yeah i remember, it was a kinda cool scene and I can understand the circumstances but was neither of them like "You know they're just doing this to fuck us over later right?"
"Just keep your head down. There's two of us in here now remember." Such an AWESOME throwback to Halo 1 when you first get Cortana. That line STILL gives me chills.
Bungie: "Halo 3!!! Finish the fight!!!" Cortana: "Truth, and the Covenant, The Flood. It's finished." Master Chief: "It's finished." Microsoft: "Were it so easy...."
@@juliet4093 I couldn't disagree more. The new games don't do enough to provide casual players with story context and I don't like some of 343's design choices but the world building post human-covenant war is fantastic.
*Elite:* They outnumber us, 3 to 1. *Elite Leader/Shipmaster:* Then it is an even fight. The true definition of badass. I've never forgotten this line, and never will.
@@bulbasaurpokemon3573 If you've played the games you'd know that Shipmaster aka Vadum, is probably the most bad-ass character in the series. He cares about his soldiers (cinematic before killing the elite heretic in Halo 2 in the first mission as Arbiter), is always willing to help Arbiter and fight the flood head on with his fellow Elites, and takes on brute fleets that outnumber him 3 to 1, all while looking and sounding like an absolute UNIT. I sincerely hope your comment is sarcastic, and that you don't SOMEHOW think that Shipmaster isn't the coolest motherfucker to ever save the universe.
Josh Powell-Morris Mean and badass, but arrogant. Which came to be his downfall... There’s a saying for that ^^ Edit: Realized a couple of seconds later i mixed up thel vadamee and moramee...
I fucking love Halo. Will never forget the second this game came through my letter box, skipped 2 days of school to play the final instalment of the original Halo's. A man with his priorities set straight.
The longest conversation between chief and the arbiter. "No. If your construct is wrong, then the flood has already won." "I'll find Cortana's solution. and i'll bring it back."
Tbh, I like Arbiter with little dialogue, it really fits his collective character. I'd prefer the "body language speaking more than words" approach any day
colebowlin68 Indeed, more interaction between them is welcomed any time. Though there's still the sense that they started with a (less than) mutual respect relationship, to brothers in arms. I mean the Arbiter goes back for Chief at the end of the Cortana mission (and at that point I was so happy to see him because that mission was *hard*)
colebowlin68 I'd love to read that. It'd be great for those who are interested in Chief and the Arbiter's character. Too bad games can't have everything, or the majority audience are not that interested, but I can still dream of the perfect world where more character development did happen
I know this conversation is 11 months old, but I wanted to chime in and say Bungie avoided the whole 'fleshing characters out' as you put it because its literally one of the tropiest things in any media that involves 2 enemies coming together. They were both warriors, and exemplary ones for their respective races. It would be entirely pointless and out of characters to have them try bro it out thoughout the game, and it would have completely ruined the emotional dynamic between them. Their relationship is entirely one of mutual grudging respect, thats it. Theyre not nor will they ever become friends.
This conversation is now more than two years old, but Milky hits it on the head. Both characters are soldiers of incredible discipline, whose careers have quite prominently revolved around the murder of the other. Both have trained all their lives *specifically* to kill one another, in some ways. They have every right and reason to hate- to vilify- one another. But, through shared conflict and struggle, they earn one another's respect- which is, perhaps, the only thing you can hope for, from someone so inundated with the heartless work of death. At the end of things, they are recognizing one another: something neither one has ever done for their enemy. 'S fuggin' beautiful.
I love the uneasy alliance between Humanity and the Elites, especially the scene where they were trading gear. Even though the Elites are taller and stronger than humans, the Marines and ODST were ready to jump into action.
Taller and stronger?...That's all? Anyone who's played Halo: Reach knows the alliance is not uneasy merely because of the sangheili being taller and stronger than humans... Correction: Not played... _suffered..._
@@sirbillius the entire level of cortana unintentionally condones mind rape in the aesthetic of the doorways and the generally powerless position that the imagery assigns to cortana. Also when you do actually start destroying high charity there was a line from cortana which was along the lines of 'take that you bastard!' which was scrapped and changed to 'you hurt it!' in the feeblest voice they could get which infers that cortana is completely powerless. I'll link you to an analysis that does it better justice than me if you'd like.
the lighting for stuff like the little lights on the suits and walls look a LOT better, reflections look clearer, Textures look slightly better... and DAMN this game still looks good
I remember when this first came out me and my brother played it and were so taken aback by the graphics. At the time it was the closest we'd seen to real life
I remember thinking the graphics in this game were insanely good.. I know every new generation of game and console always does that but I can't see how today's games (for example the newest grand theft auto in 1080p) can be beat visually. I know 5 or 10 years from now i'll probably look back at this comment and laugh.
We're quickly approaching the end of graphic progression, more pixels/details are redundant as we simply can't perceive the difference. The differences in video game graphics are then simply going to be art style ie. cell-shaded vs a more realistic approach or even a comic book looking art style. This is the golden age of gaming and I'll never forget games like these.
sad part is in the future games are not gonna be ass good as this era especially Halo obviously its really sad i cant enjoy it how i use to enjoy it when it was new dont get me wrong its still good but before man... the memories..... it makes me sad how i wont be able to re-live them but atleast i have them.
Good thing is the only direction i can see graphics going now is a more stylized approach, given how we've basically already gone as far as we can go when it comes to realism
It's going to need some time to process to 1080p and to 60fps, so I would wait if I were you. Halo 4 is in the process of being fixed right now, we hope it's audio problems are resolved by tonight. When we uploaded yesterday it worked great, but glitched for some reason today in the afternoon. We'll be uploading the Halo 2 Terminals soon!
I like that this videos aren't JUST cutscenes. It includes bits of important in-game scenes. All cutscene game movie things always leave that out and ya end up losing some parts of the story and ultimately end up having to read a summary to fully understand or else you're left with guess work.
I wish they would have Blur do the cinematics for Halo 3 too. It is so weird going from the beautiful Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes to the rather weirdly animated Halo 3 ones, then to the very well done Halo 4 ones.
