Noble out... There's a pretty sad irony in the way each Noble member died. Jorge said he'd never leave Reach. He died in orbit of the planet. The only one to not die with his feet on the ground. Kat was the brains of Noble team. She died from a headshot. Jun was the scout and stealth expert. He disappeared. Carter was the leader of the group. He "went down with the ship". Emile was a close-quarters expert. He was killed by a sword. And Noble 6 was a lone wolf and died alone. Thank you for playing Meg, I absolutely loved it
Fun fact: In the first mission, when you see the Zealot Elite in the cutscene, he nearly stabs you with a wristblade but your character blocks it and Carter then pushes the Elite off of you. In the last mission, the final strike to Noble Six comes from the same Elite type with the same weapon. It's just a small detail that I haven't seen a lot of people mention.
Even better, I'm a little rusty on my Reach lore, but that same Field Marshall (The elite class) from the first mission is the same Field Marshall you fight as you make your way up to the MAC in the Pillar of Autumn. He is also, I believe, the elite that killed Kat.
@@kirby7294 You are right, the Field Marshall was the one that first dropped down, swinging at Jorge before knocking 6 down and running like a coward. I remember that cut-scene clear as when I first played it when I was 13.
Especially when you realize he probably wasn't wasting his last breath on the Elite. It was always the intention that 6 was the one to walk, Emile had the gun after all. Then once he gets stabbed, he's probably literally asking 6 "You ready to stay behind?"
My favorite part of Reach is when Kat and Noble 6 get on the elevator and Kat says "First glassing? Me too." It's such a well delivered line and you can hear the fear in her voice. It's a reminder that the Spartans are in fact human.
2:03:24 Cortana was created with a scan of Halseys brain. Meaning she was a part of Halsey. I believe it was her love and care for John that imprinted on Cortana.
She was created via flash cloning Halsey brain you can only scan a living brain but afterward the brain is damaged and unrevivable thus is only done to people who have already died and or are in the process of dying
Cortana was one of many attempts at smarter ai using illegally grown clones from Dr. Halsey dna. Most ai are made from donated dead brains. Halsey was desperate for better ai.
this broke me at the end cause i was like o we are taking the planet now and i see at the top objective "survive" and me not knowing English but seeing it reassembled " sobrevive" had me at the edge of my seat for what happened next T^T
You probably don't know, but there's an app for Android (it has been taken down and you have to mod it for it to work) but the "Cortana virtual assistant" that was available for windows 10 mobile was ported to android, it was literally Cortana who was helping you very much like Alexa and Siri, she was even capable of impersonating Yoda, answer some questions about John and the normal voice assistant shenanigans.
Pior q esse jogo definiu minha infância. Devo ter jogado essa campanha centenas de vezes até conseguir o famoso all skull’s legendary. Até devo ter o manualzinho do jogo com o disco no Xbox 360, bons tempos
Something interesting to note, on the final mission, Lone Wolf: Noble Six is surrounded by dead marines and Spartans and has, canonically, been fighting for hours, perhaps even days. Even when every last human on the planet was gone, Noble Six kept going until it took quite literally the Covenant's equivalent to Noble Team (those Zealots you saw throughout the game) to take just her down. Hyper lethal indeed. Edit: Noticed an odd amount of people harp on this, but to be clear Noble Six doesn't have a confirmed gender (as far as I know) and I only used "her" because obviously that's what Meg played as.
I thought of the zealot squad the same too, I think the group that hunted you down from the beginning up until you kill them before getting on the mac were called the "Devoted Sentries"
If you use the in game time references then you can see Noble 6 only fought for a few hours. The hyper lethal title was retconned. It was just a throwaway line in one of the trailers. All Spartans are considered hyper lethal.
@Nonamearisto they were still trained under ONI as a top secret program. S051 Kurt, a Spartan-II, actually trained all 3 companies. It was so top secret, Kurt's death was faked so the few people who knew he existed in the first place thought he died... So technically they already belonged to ONI. My guess is, they were reassigned to Reachs planetary defense army to assist in the defense of the planet and when they went back for Halsey, they were reassigned BACK to ONI. Seems to me like a small oversight in the writing probably due to the lack of lore surrounding the Spartan-IIIs at the time.
She did not know that though, Halsey was never filled in on the Spartan III program until Ghosts of Onyx, she could only peice together who noble team was and who had trained them
I bawled my eyes out when my character died. Playing the Halo series you grow up thinking you’ll get out somehow someway like master-chief. Watching noble six die was heartbreaking for me.
i guess for you younger generations , that was like your "optimus prime moment" ... ok bare with me i'ma genXer here. i was already an adult when halo 1 came out and 30 soemthign when reach came out. lol still ahuge halo fan. any way some explaination: in the 1986 cartoon movie for transformers they had optimus prime die. to say the least it tramatized many kids that saw it in the theatres. I was 7 years old when that movie came out and it was devestating at the time to think they actually killed optimus... but well that's life and i came out better for it later down the road helped deal with so much worse stuff in life later on.
Emile has a rare line about his brother giving his life to protect him from the covenant, and how he hs to repay that debt. He fights for vengeance, even now years later. He's devoted his life to it, and that's why he accepts his spot on the gun and is "ready" when he's stabbed. He's been expecting his death ever since he was saved, and even if he's feared it at times and covered it with jokes, he's not ready until he tells Six to get off the planet.
