Halo 3 and Reach Custom Games just hit differently... (Best Halo Custom Games Of All Time) 

Some of my greatest memories with friends were made in H3 custom games. What an amazing time to be a gamer

I am a old forger who was called billy the pro. I was getting very well known on 360 halo reach and halo 4. I stopped playing and YouTubing due to addiction. After a long battle, I’ve finally picked up halo mcc and started forging again. I am so happy to be back. This game saved me. It’s amazing to see the community is still going strong! Love you guys!

I miss reach so much. For almost 4 years my group and I played almost every night. I couldn't thank Bungie enough for making those memories possible.

31 years old and I'm crying rignt now. Zombies on that 4 room dlc map was the highlight of my childhood easily. Without those lobbies, we might not have cod zombies honestly. We did spend hours after school playing zombies because it took forever to move the boxes. Thank you for taking me back to the good times.

I never got to experience the glory days of custom games, but playing classics like Speed Halo and Duck hunt in Halo Infinite are some of the best times I’ve had. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to understanding why everyone loved halo 3 and reach

I'm sorry you guys never got to play custom games during Halo 2's original XBL run. Besides Zombies, we would also play Tower of Power, Cat n Mouse, Troy/Tremors, Hide n Seek, as well the various Superbounce and Out of Bounds exploring type of lobbies too. There were also many modded console custom lobbies on XBL at the time; people did all types of crazy mods like having your gun shoot out a vehicle or have your gun shoot things to climb on. Eventually these type of lobbies turned into the Skill Jumping & Parkour maps that forgers would create in Halo 3. The creative custom lobbies we had back then were just as fun as the forge customs from H3, Reach and onwards.

Aside from missing the parkour side of custom games with jump courses, this was a great list from the H3 side which I played a ton of.

You forgot one of the most influential in such an unexpected place. Griffball.

This is possibly the best coverage of the evolving Halo community that is out there. I had the most incredible nostalgia trip watching this video and I appreciate the memories. It's so hard to pick one favorite, but I always loved the jump maps and the racing maps that players created utelizing some of the craziest physics and geometry. invisible walls, competing force doors and "magnetic" surfaces. Those are the things that keep Halo close to my heart.

Your Halo videos hit different for all of us who lived through all these times. So many great memories.

This and campaign is true Halo. Just having fun with mates and not taking it too seriously and being competitive.

Speed halo, duck hunt, castle wars and fat kid was a core part of my childhood, great memories

I remember hosting hunger games in reach, it was always fun and there were always people wanting to play it

I feel like Bunker Hill on H3 needs a huge shoutout, I spent so much time on that map back then

I was really hoping for a mention of Battleships from Halo 3. I forget if it was just slayer or CTF, but it was designed so the Elephants hovered on Sandtrap (weapon drop pods + grav lift) and you'd have a pilot in a Hornet wedged into the Elephant under some barriers, letting the pilot fly the Elephant around the map. Was tons of fun getting a lot of people on. Usually ended up in the Elephants colliding and both going down.

Anyone remember the map "Miles" on H3? Hours and hours spent jumping around with friends.

No mention of tower of power from Halo 2? I used to play that mode soooo much. I also would join some of those escape the map lobbies, but rarely did super bounces. There were so many other glitches you could use to get outside of the maps. I really need to go play some more custom games again >.>

Some of my favorites memories were on halo 5 when me and my friends will log on at late nights to play custom games and there was so much difrent type of weopons with mods

Dude this video gave me the best nostalgia vibes. Thank you for bringing back parts of my childhood that I really cherished. I hope we can continue to have more moments like we did back in the Halo 3 & Reach days.

Dude Halo 2 system link! I miss those days, everyone in the neighborhood coming by & chillen.

I've played all of these more times than I could count. 90% of my game time was in custom games and I still have many of the friends I made in Halo 3 on my friend list today. My best video game memories are mostly from halo custom games. God I wish I could go back. Good times. Simpler times.

Great video. Very in depth. I'm mainly interested in the halo 3 part. If you are looking for more things to cover in halo 3 there is... Parkor, Trick jumping, Obstacle Coures, puzzle map, challenge map, grifball, racetracks, rocket race, hlg, Forge art, glitches, and more.

