I miss this game. I miss it I miss it I miss it. Playing Custom Games for hours with friends, messing around in forge, playing competitive matchmaking, the amazing campaign, I miss it all. But what I miss most? The friends I made playing this game. The friends I still have, the friends I barely talk to, and the friends I haven't seen for years. If I had to choose a highlight of my entire life, it would be this game.
I feel you bro my friends list composes of friends that I made while playing Halo 3 and it's sad cuz most of them haven't come on since halo 3 was big and I'll never know what happened to them :/
+EHerobrineE well said man, i grew up playing this game, remember my full friends list of people in custom games, and spending saturday afternoon, hopping from lobby to lobby, from party to party, from custom game to custom game.
The battle depicted in the Believe Diorama is the Second Battle of New Mombasa. Because the real-world creators of the diorama did not know the plot of Halo 3, the diorama is not accurate to any of the events in that game, and the battle cannot have taken place after the game because of the fact that the end of Halo 3 marked the official end of the Human-Covenant conflict. The diorama is thus intended to represent the Human-Covenant conflict, and humanity's near-impossible victory, as a whole.
I remember when they did this diorama that I was so excited for this battle to be in the game. I was very disappointed that it wasn't because I wanted that moment when the Brute was holding up Chief to be in the game.
This entire campaign is to the gaming history what Apple's 1984 ad was to the history of marketing in general. Thoughtful, moving, groundbreaking - an amazement so great that I even overlook the end product in both cases.
it's been 9 years since the release of this game and my life sure has changed. I remember a simpler time back when this game was released. All I ever wanted to do was just run home and play this game with my friends in real life and the ones I made through Xbox live. I remember after a match in matchmaking if you told someone you got this cool map on custom game half the party would join you. you could just sit their for hours just playing random maps with these people. I miss this.
I wonder what they did with this diorama after the filming was done. I think it would be a great piece to take and place in like the Museum of Science Fiction in Seattle Washington. But most likely what could have happened is it was either dismantled and maybe pieces of it given to certain members of the bungee team or its may be on display in their headquarters building.
this game made me realize just how amazing we are as a species. not only the fact that we could hold together for so long, never give up, but the fact that the spartans are still human. after years of the harshest training and unimaginable sacrifice, they're still capable of emotion. even more so than most of the "normal" soldiers on the field. spartans still know hate, and rage. but they also know kindness, and love. and that's the true triumph. to remain human in the darkest of times.
I like this video and the monument. its actually one of the best videos, in my opion, that actually brings in an almost realistic feel to the entire halo saga.
dude im not afraid to admit i might cry if chief dies, my emotions are everywhere just seeing this video, even though its just a game, it gives you this feeling of sorrow just thinking a great man is passing away idk but this is a great commercial
ShadowHunta: There are WWII memorials in many forms, of many degrees of beauty and grace, located across the globe. This ad campaign was designed to invoke the feelings that one would experience when watching a compelling documentary on an event as significant as World War 2. In my opinion, the producers of this campaign did a fine job of just that, as it invoked feelings similar to what I felt when discussing the Korean War with veterans who fought on the very spots we were standing on.
this is something Master Chief, or John 117 really deserves. for he is not just another character is some game wich takes place in some place. no, this is so beautiful it could be real. this is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
I think this game will bring people closer together than any other video game ever could. Because, although the game fictional, we all believe in and need heroes. And Halo just happens to deliver the perfect one. It's like the bright light at the end of the dark tunnel...
Wow, these vidos are really amazing. I love the BBC-type narrator voice, isn't that funny how that particular voice makes it sound so real? Also, watching these beautiful clips, it just strikes me as absurd that "they" still can't get their shit together and make some films about Halo... they would make unbelieveable profit, so no worries for the studio, and if the content was half as good as these short clips are, the movie would be a peice of art.
Bungie never dissapoints to market halo. They do all efforts to make it real. They go from live action battle scenes to a documentary to make it feel historic and very monumental. Chills up my spine.
kinda hard to describe the feeling you get when you watch this isn't it? I really FEEL like part of the game when I think of this video. It is, simply put, a beautiful video, beautiful music, beautiful.......everything. Long live Master Cheif, Petty Officer, John 117!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with you on this one. The entire series is a monument to our species in itself, and it does show the idea that we should unite as humans, not enemy nations or religions.
Halo 4 delved into the Master Chief as a CHARACTER. The level of emotion shown by the chief in that game is monumental compared to every other game combined. The Reclaimer Saga is set to show the world who and what the Chief really is in his current state, especially after losing his last true companion in his life. I welcome its story with all my heart, as Halo is one of the greatest Sci-Fi epics of all time.
It was like listening to a WWII documentary. That was pretty cool. I loved how the models looked SO realistc. But, they should have shown the Master Chief model, and how it looked up at the camera. But still, that was fantastic.
