The Greatest Halo Player of All Time - #1 Ogre 2 | Halo Top 25
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- The Greatest Halo Player of All Time, Ogre 2 is also widely considered the best console esports player in history. Ogre 2 set the bar for future pros with an unprecedented 14 year career, 40 LAN victories, and 5 MLG National Championship titles. He sits atop the pack as the best Halo player of all time, and will undoubtedly be remembered as one of esports’ biggest stars.
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The MLG era of Halo will never be topped. Glad I was able to experience it.
I know, it was so organic and fun to watch 😔
I wish
@@MakinaMakinaMakina you can't forget triggers down
@@GG-zx3fy the nostalgia
Totally agreed! Halo has gone down hill! The halo 2 and halo 3 mlg days were the best!
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Love you Halo!
too fucking bad you let comp halo completely die, Halo could be greater than what Cod and smash bro combined, if 343 would of put money and time into it. you got one of the greatest names in gaming and should of been so easy to make another great halo and you did everything wrong. and inifinite will hopefully be your last chance. couldn't do it with halo 4 or 5 what makes ppl think halo inifinite will be any different is beyond me.
@@BaDMrFr0zty If you play it you'll know that Halo Infinite is the closest halo in terms of MP to Halo, Dare I say even closer than Reach. Try it out for yourself its free! nothing lost if you don't like it
@@BaDMrFr0zty Infinite is starting out pretty good.
@@IndieAuthorX is it tho? 150k on steam and maybe 300k from microsoft store and xbox 500k online active not that good for a free release like halo.
God the impact Halo 2/ Halo 3 had on my childhood is forever burned into my memories. I miss these days more and more everyday. To be 15/16 years old again back in 2005/06. Come home from school and boot up Halo. It truly was an experience I will never forget. Everything from T Squared being on the Dr. Pepper bottles, Mtn. Dew Game Fuel when Halo 3 launched, people standing outside to get a copy, the yelling and screaming at the tv, friends all biking over to someones house just so we could all sit around and play Halo, recon armor, the MLG scene, T Squared Halo 3 tip videos, trying to hard to get a 50 in a playlist and then keep it, and finally playing MLG playlist and feeling your heart race when you ran into players who were Semi pro or Pro. I can into Str8 online and everyone on my team was in fear. Sad if you werent old enough or missed out on this amazing moment in life and something I will truly never ever forget. If I could just go back for 1 day and relive those days...thanks for the memories Halo.
this hit perfectly man, the halo 2 online custom lobby scene, super bounce lobbies, then halo 3 came out and just took over everything. i remember running into semi pros and pros in level 50 mlg ranked playlist and it was like a feeling if you could just get noticed by one of those guys. the competition was unreal as well.
Dude I know, I wonder if we were told then that these are the good ol days, if we would have appreciated those times even more. ❤
Thanks for sharing. I found this very moving, even as a less-dedicated halo player and fan.
I was that exact age in those years this hits hard man all of this was so true, what a great teenage life we had honestly with h2 and h3 online.
Those were the days.. cod4 and halo4 where the best FPS to play in the 2000s
This made me emotional. I dont know why but perhaps its because im 28 rn and this really brings back memories of my childhood.
I’m 27, feel this.
'93 squad me too
I’m 28 and watched all of these clips live. I never realized ogre 2 was that good. I liked snipedown and t2, Roy and Naded
Same dude
I’m 29.. this was the real clans.. nowadays everyone wanna be faze nahh famm it was optic gaming and final boss back in the day
"The Ogres paved the way" Ogre 2 gets all the credit even though it was being the duo that made him what he was. Ogre 1 doesn't get enough credit when these lists are made.
Its probably due to Ogre2 continue to play at the top level till his retirement vs Ogre1 retiring a good few years before Ogre2. 2009 was when Ogre1 retired Ogre2 retired once in 2013 and came out of retirement to play till 2016 before fully and finally retiring. Not diminishing Ogre1 but just why people look a bit more to Ogre2 more than 1
@@Vjamesx13 ogre 1 up and coming in au 😂😂😂
It's criminal Ogre 1 is not on the list, his stats and dominance is better than anyone except Ogre 2.
