2 years later, rewatching this. there are quite a few things I get wrong in this video (like the destiny 2 stuff for instance) and if I ever cover this game again I'll try to address that, sorry

You made me laugh

OH MY GOD

"I hope you wake up crucified, dude" is a very good line, I'm using it

20 years and halos music still gives me goose bumps with every track. Only halo has done this. Absolute masta peice

Fun fact, the Grunts say "NOT AGAIN" when you sticky them because they believe in reincarnation. That's actually a real thing, I didn't just make that up.

Me and my brother joke that because chief was the only one not strapped in a chair when you land that everyone died because chief was bouncing around crushing everyone to death before getting knocked out.

When I first played Halo 2 I was convinced Shooter Games could not get any better. I replayed the coop campaign with my best friend for 10 hours straight. Multiple times a week (no internet available, good times). And then Halo 3 came out. I still get goosebumps rewatching the trailers, sometimes I even recall certain smells or tastes from my childhood town when watching them.

Me and my dad just finished Halo 1 in Co-op for the first time. I have only played it once before and my dad isn't very experienced with games, but we still had an absolute blast. We both thought the enemies were really fun to fight, that the environments were awesome, the vehicles were super fun and the music added even more to experience. If a 50+ year old who has barely played video games can jump in and enjoy and appreciate Halo 1, it is definitely doing something right.

I played Halo 1's campaign once when I was like 10, and thought "Eh its alright". I was more into Halo 3. Then like 3 years ago I decided to replay Halo 1 and, yeah, its not even nostalgia. Something just clicked. The aesthetic, the gameplay, the almost retro feel now. Its certainly has somehow skyrocketed into one of my favorite games of all time.

Who'd've thought a game originally designed as an RTS would develop into an FPS where the enemies actually... y'know, strategize...

The HALOverse was the first sci-fi world I really geeked out over. The fast and streamlined Spartans always appealed to me more than the 40k Astartes. John was the perfect mix of human and warrior compared to 40k where it's almost like a parody.

I've watched this probably too many times. This has to be my favorite take on Halo, and most likely my favorite video on the entirety of the internet.

starting to get the impression that this guy likes halo

You’re wrong. “There are 9 missions and a mental stability test.” -A really fit guy

The Forerunners and their Structures was the main reason why I got interested, that, the Weaponry of the races and a few other things. Halo 3's Menu Theme is the best and reflects the imminent danger of the Halos and Ark.

I find it odd that no one talks about the amazing introduction of the flood. The way its hinted at and the little combat form that watches you from a distance just makes its eventual reveal so much better.

Virgin Grunts: *Actual English words* Chad Elites: WAAAAAUUGH

Noodle: "I hate the tank." Me: "You have betrayed me, funny internet man."

So Halo story time, when I originally ran through the trilogy I never really used grenades, maybe I just didn't like them at the time. A friend and I went back and ran through the entire MCC a week ago and I fully understand the appeal of grenades now, I'd throw one pretty much at the start of any fight where enemies were even somewhat clustered. After a session I took a moment to reflect on it, I'd only get one or two kills per throw, usually grunts, so why did I insist on doing it every encounter? The first obvious answer was "Because it's fun" which is all well and good, but after a while I realized the grenade _disrupts_ them. When the AI is running or hiding from a grenade they aren't actively shooting you, it's the same tactical consideration of forcing the enemy to react to you that an ambush provides. And I should emphasize at no point before this had I actively thought "grenades disrupt them", it was entirely intuitive and I'm amazed a 2001 fps had the ingredients in place for that kind of tactical consideration, much less make it feel that intuitive. Then I also realized that the only other fps that fostered that snap-decision tactics in me was Deep Rock Galactic and the video is right, that goes worlds toward why shooters can feel so satisfying.

On the topic of the graphics, I think Halo CE is a testament to how amazing art direction can make a game still look great 20 years later, even if the graphics have undeniably aged.

halo is ok I guess

This is just 20 minutes of having my thoughts and opinions confirmed and validated.

For me it was the story and the characters. As a female, Master Chief gave me a lot of courage and inspired me to be a stronger person when it came to facing challenges in life.

