2 years later, rewatching this. there are quite a few things I get wrong in this video (like the destiny 2 stuff for instance) and if I ever cover this game again I'll try to address that, sorry
I played Halo 1's campaign once when I was like 10, and thought "Eh its alright". I was more into Halo 3. Then like 3 years ago I decided to replay Halo 1 and, yeah, its not even nostalgia. Something just clicked. The aesthetic, the gameplay, the almost retro feel now. Its certainly has somehow skyrocketed into one of my favorite games of all time.
@@Zathren I feel like Destiny has the heart of old Halo, but they really didn't care. The enemies are deep and cool but the combat is boring to suit looter shooter bullshit. I'm with a growing majority of people that want it to be more "difficult". _Actual,_ difficulty.
@@AWACS_Snowblind I played allot of destiny and just quit out of nowhere. I had fun with my clan and still talk to them but I cant play a game where after the story and general rare items the only goal is to farm for a slightly better roll of the weapon you already have.
Me and my brother joke that because chief was the only one not strapped in a chair when you land that everyone died because chief was bouncing around crushing everyone to death before getting knocked out.
When I first played Halo 2 I was convinced Shooter Games could not get any better. I replayed the coop campaign with my best friend for 10 hours straight. Multiple times a week (no internet available, good times). And then Halo 3 came out. I still get goosebumps rewatching the trailers, sometimes I even recall certain smells or tastes from my childhood town when watching them.
I couldn’t wait to Finish The Fight. You can understand my disappointment when on a release date I come to my games dealer and he says: “What? I just sold your disc to some random dude minutes ago.” The last one. He also understood his mistake and the very next day he brought another disc right into my office.
Fun fact, the Grunts say "NOT AGAIN" when you sticky them because they believe in reincarnation. That's actually a real thing, I didn't just make that up.
Jeez thats kinda dark if you think about it, the covenenant breed them like animals and put them on the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder, only for them to die and be reincarnated as worthless cannon fodder again
I always got upset when they made me get out of my Tonk, When you have to fight 2 Scarabs at once in Halo 3 I ignored the Flying machines they gave you to get on top of the scarabs and snipe the generators and took both on in my Tonk
I think the library is part of why it was so good. When I replayed it recently I remembered and had the exact same feeling of relief when I finally heard a grunt again. I remember opening those giant doors sighing, letting my controller hit the floor and laid back. I let them kill me I was so overjoyed. I think that emotion drew me further into the game.
The HALOverse was the first sci-fi world I really geeked out over. The fast and streamlined Spartans always appealed to me more than the 40k Astartes. John was the perfect mix of human and warrior compared to 40k where it's almost like a parody.
"Idk if Halo was so ahead of its time" They literally invented decision trees for AI, which is what everything uses now. So yea, they were a bit ahead of their time.
@@DanielGomez-xo1sh Not really. Half Life excelled at environmental story telling and it's gameplay. Halo took those and started a trend where FPS games have a story and AI decision paths. Half-Life, DOOM, and Halo are quite literally the Holy Trinity of the FPS Genre.
Me and my dad just finished Halo 1 in Co-op for the first time. I have only played it once before and my dad isn't very experienced with games, but we still had an absolute blast. We both thought the enemies were really fun to fight, that the environments were awesome, the vehicles were super fun and the music added even more to experience. If a 50+ year old who has barely played video games can jump in and enjoy and appreciate Halo 1, it is definitely doing something right.
I know this is 2 years later but I played both Halo 1 and Halo 2 campaigns with a family friend/uncle of mine when I was like 7-8? And seriously, these games are made to play with anyone and have a great, immersive time
That's genuinely great. I played this game soooo much when I was a kid and it's my #1 game, and is a colossal piece of my childhood. I hope you and your dad came to love it as much as I did and still do, and if nit, at least you guys enjoyed it :)
And the fact that he went to all that effort not to spoil "those guys" where high-powered snipers won't work against them since they don't technically have a head or CNS is also well done.
Chief killed everyone on the life pod by bouncing around in it since he didn’t take a seat Edit: idk if people think that I’m serious about my comment, it’s just something I thought would be funny if I said it because, it’s not true (I think)
He did not take a seat, because you see when he boards there are no seats left. What is even more interesting, after the crash there are three bodies missing, so someone walked away whilst the chief was unconscious
On the topic of the graphics, I think Halo CE is a testament to how amazing art direction can make a game still look great 20 years later, even if the graphics have undeniably aged.
We all love Halo when we talk about it from our nostalgic feelings, until you remember those times where the Halo 2 Jackal would snipe you outta nowhere and you'd rage.
The Forerunners and their Structures was the main reason why I got interested, that, the Weaponry of the races and a few other things. Halo 3's Menu Theme is the best and reflects the imminent danger of the Halos and Ark.
i grew up on ps/ps2/ps3. But my cousin had an xbox and introduced me to Halo that I literally bought a 360 to play Halo 3, ODST, Reach, and Halo Wars until Halo 4 came out then I went back to ps4
Ever wondered, that maybe just because you assume something, that doesn't make it so. You assume you know what PlayStation players are thinking, you don't. Does it really matter, Halo died after reach, there isn't any resurrecting it.
For me it was the story and the characters. As a female, Master Chief gave me a lot of courage and inspired me to be a stronger person when it came to facing challenges in life.
Nothing wrong with that. It was a way for me to understand the role of a man who is capable of great violence. I was always saving as many marines as I could and I would constantly put myself between the covenant and my marines. And I would try as many times as it took to save them all. It never worked but I started to understand you can’t save everybody and you have to find a place where just attempting to save them is enough even if you don’t quite make it. I can definitely say that I loved the way the allied AI behaved if you turned into a Shithead cuz the marines turned into gods and would straight up end you right there and that is legit cuz soldiers regulate each other for sure. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to actually learn some things from the way they depicted chief.
I don't think Halo's graphics are done justice by being displayed in high resolution. In high res it looks jagged, blocky and blurry, but that's not really how it looked back in the day, and it's not just nostalgia. On a CRT TV, in standard definition, those imperfections were much more hidden and it looked kind of _flawless_ as the level of detail pretty much maxed out what could come through in a 480i resolution. The art wasn't crafted to be seen blown up in hidef resolutions.
Very important point. I played this on a 22” Sony Trinitron CRT and it did look flawless back then. I remember 4 player split screen being hilariously tiny you could barely see anything but still totally playable. We made it work! On a related note, I played the first Dead Space on that TV and it straight up looked like a movie. Still looks good to this day in HD but damn in SD CRT there's not a single imperfection
@@zoltar0205 They both did alot for the industry. Halo seemed to be more popular among those that were children when it was made. Half life by those that were nearly adults.
@PYXB3 and halo ce has 70% of its length made out of copy-pasted samey, boring scenery. half life was fresh from beginning to end. to me, the coop aspect of halo was 90% of the game. because as someone who came from pc games, halo felt too floaty and slow most of the time. the first halo i thought was good enough to stand on its own was reach. everything has proper weight, the game flows a lot faster and the weapon sandbox is varied and fun. and most importantly, the campaign is carefully crafted from beginning to end. it never feels repetitive, and it has by far the best story in any halo. and i like noble 6 over master chief any day of the week. ironically, "halo purists" hate that one. oh well, it's the best halo ever and bungie seems to think it's their masterpiece, too.
Yoo lol wtf I did too, me and my buddies have been going through every halo, reach through 5, we’re half way through 5 right now but we completed the rest of the mcc
I find it odd that no one talks about the amazing introduction of the flood. The way its hinted at and the little combat form that watches you from a distance just makes its eventual reveal so much better.
