As sad as the story is, it's such a wholesome feeling when you realize Virgil is actually watching and helping you throughout the city the whole time, like finding more logs, providing a map at the start or warning you of danger. Just the way he communicates with you though subtle pop-ups on kiosks and billboards, and as you find more logs he even opens up weapon caches for you. He really has your back the whole time when nobody else does
Lol same. Remember playing for the first time as a kid and Mombasa Streets was so quiet, dark, and creepy, so when I got the first audio log it startled the shit out of me.
Me playing ODST for the first time as a child: WHAT’S GOING ON? WHY IS THERE YELLING AND SCREAMING? Me playing ODST as a teenager and actually understanding the logs while collecting them for the achievement: Hmm, this is pretty interesting. I wonder when’s the next log.
He never truly wanted to be saved he was there to help and protect the weaker citizens from danger... I'm sure he gave the covenant a lot of hell. If he can crush a car with a light swing from a cleaver he can possibly take off the head of a scarab
I love that part in the last audio log where Vergil starts playing audio clips from the other characters to convince Sadie to leave. “I am not worth - your life - my brave, warrior princess! Office of Naval Intelligence... YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK! Fallen heroes - on the air. I need you to live... for me. Sadie - Sadie - Sadie - Sadie! Sadie, sweetheart... You make me so very, very proud.”
@@blake4249 Not all. Hood says "half" but it seems like he was exaggerating for rhetorical effect, since it doesn't seem like much beyond the immediate area of the city was glassed.
Bruuuhhhh I got stuck with a plasma grenade by one grunt that came out of nowhere while I was listening to the story.... AFTER I KILLED LIKE 4 BRUTES AND 3 JACKALS TOO SMH
It's crazy to think that you can literally retrace all of her movements in-game, including the frozen room where her dad died. You even run into one of Kinsler's corrupt officers making his way through the tunnels to find Vergil (the officer that dies to buggers when you jump down to sub level 9).
ODST was a noir detective story set within the Halo Universe. That's what's so unique about this game compared to the others. It's my favorite Halo campaign by far.
You can kill the drones quick enough and take him to the frozen room. He tells you to "Wait here whilst I check something." I went in after him and he talks about how "Kingsler gave specific orders to make sure the doctor's dead. Sorry but you know too much" and tries to kill you.
If you have 29 data logs, Vergil lets him jump down instead of killing him. He goes to the frozen room and when you follow him, he tries to kill you. That’s also where the 30th data log is.
"I sure showed him" *Next Terminal* "Great, I am on the wrong side of the bridge and I just pissed-off the one person willing to help me" Love how she realizes how stupid she was there
Looking at that engineer, it must of took the program and brought it back online to work as it's operator. It must of been switched by oni override codes shown when the odst drop pod of rookie landed with him unconscious. That engineer saved that girl today. It must of also helped the odst due to protocol.
No need to feel sad! It's a happy ending. They got to live. Sadie, Mike, Vergil, and even all the Alpha Nine survived. Not to mention Vergil and a few other Hurrogok helped build and maintain the UNSC Infinity!
@@nickthepick8043yeah but what about all the innocent people that got shot by the cops. Imagine the parents crying for their kids death by the hands of not the covenant but corrupt humans.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
Now I understand what happened on that one frozen sub-level. As soon as sadie mentioned argon...I cried because I new what would happen. Such an awesome side story.
OH SHIT i didn't put that together, i was getting too many flood vibes from all the mist (ik they werent in the game but it freaked me out nonetheless) and totally missed that
@@WonkyTonkBotty I don't think your information is correct. In my playthrough, he was killed by the flying insect-like Covenant right after I jumped down in a hole. There was also some dialogue that he was pissed about seeing his buddies dead, likely killed by the Covenant.
@@Root174 That happens if you don't have 29/30 of the datalogs. If you do, he survives, goes to a restricted room covered in ice, and you'll find the 30th log in that room, after which he says you "know too much" (since you saw evidence of his/Kinsler's crimes) and tries to kill you.
I do love the Dante's Inferno structure to the narrative and Vergil being Sadie's guide through the hell New Mombosa or Limbo it turned out. The Butcher as Gluttony, The Gambler for Greed, Commissioner Kinsler as Lust and so on. My favorite side character was the Announcer. The reason of providing false hope in a seemingly hopeless situation. I took a class analyzing Dante's Inferno. It was pretty fun.
@Hunk I never thought of it before but I knew there was heavy symbolisim and references to literature. I would have come to the conclusion that this was a reinterpreation of Dante's Inferno! Brilliantly called!
