Hey man, I know you have a niche, but I'd love if you'd continue to branch out more. Really high quality content. I could listen to you talk about anything.
@NationSquid, Absolutely Excellent Video! Halo:CE is my favorite game in Video Game History, dating back to Pong in 1976. 2. Halo Infinite 3. Halo 4 4. Halo 3 5. Halo Wars 2 6. Halo 5 7. Halo 2 8. Halo Wars 9. Halo: REACH 10. Halo: ODST These are my favorite Games All Time! in order. 2. Gears of War Series 3. Mass Effect Trilogy 4. Forza Motorsport Series 5. Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black, Ninja Gaiden 2 Roud out my Top 5 Game Series All Time!, in order.
same My teacher also lets us play Counter-Strike and our school computers even tho are old but are really good for those games and Win7 still is butter
I played Halo all my life, every game, and the fact it only came out a year before I was born makes me feel so lucky I got into it so early, at age 8 I became obsessed because of my uncle and my dad introducing me to video games. Halo is a huge part of my life and I'll always be happy about it.
Halo was that first fps game i played that i truly fell in love with. The storyline, the action, the music, the cinematography.. it was so immersive at the time, especially as a kid
A universe where the mac could game and Halo was a 3rd person shooter/3D RTS hybrid. That's a tough one to imagine, it'd be so very different compared to the videogaming world we have today.
@@KiraSlith I work in IT, and from seeing the internals of an iMac vs an Intel AIO system, I can confirm the world would be very different. Those apple power supplies be dangerous yo And I hate imagining a world where Apple might possibly own Halo and release it on the TV 💀
Yep, that was the second controller known as the Model S. The original was called the “Duke” and was humongous! The Model S has been virtually the same controller on all future Xbox consoles.
@@Donsjohnson The Duke was the better controller for me personally, newer controllers are too small for my hand. Well it would be the better controller with lb and rb instead of the black and white buttons
I actually very disagree with Halo being more exciting on console for two big reasons, mods and online multiplayer. Yea, the netcode was awful but so many PC gamers lost thousands upon thousands of hours playing CE online. Mean while, Combat Evolved had a HUGE modding scene that's still active to this very day.
No I agree. I use to run servers and make custom maps. Halo combat evolved multiplayer reminded me of counter strike multiplayer. You can play the game how it's intended or you could fuck with the game to your heart's content and make insanely unbalanced servers that were just dumb fun. I miss when games were like this. Multiplayer is tok serious now
My god this game defined my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play other games in my dad's laptop at that time due to violence since i was a kid back then, like counter strike. I still play this until now.
halo is one of my core memory and i will cherish it forever, the first time i saw it was when my father came back from working overseas he said he played it with his friends back then on xbox, at home we didn't have a xbox, but then he saw it available on PC, he got excited himself then he installed it on our PC, at first i just loved watching him play but too scared to try because i was afraid to die and lose, but he encouraged me to try and i loved it, boy it was such a fun times.
I remember me being 13 and a huge mac acolyte, happy in the knowledge that the Mac finally had a killer game coming out for it first. It hadn't been that way since Marathon! And then the rug got pulled out from under me.
@@alexandria279bc5 Not Microsoft's fault when Apple turned Bungie down first. Cannot blame Bungie either for accepting Microsoft's offer when their studio was in trouble financially.
We got our house destroyed in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan. We had lost everything, and we were left to live in a FEMA trailer. For Christmas that year my dad took us to Sam's and bought us the Halo Edition Green Original Xbox and we played the socks off that Xbox.
gonna gave to disagree on that point T 16:10 levels that are meant to be simple are linear, take for example the pillar of autumn. it’s a first level and intended to make you feel cramped, so that halo, the next level feels like a complete mind blow you can rescue the marines in any order, explore and really get a feel for the atmosphere, it’s not as linear as described many of the flood levels are easy to get lost on because they take place in large complexes where many of the rooms look similar the snowy levels are have loads of cool skips and backtracks you have to do i wouldn’t describe them as linear at all, in fact many people refer to halo’s gameplay as sandbox like
Fair enough! I grew up playing so much Halo I could have just gotten so used to the level design where it feels linear to me. I suppose in comparison to other games I grew up with like Morrowind or Oblivion the difference feels quite significant, but that could just be comparing apples to oranges. :)
@@nationsquid the first halo is my faveourite game ever and honestly. The game is not a very open game but it's not very closed either. How open a leven is was purely based on how much time bungie had to develop it I've noticed. Levels that had years worth of toke put in are super open. Like halo or silent cartographer. And levels with barely any time Tend to be really closed off. Like two betrayals
I was practically raised by Halo since its release. I was 4 when I experienced 343 Guilty Spark and the Library. I've been there for Halo's highest highs and lowest lows. I've been playing Halo for 20 years and I'm gonna play for another 20.
This video about how Apple almost had Halo was very intriguing.👍I do want to say although someone already pointed it out, at 16:10 even though yes the campaign is linear, you could DEFINITELY get lost your first (or first few) time(s) playing. A lot of levels had me pulling my hair out like The Pillar of Autumn, 343 Guilty Spark, and one of the missions on the actual Halo planet. Edit: To answer the question at the end of the video: Not only did I play the original Halo, I felt it changed my life. It got me into FPS's and deeper into video games than I already was. I spent hours playing it at my friend's house and we beat the game co-op on Legendary mode...which shocked us both. Truly thankful for this game.
I randomly found this channel a while back and every new video since has been fascinating. Something about this kind of history in a well researched video essay style just interests me.
This was karma for Steve Jobs being ashamed to talk about working at Atari and karma for him quitting Atari to go to Southeast Asia and get high. If you don't believe me look it up, apparently he hated talking about it. He gave up on working with games first and then he did it again with Bungie, so yeah I think Halo supercharging the Xbox into a Microsoft staple is fair payback to him from the industry he just never really put enough effort into.
It kinda feels like this was just the natural consequence of Jobs being his usual dickhole self. He wanted Bungie to take all the risks of developing a high-budget game without helping them, but at the same still expected to reap rewards if the game succeeded. Not really a surprise that Bungie said fuck that and decided to go with the guys who were willing to actually back them and help out instead of the entitled deadbeat who wanted something for nothing.
