Remember Halo
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2022
- Infinite's Winter update comes on Nov 8th with forge & campaign co-op, 1 year after launch. If the ending makes you want to buy MCC don't expect to get the same experience as pictured (different menus & features, limited voice-chat, rampant AFK & quitting, inconsistent queue times, no veto...)
-- Intro commentary --
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00:31 Shayne • Did 343i Really Misman...
00:35 Roanoke Gaming • Halo is Dead and 343 n...
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00:59 popq2 • Halo Infinite Launchin...
01:03 JKPRising • The EMBARRASSING State...
01:08 Aozolai • $19.99 for Reach Hazop...
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01:22 AngryJoeShow • Halo Infinite - Angry ...
01:29 poq2 • MCC Halo 3 is a BROKEN...
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01:38 MrMattyPlays • Halo Infinite Is Embar...
01:52 EBR • 343 Industries - The H...
-- MCC launch --
04:30 BBQ DanTheMan • Halo: The Master Chief...
04:36 Christopher Cox • The Master Chief Colle...
04:44 NEACE • Video
04:56 coopn8r • Halo MCC: Slight Rage ...
05:02 BBQ DanTheMan • Halo: The Master Chief...
05:07 Rager Dad • Dad rages over 343 Hal...
05:26 blake3one6 • Halo MCC Online Fail R...
05:41 True Kino • Please Fix Halo MCC
05:47 Chrisman17 • Halo master chief coll...
-- Songs --
00:25 Mausoleum Suite • Halo 2 Volume 2 OST #5...
02:00 Data Hive (Extended) • Halo 3: ODST Complete ...
04:30 MCC theme • HALO THE MASTER CHIEF ...
06:45 Griffin • Griffin's Death - Halo...
07:50 Library Suite • Library Suite
08:58 Deliver Hope (Glyn R Brown) • Halo: Reach - "Deliver...
-- Bungie material --
Making of Halo 2 • Behind the Scenes Maki...
Bungie before Halo 2 • Bungie Before Halo 2
Halo Gamestock 2001 • Halo Gamestock 2001
Microsoft E3 2004 • Microsoft E3 2004 Pres...
Microsoft E3 2006 • E3 2006 - Complete Mic...
Halo 3 trailer • E306 - Halo 3 trailer ...
O Brave New World • O Brave New World
Halo 3 ViDoc: Journey's End • Halo 3 ViDoc: Journey'...
G4's Halo 3 Countdown Live • G4's Halo 3 Countdown ...
Halo 3 Forge Demonstration • Halo 3 Forge Demonstra...
-- 343 material --
Frank O' Connor on 343 Industries • Halo 4's Frank O' Conn...
Halo 4 Panel (Halo Fest) • Halo Fest: Halo 4 Panel
Halo 4 Behind the Scenes • Halo 4: A Hero Awakens...
Halo 4 loadouts interview • Halo 4 - Spartan Ops, ...
Xbox Anniversary 2021 • Xbox Anniversary Celeb...
Phil Spencer IGN talk • Phil Spencer Joins Unl...
Halo 5 Making of • Playlist
343 interview GI show • GI Show: The Halo Spec...
Bonnie Ross DICE 2017 • "Stewards of a Sci-fi ...
Halo Bulletin EP3 • The Halo Bulletin: Epi...
Halo Bulletin EP4 • The Halo Bulletin: Epi...
Bonnie Ross IGN interview • How Bonnie Ross Is Sha...
HWC 2017 • Halo World Championshi...
Xbox E3 2021 showcase • Xbox and Bethesda Game...
Inside Xbox 2019 • Halo Infinite Intervie...
Infinite September update • Halo Infinite | Updat...
Ask343 Zeta Halo • #Ask343 | Halo Infini...
Infinite MP tech preview • Halo Infinite | Multip...
Infinite Launch update • Halo Infinite | Launch...
Infinite Dev. update • Halo Infinite | Develo...
Xbox Showcase Ext. 2019 • Xbox Games Showcase Ex...
Infinite S2 livestream • Halo Infinite | Season...
-- Notes --
- Halo 3 player count at 1M peak • Over a million players...
- Current Bungie team did not work on Halo
- Some devs you see here don't work at 343 anymore
- Some 343 devs are former Bungie employees (Frank O'Connor, Joseph Staten, Brian Jarrard)
- Bonnie Ross left 343 Industries in September 2022
- The map at 3:35 is a remake of Lockout in forge
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Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot
Alll hail Marty, ALLL HAILLL MARTYY
It's my man Marty!
🙏
All hail marty 🙌
The legend himself
"We made the DIFFICULT decision to offer LESS features, work LESS on the game, BARELY test it before launch and ask for MORE money."
Such a touch call to make guys.
Look at his colleague's face while he's saying that. Dude is trying so hard to not smile...
Pairs nicely with a large glass of "For us, the launch isn't so much the finishline, it's the starting line"
Vultures !
People really want Microsoft let these incompetent developers (343) to continue to make more Halo games.
343:"unique competitive feelings new money tough decision"
bungie:"fun"
This isn’t just about Halo; it’s about how gaming has gone from genuine passion and ingenuity to corporate husks and live services.
Look at music from the 1990s to today and you can see a bigger picture of what's been happening. You can even apply some of the same to journalism. There is hardly any room for real art in these industries anymore.
@@DiavoloGrenadine Every industry that gets large enough to generate billions attracts investors. Once those investors start demanding return on their investments, creativity and integrity go out the window. And all that remains is buggy releases and battle passes.
Yes
@@DiavoloGrenadine gta trilogy?
Capitalism rotting everything it touches
“They didn’t earn this”
Truer words have never been spoken. This sums it all up.
@@thegreatwhiteleaf Sad thing is, I don't think Bungie is much better than 343 at this point. I think the people giving them money are to blame. Quota, quota, quota, whether it be Destiny or Halo. "How do we make more money," as opposed to "how do we make a good game?"
Fuck 343, the series should’ve just ended at reach
They are shitting on the shoulders of giants.
@@Lovicideprobably because most of bungie now is people who weren't there in the 90s or 2000s who built it.
@@Lovicide Bungie would 100% be better than 343 though. I mean say what you want about Destiny but it's consistently one of the top most played games for almost 10rys on all platforms. While Halo has been a joke for about the same amount of time.
343 Industries: "The core of Halo is in the competition".
Me inmediatly thinking: "Then you dont know what Halo is".
343:"unique competitive feelings new money tough decision"
bungie:"fun"
Aaay a bleach fan, nice
Neigh, it was heresy!
I'll admit: I played the hell out of ranked, but this is a perfect example of making the live experience more important than the game itself
@@BazookaTooth707thats the beauty of halo. at its core its dumb fun but there was a lot of skill expression too
Almost the entire AAA industry is hellbent on conditioning the younger generation to accept a lower standard/value.
Nobody dares to outcompete these giants because trying to do so would tank their ESG scores.
@@KopperNeomanindie games are on the rise tho
@@yourface0707 Omg yes! I miss it so much when people were playing for fun
@@KopperNeomanthanks Blackrock (run by jew Larry Finkelstein)
They already have unfortunately. My nephew (11) already expects $60 games to be broken at launch and just play F2P mtx hell games 24/7 because he thinks its always been like this.
It is mind-boggling how little 343 understands Halo's DNA. I've been trying to come back to Halo for almost 10 years now, only to be disappointed every time.
343 is mediocrity incarnate.
Craziest part is the sheer volume of information at their disposal during the making of Halo Infinite. If they couldn’t get it right, with all the guidance a developer could ever dream of in the form of all these video essays, vocal complaints, unanimous outcry among the community for change, and the sheer wealth of learnings that can be gleaned from Halo’s legacy itself, after 6 fucking years… how will they ever get it right?
