The way the reactions to character's deaths slowly become less emotional, as they realize it's the fate that awaits all of Noble team is heartbreaking.
Not really... the game never makes you care about them other than the fact they are Spartans and we know what a spartan is. Most of Noble team acts like assholes honestly, except funnily enough, the spartan 2 Jorge. S-2's are supposed to be the ones emotionally unavailable yet he acts more like a sociable person than all the S-3's combined XD. I love reach but I won't pretend the campaign is a deep, emotional experience. I thought chief was badass, so going to Noble team and seeing these kids with chips on their shoulder who are supposed to be Spartans just act childish and get wiped out made me not like them that much.
@@slinkyslink5161 It isn't the fact that they were the most lovable characters ever, that makes their deaths tragic. It's their devotion to their cause, and their willingness to die for it, that makes it beautiful in a sad sort of way. We respect their devotion, and mourn the loss of some of the greatest heroes the franchise has ever seen. And that's not even taking into account that, despite their abrasive attitudes, they were our comrades throughout Reach's campaign. Besides, Master Chief has attained something of a savior image, as he has never truly been defeated. Noble Team's unwavering resolve and painfully apparent mortality is part of the appeal. They were never fighting to survive. Like Chief, they put the greater good of humanity above their own good. They just didn't have enough plot armor to conveniently survive every catastrophe. Nor does it demean their sacrifice like what happens with Master Chief, who is always prepared to die for humanity, but never does.
@@slinkyslink5161 Right you are, good netizen. And while I will always admire such self-sacrifice in media (Ken Watanabe's character in "The Last Samurai" or Russell Crowe's character in "Gladiator" are magnificent examples), no one is required to share my opinion. I just wanted to let you see it from my perspective.
@@slinkyslink5161 But Master Chief certainly has earned the moniker of "Badass" over his many entries in the series. Especially in the Bungie titles. However, the 343 titles aren't really as bad as people make them seem (at least in my opinion). The Paramount+ series though, is, in actuality as shameless as it has been portrayed. Cheers mate! Have a good day.
Saddest part of Noble team’s deaths is that they are all ironic. Jorge for a big man, his death meant so little Kat despite all her battle awareness never saw it coming Carter died helping his team yet he’d never know if they made it Emile was the one who could take all those who stood in-front of him, yet he was stabbed in the back Six went out as he wanted, a Lone Wolf.
Reminds me of something like how Jorge wanted to die on Reach but didn't, instead dying up in space. Kat was the brains and she died to getting shot in the head. Carter was the leader and he died a death that could only do so much to advance his team forward. Emile loved sharp objects and he gets killed by an energy sword. Six got the "happy" ending, he was a lone wolf and he died as a lone wolf, he is the only one that knew he completed his mission.
We could also include Jun since he didn't die but his absence is him staying back on reach, behind all the fighting, not getting into combat like the rest of his teamates. Just like a sniper.
Jorge: big man, big explosion. Kat: brains of the team, forgot to turn her shields on and got brained because of it. Jun: the sneaky sniper, snuck away. Carter: the captain of noble, went down with the ship. Emile: close quarters expert, died in close quarters. (Also could be said he died protecting six but not his own six.) Noble six: hyper lethal line wolf, died fighting an army all alone.
"And the good news?" "That was the good news." "...Oh." It was at this moment that one could hear the collective cries of players everywhere as they realized exactly what they were getting into. RIP Jorge, still a death that impacts me as I watch to this day.
"He died thinking he took down an entire covenant armada. We should all be so lucky." The beginning of the next mission was actually very difficult for me and my sister, we were basically trying not to cry.
This will forever be my favorite campaign, I think. Chief is great, but the idea that even you the player don't survive just makes it hit so much harder. Makes you truly understand how doomed Reach was.
@@Deaznkid280 Hey good looking out. You’re right haha I shouldn’t feed into negative energy. Nice to see a fellow man of culture lol. My older brother started with CE on OG Xbox. It’s been a long time since then. Crazy isn’t it? What’s your thoughts on infinite if you don’t mind me asking?
@@TrulyNobo It’s crazy to me to see how at least in some way we have all bonded to the Halo franchise. I grew up playing 3 and only played CE and H2 later in my life. Time has a funny way of rolling and culture certainly brings us together. Glad to see that the OG guys are still around to to talk about what the older games were like in their prime. Have a good one man
@@RagingRavioli22 It’s very refreshing to see. It never fails me to go online somewhere and have a good chat about the halo games. Often brings nostalgia and good memories back. I’d consider any Halo 3 player back in the day a Veteran of halo. After all it’s been 14 years haha. Time flies! Even then I’ve always enjoyed hearing the newcomer’s opinions on newer and older topics. Brings a fresh perspective and hopes that the love for this community will be carried on. Anyways brother, have a good one! Hope to run into you on the battlefield one day👍🏼
Correction: The Bungie Spartans take off their helmets when facing death. The 343 studios and Paramount Spartans do it because they can (except Spartan Vanak. He's pretty chill)
dude knowing the halo community this vid is about to blow up im 2 mins in and im hyped af every time i hear someone say they never got to really understand the story of halo because of them being little and coming back to halo later when there older to play it to fully understand it is amazing to me i love being able to relive playing these game for the first time through someone else its just such a great feeling of nostalgia and tbh this is the only game series only up to reach that makes me wana cry every time i see a trailer or just vids like this it just takes me back to when i was just a little kid with my brother playing halo with friends i also stayed up with my elementary school best friend and we would always stay up late playing forge mode or just playing online or in the story we replayed halo 3 so fucking much its unreal and gears of war 3 lol those where some great fucking times simple times and 343 didn't drag halo through the mud at that point
100% when I was younger and started to play reach on opening night, I genuinely wanted a sequel.. then I went though the campaign and I cried a lot more than I care to admit. Still to this day I get hit with a lot of feels playing through it based off the emotions these characters radiate.
