She was actually based visually off of one of the lead scientists on the Spartan program. Every AI is custom designed, which is why you see some that look like ancient greek gods or some like WW2 fighter pilots.
Dash Lambda The way AIs are made in Halo world, is - they send special electric signal through brain of somebody who just died, most probably somebody specifically cloned for this reason, but sometimes ĵust some random unfortunate bloke, and then have AI of this person in the output. So that's why these AIs look like persons
KOTYAR0 Yes. I know that. In fact, I briefly explained how Cortana was made. They do choose their own form, though, rather than just ending up with one.
I love how Ashens always says: "You need the strength of a hundred men..." before he snaps a mega block piece in. Implying, of course, that he has the strength of a hundred men. Which he does. Hundred-Men Ashens!
i agree ,the arm links have been improved quite substantialy , now looking less like axles AND allowing more movement, ashens, i think you might acttually like the newer ones. well, at least enough not to burn them XD
I really do love the fact that, when you do the deed, and burn the figure, the camera assumes it as the main light source, so everything else around goes dark.
Being a huge halo fan, I actually felt afraid he would burn some of these figures. Then he just burned the pilot, and I was fine. But it was odd, because I'd laugh at someone who posted this same thing if it was about anything aside from halo. I guess I really am just a normal human. Ah well, off to read my Halo books collection for the fourth time this week.
TheAlbinoDude Admittedly Reach did give us the... Gah, how is it spelled? Tvaon? The new race of Kig Yar. Though in doing so it did sort of mess with Fall of Reach's plot.
TheAlbinoDude Exactly. They could have explained it, if a bit stupidly, by simply saying that the main characters of Reach were some sort of secret special team, but no. They're just fake. Still, the T'vaons.
I once bought one of those Mega Blocks Halo blind bags. I got a holographic figure which had two right legs. I guess it would wear flop-flops to the beach.
I got a translucent Arbiter that was completely fine. Smelled funny thou, but that was because he had been sitting in that weird smellinh, unopened blind bag for about a year. First and only bag too!
HarlemHusky Nah it's fine. No hate from me, basically The Library is the most tedious level in all of video game history, you follow a floating orb robot around while fighting off zombies basically. For around 25-30 minutes, on Normal. Harder difficulties can take upwards of an hour to beat.
Cortana's appearance is explained in canon as follows: AI choose their appearance, they aren't chosen for them. In this case, Cortana was patterned off of the cloned brain of Dr. Catherine Halsey, and in fact shares the same voice actress. Practically, I imagine it was to make a likeable partner in the original game, and the devs got a little carried away with the appearance.
Steps to make a flood action figure. 1.get a crap mega blocks figure 2.get a blowtorch and burn the heck out of it. I wonder if that's what they really do?
I don't know why, but I can't get enough of these blind bag videos. I used to avoid them but something clicked in me and I went back and watched all of them at once. Needless to say I'm ecstatic to see a deluge of blind bag videos these past few days...
***** It's baby's first RTS, extremely basic and suffers from all the problems that most RTS games have. It wasn't terrible but nothing special either, which is why everyone forgot it even exists. It was nothing but an attempt to milk the halo franchise for what it's worth. Also, your name is stupid
***** If you want good RTS, play Starcraft 2, Company of Heroes or the Command & Conquer series. On PC of course. You'll soon forget about Halo Wars, it bleaks in comparison and doesn't even deserve to stand in the shadows of these games.
Serana Considering off the top of my head I can name only about 5 RTS series' I actually enjoyed Halo Wars even if it was 'babies first RTS'. It was a competent one. I've played Wargame (By far my favorite), Command and conquer (Generals, Red Alert 3, Tiberium Wars 3 and 4. And the standalones for each except 4.), Some of Company of Heroes, Universe at war, and I think that's about it. Oh and that shitty grey goo one.
XboxOne Universe Compare it to some of the other strategy games, Command and Conquer, and Total War. Now how does it look? Horrible? Yeah, that's the answer we were looking for.
I like the Mega Bloks figure designs. The articulation and detail adds to the immersion in my opinion and the fact that you get more for your money on the larger sets, piece and detail wise, compared to LEGO makes Mega Bloks one of my favourite construction brands today.