W youtube channel
That guy saying "they didn't earn this" is the perfect summary. A bunch of California yes-men hipsters and diversity hires got thrown a multibillion dollar IP beloved by many and they arrogantly went "we don't like this; we'll do it our way and better."
I thought they finally nailed the gameplay in Infinite? But botched literally everything else surrounding the game lol
"we didnt include elites because its a spartan story."
Translation:"It's hard to animate and put sellable armor for two types of characters. So we decided not to do it."
Halo Reach: A Spartan story, yet it had playable elites which weren't even half baked as they had their own assassination animations, and 2 unique game mode allowing you to always play as them.
Not the only reason. Since they were so in love with making the game "competitive", they didnt want a character with a hunchback, since it makes headshots from behind harder to do.
This video is the definition of the quote "Don't cry because is over, be happy because is happened".
berserk? jojo? or metal gear? i forgot
Smile because it was
Rest in peace halo
@@alejandrooliver5947nah we still out here my guy!
@@ripdito fucking jojo agahahahha
"343 didn't earn this, that's why they don't CARE about it!" is the most accurate description for 343's involvement in modern Halo.
If Xbox somehow doesn’t throw out them against the odds they might try to make a halo crypto game
5:12
@@The_whales Xbox or Microsoft or both don't care. They'll just buy 2 more publishers and call it a day. What a joke
Well, look at where Bungie is right now. I don't know if Halo would be faring too much better with them still at the helm.
@@mechanomics2649 The old guard left Bungie long ago.
They, Bioware, Blizzard, DICE, Mojang, Konami, Square Enix, and many others are NOT the companies you know, and will never be anymore.
That clip with the developers pretending to be excited about the lootboxes they themselves programmed will never fail to remove a few years from my life expectancy.
ah yeah sure nobody watching what devs are implementing into the game and let alone asking them to put lootbox into the game... pfff
@@theostachowiak2283 noone wants lootboxes
Major cringe
@@bencurran3204 corporate ghouls do
@@theostachowiak2283 if you're a dev, or any relation to any game creation, plz listen to people. No one wants loot boxes. Your game will fail if you disregard the fan's sincere wants and criticisms. Quit your job.
I miss the early 2000's...
Me too. We can't go backwards though because we will just see everything turn to crap once again. Hopefully things improve.
@@thatstench5242 nothing ever happens.
@@naggodsIt will
I do not
@@spencer871 Any particular reason why?
Can we agree that halo 3 is the last halo? (chronologically speaking)
So many mixed reviews about halo 4, but to me it ends at 3.
1, 2, 3, odst, reach, wars are the only halo games that were ever made. I wouldn't mind a continuation after the end of 3 but i think more spin offs like reach would probably be better
That's my headcanon. Chief is still out there in cryosleep. Any Halo game that says otherwise is just fanfiction.
Yes, 343's lore exists in a separate universe. Glorified fanfiction, nothing more.
@@ToxicBalloon360Fun Fact: Halo Silentium confirms that there are infinite universes in the Halo universe. So that means that in some alternate timeline, Halo 3 ended and there was no halo 4-6 .
What I like most about this video is that it’s not someone telling you how halo died, it’s someone showing you.
Its how halo lived.... and was murdered.
Halo didn't die with a bange but a whimper
@@philiplorio9820 similar to how Bungie died
Only halo died by Microsoft digging their claws into it re purposing it as some soulless husk
Meanwhile Activision dug their claws into Bungie to turn them into some corporate puppet company
...... then Microsoft came over said YOINK and bought Activsion
A shambled dead corpse played on a stage. Evil cannot create something that is made with love and passion- that is the message that has happened across all mediums.
And it is okay to reject this garbage- those who push trash don't deserve the respect, because they hate you.
@@ultraego6678
Yeah like how dare people be concerned for the direction a francise they love and likelly grew up with is going right, like how can people even like things
Last 3 minutes genuinely made me tear up, I almost forgotten how games used to not feel like souless corporations when the devs were just as big as nerds as the fans.
@@MomJeans1738 Do you top white boys?
@@ultraego9730 average tate fan
What are these replies? Go outside, touch the grass my god.
They're literally still like that if you play indie games instead of games made by studios under companies that answer to shareholders. Literally just play better games lol.
@@ultraego9730 real men cry, you've just been trained by older generations into believing you should bottle up
So glad I grew up with Halo at its peak
Facts
I wish I did, I only got to experience that last year before 343 killed it with “Halo” 4
Even if I didn't grow up with Halo. I'm glad I got to experience the original halo trilogy
4 more years, and Halo 3 will be 20 years old. Two decades.
I'll definitely still be playing it by then.
It holds up, man! Halo 3 was my introduction to the series. I still think Halo 2 is my favorite, though. The great part is that every game in the trilogy has its own distinct feeling.
It's just depressing at this point, never in my life have I seen a franchise and IP fumbled as badly as Halo
Same here. I'm fans of several series with several sets of blunders, but Halo...dear God, a highly respected gaming giant that everyone and their mum loved, to a festering pile of nonstop issues, mistakes and broken promises.
@hiddenX, were it so easy
@@TusksTheAxew Legit, when I got the OG Halo as a young teen waay back in the day, even my mom came into my room to check out the gameplay from time to time, which never happened previously or with any other game ever again. It was THAT GOOD and groundbreaking...once.
Straight up abused
@@AlwayzFresh Similar thing happened with my mum, in that she paid way more attention to the game (specifically Halo 2, Reach and ODST the most) and its characters that she can easily name names, say their characteristics and memorise weapons, unlike most other games i play she gets second hand experience of.
I cried my eyes out at the last few moments.
It’s insane that we have zoomers who has no clue just how HUGE halo was because 343 has run it into the ground
I was there for 3 man, young as fuck, but it's in my top 5 games of all time still to this very day
@@snowyskunkyfoxsame
It’s the sad thing, I started playing halo in December of last year and as a 14 year old. It’s become one of my favorite franchises and i didn’t start that long ago. The sad thing is that no one from my generation will remember this era. Seeing the fun and enjoyment from everybody while they play a game. They don’t sweat and take it like it’s a show off. It was always about having fun. And it’s sad I wasn’t there to be apart of it…better late then never though.
@@Randomboyo16309 I’m so glad you can enjoy these classics! So much heart and soul poured into them before gaming became so corporate! I tell you what I can’t stand how serious everyone takes gaming nowadays; somewhere along the way everyone started taking the games SO serious and everyone sweats so hard, I think putting competitive in every game kinda ruined what made gaming is at the end of the day: fun! Even when it got toxic nobody really took things so literal; people get SO angry at others in stuff now! While it was a different time I’m so glad you are enjoying these works of art!! 👍
Dude, I was born in 1998 and Super Mario Galaxy came out the same year Halo 3 did.
I don't play FPS games. I have only ever bought 2 games that were rated M.
I remember Halo. I remember people that played Halo, that loved Halo. Cousins, schoolmates, the general public at large. I'm not just going to deny the influence that Halo has on the gamescape at that time.
I remember Halo because I remember 2007. I remember the absolute love I poured into Super Mario Galaxy. I remember when the video game industry wasn't like this. Like THIS.
I remember Halo.
For those who never played and wonder why we cared so much, Bungie made an entire generation get into Halo, everything from the soundtrack to the feel of the matches online was legendary, and for many it was a perfect first step into the competitive scene, the midnight launches where everyone met up at a store (which current generations will most likely see less and less) and the splitscreen features for those who wanted to couch co-op - it was all there and it took all of us to new heights of what a game could be.
I will always remember Halo: 1 2 and 3 as the crowning achievement of the mid 2000's shooter gaming era.