Playing halo and gears with my brother and friends split screen are such great memories.....most kid gamers these days wont get to experience those kind of play sessions, really was something different
343 games are not bad. Halo 4 has a great human story. Gameplay is a little weird at times yes some of the enemies aren’t as balanced as other games and that makes it tedious. But it looks beautiful, runs on the same engine as reach, and was released on the xbox360. It’s story is something new and added a whole bunch to the universe and expanded on other things. Halo 5 people just got upset about the marketing. I understand that but talk to anyone who played the game recently having never seen the marketing for it and they will tell you it is a good game. Again the story was innovative and fresh, the characters are fun and get expanded upon a lot. The gameplay mechanics are great and it runs super well. It has literal hours of extra world building and dialogue that isn’t necessary but it’s all there and is all great. Infinite was good a bit short but fixed a lot of issues with the storyline people had with 5. All the simps were so upset about one of the Cortana fragments being evil. The original trilogy? Yeah it’s great and tons of nostalgia. But with the exception of some minor things halo 2 and 3, THEYRE ALL THE SAME GAME. Same story beats almost same exact story structure with certain locations or events switched out but they’re way way similar and way simple. And this is coming from a huge halo nerd and someone who knows basically as much lore as hiddenxperia
Kat’s death honestly felt real. That one still sits with me after all these years. She was there, then immediately just gone. I’ve lost immediate family, and that’s how it is. Suddenly just gone
All because of one mistake when they ran into the elevator she missed the Button making her turn to actually look at it and press it which cost them time😢😢
I’ve always felt that Reach’s campaign was the only Halo campaign that really emphasized how fucked humanity was in the Human-Covenant War and showed how outgunned and outnumbered the humans were, especially when a fireteam of all spartans die, that’s why I like Reach, always found it interesting.
I wrote my final paper on this game for my English class, my professor wanted us to choose something to write about that we enjoy. This game was one of the first things to come to mind. He’s a great professor. I got a 94 and I got him to play Reach. 👌
ODST and Reach are the two most emotionally immersive games of the Halo universe. They are probably the most enjoyable because of the Master Chief. After playing the Master Chief in Halo 1, 2 and 3 it was the perfect timing to explore playing a different perspective. Imagine a continuity that built on this foundation of Bungie rather than the deviations that 343 took. This was a fan community that experienced the trauma of a divorce and got a new step mom who couldn't cook a meal to save her life.
All of Noble team are Spartan-IIIs except for Jorge who is a Spartan-II same type as Master Chief so he trained alongside Chief since they were children. Spartan-IIIs were made to be expendable super soldiers, the UNSC made them in large numbers to be thrown at the enemy, even though the majority of them die on these operations the mission was always a success.
@@zexzell789 yeah I know, hopefully Jun survived Cortanas AI takeover, because Jun was on a Space Station that was a training centre for new Spartan-IVs and the space Stations personal AI allied itself with Cortana and self destructed the space Station killing all the personal and the Spartan-IVs, so hopefully Jun got off before that happened.
Only the cat 1s were meant to be expendable, the cat 2s got extra augmentations and mjolnir which made them much more valuable. Then there’s the gammas who got augmentations that were much more like the spartan 2s augmentations so it was actually a minority of spartan 3s that were expendable
Def my favorite part is that the video started with a lot of cutaway type banter that took away from the game. But after Jorge, you progressively paid more and more attention, to the point where you can feel the respect for the game and guilt for taking the team for granted grow at the same time
Halo reach is a time capsul of my childhood. I can look at a map, a mission maybe even a voice line or two and it will flood my memory with different parts of my life and what I was doing at the time. The only thing I hate about the mcc edition of the Halo games is they take away the main menu of every Halo game. The Halo reach and Halo 3 menu music and visuals will always instantly make me feel safe and at home. I fell asleep to them countless times after playing hours and hours of forge just messing around or challenging myself in firefight with all waves being elites. I just miss the feeling I'd get when the intro cutscene starts playing with those drums and then you get to see the vast planet of reach. Beautiful but you know it's eventual end is near. Great games
Jorge's death hit so hard, it was so unexpected. I never expected him to die, and once Kat died I still had hope of surviving. Then, Jun left.. Carter died, Emile died.. And so Six died.. The game is absolutely heartbreaking and still one of my favourite halo games/campaigns. Doesn't just go for halo, but for every game in existence. Reach is just different man.
Still gonna say Halo 5 would have been so much better had Noble Six survived Reach and went after Chief, But my god was Reach a great game. Hit you like a truck but great.
Well, in lore Jorge's death is really REALLY hard. But canonwise they had to kill him in Reach because Chief - in the main trilogy - is the only known SPARTAN-2 to be alive - Jorge was a SPARTAN-2 -.
@eru.maewos7673 my headcannon says he survived. He put his helmet on before firing the slipspace drive, and since Spartans can survive in space, he's still alive somewhere. Granted, his armor is locked, but he's alive
Even as a 10 year old, this game hit very different. Anytime someone brings it up or plays some footage from it I feel more than nostalgia; I feel sorrow for how my favorite childhood franchise how fallen so far from a storytelling perspective. Reach was the last game of its kind and it truly was Bungie’s love letter to the fans
I truly feel sorry for any gamer that never got to experience Halo 3 online, in my opinion it was the best online video game you could’ve played, and nothing has come close to capturing the same kinda fun
I have to say. My favourite portion of the game is that the armour you use in multiplayer is what appears in the campaign. Makes it so much more personal.
In an alternate universe, Bungie would have made a game called "Foehammer", where all you do is pilot a Pelican through various battles (drops, evacs, infiltrations, etc.) culminating in your involvement with the Master Chief on Halo.
Reach is the only halo game that gets close to the lore of the books in the sense that it really paints the picture of how big a threat the covenant were to humanity.
Halo is in alot of pain right now. We've lost our identity for a few years now, alot of us in the Halo community have been re-living memory's of the better days these last few months. Happy story's like these ones are appreciated.
