My friends and I prepare for Halo 3's release and spend the whole night beating the campaign on Legendary. Location: UCF - Orlando, FL My Gamertag: Reid N
Agreed. RIP Xbox 360 era. Modern devs, the lame ps4, and its mainstream fortnite battle royale community completely destroyed the entertainment industry and great franchises.
@@albehman8717Ya man I genuinely feel bad for you guys, I mean don’t get me wrong things definitely aren’t great in America, but you guys are really going through it, hope we both get better leaders soon
Bro was living peak life 2007. Was already rocking the iPhone(that literally just came out that summer), had the 360, flat screen HDTV, gaming bros, endless Mountain Dew. Man had it all. Also, this video needs to be put into the Library of Congress for historical achieving.
@@mulge2506Nah. It says AT&T in the left hand corner, and it has an ear piece on the top. Also the iPod Touch had the headphone jack on the bottom, iPhone had it on top.
@@BroiledSourGrapesI think you're right about that being an iPhone, but he was using a flip phone later in the video so maybe he was borrowing someone else's phone?
yes it was.But we all got to remember that sometimes we have to let shit go even if they were 7oly and a pain a part of our/your heart is ripped out.Lets hope that halo infinite will be 2007 again.
@@samirbedahoudi963 Time has changed. Halo infinite will maybe sell max 10mio. When u want that it is like Xbox360 daya then Xbox must be at very good position now with series X and it isn't. Max 70mio xsx will be sold and over 100mio ps5 again.
Exactly! So many games released back then had 50+ people waiting outside the doors to grab a copy. And the online community was so much fun too, with everyone cracking jokes and shooting the shit. Cellphones caught on quickly, but I think social media is primarily what ultimately killed everyone's sociability =(.
@@Jangopenguinyea but the point is having a social gathering like this and nothing beats getting a hard copy of a game at midnight launch. And the preorder bonuses were great too
Those were the good old days. Now it's all about competition. Who can broadcast the new game first before anyone else does. Also hoping to get views on your live streams. Sad.
Half of it is the industry, the other half is that people just can't enjoy things anymore. Every game has to cross out specific boxes to be successful even if the devs don't try to fuck us.
Yeah. Its all about making money playing video games now. The vlogging/twitch/fortnite era completely ruined everything. As well as the ps4 and its community completely destroyed the gaming industry.
For call of duty back in the day people would discover the game on their own, now within 5 minutes of the games release people are making best class set up videos, ruining the imagination and discovery
“Games were put out on a disk. No downloads. And it was all there!!! A complete game!!” Me in 2060 to my grandchildren who are about to put me in a home
And yet they're still the better of the two studios between them and 343 who is currently managing Halo.. things are grim, boys.. and I haven't even started with the TV show..
The fact that we may never (literally ever) see this in gaming history again due to digital demand and triple AAA games not matching this level of quality for a product is enough to make any gamer cry. May these fond memories for everyone last forever.
you just have to catch those studios on there way up, there will be many more games like this and already have! Stay optimistic! But yes, your point is true, eventually now, even those great studios perish quicker.
Very late to this lol, but seeing the bottle of Mountain Dew game fuel, the old school wide screen TVs, all the boy together in one room playing, and the long line waiting for the midnight launch made me soooo nostalgic. This belongs in a museum
The best part about this is that it's not like a video of old montages put together 15 years later. This is the week of release. They knew the heart was there and they knew they had to capture these memories.
@@giocatore_83 exact same thing happened to me, actually gave me goosebumps finding basically a historical record of a cultural event. And this was uploaded literally two days after Halo 3 was released, dude was committed
We had the golden age of gaming and technology, where it still had some soul and Character. We got shafted on the music side of things, there was some decent music in 00's but nothing like 70s-90s. We even had pretty good cars... Again (nothing like the 70s) but still pretty decent
Notice...how they could attend the midnight launch AND play the game immediately and not have to wait 4-12 hours for it to install? Just pop it in and play. Truly the days I miss
Get better internet and your download will be done in the 1hour it would take to get from the release to getting home with the disk to play the game, LOOOOL
I don't think that anyone has been this excited about a game in a long time and actually enjoyed it and not scammed the ever-loving crap out of. The fact Halo 3 actually lived up to the immeasurable hype, it's just amazing. This feeling will never be replicated for a video game ever again and I am heartbroken I missed it. This video is older than me, but I still feel the hype and excitement throughout the video. I still love halo and have beaten all of them, but I am truly sad I missed the GOLDEN era of gaming.