I got the pleasure of guiding a good friend through his first time playing Halo CE today. He had basically zero spoilers, he didn't even know Spartans were from Halo, but he came in with an appreciation for old games and left with an amazing experience.

every time someone sings the halo theme, another voice is added to the Chorus, Making it ever louder

"Idk if Halo was so ahead of its time" They literally invented decision trees for AI, which is what everything uses now. So yea, they were a bit ahead of their time.

I have not played through all of the Halo games (I've played at least one level in each game), but I HAVE played all of Halo Reach over 5 times and I have multiple books on the entire series. Every time I replay it, I am in awe of not only how much fun I have playing, but how emotional I get playing it. I feel so much for this game, and I have never felt it with any other game. Halo has a special place in my heart.

Born on Bungie day, 07.07. ( 2000 ) , first action shooter game I got was an original Halo CE for PC. I was visiting my mom's friend and she gave me that disk as a gift. I never forgot that moment. The decorations of that house, moments before and moments after. Went home , installed it and just started blasting. ( Note , I got this disk in 2005 ) Now, imagine me, 5 year old playing games, it took me over an hour for some levels, ( Truth and Reconciliation, Assault on control room and especially Library ). After beating the game I replayed it again and again on various difficulties, though at the time I couldn't beat it on legendary or heroic. And then I discovered multiplayer maps. My family was struggling a lot at the time so I didn't have internet. I wandered alone in maps, dreaming someone would enter these maps to play with me. Just exploring from map to map. Then when my parents got the internet I remember seeing something about "Halo Reach news incoming! Stay tuned!" As my English was horrible at the time ( I am from Serbia btw ), I searched some stuff about CE and found some update for servers and stuff and boy it was an update. An update to my life. I got to play Halo online for the first time! I had so much fun, driving warthogs with other players, banshees, modded maps etc. 2007, started elementary school and found out about Halo 2, Halo 3 and and KZfaq. I just sat at computer . I spent hours and hours watching multiplayer, single player, montages, linkin park halo AMVs, master chief face, halo vs counterstrike, halo vs call of duty, i listened to that remix of snow from RHCP like crazy. I tried to install Halo mods into GTA SA but never knew how. My dad got me a window Vista and there was a version of Halo 2 for Vista and I fell in love with it. To think that Halo 1 had continuation for me at the time was mind blowing! The new battle rifle, arbiter, drivable wraiths, brute plasma rifles... Imagine my happiness at that time. Then it happened, I found it. Halo 3. Due to my poor situation at my household and economic crisis in 2010 , my parents almost divorced and I got into massive depression ( I don't know if it was depression but it was a really dark time for 10 year old me ) . I saw that Halo 3 was only available for XBOX 360 and my parents barely afforded bread, so console was out of options ( To this day, I've never owned any gaming console ). I just aimlessly watched Halo 3 gameplay and dreamed of playing it and especially Halo 3 ODST, which funnily enough, is still my Facebook cover photo ! Year or two after, Reach came out. And Reach has special place in my heart . I was heavily bullied at school, it broke my mental health and it still haunts me to this day. Coming home to watch Reach gameplay, Red vs Blue , 100 ways to die in Halo Reach was a therapy for me ( also I discovered my friends ( friends to this day ) from neighborhood knew little about Halo so I taught them ). Playing it however was not a possibility at all. 2012, Halo 4. I was just amazed with graphics, new foes, Didact and I remember that flood game mode for multiplayer. Getting a new laptop with windows 7, vista on PC was gone, dad installed a windows 7 there and I lost access to Halo 2. I found out about Halo 2 Project Cartographer and it was a cure to my Halo solutide at the time. And by coincidence, I found out about Halo online. I remember it had dmr, a gun that I adored. Though unfortunately, my PC was crap and I couldn't join online games so I played alone in multiplayer maps. El Dewrito or something it was called. Few years later, Halo 5 came out, I started high school and things got a lot better for me, new friends, girls, school, things. Used to watch HokieBird428 for gameplay and noobs guide to legendary. I never, to this day, watched or played Halo 5. Then I started going back to other games like Elder scrolls, GTA, NFS, Minecraft especially. I was never able to buy then Minecraft, I really don't know why, but in those cracked servers, I had built Halo structures, Halo factions, Halo mods and it was my first connection to modern Halo. Years passes, entered uni in 2019, new city, new amazing friends. Forgot completely about Halo... I'm majoring in Japanese so I didn't have lots of time to focus on new games, game news but one headline stuck out to me - " Halo MCC comes to steam on December 3rd 2019 ". WOW .. I quickly dropped saving money for PlayStation 4. Quickly went to the bank, opened bank account but the process for some reason to get my credit cards was so long I had to wait to buy it. I tried downloading Halo Reach via pirate sites but it wouldn't work for some reason. COVID-19 came, I got infected 3 times with it, money I worked for went to parties, girlfriends, uni, books ( I'm a bookworm ). Then I was scrolling thru some TikToks and I heard it, the epilogue ost from Halo 2 . Legit tears went into my eyes. I felt bad for forgetting about my first game, my favourite franchise... I had like 20€ with me and I did the most shameful thing 21 yr old guy can do, I asked my mom to buy me the MCC ( it was 25€ on sale ) . I gave her the money I had, she added 5€ and finally, after 10 years, 10 goddamn years, I got to play Halo Reach, Halo 3 and 4. ( My mom actually asked me why didn't I ask her sooner cuz she knew MCC was coming to steam ). I bursted into tears. I haven't cried from 2015 and in 2021 I cried. I had the same look at the game the way I had it in 2005. I've now beaten all games on legendary , except Halo 5 and Infinite because I don't own any console or a powerful PC and I'm working to save the money in this crisis. My lucky number is 7, Bungie day is 7 , Halo number is 7, I am born on 7th of July and Halo shaped my life and will continue to shape it. This is why Halo is important to me.