The 2000s was the last great decade for gaming. I was born in 91, so i got to come of age during the golden age of Halo, GTA, Diablo, Tony hawk, so many others..... but nothing will beat playing and experience Halo 2 and Halo 3 during the mid and late 2000s. I wont go into detail, its all been said before, but i will always cherish those summer nights where me and my friends would stay up til 3am every night during the summer playing halo 3 big team matches, campaign, customs, i wanna go back so bad.
As someone who has become obsessed with 2000s (and select few early 2010s) games, I can't express how envious I feel looking at old videos. I can't express how envious I feel playing these maserpieces. You 2000s kids got all of this innovation and passion, while we kids who were born after are served garbage like Overwatch 2? So glad to be still be able to experience these games. My absolute favourites right now are HL2, Borderlands and Mirror's Edge :D
@@BAGAKOOS oh how I envy you! I've never had so much fun playing games online as I did when playing Portal 2's coop campaign with my friend. I hope that during summer vacations I can invite my friend over and we can play some classic split screen Halo.
It was never about competition, it was about community and fun
@r3nik3 yup
"Shut up ni-"
With a sprinkle of abusing complete strangers, lol.
The community and the fun they had also inspired players to want to be competitive and get better!
@@deloreandmc88 nah gaming industry died in 2006 with the 360 and ps3 and online in general
"Wake me when you need me" I still get goosebumps. Not a sad ending, not a happy ending, a perfect ending
So true! It leaves some mystery and closure that even though Halo is a dead game, it could one day return if made by the right hands
I seriously could not agree more. I don’t think there is any other way they could have ended it.
For me, it's all of those
It’s the perfect ending. To me Chief is still floating around in space, and none of the nonsense with 4-5-infinite happened.
@@cuinderblockdeer4102 word!! 💪💪💪
When did I get so numb? Life used to be so full of emotion. Now everything is so complicated and I just go through the motions. This video took me back to simpler times, thank you.
That’s depression bro
@@fartgod6983nah, bro just grew up man.
God, I miss Halo. Nobody could ever do it better than Bungie.
Bungie was gonna make another great game but then Activision another company focused on money. Killed what would be another great franchise and also killed bungie in the process and made the owners leave. That game was destiny. I hate that money hungry companies have taken over gaming. Like Microsoft buying Bethesda
@@UncleRuckus7600lol what are you even saying? Destiny left activision and then got even MORE GREEDY with more problems then ever, actually when they were with activision the game was less buggy and more polished, have you not seen lightfall? Activision was gone far before then and that was the worst expansion they ever came out with
i miss halo 😥
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd The leadership that was in place still remains.
All the quality folk from the old days are gone. The people that make Destiny love that game to bits. It's the SLT that refuse to listen or take a pay-cut that ruined Bungie.
@@beast0339 well a lot of those old devs were replaced by DEI diversity hires too, more worried about putting their own self inserts and politics in the game then quality, that certainly doesn’t help
That last scene
Even as someone who doesn't even play halo, I can understand the joy they have playing the old series of the game and generally making a lot of friends on the way.
Those people are either not here anymore or still here but already move on to a different situation that they don't have time to have fun like that anymore.
"We are simply having fun, we didnt realize we were making memories along the way until the end."
Bro same. I only played the first game when I was 10/11 some 12 years ago and I slightly teared up at the end lmfaoooo.
They didn't mention reach.
can i just say the bungie crew also looks like total nerds compared to 343. 343 looks like a bunch of business people, not real gamers like the bungie crew in those past clips. a nerd is gunna make something amazing, why? i mean the whole definition of a nerd is someone who likes something way too much and thus knows all about it THUS making whatever they make about or from it will be great. its like the saying "never trust a skinny chef". cuz their food is gunna suck lol.
That’s not the point, it’s for HALO, not 6, at least that’s what I’m getting from this.
Name me one other studio that was given one of the biggest videogame franchises in history and fumbled the bag for ten years trying to put out a successful sequel and still kept their jobs. Something just doesn't add up.
In retrospect, I think a lot of us didn't fully appreciate how good we had it with gaming as it was in the 2000s. It was a great time to play.
It truly was. Not just Halo, but also Valve was releasing absolute bangers on Steam.
I don't even play games anymore. Haven't bought any of the latest consoles. Gaming has already peaked.
It was fucking amazing. I have a big problem with living in the past and gaming is another reason I have to do so. It’s not healthy but I love thinking about the memories
@@Bojaxs so much bangers. Halo, Forza, Flatout, Ghost Recon, COD, etc, honestly, it was gaming's best era. I'm glad we were there for it.
Absolutely. That Wii/360/PS3 era was just perfect. Want just simple, fun games with friends? Play a Wii game. Want to go online and do ridiculously random shit in an FPS? Go play Halo. Wanna play something more experimental or story-focused? Go play PS3. Plus, the Wii and PS3 didn't require a subscription to play online. Only the 360 did. Mario Kart Wii or the Killzone games? Completely free to play with anyone, anywhere, just like on PC to this day.
Plus, DLC was way less egregious. No Battle Passes or loot boxes. Just, hey, want extra maps or characters? Here, it's not that expensive and they're also fantastic additions to an already great base game. Something changed when we went to Wii U/PS4/Xbox One. Companies got way greedier and the really passionate devs are either out of the industry or just doing indie games. Indie games are great, but let's be honest, most people play AAA games.
I threw a Halo 2 and 3 LAN party at my place last night we managed to comfortably fit 14 players. Played some CTF on coagulation which was so much fun. It was the first time I booted up my 360 in almost a decade and we played some of the old H3 custom games maps that were last on the console. Felt like a kid again. Looking back we had it so good, we had real triple A games. These new titles are an absolute waste of time and money. Such a funny coincidence that this video was released on the same day I threw the LAN party.
Its the microtransactions I tell ya. Every bad game has them
I miss when we got new games every 4 years... now it'll be Infinite forever.
Sadly, the problem is much more insidious and runs much deeper than mere cosmetics...
I cried man.
I used to play Halo 3 back when I was way younger. I didn’t play the older Halo 2, or CE, but I played the 3rd one every time I went to the library and rented it with my mom. I loved playing it every weekend. I would spend countless hours replaying missions, going through different difficulties of the game’s campaign, and messing around on forge and sometimes even fighting against my Dad in a split screen match. I loved it so much. I grew older, but I still never forgot my fear of the Flood mission in that game. The very first time I ever experienced it, I screamed and turned off my xbox after seeing the Marines and Covenant both turn against me. After I bought a new xbox and everything, I finally got up a new game pass subscription and started playing the Master Chief collection. I played CE, I played Reach, I played the 4th Halo installment, and I enjoyed it mostly. It was fun nonetheless, and gave back so many memories of Halo 3 and renting it at the library.
That’s when I saw Halo Infinite’s trailer. I was fucking ecstatic. “A new enemy? Oh shit! It’s an enemy I fought against in Halo Wars 2?! So awesome!”
As soon as I was able to download it, I played the campaign. It was.. okay at the most. I thought the gameplay wasn’t the best, but the story and boss fights and open world experience were interesting.
Then I checked out Multiplayer.
I hated it.
I hated what I saw.
Micro-transactions everywhere.
I regretted having even tried playing the new Infinite, and that’s when I just gave up on Halo overall. I saw to it as if it no longer had any worth after what 343 decided to put out there.
I never played Halo Infinite multi-player, the single-player campaign was good, not excellent as the previous games, but we at least had one... nowadays games don't even have that, such a shame
343 just doesnt get halo, or what makes it great
I'm conservative in my games.. I started hating it when you could sprint, think it was Halo 4
1, 2 & 3 told the story while ODST & REACH were the sweet farewell extra.
Halo isn't dead, its finished. May it rest, until its needed again.
It's needed now more than ever
@@cursedxp6088 Then go ahead and boot it up from the beginning?
