The Halo TV series cost 10 million dollars per episode, and all Bungie's PR team needed was one lovingly crafted model and about 8 minutes of old men talking about war to blow it cleanly out of the water.
Bungie had good writers and creative directors, who understood the aesthetic and themes of the halo universe. You play as the single greatest killing machine, in a war that your side is desperately losing. The stakes are extinction through genocide. It’s a mix of awesome badass moments, and a tidal wave crashing on you. The new creative teams just don’t get it.
@@elyastoohey6621 Do some digging and you'll find these showrunners didn't even want to get it. They proudly pointed out that they refused to even play or watch any of the games themselves.
@@elyastoohey6621 My guess, some PR goon with too much clout didn't like the exact things about Halo that made it work in the first place. So we had some people in charge who didn't like what they were adapting. Then hubris kicked in and they thought they could do it better. Similar to Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry reboot, and we all know how successful that was.
@@cybertruckeralpha Sadly, that’s becoming more frequent nowadays. Most recently with shows like Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett. Why buy a franchise or brand to ruin it? If you don’t like the original idea then save money and pass on it.
@@huwpurcell8683 maybe we shouldnt give bungie every grace. Everyone who was there is no longer. Its time to pay attention to developers, not the companies they sign to. It'd be like calling Beatles albums Apple Record releases.
It is critically the best. But I think the most successful at drawing in interest was the original red dead redemption’s campaign. Rockstar nailed that campaign. Erstwhile whilst the halo 3 campaign was amazing, most of us were already gonna buy it. The marketing campaign just added an extra layer of appreciation.
this is barely the first cinematic commercial, and it is by far not the most cinematic commercial, even in video games at the time it was released, it doesn't even use any of the language of cinema to portray much Epic, grandiose, and austere, sure, but a diorama is almost by its very nature not cinematic
Scream77541 the hype has not disappeared, but the population has. It’s so much harder to enjoy halo 3 without the population and the community around it. I can’t get into H3 customs because my friends don’t have custom maps and game types, I can’t get into 16 player lobbies because no one plays it.. it’s a damn shame.
I agree. The reason I said the hype disappeared is because you never hear about it anymore. Like you said, it is very rare to find a big custom games lobby.
This was back in the golden age for xbox 360 owners. I'd say the best games were from 2006-2011. Halo, Gears of war, and Call of duty were all in their primes
You couldn't have said that better. Call of duty wasn't what it is now, gears of war was still alive, and halo, well halo was just the best. Key word was... Sad to say.
Jonathan Bradford Thanks and yup very sad. I still go back on and play games from that period but it sucks because we are in an intermission between amazing series, just got to wait for the next one.....
Exactly. I remember when my friend got his first xbox, and we played Halo 3 right when it came out. I must have played the campaign twice in 2 days. Then I got my 360 much later and that was around when Just Cause 2, Red Dead, and Reach came out. Good times...
“The message just repeats... Believe, Believe, Believe.” “Catchy. Any idea what it means?” “Dear Humanity. We Believe that Halo 3 will be one badass game. We Believe in the kickass potential of its multiplayer. And we most definitely Believe its campaign will leave a hell of an imprint on our lives!“ “OOH-RAH”
Bungie knew exactly what they were doing at 0:31. A frame of a marine crawling towards his rifle, followed by a brute about to smash him with his gravity hammer, followed by another marine cowering with a frozen stare filled with the most soulshattering terror. It plays like a movie in my head. A very gruesome one
But when all hope is lost, when you can feel the icy prickles down your spine that death is inevitable, you look at the one man who was leading the charge, who was your greatest weapon against an unstoppable enemy, you see that he is down, on the verge of defeat, but then your eyes light up, the weapon suddenly feels powerful in your hands, as you see that man, look right back at you, telling you to keep fighting, to keep winning, to keep believing....
@I Used to be - THANK YOU! Been searching through comments from a parody video that used this music for ages, only to discover it was used for this Halo promo. Fiiiinally have an answer 👍 Should've known it'd be Chopin - that'll be why I like it so much! Thanks, dude.
"mediocre writing" would be preferable to generic drama and absurd plot additions. most of the lead writers for halo 4, and the entirety of 5 are fucking comic book writers. that alone should rest my case, because unless an individual is just this new to the franchise, or they're a mentally crippled child, the inconsistencies associated with the aforementioned should be glaringly apparent.
It was never about the graphics, the realism, or the badass moments. It was always about the emotional story. OG Halo is a marvel of creativity that makes you feel hopeful and proud to be a human being.
Bungie made Halo seem real. I feel like that's the magic here. That we all knew that this game was just a game, yet to be so invested in something that is bigger than yourself is what drives people in.
I really love how 343 took Halo and made the art style more realistic in Infinite. It's almost like chief, Cortana, the UNSC, the covenant, etc might be real and we don't know yet. Definitely one of the biggest things that make Halo so memorable
Bungie's style of Halo always seemed to skirt the line between intense realism and epically artful fantasy. Take the SPNKR rocket launcher, it looks very menacing and aggressive, and would serve to be a very effective and real weapon, but underneath the surface it's kind of impractical given how you have to reload the tubes themselves, rather than just replacing a magazine. But that's kicker, isn't it? It's more about tricking us into thinking it's very real through seeing the world through an artistic lens than trying to abide by boring real world logic. Would still rather prefer that over boring as hell rocket launcher 343 tried to make a thing, lmfao.
This game did something to me physiological it was the first time I experienced an addiction a compelling campaign an unprecedented online multiplayer experience....Bungie you magnificent bastards
Ghoulish gyro what? Halo 2’s campaign was incredible. I like Halo 3 but the arbiter and chief basically don’t even acknowledge each other’s existence save for one or two moments in the entire campaign. Halo 2 was very fleshed out and had amazing character progression for arbiter. Amazing story in general.