The fact that he went to Forge to create a whole level just for 5 seconds of footage is dedication

Chief killed everyone on the life pod by bouncing around in it since he didn’t take a seat Edit: idk if people think that I’m serious about my comment, it’s just something I thought would be funny if I said it because, it’s not true (I think)

I watch this video just about once every 2 months. I keep coming back to it, not only because it's a greatly entertaining video, but also because of the pure enthusiasm that comes from Noodle here. With each subject, I can just tell how much he cares, and it just makes me want to care as much. This is even more apparent after watch the other Halo videos and the interview with Martin. Thank you Noodle, for sharing your heart here. 🧡

KZfaq recommends this to me every few months and I rewatch it every time. I'm glad to see someone who loves CE as much as I do.

-Big worm -big gun -big health -big pain -2 of them A literary masterpiece

Spoiler alert: Green man shoots the bad aliens and saves the universe. At least for a little while.

When I want to feel not shitty, I watch this video. Good job, man.

This and the other halo video are seriously the best stuff ever. I come back to these two videos at least once every few months. Great stuff 😂

It's kinda disappointing that playstation players or just people who've never played the games just think it's just like any other fps... big sad

Hunters: nooo you can’t just one shot us on legendary Player: haha CE Magnum go brrr

This is one of the few videos that actually manages to almost concretely identify all the little details that forms an overall intangible feeling of greatness this game - and others in the series - has.

I love the lil animation at 17:23 Also yea love the rest of the vid too ig (but fr it’s pretty cohesive and comprehensive and explains all of the reasons I love the franchise as a whole)

Some guy: "Halo isn't that good." Noodle: "So be it. Save his head. Dispose of the rest."

Impressive seeing someone go a whole 20 minutes just talking about CE without even mentioning the sequels

I just got to say, I love your animation style. You get even the small details perfectly, the timing and small motions capture everything perfectly. I first noticed it in your video on Need for Speed. Thanks for the time and effort you put in

I don't think Halo's graphics are done justice by being displayed in high resolution. In high res it looks jagged, blocky and blurry, but that's not really how it looked back in the day, and it's not just nostalgia. On a CRT TV, in standard definition, those imperfections were much more hidden and it looked kind of _flawless_ as the level of detail pretty much maxed out what could come through in a 480i resolution. The art wasn't crafted to be seen blown up in hidef resolutions.

I want a Helo poster like the one in the background

The fact that the guy in the beginning didn’t chant along proves he’s not a man of refined taste.

13:04 there had to be an add as soon as he shot the grunt, it made me die. 😂

that spot on the floor from where icecream got hit with lazer is still there

We all love Halo when we talk about it from our nostalgic feelings, until you remember those times where the Halo 2 Jackal would snipe you outta nowhere and you'd rage.

