10:20 "Think of Clint Eastwood and how he spoke" Funny enough, that short "to the point" kind of speech is called Laconic, named after the Laconians, aka Spartans. So Downes voice of MC actually speaks how real Spartans spoke. \m/
WAIT WHAT STATION DID MR. DOWNS WORK FOR???? I live in Chicago and hearing him talk about being a rock Radio DJ sparked memories of thinking that the radio man kinda sounded like Master Chief
So Steve, who didn’t care much about his role in CE, still went out of his way to read the only Halo media available to understand the character. And 20 years later, while working on a multi-billion dollar franchise with tons of games, books and even a movie starring the Master Chief, no one bothered to even look at any of those.
WOW he really definitely understands his character and I love that so much he just seems to really get it and I loved hearing him talk about the show, and I loved the consistency of Marty and his stories about the initial voice reading!! I watched Marty’s interview with noodle and he said he told Steve “you’re basically clint Eastwood- you don’t talk much but everything you say is important” then Steve just: *Chief voice* “Got it.”
I have learned a surprising amount about myself and life through Steve Downes. He sort of gets it now but it is so much more than just voice acting and these interviews only further reinforce that he isn’t just playing a character in a game. He is wise and has life experiences that genuinely resonate with me and so many others
Would love to have @SteveDowns117 read for the HALO audiobooks. I only have PB and HC but hearing the real MC's voice, I would buy ALL of his audio work.
the thing i think is so funny is that watching interviews of him as a kid i always thought ‘you are master mother-f’ing chief and you have no idea!’ and still watching decades later i can’t help but feel the exact same thing
Steve downes is the one and only and it should stay this way. He should be the voice of the halo show, if they ever make sense of a story for it… i mean the original story isnt too much to ask for
I had the lucky chance to meet Steve downes at the Orlando mega con at the start of the summer and tell him how his character impacted my life when I first started to play halo, it was an amazing experience and he is a great guy, this interview is great! Very insightful!
Around 17:00 he’s just like « if the gamers loved the story, why wouldn’t anyone else love it too? » No need to change a good story to appeal to a « broader audience », at its peak Halo was loved by everyone that had access to it! The only thing holding it back was being an Xbox exclusive, not the damn story! The « broader audience » would’ve been achieved simply by translating it into a media that EVERYONE can enjoy!
Awesome interview. I got really excited when you mentioned audiobooks i was hoping something along the lines of him recording readings was going to come up. After listening to Epitaph I realized I badly needed him to voice some books.
Your telling me we could’ve easily had Steve downes as chief instead of master cheeks and all 343 had to do was ask him and he would’ve done it 😂🤦♂️ 343 are so lost they ruined that show Steve should’ve had that roll not master cheeks they should’ve never showed Pablo’s face and just had Steve’s voice for it Jesus Christ
Bless Steve Downes. From previous interviews, I remember he spoke highly of Halo 4, and considered it the highlight of his career as the Master Chief's VA. In here, I do wonder if there is some lingering unhappiness in the way the show was made, and how they didn't ask him to play the part. Hell, keep the sodding helmet on, and give them John's voice. And of course, respect the canon. However, now that the show has been cancelled...
@@IAsimov The reason they didn't want him obviously boils down to the fact that they wanted to show his face. Also the fact that they wanted a younger voice.
