I don't think video games character have ever successfully intimidated me as much as the angry Gravemind.

2:50 "... for a moment of safety I loosed damnation on the stars." that's quite a line.

I forgot just how fucking creepy the Cortana level really was, with all the Cortana and Gravemind moments.

4:57 I love how you can hear a tormented scream in it's voice. Can't even imagine how many minds are speaking at the same time. The flood are terrifying

Amazing how the Gravemind starts his effort to manipulate the Master Chief with "Do not be afraid", like a biblical angel...

4:45 "there will be no more sadness no more anger no more envy" it sounds like what cortana wants in halo 5. logic plague anyone?

"Child of my enemy why have you come I offer no forgiveness a father sins past to his son" That talks about the ancient humans and the war they had with the flood.

graveminds voice is fucking terrifying

My favorite line from Gravemind has to be the one at 1:57; "I am a Timeless Chorus. Join your voice with mine, and sing victory everlasting." It's such a beautifully poetic description of just how alien Gravemind is; it truly believes that what it is doing is righteous and even beneficial to organic life.

I don't know what it is about it, but I love it when he yells "SUBMIT! END HER TORMENT AND MY OWN!"

"Could you sacrifice me to complete your mission? Could you watch me die?". After reading fall of reach this quote has much more meaning.

3:57 that was extra scary, not only is Cortana acting crazy, that Cortana moment did not slow down, phase-out, and her voice is completely normal without echoes. As if she's talking right behind you.

For a moldy serpent made out of corpse-pudding he's quite eloquent.

The bit with a green Cortana genuinely creeped me out the first time I saw it. The Flood lost a lot of fear factor in later games but that bit, brrr!

Cortana is my second fav Halo 3 mission People hate it because it's hard I love it because it creeped me the fuck out I fought it was really cool with the whole Flood on high charity thing

I love how, in Halo 3, The Flood was actually creepy and frightening.

“Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a fathers sins passed to his son” love this quote of his

“This is UNSC AI serial number CTN0452-9. I am a monument to all your sins.” O_O

I love that through the whole game the gravemind torments chief with imagery of Cortana in pain and through the mission “Cortana” you see the gravemind get more and more angry until right before the room where Cortana is when he just gives up and the vision has the same effects as graveminds but has Cortanas form. Basically he just went, “awww fuck it” and stops the game of pretending to be Cortana

I had a friend that never played halo before, I brought halo 3 over to his place. When he first heard the Gravemind say "Do Not Be Afraid!" he said out laud "Too Late!".

I couldn’t play this mission alone, I had to get my brother to tag along as the arbiter.

1:42 That shit was enough to prevent me and my brother from ever finishing that level for a goddamn month. It scared the absolute FUCK out of both of us. "Do not be afraid" my ASS.

4:58 always creeped my out as a kid. Way more than any other flood thing.

4:59 the way Cortana shifts from blue to green, the more robotic tone in her voice, and "I am a monument to all your sins" pretty much confirms for me that she was mere moments from breaking under the Gravemind's torture before Chief shows up. Hell, based on Halo 5, she might have already been so by time John arrives.

"I'm a thief, but I keep what I steal." "The Arbiter will do the same with the Elites." :D

Can't help but think that they're trying to present the Gravemind's intelligence as the Primordial/last remaining precursor

I love the line in the beginning of a Cortana: “Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a father’s sins, passed to his son.” It’s interesting because a lot of what Gravemind says is actually biblical, along with the Halo story itself. This specific line references child as humanity and enemy as the Forerunners. The line connects somewhat to Exodus 34:6-7: “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”

"SUBMIT! END HER TORMENT AND MY OWN!" Favorite line. Hands down.

Gravemind considers itself a god. The Didact was a god (equivalent). And John beat them both. Well Didact has died before, he may yet return.

Graveminds voice is intimidating .

4:18 perfect motivation post breakup

interesting. this could explain cortana in halo 5

Graveminds voice is epic:)

3:18 what I said when halo 5's campaign came out

*SPOILER ALERT FOR HALO 5 GUARDIANS* 4:45 is totally foreshadowing Cortana's madness in Halo 5. She wants to assume the Mantle to make things better by ending war, poverty, illness and disease etc at the cost of Organic freedom. Damn it all, if only she found her way into the Domain before her Rampancy drove her mad.