@@MrChickennugget360simple, Winter Contingency was originally a mission about fighting insurgents on reach until Noble Team discovered that the covenant had found reach (Emile’s hostile reaction to the farmers because he assumed they were insurrectionists was because in the past they shot him to shreds)
Carter: "Six! That A.I. chose you. She made the right choice." So much meaning behind such a short simple line. Six was initially some random new-blood replacement to a seasoned Noble team that had seen action together for a long time. And yet, Carter not only accepts six as an official member but also to say that Cortana chose the right spartan for such an important task, speaks volumes of growth and trust. Even more so when Carter gives his life for six to complete the mission.
Noble 6 was not a newbie. Its stated his ONI file is a mile long and most of it is completely classified. In fact, 6 is considered to have a resume only second to Master Chief himself.
That was just an acknowledgment from Carter about Noble Six being a lone wolf. At that point, there were only 2 of them left, and Carter was going to die. So it was just Carter giving the Six permission to be a lone wolf.
At 35:48, we initially think that Carter is telling Jun to keep Halsey safe. Although, he's really just telling him to kill Dr. Halsey if there's a risk she could be captured.
I love the environmental detail in the Package when you go through the same areas as mission 2, except where there used to be cliffs and valleys now there's a sea beause all the ice is melting from Covenant scorching planet's surface
Six manages to kill the Field Marshall of the Devoted Sentries by the MAC gun, but we see another in her final moments. Being so honour bound, the Sanghelli choosing to engage Six in melee is a clear sign of their wounded pride. They want to restore honour by executing her personally. Just goes to show how important NOBLE team became to the covenant, their deaths were personal after they killed the Commander aboard the Super carrier.
Hey MegMag, thank you so much for playing Halo Reach, this was one of the best Halos from character customization to storymode.. Im glad you enjoyed it..
this game hit so hard back in the day when we thought it was the last halo, like a final goodbye (which btw, i think when put in that context makes Halsey's last speech sadder, "too bad you never lived to see it" back then felt like bungie telling us they are leaving forever and halos journey is over, as we know now though 343 picked it up)
Also fun fact at 51:00 that frigate you go through is the unsc commonwealth, the frigate from the book(fall of reach) and the animated series, pretty cool detail
Funfact the covenant was traumatized from fighting Noble Six to the point they thought Chief Was Noble Six Reincarnated Or A Copy Of Noble Six And Noble Six is suppose to be an inferior Spartan compared to Master Chief
@@kaybevang536 he was a Spartan III but an absolute beast, the Spartan III were technically inferior to the Spartan IIs, plus he was Wearing Mjolnir Armour not the Spartan III armor
The pinkish and blue elites you kill on your way up to the big gun are the elites that are responsible for Cat's death, same ones you encounter in the very beginning where they almost stab you in first person. Avenged Kat's death!
@@limawhiskey7451 I agree. I'm sure she didn't mean to forget about them, as Reach is a big game to take in after a first playthrough, but I do wish Meg had watched the Bungie credits and put them into the video. It's the only way to ensure the people who worked on those beautiful games get the credit they deserve
Actually, none of the original games have credits. Like, why is that? I think it’s quite disrespectful on Microsoft’s part. It would be great if the 'new' Halo studio added proper credits.
I've loved reach's ending cause the death is more impactful due to it being your character you made. It hurts more to lose something you've made. Also you notice Keys reaction to noble staying behind hurts him
Man the ending still gets me Anybody wants some fries and chicken nuggets after this I am making them Reason why: I remember my little brother telling me he wanted to play halo reach I introduced him to the series and he has overall enjoyed it When he got to halo reach he felt so saddened by the ending he put his face down I asked if he was okay He said yes but I knew he was saddened at what happened so I went downstairs made my bother some fries and chicken nuggets dad comes in and asked you making yourself some lunch I said no it’s for my brother he just played one of the best/sad/hopeful halo story’s ever and after it was all done I went and took his food upstairs to my room(he was hanging out) and I told him eat up Spartan you did good 👍🙂
1:46:11 exactly how i felt when i first played Reach on the 360 back in the day but as i replayed it i realized that the game was a story not about Surviving but about holding the Covenant off at the Bastion of Humanity, because that's what Reach was: a Fortress for humanity because if Reach Fell The UNSC knew Earth was next that's also why Halsey had Cortana decrypting the data from the Artifact beneath S.W.O.R.D. base to find a solution to The Covenant's onslaught against Humanity( too bad we found something worse than the covenant in the process)
Fun fact, Master Chief was taking part in the fighting in Reach, and that's when he first met Cortana too, but then he was placed into cryo-sleep and sent into the Pillar of Autumn, this happens right before you receive Cortana in the game. You can also see Master Chief in the cryo pod on the Legendary difficulty ending.
@@thrilltokill5409 If it was that easy the war wouldn't have lasted 30 years. In the grand scheme theres not much 2 Spartans can do against billions of Covenant soldiers and hundreds of ships. What typically happens is Spartans do what they can to stall the Covenant so civilians can be evacuated then they get picked up before they are stranded and overwhelmed.
And another fun but sad fact, the lone wolf mission lasts forever until your health drops low enough, but canonically, Noble Six stays fighting the covenant for three whole days, non-stop before they eventually get killed.
