@@bailey1667 Back then pre rendered videos took too much space off the disc, they would've had to make the map for the video anyways so this is actually slightly less work for them
@@RadiantMantra plus pre rendered videos don't scale well to higher resolutions, they're typically rendered at 720p, but that doesn't really matter since the main menu is missing on the MCC which sucks because it would look beautiful in 4k/60, i hope they add it back :c
@@emilycampbell6375 I keep hearing people say they want the OG Menus back...but did anyone consider HOW they would be able to bring them back?? Remember, MCC's menu is cross-game. Matchmaking supports any arbitrary halo game all in one single menu. You can do a Co-op Campaign that includes playlists the span across multiple Halo games. Each OG Halo title had its own Match Making and Campaign Menus. How do you expect them to fit all the Halo games in one of the OG menus. Plus, which OG menu should they go with. Also, the MCC menu supports displaying the player's spartan from all of the Halo games. But each OG menu only supports its own spartan models. So anyone, please, can you actually provide a solution rather than just asking for the og menus. The logistics do not allow for the OG menus to work!
@@NazmusLabs oh i agree, it would be jarring if it switched between all the og menus, the mcc is pretty seamless because the menus are consistent throughout all the games, maybe they could add the background to the existing menus though? i'm not sure tbh, you're probably right though, it might not be possible to get it to work, and honestly after all the updates the menus in mcc look amazing now, 343 did an amazing job
It would be cool to mod the game and create custom main menu scenery, or possibly even use other maps. Like say, the campaign screen could be MC and the Arbiter surrounded by corpses and destroyed vehicles, or the Chief with a shotgun facing a flood tank in the Cortana level.
@@stevemc6010 True, but i also understand that OG halo is too easy to load on todays hardware and the load times are negligible. My computer loads levels almost as fast as i click them and my MCC is on a HDD. They would have to artificially slow it to actually get an authentic feel.
@@oceanbytez847 I know, I'm just enough of a "1996boomer" to want it. In SPV3 I've died firing the assault rifle and respawned still firing it because of how fast the load time is
Kinda looks like a marine melee animation and Spartan animation together, the arms look stiff like spartan melee, the the weapon sways alot like how a marine hits something.
The music caused me to reflect about my old best friend. We both adored halo and would play countless hours together. Drifted apart after leaving high school, such is life.
This brings back so many memories. Just hearing this incredible main menu Also yeah it's kinda wild how Halo 2 and 3s main menus are actual maps, pretty sure Reachs is too
@@adorabledragon7847 Well i know for a fact that the loading screen on the Anniversary disc is a map because my friend was able to mod himself into that part of the map. I just dont know if its set up like 3s is
There are mods on nexus to change the menu. They have halo 3 halo 2 and halo reach. I wanted to download it but the windows version of mcc is annoying to mod
That “Covenant Cruiser” is a CCS-Class Battlecruiser which is one of the main warships of the covenant, the Truth and Reconciliation was a Ket-Pattern CCS-Class.
@@marranin007 Unlikely, CRS-Class was not really a front line ship, it was more of a police cutter and it wasn't present in either Regrets or Truths fleet. They were used after the war by covenant remnants like Jul' Mdama
Yo I dunno how you expected this video to be received, but this actually BLEW MY MIND!! Was honestly going "WHHHAAATTT?!?!!" "WHHOA!!" When you started walking in the main menu.. screen.
As far as game Devs go, Bungie were actually really bad. But they were very gifted at being bad. Kinda like those people that ‘Photoshop’ using Paint and Powerpoint. The method is wrong but the result looks the same until you look closer.
@@CobaltSanderson Eh, I wouldn't say that. I know in Battlefield games, the customization screens are actually located deep under whatever map is loaded, just like this. Bungie is hardly the only dev team that does this.
@@stevemc6010 Phantom Forces used to do this, hell in fact they probably still do. I remember when there was the glitch that people would do where they could get inside that room and get insane killstreaks...