Halo Wars is mediocre at best. The only thing that will carry it for you is the fact that it's Halo. Otherwise, if you wanted a good RTS, you're shit outta luck.
The new Mega Bloks Call of Duty series figures and sets are actually quite nice, everything is a little more modular... I think Ashens might like those a bit...
I do like mega-bloks. I've got a few of the world of warcraft ones. They also overcome the funny arm connector bit by having big shoulder armor that covers it. Good stuff :)
That;s one of the things I like about Mass Effect: E.D. Is just a generic spherical A.I. instead of a silly naked lady.... AND THEN MASS EFFECT 3 HAPPENED. THE END
I collect the Mega Blocks series of Hello Kitty figures and sets, I completely sympathize with the pain you feel. I don't mind that they aren't as good as Lego, it makes it easier to keep the sets separate from one another.
The most popular mods for pretty much any RPG these days are nude mods and skimpy armour. When given the ability to create some sort of artificial human, programmers leap at the chance to make sex dolls. While you'd expect the space military to keep a tighter reign on their programmers, it's not far fetched at all that an AI unit would be designed to look like a naked chick.
To a point. Cortana is made with DNA or brain matter from a scientist, thus her looks are based on her. Why she's naked... idk. A lot of the AI's choose their own appearance, not all AI's in the Halo universe are naked like Cortana. /endNerd
This range of blind bags is still going in 2017, but Mega Bloks have reorganised their products. Those aimed at young children are branded Mega Bloks whilst those aimed at older children and adult collectors, such as the Halo range, are branded Mega Construx.
i got in my first serious car accident today on my way home from overnights at walmart and am paying 2000$ while i just payed my tuition for school last week and before i went to bed i watched this this made my day a lot bright thank you so much
Thank you,for that bit about Cortona. I thought I was the only only one who was bugged by the naked woman as a computer trope. Glad to see I am not the only one who's brain's logic center was upset by this.
There are an actual fuck ton of AI in universe we just don't see a lot of them. Cortana and Roland are the 2 more well known ones at the moment but the superintendent of new Mombasa (if you pay attention in Halo 3: ODST) is also an AI. I also probably missed some.
What you have to remember about these figurines linking them to the halo series is that yes there were many sets of armour to select from but only certain ones occurred on a regular basis during gameplay so they would be tempted to select one of those to create and sell for recognizability to customers other than having a variety of unpopular armour sets so I'd say they did a brilliant job with the megablocks halo figurines :D
I remember reading from the novels that the AIs choose their own appearance thus this naked woman image is not designed by anyone but picked by Cortana 'her'self.
I actually enjoyed Halo Wars, it pretty much held the lore of Halo compared to other games in the series. As a fan I can say that you should give it a second try, if you actually like strategy games at all.
The problem with halo wars is that the 'strategy' part fell under 'zerg wars' like most strategy games do. There are few games where 'zerg wars' isn't an effective tactic and those games tend to be marked as great games.
The ads get more and more outrageous it seems. What I "like" the most is they make you sit through ads to watch trailers for games, movies etc. They're basically the same bloody thing!
The Library was most definitely not too long and dull. You are obbjectively wrong. It was fucking epic! And the Flood has been an epic part of the series ever since.
I love it how in the "series 5" booklet there are color codes for "common, rare, ultra-rare" -yet someone obviously forgot to add the corresponding colors under the figure pictures and they're all just white hexagons.
Wow, that's disappointing. I bought a few Megablocks Halo sets many years ago, and the ones I got were higher quality then this, with painted weapons that weren't just solid chunks. I believe I got a human pilot, and a cool bigass plane-thing I never finished, that came with two well-detailed Jackals with weapons. In another set, two humans (All of which are in the armor suits, by the way), a 4x4, and a turret with those "Elite" enemy types - This seems so far from the quality I got, is something going down with Megabloks? EDIT: Actually, that set I just mentioned was the one he was showing at the end of the video
'Grunty men in metal suits'
Ashens's view of Halo
Probably his view of Gears of War as well
Probably his view of destiny as well
+The almighty Space jesus and warhammer 40k astartes
I mean it does just sound like homosexuals having sex grunting
Master "Chef", he'll kill the "Convenient" with his culinary skills.