The likely reason 343i took out the credits to Reach is because it names a lot of people that don't work in 343 anymore. It would probably be a legal issue thing with Bungie if they didn't.
This popped up in my feed out of the blue, and I'm pretty glad. I usually check out videos where people react to the character deaths and story beats. But I have to say, I really appreciate the perspective you bring to the table as someone who has read the Fall of Reach book.
Captain Keys was such a legendary character. Regardless of his relatively short story in the Halo games, Lord Hood himself singled out his purpose in the war as extraordinary, and considered him one of the best. Halsey said the delivering of Cortana was to be the highest priority for humanity - she was that important. And Keys understood and appreciated all the sacrifices it took for that mission to succeed. Trust me, Noble 6 was not forgotten.
Man i love watching people play this game for the first time. their reactions to all of Noble's deaths and just the story of reach is always a highlight for me, ive been fortunate enough to bring three friends who have never played halo to the series and i love to just watch them react. i love that you kept your closing thoughts in and hearing you break it all down was cool! excited to see what you do next!
I love that at the beginning of "The Package" you can feel Noble Team's exhaustion after suffering loss after loss, but by the end of it you feel a sliver of hope.
Hearing those piano notes at 34:30 brought water to my eyes. I hate that Halo is in shambles right now. We deserved so much better. I miss you Halo, my brothers and I had such great times together because of you. Maybe some time we’ll re-install Infinite.
All the halo games get so much more tragic and dark the more lore you know, playing as a kid I did not know the spartan 3s are all artificially adulted so most are literally 13-16 children in grown bodies fighting a war
The Grunts we kill in all the games are literally children. The Covenant exploited the rapid reproduction of their species. This also explains the humorous tone they have in the games.
Those are my favorites too, lol. I think I have to give the edge to "Final Run" for me, though -- it fits CE's more dark and horror-focused tone so well. Chief is the final survivor of The Pillar of Autumn, up against two alien armies trying to wipe everything out. _Under Cover of Night_ starting to play as the Chapter title appears on screen, while Chief looks out over the sea of enemies he has to face will never not be the most impactful moment in the series to me. It genuinely felt like Chief wasn't going to make it out.
It’s not letting me reply directly (go figure lol) but very well said. “The chief not making it out” thing you said certainly fits that because right up the hill a full-scale battle is going on haha.
It's cool and nostalgic to see someone play halo for the first time. Halo 2 is my fave, but if I had to choose, I'd watch reach for the first time again; ok maybe the entire series lol
I've never watched anyone who had read the book prior to playing this like I had but I'm SO thrilled you did! Thank you so much for the playthrough, it was wonderful and I loved hearing your After Reach talk at the end. Having read quite a lot of the books (but not all) I definitely agree with your take on Halsey as well. And the blushing part when talking to Cortana about John!! BLECH. Anyway, thank you again for sharing this with us and being so free with your thoughts and feelings throughout the game. Looking forward to the next one!
@@dixon137 It's very interesting to see that after enough time has passed, Halo fans are able to relax a bit, take a more fair and objective look at Halo 4, and realize that the story and characters are not as bad as everyone made it out to be when it first launched. Is it the best Halo story wise, no. But it dives into some interesting stuff and goes deeper into characters that we never got before.
@@lilfuzzballa I... recognize the deeper dive that Halo 4 took, however, I feel it was very poorly paced. I feel like they should have done things in a slower pace. The game starts off simple, we only see one hint of Cortana's rampancy while aboard the Dawn and no one draws attention to it. Then when we crash, it happens again and Cortana blames the crash and we continue on through the campaign with a regular Halo story. Blood, guts, fighting through waves to free the Infinity from the gravity well and then when the gravity. At the same time, we slowly develop that something is wrong with Cortana and then she bursts on the bridge like she does in the game. And that's when we have the tone shift. That's when Chief starts to open up more. That's when we turn into a deeper story between Chief and Cortana.
Every once in awhile i go back to watch the teaser trailer for Reach. The final line hits harder after the game. "This is Sierra Two-Five-Nine. You've got Spartans on the ground, sir. We're not going anywhere."
After you finished halo 4, you should listen to halo: hunt the truth, it is an audio drama about a journalist called Benjamin giraud, who uncovers the truth about the Spartan program and tries to make it public
So it’s ironic how each one went out. Jorge went out in space above the planet he said he’d never leave and by a bomb as he’s the heavy. Kat went out by a faulty shield and she’s the one that’s tech savvy. Carter as the leader went down with the ship quite literally. Emile went out by a sword and he has an obsession with blades. And Noble 6 went out all alone. As the lone wolf.
I just played this today and I was playing we’ll meet again because It was on my playlist but, I didn’t know this was the mission that everyone dies. I cried
Glad you enjoyed it! Glad you're enjoying the books as well. It gives you a much greater understanding of the Halo Universe, you'll quickly know more than most fans after you finish Fall of Reach.
2:35:40 the white guy next to Jorge is Thom he dies in the Halo Reach live action trailer, Deliver Hope, which takes place before Reach. It also shows how Kat lost her arm. Ultimately, you are the replacement for Thom in Halo Reach.
