First Time Playing HALO 5: GUARDIANS! 

43:24 John “Halo” Whick 😂

Halo 4 Spartan Ops cutscenes give context about what happened with Halsey

The graphics and gameplay were fine. The problem everyone had with this game was the story.

Halo: Nightfall is a live action movie that will also give you some insight into Locke, and it does star Luke Cage

Linda is the Spartan that accompanies Chief in the fall of reach, to take back the space station and defend it. She is the one that is deemed as “dead”. She later got resurrected in Halo First Strike

don't be scared to give your true opinion on how you think this game is both sides are extremely polarised but it's fun

I'll always appreciate the differences in how both fireteams start their mission. Osiris is all bombastic and blunt, while blue team is precise and to the point.(and blue teams entrence is more bad as imo. Lol)

There's a book called New Blood that explains why Buck is now a Spartan-IV.

I think it's really cool that Vale can speak Sangheili. It must be a difficult language to learn, considering it's spoken by a species that doesn't have a bottom jaw.

Will always love that Buck kept an ODST style helmet as an homage to his service. And in case other comments get buried and this doesnt, Buck transforms into a Spartan in the ODST book series that starts after ODST and ends before H5.

If you want a bit more background of what happened with Halsey between 4 and Guardians, you can watch Halo 4 Spartan Ops

If you need more context on Halsey, recommend you watch the Halo 4 Spartan Ops cutscenes. Also if you want some more backstory on Locke, checkout Halo:Nightfall. Hope you enjoy still.

4:58 luke cage was originally supposed to be Locke but because of Luke Cage's filming schedule they hired Ike amadi(Everyone's favorite Prothean Troll Javik) to voice Jameson Locke.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who gets so happy to see the Chief. Like greeting an old friend. I also love all of Blue Team, sadly Linda doesn't get as much book time as I'd like, but she's absolutely the best. Roland is probably one of my favorite AI's to date, trust us when we say that you *really* should watch the Spartan Ops cutscenes if nothing else, soon.

“Linda I don’t know you I’m sorry” 🥲 it’s ok (she’s my fav on Blue Team next to Chief)

Honestly, Halo 5 is a LOT of fun. Gameplay is perfect and multiplayer is the best in the series. If you can look past the obvious mistakes regarding the story, this game was worth every penny. Still is.

Halo 5 story enjoyer here. Just happy to see the series continuing on the channel, whatever opinions you form. The ride continues!

I’m not a huge fan of the depictions of Spartans as power rangers in the Osiris intro, though I do appreciate the contrast between Spartan generations- it’s excessively showy as if Spartans have essentially Iron Man suits now- however as for Blue Team? I looooove that cutscene. It fits perfectly into Chief’s headspace following Cortana’s death. He lost so much during and after the Covenant War, but yeah, at least he still has and is with his Blue Team. He needs them now more than ever. I love that they know he isn’t okay, and aren’t leaving him alone, I love that Fred stops him to ask if he’s okay, and we the audience know he was thinking about Cortana just before this, and even though Chief nods yes I doubt Fred really believes him. But he doesn’t press him either, he goes with it and they get ready to go. Which btw is a callback to their first mission infiltrating a Covenant cruiser, the same mission they lost Sam. And yeah, personally I really like this rendition of the warthog run, used as Blue Team’s theme more-or-less

Like the other comments have said, you can watch Halo 4 Spartan Ops cutscenes to find out how Halsey ended up there.

Halo 5's narrative can be... is revamped, but experiencing it is crucial if you wish to dive into future installments, I believe. Many can and will state that the halo journey ends well by completing the MCC's campaigns, and I get it, but personally, after playing Infinite's campaign, I wouldn't change that experience for anything, it pulled all kind of emotional strings for me, maybe it'd do the same for you😁

Halo wars ties up with this perfectly i’ll one hundred percent recommend it

I recently replayed it on my xbox series S. It's really fun.

i really wish they ported this to pc, god knows if they ever will

Meg let's gooooo! Glad you're playing this! Can't wait for you to play infinite how that game starts off is insane!!! Love all the games tbh.