Ogre 1 to my knowledge was the original GOAT in Halo CE and Ogre 2 began his GOAT status in Halo 2 and made it official in Halo 3.
I mean this list can't be taken seriously with Walshy sitting at 8 when he is a certified top 5 Halo legend
@@ThumbsUpMike recency bias
@@patmalloy2376 yeah i mean i get how it will not make people excited when the top 5 is filled with "OG's"
But when you're doing a top whatever, you can't just pretend like Ogre 1 doesn't exist
Top 2 in 40 events in a row... Insane.
That’s insane alright, to do that against other high level players is mindblown
In. A. Row.
Not even Crimsix can make that claim… holy damn.
@@TripleKmafia crimsix will never be what orge2 was
Final Boss for a reason
The amount of adderal that was consumed through this era of gaming deserves its own documentary lol.
It was awesome 😂
And it’s even more today especially COD. Reason they call it cracked lmao. Bunch of crack heads
I used to laugh watching them all in unison grab their water bottles in between games and take them much needed sips
Joking or not I do wish they made a high quality documentary of the start of esports specifically these halo mlg days
@@Millenium2927 The Halo MLG days is a decade plus into the history of esports
Makes me happy and sad at the same time. Hell, Chris Pucketts voice alone takes me back to them good days.
Puckett was halo. ESPN TOP 10
Hearing the H3 BR in the background
@@luinf6786 my dude, he was! Got me hyped.. Still gets me hyped! Lol
Puckett's voice is as iconic as the multiplayer announcer's
Best caster imo first heard him in early CO4 and Mw2 pro scene, one of the best
Ogre 2 and the 2007 Final Boss Roster are the Best Halo players of all Time! Walshy, Strongside, Ogre 1, and Ogre 2 Never Forget they Didn't drop a single game at the 2007 National Championship in Vegas playing Halo 2 to prove to everyone that they were Gods of Halo!! Congrats Tom on Number 1!
2007 Final Boss paved the way for Mainstream to start looking at eSports. Final Boss will forever be the main pioneers of FPS eSports.
Still crazy seeing them boot Walshy in H3
@@MakinaMakinaMakina instinct came back with a vengeance tho
Double Maulers for the... camp.
@@luinf6786 they booted Saiyan for Strongside before their last H2 run. It made sense. Walshy wasn’t as good of a player in H3.
Big love to Tom/Ogre 2… the GOAT. I had the opportunity to play a few customs with him back in his apex of his career and it was an honor.
Same dude, i think i got him once or twice in a few games on lockout lmfao
I played so much CE with him 😂 it was insane how well he knew that game. Wish he still played it
Bro to know that you like Halo makes me like your content even more that is truly amazing.
Imagine if Esports had the audience today back then. A lot of these players set up everything for what we have today. The community owes these guys.
we dont owe them shit
@@rubencompean8780 and you are?
@@peppylafew116 the man's named after a sandwich lmao
bullshit. As if esports weren't an inevitability anyway
The guy who mentions hearing about the ogres thru just whispers is an understatement. Like nobody had social media how it is today or texting constantly. It was literally just word of mouth and they blew up, then dominated the era of halo , unreal players !
no social media is crazy…..
There were forums and halo communities online even in 2003. That's how the Orgers were first introduced during Halo CE. They were dominating local 2v2 tournaments.
What a time to be alive
Not really.
@@mikeb8854yes really
Man if MLG was popular now. Imagine how much money he would've made lol
lol true
WV by god
pray my mans took them winnings and invested in bitcoin lmaoooooooo
I'm 30 now, growing up, i played SOOO much halo 2 and 3 online... Actually played with and against these guys, including T2 and many others... Had some of them added on xbox back then... SO glad I got to play with these guys.. Between them and all the Team Swat I played, really made my aim top notch. Thanks guys for making my life of gaming worth it.
Team SWAT lol that brings back memories
This video could have been 45-1 hour and I still woulda watched it the amount of nostalgia I get from these videos is unmatched this was prime esports entertainment.
This video was great! But I think the argument has now been made that we need a whole documentary on the story of the Ogres!