@@wasd____ that's very true. I'm just adding that Jobs actually did, or at least really wanted to, like games but never put in the effort to make them work or make a career in games work for him. When he was young, he went to work for Atari, I highly doubt he'd have done this if he didn't like games to at least some extent. He just had such a weird relationship with them because he was a bit greedy and a bit of an ass, so I'd say this is karma. What happened afterwards was a natural consequence of his actions but the way games and game development went when Steve was around was effectively karma for his fucked mindset
I mean, comparing halo and perfect dark is like comparing final fantasy 6 and 7. Completely different console generation means the limitation of the hardware making it look older is not something that can really be discussed as a factor (even if FFVI is clearly superior to 7 in every conceivable way, including graphics.)
I remembered playing Halo when I was like 3 or 4 because my oldest brother was the one that got a xbox and my other brother that is 5 or 6 we would play Halo on the xbox and its a rated M game too and my mom was stricted on violent video games and she can look back now and probably say it wasn't too violent but it still have some shooting and I know my oldest brother would get pissed since little me and my brother would locked the room to play halo and when he gets back we could put it away like we didn't played it and I remembered having fun playing it because we played it on easy multiple times and my favorite mission is Assault on the Control Room and my favorite part of it was the first bridge your on with the banshee
I knew about this and I remember when it happened. Not only did Microsoft take Halo from Apple but they also kept it out of PC player's hands as well opting for an Xbox exclusive launch. Which absolutely enraged the PC only players to no end. However, that is only a small part of the story. At one point Halo was supposed to be an RTS game, then a 3rd person action game, and then finally it became the genre defining FPS I love/loved so much. I picked up an Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved one week after its release and I haven't missed an Xbox or Halo launch since then. This includes the Xbox Series X and Infinite. I still can't believe the Halo saga is now 20 years old. Addendum- If you think the story behind Halo: Combat Evolved is wild you should look at how the 7th generation of gaming started. Did you know Sony inadvertently paid to have the Xbox 360 built? It's even funnier knowing that Sony had no idea what was happening until Microsoft announced the 360.
@@nativegamer3384 Yes they absolutely did take Halo from Apple. Microsoft came in at the very last second during Halo's development for the MAC and purchased them. Halo did not arrive on Mac's or PC's for at least 10 years. So what are you talking about?
@@Sinn0100 "Yes they absolutely did take Halo from Apple." ...You mean after Apple said, "No, we're not going to help you, but we want you to figure out on your own how to develop an incredibly expensive game for the benefit of OUR platform?" I mean... it sounds like Apple (by which I mean Jobs) was being a dick and trying to offload all the risks of failure to someone else while still expecting to reap the rewards if things succeeded. So can you really blame Bungie for saying, "Nope, fuck that, we're going with the guys who are willing to back us instead."?
I actually almost got in trouble for putting Halo CE for PC on the computers in my graphic design class in high school. My teacher ended up calling my parents and telling them I was esoteric. He wanted to know how I did it because everything was locked down. Somehow I gained access to the teachers server and installed it on there. He was really impressed.
Can you imagine how horrible it would be if Apple was the one that got into the video game industry instead of Microsoft? With their insane price spiking, they'd be releasing consoles costing like $3000 and games coming out at like $500 and them getting away with it because they're Apple and people will buy anything with that fruit icon on it no matter how much it costs encouraging all the other companies to do the exact same thing with their prices...they would have rekilled the video game industry or made it very hard to get into
I don't think that would've happened. You cannot make video games into luxury overpriced products and Apple knows this. Just look at Apple TV, which has the specs to be quite a powerful game console despite not being overpriced at all. It could be really appealing if only Apple wanted to support it more - performance wise it would crush Switch or previous console generation. Or consider iPhones. You can buy a 5 year old iPhone and still play every possible game on it and enjoy it basically for free. Just look how successful LoL, Genshin Impact, PUBG or CoD are on mobile (of course you can play these games on Android as well - just making a point here).
Well there is actually a video game console from Apple called the Apple Bandai Pippin released in 1996 It didn’t sell well and got bad reviews but I believe the console was meant for PC Games if I’m not wrong
@@TheIrisCZ With the nature Apple has today, they would definitely be very stingy in video game market. They would have exclusive consoles and games with high pricing and no reverse compatibility as we see in PlayStation or Xbox. They would have released a new console every year with little to no improvement, and would have ended all the support for games made for previous generations of their consoles or Mac. "Do you want to play the latest game? Then buy the latest console or Mac else shut up." The worst part would be that people would've still lap them up like they do today, even though they have stopped innovating new things. Amazing services like Xbox Game Pass would look like a dream. You can't compare today's mobile games to console/PC games, its like comparing apples to oranges. Mobile games are usually free to play and contain in game purchases to boost your progress, meanwhile single player games on PC/console require tons of grinding. Success of mobile games comes from downloads and eventually in game purchases, while success of PC/console games comes from copies(digital or physical) sold worldwide. Anyone can pickup a free game but not many pay upfront to get a game. Also most mobile games are expansion based, they don't offer the whole package at start. If they get successful and receive good response, they expand over time else shut down completely. With PC/console games you have the security of acquiring the whole game(with a few optional DLCs) even if the company goes bankrupt. At most only their online multiplayer servers go down and you can still enjoy offline campaign. Just put an initial purchase cost on good games like Gesnhin Impact and PUBGM and see how their growth goes down as newer players will hesitate to buy these games.You can play today's games on a 9 year old WIndows PC if you have minimum hardware required(I know because I do that) but you can't even install newer MacOS on barely 5 year old Macs even though they have more than enough hardware to do so, forget about playing new games. Old Iphones support games because they have to to compete with Android or else nobody will play games on Iphones(just like nobody plays on Mac) and eventually they will lose both mobile games and PC/console games market. Its not like they don't have powerful hardware, its just that they don't want to support or update their previous products because they know its hard for people to break out from Apple Ecosystem.
The "Morons buy overpriced apple trash" mentality didn't start until the late 2000's. Apple wouldn't be able to get their foot in the door if they started off that way.