Of course it does its a iconic game and peoples are curious to see what's new peoples think about halo and btw your editing is sick im new subscriber i had a good laugh thank you cant wait to see what's next 🤟🏻😆
This was my first halo game and me a dumbass decided "you know what? imma try it on legendary with like 4 skulls(i saw them in MCC so yeah) and honestly it felt more impactful because it just seemed like the covenant actually did the damage it does in cutscenes and that it really was a force to fear.
crazy part is, when Jun said he will do what is necessary to prevent halsey from being taken by the covenant, he was willing to kill her before they could take her
"There's so many good stories where some brave hero has to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors cheer, and everyone lives happily ever after. But the hero never gets to see the ending. They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference. They'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith. Ain’t that a bitch.” - Church “RedvsBlue”
Halo Reach reminds me of a genuine war story beyond the other worldly setting, a grim reminder that there are people who lost their life changing the course of history. Although its one of the more controversial Bungie Halos, I still feel like its one of the more important Halo games made. I still get choked up reading the goodbye/thank you message at the end of the 360 version. Edit: I also laughed exteremly hard at 13:28 like imagining Six took off his helmet for a quick snack "oh no" * crunch crunch crunch *
I loved this game and used to play it with my Cousin all the time. The theme of losing people in the game hits harder for me these days since my cousin passed away way too early due to cancer. Thinking about the game gets me a little emotional. I wish the 360 servers were still up and I didn't have to only play the MC version.
I remember coming back to play this when I grew up, and I tried by hardest to stay alive at the end, but when that cutscene happened I cried so hard man that sucked wish I could go back
@@aeron_ishi Maybe. But from my perspective, that was just the power of Halo. It was cross generational. Everyone was into it at that time and it offered something for just about anyone. If you were into single player, multiplayer, Firefight (solo or alone), if you were a map maker or a creative type you could do amazing stuff with the theater mode. There was nothing bigger in the Halo 3/ODST/Reach days. Even small fan sites racked up millions of views per day. People were making Halo videos and montages and music or trick videos LONG before it was a function built into their Xbox. Even my little Halo fan art comic strip would rack up thousands of hits on the days when I'd drop new strips. That was just Halo in those days. Everyone from literal children to senior citizens seemed to be digging it. Good times, man. Good times.
@@alanda2724 Occasionally. Between work, caring for my infirmed mother, and taking care of household duties/chores there's just not much time to do video game stuff these days. But when I'm in the mood for a shooter, Halo or DOOM are usually the ones I choose.
Reach truly was a love letter from Bungie to the fans. A final sendoff. Ending it exactly as they started it. When I saw the final scene of the Pillar of Autumn, exactly as it started in Halo 1, I knew we had come full circle. And even though it was a sad realization that Halo was done, I could do nothing but love the games and the memories they gave me. Truly one of the best game series of all time.
I've replayed lone wolf so many times...the intro piano piece will forever be with me, I have played for hours, days, weeks hoping and praying that there was an alt ending. That's the beauty of Reach that no other halo game has done for me. Glad you enjoyed it.
This game had me crying as a kid. There was never an instance where we witnessed a Spartan actually die until this game. Master Chief was my Superman growing up. Back then, I assumed that Jun also flew off and died since there was no other media covering him. This game was so hardcore, and it ended up being my favorite Halo story.
Even if Halo’s not doing well right now, I always said this when I’m asked my thoughts on ever coming back to Halo: Halo 4 got me into the series, but Reach was my home
I finally took the time to play this game, finishing it just today. I got the Chief Collection and am starting the journey to go through every game and really follow the story. Anyways, this one just made me cry a little bit, watching everyone slowly disappear and see how Six began to realize what he had to do at the end. It was way more than I could’ve expected from 2010.
I knew exactly how Halo Reach was gonna end. But i got the chance to play it myself not too long ago. And when I did? It was still as heartbreaking as it was because you saw it first hand. The efforts, the hope, the failure, the resolve and passing on the mantle. If you liked Halo Reach? Halo CE is gonna be a blast. But uhm, without spoilers, its gonna become a horror game midway.
Reach was a crazy game for me when I was like around 7-8 yrs of age. I practically grew a bond with my spartan and the story reach provided. Each of Nobel’s team death when I saw it for the first time just hurt cuz like I loved the characters. But I remember when I got to lone wolf. The loneliness and hordes of covenant just feel so heavy. The death of noble 6 when Impacted me so hard due to the attachment I had for him that after I finished it. I never touched that mission for so many years due to the weight of your own Spartans death. It was til I was like 14-15 that I replayed it again and yet it still hurt seeing. This game just gave me such a strong emotion that I haven’t seen in a game in a long long time
I loved this video so much I wish there was more of it. So many scenes not shown like the civilian ship going down on exodus. Great editing, fun game play, good shit brother. This game, Halo CE-Reach is something so beyond special to me. I remember when it came out. My life was always a mess but this story, these characters, the journey i went on from Halo to the Ark and back to Reach did so much more than bind me together through some of the shittiest times. I met some of the most amazing people, the machinima at the time like Rise of The Spartans and Red vs Blue was something unlike youtube has ever seen before and since. This story is so near and dear to my heart, i cant tell you the amount of times ive played or beaten every Halo. When reach came out i hadnt had internet yet, except for a brief moment during Halo 3s run, i grinded that games campaign and firefight to the max level and got the haunted helmet before my very first match. The music, the sounds, the enviornments, its all so....breathtaking... Nothing has come close to this series for me except for BG3 and even then...still...Halo...i wish the series went with Reach. Halo didnt deserve to be what it has become...
Halo Reach made me feel so sad, but happy it gave so many memories in lobbies with friends, making new friends online, playing in custom lobbies. And most of all, the story it told was great. Love your storytelling and glad we could join you on this playthrough.
2:54 is my wallpaper, to me, this one photo truly speaks a thousand words. Everytime I see it I think of sacrifice and how it'll all pay off in the end.
Halo reach wasn't my first m rated game I was able to get nor was it my first halo game even. However it was the first game I got to play brand new. I saved up $120 at the age of 12 by going to my neighbors and cleaning their houses or mowing their lawns so I could get the ultra special edition from the game stop down the street. It released on a school night but I begged and pleaded with my dad to let me stay up on the midnight release so I could get it as soon as it was availed and he told me no. I went to bed that night extremely sad because I really wanted that game and now I'd have to wait till he had gotten off work at 5 so I could have him take me to the store and get it. Little did I know he had planned to go wait in line for 3 hours after I went to bed to get the game for me and when I woke up the next morning it was sitting on my kitchen table and he had a massive smile on his face when I realized. I was just barely old enough to begin to grasp the gravity of the sacrifice of that story but I mainly was interested in Lan parties with my friends and forge at that age. After it went through its cycle one day I was bored and decided at about 15 to pop in the campaign again and was absolutely blown away at just how amazing the story was. The glimmers of hope to be destroyed by the covenant appeared en mass over reach after having destroyed the carrier. Having my team slowly and surely killed off akd then that final hopeless battle after the pillar of autumn had flown off leaving u stranded on a dead planet. The speech Halsey gives at the end. It's a game that will never leave the deep special place in my heart where it resides.