That ties into the difficulties that they had in porting the titles from Xbox, 360, & One to PC. It's pure spaghetti code, on top of spaghetti code, on top of poorly-documented spaghetti code. They're not alone, Jagex, Bethesda, & (to a lesser degree) Valve are infamous for doing the same, yet still (usually and inexplicably) producing an enjoyable end product.
Hope Infinite has a moving main menu with lots of details. Reach, 4, 5 all had basically static menus. Although the art for all those menus was still quite good
I believe from an earlier video he uploaded, Halo Reaches menu exists in a 3D space with loads of 2d images layered on top of eachother, I recall there being a toilet hidden in there as well
Indie game dev here! Fun fact, this is actually how most menu's in games are made, in-engine you'll create a scene just like any other map/ mission, but the camera will be static or on a loop to fly through the scene. This way it's easy to make changes and then just build out the game again. Obviously the reason "fake" objects are used is because the higher detail models don't need to be used in scenes like this, and to save performance so you're not experiencing any hitches or fps drops in a menu.
This is actually really intuitive. It allows load time to decrease significantly since it’s all one rendered scene. Other games at time use separate renders and have to load in each time a screen is switched.
I love this game more and more with every new detail I learn. To be a fly on the wall during the meetings that spawned this idea.. "Hey Marcus, we'll need additional background renders for the different menus. It'll be about eleven, so use all the resources you need." -Three days later- "Joe, I got those backgrounds done." "For the main menu? All of them?" "Yeah, we loaded up the mockup map for that initial reveal trailer and just set objects and filters at different points on it. Figured that would be easier and we like how it looks." "Oh, okay. Well great, now we can move on to scripting for that awesome Guardian level!" "...Nobody has told you about that yet, have they?"
@@damonsalvatore3222 I’m 99 percent sure the reason is because he gets footage first, and then voices over the whole video afterwords. So he just fills time repeating himself until it gets to the next clip
Didn't know what to expect when I clicked this, and literally the last thing I expected you just glossed over entirely. I've been playing halo for 20 years and this is the first I learned that you can move around in the menu screen
I think it would be cool if you diid more videos like this. Also, please explore the arc portal in the background, and I'm curious what New Mombasa looks like up close.
Can you imagine being in the Custom games menu and suddenly general heed comes, bumps and melee the bipeds and take the flag while you are trying to set up your game?
I love these kind of videos coming out years after these games have released because it brings interesting new insights into how these parts of games are made. I like to think that if one were to investigate these thoroughly, they could paint a picture of how developers like Bungie really made the most out of the resources they had at the time and still managed to create such incredibly memorable backdrops and details that you look back on and know vividly.
It's amazing how these things all show up in MCC as well. I get that it is a map and it should show up, but it is still hard to believe everything loads in perfectly and you get to see everything from the OG menu in MCC. It is so sick.
That melee animation looks like a Halo: CE animation with the second arm still tethered to the gun. It kinda looks like someone on the team re-used some old assets but hadn't fully modeled out the arms yet.
the halo 3 main menu encapsulates this incredibly legendary and iconic point in the story and uses that lighting and level to make it SO DAMN GOOD I WANNA HAVE IT AS A MISSION DAMNIT
I'm always surprised and impressed more by the effort and the time you guys put in to find these stuff than the actual hidden stuff in the game. I'll never have this patience.
GENERAL!!! I HAVE A VIDEO IDEA!!! Go into halo 2 and load up the first mission you play as the arbiter on coop, and take a look at arbiter when he equips his sword. There are atleast 4 unique animations for him equipping his sword- sometimes he roars, or does a cool 2 handed animation, etc. I noticed while playing coop and can’t find anything about it online!!! People MUST know!!!