@@CAsnowman lol if you kids think Halo 3's cinematics look shit boot up MCC and start a Halo 2 Campaign on the classic graphics. they looked amazing for the time they were made but obviously years and over a decade's advancement in video games of course they look a bit rough by today's standards. I would love to see Halo 3 and ODST get the same treatment one day for sure though.
1:18:29 In all seriousness and with all due respect, my fight ended here. No journey can match that which we have taken in this trilogy and nothing ever will. To my fellows who played through this story with me, know that this story, no matter where its decedents take it, is untouchable.
amen brother, can't wait to revisit it on Steam with the master chief collection. bro remember getting this thing when the game came out? d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/5/5/xbox-360-controller-spartan-limited-edition-halo-3-mcfarlane-masterchief-warthog-980cf1b2c02382e08c8360cda497c01f.jpg
I just realized. When the Arbiter is introduced and Johnson makes a joke about the two of them killing each other, The Arbiter responds to Chief by saying "Were it so easy." He says the exact same line to Lord Hood at the Chief's Memorial when Hood says "It's hard to believe he's dead." Arbiter responds with "Were it so easy."
My all time favourite Elite/Covenant line Rtas 'Vadum: All ships, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides I remember skipping school to just play this game with my brother. Ahh the memories
Famtomerc A sangheili got in a gauss turret in my game, but unfortunately died by a scarab. It was a sad day indeed, so I felt a good sensation for killing the scarabs this time!
I would argue that the scenes are the same. They still have the art and the riming. Whats missing is the stakes. Halo 1-3 were such perfectly paced games. They took their time to establish a universe ending threat. In the first game it was kill the evil aliens and survive the parasite. It took the time to introduce the flood as something that the aliens who have been kicking your ass fear. And the ring wasnt even a thing until over halfway through. The second game brought the aliens to earth. Now we are fighting for the last of humanity. And just when it looks like that fight might be winnable, we get the twist that theres another Halo, and now they know how to activate it. Now theres a ticking clock. The whole time its building up the villains of the Prophets and Gravemind who are in the foreground advancing their plans right in front of you. The final game unleashes all of those villains on you at once. You still have the pressure of the battlefield being Earth, you have the flood on earth after you have seen what it can do, twice. Then you have the final act on the arc. Back to the ticking clock with the prophets and back to the waves of enemies from the flood. And it gives you resolution to both those stories. The problem with Halo 4 was that it was rushed. The Didact was suddenly there with virtually no buildup. Then he vanished while doing what is assumed to be bad things in the background. And then he kills a bunch of people on a space station. And then you stop him from killing earth. Theres no pacing to give the cinematic moments weight. Theres no motivations, no clock, no tidal wave of enemies. Just one bad guy we barely see and some new minions. Halo 5 falls for the same problems, but then doubles down by making you play two different sides, losing investment in the story of each and then preying on your emotions by having the bad guy be a former good guy. The problem with the new games isnt their choice of bad guys or the style, its that they tried to do too much and in doing so, failed to build what they had sufficiently. They shot for the moon but hit their foot.
I will always remember the Christmas of 2007. I was so excited to play halo 3. I set up everything right away and jumped into the campaign. I still remember the feeling of first playing it
Thanks for this! I'm watching all of these before Halo 5 comes out to catch up on forgotten story. I love that you show actual gameplay as well to help get a sense of the whole game, rather than just the cutscenes, which can make it confusing.
+Gamer's Little Playground Thank you so much for this! It feels just like a homecoming of sorts, I'm happy to see this and remember my youth, well I'm still nineteen but I'm an adult, not much time for video games anymore, this brought back nostalgia aplenty!
I really don't want to jump on the 343-hate bandwagon but I just can't help it. They're trying, bless them, but they just can't nail down the initial underlying ideas that made Halo a cult-classic in the first place. All the games made by Bungie have this same consistent theme: heroism, self-sacrifice for the greater good, desperation. Watching humanity being pushed to the very breaking point and seeing characters stand defiant in the face of certain doom. And what does 343i give us? A love story between a soldier who's had his romantic desires neurologically supressed and an AI who's aware that she isn't human but just can't accept it. Its ridiculous. I mean its good in its own right but it just cannot top the idea of a character laying down their own life to ensure humanity's survival.
Okay, loved Halo 3, but that memorial bit at the end always got me. Like 20 billion people died in the war and on Earth the memorial is a single pillar with about 20 people's pictures stickytaped to it?
haha true, but maybe they had memorials all over the place, which I'm sure they did. And this is just a memorial for this specific group of people or something like that
Despite the lettering on it, apparently the monument was dedicated to the contingent of soldiers who traveled through the portal and never came back. Hence the wording of Lord Hood's speech.
i haven't played the game in 6 years and i still feel the shudder of the game controller in my hand at 1:04. the excitement of playing hit me so hard in the first minute. so much of my childhood lies here.
The first three halos were storytelling at its finest. The new trilogy ehhhh, especially halo 5. And im still confused on why the covenant is back at war with the the humans..
sims4610593 the reason there's good and bad covenant is because there's two factions of the covenant,Those Nicknamed the "Banished" and those Knowns as the "Good elites", if you pay attention to the campaign of Halo 4 then you'd know. There's those that still believe in the great journey and there's those who opened their eyes and realized it was all a lie. That's why there's 2 factions of elites.
That literally makes no sense, Joswen. The "Banished" are Covenant rebels introduced in Halo Wars 2, they weren't in Halo 4 or 5 at all. The "Storm Covenant" or "Covenant Remanant" are in Halo 4 and 5 as the successors to the original Covenant, but even their existence makes no sense. The Covenant tried to slaughter the Elites and branded them all heretics. While I get that the Elites may have disagreements on whether to ally with Humanity or not, it makes no sense why any of them would go BACK to that ancient religion that nearly cost them their entire existence. Truly deluded individuals.
1:20:35 The end of an era,a great trilogy and a legend. Sometimes this scene makes you wonder ,what ever happened to Halo?Bungie sure as hell knew how to create great emotional scenes ,even without good graphics. However this game, needs to be remastered,to be done with truly incredible cutscenes,just like the previous ones.It deserves this both to us,and to the devellopers that made it themselves
Exactly! 343 studios did alright staying with the story, but there's inconsistentsy and the fact that bungie wanted the story to end. It was perfect, hero got the girl and saved the day.