My 10th birthday in 2003 i got my hands on the original xbox bundled with halo 1 and it has changed my life forever. At that moment I forever became a gamer and to this day video games are the biggest component of my life outside of my wife and kids
I, sort of, remember hearing the Halo theme on TV in 1999 when Macworld 1999 snippets were being played on TV. I don't remember much else about what they said about the game, but I do remember that music on TV.
You know, maybe gaming on the Mac could’ve been a success if Halo was released on it first. We could be playing Call of Duty, Doom, Valorant, etc. on a Mac if Halo did release on it.
I built my first PC in 2021 and Halo MCC was one of the first games I played on it. It was also the first time I had ever played a Halo game (first was Reach and I loved it😍) Prior to this, I was aware of the halo franchise, even as a kid in Nigeria. Some of my friends who owned XBOX consoles would talk about how cool the game was back in the 2000s. After playing Reach, I am now aware of why so many OG XBOX fans and gamers were so in love with the game franchise. It's amazing!
The Halo trilogy will always be some of my favorite games of all time. So many good memories for me in my pre-teen and teen years playing Halo 2 & 3 online ❤
actual masterpiece game. i remember back in like 2014 or so both computer labs in my high school would be full of kids and teachers playing halo custom edition and spreading it to each others PCs and USBs like wildfire. such a blast
Me and my older brother found halo though our 4 older cousin's and we went to their house and we played it i manly ran master chief in circles at first but my brother got really into it and that Christmas my older brother got the Xbox and the halo game. I learned to play the game along side him and over time our youngest brother and sister played halo with us too so halo has a very special place in my heart as well. Because that was how we found the Xbox and halo. I remember when Halo 3 came out that i went with my older brother and mom to get the new halo game at midnight at Walmart. So that's really cool memory for me. So thanks halo for being a huge part of me and my siblings life's growing up. Our dad and uncle played with us too all the time too. Halo please release on the Nintendo switch.
I played Starsiege Tribes for a few years and then the Halo video came out. People were blown away. I can still remember the chat and who sent me a link to the video. It was a peek into what could be coming that might compete with the openness/strategy that Tribes provided. I remember wondering if I was going to have to find a way to afford a mac. ;) Years later I worked at Future Shop and unloaded my pre-order Xbox off the truck. That night the crew stayed up all night beating the campaign. We played for years after that. It's a 50/50 or maybe a 60/40 feeling. Looking back at the complexity of Tribes, there was a large learning curve, you needed a reasonable PC to play, they keyboard input allowed for so much more control and customization. The PC side offers a level of complexity you generally can't get out of a standard console setup. On the other side, you're generally not going to have a bunch of friends over and have a lan party around the coffee table. Halo on the Xbox brought the game to a much wider audience, it was the next Goldeneye for us. I would have loved to see a more complex Halo from the start, but wouldn't want to kill all the cool memories I've already got.
As someone who played Halo 1 and 2 on PC, we waiting a long time to play Halo 3, but it was worth it, even if the single player took even longer to arrive, arrived after we got the entirety of Reach in fact. Still waiting for split screen tho.
For MCC, they keep saying it's at the bottom of their list, and eventually will be implemented to all MCC games for all relevent modes, for Infinite, pretty sure no one said anything, so maybe 2 player split screen will be an option for standard 4v4 and bellow PVP on stronger PCs of the future and the XBox series whatever is the mid gen leter the pick, XBox Series Z? Series A? X already taken, the Pro version of the future basically. But likelly just wont happen, like how it never came to 5.
Holy shit I literally just found out about this searched it & this came up uploaded 4 hours ago perfect timing & Great video exact style I was looking for great narration
I didn't have an Xbox back then so I didn't get into Halo until I got the PC version for my birthday years and years later.. I always loved the story, art design and tone, reminded me heavily of the original StarCraft.
Although Donkey Kong technically is a Japanese born franchise, it was developed by a UK based developer Rare in this timeframe. And they coincidentally got bought by Microsoft as well the year after Halo's release.
it would have been an FPS under Apple as well, because the employees mucking around with the camera perspective for fun is what made them decide on FPS
We had the original Xbox in my family. I think we had a version of Halo, but I don't think I ever tried it. I was quite young at the time, and to me it looked like a game for grown-ups.
I was 1 when CE came out. But when halo 3 came along I started to play at friends houses since my parents wouldn’t allow us to have M rated games and we had a PlayStation. Then after playing reach and loving it I decided I wanted an Xbox 360. I downloaded CE, even buying an external hard drive to be able to play it, and loving the series since. With halo infinite coming out it’s clear how incredibly far gaming has come since then
I’m sorry, I had to do a double-take here at 9:35 It’s pronounced “wart hog”. lol I played the first _Halo_ game, but honestly, as groundbreaking as it was for its time, I found it to be my least favorite in the entire series up to now. It’s just not for me.
I have a very interesting story of how I got halo and my first xbox in 2007 me and my family was having dinner and someone knocked on our door it was one of my dads school friends she asked my dad if me and my brother wanted the complete system and all the games she said she no longer needed it in there house so my dad said yes and when we got it inside the house everything worked and one of the games it included was halo and halo 2 after that first time playing halo I kept playing halo and halo 2 from 2007 till this day using xlink kai I also still have my first xbox and the other 2 consoles I purchased years later for my dad and brother but however by far halo is probably the best experience I had playing on my first xbox definitely the best xbox game same with halo 2
"The Mac, at the time, ran virtually no games, at least not very popular ones." Bruh what's changed I don't see a difference between then and now. Let's just look at one developing genre of games, VR. The main VR platforms of Oculus and Steam (and I guess technically Playstation) either never supported Mac or stopped supporting Mac. In the last 10+ years among triple a titles in general I'd estimate around 20 percent that release on PC get any release on Mac.
i played the fuck out of the trial version on windows many years ago, then i got my hands on the full version and later on the Custom Edition... it was a wild time
Exactly! lol. It's funny to picture cry baby Jobs having a dummy spit on the phone. Legally MS didn't owe anything because there were no contracts and Steve turned down the initial deal. But I guess Balmer wanted to keep Steve happy.
As a kid, I had an Atari, one of the very few consoles I had between my friends. I would play Frogger with my brother often times and I played other games.