Man I agree but I still believe without Walshy they wouldn’t have won as many solely because he was the mastermind to their strats and strats ultimately set you up for winning.
Dan got robbed, but I'm glad they got Tom right. The god damned goat...undisputed...forever
He can be dethroned in terms of being the best halo player statistically, however for us halo happened in the bungie era.
I love the Halo Wars music, so good.
the true goat, a nonargument
No doubt 🗿
I'll never forget the time I got into a random game Against Ogre 1 & 2 on The Pit. One of them took our sword with snipe and the other took our 2cd BR with snipe and just wrecked everything. It was the fastest game of MLG CTL ever.
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h2 and h3 were the golden years of halo. as ogre1 said in his video the hype behind halo at the time was like fortnites hype a few years ago. everyone wanted to be good at halo and these guys were at the top no matter what. to do what they did, at the time where esports was very bare bones and just finding its feet.. it's incredible.
h5 would have been very different competitively if they didnt throw tons of cash at it - even then viewership struggled and on top of that there were fewer total people competing at these h5 events. i think its fair to put more weight in the h2 h3 era for being the "golden era" of halo whether you like it or not.
of course 343 will put more weight on their titles for this list but lets all be real here.
hoping infinite can shine in the competitive scene
No arguing that at all. I’m 30 years old now, started playing in H2, got real competitive in H3 and absolutely those were golden years of Halo. The hype was unreal. Halo WAS the game at the time. No doubt the newer titles have produced some great names but none have come close to the dominance of H2 Final Boss.
@@eddieace345 Makes me sad I was too young at the time to appreciate all of it - when h3 came out I was only 11; and of course I was too young to compete at a high level nor did I even know I could watch MLG stuff. So I missed out on the golden era of halo; I came back to Reach in 2011 and enjoyed it so much but there already were vibes that the halo hype train had slowed down. I'm hoping Infinite is good but agreed, I don't think there will be another era of FPS's like Halo at the time.
@@eddieace345 agreed. I’m 28 turning 29 next month, I remember watching both Ogre 1 & 2 and snipedown live and seeing how nasty they were with snipers. Ended up getting fairly good myself but far from their level. I always wanted to become general rank in Team Snipers on Halo 3 but could never get over the last Brigadier rank to get there! So close, but so far. In my opinion, Halo 3 was the pinnacle for FPS. Miss those days with all the memories in lobbies with friends and random players. Hopefully Infinite can get to that level Halo once was. Hope to see everyone on the battlefield enjoying Halo again while being much older 😂
Halo 3 is still the best halo and probably the best shooter till this day even new games aren't as good
Halo 2 was best halo. Fight me.
They were the beginning of something that is still yet to come. Tears coming down. This should be a Netflix doc.
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its insane how this video can make me so emotional at 31 years old... thank you for everything you have done halo, I will never forget some of the greatest memories of my childhood.
The fact that few people aren’t alking about what Ghandi did with this his lists and how good he was. When halo was dead , Ghandi went nuts and kept it alive . Thanks man.
Halo wars music mixed in with an enormous amount of nostalgia, damn y’all really making me tear up rn..
Dawg i knew that was halo wars theme lol 😂😂
Damn almost cried watching this man 🥲
Did thats what i commented as well. What the heck :/
I miss those Halo 2 system link parties we had back in high school 😥 Great times
Growing up in this era and seeing all these videos brings back so many great memories. LAN parties with my brothers and friends, playing on game spy and XBC. Following everything going on with MLG and watching all every single montage ever of all the legends of Halo. What a great time it was to experience
Man, good ole day just watching MLG for an entire weekend. Halo 2 and Halo 3 were the greatest era for me
Never thought i’d see Ogre brother content in 2021…. These guys introduced me to MLG and competitive video games as a kid that has changed my life forever. Thank you for shedding light on one of the best to ever do it!
The fact that everyone knew who he was before the internet blew up is insane. 🐐
The golden age of Halo and esports in general.
Absolute GOAT.