Good god, another Zero Punctuation fan. They have really similar styles... it's almost as if THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON *DUN DUN DUN*
MoronicChunk1 that's me
Ok now i wanna see a duell between the master Chef and Chef excellence
+Sarmin He needs to be put in Iron Chef.
duel* it’s been 6 years, how are you man?
@@zincbakwarrior9844it’s been 2 years, how are you man?
dont remember this at all, but im doing brilliantly thanks, and yourself?
@@Satire_Filmz
@@Satire_Filmz it's been 2 weeks, how are you man?
Cortana chose her own form...
I guess she just wasn't particularly very modest.
She was actually based visually off of one of the lead scientists on the Spartan program. Every AI is custom designed, which is why you see some that look like ancient greek gods or some like WW2 fighter pilots.
Akeche
Her AI network was constructed from a scan of Dr. Halsey's brain, per the lore, so she's also got Halsey's attitude.
Dash Lambda The way AIs are made in Halo world, is - they send special electric signal through brain of somebody who just died, most probably somebody specifically cloned for this reason, but sometimes ĵust some random unfortunate bloke, and then have AI of this person in the output. So that's why these AIs look like persons
KOTYAR0
Yes. I know that.
In fact, I briefly explained how Cortana was made.
They do choose their own form, though, rather than just ending up with one.
Dash Lambda Ah, sorry man, I haven't noticed, what you already replied, sorry
I love how Ashens always says: "You need the strength of a hundred men..." before he snaps a mega block piece in. Implying, of course, that he has the strength of a hundred men. Which he does. Hundred-Men Ashens!
He is a god amongst men
Yeah, back then, Mega Bloks was pretty horrible. Recently, though, they've really stepped up their quality.
agreed
Frankly, they're pretty great.
i agree ,the arm links have been improved quite substantialy , now looking less like axles AND allowing more movement, ashens, i think you might acttually like the newer ones. well, at least enough not to burn them XD
yeah
Zephyrinfinity yup
I really do love the fact that, when you do the deed, and burn the figure, the camera assumes it as the main light source, so everything else around goes dark.
Being a huge halo fan, I actually felt afraid he would burn some of these figures. Then he just burned the pilot, and I was fine. But it was odd, because I'd laugh at someone who posted this same thing if it was about anything aside from halo.
I guess I really am just a normal human.
Ah well, off to read my Halo books collection for the fourth time this week.
***** I agree somewhat. They've broken quite a bit, and I'm not quite trusting 343 yet.
Halo Reach was alright, I didn't really like 4 a lot though.
TheAlbinoDude Admittedly Reach did give us the... Gah, how is it spelled? Tvaon? The new race of Kig Yar. Though in doing so it did sort of mess with Fall of Reach's plot.
ThatZommy Yeah it did. Even though Bungie said the books were canon, they went along and messed it up in the game.
TheAlbinoDude Exactly. They could have explained it, if a bit stupidly, by simply saying that the main characters of Reach were some sort of secret special team, but no. They're just fake.
Still, the T'vaons.
"Computers do not need toenails" is the best Ashens quote ever!
I once bought one of those Mega Blocks Halo blind bags. I got a holographic figure which had two right legs.
I guess it would wear flop-flops to the beach.
u cheeki beeki
I got a white Spartan who had the same problem.
Except it was a right THIGH. Not the leg.
I got a translucent Arbiter that was completely fine. Smelled funny thou, but that was because he had been sitting in that weird smellinh, unopened blind bag for about a year. First and only bag too!
I got that odst
I also got a harambe brute
I swear when he called the Brute a gorilla or gorilla bloke i was laughing so hard😂😂😂
Amazing how much better they've gotten since then.
Oh god.. Even the name of that level... The Library... Brings back horrible, horrible memories...
+The General I had to keep telling the flood to be quiet. Noisy bastards, no respect.
+The General i died like 20 times
I never played Halo, so I don't know what you're talking about.
