As @arthurdailey6681 pointed out, Halo: Reach's Birth of a Spartan should also be canon. I had it in my script and fully intended to include it but in my effort to get this video out before the end of the week, I turned my brain into mush and completely forgot to add it. Here's what I wrote in my script about the trailer. Obviously, this isn't nearly as good as having the actual footage in the video but after the fact, it's the best I can do. Birth of a Spartan is an interesting look into Carter's life prior to the events of Halo: Reach. It's mostly a montage of him traveling to and receiving his augmentations. At one point, he looks at a picture of a man and a woman, seemingly his parents. In case you didn't know, Spartan III's, the class that Carter is, were actually given the choice to join the program. In most instances, their families had been killed by the covenant prior to inscription so they were usually more than happy to accept the offer. This implies Carter's situation was very much the same. Once the augmentations are complete, he approaches his armor, the same set seen in the game. Most spartan III's weren't given Mjolnir but a select few that were particularly special were granted their own sets of the legendary garb. As mentioned by some commenters, the suit chief equips in Scanned is not in fact his H4 armor so there’s no issues with that being canon
Ngl... halo 2a kinda sucks. It's pretty looking sure, but it doesn't capture the same artstyle that og halo 2 has. My last run of halo 2 I played solely on its og graphics without switching cuz I preferred them. Mind you, I didn't play halo 2 until mcc came out years after its release, so I have no nostalgia.
Something that’s interesting about H3’s Believe trailer saying Chief’s dead is stuff like that, and killing off different characters was to give the player the impression that Chief could die at the end of 3. There was this funny story Marty told in a recent interview with ShreddedNerd and LarperLadden where he said that at this meeting with Microsoft they showed off the plans for Halo 3’s story, and it didn’t include the part where Chief is revealed to be alive. He said when they turned on the lights everyone there was pale as a ghost since they were horrified that their money printer had been killed off. Then they showed the ending with Cortana that opened the door to other sequels, and a flood of relief washed over the room (since in Bungie’s version of Halo Chief is a Christlike figure they could’ve taken the connection further by having him sacrifice himself for humanity, and suffer a similar fate to Lynda where medically speaking he dies and gets brought back to life). Something I find interesting about Halo’s trailers is just how good and deceptive the marketing can be. 5 advertised a COMPLETELY different game from what we’d get. From what I’ve heard a lot of the people who worked on 4’s narrative jumped ship during 5’s development, and I’m assuming the marketing was based on an earlier version and more competent of the story. 2 is very similar where the reason why earth was such a big part of a marketing is because the third act had you returning to earth, and the Ark itself was actually located on our planet (plus, there’s the big reveal where the Forerunner who activated the Array was also the template for the Ark to create a new “generation” of Forerunners using hominids as a base. Something that’s really cool about that is that Forerunner was implied to be the Abrahamic god, and the more mythical Bible stories like God creating man in his image and Noah building an Ark to save life from a coming Flood were recontextualized in Halo as symbolic retellings of Forerunner history and our creation). The way Halo’s trailers tell a story reminds me of how the Bionicle commercials would do the same thing. That was an AMAZING Lego theme with a really interesting story. There were comics, a few direct to dvd movies, and Flash games that all contributed to the story. If you haven’t looked into that setting you really should.
My personal theory is that much if not all of the trailers are ONI propaganda and that is why the events are slightly different than what actually happened in game. For the master chief running after the flashback is a prime example because if the crazy guy was able to get to her, so could have ONI to create propaganda.
33:45 yes there are a lot of trailer soundtracks that are unreleased, but Believe just uses a classical piece called Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major “Raindrop-Préludes”
11:45 If Installation 00's research and stuff is correct the Chief and other Spartan II's can fight effectively for 150 years and live for maybe 200 years although with that being said the Chief is either going to retire to the cozy desk job he's dreamed of or die in battle long before he's hit 100
10:17 Though technically dubious canon, the diorama depicts the outskirts of New Mombasa (presumably on the 7th & final day of fighting in this particular location). My guess is that this is specifically somewhere south or west of the city. "Landfall" meanwhile actually takes place somewhere on the Afgan-Pakistan Border
@@Woodyisasexybeast this battle is named “Battle of Sector Six” on Halopedia. “Note 1” on its location states…. “In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.” The aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out once you put them into Google Maps
Anyway this battle is called “Battle of Sector Six” in Halopedia. “Note 1” on the location states… “In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.” These aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out if you put them into Google Maps.
