The last level of ODST is one of my favorites for this. Seeing the massive carrier slowly come out from behind the clouds and start glassing just looked really dang cool.

Honestly the art style of reach is just beautiful I also love the details in the background like scarbs fighting and fighting in the air etc, it was truly amazing at the time

Skyboxes and proper ambient background noise are part of what made Bungies halo games so memorable to me. They managed to capture and deliver the awe and mystery perfectly using the surrounding environment. I love the small moment on Halo 2’s mission “Sacred Icon” where you cross a large chasm on a gondola with snow falling down in flurries as the sunlit portion of the halo ring looms above you just before you enter the next combat zone. Oh and the music is the cherry on top 👌

I absolutely ADORE Reach's Anchor 9 skybox, it's just gorgeous and one of, if not my favorite views of all halo games.

Finally someone appreciates the great sky boxes of halo. I’ve always wondered what was out there in a halo level or mission but you can’t really explore them there just set pieces, but I will still be great full that they made such good sky boxes and let me have that feeling of exploring.👍

I really like the skybox in Halsey's Lab; when you get into her room in the easter egg.

The Halo 2 sky boxes always made me wonder what was out there. Until we superbounced out of the map. Even still they were gorgeous and full of wonder. Great video!

I always appreciate the campaign backgrounds where you see entire battles happening, especially in Tip of the Spear in Reach.

Shame you didn't call out two of my favorites: Escape from Arc (H5) and Fathom (H5). In Escape from Arc, the map takes place on the bottom of the sea floor, with huge forcefields holding back the ocean. Should have been an eacape sequence in the campaign where the forcefields fail and the ocean swallows tha play area. Fathom is conpletely underwater, with whales that sing and swim by.

I love that he points out a mountain in forge world on halo reach and my first though is oh I never noticed that somehow though it looks cool like a skull then he points out that it looks like a skull to him but also says that he isn't sure if that's what everyone else sees

Not many people would appreciate the fact that you guys made an 18 minute video about the skyboxes in Halo. The ability you guys have of creating truly engaging content across the Halo franchise is seriously impressive. You guys are honestly talented and I hope you take pride in your work. Great stuff! Also, amazing skyboxes too! This is inspiring!

Really enjoyed this one man. Any videos about the art style of Halo or just general art production stuff? I love hearing you dive deep about

Literally every halo 5 skybox should've been here

You perfectly summed up how I felt about those massive satellite dishes on standoff. I always wanted to go check those out.

I have spent literal hours appreciating the absolutely beautiful skyboxes in Halo they literally give me nostalgia

So I could be mistaken, but I though that in the sky box on Halo the "planet" on the Ark is actually the wreck of High Charity

looking out from ANCHOR 9, wether it was down into the Storms roaming Reach or into Space, thinking about how cool Zero-G-Combat would be...

All of your commentary was spot on!! The map choices were perfect examples to highlight the amazing skyboxes of the series!! Although I am a bit bummed you never mentioned Halo 3’s Cold Storage map! While it is only a remake, I loved the heavy Flood aesthetic and that huge amount of biomass that can be found just outside of the ship, making you wonder just how far the outbreak has spread! And to my knowledge it is the only known map to contain moving Flood infection forms as part of the background outside the map. As a kid I was always scared that if you got out of bounds they would attack you

The Assault on the Control Room felt claustrophobic since there is no "sky"

The halo three warthog run, in that one I never looked up. I never saw that skybox before. This is my actual first time really seeing that and wow it looks amazing

I really liked the Scouting Station(?) from Halo Reach Multiplayer. Seeing Reach(?) like that was beautiful in a spooky way

I will never understand how Halo 4 looked that good on x360

I'm so glad someone else recognized the skull shape on the mountain. I always thought that too!

11:38 I always theorized Halo 4's Pitfall was supposed to be a location from the Hunt The Truth ARG when we were following Benjamin

Here’s hoping we get the rest of the Halo Online maps. Still a lot of thing they can add to MCC. 343 pls

11:10 Now I can't unsee it. 😂

Landfall from Halo 4 has my favorite sandbox. Check it out if you haven't yet. It's awesome!

LOL BEST QUOTE “I don’t think a lot of people can appreciate it because you’re to busy like murdering each other” 😂😂

I don't know the efficacy of the ad for monetary gain, but that was a smooth transition in and out of it and thought it was clever!

one of your final videos this year and I'm not late FINALLY

11:10 I kept thinking I was the only one that saw the skull in the mountain, peace at last.

If you didn't know, the skybox being a dome is actually how skyboxes work. They are normally very large and encompass the entire map. Usually, it isn't obvious that it's a giant sphere, but that one map having a tiny skybox makes sense since it is underground and you really aren't meant to go up that high.