Just beat the game again for the first time in ages and remembered that Jun is the sole-surviving member of Noble team and goes on to be a teacher for future spartans
Noble Six would’ve left with the Pillar of Autumn but because Emile was killed, there was no one covering their exfil off planet so Six stayed behind. Emile was going to be the one to stay behind. This was for all intensive purposes, a Spartan 3 mission that they knew more than likely they wouldn’t come back from. Hence Emile’s last few lines.
This is the game that keeps ending. There's a final (full) level, an epilogue which originally had credits, a playable coda, and a stinger at the very, very end which shows us that Reach will live again one day thanks to Noble Six and Noble Team.
Fun fact the elites at the gun who killed emile are the same ones who killed kat and the ones who attacked you at the end of the first mission they where hunting noble from the beginning and 6 got revenge for kat and emile
I imagine Jun hung up his helmet and lived out the rest of his days on Reach as a hermit feeling that his mission was complete, maybe also went into seclusion upon finding out that his entire team was dead.
Noble out...
There's a pretty sad irony in the way each Noble member died.
Jorge said he'd never leave Reach. He died in orbit of the planet. The only one to not die with his feet on the ground.
Kat was the brains of Noble team. She died from a headshot.
Jun was the scout and stealth expert. He disappeared.
Carter was the leader of the group. He "went down with the ship".
Emile was a close-quarters expert. He was killed by a sword.
And Noble 6 was a lone wolf and died alone.
Thank you for playing Meg, I absolutely loved it
Their death is so sad and yet so poetic
Jun didn't disappear. He worked with Halsey to train the next Spartans I believe
Don’t forget that Carter said at the beginning “That ‘Lone Wolf’ stuff stays behind.”
@@koopapoopa Well he disappeared in the context of the game. Which to most players I'd assume is as far as they know.
@@Chiefinnn true
“Crevice to the east.”
“Crust is made with yeast.”
"Say the words please"
Six: "The words please"
"Doo doo doo dee dee dee 🎶 I just stepped in some gum. I need to find some peanut butter"
Oh good, I'm not the only one that thinks this every time Emile says that
@@khrisbreezy3628Every single time I have to say it for 10 years now
I Read This As Yoda For Some Reason ... Hmmmmnnnn
No credits.
Remember Bungie.
We will always 🫡. I never understood why MCC didn't include credits OR the startup/title screens of each game
Bungie's still here lmao
Legend
We will never forget Bungie or you good sir. You all forever changed a generation. Spartans never die Marty...
He be spawning in these halo playthroughs
Fun fact: In the first mission, when you see the Zealot Elite in the cutscene, he nearly stabs you with a wristblade but your character blocks it and Carter then pushes the Elite off of you. In the last mission, the final strike to Noble Six comes from the same Elite type with the same weapon. It's just a small detail that I haven't seen a lot of people mention.
The Energy Dagger, that’s what you use for assassination playing as Elites
All my years of playing Halo Reach, never realized this was a thing!
Even better, I'm a little rusty on my Reach lore, but that same Field Marshall (The elite class) from the first mission is the same Field Marshall you fight as you make your way up to the MAC in the Pillar of Autumn. He is also, I believe, the elite that killed Kat.
@@kirby7294 You are right, the Field Marshall was the one that first dropped down, swinging at Jorge before knocking 6 down and running like a coward. I remember that cut-scene clear as when I first played it when I was 13.
@@kirby7294 I thought it was a jackal with a Needle Rifle that killed Kat while her shields were down from the glassing
"I'M READY! HOW 'BOUT YOU?" Have to be one of the most badass last words ever uttered.
Especially when you realize he probably wasn't wasting his last breath on the Elite. It was always the intention that 6 was the one to walk, Emile had the gun after all. Then once he gets stabbed, he's probably literally asking 6 "You ready to stay behind?"
My favorite part of Reach is when Kat and Noble 6 get on the elevator and Kat says "First glassing? Me too." It's such a well delivered line and you can hear the fear in her voice. It's a reminder that the Spartans are in fact human.
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2:03:24 Cortana was created with a scan of Halseys brain. Meaning she was a part of Halsey. I believe it was her love and care for John that imprinted on Cortana.
She was created via flash cloning Halsey brain you can only scan a living brain but afterward the brain is damaged and unrevivable thus is only done to people who have already died and or are in the process of dying
Cortana was one of many attempts at smarter ai using illegally grown clones from Dr. Halsey dna. Most ai are made from donated dead brains. Halsey was desperate for better ai.
AUNTIE DOT showing so much concern for Carter was the saddest part of his death. That "Please respond, Sierra 259. You are alarming me" just hits me.
Emile has guts for sitting on the edge of the pelican ramp like that.
Every time I see it it gives me anxiety
And the fact that he sat down right as it took off! Like man, get more on!
He got magnets he’s fine
this broke me at the end cause i was like o we are taking the planet now and i see at the top objective "survive" and me not knowing English but seeing it reassembled " sobrevive" had me at the edge of my seat for what happened next T^T
@@Neko_-je3hg He speaks Portuguese but whether Brazil or Portugal idk
@@ProjectRadianceRP appreciated
You probably don't know, but there's an app for Android (it has been taken down and you have to mod it for it to work) but the "Cortana virtual assistant" that was available for windows 10 mobile was ported to android, it was literally Cortana who was helping you very much like Alexa and Siri, she was even capable of impersonating Yoda, answer some questions about John and the normal voice assistant shenanigans.
