What It Means To Be Human In Halo
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2023
- don't much care for New Blood, now that you mention it.
ODST is easily defined as the only Halo game without Spartans as a main focus, but this also gives the game a very unique perceptive; what does it actually mean to just be a Human in a war that spans the galaxy?
And yeah, I know about Fireteam Raven, but I don't know how to get footage from an arcade cabinet.
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It is one of those nights - • it is one of those nights 
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My lung has not been collapsed but I'll let you metaphorically walk me down the stairs because the elevator is broken due to ongoing alien invasion.
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Why is your voice so overly dramatic?
@@RakeHipsterI did not do theatre from Kindergarten to College to *not* overly pack emotion into my presentation style.
@@ThaneBishop Understandable have a nice day.
@@ThaneBishop🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@ThaneBishop It's almost like this is a passionate video essay about the humanity in all of us. That by NOT putting emotion into the video essay the humanity of the person, the topic and the stories would fall flat. 🤣 I think some people didn't understand the video essay. Fantastic job on this. I've never seen your video's before. But if this is what you do, then count me in.
I love how hopeless Reach and ODST are, and just how much it pushes home that Chief is an actual unholy monster that lurks in the nightmares of these otherwise unstoppable alien overlords.
And he can still die fairly easily, especially on higher difficulties
@@Skullkan6 that is the point heroic is the canon way to play and chief is not a god he is just a human who refuses to give up and extremely lucky
@@deathbringer9893 If only the dead have seen the end of war, is he really the luck one?
@@erincarson8998 his luck is also his undoing he will most likely outlive everyone else due to spartans living longer and being in there prime longer kinda sad and makes sense why john "loves" cortana
It also hammers home the sheer magnitude of difference between Spartan IIs and everyone else.
"Self sacrifice and the reckless -- utterly reckless -- hope that, via that self sacrifice, someone else won't be lost."
Damn good line, man.
I love it too
I think something else special about ODST, especially the first mission, is your loadout. You get a suppressed smg, the first suppressed weapon in the series. There have been stealth missions before in the series, but they were about ambushing and relied on snipers. This suppressed smg and dark environment screams "do not get caught, engaging the enemy is death".
This. I remember that feeling at 12 years old.
Mombasa streets were ment to be played laso so that way you had to avoid fights. My issue with the suppressed weaponry is everyone in the fire fight hears it so melee is still the best stealth
@@quintonsloan3666 …did not know that. *runs to redownload the game*
For them.
Regular Halos: the Space Marine experience
ODST: the Guardsman experience
Eh, I’d say it’s more the Kasrkin/Scion experience. We’ll have to wait for a Grunt game to really suffer the Guard.
Scions are Guard, son
real
>Warhammer fans on there way to insert their shitty fucking franchise into every medium humanly possible
@@a05odst62 What makes you think that? 40K and Halo share much in common, so I imagine their fans would have much crossover.
Master Chief made me want to fight, to save the day.
The Rookie made me want to live, to survive the night.
That’s the impact a game can have. That’s what it can do for someone.
Oh hey it's you one of my favorite youtubers
Noble Six made me realize, we are not the hero of the story but paving the way for the one who is.
It's really telling that I die most times I play any of the Master Chief games on basically every difficulty on every level. I play fast, take risks, and have fun.
ODST had me surviving most missions without any deaths even on heroic or legendary because I was so much more tentative with committing to engagements.
@@randommoron9892 Thank ya kindly for that.
@@CRDubU no prob
When you think of the kinds of people the player and Sadie run into, Jonas was honestly probably worth at least five people the player and Sadie run into over the course of the campaign.
She ran into those left behind, the dregs who could not or choose not to leave. Many of those who choose did so for good reasons, they fought and died. Those who did so for bad reasons stuck around and made trouble.
Johnas was worth 5 who stayed. But he decided he wasn't worth 5 who left.
"Have TWO kabobs."
Jonas is a real one, hope his Kebabs live on, in his memory
"...even though it looks more like a Puma." XD Sir I was drinking. Literal spit take.
How about a Walrus?
@@GenStallion Stop creating imaginary animal
I think it looks more like El Chupacabra
Chupa-thingy?
What the hell is a "Puma?"
Oh, memories..! 😂❤
To quote the book. A life spent is not a life wasted.
Gotta' love Mendez, we need a Johnson & Mendes buddy cop prequel book written by Karen Travis no cap.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly Please, no. Do not let that woman anywhere near Halo again.
