"Halo is the name of this game." Its so bizarre hearing Halo being introduced for the first time considering how its one of the most recognizable gaming franchises of all time now.
I was nine years old when I saw this exact clip on PCGameWorld, way back in 1999. Back then, I thought Halo was going to be like Tribes, only better. Huge maps, multiplayer matches with upwards of 32 players. What we got instead was a game that would come to define an entire generation of console shooters. I was at the launch event of Reach in Seattle and talked with some of the 343 guys about this, too. They were flabbergasted that I played Tribes, Half-Life and Homeworld when I was nine.
actually the original concept for halo would have been a lot more revolutionary than what we got. MS getting it actually reduced its scope drastically.
+104752981098380071985 For a while, it did. MYST and Quake 3 Arena came out on Mac first, so did Marathon, Myth, and some older games that my PC friends kept wanting to play on my Mac at the time like Escape Velocity, Dark Castle and others. It had some really awesome games that never showed up on PC actually
lolslayer yeah. so I finally caved and ordered a falcon northwest tiki with a titan X pascal card. 😂 i just wish i didn't have to deal with windows. it's too bad SteamOS looks DOA.
When the Halo theme came in, I got chills. That was the first time anyone outside of Bungie had ever heard one of the most iconic songs of a generation.
Actually, if you play the RTS game Myth: The Fallen Lords, then you'll hear some of the Halo music. Bungie created Myth back in the mid to late 90s. I loved playing Myth and I thought it was funny that I somehow already knew some of the music to Halo. It wasn't until after Halo 2 and before Halo 3 that I finally figured it out that Bungie made both and had just recycled the music.
He means graphics wise because a lot of companies like Ubisoft like to downgrade games graphics from demos, for example look at The Divisions first gameplay announcement and compare its graphics to the final released version.
20 years ago. It wasn’t a trailer, it was being rendered as it displayed. Whether it was a good game or not had yet to be determined but it definitely accomplished what it intended to do. This reveal blew everyone away at the time. Microsoft knew that this is the killer title that would make the XBox a success if they had it, so they whipped out their checkbook and made an offer that Bungie couldn’t refuse. Smart move for them.
They didn't. By the time Microsoft bought Bungie, Halo was a proof-of-concept game that was barely playable, didn't even seem remotely similar to Halo beyond character design and music. Sure, they took a risk with the purchase, but they released the funny box with a Shrek game, it's pretty clear this was just a very lucky blind-gamble. Hell, by the point you're seeing this, the theme being played was literally just made 3 days earlier, they had no idea what the fuck the game was.
Halo wasn’t the game that we know that was released for the Xbox. It was a much different conceptualized game. At the very first stage in 1997, it was real time strategy game for PC and around the time of this trailer, it was being conceived as a third person shooter. Then Microsoft acquired a deal with bungie and turned it into a first person shooter for the Xbox. It was all Microsoft’s vision that turned Halo into what made it a success and what we know it today
I dreamed of driving my Warthog off into an endless horizon, and it simply never came to be. But you have to admit, what we did end up getting was pretty damned good.
@@bargaintuesday812 by the legend Marty O'Donnell who not only composed, but also was the one singing to. But I think he meant first time that the public heard of the music.
Imagine hearing this epic song back in 1999 and not knowing this would be the theme song for one of the iconic gaming franchises and the anthem for gamers everywhere.
I was 13 back then, and just one of many who were drooling over this video. We knew it was going to be big because there had been nothing like it. What ended up actually being released was not what we were promised by this and subsequent initial videos leading up to Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie and the subsequent engine re-write for the Xbox that completely ditched the open rolling terrain that was at the core of what we were so excited about. It was going to be an open-world shooter, and what we got with Halo: Combat Evolved was just another linear corridor shooter dressed up to look outdoorsy. It was soul-crushing. AND we had to buy a stupid CONSOLE just to play the piece of garbage.
I wouldn’t say combat evolved (or the rest of the series) is garbage, but I would say it’d be very interesting to see how it was going to originally be. Luckily it seems like the PC version of Master Chief Collection is scratching that itch of ours.
