A Halo Series Retrospective

Halo is a series full of people's happiest memories and moments. So in preparation for Halo Infinite let's go through the Halo Series to see how the games hold up. Welcome to the Halo Series Retrospective
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:21 Halo CE
15:25 Halo 2
28:57 Halo 3
48:41 Halo ODST
59:37 Halo Reach
1:17:18 Halo 4
1:31:43 Halo 5
1:47:27 Outro

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Music In Order:
Courtesy of Halo's Composers & Halo's Offical Soundtracks

Intro:
0;00 Halo Theme Song

2;21 Opening Suite
4;50 Enough Dead Heroes
7;32 Perilous Journey
10;14 Devils...Monsters...
11;12 A Walk in the Woods

15;24 Prologue
17;10 Cairo Suite
21;51 Earth City
28;09 Unforgotten

28;57 One Final Effort
31;01 Behold A Pale Horse
34;36 This Is Our Land
37;10 Three Gates
39;28 Farthest Outpost
45;02 One Final Effort
46;21 Luck

48;37 Deference of Darkness
51;32 Overture
53;46 Bits & Pieces

59;34 Overture
1;02;49 Winter Contingency
1;08;07 New Alexandria
1;13;04 Long Night of Solace

1;17;17 117
1;22;46 Arrival
1;27;35 Revival

1;32;42Halo Canticles
1;32;57 The Trials
1;36;46 Blue Team
1;43;54 Siren Song

Outro:

1;47;27 Epilogue Halo 2 OST
1;48;16 Outro: Orca Vibes - Gypsy

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Credits & Footage Used

O Brave New World - Bungie

-HALO CE-

Halo CE Developers Commentary

Halo CE Gamestock 2001

-Halo 2-

Behind The Scenes of Making Halo 2

The video game golden age (Halo 2 Launch Hype)

Halo 2 Launch Party

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Hope You Enjoyed!

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[wubdidu]

A great thing about ODST was also that the cities AI constantly tried to help the Rookie with Neon signs, engaging police sirens to get the Rookies attention and stuff like that. As far as I remember the cutscenes by the cities surveillence cameras was also the AI monitoring the team. It is essentially one more character with personality established in the story.

[sneedmando]

*Back in my day, we didn't have FANCY SCHMANCY tanks! We had sticks! Two stick and a ROCK! And the platoon had to SHARE THE ROCK!*

[wirelad]

Elites taking cover when their shields are down is such a miracle of 2001 AI. So underrated

[LateNightHalo]

29:97 funnily enough, folks from Bungie have talked about Halo 3 being quite soul crushing for a lot of people. Not as bad as H2 but still quite hard on the devs

[tristanlee]

I never really found the Guilty Spark fight to be a "boss" fight in the traditional sense, it always felt more like a moment of catharsis as you finally get to kill the little bastard.

[wollins]

I was in 5th grade when Halo Reach released and I played it religiously until 9th or 10th grade. One of my top 5 favorite games of all times and genuinely makes me emotional. The other thing about Noble 6 is that in the novelization, I think it is stated that Noble 6 was fighting for 9 straight days in their Lone Wolf Mission. The fact that 6 refused to die for more than a week and just kept taking out the Covenant who felled the rest of Noble team is amazing and so incredibly badass. Truly the only Spartan who can rival Master Chief and 6 is a Spartan 3 so even more impressive

[zacharymenchaca]

I see you made sure to hit the 10 minute mark

[kelly]

Oddly enough, in higher difficulties the dynamic of plasma weapons shredding shields and ballistics weapons shredding health becomes much more apparent, and hence brute weapons become the absolute worst weapons in the game.

[Ikcatcher]

If any new fans decide to play MCC, don’t play it in the chronological order that the devs intend, play it in the initial release order. Your expectations would be heavily hampered by starting with Reach and then suddenly going back 10 years in gameplay design.

[YSOchris]

ODST is just a Chefs Kiss of a video game. One of my favorite Single Player FPS experiences ever.

[Abx]

1:12:55 You'll noticed that the one that escaped is wearing Field Marshal armor, which is the same one that shot Kat and the same one you fight at the end of the game when you're about to board the Mass Driver. The rest are just Zealot class, which makes the theory even more credible.

[GaryJojo]

One of my personal favorite theories is that Jun was assigned to Halsey because he's most likely going to be the one to put a bullet in her to make sure the enemy can't extract information from her.

[ImABigSimpForMyGirlfriend]

I fucking adore Halo Reach, honestly it’s my favourite.

[isymfs]

"It's finished?"
"It's finished."
".. I'll miss you."
"Wake me, when you need me"

Those words fill me with sorrow

[akaneki]

What makes Cortana’s plan in 5 even worse is how in 4 the Composer was a device that turned organic beings into digital ones(if it worked properly) it was literally the same form of immortality that Cortana was offering to AI; everyone could be one of the Created. This was literally the Didact’s original plan and none of this is addressed or even mentioned by anyone in 5…

[suomynona]

That specific Red Elite from the 1st mission is indeed the same Red Elite that shoots Kat and appears several other times in the game. You have the ability to kill every other Red Elite throughout the game EXCEPT him until the end of the game. It was Bungies final Halo boss fight.

[theonewhoplays]

This is a nice retrospective despite disagreeing with you quite a bit with Reach and 4. There are two things that I wanted to point out:
-In Halo CE, you can one-shot the Hunters with the Pistol or the Sniper with a shot in the back.
-In Halo 3, in the last Scarab encounter, they fly in two hornets that you can use to easily dispatch both scarabs.

[alexnoya]

Fun story from my last reach playthrough. I was doing it with a couple friends, one a Halo veteran and another completely new to the games. When we got to the scene of Kat's death, his words just moments before it happened were "well at least no one died"

[TamalesDeRajas]

“The last Halo made by Bungie”
*starring confused at ODST and Reach*

Also not sure if this was just a mistake you forgot to edit out but in that scene you mentioned where the arbiter shook hands with lord hood you said “a truce between the covenant and the UNSC” but it was just a truce between the elites and humanity, the elites stopped being apart of the covenant towards the end of Halo 2

[darkharder]

You forgot to mention the hunters’ worst enemy, one CE magnum round to the back