A sad day for our boys in green. 1/13/2022, I wasn't there for the end. But I was there since the very beginning. To all you folks who stood your ground before the servers shut down. Thank you, thank you for fighting the good fight. We knew the fight had to finish one day, but I wish we never had to witness it. Rest in peace, Halo servers on the 360. May we continue our legacy in the MCC and may that never burnout.
@@randipoling635 i found a cool group of people a few weeks after shutdown, they had a discord server but at the time i didnt have it, but i got to play halo 3 after shutdown and its so much better than mcc.
I've recently read the books and now know how dangerous the brutes really are, and how devastating the covenant weapons can be. A group of 3 brutes took on chief and 3 other Spartans. Grace was killed in the initial ambush, John was grappling with a brute and nearly died while Fred and Will were pinned down, unable to do anything. Seeing just how many brutes and other Covenant soldiers there are, seeing the men falling and running, the sheer hopelessness and fear on those faces, it barely looks like a battle. It looks like a massacre.
the great schism and really the arbiter are the only reasons humanity survives. my only complaint of Halo 3 is I wish they displayed that hopelessness a bit more and made you feel the weight of just how much the shangheli helped
That's big considering, I can't remember if it was Will or Fred. But one of those Spartan's specialties were hand to hand combat and even threw fists and beat a Hunter in unarmed combat in the book Ghosts of Onyx
The most powerful trailer I know of, for any game. You don't need the characters to move. The expressions on their faces say everything that needs to be said. You don't get trailers like this anymore. Now, it's just flashy hype for next-gen mediocrity at full-retail price. Gaming as a whole has gone to shit.
I couldn't agree more. They just try too hard & not just with the trailers. They use to be a lot more creative as well with their games. Most of the companies have moved too far away from what made games great like back in the good old days (90's for me when i was born).
The greatest* No video game has ever had a better series of advertisements than Halo 3, even Halo Reach or ODST's ads weren't as good as this. It really was lightning in a bottle, when pop culture, internet culture, and gaming culture all sort of came together at once throwing this game deeper into the zeitgeist than a series of advertisements alone could ever do. The timing was perfect for it.
I second that notion from the fellow above me. Nothing has topped this, and it will be well earned if anything ever truly manages to top this. But I'm pretty confident that won't be in my life time.
I still believe that Halo can make a comeback. Never forget the franchise that Bungie made. Never forget the entertainment it brought us. Never forget Halo. Rest in peace. 2001-2010
Kurt -051 Can't you see? It's over. Are you blind to all that's happening? The micro transactions, the head of Halo leaving, etc? Halo is a dying franchise. At this point nothing can change that. Halo will never be the same, it will never be as good as it once was. All we can do is try to make our voices be heard "Take out the req system" "Bring back the old art style" "Make Master Chief the protagonist again" If we do that, we might just have a chance. But I have a feeling that Microsoft doesn't care about us or Halo anymore. In their eyes, Halo is just their cash cow. It's a shame, really. I like to think that Halo stricken down when Bungie left and Halo 4 was its last stand. Now the flood took over its body. That's what Halo 5 is.
PhantomMori Can't you see that excessive toxicity from the community doesn't help either? You are a part of this toxicity. You're saying that Halo is dying? You know that you can recover from a very large cancer, even though you are at your final stand? You are one cell of that cancer that the community is facing right now and you are badly metastasing. You're keep saying that your opinion is a fact, although everything is relative and everything is possible. ^^ First, you can't really be sure of anything (exception of relatively). Secondly, every opinion, point, argument, statement, perspective, etc. is valid and connected to everything. This is the effect of relativity. Here are some corrections: Josh Holmes isn't the head of 343i, he is one of its leaders, like Bonnie Ross, and he isn't leaving yet but soon. "Make Master Chief the protagonist again" and "Take out the REQ system" are purely closed minds, these things only need adjustments (no microtransactions, no armor customisation included to the REQ system, better UI, revise Locke's/Chief's roles, make MC appear as much as Locke) and those are long term adjustments so stop being so "frustrated". Also, Chief is already on of H5 protagonist.
Kurt -051 What difference will one kid do to the moral of the Halo fan base? Chief was only in 3 missions in all of Halo 5's campaign. 343 is just digging the hole deeper and deeper. It's gonna take a miracle for Halo to make a come back. Microsoft won't let go of micro transactions. And because of that, we're pretty much doomed. It's not like all because I said that Halo is finished, you're gonna give up as well, are you? So calm down man.
Toenism Everyone has their own opinion I respect yours but as a Halo fan since day one and I mean Friday 15th November 2001. I will always be a loyal gamer towards Halo. Yes we are going through some tough times but that can only mean improvements are coming soon.
When I was a kid, Halo 3 was the first ever M Rated game I played; it was also my introduction to first person shooters. Before that, I pretty much just played Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 and the Revenge of the Sith game (also for a little while I had the spiderman 2 game). Halo 3 was so groundbreaking to me, it was the first time a game's story and gameplay had really grabbed me and pulled me in. I still have so many fond memories of it. I will never forget playing "The Covenant" with my older brother and dropping him off onto a scarab from the hornet I was piloting and then picking him back up right before it explodes. I also remember playing infection mode with just him and his friend (on splitscreen because we didn't have xbox live at the time) and I would struggle so hard to get them because they would just drive around the map on a mongoose. It may sound ridiculous, but the experiences I had playing Halo 3 honestly changed my life. God I love this game.
I bet you were one of those fucking kids that sucked ass, kept on rage quitting and with your squeaky voices, you guys made the experience terrible for all of us come back when your b alls drop
@@imjustlookingformywatch well kids like you are in every game no matter the console or game, again wait for your b alls to drop and then play mature games thx
The saddest part is, we'll probably never get an era of gaming like this again. And what I mean is seeing THIS level of passion, love and care for games, as an art form if you will.