This game was released when I was 19yrs old. I'm currently 41 yrs old and am currently playing halo master chief collection halo 1. Still feels as good as it did back then. What an achievement! Superb game
@GoingPostalSince1997 no I sold my xbox shortly after this comment. Truth be told I thought it was a very weak console, all it had was old games to play and no good exclusives. Found it to be a very boring console. Ps5 and switch are leagues ahead in terms of good games
It's amazing that at one time. Halo was technically nothing. It wasn't the star wars of fps games. No epic lore. No legacy. Just a small game that had no clue of its potential
Yeah but Doom doesn't have a big lore that spans across games, shows, novels and comics. Doom is like the Flash Gordon or Citizen Kane of FPS. Doom no doubt was a hit but Halo Revolutionized FPS and made it viable on console and set trends such as online multiplayer on console. Much like how Star Wars revolutionized special effects and Sci-Fi at the movies.
Bakamatsu My dude, nobody outside the xbox community even cares about Halo lmao. Wolfenstein is the ball, Doom got the ball rolling and the rest of the good fps joined in. Elitists like you aren't welcome, good games are good, and thats it.
I remember this too and I think this the the first time I've seen it again in since 1999. The game seemed unbelieveable at the time. The transitions from inside to outside, being able to get into any vehicle, and the enviroment seemed endless. Games at that time you were always acutely aware that your space was limited, but Halo seems to blow that away. It took so long to finally play that for those between years I thought that preview was a dream and that the game didnt really exsist.
I remember a few years ago I tried to search online for a version of halo ce's alpha development. Now, it's time to actually do so. Thank you Bungie, for not having deleted all the files. Thank you 343i.
No, apparently it was made only few days leading to this demo. The demo was still barren of any sound effects and thus Martin O’Donnell made a music specifically for this demo. Little did he knew his small composition would change everything.
"also made an xbox version" The PC version was released 23 months later. Halo 2 was announced 1 year *before* Halo 1 got on PC. Halo 2 gameplay footages were visible at the E3 2003, 5 months before Halo 1 got on PC. Halo was planned to be a PC/Mac game, just like all the previous Bundie games, but Microsoft bought it to turn it into its killer-app for the Xbox. Tons of planned features were removed, because of the hardware limitations (64 MB of RAM... the average computer had 128 mb in 2002).
They rebuilt the entire game engine from scratch for the Xbox, went from a rolling hills dynamic LOD terrain mesh renderer with an indoor environment rendering part to a fully BSP engine like the Quake engine(s). You can dig through the old Bungie devlogs. There's a year gap in there when they had to go dark and rebuild the engine but then when they start posting again it's all talk about things that were never going to be in the PC/Mac version.
Bungie was definitely putting their A game at the time! The only thing that I saw the need to change was that awful Master Chief voice. But it was awesome how he came in like a bad ass at the last moment.
First game I played as a child I will never forget it and the halo theme song reminds me so much of the past when I was a kid makes me tear up sometimes lol
I remember this. The game totally blew the mind of me and my friends when unveiled. It was supposed to be released for both PC and MAC and made huge promises. Developers talked about real physic smoke from guns, open-world gameplay with coop and a well-crafted sci-fi world. For that time it looked too good to be true, and of course it was. In my opinion Halo became an important fps for consoles, but compromised with much of its ambition in the process.
It’s a shame Apple didn’t continue with gaming. It kinda feels like when Microsoft brought Bungie, it was the end of gaming for Mac. It’s funny when you consider Mac had great FPS titles like Pathways into Darkness and Marathon. I would love to see those two games get a continuation exclusively on MacOS.
@@barrybend7189 M1 Max has the same number crunching potential as a combo desktop Ryzen 5 5800X and RTX 3070 Ti. It can easily chew through native games, on a laptop, with a total power draw of 110 watts. It's *better* than gaming hardware currently is.
@@barrybend7189 Currently, Asahi Linux with some software like Hugo (a website builder) gets about twice the performance as macOS does -- and that's on top of having to use the CPU to render the desktop while they work on the GPU driver.
Apple and Activision must have been pissed and regretted not buying Bungie at the time. Apple could have bought them and Activision made an offer but they went with Xbox. If Activision had bought it, it probably would have sold more being multiplatform. Imagine Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 on PS2. Sound weird just saying it.
Ice Kold Killa Given how Activision publishes CoD, I'd hate that for Halo. It takes time to develop and publish a game - It would have been a damn shame if the series was milked every year at the expense of narrative.