I have played this game many times with many friends over the years, I thought I was finally done with feeling sad about it but this video was done perfectly and I felt every emotional beat like I did back when I was 9 playing through the game for the first time. Thank you for this video.
This was an extremely fun and enjoyable video, im glad I got to watch this due to my insomnia, I remember crying at the end of this game when I replayed it recently all those sacrifices and it meant little to nothing for the survival of reach the one that broke me the most was kat's death it was so quick and anticlimactic compared to the rest it was heart breaking having to replay that cutscene/mission again, keep up the amazing videos officially one of my new favorite content creators on this platform.
my headcanon is that Sergeant Johnson didn't actually die and passed out for a couple minutes, and when he woke up, he walked around drowsily and somehow accidentally activated some forerunner healing technology, which brought him back from the brink of death. He then found an alternate route to a abandoned starship and raced there on a warthog run. Eventually he launches from the spaceship but it's pretty damaged from the blast, unable to fly anymore, and communications are broke too. He goes into cryosleep like Master Chief but won't be found as quickly. Noble Six? Same thing (hell no bro is definitely dead but I can dream).
This is my favorite game of all time because of my friends, I miss my brothers, I miss this amazing story, I miss everything about it, god I miss the experience of Reach in the heyday
Reach is a battle we all knew from the very start how would it end. Yet, we've been fighting all this years for that planet. Remembering Reach was what brought victory to humanity in the Covenant war. If it wasn't for all the sacrifice, hope would've be lost. And that's why we continue to fight. Current objective: SURVIVE
Noble six was two different spartans the one you play as and one that went out the same as Jorge but the reason that you play as six is because he was the first one Cortana choose
Reach was my first halo game I bought and it was by accident! I saw my friends play ODST so I tried to buy the same game, but I didn’t realize at the time that they always misplaced the ODST disc within a Halo Reach cover.
Halo Reach never fails to pull at my heartstrings and I always get a bittersweet smile when I listen to Halsey’s monologue in the end, remembering the incredible highs of the main trilogy and reflecting on the losses of Noble at the same time.
I remember when this game came out. My friends and I all looking up any information we could find about the game weeks beforehand. Finding out Jorge was an SII and the rest were SIII's was an absolutely epic moment for me as a fan of the series, books and games. Then watching him be the one to go first and the III's going one by one felt like I was playing the books instead of the games. Like watching Will go while 1 v 2ing Hunters with his fists. To see captain Key's face when he says goodbye hit so damn hard when you know about his history with the SII program. To be able to see it all happen and come as close to experiencing the losses was eye opening. I will love these games forevor. Shame 343 didn't understand the legacy they were being given to carry on.
I fucking love the campaign of this game dude it's really fun but the story... The story is so fucking good it made me emotional at the end, that music that starts you off in lone wolf with the objective reading survive popping up, I instantly knew what was gonna happen in the mission yet I almost didn't believe or at least want to believe it but it's the best way to end it
Why cross june out last i checked he is alive
looks better
And he was killed by Cortana
The way the reactions to character's deaths slowly become less emotional, as they realize it's the fate that awaits all of Noble team is heartbreaking.
Not really... the game never makes you care about them other than the fact they are Spartans and we know what a spartan is. Most of Noble team acts like assholes honestly, except funnily enough, the spartan 2 Jorge. S-2's are supposed to be the ones emotionally unavailable yet he acts more like a sociable person than all the S-3's combined XD.
I love reach but I won't pretend the campaign is a deep, emotional experience. I thought chief was badass, so going to Noble team and seeing these kids with chips on their shoulder who are supposed to be Spartans just act childish and get wiped out made me not like them that much.
@@slinkyslink5161 It isn't the fact that they were the most lovable characters ever, that makes their deaths tragic. It's their devotion to their cause, and their willingness to die for it, that makes it beautiful in a sad sort of way. We respect their devotion, and mourn the loss of some of the greatest heroes the franchise has ever seen.
And that's not even taking into account that, despite their abrasive attitudes, they were our comrades throughout Reach's campaign.
Besides, Master Chief has attained something of a savior image, as he has never truly been defeated. Noble Team's unwavering resolve and painfully apparent mortality is part of the appeal. They were never fighting to survive. Like Chief, they put the greater good of humanity above their own good. They just didn't have enough plot armor to conveniently survive every catastrophe. Nor does it demean their sacrifice like what happens with Master Chief, who is always prepared to die for humanity, but never does.
@@GutsfromBewsewk you're overselling it quite a bit imo, but everyone has different opinions I guess.
@@slinkyslink5161 Right you are, good netizen. And while I will always admire such self-sacrifice in media (Ken Watanabe's character in "The Last Samurai" or Russell Crowe's character in "Gladiator" are magnificent examples), no one is required to share my opinion. I just wanted to let you see it from my perspective.
@@slinkyslink5161 But Master Chief certainly has earned the moniker of "Badass" over his many entries in the series. Especially in the Bungie titles. However, the 343 titles aren't really as bad as people make them seem (at least in my opinion).
The Paramount+ series though, is, in actuality as shameless as it has been portrayed.
Cheers mate!
Have a good day.
Saddest part of Noble team’s deaths is that they are all ironic.
Jorge for a big man, his death meant so little
Kat despite all her battle awareness never saw it coming
Carter died helping his team yet he’d never know if they made it
Emile was the one who could take all those who stood in-front of him, yet he was stabbed in the back
Six went out as he wanted, a Lone Wolf.
Reminds me of something like how
Jorge wanted to die on Reach but didn't, instead dying up in space.
Kat was the brains and she died to getting shot in the head.
Carter was the leader and he died a death that could only do so much to advance his team forward.
Emile loved sharp objects and he gets killed by an energy sword.
Six got the "happy" ending, he was a lone wolf and he died as a lone wolf, he is the only one that knew he completed his mission.
We could also include Jun since he didn't die but his absence is him staying back on reach, behind all the fighting, not getting into combat like the rest of his teamates. Just like a sniper.
Jorge: big man, big explosion.
