@@williamhornabrook8081 yeah the song that plays during the banshee chase of the Arbiter mission, and the "Blow me away" song that plays towards the end. It sucks.
It's a shame the same writers couldn't do all of Halo 3. The main guy took a sabbatical and only came back for minor edits towards the end. Halo 3's story is still pretty good, but the cutscenes and writing are nowhere near Halo 2's. Halo 2's are still better than 90% of games released today.
@@brup123 yeah halo 3 is great but i felt like it never quite lived up to halo 2s setup, which isnt to say its bad, because halo 2 set the bar insanely high.
@@russell9153yep but I think it was mainly the older fans I was like 9 and was soooooo hyped. He immediately became my favorite and I remember a bunch of us younger fans were the ones that made little “elite only” clans 😂
Things to know: •Captain Keys did die Stg Johnson is the other dude with Captain Keys he survived • dual wielding is more damage slower reloading • Those flying ships turrets are capable of being destroyed you can blow them up with tanks rocket launchers , & warthog machine guns •they remove health packs from the game now all you have to do is hide and heal
@@LunacyUwUsyou trippin bro yes you can, I’ve done it you just have to shoot it like 4-6 times lmao even in halo CE you can it’s just pretty much pointless unless you get the right timing before the drop off
@@smiles1270 The dropships in Halo 1 and 2 cannot be destroyed bro. In Halo 2 you can destroy all of the guns on it, or shoot down vehicles it's carrying, heck you can even kill the troops on board before they get dropped off, but the ship itself is invincible. Halo 3 is when they became destructible.
@@ParagonGoetiaThe Halo community is what made Halo a multi billion dollar franchise. Have you seen Red vs Blue, HaloVFX, or SODAZ? The worst enemy of the Halo IP is 343 and Microsoft.
@@prod_yasha Halo is honestly just sad, Im also around that but Halo has long been surpassed as a game, since 2013 Id argue, and has no reason to be a top hitter until the Halo community is cleansed. I mean straight up a w*tch hunt for people like Xperia who are heavily in part to blame for the wider gaming space for seeing the Halo community as the gatekeeping hole that it is.
Imagine hating on Xbox all these years and then playing the Xbox flagship and finding out how awesome it was. This is why you cannot be a fanboy, all consoles have great things to offer.
You can hate the console and love the games I think the XBOne was one of the worst consoles of all time but I still love its exclusives And right now the PS5 is almost as bad as a console but also still has some of the best exclusives
Dontaii to explain The covenant is a giant multi Alien Cult that believes that activating the Halos (killing everyone) will make them achieve the great beyond… The Arbiter (in the eyes of the religion) should have focused on protecting the Ring despite the Flood being on there So the arbiter got in trouble for Heresy cause he didn’t see the beauty of the HALO ring
Just gonna start writing this comment and add to it as I get through the video... - To answer your question, the planet the Covenant set fire to in the opening cutscene was Reach, which was the biggest, most important colony to humanity. The only planet more important the Reach, is Earth, and Reach was well regarded as the strongest military stronghold in the UNSC. The Pillar of Autumn fled as Reach fell, jumping through "slipspace" and winding up at the Halo ring in the first game, which is where the game picks up. - Sgt Johnson surviving the first Halo ring and making it back is covered in the books, and there's actually some juicy lore involved as to why/how he managed to survive, which is super interesting to Halo nerds like me but you don't need to worry about it for now since you're just going through the games for the first time. - The hunters in the first game were chumps once you figured out that a single pistol or sniper shot to their unarmored midsection takes them down (easiest from behind). In every Halo game since they have not had that weakness. - Something I think you missed in the first Halo was that the Flood are extremely intelligent. They were working to repair both the Covenant ship that you retrieved Keyes' neural implants from and the Pillar of Autumn. That's why they had such a heavy presence in both locations. Also, that cut at the end was hilarious!
I watching you for the first time. Watching you go through this game reminds me of why Halo is so special. Even for new players after all these years still creates a sense of newness and fun. Hope you enjoy the series.