Looking back on this trailer is so weird. Most of the animations are the same as the release product, but the "Spartans" don't act as machinelike or as professional. That taunt to bait out the sangheili is almost cartoonish. I think they're supposed to be more normal soldiers who simply have more advanced armor at this point in the game's development. Also, I can see how the aesthetics gradually evolved from existing concepts into the game's own distinct art style: The pistol looks more generic, and the sangheili have a far more xenomorph-esque look to them. Also, how Bungie envisioned the sangheili at this point in development is clearly different: A canon sangheili most likely would never surrender like that, they'd have grappled with the "Spartans" instead.
Halo was way ahead of its time at MacWorld '99. It left a lasting impression. I've gotten into pretty heated arguments with people before about the decisions Bungie made when Halo became the Xbox's flagship title. The first Halo was practically remade from scratch in a little under a year before the launch of the Xbox, IIRC. I complained that it didn't quite have the rolling hills and mystique that the preview footage garnered. Yes, the levels were big, but enclosed. One canyon after another.
My God, 12 years later, and I still can't believe this game. That trailer gave me shivers, and still 12 years later, it got me excited. Way to go bungie, you made a kick ass game.
Was the music in the original demo? It sounds replaced, and O'Donnel was only hired the week before they got bought by Microsoft, which means if they had this music in time for the demo they probably already knew it was never coming to Mac.
@@KalleNoble spartans vs aliens on an unknown ancient world? Banshies, energy swords, assult riffle, grenades, worthog,k all there. Fuck are you blind AND dumb?
Anyone else here really wish you could go back in time and experience halo: ce again for the first time? I do, amazing memories. I miss the good days :)
I remember when I watched this clip over and over again as a teenager just wishing to own the game one day. It was released late and not on Mac and not multiplayer and so I never owned it but I knew it would be a huge hit.
Fun fact: At the time, the Macintosh couldnt play the music or something, so Marty set up a big orchestra and played it live while the video was playing, the music was all live, so mistakes wouldve happened
ahhhh this takes me back!!! original halo was seriously probably the best game ever released on the original Xbox. I actually like halo more than assassins creed or any of the call of duty games and everything in between in regards to "action games". not to say those games aren't good. hell no they're awesome but my personal favorite bar none is original halo. the graphics today are still pretty amazing too!
OKAY So, for those who don't remember or weren't yet born, this was 1999, and Halo was expected for Mac (only) in 2000. Instead of that, Microsoft bought Bungie so that Halo would be their flagship game for the original Xbox in 2001. Halo would later be ported to Windows and Mac in 2003. Bungie somehow survived by purchasing their independence in 2007, working a deal with Activision that they again survived, back to independence in 2019.
kidonlyle The price of consoles, unless Apple was to own a console brand but people associate Apple with high costs. Maybe they could've supported a console at a low price.
enematrocoya absolutely not. you probably don't realize this but Bungie was quite successful at the time ALREADY as a mainly-Mac developer due to the Marathon game series and Myth (I and II) games.
@Tl1424 They were going to release it on PC and Mac, as they had started to with Marathon 2. Still having a game like this ON THE MAC at all was a huge deal and very worthy of showing off at MacWorld. Thankfully Apple has "resurged" without it.
I saw this, and when the final product came out couldn't believe how polished and refined it had became. Spent a large chunk of my student loan on an xbox and a copy of halo CE
Now in 2022, Halo Infinite is a semi-open world game like this one showcases, modders were able to make Halo Infinite a third person shooter, and we have the Macworld armor in MCC. What a weird time for Halo
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Spoiler alert: It did not ship early the following year for Mac!
yeah, getting onto some weird little thing called the direct ecks box? a worthy competitor to the apple pippin but it really doesn't stand a chance
The ANGST from this era will live on within me forever.
At least it got there eventually! Even if we had to wait till 2003 haha.
@@tomstorm255 *2001
@@tss1473 The Xbox version came out in 2001. I don't think the PC and Mac ports came out until 2003 though.
"Halo is the name of this game."
Its so bizarre hearing Halo being introduced for the first time considering how its one of the most recognizable gaming franchises of all time now.
343 likes lmao
@No CS:S Nah yeah.
