CHIEF literally lost everyone he cared about captain Keyes, Miranda Keyes, johnson, and now cortana. :(

More emotion in that single Cortana scene than the entirety of Halo 5.

Halo 4's ending did an amazing job showing us the human side of Chief, reminding us that despite under all of that armor and augmentations, he still is human instead of a human weapon. A machine. Definitely was an emotional joyride seeing this after Halo 1-3. Halo 5 on the other hand... threw everything out the window of what Halo 4 tried to show.

Chief: it was my job to take care of you. Cortana: we were supposed to take care of each other and we did. Chief: Cortana please.

"Don't let her go... don't.. ever let her go.."

The main thing I hate about Halo 5 is that it ruins everything Halo 4 tries to set up!

This is chief showing emotion without havinh to take an inch off of his armor, what a masterpiece

POV: You’re coming to this video to counter Pablo Schreibers “You can’t connect with a character when you can’t see their face.” And just to see how emotional Chief actually got vs Master Cheeks

Really Cortana's 'death' was really the last straw for Chief because did you hear how different his voice was and that was caused by all the death he had seen, Johnson, both Keyes, Multiple Spartans, thousands of Marines, billions of civilians, Cortana's 'death' broke him

It just makes me wonder how 343 went from this campaign to Halo 5's...

I love when the debris starts falling behind him when cortana fades away, it's like his heart just shattered in a million pieces

Halo Infinite made me appreciate Halo 4 even more 😭

The thing that is the most killer about this scene is that you can hear the sadness in Chief's voice. After Lasky walks away and Chief recalls what Cortana said to him about being a machine. His voice is just full of sadness.

People may call me crazy, but I am a strong believer that Halo 4 is a greater game than Halo 5.

This campaign was actually really good. The ending was emotional and it promised a lot for the future of Halo UNTIL HALO 5 CAME OUT AND FUCKED EVERYTHING

Why wasn’t this explored further in Halo 5? 343 abandoned this beautiful character development for the ability to fight with a bunch of spartan bros in Halo 5.... I’ll admit as a kid I hated 343 for changing the mood of Halo into an emotionally driven story.. it was probably due to the backlash of people like me that they opted out for a traditional Halo experience.. I wish they stuck to their guns because the ending of Halo 4 achieved levels of storytelling mastery.

Holy fuck man, the world around him is literally crumbling down at the same time his heart is as it has never been before.. All that through a visor. Well played 343.

the falling debris crashing around john after cortana fades away.....*real* subtle 343 to show johns whole life crashing down with her death.

I remember first playing this in total shock thinking that Chief was legitimately about to die when he detonated that nuke.

It's insane how much emotion is expressed through his Helmet

Notice when chief is having his armor taken off everybody stands and stares at him to see what he looks like

The scene that brought a tear to the eyes of even the hardest of men

This hits different after playing Infinite

Replaying 1,2,3 and 4 just watching this scene is sadder than it has to be because chief just didn’t lose a partner he lost his best friend. You can even feel the emotion in their voices.

THIS is an ending. Not the shit they pulled in Halo 5

"When this is all over...Promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine." - Cortana "Soldiers aren't machines. We're just people.." "She said that to me once... about being a machine" *The FEELS* :'(

5:21 I think it's implied here that chief actually sheds a tear for the first time in decades, given that he can't look Cortana in the eyes. You can here the shortcomings of his voice as he looks down and away