@@tibbyzt4852 Tom would represent Heresy. Or rather expressing the reversed opinion excessively at odds over publicly accepted opinion. Tom served 4 purposes in the short time we see him. Provide some comic relief. (He is presented as an overly happy 1950s salesman). Further hint at the romantic connection of Brenly and Sadie. Reveal how desperate the situation has become. His overly happy persona could be a temporary defense mechanism in a desperate situation. Reciting sales mantras to himself is both comfort and percieved strength. It is like when a person who prays excessively in the face of a natural disaster. Then at the end, ruin the safe transportation with the garbage truck.
Vergil is awesome. It would be cool if he was a recurring character. Halo needs a steady cast of side characters again. In the original trilogy you had Echo 419, Cortana, Captain Keyes, Johnson, Miranda, Lord Hood, Arbiter, and R’tas Vadum, plus the marines with their funny dialogue. Then we had the ODSTs and Noble Team. Lasky was okay in Halo 4, but after that he was pretty much gone. The other characters post Bungie were a bunch of assholes who showed zero respect. I’d like to see maybe the Spirit of Fire crew along with Arbiter in Halo Infinite. Give me people I care about. Hopefully Halo Infinite has a much larger campaign to make up for Halo 5.
@@strider117aldo9 I honestly played Halo 5 one and a half times. The half being a legendary playthrough. I quit immediately after being disappointed. I do remember liking the funny easter egg SOS, but that's it.
@@gabethebabe3337 Oh, and I get your beef with Del Rio, but Palmer and Locke? Seriously, watch those "Palmer/Locke ain't that bad" videos. And what about Lasky? Fireteam Crimson (a whole bunch of Rookies as SPARTAN-IVs) Honestly, you say "post-Bungie" as if you just wanna push the BS 343 BAD narrative.
Technically u do interact with Virgil in The Game.. he is helping all of you the whole time... He even comes Back in the end as the Alien During the ending of the game.. Remember the same alien You bring with u is the same one that Helped Virgil meaning that alien and Virgil are connected. And that's why during the ending the alien didn't wanna Leave so u had to push him into the ship.. That's because he didn't wanna leave the city because Saddie.
And There is a corrupt cop Easter egg too where the cop has orders from Kinsler to kill the doc. Then the cop tries to kill u and Virgil is there with u and everything
the best part about Sadie's story is that it connects to the main story, or at least to its environment. For example, idk if it is the same but at one point you can find an destroyed elephant (or oliphant) near a (obviously destroyed) wraith, and even the easter egg if you collect all logs, in which the cop you find in Data Hive actually follows you, walks into the frozen room to confirm if Dr Endesha died, and then attacks you. Little details like that make it way better than just an extra pieze of lore.
This was a Great side story. The only thing that irks me is that, in the level where you are in the frozen over rooms and stuff, if you interact with a door somewhere, you can hear Sadie's voice asking Virgil "Do you hear that?" behind it. Why is she there, when the log shows her leaving?
You can't access that log without gathering the other 29 so I think the writers just threw that in or Vergil was playing a clip so that you could hear it.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
@@rite.3839 Halo would be so much more confusing without the books. And generally, they are all of much higher quality than a lot of other expanded material.
This is why i love the halo odst campaign, just going through flashbacks of each odst to looking for audiologs that tells a back story of what happened in the city, Amazing Game and story.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
2:19 this is the kind of stuff that sends chills down your spine. Just hearing the horrified screams and absolute terror from the people when the covenant are invading is so deep and it’s what makes this game one of the best of all time.
Its the sort of sobering thing that reminds you that, to the average human, the covenant are a truly hellish nightmare. We have fun with them cause we the player are on a similar level to them and enjoy the silly banter and dialogue the covenant have, but they are truly horrifying
It's so cool that in Halo New Blood, Sadie actually gets to meet Vergil (the Engineer) after the ODSTs rescue him, as well as Buck and co. Love Halo's side stories man they make the lore so rich.
Meet??? No, she's his handler. They're both in Halo Bad Blood as well. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
@@WarGrowlmon18 woah chill my guy. I just wanted to highlight how cool it was that 343 continued Sadie and Vergil's story in the expanded universe, but my mistake. Calm yo self.
Well ya the covenant want to "help" everyone by light the rings but the profits were power hungry and wanted to save the covenant so they said " kill humanity" and by the end of the war half of what left of the covenant just helped humanity and rekt the covent so ya it was just curuped leadership and brutes
@@anidiot2284 Actually, according to the AI the covenant used to ask about the foreunners, apparently humans were the chosen ones by the foreunners. The Prophets learned this and didn't tell anyone else because it would make them no longer the leaders, so they set out to kill all humans so they'd never lose power.