47:43 this parts really cool i like the build up to the first hunter encounter of this game

Yay, I'm glad you're able to play Halo 5! ☺️ It'll be very exciting to hear your thoughts as the game goes on. This game is definitely one of the more divisive games in the series, but I still enjoyed it when I played it! I will admit I'm sometimes conflicted on where the story goes, good and bad, but I won't spoil anything and will instead comment only on events in this episode. 😊 So right off the bat, I love the Osiris opening. I know there's a pretty big opinion that it's too MCU or whatever, but I personally think it's great to see the Spartan's having these moments. I think it makes sense the Spartan 4s would stand out in a different way to the other generations, as their origins are entirely different. It's been said a lot too, but the contrast between Osiris and Blue team showcases that perfectly! Speaking of Osiris, I love Locke too! I'm glad you're enjoying him so far also. 😄 The Blue Team level has some of my favorite moments, the hunter introduction and the atmosphere that it conveys is really well done. I love hearing the Covenant speak English again as well, they're a hoot. 🤣 Eagerly waiting for the next part! At some point, you should check out Halo Wars and Spartan Ops, even if it's just the cutscenes. I know it's already being said in the comments here but they're both really, really great stories! ☺️

The "Recon" control scheme is closest to the default controls in the Master Chief Collection

"Let me do it" Exactly.

Watching you have fun while playing and experiencing the game is all that matters. Looking forward to watching you play the rest!

Seeing you play this makes me so happy, I can’t wait for you to reach Infinite (I personally enjoyed that one a lot) I’m glad you’re also taking time in between to play them, I already said in another comment you’re the reason I started playing them and I played them in such quick succession I feel empty and I’m waiting for the next halo 😂😂

Halo 4 spartan ops helps for context

1:21:00 I *LOVE* Roland in this moment.

I think you're going to really enjoy this one! Glad you're going in with an open mind 😊

Happy to see you getting into more Halo, this one definitely needs a lot of context though. Everyone’s most likely given you the list of which ones fill those gaps, but I’ll add some extra. If you want context on Locke he’s the one giving the ONI reports in the Halo 2: Anniversary terminals and has his own movie called Halo: Nightfall. For Jul ‘Mdama, there’s the Kilo 5 book trilogy and Halo 4 Spartan ops cinematics, which also explains how Halsey is with him and how she’s one arm lighter lol, it also introduces you to Roland the AI which you saw. For my man Buck. You have the book New Blood for his Spartan 4 transformation, and for Vale from fireteam Osiris, her first appearance is in the novel Halo: Hunters in the dark. If anybody knows more, please add without giving spoilers.

What Bucks been up to since ODST is shown in the novella New Blood. It’s a really short read, iirc I read the whole thing in like 2 hours when it came out, but every part of it is pretty memorable when you’ve gotten attached to em through ODST.

Discovered your channel literaly today and binged watched all the key moments of the halo games just to think if you gonna play 5 aswell. And here you are. Sub

I love Halo 5. Hoping people let you enjoy what’s good!

To see more Locke you should what Halo Nightfall. It’s another Halo mini movie.

4:40 “is that Luke cage?” That’s right

Play with an open mind! I’ve played Halo well over 20 years, and whenever I recommend Halo to anyone is always play with an open mind on all of them! We all have out favourites and we all have the ones we don’t enjoy 😅

Noble team saved buck on reach and look at him now a SPARTAN Just like Nobel 6 was buck one of my favorites in halo universe

I'm someone who really... REALLY doesn't like Halo 5s campaign, but the gameplay feels really good. All of the different abilities are so cool and feel very in-universe. So glad you're playing it!

I never played Halo 5, despite being a Halo fan from the very beginning in 2001. As a poor university student, I could never justify the expense of buying an Xbox One just for Halo 5. I've always wondered whether I'd like it regardless of public opinion. I have since watched the cutscenes and other RU-vid playthroughs, like Achievement Hunter's LASO run, but experiencing it this way, through someone going into it blind? This is the closest that I can get to seeing whether I'd have enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing you go through this, Meg, regardless of whether you love it, hate it or end up somewhere else in that spectrum. Oh, and I know that people are harping on about this in the comments, but yes, Spartan Ops in Halo 4 add a lot of context to this game's story. I wouldn't recommend playing Spartan Ops unless you have a great deal of time on your hands and a couple of friends to play with you, but the cutscenes can be watched via the Master Chief Collection, or simply via RU-vid.

