Alll hail Marty, ALLL HAILLL MARTYY

It's my man Marty!

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All hail marty 🙌

The legend himself

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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

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"

And poor Cortana is still alone but thankfully still alive.

same with star wars - reject the new 'canon'

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

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

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

@@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.

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.

Well they have your expectations to show for it. You’re still here complaining all this time later.

@@UnseenEternalStudios 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

@@UnseenEternalStudios 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

@@UnseenEternalStudios it's almost like we've lost something we loved.

@@UnseenEternalStudios343 simp

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.

What gets me is the guy sounded snarky just for being asked the question.

L A Z Y

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?

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.

@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

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

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

Same here dude I was 15 when Halo 3 came out, we had sooo many lan parties

im a gen z (im 13). but halo is my favourite game. its 2024 but the graphics never felt bad. maybe it was because my laptops broke but i genuinely fell in halo. i play the og pc ports for halo ce and 2 and not mcc. and theyre beautiful. i wish this franchise continued...

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

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.

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.

"current gen will see less and less" lol, more like its faded into obscurity and into nothingness, and we live in an era where games can mold even kids to pretty much whatever the corporation wants on a whim.

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

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.

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!! 💪💪💪

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.

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 .

@@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

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

This is so on the money. I have a very bad memory. I don't remember many moments and people that I should remember. I can remember very vividly sitting on the floor of my childhood friend Rob's living room, playing Halo 1 with him, against his dad. I remember us both hiding behind a rock while his dad shot at us from a Warthog turret. I remember in secondary school - Glen, just before he moved schools, got me into Halo 3. We played together online after school some times, then he introduced me to Mike, who has remained my best friend ever since we bonded over Halo 3. Society has changed so much since those early Halo days, and we will never see anything like it again.

😂

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.

daily reminder halo always sucked. console only turd

Teared up around the montage part near the end...

Not just a piece of art. But a piece of truth. Whose*

Same, this made me pretty emotional

Don't argue how these folks feel or how they define it for us, let's just be happy we could be together about something. Denying someone's happiness is true cringe.

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...

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.

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.

Hi pewdiepie 😆

Bro I’m 26 now and this shit made me cry. Fuck I hope my kids games live up to the core memories halo brought me.

@@DailyPoptarts 28 in 2 weeks and my eyes and heart are yearning with you brotha..

Both hollywood and gaming developers are digging up graves and fcuking the corpses and nobody is stopping them

My respect for you, Karl, has just gone through the roof. You're rich in more cultures than I knew.

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...

That last part hits

Reach tho :(

@@evolicious epic

I wish i get a dollar every time i see a comment like this

I really wish Reach was somehow nodded to. Loved that game to pieces.

Halo 2 was the game for me. I still remember getting my 37 and my buddy 39 in TS during the height of modding. They stole host and starting laggin out our team 1 by 1 (winning 35-25) and somehow they fucked up and lost host and I got it. Superbounced on sanctuary and camped till time ran out. Saddly never played ranked after that due to stand-by/cheating.

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.

00s era Bungie wanted to make a game even better than what ended up being delivered, 343i seems to shoot for basic functionality and return on investment and then mostly fail even at that. Even the platonic ideal of Halo infinite just seems like an adventure story stripped of ever going anywhere.

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

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?

Me too, me too

Remember Reach.

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.

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

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

343 has been invaded by parasites

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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..

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.

343's titles are, in my eyes, not even canonical. They're a sad joke.

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This is a wonderful comment. I think a lot of us can get caught in the nostalgia of childhood or things surrounding it because the past always seems simpler. But when we're 30 we'll remember our 20's fondly, when we're 40 we'll remember our 30's fondly. And so on. The present moment is where those memories are made, so watch out for them. Take care, internet stranger.

Microsoft never cared about Halo after Bungie left, they founded 343 just to make a little bit more money and that was it. 343 isn't the problem.

Nobody will have memories like this with Fortnite.

@@Call_Upon_YAH Does jesus play halo?

I never even played any of the Halo games, and even I got a little emotional.

Spartans never die, Jorge. They're just missing in action.

Halo 2 Team Hardcore with 3 friends. I’ll never see that adrenaline again.

It's really sad to think about the fact that we had a better selection of great games 15 years ago than we do now. I also haven't seen an audience react the same again.

@@phsycotater3608 Ya the quality and release of games was a much bigger thing early-late 2000's. Nothing captures excitement like those midnight releases and knowing everyone is gonna try to play sick the next day so we could all grind together

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 KZfaq 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

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

You were good son real good! Maybe even the best! -Team Fortress 2 Soldier.

good times are gooooone,you guys will witness more and more classic franchise getting worse day by day,or just died

I did, we carry those early memories likes gems. First days of Halo 2 and early VOIP are burned into my memories. Cherish them and look upon them from time to time and like the ending they will fill you with nostalgic joy.

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 Seeing this comment from someone with a Vegeta icon named Ultra Ego is hilarious to me

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.

Ha, nice one. Also too true.

Nobody asked, stop hiding your subscriber count.

​@@TheRealCatof he has 533k subs

I only played 3 & 5 until infinite. Really disappointed in how they treated local multiplayer.

Still remember winning a game from you in like 2015 great to see u still goin

The people that never played halo, they quite obviously can see many other games as better. Depends on what you are nostalgic to.

@@UltraEgo2000 Is this bait or are you genuine

@@UltraEgo2000 u probably buy every skin they put out in infinite

@@rashamohammed2591 Hahah yeah man. I am also a virgin Halo fanboy like you!

@@jawetty3273 Yup

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

My brother was a huge Halo fan. He played almost daily for years. I would play 3 with him sometimes and I enjoyed it butt when Reach came out... we played daily for months and had so much fun with collectibles and customization that felt earned in a non grind way. That was peak Halo for me.

And yet half the community will disagree with this comment, telling you that it was infact 1 and 2 that were the masterpieces and the decline began with 3. Then you'll have people telling you that 1 was the best, or 2 was the only really good one, and so on. These things are much more a reflection of where _you_ were in life than they are a reflection of the games. I played every Halo game at launch and loved them all. Reach used to be my favorite. I recently revisited 3 and Reach and realized just how absolutely boring they are. They were only fun because of the community I had when playing them.

Yup

what an idiotic take

@@dashinator3251 how convincing of an argument

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.

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.

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

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

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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

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 going to say you probably should feel ashamed but you have a KZfaq channel and successful and productive. You obviously have a life and I respect that.

It’s rare to see that fr

It’s rare to see that Fr

@@ultraego2306 weirdo

They've really taken something away from us