Your videos are always interesting and the amount of time you must dedicate to me making them you deserve my sub, Halo reach is the game where I discovered multiplayer and where I found people who became my best friends and ittle always be my favourite game
Wow I had no idea everything 3D in the main menu was in the same map! For some reason I always assumed that they were all different smaller maps being loaded in on command. Makes sense though, since loading a map like that from scratch every time would probably take too long. Really cool video
I'm pretty sure the OG Halo: CE main menu was something similar to this. Using Halo Map Tools, you can open up the "ui.map" file and see the same "halo" vehicle used in the level Pillar of Autumn (yes the Halo ring is a vehicle; though I'm not entirely sure why, my guess is that it has something to do with making it spin perhaps?). Seeing as that is one of the only things in that particular "level", and seeing as how the main thing you see in the main menu (other than the background) is the Halo ring, this leads me to believe the OG Halo: CE main menu is also an actual level instead of a pre-rendered sequence.
I remember when I was really young (4 or 5) I would play halo 3 but didn't know how to operate the main menu. this is, in the main menu sequence, at some point after a while, it points up at the covenant ship and I was terrified of it. when ever I was on the menu, I would scream for my brother to come put me in a game and I would cry if he didn't cause I was that scared.
i'm pretty sure that melee animation is the magnum 3rd person melee animation from ce, could be some other weapon but definitely looks like a ce animation
I know this is years old now but I'm fairly certain those melee animations for the Chief are his halo 1 Sniper or Shotgun melee animations. I don't think he melees like that in any other halo with any other weapon.
TBH I skipped over the 360 era so I remember the CE menu more fondly than any (even more than the H2 menu to be completely honest.) That said I used to think the H3 menu was kind of boring but this vid actually made me feel completely otherwise. It's really quite cleverly designed.
I'm guessing the original menus would have had the camera fly over to each section, so you could switch from campaign to forge and the camera would fly between them.
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It's weird, I always thought of menus as just an arbitrary screen/UI, but they actually have a physical/explorable environment. Pretty neat.
I just thought it was just pre rendered videos. Can''t tell if Bungie put more work on themselves making a map over a couple videos.
@@bailey1667 Back then pre rendered videos took too much space off the disc, they would've had to make the map for the video anyways so this is actually slightly less work for them
@@RadiantMantra plus pre rendered videos don't scale well to higher resolutions, they're typically rendered at 720p, but that doesn't really matter since the main menu is missing on the MCC which sucks because it would look beautiful in 4k/60, i hope they add it back :c
@@emilycampbell6375 I keep hearing people say they want the OG Menus back...but did anyone consider HOW they would be able to bring them back?? Remember, MCC's menu is cross-game. Matchmaking supports any arbitrary halo game all in one single menu. You can do a Co-op Campaign that includes playlists the span across multiple Halo games. Each OG Halo title had its own Match Making and Campaign Menus. How do you expect them to fit all the Halo games in one of the OG menus. Plus, which OG menu should they go with. Also, the MCC menu supports displaying the player's spartan from all of the Halo games. But each OG menu only supports its own spartan models. So anyone, please, can you actually provide a solution rather than just asking for the og menus. The logistics do not allow for the OG menus to work!
@@NazmusLabs oh i agree, it would be jarring if it switched between all the og menus, the mcc is pretty seamless because the menus are consistent throughout all the games, maybe they could add the background to the existing menus though? i'm not sure tbh, you're probably right though, it might not be possible to get it to work, and honestly after all the updates the menus in mcc look amazing now, 343 did an amazing job
Imagine booting up the halo 3 menu and you see generalheed roaming around in your screen
And then shooting the bipeds and stealing the flag
*so here we are on the main menu*
Lmaoooo 😂😂😂
Someone should replicate what he did, but leave the theatre camera where it's normally positioned, and add the menu UI
It would be cool to mod the game and create custom main menu scenery, or possibly even use other maps. Like say, the campaign screen could be MC and the Arbiter surrounded by corpses and destroyed vehicles, or the Chief with a shotgun facing a flood tank in the Cortana level.
Could you imagine customising your Spartan and mint blitz just assassinates you in the menu.
Nothing is safe from Mint Blitz. *NOTHING.*
🤣
Mint Blitz?