This video inspired me to take my friend (shes never played any of the halo games) in the span of 2 weeks through every halo game and shes loved every one of them
Born on Bungie day, 07.07. ( 2000 ) , first action shooter game I got was an original Halo CE for PC. I was visiting my mom's friend and she gave me that disk as a gift. I never forgot that moment. The decorations of that house, moments before and moments after. Went home , installed it and just started blasting. ( Note , I got this disk in 2005 ) Now, imagine me, 5 year old playing games, it took me over an hour for some levels, ( Truth and Reconciliation, Assault on control room and especially Library ). After beating the game I replayed it again and again on various difficulties, though at the time I couldn't beat it on legendary or heroic. And then I discovered multiplayer maps. My family was struggling a lot at the time so I didn't have internet. I wandered alone in maps, dreaming someone would enter these maps to play with me. Just exploring from map to map. Then when my parents got the internet I remember seeing something about "Halo Reach news incoming! Stay tuned!" As my English was horrible at the time ( I am from Serbia btw ), I searched some stuff about CE and found some update for servers and stuff and boy it was an update. An update to my life. I got to play Halo online for the first time! I had so much fun, driving warthogs with other players, banshees, modded maps etc. 2007, started elementary school and found out about Halo 2, Halo 3 and and TH-cam. I just sat at computer . I spent hours and hours watching multiplayer, single player, montages, linkin park halo AMVs, master chief face, halo vs counterstrike, halo vs call of duty, i listened to that remix of snow from RHCP like crazy. I tried to install Halo mods into GTA SA but never knew how. My dad got me a window Vista and there was a version of Halo 2 for Vista and I fell in love with it. To think that Halo 1 had continuation for me at the time was mind blowing! The new battle rifle, arbiter, drivable wraiths, brute plasma rifles... Imagine my happiness at that time. Then it happened, I found it. Halo 3. Due to my poor situation at my household and economic crisis in 2010 , my parents almost divorced and I got into massive depression ( I don't know if it was depression but it was a really dark time for 10 year old me ) . I saw that Halo 3 was only available for XBOX 360 and my parents barely afforded bread, so console was out of options ( To this day, I've never owned any gaming console ). I just aimlessly watched Halo 3 gameplay and dreamed of playing it and especially Halo 3 ODST, which funnily enough, is still my Facebook cover photo ! Year or two after, Reach came out. And Reach has special place in my heart . I was heavily bullied at school, it broke my mental health and it still haunts me to this day. Coming home to watch Reach gameplay, Red vs Blue , 100 ways to die in Halo Reach was a therapy for me ( also I discovered my friends ( friends to this day ) from neighborhood knew little about Halo so I taught them ). Playing it however was not a possibility at all. 2012, Halo 4. I was just amazed with graphics, new foes, Didact and I remember that flood game mode for multiplayer. Getting a new laptop with windows 7, vista on PC was gone, dad installed a windows 7 there and I lost access to Halo 2. I found out about Halo 2 Project Cartographer and it was a cure to my Halo solutide at the time. And by coincidence, I found out about Halo online. I remember it had dmr, a gun that I adored. Though unfortunately, my PC was crap and I couldn't join online games so I played alone in multiplayer maps. El Dewrito or something it was called. Few years later, Halo 5 came out, I started high school and things got a lot better for me, new friends, girls, school, things. Used to watch HokieBird428 for gameplay and noobs guide to legendary. I never, to this day, watched or played Halo 5. Then I started going back to other games like Elder scrolls, GTA, NFS, Minecraft especially. I was never able to buy then Minecraft, I really don't know why, but in those cracked servers, I had built Halo structures, Halo factions, Halo mods and it was my first connection to modern Halo. Years passes, entered uni in 2019, new city, new amazing friends. Forgot completely about Halo... I'm majoring in Japanese so I didn't have lots of time to focus on new games, game news but one headline stuck out to me - " Halo MCC comes to steam on December 3rd 2019 ". WOW .. I quickly dropped saving money for PlayStation 4. Quickly went to the bank, opened bank account but the process for some reason to get my credit cards was so long I had to wait to buy it. I tried downloading Halo Reach via pirate sites but it wouldn't work for some reason. COVID-19 came, I got infected 3 times with it, money I worked for went to parties, girlfriends, uni, books ( I'm a bookworm ). Then I was scrolling thru some TikToks and I heard it, the epilogue ost from Halo 2 . Legit tears went into my eyes. I felt bad for forgetting about my first game, my favourite franchise... I had like 20€ with me and I did the most shameful thing 21 yr old guy can do, I asked my mom to buy me the MCC ( it was 25€ on sale ) . I gave her the money I had, she added 5€ and finally, after 10 years, 10 goddamn years, I got to play Halo Reach, Halo 3 and 4. ( My mom actually asked me why didn't I ask her sooner cuz she knew MCC was coming to steam ). I bursted into tears. I haven't cried from 2015 and in 2021 I cried. I had the same look at the game the way I had it in 2005. I've now beaten all games on legendary , except Halo 5 and Infinite because I don't own any console or a powerful PC and I'm working to save the money in this crisis. My lucky number is 7, Bungie day is 7 , Halo number is 7, I am born on 7th of July and Halo shaped my life and will continue to shape it. This is why Halo is important to me.
I just started playing the halo games. With no nostalgic attachment whatsoever, I can tell you that your feelings toward the game are 100% correct. So fucking good.
Did you enjoy "assault on the control room" and its same exact room recycled about 12 times? Do you think they should have gone for one more? Or another bridge maybe? lmao
The original HALO trilogy's soundtrack, to this day, continues to be one of the most memorable and... simply high quality musical scores I have ever heard. There is something special about the way it evokes emotion so profoundly and meaningfully. Marty did a grand job, equalled by few if any.
Speaking of sountracks, ODST gets a more-than-honorable mention. Even people who didn't like it in particular (even though, apart from Characters and story it's 100% still Halo 3) I can't say I've ever had someone level dislike at the music and ambience of ODST.
Yeah the rocket flood really outsmart you when they turn the corner and point blank fire the rocket at the ground. As many would say it is an outstanding move.
Thank you for this. I had/have a hard time justifying how good this game is/was. I’ll never forget sitting in my parents back room glaring at a tiny 15” box at 3 in the morning. The only other game to keep me up late before halo was Red Alert…. Mainly cuz I would actively try and crash my dads computer by building the biggest army cuz I thought it was funny as hell….. I had never experienced a game like Halo before… Also, You mentioned the library. It does suck but it still holds a special place in my heart…. You spend your first hour thinking you can fight the flood off…. That doesn’t work so you decide to run which turns out to be just as hard and after 10 minutes of running you come across the most diabolical combination EVER…zombies with rocket launchers….. ass holes….. and when all is said and done, you shot your last shot and you’ve punched your last punch, you finally walk on to the platform lift to leave the god forsaken place known as the library…..only to get t-bagged by the devs in the form of the little text that says “Wait, It Gets Worse!”….. and you realize that was level 1…..I’ve never hated and yet loved a game so much in my life.
the absolute worst (best) part of that level is when you have to wait for 343 to fix the door that won't open..... and the one behind you closes then the music starts.
I'd like to mention a specific thing in just Silent Cartographer. The level does a perfect job sounding and feeling like it's taking place during summer. You can hear bugs buzzing, birds chirping, the breeze blowing, the ocean waves rolling, and see the sunlight bathing everything in a warm light. Even when there's nothing happening, it feels so alive and I swear I can actually feel the wind and sun beating down. Then, whenever you enter a forerunner structure there, you can hear the outside for a bit until you're completely inside, and it becomes eerily quiet. This is another instance where I swear can feel exactly what the temperature itself might be, with forerunner interiors maybe feeling air conditioned and very comfortable, but the air itself is abnormally still. Halo is a god damn masterclass in creating environments, you'd be hard pressed to find even AAA games with state-of-the-art photorealistic graphics actually nail the fucking _feeling_ of realism.
YeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEES DUDE. Any time I'm in the Forerunner structures like in Silent Cartographer and Assault on the Control Room I can almost feel the empty cold of a room filled with metal and technology.
I got the pleasure of guiding a good friend through his first time playing Halo CE today. He had basically zero spoilers, he didn't even know Spartans were from Halo, but he came in with an appreciation for old games and left with an amazing experience.
The thing is that I totally would use a frag grenade on a Grunt if there are like two or three of them clustered up. Less guns shooting at me while I can fully focus on the bigger threat after throwing the grenade. Or if I know the grenade will off a Grunt/Jackal and soften up an Elite. Fuck I love Halo I'm gonna go play some Firefight.
I really like your animation style, it's expressive, goofy and simplistic. Not to mention the script was good enough im not sure there even was a script. Also you sound very enthustiastic and it seems to me that you really care about the subject matter. Good job man, very epic.
I appreciate that cuz u never know who hasn't played it yet. Cuz I am a huge halo fan myself but i still have a lot of lore to learn and halo to replay
I just got to say, I love your animation style. You get even the small details perfectly, the timing and small motions capture everything perfectly. I first noticed it in your video on Need for Speed. Thanks for the time and effort you put in
“So it’s 2001. A really... cool year. Where nothing bad happened.” Me: a 25 year old man who it took longer than it should have to realize what he was talking about 💀💀
In my high school coding class, one of the guys had managed to get the demo for Halo on all the computers. So every day, me and one other guy would type up the work, then copy paste it and send it to everyone else so they could say they’d finished it. Then we’d spend the rest of the day playing Halo.
Rie Ta LMAO, thanks man. I don’t know if I’d say that helping dudes skip class work to play the Halo demo’s multiplayer “enriching their lives,” but your kindness is much appreciated. Thank you, dude!
I had a friend who did the exact same thing. The best part was our teacher really didn't care as long as we got our coding work turned in at the deadline.
Tbh I think Halo: CE still has aged pretty well... It's one of the old games where I don't get a headache just because it looks so bad, it's a game I still can play for hours!