@@Neko_-je3hg cOmE tO bRaZiL 😂
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Every time I watch that cutscene where Halsey says “Say the words please.” I always think of caboose saying “the words please”.
Same. Look up “noble six drops Cortana”
Wait Noble 6 is the only hero that saw the success of his sacrifice in a way right?
Caboose from RvB
The fact I read that his voice shows how embedded RVB was implanted in my head as a kid
"Why do Halo fans cry when they hear a piano playing?"
Because it reminds us of the best of times, and the darkest of times.
That shift from having objectives and friendlies to just being completely alone and surrounded still gives me chills.
Something interesting to note, on the final mission, Lone Wolf: Noble Six is surrounded by dead marines and Spartans and has, canonically, been fighting for hours, perhaps even days. Even when every last human on the planet was gone, Noble Six kept going until it took quite literally the Covenant's equivalent to Noble Team (those Zealots you saw throughout the game) to take just her down. Hyper lethal indeed.
Edit: Noticed an odd amount of people harp on this, but to be clear Noble Six doesn't have a confirmed gender (as far as I know) and I only used "her" because obviously that's what Meg played as.
I thought of the zealot squad the same too, I think the group that hunted you down from the beginning up until you kill them before getting on the mac were called the "Devoted Sentries"
@@i_woke_up_in_a_new_buggati That's the one. I remember from the Pancreas No Work video on the Fall of Reach.
If you use the in game time references then you can see Noble 6 only fought for a few hours.
The hyper lethal title was retconned. It was just a throwaway line in one of the trailers. All Spartans are considered hyper lethal.
He fought for days
Noble 6 fought as long as you can.
"You belong to ONI now."
Well, technically, they always have.
Not these Spartans. Spartan-IIIs were trained by Ackerson, from the army, IIRC, not Halsey and ONI.
@Nonamearisto they were still trained under ONI as a top secret program. S051 Kurt, a Spartan-II, actually trained all 3 companies. It was so top secret, Kurt's death was faked so the few people who knew he existed in the first place thought he died... So technically they already belonged to ONI. My guess is, they were reassigned to Reachs planetary defense army to assist in the defense of the planet and when they went back for Halsey, they were reassigned BACK to ONI. Seems to me like a small oversight in the writing probably due to the lack of lore surrounding the Spartan-IIIs at the time.
@@ethanbrown2019This
She did not know that though, Halsey was never filled in on the Spartan III program until Ghosts of Onyx, she could only peice together who noble team was and who had trained them
More like "you belong to me now"
I bawled my eyes out when my character died. Playing the Halo series you grow up thinking you’ll get out somehow someway like master-chief. Watching noble six die was heartbreaking for me.
i guess for you younger generations , that was like your "optimus prime moment" ... ok bare with me i'ma genXer here. i was already an adult when halo 1 came out and 30 soemthign when reach came out. lol still ahuge halo fan. any way some explaination: in the 1986 cartoon movie for transformers they had optimus prime die. to say the least it tramatized many kids that saw it in the theatres. I was 7 years old when that movie came out and it was devestating at the time to think they actually killed optimus... but well that's life and i came out better for it later down the road helped deal with so much worse stuff in life later on.
@@DenverStarkeyand Duke in GI Joe
Emile has a rare line about his brother giving his life to protect him from the covenant, and how he hs to repay that debt. He fights for vengeance, even now years later. He's devoted his life to it, and that's why he accepts his spot on the gun and is "ready" when he's stabbed. He's been expecting his death ever since he was saved, and even if he's feared it at times and covered it with jokes, he's not ready until he tells Six to get off the planet.
The marks on his helmet are his way of tallying vengeance. Each one is a kill starting with insurrectionists then the covenant.
@@commandercody3935 he is a Spartan III why was he fighting the insurrectionists?
@@MrChickennugget360simple, Winter Contingency was originally a mission about fighting insurgents on reach until Noble Team discovered that the covenant had found reach
(Emile’s hostile reaction to the farmers because he assumed they were insurrectionists was because in the past they shot him to shreds)
Carter: "Six! That A.I. chose you. She made the right choice."
So much meaning behind such a short simple line. Six was initially some random new-blood replacement to a seasoned Noble team that had seen action together for a long time. And yet, Carter not only accepts six as an official member but also to say that Cortana chose the right spartan for such an important task, speaks volumes of growth and trust. Even more so when Carter gives his life for six to complete the mission.
Carter was aware of Noble 6's achievements. He and John were the only 2 people branded as hyper-lethal for a reason.
Noble 6 was not a newbie. Its stated his ONI file is a mile long and most of it is completely classified. In fact, 6 is considered to have a resume only second to Master Chief himself.
That was just an acknowledgment from Carter about Noble Six being a lone wolf. At that point, there were only 2 of them left, and Carter was going to die. So it was just Carter giving the Six permission to be a lone wolf.
From the beginning, you know the end. So beautiful. Bittersweet.
I love the constant RvB references in chat during the tank bit
1:38:30 If I remember correctly, if you hold the right stick to the right during this shot, the camera will pan over to Chief, who's still in stasis.
At 35:48, we initially think that Carter is telling Jun to keep Halsey safe. Although, he's really just telling him to kill Dr. Halsey if there's a risk she could be captured.