Actually the Prophets knew all about the rings. Truth, Mercy and Regret knew exactly what the rings would do, however exposing that secret would destroy the covenant. Read Contact Harvest, it states it in that book
there are great substories told within this even. in the opening train sequence we hear a husband and wife have a conversation. when the train blows up we hear the wife yell "my husband was on board" but then later on we hear the husband yell "has anyone seen my wife"
Fun fact, Kinsler is voiced by John Patrick Lowrie, the voice actor of the sniper from Team Fortress 2 and citizens from half life 2. I am also very certain that at 35:44 , the person saying "Somebody answer that damn Phone" is Dennis Bateman, the voice actor for the spy from TF2.
The ending always gets me all choked up, "I am not worth - Your life - my Brave Warrior Princess" "I need you to live, for me" "Sadie, you've made me so proud."
I think it’s incredible, the shear terror of the situation, they’re counting on the Marines to come and save them, and yet, someone even greater is on his way, after destroying an entire carrier!!!!
Who else wants an animated adaptation of this? I know as this it has a certain charm, but I really want to see someone build on the stories ODST gave us. And not kill off a character we like “because it’s realistic” I’m looking at you guy who killed off the rookie
Can we reassign Vergil from Mombasa to Caboose? Give Caboose his own AI Army. Vergil inside his helmet, Freckles inside his Mantis, and Shiela in the Tank.
What I find crazy is that the Covenant had Mombasa locked down, nobody in or out - and yet these civilians managed to get away on perhaps the sole remaining train in the city, with the Covenant not even noticing. Surely some Banshees or such would've saw the train and went after them... Unless, the train was going underground.
@@jacobrobinson787 yeah man, the terminals are divided into circles, the antagonists of each section represent a different sin, and on top of all of that, the guide for both the player and Sadie is named Virgil
which really matches the whole point of the data center. because you need to go down sub level 9, and it's covered with ice, with a bad cop. exactly is Dante speaks to the traitors in the ice, at the ninth circle of hell
2:29 I remember seeing this when I was young and I believe this is one of the first few instances that actually scared me. I recall seeing this and asking my brother (who was probably watching) How big is that covenant cruiser (I probably didn't call it a covenant cruiser though) and he answered that it was bigger than the corvette that we exploded in halo reach. the specific image right there really gives a big perspective on how big the covenant force was. I recall being scared of continuing the game after that, and I didn't play it for years, than I picked it back up and had fun again. Just figured I'd tell this story.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
Looking back on it odst had the best story and attention to detail I’ve ever seen with all of its characters having amazing traits that make you love them and a side story that could be turned into a movie it really makes me think that this was the golden age of gaming
At one point a Wraith shoots an Olifant, and in the game during Mombasa Streets it is possible to see one with its top seemingly blown off. The attention to detail.
I thought initially that Jonas was a large, heavy and muscular man with a thick Russian accent until he said how big and heavy he was. Also, I don't know where he got the chicken from but it sounds delicious for some reason and he is from a line of work where he knows his meats.
As sad as the story is, it's such a wholesome feeling when you realize Virgil is actually watching and helping you throughout the city the whole time, like finding more logs, providing a map at the start or warning you of danger. Just the way he communicates with you though subtle pop-ups on kiosks and billboards, and as you find more logs he even opens up weapon caches for you. He really has your back the whole time when nobody else does
Me as a kid:WHAT IS HAPPENING
Me today:Alright. Sadie's story.
S-III Elias 2346 lol same
Man, I had the same experience.
Lol same. Remember playing for the first time as a kid and Mombasa Streets was so quiet, dark, and creepy, so when I got the first audio log it startled the shit out of me.
Me playing ODST for the first time as a child: WHAT’S GOING ON? WHY IS THERE YELLING AND SCREAMING?
Me playing ODST as a teenager and actually understanding the logs while collecting them for the achievement: Hmm, this is pretty interesting. I wonder when’s the next log.
@@MisterJohnDoe Nice meme
She never did go back to save Jonas with a Forklift.
I’m willing to bet he took a shit ton of covies with him though.
He never truly wanted to be saved he was there to help and protect the weaker citizens from danger... I'm sure he gave the covenant a lot of hell. If he can crush a car with a light swing from a cleaver he can possibly take off the head of a scarab
Bold to assume that Jonas needed to be saved, Sadie just wanted to ensure there were still enemies to fight in ODST.
Imagine the epic showdown between Jonas and a Brute Chieftain. Meat cleaver vs gravity hammer. 😂
Eat their mongrel hides x)
"Transaction complete! Please come again!" Vergil is a savage
**transaction
That is how AI are savage XD
If I could, I would design an A.I. with that personality.