@@Godzilla_Cheeze probably the best Halo player. Or at least the most impressive, his vids are insane
le he quits if he doesn't get the sniper first
I will never see halo 3 theme the same again
This is such a bizarre sentence, it fits his narration
Literally blew my mind bro
Lol
Now I don’t wanna watch...
Yes you will
Not having the OG main menus really made me upset. That classic Combat Evolved Ring show was beautiful.
The loading screen from the original CE is something I really miss, it was a big part of the atmosphere
@@stevemc6010 True, but i also understand that OG halo is too easy to load on todays hardware and the load times are negligible. My computer loads levels almost as fast as i click them and my MCC is on a HDD. They would have to artificially slow it to actually get an authentic feel.
@@oceanbytez847 I know, I'm just enough of a "1996boomer" to want it.
In SPV3 I've died firing the assault rifle and respawned still firing it because of how fast the load time is
I wish they let us have the OG menus
After 14 years i realized that the Spartan in the campaign lobby doesn't have the damage on the right of his chest like chief does
its noble 6 😱😱😱
@@whiteevropean What? No.
@@LocalSlav noble 7
The lights on the armor are also brighter. Chief’s lights are just a very faint blue in the game.
Idea for a next video: Can you assassinate grunts, jackals... in Halo Reach playing as an Elite?
I actually haven’t assassinated playable elites
@@thevisitor8906 so have you just never played invasion?
You cant
@@jtl5560 you can
@@areYouStillUpAt12 nah 🅱️
Thank you Heed, for making interesting videos on something I'd never even think about.
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Yes boys!!! Man that was awesome takes us back....
The melee animation looks like what a Spartan AI would use.
*has existential crisis*
Kinda looks like a marine melee animation and Spartan animation together, the arms look stiff like spartan melee, the the weapon sways alot like how a marine hits something.
I was thinking it was a melee animation from another weapon like something a little such as the plasma rifle. I could be wrong though.
Why did seeing this make me want to tear up
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug...
Same, nostalgia just hits so hard. It's sad that we will never get a game as nostalgic or awesome as halo 3
Because Halo 3 was your peak
The music caused me to reflect about my old best friend. We both adored halo and would play countless hours together. Drifted apart after leaving high school, such is life.
@@yourface07 same man. Unless you’re Derrion goings? Hi derrion?! Lol
This brings back so many memories. Just hearing this incredible main menu
Also yeah it's kinda wild how Halo 2 and 3s main menus are actual maps, pretty sure Reachs is too
Nah I'm pretty sure that's just a image, but what do I know I'm just a dude
Halo reach Is just an image
@@adorabledragon7847 Well i know for a fact that the loading screen on the Anniversary disc is a map because my friend was able to mod himself into that part of the map. I just dont know if its set up like 3s is
@@johnhouston1590 Oh I meant the main menu for reach
Halo Reach is nice but yes those are concept arts and pics
Now if we could get Halo 3 or Reach's UI on MCC... You should do this with the mythic disc's menu.
There are mods on nexus to change the menu. They have halo 3 halo 2 and halo reach. I wanted to download it but the windows version of mcc is annoying to mod
@@bztxo502 Those mods are for the menu and the menu is only a video they are not rendered in real time
@@bztxo502 No I mean replace the whole UI not just the background.
I think the mythic disk is much more simple, it looks like they just had the 2 spartans in the multiplayer map Citadel.
@@SergioMach7 no they had bits from High Ground too.
That “Covenant Cruiser” is a CCS-Class Battlecruiser which is one of the main warships of the covenant, the Truth and Reconciliation was a Ket-Pattern CCS-Class.
I love you
It looks pretty small, it could also be a crs class light cruiser
Okay nerd
@@marranin007 Unlikely, CRS-Class was not really a front line ship, it was more of a police cutter and it wasn't present in either Regrets or Truths fleet. They were used after the war by covenant remnants like Jul' Mdama
@@Sgt_Recka yee, probably just a scaled model to look right in the skybox with the camera settings they used. As "real" as the banshees
that melee animation looks like the 3D version of the first person Plasma rifle melee animations from Halo 1
True
Forget the golden warthog, let's get a silver 3 wheeler instead
I miss playing halo 3 with the boy's 😢
Last Online: *11 years ago*
Yo I dunno how you expected this video to be received, but this actually BLEW MY MIND!! Was honestly going "WHHHAAATTT?!?!!" "WHHOA!!" When you started walking in the main menu.. screen.