I love the environmental detail in the Package when you go through the same areas as mission 2, except where there used to be cliffs and valleys now there's a sea beause all the ice is melting from Covenant scorching planet's surface
Cortana literally said in Halo:CE, "This war has enough dead heroes."
“I’m ready how bout you?” Has the be one of the hardest last words ever
Six manages to kill the Field Marshall of the Devoted Sentries by the MAC gun, but we see another in her final moments.
Being so honour bound, the Sanghelli choosing to engage Six in melee is a clear sign of their wounded pride. They want to restore honour by executing her personally.
Just goes to show how important NOBLE team became to the covenant, their deaths were personal after they killed the Commander aboard the Super carrier.
"....they let me pick......did I ever tell you that?" ❤
I cannot wait for the next one it's my favorite.
Halo 4 is your favorite? she already play 3
@@SuperMrGodie4 is my favorite, for Master Chief alone
Does that mean she specifically chooses Chief to survive reach?
Hey MegMag, thank you so much for playing Halo Reach, this was one of the best Halos from character customization to storymode.. Im glad you enjoyed it..
never seen someone drop a full rocket for an AR before lol
Each game has been a clean slate in terms of understanding game mechanics for her
fr I was like: 👁👄👁
I’ve done it for tactical purposes once. Tight corridors don’t go well with rockets 😅
this game hit so hard back in the day when we thought it was the last halo, like a final goodbye
(which btw, i think when put in that context makes Halsey's last speech sadder, "too bad you never lived to see it" back then felt like bungie telling us they are leaving forever and halos journey is over, as we know now though 343 picked it up)
343 was founded in 2007 to take over Halo after Bungie completed their 5th game.
For me it did end with reach i played 4 but it was never nearly as good as any other halo game
Meg be like “Nobody commits war crimes but me”
And emil
Also fun fact at 51:00 that frigate you go through is the unsc commonwealth, the frigate from the book(fall of reach) and the animated series, pretty cool detail
Remember, without noble six; Master chief, Cortana and those on the pillar of autumn wouldn't have been alive.
Funfact the covenant was traumatized from fighting Noble Six to the point they thought Chief Was Noble Six Reincarnated Or A Copy Of Noble Six And Noble Six is suppose to be an inferior Spartan compared to Master Chief
@@kaybevang536 he was a Spartan III but an absolute beast, the Spartan III were technically inferior to the Spartan IIs, plus he was Wearing Mjolnir Armour not the Spartan III armor
@@kaybevang536and kinda is, 6 did all that but chief blew away a halo ring dude... like, who does that?
The pinkish and blue elites you kill on your way up to the big gun are the elites that are responsible for Cat's death, same ones you encounter in the very beginning where they almost stab you in first person. Avenged Kat's death!
You should definitely watch the original Bungie credits! It is a very heartfelt message from them, likely to bring a happy tear or two
@@limawhiskey7451 I agree. I'm sure she didn't mean to forget about them, as Reach is a big game to take in after a first playthrough, but I do wish Meg had watched the Bungie credits and put them into the video. It's the only way to ensure the people who worked on those beautiful games get the credit they deserve
Actually, none of the original games have credits. Like, why is that? I think it’s quite disrespectful on Microsoft’s part. It would be great if the 'new' Halo studio added proper credits.
Master Chief: i need a weapon
Noble Six: I have the gun
I've loved reach's ending cause the death is more impactful due to it being your character you made. It hurts more to lose something you've made. Also you notice Keys reaction to noble staying behind hurts him
Man the ending still gets me
Anybody wants some fries and chicken nuggets after this I am making them
Reason why:
I remember my little brother telling me he wanted to play halo reach I introduced him to the series and he has overall enjoyed it
When he got to halo reach he felt so saddened by the ending he put his face down I asked if he was okay
He said yes but I knew he was saddened at what happened so I went downstairs made my bother some fries and chicken nuggets dad comes in and asked you making yourself some lunch
I said no it’s for my brother he just played one of the best/sad/hopeful halo story’s ever and after it was all done I went and took his food upstairs to my room(he was hanging out) and I told him eat up Spartan you did good 👍🙂
Are they dino nuggies?
@@jewfroish3 yes and regular nuggies as well
@@crnlonewolf3195 both then, can never have enough comfort nuggies
I could go for some nuggies. I'll share my tater tots with ya'll
The ending hits hard for me too man. When I first saw the ending of reach, my Dad said "sometimes you have to lose to win"
1:46:11 exactly how i felt when i first played Reach on the 360 back in the day but as i replayed it i realized that the game was a story not about Surviving but about holding the Covenant off at the Bastion of Humanity, because that's what Reach was: a Fortress for humanity because if Reach Fell The UNSC knew Earth was next that's also why Halsey had Cortana decrypting the data from the Artifact beneath S.W.O.R.D. base to find a solution to The Covenant's onslaught against Humanity( too bad we found something worse than the covenant in the process)
as he does the perfect air drift, the " youre on your own noble.... carter out. " gets me every time
Fun fact, Master Chief was taking part in the fighting in Reach, and that's when he first met Cortana too, but then he was placed into cryo-sleep and sent into the Pillar of Autumn, this happens right before you receive Cortana in the game. You can also see Master Chief in the cryo pod on the Legendary difficulty ending.