Woody, you are bringing back so many Memories. I may not have had Xbox LIVE back in the Day, still don't, but playing the Campaign or Forge and Forging my own Stories and Scenarios, the Music or the Ambiance in the Background, everything. It was Lonely though, however the Stories that were Told remain.
I'd once again like to reiterate the fact that Johnson was about 80 when he died. I would not put it past the chief to live past 99, or any Spartan for that matter. Also, I'm pretty sure the armour the Chief puts on in Scanned is MK IV. Looks like it at least. Great video otherwise (as usual!)
Absolutely true. I almost mentioned his augmentations likely granting increased life expectancy but it ended up getting cut. Is it? I kept questioning that every time I rewatched that part of the video. You may be right. thanks!
Actually a correction in scanned when it shows a young John getting armored up it’s actually Mark IV armor he’s wearing look at the back piece and the arms it’s Mark IV not Mark VI MOD
neil was supposed to get a whole show he woulda made with Rodriguez and it was gonna be based around the normal humans of the UNSC like the marines,pilots,ODST's,admirals,and even just field techs, but sadly it was scrapped
I’m pretty sure a lot of the left over props made there way into District 9. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen that but I vaguely remember seeing a battle rifle or something
35:27 This right here. Why couldn't we have this live action film style taking the halo wars/halo 2 anniversary marine stlye armor. Show our struggles, our desperation, our valure, and our hope that tomorrow we will win. Paramount why, 343 why and Microsoft why? You have the perfect recipe for a film in your own trailers.
The Halo tv series will always be an absolutely bizarre enigma to me. There’s tons of incredible live action Halo stuff already, so we know they can do it. And yet…
Good video!! 7:57 you say there’s never a battle like this that happens in the campaign. But actually, this is a cinematic affect of color grading. This battle takes place on the ark. That’s not snow, that’s sand, but the colors are shifted because of the cinematography.
You think? That would be an interesting explanation but I’m not so sure that’s the answer. I knew it was sand but the cloud in the background looks very much like the atmospherics seen in the E3 2006 trailer/Halo 3. I’ve always assumed it was meant to be in that area. Generally speaking. Thanks!
If you liked the music from the Halo 3 BELIEVE ad: I am proud to be the person to announce to you, that this song was in fact released yeeeeeears before you could even record music! It is called "Rain Drop Prelude" by Frederic Chopin!
0:30 well that's not completely true. Bungie always focused on the games, if the narrative of a book wasn't satisfying o them, they just changed it in the game. So there is a tier system, more or less. Halo reach for example retconned some stuff. But 343industries retconned the whole forerunner story. So with Halo beeing handed over to 343i, you actually have 2 time lines.
Bungie handled it this way, yes but that’s not how it’s handled these days. Everything is canon. There isn’t two time lines. The forerunner story wasn’t retconned, it went in a different direction. All definitive answers that explicitly showed that humans are forerunners (barring 343, who is obviously an unreliable narrator) were never actually implemented into the story. That was the original plan, perhaps but it was scrapped.
3:26 This scene right here shows the sword visible. This is what pissed me off about 343. Guns can be hidden, but the sword should always be seen. hated when a cloaked enemy in 4,5, and infinite just run at you cloaked sword out but you cant fuken see them unless you have 4 proemtheon vision, 5 good luck, and infinite the threat sensor. Ce, 2, swords can be seen bright as day. 3 has no enemy elites, and odst doesn't either, but reach keep the elites visible(idk i can't remember any invisible elites with swords. Only the spec ops, but they ran with guns.) Most of my laso deaths came from invisible sword elites in 343 games and the anniversary versions.( because they had to make the sword invisible. Stay on og graphics it'll save you huge amount of time)
@Woodyisasexybeast in h3, there are no enemy elites. Hence, no bullshit of "I can't see them until they take a swing at you." In multiplayer, the cloak disappears when you move too quickly, reach campaign is the same for the player, so it's fair when you attack someone while cloaked because you make one wrong move your punished for it, cause and effect. Once again, having a sword an instant one hit kill weapon be cloaked isn't fair nor fun to play against in campaign. multiplayer counters this by having you have to move really slow to maintain an invisible state, along with the ability having a set time limit(all halo games) and cool down(in reach and 4), multiplayer rewards you for using the cloak to sneak, ambush, and escape. It also punishes you for failure to keep a low profile and relying on it too much. This is why bungie didn't have the sword hidden in their games to be fair to the player, 343 doesn't do this sense, most deaths are cause by unseen attackers with a one hit kill weapon that only reveal themselves in your face where it's too late to dodge.(4,5,infinite, and both anniversarys)
@frankjustice8154 ohhhhh, you mean campaign exclusively. I gotcha. I understand where you’re coming from now. However, I do think it’s cool in Infinite at least. Fighting Jega, an enemy that’s completely and totally invisible, is nerve racking and it was quite memorable to me as a result
@Woodyisasexybeast that's the one exception. I liked him, and it's okay for "boss fights"(i use that term lightly) but just walking around then dead because a spec op/or any elites welding a sword is just there and impossible to see.