@@projectr9999 I haven't read any of the 343 books, what happened?
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly Hypocrisy, overzealous hatred for Catherine Halsey, and racial prejudice against Sangheili in some ways.
@@projectr9999 I can't tell if you're serious or having a joke at my expense.🤣
What I remember hitting me in ODST was if you had all the logs,the officer survived until you found the frozen door. Then he turned on you. Your targeting reticle goes red on a human for the first time,even on the crazy marine that shot at you in CE it was green thus a no-shoot. But now you got a police officer with a potential one-shot-kill shotgun in his hands and he is hostile. You have to pull the trigger first to survive. I had a shotgun as well in my first time with this encounter and on reflex from seeing my cross hair go red at close range, I pulled the trigger without thinking. A bang,a man crumpling to the ground and a red splat on the wall. Not blue,not purple,not orange,red. For the first time in Halo you have a human as a red target, and what do you do when you have a red target? The same thing you've been doing....shoot. But this is no alien,nor even one of those insurrectionists heard of in the background....this is a uniformed police officer. In the same uniform as the officers you fought alongside in some missions. I only realized what I did after I saw the red splat on the wall a second after the shot. This hit me a bit harder as my mother was once a police dispatcher so I had a high option of officers, so pulling the trigger on the NMPD officer was a "The hell did I just do?" moment.
I love when a story... a world, is written so well that these things happen.
"Good Soldiers Follow Orders"
WE ARE EATING GOOD THIS DAY
I BRING A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST
I'm having toast with blueberry jelly
@@punchieouchieguy how is it?
@@invaderHUNK yummy
We are eating kebabs
I know there was no rain in ODST, but my memories will always have heavy rainfall while exploring New Mombasa as my favorite Halo protagonist. I feel that has something to do with the music while exploring. (Buck is probably my 3rd favorite Halo character, if Superintendente doesn't count 😅)
BTW my 2nd favorite Halo game is Reach. Utmost respect for Rookie and Six. o7 (my 2 favorite Halo protagonists)
The trailers cast some kind of spell that infected us all with the logic plague and now we think it was raining
I feel the same way. Great times 🙂
Same. Same
...Now that I think about it, why isn't there a mod for this on steam?
"A minimum of one alien, per rifle, was going home in a mop bucket."
Aaaand subscribed. I'm not a full half hour in and already the dining has been fine.
30:08 It's funny how the one mission in the game that feels like a "power fantasy" is a mission that is based around gettin' the f* out and away from the enemy ASAP. The first time you've described a feeling of consistent safety and security in a mission and it's when you're leaving!
Love this game man
I've seen so many people liken Halo to just a sci fi version of Call of Duty so its nice to see someone understand the humanity present inside of the franchise. The line about "losing but on our terms" struck a cord with me and reminded me what the halo franchise meant me and finally put into words why the newer instalments didn't pique my interest. This video is every word I've need to express my love for a franchise that's had such a massive impact on me.
Great video! I just wanted to throw one thing in for context:
ODST used to be panned back in its day, the most common rhetoric used was that it was "like playing Halo without shields."
Lore-wise, that's 100% correct. ODSTs do not employ any sort of shielding tech, aside from traditional heat-dispersing/ballistic armor. In-game, it's actually false. The game itself has a tutorial for the system, IIRC it goes by the name "stamina" but it's functionally an energy shield.
You can see it by taking damage. It's the red vignette on your screen, and signified by your character's heavy breathing. It absorbs some damage before you start losing health, just as John Halo would. Fun fact!
It always bothers me when people get confused about that fact. I mean they literally mention the whole stamina system in the tutorial yet it flies by the average player's head
Thank you SO MUCH for mentioning A Walk in the Woods. I wrote a whole essay on it in highschool.
It is a CRIME this only has 2,000 views. Incredible video on my favourite Halo game.
An older video on a small (as of now) channel. It is growing though, and at a rapid pace. There are already close to 8k views on the video and the channel has nearly 18k subs.
50% like ratio? That's gotta be a good sign though right?
a month on and that number has been multiplied by 10
I always appreciate when a videogame IP takes the player from basically a terminator protagonist, to the average grunt.
You aren't the Doomslayer, you are normal soldier #38476.