7:40 i think that we are on the ring that was being rebuilt and its hovering above the arc as they ado while being created. so we are looking down at the arc from the ring. i never even looked at that skybox until a few years ago(probebly because of the same reason you mentioned. the panic of having to escape XD) but it for sure is in the top 5 coolest halo skybox list for sure. along with the halo 2 high charity one :)

9:15 - I think you meant district (not turf) but very true!

I remember one of the first times I played halo 3 multiplayer when the game was new and getting a match on The Pit and I’m just distracted by the fence at the edge like “…I wanna go there. Lemme out.”

15:06 I've never looked up in this room and hoo boy. Halo's skyboxes are amazing, but if there's one thing that really bugs me in skyboxes/OOB areas (in any game really) it's when the backdrop is obviously too small or too close and it's clearly visible when moving around (parallax). Wolfenstein 2 has an especially bad example of this when you look up in some of the sewer areas of Manhattan - through holes in the ceiling you can see the ruined skyscrapers, but they're obviously downscaled and only reach about a few dozen meters high.

Halo 4 has some underrated sky boxes

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Getting outside of reach maps with complete invincibly, with music, while high…..quite a adventure.

Favorite skybox was on the arc. When you see the galaxy you felt like you really traveled away to a far off distant universe

So I just figured out that in halo 3 if you shoot a rocket into the scarab's beam at the right angle your rocket will spin off in a random direction.pretty weird

11:15 i see the mountain skull as well

11:03 yes! I am not the only one who realized that!

This is a great video, im one of those guys that will get caught up in the game no matter how many times ill play a level, and ill forget to stop and smell the roses. I'll be doing more of that from now on. Its a shame that devs can spend days desiging a level and all the little details, and i havent taken the time too look UP in so many games. Great video, keep up the great work.

I can't wait for RocketSloth's next video on who has the best shoes in the Halo universe... 😂

When are they gonna rank all the natural cave formations?

Gotta say, Halo skyboxes absolutely nail it in almost every iteration of the Halo games. My favorite from each of the games are Halo Reach: New Alexandria and Forge World Halo CE: Halo and Boarding Action Halo 2: Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone Halo 3 ODST: Coastal Highway Halo 3: The Ark and Halo along with Assembly Orbital and Blackout Halo 4: Requiem Halo 5: All the Sanghelios levels Halo Infinite: It only has the one These are just a few that I really liked and they're not the only ones I like.

Heu guys, great vid. want to add some skyboxes: halo reach has the anchor9 map that has a really cool glassed reach and a skybattle alsooo in halo 2a right after high charity arrives look up and you wi see hundreds of ships

I thought it was going to be from every map, I was excited

Luke's editing will never fail to elicit a chuckle.

Fun fact for anyone who didn't know. The mountain in the skybox in sierra 117 is actually Mount killamanjaro :) (might have butchered the spelling sorry)

Halo 2 anniversary High Charity is absolute perfection. Made me want a full game set there to explore it all.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that there was a giant skull in the mountain on forge world

Environmental item tier list when? Funniest NPC dialogue when?

I remember reach split some opinions back then but i always liked it, and can we all admit now 12 years later that it was the last great halo?

Now this is the tasty content I am looking for.

Haven't finished the video yet so don't know if it got props but there's one Spartan Ops level when you have these giant pillars covered in lush greenery and it really reminds me of that one chinese nationl park but still feels so alien and beautiful

Just here to say I fn love skyboxes

I actually have this really weird love for Skyboxes, so this video is perfect for me!

Possible idea for a video "strengths and weaknesses of every halo game". Could be cool to see what the best games may have got wrong and what the worst ones got right. Plus I think it's a pretty catchy name too

13:29 The Shrine map, which I am seeing for the first time today, looks like the background to the scene from LotR 1 where they form the fellowship.

11:00 I used to be scared of that brute skull looking mountain

I thinkthe Halo 2 Burial Mounds glitch where you fall into the map and then have the character be projected into skybox should have been mentioned in this video.

Bro on beachhead like it’s just saying “keep fighting” even tho it seems like the end

Reactor is absolutely necessary, but Diamondback is a little questionable since people might not want a redundant map. I've heard some amazing ideas from the community on what to do with it. Some people recommend porting it to Reach which would be absolutely amazing, Reach is naturally great for big team games and the aesthetic would tie in a lot with the game's last mission (not Lone Wolf). some people think it should stay in Halo 3 but with more Forge options and default weapon layouts using the new items from the ODST update, I could also see it added to ODST’s firefight. I think the two-base structure is might be a bit much, so each half could be sealed off, one for a daytime variant, the other for a nighttime variant.