But why? I'm sure with Cheif and Noble 6 they could have easily defeated the covenant, even with some backup from the Marines
@@thrilltokill5409 If it was that easy the war wouldn't have lasted 30 years. In the grand scheme theres not much 2 Spartans can do against billions of Covenant soldiers and hundreds of ships. What typically happens is Spartans do what they can to stall the Covenant so civilians can be evacuated then they get picked up before they are stranded and overwhelmed.
And another fun but sad fact, the lone wolf mission lasts forever until your health drops low enough, but canonically, Noble Six stays fighting the covenant for three whole days, non-stop before they eventually get killed.
You should do reviews of the Halo Books you read, especially Ghost of Onyx!
The likely reason 343i took out the credits to Reach is because it names a lot of people that don't work in 343 anymore. It would probably be a legal issue thing with Bungie if they didn't.
Maybe but bungie’s farewell message to the fans didn’t need to go
Nah other remastered games have the original credits outlined as the original team and the new team as well, it eas definitely something else
Probably cause Martin O Donnel 💀
Such a great reaction, glad I was here for it all 🙌
This popped up in my feed out of the blue, and I'm pretty glad. I usually check out videos where people react to the character deaths and story beats. But I have to say, I really appreciate the perspective you bring to the table as someone who has read the Fall of Reach book.
Im so happy!! Thanks for keeping playing Halo series and getting deep into the lore ❤🎉
There was only one ship. They called it 'The Pillar of Autumn'. It fled as we set fire to their planet. I followed with all the ships in my command.
I loved your playthrough. I cant wait for whats to come
man just like that Meg's Reach adventure is over!! Halo was fun series to see you play!
Captain Keys was such a legendary character. Regardless of his relatively short story in the Halo games, Lord Hood himself singled out his purpose in the war as extraordinary, and considered him one of the best. Halsey said the delivering of Cortana was to be the highest priority for humanity - she was that important. And Keys understood and appreciated all the sacrifices it took for that mission to succeed. Trust me, Noble 6 was not forgotten.
It's the saddest stories that stay with us the longest.
Man i love watching people play this game for the first time. their reactions to all of Noble's deaths and just the story of reach is always a highlight for me, ive been fortunate enough to bring three friends who have never played halo to the series and i love to just watch them react. i love that you kept your closing thoughts in and hearing you break it all down was cool! excited to see what you do next!
I love that at the beginning of "The Package" you can feel Noble Team's exhaustion after suffering loss after loss, but by the end of it you feel a sliver of hope.
carters whole demeanor changed after kats death his voice during the package mission was so sad
Hearing those piano notes at 34:30 brought water to my eyes. I hate that Halo is in shambles right now. We deserved so much better. I miss you Halo, my brothers and I had such great times together because of you. Maybe some time we’ll re-install Infinite.
All the halo games get so much more tragic and dark the more lore you know, playing as a kid I did not know the spartan 3s are all artificially adulted so most are literally 13-16 children in grown bodies fighting a war
The Grunts we kill in all the games are literally children. The Covenant exploited the rapid reproduction of their species. This also explains the humorous tone they have in the games.
PERFECT timing I’ve been waiting for this and while I eat 👌🏽👌🏽
"I have the gun. Good luck, sir" "Good luck to you, Spartan" 😭
“There’ll be another time” will always be my favorite. “Final Run” is a strong contender.
Those are my favorites too, lol. I think I have to give the edge to "Final Run" for me, though -- it fits CE's more dark and horror-focused tone so well. Chief is the final survivor of The Pillar of Autumn, up against two alien armies trying to wipe everything out.
_Under Cover of Night_ starting to play as the Chapter title appears on screen, while Chief looks out over the sea of enemies he has to face will never not be the most impactful moment in the series to me. It genuinely felt like Chief wasn't going to make it out.
It’s not letting me reply directly (go figure lol) but very well said. “The chief not making it out” thing you said certainly fits that because right up the hill a full-scale battle is going on haha.
I hope you enjoyed playing this game as much as we enjoyed watching you play Halo Reach
It's cool and nostalgic to see someone play halo for the first time. Halo 2 is my fave, but if I had to choose, I'd watch reach for the first time again; ok maybe the entire series lol
Reach is and always will be my favorite Halo game. You know from the very beginning that this isn't a fight you're going to win.
I hate that there’s no credits. After something like that I like to just sit through the credits and stare at the screen in contemplation
0:10 reach has a different length of day than Earth.
I've never watched anyone who had read the book prior to playing this like I had but I'm SO thrilled you did! Thank you so much for the playthrough, it was wonderful and I loved hearing your After Reach talk at the end. Having read quite a lot of the books (but not all) I definitely agree with your take on Halsey as well. And the blushing part when talking to Cortana about John!! BLECH.
Anyway, thank you again for sharing this with us and being so free with your thoughts and feelings throughout the game. Looking forward to the next one!
Bungies final message hit different in the original
You reacted the same way every one of us did 14 years ago to that great moment of "I'M READY! HOW 'BOUT YOU!?"
14 years and I still have tears running down my face every time I watch this...
20:25 Secret Tunnel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SECRET SECRET SECRET TUUUNNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bet you're gonna love Halo 4
@@dixon137 It's very interesting to see that after enough time has passed, Halo fans are able to relax a bit, take a more fair and objective look at Halo 4, and realize that the story and characters are not as bad as everyone made it out to be when it first launched.