Kat: brains of the team, forgot to turn her shields on and got brained because of it.
Jun: the sneaky sniper, snuck away.
Carter: the captain of noble, went down with the ship.
Emile: close quarters expert, died in close quarters.
(Also could be said he died protecting six but not his own six.)
Noble six: hyper lethal line wolf, died fighting an army all alone.
@@Chad_Thunder-Koch Well said, hell even better than mine!
@@NoNameTaken117 i heard similar but with "carter being the captain goes down with the ship"
"And the good news?" "That was the good news." "...Oh." It was at this moment that one could hear the collective cries of players everywhere as they realized exactly what they were getting into. RIP Jorge, still a death that impacts me as I watch to this day.
"He died thinking he took down an entire covenant armada. We should all be so lucky."
The beginning of the next mission was actually very difficult for me and my sister, we were basically trying not to cry.
@@ArnieMcStranglehold agreeee, that line, the dog tags, fucking killed me.
"I don't wanna go uppies, bro!"
This will forever be my favorite campaign, I think. Chief is great, but the idea that even you the player don't survive just makes it hit so much harder. Makes you truly understand how doomed Reach was.
Except Jun
It’s the best campaign fasholy
How doomed Humanity was...
Exactly, Spectral. If there is one thing Halo Reach tries to tell you, is Never forget your past. As it can also unveil the future.
I still remember getting home with the disc not knowing that this would be the game that brings me into this community
Welcome from a H2 Veteran ❤
@@TrulyNobo dont mind them, they're just trollin lol. Nice that you started with Halo 2, absolutely amazing game 🤝 . I started with CE on the OG xbox
@@Deaznkid280 Hey good looking out. You’re right haha I shouldn’t feed into negative energy. Nice to see a fellow man of culture lol. My older brother started with CE on OG Xbox. It’s been a long time since then. Crazy isn’t it? What’s your thoughts on infinite if you don’t mind me asking?
@@TrulyNobo It’s crazy to me to see how at least in some way we have all bonded to the Halo franchise. I grew up playing 3 and only played CE and H2 later in my life. Time has a funny way of rolling and culture certainly brings us together. Glad to see that the OG guys are still around to to talk about what the older games were like in their prime. Have a good one man
@@RagingRavioli22 It’s very refreshing to see. It never fails me to go online somewhere and have a good chat about the halo games. Often brings nostalgia and good memories back. I’d consider any Halo 3 player back in the day a Veteran of halo. After all it’s been 14 years haha. Time flies! Even then I’ve always enjoyed hearing the newcomer’s opinions on newer and older topics. Brings a fresh perspective and hopes that the love for this community will be carried on. Anyways brother, have a good one! Hope to run into you on the battlefield one day👍🏼
Fun fact: Spartans take off their helmets when they're ready to die. That's why the half of the team that had tome to take off their helmets, did
:(
Then can someone please tell me why Master Cheeks is getting a second season on Paramount+!?
I didn’t know that
@@GutsfromBewsewk I mean... That's the real fun fact
Correction:
The Bungie Spartans take off their helmets when facing death.
The 343 studios and Paramount Spartans do it because they can (except Spartan Vanak. He's pretty chill)
dude knowing the halo community this vid is about to blow up im 2 mins in and im hyped af every time i hear someone say they never got to really understand the story of halo because of them being little and coming back to halo later when there older to play it to fully understand it is amazing to me i love being able to relive playing these game for the first time through someone else its just such a great feeling of nostalgia and tbh this is the only game series only up to reach that makes me wana cry every time i see a trailer or just vids like this it just takes me back to when i was just a little kid with my brother playing halo with friends i also stayed up with my elementary school best friend and we would always stay up late playing forge mode or just playing online or in the story we replayed halo 3 so fucking much its unreal and gears of war 3 lol those where some great fucking times simple times and 343 didn't drag halo through the mud at that point
100% when I was younger and started to play reach on opening night, I genuinely wanted a sequel.. then I went though the campaign and I cried a lot more than I care to admit. Still to this day I get hit with a lot of feels playing through it based off the emotions these characters radiate.
Indeed, what a prophet
Playing halo and gears with my brother and friends split screen are such great memories.....most kid gamers these days wont get to experience those kind of play sessions, really was something different
343 games are not bad. Halo 4 has a great human story. Gameplay is a little weird at times yes some of the enemies aren’t as balanced as other games and that makes it tedious. But it looks beautiful, runs on the same engine as reach, and was released on the xbox360. It’s story is something new and added a whole bunch to the universe and expanded on other things.
Halo 5 people just got upset about the marketing. I understand that but talk to anyone who played the game recently having never seen the marketing for it and they will tell you it is a good game. Again the story was innovative and fresh, the characters are fun and get expanded upon a lot. The gameplay mechanics are great and it runs super well. It has literal hours of extra world building and dialogue that isn’t necessary but it’s all there and is all great.
Infinite was good a bit short but fixed a lot of issues with the storyline people had with 5. All the simps were so upset about one of the Cortana fragments being evil.
The original trilogy? Yeah it’s great and tons of nostalgia. But with the exception of some minor things halo 2 and 3, THEYRE ALL THE SAME GAME. Same story beats almost same exact story structure with certain locations or events switched out but they’re way way similar and way simple.
And this is coming from a huge halo nerd and someone who knows basically as much lore as hiddenxperia
Kat’s death honestly felt real. That one still sits with me after all these years. She was there, then immediately just gone. I’ve lost immediate family, and that’s how it is. Suddenly just gone
That’s how war is, no dramatic scene, just one moment they’re there, and then they’re gone
All because of one mistake when they ran into the elevator she missed the Button making her turn to actually look at it and press it which cost them time😢😢
the wheeze he let out when kat died followed by silence killed me
25:30
“She is the one for me”
**Literally less than a second later**
I’ve always felt that Reach’s campaign was the only Halo campaign that really emphasized how fucked humanity was in the Human-Covenant War and showed how outgunned and outnumbered the humans were, especially when a fireteam of all spartans die, that’s why I like Reach, always found it interesting.
I wrote my final paper on this game for my English class, my professor wanted us to choose something to write about that we enjoy. This game was one of the first things to come to mind. He’s a great professor.