Wait. I swear in Halo 3 when you would name a map, game mode or file with an inappropriate name it would change it to BLAM. So that's where that comes from MONKEY NUTZ
IM GLAD THEY DID BCZ HALO IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES IVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE AND I LOVE IT . And so does my dad: he used to play halo on pc when he was a kid and he kept doing that and kept doing it and thats how i am a halo lover too. i can easily beat any halo version in 1 day or 2. Ive also beaten the first version like 7 times already
First experience in Halo was The Maw, co-op with my homie. I got ate by the flood spores cause he said they don't do anything. That was 2002. I still play Halo, obviously c:
7:10 In Halo 3's Forge mode, sometimes the game would tell you that the name of the map you created was bad and it automatically replaced it with "BLAM!". I always wondered why "BLAM!" was given as the name and now, I finally found out where the name came from. HAHA.
Actually it was originally supposed to launch on Mac and windows. Bungie was a solo company bought out by Microsoft for halo to be a launch title for 2001 Xbox
I played the first Halo and I absolutely loved it. I was 8 at the time of its release, so my friends and I would congregate at the friend of ours house who had an Xbox and the game itself. Epic and nostalgic times.
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It was fire whene 1st release It is my child hood game halo like I still play the halo games to this day somtimes I go backto my old consoles and replay them like their new
I played Halo on XBOX when it first came out and I enjoyed it. I played it a few years ago and it didn't hold up for me quite how I remembered, but to each their own.
i remeber playing the first halo on the xbox og in like 2015 on a modded xbox it was a very cool experince playing with my brother and all id like to have that again someday
I mean, if Bungie probably never took the risk, Halo wouldn't probably been so popular till today. Only maybe. My first Halo was 3, although technically the Demo of Halo Reach was my first, but I was never familiar with it
I actually just played Halo CE about a month ago! It is the one on the Game Pass for Xbox with all of the games grouped together, so it's got better graphics, but still just as good as before.
While it is true that japanese companies were major players in the 90s, Atari wasn't the only one who tried to enter the fry one last time, the 3DO company released the 3DO right ahead of the release of the playstation and had planned a second, more powerful model In the software space Japan didn't dominate so clearly. There were Iguana, DMA Designs, Activision, Electronic Arts back then was absolutely a major player, Ubisoft was pointing up too, Midway... Lots of western studios were seeing success in the software space and the dominant consoles had a more than decent proportion of western games. It wasn't all that cut and dry. Everyone remembers the Marios, the Gran Turismos, the Castlevanias, the Darkstalkers... But there were also the Tomb Raiders, the Syphon Filters, the Need for Speeds, the FIFAs, the Test Drives... First PErson Shooters were a genre in the rise and all of them were developed by western studios (Eurocom, Rareware, Id software, etc...) Honestly that part of the video made me rise an eyebrow.
"This Is How Microsoft Stole Halo From Apple" This Sounds As Strange And Cringe As: "Arkham Knight Saved Master Chief From Elmo While Carrying A Gnome For Achievement"
I wonder what halo would be like now if Microsoft never bought it... this really makes me want to go boot up mcc and play CE again. Original graphics, of course. The remaster ruined the feel of the level design so much.
Halo is still my favourite video game franchise of all time. I really wish they’d return to the roots and make a game that feels like a true successor to the first, Combat Evolved.
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NationSquid this was an awesome video! I think you should do more videos about games in the future.
Hey man, I know you have a niche, but I'd love if you'd continue to branch out more. Really high quality content. I could listen to you talk about anything.
@NationSquid,
Absolutely Excellent Video!
Halo:CE is my favorite game in Video Game History, dating back to Pong in 1976.
2. Halo Infinite
3. Halo 4
4. Halo 3
5. Halo Wars 2
6. Halo 5
7. Halo 2
8. Halo Wars
9. Halo: REACH
10. Halo: ODST
These are my favorite Games All Time! in order.
2. Gears of War Series
3. Mass Effect Trilogy
4. Forza Motorsport Series
5. Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black, Ninja Gaiden 2
Roud out my Top 5 Game Series All Time!, in order.
Ok bro
My computer teacher would let us play halo after we finished our work in high school, the entire computer lab became a lan party
Your computer teacher is a chad
Wish I had your computer teacher
same My teacher also lets us play Counter-Strike and our school computers even tho are old but are really good for those games and Win7 still is butter
I was born too late man.
same with quake 1, I win
I played Halo all my life, every game, and the fact it only came out a year before I was born makes me feel so lucky I got into it so early, at age 8 I became obsessed because of my uncle and my dad introducing me to video games. Halo is a huge part of my life and I'll always be happy about it.
Same.
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same
Halo was that first fps game i played that i truly fell in love with. The storyline, the action, the music, the cinematography.. it was so immersive at the time, especially as a kid
Imagine hopping to another universe where halo released on Mac in the first place. That would be kind of crazy.
A universe where the mac could game and Halo was a 3rd person shooter/3D RTS hybrid. That's a tough one to imagine, it'd be so very different compared to the videogaming world we have today.
@@KiraSlith right! Imagine halo 3rd person while games like gears of war might be first or something idk. Just something to think about ya know!
Polygon made a video about it check it out
@@KiraSlith I work in IT, and from seeing the internals of an iMac vs an Intel AIO system, I can confirm the world would be very different.
Those apple power supplies be dangerous yo
And I hate imagining a world where Apple might possibly own Halo and release it on the TV 💀
@@codezero7981 Polygon...
Lol. Lmfao even.
16:03 that wasn't the orginal xbox controller! That was the newer mini version! the original xbox controllers were absolute units.
Good catch! They look so similar it's hard to tell in an image without any references for scale haha. Thanks for watching!
Yep, that was the second controller known as the Model S. The original was called the “Duke” and was humongous! The Model S has been virtually the same controller on all future Xbox consoles.
@@Donsjohnson The Duke was the better controller for me personally, newer controllers are too small for my hand. Well it would be the better controller with lb and rb instead of the black and white buttons
Yeah original one was beast but I loved it, first and only controller designed for European adults not asian kids
Good point. I think they based the "duke" on the Dreamcast controller.
