A Halo Series Retrospective

I see you made sure to hit the 10 minute mark

Elites taking cover when their shields are down is such a miracle of 2001 AI. So underrated

I never really found the Guilty Spark fight to be a "boss" fight in the traditional sense, it always felt more like a moment of catharsis as you finally get to kill the little bastard.

Back in my day, we didn't have FANCY SCHMANCY tanks! We had sticks! Two stick and a ROCK! And the platoon had to SHARE THE ROCK!

A great thing about ODST was also that the cities AI constantly tried to help the Rookie with Neon signs, engaging police sirens to get the Rookies attention and stuff like that. As far as I remember the cutscenes by the cities surveillence cameras was also the AI monitoring the team. It is essentially one more character with personality established in the story.

29:97 funnily enough, folks from Bungie have talked about Halo 3 being quite soul crushing for a lot of people. Not as bad as H2 but still quite hard on the devs

Oddly enough, in higher difficulties the dynamic of plasma weapons shredding shields and ballistics weapons shredding health becomes much more apparent, and hence brute weapons become the absolute worst weapons in the game.

One of my personal favorite theories is that Jun was assigned to Halsey because he's most likely going to be the one to put a bullet in her to make sure the enemy can't extract information from her.

If any new fans decide to play MCC, don’t play it in the chronological order that the devs intend, play it in the initial release order. Your expectations would be heavily hampered by starting with Reach and then suddenly going back 10 years in gameplay design.

I fucking adore Halo Reach, honestly it’s my favourite.

ODST is just a Chefs Kiss of a video game. One of my favorite Single Player FPS experiences ever.

That specific Red Elite from the 1st mission is indeed the same Red Elite that shoots Kat and appears several other times in the game. You have the ability to kill every other Red Elite throughout the game EXCEPT him until the end of the game. It was Bungies final Halo boss fight.

1:12:55 You'll noticed that the one that escaped is wearing Field Marshal armor, which is the same one that shot Kat and the same one you fight at the end of the game when you're about to board the Mass Driver. The rest are just Zealot class, which makes the theory even more credible.

I was in 5th grade when Halo Reach released and I played it religiously until 9th or 10th grade. One of my top 5 favorite games of all times and genuinely makes me emotional. The other thing about Noble 6 is that in the novelization, I think it is stated that Noble 6 was fighting for 9 straight days in their Lone Wolf Mission. The fact that 6 refused to die for more than a week and just kept taking out the Covenant who felled the rest of Noble team is amazing and so incredibly badass. Truly the only Spartan who can rival Master Chief and 6 is a Spartan 3 so even more impressive

"It's finished?" "It's finished." ".. I'll miss you." "Wake me, when you need me" Those words fill me with sorrow

You forgot to mention the hunters’ worst enemy, one CE magnum round to the back

What makes Cortana’s plan in 5 even worse is how in 4 the Composer was a device that turned organic beings into digital ones(if it worked properly) it was literally the same form of immortality that Cortana was offering to AI; everyone could be one of the Created. This was literally the Didact’s original plan and none of this is addressed or even mentioned by anyone in 5…

This is a nice retrospective despite disagreeing with you quite a bit with Reach and 4. There are two things that I wanted to point out: -In Halo CE, you can one-shot the Hunters with the Pistol or the Sniper with a shot in the back. -In Halo 3, in the last Scarab encounter, they fly in two hornets that you can use to easily dispatch both scarabs.

On the map where you find the 2 scarabs, you can drive a tank and a hornet.. not sure why he said "you only have a mongoose"... That mission is awesome...

Fun story from my last reach playthrough. I was doing it with a couple friends, one a Halo veteran and another completely new to the games. When we got to the scene of Kat's death, his words just moments before it happened were "well at least no one died"