It's a similar situation with Half Life for me, it's just so fun the graphics don't really matter that much at all. I would say half life 2 as well but the graphics in that game still hold up pretty well if I'm being honest
@@rabidredpanda2888 Definitely. But much of that is also to do with poor upscaling and using different technologies for screens. The N64 looks notoriously poor on a modern TV because of the conversion between analogue and digital. Eitherway, games like Tomb Raider (the original of course) and 007 Goldeneye are unplayable for me in this day and age. The games look so incredibly grainy and especially for GoldenEye which is riddled with framerate issues.
The cool thing is, it arguably has better graphics then gta San Andreas, a game that came out 3 years later, just to think bungie’s engine could run it back then is astounding
I just bought Halo: MCC and I got so used to Destiny's adrenaline type fight scenes that I kept rushing inside enemy lines and died. The moment i got a shot gun in Reach and an elite charging at me made me actually remember that Halo had a lot of depth inside its combat that's why me and my brother usually had call outs when we were kids and even rationed ammo. This video is one big coincidence!
Definitely not nostalgia. I played the entirety of Master Chief Collection a few months ago for the first time, and found Halo CE to be one of the best designed games I have ever played. Maybe it isn't my favorite game of all time, but I can tell why so many people say it is, and we need more games as tightly designed as this.
MCC version of CE is kind of busted, too. If you ever get the chance, play the OG on real hardware. There's a huge rabbit hole you can go down for how busted the MCC version is.
@@i_likemen5614 the MCC version of the game is based on the gearbox port which had tons of missing effects & graphical issues compared to the Xbox version though after a recent update a lot of those problems have been fixed & the same goes for halo 2 which is based on the Vista port & recently got tons of stuff fixed
@@tired9769 I don't think graphics matters anymore for a 20 year old game. What's outstanding about Halo: CE is that it's level design still holds up today and still feels like a modern shooter.
I will understand the people that think this game is ugly The game's use of sheer contrast and pitch blackness is absolutely . I can't remember the last time I've played a game that actually leveraged the bottom 25% of available display brightness so effectively and so often. It looks dated, it's certainly "old CGI", but I can say the words "Forerunner Architecture" and anyone who has played any halo game will instantly know exactly what I am talking about. this game's art direction is and even just watching this video I found myself feeling chills. And I don't even have any nostalgia for this game! I played through it (and the rest of the series) for the first time in 2021 with my boyfriend! we were both absolutely shocked at how sophisticated the AI was especially on legendary and had an absolute blast despite dying like 43 times per level
me: **starts downloading halo mcc** youtube, 10 minutes later while I'm bored: hey here's a video about halo, good choice of game btw ;) also, on a not stupid joke point, halo was the first game I ever played, and I think about and silently thank it every day for affecting my life in such a huge way. I'm studying game art at uni because of this beautiful game ffs!
I had a similar start, before that I played super Mario island on the gameboy advanced. Then my cousin introduced me to halo 2, instantly got hooked and later began to get interested heavily in the story. It's such an expansive game and I love going back to older games to see how much was actually tied together. The continuation was real and beloved
It aged super well, but you either have to play super casual modes, or have some amount of competitive knowledge (timers, spawns, etc) and play only 2v2s because that's the only way the map spawns work reliably. Everything else is a massive cluster.
Playing 8 v 8 maps, on the Remaster, some of those maps fucking suck, grenade spam hell. But damn, was it straightforward, yet intricate. It aged like wine, thus its not everybody's cup of tea.
I despise people who complain about Halo CE's graphics. It is literally 20 years old!!! And also, a game doesn't have to have amazing graphics to be fun.
Maldus Alver I feel the old graphics conveyed the theme and atmosphere it was trying to show while anniversary just tried to look pretty, hence- the flood levels. Over all I like both though
This is one of the few videos that actually manages to almost concretely identify all the little details that forms an overall intangible feeling of greatness this game - and others in the series - has.
For those of you who somehow don’t know, Halo has “The Master Chief Collection” which has Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, 4, and Reach. Only mainline game you’d have to get is 5. They’re on XBox and Pc if I remember right
Currently, 343i is working on releasing Halo 3: ODST to the MCC as a full port, with Reach, CE, 2, and 3 already being successfully released on the newly refined Halo: MCC...
Bro same, except for me, I read up on the lore of the Grunts and felt sad (read up on it it’s really interesting) So I didn’t kill them and just walked away. Lmao
I watch this video just about once every 2 months. I keep coming back to it, not only because it's a greatly entertaining video, but also because of the pure enthusiasm that comes from Noodle here. With each subject, I can just tell how much he cares, and it just makes me want to care as much. This is even more apparent after watch the other Halo videos and the interview with Martin. Thank you Noodle, for sharing your heart here. 🧡
Spoiler. . . . . . . . I think it was the most insane thing a shooter has ever done, because the reveal wasnt just accompanied by a major plot twist(halos original purpose) but also it changed the genre from happy funny colorfull shooty shooty to straight up horror. Sure for todays standarts its not even close to horror but at the time, that was terrifying. If the line between scary shooter and straight up horror game wasnt crossed, it was at least being looked at really really mean. I always wanted a game which is advertised and starts off as a call of duty style modern military shooter and out of nowhere midway through pulls out aliens or something and halo is the closest to ever doing that. (i purely want such a game because it would TRUELY be a plottwist, usually when they build up aliens or zombies in the first mission you know whats comming because...you know... Advertising... Branding... The entire box art... Etc. Like when you play deadspace and they build up the fact that there is something on the ship. Cool narrative but are you really surprised? Nah man you came for that shit. Not in halo. You did NOT buy the game for what you see in the 3rd act
can anyone please tell me the 3rd and 4th faction, i may not have been that much of halo fan since halo 3 was the only one I touched, regardless I love the lore so much, i think its one of the most detailed and amazing sci fi narrative ever to be created. so yeah, please tell me.
Fun tidbit, Medal of honor included a copy of halo's control scheme and called the layout "hail to the Chief" in honor of Halo and it's accomplishments.
Interesting, but Halo did not invent the two-stick shooter control scheme. I'm not sure what game did it first, but Timesplitters was using it a full year before Halo.
@@malif1279 You do realize that Marty is the one who declined working on future Halo titles, not the other way around, right? Marty wanted to work on different projects - he didn't want to be stuck on one franchise. Why be angry? You can't force a man to stay in one place
@@sajjior8401 no he doesn't so dont chat shit, he literally said in most interviews that hes working on a new game and has no interest in the new halo games
8:10 minor nitpick that someone's probably already addressed, but Halo was *not* the first game to use the right stick for aiming. Alien: Resurrection did it a year earlier, and reviewers H A T E D it.
Just finished playing halo 1 a month ago as I am playing through every halo game. That shit is *class,* my dear people. It’s just amazing, to put it simply.
After two and a half years I finally got my hands on the game. After another year I finally got my hands on the game (again) and finally finished it. All because of this video (i wanted to watch it real bad but was afraid of spoilers). Thank you Noodle for this recommendation. (It is now 4 AM i beat it from start to finish i have work tomorrow help me)
I'd prefer it if these new designs for the enemies didn't replace the old designs, but rather were a different race of the same species. They all look like they'd be better suited as heavy units, slave labor, and anything involving heavy lifting.
Wow! Its the dude with the sonic hair! Nah jk, you have been one of, if not, the biggest influence on what artstyle and animation style I want to use for my pre-nintendo work.
It took me a while to realize he was ONLY comparing Halo to other console shooters... my brain kept listing a ton of games that do what he's claiming only Halo does... then I was like OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... Yeah, try Half Life, F.E.A.R., some of the Sniper Elite games, heck, even the OG Quake 1 & 2 had many of these features. CoD 1 was even great. AAA franchise console shooters aren't the only games out there. It's like when people worship GoldenEye.... they clearly weren't PC FPS enthusiasts at the time. Halo and GE are great... for console shooters. And that's great! But that's a very vital distinction.
@@jaffa7752 dont worry dude i think it is more of an unspoken thing, everyone thinks doom is cool :) (I think its the fact that halo truly brought pc like fps gameplay to console, thats what truly sold the formula) I do prefer halo over modern doom, but doom in general is equal to halo in my heart
@@reaperandgrim Actually, yeah, Modern Warfare 2019 was surprisingly full of depth for a CoD campaign, there were so many moments of actual pressure and tension that didn't feel forced at all
@@syncshard Ah yes my favourite argument, the tank in the far future sci fi setting's tech needs to be realistic to modern standards. Not sure snipers should fire so straight cause I've never seen an arrow fly near as straight as a sniper shot.
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2 years later, rewatching this. there are quite a few things I get wrong in this video (like the destiny 2 stuff for instance) and if I ever cover this game again I'll try to address that, sorry
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You made me laugh
Hi Marty.
Legend
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Martin O'Donnell OML am fan
Mr. Halo himself
I played Halo 1's campaign once when I was like 10, and thought "Eh its alright". I was more into Halo 3. Then like 3 years ago I decided to replay Halo 1 and, yeah, its not even nostalgia. Something just clicked. The aesthetic, the gameplay, the almost retro feel now. Its certainly has somehow skyrocketed into one of my favorite games of all time.