I was surprised that even the customization menu was also present in the same map. They just threw everything in there
As far as game Devs go, Bungie were actually really bad. But they were very gifted at being bad.
Kinda like those people that ‘Photoshop’ using Paint and Powerpoint. The method is wrong but the result looks the same until you look closer.
@@CobaltSanderson Eh, I wouldn't say that. I know in Battlefield games, the customization screens are actually located deep under whatever map is loaded, just like this. Bungie is hardly the only dev team that does this.
@@stevemc6010 Phantom Forces used to do this, hell in fact they probably still do. I remember when there was the glitch that people would do where they could get inside that room and get insane killstreaks...
@@stevemc6010 Maybe not this one thing in particular, but they did a lot of things the hard way, particularly in CE.
That ties into the difficulties that they had in porting the titles from Xbox, 360, & One to PC. It's pure spaghetti code, on top of spaghetti code, on top of poorly-documented spaghetti code.
They're not alone, Jagex, Bethesda, & (to a lesser degree) Valve are infamous for doing the same, yet still (usually and inexplicably) producing an enjoyable end product.
0:56 I instantly thought of doom there
1:52 I think that is the GRAVITY HAMMER swinging animation
Hope Infinite has a moving main menu with lots of details. Reach, 4, 5 all had basically static menus. Although the art for all those menus was still quite good
I believe from an earlier video he uploaded, Halo Reaches menu exists in a 3D space with loads of 2d images layered on top of eachother,
I recall there being a toilet hidden in there as well
That melee animation looks hilarious. Just slam your gun right at somebody's face.
Looks like the original CE shotgun and sniper melees
@@stevemc6010 I knew I had seen it from somewhere.
Since this is an actual map, can you play custom games with it?
If you modded it that way, probably, yeah. Just wouldn’t be able to do a whole lot
Indie game dev here! Fun fact, this is actually how most menu's in games are made, in-engine you'll create a scene just like any other map/ mission, but the camera will be static or on a loop to fly through the scene. This way it's easy to make changes and then just build out the game again. Obviously the reason "fake" objects are used is because the higher detail models don't need to be used in scenes like this, and to save performance so you're not experiencing any hitches or fps drops in a menu.
Mythic menu next?
I played this game for over 10 years, and I'm still learning new things about it.
These kind of videos are always very interesting to watch
We've been Bamboozled this whole time with a Fake Spartan in the campaign menu
Anything interesting about Halo 3: Mythic or ODST?
Take a shot every time he says "menu" for a quick end
the first time I got drunk I was playing halo 2 and the rules were take a shot everytime you die, lol
@@slypto If you were on legendary then the sniper jackals would have you drink an entire jackal Daniel's by the end of the night.
I’ve waited 15 years just to see what’s behind a menu... totally worth it
This is actually really intuitive. It allows load time to decrease significantly since it’s all one rendered scene. Other games at time use separate renders and have to load in each time a screen is switched.
My gosh that menu music hits me in the feels and nostalgia.
Miss that menu
I always felt like there was more to that menu.
Thank you for proving me right!
Behind the scenes stuff is always neat. Can you do the same for the halo 3 mythic menus or is that not available in mcc?
I love this game more and more with every new detail I learn.
To be a fly on the wall during the meetings that spawned this idea..
"Hey Marcus, we'll need additional background renders for the different menus. It'll be about eleven, so use all the resources you need."
-Three days later-
"Joe, I got those backgrounds done."
"For the main menu? All of them?"
"Yeah, we loaded up the mockup map for that initial reveal trailer and just set objects and filters at different points on it. Figured that would be easier and we like how it looks."