@@Dasistrite bro I'm seriously considering doing this! I haven't played in years..and I only ever got as far as Halo Reach. It's been so long it might feel new again :P
Yep as far as I’m concerned the story ended with H3
I miss when in a party chat everyone could say let’s play halo
proximity chat on death was actually brilliant, hearing your enemy's last words abruptly cut off as you slayed them was just so damn good.
Amazing how gaming keeps going backwards, features removed and lost forever while only adding ways to monetize players
@@ItsAlpacaMan Prox chat in new MW2. Hopefully they don't remove it. Maybe I'll finally put time into the meme that is BR.
@@DegenerateMic its only in warzone 2
Losers claimed its toxic to be able to talk to other people that's why online games are for dead quiet weirdo recluses
It was in MW2019
Ngl, the end almost made me tear up. This is so fucking sad man.
Halo 3’s ending was the best way to finish the franchise. It should’ve been left alone
Press F to pay respects to another fallen franchise.
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i may not be a halo fan but it's sad to see another beloved franchise ruined by an evil company like 343
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Its not fallen just missing in action
I'll never forgive 343 for hiring people who hated halo to make halo then coming out and pretending like they beat all the odds. They've nothing to show for the last decade and the arrogance is mind blowing
Well they have your expectations to show for it. You’re still here complaining all this time later.
@@asswaterstudios Ahhh the "intellectual" who stands in the center and says everyone is an idiot for "complaining" when its actually them voicing their opinion on something. L take bro
@@asswaterstudios because what are we supposed to do they won’t listen to us all we can do is complain because they fucking suck for doing this to us ruining such an amazing game and acting like nothing in the past even happened at al
@@asswaterstudios it's almost like we've lost something we loved.
@@asswaterstudios343 simp
What makes it all so special and bittersweet is that we don't just remember the game. We remember playing with our siblings or our parents. We remember all the people that we met online. We remember LAN parties in friends garages and basements. We remember Madcatz, Gameshark, G4 TV, and full guidebooks for games. We remember all of the little things that were products of a now bygone era.
I don't think that gaming will ever again feel like it did back then. However, we can still be happy that we were there for one of the best video game franchises ever, and for giving us all some of our best memories.
To all those that we won't see again... we finished the fight.
i was too young to play the og halo games as they came out, but i grew up watching my cousin play every game up to reach, and then we played 4 together a few times before he moved. i've had the chance to play them now, and no other game has come close to making me tear up the way i did when finishing the campaigns of odst and reach. i know 4 isn't necessarily received well by many, but it's the first game i got to play by myself because i was left with the disc. a part of me will always feel like i missed something for not getting to play these games in their prime, but getting to watch my cousin get that experience is something i'm glad i got to see. i tried playing 5, but i just couldn't do it. it didn't feel like a halo game. it feels strange to miss something i never had a chance to experience, but it's undeniable that these are truly amazing games. the impact they had on those who played them is something i've never seen replicated yet.
You used to be made fun of if you played video games till halo 2 came out then litterly the entire school bought Xboxs and halos. Shit changed how everyone used to hang out.
Get the MCC and play Reach -> CE, 2, 3, odst and maybe 4, than youll know anything we had back than besides some huge MP stuff ofc but it will show you how big the game was and why it was so big. Halo proved the industry that FPS with a story ON CONSOLE works, setted the foundation for alot of other big IPs to migrate to console aswell
I remember in Halo 3 everyone was in gamechat and we were screaming repeatedly “veto” as loud as we can to change the map. Man the memories bring a tear of joy.
😂
Blue skittle!!!
Honestly dude, Contracters VR Halo is actually quite well done and it seems some of the OG fans are still around. Was an awesome feeling c:
I used to say the nword so much LMAO
@@MaQuGo119 lmao you wildin! But if there were any time to say nigga with the hard R, it was a halo lobby.
Halo was never meant to be an eSport where kids are inhaling gfuel and putting on their sweatbands. It was meant to be a fun game to play for all skill types, so even your noob friends can play with you and have fun. It was made to sit back and relax not sit on the end of your seat with sweat dripping down your face
Same for Call of Duty....
But all good things don't last forever
So true. Just had a throwback LAN party with Halo 2 and even newbies to the game were talking smack and sitting on the edge of their seat by the end. Took me right back to all the great memories playing Halo and the friends made along the way.
Crazy how it wasn't meant for that but had one of the greatest competitive scenes in all of gaming, hell Halo basically made MLG.
343:"unique competitive feelings new money tough decision"
bungie:"fun"
That's ironically why halo and cod were the most fun to play competitive. The games were actually fun so wanting to get better came naturally.
Bungie really was a standout example of a great game studio. I’m grateful my teenage years were during that era of gaming.
There’s still room for studios like old school bungie to exist. Maybe some already do. There is a lot of passionate people making games, probably more than in 2007. As independent studios grow, I’m hopeful we will see some positive changes in the AAA industry.
I don’t think 343 understood how bad they sounded until they were in the middle of the interview
Crowbcat really knows how to condense down to the essence just how much AAA game development has rotted.
Yet drones still support these AAA disasters year after year
Games like Halo Infinite do not represent AAA games a whole as there is a ton of great AAA games over the years.
@@frozenvoltz6739 what games are those ?
A slowly dying breed. Like a grandparent on life support. They pump all the money that can into these machines that breath for them, pump their blood -- but they know what is coming. No matter how much they smile and put on a facade of status quo, they see the reaper at their bedside. Its up to us to grieve properly and let them pass, not put more money into these machines that pretend to live.
@@swahagod8369 None
"When you work on a game, you want to get that game out there. For us that's like the finish line, but in reality that's gonna be the starting line"
Holy crap. This is where we're at with triple A studios now.
As one of the greatest said, “A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad.”
@Stezika15 nobody? Really? Because enough people still preorder or mindlessly buy trash that it’s worth it for them to put out the game unfinished and accept bad publicity and low review scores
Go look up Saas video essay of MBA and wtf is Agile development to see what is up
@@AardappelGames not always
Hearing that piano gives me chills
This is beautiful, made me realize how much I loved halo before 343 ruined it. Enough to bring a man to tears
Halo 3 is by far the greatest multiplayer experience I’ve ever had with any game ever. It really was a time and place to be. Spartan/Elite armor was immensely customizable, giving each different player their own unique personality which made it more fun and easier to make friends. As well as the fact that the community really self nurtured itself through tools like Forge and being able to upload/download custom maps and game modes. God there will never be a game like that again.
"They didn't earn this. That's why they don't care."
That's a slap of truth right there. If we take Halo out of 4, 5, and Infinite and if they were released as their own first-person shooters, they would stagger and fall as generic games that may find a little success but nothing near the success of Bungie games. They don't actually know how to build an awesome game. They were simply given a successful IP without any of the foundation of where that success came from.
They gotta go.
Not to mention that when Halo 4 was being worked on, a couple employees from Bungie who worked on Halo offered to help make it alongside 343. Obviously, 343 declined because they thought they could make a better Halo game. That speaks volumes about the leadership at 343 and how they've handled Halo.
@@CloudRollerFox 343 fucking sucks
Yeah it's very Ian Malcolm's speech in the first Jurassic Park, "It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so that's why you don't take any responsibility."
But the vast majority are diversity hires, so that's NEVER going to happen.
This comment is sheer delusion
There’s something magical about being deployed to the desert, connecting a shit-ton of 360s with what looks like a million miles of Cat5 and filling the bay with the hoots, hollers, and curses of young men just wrecking each other in Halo 3. 8000 miles from home and still had the time of my life.
ooh rah
Dude I bet that was awesome! Sad to see the loss of comradery in games recently.
Seems they just want mainstream games to be a digital vending machine now.
