Forge World, Halo Reach, and Why It's So Awesome 

I can remember watching all the halo-reach machinimas like Rise of The Spartans and trying to recreate my own and just building huge bases and stuff... and don't even get me started on custom games

I’m so glad I played Reach in its prime. By far my favorite Halo.

Halo Reach forge was easily accessible for casual players while still having enough depth for advanced creators to make super complex maps/game modes. Definitely why its the most popular

Forge world is perfect. It's very large, has unique areas, and has some beautiful scenery. Man reach is so good.

The main reason I couldn't get into halo 5's forge mode, despite being a huge forge lover, was the massive change in the controls and overall bumped up difficulty. I loved the idea of highlighting multiple object to move them all at once or copy and paste them. It was a brilliant thing they did. The ability to lock objects so you don't accidentally grab them was awesome. The ability to script and to make things move or animate, or cause sound effects or lights, was the absolute coolest. I also loved the terrain pieces that would change their textures to alight with the ground or their orientation. Oh, and the ability to weld a group of object together was great, especially the fact you could do it with vehicles too. No longer with you have to balance the barricades on the warthog to keep them! XD But the way they changed the controls for forging really messed with my brain. You couldn't change button mapping or anything (at the time back then, now I'm unsure if they've changed that or not.) Now when you held an item and looked around the object would move instead of you rotating around it like the other forge modes, and that constantly messed with my brain. I was to used to how it used to be. You could kinda change that back to the older ways, but you had to switch to that camera mode every time you picked something up. Most of the objects were just different shapes of different sizes. They had some unique ones and some pre-made structures but it wasn't a whole lot. There was a bit but not too much. (And by pre-made structures, I mean stuff like the buildings pieces, or those weird shapes in the platforms section in Reach's forge. Or even the tunnel pieces you can see him using in the video.) I did like how you could change the texture and colors for a lot of block-like objects. But it just felt like you had to put a lot more into trying to just make a room "with detail." You would need a lot more objects for just that room, and the forge mode had that items soft-limit. (If i remember correctly) It did make for a great deal of control for what you wanted your "room" to look like, and I do like that. It just felt above my forging level, despite having a lot of time building in under my belt. Also not working well with the controls and the confusing items menu list added to that as well. Overall I loved what people could do with Halo 5's forge, Ive seen some crazy cool things out there. I just didn't like that I couldn't adjust to it and felt a little bit helpless. The complexity and creative freedom upgraded so much it nearly killed the casual forging for people. It made what people could do with forge insane, but it just got too in dept and complicated for a lot of people... Sorry for the, multi-paragraph comment, but its something I've always thought about and wanted to share. Love your videos Rocket Sloth. excellent work!

The halo reach forge community was seriously amazing. The maps of the week series on RU-vid was so fun

Halo: Reach was my favorite Halo game I've played. I have countless hours just playing forge with my friends. I remember messing around playing prophunt, duckhunt, parkour, that game mode with cars flying down at mach 2, modded game modes that had vehicles that you can't spawn in. Now that we all moved and are out of high school, some in the military and I'm in college, I do miss it. Halo 4 had some good memories, but we didn't play very much on it. One game mode I liked playing was a battleship vs battleship death match. Each team had an aircraft carrier/battleship hybrid and battle rifles.

Forge was my minecraft. Me and my 3 friends would build bases and then we’d visit each others bases.

I really hope forge world 2.0 drops with infinite forge

Reach and forge-world changed my life, the community, the custom games, the freedom, truly a time to remember hasn't been the same since.

I have a lot of good memories with friends playing on forge world doing random stuff and just dying of laughter. Was great to see it on this channel

Forge World is one of the greatest things Halo ever did. Forge World 2.0 maybe one day? Halo 5 canvas' are great, but I think Forge World's mix of blank canvas, but also preset landmarks was perfect for all forgers.

Just another of the many reasons why Reach was, is, and always will be, the best Halo game of all time.

I saw your post about the "apparently" no coop forge on Halo Infinite I really hope that isn't the case.

I remember watching that Forge World viddoc as a ten year old and just being amazed and eager to get my hands on the game and was immediately sold on it when I learned about fixed and phased physics. I later got the game on my 11th birthday and has become my favorite halo game and in my top 5 games in general. I also love the mcc update to forge on Reach and 3.