You know what I just realized? That the reason Chief feels so lost is because Cortana was the closest thing he had to a lover; someone who might understand him even a little, even if they would never be able to be together. Kind of like a person you've met and loved, but when you met them, they were already dying of a fatal disease. In this case, Cortana and Chief know that she will die from rampancy; Chief's hope that they can find Halsey and she can "cure" Cortana is him expressing a human trait for hope even though there's nothing to suggest rampancy is curable, or that Halsey is even alive, something we don't really ever see; he tends to be rooted in reality and fact. Look at Halo 2. "I know what you're thinking, and it's crazy." 'So stay here.' "What if you miss?" 'I won't'. Chief doesn't HOPE he will deliver the bomb. He KNOWS he will. But back to the topic at hand. Anyone who enters the military as a trooper is dehumanized to some extent during training. The other Spartan IIs show this. They aren't exactly normal, but they're far from being like Chief, who is the only one we really see acting stone-cold all the time (though this was partially because in Halo 1 he was meant to be a blank template for us to project ourselves upon, and make us feel like a badass) The only one he bothers opening up to is Cortana, like he is confiding in a lover; Cortana and to a limited extent, Sgt Johnson are just about the only people he bothers mild jokes around. "We're not leaving him here." 'Yeah, you're not'. Or "Got an escape plan?" 'Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little'. Chief doesn't make jokes around just anyone. I think Chief and Cortana have a very interesting relationship. Cortana feels like a human, being an AI made from Halsey, but she knows she is a machine. Chief feels like a machine through and through but at the end of the day, he is human. Hell, this is even reciprocated by the rest of the cast. No one but Cortana calls Chief John, aside from Halsey in H4/H5. They all refer to him as Chief pretty much, further reinforcing in his mind that he's just a machine without that doesn't need a name. On the other hand, Cortana is treated like a person. No one calls Cortana by her official numbers or title, just her name. You could chalk it up that it's easier than saying the former, but I still find that neat that no one ever just calls her "AI". During this ending, we see how broken and lost Chief is without her. While he knew it was coming in all likelihood, perhaps, like the rest of us, he did something human, and tried to avoid thinking about it. He is a man broken by his purpose, of being taught to only know war and nothing else, and loss of the only thing he's ever known to come even close to understanding what he feels. It's pretty heartbreaking really.

Cortana: I've waited so long to do that. Chief: What? Feel my boob?

Soldiers aren't machines.. We're just people. *sad music plays* The intensity of this moment is over 9000.

"Warning contains epic sadness" is possibly the greatest thing you could have in a video title

I remember playing Halo 4 with my dad on the weekend it was always so fun and I refused too play the game alone without him.This game was a huge part of my life and I wouldn't had moments like this without it.

Halo 4 has easily my favorite story of the franchise. I never got how people said it was confusing. All you need to know is that a guy wants to turn people into robots and Cortanna is dying. This ending almost made me cry, and a game has never come that close to doing it. Having Cortanna return in Halo 5 was one of the worst writing decisions I've ever seen. This ending was so perfect that I wish Cortanna stayed dead even though her character is great.

the saddest thing bout this isnt cortana's death its seeing just how broken and alone chief is. like a lot of ppl say this cortana and chief are romantic and this is a soldier losing his lover but what i see is a broken child whos never felt the love of a mother finally finding a mother in cortana and then finally being able to be touched by her and losing her instantly and just seeing this bad ass break and his voice crack. it brings such life in to the game

I've just finished Halo 4, including every halo that's before Halo 4, what a beautiful journey, I cried at this, who didn't. Beautiful game series , a masterpiece truly.

You can hear chiefs voice starting to break when he says “I am not leaving you here”

"Cortana Im out of hotpockets. Cortana? .... ..." That line made me tear up. It finally dawned on Chief that she truly was 100% gone.

I hate when they kill off characters then bring them back, it completely defeats the purpose of doing it in the first place. Weird tho just can't imagine Halo without Cortana, she is the second thing other then MC that comes to mind when thinking of Halo.

When cortana sacrafieces her self look at the background chiefs world falls apart

My Favourite Halo story. My Favourite Chief Design My Favourite Assault Rifle My Favourite Magnum My Favourite multipl- no actually not

If there's one thing 343 did correctly, it's the campaign for having the best story.

am I the only one here who wants to cry when cortana leaves master chief in that scene? 😭😭

Darn this hits differently 11 years later

This is why I’m bitter of a Master Chief face reveal in the show. I wouldn’t have minded if they did it like the Legendary ending to Halo 4, but a full on reveal? Seriously? Just to “humanize” him? This farewell to Cortana is a perfect example of John expressing his feelings without removing the helmet. The head nods, the head movements, hearing his voice, his body language, were all you needed to feel John’s vulnerability and that he’s more than just a Spartan.

