I don't think it's fair to say he was the MAIN reason, as if without him it wouldn't have become what it did or even close, but I think it's becoming exceedingly rare to see competent leadership skills executed at every level of a team because everyone is so silo'd today into these modernized software development models. The entire crew QA etc. and others who never appeared in these interviews deserve the credit and legacy just as much as any one member hands on with the product. Everyone poured their heart into it, clearly.
Won't happen, graphics and MICROTransactions over functions and innovation that games had and introduced 20+ years ago. Same for lack of genuine new ideas. Sold my series x for an original Xbox and I'm way way happier
If there was a time of my life that i could relive, it would have been when this game came out. I was in 4th grade and as a kid this was the greatest thing in the world. My brother and I would skip school just to try and beat legendary. My friends and I would be up all night playing this game, I’m happy to say that the same friends i used to play this game with I’m still friends with. Im 30 years old now. This game is 20 years old and watching this video truly made me feel like a kid again. The good times aren’t gone, but they aren’t as often. But I’d say this game was a good reason for my happiness as a kid. I had the action figures and all. Thank you Bungie for everything. Master chief, even as a fictional character was someone i would look up to. “What would Master Chief do?” I said this a lot as a kid. And I proceeded to jump off everything haha
That was interesting but I'm glad they cut it, it really dragged on. I wish they'd kept the tablets in the level and given cortana some lines guessing at their meaning while you're running around. 18 years later I'm still wondering why the elites submitted to the prophets.
@@32BitJunkiethe prophets had the forerunner key ship. Which made a huge difference. They had been developing technology based off the forerunner artifacts while the elites didn’t at first until mid way thru the “war of beginnings” It basically was a stalemate. So the prophets said we handle the religious side, you guys handle the military. Elite culture was highly militarized so they thought that was preferable. They basically were tricked
I'm so glad I was able to be alive to enjoy those days. The lauch of Halo 2 is one of the most amazing events I can remember, and Christmas of 2003, when I bought my Xbox and my Halo CE copy is one of the most special moments of my life.
Nothing will ever be like that time again, we're so lucky to have experienced it. The mere act of booting up an original xbox blew my mind every time. First finding those mysterious purple pods that boarded the Pillar of Autumn, touching down on ''Halo'' as that suspenseful music scored my fearful curiosity, first finding the forerunner structures there... The way the different covenant designs made me feel, nothing beats it.
Old Ubisoft developer here, an I can honestly say, no one puts love an passion in there games anymore an if they do it’s not no where near to this level
That is categorically, absolutely, totally not true. To even say that is asinine. Yes, there are some major problems in the industry that didn't exist back then. Yes, there are greedy corporations who shit out garbage for a quick buck. But to say that no developer has passion anymore or that no passion goes into games is just insane. You're telling me that no passion or love was put into Tears of the Kingdom? Witcher 3? FF7 Remake/Rebirth? Baldur's Gate 3? the Last of Us 1-2? Horizon? That Dragon, Cancer? Elden Ring? A thousand other masterpiece's that have come out in the last 2 decades??
@@nicolae-alexandruluca7853no it's actually not though and the fact that people just say it, what the actual route problem is is people complaining about games yet turning around and then literally supporting them by spending their money on their trashy games you're supporting their corruption
halo is renowned for its first 5 games being extremely polished and very well balanced and play tested beyond what any other game developer ever did, which is why they were such a gigantic hit on release.
Yeah multiplayer wise sure. But im replaying the campaigns with the mcc and the campaigns usually werent great. 1 is so dated and empty. 2 is decent. 3 really struck me at how lame the campaign is. Its weird i dont have much memory of it even though i played it when it came out. And i realized i just didnt like the campaign back then either and it just disappeared from my mind. And its still bad now. Story not good. Strange set pieces that just feel shoehorned into it. Didnt work for me. Odst and reach arent bad. This series always seriously excelled with the multiple but the campaigns arent that great. Theyre corny. Generic space marines, dumb aliens that speak english and said really silly things. Hard to take it seriously. Some of the weapons are just awful like the 3 shot battle rifle and that huge thing in 3 that has to be charged up.