Long time sub. This is probably the best video you guys have put out in a while. Great work!

And LFD 1-2, MW2, Halo 3-ODST, Battlefield Bad a company 2 and 3! Gears of war 2 and 3! Modded Xbox Lobbies and other classics it was such a great time in gaming and the memories dude I will never ever forget those times. Real ones remember The Tech Game forums

Hi everyone I'm N0bleT @rocketsloth you were spitting facts about sword tournament its an honor that you used my video :) love your work !!!!

One of the best memories I have of halo custom games was my friends and I playing on interlink for the 360 on halo reach speedhalo and trash compactor and death runs for the whole day. Those really where some of my most fun gaming moments

I would give just about anything to go back to the golden days of Halo 3 and Reach custom games. Just to experience those games for the first time again. So many core memories 😢

Thank you for this upload. My wife and I are preparing to have our first kiddo later this week. I spend the last few weeks writing a life story, which prompted me to think much about my youth. Much of my teenager years back in 2007 - 2012 were filled with some of the best memories I had with friends. I truly feel bad for teens today. I remember Rainbow Six Vegas, MW1, MW2, Gears of War 1, 2, and 3, and of course Halo. So many hours spent on these games. Does anyone remember Hogtagon?

Super happy slide, speed halo, 2012, and fat kid were our go-to custom games on Reach. And making our own really bad D-day style maps on forge world or playing “grid,” where one guy would stay in edit mode and just chase everyone with a grid. Good times.

9:49 when you smacked the warthog and everyone on the other tower was watching in horror and you see their guns move as they watch just gave me the best nostalgia from back then it was all new

one of the coolest things ive seen a dev studio do was bungies 7 on 7, as well as the sheer amount of fan made custom games made into public matchmaking playlists in Halo 3. Sumo wrestling, Golf, Rocket Race, and of course, Grifball

I use to fill up my lobbies with like 18 people playing my supergood race maps, it was awesome that people actually joined and would play. I had really good racing maps where someone is in the middle trying to blow u off the track with a rocket launcher or sniper

The nostalgia is real. We were so blessed to be born at the right time. The best time in gaming

I remember a halo 3 game I made on standoff, there was a tank worthog thing that I forgot the name of and everyone else was in mongooses and the worthog tried to kill the mongooses before they got to the end

This is all I think of 24/7….. I miss waking up, turning my Xbox 360 on. Putting my microphone on, joining my 5 person party of friends where 3 were already on and playing duck hunt or jenga. And we’d play a few socials, and then start a custom. And then we would all invite everyone on our recent players list… I miss those days of custom games SOOOOO MUCH.. Thankkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu for this video.

Holy shit, I remember every single Halo 3 custom game you showed in this video, the memories man 😢

In Halo 3, there was a game where one player was infected and invisible. They were stuck in a clear box at the start and only had the sword as a weapon. This gave all the uninfected players time to run and hide. After a minute the lights turned off and a lift spawned for the infected player to get out and hunt the others. The game ended once the infected person killed all the players. Miss this game, had a good group of people playing at the time

A few years ago I remember me and my friend always uses to hop o. Halo 5 to play custom games infection and warzone every night I still remember it to this game and it will always be in my heart😊 those nights where so good

Man, I played some of the silliest matches in CE. Rockets only on chiron or prisoner with 16 people ffa was pure chaos. Then there was no shields pistols only. We were playing swat long before it was a thing.

Thank you for making this video and reminding me of all those great times I had in custom maps 🙏❤️ what a time it was. The Xbox 360 days of gaming were unmatched

Man, tremors, tower of power, and the original infection (with the honor system) was a blast in Halo 2.

Holy shit that forge vidoc clip gave me a nostalgia shot. I watched that vidoc like 2 dozen times waiting for Reach to come out

Cat and Mouse actually started as a Halo 2 custom game (just obviously a lot more primitive there then it was in Reach). There's a lot of customs I'm surprised were skipped over. Grifball is probably the biggest one, but Minotaur was a fun one (which has seen some pretty cool evolution across each game up to Halo 5 easily having the best version of the mode), Hot Pursuit from Reach, Indiana Jones and other obstacle course style customs, and there's probably a lot of others that I'm forgetting about. Just so many great customs.