The Halo trilogy tells an amazing tale few others have matched in terms of greatness. Humanity colonizing the stars in the 26th century and encountering an alien conglomerate empire known as The Covenant. Even though the entire war was a lie for the great prophets to hang on to their power through lies that humanity was an affront to their gods and masters the Forerunners even though humanity were the heirs of their technology the Reclaimers. Humanity fought for nearly 3 decades against a foe that outnumbered them and outgunned them. But humanity endured their light never going out despite the billions of deaths and dozens of planets scorched by the fires of the prophets judgement. Humanity's ultimate victory was not achieved in one skirmish or in one day it was bled for by billions of humans. Civilians, Marines, and the ODST's and ultimately the Spartan-II's of which John-117 the Master Chief was the most famous and his light shone the brightest giving hope to a species who was losing their hope and their faith that the Covenant War could be won. But in 2552-2553 the war at long last came to an end Master Chief, The Arbiter and his Sangheili soldiers defecting causing a Schism and the new strength given to humanity gave them the will to achieve victory but at a large cost. The Human-Covenant war was the most destructive and bloody ever fought in Human history except perhaps maybe the war with the Flood and Forerunners. The lore, backstory, gameplay, and characters have made Halo my favorite game franchise of all time and I hope like humanity it will endure and shine brightly even under new leadership of 343i.
Well, at first to me it was just this game about take the Assault Rifle, grab headshot capable weapon, deal with grunt minions guarding brute leader, throw a few stickys back melee brute and move on... ...but when you put it like that...
@@WhoopsieDayZ There's no doubt about it but i only wish there was more story to it. This game was great everything about it was great but it could have been better.
@@jessemartin214 True, but it was the game that introduced us to the characters, the world, the enemies, the gameplay etc. So in a way it's also good that they kept the story a bit more simple. It's great as a standalone game to get you invested in the world and the characters. Only after that do we get to know more about the different factions, politics, locations and stuff.
Just to share a memory; I remember watching this trailer over & over while on my grandmas couch… when I close my eyes and listen to the music I can still see both her & my father, now both deceased watching it with me; I see the couch, the giant Tv from the 90s she refused to replace, everything. The memories of playing Halo 3 with my cousins in that same space come flooding back as well… it’s like it was just yesterday we were snot nosed kids playing on the 360… I remember playing, and owning my dad in Halo 3 Forge, later in Reach, but we would still laugh & smile through it all…now we’re adults and so many of the adults who watched us play are dead and gone…but all I can say is thank you for the memories Bungie… I doubt anyone who worked on these games will ever realize how much impact they had on us, but y’all deserve to.
For all the disappointing nostalgia trips I've had, ones like this hit me hard for how much it really holds up as much as it did for me as it as a kid.
What a time to be alive. I remember the 2000’s you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about halo. I’m so glad to have been alive to play these amazing games.
These games will never die. You can play them with new friends and love ones. Show these games to a younger audience. A friend next door, a niece, nephew. Anyone! Let them enjoy something from our past. Explain the story of S-117 and how he helped shape who we are today as men and women. When I was a child growing up all I wanted to be is Master Chief. I love being a leader and assist others. Tell the story. Keep Halo alive my friends.
I watch this maybe one or twice a year, and I have ever since it first debuted. It hits me the same every single time. God.. I miss Halo 3. I miss it so much.
Why, for the love of god, why, is there only 195,898 views (as of 6/3/14) on this masterpiece of an advertisement? If I hadn't heard of Halo in my entire life for whatever disgrace of a reason, this minute of my life would make me want to play them all.
Back when they poured their heart and souls into games and made them with love for the fans and for themselves. No loot boxes or microtransactions just a great game for you to enjoy. It makes me sad that we dont get that anymore, everything comes with strings attached. Halo infinite already has a bullshit season pass and when i saw it i honestly felt so sad. That why im back here rewatching Halo 3 ads.
Memories. Being a little kid and watching this thinking this was incredible. Now I’m grown up, rewatching it. That hasn’t changed. This video was absolutely incredible. Just an amazing composition.
Happy 15th Birthday Halo 3 and thank you for everything Bungie. H3 will continue to live on for us. Legends never die. I was there. 9/25/07 BELIEVE FINISH THE FIGHT 117 "WERE IT SO EASY" "WAKE ME, WHEN YOU NEED ME" September 25th, 2007. 15 Years of Excellence! Classic Halo for LIFE.
It's so crazy that I can come back to this every year and it is still so powerful. I now know Chopin - Raindrop Prelude (Op. 28 No. 15) and I am thankful for the introduction. Good memories, hopefully to revisit again.
I remember being...probably 6th grade. In a family restaurant that had TV's mounted on the wall. This was on at some point and I always only remembered seeing the helmet looking up with "Believe". It's wild to see it every time years later. Halo 3 changed gaming for me forever.
I gotta say one thing 343 has done right is the Halo 2 anniversary, it was fun to play it again but with updated action packed cutscenes. It's as close as u can get to watching a halo movie.
The amount of detail they put into the emotions of the marines is crazy. They look genuinely terrified for their lives. I wish I could see it in person there's so many faces we don't get to see. Also I love how Chief looks up with the grenade sans rifle and is like "yeah I got this"
When the Master Chief's head tilts up at the end, the hairs on my arms literally stood straight up. Massive chills, one of the best advertising campaigns for any game I've ever seen.
![Halo 3 - First Announcement Trailer [HD] - E3 2006](/img/1.gif)
the greatest
NakeyJakey i love you
had to watch it again after seeing your halo 3 vid, so many good memories.
Yes jakey, yes
NakeyJakey You are the greatest.
It's the hot boy himself!!
I find myself watching these old trailers and getting hyped for a game that came out eight years ago.
lol. same here. The greatest games already exist ;)
Same. These trailers are so well made it's ridiculous.
You should watch the trailer for The Witcher 2 called Hope. Also chopin there.
I know right.
L S lol same.
“A Hero need not speak.
When he is gone, the world
will speak for him”
Thanks Bungie for all the memories.