@Woodyisasexybeast hey it happens to the best of us. Still an excellent video. You're doing great with your channel BTW. I get excited everytime you upload
As @arthurdailey6681 pointed out, Halo: Reach's Birth of a Spartan should also be canon. I had it in my script and fully intended to include it but in my effort to get this video out before the end of the week, I turned my brain into mush and completely forgot to add it. Here's what I wrote in my script about the trailer. Obviously, this isn't nearly as good as having the actual footage in the video but after the fact, it's the best I can do.
Birth of a Spartan is an interesting look into Carter's life prior to the events of Halo: Reach. It's mostly a montage of him traveling to and receiving his augmentations. At one point, he looks at a picture of a man and a woman, seemingly his parents. In case you didn't know, Spartan III's, the class that Carter is, were actually given the choice to join the program. In most instances, their families had been killed by the covenant prior to inscription so they were usually more than happy to accept the offer. This implies Carter's situation was very much the same. Once the augmentations are complete, he approaches his armor, the same set seen in the game. Most spartan III's weren't given Mjolnir but a select few that were particularly special were granted their own sets of the legendary garb.
As mentioned by some commenters, the suit chief equips in Scanned is not in fact his H4 armor so there’s no issues with that being canon
It's insane how dramatically different halo 1 anniversary and halo 2 anniversary are in quality after their first 10 years
H2A is the shit
Sure yes but here’s something even more bizarre HOW IS THIS MAN NOT MORE GODDAMN POPULAR THIS GUY IS FUCKIN AWESOME SHOW THIS MAN MORE LOVE
Ngl... halo 2a kinda sucks. It's pretty looking sure, but it doesn't capture the same artstyle that og halo 2 has. My last run of halo 2 I played solely on its og graphics without switching cuz I preferred them. Mind you, I didn't play halo 2 until mcc came out years after its release, so I have no nostalgia.
Something that’s interesting about H3’s Believe trailer saying Chief’s dead is stuff like that, and killing off different characters was to give the player the impression that Chief could die at the end of 3. There was this funny story Marty told in a recent interview with ShreddedNerd and LarperLadden where he said that at this meeting with Microsoft they showed off the plans for Halo 3’s story, and it didn’t include the part where Chief is revealed to be alive. He said when they turned on the lights everyone there was pale as a ghost since they were horrified that their money printer had been killed off. Then they showed the ending with Cortana that opened the door to other sequels, and a flood of relief washed over the room (since in Bungie’s version of Halo Chief is a Christlike figure they could’ve taken the connection further by having him sacrifice himself for humanity, and suffer a similar fate to Lynda where medically speaking he dies and gets brought back to life).
Something I find interesting about Halo’s trailers is just how good and deceptive the marketing can be. 5 advertised a COMPLETELY different game from what we’d get. From what I’ve heard a lot of the people who worked on 4’s narrative jumped ship during 5’s development, and I’m assuming the marketing was based on an earlier version and more competent of the story. 2 is very similar where the reason why earth was such a big part of a marketing is because the third act had you returning to earth, and the Ark itself was actually located on our planet (plus, there’s the big reveal where the Forerunner who activated the Array was also the template for the Ark to create a new “generation” of Forerunners using hominids as a base. Something that’s really cool about that is that Forerunner was implied to be the Abrahamic god, and the more mythical Bible stories like God creating man in his image and Noah building an Ark to save life from a coming Flood were recontextualized in Halo as symbolic retellings of Forerunner history and our creation).
The way Halo’s trailers tell a story reminds me of how the Bionicle commercials would do the same thing. That was an AMAZING Lego theme with a really interesting story. There were comics, a few direct to dvd movies, and Flash games that all contributed to the story. If you haven’t looked into that setting you really should.