I wouldn’t put this as the absolute best, but I also recall ‘Paintball’ being a fast, fun, and simple game mode to play. If you already have the game mode made for it, it was neat to head over to forge with some friends for an hour or so to make a map, and then use the game mode on it immediately after. Also, I didn’t know that’s what it was called, but I loved playing this 23:03! I didn’t play it much, but I remember having a great time when I did. This was at the tail end of my custom game days and easily the biggest “oh yeah” moment of this video. Nice video :)

The mountain in sandbox look enormous when I was younger playing. I loved those days playing Halo Reach and Halo 3 on Christmas morning! I loved waking up in the morning and going strait to Halo and I'm still half asleep but enjoying the fudge out of the game.

A custom game that came WAY later in halo 5’s life span was squid games. It was pretty epic

We had a variant of Speed Halo, named Zombie slip and slide. Narrower and longer slide, with infected at the bottom using grav hammers. When you started spinning gained some serious speed! Such a great video brought back so many memories, thank you! :)

Heck we still play all the time! Well I do on Monday and Tuesday (my days off). Some nights we all scroll through the servers an watch in amazement how we stick around

I remember Halo 3 multiplayer being absolutely mind blowing, I was 10 and had no idea Xbox Live was a thing until I got a 360 for Christmas. What a time to be alive, dude.

Played Monster Trucks (figure 8 map) for literally days worth of my life. Duck hunt or hurricane was probably our second most played.

it was at its base slayer, but there is a few super cool astroid/space halo ininite maps where you use your grappling hook and you have a sniper and sword. it completely changes the game dynamic with how wide and how hard to find people it was. really fun.

"Before we had Foundry, we had Standoff" Standoff and Foundry were both in the same map pack though....

halo 5 forge and custom games are super underrated, abd I say this growing up with 3 and reach’s custom games. i remember the movement options when playing castle wars was super fun. it was a little eh for traditional halo play, but it was really neat for custom game types, also all the different custom gun types gave a lot of options.

I used to make a pile of fusion coils on Sandtrap, drive over them with a Chopper, and watch as the ensuing explosion launched my Chopper way outside the map.

The one good thing 343 did was make the custom game browser for the mcc, brings back so many memories scrolling through and finding specific customs I used to play. If only I still talked to any of my online friends from back then to play for old times sake.

9:51 I like the guy on the right tower who inches toward the middle like "oh shit the other tower is GONE"

This video is perfect timing I just reinstalled mcc for the first time since it came out and have been having so much fun in custom games

i loved and still love making stuff in the Reach forge world. Infinite possibilities

road snipe (Halo, on Halo) was always my favorite from the Sanbox line of iconic forged maps

oh how I loved omega journey. I am so glad you mentioned it.

My favorite was Zeus from 3 and then there was this one where you spawn in a warthog and you have to reach a square in the middle, each player has a gravity hammer, and once you reach the square in the middle you have to use your hammer to keep the enemy hogs from landing on the square

So many great Custom games memories woth friends and family these memories will aways be held deeply in our hearts

I don’t think anything has or ever will replicate those halo3/reach custom game feelings. The engines themselves helped manifest and create such great memories. Even just watching the explanation doesn’t give justice to how great playing these custom games in a full lobby was like

I swear I made the best Jenga. Made it in Reach after MCC came to PC. If you died you weren't forced to watch. Instead you went onto the Zombies team after a minute or so of dying. It slowly got more chaotic as the game went on, but it was still possible to win. I got inspiration from a specific version on H5. But instead of multiple towers I have one side by side that you can jump across. You can even get splattered mid jump as you leap across. It's super fun!

God, this video made me remember all of my childhood memories with Halo Reach's custom games! Get out of my house and Fat Boy were my favorite!!

so many amazing game types and memories in this video, kinda sucks that the jump/parkour maps on halo 3 and reach didnt get a shoutout, they were such a huge and popular game type especially in halo 3. parkour maps are still made for 3 and reach to this day

Two games that stood out to me were Tower of Power in Halo 2 and then "Escape Room" or "Trap room" style maps that had things like using turrets to clip through walls to escape the maze.