@@ajflink tbh they shoulda had an option to replace cortana with Vergil in Microsoft devices
in the future, we'll have Sigma A.I
I love that part in the last audio log where Vergil starts playing audio clips from the other characters to convince Sadie to leave. “I am not worth - your life - my brave, warrior princess! Office of Naval Intelligence... YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK! Fallen heroes - on the air. I need you to live... for me. Sadie - Sadie - Sadie - Sadie! Sadie, sweetheart... You make me so very, very proud.”
Vergil was the better bumblebee.
Never though I would see a Virgil on the internet
@@mrrexychomp9829 there is 2, me and the ai
And the part: " and BEYOND"
Goosebumps
i love how regret finding earth was a pure accident. it adds so much more lore and flavor to a realistic intragalactic war
I'm sure they Regret that too.
“Very well. We shall travel to this ‘Erde-Tyrene’”
simunator I especially love how the chatter for the covenant was confusion on why so many humans were there,
@@TheAwesomeHyperon the home planet of humans and the elites seems to realize it.
@@rrjt1011 hahaha
You're a lore fanatic aren't ya ? Ede-tyrene is a forerunner world where ancient humans lived
I like to think Jonas is still out there making covenant kebabs.
Space monkey seared just the way he likes
"Don't ask how I know this, but I've heard those grunt things taste like lobster."
@@blake4249 he absorbed the impact of the glassing.
@@blake4249 you need heat to cook meat, kebabs are made of meat, glassing produces heat. Yes, he is still making kebabs.
@@blake4249 Not all. Hood says "half" but it seems like he was exaggerating for rhetorical effect, since it doesn't seem like much beyond the immediate area of the city was glassed.
Rule 1 with watching this: NEVER watch this near Covenant forces
Bruuuhhhh I got stuck with a plasma grenade by one grunt that came out of nowhere while I was listening to the story.... AFTER I KILLED LIKE 4 BRUTES AND 3 JACKALS TOO SMH
That's why you get the data, then listen to it elsewhere.
@@ggMwaniki l
I use it to go god mode on the brutes-
YEP
I had to look up how a 800lb man looks like. Surprised that he was able to walk
Swedish Seacon thats alotta kehbahbs
he was the most interesting character
@Attica Centurius. yes i agree he was a rel hero, that said i would like to know what happend to mike branley after this story
@Attica Centurius. good to know he'd make a great commissioner since kinsler was hated so much
@Attica Centurius. indeed it's what made such a good charater
It's crazy to think that you can literally retrace all of her movements in-game, including the frozen room where her dad died. You even run into one of Kinsler's corrupt officers making his way through the tunnels to find Vergil (the officer that dies to buggers when you jump down to sub level 9).
ODST was a noir detective story set within the Halo Universe. That's what's so unique about this game compared to the others. It's my favorite Halo campaign by far.
You can kill the drones quick enough and take him to the frozen room. He tells you to "Wait here whilst I check something." I went in after him and he talks about how "Kingsler gave specific orders to make sure the doctor's dead. Sorry but you know too much" and tries to kill you.
@@DemonWolf22311 He only does that if you have all of the other data logs I believe, that one is the last one.
If you have 29 data logs, Vergil lets him jump down instead of killing him. He goes to the frozen room and when you follow him, he tries to kill you. That’s also where the 30th data log is.
I always wondered why Virgil said something like "crime doesn't pay" when he died.
"I sure showed him"
*Next Terminal*
"Great, I am on the wrong side of the bridge and I just pissed-off the one person willing to help me"
Love how she realizes how stupid she was there
These audio logs are still way better than the halo 5 campaign story
There’s no comparison
that's true
Leave Halo 5 story out of it. It neither can't even be called a story, or worth mentioning it.
Looking at that engineer, it must of took the program and brought it back online to work as it's operator. It must of been switched by oni override codes shown when the odst drop pod of rookie landed with him unconscious. That engineer saved that girl today. It must of also helped the odst due to protocol.
Halo 5... don’t ever say that again.
Damn I love that Superintendent! Such a tearful ending...
Agreed
It was awaiting evac by rookie.
No need to feel sad! It's a happy ending. They got to live. Sadie, Mike, Vergil, and even all the Alpha Nine survived. Not to mention Vergil and a few other Hurrogok helped build and maintain the UNSC Infinity!
@@nickthepick8043yeah but what about all the innocent people that got shot by the cops. Imagine the parents crying for their kids death by the hands of not the covenant but corrupt humans.