@@trenken you're looking at it through the current lens. All of the campaigns were legitimately ground-breaking when they came out. That isn't an opinion; that's a fact. There were plenty of other franchises out that were producing similar games, but none of them even came close to the popularity of Halo. With COD being an exception, but some people say they aren't the same genre, so...meh.
That section about the LAN party made me shed some tears. I miss what gaming was, the social gatherings, meeting new friends… all in the name of fun. Back than was a necessity, now with the fixation of online gaming it’s just deemed unecessary
What 29:16-31:18 made me think of is that one reason why I think UNSC had a better chance on the ground than in orbit is that I don't know much about the Covenant's infantry tactics, but professional militaries in the real world teach you to fight as a unit. You are not an individual; you are a part of a whole. Sure, there are special operations units and Spartans, but people only make to those units because they can be trusted with the basics, and they know how to make their individuality serve the whole. The Covenant (especially in the case of Brutes and Elites) seem like they are more about personal honor and glory, and I say that as someone who likes the Elites. This entire video is good. For those of you too young to remember or who didn't get a special edition of the game, I got a special edition of Halo 2 when it first came out in which the game was in a metal case and included a disc of this. The manual was narrated by the Arbiter with in-world descriptions of weapons and such as part of an intel report before his hearing in the first cutscene as a cool touch. "Used as a pathetic last resort by desperate humans" was roughly his description of the Magnum lol.
I won several CE LAN tournaments, I had just read halo reach novel, i waited in line at GameStop all night, till 1am to get this game, halo, moreover, the chief was everything to me at the time. I remember entering the 2nd level as the arbiter, realizing i was being forced to play as the enemy, i stood up and walked over to the xbox, hit eject and crushed the fkn disc in the palm of my hand. I was so mad LoL, not as mad as my friends that had gathered to watch me play/play co-op/LAN. To this day I've never played the arbiter missions.
this was the inspiration to go against all odds grind a fulltime job at constructions while studying all night for a decade to look back at this as a lead developer and tech engineer of a game studio.
Imagine if they had 1 more year to get it how they truly wanted...its amazing even now but especially back then....but i think it would be INSANE how much better it would be, and there would be more of a finish to the story as well and more missions. If only they werent under a 18 month time crunch
It was a magical time to experience. Although Bungie let its ambition overstretch it, it at least tried to amaze us (and succeeded a great deal). Nowadays, we expect to be disappointed rather than amazed.
The song that starts at 2:08 I have been looking for ever since I heard it back in 2004 or 2005. If anyone has any ideas on what track it is let me know please, it almost sounds like something Steve vai made.
It's a shame because Halo 2 was pushed quickly and they could have done so much more till this day I always say Halo 1 and Halo 2 are completely different Halo 1 was more mysterious more interesting more futuristic Halo 2 returning to Earth and fighting in Mombasa Africa and seeing the landscape the architecture you could just see right away this was rushed
i did played halo 1 Halo 2 and Halo reach but not Halo 3 Halo 4 or Halo 5 before but I want to play Halo 4 Halo 3 Halo 4 And Halo 5 because I have two games of Halo games i have Halo 1 and Halo reach just that
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I still stand by jason jones being the main reason halo was ever good. the man lived in a world where it was never "good enough"
and marty o’donnell
Yup. Though, this applies to most of the team.
I don't think it's fair to say he was the MAIN reason, as if without him it wouldn't have become what it did or even close, but I think it's becoming exceedingly rare to see competent leadership skills executed at every level of a team because everyone is so silo'd today into these modernized software development models. The entire crew QA etc. and others who never appeared in these interviews deserve the credit and legacy just as much as any one member hands on with the product. Everyone poured their heart into it, clearly.
@ agree to disagree
The voice recording part was cool and hilarious!
Imagine if developers had this drive and passion for their games today. And polished their games before release.
Won't happen, graphics and MICROTransactions over functions and innovation that games had and introduced 20+ years ago.
Same for lack of genuine new ideas.