Believe it or not a whole world of gaming existed before 2001, kids.
@@BonusEggs4Sale gee, you don't fucking say.
I was nine years old when I saw this exact clip on PCGameWorld, way back in 1999. Back then, I thought Halo was going to be like Tribes, only better. Huge maps, multiplayer matches with upwards of 32 players. What we got instead was a game that would come to define an entire generation of console shooters.
I was at the launch event of Reach in Seattle and talked with some of the 343 guys about this, too. They were flabbergasted that I played Tribes, Half-Life and Homeworld when I was nine.
Spartan043 Me too man
The Xbox was announced in 1999
@@jackbollingmoore7554 what's your point?
actually the original concept for halo would have been a lot more revolutionary than what we got. MS getting it actually reduced its scope drastically.
SO UR 30 YEARS OLD
this is so ironic that microsoft got this game XD
Peter Marreck lawl, mac and gaming doesn't go together son ;)
+104752981098380071985 For a while, it did. MYST and Quake 3 Arena came out on Mac first, so did Marathon, Myth, and some older games that my PC friends kept wanting to play on my Mac at the time like Escape Velocity, Dark Castle and others. It had some really awesome games that never showed up on PC actually
Peter Marreck hmm, well, maybe it was a good gaming pc in the past, but it isn't anymore
lolslayer yeah. so I finally caved and ordered a falcon northwest tiki with a titan X pascal card. 😂 i just wish i didn't have to deal with windows. it's too bad SteamOS looks DOA.
Peter Marreck ?
That is amazing for 1999
Mr. Mantis When the Microsoft Xbox was announced in 1999
Mr. Mantis
It was
And tbh even the water physics were good for the beta version until they got screwed up in the official CE.
Yup. I remember seeing it back in 99' and being in disbelief.
The guy who made the song thought of it while in the car.
And then one of the employees stepped on the CD, but fortunately they had a backup.
Its inspired by the song "Yesterday" i forgot who made it actually
@@neonsolace2748 martin o'donnel?
I was talking about yesteday ( the beatles made it) and marty o'donnel took ispiration from it
@@neonsolace2748 it inspired Marty to created what song? The one in the video? Doesn't sound similar at all though.
When the Halo theme came in, I got chills. That was the first time anyone outside of Bungie had ever heard one of the most iconic songs of a generation.
8 years later.. me too.. it almost brought me to tears
they hadn't really heard it much before either, Marty wrote it 5 days prior
"one of the most iconic songs of a generation." lmao
Actually, if you play the RTS game Myth: The Fallen Lords, then you'll hear some of the Halo music. Bungie created Myth back in the mid to late 90s. I loved playing Myth and I thought it was funny that I somehow already knew some of the music to Halo. It wasn't until after Halo 2 and before Halo 3 that I finally figured it out that Bungie made both and had just recycled the music.
Back when game trailers looked like the game
Ocealot P ??? Halo was going to be an open world game nothing like what we got, how did that look like the game?
He means graphics wise because a lot of companies like Ubisoft like to downgrade games graphics from demos, for example look at The Divisions first gameplay announcement and compare its graphics to the final released version.
@@shanenonwolfe4109 But like.. That's just Ubisoft lmao
@@jimmy-breeze however trailer at least looks like a gameplay those days trailers doesnt even include gameplay sometimes 😕
@@Xozkov EA does it too. CDProjektRED even did it for Witcher 3 surprisingly. Its becoming too common of a practice sadly.
20 years ago. It wasn’t a trailer, it was being rendered as it displayed. Whether it was a good game or not had yet to be determined but it definitely accomplished what it intended to do.
This reveal blew everyone away at the time. Microsoft knew that this is the killer title that would make the XBox a success if they had it, so they whipped out their checkbook and made an offer that Bungie couldn’t refuse. Smart move for them.
They didn't. By the time Microsoft bought Bungie, Halo was a proof-of-concept game that was barely playable, didn't even seem remotely similar to Halo beyond character design and music. Sure, they took a risk with the purchase, but they released the funny box with a Shrek game, it's pretty clear this was just a very lucky blind-gamble. Hell, by the point you're seeing this, the theme being played was literally just made 3 days earlier, they had no idea what the fuck the game was.