ALL ABOARD LAST TRAIN NOW DEPARTING -- NEXT STOP -- MAKUPA, NAIROBI ROAD, HOPE STATION...
*AND BEYOND...* 😭
This side story is so damn good. Another reminder of old bungie's lost style and immersive storytelling
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
@@WarGrowlmon18 I still have no idea why they had to kill off Rookie in such a stupid and anticlimactic way.
@@Kruegernator123 Yeah I know I agree. But at least they eventually got the rest of the band back together!!!
@@Kruegernator123What make’s it even worse if Jun told Buck Rookie would of had a place in the programme had he not died a day prior. Damn…
The MK 4 armour & shield upgrade would of saved his life.
The dislikes are from Kinsler and his corrupt cops.
Make them leave please
What is it with him?
And the Covies
what dislikes? oh i get it they're all dead now so there isnt any
@@CyberTheFurry 🫰 There Dislikes are gone
Kinsler: *gets torn to pieces*
Everyone: “YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE”
Me and my buddy started HOLLERING when it happened. Just "YEAH YEAH. GET HIM."
Now I understand what happened on that one frozen sub-level. As soon as sadie mentioned argon...I cried because I new what would happen. Such an awesome side story.
OH SHIT i didn't put that together, i was getting too many flood vibes from all the mist (ik they werent in the game but it freaked me out nonetheless) and totally missed that
And the dirty cop you fight alongside was there to confirm Sadie's dad's death for Kinsler, hence why he betrays the Rookie when he sees the evidence.
@@WonkyTonkBotty : Too bad the corrupt cop was stupid enough to try killing an ODST. 😂
@@WonkyTonkBotty I don't think your information is correct. In my playthrough, he was killed by the flying insect-like Covenant right after I jumped down in a hole. There was also some dialogue that he was pissed about seeing his buddies dead, likely killed by the Covenant.
@@Root174 That happens if you don't have 29/30 of the datalogs. If you do, he survives, goes to a restricted room covered in ice, and you'll find the 30th log in that room, after which he says you "know too much" (since you saw evidence of his/Kinsler's crimes) and tries to kill you.
Kebob man has more personality than Sargent locke
A rock has more personality than Dumbass Locke
Now I have the thought of that 500lb man becoming a Spartan 4.
I do love the Dante's Inferno structure to the narrative and Vergil being Sadie's guide through the hell New Mombosa or Limbo it turned out.
The Butcher as Gluttony,
The Gambler for Greed,
Commissioner Kinsler as Lust and so on.
My favorite side character was the Announcer. The reason of providing false hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.
I took a class analyzing Dante's Inferno. It was pretty fun.
The guide of dante in the book is named virgil too
@Bdon Dino yeah I think he was referring to vergil as that.
@Hunk I never thought of it before but I knew there was heavy symbolisim and references to literature. I would have come to the conclusion that this was a reinterpreation of Dante's Inferno! Brilliantly called!
I really like this. What would Tom be representing?
@@tibbyzt4852 Tom would represent Heresy. Or rather expressing the reversed opinion excessively at odds over publicly accepted opinion.
Tom served 4 purposes in the short time we see him.
Provide some comic relief. (He is presented as an overly happy 1950s salesman).
Further hint at the romantic connection of Brenly and Sadie.
Reveal how desperate the situation has become. His overly happy persona could be a temporary defense mechanism in a desperate situation. Reciting sales mantras to himself is both comfort and percieved strength. It is like when a person who prays excessively in the face of a natural disaster.
Then at the end, ruin the safe transportation with the garbage truck.
An amazing side story to an amazing game
We love you
Vergil is awesome. It would be cool if he was a recurring character. Halo needs a steady cast of side characters again. In the original trilogy you had Echo 419, Cortana, Captain Keyes, Johnson, Miranda, Lord Hood, Arbiter, and R’tas Vadum, plus the marines with their funny dialogue. Then we had the ODSTs and Noble Team. Lasky was okay in Halo 4, but after that he was pretty much gone. The other characters post Bungie were a bunch of assholes who showed zero respect. I’d like to see maybe the Spirit of Fire crew along with Arbiter in Halo Infinite. Give me people I care about. Hopefully Halo Infinite has a much larger campaign to make up for Halo 5.
What, never cared about the Mission Intel (eg. the Adventuring Grunt, Rooker (Argent Moon AI))?
@@strider117aldo9 I honestly played Halo 5 one and a half times. The half being a legendary playthrough. I quit immediately after being disappointed. I do remember liking the funny easter egg SOS, but that's it.