*notices Halo doesn't have a "big bosses"* This is proof a game doesn't need big boss levels if the story is good enough. Halo has them scattered throughout but they blend so seamlessly you barely notice
So excited to see you play Halo 2. It's such good writing to make the character that is the furthest from human you can get, The Arbiter, portray the most relatable human traits. It's a true gem and story to dive into. Also chat, don't spoil it pls, thx
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT HALO 2 MUSIC: The classic graphics had music from Incubus and Breaking Benjamin play in two parts of the campaign. YOU ONLY HEAR THESE IN CLASSIC GRAPHICS! And I cannot stress this enough, the remaster choices are universally agreed to not hold a candle to the vibe set by those original tunes chosen for this game. Even Hoobastank had a song for H2, but it got cut due to time constraints (Bungie made Halo 2 in a couple years, but the last year is when the vast majority of the game was created *and* finished)
16:12 Love that you pay attention to the environment, theres so much storytelling in the background and it drives me crazy when people play through halo with massive tunnel vision
Glad bro is playing Halo 2, cause this game is a masterpiece (no exaggeration) I’m hyped to watch Dontai playthrough considering it’s his first time. Awesome that bro be actually listening and reacting to the scenes and dialogue of the story, man takes me back
Dude dontai I cannot even begin to explain just how happy it makes me seeing you play halo for the first time and going through all the campaign, really do your best to be immersed in reach's campaign fr it is some HEAT guaranteed. Tysm for unlocking so much nostalgia for all of us🙏
Dontai😂 I love ya bro. This HALO rabbit hole you're going down is so worth it. The original Trilogy followed by ODST and Reach are some of the best they have to offer. Personally I think you'll love ODST and Reach. They both have a much darker tone and setting than the original 3 games
@VoidMaker407 the legendary ending of Halo 3 literally leads directly into the beginning of Halo 4. It would have been insane to not continue the story
Interesting Lore Fact (because the games won’t tell you): The reason as to how Sergeant Johnson was able to survive the events of HALO 1, is because he was a direct participant of the ORION Project, aka the program responsible for the creation of the first SPARTANS. Long story short: Johnson is a SPARTAN-1. A Proto-Spartan. He’s literally built different.
This is the first time I’m seeing Halo 2 like this. Grew up with this with my neighbor and we’d play co op every change we got over and over. I will say, I kinda forgot about Arbiter’s big moment here and that we got to play as him (it’s been so long…). Thank you Dontai for playing this series. I’m bugging out like you and will play the collection after I watch you do 3. If 2 was this good from the jump, you’ll love 3. Loving this!!
if you didnt know Dontai, at 51:45 when you get to the bridge and get the scorpion, the woman in that cutscene and on your tank is Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) from Fast and Furious and The Arbiter is voiced by Keith David
It warms my heart to see the younger generations discovering the masterpieces that are Halo CE and 2 for the first time. I wish I could go back to 2001 and 2004 when I had the same honors.
almost 20 years since I first laid my hands on this game. What a treat seeing someone elses first experience with it. I only wish you could have been there during it's peak. What a time for gaming.
Holy shit its a special experience to watch how a new player feels about these games in 2024 in realtime. All of the music, the graphic style, and most of the diologue in these games was crafted in a way that just hits the deepest and dearest cords of nostalgia for OG players. To see people today getting a similar experience is straight up heartwarming. A raw example of collaborative artwork becoming timelessly enjoyed by gamers.
If you dont know, Captain keyes died in the first game and miranda keyes(woman that recieved the medal in the beggining) is his daughter. A seperate character was promoted to captain after keyes died on the ring in halo 1. And the black guy is a different character, sgt johnson from the first game
Hey Dontai! This is my first video watching you play. Halo is my favorite game of all and I’ve watched many lets plays and streams of others going through and watching there reactions. You’ve made my day! This was a great video and I enjoyed it
the people who animated the remade cutscenes comes from a studio called blur. IM TELLING YOU THEY NEED TO BE CONTRACTED TO MAKE A HALO MOVIE. IT WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR FANS AND CASUAL WATCHERS
Man it brings me so much so to watch you play through this for the first time. Been playing halo since middle school and wish I could go back and experience for the first time again
Sgt Johnson was in the same room as Keyes when the Flood released on top of them, and now he's here! The toughest, cigar-chompingist Marine there is. And of course how he makes it out is classified lol
A huge tip Tai is abuse the AI in the warthogs give one marine a strong weapon the other guns. You will FLY through the hard parts. PS: dream come true he’s playing my childhood games 😤🔥🔥
Sergeant Johnson was the black marine that was giving the rally speech during the first cutscene in the previous game. He was basically the 'ONLY' black marine in the first game.