Halo wasn’t the game that we know that was released for the Xbox. It was a much different conceptualized game. At the very first stage in 1997, it was real time strategy game for PC and around the time of this trailer, it was being conceived as a third person shooter. Then Microsoft acquired a deal with bungie and turned it into a first person shooter for the Xbox. It was all Microsoft’s vision that turned Halo into what made it a success and what we know it today
I dreamed of driving my Warthog off into an endless horizon, and it simply never came to be.
But you have to admit, what we did end up getting was pretty damned good.
Spartan043 True. But it would've been fun to play this too.
Halo infinite trailer suggests open world👀
Eman Plummer it could be based on this Macworld beta
Your dream has finally been realised in 2020, Halo Infinite open world.
You're probably not gonna respond to this, but your dream is about to get realized
0:44 the first time anyone ever heard these monks. damn this is nostalgic
Then how was it composed?
@@bargaintuesday812 by the legend Marty O'Donnell who not only composed, but also was the one singing to.
But I think he meant first time that the public heard of the music.
Imagine hearing this epic song back in 1999 and not knowing this would be the theme song for one of the iconic gaming franchises and the anthem for gamers everywhere.
And sang by many boys at school restrooms.
I was 13 back then, and just one of many who were drooling over this video. We knew it was going to be big because there had been nothing like it. What ended up actually being released was not what we were promised by this and subsequent initial videos leading up to Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie and the subsequent engine re-write for the Xbox that completely ditched the open rolling terrain that was at the core of what we were so excited about. It was going to be an open-world shooter, and what we got with Halo: Combat Evolved was just another linear corridor shooter dressed up to look outdoorsy. It was soul-crushing. AND we had to buy a stupid CONSOLE just to play the piece of garbage.
I wouldn’t say combat evolved (or the rest of the series) is garbage, but I would say it’d be very interesting to see how it was going to originally be. Luckily it seems like the PC version of Master Chief Collection is scratching that itch of ours.
This game was released when I was 19yrs old. I'm currently 41 yrs old and am currently playing halo master chief collection halo 1. Still feels as good as it did back then. What an achievement! Superb game
Did you play the demo that was recently released of this old version?
@GoingPostalSince1997 no I sold my xbox shortly after this comment. Truth be told I thought it was a very weak console, all it had was old games to play and no good exclusives. Found it to be a very boring console. Ps5 and switch are leagues ahead in terms of good games
@@craigsouthern4793 That’s true. The master chief collection is on PC tho if you’re curious
Hats off to the Digsite team for bringing this content back for the public to enjoy!
The graphics are so much better in this demo then the real thing though.
@@threebythestreet Halo 2 demo moment
In reality though, they literally look the exact same. The lighting is just different.
It's amazing that at one time. Halo was technically nothing. It wasn't the star wars of fps games. No epic lore. No legacy. Just a small game that had no clue of its potential
Bakamatsu Its still not the star wars of fps, I'd say its the indiana jones. Doom is the Star Wars of fps, no doubt.
Yeah but Doom doesn't have a big lore that spans across games, shows, novels and comics. Doom is like the Flash Gordon or Citizen Kane of FPS. Doom no doubt was a hit but Halo Revolutionized FPS and made it viable on console and set trends such as online multiplayer on console. Much like how Star Wars revolutionized special effects and Sci-Fi at the movies.
Bakamatsu Doom revolutionized fps and made it viable on console, you're just too young.
I am young but I have played both. Doom is no Halo though lol. Doom got the ball rolling but Halo kept it rolling even faster
Bakamatsu My dude, nobody outside the xbox community even cares about Halo lmao. Wolfenstein is the ball, Doom got the ball rolling and the rest of the good fps joined in. Elitists like you aren't welcome, good games are good, and thats it.
so the banshee was the first halo vehicle to be shown and the pistol was the first halo weapon
Tower ofpimpsgaming You got it!
I think you mean the Warthog, Ghost, and Banshee were the first Halo vehicles to be shown.
@@CharlesVanNoland The first one you see in the trailer is the banshee
More than 20 years later and this trailer is still impressive for our time. That warthog spin tho... 2:16
Bruh that’s what I’m saying how’d they even animate that back in the 90s on a Mac 😂
it really isn't. we were playing q3test when this trailer was released.