Sold my series x for an original Xbox and I'm way way happier
yes but is it online though
the og noble14 where there till servers shut down back in 2010
@@JbB-bx5gidid you forget backwards compatibility
Bro Halo 2 released a buggy unfinished mess missing over a third of the campaign
I mean its perfection
But that's the true miracle
Holy shit some classic halo dev videos i haven't seen?! Sign me up! I didn't think it possible!
Part of the Collector’s Edition Steelcase DVD for Halo 2. Nothing new.
@@Ryan_Christopher way to gatekeep lol
if you didn't buy that edition, or know about the video, there was no way of knowing this existed
@@JuanAppleseed-ge6tbthere is. Google it etc
These Halo documentaries are awesome! I have the Master Chief Collection, best thing for a Halo fan like me.
@@Ryan_Christopher i remember the pure excitement that silver box gave me
If there was a time of my life that i could relive, it would have been when this game came out. I was in 4th grade and as a kid this was the greatest thing in the world. My brother and I would skip school just to try and beat legendary. My friends and I would be up all night playing this game, I’m happy to say that the same friends i used to play this game with I’m still friends with. Im 30 years old now. This game is 20 years old and watching this video truly made me feel like a kid again. The good times aren’t gone, but they aren’t as often. But I’d say this game was a good reason for my happiness as a kid. I had the action figures and all. Thank you Bungie for everything. Master chief, even as a fictional character was someone i would look up to. “What would Master Chief do?” I said this a lot as a kid. And I proceeded to jump off everything haha
I'm the same age as you. 4th grade with this and Yu-Gi-Oh was FUCKING AWESOME
my developing mantras:
"performance by default"
"great aint good enough"
Halo 2 is a Masterpiece of a Game!!
For sure!!!!
I miss this this is the most early 2000s thing ive ever watched well this and making of mechassault doc
I still haven’t finished my MechAssault.
i can’t believe that i have like large swaths of this memorized. halo truly was larger than life in my childhood
Thanks to these average Joe's my childhood was fucking awesome.
56:44 Is when they start talking about cut dialogue regarding some of the Covenant’s lore
That was interesting but I'm glad they cut it, it really dragged on. I wish they'd kept the tablets in the level and given cortana some lines guessing at their meaning while you're running around. 18 years later I'm still wondering why the elites submitted to the prophets.
@@32BitJunkiethe prophets had the forerunner key ship. Which made a huge difference. They had been developing technology based off the forerunner artifacts while the elites didn’t at first until mid way thru the “war of beginnings”
It basically was a stalemate. So the prophets said we handle the religious side, you guys handle the military. Elite culture was highly militarized so they thought that was preferable. They basically were tricked
I'm so glad I was able to be alive to enjoy those days. The lauch of Halo 2 is one of the most amazing events I can remember, and Christmas of 2003, when I bought my Xbox and my Halo CE copy is one of the most special moments of my life.
Nothing will ever be like that time again, we're so lucky to have experienced it.
The mere act of booting up an original xbox blew my mind every time.
First finding those mysterious purple pods that boarded the Pillar of Autumn, touching down on ''Halo'' as that suspenseful music scored my fearful curiosity, first finding the forerunner structures there... The way the different covenant designs made me feel, nothing beats it.
Amazing work culture
yup. no DEI hires, no purple haired agenda pushers. Just some nerdy dudes that want to wow the world
Old Ubisoft developer here, an I can honestly say, no one puts love an passion in there games anymore an if they do it’s not no where near to this level
Problem is money is more important then doing a passion
That is categorically, absolutely, totally not true. To even say that is asinine. Yes, there are some major problems in the industry that didn't exist back then. Yes, there are greedy corporations who shit out garbage for a quick buck. But to say that no developer has passion anymore or that no passion goes into games is just insane. You're telling me that no passion or love was put into Tears of the Kingdom? Witcher 3? FF7 Remake/Rebirth? Baldur's Gate 3? the Last of Us 1-2? Horizon? That Dragon, Cancer? Elden Ring? A thousand other masterpiece's that have come out in the last 2 decades??