Bionicle: Mask of Light is the shit!
My personal theory is that much if not all of the trailers are ONI propaganda and that is why the events are slightly different than what actually happened in game. For the master chief running after the flashback is a prime example because if the crazy guy was able to get to her, so could have ONI to create propaganda.
Poor Ben :(
Just like the Halo 2 cover art, being edited by Ben to make Master Chief look good
@diogobarao9992 The only thing is what about Spartan Thom the Halo Reach trailer?
33:45 yes there are a lot of trailer soundtracks that are unreleased, but Believe just uses a classical piece called Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major “Raindrop-Préludes”
Holy shit, I had no idea! You’re right and what a gorgeous song it is
11:45 If Installation 00's research and stuff is correct the Chief and other Spartan II's can fight effectively for 150 years and live for maybe 200 years although with that being said the Chief is either going to retire to the cozy desk job he's dreamed of or die in battle long before he's hit 100
That’s what I was thinking. I want him to get the Thanos ending. Watch the sun set on a grateful universe. Maybe on a farm on Reach or something
@@Woodyisasexybeastsome PTSD hed have regardless…much like Marcus phoenix
10:17 Though technically dubious canon, the diorama depicts the outskirts of New Mombasa (presumably on the 7th & final day of fighting in this particular location). My guess is that this is specifically somewhere south or west of the city. "Landfall" meanwhile actually takes place somewhere on the Afgan-Pakistan Border
I’ve never heard that Landfall takes place on the Afghan-Pakistan border. What’s your source on that? Can’t seem to find anything online
@@Woodyisasexybeast this battle is named “Battle of Sector Six” on Halopedia. “Note 1” on its location states….
“In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.”
The aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out once you put them into Google Maps
@@Woodyisasexybeast wtf RUclips deleted my comment apparently
Anyway this battle is called “Battle of Sector Six” in Halopedia. “Note 1” on the location states…
“In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.”
These aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out if you put them into Google Maps.
No shit! That’s really interesting and a very obscure detail. Noted
Woody, you are bringing back so many Memories. I may not have had Xbox LIVE back in the Day, still don't, but playing the Campaign or Forge and Forging my own Stories and Scenarios, the Music or the Ambiance in the Background, everything. It was Lonely though, however the Stories that were Told remain.
I'd once again like to reiterate the fact that Johnson was about 80 when he died. I would not put it past the chief to live past 99, or any Spartan for that matter.
Also, I'm pretty sure the armour the Chief puts on in Scanned is MK IV. Looks like it at least.
Great video otherwise (as usual!)
Absolutely true. I almost mentioned his augmentations likely granting increased life expectancy but it ended up getting cut.
Is it? I kept questioning that every time I rewatched that part of the video. You may be right.
thanks!
Actually a correction in scanned when it shows a young John getting armored up it’s actually Mark IV armor he’s wearing look at the back piece and the arms it’s Mark IV not Mark VI MOD
Yes, I see that now. Others have mentioned this too. Will update a pinned comment
neil was supposed to get a whole show he woulda made with Rodriguez and it was gonna be based around the normal humans of the UNSC like the marines,pilots,ODST's,admirals,and even just field techs, but sadly it was scrapped
I’m pretty sure a lot of the left over props made there way into District 9. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen that but I vaguely remember seeing a battle rifle or something
35:27 This right here. Why couldn't we have this live action film style taking the halo wars/halo 2 anniversary marine stlye armor. Show our struggles, our desperation, our valure, and our hope that tomorrow we will win. Paramount why, 343 why and Microsoft why? You have the perfect recipe for a film in your own trailers.
The Halo tv series will always be an absolutely bizarre enigma to me. There’s tons of incredible live action Halo stuff already, so we know they can do it. And yet…
So basically Oni is the illuminati of the halo universe
Good video!!
7:57 you say there’s never a battle like this that happens in the campaign. But actually, this is a cinematic affect of color grading. This battle takes place on the ark. That’s not snow, that’s sand, but the colors are shifted because of the cinematography.
You think? That would be an interesting explanation but I’m not so sure that’s the answer. I knew it was sand but the cloud in the background looks very much like the atmospherics seen in the E3 2006 trailer/Halo 3. I’ve always assumed it was meant to be in that area. Generally speaking.
Thanks!
If you liked the music from the Halo 3 BELIEVE ad: I am proud to be the person to announce to you, that this song was in fact released yeeeeeears before you could even record music! It is called "Rain Drop Prelude" by Frederic Chopin!