I got a 94 and I got him to play Reach. 👌
you got a new player to join us good for you
daz a cool ass professor
ODST and Reach are the two most emotionally immersive games of the Halo universe. They are probably the most enjoyable because of the Master Chief. After playing the Master Chief in Halo 1, 2 and 3 it was the perfect timing to explore playing a different perspective. Imagine a continuity that built on this foundation of Bungie rather than the deviations that 343 took. This was a fan community that experienced the trauma of a divorce and got a new step mom who couldn't cook a meal to save her life.
343 could make a game playing as a grunt or a elite history
@@coom3994Xytan ‘Jar Wattinree would be a badass game
A survival horror from grunt perspective 🤣
wasnt expecting to hear the words "Swarth" and "ifunny" in this video
Oh god
Was surprised as well lol
All of Noble team are Spartan-IIIs except for Jorge who is a Spartan-II same type as Master Chief so he trained alongside Chief since they were children.
Spartan-IIIs were made to be expendable super soldiers, the UNSC made them in large numbers to be thrown at the enemy, even though the majority of them die on these operations the mission was always a success.
Fun fact the next generation of Spartans were trained by June as he was the only surviving spartan from noble team
@@zexzell789 yeah I know, hopefully Jun survived Cortanas AI takeover, because Jun was on a Space Station that was a training centre for new Spartan-IVs and the space Stations personal AI allied itself with Cortana and self destructed the space Station killing all the personal and the Spartan-IVs, so hopefully Jun got off before that happened.
@@angelobrewster6293 he is still completely fine
Only the cat 1s were meant to be expendable, the cat 2s got extra augmentations and mjolnir which made them much more valuable. Then there’s the gammas who got augmentations that were much more like the spartan 2s augmentations so it was actually a minority of spartan 3s that were expendable
As soon as he said, "Scroll through Ifunny," Everything he said made sense.
Don't worry about it
Yeah
12:40“ pillar of dawn” I don’t know why but that hurt me on a personal level.
Def my favorite part is that the video started with a lot of cutaway type banter that took away from the game. But after Jorge, you progressively paid more and more attention, to the point where you can feel the respect for the game and guilt for taking the team for granted grow at the same time
Halo reach is a time capsul of my childhood. I can look at a map, a mission maybe even a voice line or two and it will flood my memory with different parts of my life and what I was doing at the time. The only thing I hate about the mcc edition of the Halo games is they take away the main menu of every Halo game. The Halo reach and Halo 3 menu music and visuals will always instantly make me feel safe and at home. I fell asleep to them countless times after playing hours and hours of forge just messing around or challenging myself in firefight with all waves being elites. I just miss the feeling I'd get when the intro cutscene starts playing with those drums and then you get to see the vast planet of reach. Beautiful but you know it's eventual end is near. Great games
Jorge's death hit so hard, it was so unexpected. I never expected him to die, and once Kat died I still had hope of surviving. Then, Jun left.. Carter died, Emile died.. And so Six died.. The game is absolutely heartbreaking and still one of my favourite halo games/campaigns. Doesn't just go for halo, but for every game in existence. Reach is just different man.
Still gonna say Halo 5 would have been so much better had Noble Six survived Reach and went after Chief, But my god was Reach a great game. Hit you like a truck but great.
Well, in lore Jorge's death is really REALLY hard. But canonwise they had to kill him in Reach because Chief - in the main trilogy - is the only known SPARTAN-2 to be alive - Jorge was a SPARTAN-2 -.
@@eru.maewos7673 Fred, Linda?
@@SpartanOne-u4z KNOWN Spartan II
@eru.maewos7673 my headcannon says he survived. He put his helmet on before firing the slipspace drive, and since Spartans can survive in space, he's still alive somewhere. Granted, his armor is locked, but he's alive
Even as a 10 year old, this game hit very different. Anytime someone brings it up or plays some footage from it I feel more than nostalgia; I feel sorrow for how my favorite childhood franchise how fallen so far from a storytelling perspective. Reach was the last game of its kind and it truly was Bungie’s love letter to the fans
I truly feel sorry for any gamer that never got to experience Halo 3 online, in my opinion it was the best online video game you could’ve played, and nothing has come close to capturing the same kinda fun
I have to say. My favourite portion of the game is that the armour you use in multiplayer is what appears in the campaign. Makes it so much more personal.
This game hurt me. It was my first halo game, and I never expected what happened.
Honestly the intro you made, it always makes me tear up a little. The cutscenes paired with the music hits hit home for me.
In an alternate universe, Bungie would have made a game called "Foehammer", where all you do is pilot a Pelican through various battles (drops, evacs, infiltrations, etc.) culminating in your involvement with the Master Chief on Halo.
Its always so fun watching someone discover reach for the first time, especially with a veteran friend.
The little laugh when kat died killed me
Reach is the only halo game that gets close to the lore of the books in the sense that it really paints the picture of how big a threat the covenant were to humanity.
Well this got some attention
Edit: ik jun is not dead the thumbnail just looked better that way, sorry.
that thumnail is really good
Halo is in alot of pain right now.
We've lost our identity for a few years now, alot of us in the Halo community have been re-living memory's of the better days these last few months. Happy story's like these ones are appreciated.
Of course it does its a iconic game and peoples are curious to see what's new peoples think about halo and btw your editing is sick im new subscriber i had a good laugh thank you cant wait to see what's next 🤟🏻😆
Btw sick thumbnail too
congrats
This was my first halo game and me a dumbass decided "you know what? imma try it on legendary with like 4 skulls(i saw them in MCC so yeah) and honestly it felt more impactful because it just seemed like the covenant actually did the damage it does in cutscenes and that it really was a force to fear.
Reaches AI and enemy balancing was particularly good
crazy part is, when Jun said he will do what is necessary to prevent halsey from being taken by the covenant, he was willing to kill her before they could take her
This game perfectly represents the desperation the humans experianced during the covenant war in the books
“ did he drop his laser sword ? “
Made me laugh hahah
“Slipspace rupture detected” That hurt man. And still hurts
"There's so many good stories where some brave hero has to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors cheer, and everyone lives happily ever after. But the hero never gets to see the ending. They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference. They'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith. Ain’t that a bitch.” - Church “RedvsBlue”
Even after all my replays, the end of Long Night of Solace is still one of the most cathartic and heartbreaking moments in all the games.