p sure most indie action games got more sauce than halo 2, check out rolling gunner or crimzon clover
@@nicolae-alexandruluca7853no it's actually not though and the fact that people just say it, what the actual route problem is is people complaining about games yet turning around and then literally supporting them by spending their money on their trashy games you're supporting their corruption
Pretty much all indie games are made with this level of passion
17:06 i havent laughed that hard in a while. What an odd spot for Hoobastank
Man I miss those days, couch co-op and system linking with my cousins and nephews~
these guys loved what they did. We need more of this in todays games
Dang only 20k views after 2 years. This video is gold. Halo 2 will always be my most fondly remembered video game. Loved seeing this stuff
20-y/o video that was ripped from the DVD and leaked elsewhere before being brought back in RUclips.
halo is renowned for its first 5 games being extremely polished and very well balanced and play tested beyond what any other game developer ever did, which is why they were such a gigantic hit on release.
And the fact they played the demo for e3 and it wasn’t a pre recorded demo is just amazing aswell
@m7th1c24 I mean that's fair, but we aren't arguing that bungie was every perfect 100% of the time
Yeah multiplayer wise sure. But im replaying the campaigns with the mcc and the campaigns usually werent great. 1 is so dated and empty. 2 is decent.
3 really struck me at how lame the campaign is. Its weird i dont have much memory of it even though i played it when it came out. And i realized i just didnt like the campaign back then either and it just disappeared from my mind. And its still bad now. Story not good. Strange set pieces that just feel shoehorned into it. Didnt work for me.
Odst and reach arent bad. This series always seriously excelled with the multiple but the campaigns arent that great. Theyre corny. Generic space marines, dumb aliens that speak english and said really silly things. Hard to take it seriously. Some of the weapons are just awful like the 3 shot battle rifle and that huge thing in 3 that has to be charged up.
@@trenken you're looking at it through the current lens.
All of the campaigns were legitimately ground-breaking when they came out. That isn't an opinion; that's a fact. There were plenty of other franchises out that were producing similar games, but none of them even came close to the popularity of Halo. With COD being an exception, but some people say they aren't the same genre, so...meh.
@@trenken The battle rifle was one of the most op guns in 3 and Reach.
Playing the game while watching the behind the scenes doc... 😎
I hope to have the privilege of working with such a talented and passionate team one day.
“The key to enjoying the pentathlon…beer” I laughed out loud cuz that’s 100% true
That section about the LAN party made me shed some tears. I miss what gaming was, the social gatherings, meeting new friends… all in the name of fun.
Back than was a necessity, now with the fixation of online gaming it’s just deemed unecessary
What 29:16-31:18 made me think of is that one reason why I think UNSC had a better chance on the ground than in orbit is that I don't know much about the Covenant's infantry tactics, but professional militaries in the real world teach you to fight as a unit. You are not an individual; you are a part of a whole. Sure, there are special operations units and Spartans, but people only make to those units because they can be trusted with the basics, and they know how to make their individuality serve the whole.
The Covenant (especially in the case of Brutes and Elites) seem like they are more about personal honor and glory, and I say that as someone who likes the Elites.
This entire video is good. For those of you too young to remember or who didn't get a special edition of the game, I got a special edition of Halo 2 when it first came out in which the game was in a metal case and included a disc of this. The manual was narrated by the Arbiter with in-world descriptions of weapons and such as part of an intel report before his hearing in the first cutscene as a cool touch.
"Used as a pathetic last resort by desperate humans" was roughly his description of the Magnum lol.
8:26 all the things said at this point is why I wish E3 was still a thing.
Wish developers today still had drive like this.
Here in 2024 still watching the old memories of the Golden age ✨
38:12 - all great artists think this way.
I won several CE LAN tournaments, I had just read halo reach novel, i waited in line at GameStop all night, till 1am to get this game, halo, moreover, the chief was everything to me at the time. I remember entering the 2nd level as the arbiter, realizing i was being forced to play as the enemy, i stood up and walked over to the xbox, hit eject and crushed the fkn disc in the palm of my hand. I was so mad LoL, not as mad as my friends that had gathered to watch me play/play co-op/LAN. To this day I've never played the arbiter missions.
this was the inspiration to go against all odds
grind a fulltime job at constructions while studying all night for a decade
to look back at this as a lead developer and tech engineer of a game studio.
