I am fully of the opinion that Dr. Halsey was thrown under the bus. EVERYTHING she did, Admiral Parangosky greenlit, and as the head of ONI, she was well aware of what was going on!
Totally agree, but Parangosky probably didn't make nearly as many enemies as Halsey did. Every scene in the books felt like she was deliberately trying to piss off the Board of Admirals
Metaphor also has a CHUNKY demo that carries your progress into the full game, so you could do that and make a decision about the purchase of the full game later.
It would be cool to see you two tackle Spartans Ops at some point, maybe even with more people. It's a really good side story, that's still better than any other Halo plot-line that came after imo.
Can you still play it? Cinematics and all? I tried it on the MCC but it went straight for the gunfights last time I tried. Honestly skipped it altogether, the respawn mechanic felt horrible personally.
@@ranzu3138 You have to play the cinematics separately. They don't show up interspersed within the regular gameplay(like in campaign). There's a "Watch episodes" button at the bottom left of the page when you open Spartan Ops menu in MCC.
Really glad to see you two play Halo 4 there are some great scenes in here that I knew Matara would love. Keep it up cannot wait for the next game these videos are a lot of fun. If you were to watch the cutscenes of Halo Wars 1&2 that would be fine no need to make Matara play them. I will say if you did play Cursed Halo Matara would have fun in Halo 1.
"Every great journy begins with a step. This is our beginning. Thanks for trusting us with the universe you love and joining us on this epic adventure." -343 Industries Also 343 Industries; *Ruins the story of Bungies halo, adds in microtransactions and loot-boxes, P2W mechanics in Halo 5, immediately tries to replace Master Chief with spartan Lock, Multiple lawsuits, sexual assault' allegations in the studio, purposefully hires people who dislike the franchise, hires temporary contracted devs, Wasted tremendous amounts of time and money trying to make a battle royal just to stop it, ignores the actual successful "battle royal" in halo 5, ugly armor designs from contracted third party, literally cannot pick an art style like an ADHD child, devs act like children attacking fans on twitter, Battle passes, says live service games are the only way and can't deliver the basics of a live service, multiple failed promises to bring split screen back, Boring empty open world campaign and then never touches it again, took the entire internet screaming at Microsoft to "fire" a few higher ups in 343 studios, Jimmy Rings halo T.V show silver timeline, Rarely got assassinations again, no more flood, no more duel wielding, constant weapons' and vehicles missing from games, tries sp hard to be Call Of Duty instead of HALO.* 343 can kick DIRT.
I liked the ideas Halo 4 was going for but I think it fails to pull them off constantly. It's particularly bothersome how different *everything* is for no apparent reason: The ship Chief is at the end of H3? Completely changed, armor? It's different now, Cortana? t h i c c, and even Chief all of the sudden is a talkative guy. Gameplay is meh (except for sticky gun my beloved) The whole retcon of the forerunners being not human was incredibly disappointing. And art direction + soundtrack were pretty weak for the most part too (Requiem, Legacy, Alien and Atonement are amazing tho!)
I feel like this is a problem with a lot of companies nowadays. For some reason, when they acquire a new franchise, they feel the need to override everything that came before.
Tbf, the changes in art direction between games have been happening since the first games (ex: Chief's armor between H2 and 3, or the marines going from grey metal plates to more camo and less armor between CE and 2). I found the gameplay to be an improvement from Reach because you can finally sprint while using other abilities, which is what, in my opinion, a POWER-ARMORED SUPER SOLDIER should be able to do. The forerunners not being humans is something that had been confirmed by some higher-up at Bungie before they let go of the license, can't remember if it was Joseph Staten or someone else though. And before someone mentions Guilty Spark's quote, they DID choose the humans as their successors before disappearing.