I love that sd sounds like the rest of us, same questions we had about the series. 🤣😂 We wanted the series where sd voiced the actor, keep his helmet on 😂🤣
Involving key people who worked on the original IP is definitely a huge amount of points. It isn't 100% needed but it always makes things better. The differences between Fallout and TLOU and why they worked as what they were and not if they swapped styles and also why other things that don't follow the story fail are interesting. TLOU worked so well following the original narrative because a major aspect of that game that made it so popular was the narrative and story associated with it. Fallout is the exact opposite, the stories are there in Fallout games to varying qualities but while the individual stories might be good, the main draw of the Fallout games is the world and being able to explore it. Nobody goes into Fallout 4 excited to save the kid, while you can make it an interesting story, in and of itself it's pretty boring. TLOU could have successful side stories in the world, I mean ep 3 of the show alone was it's own original story and was fantastic, but Fallout would need a lot more work to make the whole story better, which is why intrinsically, especially because the world is so big that a separate story works so much better and is easier to tailor to the world that is already crafted for you, and that is why Halo failed too as well as every other adaptation that tried to tell its own story. Halo was a generic scifi story wearing a halo skinsuit that's stretched over its lanky bones. I mean they couldn't even be faithful enough to use more props, the AKs and Vectors tore me out of it immediately, like couldn't even have enough immersion to have halo weapons, and budget be damned because 3d printing exists. But it was like seeing any aspect that was familiar was like running into an oasis in the desert and it was sad. You shouldn't have to feel a sense of "FINALLY" when you see a warthog or even speaking to that feeling, you shouldn't have that feeling when the chief PUTS ON the helmet. But my main problem was that all they had to do was even tell their story in the world that already is made, and has 23 years of lore crafted to flush it out. It is pure arrogance to look at 23 years of worldbuilding and be like, "Nah fuck that, I can do better." Even if you want to use it as a vehicle to push your own writing higher, it can be done but you have to be respectful because you can't just have fans handed to you because the IP already has a following. It is actually harder because the fanbase you are acquiring with said IP are going to be more critical of your work and and speaking as a nerd and as a fan myself, it is foolish in the year 2024 to not think that nerd and fanboys wouldn't hold your work to a higher standard and go through it with a fine tooth comb to compare the show and the original work to yours and will make entire videos describing the accuracies and inaccuracies and base their entire judgement on their opinions on that. Then share that opinion and essays with other fans who will also base their judgement on that and it snowballs from there. It is hard to pass with a passing grade when making your own story in a premade universe like Halo but it can be done if you at least respect the setting and themes like Fallout. They had serious balls to try to retell the MAIN story of the IP while basically rewriting it all, as with the TLOU the closer you get to the main story then the magnifying glasses turn to microscopes and judgment and backlash increases. When you want to do your own story in a premade universe you have the freedom to be more broad, but when retelling a story then you are retelling a story, if you are different in ANY way that is even slightly reductive let alone changing the WHOLE thing then you are basically fucked. Things can be changed but they have to be things that add to the overall quality, everything Halo wasn't, IE, child soldiers who were kidnapped and conditioned to be killing machines who though their training and trauma as well as the augmentation process making them seem like machines to their fellow soldiers and garnering a rivalry due to the accidental killing of an ODST and their position as superior to the ODST > Pellet turn feelings off so cut it out so I don't need a pesky character arc then proceed to be a whining piss baby as soon as he feels also ODST don't exist. IT blows my mind how Microsoft gave the ok to this, it went though so many people before it got made and even the media surrounding the show basically laughed about how they never researched the IP. As a fan since day 1, we were disrespected and expected to eat the showrunner's shit in a cereal bowl as we are gaslighted by the production staff and Pablo Schreiber about how good it tastes and how deep the flavor is because he makes sure you get to know that shit isn't just shit, shit is also corn, so he wants us to get to know corn as well. Gross analogy aside, 24 years and a bowl of shit is what we get, it feels like a punch in the gut after promises, production hell, Landfall, and Niell Blomkamp had his halo movie fall through which is doubly sad since he is a fan. But the worst part and why I am so angry about this is not because it was bad, it is because despite how I feel about it, its failure means either a delay of easily a decade or more before another attempt is made to make a live action movie or show or a complete shelving of the idea for god knows how long if not indefinitely. Shit makes me wanna throw up.