5:16 me after a pizza and coke

halo 3 is such a good story because it combined the emotinal story of cheif and cortona V.S the gravemind. and the logical story of the unsc vs covenant. And they blended them perfectly.

Cortana: alright shoot. The beginning of her end. She might as well have bent over and said insert logic plague here!

Ohhhhhh, Cortana DEFINITELY has the logic plague.

The Gravemind and The Primorial are one and the same. The Last Precusor died only to take on a new form. Annother incarnation.

Also notice at Cortana's last message(in this video), how she briefly looks skeletal and quotes off the Gravemind, signifying her corruption by the logic plague. Yes, I am a believer in that theory(and it should make total sense, if you think about it).

"And yet perhaps a part of her Remains"

0:30 zero smokes: happy and good gravemind 4:38 1smoke: *ANGERY* gravemind Still think marajwano is good drug?

I didn't even know halo 3 HAD boob physics for cortana...

In Halo 3 it's cool how cortana and the gravemind talk to you through missions, but at the same time it's SO FUCKING ANNOYING in a fasted paced action game for everything to randomly slow down. They should've just had the game play at normal speed. It was very distracting and obnoxious.....

'Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little'

Yep now looking back to halo 3 it's pretty much confirmed Cortana has the logic plague especially when master chief gets visions when he enters high chairity to rescue her. The logic plague in case some of you don't know is sort of like reaper indoctrination from mass effect but for both artificial and organic life that the flood used on forrunner AI's to make them betray the forrunners or just make them do actions that would unknownling help the flood like for example use a guardian to EMP an planet so when the flood come back the planets inhabitants couldn't defend themselves.

_They improved her complexion immensely.._

Gravemind and Cortana both speak lines from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men.

I remember when I played “Cortana” when I was younger I was scared shit less.

6:23 Why am I crying? What is this odd nostalgic emotion?

5:00 the exact moment he broke through and infected her with the logic plague and when she says there will be no sadness, anger or anything like in the new halos

That explains how Cortana got her Rampancy in Halo 4 and how she’s malevolent in Halo 5.

i remember playing halo 3, at the time i never played halo 2 and didnt know what the gravemind was or who was speaking in that deep ass voice.

4:38 when got an extension on a project and still haven't turned it in

“Of course you came for, her” We exist together now. “Two Corpuses in one grave” Favorite quote from halo 3.

4:18 me waiting for the pizza to come

"Could you sacrifice me to complete your mission? Could you watch me die?" Halo 4 foreshadowing???

It's funny. Hearing the Gravemind speak of victory and salvation reminds me of the Darkness in Destiny 2. This being that threatens all life but offers you a hand in alliance, a promise of power or victory but it's only a means to an end in order to further it's own agenda. To become the final shape in the universe by rendering everything else asunder.

I like Halo 3's model of Cortana better than Halo 4. 343 made her look like some kind of a sex object or something in Halo 4.

I loved Cortana's dark side in Halo 3

It's actually "This place will become your home." "This place will become your tomb."

Holy shit Halo 5 actually makes more sense now thanks to 4:45 I actually think I don't hate Halo 5's story so much now.

Time.. has taught me patience! But basking in new freedom ..I WILL KNOW ALL THAT I POSSESS !!!!

5:12 when you take an inhumanely powerful shit so awful that it briefly renders you blind for 10 seconds

This mission gave me consistent chills throughout the whole thing the first time I played it as a kid, but 5:00 really stuck with me. The final buildup down the corridor to finding Cortana still makes my spine tingle

Who ever voices the grave mind would be a awesome voice for unicron

I feel like if Ridley had a voice, he’d sound like Gravemind

Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside. Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide!

4:11 That fucking laugh. Things like that are why this level still scares me a bit.

It almost felt like Cortana cheated on the master chief with the flood and so chief faithfully tried to fix Cortana by himself but like they always say, you can't fix a broken heart, all that abuse Cortana went through when she was dealing with the grave mind overwhelmed her to the point of corruption, almost killed the master chief many times. This so relatable in a way if you think about it, not many people see it but how many times did a female get with the abuser and corrupt her mind and then the faithful guy comes around to sweep her off her feet and fix her problems?