10/10 Would play again
I remember this too and I think this the the first time I've seen it again in since 1999. The game seemed unbelieveable at the time. The transitions from inside to outside, being able to get into any vehicle, and the enviroment seemed endless. Games at that time you were always acutely aware that your space was limited, but Halo seems to blow that away. It took so long to finally play that for those between years I thought that preview was a dream and that the game didnt really exsist.
I won't lie, finally playing this was kind of emotional.
I agree, the most Halo experience I’ve had since H3
Any one here when 343 mad the Macworld armor in mcc?
Here
@@alexsilva28 Was waiting for someone
I remember a few years ago I tried to search online for a version of halo ce's alpha development. Now, it's time to actually do so. Thank you Bungie, for not having deleted all the files. Thank you 343i.
That soundtrack was made before the game began production. Yet it fit so well!
No, apparently it was made only few days leading to this demo. The demo was still barren of any sound effects and thus Martin O’Donnell made a music specifically for this demo. Little did he knew his small composition would change everything.
nostalgia at its finest
"also made an xbox version"
The PC version was released 23 months later.
Halo 2 was announced 1 year *before* Halo 1 got on PC.
Halo 2 gameplay footages were visible at the E3 2003, 5 months before Halo 1 got on PC.
Halo was planned to be a PC/Mac game, just like all the previous Bundie games, but Microsoft bought it to turn it into its killer-app for the Xbox. Tons of planned features were removed, because of the hardware limitations (64 MB of RAM... the average computer had 128 mb in 2002).
They rebuilt the entire game engine from scratch for the Xbox, went from a rolling hills dynamic LOD terrain mesh renderer with an indoor environment rendering part to a fully BSP engine like the Quake engine(s). You can dig through the old Bungie devlogs. There's a year gap in there when they had to go dark and rebuild the engine but then when they start posting again it's all talk about things that were never going to be in the PC/Mac version.
2:52
I laughed so hard at this moment
Apparently aliens can comply with unconditional surrender
RIP old Bungie, you will be in our hearts forever
Bungie was definitely putting their A game at the time! The only thing that I saw the need to change was that awful Master Chief voice. But it was awesome how he came in like a bad ass at the last moment.
Jose Vazquez mhm
"... awful Master Chief voice..."
You're joking right?!
@@DarkTan1209 i think he meant master cheifs voice was awful early on
@@DarkTan1209 Refer to the E3 2000 demo.
I miss the real bungie
MasterDelgad0 me too
We all do
@IHaveSwatches what the fuck are you talking about they never partnered with EA
at least now they're free from Activision's grasp
@Dr. Tendo what does that have to do with anything I said
And now we can play this version thanks to digsite.
It's so unreal that this demo is now playable
Really?
HALO INFINITE LOOKS AMAZING!!!!
Shut up
Not to 99% of the people that watched it.
It was a joke, asswipes xD
I have now played this level
Why is it appears on my TH-cam recommendations again? This make me feel nostalgic and I miss the day Bungie make Halo games.
Legend. Respect. F
Halo CE looks awesome i wanna buy it
Anyone else here after Matt Colville's "Second Greatest Story in Gaming" video?
Yep
Appears in my recommendation 12 years later
First game I played as a child I will never forget it and the halo theme song reminds me so much of the past when I was a kid makes me tear up sometimes lol
I just played this level today.
Happy 20th anniversary Halo. I think to appreciate you the best, we need to start from the beginning.
I remember this. The game totally blew the mind of me and my friends when unveiled. It was supposed to be released for both PC and MAC and made huge promises. Developers talked about real physic smoke from guns, open-world gameplay with coop and a well-crafted sci-fi world. For that time it looked too good to be true, and of course it was. In my opinion Halo became an important fps for consoles, but compromised with much of its ambition in the process.
Glad we got the Macworld armor for H2A, very nostalgic armor to wear knowing what Halo almost was before all the necessary changes.
It’s funny how halo ended up belonging to one of apples biggest competitors
it looks so weird with old graphics and master chief looking like a marine with a mask but also having the halo theme with it.
Thank you Matthew Colville, for revealing to us this game and reminding us of Marathon.