Smiles throughout the whole video man. Those twins really changed my life...as a kid being in their halo clan for just a little was such a cool feeling. "Starscream and theoneschildren"
I remember going to MLG Chicago, probably 2005 or 2006 and playing the Ogre twins in a game of foosball with one of my friends. We lost 10-0 in about 5 minutes.
dude i was there too. my buddy tyler was playing foosball with them as well, and I remember getting gifted an mlg hoody by IIFoxyII or whatever. Wild
These videos hype me more than the actual Infinite gameplay! I love it!
SAMEBRO!
Halo Infinite looks amazing though so...
@@JJHewable man I’m so pumped for infinite
I was 18 just joined the Military and was addicted to Halo 2. I would watch these guys religiously lol I truly do believe Ogre 2 is hands down the G.O.A.T with that being said as far as winning Walshy needs credit for that here because he was the master mind behind how they attacked each map. His thought process towards beating teams was on another level. My Lord when they picked up Strongside…….. SMDH GAME OVER!
I don't care how many players come close or even surpass his records. The OGRES were and are the greatest Halo players of all time. It's undeniable. Especially in Halo CE it was something to witness in person. I stood behind him and watched OGRE 2 play a FFA on derelict and he had a rough start, was 7th and 20 kills behind the leader. I thought, "wow is he really going to not advance to the next round?" He then proceeds to just stop pushing top mid and go on running riot after running riot on the bottom of the map and goes on to win the game with highest kills, assists, and least deaths. It was literally like watching magic happen. Although my career never really took off unfortunately, they inspired me to try to become pro. It wasn't the best idea for me in 2003 when there was no money in Halo esports, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. All hail the GOATS of Halo!
Will always be my #1. Literally called him the Master Chief growing up lol.
It’s nice to see all you boys back in here. It’s been years.
I miss those days
Man I played so much halo CE when In high school . Always dreamed of going and competing against top dogs like Zyos, Darkman, StrangePurple, Saiyan, Killer N, Ogres and others. Never did, always regretted it
A few of them still play MCC. Ran into Killer N, StK Fiddy, and StK PaC. Zyos I believe was playing up until recently. Has a CZcams channel as well.
Played against many of them and with them "online” back in the day, great memories for sure!
@@StKBelarkor nice ya I’ve seen Zyos and follow him
@@XeroEncryption nice!
Never too late man, people are still LANning CE these days. I regret never competing back in the early days too.
I drove 7 hours to UGC Atlantic City in 2019 and actually went up 2-0 on Zyos in the CE 2v2 tournament before he slapped me back in my place with three straight wins. Was surreal to go up against a legend like that all those years later in a real tournament. He was very humble too and talking to any fans who heard he was there and wanted to meet him.
This era of Halo meant so much to me. I remember watching Halo on USA back in the day and seeing the Ogres dominate. Gosh, such good times.
The pebble in the pond made me tear up. These guys are why i love competitive gaming. I’m 30 and still play sometimes. Loved this man. Absolutely loved it
wow, love this channel, thanks for capturing this critical era of my life
I'd love to see a full documentary on this.
I played against him at one of his lan tourneys when i was younger and this man is on a whole level of his own I played him twice total and managed to kill him a total of 1 time and him and his brother pretty much wiped every event they went to.
The thing people don’t realize is almost everyone played halo back then. That’s what makes ogre 2 such a great player. There was so much competition back then. I remember my CHURCH even had halo tournament for the youth program and had like 20 teams compete during a lock in. I seriously feel sorry for kids who never got to experience peak halo2/3.
Dude I did the same thing at my church growing up lol! Back in the days when I was actually good.
Damn your church was badass
The GOAT! This vid makes me shiver and pumps me up. Nice production
Halo 2 MLG Days were Legendary. Going to events with your friends, staying up all night, getting back home and jumping on live after school. I remember the day I first got Xbox Live. I played a Rumblie Pit in Colossus. Got 3rd place. It was over from that point. Throughout Halo 2 I was addicted and went to as many tourney's as I could. Such fun memories I won't forget.
I hated ogre 2. I hated fear and despised Final Boss. They were villains to me winning all the time and I backed the underdog every time I watched them. Ogre 2 was without doubt the best most consistent all round player to watch in every tournament. It was a joy to watch now I can look back subjectively.