Halo Reach reminds me of a genuine war story beyond the other worldly setting, a grim reminder that there are people who lost their life changing the course of history.
Although its one of the more controversial Bungie Halos, I still feel like its one of the more important Halo games made. I still get choked up reading the goodbye/thank you message at the end of the 360 version.
Edit: I also laughed exteremly hard at 13:28 like imagining Six took off his helmet for a quick snack "oh no" * crunch crunch crunch *
Halo Reach is Bungie's present for life.
That was a treat to watch, I always love your editing style. Can't wait to see what's next
Imagine if the movie came to be...RIP to that project. Only Landfall exists from that.
Carter: “That Lone Wolf stuff stays behind…”
Damn. That was the heaviest foreshadowing I never thought about until the end
I loved this game and used to play it with my Cousin all the time. The theme of losing people in the game hits harder for me these days since my cousin passed away way too early due to cancer. Thinking about the game gets me a little emotional. I wish the 360 servers were still up and I didn't have to only play the MC version.
5:41 Engagement is still one of my favorite songs in the halo franchise and even now it still fucking slaps cheeks good. :3
I played a ridiculous amount of Reach when I was a kid...I used to play it every day for like 8-10 years.
Can't wait for this to blow up, honestly y'all are funny and love the editing style ^^
The magic of Bungie's Halo. Sadly lost forever. It's cool seeing people go through it for the first time though.
The constant teamkilling is classic reach gameplay
I remember coming back to play this when I grew up, and I tried by hardest to stay alive at the end, but when that cutscene happened I cried so hard man that sucked wish I could go back
What almost makes this game that much impactful....it is your spartan basically...your MP armor changes what you look like in singleplayer...
"Halo Reach was part of everyone's childhood"
Uh... yeah. Childhood. (I was nearly 40 when Reach dropped, lol)
Ur the exception
@@aeron_ishi Maybe. But from my perspective, that was just the power of Halo. It was cross generational. Everyone was into it at that time and it offered something for just about anyone. If you were into single player, multiplayer, Firefight (solo or alone), if you were a map maker or a creative type you could do amazing stuff with the theater mode. There was nothing bigger in the Halo 3/ODST/Reach days. Even small fan sites racked up millions of views per day. People were making Halo videos and montages and music or trick videos LONG before it was a function built into their Xbox. Even my little Halo fan art comic strip would rack up thousands of hits on the days when I'd drop new strips. That was just Halo in those days. Everyone from literal children to senior citizens seemed to be digging it.
Good times, man. Good times.
I was 20, halo really hit everyone it’s such a good series (fkn 343 tho)
Amazing! And u are still playing halo man?
@@alanda2724 Occasionally. Between work, caring for my infirmed mother, and taking care of household duties/chores there's just not much time to do video game stuff these days. But when I'm in the mood for a shooter, Halo or DOOM are usually the ones I choose.
Reach truly was a love letter from Bungie to the fans. A final sendoff.
Ending it exactly as they started it.
When I saw the final scene of the Pillar of Autumn, exactly as it started in Halo 1, I knew we had come full circle. And even though it was a sad realization that Halo was done, I could do nothing but love the games and the memories they gave me. Truly one of the best game series of all time.
I've replayed lone wolf so many times...the intro piano piece will forever be with me, I have played for hours, days, weeks hoping and praying that there was an alt ending. That's the beauty of Reach that no other halo game has done for me. Glad you enjoyed it.
This game had me crying as a kid. There was never an instance where we witnessed a Spartan actually die until this game. Master Chief was my Superman growing up. Back then, I assumed that Jun also flew off and died since there was no other media covering him. This game was so hardcore, and it ended up being my favorite Halo story.
The production quality on this is amazing.
I can’t believe how good the game still looks a lot of the time. It was fantastic!
Even if Halo’s not doing well right now, I always said this when I’m asked my thoughts on ever coming back to Halo:
Halo 4 got me into the series, but Reach was my home
“Spartans never die jorge, they’re just missing in action”
Damn does halo gets me right in the feels man.
Jun is so sneaky that he even faked his own death and sneak his way off reach.
I finally took the time to play this game, finishing it just today. I got the Chief Collection and am starting the journey to go through every game and really follow the story. Anyways, this one just made me cry a little bit, watching everyone slowly disappear and see how Six began to realize what he had to do at the end. It was way more than I could’ve expected from 2010.
One year later, how was it?
"12 years are as old as you get" tf2 will remember that
Honestly it always surprises me how well the graphics hold up, I’d take it over infinite any day
Halo Reach broke all of us... Noble team are in my heart so hard !
I knew exactly how Halo Reach was gonna end. But i got the chance to play it myself not too long ago. And when I did? It was still as heartbreaking as it was because you saw it first hand. The efforts, the hope, the failure, the resolve and passing on the mantle.
If you liked Halo Reach? Halo CE is gonna be a blast. But uhm, without spoilers, its gonna become a horror game midway.
Yes XD
Had some great child hood memories sneaking into my older brothers room when he wasn't home to play this game
Reach was a crazy game for me when I was like around 7-8 yrs of age. I practically grew a bond with my spartan and the story reach provided. Each of Nobel’s team death when I saw it for the first time just hurt cuz like I loved the characters. But I remember when I got to lone wolf. The loneliness and hordes of covenant just feel so heavy. The death of noble 6 when Impacted me so hard due to the attachment I had for him that after I finished it. I never touched that mission for so many years due to the weight of your own Spartans death. It was til I was like 14-15 that I replayed it again and yet it still hurt seeing. This game just gave me such a strong emotion that I haven’t seen in a game in a long long time
I loved this video so much I wish there was more of it. So many scenes not shown like the civilian ship going down on exodus. Great editing, fun game play, good shit brother.
This game, Halo CE-Reach is something so beyond special to me. I remember when it came out. My life was always a mess but this story, these characters, the journey i went on from Halo to the Ark and back to Reach did so much more than bind me together through some of the shittiest times. I met some of the most amazing people, the machinima at the time like Rise of The Spartans and Red vs Blue was something unlike youtube has ever seen before and since. This story is so near and dear to my heart, i cant tell you the amount of times ive played or beaten every Halo. When reach came out i hadnt had internet yet, except for a brief moment during Halo 3s run, i grinded that games campaign and firefight to the max level and got the haunted helmet before my very first match. The music, the sounds, the enviornments, its all so....breathtaking... Nothing has come close to this series for me except for BG3 and even then...still...Halo...i wish the series went with Reach. Halo didnt deserve to be what it has become...