You aren't Master Chief, you are marine #23222
It's something few games do,and I love it. Makes you appreciate more how different are Spartans from the average guy, even the guys above the average like the ODST soldiers. But it also adds more humanity to the series as a whole
If you get enough audio logs the officer on sub level seven has a different death
i still dont fully understand how buck figured out where Dare was but i do know it stems from the conversation that any of the tunnels not flooded are filled with covenant at that point. I have read that since on the drop they angled towards the ONI building and she disappeared from her pod that she continued to the ONI building (which most marines including ODST would know has sublevels.) Tunnels have to lead somewhere and if the covenant are there for something then Dare (ONI) must be there to retrieve it.
Well I know Buck knew that they were of course. He still thought that they were boarding the supercarrier at the start. He said something like "What are you doing ? We're way off course!"
Which he remembers after kikowani station. (It plays as audio)
@@LordlessSword yeah, he only figured it out after it was a death wish to go back.
Its been years since I played ODST, but if i recall correctly, Sadie calls in for a elephant to evac him, which you can find tourched by plama fire in route to that terminal. Makeing it notable because I thnk it was the first time an elephant was mentioned/ modeled in a halo game that was not Halo Wars.
I've been watching through your content in the last day or two, I gotta say, Love your stuff man! I'd love to hear your take on Halo reach, if you have any opinon on it!
It really, really, really goes to show just how much you improve with each video! I don't mean to say that you've had any L's -- because you straight up haven't. But your first Cyberpunk video sucked me in with just how masterful your analysis of the forlorn genre is when it's not being used to sell Gamer(tm) Chairs. Every video you've done is not only intelligent, but meaningful in a way that resonates with not only me personally, but with everyone I've shared them to and clearly the ~6000 subscribers you've accrued.
I'm 29. Halo came out when I was seven, and I've been here since the beginning, begrudgingly and blissfully. This video captured everything I've ranted about to friends, family, and at one point an entire university class alike about why this franchise means the world to me, even if I think it's lost its soul to brand merchandising and vapid writing in the two most recent of the main series entries. That said, holy crap did you knock it out of the park with the truly human aspect of Halo's world.
"Not lost. Only losing." love it -- profound as fuck -- succinct in its most flourished forme -- feed it to me slowly like grapes.
Also, your jokes are on point I genuinely laughed out loud and woke my cat up several times.
I had to sit on this comment for the day because it's hard to articulate how much this one means to me. I'm so thrilled that this video connected with you, and I'm really grateful you took the time to let me know. These kinds of comments are the absolute highlights of getting to share the way I view and understand media with the world. Thank you so much.
@@ThaneBishop I totally agree with this commentator. Your comments about Pokemon Silver date you as quite a few years younger than I am, but you have a perceptiveness and understanding of the themes behind videogames that is a sight to behold. I say that as someone who is no slouch in philosophy or storytelling, who works as an analyst for a living and grew up on video games, starting with Diablo 2, Tomb Raider 2, and War Craft 3.
You have a knack for breaking down complex themes and undertones into something understandable, which is reflected in the growth of your channel. I look forward to seeing more from you.
This video is so good honestly. Wish we got more stuff like this from Halo. Less SPARTANs, something more grounded. I'd love to play as an Army Trooper on Reach or Earth, maybe a Marine on Mars or Luna.
31:33 The one thing that bothers me about this video was you didn't mention the alternate scenario if you found all the audio logs, where the police officer doesn't die from the Drones, he keeps following you. He will go off into a room to do something, and you follow him in and he'll confront you about seeing something you aren't supposed to see, prompting him to turn hostile and you have to kill him. Probably the only time in a Halo game when you are forced to kill another human. Corrupt cops taking advantage at the end of the world.
I think you forgot one of the best missions, mickeys mission. He rally’s all the marines scattered in the city to push towards the Oni building. The dialogue between marines and Mickey himself while driving a tank feels very fitting to the themes you’re bringing up
Jonas is my spirit animal.
This was one of the best Halo video essays I've ever seen. ODST truly holds a special place in my heart, alongside Reach, for the jarringly real way it tells the story of humanities struggle, a struggle that you outlined and captured phenomenally. Beautifully done.
I think ODST hits home for so many because it’s (almost but not quite) an ordinary human doing extraordinary things in times of stress and it’s something we are all capable of
This has to be one of my favorite video essays on RUclips. Hands down. The storytelling of what is an amazing story has me in tears. Thank you for this, and thank you for breaking down (or building up) a series I hold dear to my heart.
That really means a lot to hear man, thank you so much.