How should it have ended here? Especially with the legendary ending? It just doesn't make sense to end the series with chief in space like that orbiting some mysterious planet with everyone thing that he's dead.
Rworld I should've ended here if Bungie never made the Legendary ending and Chief let out with a bang. But it didn't, Bungie left us with a cliffhanger and then decided to abandon the series with that said cliff hanger.
"Halo, Truth, and the Covenant, The Flood. It's finished" "It's finished" Great call back to Halo 1 end when MC says "no, i think we're just getting started"
Johnson: Don't let her go. Don't ever let her go. Imagine the feels if they bring up Johnson in Halo 6, or any other significant character from the original trilogy. Characters that died helping Chief keep Cortana safe. Only to see what she's turn into now.
It feels as though the cut scenes are running 10-15% faster than the originals It's probably the effect of them making the scenes 60FPS without trying to modify them so that the pauses and whatever else was there for effect were still there
I always loved chiefs sense of humor in these games my favorite line that always makes me laugh is when he tells Cortana “thought I’d try shooting my way out, mix things up a little”
I always feel so bad for Cortana, trapped alone on that half of a ship for 5 years... And Chief just jumps into his pod immediately like, well, that's her problem I'm takin' a nap! And responds to her heartfelt "I'll miss you" with "Wake me when you need me" :o Guess he wouldn't be good conversation anyway though :p
+Dirtymongol I never said it was out of character for him, dude, just that it sucks for Cortana. No idea why you think I'm "new to Halo's lore" or that I don't know about the Spartans' traumatic upbringing, lol.
Despite of course not receiving much of any upgrades, the resolution and framerate bump is a HUGE improvement in my own opinion. Originally, Halo 3 ran at a really weird resolution and none of my screens ever was able to run it in full-screen, having plenty of black bars. It's still very hard to be completely satisfied, I feel there's plenty more levels and content that could be added to Halo 2 and Halo 3 to turn them into far better experiences, similar to how modders have made TSC:E for Halo 1 where they add weapons, vehicles, etc. from the newer Halo games in and upgrade them further, expanding the levels significantly. Still, it's good to have this improvement for Halo 3.
They already know the covenant is 10 seconds from hitting the base. the squadleaders could stand stock fucking still and they'd still be in gunfight inside of a minute. theres no point in sending them anywhere, they'd never make it in time. Better to just tell em to get their guns to their shoulders and say their prayers.
I guess she means there ain't gonna be a rally point because all hell's about to break loose. This is supported by her cocking her pistol at the same time which signals that she's expecting an imminent attack
Halo 3 was the first Halo I played. I remember watching my brother play it when I was 9 then I finally got to play myself. Even tho I was confused as hell for everything in the story that couldn't be explained just by Halo 3 I loved it. The music is one of my most favorite parts of that experience.
Thank you so much for including bits of gameplay up to the cutscenes. That makes it so much easier to find where im at in my playthrough if i accidentally skip the cutscene by tapping space.
I still find it extremely funny that they switch weapons because of what covenant lacks the human has and what the human lacks is what the covenant has. While Spartans has everything and a little bit more.
Where do I start? Half-Life 2, Portal, Super Mario Bros, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, Super Metroid, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Super Smash Bros Melee, Shadow of the Colossus, Dark Souls and Goldeneye in no particular order.
GuyOnAChair I agree that these are great games, but Halo 3 is still the best game I've ever played. I can definitely see how you can feel otherwise though :)
Reclaimer Those aren't even my favorite games. I literally just looked up the greatest games of all time and Halo 3 wasn't there. Not to be a dick or anything.
This is really well done. When you watch just the cutscenes, you miss the connection between them. You watch the full gameplay walkthrough - you miss work tomorrow. This video allows you to fast forward through the story picking up on the best bits between the FMVs - and you end up with a much more coherent narrative. Great job @gamerslittleplayground
Ill never forget getting this game right after my 14th birthday right when it came out. I'm 31 now and I still get chills watching Chief grab Johnson's arm.
@22:04 shoutout to Martin O’Donnell as well as the cinematic staff. This was and still is the most influential and bad ass video game scene in my life.
What happened to Dual Wielding, all of the awesome guns, good multiplayer? Also what happened to all of the other protagonists, did i miss something important?
"Don't Let her go. Don't ever let her go." yet agian. i find myself in tears at the end of yet another of these game clips..its hard to beilieve that its been so long and even harder to beilieve how emotionally attached i am to these games.. it hit me hardest at 1:11:00 and even more so at 1:16:10 with the speech and the honor guard. it really hits you deep..
One of the most structurally beautiful video game campaigns of all time. From start to finish just plain action and for those like me who play on legendary it is phenomenal.
I hope so too, I would love to see more detailed facial expressions. More dialogue would be nice, but there's so much detail to the body language, you know what the character are thinking without speaking
***** Let's all be honest here, Halo 3's last mission was lit. But I see what you mean, while that part should keep the fireworks, they shouldn't over do it and throw more into the campaign. It'll ruin the atmosphere Bungie carefully crafted into this game
11:32 as a kid, I never understood how they immediately understood that they're about to get hit. Now I get it. "Does he usually mention me?" the actual implied answer is no. Because if it's a no, that means he knows the current state of the army and that the Chief is alive and with the UNSC. And if Truth knows that, he must know where the UNSC are holed up and that he must be the reason for the electric outage and shield deactivation...which must be for an invasion. All that deduction... in just seconds of dialogue. Halo never ceases to amaze me in how well this is all written.
do your self a favor, plug your phone into your car and turn the volume up as high as it will go. like to the point where it hurts. makes your spine all tingly!!!
03:06 Is it me, when chief runs up to the Arbiter when he pulls the magnum, it's like I hear Cortana calling out "Chief" very faintly, right before Johnson does.
"Were it not for the Arbiter's counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet."
Real smooth diplomacy there Rtas.
It was necessary to be said.
"Where should they go?"
"To war."
"Oh, that's a really good one-liner, ma'am, but really, where should they rally?"
“So, like, to the airfield? The barracks? The garage?”
“To war”
“No shit”
I can imagine them adding lore "Go to war" as a code phrase
Perfect line, a shame 343 cant write like that, they too busy putting in 10 tones of virtue signalling.