I love how this cutscene and the ENTIRE campaign/story of halo 4 mean absolutely nothing now.

How do you go from this campaign to Halo 5's trash ass campaign. Like i just don't understand 343.

Honestly I feel this is one of the best Master Chief stories, definitely not campaign but for Chiefs character, we actually got to see him as a person rather than a cove killing badass machine. I feel during that Cortana scene that was when Chief broke. Even when he’s staring at Earth you can feel his pain and feel the emotions in his eyes even tho all we get to see is his helmet.

The best ending of all the Halo games in my opinion. Master Chief's attempted sacrifice, Cortana's goodbye, Lasky's conversation and Chief's self-reflection, and the Didact's monologue. It's all so well written and beautiful.

I love this game so much. It's just shame that so many people hate it

5:47 Master Chief's life literally crumbling around him with Cortana gone... I've never even played a Halo game, and you can tell just how much these two care about each other throughout this whole ending. It was really well done.

My wife is in hospice for stage iv cancer. When chief says “it was my job to take care of you”, it really hit me deep

This is where the master chief story should of permanently ended. It was so fitting. MC was back on Earth, Cortana was dead, Didact who was always hinted at in halo 3, was faced and defeated. Halo 5 is a joke, it all ends at halo 4 in my mind.

To me, the Halo Saga ended here, Halo 5 never happened, THIS is the ending halo needed because it is THAT good of a story

This game had a good twist on what we would normally expect in halo campaign. It was about master chief's struggle with saving humanity from a new and terrifying threat unlike any before and the fact that he did not really have the military to back him up as he usually did. All of the normal group were away or dead, so this time around he and cortana had to do everything without commanding officers for the go ahead. There was no great war, this threat was on a more personal level, It was their story, and in a way it was the players' story. It was your story

I think this is where the differences between the game and the TV series really show. Master Chief's whole enigma and parallels to being a machine is a character trait that spans across the entire trilogy and up to 4, where he turns from a static character to a dynamic one, but Paramount is trying to tear down those walls and make that transition happen within a single episode due to some memory wipe bs. Sad moment.

Halo 4's visuals really did stand the test of time.

3:09 When he looked up to Earth one last time I totally lost it

Halo 4's campaign was one of the best.

Still can’t believe people didn’t like this story. Those people are the reason 343 pivoted so hard and we got H5 and my opinion on that will not change

This was a beautiful, emotional way to end off the halo universe *Then we got halo 5*

I extremely love Halo 4, yet the only thing that disappointed me was the new music. Halo's original sound track was one of the best I had ever heard and with the sudden change I'm not sure I like it. Its still good music though.

Say what you will bout Halo 4 the ending is the most heart breaking moment in the history of video games

Its amazing how the Halo Show is making people look back at Halo 4 with a more positive take. Glad to see people respect Halo 4, it really is underrated.

I so deeply wish that halo 5 and infinite would’ve continued the amazing plot threads set up by the ending of halo 4

Came back to see this after seeing Halo 5 ending

Kinda sad how Cortana never mentioned noble 6 in any of the halo games

I quit the series after Halo 4. I knew it had peaked and couldn’t get better. From what I’ve heard, it was a good decision.

I really enjoyed halo 4 despite the hate it received

Damn those invisible ninjas, they keep cutting onions

No matter how many times I watch this I get teared up inside.

Who’s here after halo infinite TRAILER BOI!!!!

10:00 We did trust you 343... DID! But then you made Halo 5.

I had to stop the video because I was in a room with 3 people and I didn't want to cry in front of them Best Halo 4 part

Who else can relate? When I feel down or something I remember this and it gives me strength to keep going.