One super small but significant detail almost everyone misses:
There are two cutscenes when you discover Virgil. If you havent found all of the audiologs and taken out the corrupt police officer, Dare coaxes Virgil out of the data stacks.
However,
If you have fully listened to Sadies story, and have completed that arc, the cutscene changes. Instead of Dare coaxing virgil out, the Rookie steps out and calls them with a whistle very similar to the Superintendent tone. The rookie recognized Virgil even faster than dare, and even motions her to lower her pistol. Its a small detail, but signifies just how important sadies story is to ODST.
This is such a beautiful video essay on one of the most (if not the most) emblematic and atmospheric of the Halo games, I'll keep coming back to it and watching it lots of times, good work man :)
“Even though it kind of looks like a puma” heh, I see what you did there~ nice
Great Video! Halo always had these themes, its just that its easy to miss them when you play as chief and dont see the marines as people. But honestly, the Halo Marines (and nonmarines in some instances) really made Halo Stand out. They pit a lot of effort making those NPCs feel real, having them joke and interact with the player and other NPCs, and generally making them feel human. Their presence alone did wonders for reinforcing the theme of humanity but those voicelines and the genuine help they provided (though often short-lived) really take it to the next level.
I still remember the PC demo, fighting through the beach landing on the Silent Cartographer on higher difficulties. I got my ass handed to me. But the marines fought and died together, and by learning to take cover, stay with the group, and focus fire their targets I was able to get through it.
You did feel lonely in older Halo games, it just happened to a lesser extent. The juxtaposition of starting out with a squad and ending up in the bowels of some alien construct with only the voice in your head made that loneliness apparent… but they usually ended a level with reinforcements so you never felt that loneliness for too long (unless you got lost, lol).
I remember spending hours trying to keep as many marines alive in Combat Evolved and feeling a profound sense of loss when I beat it because I thought all of those other characters were dead.
But Halo 2 restored my faith by having Johnson survive, implying that all my efforts were not lost and some did make it off the Halo.
And man, the voicelines!!
“No Covenant!? You had to open your mouth!” Is one of my favorites. It occurs right after the covenant ambush when you enter their ship with the marines, but its easy to miss because of the gunfire, and explosions and possibly the RNG of that character dying before he can say it.
The excitement when a group of marines see you arrive. Calls of “The cavalry has arrived!” And other displays of renewed hope really hit me hard.
I remember hearing that they looked up combat footage to see what real people said while firing their weapons. And then they didnt shy away from things like “C’mon, get some!” Just because they were a little corny.
They even let them crack jokes and apologize for team damage during combat!
Halo’s AI felt like real people. I havn’t played a game with that type of NPC immersive experience since Reach (I did not play 4 and beyond because I heard they were lacking)
I've not been doing very well as of the past 4 years. Thank you for this video. Your words hit my heart.
Four years is a long time to have a rough time. But the silver lining is that if you're strong enough to go that long, I reckon you're strong enough to go as long as you need, until you don't need to be so strong all the time. Things will get better.
@@ThaneBishop I'm losing, but I haven't lost. Not yet.
@@atlev I Believe in you 💫 (I like to use 💫 as my HALO emoji)
Vergil had info on the Covenant’s search for the Portal to the Ark the Covenant eventually find in Voi.
Also I really want to relisten to Kilo 5 now
a lot of chiefs gameplay is about winning and victory
reach is about holding out, waiting for the extraction, slow the advance of the enemy, then it ends with that very mission, survive, hold out, after which you fail
odst is about surviving, your goal is to make it past this encounter, not the mission, not the day, not the tour, odst is about trying not to eat shit too quickly, maybe succeed in the mission
I really wish we get a remake/spiritual sequel to ODST that goes hard on the stealth and survival elements
This was gorgeously writen. You are an exceptional writer. I made myself an essay back last year about the Halo 3: ODST and Dante's Inferno. It was about 3000 words, my lord. I wish I saw this video sooner, cause It makes me want to write again. Take care and much love!
This is too high quality for only 2k views, but ya earned a sub today
I still remember the first time I played Halo. It was that same jump from Pokémon and Mario 64 to Halo: Combat Evolved.
I was eight years old, it was December of 2001, and my mom was horrified when she saw what I was playing, but I was mesmerized. I had no idea what was happening, and for at least a year I was stuck on the Library, but the scale and feeling of that game was breathtaking in a way that I didn’t feel again until I encountered Morrowind.