@@shmarvdogg69420 no they’re not, their dialogue is just not cool is all
Having the flood as an ally had to be the weirdest moment in this game
warhawk9566 enemy of my enemy is my friend. Like real world alliances.
i know but it's still the fucking parasite that's trying to eat you and all other life in the universe
I totally agree with you. And we see how they "stab them in the back" right away
yeah i remember, it was a kinda cool scene and I can understand the circumstances but was neither of them like "You know they're just doing this to fuck us over later right?"
lol I agree. Maybe they were just so sick of the covenant at that point that neither one cared.
"Just keep your head down. There's two of us in here now remember."
Such an AWESOME throwback to Halo 1 when you first get Cortana. That line STILL gives me chills.
Eric Chills? That line gave me a raging boner.
Arif Lukman Every Cortana line gives me a raging boner.
Eric
She only says it if you lose health on Pillar of Autumn
GunRecon 11 which always happens
Doesn't have to lose health, just have your shields flashing for the first time.
Bungie: "Halo 3!!! Finish the fight!!!"
Cortana: "Truth, and the Covenant, The Flood. It's finished."
Master Chief: "It's finished."
Microsoft: "Were it so easy...."
You missed the part where Microsoft is glaring at their bank account and Xbox sales before saying that.
Lol, I like your username
heydontparksoclosetomymotorcycleBOZO Lol you can't defeat the flood that easily.
the new halos are so souless, lost the art style the story telling, gameplay, everything that the old ones had that were great
@@juliet4093 I couldn't disagree more. The new games don't do enough to provide casual players with story context and I don't like some of 343's design choices but the world building post human-covenant war is fantastic.
*Elite:* They outnumber us, 3 to 1.
*Elite Leader/Shipmaster:* Then it is an even fight.
The true definition of badass. I've never forgotten this line, and never will.
THAT SHIPMASTER IS RTAS YOU UNCULTURED SWINE
"Elite leader/Shipmaster" is not a "bad ass" and that quote(s) is not the true definition of "bad ass" (literally)
"All cruisers! Fire at will! *slams fist into chair* Burn their mongrel hides!"
@@bulbasaurpokemon3573 If you've played the games you'd know that Shipmaster aka Vadum, is probably the most bad-ass character in the series. He cares about his soldiers (cinematic before killing the elite heretic in Halo 2 in the first mission as Arbiter), is always willing to help Arbiter and fight the flood head on with his fellow Elites, and takes on brute fleets that outnumber him 3 to 1, all while looking and sounding like an absolute UNIT.
I sincerely hope your comment is sarcastic, and that you don't SOMEHOW think that Shipmaster isn't the coolest motherfucker to ever save the universe.
Josh Powell-Morris Mean and badass, but arrogant. Which came to be his downfall... There’s a saying for that ^^
Edit: Realized a couple of seconds later i mixed up thel vadamee and moramee...
I fucking love Halo. Will never forget the second this game came through my letter box, skipped 2 days of school to play the final instalment of the original Halo's. A man with his priorities set straight.
And what year was that?
Notable COG Gear The year halo 3 came out......
this game is why highschool was so fucking hard for me LOL
fucking right
The longest conversation between chief and the arbiter. "No. If your construct is wrong, then the flood has already won." "I'll find Cortana's solution. and i'll bring it back."
Tbh, I like Arbiter with little dialogue, it really fits his collective character. I'd prefer the "body language speaking more than words" approach any day
colebowlin68 Indeed, more interaction between them is welcomed any time. Though there's still the sense that they started with a (less than) mutual respect relationship, to brothers in arms. I mean the Arbiter goes back for Chief at the end of the Cortana mission (and at that point I was so happy to see him because that mission was *hard*)
colebowlin68 I'd love to read that. It'd be great for those who are interested in Chief and the Arbiter's character. Too bad games can't have everything, or the majority audience are not that interested, but I can still dream of the perfect world where more character development did happen
I know this conversation is 11 months old, but I wanted to chime in and say Bungie avoided the whole 'fleshing characters out' as you put it because its literally one of the tropiest things in any media that involves 2 enemies coming together.
They were both warriors, and exemplary ones for their respective races. It would be entirely pointless and out of characters to have them try bro it out thoughout the game, and it would have completely ruined the emotional dynamic between them. Their relationship is entirely one of mutual grudging respect, thats it. Theyre not nor will they ever become friends.
This conversation is now more than two years old, but Milky hits it on the head. Both characters are soldiers of incredible discipline, whose careers have quite prominently revolved around the murder of the other. Both have trained all their lives *specifically* to kill one another, in some ways. They have every right and reason to hate- to vilify- one another.
But, through shared conflict and struggle, they earn one another's respect- which is, perhaps, the only thing you can hope for, from someone so inundated with the heartless work of death. At the end of things, they are recognizing one another: something neither one has ever done for their enemy.
'S fuggin' beautiful.
I love the uneasy alliance between Humanity and the Elites, especially the scene where they were trading gear. Even though the Elites are taller and stronger than humans, the Marines and ODST were ready to jump into action.
One of the best cutscenes in Halo history
I was just laughing at that
Taller and stronger?...That's all?
Anyone who's played Halo: Reach knows the alliance is not uneasy merely because of the sangheili being taller and stronger than humans...
Correction:
Not played... _suffered..._
nothing scarier than a poetic psychopath with 100 ft tentacles
Now, that was a well-thought out villain. Not the stereotypical villain design they used for Warden in 5
Well the Gravemind did eat a lotta alien poets so he’s a pretty sophisticated villain
Wait until he becomes the Key-mind. Most terrifying it can become.
Pyroizm SC that’s when they end up covering the size of a planet, right?
@@BoatsNhoes824 jup
I get goosebumps every time chief gets up in the beginning. "Yeah, you're not." The music is so perfect there.
"They're requesting a rally point. Where should they go?" "To war" Not really a rally point is it though?
Tom Y
Worst line in the whole game.
@@sirbillius nah mate there are plenty worse, particularly in the level cortana that condone rape to simply feed the power fantasy
Orrin Hurlbutt
Excuse me? When’s that?