The way you know this is serious is that there’s Halo 2 music for the video itself. Nobody had the soundtrack for Halo 3 yet, so they HAD to use Halo 2’s soundtrack. Just gorgeous
The hype surrounding Halo 3 was unbelievable. This video captured those memories perfectly. Gaming in general just doesn't have that same amount of passion by anybody anymore.
Pulling an all nighter is hard nowadays this was truly an amazing video and im glad i got to watch it to this day my friends get together to play halo i only wish i was able to do what they did in that time 🥺
The good ol' days where gamers actually played the single player campaign first, completed it, and then jumped into multiplayer. That's part of the reason why gaming was so great, the single player campaign drew us in.....nowadays, you'd be lucky to get that type of attention for a campaign experience in a FPS with this younger generation.
I remember going to the Halo 3 midnight release with my brother. I was 14 years old and my mom took us, they had multiple tables set up with pizza and Halo 3 game fuel and they were just handing it out to everyone. There was probably 150 people there all just congregating about the greatness we were all about witness. It was such a an amazing and magical time.
They captured such an amazing point in console gaming history on film. I'll never forget Halo 3 and the years of fun it gave me, my brother and my friends ever since release.
@@deltaactual3368 this reminds me of when my mom used to take me out to our local grocery stores and overload on junk food. Then my friends would come over, set up x boxes and play halo 2 and 3 all throughout the weekdays. Especially on breaks. Man I miss those years. 2001-2007. I like reach and odst but chief's story should've ended at 3. Nothing else afterwards. Never forget. Halo 3.
If there ever comes a day when the human race is no more, and the remains of our civilization is discovered by another species. I really hope this video is how they learn about gaming.
Marty!!! You made the most beautiful OSTs for video games ever!!! Halo’s atmosphere wouldn’t have been what it was had it not been for your musical talents!!
It's unbelievable to see that this was already 16 years ago, back when gaming was at its peak and wasn't corrupted by corporate greed. I mourn with all you fellow gamers here, the times we had. The 2000s were something magical man.
08 here, It’s unbelievable that this video is older than I am, Even if it’s just by a year. I would do anything to be able to experience life as it’s portrayed in this video. Seemed like good times indeed.
@@wowno5763 At least they released FULL games back then and didn't launch half assed games that need 3 years of updates/DLC to make it seem like a finished product.
Been playing video games since the Sega Master System, owned all major consoles since. Truly this was the best days of gaming, save for a handful of studios today, the Industry is a shadow of what it once was in terms of passion and love.
Thanks to yall gamepass clowns who didn’t care about the golden age of gaming but worry about Phil Spencer pockets to why Xbox going third party. This was the real competition!!!!! Sucks I’ll no longer be a halo fan since it’ll have to come to its rival platform
We used to bring all the booklets to school to draw them. Wanted to design our own halo 4. It's crazy that a lot of our ideas actually ended up being in the later games like the H4 grenades or cortana being evil. Wish 343 didn't have the writing capabilities as 4th graders because man those ideas were horrible haha
I'm going to chime in on this one. I'm probably older than a lot of the folks in the comments section, but I was 25 years old back when this game came out. Now I'm 40 and I can agree that this time period was a magical time for gaming. I remember gaming with my best friend who put me on to Halo originally with Halo 2. He and I used to go to all the midnight releases together and play like every day....Id get that text from him around 930 at night "hey fool, get online" and wed play til 2 am. I'd kill for that text now...he sadly passed away from cancer 2 years ago but man this video took me back to some good times. Thanks for posting this 15 years ago. What a great video!
hey condolences for your loss but congratulations for playing in such an era you are graced with an unchangeable timeline. I grew up on the launch of halo reach and I can only imagine the feelings you must have felt waking up to those messages. Hope you're well soldier :) much love
I keep coming across videos from between 9 - 16 years old. Some I haven’t seen and most are videos I grew up watching remembering when they were coming out and the world was truly a lot better back then… that isn’t even the nostalgia talking.. it was truly a time to be alive, America died shortly after 2010..
Gaming just isn't what it was back then. We don't have moments like these anymore... No midnight launches, no going to the store and collecting YOUR copy. Sure, what we have is way more convenient to some degree, but I'd rather sacrifice convenience for moments like these.
We were living on the edge of the downfall. We could connect online but we still used physical copies of games. Crazy how quickly it all turned into digital download, loot box crap
As far as i can remember the release of Destiny was the last time I ever had that experience. getting the copy after school, snacking, staying up all night with friends, having a fucking blast. that was almost a decade ago now.