"Like Marvel and Starwars.." Has to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard Halo be compared to 3:00
Could have continued with "Like Marvel and Star Wars, Halo is an IP we didn't create and don't understand..."
so glad I was alive, young but old enough, to truly enjoy and remember Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST and even Halo wars.
Me too, me too
Remember Reach.
The difference between the old Bungie and 343 is that the old Bungie is filled with actual nerds and gamers, 343 is filled with Corporate Suits.
not true, destiny 2 has become so woke and corporate now
@@Yoloswags That's why he said "old" bungie
@@Yoloswags how many people do you know work at the same place for 20 years?
@@redbullsauberpetronas legends
@@redbullsauberpetronas most people that want to retire?
I didn't play Halo, I was a Sony player. But watching all those multiplayer segments where everyone is on voice chat and having an absolute ball of a time blowing each other up, mass suiciding, watching vehicles go nuts from physics...it really makes me wonder what happened to online gaming. I got addicted to the feeling of community, now I'm just addicted to progression and resent the amount of competition that is placed behind it.
Bro did people kill themsleves beacsue if halo?
@@eyyub3360 in-game, not IRL lmao
@@eyyub3360 No dude wtf, he means people killing themselves in game like messing around
I was a PC player that got hooked on Source games (CS:S, TF2, Half-Life, etc). My best friend grew up on Xbox with the Halo series. Before we met each other, I never played Halo and he had never touched a Source game. Both of us *frequently* talk about how we miss 'the old days', and it almost always boils down to: Games today are too competitive-focused, triple A games frequently shit the bed, and most of all... the sense of community is lost.
I thought I was just being nostalgic with rose-tinted glasses, but seeing so many other people state the same thing, the "feeling of community" turned to "addicted to progression" and "the amount of competition", it rings true, I yearn for when I played for fun and not a sense of progression in games. If you asked me to find a multiplayer videogame today that has active servers where people play and VC happily together like at 9:39, I wouldn't be able to point you to a single modern title. Sure there was shit like 2009 COD rage in lobbies but it just felt like people VC'd more often and tried to have fun more often than they do today.
I wonder in what ways changes in AAA game development, shifts in culture online / as a whole, and the aforementioned rose-tinted glasses affect that perception on gaming in the past versus the present.
censorship.. I know this may be hot take but friendly toxicity and yes incorect jokes were big part of multiplayer back in the day. now you get banned if you say something so people do not talk...
I feel like Mathew McConaughey behind the book shelf watching this
This is one of the most emotional endings I have seen.
This video is clearly a love letter to the old Halo fans. As a 32 years old guy, I can say I saw that golden age of Halo myself and I met people there which I still hear to this day, those last minutes of video made me tear up a little
Me too buddy. Me too.
Same me for me. I a 32 year old male, teared up at the end. So many countless hours spent with friends on the original trilogy. Too many memories to count.
Sorry for your loss.
Pray for GTA 😞
Yep. For example the Halo 3 marketing campaign was amazing and the best part of it all is the game itself lived up to all the hype. Such a great time to be a kid and such a great time for video games that was.
33 it was Halo and Socom 2 at the Golden era
I have no snarky comments, or criticism anymore. It’s been over a decade. All I feel now is immense sadness for a time that’s come and gone - and what a beautiful time it was. I feel blessed to have experienced the series in its prime.
I do wonder what the alternate universe looks like where Bungie never gave away Halo to go and make Destiny. I played a ton of Destiny and loved it, but man I can't help but feel like the better timeline is the one where 343 never came into the picture, Destiny never got made, and Halo kept being made by Bungie.
@@castlewhale4746 Halo would fall by the wayside in that universe. Destiny was worth it imo.
@@freddybell8328 destiny was terrible. it was not worth killing halo
Right there with you, brother
@@freddybell8328 Destiny 2 sucks bro and 1 died after they patched the loot cave farm. Forsaken dlc was so terrible they removed it from 2. An entire expansion removed it was so boring.
Had we known how bad it was going to get, I think every Halo fan would have wanted it to end with Reach. Old school Bungie was a team that cannot be recreated with any amount of money
It hurts me knowing that this newer generation will have no idea what Halo is, and what is once was to us all.
They don’t know the original call of duty either, they honestly think their fortnite battle royale is like the best thing ever, and the most fun thing to do is buy skins in the item shop, these kids are exactly what the triple aaa companies want as playerbase, so naive with low standards
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd Kids have always been stupid as shit, gaming companies just weren't quite as good at exploiting that yet. It's not gen alpha's fault that they weren't born 10 years earlier.
They'll never know what a good life was, and they'll blame boomers of five decades ago while defending the companies exploiting them in the present day.
It's over. It's all over, and it's never been more over than it is today.
Wait till you see the shit practices of the games industry in all of software, and hardware...
im 13 and was raised on this shit, lowk makes me sad i never got to experience what the launch days were like, or messing around on xbox live in 2007
@@kuaraiiThat’s crazy man. I was 13 in 2007; got to play Halo 3 the night it launched. Those were the absolute best years of my life, I can’t even play modern video games now because they suck so bad.
I’m sorry you missed it, buddy. I really am.
Crowbcat is the only channel who can perfectly summarize a topic without ever saying a word himself. Legendary
the virgin video essay reviewer vs the chad Crowbcat analysis
who did the voice in the beginning tho?
It's so necessary with 99% of channels rambling nonstop nonsense
Yeah, but alot of his videos bring a circle jerk of haters and leave out important context
Thats right.. never says a word.. he let's it just speak for itself
I was never a big Halo fan growing up as a PlayStation guy but the ending still got to me. That was really a perfect representation of not only what Halo once was but also gaming culture back in late 2000’s to early 2010’s. We lived in a golden era and we didn’t even know it.
I’m a PlayStation guy since the 2000’s and I recently bought an xbox360 to only play the old halo games
Thank god I can’t play halo 5 or infinite on it
@@ruskibruski I had played Combat Evolved on someone else’s Xbox so I’m not saying I never experienced Halo greatness. But why didn’t you get an Xbox One or Series X/S and play MCC on there? You can still play the non-remastered versions of those games.
Bro Halo was that one game that made us Playstation guys say hmm, Ill borrow an xbox for this.
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
@@S0LlDF0X true. Back then Xbox actually had good exclusive games. Nowadays it’s the opposite.
They really did this series dirty.
343 has been invaded by parasites
I just miss joining the lobby and hearing everyone's $10 mic talk shit. Proximity chat so much fun!
Hearing them try to say over and over that Halo is a competitive game at its core just didn’t sit right with me. I’ve always seen Halo as a largely social game, and all 343 has seemed to do with each entry is strip back the elements that made the old titles more social and focused on fun
Yeah completely goes against one of the original developers statements on why they made Halo. In which he said he just wanted to make a game you sit on the couch to play with your buddies. To have fun, not to compete, but to literally just fuck around.
The modern game special: f2p, Remove the ability to freely communicate with the enemy team, remove custom content support, add battlepass/premium currency
because E-SPORTS.
that is the only reason...
Profit focus, allways. u_u
Even as a competitive player, I hate what 343 has done to the community. It's like microsoft and 343 by extention has this anti-social behavior, chosing to limit communication and only funnel in the most fanatic of corporate shill types.
Esports and competitive gaming is what makes gaming the most loser infested entertainment mediums ever.
That final clip with Deliver Hope playing and Bungie putting passion into their games is just heartbreaking. They cared about this franchise, they managed to finish their games, their releases have always been successful. Their entire trilogy has been a work of art.
Bungie didn't finish their games lol.
Bungie has been historically mismanaged and controversial for decades now.
@@justifano7046 And yet their Halo games were 100x better than the pure ass put out by 343i
@@justifano7046 Name a single good thing 343 has done
@@justifano7046 Just because Bungie wasn't satsified with H2? Bungie always killed it when it came to launch day. The sheer amount of content in each Halo game puts many games to shame in 2022.