Halo Reach made me feel so sad, but happy it gave so many memories in lobbies with friends, making new friends online, playing in custom lobbies. And most of all, the story it told was great. Love your storytelling and glad we could join you on this playthrough.
2:54 is my wallpaper, to me, this one photo truly speaks a thousand words. Everytime I see it I think of sacrifice and how it'll all pay off in the end.
I actually really liked Kat and her death shocked me and pissed me off so much
When I completed the reach campaign for the first time I didn't really understand it but now remembering it makes me so happy
Halo reach wasn't my first m rated game I was able to get nor was it my first halo game even. However it was the first game I got to play brand new. I saved up $120 at the age of 12 by going to my neighbors and cleaning their houses or mowing their lawns so I could get the ultra special edition from the game stop down the street. It released on a school night but I begged and pleaded with my dad to let me stay up on the midnight release so I could get it as soon as it was availed and he told me no. I went to bed that night extremely sad because I really wanted that game and now I'd have to wait till he had gotten off work at 5 so I could have him take me to the store and get it. Little did I know he had planned to go wait in line for 3 hours after I went to bed to get the game for me and when I woke up the next morning it was sitting on my kitchen table and he had a massive smile on his face when I realized. I was just barely old enough to begin to grasp the gravity of the sacrifice of that story but I mainly was interested in Lan parties with my friends and forge at that age. After it went through its cycle one day I was bored and decided at about 15 to pop in the campaign again and was absolutely blown away at just how amazing the story was. The glimmers of hope to be destroyed by the covenant appeared en mass over reach after having destroyed the carrier. Having my team slowly and surely killed off akd then that final hopeless battle after the pillar of autumn had flown off leaving u stranded on a dead planet. The speech Halsey gives at the end. It's a game that will never leave the deep special place in my heart where it resides.
No better time to catch up on Halo nowadays then going through the MCC
Highly recommend Halo Wars aswell it had a great story
“ stop beign Mexican “ 😂 I will remember this
The fact jorges sacrifice was for nothing was rather depressing I looked for reaction videos on it
I have played this game many times with many friends over the years, I thought I was finally done with feeling sad about it but this video was done perfectly and I felt every emotional beat like I did back when I was 9 playing through the game for the first time. Thank you for this video.
When I was younger I played the campaign more than 10x 😁 such a good story
Haloooo Reach.
The noble team was the foundation for master chief basically the chosen one of the halo universe
24:48 they been dying out there for 30 min when we're playing around LOL
This was an extremely fun and enjoyable video, im glad I got to watch this due to my insomnia, I remember crying at the end of this game when I replayed it recently all those sacrifices and it meant little to nothing for the survival of reach the one that broke me the most was kat's death it was so quick and anticlimactic compared to the rest it was heart breaking having to replay that cutscene/mission again, keep up the amazing videos officially one of my new favorite content creators on this platform.
my headcanon is that Sergeant Johnson didn't actually die and passed out for a couple minutes, and when he woke up, he walked around drowsily and somehow accidentally activated some forerunner healing technology, which brought him back from the brink of death. He then found an alternate route to a abandoned starship and raced there on a warthog run. Eventually he launches from the spaceship but it's pretty damaged from the blast, unable to fly anymore, and communications are broke too. He goes into cryosleep like Master Chief but won't be found as quickly. Noble Six? Same thing (hell no bro is definitely dead but I can dream).
This is my favorite game of all time because of my friends, I miss my brothers, I miss this amazing story, I miss everything about it, god I miss the experience of Reach in the heyday
Not gonna lie, was expecting a review video, but you guys are a genuinely funny duo that are fun to listen to
We shall watch your career with great interest.
Great vid keep it up!
its really nice to see more people coming into the Halo community
“Even for the good, a noble one stands in the way.”
amen
a halo game so good people are still talking about it to this day
Last game that made me feel something was Red Dead 2, Reach did the same to me like last year. Pain
Reach is a battle we all knew from the very start how would it end. Yet, we've been fighting all this years for that planet. Remembering Reach was what brought victory to humanity in the Covenant war. If it wasn't for all the sacrifice, hope would've be lost. And that's why we continue to fight.
Current objective: SURVIVE
PREACH!
All of the team die in vein to save Cortqna just for the event of halo 4-5 to happen
I grew up playing halo reach at 6, I was born the same year it came out, Halo reach taught me to never stop fighting, no matter what you lose.
Jun never died he just diped that's where the dieing is gay meme came from.
Noble six was two different spartans the one you play as and one that went out the same as Jorge but the reason that you play as six is because he was the first one Cortana choose
Reach was my first halo game I bought and it was by accident! I saw my friends play ODST so I tried to buy the same game, but I didn’t realize at the time that they always misplaced the ODST disc within a Halo Reach cover.
Halo Reach never fails to pull at my heartstrings and I always get a bittersweet smile when I listen to Halsey’s monologue in the end, remembering the incredible highs of the main trilogy and reflecting on the losses of Noble at the same time.
Memories... I need to play Reach again. Heartbreaking every time but still too good to pass up the opportunity
I remember when this game came out. My friends and I all looking up any information we could find about the game weeks beforehand. Finding out Jorge was an SII and the rest were SIII's was an absolutely epic moment for me as a fan of the series, books and games. Then watching him be the one to go first and the III's going one by one felt like I was playing the books instead of the games. Like watching Will go while 1 v 2ing Hunters with his fists. To see captain Key's face when he says goodbye hit so damn hard when you know about his history with the SII program. To be able to see it all happen and come as close to experiencing the losses was eye opening. I will love these games forevor. Shame 343 didn't understand the legacy they were being given to carry on.
Broke me a long time ago brother.
when I didn't hear anything at the end, I'm like "well, he just broke."
I fucking love the campaign of this game dude it's really fun but the story... The story is so fucking good it made me emotional at the end, that music that starts you off in lone wolf with the objective reading survive popping up, I instantly knew what was gonna happen in the mission yet I almost didn't believe or at least want to believe it but it's the best way to end it
I agree with that.