I just want to point out that the scene near the end of this video, where the profits make him the arbiter, you are listening to the 2 coolest voices in Hollywood IMO, the guy who plays the arbiter, and the guy who plays the profit of truth, their voices are both amazing, I wish they did more voice acting.
I relate to that ending so well, when I learned that we play as the arbiter when I was younger I lost my shit. Cant wait to see you experience this incredible game
The Halo 2 remaster is still one of the best remasters ever made. The cutscenes look straight outta a movie
Fr we need this for CE and halo 3 now 😂😂
@@lionsfan3581 pretty sure were getting another ce remake
Fr
A quibble I have with it was stripping out the licensed music from the original.
@@williamhornabrook8081 yeah the song that plays during the banshee chase of the Arbiter mission, and the "Blow me away" song that plays towards the end. It sucks.
I can watch the opening cutscene 100 times and still watch closely for every single second. This game is absolutely peak gaming.
the writing in this game is genuinely some of the best in any game EVER
REAL!!!
It's a shame the same writers couldn't do all of Halo 3. The main guy took a sabbatical and only came back for minor edits towards the end. Halo 3's story is still pretty good, but the cutscenes and writing are nowhere near Halo 2's. Halo 2's are still better than 90% of games released today.
@@brup123 yeah halo 3 is great but i felt like it never quite lived up to halo 2s setup, which isnt to say its bad, because halo 2 set the bar insanely high.
The hijack idea was so beautiful to have 😂😂😂😂 reminds me of gta
Love how Dontai can acknowledge how scary the flood is
Freaked the shit out of me when I was a kid
Trust me they are actually the scariest thing in halo cause they can take over everything
wait til he meets the hivemind..... tbh idk how the flood didnt win
@@VLADDfps plot
@@sup3rAVATARtlafAN same
Dude perfected the "You now play as the arbiter" reaction
I JUST LAUGHED SO HARD BRUH that shit is so funny i wanna see the rest of the reaction
i was waiting for it HAHAHAHAHA
I'm excited for the next video
I refuse to like the op comment for one reason only.
Somebody fucked up the 117. Oh well, I guess I can like the op comment now.
wish i could see the full reaction but it got cut for some reason...
The arbiter’s inclusion in this game is the greatest thing in all of gaming
such an underrated character, but i fucking love him he's my favorite halo character bar none
Funniest thing was a lot of the halo community were up in arms about it when halo 2 came out. I remember all the raging.
My boy Keith David 💪🏽💪🏽
@@russell9153yep but I think it was mainly the older fans I was like 9 and was soooooo hyped. He immediately became my favorite and I remember a bunch of us younger fans were the ones that made little “elite only” clans 😂
@@hoemie2587we ran around with bigger hit boxes back then because we looked cool, that’d never happen nowadays
23:15 "yknow i need ammo" while staring at a ammo rack. Never change lmao
Lol
That part was perfect 🤣
...he did it... again! 😑
“some poonani for our work” Dontai doesn’t realize he’s playing as the deadliest virgin known to man
master cheeks
Pretty sure it's canon that the suit jacks him off or some shi 😭😭
second deadliest, because doomguy is also a virgin
Good thing that awful TV show isn’t canon
@@keyeslord no shit right lmaoo
Things to know:
•Captain Keys did die
Stg Johnson is the other dude with Captain Keys he survived
• dual wielding is more damage slower reloading
• Those flying ships turrets are capable of being destroyed you can blow them up with tanks rocket launchers , & warthog machine guns
•they remove health packs from the game now all you have to do is hide and heal
@@LunacyUwUs the turrets can
@@LunacyUwUsyou trippin bro yes you can, I’ve done it you just have to shoot it like 4-6 times lmao even in halo CE you can it’s just pretty much pointless unless you get the right timing before the drop off
@@smiles1270 The dropships in Halo 1 and 2 cannot be destroyed bro. In Halo 2 you can destroy all of the guns on it, or shoot down vehicles it's carrying, heck you can even kill the troops on board before they get dropped off, but the ship itself is invincible. Halo 3 is when they became destructible.