@@isaaclai1636 Maybe they established example of what not to do? I'm tired of things that I love go to hell, because of devs not knowing what made their ip special to begin with. And I'm not even Halo fan. Also I know it is about money nowadays. Skins, dlc fuckin shaders and shit..
Wait lowkey I know not everyone was the biggest fan but not including reach or ODST footage is criminal, reach basically was bungies final goodbye and the campaign was literally metaphorical on how the halo franchise was coming to an end. I spent almost 10 years playing halo reach. amazing video tho man.
To me I still believe Chief is out there floating through space in his sleep chamber. 343 didn’t deserve to touch such a legendary game.
343's titles are, in my eyes, not even canonical. They're a sad joke.
I genuinely began to tear up watching the old footage of the Bungie devs, and watching the old custom matches. Nothing can take those childhood memories away from me, and the scouring cinders that I feel in my very core when I see what's become of the franchise serves as a personal reminder to ALWAYS question modern game companies.
It’s too bad the community is so cynical now 🥺
It fucking broke me. It hurts so much seeing how much we've lost and regressed since 343i took over...
@I one day we all fade into the void. Until then, we have the sweet memories of brotherhood.
I really don't think companies have changed all that much. Microsoft was still greedy when they were working with Bungie, they were still profit driven, yet the end result was incredible.
And we still have fantastic videogames coming out today that are made by big name studios (God of War 2018).
The problem lies solely with the people within 343. They aren't people who understand why Halo is so beloved, they don't understand that Halo is a social shooter first, not a competitive one, and they don't understand Halo's story and what made it appealing at all.
Weird but ok
The last three minutes of this video is a better love letter to the fans than anything 343 has done.
The "Wake me when you need me" part made me tear up, god I miss Halo.
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Sometimes I just watch the ending of this video just to feel some “halo” again 😭
Well MCC is absolutely sublime now. Took 4 years or whatever but I'm grateful that they eventually got it to be amazing
@D DOG cope
Even tho Stank O'Conner is gone from 343 the damage he's done to the franchise is irreparable. The Halo we knew and loved is dead but it will never be forgotten. Goodbye Halo and thank you for all the cherished memories of endless nights spent playing custom games with friends or even randoms.
I remember running LAN parties for Halo 1 and 2. My wife and I bonded in Halo 3 and some of my most treasured core memories are from Halo 3. I didn't realize how much this franchise meant to me until they announced that split screen would be removed in an upcoming game; my wife and I got really emotional.
Thanks for making this video, for some reason it really helped.
I think this is important in how it shows the frustration from the fans, the incompetence of 343's Executives, but more importantly, *the hurt from everyone who still loves this franchise.*
its not even the executives
Don't think of it as incompetence think of it as an opportunity
This community gets no empathy of me. The sexist comments of Bonnie Ross, the gate keeping, the rants, the harassment, the downplaying of the Ukraine war I can go on. This community deserves worst.
@@UltraEgoMc i hate to agree but i do 100%
Not just incompetence, it's more a lack of care and passion.
I was ecstatic to see Crowbcats return. His story telling and editing are absolutely unparalleled, but whenever he returns, he only heralds the death of a beloved franchise, and this one definitely hurt.
The Crowbatcat is welcomed and feared in equal measure for his speechless knowledge always rings true (and even in ironic way) but it is harbringer of ruin for many of the dearest franchises.
It's 343, it's Xbox, it's Microsoft, we all knew and were and still are in heavy denial.
he never really leaves just takes "extended breaks"
You Bungie fanboys have no other good memories besides playing a video game and no wonder why y’all are so miserable. Do some push ups!
@@ultraego2306 Could take your bicep muscles out and see how you feel trying to do some push ups
The editing on this video is absolutely phenomenal and the end is an emotional rollercoaster.
From 8:40 onwards, I feel like I'm fast forwarding through almost 10 years and literally thousands of hours of happiness and good memories. And at the end, I'm sitting there with this heavy feeling of having lost something, knowing I'll never find it again.
Thank you, Crowbcat!
Remembering back before all the Battle Royales and trying to get to max ranks. Playing with friends and enjoying time goofing off, the world can use some un-seriousness right now.
If you weren’t there for it, it’s hard to describe how massive the launches for Halo 2 and 3 felt.
My Halo 1 disc broke 2 weeks before Halo 2's release. Skipped school release day to pick up my copy at a Blockbuster (RIP). Seen the Halo 3 football commercial while working at a hooters, and bought the legendary edition from that same blockbuster. They were the best years a teenager could have ever asked for
I was 6 when Halo 3 came out. I barely remember it because I was so young, but I won't forget it
All us day one'rs will never forget! Just like Noble 6, Halo died with Reach. Tragic.
I was 10 when Halo 3 came out and have few memories of the big launch but I definitely remember playing both 2 and 3 when they were brand new and seeing that early era of online gaming
I may not have been there, (Mainly due to me not having internet 'till 2013) but I could feel it in the Earth.
Last three minutes got me crying. What I’d give for these genuine feelings of playing a game and meeting people and laughing with them like we did back then.
I was too late to the games with xbox live because poor and now in modern era nobody chats. no typing no voice chat. its all dead, I wish we could all go back to mic spamming and saying egregious things. end note fuck 343 and youtube
@@morphius747 xbox live was the king, still remember many nights like they were yesterday and made Friends with lots of people, 3 of which I still in contact with ten - fifteen years later.
That today nobody talks anymore I noticed to be true. All antisocial idiots or just hang out in private stupid groups and discord and shit.
I started crying too, some of my fondest memories were playing halo with my friends and cousins late at night but that era is gone
❤
Me too man shit. Halo 3 was like peak happiness in my life. So many damn good memories playing this game I miss it soo much
I will never forget the launches of halo 3, halo 3 ODST, and halo Reach. It brought so many fans together in an excitement that I have never experienced again. I will never forget the launch of halo 4, how all the excitement slowly dwindled as the fans realized it was not quite right. The launch of halo 5 left me and many of my friends hesitant as we did not know what to expect, and ultimately we were disappointed. And finally infinite, the first step in the right direction in over a decade, but still not quite what it should have been. 343 have been allowed to mess around with a fan favorite franchise for far too long
Every second I’m reminded how blessed I was to be young, not too young, old but not to old to have too many responsibilities, during the peak console gaming. From 2001-2011, I’d say. From PlayStation to xbox and then computer in 2013 which is a different beast. So blessed, and that’s why good things end, so we can really cherish those *good* times.
What's more heartbreaking is, it's not just Halo, not just video games, that have suffered the same fate.
Yep. It's the whole entertainment industry.
Where there is success, there is a fall from grace
star wars bruh is really saddening. i used to always want the new lego star wars set but they were too overpriced but now i have the money i really don't care. i'm not interested in buying Star lgbtq+ Wars
also shit writers
It's funny to see the "back in my day" sentiment form about stuff I grew up with. The more things change the more they stay the same.
its insane how 343 does the opposite of what we want
For over a decade
@@virginiasaintj fr
It makes me sad, nothing they make is Cannon
@@altaccount2179 yep I agree
When you think of what 343 Guilty Spark was in the game, he wanted to stop Master Chief in the end and he killed everyone's favorite Sergeant Major Johnson. When you think about it, it's no surprise they based their company name off that antagonist. It's gotta be intentional.
So much of what they've done has shown that they hate Halo and its fans; they just wanted to milk it for all it was worth, and instead failed miserably. Fans will stand their ground for the source material, for the real thing, and reject these blasphemous, imposter atrocities, just like fans did with LOTR and the Amazon TV series. But I still don't know which is worse, the Rings of Power or the Halo TV show 😂
It baffles me that Fallout 76 got more post launch support than the "system seller" Halo
my wallet is closed to halo
I don't care what they do to Infinite. I'm not touching it.
