Combat Evolved | A Halo: CE Retrospective 

I can only hope :D Thanks so much for watching!

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Wait, but aren't we already the algorithm?

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I'm glad you enjoyed! I honestly feel like people's opinions of the library are skewed from how often they've played through the mission

Personally, I've always enjoyed The Library... Chief taking The Index pretty much opens up the story of the next Halo games as it plays a major role in the story of Halo 2 and 3. If The Library was never made or introduced, Halo's storyline could have been very different, but I'm happy that all of the Bungie games turned out the way they did.

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Just because something was intended doesn't mean it can't be bad. They can be both.

I think the idea works only in part, but I get what Bungie was going for. You are in a giant building facing off against an enemy called 'the flood'...I am one of the people who likes the level, but I also understand why many may dislike it. It's a case of "execution vs concept", and I understand both sides of the argument.

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)

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It's a really cool way for them to reuse assets, works really well

You picked a great way to start the series! Playing on the OG hardware is a blast

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Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

Very cool seeing you here! Thank you so much :D I've got plenty of stuff in the works that I'm excited to share 😁

@@Daiazal can’t wait to see it!

What are the chances ;)

Thank you so much! I can only hope :D

you're completely correct and I don't know how I didn't pick that up when writing the script. Thanks for brining attention to it I didn't even realise!

It's insane how quickly the flood was able to overtake the ring!

That's super cool and makes a lot of sense, I wish we got to see what it would've looked like

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked it :D

Thank you! It definitely is, I've got all entries planned to be covered :D

@@Daiazal I’m super stoked. Feels like I can’t wait but I’m sure videos of this quality take time so I’ll wait as patiently as one can.

Thank you so much! I can only hope :D

Thank you! Means a lot to hear :)

Thank you so much! I'm glad to have you around, I've got plenty more content on the way :)

Thank you! I hope so haha

Woah thank you so much! I love your videos!

Thank you! I've got plenty of videos that I'm cooking up, glad to have you around :)

Thank you so much! Funny coincidence huh, its a good game so I'm not surprised people want to talk about it :p

Oh cool I had no idea! Thanks for letting me know :p

Yes thank you I realized I made the mistake a bit after finishing the video haha :p I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I feel like this is a universal experience because the exact same thing happened at my school but instead some kid was able to get it saved onto a communal file and the IT guys pretended they couldn't delete it so all the kids had a copy on their school account. The campaign is really fun so you definitely should give it a crack when you can

Thank you! It means a lot :D

Thank you! And that was my thoughts too, I'm sure on repeat playthroughs the library would burn you out compared to the other levels, but judging it on that basis isn't too fair I think. Thanks again for watching!

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Thank you! I can't wait to post more :)

It's a pretty funny tagline when you think about it, doesn't really make much sense in the context of the first game hahaha

@@Daiazal to be fair, it was fairly different, potentially the best fps on any home console at the time. No matter who came up with the tag line, it was truly combat evolved for the console player.

Thank you! So do I :)

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I will, thank you so much!

Thank you! And I will even 5 sadly hahaha

Thank you! I have plenty of videos on the way very glad to have you around for them :D

Thank you! It was fun incorporating the art into the video :D

agreed

Thank you!

Thay makes total sense! Thanks for letting me know!

Thats definitely fair, they can get repetitive to fight and compared to the covenant their variety is lacking. I didn't find myself getting annoyed with how they fight personally, though I am a fan of their design so I could see that impeding my opinion. Thank you for watching! I really appreciate it :)

@@Daiazal It isn't just the variety. When I shoot at a grunt, it panics, I can get even elites and hunters to retreat with decisive actions. Just yesterday I got attacked by three jump jet elites indoors, shot one out of the proverbial sky with a shotgun. The others hid in response. The flood just sort of wobble and jump at you, constantly. And they all are kind of biege. Honestly, adding human enemies would help the gameplay profoundly. That would mean confronting the fact that the UNSC are bad guys however.

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof I can understand where you're coming from, but you have to factor in how the flood plays tie into the story telling. The flood are essentially brainless zombies at this point, Keyes is only a Proto Gravemind so they don't have an intelligent conscious behind them as of yet, it wouldn't make much sense for them to play as strategically as the covenant, nor as distinctly. They're working on instinct, and only have the thought of assimilating everything they see into the horde, because of that mindset it makes sense for them to just run at you, have simple attack patterns. The way they're designed is meant to be overbearing to the player, the fact they don't react to your attacks and still choose to approach you is done on purpose to exemplify that. I do think they could've done more to make them fit that role better, having more ways to engage the player would've helped. The covenant are much more interesting to fight, but if the flood acted in a similar way it would detract from their intent. I don't think I can agree on your idea with adding human enemies either, I wouldn't really know how they could tie that into the story of CE itself, and if you mean in Halo generally I just don't think they would be fun to play against. The only variety would come from the weapons they use, there would be no silhouette/design variety, no unique character traits you could add in their gameplay. Best case scenario is that they would play like Elites, and react as such, but that seems redundant as the Elites are better for that anyway.

While thats technically true in subsequent games, at release ODST and Johnson weren't characters and the game made no indication that anyone else survived. They changed a few things when they released Halo 2, like making Johnson an actual character and introducing the ODST. I wanted to talk about the game as a sole release without taking the sequels and supplementary content into consideration as I didn't want to bring up things that weren't established when they released the game and also because I would be covering that sort of thing in the sequels as I talk about them :p

I should've honestly looking back but it didn't cross my mind for whatever reason, I'll make sure to bring up the manual info for Halo 2 when I cover it :)

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Thank you! I love the hunters too, such cool designs

I'm glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the advice, I'll definitely keep that sort of thing in mind for my next one :)

Thanks for the advice! I'll keep that in mind for the next one :D

Thank you!

Thank you! I'm sure I did use it but barely tbh haha, thanks so much for subbing!

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Honestly! I've got so many great memories of playing with my older brothers, such a great game. Glad you enjoyed the video :)

The older games hold up really well, slowly working my way through them all

Wow thank you so much! I've got a bunch of stuff on the way, super grateful to have you watching :D

I forgot how annoying it was on legendary until I decided to playthrough it after the fact haha

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Thank you BROTHA

Hah wow even faster than I thought!

@@Daiazal Yeah so I think of it as this: 1st day: Pillar of Autumn, Halo, Truth & Reconciliation 2nd day: Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room, 343 Guilty Spark, Library, Two Betrayals, Keyes 3rd day: The Maw

anniversary was originally released in 2011 as a standalone game. 2014 was MCC's release date

That's interesting, I'm wondering now why they would've reused assets so much, I suppose time would be the main factor. And yea haha I'm aware about anniversary coming out in 2011 and MCC coming out in 2014, no idea how I made that mistake when writing the script nor how I didn't pick up on it :p Thank you so much for watching btw!

@@Daiazal No worries!!! good video and can't wait for the rest of the games to be covered :3