The Secret Sad History of Halo’s WORST LEVEL

Halo 3: Anniversary could do so much with this level...

"What is it? More Brutes?" "Worse." "The Flarbiters"

Alright, Halo MCC modders, get to work. Make Halo 3 uncut.

"DID YOU THINK ME DEFEATED?" With the context of the Scarab/Gravemind fight that line makes so much more sense!

Bro please cover the other cut levels too like Guardian Forest and Forerunner City. I know there's been a couple of small insights made over the past couple of years, but I really feel like with the current modding environment on MCC, some exposure to those cut levels could definitely bring some modders up into the task of recreating some of these levels

"Oh hey, Arby. Didn't realize you were- OH DEAR GOD ITS FLARBY HES BEEN FLARBIFIED" "I NEED EVAC NOW THERES A HORDE OF FLARBYS GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE THEYRE GONNA FLARB ME"

wow, that boss fight with the Gravemind sounds like something you'd see in Gears of War and I could only imagine how insane that'd be

"log out of minecraft" that's honestly great. I'm taking that

2:09 Really specific and random but the font that appeared on screen here really just was amazing

Levels like Flood Voi, Flood Ship and High Charity give me chills considering how much I love the atmosphere the Flood brought in H3. I love the grandiosity of the dread i feel when playing Floodgate and Cortana, I wish we could've seen these cut levels fully realized. Guardian Forest ESPECIALLY SO.

As much as I don't like this level, I love the middle cutscene where Chief reunites with Cortana. It's so heartfelt seeing Cortana so broken after what she went through, only to regain hope when Chief reminded her about promises. Just beautiful. The cut plan for High Charity was so cool! Shame it was too ambitious and Paul was forced to give us what we got. I would have loved to play H3 High Charity with the Flarbiter and Scarab Gravemind boss battles.

Honestly the BEST bit of Halo Dev Lore I've heard in a very long time. I beg of you, PLEASE cover the other cut missions.

I think Cortana is only hated because of legendary difficulty

Honestly I didn't quite like how we never got to see the grave Mind or any form of him , felt criminal after seeing him in H2 , all we got is a scene with some tentacles lol

They way that it was phrased... "We didn't have the resources..." ...kinda makes me wonder if they were talking less about development time, and more about system resources with the xBox 360, itself.

Cut stuff like Cortana actually taking place in High Charity or Halo 2 ending with a human skeleton being found in a Forerunner casket makes me wish that the trilogy were remade, in the sense that Halo 2 included everything Bungie wanted to include to conclude the would-be duology, and 3 included everything that would satisfyingly conclude the now-trilogy

I’m gonna make this right.

A little fun fact just for fun: quite a few years ago, Marvel bought the rights to produce a few halo comics such as halo uprising, the fall of reach and the halo graphic novel, since then in later marvel comics, marvel has been seen directly refferencing halo, to even adding some halo designs into some of their issues, such as DR doom riding a vehicle that looks identical to the warthog, Colossus holding an oversized halo reach shotgun with a magazine added into it to even characters such as war machine mentioning playing halo

I rather play Cortana over most Halo 4 and 5 missions

I mostly enjoy this mission, I always like to fight off Flood a lot for some horror tone. And the level taking place at High Charity that your coming back since Halo 2 now fully covered by Flood biomes where the Gravemind use it to travel through the galaxy. Where your just inside the belly of the beast fighting every Flood enemies to rescue Cortana. Idk why but I always like to come back playing this mission again and wishing for more Flood missions to explore ships that are consumed by the Flood, almost giving Dead Space reference there if by getting a Flood horror game. Which I like to explore more in the High Charity while fighting more enemies. So I enjoy the Cortana mission and wish for more like this. If there’ll be a custom campaign mod to have these maps extended to explore further.