You video is the best video. It makes my heart flutter because I have a feeling that your video, which I feel like was made with unsparing sincerity, will soon receive a lot of love. It seems that even my heart is touched so much that there is no flaw anywhere. It seems that there is a TH-camr who wants to become a fan after a long time. There are emotions that cannot be expressed in words in this short video. I don't know how other people see your video, but to me, your video looks very cool, like the brightest star in the night sky. On the street, one by one street lights. The darkness falls in the lights. On this night, I met your video on a TH-cam window. It makes my heart flutter in an instant and makes me happy. Your video has the ability to make a wonderful and attractive moment. Thank you to the algorithm that made it possible to watch good videos I hope that you will succeed as you have worked hard for your dreams. I was hesitating whether to open the youtube window but if I hadn't seen your video in Hamat, I would have almost never felt another great joy. Whether it's a coincidence or a relationship based on an unknown mysterious algorithm, I opened my TH-cam window and your thumbnail caught my eye and I'm dreaming of watching your video. As I watch your wonderful videos, I keep falling in love with them. TH-cam is flowing endlessly on my small channel boat over the huge and far off sea. I am very fortunate to have found your video while rowing a small paddle and going endlessly and endlessly.
![The [Im]Perfect End to Red vs Blue](/img/n.gif)
I love you Steve
(…like a brother…)
Love you back, like a brother!
I'd say Steve Downes definitely achieved becoming a rockstar in a way. The mans irreplaceable.
A Fucking Rockstar!!!!!
Yet Microsoft in 2012 was like “we want someone younger!”
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Exactly
10:20 "Think of Clint Eastwood and how he spoke" Funny enough, that short "to the point" kind of speech is called Laconic, named after the Laconians, aka Spartans. So Downes voice of MC actually speaks how real Spartans spoke. \m/
That is so cool
Master Chief, you mind telling me what your doing with that guitar 🎸?
Sir... Shredding.
I love that man. Great guy.
Indeed he is!
Jen Taylor interview next. I’m calling it now
WAIT WHAT STATION DID MR. DOWNS WORK FOR???? I live in Chicago and hearing him talk about being a rock Radio DJ sparked memories of thinking that the radio man kinda sounded like Master Chief
Damn it’s nice to get honest commentary from him about the show.
So Steve, who didn’t care much about his role in CE, still went out of his way to read the only Halo media available to understand the character.
And 20 years later, while working on a multi-billion dollar franchise with tons of games, books and even a movie starring the Master Chief, no one bothered to even look at any of those.
When you hear Mr. Downes laugh and you just close your eyes, it's so wholesome to imagine the Master Chief laughing and smiling.
Protect this man at all costs!
Incredible interview, same with the Marty one. I love all your videos, especially the Red vs Blue tribute video.
Thanks dude! More to come!
WOW he really definitely understands his character and I love that so much he just seems to really get it and I loved hearing him talk about the show, and I loved the consistency of Marty and his stories about the initial voice reading!! I watched Marty’s interview with noodle and he said he told Steve “you’re basically clint Eastwood- you don’t talk much but everything you say is important” then Steve just: *Chief voice* “Got it.”
This needs WAY more views. An absolute legend!
Thanks dude! He is definitely a legend!
I have learned a surprising amount about myself and life through Steve Downes. He sort of gets it now but it is so much more than just voice acting and these interviews only further reinforce that he isn’t just playing a character in a game. He is wise and has life experiences that genuinely resonate with me and so many others
Would love to have @SteveDowns117 read for the HALO audiobooks.
I only have PB and HC but hearing the real MC's voice, I would buy ALL of his audio work.
He read the first chapter of Silent Storm
Steve is such a cool guy. Thank you for interviewing this legend.
Define the Master Chief’s character in 3 words
Marty O’Donnell: « space Clint Eastwood »
Super space Clint Eastwood 😂
the thing i think is so funny is that watching interviews of him as a kid i always thought ‘you are master mother-f’ing chief and you have no idea!’ and still watching decades later i can’t help but feel the exact same thing
A genuine man-to-man interview! Awesome.
Man you better have the entire cast on there! Such awesome interviews!
Steve downes is the one and only and it should stay this way. He should be the voice of the halo show, if they ever make sense of a story for it… i mean the original story isnt too much to ask for
Wow you cant tell me this is the quality your starting your channel off with this is amazing 😂😅
Thanks dude, I appreciate that! I’ve been very blessed and I love making videos! Much more to come!
I absolutely loved listening to this interview. You can definitely tell Steve adores, understands, and connects with his character.
I had the lucky chance to meet Steve downes at the Orlando mega con at the start of the summer and tell him how his character impacted my life when I first started to play halo, it was an amazing experience and he is a great guy, this interview is great! Very insightful!