It’s a shame Apple didn’t continue with gaming. It kinda feels like when Microsoft brought Bungie, it was the end of gaming for Mac. It’s funny when you consider Mac had great FPS titles like Pathways into Darkness and Marathon. I would love to see those two games get a continuation exclusively on MacOS.
Yeah what your going to get are terrible Iphone ports. Apple computers are not good gaming hardware.
@@barrybend7189 M1 Max has the same number crunching potential as a combo desktop Ryzen 5 5800X and RTX 3070 Ti. It can easily chew through native games, on a laptop, with a total power draw of 110 watts. It's *better* than gaming hardware currently is.
@@lepidotos then what about that hardware is not being bogged down by apple's os?
@@barrybend7189 Currently, Asahi Linux with some software like Hugo (a website builder) gets about twice the performance as macOS does -- and that's on top of having to use the CPU to render the desktop while they work on the GPU driver.
The good old days...
This is what happens when the time traveler sneezes
Nobody has said this but:
Imagine an Alternate Timeline where Bungie was acquired by Sony in 2000…
well it did still come to mac......
Jobs really was ahead of the game. Dude always found the coolest stuff.
Came from the future…boy, do I have news for you
"We are starting to see some great games coming back to the mac..."
fail
Apple and Activision must have been pissed and regretted not buying Bungie at the time. Apple could have bought them and Activision made an offer but they went with Xbox. If Activision had bought it, it probably would have sold more being multiplatform. Imagine Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 on PS2. Sound weird just saying it.
Ice Kold Killa Given how Activision publishes CoD, I'd hate that for Halo. It takes time to develop and publish a game - It would have been a damn shame if the series was milked every year at the expense of narrative.
+Ice Kold Killa i dont realy think apple does care anymore. They found WAY better ways to make money now as video gaming industry :D
Ice Kold Killa In a twist of fate... Activision did buy Bungie... what dark world is this...
wait what? I thought it was just a contract for Destiny?
TheVoidLord Bungie has been independent since 2007. Activision owns the Destiny IP, not Bungie.
I wonder how much of the lore they had developed at this time?
I can’t believe this armor came to halo mcc
Reach for the sky, Sanghelli!
You know what made Halo so successful? The music and the multiplayer experience.
Who came from the twoquickones podcast to listen to Martys voice in this demo. Never knew it was his voice doing that part.
20 years since the betrayal! #neverforget
Looking back on this trailer is so weird. Most of the animations are the same as the release product, but the "Spartans" don't act as machinelike or as professional. That taunt to bait out the sangheili is almost cartoonish. I think they're supposed to be more normal soldiers who simply have more advanced armor at this point in the game's development. Also, I can see how the aesthetics gradually evolved from existing concepts into the game's own distinct art style: The pistol looks more generic, and the sangheili have a far more xenomorph-esque look to them. Also, how Bungie envisioned the sangheili at this point in development is clearly different: A canon sangheili most likely would never surrender like that, they'd have grappled with the "Spartans" instead.
Halo was way ahead of its time at MacWorld '99. It left a lasting impression. I've gotten into pretty heated arguments with people before about the decisions Bungie made when Halo became the Xbox's flagship title. The first Halo was practically remade from scratch in a little under a year before the launch of the Xbox, IIRC. I complained that it didn't quite have the rolling hills and mystique that the preview footage garnered. Yes, the levels were big, but enclosed. One canyon after another.
Master chief waving at elites and running away is the funniest shit
My God, 12 years later, and I still can't believe this game. That trailer gave me shivers, and still 12 years later, it got me excited. Way to go bungie, you made a kick ass game.
It's literally only the music that makes this demo work
The demo was good. The music made it great.
Was the music in the original demo? It sounds replaced, and O'Donnel was only hired the week before they got bought by Microsoft, which means if they had this music in time for the demo they probably already knew it was never coming to Mac.
lol really? Not the amazing game? Atmosphere? Setting? kk bud.
@@SameBasicRiff The game is amazing because it's nothing like this demo
@@KalleNoble spartans vs aliens on an unknown ancient world? Banshies, energy swords, assult riffle, grenades, worthog,k all there. Fuck are you blind AND dumb?
20 Year ago? 20 YEARS AGO!!!!! Its amazing how much gaming has changed since then!
Looks good. Any idea when it will be released?