👻
RIP bungie, it was devoured by Gravemind
@@swesleyc7 god is dead they killed him
wow that really sums up master chief's character, nice. it sucks that they completely butchered him in the tv series
@@saullandiof5768 nah different timeline just think of it as halo now has a multiverse
The Halo TV series cost 10 million dollars per episode, and all Bungie's PR team needed was one lovingly crafted model and about 8 minutes of old men talking about war to blow it cleanly out of the water.
Bungie had good writers and creative directors, who understood the aesthetic and themes of the halo universe.
You play as the single greatest killing machine, in a war that your side is desperately losing.
The stakes are extinction through genocide.
It’s a mix of awesome badass moments, and a tidal wave crashing on you.
The new creative teams just don’t get it.
@@elyastoohey6621 Do some digging and you'll find these showrunners didn't even want to get it. They proudly pointed out that they refused to even play or watch any of the games themselves.
@@cybertruckeralpha Yeah, the 343 guys said that.
Why would you intentionally tank a franchise? Halo could be a serious monkeymaker for microsoft.
@@elyastoohey6621 My guess, some PR goon with too much clout didn't like the exact things about Halo that made it work in the first place.
So we had some people in charge who didn't like what they were adapting.
Then hubris kicked in and they thought they could do it better. Similar to Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry reboot, and we all know how successful that was.
@@cybertruckeralpha Sadly, that’s becoming more frequent nowadays. Most recently with shows like Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett.
Why buy a franchise or brand to ruin it? If you don’t like the original idea then save money and pass on it.
Still such an amazing advert, halo used to be such an event.
That it was.
bungie halo is just better then 343 in every way
@@huwpurcell8683 maybe we shouldnt give bungie every grace. Everyone who was there is no longer. Its time to pay attention to developers, not the companies they sign to. It'd be like calling Beatles albums Apple Record releases.
In some ways it still is, for better or worse.
@@huwpurcell8683*was
The entire Believe series is the best marketing campaign that has ever been done for a video game
Glad 343 is trying their hand
Facts. Halo 3 wasn't a game, it was a historical event.
@@TheNerdForAllSeasons couldn't have said it any better myself
There’s a reason it has its own wiki page
It is critically the best.
But I think the most successful at drawing in interest was the original red dead redemption’s campaign.
Rockstar nailed that campaign.
Erstwhile whilst the halo 3 campaign was amazing, most of us were already gonna buy it. The marketing campaign just added an extra layer of appreciation.
"Don't cry because its over, Smile because its happened."
Shut your mouth remember sgt johnson said no crying.
@@obiwankenobiwithinternetac7926 that's what he's saying, dummy
@@poopymcsnoopy u mean dummy thicc
Because what happened? They were getting massacred. Lol
@@poopymcsnoopy Lol he means the experience of playing halo 3 as a kid
People: "You cant make a commercial cinematic"
Bungie: "Bet"
Bungie: watch me b*tch
Hold my beer
this is barely the first cinematic commercial, and it is by far not the most cinematic commercial, even in video games at the time it was released, it doesn't even use any of the language of cinema to portray much
Epic, grandiose, and austere, sure, but a diorama is almost by its very nature not cinematic
nobody says that
@@Somedude3549 yeah why would i
Brute: Takes Chief’s assault rifle
Chief: I’m about to end this mans whole career
AcTuAlLy, ThAt'S nOt ChEaP
*this ape's
You're right, I ended his career with a bang
@@skippydinglechalk5589 eyyyyyy!
I just started a new journey with Master Chief on my youtube channel! Come check it out if you love Halos! I will complete every game in the series.
Happy birthday Halo 3. You are sadly missed. Sweet dreams, old friend.
you an still played it. why are you missing it lol
It isn't the same as it was from 2007-2010. The population and the hype has disappeared.
Scream77541 lol not it hasn't
Scream77541 the hype has not disappeared, but the population has. It’s so much harder to enjoy halo 3 without the population and the community around it. I can’t get into H3 customs because my friends don’t have custom maps and game types, I can’t get into 16 player lobbies because no one plays it.. it’s a damn shame.
I agree. The reason I said the hype disappeared is because you never hear about it anymore. Like you said, it is very rare to find a big custom games lobby.
This was back in the golden age for xbox 360 owners. I'd say the best games were from 2006-2011. Halo, Gears of war, and Call of duty were all in their primes
You couldn't have said that better. Call of duty wasn't what it is now, gears of war was still alive, and halo, well halo was just the best. Key word was... Sad to say.
Jonathan Bradford Thanks and yup very sad. I still go back on and play games from that period but it sucks because we are in an intermission between amazing series, just got to wait for the next one.....
Exactly. I remember when my friend got his first xbox, and we played Halo 3 right when it came out. I must have played the campaign twice in 2 days. Then I got my 360 much later and that was around when Just Cause 2, Red Dead, and Reach came out. Good times...
TFW you realize Reach was the last good halo game
Carbon Nova (Left G7) Yeah the golden age.
This is what the Halo TV show failed to show. The human struggle against an unstoppable foe.
“The message just repeats... Believe, Believe, Believe.”
“Catchy. Any idea what it means?”
“Dear Humanity. We Believe that Halo 3 will be one badass game. We Believe in the kickass potential of its multiplayer. And we most definitely Believe its campaign will leave a hell of an imprint on our lives!“
“OOH-RAH”
OOH-RAH
OOH-RAH!
OOH-RAH
OOH-RAH
OOH-RAH
I’m 27 years old now and i still get chills every time i watch this.
Same
Same. Halo took place during my whole childhood ❤️, since 2001
I'm 27, still fucking teared up.
Bruh, I'm 30, I've never touched an xbox or a halo game in my life, and I'm getting chills 😂
Same. Making me feel like I should start collecting for the Xbox 360.
This is possibly the best trailer ever made
This is "definitely" the best trailer ever made
All the halo trailer from this era were amazing. Landfall was epic and so was the ODST trailer
@@Fadilanse I'd add the caveat: 'Halo trailer,' but the fact that I'm struggling to think of a counter only strengthens your position.