I've never heard such a great comparison Doom: When movies first got sound Halo: When movies first got color

Thank you for this. I had/have a hard time justifying how good this game is/was. I’ll never forget sitting in my parents back room glaring at a tiny 15” box at 3 in the morning. The only other game to keep me up late before halo was Red Alert…. Mainly cuz I would actively try and crash my dads computer by building the biggest army cuz I thought it was funny as hell….. I had never experienced a game like Halo before… Also, You mentioned the library. It does suck but it still holds a special place in my heart…. You spend your first hour thinking you can fight the flood off…. That doesn’t work so you decide to run which turns out to be just as hard and after 10 minutes of running you come across the most diabolical combination EVER…zombies with rocket launchers….. ass holes….. and when all is said and done, you shot your last shot and you’ve punched your last punch, you finally walk on to the platform lift to leave the god forsaken place known as the library…..only to get t-bagged by the devs in the form of the little text that says “Wait, It Gets Worse!”….. and you realize that was level 1…..I’ve never hated and yet loved a game so much in my life.

(8:50) Incidentally, "the tactical finesse of a frog" also describes how I play Halo's multiplayer. Bonus fun fact, while I had the game at age 7, I wasn't allowed to play after my mom saw a body get flung. My next Halo experience would be Reach and 4 when I moved and had a friend with the game. I hadn't played through the original game until I recently got it with the Master Chief Collection.

*Throws Sticky on Elite* Elite: ÂÄÁÁÅÃÆ

1:33 Feel the same way about oot Straight from the heart

I come back and watch this at least once a year.

Love how the elites strength and weakness is both “asshole”

“I don’t think CE’s multiplayer aged well.” My entire business management class would disagree lmao

After two and a half years I finally got my hands on the game. After another year I finally got my hands on the game (again) and finally finished it. All because of this video (i wanted to watch it real bad but was afraid of spoilers). Thank you Noodle for this recommendation. (It is now 4 AM i beat it from start to finish i have work tomorrow help me)

Infinity Ward got some of this right with the OG Modern Warfare 2. Yes it was mostly linear, but you could choose a couple play style options based on a wide variety of weapons. You can be stealthy with a suppressed pistol, go Rambo with an LMG and knife, become the terminator with a lever action shotgun. It also has many unique locations. I don't think we get a lot of what we love and loved later without this game.

"When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?"

This man ended the video with such a passionate call to action he literally told everyone to unsubscribe

Played Halo 1 with a friend who had never given Halo a try before about a month back. The dude didn't even know about the flood. I don't know how he managed to go as long as he did and not get spoiled about the flood, but he was really surprised when we got to that level. We played on old graphics too, so he got the full experience (as full as he could given how the game was ported). It was a good time!

Halo 3’s campaign is one of the most nostalgic thing in my life! Whenever I think of it I can have nothing but pure unbridled joy and happy memories!

I love the poster "HELO" just imagining a man doing a crappy, over exaggerated Russia accent saying "hello"

In my high school coding class, one of the guys had managed to get the demo for Halo on all the computers. So every day, me and one other guy would type up the work, then copy paste it and send it to everyone else so they could say they’d finished it. Then we’d spend the rest of the day playing Halo.

This is a game I can just watch someone play through the campaign. It’s so satisfying

i like rewatching this when im down, it makes me smile

"So you wouldn't use a grenade on a grunt" The guy playing the halo infinite demo: I'm gonna pretend I didnt see that

This video is basically just me having my biases confirmed for 20 minutes straight. And I'm a-okay with that.

My favorite thing about Halo is that even if you don’t enjoy the minimal storytelling in this game, you don’t have to sit with just the game’s storytelling. There’s an entire book trilogy revolving around it. The Fall of Reach takes place before the game, The Flood is the events of the game as a novel, and First Strike (in my opinion, it’s the best one out of the 30+ books) details the events between Combat Evolved and Halo 2. It’s some of the best literature I’ve ever read.

Dear God I love that you used a sound effect from Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight at 0:22

Wow, this was a really good an entertaining retrospective on why Halo is so important to me and many others. Really great job!

Please Noodle I need this as a greenscreen 8:59

0:21 That sound. I haven't heard that effect in a long time, long time

This is probably how I felt about Tenchu Stealth Assassin.

This is the best "I love Halo and here's why" video on KZfaq.