@@TheReloadingMan for changes I'm specifically referring to those that have no explanation. MC changed his armor for H2, and H3's armor IS the same as H2 aside from slight color changes. Then from H3 to 4 is just another armor, despite it supposedly being the same. The ship too, its scale and structure is completely different. I prefer H3's gameplay. Don't care much about Reach's and find armor abilities less interesting than equipment personally. -Humans easily and intuitively interacting with forerunner technology -"why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?" -"To have a record of all our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating" -"You are the child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind. You ARE forerunner-" -"think of your forefathers!" -Being a "Reclaimer" literally implies recovering something that was *previously* yours -"you were weak, and gods must be strong" -"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness. A father's sins pass to his son" -"I'm a monument to all your sins" -"A birthright from an ancient civilization" -"Lineage confirmed" "welcome child" Halo 3 terminals -"Welcome back to the stone age" "I will drive your people back into the caves they never should've left" -"But I want something far different from you, Reclaimer. Atonement." Throughout the games it's *heavily* implied and sometimes even *explicitly* stated that humans are forerunners, and that was clearly the intent since part of the cut content was showing a human skeleton in a forerunner tomb. I could go about content outside the games too but I'm primarily concerned with what the games presented.
4 is probably my favorite for the story. Followed by Reach and 2. I do wish they hadn't gone and ruined everything with 5 and infinite though. I would have preferred if at the end of 5 Cortana was captured and imprisoned in a houses' systems in the middle of nowhere on Earth. Chief would then retire to live there as her warden. Both of them would be exceedingly happy with this outcome. She would still be cured of her rampancy, and chief would get to be a person finally instead of a machine. Blue team would visit occasionally. And they lived happily ever after. The End. Obviously other things should have been fixed additionally about 5's story/campaign, but I'm just talking broad strokes.
@@Kira11259There are a lot of big western companies releasing buggy games with trash/overused concepts, yes. But that doesn't mean that we should act as if GOTY 2023 Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't made by a Belgian studio, or Jedi Survivor mostly by Americans (under EA of all things).
Watching these two always reminds me of watching Dodger and Strippin when they started getting it going. It's really cute, but... it's kinda dragging on a bit.
Ok having watched all playthroughs so far I think Halo 4 is the only one that needs a remake. Because this gameplay is atrocious. Nades are not thrown far enough. Guns all lack projectiles and are in general not fun to shoot, how come every gun is a tap to fire lazer without a cool lazor effect? Gun sounds in general needs more punch. Models are too dark. Vehicles are too slow and unresponsive, you call that a boost? Missiles fly too slow. Lights don't work in most areas at all making it too dark. Unnecessarily long moments of repetitive nothing like stand here and wait for 8 drops ships to come one by and that you have to shoot down. Or hey please kill all 12 ghosts in the area to move on. Fall damage? You remember the first cutscene, chief becomes a meteor and is fine but a 4 meter fall and he kicks the bucket? Booo. And so much time in cutscenes where you can't move at all. Which super suck. Thank god for naked Cortana so we have something to do...
"Liberties with the Halo book canon." Lmao thats wild since Bungie actively did not give a shit about the books, where as 343 actually cares about the books and making sure they fit. Also personally 4 has the best story and such a wasted potential of a villain. Should have had a whole trilogy with the Didact as the villain.
So when Matara says that nobody is interested in her romantically, It comes off as really insincere and feels like baiting because I can't actually believe someone in her position thinking that.
I sincerely hope we can get a Cursed Halo playthrough. It is surefire insanity with Bricky and Matara
That would actually be amazing
I said this way back when they played Halo CE just because I wanted to see her drive the Reliant Hog 😂
MC : "Why did you wake me up?"
Cortana: "You have a Collab with Matara"
I am fully of the opinion that Dr. Halsey was thrown under the bus. EVERYTHING she did, Admiral Parangosky greenlit, and as the head of ONI, she was well aware of what was going on!
Totally agree, but Parangosky probably didn't make nearly as many enemies as Halsey did. Every scene in the books felt like she was deliberately trying to piss off the Board of Admirals
In Halo 4 my brother and my dad banned me from the railgun and the Mantis during multiplayer because I could snipe them out of the sky with both
6:27:55 - And his world comes crashing down, both literally and figuratively.
I hope both of you play cursed halo. Also best story in the franchise
This Halo series with Bricky and Matara is such a good watch :D
Metaphor also has a CHUNKY demo that carries your progress into the full game, so you could do that and make a decision about the purchase of the full game later.
It would be cool to see you two tackle Spartans Ops at some point, maybe even with more people. It's a really good side story, that's still better than any other Halo plot-line that came after imo.
Can you still play it? Cinematics and all? I tried it on the MCC but it went straight for the gunfights last time I tried.
Honestly skipped it altogether, the respawn mechanic felt horrible personally.