3:26 "Even though it looks more like a puma." Ah, red vs blue, classic.
I've always posited that Virgil is how, if not at least a big part, the UNSC got the Infinity...
It is something to appreciate when you come across a RUclipsr that you can listen to easily, enjoyably, for the entirety of the video. Captivating in the storytelling, the writing, but perhaps even more so the vocal aspect, the oral storytelling. Thank you for that, for how you can carry your sincerity and love for the topic through the oral storytelling. Or, perhaps, it is even more accurate to say that really the telling of it is where the substance is and the video is simply the presentation of it - one who knows it well would perhaps not have to watch, as it is in listening that I have learnt and appreciated the story I have been told.
In this quality you remind me of CinemaStix, who I always enjoy and find easy to listen to for the same reasons. Keep it up
I love when a story makes gives me that sensation of "hope and teamwork in a sea of death"
Just saw this, earned the subscription. Thank you for putting out content that isn’t just slop
Man Jonas as a character makes me so happy that I share the same name as him, even if a little different, and that oddly enough ODST was my first halo. I believe it is what truely shaped my love and compassion for settings or games like ODST. I think you put that idea perfectly and that this feeling of grounded reality is what I crave, to know that humanity may face countless trials but we are still able to keep going and still sneak in a bit of compassion into the bleekness that we deal with.
THAT is the greatness of humanity. Our ability to witness or experience all this suffering or bleakness but still being able to keep moving forward, lend a helping hand to those we are able to, or even still keep our morals and stand up to injustice even in the chaos of an invasion. THAT is what has always drawn me into a setting, it being a video game, book series, or movie. It's ability to convey that feeling is something I truly love. Anyways enough with my rambling, this video was an incredible disection of ODST's story and it really shined with how you were able to really bring all 3 stories together nicely and even hint towards the third stories to those who may have not played ODST or those who haven't played it in awhile. Again great stuff man!
ODST was the game that first led me from the PS2 and PSP era of my childhood into the Xbox-360 years of my teenage days. I'll never forget the tonal shift from bright and colourful SW Battlefront 2 and the arcadey-ness Need For Speed, to the dark, cold and oppressive streets of New Mombasa.
I knew nothing about the other Halo games, and I love ODST for being effectively standalone in that; there was no Master Chief for me - just a lonely regular soldier, in a rain-drenched tomb of a city. A mission, and a gun. And a plot that expands and builds-out around that. And when the game concludes, the mission is completed and the squad is saved, the city is glassed: 'we won this battle, but the war is still being lost', the game's ending seemed to say
Absolutely fantastic essay. It's amazing just how much detail and love is in this game. It's so much that I can watch plenty of other videos about it and have a completely different takeaway from it. Awesome job dude God Bless you
great vid feller. last few days been annoyed that a lookback like this i liked seems to have disappeared. This one was great, thanks a ton and keep up the good work
Hey, thanks for the kind words! I'm really happy you enjoyed this one
Spartan's lacked Humanity. ODST's lacked Immunity.
I watched your Republic Commando video, loved it, and I also agree, ODST is my favorite. WE KNOW THE MUSIC AND IT'S TIME TO DANCE!
"we've never lost. We're just loosing" that really hit hard
this was my first video of yours i’ve ever watched and wow. i can sense and hear and FEEL the amount of passion you have for this series and it truly resonates with me i really loved this video and im excited for more
Man I love: "BADADA DUUUM", there isnt anything quite like: "BADADA DUUUM", wish I had more: "BADADA DUUUM".
Great video, great assessment of the game, your sense of humour really clicked with me.
Oh this is beautifully articulated and written and I appreciate it very much. Thank you for making it
First of you I’ve seen, and this is _crazy_ good!! Thank you for this, man ❤️
A Final Fantasy Tactics fan. A man of culture.
the subtle comedy you bring with information is so fantastic, thank you for the upload!
A very well written and great video, I've loved stumbling over your channel due to the cyberpunk vids, and have even watched videos about games or topics I didn't even know about, just to hear your thoughts on them. I truly believe you have a special way with words, and I'm sorry if this comment is too weird but I really aspire to write like the way you do, even anywhere close to it LOL. Thank you for your work, truly. I will be eagerly waiting for the next video, and I wish you all the best :D
Amazing video essay all throughout. The things you brought up in the way that you delivered them are something I definitely envy and hope to emulate one day in the way I tell stories. Plus that NSP song at the end definitely gets you my seal of approval.
