3:12 If you look on the right side of the carrier you can see the Amber Clad from Halo 2 just look closely Also taking place to follow the carrier through the Portal
Well Im pretty sure the Halo 2 original cutscene was the first time it was actually shown to anyone. It was referred to in I think 1 novel that is a confirmed in atmosphere slipspace portal at this point in the series chronology in 2004. So for them to adapt it to fit how it actually works in universe would be obvious. I also think Halo 2's was done for a more dramatic effect vs this. First Strike would lead us to believe that Cortana and the higher ups would have an understanding about what's going to happen vs anyone else.
I mean more how the slip-space portal opens at the front of the ship and then it just zooms in, unlike the one in Halo 2 Aniversarly where it's just open and the covenant ship just slowly flys though it.
@@robloxbloke258 Also, there's the lovely added touch that, at 3:16 there is now a crater in the middle of the city that wasn't their before, from the rupture leveling the area it opened up over from pressure and heat alone (since it doesn't look like the rupture actually makes it to the ground; though that would be far worse... suck through a portal and either vaporized or left drifting in space over Instillation 05)
I always wished there was a mod for drop pods to be the method of entry for each life into firefight in ODST Instead of randomly spawning somewhere on the map, you’d drop from space, eject the door, and start shooting
The pod that crashes with the Rookie's actually Mickey's. You can slow the video down to 0.25 and pause the moment of impact, and see Mickey bracing himself through his window.
one small detail that they never touch on is why the hell would you choose ODST's for the Spartan V program??? i know they're elite and everything compared to the regs, but they dont exactly have the best discipline, especially this lot here.
@@deadponic117 Because A. Buck was disciplined and B. Recruiting Alpha Nine was the only was to get Buck to join the program. Also, it clearly doesn’t work considering *SPOILER* Mickey joins the insurrection.
Indeed it is for one simple reason. Tension. If you haven't seen the trailers, then you don't know how this is going to turn out. If you have seen the trailers, then you know the drop is not going to turn out well at all. Either way, this scene builds tension. Halo 5, we don't get that impending sense of dread. Sure Buck says he's scared and all that, but the music is too "heroic" and then we see Osiris mow their way through the Covenant.
@@deadponic117because they dont have time to again repeat the program. so having a lot of troops who is the best of the best in human form is the perfect candidate to expand the program. u may not like it but a whole bunch of armies in spartan gear is still deadly af even if they are inferior to the ogs. after all, manpower and logistics are key.
The sequence of free fall of the capsule is breathtaking, and other than the visual... the music in the background with increasing drums and "drama" in melody while progressively noticing something's going wrong... absolute goosebumps
I disagree, making this a proper cutscene would ruin it. You can move your head to look around during this, and that adds greatly to the effect that YOU are dropping down, not your character in a cutscene.
@@boobyqueen I think the switch from cgi to in-game graphics wouldn't work. When Romeo wakes up the Rookie and we switch to his perspective, it's seamless because the cutscene uses the in-game models. The game would have to look as good as its cutscenes for that switch to not be jarring.
If we ever get another ODST game/campaign DLC where we are dropping into hell, I’d love it to be executed similarly to this or the Delta Halo drop scene
They really should either make ODST into a halo VR game, or into some sort of battle royale (I mean imagine dropping into new mombassa like that for a BR)
Call me biased because ODST was my first Halo game (the first one I personally owned) but this is the best intro in the series. NOT TO SAY THE OTHERS WERENT GREAT, mind you... but this was just... UUGGHHHH so good
Just realized the rookie had like thirty seconds between waking up and making the drop. Talk about a sucky morning. What if he had to take a shit first?
Nah, this is common military stuff. Rookie was ready to go beforehand, he's catching some shut eye when and where he can. You never no when you'll be able to get a full night's sleep in the military, so you learn to take quick naps whenever possible. He got in his gear together and was in his pod, waiting for deployment. Since they're not doing anything just yet, he decided to catch a minute or two of rest.
2:45 That is the same ship model seen in the Halo 3 ending when the Ark portal separates the ship into halves. One half lands in the ocean, the other is adrift in space. Bungie recycled the model. I just realized that, peaking at the files in Blender.
The trajectory change that Dare ordered saved their lives, putting them just enough away from the Slipspace EMP to give them time to pop their chutes. The rest of the ODSTs deployed weren't so lucky and their pods were fried. They had no braking systems and rode all the way in...
If bungie stayed halo would still turn out the same IMO they weren’t a perfect company and did have problems with development specifically H2 where the crunch and horrible overall working conditions were bad enough to force staten to leave (whether or not that was MC or bungies doing is something I don’t know), Marty had to take over the story, H3 turned out fine but there are SOME things in it that are questionable since Marty had to make everything up on the spot with only a few ideas with the way Staten was going to take it. Bungie would’ve became a decrepit company as it is today, it’s the natural progression of all big old dev companies with old IPs, they would’ve been making the same game over and over with nothing new just like activision, they tried some new stuff in reach and that was controversial when it came out, people didn’t like the changes to the sandbox. The bungie from 18 years ago is gone, it’s a company, you can’t expect it to stay the same for so long, devs will leave for bigger better things or will leave for personal reasons and will have to be replaced, it’s the natural way of things. It’s important to point out as well is that destiny is an absolutely horrible spot rn all thanks to bungie, their deal with activision ended a few years ago and the game has became a horrible state with company almost collapsing.