Forgot to mention you can't swap empty guns with allies or swap for the same gun in your inventory
@@Sangheilliozdamn, I swear I have a memory of destroying and phantom on the bridge in halo 2 but you right it most likely was halo 3
Top three best games of all time
How old arw you? 40? Damn I guess yeah the Halo community is the worst enemy of the IP.
@@ParagonGoetia🤡🤓
@@ParagonGoetiamf I’m 21 n this shit was my whole childhood had an OG Xbox back in 2012 and played tf out of this game
@@ParagonGoetiaThe Halo community is what made Halo a multi billion dollar franchise. Have you seen Red vs Blue, HaloVFX, or SODAZ? The worst enemy of the Halo IP is 343 and Microsoft.
@@prod_yasha Halo is honestly just sad, Im also around that but Halo has long been surpassed as a game, since 2013 Id argue, and has no reason to be a top hitter until the Halo community is cleansed.
I mean straight up a w*tch hunt for people like Xperia who are heavily in part to blame for the wider gaming space for seeing the Halo community as the gatekeeping hole that it is.
Imagine hating on Xbox all these years and then playing the Xbox flagship and finding out how awesome it was.
This is why you cannot be a fanboy, all consoles have great things to offer.
it's also why they're called fanBOYS and not fanMEN. 😆
You can hate the console and love the games
I think the XBOne was one of the worst consoles of all time but I still love its exclusives
And right now the PS5 is almost as bad as a console but also still has some of the best exclusives
Halo and Gears are the only good things that Microsoft owns lmao
@@Jjw338 not true at all
@@llJeezusll People hate on the brand concept itself and dismiss everything tied to it unfortunately. It's always better to stay unbiased.
Dontai in his character development arc
i watch these halo 2 cutscenes yearly religiously
LMAAAOOO perfect ending 1:14:34
One of the best melee weapons in the game including the assassination
The cutaway at the end was priceless. Also, HELL YEAH DONTAI THE GOAT!!
Dontaii to explain
The covenant is a giant multi Alien Cult that believes that activating the Halos (killing everyone) will make them achieve the great beyond…
The Arbiter (in the eyes of the religion) should have focused on protecting the Ring despite the Flood being on there
So the arbiter got in trouble for Heresy cause he didn’t see the beauty of the HALO ring
That ending 😂
We all felt like that in 2004
I was 13 years old pumping my chest after I realized we can use the sword. Halo 2 I opened for Christmas. 😁😮💨🥲
HALO 2 is my childhood and the greatest games I’ve ever played still
Halo 2 story is fking peak
@@sup3rAVATARtlafANya know what’s crazy some people actually thought halo 2 had a bad story
@@yes4720nah they crazy , me and my sister ran through this story mode soo many times together.
@@yes4720 its more that the game abrubtly ends on a cliffhanger which bummed a lot of people out, back in the day
An unbalanced mess
The anniversary cutscenes are amazing. Thank you Blur Studio.
The ending encapsulates my own reaction when I realized we could play as elites back when I was a kid xDDD
The overhaul on the cutscenes makes this look like a movie
What the show shoulda been
The cutscenes were done by Blur Studios who are contracted to work on movies too. It cost 1 million dollars per minute for Halo 2's cutscenes.
Honestly, Blur's cutscenes here is incredible, if Halo ever got a chance at a movie again I hope Blur gets the job
@UNSCPILOT Blur studios is far too expensive to make a full movie unfortunately.