Maaan I love your videos. Writing, editing, gut punching life-perspective. 👑
While I love all the halo lore and meme comments I have to bring attention to your writing style and vocal expression. It’s phenomenal, I’ll have to go through and watch your other videos but I’m wildly impressed on how well you’ve crafted your script to not only highlight important notes of the story but in cadence with your speech patterns and delivery. Chefs kiss man. Truly content worth consuming
My only 2 comments for this so far, there's a mission before where you play as micky in the streets, and in halo 1 you HAVE to use a banshee as the chief, to access the energy spires or conduits or whatever, but other than that, 10/10 video, love it.
I just love these video essays, they really bring a sense of nostalgia
ODST was my first Halo game, and although it wasn't what I expected knowing what I knew about the series, it was absolutely a surprise gem for me
You’re channel is amazing!!
I never played ODST. This video has resurfaced some Halo memories that had been fighting back tears while at work. They weren't even bad memories, but they were sad at the same time.
I love playing ODST with friends, especially on Legendary. It just feels so. . .right. I’m with what feels like my brothers and sisters, fighting to just get to the next checkpoint. We work together, moving as a team and it feels human. Supporting and being supporting. Like a human
Virgil is also a reference to dante's divine comedy. Each circle is a reference to hell and the characters in terminals reference sins.
I always look forward to your content and thoughts, and now you're covering one of my all time favorite games!! Thank you for the food 🙏
That means so much! Thank you!
this is honestly a masterpiece of a video and exactly what i needed right now so thank you brother
I haven't played a Halo game since 2, and yet this had me spellbound for apparently 45 minutes, just such well done content.
this is the only game to make me remember every feeling ive had when playing, while living through it
I honest to Gods would love to see your breakdown/analysis of Halo Reach. It pairs with ODST to me, sacrifice and the human experience in it.
- "...even though it looks more like a Puma."
Okay, Griff.
- So I'm not the only one who says "calling an audible" regarding military operational command.
- I always liked VERGIL. Emoticonbot is goodest boi. ^^
- Those kamikaze aliens are hura'gok, or "engineers". And they're not normally kamikazes; they're naive, helpful softbois who just like helping and are really good at fixing stuff. They're technically a slave race for the Covenant, and the jiralhanae weren't terribly sorry about loading otherwise noncombative huggies up with nades and a threat visor and using them as living bombs when they were low on unggoy and kig'yar to throw at us.
- That piano you've got back there at 19:50 - I've been trying to find an isolate of that for ages. You mentioned the Siege of Madrigal; is that that piece's title?
- "We all lift together", indeed. Hey, Carl! Cue the chain-gang music. **'We All Lift Together' starts playing** Theeere it is.
- I still use Mickey's li'l countdown gesture there as my own. Big props to Old Bungie for good characterization work.
- "Hey, do you mind if I ramble about These Guys Right Here for a moment?" When your entire being has been reduced to a grid reference.
- And that was his bipod that got drave into his chest with that axeblow. Always plug jiralhanae before they get within smelling distance of you, kids - if the existential bigfoot buttstank don't getcha, the hammers will. And bring biofoam. Lots of it. If all else fails, it's at least edible, just chickpea flavored.
- See? Told you VERGIL is goodest boi. ^^
This and Reach are the two favourite of mine.
Because when the rest show Chief breaking through insurmountable odds, Locke going on a goose chase after John amid an all-out war.
In these two outliers, we're the ones that rally behind Chief, we're the ones who would in any other scenario, provide cover or a distraction for John so he could break through and complete the mission.
And it shows how BRITTLE we are, compared to the Spartans.
I love it, because it gives us a break from the power trip that Spartans effectively are.
And it shows that even a small group of soldiers, regular human beings, and even a lone survivor with a goal, can achieve something that seems impossible.
29:58 There is actually an Easter egg in Reach where you can fly a phantom!
I know im a bit late, but with no doubt, the style of this video in how u describe things almost mirrors how H3 ODST writes its story. Thank you for the amazing content.
You would be a really good audiobook Reader!! Great video!!
I had this exact same experience with this IP. It was my first big boy game. And I love how the lore got deeper and more ethically grey as it matured. Probably seemed like a little throw away line for the instruction manual in combat evolved, “super soldier raised from childhood”. Then someone thought about the implications and leaned into it. UNSC and ONI are not nice organizations.
