Fr I got a chance to play with most of those guys online even Walshy , StongSide etc 😢 golden years I got ur pistols sounded like a chipmunk 🐿️ my friend Jay introduced me
+Brandon Friesen cod didnt ruin mlg, the lack of effort bungie and 343 put into the games after h3 is what killed mlg for halo, also the fact that halo pros didnt build a reputation on youtube as call of duty players did
I Lol'd when I saw Bonfire and itwasluck. Me and a buddy of mine wrecked them for about the first 5 minutes at a doubles tournament in Dallas "king of the couch". Then they came back and demolished us the rest of the the game and we took 2nd. Such great times and memories. Plz bring back Halo 2 Anniversary!
I lived on this game, got it and played online the first day it came out. It was so ahead of its time in many ways such as clan battles. The Xbox community was so great back then, everyone talked, fucked around, had laughs, trash talked, there was always something going on. Idk how many trash talkers I had to give the heat to in 1v1s 😂. I still am friends with many of my old gaming buddies. All of the glitches were great too and added more depth and skill. The H2-3 era can’t be replaced. Not only was the multiplayer/comp scene great, the custom game/forge community was amazing. From playing zombies, tower of power…etc in H2 to insane custom maps/gamemodes in H3. I remember learning how to bridge host as a kid so I didn’t get standby’d against or play a modder or sticking a card in my Xbox to stop the disc so I didn’t play certain shitty dlc maps. Rip old Halo
Double shots and BXR made the game so fun, the cool thing about the double shot was it had some risk to doing it, it would cancel your ability to keep shooting right after doing it, so you really needed to choose when you wanted to try it because it was also just hard to pull off,
Maybe I'm in the minority but I never cared for the button combos in halo 2. Felt like they only benefitted the BR and made it even more overpowered. Bungie never had that in mind when designing the maps
God i miss those days, waking up early on a Saturday to see the first ever Esport televised on television and its my favorite game ever. It just doesn't get any better than that
You can play blow me away over anything halo 2 and it just evokes so much emotion. I never even played halo 2 back in the day I started with halo 3 so that should say something
I didn't think halo 2 went anywhere? its still a game and its still avaible isn't It? I actually play it once in awhile and there's still a good amount of players. NOTHING like before, but it didn't disappear LOL u can still play, don't cry
Some Guy That's true, but HDTVs did not go mainstream until the mid-2000s, mostly because they were extremely expensive. I remember my family didn't get an HDTV until 2007.
I miss my halo 2 days, I was a straight 4v4 player no team always pugged, and I was a consistent 49 to 50 at my peak but damn mlg wasn't big enough in my area so I never got to make it pro. I'm trying to find my record online, I used to be on the front page of halo leaderboard at one time. 12 hours a day sweaty try hard. Damn miss it.
Back then Halo was no bullshit, just good fun that everyone wanted to be apart of....... Now it just isn't the same...... Microsoft owns Halo and made that shitty Halo 4 for noobs and shit for brains....... The world has changed, games have changed, TV's are different even and I've changed too..... but competitive shooters don't have the buzz anymore...... where's the mad skills?
Youll never see games like h2 or counter strike again. Just not the same. Companies are money hungry & attacking the masses. Kids nowadays dont have that soul and tactically inclined/clutch mindset like the fellas from my gen or ours. Theyre remaking h2 for xbone but ill mail you a check bi weekly for 6 months if they bring back the bxr or quad shot. They wont do it. Were a dying breed guy.....
Nick aguado You realize the BXR, BXB, and Quad shot were not actually intended to be in the game right? Those were glitches that to players to the next level of skill. So they really cant bring it back for a few reason one they were glitches. Two Halo 2 is on an old outdated engine. Three it would become a replication which means button commands there fore anyone could do it wouldn't have the same impact. However yes the days of Halo 2 or halo being a skilled game are long over. Ive attended 6 events in the halo 2 days, 3 in H3 and none after miss those days. Last but not least yes companies are money hungry it takes a insane amount of money to produce a great AAA title. Some games push upawards 200 million just to make. So yes they want to make their money back if they didn't companies will fold and games will not exist.