And 20 years later, the entire Halo franchise gets announced for PC.
So hyped!
I love how it shows Master Chief getting technical with the controls and then he just turns the fuck around and walks away
Anyone else here really wish you could go back in time and experience halo: ce again for the first time? I do, amazing memories. I miss the good days :)
WOW even from 1999 that looks so badass
Amazing how the original designs of the vehicles were kept
I remember when I watched this clip over and over again as a teenager just wishing to own the game one day. It was released late and not on Mac and not multiplayer and so I never owned it but I knew it would be a huge hit.
Fun fact: At the time, the Macintosh couldnt play the music or something, so Marty set up a big orchestra and played it live while the video was playing, the music was all live, so mistakes wouldve happened
Were it so easy. Such an absolutely amazing demo for the time. Still so fun to look back on.
its wild how the music was in the game all the way back then
ahhhh this takes me back!!! original halo was seriously probably the best game ever released on the original Xbox. I actually like halo more than assassins creed or any of the call of duty games and everything in between in regards to "action games". not to say those games aren't good. hell no they're awesome but my personal favorite bar none is original halo. the graphics today are still pretty amazing too!
Sean Rock me too
Sean Rock go to halome.nu if you want to listen to any halo theme. Just press space bar when you get to the site to bring up the menu of halo choices.
In an alternate universe We're all using MacWorld Apple Unit 4 playing Halo Unlimited
Woof, now that is an alpha.
I hope the someday we get something along the lines of Halo CE REDUX that is a remade version of this early vision Bungie had for Halo.
Thanks Steve for introducing us to one of the best game series on the planet. RIP
I still have this original trailer saved on my computer lol Loved it!
10 years later, and the Trilogy turns out better than ever. Congratulations on your success Bungie, now, about that giant slingshot...
So sad it’s not the same anymore
I'd give up a decade of my life just to back for one and appreciate it again.
Still, to this day, is an absolutely amazing trailer and beginning of the franchise.
I'm glad there's a game I'm as old as, I hope halo never dies it will always be a part of me
In 1999 the halo rts first look but change to third person shooter then 10 year later the canceled RTS was reborn as we knows today is Halo Wars.
Halo Wars kinda sucked. Would have been good if it was made for PC in mind, not consoles.
man, this looks so much better than the actual game to me
OKAY So, for those who don't remember or weren't yet born, this was 1999, and Halo was expected for Mac (only) in 2000. Instead of that, Microsoft bought Bungie so that Halo would be their flagship game for the original Xbox in 2001. Halo would later be ported to Windows and Mac in 2003. Bungie somehow survived by purchasing their independence in 2007, working a deal with Activision that they again survived, back to independence in 2019.
Wow, this looks really good for a "99 game :) Go Bungie!
2:53 The Covenant plasma rifle might be based on the "Transphase Eradication Rod" from Stargate SG-1 which was first seen in February 26th, 1999.
2:19 ok that was sick
XD 5 years later I would be introduced to halo :p
It woulf have been a total failure if it was solely for mac
Or today's gaming world may have turned out to be very different...
If Apple was the gaming king, and Microsoft languished behind.
kidonlyle The price of consoles, unless Apple was to own a console brand but people associate Apple with high costs. Maybe they could've supported a console at a low price.
***** That would tarnish their premium quality image, though.
enematrocoya absolutely not. you probably don't realize this but Bungie was quite successful at the time ALREADY as a mainly-Mac developer due to the Marathon game series and Myth (I and II) games.
Bungie had released games on windows before halo. i dont think it would have come out on mac alone
So this is where it began, and here we are. RIP Halo
@Tl1424 They were going to release it on PC and Mac, as they had started to with Marathon 2. Still having a game like this ON THE MAC at all was a huge deal and very worthy of showing off at MacWorld. Thankfully Apple has "resurged" without it.
I remember being around 10 and my friends little brother goes “You want to play Hollow?”
So hype for release. Been waiting a long time for this one.
I saw this, and when the final product came out couldn't believe how polished and refined it had became. Spent a large chunk of my student loan on an xbox and a copy of halo CE
Now in 2022, Halo Infinite is a semi-open world game like this one showcases, modders were able to make Halo Infinite a third person shooter, and we have the Macworld armor in MCC. What a weird time for Halo