Wow dude, this was a special episode of a special series. Well done!
Skill is one thing but knowing how to win is another.
Man this takes me back. I remember the first time I saw his video on youtube playing CE and couldnt believe what I was watching and how he utilized everything to his advantage.. trick granandes, ricochet sniper rounds, granade jumps etc. Me, thinking I didnt know you could do that and trying it for myself in custom matches against my buddies lol. Then H2 came out and the pro circuit with MLG it was something everyone wanted to go to or even be in. I will never forget when me and my buddies matched him and Karma on Lockout and we went crazy, talk about a rush!. We were so hyped when we beat them by 4 and bragged to everyone how we beat some pro players. the good ol days.
this is the era where i was always at a friends and we played h1-3 together, the internet to me then was a dream
This video is incredibly well made, definitely earned my sub
I’ve always said Ogre 2 deserves the same or greater recognition in the esports pantheon of GOATs as Flash, Faker, s1mple, and Fatality. Just on sheer statistics and accolades alone he is nearly unmatched. He is a true pioneer. The fact that the voting for this list was even remotely close for the top spot is embarrassing. He should be a unanimous number 1. Ogre 2 is the greatest Halo player that will ever play the game and probably the greatest console player ever, full stop.
Mew2king and the other 3 gods(not hungrybox)
Add Daigo to your list and you literally have the hall of fame of esports
Faker doesn't even have the accolades like Ogre 2.
He is not on the same level.
Love when I see videos like this. Hits me right in the feelings. I went to 7 MLGs and am also from Ohio and they were absolute legends, all the way back to H1 tournaments. Big fan of that StK Clan and what they did for Halo.
I remember I would occasionally get put in lobbies with the pros like Ogre 2’s and all the other names. I was so happy if my team even got to 20 kills in a slayer game against them. Dudes were unreal
Are you lying? Anyone who had a 50 in MLG played many pros. Getting 40 kills or even winning against them wasn't that crazy. 20 🤔. Sounds like a lie
@@chazzbranigaan9354 my point is the skill difference is significant between the pro’s and people who were just 50’s in MLG. I maybe have had some games where we were in the 30’s against pros but definitely never the 40’s.
@@lobolex305 I get your point I just never found them to be that much better than anyone who could get 50. Decidedly better for sure but not over twice as good
@@chazzbranigaan9354 at the end of the day what made the pros better was their teamwork skills
@@chazzbranigaan9354 i got top 4 and 3 in FFA against them at their lans. And i was just a dude who helped set up TV and shit at the mlg events..
Nostalgia. Thankyou for making this.
Bring back so many memories from XBC an XLInk Kai days because I was to young for a credit card to get XBox live, halo 2 was my favorite
The feels man, the feels. Hats off to the GOAT.
I am literally in tears right now
Praise to the almighty ogre 2 but can we take a second to acknowledge another goat. Stephen Rippy. The composer of this beautiful soundtrack bringin u all to tears right now.
Happy to have lived through and experience prime MLG days (06-2011)!
Ogre 2 is the greatest halo player. Regardless of skill he has won more than anyone in multiple eras of the game.
Ogre 2 has every right to be #1.
what a beautiful video. thank you for making it.
I’m sad that I didn’t get a chance to be a part of the MLG era, my experience with halo back then was playing H1 and H2 on local multiplayer with my cousins😂
The Ogre twins were playing on XBConnect, I played a few lobbies with them many years ago. Most people don't even remember XBConnect even existed. It was Xbox Live before Live was even a service. So many great memories of playing Halo 1 on XBC.
I played both the Ogre twins and Walshy on Xbconnect and GameSpy tunnel. Man I miss the Golden days of Halo!
I remember those days, such nostalgia!
Well, at least they got #1 correct. Nothing but respect for the GOAT!!!
Those halo 2/3 days man.... so good. Before all the ads, pay to play, cosmetics, twitch steamers.... it was just so amazing to experience xbox live in its infancy when everyone used a mic and talked. There has never been anything close to halo 2 and halo 3 in their prime. All of the endless custom matches, mlg games, big team battles, such good memories.