"Oh, okay. Well great, now we can move on to scripting for that awesome Guardian level!"
"...Nobody has told you about that yet, have they?"
Looks like that globe was hard to find.
GeneralHeed: *Hold my **-beer-** coordinates...*
This dude is still the master of spending 8 minutes talking so much without really saying much at all
It's a shame because alot of the topics are interesting I just can't tolerate him for very long
@@damonsalvatore3222 I’m 99 percent sure the reason is because he gets footage first, and then voices over the whole video afterwords. So he just fills time repeating himself until it gets to the next clip
@@PhoenixPalmer88 yup
@@damonsalvatore3222 makes me want to give him a fistful of pain
@@ThisBirdHasFlown damn lol
This reminds me of Age of Mythology. Their main menu was like this too
the main menu soundtrack...
It hits different man
I've always been wondering if you could ever walk around the menu as a kid. My dream is complete!
Seeing the actual menu vs how it's rendered is such a cool comparison. Nice work. And really nice edit.
This is really cool and had no idea this was even a thing. I wonder what other secrets there be. Also 343 should make this a map in h3
That melee looks like the sword secondary melee
Didn't know what to expect when I clicked this, and literally the last thing I expected you just glossed over entirely. I've been playing halo for 20 years and this is the first I learned that you can move around in the menu screen
I think it would be cool if you diid more videos like this. Also, please explore the arc portal in the background, and I'm curious what New Mombasa looks like up close.
Can you imagine being in the Custom games menu and suddenly general heed comes, bumps and melee the bipeds and take the flag while you are trying to set up your game?
Bruh I imagined the same thing. I was hoping he'd show how it'd look with the menu overlay and color filter still displaying lol
*gives the arbiter a rocket launcher after killing him*
This is the equivalent of finding the grass hills from the OG Windows background
I love these kind of videos coming out years after these games have released because it brings interesting new insights into how these parts of games are made. I like to think that if one were to investigate these thoroughly, they could paint a picture of how developers like Bungie really made the most out of the resources they had at the time and still managed to create such incredibly memorable backdrops and details that you look back on and know vividly.
Pretty sure the same applies to the original Halo 2 main menu because all the assets main menu crawl are in Game assets for the two missions on Earth
I also think the same applies a Halo 3 ODSTs main menu and subsequent menus as does for 2 and 3
OG Bungie really made the most of things. This is really cool. Thanks for sharing this.
No other game franchise would have its fans dig this deep into stuff like the main menu. Halo is truly different.
Halo 3 is my Favorite halo game and its main Menu is very memorable.
Last time I was this early... well actually I never have been this early. Nevermind.
That's not what ur nan told me
@@ThisBirdHasFlown yeah I lied. I always get to your nans house early and stay late.
Imagine you just load up halo3 and some random runs up and starts tea bagging your main menu 🤣🤣🤣👌
It's amazing how these things all show up in MCC as well. I get that it is a map and it should show up, but it is still hard to believe everything loads in perfectly and you get to see everything from the OG menu in MCC. It is so sick.
That melee animation looks like a Halo: CE animation with the second arm still tethered to the gun. It kinda looks like someone on the team re-used some old assets but hadn't fully modeled out the arms yet.
the halo 3 main menu encapsulates this incredibly legendary and iconic point in the story and uses that lighting and level to make it SO DAMN GOOD I WANNA HAVE IT AS A MISSION DAMNIT
So much nostalgia
Wow, they have at least 2-3 cameras on this map, all rendering to textures. That's pretty cool actually
For real, thanks for doing this man, Halo was life. Hope it is again soon!
I'm always surprised and impressed more by the effort and the time you guys put in to find these stuff than the actual hidden stuff in the game. I'll never have this patience.
Thats really cool ! Whod have thought this was actually a playable map, to a point
I love these Halo videos! Awesome work General!
GENERAL!!! I HAVE A VIDEO IDEA!!!