@@kittogashi8561 gears trailers hit hard also
@@Fadilanse this one or the John 117 monument
Bungie knew exactly what they were doing at 0:31. A frame of a marine crawling towards his rifle, followed by a brute about to smash him with his gravity hammer, followed by another marine cowering with a frozen stare filled with the most soulshattering terror. It plays like a movie in my head. A very gruesome one
Especially with the music at its height there...
0:31 reminds me of one of the ODST live action trailers
It depicts the very real trauma of war.... its too real
Just imagine being a marine and seeing a spartan die, you can see the loss of hope and the realization of death in their faces
But when all hope is lost, when you can feel the icy prickles down your spine that death is inevitable, you look at the one man who was leading the charge, who was your greatest weapon against an unstoppable enemy, you see that he is down, on the verge of defeat, but then your eyes light up, the weapon suddenly feels powerful in your hands, as you see that man, look right back at you, telling you to keep fighting, to keep winning, to keep believing....
For those wondering about the music:
*Prelude in D-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 "Raindrop", composed by Frederic Chopin.*
Name a better composer!!!!!!! ❤️
@@UncleBenPackWatch john williams....martin o Donnell ......man you shouldnt have said that.
@@obiwankenobiwithinternetac7926 both are great not even close to Chopin or Liszt
@@shootthechicken2583 ik i was critizing his comment that he now deleted
@I Used to be - THANK YOU! Been searching through comments from a parody video that used this music for ages, only to discover it was used for this Halo promo. Fiiiinally have an answer 👍 Should've known it'd be Chopin - that'll be why I like it so much!
Thanks, dude.
Halo just isn't the same without you, Bungie
Yeah. I too miss Bungie's mediocre writing.
That is thy truth!
***** you cannot be this fucking dumb
William Hartis Hyperbole is hyperbole, but he's not completely wrong.
"mediocre writing" would be preferable to generic drama and absurd plot additions. most of the lead writers for halo 4, and the entirety of 5 are fucking comic book writers. that alone should rest my case, because unless an individual is just this new to the franchise, or they're a mentally crippled child, the inconsistencies associated with the aforementioned should be glaringly apparent.
It was never about the graphics, the realism, or the badass moments. It was always about the emotional story. OG Halo is a marvel of creativity that makes you feel hopeful and proud to be a human being.
I hope Infinite will return to that concept
@@theunderdog9353 it didn't :(
@@DietaryCar Campaign is good. Just multiplayer that's ass
@@DietaryCar Needs more content, but is a great game
@@theunderdog9353 campaign was a disappointment, felt like half a story that has yet to be told.
Bungie made Halo seem real. I feel like that's the magic here. That we all knew that this game was just a game, yet to be so invested in something that is bigger than yourself is what drives people in.
I really love how 343 took Halo and made the art style more realistic in Infinite. It's almost like chief, Cortana, the UNSC, the covenant, etc might be real and we don't know yet. Definitely one of the biggest things that make Halo so memorable
Bungie's style of Halo always seemed to skirt the line between intense realism and epically artful fantasy. Take the SPNKR rocket launcher, it looks very menacing and aggressive, and would serve to be a very effective and real weapon, but underneath the surface it's kind of impractical given how you have to reload the tubes themselves, rather than just replacing a magazine. But that's kicker, isn't it? It's more about tricking us into thinking it's very real through seeing the world through an artistic lens than trying to abide by boring real world logic. Would still rather prefer that over boring as hell rocket launcher 343 tried to make a thing, lmfao.
Was gonna upvote but saw that this had 117 likes
I’m new to halo when I tried the bungie halo saga it felt perfect
@@computerface4095 Same, I have only been a Halo fan for months but I still started from CE.
"Why are you crying it's just a trailer"
the trailer:
This game did something to me physiological it was the first time I experienced an addiction a compelling campaign an unprecedented online multiplayer experience....Bungie you magnificent bastards
aaron fuck off
Caleb Brown the nostalgia is extreme ;(
+aaron you must be really dumb beacuse halo 2 did have a terrible campaign multiplayer was god like
Ghoulish gyro what? Halo 2’s campaign was incredible. I like Halo 3 but the arbiter and chief basically don’t even acknowledge each other’s existence save for one or two moments in the entire campaign. Halo 2 was very fleshed out and had amazing character progression for arbiter. Amazing story in general.
Hell yeah!!!
A sad day for our boys in green. 1/13/2022, I wasn't there for the end. But I was there since the very beginning. To all you folks who stood your ground before the servers shut down. Thank you, thank you for fighting the good fight. We knew the fight had to finish one day, but I wish we never had to witness it. Rest in peace, Halo servers on the 360. May we continue our legacy in the MCC and may that never burnout.
its been an honor spartan.
I was there on day 1…. And I was there on the last…. It hurts.
@@randipoling635 i found a cool group of people a few weeks after shutdown, they had a discord server but at the time i didnt have it, but i got to play halo 3 after shutdown and its so much better than mcc.
I was online when the servers were shut down. It was beautiful, everyone was talking on their headsets just reminiscing with total strangers.
thank god there's a private server for the og version.
I'm hyped for this game, when does it come out?
+The_Crusades_Were_Justified I don't think you got the joke.
bruh how did you *not* understand that joke?
right! lol
Fuckin' pumped for it. 343? What's that??
it came out in 2007
Oh man, the Nostalgia.
Damn right marine hoorah
+James Does Gaming why didn't you come to the nipple academy sooner? Well take a booze and take of to the nostalgic train
Th fuckin feelings
I miss you bungie call me when you get over the whole making a shitty expansions thing
Does anybody else remember the website where you could literally going to view this whole sculpture
The greatest trailer for a video game ever. You can't beat Chopin.
Raindrop Prelude is top shelf stuff
Seeing master chief raise his head gives me goosebumps to this day
I've recently read the books and now know how dangerous the brutes really are, and how devastating the covenant weapons can be. A group of 3 brutes took on chief and 3 other Spartans. Grace was killed in the initial ambush, John was grappling with a brute and nearly died while Fred and Will were pinned down, unable to do anything. Seeing just how many brutes and other Covenant soldiers there are, seeing the men falling and running, the sheer hopelessness and fear on those faces, it barely looks like a battle. It looks like a massacre.