Seeing as how Infinite is doing seasons based on games, I wouldn’t mind each season bringing back 3-5 iconic maps from each game. Forge world needs to be one of those in infinite’s forge

I remember rewatching the forge world vidoc dozens of times when it first dropped. Good times!

i loved the pre-release hype for Forge World! the reveal during a Red vs Blue video, the fan-made recreation of the objects in an architecture software (Google Sketchup Forge) it had a bunch of us making maps before the game came out, although the pieces didn't end up being 1:1 with the actual game lol

when i first started playing forge i asked my mom if i could pay $15 for a chopper on snowbound. she said no… i was 8 or 9 at the time and didn’t get that the “budget” was in game currency.

I didn't know or forgot that Halo reach had the nudge axis ability or the change colour thing. Thank you, this is gonna make life easier when I get back into forge world.

I remember the day reach came out so vividly.. It was the first game I ever pre-ordered (legendary edition gang) and my mum let me take a "sick" day from school to go pick it up and play it on launch day. Since all my friends were still at school I had no one to play with so I just loaded into forge world and started making a parkour map, the scale of that map was something I had never seen before in a video game and, and the potential the new forge tools presented absolutely blew my mind into a thousand tiny pieces. SO many possible maps, game types, and hours of fun. I cant remember another game ever giving me feelings of awe and wonder on the same level as that map. When my friends got out of school and picked up their own copies we all jumped in an XBL party chat and I had them try the parkour map I had spent all day building, we then proceeded to spend the next week adding onto it together and that single parkour map became the forge hub for myself and my friends. I have such fond memories of it, we would start our gaming sessions by loading into that map and chatting shit while attempting the most recently built parts and we went on to slowly improve and alter that one map until we all moved onto other games a couple years later. The end of h3 and the first year of halo reach was the golden age of online gaming IMO, and I know this is partially because of my nostalgia-tinted glasses and partially because we all grew up and created complex lives for ourselves outside of gaming, but nothing has come close to giving me the same feeling, nothing I've played has had me feeling giddy and excited to jump on and jam some matchmaking with friends the same way these games did. I don't think it ever will either. It's kinda sad to think about it this way, some of my friends are married with kids now, others just don't keep in contact so it will just never be the same.. But it's nice to be able to look back fondly on those times and say "We were there for these monumental moments in gaming history and we made the most of it while we could". So yeah it's sad but more than anything I'm just really happy I got to experience it. Not to sound like a regretful old man (I'm only 25 lol) but to the younger generation who started this Halo journey with infinite: Cherish these times, when Infinite's forge comes out I implore you to get stuck into it and get creative, make some whacky custom games, laugh with your friends, be in the moment. Sure, the game has issues but so did h3 and reach, that never stopped us from making the most of what we had and it shouldn't stop you either

This video brought back memories. I grew up with reach and I still hold great memories of maps like splatter monkey, get out of my house, and speed halo

I miss playing a current halo game that has a forge mode

I remember being 10 and having so much fun on reach

The map itself was great, I just wish the colors of our custom maps weren’t limited to shades of gray and maybe a bit of grass or sand

I remember playing that one vidoc so many times back when reach came out. Downloaded that vid on my 360 and I was always so excited for forge and loved the mode so much in reach. Thank you for this video, for some reason, this felt nostalgic already just by the title. Maybe cause forge isn’t around yet in infinite lol. Great video RS, keep up the amazing work! :)

I made a map that spanned the entire forge world, and my friends and I would snipe each other from the pillar to the canyon. We maxed out the range of most of the weapons. It was so much fun.

Until the MCC came out for PC, my friends and I spent a majority of our hours in Forge World building things, my one friend went above and beyond and I’ll always be impressed by his dedication and craftsmanship

When halo reach was added to MCC and I saw the additions made to it, I was stoked. After re-learning the mechanics of forge, I made a map heavily inspired by one of my favorite maps from halo ce, Chiron Tl-34. Even had a chance to play it with some friends online. MCC revitalized my love for this mode, and I hope it is done justice for infinite.

Id love to see a new Forge World with some expansions added, maybe some more space on the mountains behind, with in all those trees.