"The Slipspace Engine is really this labor of love for 343 we've invested heavily, it's gonna be the foundation of our next 10 years of Halo experiences."
This is such a funny and tragic quote considering they just announced they are switching over to Unreal.
All that work for nothing
That's fucking hilarious and sad. What a state of affairs at 343
They're fucking incompetent
Where did they say they are switching?
Unreal Engine is too good to slip it...that is why.
The ending montage is wild. It’s like I was slapped in the face and forced to remember all of the crazy fun nights I had. This shit literally have me my best friend of over a decade. That game kept us in contact while he served overseas and when he came home and lived halfway across the country. It’s wild to think a video game IP can change your life in such an impactful way.
Whole heartedly agree
From the moment I heard the moistcritikal quote at the beginning I knew it was gonna be a good one
It's some things like this that make me sad.
Shit, I remember the first time in my life I experienced a LAN party and it was all thanks to Halo. I was too young to experience LAN parties with games like Quake, Unreal, or DOOM but my dad showed me FPS games at a relatively young age so I got to experience those games. The first time in my whole life I went to a LAN party, it was a lock-in at this local business. This guy ran the business out of his house. He had every major game console at the time (Xbox, PS2, and Gamecubes) in _every_ room in his house, and had TVs set up in every possible nook and cranny. Did you wanna play Super Monkey Ball while taking a dump? This dude had you covered.
Every console was system linked. I went to play Halo 1 multiplayer at a lock-in this guy was hosting and it was the craziest night of my life. I'm 30. I've done so much crazy stupid crap but nothing amounts to the sheer fun that 10 year old me had at this lock-in. The whole night, we had multiple games going of full lobbies. I still remember playing CTF on Blood Gulch and getting that damn flag to the base just to hear screams of approval from all sorts of places in this guy's house. It was such a surreal experience.
At the time I had mostly played Halo on PC. This was still during the era of hosted servers. I remember when Halo 2 first came out, I ran home from getting off the bus and went straight to check out Halo 2 multiplayer. I remember I called my friend, I said "I have it." He was so fricking excited. He was like "how many servers are up?" I hopped into multiplayer, and I was like "I uhh, I don't see any." We were both very confused. I said "It just has this matchmaking thing, I don't really know what that is. I don't think I like this."
Halo 2 MP was still a load of fun. And so was Halo 3. However, I still missed that sense of community that you got from hosted servers. I remember finding servers hosted by clans and getting to know the people in them. I remember being greeted by regulars who maybe hadn't seen me hop on in a few days or a couple of weeks. I remember the sense of _being missed_ in these spaces, from people who I had never even fricking met. They only knew who I was from wherever I was sitting on the scoreboard, or from being really good at driving the Warthog while playing CTF. And these people knew when I was gone, they worried about me, they missed playing with me.
It is sad that multiplayer games have devolved into this sterilized format of "click button to find people to play with." You may very well never run into those people ever again. Even if you added them to your friends list, when was the next time the both of you would be available to play? It's amazing to me how one simple change in how multiplayer games are hosted completely eradicated all sense of belonging, purpose, and community.
These are fundamental pillars. This is why games like TF2, despite how terrible the state of the game actually is, have been able to cling to life for so long. This is why Minecraft is still one of the most popular games of all time. Sure, you may know nothing about Apache and how to set up a server. But someone you know most assuredly does. Imagine if you could only play Minecraft in multiplayer with matchmaking. Imagine a game like that dying 6 years after 2010 because nobody wanted to pay for matchmaking services anymore. Imagine how sad that would be.
Games as a service is the saddest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. You know whats nuts? My dad bought me a copy of Halo PC in 2003. It still works. I can still put this game into a computer, install it, hop into multiplayer, hit "GET LIST" and find tons of servers filled with players. This game is almost TWENTY YEARS OLD. And it still works! Imagine denying people this experience. Imagine denying consumers a FUNCTIONAL product. When you fork over $60 + tax for that new game with hyped multiplayer, you're getting a product that is GUARANTEED to no longer be functional 7, 8, or 9 years later.
When GameSpy was going away, forever, Bungie said "that's BS, here's a patch so you guys can still get a server list to find multiplayer games." When physical copies of the game started becoming less and less commonplace, Bungie said "hey guys, here's a no-CD patch." This company literally made their game FREEWARE just to provide people with the ability to experience their game. Halo PC multiplayer is like a perfectly preserved time capsule. You can expose yourself to the entire Halo PC multiplayer experience circa 2003, even today.
You know what I can't do? I can't dive back into the Halo 2 multiplayer experience. Talking to people on the awful Xbox Live VOIP? Matchmaking? Haha, good luck with that. The only way to experience that again is if you have a modded Xbox and know how to use Xlink. It is just crazy to me that publishers will actively say "Welp, this had a good run, sorry guys, this game is no longer playable :^)" and they just...get away with it? Imagine paying for a movie, and 10 years later you are simply incapable of watching it because the disc isn't actually the movie, it's a license to watch the movie and the streaming service that hosts it no longer exists. People most likely think this is crazy but this is _exactly_ how it works with games as a service. It's sad.
@@spartan456 Don't even get me started on community servers. The only developer that still cares about this is Valve and devs that make mil sim games like Arma 3 or Squad. It's utterly tragic that the industry has successfully convinced everyone that this way of playing games is obsolete.
It's the use of "Deliver Hope" from the Remember Reach teaser in the tribute at the end that really gets me.
I didn’t grow up with Halo, but damn it feels nostalgic
Echoing a lot of the other comments here, but dear God that ending literally made me cry.
An era long gone but am forever grateful to have been a part of.
It was a helluva ride!
I used to love the custom games made with forge. All swords on a pure flat foundry map. No obstacles no boxes no walls. Just you, your blade, and the rest of the roster all competing to be the blademaster.
I'll always remember those days. The pain of getting the vidmaster achievement with friends.
The hayabusa armor. Getting the recon set.
Brings a tear to my eye. Miss everyone that played.
i have no connection with halo but i share the same feelings with minecraft and arma 2 dayz.. it was just an era man.. 2000-2014.. i feel like youtube content was a big part of making those times seem "simpler".. when you searched for minecraft videos back in 2010 it was just real people having fun and messing around, it was genuine back then.. if you searched minecraft nowadays all you get is heavily produced "content" that lacks SOUL..
@@smokinwoodz
Seems like damn near everything today is like that. :/
Truly an era that has gone and passed. Really wish we took the time to appreciate it for what it was. I know I didn't, and should've. Looking back boy do I regret it
@@bannanas117 Remnants still exist today, just gotta look deep enough. But yeah, nothing to this scale will ever be made again
Everything past the 8:40 mark almost brought me to tears. These were some of the best times of my life. I'll never forget Halo.
that music at 8:58 broke me... the feel we had back then will NEVER come back but im glad we experienced it
Precisely
Same. Me and my big brother would always play Halo together online with some friends. In the good old days. I miss those days every day.
You wanna know why it's sad? Because you see that Bungie was a studio full of game loving, story loving, sci-fi loving nerds, and those are the people who _know_ how to code a game. To build an entire world of epic stories, every little detail mattered, they wanted to introduce players to something they would never forget. And they did.
343 aren't those nerds. They are greedy fat little money sacks, trying to sell their pile of software shit to people who still have a tiny bit of hope, that the new Halo won't suck. That is the real sad part here.
So many lost memories came to surface in 3 short minutes
I like how at 10:09 those guys were like, "Alright shows over, actually thers this game comin out" and they dropped Halo 3 outta NOWHERE
That's Bill Gates. Bill freaking Gates gave out the first copy of Halo 3. That's how big a deal Halo 3 was for Microsoft, and everyone who was a Halo fan.