I can't believe people DIDN'T like the Cortana and Gravemind Moments. "It slowed the gameplay to a halt!!!!1111". What are you talking about? You had to stop shooting aliens for almost five entire seconds? Jesus, I can't imagine what these people think of having cutscenes then. And rather than slowing down the pace, I think it picked things up. I remember my first time playing the level Cortana, the sounds of Gravemind getting progressively angrier while Cortana was descending painfully into rampancy before my very eyes and ears made me fight to get through the level faster, forced a psychological time limit on me that I logically knew the game didn't have. I had to get to Cortana NOW, and so help me God I was gonna stick a plasma grenade up Gravemind's ass if she couldn't be saved. I'm not saying that Halo should be filled with this sort of thing, but the Cortana and Gravemind Moments greatly enhanced the mood, tension, and atmosphere. For those who think that they slowed down the gameplay, just play Firefight over and over for as long as you play Halo. That mode was made for you. [Not dissing Firefight, of course. I love Firefight. Especially now that MCC has Flood Firefight :) .]

Holy shit the juxtaposition of "two corpses, one body", then Cortana saying "Just keep your head down, remember that there's two of us in here now"

Who voiced the gravemind? His voice is badass

hearing the Gravemind in Halo 3 finally get fed up with Cortana's resistance and raise its voice is...well i can't tell if it makes it more or less intimidating.

5:13

5:00 Cortana’s line makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

Cortana: I'm a thief...but I keep what I steal~ Me: Chief's heart?

Aw, you missed "DID YOU THINK ME DEFEATED?!"

“Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness~ a father’s sins- pass to his son...”

The sound my stomach makes when i eat indian food 5:13

they need to make a move about halo and have the grave mind be the villain. he would make one damn good villain. just like scarecrow in the Arkham night game

A collection of lies, thats all I am. Stolen thoughts and memories. I’ve been listening to that specific phrase on loop for twenty minutes.

2:37 don’t click until 2:39 but keep clicking it

3:19 in that part of the mission, I woke up by my little brother as he's playing the halo 3 Cortana mission by himself and I thought I had some different nightmares with the Gravemind's voice. But it was funny and strange at the same time. It was 5o' clock in the morning.

5:13 when I stretch my foot a little too far and get a foot cramp

Knowing that this is coming to MCC PC some time in the future, the change in FOV from the gravemind is going to be very amusing with the highest FOV setting

The greatest badasses are those that make light of something that seems insurmountably horrifying.

Reading through Human Weakness and then watching this really puts some perspective to the lines from Cortana in Halo 3.

Silence fills the empty grave, now that I’ve gone but my mind is not at rest for questions linger on.

4:38 He's pissed off because some asshole keeps trying to light him up. He knows and he refuses to be smoked.

4:06 why he sound so fruity, so flamboyant during this speech lol

4:11-4:16 That is very creepy, hearing the Gravemind's voice morphing into Cortana's while giving an evil laugh.

Fun Fact: some of the lines Cortana speaks in Halo 3 while I’m imprisoned by the Gravemind are actual from an old Halo teaser. Before Halo: CE came out, a Cortana character posted cryptic messages on a Marathon fan board, the shooter franchise made by Bungie before Halo, that’s also were a few maps, the Security helmet, and Forge came from.

I'm sick of people hating on these moments. Boohoo, they slow you down. The hate towards this part of the game is old and frustrating. People talk about it like it's "required" as a fan to hate certain missions. Some fans need to get out of their comfort zone and look beyond their complacency. Not every Halo fan has to have the same fucking opinion. 1) These moments happen when I'm not in combat. 2) I'm not struggling through the level. 3) I'm not speedrunning (I personally don't care for it) 4) I don't play on Legendary (I'm not an achievement hunter obsessed in trying to finish every fucking challenge I the game. I enjoy in MY TERMS. The only thing I found mildly challenging is the flood forms that shoot the projectiles)

Gravmind comes straight out of a Lovecraft novel .I think such an entity can truly exsist out in the dark black universe of space.

0:33 I have seen enough hentai, to know where this is going.

Please let me know if I'm correct: When Cortana was left alone on High Charity, the Gravemind (or the last precursor) taunted Cortana with more information. This almost drive her to insanity. Gravemind relays signals to chief to mock him as Cortana becomes more and more corrupted. Cortana also has a secret (the domain?) which she refuses to reveal to Gravemind. But somehow it find out anyway. I'm pretty confused, although I feel like I shouldn't be. 😅

Wow. You made this video just in time! ^_^

Cortana sounds so criptic and erratic. What does she mean when she says stuff like "I'm a thief, but I keep what I steal" or "a collection of lies is all I am, stolen thoughts and memories" ???