The games rarely do justice to show how grossly outmatched humanity truly was. A few lucky breaks were all that separated them from extinction.
@@thewarner2139 dam
the great schism and really the arbiter are the only reasons humanity survives. my only complaint of Halo 3 is I wish they displayed that hopelessness a bit more and made you feel the weight of just how much the shangheli helped
That's big considering, I can't remember if it was Will or Fred. But one of those Spartan's specialties were hand to hand combat and even threw fists and beat a Hunter in unarmed combat in the book Ghosts of Onyx
This also shows the true meaning of war. Just look at those marines. How scared and defeated they look.
If you are still alive after 8 years, I have to say to you, I love your comment. War is hell
The most powerful trailer I know of, for any game. You don't need the characters to move. The expressions on their faces say everything that needs to be said. You don't get trailers like this anymore. Now, it's just flashy hype for next-gen mediocrity at full-retail price. Gaming as a whole has gone to shit.
I couldn't agree more. This video was incredible.
deliver of hope for halo reach
Raptah Jesus deliver of hope for halo reach
I couldn't agree more. They just try too hard & not just with the trailers. They use to be a lot more creative as well with their games. Most of the companies have moved too far away from what made games great like back in the good old days (90's for me when i was born).
To be fair Gear of war capture the essence in their trailers. although the characters move
One of the greatest ad campaigns ever conceived.
The greatest*
No video game has ever had a better series of advertisements than Halo 3, even Halo Reach or ODST's ads weren't as good as this. It really was lightning in a bottle, when pop culture, internet culture, and gaming culture all sort of came together at once throwing this game deeper into the zeitgeist than a series of advertisements alone could ever do. The timing was perfect for it.
I second that notion from the fellow above me. Nothing has topped this, and it will be well earned if anything ever truly manages to top this. But I'm pretty confident that won't be in my life time.
First we Believed. Then we Delivered Hope. Now, we need to Discover Hope.
We also remembered Reach. But never did we Hunt the Truth.
@@MondySpartan NGL, still feel bloody scammed by that marketing campaign, had virtually nothing to do with the game.
One of the best Video Game ads I've ever seen.
I still believe that Halo can make a comeback.
Never forget the franchise that Bungie made. Never forget the entertainment it brought us. Never forget Halo. Rest in peace. 2001-2010
PhantomMori never forget Reach
PhantomMori Fuck off, Halo isn't dead.
Kurt -051 Can't you see? It's over. Are you blind to all that's happening? The micro transactions, the head of Halo leaving, etc? Halo is a dying franchise. At this point nothing can change that. Halo will never be the same, it will never be as good as it once was. All we can do is try to make our voices be heard "Take out the req system" "Bring back the old art style" "Make Master Chief the protagonist again" If we do that, we might just have a chance. But I have a feeling that Microsoft doesn't care about us or Halo anymore. In their eyes, Halo is just their cash cow. It's a shame, really. I like to think that Halo stricken down when Bungie left and Halo 4 was its last stand. Now the flood took over its body. That's what Halo 5 is.
PhantomMori Can't you see that excessive toxicity from the community doesn't help either? You are a part of this toxicity. You're saying that Halo is dying? You know that you can recover from a very large cancer, even though you are at your final stand? You are one cell of that cancer that the community is facing right now and you are badly metastasing. You're keep saying that your opinion is a fact, although everything is relative and everything is possible.
^^ First, you can't really be sure of anything (exception of relatively).
Secondly, every opinion, point, argument, statement, perspective, etc. is valid and connected to everything. This is the effect of relativity.
Here are some corrections:
Josh Holmes isn't the head of 343i, he is one of its leaders, like Bonnie Ross, and he isn't leaving yet but soon.
"Make Master Chief the protagonist again" and "Take out the REQ system" are purely closed minds, these things only need adjustments (no microtransactions, no armor customisation included to the REQ system, better UI, revise Locke's/Chief's roles, make MC appear as much as Locke) and those are long term adjustments so stop being so "frustrated". Also, Chief is already on of H5 protagonist.
Kurt -051 What difference will one kid do to the moral of the Halo fan base? Chief was only in 3 missions in all of Halo 5's campaign. 343 is just digging the hole deeper and deeper. It's gonna take a miracle for Halo to make a come back. Microsoft won't let go of micro transactions. And because of that, we're pretty much doomed. It's not like all because I said that Halo is finished, you're gonna give up as well, are you? So calm down man.
Every once in a while I’ll come back to this commercial just to remind myself how good old Halo was with Bungie.
What always gets me is when chief turns to look at the camera, gives me chills
Now coming to Xbox One Backwards Compatibility! :D
i think we are both members on the Halo fan group on FB. seen your profile pic before.
One Winged Ice Angel it makes no change, no community no game
It's already on mcc
Now coming to PC!
one of the most original and best video game commercials ever. top 10 easily
15 years later this is still one of the best trailers for any piece of entertainment to ever be released. What a work of perfected art
One of the main reasons why I stayed devoted to Xbox and the Xbox One.
I just hope to the lord that halo 3 comes to pc
Coolpit9 We all do Coolpit9. We all do.
Toenism Everyone has their own opinion I respect yours but as a Halo fan since day one and I mean Friday 15th November 2001. I will always be a loyal gamer towards Halo. Yes we are going through some tough times but that can only mean improvements are coming soon.
mohammed razak or that halo will keep getting shittier and shittier
thank god halo 5 is the last of its series
EvilHollowChocalte ApocalypticBunnies lel jk though
When I was a kid, Halo 3 was the first ever M Rated game I played; it was also my introduction to first person shooters. Before that, I pretty much just played Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 and the Revenge of the Sith game (also for a little while I had the spiderman 2 game). Halo 3 was so groundbreaking to me, it was the first time a game's story and gameplay had really grabbed me and pulled me in. I still have so many fond memories of it. I will never forget playing "The Covenant" with my older brother and dropping him off onto a scarab from the hornet I was piloting and then picking him back up right before it explodes. I also remember playing infection mode with just him and his friend (on splitscreen because we didn't have xbox live at the time) and I would struggle so hard to get them because they would just drive around the map on a mongoose. It may sound ridiculous, but the experiences I had playing Halo 3 honestly changed my life. God I love this game.