Unfortunately i never had the chance to play the custom games from reach and h3, luckily i can do it now using MCC. Never can forget monster trucks

My favorite community made game mode was Indiana Jones :). All players jump on vehicles to escape the moving death ball and make it to the end then face off for first place

Fat Kid, Michael Meyers, Duck Hunt, Jenga Wall/Tower, all good fun. I remember a spin on Omega Journey where you and other survivors were armed with pistols, and had to navigate the obstacle course to get better weapons. Zombies were somewhat faster than you, but could be domed with a headshot.

Great Vid Rocket Sloth, but missed the jumping maps on h3

I loved the ghost busters game mode on the map that was in the hanger of forge world in halo reach

I still host LAN parties with pretty much a lot of these games, almost every year! I hope to be able to host another one over Christmas!

Castle wars was, at least forge wise, originated in Halo 3. It was called Trojan Wars (reference to the Halo 2 custom game Troy) or Trojans vs Spartans but worked a bit backwards where you take your flag and try to place it in the enemy base. It was hard to to build forts, I made one myself. Some people I do recall made castle wars official maps just before Halo Reach came out though and it was fun Also Halo 2 Cat N Mouse is OG Halo 2 on Coagulation. It was super popular over there. Assassination or Vanity tower was from a niche custom game in Halo 2 called "donkey p*nch" lol don't ask why

Best halo cutscenes please, that's honesty what I first read and was excited lol

Cops and Robber Ultimate from Reach was my goat

My brother made a ENTIRE parkour couse on Halo 3

On Halo 3 i had a lot of fun playing a gamemode called toilet, where infected come up into small bowl shaped arena usually with shotguns only.

one of my favorites in reach was always the mountain climb ones, where you had to reach the top of a mountain while the kill balls mulched up vehicles and spat them down over the mountain

I haven’t played halo since the original one nearly 20 years ago (and I never even finished it) but I love this channel

I still talk about the endless fun had on Jenga Wall and Trash Compactor to this day bro

10:37 You said we had Standoff before we had Foundry. They released at the same time. Monster Truck was on Standoff because Foundry doesn't have a place to fall off the map

God the nostalgia trip rn, thank you for this video.

Drive or Die is still such a fun custom. Love seeing it in the customs browser on mcc

Duck Hunt and Left 4 Dead was always a classic

Monster Trucks? We called it truck box. I used to make tons of maps for it with a bunch of grav lifts or fusion coils that would spawn in on timers to speed things up a bit. Good times.

My greatest memories were of playing for hours on janga, trash compactor and the blue room. Sigh I miss those days

Customs and stuff were definitely just things I did to warm up or screw around when i was taking a break from ranked. Competitive was the way

I'm still working on a custom game archive list, but you'd be surprised how many Halo 2 custom games there actually were

Amazing vid

There was a jenga game mode in MCC where they used the jets and covenant ships to knock you off and you had jet packs…played it once haven’t it found it since

My friends hated playing with me on custom games. Assassin's Creed/Templars vs Assassins, Prop Hunt, One where zombies came up out of the middle and you spawned in with random weapons, Paintball and my favorite was Covenant SWAT.

You forgot to mention the entire HLG & JLG community. The endless hours spent in a custom game learning new hiding spots or new jumps

You didn't mention one of my all time favorites, Griffball.

Halo infinite Ultimate Fiesta is pure chaos, especially when at waffle house or Walmart. Halo 5 night of the living mantis is crazy fun. I'm just surprised you didn't talk about the maps created in infinite and 5.

I'm mad af that I grew up as a playstation player back then, missed all the good stuff u could find in xbox live.

Joining a custom games lobby and not knowing what the gametype was, but seeing it was on Forge World, you already got very excited before things even began.

I loved back in 3, reach and even 4 that you could view whos in normal online matches and could have a real community. That helped find new friends and jump into custom games. I miss the Reach days so badly...

Always love hearing the Megaranger theme in these vids

I never had internet growing up so i never got to live the magic of multiplayer halo until just now when i bought the mcc on sale... Im havinf the time of my life... Too bad all my friends either never played halo or dont want to play it at all.