(Corrections listed below) This video was a fun one to put together. So much of this series I got to experience for the first time (Halo wars 1 and 2 in particular were a lot of fun!) As stated, this video was primarily recorded on an AMD PC with the halo infinite LE 6900xt gpu. Thank you AMD for hooking me up! Theres also footage of the original xbox releases to give you a better idea of what these classics used to look like. I also want to thank EpicMusicTrailerUK for providing a fantastic opening piece to accompany the intro. And latenightgaming for providing many hidden easter eggs throughout the video ;) Enjoy!! Corrections: -Arbiter in Halo Wars is not the same one from Halo 2/3. What I meant to say is Halo Wars gives players insight into what the Arbiter was doing prior to the Halo saga, as in the Arbiter position - not the character commonly referred to as the Arbiter. -Halo Wars released in 2009 not 2003. -In Halo 2, Chief and Johnson are being awarded for events that occur in one of the novels, not the destruction of Installation 004 -I keep getting some comments claiming that the ring in the title sequence is reversed. It is not. Though it apparently is an optical illusion for some people which I find interesting. -343 Industries* not interactive. Said interactive once or twice by mistake
Nick!!! I love your videos!! Would you ever do a history of the souls game including bloodborne elden ring and sekiro I know it's a bit odd for your series but I just know you would do it justice.
Man that Halo Theme music is so damn nostalgic it almost brings me to tears every time it plays. Seriously some of the best times in my life was playing Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST and Reach. They gave memories I will never ever forget.
@@XSR1K Possibly, this isn't a hill I'm willing to die on. The same could be said for Goldeneye 64, Medal of Honor or GTA III or, for me personally, Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2
The first time I fought the Flood, I was scared shitless and freaked out as well. Great series even with its ups and downs. In your history video Nick930, you can almost feel what the guys at 343 are feeling with each decision they make. The Halo Wars series is, in my opinion, underrated and needs a third sequel to its great story, plus I love RTS games, Red Team and the Spirit of Fire crew. Campaign DLC for free.
Am I the only who absolutely loved each and every step the game made? Like this game grew and it made bold choices that have us STILL playing it. I love it
Halo is my all-time favourite gaming franchise! When the first Halo game came out on the original Xbox, I played that game non-stop! Thank you for this!
My friend bought his Xbox the night it was released. I was so excited. I remember going to school the next day, and all i could think of was playing Halo all weekend. That Friday night, like an hour after we got outa school. We played all night until the next morning. Throughout the weekend, we probably played a solid 30+ hours.
Aside from a few minor details you stated incorrectly this is an amazingly made documentary. You piece everything together so well. Exceedingly job well done.
@@Carcosahead Then a couple minor details like "Scattergun" instead of Scattershot, the Gauss hog isn't a rocket variant as he states in the Halo 2 section, and the Revenant is a separate vehicle from the Ghost not just a variant. Tiny details in an awesome documentary overall
@@Carcosahead he also says that the Arbiter in Halo Wars is the same one from Halo 2 and 3 which is incorrect. Arbiter is a title, a position. It’s like the Pope if the Pope were sent on suicide missions for the Catholic Church.
Unbelievably well done! I learned so much. Getting back into halo ever since playing a lot of combat evolved with elementary friends in my childhood. I can remember my mom pawned the xbox & life took a different route. I feel like I'm getting back into it at the right time!
It's great to see you back Nick and this one will be great! The amount of work and dedication you put into these documentaries doesn't go unnoticed, great content buddy! I would love to see a documentary on the Yakuza (Ryu ga Gotoku) franchise at some point, my favourite game franchise of all time :)
Who would have thought that a channel named Nick930 would turn out the become such an amazing source for video game documentaries? I'm honestly not quite sure how you get all these amazing insights into the development of all these games. Your continued tremendous efforts to produce hour long video game documentaries amazes me. IMHO every history video you've released is a must-watch for gaming enthusiasts. Keep up your amazing work!
Love this! Can’t wait to watch after work! For me it’s hard to choose between Halo 3 and Reach; great memories on both I have my montage of Halo 3 on my channel, I used to be Amazing at that game
This is fantastic! I love the level of detail you went into! It’s so interesting to see how all the different game devs came up with ideas. I really liked the part where they slapped together random theme music right before that demo and that’s what became so well known. Amazing.