"Ooh! I get his gun!" That was great. The voice lines of these enemies makes them so much better

I love the touch of you singing on top of the choir like all of us do as well

2:19, no joke, I got this far into the video, realized I had the Halo Master Chief collection downloaded but it wasn't on my list of things to play anytime soon. I said screw it and played it all the way through. Halo was such a great series and I thank you Noodle for forcing me to move it to the front of my backlog and play through the story!!

The most satisfying noise I've ever heard was when the energy shield regenerates

I just finished the entire MCC and i am disappointed at myself for not getting the game in my xbox to begin with. It's so God dammm fun

is that the fucking item pickup noise from star wars jedi knight 0:20 what the fuck i love you now

Played Halo as soon as it came out. I instantly fell in love and the series became my childhood. I loved the Campaigns cause I was also alone, and I even read the books back in the day. There are very few games that have left such an impact on me as halo 1, 2 ,3, reach, and ODST have.

just imagine going to someone's house and seeing that they have a bootleg halo poster named HeLo

I first heard the halo theme when I was a baby wandering into the gaming room of my dad's work friend's kid's place. It was just an empty room and the halo title screen. I sat down and listened to it loop a couple times, totally in awe, and then the guy came back and offered to let me play the tutorial mission. I got stuck because we both forgot how to crouch, but it was really sweet and I have been thinking positively about halo ever since.

The only shooter I ever played that was close to Halo in atmosphere and combat was Resistance: Fall of Man. That vibe of a near hopeless fight against insurmountable odds combined with the unique weapons and enemies made it a solid contender. I played Halo 3 and Fall of Man at about the same time and even today I can't really say one is better, they're just a different experience.

I think John halo is a pretty cool guy he shoots alien and isn't afraid of anything.

I'd like to mention a specific thing in just Silent Cartographer. The level does a perfect job sounding and feeling like it's taking place during summer. You can hear bugs buzzing, birds chirping, the breeze blowing, the ocean waves rolling, and see the sunlight bathing everything in a warm light. Even when there's nothing happening, it feels so alive and I swear I can actually feel the wind and sun beating down. Then, whenever you enter a forerunner structure there, you can hear the outside for a bit until you're completely inside, and it becomes eerily quiet. This is another instance where I swear can feel exactly what the temperature itself might be, with forerunner interiors maybe feeling air conditioned and very comfortable, but the air itself is abnormally still. Halo is a god damn masterclass in creating environments, you'd be hard pressed to find even AAA games with state-of-the-art photorealistic graphics actually nail the fucking _feeling_ of realism.

I love how you didn't spoil the 2 other factions in a game that is NEARLY AS OLD AS I AM.

I've rewatched this video like 4 times already

16:59 this song gives off like a “how did we get here” feeling

I just started playing the halo games. With no nostalgic attachment whatsoever, I can tell you that your feelings toward the game are 100% correct. So fucking good.

Fun tidbit, Medal of honor included a copy of halo's control scheme and called the layout "hail to the Chief" in honor of Halo and it's accomplishments.

I had a substitute teacher in elementary who loved halo but her brother never let her actually play the game but whenever he was gone she would always play it with her sister and decided to join a tournament. She won the tournament and got a clear Xbox, when she left though someone offered her 600 bucks for it and she took the deal

Okay... Honesty time, I have watched your Halo Series so many times I've lost count and I've been trying to figure out why. You're delivery, Puns, Animation, and ability to go from wide scope to very minor details and why it matters is so GOOD. I'll probably keep coming back to this video series, but now at least I know why!

I just bought Halo: MCC and I got so used to Destiny's adrenaline type fight scenes that I kept rushing inside enemy lines and died. The moment i got a shot gun in Reach and an elite charging at me made me actually remember that Halo had a lot of depth inside its combat that's why me and my brother usually had call outs when we were kids and even rationed ammo. This video is one big coincidence!

The original HALO trilogy's soundtrack, to this day, continues to be one of the most memorable and... simply high quality musical scores I have ever heard. There is something special about the way it evokes emotion so profoundly and meaningfully. Marty did a grand job, equalled by few if any.

your one of the only youtubes ill watch the sponsor segment through

me and this one guy i was friends with in highschool would talk about dump stuff in halo and pretend like we actually played it together alot. i have no idea what sparked this between but man i hope that dude it doing well for himself. the only i remember is that we talked about the tank in the winter place and how one of us drove it up to the cliff and fell off on all ALL of the allies at the bottom. it was all fake but its some fun core memories that i think back too every now and again.