“Original Xbox controller”
Sir, you’re forgetting the majesty of The Duke, as that’s how we played Halo at launch.
I actually very disagree with Halo being more exciting on console for two big reasons, mods and online multiplayer. Yea, the netcode was awful but so many PC gamers lost thousands upon thousands of hours playing CE online. Mean while, Combat Evolved had a HUGE modding scene that's still active to this very day.
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No I agree. I use to run servers and make custom maps. Halo combat evolved multiplayer reminded me of counter strike multiplayer. You can play the game how it's intended or you could fuck with the game to your heart's content and make insanely unbalanced servers that were just dumb fun. I miss when games were like this. Multiplayer is tok serious now
But, but.....achievos.
@@Mario583a CE didn't have achievements on the original xbox. That didn't exist yet.
I was going to say exactly this
My god this game defined my childhood. I wasn't allowed to play other games in my dad's laptop at that time due to violence since i was a kid back then, like counter strike. I still play this until now.
If Bungie had remained with Apple, Halo would be a hidden and forgotten gem. H
halo is one of my core memory and i will cherish it forever, the first time i saw it was when my father came back from working overseas he said he played it with his friends back then on xbox, at home we didn't have a xbox, but then he saw it available on PC, he got excited himself then he installed it on our PC, at first i just loved watching him play but too scared to try because i was afraid to die and lose, but he encouraged me to try and i loved it, boy it was such a fun times.
I remember me being 13 and a huge mac acolyte, happy in the knowledge that the Mac finally had a killer game coming out for it first. It hadn't been that way since Marathon! And then the rug got pulled out from under me.
Microsoft strikes again
@@alexandria279bc5 Jobs strikes again; blames Microsoft
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@@alexandria279bc5 Not Microsoft's fault when Apple turned Bungie down first. Cannot blame Bungie either for accepting Microsoft's offer when their studio was in trouble financially.
We got our house destroyed in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan. We had lost everything, and we were left to live in a FEMA trailer. For Christmas that year my dad took us to Sam's and bought us the Halo Edition Green Original Xbox and we played the socks off that Xbox.
Steve jobs changing his mind is like a cartoon episode about taking people for granted.
gonna gave to disagree on that point T 16:10
levels that are meant to be simple are linear, take for example the pillar of autumn. it’s a first level and intended to make you feel cramped, so that halo, the next level feels like a complete mind blow
you can rescue the marines in any order, explore and really get a feel for the atmosphere, it’s not as linear as described
many of the flood levels are easy to get lost on because they take place in large complexes where many of the rooms look similar
the snowy levels are have loads of cool skips and backtracks you have to do
i wouldn’t describe them as linear at all, in fact many people refer to halo’s gameplay as sandbox like
Fair enough! I grew up playing so much Halo I could have just gotten so used to the level design where it feels linear to me. I suppose in comparison to other games I grew up with like Morrowind or Oblivion the difference feels quite significant, but that could just be comparing apples to oranges. :)
@@nationsquid the first halo is my faveourite game ever and honestly. The game is not a very open game but it's not very closed either. How open a leven is was purely based on how much time bungie had to develop it I've noticed. Levels that had years worth of toke put in are super open. Like halo or silent cartographer. And levels with barely any time Tend to be really closed off. Like two betrayals
Had it launched on Mac it probably would have gone down as an underrated forgotten apple exclusive
I was practically raised by Halo since its release. I was 4 when I experienced 343 Guilty Spark and the Library. I've been there for Halo's highest highs and lowest lows. I've been playing Halo for 20 years and I'm gonna play for another 20.
respect
Side Note: Perfect Dark on GBC was awesome.
agreed
This video about how Apple almost had Halo was very intriguing.👍I do want to say although someone already pointed it out, at 16:10 even though yes the campaign is linear, you could DEFINITELY get lost your first (or first few) time(s) playing. A lot of levels had me pulling my hair out like The Pillar of Autumn, 343 Guilty Spark, and one of the missions on the actual Halo planet.
Edit: To answer the question at the end of the video: Not only did I play the original Halo, I felt it changed my life. It got me into FPS's and deeper into video games than I already was. I spent hours playing it at my friend's house and we beat the game co-op on Legendary mode...which shocked us both. Truly thankful for this game.
I love Halo CE till today, probably, because I just started knowing about it a month ago.
I have completed ce and am now playing halo 2.
try halo mcc
Legit same
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I randomly found this channel a while back and every new video since has been fascinating. Something about this kind of history in a well researched video essay style just interests me.
Thank you so much! More content to come! :)
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It's a good thing Apple didn't buy Bungie, else the game might have changed name to iShoot (aliens) lol
To be very honest, watching this video felt like watching a life changing movie. As in it felt enlightening.
Although it’s missing a ton of info and has disinformation that wasn’t fact checked.
This was karma for Steve Jobs being ashamed to talk about working at Atari and karma for him quitting Atari to go to Southeast Asia and get high.
If you don't believe me look it up, apparently he hated talking about it. He gave up on working with games first and then he did it again with Bungie, so yeah I think Halo supercharging the Xbox into a Microsoft staple is fair payback to him from the industry he just never really put enough effort into.
It’s like poetry… it rhymes…
It kinda feels like this was just the natural consequence of Jobs being his usual dickhole self. He wanted Bungie to take all the risks of developing a high-budget game without helping them, but at the same still expected to reap rewards if the game succeeded.
Not really a surprise that Bungie said fuck that and decided to go with the guys who were willing to actually back them and help out instead of the entitled deadbeat who wanted something for nothing.
@@wasd____ that's very true. I'm just adding that Jobs actually did, or at least really wanted to, like games but never put in the effort to make them work or make a career in games work for him. When he was young, he went to work for Atari, I highly doubt he'd have done this if he didn't like games to at least some extent. He just had such a weird relationship with them because he was a bit greedy and a bit of an ass, so I'd say this is karma. What happened afterwards was a natural consequence of his actions but the way games and game development went when Steve was around was effectively karma for his fucked mindset
I mean, comparing halo and perfect dark is like comparing final fantasy 6 and 7. Completely different console generation means the limitation of the hardware making it look older is not something that can really be discussed as a factor (even if FFVI is clearly superior to 7 in every conceivable way, including graphics.)