The last few minutes are so incredibly beautiful. Thank you for bringing those wonderful memories back up again.
When that halo 3 segment came on, I shed a tear.
It was fun wasn't it guys?
I feel so old now at only 27. Just remembering the core childhood memories I’ll never be able to make again. Betraying enemies with my friends because we were little assholes. Spending hours in forge recreating Dday variants so I could put it in my file share. Collecting all the sculls. Watching Walshy and Orge 2 tear it up in MLG. Making terrible Linkin Park montages on CZcams before ads. Tripping over a projector at a LAN party in Boy Scouts that cost my poor mother a lot money to replace lol. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. And while it makes me remember how happy I was at the time, it almost just makes me sadder to remember.
It was a blast my friend. Oh how times change
Those core memories of playing custom games on sandbox in Halo 3 and lan parties in halo 2 are literally seared into my brain. I’m filled with visceral rage when I realize how badly 343 has ruined Halo. What a fucking shame
@@ScottyCameron1231 I hope that the new Marathon title is a true spiritual successor to Halo, much like Halo was to it.
Man it was the best time of gaming ever. Halo 3 carried me through getting my kidney transplant. It really kept me happy while I was recovering. I'm not sure if I played with you at all, but thanks for being apart of my childhood. You were the one small dot on the player count
It's absurd. It's honestly absurd that I have such little connection to the Halo series and yet the ending montage brought me to tears in a way only a heartfelt tragedy could.
Perhaps I can relate to the endless disappointment video game corporations seem to deliver these days--the butchering of beloved titles that isn't happening just because we "grew up", but because what we're witnessing are projects of passion and genuine creative investment clearly being squandered, defiled, and aborted in the name of money.
Yeah, even I, someone who only own PS2 back then (more on CS 1.6 player on PC), can relate the joy of playing together with bunch of friends who just want to play a game, nothing else.
Just have fun without worry about anything. That was a wonderful time before all these corporate bull that just continue being incompetent at every aspect right now.
@@TheGameCapsule We are overdue for another video game crash like the one that happened in the 80s.
This resonates with all of us. "Seeing your favorite franchises go down in flames." Never played Halo, it was mass effect and tomb raider for me.
@@ignis2023 mass effect didn't just go down, it was murdered in cold blood.
@@KingRidley And visited by a necrophiliac
Halo: CE to Halo: Reach, is just peak Halo.
Bonnie Ross, Kiki Wolfkill, and Frank O'Connor are all gone. The spark of hope has been kindled.
Yeah infinite is looking really good right now. We just have to pray the next game won’t come out like infinite, because at that point people will be DONE.
Playing split-screen in CE back in 2001. Creating mods for the PC release in 2003. Being in Xbox live for Halo 2 in 2004. Waiting in line at night for Halo 3 in 2007, witnessing the end of a trilogy, creating maps in forge for custom games, and playing Bungie's love letter to fans back in 2010 for Reach.
Memories of a long gone era where love for game-crafting and amazing storytelling used to dictate most decisions in development.
Oh my god so true it wasn’t big corporate deals that drive what goes in the game back then it was literally a couple of dudes that made games for the heck of it and because they LOVED it ❤️ well not exactly but looking back it’s a far cry from what it is now
I'm from 97 so I just missed that era. But it sounds like you guys had a good thing going
sounds awesome man, makes me wish I was a little older to have been the right age for the early stuff. when I was a kid that got I to Halo, H2 was already out.
@@mojojoji5493 It was not just a couple of dudes who made Halo. LOLLL
We will rise again.
If this is a single person or team running this channel I'm amazed how you're able to dig into the bowels of history and pull the clips you do. Seriously amazing work and I wish today's journalists for news and gaming were as good.
RIP our beloved Halo.. 💔
Just google it… I wanna see crowbcat make his final video a COVID video…..
@@CoercedJab why? Covid is such a boring topic at this point
@@CoercedJab I forgot covid even existed
@@jebalitabb8228 covid was a scam
Thanks to those teenage kids with capture cards recording late night sessions with their friends, that history will be publicly available to anyone with a simple CZcams search.
343 didn't kill Master Chief, because Spartans never die
I didn’t even get to play the first two games but I played Halo 3, ODST, and Reach. It made me go back and play the first two. Halo was MASSIVE. Halo was REVERED. It was special, unlike the rest. It changed the course of my life. It’s one of the handful of games, let alone series, that I think truly holds meaning. Hell, the end of Reach makes me weep every time I play it. It gave me memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. When Halo 4 was teased, I had thought the series was over for years, so I screamed with excitement.
But when the game released, and I began the campaign; I immediately had a feeling “This… This isn’t right.”
If there was any CZcamsr that would do justice to a “Remember Gran Turismo” video, it would be Crowbcat.
I think one of the biggest punches in the gut was, after 343 said they weren't doing the splitscreen, within like a few weeks fans had hacked it into the game proving it was more than possible and some weird, garbage business decision kept it from happening.
The reasoning for no split screen is always 'why sell one console and one game when you can sell four consoles and four games?'
Yep, at this point people would take anything for splitscreen but apparently players "deserve better" so they will get nothing.
It's like your boss giving you a car for your job, saying:
"sorry man, I can't give you a Ferrari, so I won't get you anything"
It’s one thing to not include the feature, it’s another to announce it’s inclusion only to back out, and then have rando hackers reveal your incompetence. Only 343 could pull this off.
Thank you to everyone that had lived in the golden age of Halo with me. You all made my childhood amazing and unforgettable. And wither we were teammates or on opposite sides we shared many late nights and created incredible memories together just having fun and living in the moment. Also want to thank those that teabaged my dead spartan and trash talked me online and made toxic comments about my mom while we were in a lobby waiting for a game to start up. I Hated it back in the day but now I look back and cherish those memories the most. Long live Bungie’s Halo!!!
God I miss those chatrooms. They were toxic as Hell, but dammit, it was better than this.
We most probably tea bagged each other and threatened to rape each other's mums and murder each other's families but God damn we were comrades and brothers
@@ultraego9730 did you not see the video? The evidence is pretty undeniable. Are you ok?
@@ultraego9730 smoothbrain detected 🤣
I remember custom games in halo 2
Including clue lol and custom forge infection maps
I won't let this franchise be forgotten but it definitely has been in a dark place for a long long time. I wish I could go back in time back to the good old days 😢
Reach was a warning. The fires, the screaming, the bloodshed. It was easy to think it was all just a game then, but now that has unfortunately stopped being fiction, and the mistakes made are being paraded like a good thing. If you can line up all of this like a murder case, then it’s obvious how this all died. They wanted to so badly be call of duty, that they forgot how to believe in things bigger than themselves, and doomed their future to die a stillborn. Never forget it. This warpath only leads back to reach every time. And it is hell.
Lol shut the hell up. Reach was a slight deviation, but the Bungie DNA is as strong in that game as any of the others
The downfall was sharp, noticable and started at 4
@@davidlane1248 I mean, Reach was great, and sent things out with a bang, but sure. Go ahead and yell at me. Bungie tried to tell you that everything was going to fall apart, and they used Reach's story to do it. Too bad they gave into their own hysteria and left Destiny unfinished as well. Turns out nothing was safe from death. Not even Halo.
@@3ofSpades damn you went deep
I never forgot. We all got heated up about it for a while. The truth hurts, but at least it was final. Don’t be sad that it’s over. Be happy you were there. I know I am. Without Reach, it’s likely that I never would have gotten to making my own games.
Halo gave me the courage to rebuild. Seeing how long it’s been since and how little Xbox cares, it might as well be worth a shot. Something special was lost here. That doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. There’ll be another time.