Watching this just brings back so many great memories how much I really want to go back to watch final boss vs instinct in the grand finals H3
there's a reason they call it the "ogre twitch"
forever indebted to this dude, he made me better
This era of halo was absolutely incredible…I’m 35 and was able to experience all of it…and now halo infinite is out and sure there are bugs and things that need fixed but as far as the gameplay is concerned, I have high hopes infinite can bring back times like this…my days of lan party’s and friends houses gaming are over but I’ll always compete and be the best I can be online…halo has had such a large impact on my life that I just can’t see myself not playing it.
Absolute LEGEND. What an amazing career.
This was the first and only game I would play everyday and grind out all summer break. We would stay at a friends house who had good internet and play until sunrise and start again after a few hours. The game gave us that before Christmas Day feel. Lots of good times here on H2/H3, I have never came across games this good since. GOAT 🐐
GOATGRE 2
Ogre 2 changed my life. He was the reason I loved halo and met some of the best friends I still have today. Tom Ryan is the GOAT
what a well done and compelling video and story.
I was a young kid when I seen him sweep lobbies of the unfamiliar. He was doing things that were not even thought of yet in the realm of IQ. I studied his fundamentals, the process of assumption and knowing the enemies headspace after clearing the entire team. The spawns they were about to be in, the lanes they were about to take and what they were going to do after you killed one another. He was the creator of that IQ in gaming before it was a thing. He changed my gaming career after I seen the God himself bless me with something that no words were needed to be said, something that just pure skill and actions taught me Thank you 🤙
- "Phenom" An Unheard Gamer.
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Playing Halo on XBC before Xbox Live came out was so fun. Would sometimes run into lobbies with Warthogs flying around and tanks in midair. Would find some of the craziest shit in some of those XBC lobbies. Was so fun!
Great video but was sorely missing some personal insight into who Ogre 2 was as a person during the time he competed. Smash Bros doco did it well, should aspire to do more character building like them
days weeks months years of this is insane halo united us all lets stay that way
The H2/3 pro circuit was so fucking fun I haven't seen anything like it since.
I love how Sundance still dresses like it's 2005
Yeah no one can argue Ogre2’s place. Absolutely no way. Just the Halo 2 dominance on its own is the thing of legends. Now across multiple halos, even more mind blowing. I remember watching events on USA network lol. Take me back to the good old days
I sent this to my buddies who aren’t into eSports and told them to check it out. I hope they do because this is legendary.
Best days of my life watching MLG and Lanning with my friends. Life’s went by so fast the Ogres will always be Halo Legends.
I could see myself and my best friend just teenagers sitting in a dark room paying split screen halo doubles until our mom came to yell at us.
Grew up 30 minutes from these guys and playing Halo 1 and 2. Completely blew my mind how good these guys were. It was absolutely insane to see.
I played a bunch of CE with him a few years back and he's still insane at that game.
OG MLG halo days are something all of us 25+ are going to remember for ever
Makes me a grown man tear up. Played halo from day one with my older brothers and would constantly have system link/lan sessions with my cousins made my childhood. All of the mlg guys were well know and watched em all legends. Damn dont know why but shit makes me so emotional. Such a great moment in time.
Is that NICKMERCS!?!? Lol 5:32
yup, that's him and predator.
Ogre2 is now Ogre1, Ogre1 is now Ogre11
It was a pleasure to play halo 3 at this time , That was marvelous
I remember being a kid (maybe 12) playing halo 3 all the time, and ran into the ogre brothers on their alt xbox accounts and they added me and we played for a week or so off an on and they gave me tips for the game and were super chill. I had no idea at the time who they were. Absolute legends.
1. Ogre2
2. Ogre1
3. Walshy
4. Pistola
5. Snip3down
6. Lethul
7. Roy
8. Lunchbox
9. Royal2
10. Snakebite
Dude Ogre 2 is the greatest legend in eSports
Really awesome video. Really inspiring
Most boys 25-30 right now who PLAYED Halo... this was there 1st childhood hero. MJ level in an emerging sport...