Every time I see halo 3 and reach I cry thinking back at all the maps I have saved in my 360

Being able to colour the Mongooses (google spell check says that's the correct way) was actually really cool and it sucks it didn't spread to more vehicles or games.

This video hit me right in the feelz. I wish they would just re-release forge world, foundry, and sandbox in Infinite.

This is so nostalgic for me because me and my brother also did that hot air balloon glitch you just have to see the physics to normal

They should backport Forge World to halo 3. Sandbox isnt big enuf, and its getting a little silly driving on those steep dunes on custom maps. Shit even just a huge flat plane.

I remember getting like 2-5 friends on weekends and going on forge map and creating bases on the map like making the observatory a fort and flying ships with flying vehicle landing pads and an armory, and towers on top of the island or the cliff side, and in the caves and we’d just battle from our bases and have sniper battles from all over the map. I’m in the process of getting a copy of it for Xbox 360 just to get those back cause I always hosted back then. It was the best.

Forge World really just hit different. I've spent so much time crafting and polishing maps on Forge World for no other reason that to goof around with my friends. We make massive rally style mongoose racetracks and we can just build whatever comes into our heads and the simplicity of the editing keeps you from taking it too seriously. We now have about 10 tracks with about 7 good ones. We recently made a custom game and had 16 players racing at one point. It was so much fun to see these projects I spent hours making being raced competitively by so many other people. A random person even won a race. Halo 5 just went too far and it's too much like a regular map editor. It's like the freedom stifled innovation where Forge World had me thinking of twenty different ways I could use railing long or seastack.

I miss this game so so so much it hurts. The memories I had. This game shaped my childhood

It had a cave, it had a cliff, it had an island, such a big space so much to make

I was so addicted to forge years ago I made a lot of custom maps and game modes mini games for me and my cousins to play on system link.. those were the days!

When we were kids in our school at the time we'd play a game called forts where all of us got on and went to different parts of the map to build a structure and then we'd just invade each other once we built everything up and honestly for things like that I absolutely adore Reach Forge

I think the reason reach forge is so well-liked is it struck a legit perfect balance- simple yet powerful, user-friendly yet expansive. It's crazy to think about now what halo used to launch with. How above and beyond this series used to go right out the gate on day 1.

Deadass the first thing I did when I booted up Halo Reach back when it launched was I went into forge and made a little house for myself on the Island out of objects with my favorite weapons mounted on the walls and a little back exit leading to a Revenant

This is my favorite map in Halo Reach where I create my own materials in Forge World.

Now we got the Custom game browser in MCC and all the memories come flooding back

I tried making a puzzle/escaperoom map that i was really proud over, but it was probably really difficult and unintuitive :D

The Act Man called and wants his thumbnail back

I never used forge alot to make things, mainly just flew around by myself and played with stuff. But this video makes me feel very nostalgic for some reason

ngl most of the time my sister and I spent in forge world was just us messing around and exploring, sorta like the minecraft creative mode of halo if you will

We used to do wars, we will separate into two teams of 8 and create a hidden base in 10 mins then we will hide a fusion coil in the base, which was the objective. 3 lives each, if you died you become a forge ball and spectate. Games will last hours it was so much fun.

I still remember the first time I loaded into forge world. In the hangar and I assumed the map was just the hangar and the space above it… oh boy was I wrong, my childish joy as I discovered the lack of barriers as I flew further and further into Forge World…

Just imagine 64 player forge world, essentially Battlefield 2552. That would just have been amazing. It feels so large and grandscale even now. Amazing map!

The nice thing is that it can be built in a fantastic way

I think forge world would be percect for Infinite's sandbox, imagine entire custom games built around grapple parkour on forge world, it fits perfectly.

I still have halo reach system link parties in my theater room with 16 people. So much fun!!!

2a forge is my favourite because of its tool but forge world keeps bringing me back to reach solely because how fun it is, even if there’s no duplicating objects

Bro ever since they released the thorage update for mcc, multiplayer became a campaign, but in a good way. The transport falcons, and even increased money for creation makes it funner.

Would be nice if 343 took the forge world map and placed it in halo infinite as a campaign DLC location. And then allow us to use that map in forge for Multiplayer.