***** It's true..... someone will fill the hole - there is a market...... it's just that the studios got so big that they are now looking for market research, focus group feed back and risk analysis before some corporate pussy puts their little balls on the line to make a decision.... mediocrity at it's most safe
I remember Halo 2 when it first came out I play it on the hardest lvl and I had fun with friends good time I still love Halo and now I only play the store mod
This shit hits different 10+ years later. Sad I barely played halo 2 online, halo 3 is when I become obsessed with halo. Halo was my main game up til H5 I really don’t know how I lasted that long everything from halo 4 on was complete ass. Reach with NBNS was pretty good. Gaming as a whole is trash, how do you take a game with a winning formula like halo and still fuck it up catering to new players and other games.
it's not trash, just that most people's attitudes have become rancid, cynical, and entitled.. It also doesn't help that mass amounts of the complainers never attempt or experiment creating anything of substantial value themselves leaving them in the dark about all the difficulties & tedious frustration developing even a mediocre indy game involves. Another thing people don't realize is back then there were so many janky feeling games that a good FPS game like Halo or COD stood out. Now fastforwarding 15-20 years later you have a whole sea of endless great feeling shooters and because individuals end up feeling like they're drowning in redundancy and nothing stands out or "pops" it ends up manifesting ungrateful sentiment for what they consider a new Norm.
Daniel goog Coagulations was a big map. You could have a Tank, Banshee and two smaller vehicles for each base, and then you had massive no man's land area between these bases.
Sh0ckwave in '06 was dirty. Wonder if he and Karma will be back now that H2: Anniversary is coming out this year? I'd also like to see OGRE 1 come out of retirement. He's teased it a bit on Twitter, but being in Australia and just having a baby not too long ago will likely keep him from ever competing again in tournaments. I mean, it's not impossible to do, but he'll definitely say that that is the reason he won't come back.
If you were at these mlg tournaments and not competing in Halo 2, then you weren't at mlg at all. This was the biggest game and made MLG, now that it's gone, I rly doubt ppl even go there or support mlg teams like final boss, carbon and str8 anymore. It's just not the same. Halo 2 even had the USA channel sponsor MLG just for Halo 2, that's how big it was.
Halo 2 was what kicked off MLG, and kept getting bigger. Halo 3 was even BIGGER, but thats because of how MLG got out there and it just kept growing. Halo 2 was the favorite game and my peronsal favorite, but Halo 3 was way bigger in the MLG world.
Nothing beats Halo 2 trash talk.
T bag and coming to your house to grape your dad while you watch thru the peep hole in your sister room. Get better at living.
Zyos didn't understand that an important part of chemistry is having your teammates actually like you.
that breaking benjamin they played during that small break made me tear up a bit. god damn golden years lol
these were the golden years for esports for sure. Halo 2 and Starcraft Broodwar and Counterstrike.
I miss this era so badly dude. This video is seriously a beautiful time capsule of how amazing gaming was.
Fr I got a chance to play with most of those guys online even Walshy , StongSide etc 😢 golden years I got ur pistols sounded like a chipmunk 🐿️ my friend Jay introduced me
@@hellowill Don't forget smash bros melee lol.
hell yeah saw them live a few months ago one of the best bands of that era
"Ghandi look at me, Ghandi look at me. You suck!" 😂
Man MLG needs a game like this again. Best competitive game ever.
Its hard to believe you said this 9 years ago
@@blaine8021Forreal, with the way things have been going he definitely has the rights to say “I told you so” 10000 percent
@@obitouchiha9446100% Halo 2 is still the most competitive game ever.
Yes Sir!
bring it back
This was my life when I was in high school. Man I miss these days.
Same! It was all I thought about when I was at school and when I wasn't at school I did nothing but play it
OMG I forgot how dirty that moment at 38:22 was.That’s an all time great Halo highlight.
19:07 "Fonzi,sittin there unmolested"
cant say this nowadays rofl
Ahhhh back when MLG was good.
CoD ruined MLG
+Brandon Friesen cod didnt ruin mlg, the lack of effort bungie and 343 put into the games after h3 is what killed mlg for halo, also the fact that halo pros didnt build a reputation on youtube as call of duty players did
+wazup3333 halo reach was fine without armor abilities and bloom
AwesomeDude682 it still lacked effort was a rushed game
League of Legends is bigger than any Halo MLG
lol when VO says beaver creek is "massive"
Woah! I found a BBKDRAGOON!!
howdy!
i think he said having the sniper is huge as it keeps the enemy team out of the middle of the map, not that the map is huge
Lmao didnt expect to find you here
Bruh
It's crazy to think these contestants are around 30 now.😟
It hurts my.feelings
@@shanealberson463 jesus... this hurts
Yup
I’m 30 now lol but I’ll never forget the memories and friends made at these events.