Hey could you make a video counting the military might of the factions in the halo franchise. For example, a enemy can count a certain number of points depending on the rank and vehicles can count their number of points as well. Then tally up the points at the end of each level and then at the end of the game.

halo 4 had some magnificent skyboxes

Yes, the Ark would use planets for resources to construct rings and or repair the ark

Has anyone else noticed that in some of the Halo CE Anniversary maps for Reach the ring curves at an angle it doesn't go straight up but more to the side a bit as if the inside of the ring is tilted out it bit like a bowl? It's interesting, I'll have to try & remember the exact map but it has been a while 🤔

I gotta say Zenith’s skybox looks the best 13:00

Lets talk about how Long Night of Solace actually has a 3d model of Reach in the background instead of a skybox?

Wait ASSEMBLY if I had just looked up scarabs were being made ! Was always too focused on quiglys before quigly was a thing

5:11 them cups tho 😳😋

nice vid, havent seen it yet but they are all good

Theres a halo map series called “Beauty of” on the Innovative Monitor channel that is basically halo asmr🤌

When you look at the forge world mountain you see a skull. When I look, I see Atriox.

Really wish you guys talked about Epitaph

I broke infinites like first week of it being out(campaign) and a weird glitch happened right after all I did was test the sky box with a banshee

I get a sad seeing mombasa in ruins on the missions, tsavo highway, the storm and floodgate in halo 3. I just imagine all the people who were killed by the slipspace blast and the covenant killing civilians just seeing the ruins smoldering in the background is straight up sad in my opinion. Now the best imo is the beachfront on the mission the ark at the beginning of the game

It might be a coincidence but I was honking sos in Morse code and a marine in the gunner spot said sos (couldn’t hear it sorry) but can someone else confirm This was halo reach

Halo reach has my favorite skyboxes and im kinda supriesed they jus scimmed over it

Am i the only person who tried to get to the top of the halo rings in forge

You didn't mention the awesome water "wall" map on Halo 5 Warzone or the water island map in Halo 5 Warzone! :'(

There’s a guy on one of the satellites that just looks at you

now this is important

Reach had the most beautiful sky boxes. Halo 4 looked pretty aweful most of the time. This is underlined by the reach map pack made by "343". The sky boxes of those maps are good from a design standpoint, but the graphics are god awful. I clearly remember the low poly skyboxes of the halo 4 Multiplayer. To this day I have very bad remories about halo 4. Edit: in forge world, you are able to reach the halo ring. You need to go out of bounce with a teleporter and then go to theatre. I must have some Screenshots of the skybox from behind the skybox on my old xbox 360

Anyone else like the skybox from h2 anniversary the arbiter level? I think that one’s cool because you got like a sunset at the top then you have a huge hurricane with lighting strikes at the bottom And imo the arbiter levels skybox in og h2 is kinda meh but the anniversary versions cool.

Actually, the ball in the center of the ark is high charity.

How did you leave out Long Night of Solace??? The space sky box is incredinle

How is no one talking about how you can the headlong map in invory towers and vise versa

ODST has the best vibe and soundtrack out of every halo. Not saying it’s the best game at all, but aesthetically it was very pleasing.

you should do a tier list of the halo rats

In the center of the ark the planet our we’re talking about might not be a planet but a planet sized core to power the ark but since it’s being destroyed during the duration of the level the ark is being destroyed by the flood since the core was powering all the flood containment facilities

Y’all should compare the graphics between the games

that poor remaster of CE, cool but soulless. I really like the "skybox" on infinite, looking over the edge of the broken ring is trippy. The first time i notices stars below me I pushed a marine off and just watched him spiral off into the cosmos.

* RocketSloth video starts * * Go deaf first * * Turn down volume by 75% * "Ah, yes. Now he's just NORMALLY SCREAMING in my ear" You guys really need to learn how to level audio. Not everything has to be on the edge of "oversteering"... No joke, my amplifier is always cutting off the sound when your videos play because the sound is continuously peaking. Do a small (free) online course or something. It's a very simple thing to pick out. It should be blatantly in your face when you know what I'm talking about.

Say what you want about Halo 4's drastic art style change, it has some of the most beautiful skyboxes. Halo 4 looked miles better than Halo 5 for sure

18:08 I think its high charity

I just went through ce again and i prefer the og graphics as it give a desolate feeling over the remastered graphics. Althought the visuals on thr remaster are phenomenal. But i do prefer the og

The Pit remake in Infinite would be a lot better if they fix that awful sky box.