@@ranzu3138 You have to play the cinematics separately. They don't show up interspersed within the regular gameplay(like in campaign). There's a "Watch episodes" button at the bottom left of the page when you open Spartan Ops menu in MCC.
@@NeuMaster9 figures, thanks!
Also don't know if yall know, but in lore in an emergency any Spartan II can take operational command circumventing any ranking officer
Not sure of the comments are playing tricks on me, but first I guess.
Edit: Nine Sols didn't even get nominated for best indie. Big sad :(
Unfortunately it did.
Glad Matara enjoyed using the DMV, best weapon IMO 😅
Really glad to see you two play Halo 4 there are some great scenes in here that I knew Matara would love. Keep it up cannot wait for the next game these videos are a lot of fun. If you were to watch the cutscenes of Halo Wars 1&2 that would be fine no need to make Matara play them. I will say if you did play Cursed Halo Matara would have fun in Halo 1.
"Every great journy begins with a step. This is our beginning. Thanks for trusting us with the universe you love and joining us on this epic adventure." -343 Industries
Also 343 Industries; *Ruins the story of Bungies halo, adds in microtransactions and loot-boxes, P2W mechanics in Halo 5, immediately tries to replace Master Chief with spartan Lock, Multiple lawsuits, sexual assault' allegations in the studio, purposefully hires people who dislike the franchise, hires temporary contracted devs, Wasted tremendous amounts of time and money trying to make a battle royal just to stop it, ignores the actual successful "battle royal" in halo 5, ugly armor designs from contracted third party, literally cannot pick an art style like an ADHD child, devs act like children attacking fans on twitter, Battle passes, says live service games are the only way and can't deliver the basics of a live service, multiple failed promises to bring split screen back, Boring empty open world campaign and then never touches it again, took the entire internet screaming at Microsoft to "fire" a few higher ups in 343 studios, Jimmy Rings halo T.V show silver timeline, Rarely got assassinations again, no more flood, no more duel wielding, constant weapons' and vehicles missing from games, tries sp hard to be Call Of Duty instead of HALO.*
343 can kick DIRT.
Guys I know what we need to call ourselves as Bricky's community: Night Lords
5:38:55
Chatter goes “NO HE TURNED THEM INTO VTUBERS”
5:15 = the man himself
13:24 = GOTY Nominees
51:37 = Lady
I'm so happy I get to see the "Syfilis in the brain"... Discussion...? Again
Controversial take, I think many of the weapons would make for better looking warships than the human frigates in Halo
has anyone mentioned how when she yells or starts sounding angy Matara sounds like Awkwafina?
Start at 5:01
Bricky being based as always and understanding that crumble cookies are ass
Bricky has a great idea. Imagine post nut clarity on Moon or Origins.
Bricky should make a vtuber model as a bunny so he and Matara can be Bug's Bunny ;D
I liked the ideas Halo 4 was going for but I think it fails to pull them off constantly.
It's particularly bothersome how different *everything* is for no apparent reason: The ship Chief is at the end of H3? Completely changed, armor? It's different now, Cortana? t h i c c, and even Chief all of the sudden is a talkative guy.
Gameplay is meh (except for sticky gun my beloved)
The whole retcon of the forerunners being not human was incredibly disappointing.
And art direction + soundtrack were pretty weak for the most part too (Requiem, Legacy, Alien and Atonement are amazing tho!)
I feel like this is a problem with a lot of companies nowadays. For some reason, when they acquire a new franchise, they feel the need to override everything that came before.
Tbf, the changes in art direction between games have been happening since the first games (ex: Chief's armor between H2 and 3, or the marines going from grey metal plates to more camo and less armor between CE and 2).
I found the gameplay to be an improvement from Reach because you can finally sprint while using other abilities, which is what, in my opinion, a POWER-ARMORED SUPER SOLDIER should be able to do.
The forerunners not being humans is something that had been confirmed by some higher-up at Bungie before they let go of the license, can't remember if it was Joseph Staten or someone else though.
And before someone mentions Guilty Spark's quote, they DID choose the humans as their successors before disappearing.
"Chief is so talkative" you mean be an actual character and not just "hold gun and talk awesome" dudebro?
Forerunners and Humans being different happened before Halo 4. It started under Bungie.