I'm 30 too. Time flies bro. Enjoy your youth!
Just about to watch this and I can already feel the backwards caps, soul patches and frosted tips
All the Breaking Benjamin in this is awesome. Just met the singer of that band a few weeks ago
Ah man, Trapt headstrong is still one of my favorites
Man the halo 2 maps were something else. I only ever got to play lan against my mates but seeing this competitive scene back then is awesome.
Halo 2 by far best game ever created.
3rd in my opinion
It’s up there. A massive achievement.
Three was legendary
Agree
@@Yash-lx5xr Halo 3=🗑
2022 and there is still nothing like MLG on TV. Halo back in the day just had the best competition. We need more of this!!!!
Yep. Gaming used to be absolutely magical back then. Nowadays, it just feels kinda... Hollow
@@Mugen_YG it feels corporate to me
I Lol'd when I saw Bonfire and itwasluck. Me and a buddy of mine wrecked them for about the first 5 minutes at a doubles tournament in Dallas "king of the couch". Then they came back and demolished us the rest of the the game and we took 2nd. Such great times and memories. Plz bring back Halo 2 Anniversary!
I hope you saw the E3 announcement!!!!
It's coming. Original multiplayer / button glitches intact. THERE GOES MY LIFE!
How did that work out?
Hey I actually was the one that finally beat them. Then we started beating them in 4v4s too and they left. What was your gamertag? This is Brake.
This was pretty high quality for 2006. There was no streaming so the DC++ was the shit I've heard. Thanks for posting Smash and H2.
its on MLG app but I think they did something with the old recordings of the events and rose up the quality
its on MLG app but I think they did something with the old recordings of the events and rose up the quality
“Blow Me Away” as the theme song…what can be more Halo 2 than that?
Fuck...
The music
The graphics everything about this broadcast and the game is amazing so glad it was apart of my life.
I lived on this game, got it and played online the first day it came out. It was so ahead of its time in many ways such as clan battles. The Xbox community was so great back then, everyone talked, fucked around, had laughs, trash talked, there was always something going on. Idk how many trash talkers I had to give the heat to in 1v1s 😂. I still am friends with many of my old gaming buddies. All of the glitches were great too and added more depth and skill. The H2-3 era can’t be replaced. Not only was the multiplayer/comp scene great, the custom game/forge community was amazing. From playing zombies, tower of power…etc in H2 to insane custom maps/gamemodes in H3. I remember learning how to bridge host as a kid so I didn’t get standby’d against or play a modder or sticking a card in my Xbox to stop the disc so I didn’t play certain shitty dlc maps. Rip old Halo
Yeah man H2 and H3 was the best. Ranking up in matchmaking, 1v1s vs trash talkers, the good old days.
Double shots and BXR made the game so fun, the cool thing about the double shot was it had some risk to doing it, it would cancel your ability to keep shooting right after doing it, so you really needed to choose when you wanted to try it because it was also just hard to pull off,
Still works on MCC
Maybe I'm in the minority but I never cared for the button combos in halo 2. Felt like they only benefitted the BR and made it even more overpowered. Bungie never had that in mind when designing the maps
8:56 hahaha oh man, I love it when people return the trash talk after sitting them down. That's good
Ghandi and T-Squared hate each other too so that makes it even better
"Ghandi look at me, you suck! Lmao
God i miss those days, waking up early on a Saturday to see the first ever Esport televised on television and its my favorite game ever. It just doesn't get any better than that
You can play blow me away over anything halo 2 and it just evokes so much emotion. I never even played halo 2 back in the day I started with halo 3 so that should say something
I miss Halo 2 : (
me too buddy :'(
I didn't think halo 2 went anywhere? its still a game and its still avaible isn't It? I actually play it once in awhile and there's still a good amount of players. NOTHING like before, but it didn't disappear LOL u can still play, don't cry
amanda lopez no match making, laggy servers, half the lobbies are playing fiesta or some gay shit
+Foulmouth MC Collection is just as bad :(
@@MaximusCactus 4yrs later Mcc isn't that bad anymore and it's actually enjoyable
Nothing beats this. In fact, it doesn't even beat itself.
Damn the production quality was top notch!
The good old days. 😭
Back when ODDBALL got the love it deserved!!