Palmer: I thought you’d be taller. Master Chief: 11:39

Here after finishing Halo infinite. She's gone, like gone, gone. 😔

Don't get so many bitching about Halo 4. Best campaign by far. Best story by far. The multiplayer was a bit meh but not terrible by any means. Halo is the only fps I play for the story. In fact it's the only fps I HAVE to play. All the others are fun but you're just there for the multiplayer. Halo I love the characters the story throughout and I the multiplayer is always fun. Really don't understand peoples hate towards 343. Look at Reach and then look at this. This is so much better. This is probably my second favourite Halo game. Halo 3 being my first ( a lot of people prefer 2 but I've always loved 3)

Halo 4 is way better than halo 5

I always like Halo 4 and thought it got a bad rap. Also GODDAMN I forgot how curvy they made Cortana look in this game. Can I have this model back please?

This game reminds me so much of Man of Steel. A fresh take on the series but has mixed reviews and divided the fan base. But what's ironic is that the sequels got MUCH worse.

Halo 2 has been the best campaign so far in my book but this ending is one of the best.

The ending is much more Legendary than the Halo 5's one

The moment at 7:30 when Master Chief is retrieved and arrives in that pelican, the way the soldiers salute him, many among them perhaps heard about his legend, many fought with him. And they yet again see him do the impossible. this time without anyone except Cortana supporting him. I am sure many were been upset when he had to go alone to finish the fight, when Del Rio didn't support him. But still he completed the impossible mission. All of them would be in awe of his feat, but very few would realise the pain he was going through at that moment.

Halo 4s campaign was so much better than 5s lmfao.

I was so sad when Cortana died... then the Didactic diolouge over the end scene was perfect! Sarah Palmer and the spartan 4's stared at Master cheif like a god and when he went to get the helmet taken off and the Didactic said"The reclaimation has already begun... and we are hopeless to stop it." Let's just say I say and stared for 5 minutes. Just an amazing game, and then there was Halo 5...

"I'm not doing this for Mankind" *BOOM* Epicness. Chief and Cortana... Basically an epic yet sadly tragic love story. Halo 4 broke our hearts. Halo 5 ripped it out yet again and stamped it in front of us as part of a cruel joke. Halo 6 is shaping to be the fantastic grand finale.

7:00 I love the fact that chief just drifted there contemplating what the F just happened, almost as though he could have drifted there for ever after losing his companion.

I started with Halo: CE when I was just a boy. Finished with Halo 4 as a grown man in my 20s. And i think it's safe to say... *This is where men cryed.*

After seeing how they continued the story in halo 5, Im really appreciating the story of halo 4 a lot more

I think one part of this that gets overlooked [with everything else going on] was that last glance he takes up at the earth before he detonates the bomb. You can almost feel the sadness there when he knows this is the end and that's the last thing he's going to see.

Masterpiece. You can tell how much they love each other

i like it when cortana says"we were supposed to take care of eachother" then master chief just looks at her in shock and amazement becuz nobody ever said a thing like that to master chief before and thats why he likes cortana so much she the only person i guess yu could say that ever cared and connected with him before this scene is beautiful.... huhh to bad it means nothing now :(

This makes me so fucking mad, happy, and sad all at the same time. Mad at halo 5's story, happy about what could have been, and sad that it isn't so. I hope the lead writer for halo 5 was fired for what he helped undo.

This ending was probably the most emotional thing I've seen in a game. And yes, more effecting than The Walking Dead and The Last of Us. It really hit me at the core.

Oh wow cheif is actually 7 plus feet tall. Unlike the TV show

Came back to see cortana after her final moments in halo infinite

Watching this now cause i'm kinda disappointed in Halo 5

did anyone else notice that it looked like chief was going to save the didact before he fell?

5:02 is he referring to when Johnson told chief to never let Cortana go?

Damn, what makes this hit more hard is, at this point, Chief believes everyone he's ever loved and cared for is dead. Captain Keyes, Miranda Keyes, Johnson, the other Spartan 2's, (he doesn't know that Blue team is still alive on Onyx), all he had left was Cortana. And in the end he couldn't save her, because she chose to save him.