Just gonna start writing this comment and add to it as I get through the video...
- To answer your question, the planet the Covenant set fire to in the opening cutscene was Reach, which was the biggest, most important colony to humanity. The only planet more important the Reach, is Earth, and Reach was well regarded as the strongest military stronghold in the UNSC. The Pillar of Autumn fled as Reach fell, jumping through "slipspace" and winding up at the Halo ring in the first game, which is where the game picks up.
- Sgt Johnson surviving the first Halo ring and making it back is covered in the books, and there's actually some juicy lore involved as to why/how he managed to survive, which is super interesting to Halo nerds like me but you don't need to worry about it for now since you're just going through the games for the first time.
- The hunters in the first game were chumps once you figured out that a single pistol or sniper shot to their unarmored midsection takes them down (easiest from behind). In every Halo game since they have not had that weakness.
- Something I think you missed in the first Halo was that the Flood are extremely intelligent. They were working to repair both the Covenant ship that you retrieved Keyes' neural implants from and the Pillar of Autumn. That's why they had such a heavy presence in both locations.
Also, that cut at the end was hilarious!
26:29 the “Aw” on Dontai’s face is priceless, no homo made me smile
The one liners from HALO are iconic. "For a brick, he flew pretty good!" XD
Arbiter is such a badass with his one-liners. Halo 2 was THE ONE bavk then
I watching you for the first time. Watching you go through this game reminds me of why Halo is so special. Even for new players after all these years still creates a sense of newness and fun. Hope you enjoy the series.
*notices Halo doesn't have a "big bosses"* This is proof a game doesn't need big boss levels if the story is good enough. Halo has them scattered throughout but they blend so seamlessly you barely notice
Halo 2 is so peak 😭🙏
Cringe
@@mihaimercenarul7467your cringe
I don't think I have ever been happier to watch a Dontai video. I can't wait for him to play some more of the series. Also the ending was fire.
Halo 2 and Halo 3 and Halo Reach are amazing! Can't express into words how happy I am to see you play my favorite franchise of all time!
The look on your face and the reactions is the pure joy of playing Halo, I can't wait to see more.
The reaction to playing the Arbiter is insane. Perfectly cut scream lol
Mjolnir Mix from Halo 2 is the gamer national anthem
Mjolnir mix is goated, but the Gungir mix goes unbelievably hard.
*This man will* piss and shit himself when he gets to Reach.
For real
So excited to see you play Halo 2. It's such good writing to make the character that is the furthest from human you can get, The Arbiter, portray the most relatable human traits. It's a true gem and story to dive into. Also chat, don't spoil it pls, thx
What are we, some kind of Halo 2?
“Together, we are Halo 2.” - John Halo
i guess this makes the halo be three us…
"So smile, would ya? While we still got somethin' to smile about!"
W character line. 1000% Iconic
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT HALO 2 MUSIC: The classic graphics had music from Incubus and Breaking Benjamin play in two parts of the campaign. YOU ONLY HEAR THESE IN CLASSIC GRAPHICS! And I cannot stress this enough, the remaster choices are universally agreed to not hold a candle to the vibe set by those original tunes chosen for this game. Even Hoobastank had a song for H2, but it got cut due to time constraints (Bungie made Halo 2 in a couple years, but the last year is when the vast majority of the game was created *and* finished)
16:12 Love that you pay attention to the environment, theres so much storytelling in the background and it drives me crazy when people play through halo with massive tunnel vision
33:39
"Go get him, this is your time to be in the history book!"
"I can't see it!"
"Oh my god..."
🤣
Glad bro is playing Halo 2, cause this game is a masterpiece (no exaggeration) I’m hyped to watch Dontai playthrough considering it’s his first time.
Awesome that bro be actually listening and reacting to the scenes and dialogue of the story, man takes me back
giving the covenant back their bomb still gets me bricked up
“If they come to hear me beg, they’ll be disappointed.”
One of the hardest quotes in gaming history.