I remembered playing Halo when I was like 3 or 4 because my oldest brother was the one that got a xbox and my other brother that is 5 or 6 we would play Halo on the xbox and its a rated M game too and my mom was stricted on violent video games and she can look back now and probably say it wasn't too violent but it still have some shooting and I know my oldest brother would get pissed since little me and my brother would locked the room to play halo and when he gets back we could put it away like we didn't played it and I remembered having fun playing it because we played it on easy multiple times and my favorite mission is Assault on the Control Room and my favorite part of it was the first bridge your on with the banshee
I knew about this and I remember when it happened. Not only did Microsoft take Halo from Apple but they also kept it out of PC player's hands as well opting for an Xbox exclusive launch. Which absolutely enraged the PC only players to no end. However, that is only a small part of the story.
At one point Halo was supposed to be an RTS game, then a 3rd person action game, and then finally it became the genre defining FPS I love/loved so much. I picked up an Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved one week after its release and I haven't missed an Xbox or Halo launch since then. This includes the Xbox Series X and Infinite. I still can't believe the Halo saga is now 20 years old.
Addendum- If you think the story behind Halo: Combat Evolved is wild you should look at how the 7th generation of gaming started. Did you know Sony inadvertently paid to have the Xbox 360 built? It's even funnier knowing that Sony had no idea what was happening until Microsoft announced the 360.
I didn’t read this whole thing but they never took it from apple. Also it did release on windows and Mac
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Yes they absolutely did take Halo from Apple. Microsoft came in at the very last second during Halo's development for the MAC and purchased them. Halo did not arrive on Mac's or PC's for at least 10 years. So what are you talking about?
@@Sinn0100 "Yes they absolutely did take Halo from Apple."
...You mean after Apple said, "No, we're not going to help you, but we want you to figure out on your own how to develop an incredibly expensive game for the benefit of OUR platform?"
I mean... it sounds like Apple (by which I mean Jobs) was being a dick and trying to offload all the risks of failure to someone else while still expecting to reap the rewards if things succeeded. So can you really blame Bungie for saying, "Nope, fuck that, we're going with the guys who are willing to back us instead."?
4:12 you forgot a game: “Half Life” by Valve in 1998
I actually almost got in trouble for putting Halo CE for PC on the computers in my graphic design class in high school. My teacher ended up calling my parents and telling them I was esoteric. He wanted to know how I did it because everything was locked down. Somehow I gained access to the teachers server and installed it on there. He was really impressed.
Can you imagine how horrible it would be if Apple was the one that got into the video game industry instead of Microsoft? With their insane price spiking, they'd be releasing consoles costing like $3000 and games coming out at like $500 and them getting away with it because they're Apple and people will buy anything with that fruit icon on it no matter how much it costs encouraging all the other companies to do the exact same thing with their prices...they would have rekilled the video game industry or made it very hard to get into
This. I'm very grateful for this.
I don't think that would've happened. You cannot make video games into luxury overpriced products and Apple knows this. Just look at Apple TV, which has the specs to be quite a powerful game console despite not being overpriced at all. It could be really appealing if only Apple wanted to support it more - performance wise it would crush Switch or previous console generation. Or consider iPhones. You can buy a 5 year old iPhone and still play every possible game on it and enjoy it basically for free. Just look how successful LoL, Genshin Impact, PUBG or CoD are on mobile (of course you can play these games on Android as well - just making a point here).
Well there is actually a video game console from Apple called the Apple Bandai Pippin released in 1996 It didn’t sell well and got bad reviews but I believe the console was meant for PC Games if I’m not wrong
@@TheIrisCZ
With the nature Apple has today, they would definitely be very stingy in video game market. They would have exclusive consoles and games with high pricing and no reverse compatibility as we see in PlayStation or Xbox. They would have released a new console every year with little to no improvement, and would have ended all the support for games made for previous generations of their consoles or Mac. "Do you want to play the latest game? Then buy the latest console or Mac else shut up." The worst part would be that people would've still lap them up like they do today, even though they have stopped innovating new things. Amazing services like Xbox Game Pass would look like a dream.
You can't compare today's mobile games to console/PC games, its like comparing apples to oranges. Mobile games are usually free to play and contain in game purchases to boost your progress, meanwhile single player games on PC/console require tons of grinding. Success of mobile games comes from downloads and eventually in game purchases, while success of PC/console games comes from copies(digital or physical) sold worldwide. Anyone can pickup a free game but not many pay upfront to get a game. Also most mobile games are expansion based, they don't offer the whole package at start. If they get successful and receive good response, they expand over time else shut down completely. With PC/console games you have the security of acquiring the whole game(with a few optional DLCs) even if the company goes bankrupt. At most only their online multiplayer servers go down and you can still enjoy offline campaign. Just put an initial purchase cost on good games like Gesnhin Impact and PUBGM and see how their growth goes down as newer players will hesitate to buy these games.You can play today's games on a 9 year old WIndows PC if you have minimum hardware required(I know because I do that) but you can't even install newer MacOS on barely 5 year old Macs even though they have more than enough hardware to do so, forget about playing new games. Old Iphones support games because they have to to compete with Android or else nobody will play games on Iphones(just like nobody plays on Mac) and eventually they will lose both mobile games and PC/console games market. Its not like they don't have powerful hardware, its just that they don't want to support or update their previous products because they know its hard for people to break out from Apple Ecosystem.
The "Morons buy overpriced apple trash" mentality didn't start until the late 2000's.
Apple wouldn't be able to get their foot in the door if they started off that way.
My 10th birthday in 2003 i got my hands on the original xbox bundled with halo 1 and it has changed my life forever. At that moment I forever became a gamer and to this day video games are the biggest component of my life outside of my wife and kids
Halo - One of the greatest games ever made.
I, sort of, remember hearing the Halo theme on TV in 1999 when Macworld 1999 snippets were being played on TV. I don't remember much else about what they said about the game, but I do remember that music on TV.
You know, maybe gaming on the Mac could’ve been a success if Halo was released on it first. We could be playing Call of Duty, Doom, Valorant, etc. on a Mac if Halo did release on it.