@@sirbillius the entire level of cortana unintentionally condones mind rape in the aesthetic of the doorways and the generally powerless position that the imagery assigns to cortana. Also when you do actually start destroying high charity there was a line from cortana which was along the lines of 'take that you bastard!' which was scrapped and changed to 'you hurt it!' in the feeblest voice they could get which infers that cortana is completely powerless. I'll link you to an analysis that does it better justice than me if you'd like.
Orrin Hurlbutt
No I’m good. I think your over analyzing to be honest.
the lighting for stuff like the little lights on the suits and walls look a LOT better, reflections look clearer, Textures look slightly better... and DAMN this game still looks good
Hi friend
True
I remember when this first came out me and my brother played it and were so taken aback by the graphics. At the time it was the closest we'd seen to real life
@@Destroyj4nn13s Blur Studios should definitely remake the cutscenes
I remember thinking the graphics in this game were insanely good.. I know every new generation of game and console always does that but I can't see how today's games (for example the newest grand theft auto in 1080p) can be beat visually. I know 5 or 10 years from now i'll probably look back at this comment and laugh.
We're quickly approaching the end of graphic progression, more pixels/details are redundant as we simply can't perceive the difference. The differences in video game graphics are then simply going to be art style ie. cell-shaded vs a more realistic approach or even a comic book looking art style. This is the golden age of gaming and I'll never forget games like these.
sad part is in the future games are not gonna be ass good as this era especially Halo obviously its really sad i cant enjoy it how i use to enjoy it when it was new dont get me wrong its still good but before man... the memories..... it makes me sad how i wont be able to re-live them but atleast i have them.
Is it that time yet ?
Good thing is the only direction i can see graphics going now is a more stylized approach, given how we've basically already gone as far as we can go when it comes to realism
It's been five years. How ya doin?
It's going to need some time to process to 1080p and to 60fps, so I would wait if I were you. Halo 4 is in the process of being fixed right now, we hope it's audio problems are resolved by tonight. When we uploaded yesterday it worked great, but glitched for some reason today in the afternoon. We'll be uploading the Halo 2 Terminals soon!
Hey one question in halo 2 and 3 we can still use dual weapons or is no longer posible???
Gabo Mago You can still use dual weapons
Gabo Mago its still possible, only the needlers aren't possible to be dual-wielded because they are awesome ^^
Tyr Krustak not even in halo 2?
Gabo Mago The engines are all identical to the original games, so if you could do it back then you can do it now on the Master Chief Collection.
I like that this videos aren't JUST cutscenes. It includes bits of important in-game scenes.
All cutscene game movie things always leave that out and ya end up losing some parts of the story and ultimately end up having to read a summary to fully understand or else you're left with guess work.
Yeah, I too love that he includes all relevant scenes.
What a fantastically enjoyable campaign and story this was, all of Halo: Reach + CE + 2 + ODST + 3. Memories I'll remember and treasure.
One of the best FPS game trilogy of all time ❤😊
This story stopped at the end of Halo 3 for me. And what a great run it was
I wish they would have Blur do the cinematics for Halo 3 too. It is so weird going from the beautiful Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes to the rather weirdly animated Halo 3 ones, then to the very well done Halo 4 ones.
Yeah I was confused why the hell 3 looks like SHIT compared to 2
3 still looks amazing. And likely will for a while.
It's because H2A was the ANNIVERSARY. H2A came out in 2014. H3 in 2007.
@@CAsnowman lol if you kids think Halo 3's cinematics look shit boot up MCC and start a Halo 2 Campaign on the classic graphics. they looked amazing for the time they were made but obviously years and over a decade's advancement in video games of course they look a bit rough by today's standards. I would love to see Halo 3 and ODST get the same treatment one day for sure though.
1:18:29
In all seriousness and with all due respect, my fight ended here. No journey can match that which we have taken in this trilogy and nothing ever will. To my fellows who played through this story with me, know that this story, no matter where its decedents take it, is untouchable.
amen brother, can't wait to revisit it on Steam with the master chief collection.
bro remember getting this thing when the game came out?
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Felt it bro. 🙏
I just realized. When the Arbiter is introduced and Johnson makes a joke about the two of them killing each other, The Arbiter responds to Chief by saying "Were it so easy." He says the exact same line to Lord Hood at the Chief's Memorial when Hood says "It's hard to believe he's dead." Arbiter responds with "Were it so easy."
no shit
Thanks captain obvious not like that was a deliberate reference or anything
and your comment has 117 likes
I don’t get someone plz explain
No shit Sherlock
My all time favourite Elite/Covenant line
Rtas 'Vadum: All ships, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides
I remember skipping school to just play this game with my brother. Ahh the memories
mine is the one right before:
"the brutes outnumber is 3 to 1 shipmaster!"
"then it is an even fight!"
mom's spaghetti
"Were it not for the council of the arbiter i would have glassed your ENTIRE planet". 👍
48:11 It must be the first time driving a human vehicle for that Elite.
Famtomerc A sangheili got in a gauss turret in my game, but unfortunately died by a scarab. It was a sad day indeed, so I felt a good sensation for killing the scarabs this time!
G O O D S E N S A T I O N
Exactly what I thought lol
It was funny seeing it
8:56-9:06 gets me so emotional seeing how hopeful they get seeing a Spartan
Scenes like 58:05 are completely lacking in the new Halo games and definitely one of reasons why they fail to capture the magic of the original games.
Yeah, Bungie did it better, 343i needs to do better than Halo 5.
Absolutely. We need a scene that makes up for the mysterious, religious and eve creepy choir of the soundtrack.
Nathan Williams I played Halo 5 and it didn't dazzle me as the first four did. Especially Halo 2.