I’m 23 and I was 7 when halo 3 came out, I remember standing in line for 2 hours after school with my dad who hated it but my dad loved me and waited patiently. When I got my copy I remember the hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second. Thank you old Bungie
I feel sorry for ya young ones. 20 years of corporate cut and paste. You'll never experience a true next gen experience like we had in the 80s 90s and 2000s before ps3 360
@@J.Wolf90lol you’re a sad fellow. Go play pong, pac-man, and Tetris, loser. No way you have commented this many times on one channel all basically saying the same thing lol. We younger folks feel sorry for you old ass tools that think the 80s was anything compared to the introduction of online gaming. Gtfoh
@@J.Wolf90You missed the part where alot of people are saying "peak" and "golden age." Its better than what the ps4 era was🤮I bet you you are a ps4 lover too.
I will go to the grave with my halo 3 all nighters, energy drinks, pizza, ice cream, weed, partying up, anger, excitement, let downs, trash talking. Now I'm married and playing mindcraft and halo mcc every night minus weed, energy drinks, anger, trash talking. Nothing will beat the first time around but my wife sharing her first time around almost bring me back to the good old days of halo and that's enough to make me happy. I love you halo not for what you are but for what you were.
Modern day gaming would have meant 1.Install game 2.Install patch 1-2-3 3. Play game 5h later. 4. Be dissatisfied that the game does not deliver on its marketing.
If only Microsoft was able to partner with PepsiCo again to promote Halo Infinite instead of Kellogg's, it would have been a nice throwback. Even if it were an unhealthy choice, lol.
I was pretty broke at the time of the release. All my money went toward paying bills. I couldn't even afford an Xbox 360 yet. My old bud got this at the release, me and other friends were sitting out in his driveway waiting for him to come back with the game. Seeing him drive up to us while waving the game out the window is truly an unforgettable memory for me. We were all so excited and happy, just as happy as if we bought the game ourselves. ❤
@@jonathanbirch2022 oh we definitely threatened to kill each other on those lobbies 🤣. We never did shit though. Very theraputic for all involved. We were tougher people not so long ago.
I remember so many people called in sick to school the day this launched. I bought the original Game Fuel mtn dew, was watching the G4 Xplay live special leading up to launch, and played this game into the ground once it was in my hands. Great times. I got chills when you guys cut the lights and booted the game.
Aussie here, i remember all my best mates stayed over that night and we went to the midnight launch, our parents collectively allowed us to do so even though we had school the next day (we didnt have to go) we stayed up until 3pm the next day, clocked the game on legendary 4 player coop on this little tv screen. I miss them days. I dont talk to two of them any more but that memory will forever be solidified in my mind... Just a group of young lads who were brought together by this amazing game and moment in time.
If there ever comes a day when the human race is no more, and the remains of our civilization is discovered by another species. I really hope this video is how they learn about gaming.
I have watched this video over and over for well over 10 years. I actually saved a copy of it to my local drive in case it ever got deleted a few years back. This is 2007 incarnate.
The fact that this was recommended to me 16 YEARS after this video was posted lol. I wish I was old enough for this, I’m only 26 and wasn’t huge on games as much as I am now, especially Halo (was always my favorite but my love has only grown)
Aw man I remember when Halo 3 came out in Mexico. I was 14 years old at that time and I remember my parents visites the videogame shop and my mom called my brother and I and asked us which Halo 3 edition we wanted and we asked for the special edition. I remember all this so vividly it was around 6 pm when that happened and my brother and I ended up playing all night long. It was just amazing. Thank you mom and dad ❤️
MarfeeWarfee Halo games always managed to delivery some varied and odd multiplayer moments. Something that cod seems to miss. Such as driving around the warthog with your friends, ending with your driving over those Jump items, and you and your team flying up and landing on an enemy.
Yeah I miss those days too, though there is actual hope with Halo: Infinite on the horizon. And with all the amazing mods coming out on anniversary I’d say there’s hope for a second golden age.
People really do have ethe nostalgia blinders on. I'm 33 and never want to go back to playing on console. The only reason I miss this era was the people, before they got so butthurt over games.
Back when the game was important to devs and the gamers valued the community. Before scalpers made it impossible to get a legendary edition of a game. Also before micro transactions. So crazy how much gaming has changed for the worst.
Truly the best time to be alive for nerds, I still remember all the videos of people going bonkers getting the game midnight release on youtube while kid me was watching and wishing that was me and hoped Christmas would come faster
@@scotchwhisky6094 I think at least the whole journey, waiting in line, and getting a physical copy at midnight part can’t be replicated. But digital is just so much more convenient, but I do feel you lose a little something special with digital.