@@gabethebabe3337 Oh, and I get your beef with Del Rio, but Palmer and Locke? Seriously, watch those "Palmer/Locke ain't that bad" videos. And what about Lasky? Fireteam Crimson (a whole bunch of Rookies as SPARTAN-IVs)
Honestly, you say "post-Bungie" as if you just wanna push the BS 343 BAD narrative.
Technically u do interact with Virgil in The Game.. he is helping all of you the whole time... He even comes Back in the end as the Alien During the ending of the game.. Remember the same alien You bring with u is the same one that Helped Virgil meaning that alien and Virgil are connected. And that's why during the ending the alien didn't wanna Leave so u had to push him into the ship.. That's because he didn't wanna leave the city because Saddie.
And There is a corrupt cop Easter egg too where the cop has orders from Kinsler to kill the doc. Then the cop tries to kill u and Virgil is there with u and everything
the best part about Sadie's story is that it connects to the main story, or at least to its environment. For example, idk if it is the same but at one point you can find an destroyed elephant (or oliphant) near a (obviously destroyed) wraith, and even the easter egg if you collect all logs, in which the cop you find in Data Hive actually follows you, walks into the frozen room to confirm if Dr Endesha died, and then attacks you. Little details like that make it way better than just an extra pieze of lore.
This was a Great side story. The only thing that irks me is that, in the level where you are in the frozen over rooms and stuff, if you interact with a door somewhere, you can hear Sadie's voice asking Virgil "Do you hear that?" behind it. Why is she there, when the log shows her leaving?
I noticed that too and it confused the hell out of me
Are you sure that's what she said? I assumed what I heard was a snippet of a recording.
I heard that too. I still confused to this day.
If you don't get all of the recordings, Sadie goes back after her father and gets locked in by Virgil.
You can't access that log without gathering the other 29 so I think the writers just threw that in or Vergil was playing a clip so that you could hear it.
ave. a. kee-bab.
I really wish that Sadie and Mike reunited with Virgil in ODST 😥 Such a sweet sad story
It's in one of the books that she's Virgil's handler working for ONI iirc
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
WarGrowlmon18 nobody cares about badly written books.
Mitch H They aren’t at all badly written, I am reading them right now and I find them to be connective tissue of the highest quality
@@rite.3839 Halo would be so much more confusing without the books. And generally, they are all of much higher quality than a lot of other expanded material.
This is why i love the halo odst campaign, just going through flashbacks of each odst to looking for audiologs that tells a back story of what happened in the city, Amazing Game and story.
If they made a live action movie of this It would be amazing.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
@@WarGrowlmon18 I heard he became the police chief or hey could have joined the army to help Sadie
2:19 this is the kind of stuff that sends chills down your spine. Just hearing the horrified screams and absolute terror from the people when the covenant are invading is so deep and it’s what makes this game one of the best of all time.
Its the sort of sobering thing that reminds you that, to the average human, the covenant are a truly hellish nightmare. We have fun with them cause we the player are on a similar level to them and enjoy the silly banter and dialogue the covenant have, but they are truly horrifying
Jonas has more character and personality than Fireteam Osiris
You shit talking Buck?
ImaginedFoil 335 I would never
@TheDestroyer2alltrolls this
@@5223142 whats left of character, id say so
Except Buck of course.
I just realized mike sounds like a clone from Star Wars lol
He's got that Australian accent just like the clones.
It’s an Afrikaans accent
It’s a South African accent.
shit you're right
@@gamingyoda1274 haha it's not an Australian accent you spoons it's south African
It's so cool that in Halo New Blood, Sadie actually gets to meet Vergil (the Engineer) after the ODSTs rescue him, as well as Buck and co. Love Halo's side stories man they make the lore so rich.
Meet??? No, she's his handler. They're both in Halo Bad Blood as well. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
@@WarGrowlmon18 woah chill my guy. I just wanted to highlight how cool it was that 343 continued Sadie and Vergil's story in the expanded universe, but my mistake. Calm yo self.
@@ninaa4192 😡😡😡
@@WarGrowlmon18apparently writing an original comment is too much for you, you've copy and pasted the same comment at least twice
27:30 well I mean he’s not entirely wrong...
Well ya the covenant want to "help" everyone by light the rings but the profits were power hungry and wanted to save the covenant so they said " kill humanity" and by the end of the war half of what left of the covenant just helped humanity and rekt the covent so ya it was just curuped leadership and brutes
Then again the covenant did not know that humanity was om earth😂
@@anidiot2284 Actually, according to the AI the covenant used to ask about the foreunners, apparently humans were the chosen ones by the foreunners. The Prophets learned this and didn't tell anyone else because it would make them no longer the leaders, so they set out to kill all humans so they'd never lose power.