But What If Halo 1 Never Existed?
You should make a “What if Halo didn’t exist video?”
even more depression
tell your brother that
It's officially retro next year. Let that sink in.
Who'd've thought a game originally designed as an RTS would develop into an FPS where the enemies actually... y'know, strategize...
This makes Destiny all the more depressing.
Huh, it all makes sence now
@@Zathren I feel like Destiny has the heart of old Halo, but they really didn't care. The enemies are deep and cool but the combat is boring to suit looter shooter bullshit.
I'm with a growing majority of people that want it to be more "difficult". _Actual,_ difficulty.
@@AWACS_Snowblind I played allot of destiny and just quit out of nowhere. I had fun with my clan and still talk to them but I cant play a game where after the story and general rare items the only goal is to farm for a slightly better roll of the weapon you already have.
And then also proceed to make a couple RTS's out of it.
"I hope you wake up crucified, dude" is a very good line, I'm using it
I bet you’re the lame kid that wears quirky t shirts
stupid
I came to say the same
starting to get the impression that this guy likes halo
I'm still not convinced
but does he know the backpack reload
Nah, I'm not convinced yet
Are you sure? I don't get that vibe at all.
I dont really know man...
Me and my brother joke that because chief was the only one not strapped in a chair when you land that everyone died because chief was bouncing around crushing everyone to death before getting knocked out.
My friend used to throw grenades into the pod to kill them more
That's actually a legitimate theory in the community.
@@heededshadow509 which one? Chief pin balling everyone to death or the guy who'd throw grenades in to double kill them?
@@humbleheathen69 Pinball
NOW IT MAKES ACTUAL SENSE!!!!!!
halo is ok I guess
Well then dispute your opinion, and i quote “fuckin asshole”
found you
It's the best nostalgic fps game
After a thousand ish hours of play, i can state without a doubt, its okay
Sup circle boi
When I first played Halo 2 I was convinced Shooter Games could not get any better. I replayed the coop campaign with my best friend for 10 hours straight. Multiple times a week (no internet available, good times). And then Halo 3 came out. I still get goosebumps rewatching the trailers, sometimes I even recall certain smells or tastes from my childhood town when watching them.
Same here 😭 take me back to those golden days
I couldn’t wait to Finish The Fight. You can understand my disappointment when on a release date I come to my games dealer and he says: “What? I just sold your disc to some random dude minutes ago.” The last one. He also understood his mistake and the very next day he brought another disc right into my office.
Oh, and literally 2 days ago I bought Xbox 360 again just to replay the 3.
The Halo 3 ad campaign was absolutely the greatest of all time
OH MY GOD
Oh cool the living ray gun is here
I got whiplash when I heard your voice and realized what this meant. What are the odds, beautiful
Oh hey, its Chris David
What a fucking crossover lmao
Hey what are you doing here? Go away!
Fun fact, the Grunts say "NOT AGAIN" when you sticky them because they believe in reincarnation.
That's actually a real thing, I didn't just make that up.
but did you really not make that up?
I feel like I remember reading this in one of the books... I think it was The Flood?
Jeez thats kinda dark if you think about it, the covenenant breed them like animals and put them on the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder, only for them to die and be reincarnated as worthless cannon fodder again
@Samuel Sandoval They shot him in his head!!!?!!
@@11Survivor swear i thought this was a reference to that one noscope song from machinama😂
This is just 20 minutes of having my thoughts and opinions confirmed and validated.
that's an entire genre of videos called "halo 1-3 reviews"
Fucking same
Same here.
Halo sucks
@@brainmusic3848 no u
20 years and halos music still gives me goose bumps with every track. Only halo has done this. Absolute masta peice
I second this with the addition of the ace combat series
skyrim too, but that was 13 years ago
I fully agree about Halo OST.
It's an absolute master... ...chief
Metroid Prime as well
Noodle: "I hate the tank."
Me: "You have betrayed me, funny internet man."
I'll always love you Mr. Tank. Please ignore the man who believes you are not worthy of love.
I always got upset when they made me get out of my Tonk, When you have to fight 2 Scarabs at once in Halo 3 I ignored the Flying machines they gave you to get on top of the scarabs and snipe the generators and took both on in my Tonk
To be fair, the CE tank is kinda wack
@@GodRookie your face is wack
@@resijade4342 Thats true
every time someone sings the halo theme, another voice is added to the Chorus, Making it ever louder
That’s actually dope..
As a person that has played the theme in band, it is really chilling, just everything that is put into that music. It is a work of art.
I made the likes 117
@@noice3788 thank you freind
@@isabellaw9710 yeah dude! Such a masterpiece!
You’re wrong.
“There are 9 missions and a mental stability test.”
-A really fit guy
The Acting Male Person
The library is my favourite mission
Kilian?
@@stinger59605 it's the act man
I think the library is part of why it was so good. When I replayed it recently I remembered and had the exact same feeling of relief when I finally heard a grunt again. I remember opening those giant doors sighing, letting my controller hit the floor and laid back. I let them kill me I was so overjoyed. I think that emotion drew me further into the game.
The HALOverse was the first sci-fi world I really geeked out over. The fast and streamlined Spartans always appealed to me more than the 40k Astartes.
John was the perfect mix of human and warrior compared to 40k where it's almost like a parody.
Facts!! I read all the Halo books so quickly. They’re SO GOOD
Wow, this was a really good an entertaining retrospective on why Halo is so important to me and many others. Really great job!
Didn’t expect to see you here at this time. I really liked your video on Super Mario 3D all stars keep up the great work
oH mY gOd It'S tHe UnDeRtAlE eXtEnSiOn GuY!
Jk lol
Weeb
Arent you the horse from Horsin' Around?
@@WastedGoatFR what about the peanut butter mouth hoarse
Virgin Grunts: *Actual English words*
Chad Elites: WAAAAAUUGH
WAHRT WAHRT WAHRT
wort wort
AAAAOUAGHW
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Wort Wort Wort, Aghaghaghaghaaaaaaaaaaaaa
"Idk if Halo was so ahead of its time"
They literally invented decision trees for AI, which is what everything uses now. So yea, they were a bit ahead of their time.
Do you have any links where I could read more about Halo's impact on stuff like this?
Wasn't that made by Half Life?
@@DanielGomez-xo1sh Not really. Half Life excelled at environmental story telling and it's gameplay. Halo took those and started a trend where FPS games have a story and AI decision paths. Half-Life, DOOM, and Halo are quite literally the Holy Trinity of the FPS Genre.
@@randomrealiramemberwithpro7205 pretty sure it was still half life. The AI in that game is crazy
maybe halo made it more sophisticated, but half life still started it
Me and my dad just finished Halo 1 in Co-op for the first time. I have only played it once before and my dad isn't very experienced with games, but we still had an absolute blast. We both thought the enemies were really fun to fight, that the environments were awesome, the vehicles were super fun and the music added even more to experience.
If a 50+ year old who has barely played video games can jump in and enjoy and appreciate Halo 1, it is definitely doing something right.
I know this is 2 years later but I played both Halo 1 and Halo 2 campaigns with a family friend/uncle of mine when I was like 7-8? And seriously, these games are made to play with anyone and have a great, immersive time
Thats nice 🙂
That's genuinely great. I played this game soooo much when I was a kid and it's my #1 game, and is a colossal piece of my childhood. I hope you and your dad came to love it as much as I did and still do, and if nit, at least you guys enjoyed it :)
The fact that he went to Forge to create a whole level just for 5 seconds of footage is dedication
How did he add covenant??
@@Cwilds …oh yeah
@@Cwilds mods
And the fact that he went to all that effort not to spoil "those guys" where high-powered snipers won't work against them since they don't technically have a head or CNS is also well done.
Halo infinite multiplayer is gonna be free, you should defenitely try it
Chief killed everyone on the life pod by bouncing around in it since he didn’t take a seat
Edit: idk if people think that I’m serious about my comment, it’s just something I thought would be funny if I said it because, it’s not true (I think)
The exact same reason you wear a ducking seatbelt.
He did not take a seat, because you see when he boards there are no seats left.
What is even more interesting, after the crash there are three bodies missing, so someone walked away whilst the chief was unconscious
Spoilers man.
@@Goddessllias yeah, for the first hour of gameplay, of a 20 year old game.
NO CHIEF! YOU'LL BE FINE AND WE'LL DIE BECAUSE OF YOU RATTLING AROUND IN HERE!
On the topic of the graphics, I think Halo CE is a testament to how amazing art direction can make a game still look great 20 years later, even if the graphics have undeniably aged.
I agree. I've only just now played Halo CE and it is so beautiful even with the older graphic fidelity. The art direction is incredible.