*awaits the hate*
HarlemHusky Nah it's fine. No hate from me, basically The Library is the most tedious level in all of video game history, you follow a floating orb robot around while fighting off zombies basically. For around 25-30 minutes, on Normal. Harder difficulties can take upwards of an hour to beat.
The General
PLESE NO GOD NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLESE DONT REMIND ME
I love how the wooden plank has survived more fires than the several figurines and such that he has lit on fire and watched melt.
I thought people liked Halo Wars.
+SolidSonicTH they do its fucking great btw new one in 2017
+SolidSonicTH A lot of people do that was just ashens opinion
+SolidSonicTH i do
It was hit and miss with people.
idk they are making a second one. and who wouldnt like halo wars its so fun online
Cortana's appearance is explained in canon as follows: AI choose their appearance, they aren't chosen for them. In this case, Cortana was patterned off of the cloned brain of Dr. Catherine Halsey, and in fact shares the same voice actress.
Practically, I imagine it was to make a likeable partner in the original game, and the devs got a little carried away with the appearance.
Steps to make a flood action figure.
1.get a crap mega blocks figure
2.get a blowtorch and burn the heck out of it.
I wonder if that's what they really do?
I don't know why, but I can't get enough of these blind bag videos. I used to avoid them but something clicked in me and I went back and watched all of them at once. Needless to say I'm ecstatic to see a deluge of blind bag videos these past few days...
The pilot has entered the atmosphere
"Insert croutons from a distance" fucking killed me lmao
HEY! Halo Wars RTS was awesome!
Yeah, except that it wasn't
***** It's baby's first RTS, extremely basic and suffers from all the problems that most RTS games have. It wasn't terrible but nothing special either, which is why everyone forgot it even exists. It was nothing but an attempt to milk the halo franchise for what it's worth. Also, your name is stupid
***** If you want good RTS, play Starcraft 2, Company of Heroes or the Command & Conquer series. On PC of course. You'll soon forget about Halo Wars, it bleaks in comparison and doesn't even deserve to stand in the shadows of these games.
Serana Considering off the top of my head I can name only about 5 RTS series' I actually enjoyed Halo Wars even if it was 'babies first RTS'. It was a competent one. I've played Wargame (By far my favorite), Command and conquer (Generals, Red Alert 3, Tiberium Wars 3 and 4. And the standalones for each except 4.), Some of Company of Heroes, Universe at war, and I think that's about it. Oh and that shitty grey goo one.
XboxOne Universe Compare it to some of the other strategy games, Command and Conquer, and Total War. Now how does it look? Horrible? Yeah, that's the answer we were looking for.
I like the Mega Bloks figure designs. The articulation and detail adds to the immersion in my opinion and the fact that you get more for your money on the larger sets, piece and detail wise, compared to LEGO makes Mega Bloks one of my favourite construction brands today.
Master Chef, lol.
during the slow mo segment it brought a tear to my eye cause of the beauty and magisty of the buring figure with the music
Well I think you could just say if anyone asks, the pilot came in a little hot.
Oh, now that's just cold!
Icy Aardvark I hope this doesn't take off into a pun thread!
R0llR0undInTheT0ilet It didn't. Grats.
Oh my god I think I just about died when you burned that pilot.
Literally, I should not have laughed as hard as I did
...I liked Halo Wars :'C
Same here. Only Halo game I actually wanted to play, and did. Should've been on PC though, not Xbox.
Yeah same here.
I thought I was the only one
There was bound to be one person on Earth that did.
Halo Wars is mediocre at best. The only thing that will carry it for you is the fact that it's Halo. Otherwise, if you wanted a good RTS, you're shit outta luck.
I remember going to blockbuster and buying a lot of those blindbags, it was really fun, and I really love them
The new Mega Bloks Call of Duty series figures and sets are actually quite nice, everything is a little more modular... I think Ashens might like those a bit...
The way he opens packets is so... satisfying
Just to let you know the AI from halo chose their own form. It says in the books
Mekinar ITS CORTANA
Mekinar ITS CORTANA
xXOmegaXx there is more than one A.I
+AnonymousMe115 You do realise he's referring to all of the AI's right?
+Jake Darling I was replying to Omega who was specifically saying that it was cortana.