Yeah but at the same time the prophets knew nothing of the Halo rings. They legitimately thought they were on a path to the Divine Beyond.
Actually the Prophets knew all about the rings. Truth, Mercy and Regret knew exactly what the rings would do, however exposing that secret would destroy the covenant. Read Contact Harvest, it states it in that book
Wow, i didn't expect to get this invested into this story, absolutely spectacular!
And man, Vergil is a fucking badass ngl
Genius concept. A bonus story within the story campaign.
You know the pictures of kinsler look so deep fried that it would have been funny if it wasn't in the context of a man getting ripped apart
It's still pretty funny just cause the man getting ripped apart is Kinsler.
Crime doesn't pay
This is dark as hell.
Funny bc It's based on the Dantes Inferno which is Dantes journey into actual hell
It's based upon Dante's Inferno that's why it has mature themes.
Listened to the whole thing and it was worth every second
there are great substories told within this even. in the opening train sequence we hear a husband and wife have a conversation. when the train blows up we hear the wife yell "my husband was on board" but then later on we hear the husband yell "has anyone seen my wife"
Personally, I hope they reunited in some way, in this crazy universe.
The voice acting is so good for these, I was so intrigued to find all of them to see how the story ended.
Fun fact, Kinsler is voiced by John Patrick Lowrie, the voice actor of the sniper from Team Fortress 2 and citizens from half life 2.
I am also very certain that at 35:44 , the person saying "Somebody answer that damn Phone" is Dennis Bateman, the voice actor for the spy from TF2.
Even in hundreds of years into the future those mercenaries sure know how to show up in some other way.
The butcher was too good for this world
Now I know why there were police in the underground
48:01 was the greatest payback in halo
The ending always gets me all choked up, "I am not worth - Your life - my Brave Warrior Princess" "I need you to live, for me" "Sadie, you've made me so proud."
"Office of Naval Intelligence. Fallen heroes on the air." I love that Vergil knew Dare was going to lead a group of ODSTs to retrieve him.
Still one of the best pieces of content within the Halo games
damn that was sad...
Really adds such a new dimension to the opening combat drop
Superintendent was sadies cortana
Wow so cool how this links up with the main ODST story. I just had to play it again to understand all the references
Thank you for putting this together and posting. Its appreciated.
I think it’s incredible, the shear terror of the situation, they’re counting on the Marines to come and save them, and yet, someone even greater is on his way, after destroying an entire carrier!!!!
I finally know the whole story..after so many years I can rest easy now
Who else wants an animated adaptation of this? I know as this it has a certain charm, but I really want to see someone build on the stories ODST gave us.
And not kill off a character we like “because it’s realistic” I’m looking at you guy who killed off the rookie
I want a full feature film of Midnight In The Heart Of The Midlothian
No but there was actually no reason to kill of the rookie 😭
This looks like the deleted script from Cloverfield
Dude thats exactly what i was thinking
man its impressive and surprising to see so much effort being put just in the audio logs
Can we reassign Vergil from Mombasa to Caboose? Give Caboose his own AI Army. Vergil inside his helmet, Freckles inside his Mantis, and Shiela in the Tank.
*happy squee from me*
When the VA for caboose is no longer in Rooster teeth.
I might actually watch this.
*Sauce of your profile pic?*
Thank you for compiling these clips together this made me cry in 2022
I found 20 of these just vibing around the city in a casual playthrough recently and they legitimately had me hooked. What a good little story.
What I find crazy is that the Covenant had Mombasa locked down, nobody in or out - and yet these civilians managed to get away on perhaps the sole remaining train in the city, with the Covenant not even noticing. Surely some Banshees or such would've saw the train and went after them... Unless, the train was going underground.
Subway- It is going undergound
10:05 I always liked the way this guy said "kabab".
Discovering these and retracing Sadie's steps really immerses you into the atmosphere of the eerily empty city.
Can't believe it took me about a decade to realize this is a retelling of Dante's Inferno
wait, what?
@@jacobrobinson787 yeah man, the terminals are divided into circles, the antagonists of each section represent a different sin, and on top of all of that, the guide for both the player and Sadie is named Virgil
which really matches the whole point of the data center. because you need to go down sub level 9, and it's covered with ice, with a bad cop. exactly is Dante speaks to the traitors in the ice, at the ninth circle of hell
Ahh fuck..I teared up.. hope Jonás is safe and gets a back story in another dimension and continue this story
“YOUR TAXDOLLARS AT WORK” and “BRIDGE TOLL ACCEPTED. HAVE A PLEASANT TRIP.” are the best Vergil quotes
2:29 I remember seeing this when I was young and I believe this is one of the first few instances that actually scared me. I recall seeing this and asking my brother (who was probably watching) How big is that covenant cruiser (I probably didn't call it a covenant cruiser though) and he answered that it was bigger than the corvette that we exploded in halo reach. the specific image right there really gives a big perspective on how big the covenant force was. I recall being scared of continuing the game after that, and I didn't play it for years, than I picked it back up and had fun again. Just figured I'd tell this story.