Impressive seeing someone go a whole 20 minutes just talking about CE without even mentioning the sequels
Tbf you could talk hours about each game without repeating a point once
I mean he did use Halo 3 Video Clips in the beginning
@@FRBlitz117 he didnt say anything about the games
And SPOILERS
FLOOD
@@FRBlitz117 that was Halo online
Spoiler alert:
Green man shoots the bad aliens and saves the universe. At least for a little while.
Thanks, you just spoiled Shrek for me. I was waiting to watch it on my wedding night, now it's ruined.
You ruined Hulk for me.... Great😐
Halo is a pretty cool guy eh shoots aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.
What's the plot of Destiny again? Is there one?
and he does it multiple times
We all love Halo when we talk about it from our nostalgic feelings, until you remember those times where the Halo 2 Jackal would snipe you outta nowhere and you'd rage.
Seriously why the fuck are you everywhere?
Wow you really do appear everwhere
_everywhere I go, I see _*_you_*
@@noble14 No one cares.
@@jackcolson4745 No one cares, now comment something more than just that because everytime he comments there is a simp who says that.
The Forerunners and their Structures was the main reason why I got interested, that, the Weaponry of the races and a few other things. Halo 3's Menu Theme is the best and reflects the imminent danger of the Halos and Ark.
The fuck!!!!! Spoilers
It's kinda disappointing that playstation players or just people who've never played the games just think it's just like any other fps... big sad
Since 341 industries took over, this is sadly true
i grew up on ps/ps2/ps3. But my cousin had an xbox and introduced me to Halo that I literally bought a 360 to play Halo 3, ODST, Reach, and Halo Wars until Halo 4 came out then I went back to ps4
Ever wondered, that maybe just because you assume something, that doesn't make it so.
You assume you know what PlayStation players are thinking, you don't.
Does it really matter, Halo died after reach, there isn't any resurrecting it.
@@WhoThisMonkey well if you play playstation you most likely wont play an xbox exclusive game :/
@@GooninRaccoonin lol
This video is basically just me having my biases confirmed for 20 minutes straight.
And I'm a-okay with that.
Halo is the Star Wars of Videogames.
@@Marinealver I was gonna say that star wars most recent movies sucked but then I realised... Yeah
@@Marinealver Halo is the Halo of videogames
@@toad3222
Halo and Star wars also have a very divisive prequel that split the fan base.
Some guy: "Halo isn't that good."
Noodle: "So be it. Save his head. Dispose of the rest."
Nice CE Reference.
A hater? In the core? That is absolutely unacceptable!
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli
sick refrence
For me it was the story and the characters. As a female, Master Chief gave me a lot of courage and inspired me to be a stronger person when it came to facing challenges in life.
Wait I thought people couldn't relate to characters who aren't the same gender race and sexuality as them?
@@Jiub_SNbegone
@@MrDBassettoh nah bro cast a spell on him 😂😂
Nothing wrong with that. It was a way for me to understand the role of a man who is capable of great violence. I was always saving as many marines as I could and I would constantly put myself between the covenant and my marines. And I would try as many times as it took to save them all. It never worked but I started to understand you can’t save everybody and you have to find a place where just attempting to save them is enough even if you don’t quite make it. I can definitely say that I loved the way the allied AI behaved if you turned into a Shithead cuz the marines turned into gods and would straight up end you right there and that is legit cuz soldiers regulate each other for sure. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to actually learn some things from the way they depicted chief.
The fact that the guy in the beginning didn’t chant along proves he’s not a man of refined taste.
Who Braeden? He has smooth brain and the IQ of a pineapple he doesn’t know how to.
He did turn into sans tho
Nah, he's just too lazy.
*not a band kid loser
what if, you wanted to go to heaven,
but then god said
"OOOOOOOOAAAAOOOAAAAAOOOAAAAOOAAAAA"
also please make a video about halo 2 and 3 ty bye
Snark And halo reach and ODST
Yeah.. Good luck yourself from God's judgment on Heavens kingdoms..
if I got a call from god in a vision that was like this, I would convert
I want a Helo poster like the one in the background
Helo
Helo
A great game Helo
Helo
Oh boy can’t wait for helo infinite
I don't think Halo's graphics are done justice by being displayed in high resolution. In high res it looks jagged, blocky and blurry, but that's not really how it looked back in the day, and it's not just nostalgia.
On a CRT TV, in standard definition, those imperfections were much more hidden and it looked kind of _flawless_ as the level of detail pretty much maxed out what could come through in a 480i resolution. The art wasn't crafted to be seen blown up in hidef resolutions.
Very important point. I played this on a 22” Sony Trinitron CRT and it did look flawless back then. I remember 4 player split screen being hilariously tiny you could barely see anything but still totally playable. We made it work! On a related note, I played the first Dead Space on that TV and it straight up looked like a movie. Still looks good to this day in HD but damn in SD CRT there's not a single imperfection
I love the poster "HELO" just imagining a man doing a crappy, over exaggerated Russia accent saying "hello"
So, life of boris?
Helo
That sounds like a helicopter game
Хелоу
I thought the exact same thing
I've never heard such a great comparison
Doom: When movies first got sound
Halo: When movies first got color
Exactly what I thought
I would have said that Half Life is when movies first got colour.
@@zoltar0205 They both did alot for the industry. Halo seemed to be more popular among those that were children when it was made. Half life by those that were nearly adults.
@@zoltar0205 me too
@PYXB3 and halo ce has 70% of its length made out of copy-pasted samey, boring scenery. half life was fresh from beginning to end.
to me, the coop aspect of halo was 90% of the game. because as someone who came from pc games, halo felt too floaty and slow most of the time. the first halo i thought was good enough to stand on its own was reach. everything has proper weight, the game flows a lot faster and the weapon sandbox is varied and fun. and most importantly, the campaign is carefully crafted from beginning to end. it never feels repetitive, and it has by far the best story in any halo. and i like noble 6 over master chief any day of the week. ironically, "halo purists" hate that one. oh well, it's the best halo ever and bungie seems to think it's their masterpiece, too.
I just finished the entire MCC and i am disappointed at myself for not getting the game in my xbox to begin with. It's so God dammm fun
It was horrible when it was first released but it's come a long way dw you did good by waiting
You sir are correct
The Super Trash Man what do you mean it was horrible?
Me too!!!
Yoo lol wtf I did too, me and my buddies have been going through every halo, reach through 5, we’re half way through 5 right now but we completed the rest of the mcc
I find it odd that no one talks about the amazing introduction of the flood. The way its hinted at and the little combat form that watches you from a distance just makes its eventual reveal so much better.
This video inspired me to take my friend (shes never played any of the halo games) in the span of 2 weeks through every halo game and shes loved every one of them
I don’t have one ☹️
What about 4 and 5 ? I’m curious
@@giggabyte1075 4 was meh and 5 we didn't play because it skipped cutscenes in co-op
@@raccoonwithasword I don't know if you want to know this but there's no Halo 5 co-op :-(
@@micahp.4356
There isn't splitscreen co-op, but online coop still exists
*Throws Sticky on Elite*
Elite: ÂÄÁÁÅÃÆ
I heard this spot on lol
Ricky Sexton that’s like they’re weakness
I love and miss the old CE elites so much man.
I love the way they just drop their weapons and wave their hands in the air while making that noise
This is the best "I love Halo and here's why" video on TH-cam.
Idk man, NakedJacobs one is pretty good
Yeah this video is cringy
"I'm commander shepard and this is my favorite halo review on the citadel"
_wait, wrong game reference_
It really is!!
Karim whateva
SPOILER WARNING: game gud
Love how the elites strength and weakness is both “asshole”
"When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?"
Blinded?
Dumbstruck?
Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring, and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps?
Noble hierarchs, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked...
There will be order in this council!
Hunters: nooo you can’t just one shot us on legendary
Player: haha CE Magnum go brrr
My favorite meme! Actually funny and creative.
How about melee in Le bak
The flood go brrrrr
Doesnt it go blam?
It goes pow you fuckin nut
Born on Bungie day, 07.07. ( 2000 ) , first action shooter game I got was an original Halo CE for PC. I was visiting my mom's friend and she gave me that disk as a gift. I never forgot that moment. The decorations of that house, moments before and moments after. Went home , installed it and just started blasting. ( Note , I got this disk in 2005 ) Now, imagine me, 5 year old playing games, it took me over an hour for some levels, ( Truth and Reconciliation, Assault on control room and especially Library ). After beating the game I replayed it again and again on various difficulties, though at the time I couldn't beat it on legendary or heroic. And then I discovered multiplayer maps. My family was struggling a lot at the time so I didn't have internet. I wandered alone in maps, dreaming someone would enter these maps to play with me. Just exploring from map to map. Then when my parents got the internet I remember seeing something about "Halo Reach news incoming! Stay tuned!"
