down the whole game and playing the game with mods that fix these issues makes it feel like I am playing reach and thats the worst part about it for me. There is something good that could have been done here but all these minor things prevented the good from shining and it most of it was an easy fix anyways (aside from the art style). I wouldn't say halo 4 is a bad a game, It had a lot of great campaign moments. however I wouldn't say it was a good game either. since the multiplayer was just discount cod meant to appeal to the "boarder audience" which is a trend with 343 where they only want to appeal to people who wouldn't like halo games.
The main problem I see with 343s handling of halo is that they never seem to innovate what they do right or they never seem to fix what could be made into an amazing thing. Its kind of like Sonic team where instead of improving upon something they just ditch it all and throw it away to try something new while also claiming to go back to the roots of the series. I mean halo 4, 5 and infinite's storys are all disconnected from each other and it feels really jarring.
About infinite, The gameplay is amazing and everyone agrees that it is, however the story is kind of just fine, the open world is fine if you like to explore things but can be annoying to people who want something more indepth and just want action. But its the best game 343 has made so far, but its bogged down by the multiplayers greedy challenge system and store and lots of development issues in the background of things.
For me
Halo was the cool game since you got to battle aliens (and one game I like with weapons)
I played some if it with my brother and it was halo 4
We played the other first games and then the 5th one and the Wars 2. It got a bit boring
Really sad the series flopped because no one played the games :|
But I just hope they bring it back to its roots
It was a fun game and with cool weapons
This is exactly how I feel. Especially with convincing myself that Halo 4 was good, yet never actually giving a shit about it once I was done.
If there is one optimistic side to this, I do respect 343 for what they did with MCC. Even with a very rough and rocky start, they didn't give up and continued to improve and add upon it to ensure one of the best ways to play this amazing series at its best. Something I feel people don't talk about enough though is these games being brought to the PC and the evolving support for mods and other user generated content that appeared as a result.
I may not have all that much hope for what 343 and Microsoft are doing with Infinite and the TV show and such, but I at least look forward to the fact that fans can now redefine and breathe new life into these games that mean so much to me. I've been playing through Halo SPV3 recently, and it's just mind blowing to see what fans can do with Halo, yet big companies like 343 struggle to capture any of that magic
I have negative interest in Halo (FPS make me motion sick, lol), BUT I would love to hear your thoughts anyway! Can't wait for your next vid! :D
My brother thinks the exact thing, halo 1,2,3 reach odst. Has that charm while the recent games just dont.
Halo wars is another good one too, commanding your units and making your base, play as the covenant or humans.
All I see the new halo games as are just cash grabs and rushed projects all about that sweet fandom cash grabs.
When before it had that passion to the music, story, designs, cutscenes and overall non forgettable moments.
I still adore halo till this day, only thing we should be thankful for is that they brought back the old halo games on steam for pc. With zero chance of the servers going offline this time.
Halo was my teen years. Me and my friends would all hang out and play together. We're talking multiple t.v.s and systems hooked together thru landlines. Just playing and having fun. Then 2 and 3 came out and we relatively enjoyed them with how the story expanded. Followed with the books, the shorts, the rooster teeth hilarity. Halo 4 was meh to me still okay but more for the multiplayer aspect. But 5 I hated 5 that is where the franchise died for me where they essentially made master chief a pseudo-villian by him going Awol to search for cortana and that bothered me due to me just getting out of the military. But definitely when Microsoft created 343 studios they destroyed the franchise. And don't get me started on the live action t.v. series I loath that series with a burning passion.
Dude, the best part was your version of the title screen music lol