I bet you were one of those fucking kids that sucked ass, kept on rage quitting and with your squeaky voices, you guys made the experience terrible for all of us come back when your b alls drop
@@obeyy0urmaster chill bro. Sounds like you're still bitter from 2007
@@imjustlookingformywatch well kids like you are in every game no matter the console or game, again wait for your b alls to drop and then play mature games thx
@@obeyy0urmaster Who pissed in your cereal?
@@UndeadOrphan98 lol this guy @obeyy0urmaster is either 12 or just a huge fucking loser
so many days. so many friends. so many memories.
The saddest part is, we'll probably never get an era of gaming like this again. And what I mean is seeing THIS level of passion, love and care for games, as an art form if you will.
The Halo trilogy tells an amazing tale few others have matched in terms of greatness. Humanity colonizing the stars in the 26th century and encountering an alien conglomerate empire known as The Covenant. Even though the entire war was a lie for the great prophets to hang on to their power through lies that humanity was an affront to their gods and masters the Forerunners even though humanity were the heirs of their technology the Reclaimers. Humanity fought for nearly 3 decades against a foe that outnumbered them and outgunned them. But humanity endured their light never going out despite the billions of deaths and dozens of planets scorched by the fires of the prophets judgement. Humanity's ultimate victory was not achieved in one skirmish or in one day it was bled for by billions of humans. Civilians, Marines, and the ODST's and ultimately the Spartan-II's of which John-117 the Master Chief was the most famous and his light shone the brightest giving hope to a species who was losing their hope and their faith that the Covenant War could be won. But in 2552-2553 the war at long last came to an end Master Chief, The Arbiter and his Sangheili soldiers defecting causing a Schism and the new strength given to humanity gave them the will to achieve victory but at a large cost. The Human-Covenant war was the most destructive and bloody ever fought in Human history except perhaps maybe the war with the Flood and Forerunners. The lore, backstory, gameplay, and characters have made Halo my favorite game franchise of all time and I hope like humanity it will endure and shine brightly even under new leadership of 343i.
top comment, now
Well, at first to me it was just this game about take the Assault Rifle, grab headshot capable weapon, deal with grunt minions guarding brute leader, throw a few stickys back melee brute and move on...
...but when you put it like that...
new copypasta?
Then 343 came, and fucked it all up.
The AoC Gamer
Your writing is good but you REALLY need to learn how to use commas and paragraphs.
Truly a “back in my day” moment to tell the younger generation how video game trailers were peak back then
Raindrop Prelude (Op 28 No 15) ;)
thank you my friend
Heard this song on a classic station and immediately recognized it
Chopin is the greatest!!
@@OneTrueFear No u didnt lmao
God bless you.
Rip halo 3 gone but never forgotten..
13 years later, this still gets me hyped for a game I never owned. Soon though, soon.
Out of all the halos i gotta say halo 2 remastered, halo 3 and, halo reach were top tier best halo games ever.
@@jessemartin214 CE is underrated though. That game has such flawless gameplay. You can master every mission. Has some great moments.
@@WhoopsieDayZ There's no doubt about it but i only wish there was more story to it. This game was great everything about it was great but it could have been better.
@@jessemartin214 True, but it was the game that introduced us to the characters, the world, the enemies, the gameplay etc. So in a way it's also good that they kept the story a bit more simple. It's great as a standalone game to get you invested in the world and the characters. Only after that do we get to know more about the different factions, politics, locations and stuff.
@@WhoopsieDayZ thats true plus i also loved the book of eli type of feel it had to it
Halo 3 had such amazing and emotional ads. The only ads we got out of halo 4 were the double xp mountain dew ads.
Yeah. I miss the old Bungie.
+Joel Alvarez **advertisments
Gives me chills to this day.
void *tears
void Same
void AIDS
Daniel M lol
How about now?
Referenced 15 years later by Fall Guys, of all games. Truly, an unforgettable ad campaign, nothing comes close to this
0:34 this brief shot of the marine always gets me in the feels
Is it me or does this trailer still gives goosebumps or chills.
Edit: wow thank you all for the likes
Ye
Few things give me goosebumps, but this is one of them
Yup
Yup
Still does.
Just to share a memory; I remember watching this trailer over & over while on my grandmas couch… when I close my eyes and listen to the music I can still see both her & my father, now both deceased watching it with me; I see the couch, the giant Tv from the 90s she refused to replace, everything. The memories of playing Halo 3 with my cousins in that same space come flooding back as well… it’s like it was just yesterday we were snot nosed kids playing on the 360… I remember playing, and owning my dad in Halo 3 Forge, later in Reach, but we would still laugh & smile through it all…now we’re adults and so many of the adults who watched us play are dead and gone…but all I can say is thank you for the memories Bungie… I doubt anyone who worked on these games will ever realize how much impact they had on us, but y’all deserve to.
For all the disappointing nostalgia trips I've had, ones like this hit me hard for how much it really holds up as much as it did for me as it as a kid.
Over 10 years later and this still makes me cry like a little girl. Easily the best ad ever created.
What a time to be alive. I remember the 2000’s you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about halo. I’m so glad to have been alive to play these amazing games.
I come back here sometimes…. to remember what we had…
You know you made a timeless masterpiece when Falls Guys makes a tribute of it years later.
This is one of the finest advertisements for any product of any kind ever made.
These games will never die. You can play them with new friends and love ones. Show these games to a younger audience. A friend next door, a niece, nephew. Anyone! Let them enjoy something from our past. Explain the story of S-117 and how he helped shape who we are today as men and women. When I was a child growing up all I wanted to be is Master Chief. I love being a leader and assist others.