I was playing infinite the other day and we matched oddball and a kid on my team asked what’s oddball 😂.
the nostalgia from this
look how happy everyone was 20 years ago
look at the size of the TV's lol
This is 10 years ago
obviously haha, my cousin and i would haul TV's just like those to each others house every weekend for LANs
Some Guy That's true, but HDTVs did not go mainstream until the mid-2000s, mostly because they were extremely expensive. I remember my family didn't get an HDTV until 2007.
Ever play a first person shooter on a huge TV? Not easy.
Box tv
I miss my halo 2 days, I was a straight 4v4 player no team always pugged, and I was a consistent 49 to 50 at my peak but damn mlg wasn't big enough in my area so I never got to make it pro. I'm trying to find my record online, I used to be on the front page of halo leaderboard at one time. 12 hours a day sweaty try hard. Damn miss it.
play project cartographer. join our discord discord.gg/V9aNzCK
30:17 lol he's all like "calm down its just a game"
These were some good days man, I've watched this almost 10 times! I alway catch something amazing every time.
~T.M.R.
Back when true console competitive have almost no aim assist compared to Cod.
You’re smoking GOOD drugs, original halo 2 has gross amount of aim assist/adhesion, plus giant hit box for sniper rifle headshots
I think shoulders up is considered a headshot right? If you miss headshots on H2 your monitor is off@@andrebennett1596
when mlg wasn't a meme...
now even the meme is dead
rip mlg
So well made.
what was well made? the game footage is 20% of the screen and the rest is bullshit no one cares about and a border. it is terribly made.
halo 2
VeNoMz Not really. Halo 2 has held up well, but nothing else from this has.
XD this is more entertaining than football
Drew Biggah I’ll have to disagree about hockey, that shit is fun asf to watch and is way too unpredictable to be rigged
The good ol days
came back here after watching the Halo WC 2017... damn miss that OG MLG Halo
Crazy seeing walshy so young (unfortunately I never watched MLG back in the day. I really wish i did). I watch HCS now though.
i hope halo mlg comes back one day
23:49 ftw and the kid on the far-left gets primal, lol
boy looked angry, lol
Haaaaa
No headset is hilarious. Insane
Take me back.
I remember watching this on Tv. Thanks for the upload hopefully we well get a remake of Halo 2 this year
Lol we r
Seriously, thanks for the upload. I remember that final game!!
11 fucking years ago ho-ly
@@noblehinen5271 time flies! cheers
agreed 110% almost makes me cry looking at what halo is now
best way to get my refill on mountain dew when my fridge is empty
I think Halo 2 has the highest skill cap of any Halo game
Man time really does fly as you get older this has almost been 20 years...
first time ever watching this type of video. Wow this is cool. I always new MLG was a thing but never really watched any footage before.
Back then Halo was no bullshit, just good fun that everyone wanted to be apart of....... Now it just isn't the same...... Microsoft owns Halo and made that shitty Halo 4 for noobs and shit for brains....... The world has changed, games have changed, TV's are different even and I've changed too..... but competitive shooters don't have the buzz anymore...... where's the mad skills?
Youll never see games like h2 or counter strike again. Just not the same. Companies are money hungry & attacking the masses. Kids nowadays dont have that soul and tactically inclined/clutch mindset like the fellas from my gen or ours. Theyre remaking h2 for xbone but ill mail you a check bi weekly for 6 months if they bring back the bxr or quad shot. They wont do it. Were a dying breed guy.....
Nick aguado You realize the BXR, BXB, and Quad shot were not actually intended to be in the game right? Those were glitches that to players to the next level of skill. So they really cant bring it back for a few reason one they were glitches. Two Halo 2 is on an old outdated engine. Three it would become a replication which means button commands there fore anyone could do it wouldn't have the same impact. However yes the days of Halo 2 or halo being a skilled game are long over. Ive attended 6 events in the halo 2 days, 3 in H3 and none after miss those days. Last but not least yes companies are money hungry it takes a insane amount of money to produce a great AAA title. Some games push upawards 200 million just to make. So yes they want to make their money back if they didn't companies will fold and games will not exist.
Nick aguado All people care about now is graphics and resolution, not the gameplay or story. We truly are a dying bread and it's sad.