Yeah, I know that now. Somebody beat you to it. Beautiful song
I will never understand jackal sniper hate. Theyre so stupidly easy to kill. And in fact, theyre balanced too
This was an amazing video, ENCORE ENCORE!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
🎉🎉🎉
Great video homie
0:30 well that's not completely true. Bungie always focused on the games, if the narrative of a book wasn't satisfying o them, they just changed it in the game. So there is a tier system, more or less. Halo reach for example retconned some stuff.
But 343industries retconned the whole forerunner story. So with Halo beeing handed over to 343i, you actually have 2 time lines.
Bungie handled it this way, yes but that’s not how it’s handled these days. Everything is canon. There isn’t two time lines. The forerunner story wasn’t retconned, it went in a different direction. All definitive answers that explicitly showed that humans are forerunners (barring 343, who is obviously an unreliable narrator) were never actually implemented into the story. That was the original plan, perhaps but it was scrapped.
21:20 that one armor is the Mark IV or V !
I wondered that but just couldn’t tell from the angles it’s shown
@@Woodyisasexybeast From certain angles, the back of the armor is visible, and it's identical to the Mark IV/V!!!
@Cakeb7812 ahhh ok, Roger that.
I FUCKING LOVE HALO, HALO NUMBA ONE
You forgot the halo 4 e3 trailer the one with the sticky detonator.
Didn’t forget, just opted not to include it. I was close but decided against it for some reason. It is a great trailer though
@ amazing video either way.
Loves these videos
3:26 This scene right here shows the sword visible. This is what pissed me off about 343. Guns can be hidden, but the sword should always be seen. hated when a cloaked enemy in 4,5, and infinite just run at you cloaked sword out but you cant fuken see them unless you have 4 proemtheon vision, 5 good luck, and infinite the threat sensor.
Ce, 2, swords can be seen bright as day. 3 has no enemy elites, and odst doesn't either, but reach keep the elites visible(idk i can't remember any invisible elites with swords. Only the spec ops, but they ran with guns.) Most of my laso deaths came from invisible sword elites in 343 games and the anniversary versions.( because they had to make the sword invisible. Stay on og graphics it'll save you huge amount of time)
That’s not a 343 thing. H2 and HCE are the only Bungie games with that behavior. Energy swords are camoed with the user in both H3 and Reach
@Woodyisasexybeast in h3, there are no enemy elites. Hence, no bullshit of "I can't see them until they take a swing at you." In multiplayer, the cloak disappears when you move too quickly, reach campaign is the same for the player, so it's fair when you attack someone while cloaked because you make one wrong move your punished for it, cause and effect. Once again, having a sword an instant one hit kill weapon be cloaked isn't fair nor fun to play against in campaign. multiplayer counters this by having you have to move really slow to maintain an invisible state, along with the ability having a set time limit(all halo games) and cool down(in reach and 4), multiplayer rewards you for using the cloak to sneak, ambush, and escape. It also punishes you for failure to keep a low profile and relying on it too much.
This is why bungie didn't have the sword hidden in their games to be fair to the player, 343 doesn't do this sense, most deaths are cause by unseen attackers with a one hit kill weapon that only reveal themselves in your face where it's too late to dodge.(4,5,infinite, and both anniversarys)
@frankjustice8154 ohhhhh, you mean campaign exclusively. I gotcha. I understand where you’re coming from now.
However, I do think it’s cool in Infinite at least. Fighting Jega, an enemy that’s completely and totally invisible, is nerve racking and it was quite memorable to me as a result
@Woodyisasexybeast that's the one exception. I liked him, and it's okay for "boss fights"(i use that term lightly) but just walking around then dead because a spec op/or any elites welding a sword is just there and impossible to see.
bro involving the halo series as part of the canon is heretical bahaviour
Who did that? I explicitly said it ISN’T canon
Is Birth of a Spartan not canon?
Oh my god. It is. I had it in my script, It was ready to go. Then I forgot to include it. Son of a bitch
That is going to bother me to no end. I’ll put what I wrote in my script as a pinned comment.
@Woodyisasexybeast hey it happens to the best of us. Still an excellent video. You're doing great with your channel BTW. I get excited everytime you upload
That means a lot. Thank you 😊
W video keep it up
Do we know that Thom is pronounced “Tom” instead of “th-om”
Yeah. It’s pronounced the way I said it in the ONI Archive about Reach