There was the island, which was this little island with a mountain. Lol that just cracked me up

i would make a map, play some social slayer and then invite everyone i played with to a custom game on my map. Truly great memories

Forge world was beautiful! That huge waterfall was amazing!

Two words: Speed Halo

I spent so much time forging and forge world was perfect in my eyes. The canvas made my creativity flow

Wow this is so nostalgic! Thanks, RocketSloth, for bringing me back. Time to fire up the 360!

Ill never forget the indiana jones map in halo reach, or the "school" damn very nice times

I miss these days. I’d happily pick up reach and play it for another 10 years.

Back in the days, when I was 13, forge mode was the best thing I've ever liked. All the fun with new friends creating / discovering maps and game modes... I remember all the jengas, the Indiana jones, the ninja parkours, and all the mangoost races and sooo more ! Since that day, I always wanted to become a game designer, and now, I finished computer studies and watching for a game designer job. Halo reach forge mode litterally changed my life ^^'

I played this game so much but like 5 years after its prime. So sad i missed this whole thing

My fav parts were the floating tree and the tiny rock nook in between the hemorrage section and the cave that leads paradiso

Proud to say forge world was my most spent times on any halo maps ever

Didn't even talk about the fact that all the mountains are climbable just on foot, which I think is awesome in itself

This sounds like an Act Man title. “Why was Forge World so AWESOME?!”

shout out to Ducain for building Forge world in HALO 5 all by his damn self and killing it.

As a kid, I never played Minecraft, I played Halo Reach Forge. So damn good

0:55 Actman is that you?! Kidding aside, 343 pls give us an awesome forge. This is your last chance of redemption

Reach forge world just felt right

I’m still forging on Reach over a decade later.

When I think Forge, I think Forge World. Instantly, they're just connected to me.

Love to see a fellow halo reach shill here. I loved reach back then but lacked the creativity to do much. Recently I rebuilt 2fort from Team Fortress 2 in this map, using the water for the sewer section. Sadly even MCCs budget doesn't allow for the intel room to be added due to engine limitations. It still is the best FFA map i have ever played on. I had so many gun game sessions on this map. I love this forge alot and I'm really looking forward to what halo infinite will allow us to do.

Racing and driving maps were my favorite to play

Gonna go play halo reach now ty.

I remember the first time I was on Forge World it felt illegal to fly out of the spawn cave and just keep going and going and going 😂

Man i hope this gets remade again in inf

Oh man, this brings me back to when talented artists could create entire set pieces out of Forge objects... Someone made Halo Wars Arbiter out of them... That's bonkers 🤯 I tried my hand at creating entire vehicles back in the day, they were nothing like that modded Supercarrier map but still... I almost wanna do it again to see if what I can build. Also, Speed Halo is a staple for me, personally.

I remember how to make ziplines in forge, and how one guy made a bomb mode so that it actually changed the environment after it exploded. Good stuff.

If you think about it halo really started the parkour in gaming scene like without map editor on halo it would’ve been obsolete imo. Mario also was a big key to map editors

I kinda just realized that forge mode is like a really basic CAD software where you can build stuff with only what is already in the game but you can do a lot with it. Like tinkercad but better

I was just playing forge on forge world today lol

This video unlocked so many memories 😅

the act man intro was nice lmao

Who remembers the file browser spams with “Haunted Helmet hack” “2,000,000,000 Cr hack” “Blue and Red flames helmet unlock”

I remember picking up forge mode for all of about 8 minutes. Some people have made some pretty cool stuff though, and definitely a cool video. It's pretty low on my list of Halo features though.

Forge World was great, very large, detailed, and smooth forge editing

I just found out this excited today

Interesting watching you play parkour and see people ik... maybe i'll meet you one day.. just to jump better and be smug ;]

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I always forget about the area on top of the hangar

My younger brother and I spent tons of time on forge, best thing we ever made was a mongoose racetrack.

i always wished that through the content updates halo reach would've expanded the forge world and opened up some of the kill boundaries update by update to let us explore the entirety of it.

I used to build HUGE bases, after I discovered edit coordinates I was going crazy with giant structures so big the budget ran out, did not know you could upload those, I feel like they could have been seen by a few people, downside to them is I never put anything other than structure bits so not great to play in... lol