@@TheReloadingMan for changes I'm specifically referring to those that have no explanation. MC changed his armor for H2, and H3's armor IS the same as H2 aside from slight color changes. Then from H3 to 4 is just another armor, despite it supposedly being the same. The ship too, its scale and structure is completely different.
I prefer H3's gameplay. Don't care much about Reach's and find armor abilities less interesting than equipment personally.
-Humans easily and intuitively interacting with forerunner technology
-"why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?"
-"To have a record of all our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating"
-"You are the child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind. You ARE forerunner-"
-"think of your forefathers!"
-Being a "Reclaimer" literally implies recovering something that was *previously* yours
-"you were weak, and gods must be strong"
-"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness. A father's sins pass to his son"
-"I'm a monument to all your sins"
-"A birthright from an ancient civilization"
-"Lineage confirmed" "welcome child" Halo 3 terminals
-"Welcome back to the stone age" "I will drive your people back into the caves they never should've left"
-"But I want something far different from you, Reclaimer. Atonement."
Throughout the games it's *heavily* implied and sometimes even *explicitly* stated that humans are forerunners, and that was clearly the intent since part of the cut content was showing a human skeleton in a forerunner tomb. I could go about content outside the games too but I'm primarily concerned with what the games presented.
FIFTY DEGREES DOES NOT WARRANT A BLANKET
@@nickangelini9799 me and my homies chilling (figuratively) outside in 40 degree weather with a strong fall breeze while not wearing a jacket.
He's Californian, it might as well be -20 for him
what if there were three balls and no shaft
Spartan Ops?
yall should play Gears of war too
4 is probably my favorite for the story. Followed by Reach and 2. I do wish they hadn't gone and ruined everything with 5 and infinite though.
I would have preferred if at the end of 5 Cortana was captured and imprisoned in a houses' systems in the middle of nowhere on Earth. Chief would then retire to live there as her warden. Both of them would be exceedingly happy with this outcome. She would still be cured of her rampancy, and chief would get to be a person finally instead of a machine. Blue team would visit occasionally. And they lived happily ever after. The End.
Obviously other things should have been fixed additionally about 5's story/campaign, but I'm just talking broad strokes.
I was watching this colab from Matara's vod but it got taken down anyone know what happened?
Most Streams get edited after Stream and then republished
So I was watching the unedited vod, and Matara will reupload later?
2:12:04: it is infact, did not work
o7 Cortana
Well... About that...
Funny that indie Balatro is the ONLY western game to be GOTY.
Why funny?
@@ranzu3138probably something about western gaming dying or some shit like that.
@@Kira11259There are a lot of big western companies releasing buggy games with trash/overused concepts, yes. But that doesn't mean that we should act as if GOTY 2023 Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't made by a Belgian studio, or Jedi Survivor mostly by Americans (under EA of all things).
@@TheReloadingMan I never said that western gaming is dying.
Watching these two always reminds me of watching Dodger and Strippin when they started getting it going. It's really cute, but... it's kinda dragging on a bit.
Ok having watched all playthroughs so far I think Halo 4 is the only one that needs a remake. Because this gameplay is atrocious. Nades are not thrown far enough. Guns all lack projectiles and are in general not fun to shoot, how come every gun is a tap to fire lazer without a cool lazor effect? Gun sounds in general needs more punch. Models are too dark. Vehicles are too slow and unresponsive, you call that a boost? Missiles fly too slow. Lights don't work in most areas at all making it too dark. Unnecessarily long moments of repetitive nothing like stand here and wait for 8 drops ships to come one by and that you have to shoot down. Or hey please kill all 12 ghosts in the area to move on. Fall damage? You remember the first cutscene, chief becomes a meteor and is fine but a 4 meter fall and he kicks the bucket? Booo. And so much time in cutscenes where you can't move at all. Which super suck. Thank god for naked Cortana so we have something to do...
"Liberties with the Halo book canon." Lmao thats wild since Bungie actively did not give a shit about the books, where as 343 actually cares about the books and making sure they fit. Also personally 4 has the best story and such a wasted potential of a villain. Should have had a whole trilogy with the Didact as the villain.
So when Matara says that nobody is interested in her romantically, It comes off as really insincere and feels like baiting because I can't actually believe someone in her position thinking that.
Is it just me, or does the video keep buffering every 10 seconds for anyone else
Works fine for me