@14:14 I definitely need "clench protection" on. I always click the right stick when I don't mean to.

Buck is modelled after and voiced by Nathan Fallon…the guys from Firefly and Castle series.

My favorite story from the launch party is when Justin Beiber tried to get everyone to leave so he could play by himself, but Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillian just ignored him.

Cool thing about the opening of this game is 343 are showing you what you can do in the game,especially once you master the new abilities. This game,and Halo 4 is the first time that you really fight like the Spartans are described in the books. It a shame people keep missing the point of this game. As an og fan of Halo from the beginning I'm not afraid to say this game and Halo 4 are right there with the best of this series. Glad you get to experience it for yourself.😊

Yes the character design was based on Luke Cage actor Mike Colter but I think voice actor is Ike Amadi, Mike Colter was filming something else I believe so they had to bring in someone else to do the voice acting. For understanding what happened with Halsey you should watch the Halo 4 Spartan Ops cinematics and there was a nice little treat for some of us, there was a book that Halsey put down in the first scene, I and many others that bought a certain edition of Halo Reach have this book, it's very interesting, it's essentially Halsey's notes on Spartans and other things too, if you manage to get into an easter egg room on reach, you can find this same book. I love your Halo journey most of all as it's near and dear to my heart - your Assassin's Creed journey has been enjoyable to watch too!

Love the contrast between the intro scenes for Osiris and Blue Team. Osiris, the newer Spartan IVs, is very flashy in their takedown of their enemies and uses a lot of high tech equipment. BLue Team meanwhile are older and are a bit more methodical in their takedown, using the bare minimum/the environment to take out the Covenant they come across.

No Xbox game since Halo 5 has really come as close to making a coop iron man game where I can fight against big bionicles and was really smooth with great performance and visuals. Despite the story and ai not really being anything to write home about, I still want a sequel with all of this really interesting stuff. And a complete pc port would be nice. Looking at where Destiny ended up, I think bungie would’ve probably made a similar looking and playing game all things considered. The art styles are pretty much identical and halo ended up doing it better. Bungie could learn a thing or two from this.

Recon is the best button layout, it's natural and fluid to use

Yeah, the Spartan AI is pretty dreadful at times, as you can see with Fred running into a wall. And yes, the cutscenes aren’t well written, as you can see with it just fading to black after Roland’s rant. So enjoy! 😅

The likeness is Mike Colter yes, although for this game the voice is Ike Amadi.

so were here... i love this game, i think it was the best of all (gamplay wise), and i liked the story very much... hope you like it. Edit: also the soundtrack is the best, mixing old themes with new

The top three comments kind of explain my main problem with this game in a nutshell lol. "Spartan Ops explains this". "This book explains that." "Oh the main character yeah theres like a movie that he was introduced in."

i love that the comments confirm how much homework does this game expects you to do to understand the context of its story

1:21:00 "I agree with... Who are you?" XD For me this is the best gameplay Halo has ever had, have fun. :D

also meg at the end you shouldnt stop 1:26:31 talking i always like hearing what you thought about the missions and ur thoughts on the story so far

Since you made a reference to javik from mass effect I wanted to tell you that Locke and javik have the same voice actor lol

Spartan ops from halo 4 will clear some of the confusion and introduces roland.

YAY thank you for this!

Well, this is unexpected… I look forward to seeing what you think of it!

Mike Coulter was going to voice Locke but ended up backing out so he could star in Luke Cage. Ike Amadi ended up voicing him here.