I do like mega-bloks. I've got a few of the world of warcraft ones. They also overcome the funny arm connector bit by having big shoulder armor that covers it. Good stuff :)
That;s one of the things I like about Mass Effect: E.D. Is just a generic spherical A.I. instead of a silly naked lady....
AND THEN MASS EFFECT 3 HAPPENED.
THE END
that slo mo reminds me of an 80s home christams morning videos and i don't know why
master chef aint got shit on chef excellence
I collect the Mega Blocks series of Hello Kitty figures and sets, I completely sympathize with the pain you feel. I don't mind that they aren't as good as Lego, it makes it easier to keep the sets separate from one another.
The most popular mods for pretty much any RPG these days are nude mods and skimpy armour. When given the ability to create some sort of artificial human, programmers leap at the chance to make sex dolls. While you'd expect the space military to keep a tighter reign on their programmers, it's not far fetched at all that an AI unit would be designed to look like a naked chick.
To a point. Cortana is made with DNA or brain matter from a scientist, thus her looks are based on her. Why she's naked... idk. A lot of the AI's choose their own appearance, not all AI's in the Halo universe are naked like Cortana. /endNerd
This range of blind bags is still going in 2017, but Mega Bloks have reorganised their products. Those aimed at young children are branded Mega Bloks whilst those aimed at older children and adult collectors, such as the Halo range, are branded Mega Construx.
You should give a chance to the new súper articulated megabloks figures system
Ohhhh new slow-mo camera feature! I quite like this, we'll finally be able to watch crappy figurines burn in all their splendor.
Man, I never got the Master Chef in those blind bags!
i got in my first serious car accident today on my way home from overnights at walmart and am paying 2000$ while i just payed my tuition for school last week and before i went to bed i watched this this made my day a lot bright thank you so much
I come from the future to say that Cortana is SIRI of Windows 10
I know m8
+Ethan L still think that?
+Meme Source yeah, but she's also a filthy spy machine.
Ok, Siri probably is too, and Microsoft is just more up front about it
I think we need a grunt next...
Halo is my all-time favorite game of all time
Thank you,for that bit about Cortona. I thought I was the only only one who was bugged by the naked woman as a computer trope. Glad to see I am not the only one who's brain's logic center was upset by this.
Master Chef, he cooks great food and doesn't afraid of anything.
Actually there isn't only Cortana. There's Roland. Who wears a pilot cap for some reason......
robama was one too I think
+big pumkin head ass “Neckass” jim Is that a robot Obama?
There are an actual fuck ton of AI in universe we just don't see a lot of them. Cortana and Roland are the 2 more well known ones at the moment but the superintendent of new Mombasa (if you pay attention in Halo 3: ODST) is also an AI. I also probably missed some.
What you have to remember about these figurines linking them to the halo series is that yes there were many sets of armour to select from but only certain ones occurred on a regular basis during gameplay so they would be tempted to select one of those to create and sell for recognizability to customers other than having a variety of unpopular armour sets so I'd say they did a brilliant job with the megablocks halo figurines :D
That pink one isn't female, that's Doughnut from RvB
Also it is not pink. It is lightish red.
Although I am a Halo fan, the burning of the UNSC pilot into a Flood combat form to me its actually kinda innovative XD
why is a 16+ game made into mega blcoks for 5 year olds?
An excelent comment
"Collectables"
Probably because no one really cares about ratings, and rightfully so
Master Chef? Lol that made me think of playing through the campaigns but with Gordon Ramsey as the voice of Chief...
I will laugh my face off if he gets more than one Robocop ripoff...
-= 2 Minutes Later =-
*laughing uncontrollably*
Ah, great to see the infamous "Keyboard Warrior", defending all that is just and fair. Good job
It's not pink, it's lightish red. Gosh.
Because of Ashens videos i started to look for the sad onion with every thing i hold in my hands at the store
Master Chief (From AatC): IM 2 SEXAH 2 BURN LOLOLOLLOOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOL
...Wait- WHY DID I JUST TALK LIKE THAT?!!
I remember reading from the novels that the AIs choose their own appearance thus this naked woman image is not designed by anyone but picked by Cortana 'her'self.
"The Library was very long and dull."
Your bad taste is showing, mate.