Tell the story. Keep Halo alive my friends.
@Paul A.G. That’s for the 360 servers, the MCC Reach servers are here to stay.
Theo G that happened to me my cousin showed me halo 3 in 2016 now I think it’s the best game ever
Something tells me there’s a reason that this is in my recommended
I watch this maybe one or twice a year, and I have ever since it first debuted. It hits me the same every single time. God.. I miss Halo 3. I miss it so much.
"You can never go back to the way it was back then" Winnie the Pooh.
We had it good brothers… we just didn’t know how good we had it til it was gone
I MISS HALO 3
Now it's coming back with the Master Chief collection.
Yeah, but I'm a PC gamer now :( I haven't owned a console in years.
I guess you have to get an XBox One.
Zach Mythic Naa, never going back to consoles haha
Zach Mythic Why? its on the 360. He doesn't have too.
Greatest game ever created.
Why, for the love of god, why, is there only 195,898 views (as of 6/3/14) on this masterpiece of an advertisement? If I hadn't heard of Halo in my entire life for whatever disgrace of a reason, this minute of my life would make me want to play them all.
Halo 3 was a moment. Nothing else in gaming has ever come close.
Chills every time. Maybe the greatest commercial ever
It is
Back when game devs truly cared about their games
Those times seem to be on their way back. At least with Halo
@@זהסודי-ה7מ doubt that
@@Bigbodybigbeefybody except for the monetization. The Halo infinite store is garbage
Back when they poured their heart and souls into games and made them with love for the fans and for themselves. No loot boxes or microtransactions just a great game for you to enjoy. It makes me sad that we dont get that anymore, everything comes with strings attached. Halo infinite already has a bullshit season pass and when i saw it i honestly felt so sad. That why im back here rewatching Halo 3 ads.
Yeah, like with Infinite
It's not every day the song to signify hardship and belief becomes the theme song for a Lesbian robot to keep their promise.
Bravo, simply Bravo.
Memories. Being a little kid and watching this thinking this was incredible. Now I’m grown up, rewatching it. That hasn’t changed. This video was absolutely incredible. Just an amazing composition.
00:14 in the novels jackals and grunts are known to eat people alive given the chance
Nightmare fuel.
I’m giving grunts backshots
Here now that the “Become” marketing campaign is starting
For real
second unsc archives video is out now, and it’s great
Happy 15th Birthday Halo 3 and thank you for everything Bungie. H3 will continue to live on for us. Legends never die. I was there. 9/25/07
BELIEVE
FINISH THE FIGHT
117
"WERE IT SO EASY"
"WAKE ME, WHEN YOU NEED ME"
September 25th, 2007.
15 Years of Excellence!
Classic Halo for LIFE.
It's so crazy that I can come back to this every year and it is still so powerful. I now know Chopin - Raindrop Prelude (Op. 28 No. 15) and I am thankful for the introduction. Good memories, hopefully to revisit again.
Back when Bungie was good
Back when halo was good
it's not their fault. blame Activision for what they've done.
joshua ellery No. Don't shift the blam to activision. The DLC was actually Bungies idea in the first place.
joshua ellery it's also there fult they have choices
They dizzolved into dust and came back as a corrupted version of there former self's
I remember being...probably 6th grade. In a family restaurant that had TV's mounted on the wall. This was on at some point and I always only remembered seeing the helmet looking up with "Believe". It's wild to see it every time years later. Halo 3 changed gaming for me forever.
Damn you bungie for abandoning us.
and a 61 second ad is better then an entire show
I'm sorry but 343 will never top this
MrBluestreak70 I don't think any one can.
But what about halo 5!
@@snug0191 that better have been sarcasm
It was
RoboDude21
Thank god
Mannequin challenge before it was popular
Don't ruin this games legacy with cringeworthy trends
Morris Laurent Can you say T-T-Triggered??
The 24 chromosomes zone
Bruh that's too far man
Lnobrien G in that case chief lost
My first game on the Xbox 360. I loved it so much and played the campaign with my bro.
I don't know how many times I've come back here, but it always hits the same. ❤
I gotta say one thing 343 has done right is the Halo 2 anniversary, it was fun to play it again but with updated action packed cutscenes. It's as close as u can get to watching a halo movie.
Agreed
BUNGIE!
Come back! Please...
...We need you.
No we don't! 343i is better
+Heretic Gamer noooooooooooo!!! 343 is bullshit
343i better
Heretic Gamer
no its bullshit just look at halo 4 its bullshit
It's a MISTAKE ok it's their first game. At least 343i listens to are feedback
Remember our promise.
The Signalis Brainrot EXPANDS
the signalis
This gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it and I never played a Halo game. That's when you know you did your advertisement good.
This is the passion that's gone.
Not in Halo, but in a huge part of gaming.
It's not a cash cow, it's an art form fueled by passion. Not greed.
halo 3 is now officially 10 years old. wow!
steven landrum i miss it
This game introduced me to online gaming and i never played another series like it.
it's just insane how good this game was and the hype around it actually meant something.
This is objectively the greatest video game trailer of all time nothing competes with this
The amount of detail they put into the emotions of the marines is crazy. They look genuinely terrified for their lives. I wish I could see it in person there's so many faces we don't get to see. Also I love how Chief looks up with the grenade sans rifle and is like "yeah I got this"
It will never be this good ever again
I don’t even know how many times I’ve watched this. One day the music for this came on one the radio so I went and played halo 3 afterwards
Cant believe its been 10 years already, middle school memories man 😓. Thank you for all the great memories Halo 3!
I must have seen this a million times by now and it never gets old. Truly phenomenal.
Gives me chills every time... THANK YOU BUNGIE for this masterpiece. We will hold this deeply in our hearts years to come
When the Master Chief's head tilts up at the end, the hairs on my arms literally stood straight up. Massive chills, one of the best advertising campaigns for any game I've ever seen.