31:21 MONGOOSE
33:20 When the Grunts get killed by the shotgun over here their death yells sounds like when you kill them with the Energy Sword.
Only Bungie. Absolute G.O.A.Ts
120 minutes of cinematics is a feature film, then what the hell is MGS4 with 9 hours
A TV series?
Imagine if they had 1 more year to get it how they truly wanted...its amazing even now but especially back then....but i think it would be INSANE how much better it would be, and there would be more of a finish to the story as well and more missions. If only they werent under a 18 month time crunch
I made a video exactly about this recently
It was a magical time to experience. Although Bungie let its ambition overstretch it, it at least tried to amaze us (and succeeded a great deal). Nowadays, we expect to be disappointed rather than amazed.
other way really. we expect to be amazed. not everything is a gem. especially with massive market devs that are worried about DEI hires and micros
Laura prepon casually showing up as a random marine
Ive been dying to play the e3 version of h2 since the first time i saw it. Hopefully digsite can get it released soon
ITS OUT, FAM ❤
I miss Old-Halo-Era Bungie!
The song that starts at 2:08 I have been looking for ever since I heard it back in 2004 or 2005. If anyone has any ideas on what track it is let me know please, it almost sounds like something Steve vai made.
He has a really nice house
40:57 There's Jen!
Don't lnow how you got this footage but thank you!
Halo 2 Limited Edition Bonus Disc.
no no no, it can't be, they are all... NERDS NOOOOOOOOOOO
1:08:00 the 2nd Kestrel drawing looks alot like how the Hornet is in H3
41:05
Anyone that watched it all, can you please tell me when they show voice acting??
RIP E3 8:20
Anyone know the music that starts at 2:07?
1:21:45 Macaulay culkin playing h2?
1:06:26 I wonder if these guys inspired Warframe's Sentients
i miss bungie era halo
All the true fans do
@@JbB-bx5gi If I said that on a Halo infinite video, I would of got slammed.
@@rm25088 because the new generation is based off graphics, regardless being slammed doesn't matter. 343 is a shite company
@@JbB-bx5gi I completely agree. Shit poor campaigns. Infinite had some potential but they fucked that up as well.
@@rm25088 you are awesome mate I like ya
That halo 2 soundtrack will live in infamy
Infamously awesome
Halo tem a história mais complexa e bem feita de todos os jogos
@42:35 my bookmark haha
song at 2:07?
Halo
@@BelchingBeaver69 no
@@RUclipsUser2013lol ye
@@BelchingBeaver69 Halo
343 could never
"Exploring environments ten times the size of halo 1"
Im pretty sure that the first halo had much larger environments
Ha I was thinking the same thing!
44:30 Michelle Rodriguez
did a voice. who cares
44:19 geoff keleigh?
1:22:49 RIP
1:57
It's a shame because Halo 2 was pushed quickly and they could have done so much more till this day I always say Halo 1 and Halo 2 are completely different Halo 1 was more mysterious more interesting more futuristic Halo 2 returning to Earth and fighting in Mombasa Africa and seeing the landscape the architecture you could just see right away this was rushed
i did played halo 1 Halo 2 and Halo reach but not Halo 3 Halo 4 or Halo 5 before but I want to play Halo 4 Halo 3 Halo 4 And Halo 5 because I have two games of Halo games i have Halo 1 and Halo reach just that
Halo 4 and 5 trash. Get halo 3
@@JbB-bx5gi Halo 3 trash. Play Halo 2 on repeat until the heat death of the universe.
@@ashyoshicharizard3949 I think you played some different game dude
@@19TheJohn93 tell that to the other guy
halo ce > halo 2
"12,000 lines of combat dialogue".
Then why do the about the same dozen repeat themselves over and over?
rarity and iwhbyd skull, also cutscenes and difficulty make dialogue changes
@@JbB-bx5gi exactly, original commenter needs to use some common sense
42:37 "Oh.... Paahhhddssss... COMIN' iiiiinn..... SWEET LORD, it's raining aliens! OH JESUS WHY YOU DO DIS TO ME? ALIENS EVERYWHERE!!"