He did indeed give us faith. He did indeed make us brothers of the land believe again. Also, remember the Marines, those who fought alonside John...right to the very end.
At outpost discovery I feel like their hall of history was inspired by these videos. Unfortunately they couldn’t show these original dioramas, and replicating something like this in a traveling museum is difficult.
its just... one of those things man ive been playing halo since the first game followed it all the way and its so corny and cheezy but i cant help but get emotional lol
These trailers are the best. Bungie really went all out with their Halo 3 game. To bad they didnt do the same for Reach, well except for the "Deliver Hope" trailer, That was pretty sweet.
Well, I just think the whole concept of the museum and everything is cool. Yes, yes, we all know it's promote a great game (why bother playing anything else?) but, like anything else, if you can suspend your disbelief, it's really good stuff. I got choked up at the end of H3, at the memorial scene when the camera zoomed in on the MC patch taped to the memorial and someone had scratched 117 into the paint. After all this time, it still gets me.
Just a game? it is a continuing saga of which iron strong will and luck prevail. a work of beautiful art in which extraordinary detail was carved from raw software. The series it self is a monument to humanity, subconsciously calling us to unite as a species, and put our pettiness aside. You call it a game, i call it a masterpiece.
Halo would win a golden globe award for sure if they were to ever go into the movie industry; the story is just amazing...yes, it would be sad if master chief, cortana, the arbiter, and many of our heros die, but imagine how deeply it would impact on the halo community and world wide. I wouldn't cry, but i would feel sad to be honest, lol.
The human-covenant war was for 29 years, he was there from start to finish, fighting rebels before that. His chronological age is 41-42. His real one is younger since you dont age during cryo tube storage (most of the time spent). Roughly 29.
After Reach there was 117 and Blue Team that survived. Also gray and black teams who weren't at Reach. I believe there were also some few, individual Spartan ii's scattered across as well.
i cant belive how much 'drama' has been added to the halo series, didnt expecting it the first time playing the first halo game... :) but I wish somehow, someone would make the real official movie, on masterchief from his childhood until halo 4... thats something everyone needs to watch..
@theace No, John and Cortana have been drifting for approx. seven years since Halo was destroyed. The trailer for Halo 4 is made sometime around those years. They could have made this monument with him back on Earth or he never returned in 50 years. We won't know until the games come out.
" If we parish in the night, without even a whisper we will not be heard. not by are own, not by are selves, not even by god. If we scream out as one, letting are cries be heard are problems absolved. we will succeed for the greater good, the hopeful, the believers, and the willing. do not look at your brothers and hate but look to the stars and set your petty differences aside." - Spartan 116///
i am with you there. i have played uncounted hours on halo CE. always the campaign. i play many hours on halo 2 campaign as well but spent a lot more time on multilayer halo 3 i didn't spend so much time in the campaign but still a hell of a lot more then any other game i own.
Makes me happy to know i still have 70 strong years ahead off me, and maybe just maybe, i could take somethig epic like this, put my name down in history
They thought he was dead. The luckiest spartan to ever live. They thought he died in a ship. But they were wrong. They forgot the number 1 rule. Spartans never die, they just go missing in action. November 6, 2012. The return of a legend.
ya but once in a while something so amazing rolls around that we want to embody it, to believe in something greater than ourselves, to really want to believe in the good of humanity, which master chief epitomises
that's the Spartan 2 program, the Spartan 1 program was based on trying to augment preexisting soldiers as opposed to training them from childhood. Bungie confirmed Sgt. Johnson as a Spartan 1, possibly why he views the Spartan 2s (where MC comes from) as his brothers and sisters as opposed to the less friendly view some other soldiers take of them as freaks.
For those asking how this fits in the time line of halo, it's not supposed to. This was done by Microsoft not bungie to help promote halo 3. It's not supposed to be part of the timeline thus why it seems out of place
Remember John 117, one of the few remaining spartans after the fall of Reach, and always remember reach....remember the men and women who died defending the fortress, remember the spartans who went mia trying to defeat the covenant.....remember the shattered families as they all lost loved ones.....remember July 23rd, 2552.........and remember John 117
Master Chief Petty Officer (Grade E-9) John-117 SPARTAN-II Commando Leader, Blue Team UNSC NavSpecWarCom A: 42 years (est) H: 6'7" W: 287 lbs Holder of all possible military citations of valor except the POW Medallion Status: MIA, post-"Battle of Installation Zero"
Fuck that, contact harvest, the Cole protocol and the fall of Reach all need to be films... I don't think 343 have any idea how much money they would earn from them. All three have incredible stories and people need to know them!
Wow. This video almost looks real. Bungie did more then just create a great mythology--they actually got to the heart of some aspects of war, and humanity even. I commend them for creating a universe with truly believable realities of war. If we could only have such a museum in our real world...