8:35 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 standin on business fr
The cut off at the end 😭 loving this series
Dude dontai I cannot even begin to explain just how happy it makes me seeing you play halo for the first time and going through all the campaign, really do your best to be immersed in reach's campaign fr it is some HEAT guaranteed. Tysm for unlocking so much nostalgia for all of us🙏
my favorite halo campaign personally. getting to play as the Arbiter for the first time was so cool
Dontai😂 I love ya bro. This HALO rabbit hole you're going down is so worth it. The original Trilogy followed by ODST and Reach are some of the best they have to offer.
Personally I think you'll love ODST and Reach. They both have a much darker tone and setting than the original 3 games
"Whos the comedian in the group?" That would be David Cross...an actual comedian. 😂
“Give the Covenant back their bomb.” THE AURA FROM THIS MAN DUDE😭😭😭
Arbiter is basically a su!cide job, he gains nothing from it live or die, it's basically an unbeatable objective he's got.
1:10:21 “your name is tartar sauce” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As soon as ImDOntai sees Halo 4 Cortanna.... it will be Joever for chat, there will just be non-stop 'gyats' 😂.
Shi if he even gets to 4 lol, the story honestly shouldve ended after reach but i still fw 4 gameplay wise
@@VoidMaker4074 had the worst gameplay imo. The prometheans are garbage
@@foret4a874 its the worst of all halos i agree but i still had a fun with the sprinting and whatnot when it came out back then
@@foret4a874not only that but many of the guns are also garbage. Even the covenant enemies are braindead compared to the previous games.
@VoidMaker407 the legendary ending of Halo 3 literally leads directly into the beginning of Halo 4. It would have been insane to not continue the story
Chief giving the Covenant back their bomb = greatest cutscene in Halo history.
Interesting Lore Fact (because the games won’t tell you):
The reason as to how Sergeant Johnson was able to survive the events of HALO 1, is because he was a direct participant of the ORION Project, aka the program responsible for the creation of the first SPARTANS.
Long story short: Johnson is a SPARTAN-1. A Proto-Spartan. He’s literally built different.
if you watched he was going to ask if master chief was the only spartan and then he said wait I don’t wanna know
W chat for not spoiling anything
Also there were portally shenanigans happening er something that actually transported him off-ring. Forerunner bs and plot convenience
This is the first time I’m seeing Halo 2 like this. Grew up with this with my neighbor and we’d play co op every change we got over and over. I will say, I kinda forgot about Arbiter’s big moment here and that we got to play as him (it’s been so long…). Thank you Dontai for playing this series. I’m bugging out like you and will play the collection after I watch you do 3. If 2 was this good from the jump, you’ll love 3. Loving this!!
Dontai stop spoiling us with these vids I’m abt to busssssss
if you didnt know Dontai, at 51:45 when you get to the bridge and get the scorpion, the woman in that cutscene and on your tank is Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) from Fast and Furious and The Arbiter is voiced by Keith David
HE BETTER UPLOAD EACH EPISODE BECAUSE THIS IS GAS
So glad you're enjoying halo 2 so far, def the best story in the series.
So....we just gonna ignore the fact the guy who did the music for halo wanted to talk to dontai?
Wait WHAT?
@T3traFN_YT yuh. Marty commented on sum randoms yt channel n saw dontai's reaction to his track, pretty wild no one told dontai yet😂🤷♂️
@@T3traFN_YTdon't be that surprised, that giy comments everywhere
@@mihaimercenarul7467 yeah, I've also seen his comments on a lot of videos, but IT'S MARTIN O' DONNELL
Can't believe Dontai missed out on Halo but it's never to late to get on board, glad he did
Tai bout to experience peak 😭🙏
It warms my heart to see the younger generations discovering the masterpieces that are Halo CE and 2 for the first time. I wish I could go back to 2001 and 2004 when I had the same honors.
The ending to this video was legendary. Can’t wait for part 2 of Halo 2!
almost 20 years since I first laid my hands on this game. What a treat seeing someone elses first experience with it. I only wish you could have been there during it's peak. What a time for gaming.
Holy shit its a special experience to watch how a new player feels about these games in 2024 in realtime.