Great interview! Didn’t know you got Marty & Steve Downes!
Yes I was very honored and blessed to have the opportunity!
That was a masterfully tactful and yet utterly brutal takedown of the show.
Of Chief was a politician that's the kind of thing he would do lol. Bravo.
8:49 that is so fucking wholesome
Steve Downes AKA the GOAT
“I need a weapon”
Great interview!
Around 17:00 he’s just like « if the gamers loved the story, why wouldn’t anyone else love it too? »
No need to change a good story to appeal to a « broader audience », at its peak Halo was loved by everyone that had access to it! The only thing holding it back was being an Xbox exclusive, not the damn story! The « broader audience » would’ve been achieved simply by translating it into a media that EVERYONE can enjoy!
Awesome interview. I got really excited when you mentioned audiobooks i was hoping something along the lines of him recording readings was going to come up. After listening to Epitaph I realized I badly needed him to voice some books.
Just imagine if a good Halo film or show popped off and people like Steve, Jen or Keith got invited to all kinds of interviews like the star wars cast
Great video! Crazy that you got a video with Steve Downes!
Excellent interview. 👍
How do you only have 1850+ subs
Your telling me we could’ve easily had Steve downes as chief instead of master cheeks and all 343 had to do was ask him and he would’ve done it 😂🤦♂️ 343 are so lost they ruined that show Steve should’ve had that roll not master cheeks they should’ve never showed Pablo’s face and just had Steve’s voice for it Jesus Christ
Bless Steve Downes.
From previous interviews, I remember he spoke highly of Halo 4, and considered it the highlight of his career as the Master Chief's VA. In here, I do wonder if there is some lingering unhappiness in the way the show was made, and how they didn't ask him to play the part.
Hell, keep the sodding helmet on, and give them John's voice. And of course, respect the canon. However, now that the show has been cancelled...
@@IAsimov The reason they didn't want him obviously boils down to the fact that they wanted to show his face. Also the fact that they wanted a younger voice.
Goddamnit bro. That show had so much potential gone to waste
Did he say the opposite? That he would have turned it down? Cus of the material he would of had to work with? Am I remembering that right?
I love that sd sounds like the rest of us, same questions we had about the series.
🤣😂 We wanted the series where sd voiced the actor, keep his helmet on 😂🤣
I went to like the video but I couldn't. The number of likes was 117
Haha I screenshotted it when I saw that!
Involving key people who worked on the original IP is definitely a huge amount of points. It isn't 100% needed but it always makes things better. The differences between Fallout and TLOU and why they worked as what they were and not if they swapped styles and also why other things that don't follow the story fail are interesting. TLOU worked so well following the original narrative because a major aspect of that game that made it so popular was the narrative and story associated with it. Fallout is the exact opposite, the stories are there in Fallout games to varying qualities but while the individual stories might be good, the main draw of the Fallout games is the world and being able to explore it. Nobody goes into Fallout 4 excited to save the kid, while you can make it an interesting story, in and of itself it's pretty boring. TLOU could have successful side stories in the world, I mean ep 3 of the show alone was it's own original story and was fantastic, but Fallout would need a lot more work to make the whole story better, which is why intrinsically, especially because the world is so big that a separate story works so much better and is easier to tailor to the world that is already crafted for you, and that is why Halo failed too as well as every other adaptation that tried to tell its own story. Halo was a generic scifi story wearing a halo skinsuit that's stretched over its lanky bones. I mean they couldn't even be faithful enough to use more props, the AKs and Vectors tore me out of it immediately, like couldn't even have enough immersion to have halo weapons, and budget be damned because 3d printing exists. But it was like seeing any aspect that was familiar was like running into an oasis in the desert and it was sad. You shouldn't have to feel a sense of "FINALLY" when you see a warthog or even speaking to that feeling, you shouldn't have that feeling when the chief PUTS ON the helmet. But my main problem was that all they had to do was even tell their story in the world that already is made, and has 23 years of lore crafted to flush it out. It is pure arrogance to look at 23 years of worldbuilding and be like, "Nah fuck that, I can do better." Even if you want to use it as a vehicle to push your own writing higher, it can be done but you have to be