Mark Kim hey, that's the best music
I would argue that the scenes are the same. They still have the art and the riming. Whats missing is the stakes. Halo 1-3 were such perfectly paced games. They took their time to establish a universe ending threat. In the first game it was kill the evil aliens and survive the parasite. It took the time to introduce the flood as something that the aliens who have been kicking your ass fear. And the ring wasnt even a thing until over halfway through. The second game brought the aliens to earth. Now we are fighting for the last of humanity. And just when it looks like that fight might be winnable, we get the twist that theres another Halo, and now they know how to activate it. Now theres a ticking clock. The whole time its building up the villains of the Prophets and Gravemind who are in the foreground advancing their plans right in front of you. The final game unleashes all of those villains on you at once. You still have the pressure of the battlefield being Earth, you have the flood on earth after you have seen what it can do, twice. Then you have the final act on the arc. Back to the ticking clock with the prophets and back to the waves of enemies from the flood. And it gives you resolution to both those stories. The problem with Halo 4 was that it was rushed. The Didact was suddenly there with virtually no buildup. Then he vanished while doing what is assumed to be bad things in the background. And then he kills a bunch of people on a space station. And then you stop him from killing earth. Theres no pacing to give the cinematic moments weight. Theres no motivations, no clock, no tidal wave of enemies. Just one bad guy we barely see and some new minions. Halo 5 falls for the same problems, but then doubles down by making you play two different sides, losing investment in the story of each and then preying on your emotions by having the bad guy be a former good guy. The problem with the new games isnt their choice of bad guys or the style, its that they tried to do too much and in doing so, failed to build what they had sufficiently. They shot for the moon but hit their foot.
I will always remember the Christmas of 2007. I was so excited to play halo 3. I set up everything right away and jumped into the campaign. I still remember the feeling of first playing it
Thanks for this! I'm watching all of these before Halo 5 comes out to catch up on forgotten story. I love that you show actual gameplay as well to help get a sense of the whole game, rather than just the cutscenes, which can make it confusing.
+Aaron Atkins Thatnks glad you like style of editing. Halo has a brilliant story, can't wait for H5!
+Gamer's Little Playground Thank you so much for this! It feels just like a homecoming of sorts, I'm happy to see this and remember my youth, well I'm still nineteen but I'm an adult, not much time for video games anymore, this brought back nostalgia aplenty!
Jonny B Yeah 5 fucked up halo..
I really don't want to jump on the 343-hate bandwagon but I just can't help it. They're trying, bless them, but they just can't nail down the initial underlying ideas that made Halo a cult-classic in the first place.
All the games made by Bungie have this same consistent theme: heroism, self-sacrifice for the greater good, desperation. Watching humanity being pushed to the very breaking point and seeing characters stand defiant in the face of certain doom.
And what does 343i give us? A love story between a soldier who's had his romantic desires neurologically supressed and an AI who's aware that she isn't human but just can't accept it. Its ridiculous. I mean its good in its own right but it just cannot top the idea of a character laying down their own life to ensure humanity's survival.
Okay, loved Halo 3, but that memorial bit at the end always got me. Like 20 billion people died in the war and on Earth the memorial is a single pillar with about 20 people's pictures stickytaped to it?
haha true, but maybe they had memorials all over the place, which I'm sure they did. And this is just a memorial for this specific group of people or something like that
Despite the lettering on it, apparently the monument was dedicated to the contingent of soldiers who traveled through the portal and never came back. Hence the wording of Lord Hood's speech.
ooh, that makes way more sense. Thank you!
I hate what they did to the cutscenes they did it with halo 2 flawlessly and they didn't do anything with halo 3
That was for the people who never made it back from the portal.
"Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up alittle."
Chief always knew what to say
*Wake me ..... when you need me.*
Well Chief, you're needed for Halo 4, 5 and 6.
i can't wait for halo 6
Mr. J I can’t wait for halo 7
Well u posted this comment 5 years ago and it's now called Halo infinite
@@jasonmassey5498 I can't wait til halo 9
@@FatalJOKER787 Naw, Halo 10, that's what I can't wait for....
i haven't played the game in 6 years and i still feel the shudder of the game controller in my hand at 1:04. the excitement of playing hit me so hard in the first minute. so much of my childhood lies here.
14:09 Oh shit it's the demon
Cartman!? xD
Redbeak
You will respect my authoritah
The first three halos were storytelling at its finest. The new trilogy ehhhh, especially halo 5. And im still confused on why the covenant is back at war with the the humans..
It's a covenant remnant.
sims4610593 The Covenant was always at war with humanity. They have a defacto peace with the elites.
Taaketa Dinloka Even then, it's only with certain factions.
sims4610593 the reason there's good and bad covenant is because there's two factions of the covenant,Those Nicknamed the "Banished" and those Knowns as the "Good elites", if you pay attention to the campaign of Halo 4 then you'd know. There's those that still believe in the great journey and there's those who opened their eyes and realized it was all a lie. That's why there's 2 factions of elites.
That literally makes no sense, Joswen. The "Banished" are Covenant rebels introduced in Halo Wars 2, they weren't in Halo 4 or 5 at all. The "Storm Covenant" or "Covenant Remanant" are in Halo 4 and 5 as the successors to the original Covenant, but even their existence makes no sense.
The Covenant tried to slaughter the Elites and branded them all heretics. While I get that the Elites may have disagreements on whether to ally with Humanity or not, it makes no sense why any of them would go BACK to that ancient religion that nearly cost them their entire existence. Truly deluded individuals.
Halo 3's graphics still hold up after 8 years...
Yep, thanks to a fantastic art style. H3 will always look good.
Almost 2020, still looks amazing
2020 still good
Immortal. Aside from facial animations, it could release today almost as is.
@Justin Lee the characters need an update for sure. They look and act like puppets.
1:20:35 The end of an era,a great trilogy and a legend.
Sometimes this scene makes you wonder ,what ever happened to Halo?Bungie sure as hell knew how to create great emotional scenes ,even without good graphics.
However this game, needs to be remastered,to be done with truly incredible cutscenes,just like the previous ones.It deserves this both to us,and to the devellopers that made it themselves
You begin the fight waking up, and you finished it before going back to sleep. I know Halo 4 wasn't bad, but it should've ended right here.
Exactly! 343 studios did alright staying with the story, but there's inconsistentsy and the fact that bungie wanted the story to end. It was perfect, hero got the girl and saved the day.
How should it have ended here? Especially with the legendary ending? It just doesn't make sense to end the series with chief in space like that orbiting some mysterious planet with everyone thing that he's dead.