All of the music, the graphic style, and most of the diologue in these games was crafted in a way that just hits the deepest and dearest cords of nostalgia for OG players.
To see people today getting a similar experience is straight up heartwarming. A raw example of collaborative artwork becoming timelessly enjoyed by gamers.
I wish they sill had those SMGs in Halo Infinite, miss em.
watching unc play through my childhood on this channel is so amazing man. brings a smile to my face ♥
It puts a smile to my face seeing dante enjoy this.
If you dont know, Captain keyes died in the first game and miranda keyes(woman that recieved the medal in the beggining) is his daughter. A seperate character was promoted to captain after keyes died on the ring in halo 1. And the black guy is a different character, sgt johnson from the first game
“Get off my planet bruh” 😂
Hey Dontai! This is my first video watching you play. Halo is my favorite game of all and I’ve watched many lets plays and streams of others going through and watching there reactions. You’ve made my day! This was a great video and I enjoyed it
Halo 2s story along with the beautiful BLUR studios cutscenes is THE Best Halo story every made
Bro we love this series, keep it up
I love how this man said “ oh so I don’t have to kill you guys for your weapon”. Looks like a bunch of humans will be spared. Or will they be?
honestly so fuckin fun watching someone trip out over halo like this. Brings back some incredible memories.
Awesome that you are playing these classics.
the memories I have of playing this game all night with my older brother in 04-05. Priceless.
Keith David as The Arbiter is iconic
tai learning all the lore n shit make me so happy i feel like a british cigarette
Glad you’re genuinely enjoying the series bro and not just playing just to play, hope you finish the rest of the series throughout the years ❤️
the people who animated the remade cutscenes comes from a studio called blur. IM TELLING YOU THEY NEED TO BE CONTRACTED TO MAKE A HALO MOVIE. IT WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR FANS AND CASUAL WATCHERS
Man it brings me so much so to watch you play through this for the first time. Been playing halo since middle school and wish I could go back and experience for the first time again
Just to clear up. The planet they burned was called reach. It was an earth like planet we used as an outpost. Many people called it home.
Adding electric guitar to the Halo theme was definitely the right call. Quite possibly the only time humanity has improved perfection.
I’m so geeked watching this dude experience my childhood. Halo defined my teenage years.
That ending omfg i need part two asap!
Imma say it again. Reach is gonna change this man’s life
I genuinely like how you felt empathy for the elite at the beginning.
“What’d he do wrong? Just for next time so I know” lmaooo love the halo ai’s
Sgt Johnson was in the same room as Keyes when the Flood released on top of them, and now he's here! The toughest, cigar-chompingist Marine there is.
And of course how he makes it out is classified lol
6:08 "filters off... JESUS CHRIST! FILTERS ON!!!!" dead
The halo 2 anniversary cutscenes ARE LEGENDARY. I can't believe how badass chief and Cortana look in them
So glad you gave 2 a chance after struggling with CE. Halo 2 Anniversary is so beautiful and the story is chef’s kiss.
A huge tip Tai is abuse the AI in the warthogs give one marine a strong weapon the other guns. You will FLY through the hard parts.
PS: dream come true he’s playing my childhood games 😤🔥🔥
Sergeant Johnson was the black marine that was giving the rally speech during the first cutscene in the previous game.
He was basically the 'ONLY' black marine in the first game.
Nobody can play the Arbiter better than Keith David
I hope nobody else ever does
I’m 24 now, so I was 4 when my brother got this game around release. To this day it’s still my favorite of the main trilogy
Man i LOOOOVE Halo 2
That's the game that made me love the franchise
I just want to point out that the scene near the end of this video, where the profits make him the arbiter, you are listening to the 2 coolest voices in Hollywood IMO, the guy who plays the arbiter, and the guy who plays the profit of truth, their voices are both amazing, I wish they did more voice acting.
I relate to that ending so well, when I learned that we play as the arbiter when I was younger I lost my shit. Cant wait to see you experience this incredible game
I swear to god Sgt Johnson is easily the most iconic side character of any series. Damn well love Sgt Johnson, he knows what the ladies like.