I would pay anything to see what Halo looked like when it was still the Monkey Nuts RTS
I built my first PC in 2021 and Halo MCC was one of the first games I played on it. It was also the first time I had ever played a Halo game (first was Reach and I loved it😍) Prior to this, I was aware of the halo franchise, even as a kid in Nigeria. Some of my friends who owned XBOX consoles would talk about how cool the game was back in the 2000s. After playing Reach, I am now aware of why so many OG XBOX fans and gamers were so in love with the game franchise. It's amazing!
Twenty years later I’m still playing Halo can’t wait for infinite to come out!
It’s already out tho ???
The Halo trilogy will always be some of my favorite games of all time. So many good memories for me in my pre-teen and teen years playing Halo 2 & 3 online ❤
actual masterpiece game. i remember back in like 2014 or so both computer labs in my high school would be full of kids and teachers playing halo custom edition and spreading it to each others PCs and USBs like wildfire. such a blast
Me and my older brother found halo though our 4 older cousin's and we went to their house and we played it i manly ran master chief in circles at first but my brother got really into it and that Christmas my older brother got the Xbox and the halo game. I learned to play the game along side him and over time our youngest brother and sister played halo with us too so halo has a very special place in my heart as well. Because that was how we found the Xbox and halo. I remember when Halo 3 came out that i went with my older brother and mom to get the new halo game at midnight at Walmart. So that's really cool memory for me. So thanks halo for being a huge part of me and my siblings life's growing up. Our dad and uncle played with us too all the time too. Halo please release on the Nintendo switch.
my first game ever , on both PC and mobile...can't forget that, and is my favourite game of all time.
Currently playing halo infinite
I played Starsiege Tribes for a few years and then the Halo video came out. People were blown away. I can still remember the chat and who sent me a link to the video. It was a peek into what could be coming that might compete with the openness/strategy that Tribes provided. I remember wondering if I was going to have to find a way to afford a mac. ;)
Years later I worked at Future Shop and unloaded my pre-order Xbox off the truck. That night the crew stayed up all night beating the campaign. We played for years after that.
It's a 50/50 or maybe a 60/40 feeling. Looking back at the complexity of Tribes, there was a large learning curve, you needed a reasonable PC to play, they keyboard input allowed for so much more control and customization. The PC side offers a level of complexity you generally can't get out of a standard console setup. On the other side, you're generally not going to have a bunch of friends over and have a lan party around the coffee table. Halo on the Xbox brought the game to a much wider audience, it was the next Goldeneye for us.
I would have loved to see a more complex Halo from the start, but wouldn't want to kill all the cool memories I've already got.
16:04
That's not the OG Xbox controller. That's the smaller hybrid they made in later years after the REAL first controller... The DUKE.
As someone who played Halo 1 and 2 on PC, we waiting a long time to play Halo 3, but it was worth it, even if the single player took even longer to arrive, arrived after we got the entirety of Reach in fact. Still waiting for split screen tho.
is split screen possible/are there plans to implement it?
For MCC, they keep saying it's at the bottom of their list, and eventually will be implemented to all MCC games for all relevent modes, for Infinite, pretty sure no one said anything, so maybe 2 player split screen will be an option for standard 4v4 and bellow PVP on stronger PCs of the future and the XBox series whatever is the mid gen leter the pick, XBox Series Z? Series A? X already taken, the Pro version of the future basically. But likelly just wont happen, like how it never came to 5.
Holy shit I literally just found out about this searched it & this came up uploaded 4 hours ago perfect timing
& Great video exact style I was looking for great narration
I wish they didn’t stop making the HALO series!! I actually really liked the game! I wish they would have continued to make more!
What? The 6th one just came out?
@@darkchiefReborn 7th my friend.
@@kartik15baloni Well 6th in the Master Chief story.
I didn't have an Xbox back then so I didn't get into Halo until I got the PC version for my birthday years and years later..
I always loved the story, art design and tone, reminded me heavily of the original StarCraft.
I’ve only played Monkey Nuts: Reach. Might try the Infinite campaign
best childhood game and im still playing those games even today
I love your videos! Just found them the other day! Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you so much for your support!! More content to come! :)
I began my Halo journey on the Mac.
Halos one of my favourite game frachises
No way this man just said “warth-hog”
Although Donkey Kong technically is a Japanese born franchise, it was developed by a UK based developer Rare in this timeframe. And they coincidentally got bought by Microsoft as well the year after Halo's release.
it would have been an FPS under Apple as well, because the employees mucking around with the camera perspective for fun is what made them decide on FPS
We had the original Xbox in my family. I think we had a version of Halo, but I don't think I ever tried it. I was quite young at the time, and to me it looked like a game for grown-ups.
I was 1 when CE came out. But when halo 3 came along I started to play at friends houses since my parents wouldn’t allow us to have M rated games and we had a PlayStation. Then after playing reach and loving it I decided I wanted an Xbox 360. I downloaded CE, even buying an external hard drive to be able to play it, and loving the series since. With halo infinite coming out it’s clear how incredibly far gaming has come since then
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Amazon hated them both, so it sponsered this video.
Your channel is seriously so underrated im fuming
I’m sorry, I had to do a double-take here at 9:35
It’s pronounced “wart hog”. lol
I played the first _Halo_ game, but honestly, as groundbreaking as it was for its time, I found it to be my least favorite in the entire series up to now. It’s just not for me.
I have a very interesting story of how I got halo and my first xbox in 2007 me and my family was having dinner and someone knocked on our door it was one of my dads school friends she asked my dad if me and my brother wanted the complete system and all the games she said she no longer needed it in there house so my dad said yes and when we got it inside the house everything worked and one of the games it included was halo and halo 2 after that first time playing halo I kept playing halo and halo 2 from 2007 till this day using xlink kai I also still have my first xbox and the other 2 consoles I purchased years later for my dad and brother but however by far halo is probably the best experience I had playing on my first xbox definitely the best xbox game same with halo 2
Halo is by far the most significant game for me personally and in my opinion one of the most significant games to ever exist in general
"The Mac, at the time, ran virtually no games, at least not very popular ones." Bruh what's changed I don't see a difference between then and now.