Rworld I should've ended here if Bungie never made the Legendary ending and Chief let out with a bang. But it didn't, Bungie left us with a cliffhanger and then decided to abandon the series with that said cliff hanger.
battlefield117 elite It's like the Aztecs dude, they sacrificed the best when they were the best. A legend cannot be tarnished if he dies at his peak.
press (RB) to breach stasis field 1:02:26
is that hard to press?
ikr
He was waiting for the hallucinations to go
@@thanosmaster-abel559 waiting for hallucinations doesn't mean missing the field over and over and shooting at it because you can't hit it.
@@borip765 RB is the melee button...
@@thanosmaster-abel559 the hallucinations don't go away until your breach the barrier dumbass
"Halo, Truth, and the Covenant, The Flood. It's finished"
"It's finished"
Great call back to Halo 1 end when MC says "no, i think we're just getting started"
Johnson: Don't let her go. Don't ever let her go.
Imagine the feels if they bring up Johnson in Halo 6, or any other significant character from the original trilogy. Characters that died helping Chief keep Cortana safe. Only to see what she's turn into now.
I want all of that to happen, and sporadically like Cortana's visions in this game. That way it catches us off-guard
I love the Arbiter and Chief. Really hope that Halo Infinite pairs them up again to kick some ass.
1:17:40
"Were it so easy."
Only a year earlier,
"We must go. The Brutes have our scent."
"Then they must love the smell of green."
or "then they must love the smell of bad ass and i left a present for you arbiter and im walking away hahaha"
1:06:40 RIP Pelican (saddest death in the game)
leik if u cri evryteim
Evrytime man 😭
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I cri evryteim
The Chief's concern at 28:02 gets me every time man every time
It feels as though the cut scenes are running 10-15% faster than the originals
It's probably the effect of them making the scenes 60FPS without trying to modify them so that the pauses and whatever else was there for effect were still there
Angry Pepe Yeah, almost feels like they're being fast forwarded sometimes.
Gamers Little Playground™ They feel like they are on ice for some reason. Or that nothing has any real weight.
+ Angry Pepe They feel faster purely because of 60FPS, they are not actually any faster.
Memorable intro lines :
Cortana, all I need to know is did we lose them?
There was only one ship.
They let me pick.
I always loved chiefs sense of humor in these games my favorite line that always makes me laugh is when he tells Cortana “thought I’d try shooting my way out, mix things up a little”
12:33
Did anyone see that levitating marine on the left of the room behind the computer
All these years later, and I still miss Sargeant Avery Johnson
Just gonna pretend Halo 4 and 5 never happened. This was the perfect ending IMO
Halo 5 is great
+Emile Johnson That's debatable.
+Emile Johnson halo 5 sucked.
bur halo 4 was great.
Fouzia Sheikh No. it wasn't. It was okay.
I always feel so bad for Cortana, trapped alone on that half of a ship for 5 years... And Chief just jumps into his pod immediately like, well, that's her problem I'm takin' a nap! And responds to her heartfelt "I'll miss you" with "Wake me when you need me" :o Guess he wouldn't be good conversation anyway though :p
+catbert7 You're new to Halos' lore. Chief isn't really social, none of the original Spartans were. Sociopaths, even.
+Dirtymongol I never said it was out of character for him, dude, just that it sucks for Cortana. No idea why you think I'm "new to Halo's lore" or that I don't know about the Spartans' traumatic upbringing, lol.
catbert7's Gaming Highlights chief aint got time for no hoes, that boi taking a nap
I mean like if she could go to sleep she would too, i dont think she took it personally
Despite of course not receiving much of any upgrades, the resolution and framerate bump is a HUGE improvement in my own opinion. Originally, Halo 3 ran at a really weird resolution and none of my screens ever was able to run it in full-screen, having plenty of black bars. It's still very hard to be completely satisfied, I feel there's plenty more levels and content that could be added to Halo 2 and Halo 3 to turn them into far better experiences, similar to how modders have made TSC:E for Halo 1 where they add weapons, vehicles, etc. from the newer Halo games in and upgrade them further, expanding the levels significantly. Still, it's good to have this improvement for Halo 3.
Not Leaving Him 1:30
Trap6:04
Saving Johnson 6:51
Briefing 8:23 9:04
Evacuate 12:03 13:17
Uncovered Ark 16:05 16:22
17:16
Clear the Sector 18:05 20:44
Aerial Assault 22:15 23:18
🐙Flood 24:28 25:26
Cortana’s Solution26:07 27:21
The Ark 31:13 34:40 🖲️39:33 41:58
Force field Towers 42:57 45:12 🐙46:22
Citadel 49:40 50:23 🐙 53:20
Truth 54:37
11:55 that's probably the most worthless piece of information you could've given.
I always like to think that there is a rally point called ‘war’
They already know the covenant is 10 seconds from hitting the base. the squadleaders could stand stock fucking still and they'd still be in gunfight inside of a minute. theres no point in sending them anywhere, they'd never make it in time. Better to just tell em to get their guns to their shoulders and say their prayers.
@@Reztiips The funniest part is that next she stops, turns around and walks back down the stairs. Only walked up them for dramatic effect...
I guess she means there ain't gonna be a rally point because all hell's about to break loose. This is supported by her cocking her pistol at the same time which signals that she's expecting an imminent attack
We still need Halo 3 remastered
anyone else think that the flood leader dude sounds like unicron from the old transformer movie
Anybody*
Notable COG Gear Anyone is also correct
are you fuckin serious the original comment was posted literally 3 years ago and you respond with a grammar correction
Mason Gee Fr! I'm weak 💀
zane brown
Yeah honestly I hear it too
1:57 Holy fuck. ya'll see how much pain is in? just noticed that now. and he still gets up like nothing happened.
Halo 3 was the first Halo I played. I remember watching my brother play it when I was 9 then I finally got to play myself. Even tho I was confused as hell for everything in the story that couldn't be explained just by Halo 3 I loved it. The music is one of my most favorite parts of that experience.
That ending though i can feel cortana's emotion in there
That Memorial part at the end... got me all teared up!
😂
Thank you so much for including bits of gameplay up to the cutscenes.
That makes it so much easier to find where im at in my playthrough if i accidentally skip the cutscene by tapping space.
Master Chief: wake me!
Cortana's thinking: me alone again!
Master Chief: when you Need
1:20:43 Cortana's light look like tear!