As my English was horrible at the time ( I am from Serbia btw ), I searched some stuff about CE and found some update for servers and stuff and boy it was an update. An update to my life. I got to play Halo online for the first time! I had so much fun, driving warthogs with other players, banshees, modded maps etc.
2007, started elementary school and found out about Halo 2, Halo 3 and and TH-cam. I just sat at computer . I spent hours and hours watching multiplayer, single player, montages, linkin park halo AMVs, master chief face, halo vs counterstrike, halo vs call of duty, i listened to that remix of snow from RHCP like crazy. I tried to install Halo mods into GTA SA but never knew how. My dad got me a window Vista and there was a version of Halo 2 for Vista and I fell in love with it. To think that Halo 1 had continuation for me at the time was mind blowing! The new battle rifle, arbiter, drivable wraiths, brute plasma rifles... Imagine my happiness at that time.
Then it happened, I found it. Halo 3.
Due to my poor situation at my household and economic crisis in 2010 , my parents almost divorced and I got into massive depression ( I don't know if it was depression but it was a really dark time for 10 year old me ) . I saw that Halo 3 was only available for XBOX 360 and my parents barely afforded bread, so console was out of options ( To this day, I've never owned any gaming console ). I just aimlessly watched Halo 3 gameplay and dreamed of playing it and especially Halo 3 ODST, which funnily enough, is still my Facebook cover photo !
Year or two after, Reach came out. And Reach has special place in my heart . I was heavily bullied at school, it broke my mental health and it still haunts me to this day. Coming home to watch Reach gameplay, Red vs Blue , 100 ways to die in Halo Reach was a therapy for me ( also I discovered my friends ( friends to this day ) from neighborhood knew little about Halo so I taught them ). Playing it however was not a possibility at all.
2012, Halo 4. I was just amazed with graphics, new foes, Didact and I remember that flood game mode for multiplayer.
Getting a new laptop with windows 7, vista on PC was gone, dad installed a windows 7 there and I lost access to Halo 2. I found out about Halo 2 Project Cartographer and it was a cure to my Halo solutide at the time. And by coincidence, I found out about Halo online. I remember it had dmr, a gun that I adored. Though unfortunately, my PC was crap and I couldn't join online games so I played alone in multiplayer maps. El Dewrito or something it was called.
Few years later, Halo 5 came out, I started high school and things got a lot better for me, new friends, girls, school, things. Used to watch HokieBird428 for gameplay and noobs guide to legendary. I never, to this day, watched or played Halo 5. Then I started going back to other games like Elder scrolls, GTA,
NFS, Minecraft especially. I was never able to buy then Minecraft, I really don't know why, but in those cracked servers, I had built Halo structures, Halo factions, Halo mods and it was my first connection to modern Halo.
Years passes, entered uni in 2019, new city, new amazing friends. Forgot completely about Halo... I'm majoring in Japanese so I didn't have lots of time to focus on new games, game news but one headline stuck out to me - " Halo MCC comes to steam on December 3rd 2019 ". WOW .. I quickly dropped saving money for PlayStation 4. Quickly went to the bank, opened bank account but the process for some reason to get my credit cards was so long I had to wait to buy it. I tried downloading Halo Reach via pirate sites but it wouldn't work for some reason. COVID-19 came, I got infected 3 times with it, money I worked for went to parties, girlfriends, uni, books ( I'm a bookworm ). Then I was scrolling thru some TikToks and I heard it, the epilogue ost from Halo 2 . Legit tears went into my eyes. I felt bad for forgetting about my first game, my favourite franchise... I had like 20€ with me and I did the most shameful thing 21 yr old guy can do, I asked my mom to buy me the MCC ( it was 25€ on sale ) . I gave her the money I had, she added 5€ and finally, after 10 years, 10 goddamn years, I got to play Halo Reach, Halo 3 and 4. ( My mom actually asked me why didn't I ask her sooner cuz she knew MCC was coming to steam ). I bursted into tears. I haven't cried from 2015 and in 2021 I cried. I had the same look at the game the way I had it in 2005. I've now beaten all games on legendary , except Halo 5 and Infinite because I don't own any console or a powerful PC and I'm working to save the money in this crisis. My lucky number is 7, Bungie day is 7 , Halo number is 7, I am born on 7th of July and Halo shaped my life and will continue to shape it. This is why Halo is important to me.
just imagine going to someone's house and seeing that they have a bootleg halo poster named HeLo
😂😂😂
I just started playing the halo games. With no nostalgic attachment whatsoever, I can tell you that your feelings toward the game are 100% correct. So fucking good.
Same here
The only bad Halo game is Halo 5.
Did you enjoy "assault on the control room" and its same exact room recycled about 12 times?
Do you think they should have gone for one more? Or another bridge maybe?
lmao
@@MisterL777 seeing your profile picture i won't hold that much of a weight towards your opinion
Oh Yeah Yeah * bad campaign *. The multiplayer is unique and it is fun.
The original HALO trilogy's soundtrack, to this day, continues to be one of the most memorable and... simply high quality musical scores I have ever heard. There is something special about the way it evokes emotion so profoundly and meaningfully. Marty did a grand job, equalled by few if any.
Halo 3 made me feel like a badass, the music was a big part of that
Speaking of sountracks, ODST gets a more-than-honorable mention. Even people who didn't like it in particular (even though, apart from Characters and story it's 100% still Halo 3) I can't say I've ever had someone level dislike at the music and ambience of ODST.
Steve Vai recorded the guitar drop for Halo 2 while he was just aimlessly riffing in studio
And now it seems like Halo:Infinite will be added to that list, the music they’ve shown so far are nothing short of masterpieces
I mean, ODST and Reach also had killer soundtracks
When I want to feel not shitty, I watch this video. Good job, man.
Is that are burn??
-Big worm
-big gun
-big health
-big pain
-2 of them
A literary masterpiece
Yes!!!!
@@tomerdoom yes??
@@gstandsforgorgeous Im cool peter, I wear supreme
@@creberuswang766 I'm best peter, I break my arm when I die or get hurt
I made the like funny bc 117
"if someone said a fight was hard in halo then the AI outsmarted them" we just gonna forget about the flood and all their tom fuckery?
Player: Noo you cant just overwhelm the master chief with unfair advantages!!!
The flood: haha rocket go boom.
@@AbdullahKhan-el6xw we gon forget about the carrier guys who explode on you when you turn corners and for some reason wont die to my GODDAMN GRENADES
halo 2 had flood with shotguns and in that game in particular their shotguns could kill you from what felt like three football fields away
That's why it's called "the flood"
Yeah the rocket flood really outsmart you when they turn the corner and point blank fire the rocket at the ground. As many would say it is an outstanding move.
This man ended the video with such a passionate call to action he literally told everyone to unsubscribe
lol i just subbed cause he said that, laughed so hard
Cyk ,
Thank you for this. I had/have a hard time justifying how good this game is/was. I’ll never forget sitting in my parents back room glaring at a tiny 15” box at 3 in the morning. The only other game to keep me up late before halo was Red Alert…. Mainly cuz I would actively try and crash my dads computer by building the biggest army cuz I thought it was funny as hell….. I had never experienced a game like Halo before…
Also, You mentioned the library. It does suck but it still holds a special place in my heart…. You spend your first hour thinking you can fight the flood off…. That doesn’t work so you decide to run which turns out to be just as hard and after 10 minutes of running you come across the most diabolical combination EVER…zombies with rocket launchers….. ass holes….. and when all is said and done, you shot your last shot and you’ve punched your last punch, you finally walk on to the platform lift to leave the god forsaken place known as the library…..only to get t-bagged by the devs in the form of the little text that says “Wait, It Gets Worse!”….. and you realize that was level 1…..I’ve never hated and yet loved a game so much in my life.
the absolute worst (best) part of that level is when you have to wait for 343 to fix the door that won't open..... and the one behind you closes
then the music starts.
Please Noodle I need this as a greenscreen 8:59
Didn't think I would see you here. Couple other TH-camrs in the comments as well.
Yes, that'd make gromek's videos just amazing, like wow that is perfect for Gromek's style.
We need it
The most satisfying noise I've ever heard was when the energy shield regenerates
And PTSD hit when the shield empty sound show up.
117 likes nobody ruin it!
Am I the only one who played halo 4, on the x box 360
@Luca Kasaboski Halo 5 I could understand but what's 4 done to you
I'd like to mention a specific thing in just Silent Cartographer. The level does a perfect job sounding and feeling like it's taking place during summer. You can hear bugs buzzing, birds chirping, the breeze blowing, the ocean waves rolling, and see the sunlight bathing everything in a warm light. Even when there's nothing happening, it feels so alive and I swear I can actually feel the wind and sun beating down. Then, whenever you enter a forerunner structure there, you can hear the outside for a bit until you're completely inside, and it becomes eerily quiet. This is another instance where I swear can feel exactly what the temperature itself might be, with forerunner interiors maybe feeling air conditioned and very comfortable, but the air itself is abnormally still. Halo is a god damn masterclass in creating environments, you'd be hard pressed to find even AAA games with state-of-the-art photorealistic graphics actually nail the fucking _feeling_ of realism.
i think that forerunner structures are cold and ventilated. but the outside is warm and i mean comfortable warm.
YeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEES DUDE. Any time I'm in the Forerunner structures like in Silent Cartographer and Assault on the Control Room I can almost feel the empty cold of a room filled with metal and technology.
You have Marty O'Donnell to thank for that sublime sound design
I got the pleasure of guiding a good friend through his first time playing Halo CE today. He had basically zero spoilers, he didn't even know Spartans were from Halo, but he came in with an appreciation for old games and left with an amazing experience.
did he know about the flood
That’s amazing
"So you wouldn't use a grenade on a grunt"
The guy playing the halo infinite demo: I'm gonna pretend I didnt see that
The thing is that I totally would use a frag grenade on a Grunt if there are like two or three of them clustered up. Less guns shooting at me while I can fully focus on the bigger threat after throwing the grenade. Or if I know the grenade will off a Grunt/Jackal and soften up an Elite.
Fuck I love Halo I'm gonna go play some Firefight.
And then a few seconds later he says "but you do want to, because they run into their friends."
@@sirjoey3137 Nah, that's for a plasma grenade. The person playing the demo was using a frag.
There's nothing more fun than tossing a grenade between a group of grunts.
@@Manas_Choudhary Damn right
I really like your animation style, it's expressive, goofy and simplistic. Not to mention the script was good enough im not sure there even was a script. Also you sound very enthustiastic and it seems to me that you really care about the subject matter. Good job man, very epic.
Yup, I agree
True
Just gotta say, that transition to a promotion was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Yeah its basically sequalitis
I love how you didn't spoil the 2 other factions in a game that is NEARLY AS OLD AS I AM.
Ok zoomer.
@@GamePath ok boomer.
I appreciate that cuz u never know who hasn't played it yet. Cuz I am a huge halo fan myself but i still have a lot of lore to learn and halo to replay
@@matthewcaines9176 Read the books, thats a lot of lore to read :D and there are good
I just got to say, I love your animation style. You get even the small details perfectly, the timing and small motions capture everything perfectly. I first noticed it in your video on Need for Speed. Thanks for the time and effort you put in
“So it’s 2001. A really... cool year. Where nothing bad happened.”
Me: a 25 year old man who it took longer than it should have to realize what he was talking about 💀💀
Ohhhhhhhh...
Ohhh thats what i forgot about 2001
Eddie Murphy voiced a donkey
@@bluetonian7632 like you're supposed to *never forget*
9 out of 11 people remember this
In my high school coding class, one of the guys had managed to get the demo for Halo on all the computers. So every day, me and one other guy would type up the work, then copy paste it and send it to everyone else so they could say they’d finished it. Then we’d spend the rest of the day playing Halo.
Rie Ta LMAO, thanks man. I don’t know if I’d say that helping dudes skip class work to play the Halo demo’s multiplayer “enriching their lives,” but your kindness is much appreciated. Thank you, dude!
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I had a friend who did the exact same thing. The best part was our teacher really didn't care as long as we got our coding work turned in at the deadline.
I even brought in an xbox controller so I could play it better xD
This sounds familiar to me?
Tbh I think Halo: CE still has aged pretty well... It's one of the old games where I don't get a headache just because it looks so bad, it's a game I still can play for hours!
It's a similar situation with Half Life for me, it's just so fun the graphics don't really matter that much at all. I would say half life 2 as well but the graphics in that game still hold up pretty well if I'm being honest
You can't play some games based off of the graphics?
@@lizardlegend42 the graphics aged well cuz they look cartoony
@@rabidredpanda2888 Definitely.
But much of that is also to do with poor upscaling and using different technologies for screens.
The N64 looks notoriously poor on a modern TV because of the conversion between analogue and digital.
Eitherway, games like Tomb Raider (the original of course) and 007 Goldeneye are unplayable for me in this day and age. The games look so incredibly grainy and especially for GoldenEye which is riddled with framerate issues.
The cool thing is, it arguably has better graphics then gta San Andreas, a game that came out 3 years later, just to think bungie’s engine could run it back then is astounding
I just bought Halo: MCC and I got so used to Destiny's adrenaline type fight scenes that I kept rushing inside enemy lines and died. The moment i got a shot gun in Reach and an elite charging at me made me actually remember that Halo had a lot of depth inside its combat that's why me and my brother usually had call outs when we were kids and even rationed ammo. This video is one big coincidence!
Have you found a way to permanently enable the classic music in CE? Until now I've only found it for individual missions, and it doesn't get saved
@@Cyliandre441 That may be a bug, report it on 343's bug tracker
Not even kidding I did the same thing with Destiny and Halo
Definitely not nostalgia. I played the entirety of Master Chief Collection a few months ago for the first time, and found Halo CE to be one of the best designed games I have ever played. Maybe it isn't my favorite game of all time, but I can tell why so many people say it is, and we need more games as tightly designed as this.
MCC version of CE is kind of busted, too. If you ever get the chance, play the OG on real hardware. There's a huge rabbit hole you can go down for how busted the MCC version is.
@@kanaka118446 what are some of its problems?
@@i_likemen5614 the MCC version of the game is based on the gearbox port which had tons of missing effects & graphical issues compared to the Xbox version though after a recent update a lot of those problems have been fixed & the same goes for halo 2 which is based on the Vista port & recently got tons of stuff fixed
@@tired9769 I don't think graphics matters anymore for a 20 year old game. What's outstanding about Halo: CE is that it's level design still holds up today and still feels like a modern shooter.
Yea not nostalgia, i played it in june of this year and it is fantastic (og graphics over anniversary fight me)
I will understand the people that think this game is ugly
The game's use of sheer contrast and pitch blackness is absolutely . I can't remember the last time I've played a game that actually leveraged the bottom 25% of available display brightness so effectively and so often.
It looks dated, it's certainly "old CGI", but I can say the words "Forerunner Architecture" and anyone who has played any halo game will instantly know exactly what I am talking about. this game's art direction is and even just watching this video I found myself feeling chills. And I don't even have any nostalgia for this game! I played through it (and the rest of the series) for the first time in 2021 with my boyfriend! we were both absolutely shocked at how sophisticated the AI was especially on legendary and had an absolute blast despite dying like 43 times per level
me: **starts downloading halo mcc**
youtube, 10 minutes later while I'm bored: hey here's a video about halo, good choice of game btw ;)
also, on a not stupid joke point, halo was the first game I ever played, and I think about and silently thank it every day for affecting my life in such a huge way. I'm studying game art at uni because of this beautiful game ffs!
That's awesome. For me, Halo was one of the few positive things that motivated me to do better.
I had a similar start, before that I played super Mario island on the gameboy advanced.
Then my cousin introduced me to halo 2, instantly got hooked and later began to get interested heavily in the story.
It's such an expansive game and I love going back to older games to see how much was actually tied together.
The continuation was real and beloved
Spoiler. Most of the time you play halo while playing halo. Good Luck!
“I don’t think CE’s multiplayer aged well.” My entire business management class would disagree lmao
It aged super well, but you either have to play super casual modes, or have some amount of competitive knowledge (timers, spawns, etc) and play only 2v2s because that's the only way the map spawns work reliably. Everything else is a massive cluster.
It's pretty broken, but damn it's probably the most fun Halo multiplayer and I am prepared to die on that hill
eh i have mixed feelings about it its simple but that simplicity makes it grueling
Playing 8 v 8 maps, on the Remaster, some of those maps fucking suck, grenade spam hell. But damn, was it straightforward, yet intricate. It aged like wine, thus its not everybody's cup of tea.
Bro halo ce multiplayer is my favourite multiplayer
I despise people who complain about Halo CE's graphics. It is literally 20 years old!!! And also, a game doesn't have to have amazing graphics to be fun.
Honestly I prefer the classic look compared to anniversary.
Yeah. But I never will play The Library on the old graphics. It’s way easier to get turned around.
Maldus Alver I feel the old graphics conveyed the theme and atmosphere it was trying to show while anniversary just tried to look pretty, hence- the flood levels. Over all I like both though
I entirely agree with you. According to me, the storyline of a game is what matters.
Dovah but it was amazing at its time. For a console for sure!
This is one of the few videos that actually manages to almost concretely identify all the little details that forms an overall intangible feeling of greatness this game - and others in the series - has.
"Ooh! I get his gun!"
That was great. The voice lines of these enemies makes them so much better
Agreed. The little moments of levity when the game isn't afraid to not take itself seriously really makes the somber moments pop.