Is it the best Halo story wise, no. But it dives into some interesting stuff and goes deeper into characters that we never got before.
I’m predicting she won’t like 5. The campaign at least. Gameplay wise, not sure
@@lilfuzzballa I... recognize the deeper dive that Halo 4 took, however, I feel it was very poorly paced. I feel like they should have done things in a slower pace. The game starts off simple, we only see one hint of Cortana's rampancy while aboard the Dawn and no one draws attention to it. Then when we crash, it happens again and Cortana blames the crash and we continue on through the campaign with a regular Halo story. Blood, guts, fighting through waves to free the Infinity from the gravity well and then when the gravity. At the same time, we slowly develop that something is wrong with Cortana and then she bursts on the bridge like she does in the game. And that's when we have the tone shift. That's when Chief starts to open up more. That's when we turn into a deeper story between Chief and Cortana.
no one ever loved Halo 4, it's the downfall of Halo
@@LegendKingY2j there is a sect of the fandom that thinks it's the best Halo Campaign.
Every once in awhile i go back to watch the teaser trailer for Reach. The final line hits harder after the game.
"This is Sierra Two-Five-Nine. You've got Spartans on the ground, sir. We're not going anywhere."
What does that line mean again? Been a while since I've been on my reach playthrough
@@thrilltokill5409 "you have Spartans on the ground, we're not going anywhere" - Carter
It was nice to see this pop up on my feed. I played this game when my dad gave it to me/ I was around 7. This game will forever be in my heart.
Another awesome day especially for the finale
have a fantastic day today Meg.💞🐶🐕🐶💞
After you finished halo 4, you should listen to halo: hunt the truth, it is an audio drama about a journalist called Benjamin giraud, who uncovers the truth about the Spartan program and tries to make it public
So it’s ironic how each one went out. Jorge went out in space above the planet he said he’d never leave and by a bomb as he’s the heavy. Kat went out by a faulty shield and she’s the one that’s tech savvy. Carter as the leader went down with the ship quite literally. Emile went out by a sword and he has an obsession with blades. And Noble 6 went out all alone. As the lone wolf.
I just played this today and I was playing we’ll meet again because It was on my playlist but, I didn’t know this was the mission that everyone dies. I cried
Everything comes full circle. Like the Halo Ring. Noble Team only passed on the fight for Master Chief to finish.
What a beautiful game. Thank you for helping me to see it again with fresh eyes. I'm not crying...
Glad you enjoyed it! Glad you're enjoying the books as well. It gives you a much greater understanding of the Halo Universe, you'll quickly know more than most fans after you finish Fall of Reach.
What always kills me is the scene of Noble team looking at a glassed and burning New Alexandria holding a dead Kat and the music😭😭😭 the music RIP Kat
2:35:40 the white guy next to Jorge is Thom he dies in the Halo Reach live action trailer, Deliver Hope, which takes place before Reach. It also shows how Kat lost her arm. Ultimately, you are the replacement for Thom in Halo Reach.
I love how emotionally vulnerable Meg is
she felt the same pain we all still have, some have gotten over it, but a few still cant forget it
Halo Reach is the reason why i have SN07 in my name
Just beat the game again for the first time in ages and remembered that Jun is the sole-surviving member of Noble team and goes on to be a teacher for future spartans
1:24:01 Dude went out fighting!
1:39:38 Where the Chief's story begins.
1:40:50 🎹🎶
1:44:10 😔
1:44:57 ⛰️🏔️
Been loving your reactions, I can tell your going to really enjoy 4 and infinite.
Noble Six would’ve left with the Pillar of Autumn but because Emile was killed, there was no one covering their exfil off planet so Six stayed behind. Emile was going to be the one to stay behind. This was for all intensive purposes, a Spartan 3 mission that they knew more than likely they wouldn’t come back from. Hence Emile’s last few lines.
Intents and purposes* not intensive
@@johnbrown8570 you focused on my English or the message?
@@traypatterson5523one can focus on both.
1:24:00 gotta love Emile. “WHO’s NEXT?!?”
God, i miss this game and years. Thank you for this awesome content!
R.I.P my Soldiers you did your Mission so now you can sleep well
This is the game that keeps ending. There's a final (full) level, an epilogue which originally had credits, a playable coda, and a stinger at the very, very end which shows us that Reach will live again one day thanks to Noble Six and Noble Team.
In the mcc they took out the credits but they played while the Pilar of autumn was cruising towards the ring
The line from Keyes isn’t about the Spartans he’s asking if they lost the covenant ships that were following them lollll
“I’M READY! HOW BOUT YOU?!”
My man Carter literally used his own life to take down a single Covenant Scarab so he could get the remainder of his team to safety.
The reason it says 26:00hours instead of only going to 24 is because reach has a different day-light cycle compared to earth
Fun fact the elites at the gun who killed emile are the same ones who killed kat and the ones who attacked you at the end of the first mission they where hunting noble from the beginning and 6 got revenge for kat and emile
When a game from 14 years ago can give feels to both old and new gamers alike, you know it's a masterpiece.
I imagine Jun hung up his helmet and lived out the rest of his days on Reach as a hermit feeling that his mission was complete, maybe also went into seclusion upon finding out that his entire team was dead.