respectful because you can't just have fans handed to you because the IP already has a following. It is actually harder because the fanbase you are acquiring with said IP are going to be more critical of your work and and speaking as a nerd and as a fan myself, it is foolish in the year 2024 to not think that nerd and fanboys wouldn't hold your work to a higher standard and go through it with a fine tooth comb to compare the show and the original work to yours and will make entire videos describing the accuracies and inaccuracies and base their entire judgement on their opinions on that. Then share that opinion and essays with other fans who will also base their judgement on that and it snowballs from there. It is hard to pass with a passing grade when making your own story in a premade universe like Halo but it can be done if you at least respect the setting and themes like Fallout. They had serious balls to try to retell the MAIN story of the IP while basically rewriting it all, as with the TLOU the closer you get to the main story then the magnifying glasses turn to microscopes and judgment and backlash increases. When you want to do your own story in a premade universe you have the freedom to be more broad, but when retelling a story then you are retelling a story, if you are different in ANY way that is even slightly reductive let alone changing the WHOLE thing then you are basically fucked. Things can be changed but they have to be things that add to the overall quality, everything Halo wasn't, IE, child soldiers who were kidnapped and conditioned to be killing machines who though their training and trauma as well as the augmentation process making them seem like machines to their fellow soldiers and garnering a rivalry due to the accidental killing of an ODST and their position as superior to the ODST > Pellet turn feelings off so cut it out so I don't need a pesky character arc then proceed to be a whining piss baby as soon as he feels also ODST don't exist. IT blows my mind how Microsoft gave the ok to this, it went though so many people before it got made and even the media surrounding the show basically laughed about how they never researched the IP. As a fan since day 1, we were disrespected and expected to eat the showrunner's shit in a cereal bowl as we are gaslighted by the production staff and Pablo Schreiber about how good it tastes and how deep the flavor is because he makes sure you get to know that shit isn't just shit, shit is also corn, so he wants us to get to know corn as well. Gross analogy aside, 24 years and a bowl of shit is what we get, it feels like a punch in the gut after promises, production hell, Landfall, and Niell Blomkamp had his halo movie fall through which is doubly sad since he is a fan. But the worst part and why I am so angry about this is not because it was bad, it is because despite how I feel about it, its failure means either a delay of easily a decade or more before another attempt is made to make a live action movie or show or a complete shelving of the idea for god knows how long if not indefinitely. Shit makes me wanna throw up.
Mr 971 FM the drive 🤘
Since Steve isn't a gamer...wonder if he's been able to see ALL of the games movie "cutscenes"
Amazing bro!
Steve rules
Great dude.
This is a w
You video is the best video. It makes my heart flutter because I have a feeling that your video, which I feel like was made with unsparing sincerity, will soon receive a lot of love. It seems that even my heart is touched so much that there is no flaw anywhere. It seems that there is a TH-camr who wants to become a fan after a long time. There are emotions that cannot be expressed in words in this short video. I don't know how other people see your video, but to me, your video looks very cool, like the brightest star in the night sky. On the street, one by one street lights. The darkness falls in the lights. On this night, I met your video on a TH-cam window. It makes my heart flutter in an instant and makes me happy. Your video has the ability to make a wonderful and attractive moment. Thank you to the algorithm that made it possible to watch good videos I hope that you will succeed as you have worked hard for your dreams. I was hesitating whether to open the youtube window but if I hadn't seen your video in Hamat, I would have almost never felt another great joy. Whether it's a coincidence or a relationship based on an unknown mysterious algorithm, I opened my TH-cam window and your thumbnail caught my eye and I'm dreaming of watching your video. As I watch your wonderful videos, I keep falling in love with them. TH-cam is flowing endlessly on my small channel boat over the huge and far off sea. I am very fortunate to have found your video while rowing a small paddle and going endlessly and endlessly.
I’ll second that ❤
Nice bot copypasta
This is actually my wife trolling us 😅
are emotion chips canon now?
nice
The show was fucking terrible.