Dum dum du dum
"I think I just made my own flood action figure" Lol xD
I just realized windows 10 Cortana - halo & Microsoft, - cortona. Pitty on you Microsoft. Self promotion. Lol
Your intros always crack me up, ashens, you bloody legend, you!
I actually enjoyed Halo Wars, it pretty much held the lore of Halo compared to other games in the series. As a fan I can say that you should give it a second try, if you actually like strategy games at all.
The problem with halo wars is that the 'strategy' part fell under 'zerg wars' like most strategy games do. There are few games where 'zerg wars' isn't an effective tactic and those games tend to be marked as great games.
Mega Bloks/Construx have really improved their figures now
Halo fanboys are gonna start raging
Ya got that right, anyways, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE how dare he burn that figure!?!🤣seriously tho I wanted it😡
Something I never understood, at the end of Halo 3 the Elites signed a peace treaty with earth, so why are they back as enemies in Halo 4?
4:24 am spoderman
XD I never knew that comedy could be "charming"
Ah Halo, the beginning of the mediocre, linear FPS generation.
Nah, that would probably come from COD 4...
No no....That was Call Of Duty!
Jordan 'Dingus'Jones COD 2 was pretty good
Kharneth Korn I still play CoD 2 on PC, best CoD IMO :)
Nah, games like that existed before Halo, on both consoles & PC. What Halo popularized was the slow-paced non-tactical shooter.
about your humor that made me not care u have earned another sub
Mega Bloks are horrible. I hated when distant family members would get me Mega Bloks for Christmas...
lol I got spiderman shit until I was 11
The ads get more and more outrageous it seems. What I "like" the most is they make you sit through ads to watch trailers for games, movies etc. They're basically the same bloody thing!
Halo 2 is a game special to my heart. I love the heck out of it.
Where would the world be without slo-mo?? oh, and "the master chef" aahahahaha that's classic!
I freaking love the slo mo :D
The ending made me laugh my ass off. lol
a pink spartan? finally... a Donut action figure, as I always dreamed
The bit at the end is so satisfying
To be fair I'd enjoy watching an Ashens episode in which he opens a blind bag full of dead moths.
Now i am imagining the two master chef judges in spartan suits
The Library was most definitely not too long and dull. You are obbjectively wrong. It was fucking epic! And the Flood has been an epic part of the series ever since.
I love it how in the "series 5" booklet there are color codes for "common, rare, ultra-rare" -yet someone obviously forgot to add the corresponding colors under the figure pictures and they're all just white hexagons.
"Master chef" so now we know what chef excellence's children will do in the future
3:01 knew he was a halo fan
3:09 also what was he on? Maybe only the ODST and pilot are similar in color
As a former massive Halo fan, this video is highly amusing.
Flood zombie action figure. That one cracked me up. :D
LMFAO "Actually i think i may have just made my own flood zombie action figure" LMAO
the new halo mega bloks figures are so much better with interchangable armor
All this merchandising makes me feel like Halo will end up like Star Wars.
Master Chef: "An excellent video".
That slo-mo pleased me greatly
Wow, what a great channel! Love this!
Ashens Realtor "anyone ever smoked in here?..Ashens: "UMMMMMM"
This is the only mega blok series I like
Wow, that's disappointing. I bought a few Megablocks Halo sets many years ago, and the ones I got were higher quality then this, with painted weapons that weren't just solid chunks.
I believe I got a human pilot, and a cool bigass plane-thing I never finished, that came with two well-detailed Jackals with weapons. In another set, two humans (All of which are in the armor suits, by the way), a 4x4, and a turret with those "Elite" enemy types - This seems so far from the quality I got, is something going down with Megabloks?
EDIT: Actually, that set I just mentioned was the one he was showing at the end of the video
The Halo fan in me is screaming "CORTANA CHOSE HER OWN APPEARANCE". The Ashens fan in me is just laughing.
Chef Excellence, the master chef. Starring in the new series, "Sad Onion Ring"
Two of the best sounds in the world are the *click* FWUMP of blowtorches and flame throwers.
I got a fetish with the sounds of you opening fresh, brand new merchandise lol
The last frames make me very happy!