That's either a CSO or CAS Class Carrier. The largest capital ships in the Covenant armada.
The part with kinslar at the end just far beyond explainable
God speed Jonas you magnificent bastard
“If I don’t get you who will?” “The office of naval intelligence YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!”
The butcher was the most humble man. "I'm not worth five people!"
Sadie’s story is the best thing to happen to Halo.
Sadie and Vergil reappear in the books Halo New Blood and Halo Bad Blood which feature Alpha Nine, Buck's squad. They are very prominently in Bad Blood which takes place after Halo 5 and gets the band back together aside from the Rookie who is dead. Sadie became Vergil's handler following these events due to the Engineer retaining the AI's fondness for her and they join Alpha Nine on a classified mission against the Created in Bad Blood. In New Blood, Alpha Nine has to rescue them from Insurrectionists, a mission that reveals Mickey as a traitor. Which makes Buck pissed when he has to break Mickey out of prison in Bad Blood (featuring a cameo by Jun from Halo Reach) and they have to work together again. Mike's ultimate fate is unknown though as he's never seen or mentioned again.
Mike is underrated. Branley2020
Fun fact, Earth's population went from about 11 billion down to 200 million during the invasion
That’s mostly due to evacuations.
That doesn't make sense, the Covenant only glassed Africa - and even that was because a Flood spore was there.
"Office of Naval Intelligence. . . Fallen heroes on the Air. . ." Can Vergil predict the ODST drop or is that just me?
I think he was aware of UNSC forces. Dare was mentioned in the phone call so maybe he was listening to comms?
Probably knew they were coming yeah.
That’s most likely what Vergil meant by that
So basically the engineer helped saved the program, which resulted in the saving of everyone.
@@gabethebabe3337 she followed him if I remember right
Officer Mike Bradley is such a chad
Sadie's Story. Or as I like to call it, Sadie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Looking back on it odst had the best story and attention to detail I’ve ever seen with all of its characters having amazing traits that make you love them and a side story that could be turned into a movie it really makes me think that this was the golden age of gaming
The theories are right it’s totally a halo take on Dante’s inferno
Thanks for saving me for like 3 minutes
I am so lost in the streets looking for this! :Finally:
At one point a Wraith shoots an Olifant, and in the game during Mombasa Streets it is possible to see one with its top seemingly blown off. The attention to detail.
Wow~~~ That last audio clip actually got me to cry. Damn....
so live action of this?
Ah yes we get to see a guy get torn apart...
That shit would be so R rated
Holy fuck this is more intense than I anticipated. There're rape attempts and murderers and shit.
Whenever Virgil cried like a puppy I got scared because I thought a puppy was shot by the covenant for a second
I just realized even though real kids didn’t die there were children mothers and fathers murdered by the covenant
Yay I'm so happy Mike lived!
"Open the doors." Such beautiful words.
there is no harder line than "NEXT STOP -- MAKUPA, NAIROBI ROAD, HOPE STATION, And beyond"
Sadie is annoyingly brave .
That's a pretty good way of describing her I'd say
This should have been turned into a animated movie
This should have been a playable campaign in halo universe. No weapon just a story of survival against alien invasion
“If you are going into the war zone, you must EEEEEEEEEET”
Holy shit, I forgot how well made this was
theories? they are literally named after the rings of hell 😂
the end hit different. When i was a kid playing odst i just played through all the logs because I never knew what they meant.. but now..
32:42 one of my favorite parts
He just wanted his god damn half & half
You should have stayed in the elevator jimbo
Even in the face of extinction, humanity still can find reasons to turn on each others instead of common enemy
The same with insurrection groups like the UEG that continued fighting the UNSC despite the Covenant fighting ALL OF HUMANITY.
I thought initially that Jonas was a large, heavy and muscular man with a thick Russian accent until he said how big and heavy he was. Also, I don't know where he got the chicken from but it sounds delicious for some reason and he is from a line of work where he knows his meats.
“Fallen heroes -- on the air.”
ODST.
Halo odst is just brilliant. I love the vibes that they made, we need another one.
If they just took the audio from this and animated it, they’d have pure gold in their hands