Let's just look at one developing genre of games, VR. The main VR platforms of Oculus and Steam (and I guess technically Playstation) either never supported Mac or stopped supporting Mac. In the last 10+ years among triple a titles in general I'd estimate around 20 percent that release on PC get any release on Mac.
VR is a much bigger niche than gaming on mac tho lmao
i played the fuck out of the trial version on windows many years ago, then i got my hands on the full version and later on the Custom Edition... it was a wild time
Conclusion: Microsoft didn't steal Halo. They just took a good deal.
Exactly! lol. It's funny to picture cry baby Jobs having a dummy spit on the phone. Legally MS didn't owe anything because there were no contracts and Steve turned down the initial deal. But I guess Balmer wanted to keep Steve happy.
As a kid, I had an Atari, one of the very few consoles I had between my friends. I would play Frogger with my brother often times and I played other games.
Wait. I swear in Halo 3 when you would name a map, game mode or file with an inappropriate name it would change it to BLAM. So that's where that comes from MONKEY NUTZ
IM GLAD THEY DID BCZ HALO IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES IVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE AND I LOVE IT . And so does my dad: he used to play halo on pc when he was a kid and he kept doing that and kept doing it and thats how i am a halo lover too. i can easily beat any halo version in 1 day or 2. Ive also beaten the first version like 7 times already
Do your parents know you’re on the internet?
First experience in Halo was The Maw, co-op with my homie. I got ate by the flood spores cause he said they don't do anything. That was 2002. I still play Halo, obviously c:
I saw the first Halo, Macintosh demo in the late 90s on my friends power MacIntosh from the makers of Marathon called Bungie.
Yooooo Pajama Sam and Put Put!!
That’s over half my childhood!
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In Halo 3's Forge mode, sometimes the game would tell you that the name of the map you created was bad and it automatically replaced it with "BLAM!". I always wondered why "BLAM!" was given as the name and now, I finally found out where the name came from. HAHA.
"Or one you've playes at least once." - well.. you got me
You didn’t show ‘The’ OG XBox controller, man! The Duke! 😔
Actually it was originally supposed to launch on Mac and windows. Bungie was a solo company bought out by Microsoft for halo to be a launch title for 2001 Xbox
"Who could forget Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt?" instantly subscribed lol, and this is the third video i watch of you
No love for Freddi Fish?
my mom didn’t let me play halo before i was 13, but my dad and i secretly played combat evolved together when i was 11 >:)
I played the first Halo and I absolutely loved it. I was 8 at the time of its release, so my friends and I would congregate at the friend of ours house who had an Xbox and the game itself. Epic and nostalgic times.
steve jobs: fine, ill pay for halo
bungie:ummm...
steve:what's wrong?
bungie:it's just umm- it's just-
Microsoft: -THAT BUNGIE IS OURS NOW!!!
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It was fire whene 1st release It is my child hood game halo like I still play the halo games to this day somtimes I go backto my old consoles and replay them like their new
I have halo on a old 2006 dell inspiron laptop and it runs pretty good I haven't finished it tho.
P.s I set it up earlier this year
love how he says halo but there is a play station controller 0:17
I played Halo on XBOX when it first came out and I enjoyed it. I played it a few years ago and it didn't hold up for me quite how I remembered, but to each their own.
I mean, when you get use to gaming at 1080p at 60fps, 480p at 20-30fps seems like shit.
Cool story bro
@@Halo2glitchlover22 You're welcome
OMG congrats on 100k!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you so much!!!!!
So glad we are getting more halo videos after the success of halo Infinite
Original Xbox controllers were massive I remember having to hold it down with both hands to just play Halo 1
i didnt even know about halo when i had my xbox, wasnt until 3 came out and i was in school. then suddenly it was lan halo 1 custom edition
Halo CE is indeed one of my all time favorites
How does this have only 39k views? criminal
i remeber playing the first halo on the xbox og in like 2015 on a modded xbox it was a very cool experince playing with my brother and all id like to have that again someday
I mean, if Bungie probably never took the risk, Halo wouldn't probably been so popular till today. Only maybe. My first Halo was 3, although technically the Demo of Halo Reach was my first, but I was never familiar with it
if halo stayed as an rts i would never have played it
I actually just played Halo CE about a month ago! It is the one on the Game Pass for Xbox with all of the games grouped together, so it's got better graphics, but still just as good as before.
While it is true that japanese companies were major players in the 90s, Atari wasn't the only one who tried to enter the fry one last time, the 3DO company released the 3DO right ahead of the release of the playstation and had planned a second, more powerful model
In the software space Japan didn't dominate so clearly. There were Iguana, DMA Designs, Activision, Electronic Arts back then was absolutely a major player, Ubisoft was pointing up too, Midway... Lots of western studios were seeing success in the software space and the dominant consoles had a more than decent proportion of western games.
It wasn't all that cut and dry. Everyone remembers the Marios, the Gran Turismos, the Castlevanias, the Darkstalkers... But there were also the Tomb Raiders, the Syphon Filters, the Need for Speeds, the FIFAs, the Test Drives... First PErson Shooters were a genre in the rise and all of them were developed by western studios (Eurocom, Rareware, Id software, etc...) Honestly that part of the video made me rise an eyebrow.
I saw a random video of urs and now im subscribed
"This Is How Microsoft Stole Halo From Apple"
This Sounds As Strange And Cringe As:
"Arkham Knight Saved Master Chief From Elmo While Carrying A Gnome For Achievement"
I wonder what halo would be like now if Microsoft never bought it... this really makes me want to go boot up mcc and play CE again. Original graphics, of course. The remaster ruined the feel of the level design so much.
Maybe the original Halo game would not suffer from the broken bumpmapping that is the PC port.
@@Mario583a never played it on pc so that doesn't matter to me lol
I never played a Halo game, but i'm planning to do in the future.
Halo is still my favourite video game franchise of all time. I really wish they’d return to the roots and make a game that feels like a true successor to the first, Combat Evolved.
I believe this true successor you’re thinking of was made years ago. It’s called Halo 2 😂
Good video but why did the ending almost made me cry.