Go into halo 2 and load up the first mission you play as the arbiter on coop, and take a look at arbiter when he equips his sword. There are atleast 4 unique animations for him equipping his sword- sometimes he roars, or does a cool 2 handed animation, etc.
I noticed while playing coop and can’t find anything about it online!!! People MUST know!!!
i would've absolutely lost my mind if when you moved the custom games flag it was visible in the menu
0:20 yes , vary much so .. i love halo 3 .. and miss the good old day of gaming!
That flag can be found in the tag files under 'weap' and can be added into forge to be used as a weapon
I wish mcc would let you boot into the main menus of the old games optionally. So many memories.
Your videos are always interesting and the amount of time you must dedicate to me making them you deserve my sub, Halo reach is the game where I discovered multiplayer and where I found people who became my best friends and ittle always be my favourite game
Wow I had no idea everything 3D in the main menu was in the same map! For some reason I always assumed that they were all different smaller maps being loaded in on command. Makes sense though, since loading a map like that from scratch every time would probably take too long. Really cool video
Awesome video! Super wild to see all of these!
I'm pretty sure the OG Halo: CE main menu was something similar to this. Using Halo Map Tools, you can open up the "ui.map" file and see the same "halo" vehicle used in the level Pillar of Autumn (yes the Halo ring is a vehicle; though I'm not entirely sure why, my guess is that it has something to do with making it spin perhaps?). Seeing as that is one of the only things in that particular "level", and seeing as how the main thing you see in the main menu (other than the background) is the Halo ring, this leads me to believe the OG Halo: CE main menu is also an actual level instead of a pre-rendered sequence.
It's always interesting to see developers doing tricks like this that most of us don't realize :)
can't believe i'm still learning new things about halo 3 all these years later.
I remember when I was really young (4 or 5) I would play halo 3 but didn't know how to operate the main menu. this is, in the main menu sequence, at some point after a while, it points up at the covenant ship and I was terrified of it. when ever I was on the menu, I would scream for my brother to come put me in a game and I would cry if he didn't cause I was that scared.
The tip of the banshees remind me of the head of a zenomorph
Would've been cool to go to the center of that hole or explore those nearby buildings
TH-cam actually recommended it to me I didn’t even use the bell icon
I wanna see the main menu as a customs map!
Now I'm curious how the Halo 3 Mythic disc menu works, with where everything like the globe is located
Just watching this video gives me so much nostalgia even though I never got to play it when it was originally really popular
Can you do anything with Thomas Lasky's AI in Halo 4's Reclaimer mission? Maybe try to get him to hold weapons or get into vehicles?
Would love to see the Mythic menu.
i'm pretty sure that melee animation is the magnum 3rd person melee animation from ce, could be some other weapon but definitely looks like a ce animation
1:06 Technically, it would actually be more greyscale. Anyway, nice video.
I cant believe they fit all of that in one map file lead alone the customization spartan
I think that animation is the elite melee animation
One of the best menus, very cool that you can load it up, great job
I know this is years old now but I'm fairly certain those melee animations for the Chief are his halo 1 Sniper or Shotgun melee animations. I don't think he melees like that in any other halo with any other weapon.
You know, when we get MCC modding, this would be a really cool multiplayer map for Forge, if you fix it up and improve the textures
7:37
Thought the trailer was gonna play for a second.
Music syncs up pretty well, too! 🤩
Can we just stop and take a moment to appreciate how much effort went into making one of the most beautiful Menu screens of all time?
this is some serious nostalgia
TBH I skipped over the 360 era so I remember the CE menu more fondly than any (even more than the H2 menu to be completely honest.) That said I used to think the H3 menu was kind of boring but this vid actually made me feel completely otherwise. It's really quite cleverly designed.
I'm guessing the original menus would have had the camera fly over to each section, so you could switch from campaign to forge and the camera would fly between them.
The nostalgia feels amazing
That's where the E3 trailer for Halo 3 takes place. Never noticed
Imagine beating halo 3 on legendary and you can play this as a bonus level, like museum from mw2
This was amazing thanks general heed