***** It's true..... someone will fill the hole - there is a market...... it's just that the studios got so big that they are now looking for market research, focus group feed back and risk analysis before some corporate pussy puts their little balls on the line to make a decision.... mediocrity at it's most safe
halo 5 will; bring it all back trust me dude
I was there! Aaaaaaah! Nostalgia overload
I remember Halo 2 when it first came out I play it on the hardest lvl and I had fun with friends good time I still love Halo and now I only play the store mod
Memory overload nostalgia
Crazy how time flies
2023 anyone
Yeah
2024
I miss this shit.
i second that man i miss the halo 2 mlg days
8:56 jesus I felt that one
This shit hits different 10+ years later. Sad I barely played halo 2 online, halo 3 is when I become obsessed with halo. Halo was my main game up til H5 I really don’t know how I lasted that long everything from halo 4 on was complete ass. Reach with NBNS was pretty good. Gaming as a whole is trash, how do you take a game with a winning formula like halo and still fuck it up catering to new players and other games.
So true man I remember being one those annoying 10 yr olds on halo 2 those were the days
it's not trash, just that most people's attitudes have become rancid, cynical, and entitled.. It also doesn't help that mass amounts of the complainers never attempt or experiment creating anything of substantial value themselves leaving them in the dark about all the difficulties & tedious frustration developing even a mediocre indy game involves. Another thing people don't realize is back then there were so many janky feeling games that a good FPS game like Halo or COD stood out. Now fastforwarding 15-20 years later you have a whole sea of endless great feeling shooters and because individuals end up feeling like they're drowning in redundancy and nothing stands out or "pops" it ends up manifesting ungrateful sentiment for what they consider a new Norm.
love the old mlg tourament of halo 2 or 3
The Zyos interview is fucking wild lmao.
There’s like 0 aim assist crazy compared to now
Ahhhhh the nostalgia feels gooood
"Beaver Creek is massive" LOL!!! What a noob! Beaver Creek is one of the smaller maps. XD
+One Winged Angel 100% not correct.
Daniel goog Coagulations was a big map. You could have a Tank, Banshee and two smaller vehicles for each base, and then you had massive no man's land area between these bases.
+One Winged Ice Angel It's massive in the context of competitive 4v4 maps.
NAw he was just a noob
Love the player profiles!
its all ogre now
Bend Ogre and I'll show you. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
its all gone now
Back when Strongside was on Carbon. One of my all time favorite players.
This screams 2005😂love it
Crazy looking back at these times now in 2021
Real
Damm this was a great era
IT'S CALLED TEAMWORK HOTSHY!
The music in this video cracks me up
Sh0ckwave in '06 was dirty. Wonder if he and Karma will be back now that H2: Anniversary is coming out this year?
I'd also like to see OGRE 1 come out of retirement. He's teased it a bit on Twitter, but being in Australia and just having a baby not too long ago will likely keep him from ever competing again in tournaments. I mean, it's not impossible to do, but he'll definitely say that that is the reason he won't come back.
ya he is too old, leave it to the next teenager/early 20 year old ya
Damn this looked so awesome
wow takk for uploaden :) var litt uvant og se gandhi og sockwave spille :)
bruh.... those tv's lol
If you were at these mlg tournaments and not competing in Halo 2, then you weren't at mlg at all. This was the biggest game and made MLG, now that it's gone, I rly doubt ppl even go there or support mlg teams like final boss, carbon and str8 anymore. It's just not the same. Halo 2 even had the USA channel sponsor MLG just for Halo 2, that's how big it was.
Halo 2 was what kicked off MLG, and kept getting bigger. Halo 3 was even BIGGER, but thats because of how MLG got out there and it just kept growing. Halo 2 was the favorite game and my peronsal favorite, but Halo 3 was way bigger in the MLG world.
very very true.
The golden days
Thank you so much for sharing this
Lol Walsh and Tom so young back then
It's T2s dad. Sundance Giovanni! :-D
awesome video
Fuuuuuucccckkkk mee witthhh nostalgia!!!! 😭 I'll never forget these days. Halo has never been the same and definitely changed once Halo 3 started
video quality is fantastic
Miss these days!
legendary
Hearing that breaking Benjamin theme song literally makes my eyes misty :(
Only legends are here now in 2022
Good times.
do you have more of these? put em up or tell me where u get em!
This was when video games were fun
I remember owning pro circuit game son the Xbox, those were the damn days
is there a way to find more of these videos?
Might be the nostalgia, but there was nothing like 2006 MLG halo. No esport tournament even comes close in my book.
back when halo was the premier competitve game