For those of you who somehow don’t know, Halo has “The Master Chief Collection” which has Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, 4, and Reach. Only mainline game you’d have to get is 5. They’re on XBox and Pc if I remember right
Currently, 343i is working on releasing Halo 3: ODST to the MCC as a full port, with Reach, CE, 2, and 3 already being successfully released on the newly refined Halo: MCC...
C O R R E C T !
They're being periodically released on PC, as of right now we have Reach, CE, 2, and 3.
I would bet 100 dollars that Halo 5 will be on PC too before the release of Halo Infinite
@@croacx that's unlikely
As a kid, I found the grunts too cute to kill and would regularly just run past them after mashing the local Elite's face with my rifle.
Not gonna lie I still do that
*Look Out for the Little Guys achievement intensifies*
As a kid, I killed them with extreme prejudice, and gave them a few postmortem whacks to make sure they were dead.
@@magisterrleth3129 same , but is also t-bagged those little rascals
Bro same, except for me, I read up on the lore of the Grunts and felt sad (read up on it it’s really interesting) So I didn’t kill them and just walked away. Lmao
I watch this video just about once every 2 months. I keep coming back to it, not only because it's a greatly entertaining video, but also because of the pure enthusiasm that comes from Noodle here. With each subject, I can just tell how much he cares, and it just makes me want to care as much. This is even more apparent after watch the other Halo videos and the interview with Martin. Thank you Noodle, for sharing your heart here. 🧡
I love how our childhoods were made from others suffering
Pvt Jenkins, Capt keyes, the guy in 343 guilty spark, etc yea I agree XD
@@TheThugPug Jenkins😂 ahhhh... I remember that mission
@@TheThugPug oh I thought he was talking about the housing crisis lol
*DAMNIT JENKINS FIRE YOUR WEAPON*
Friends don’t let friends sticky grenade their friends, friend.
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The reveal for the 3rd faction was done beautifully and the feeling will never be redone
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I think it was the most insane thing a shooter has ever done, because the reveal wasnt just accompanied by a major plot twist(halos original purpose) but also it changed the genre from happy funny colorfull shooty shooty to straight up horror. Sure for todays standarts its not even close to horror but at the time, that was terrifying. If the line between scary shooter and straight up horror game wasnt crossed, it was at least being looked at really really mean. I always wanted a game which is advertised and starts off as a call of duty style modern military shooter and out of nowhere midway through pulls out aliens or something and halo is the closest to ever doing that. (i purely want such a game because it would TRUELY be a plottwist, usually when they build up aliens or zombies in the first mission you know whats comming because...you know... Advertising... Branding... The entire box art... Etc. Like when you play deadspace and they build up the fact that there is something on the ship. Cool narrative but are you really surprised? Nah man you came for that shit. Not in halo. You did NOT buy the game for what you see in the 3rd act
@@MrMegaMetroid man 343 is missing a great oprotunity to make a horror game with the flood like it can be do
TeensierKitty42 they’ve stated spin offs will come after Infinite so try and stay positive about that possibility
Then a 4th faction was also revealed, and now we have a war within a epic war.
can anyone please tell me the 3rd and 4th faction, i may not have been that much of halo fan since halo 3 was the only one I touched, regardless I love the lore so much, i think its one of the most detailed and amazing sci fi narrative ever to be created. so yeah, please tell me.
The halo tv show is a war crime
Fun tidbit, Medal of honor included a copy of halo's control scheme and called the layout "hail to the Chief" in honor of Halo and it's accomplishments.
Interesting, but Halo did not invent the two-stick shooter control scheme. I'm not sure what game did it first, but Timesplitters was using it a full year before Halo.
@@danielshults5243it was the aliens shooter in the playstation 1
"If music makes you feel, then sound makes it real." Holy crap, Marty is a musical genius!
Still pissed about the fact that Microsoft and 343 haven't contacted Marty for Halo Infinite related shit.
@@malif1279 You do realize that Marty is the one who declined working on future Halo titles, not the other way around, right?
Marty wanted to work on different projects - he didn't want to be stuck on one franchise. Why be angry? You can't force a man to stay in one place
@@Miles300s No he wants to work on Halo. Look at his interviews.
@@sajjior8401 no he doesn't so dont chat shit, he literally said in most interviews that hes working on a new game and has no interest in the new halo games
@@Ibrahim-wr5fs chill out.
Didnt need to be so crude about it.
Don’t mind me, just admiring the lil’ ghost plush in the back
Same
We all are.
Hornet in the background: SHAAA
Git gud -hornet
Isn't that the Hollow Knight?
8:10 minor nitpick that someone's probably already addressed, but Halo was *not* the first game to use the right stick for aiming. Alien: Resurrection did it a year earlier, and reviewers H A T E D it.
The fact that some people haven’t played halo is a genuine anomaly.
Not everyone has had an Xbox or a friend with one
Nay! It is heresy!
Gotta play the game up to halo 3 recently thanks to MCC on pc
Ponies won’t touch it
I played it a week or so ago with MCC.
this man actually made me check out halo, thank you noodle
Did you play it yet?
@@jackcolson4745 If he hasn't he friggin should
@@Goldenguy330 agreed
@Dom The Wierdo do you like it?
Play it!
Just finished playing halo 1 a month ago as I am playing through every halo game. That shit is *class,* my dear people. It’s just amazing, to put it simply.
Noice! 👌
After two and a half years I finally got my hands on the game.
After another year I finally got my hands on the game (again) and finally finished it.
All because of this video (i wanted to watch it real bad but was afraid of spoilers). Thank you Noodle for this recommendation.
(It is now 4 AM i beat it from start to finish i have work tomorrow help me)
I would rather kiss a grunt from Halo: CE with original graphics,
than a grunt from Halo 4. Seriously the grunts in Halo 4 look ugly.
food nipple
Every enemy in Halo 4 looks like they were grown in a tube.
Everything from halo 5 looks like it was grown in a tube, for that matter.
Bungie grunts were cute, 343 just defiled bungie's work
That might be, because they aren’t wearing their little masks.
I'd prefer it if these new designs for the enemies didn't replace the old designs, but rather were a different race of the same species. They all look like they'd be better suited as heavy units, slave labor, and anything involving heavy lifting.
Alright- time for me to make a video like this for Half Life 2
Finally
You can do it comrade
This is the flipnote guy
Wow!
Its the dude with the sonic hair!
Nah jk, you have been one of, if not, the biggest influence on what artstyle and animation style I want to use for my pre-nintendo work.
It took me a while to realize he was ONLY comparing Halo to other console shooters... my brain kept listing a ton of games that do what he's claiming only Halo does... then I was like OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH...
Yeah, try Half Life, F.E.A.R., some of the Sniper Elite games, heck, even the OG Quake 1 & 2 had many of these features. CoD 1 was even great.
AAA franchise console shooters aren't the only games out there.
It's like when people worship GoldenEye.... they clearly weren't PC FPS enthusiasts at the time. Halo and GE are great... for console shooters. And that's great! But that's a very vital distinction.
The soundtrack still hits hard 20 years later. Halo 1-3 are classics.
personally I think halo 2 has the best ost😩
Linkedius you are objectively correct
I am incredibly partial to the Halo: ODST soundtrack. It’s like Halo: Jazz.
4 and 5 are mediocre, but they are still fine...plus, infinite looks amazing
I am a fan of 3
is that the fucking item pickup noise from star wars jedi knight 0:20
what the fuck i love you now
This game's tension is still unmatched, how have so many shooters gone backwards?
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What about doom? No one is talking about doom. I like doom ;(
@@jaffa7752 dont worry dude i think it is more of an unspoken thing, everyone thinks doom is cool :) (I think its the fact that halo truly brought pc like fps gameplay to console, thats what truly sold the formula) I do prefer halo over modern doom, but doom in general is equal to halo in my heart
I mean modern warfare was pretty tense
@@reaperandgrim Actually, yeah, Modern Warfare 2019 was surprisingly full of depth for a CoD campaign, there were so many moments of actual pressure and tension that didn't feel forced at all
hi noodle haha! :)
go back to your hole
Lmao
@Noodle what
@@noodlefunny pfffff
@@noodlefunny :(
"I don't like the tank"
Well, we can't all be right.
Tank beats everything!
I like the tank in every Halo game but god in CE is fucking trash. No accuracy at all.
JA RC ...just like real life....
@@syncshard Ah yes my favourite argument, the tank in the far future sci fi setting's tech needs to be realistic to modern standards. Not sure snipers should fire so straight cause I've never seen an arrow fly near as straight as a sniper shot.
@@angelBD2 *Attempts to take out enemy team at long range, hits everyone but the enemies.*
This is a game I can just watch someone play through the campaign. It’s so satisfying
I just paused an Internet historian video for this,
, _you made it worth my time_
Jesus Christ that hot wheels game with the orange car brought back so many memories it hurts
I fucking know right? That was the shit!
I am so glad I warched the video so I knew what you were talking aboyt
I FOUND IT but its not supported on Flash anymore :(
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