These are spartan 4s so they aren’t like the 2s and 3s these are fully grown adults picked, chosen, and gave consent to become Spartans. 3s were like war orphaned children who also volunteered but the 4s are are 1st that are made in a morally correct fashion. Buck is your hint that these aren’t like that since you already know he wasn’t a Spartan before. As others have said playing Spartan ops will give you so much context on what’s going on I recommend playing it with a friend too! It’s a lot more fun like that Edit: also spoiler free part of why ppl hated halo 5 has a lot to do with the advertisements. I won’t go into detail but yeah the “Hunt the truth” the audio series and the rest of the ads marketed a COMPLETELY different story the campaign didn’t exactly follow the way it was marketed to. You’ll see as you play I personally don’t absolutely hate 5 I loved the MP but I was salty about how they handled the story direction especially cuz i LOVED the ads and the hunt the truth series. Like seriously the story in that series is AMAZING

I'm so excited for this!!!

I think you can really only appreciate Halo 5 if you recognize well designed gameplay and really develop your skills in it. It's the smoothest, fastest, deepest game in the series and I feel more like a Spartan super soldier in it than in any other game

hi Meg

Halo 5 is ok I’m just glad she’s back into halo

Whooot! That was super generous of them, thank you so much! And it's so nice to see Meg get to play 5 now~

When you finish the series you should check out, The Complete Story, Timeline and Lore of Halo, through Infinite by diehardGG

Remember that we were bombarded with commercials leading up to playing this game, we got bits of lore. Meg hasnt seen the Halo 5 ad/commercials. Her way is better tho, alot of us were already sour on the story from the ads so we came in hot into this game. Megs just coming in with an open mind unlike what most of us did.

This is the first halo game I ever played. It was fun when the servers were still alive

13:14 No me imagino el dolor q debió sentir ese prometeo 🥚🥚

It would’ve been a good game if you felt any less confused by the end 😂

having aim down sight in halo is odd. they go back on that.

You should do a vid watching the marketing/commercials for this game. The contrast of the marketing vs the gameplay/storyline is interesting to say the least.

Fred the rebel hahahaha

7 halo games, and she’s asking how to reload Im sure that’s very relatable to some 😅

Idc what people say H5s campaign was my favorite, reach being a close second.

The controversy around this one skews more towards advertising before the game came out... an advertising campaign that straight up lied to us about what the game was going to be, and folks were rightfully mad

saying halo 5 is heated opinionted is funny considering thats what i heard with halo 4 back when it was new

yayyy you were able to get an xbox

i like the hunter forming up scene, also hunters in halo 5 are the toughest the hunter have been in the whole franchise, more like mini bosses. halo 5's story isn't really that loved by a lot of people but personally it has it's good points as does the game in general like the music. as for cortana, i do wish there was a game in-between 4 and 5 that didn't have cortana, mentions etc. sure but kinda spoils the ending of halo 4, should have let her "death" sink in for both the master chief and the players/ fans of halo.

While this is definitely my least favourite Halo Story, I can’t deny the amazing gameplay and stunning visuals. I hope you still enjoy it Meg!

I just replayed all Halos and Halo 5 was solid, we treated it so bad. Ofc it has its flaws and one of them being have to play almost all the campaign with Osiris aand the misleading marketing. But it was fun!

YES! I'm glad you're enjoying my favorite Halo. It gets a lot of flack because Master Chief shares the spotlight with Locke (and all must bow down to Master Chief for some reason) and because Locke is black. (TBF, the gaming industry hasn't really changed *cough* Assassin's Creed *cough*) But I knew you'd come into it with an open mind :). Enjoy Halo 5! Oh BTW, did you have any plans on streaming Zau?

Can't wait to watch these later, one step closer to halo infinite

Fun halo i didnt have any issues but i did understand the hate but the gameplay was good

33:35 classic blue team

Yes Meg, Lock is play by Luke Cage.

I know it's premature to say this... But I can't wait for you to play Infinite!

I'm so glad you're playing this even though the controversy surrounding this game.

32:45 You know who else was blue 😢

ahh yes halo 5 the game that should've been extended instead of infinite coming into existence

Yeah for sure halo 5 was really hated. But man did I love this game oh how I miss it dearly. Unfortunate it didn't make it to MCC.

Would have been even more smooth on a Series X

This looked better than halo infinite

Yeees!! ❤

You're gonna hear a lot of people tell you this game/story is terrible, it's horrible, it's this and that and the other thing. Tune them out. Come to your own conclusions. :)

FINALLY!!