I love the way this was done, with bits of gameplay to keep you informed on what's actually going on, rather than just all of the cutscenes.
Imagine an anniversary remaster of this, just like with Halo 2
When are we gonna get it???
@@RoboZombie44never.
I love it how you show some gameplay footage too, so that the cut scenes aren't to discombobulated.
2:51 Sarge's face lol
I know it’s just a game but this player is careless with his marines.😂
When even the freaking Flood enters a temporary alliance to stop a greater evil.
"One of these days you're going to land on something as stubborn as you are" LOL
What are odds of someone reading ur comment while that same exact cutscene gets played.
This is probably the best halo, close between 2 and 3.
Vlogiicz I feel like the story in 2 is better but the gameplay is more fun in 3
Two words.
One level.
Sacred. Icon.
Halo 2 all the way.
Halo 2 in my opinion. Love the focus on both Chief and Arbiter in that one. Halo 3 really only focused on Chief.
It’s between 2 and Reach as the best halo games for me, but 3 is definitely a close 2nd
I still find it extremely funny that they switch weapons because of what covenant lacks the human has and what the human lacks is what the covenant has.
While Spartans has everything and a little bit more.
Still the greatest game ever made
Not the greatest. There's better.
GuyOnAChair Like?
Where do I start? Half-Life 2, Portal, Super Mario Bros, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, Super Metroid, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Super Smash Bros Melee, Shadow of the Colossus, Dark Souls and Goldeneye in no particular order.
GuyOnAChair I agree that these are great games, but Halo 3 is still the best game I've ever played. I can definitely see how you can feel otherwise though :)
Reclaimer Those aren't even my favorite games. I literally just looked up the greatest games of all time and Halo 3 wasn't there. Not to be a dick or anything.
I love how cortana´s messages reference the fall of reach
Such a shame halo 3 didn’t have the same voice actors for Truth and Miranda Keys
4:54. That dying sound. Lmao
This is really well done. When you watch just the cutscenes, you miss the connection between them. You watch the full gameplay walkthrough - you miss work tomorrow. This video allows you to fast forward through the story picking up on the best bits between the FMVs - and you end up with a much more coherent narrative. Great job @gamerslittleplayground
Ill never forget getting this game right after my 14th birthday right when it came out. I'm 31 now and I still get chills watching Chief grab Johnson's arm.
@22:04 shoutout to Martin O’Donnell as well as the cinematic staff. This was and still is the most influential and bad ass video game scene in my life.
"halo" the only video game I play...my kids and grand kids tried to get me into others but I always come back to halo.....
What happened to Dual Wielding, all of the awesome guns, good multiplayer? Also what happened to all of the other protagonists, did i miss something important?
343 m8
Typical Cactus Typical.
Yolonda McGoldfish 343 happend
"Does he usually mentioned me?" - chief
Now that when Chief, it personal matters between him and the prophet of Truth
59:18
Literally looks like he’s flying into a painting
Finally someone to agree with:
"Don't Let her go. Don't ever let her go."
yet agian. i find myself in tears at the end of yet another of these game clips..its hard to beilieve that its been so long and even harder to beilieve how emotionally attached i am to these games.. it hit me hardest at 1:11:00 and even more so at 1:16:10 with the speech and the honor guard. it really hits you deep..
One of the most structurally beautiful video game campaigns of all time. From start to finish just plain action and for those like me who play on legendary it is phenomenal.
32:00 what a great shot...looking back I never understood cinematography back then but looking at it now. These scenes are awesome.
I can't wait for the CGI remastered cutscenes for this game.
I hope so too, I would love to see more detailed facial expressions. More dialogue would be nice, but there's so much detail to the body language, you know what the character are thinking without speaking
***** Let's all be honest here, Halo 3's last mission was lit. But I see what you mean, while that part should keep the fireworks, they shouldn't over do it and throw more into the campaign. It'll ruin the atmosphere Bungie carefully crafted into this game
When around 25:50 that thing started with "I am peace, I am salvation" I nearly expected it to say "I am the Harbinger of your destruction" next XD
You should definitely do a full Master Chief Collection game movie like your previous Halo Movie, but all remastered.
11:32 as a kid, I never understood how they immediately understood that they're about to get hit. Now I get it.
"Does he usually mention me?"
the actual implied answer is no. Because if it's a no, that means he knows the current state of the army and that the Chief is alive and with the UNSC. And if Truth knows that, he must know where the UNSC are holed up and that he must be the reason for the electric outage and shield deactivation...which must be for an invasion.
All that deduction... in just seconds of dialogue. Halo never ceases to amaze me in how well this is all written.
I'm a big fan of all halo games but my favorite halo game is Halo: ce anniversary.
To all halo fans, which halo game is your favorite?
2
Reach
Halo 3
Halo ce halo 2 halo 3 and reach
Halo 3, my childhood.
Lordhoods speech at the end gets me every time, please make this a movie, the same cutscenes, but live action
Lord Hood using encourage speech for any UNSC Marine to fight against Covenant and the Flood Legions..
I have to say, after seeing Halo 2 remastered in all of its advanced graphics glory, I cannot wait to see this game redone the same way.
The scene with sgt Johnson and the arbiter holding weapons is to me the best scene in any of the halo games as it shows human-elite alliance.
"where should they go?"
>mutes for a moment as to not ruin the game with the one terrible line.
*Click click* “To war”
1:04:39 that moment when the Arbiter learned the art of pyrosene brings tears to my eye.
AWWWW YEEEEE IVE BEEN WATIN FOR THIS THANKS GLP
do your self a favor, plug your phone into your car and turn the volume up as high as it will go. like to the point where it hurts. makes your spine all tingly!!!
58:09 the next minute on made me cry 😭so beautiful
It was, indeed, iconic
03:06 Is it me, when chief runs up to the Arbiter when he pulls the magnum, it's like I hear Cortana calling out "Chief" very faintly, right before Johnson does.
Yeah I hear it too. Don’t know if it’s Cortana, or a lady marine though.
39:25 is..is..that brute taking a piss?
yes
We'll head for the portal & we'll all go home.
54:37 to 55:51
my favorite scene, and havnt played it since its not on pc
arbiter is the best character thogh