This is an phenomenal video, actually top tier, but its sad to see either because you didn't know/didn't fit into the message of the video, but the story of sadie and the rookie are an analogs/retelling of dante's inferno. The historical story analog only adds to the experience and story of the game, which the idea of rookie being guided through "hell" by Virgil, just like dante and the story of sadie being a level per level retelling of the inferno, just in the halo universe, which adds a biblical undertone to the story, which is something the other halo games have, but to much more with ODST.
Good good video though
3:30 “it drops a warthog even though it kinda looks like a puma” haha nice red vs blue reference.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I loved the feel of each level and the process of exploring the city.
That shout-out to Tactics A unlocked some good memories. I need to find my copy.
"It's a box of *halo theme"*
"A box of *halo theme* ? You can't put *halo theme* in a box"
*_GUITAR RIFFS ENSUE_*
All jokes aside, this was a genuinely awesome essay
It really shed light on parts of halo that don't get talked about enough
ODST holds a special place in my heart. The great story, firefight, playing with friends and probably some other stuff all make this such a stand out to me, more so than all the halo games that came before. Though Reach is still my favourite (butHalo 5 is also a contender)
Don’t forget the smooth ass jazz music.
5 minutes in and instantly subscribed. God. This was a great video!
At the segment with the New Mombasa officer at the data stacks section, you could actually save him! It's really hard and you need some luck but you can get him free of the buggers and he'll join you into the tunnels until you find a certain body, and then he has some special dialogue and then does something very unexpected.
Hearing him talk about ODST as the game with the human perspective made me think of something, one of the first things you see in this game is the slip space scene from Halo 2, ironically enough, the moment the game starts marks the moment you don't have the master chief to save you. I find irony in that fact that it only extends the point further. And I don't even think that it was on purpose.
What a stellar essay, I really enjoyed this.
Some cool details I thought would be cool to mention is when you get all the audio logs you can continue to follow that nmpd officer to Sadie’s dad who was killed by the freeze Kinsler put on him, and that it changes your encounter with VIRGIL to where you’re the one telling Dare to stand down and even calling him out in a unique way. Also just the fact that ODST in spite of the hope it does offer at one point will attempt to fill you with so much grief at what would initially seem to he fruitless efforts when at the last mission you witness the Covenant bringing some of their biggest ships and just glassing cities paraphrasing Buck "it’s just like Reach all over again". If you know what happened to Reach then you realize the heartbreaking implications from that, and the fact it’s basically the last human stronghold. It’s powerful stuff, and some people gloss over this stuff and then just call ODST a bad game with a mediocre story because they weren’t willing to witness it.
Holy shit, a man of culture! A gen 3 purist, a man after my own heart.
If you find all the audio logs during the mission, Mombasa Streets, your interaction with the NMPD cop and the cutscene when you find Virgil will play out differently.
Very good focus man, having been one of the best videos to explain how ODST makes me feel. and an unusually poignant take on why I joined the military.
In the hope that my sacrifice would mean someone else gets to live.
odst was our introduction to halo and what was our first impression of halo. later finding out that halo was more about an op superhuman character essentially the fps version of op isekai protagonist syndrome we are thouroughly disapointed cause we long for the more human gritty and somber realistic human approach of a scifi alien war. having individuality amoung an army of your peers facing a force thats not equal to you but greater than you yet showing your humanity through struggling refusing to die without a fight. unity with individuality it was truely wonderful each character really felt different and lent towards playing in different styles with each even if there wasnt a bunch of mechanics leading towards that the story led to it. we didnt grow up with friends to play multiplayer with either living on the outskirts of a ghost town that hardly had internet having single player games was our gaming experience. sure we wanted multiplayer but we neither had money to pay for online connection nor the actual sufficient connection to enact that multiplayer. halo is still a major series we love later playing as master chief bu we will forever long for an experience like what we had with odst. replaying that same campaign over and over trying to master medium difficulty before playing hard mode. learning that its not actually harder just different and adjusting towards that. we miss odst. we miss our halo. a more human halo.
Another Thane Bishop banger
My buddy and I were playing through ODST a few weeks ago. He said he hated it since we weren't essentially a walking tank with power armour (Chief) and I had to explain that it was meant to show our humanity in dark times. Also Reach showed me that even in your best efforts sometimes even though you try your hardest you'll never beat the hands that have been dealt
That was a beautiful summary
In Halo Reach Buck was described as "if he were any better, he'd be a Spartan." He's the only character we meet before becoming a Spartan.