I’m in my mid thirties now and in the last few years I got into online gaming. Over the course of that time, I’ve made a bunch of friends and reconnected with others via headsets and controllers. It’s absolutely incredible. If you would have told me that online gaming was going to look like this when I was getting extra credit in my tech class for making RJ45 cables to use for the Halo CE LAN party my mom graciously let me throw in my garage (often supplying gringo tacos and brownies), I would have cackled at how absurd the future sounded. It was really a shock to play an FPS 20ish years later when I jumped into CoDWW2 and shortly after buying that, MW2019. You kids shredded the dude who dominated the garage… lmao! I’m never at the top of the leader board anymore but the fun is just as real as it was in Blood Gulch! Thanks for this!
Was just playing my og halo ce disc in a 360 and the game is still fun as ever. really cool seeing the aftermath of a battle in combat evolved and prob the best spent casing physics in any game ever.
you are incredible at what you do and you have such a way with content and you know how to deliver a great documentary. honestly nick well done! amazing i watched start to finish no breaks. Get this man an award
This was amazing! As a long time fan of Halo since it's beggining, this documentary is a true love letter to the fanbase. Absolutely awesome and some of the best 2 hours ever spent on a movie/documentary! Best regards and thank you for all the work you put in making this.
Nice job getting all that early info and footage of pre Halo game builds - nowhere else do I learn more about how the biggest videogame franchises came to be than on a free channel done by one guy. That’s really pretty crazy and big credit to you Nick
You must be a giant in the gaming documentary making world surely, everyone has so much time and effort put in and are so detailed and each one seems better than the last. Thanks nick
You know the day will be at least bearable when nick uploads. Thank you for giving me something to watch during online meetings at the height of the pandemic.
Holy shit, I've been wondering where you've been lately but turns out you were working on this masterpiece. You've become a legit professional at creating and editing these documentaries, very well done 👍👍
Having played during the weekend the official Halo 2 online servers went down. It will always be a masterpiece of its time. Thank you for all memories!
Hat down you do your research and this kind of videos, documentaries show both sides of the story... And I am glad that someone takes his time doing them... Keep up the wonderful work...
I live in Chicago, thought that building looked familiar and when you mentioned Halsted, lmao Im like 12 blocks west of that street...I don't blame Bungie for calling the place a craphole, most buildings in Chicago are stuck in an old era
Remember playing Halo CE co-op through the night when it first came out all those years ago. I played all the X-Box and 360 games again recently and my favourites are 1, ODST and Reach, I think 2 has the better storyline but 3 is more enjoyable mechanically, apart from anything to do with the Cortana story, which is handled so insultingly poorly. Halo 4 is extremely exciting but very lonely... your marines all get killed off so quickly and in some instances just disappear. Overall, I guess 1 and ODST are my faves. ODST has the best music, and I like wandering about the city at night.
I remember this releasing my freshman year in college and hearing there was a game that guys were playing in the dorm able to link 4 consoles and house 16 total players, just the idea to me I recall being mindblowing. We had a waiting list for open spots for people to jump in, and people would skip entire days' worth of classes, either so they wouldn't lose their spot, or because the CTF matches would run so long., the longest I remember lasting 8 hours from night to dawn. Our RA's at one point gave up telling us all to stop yelling between rooms. I also remember my GPA that year being less than admirable, but I have never had more fun playing any console game or multiplayer.
EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY @Nick930. Everytime I watch one of your documentaries, it makes me wanna replay an entire series. For example, earlier this year I watched your documentaries on Splinter Cell and Metal Gear. I am currently replaying the entire Splinter Cell then move onto Metal Gear. I am likely to revisit a replay of HALO 😁
I'll never forget being awe struck playing this game as a 12 year old 22 years ago. It started my love for gaming and to call it a masterpiece is an understatement.
I got crazy goosebumps as soon as the intro hit. Only thing I was hoping you'd show was when one of the Devs got a tattoo of the Halo 2 release date on his arm after so many delays. Nov 9, 2004. A date I'll never forget!
These are straight up fuckin documentaries thank you for putting so much effort into these. I haven’t even started this video yet and I am beyond excited
Excellent video Nick! Job well done. I loved it while working today. My favorite moment I can remember of Halo, was when Halo 2 released, I begged my mom to buy me an Xbox and two controllers with the game. (she did on release day) and Playing halo 2 campaign with my childhood best friend and seeing the Scarab for the first time! 343 needs to get multiplayer campaign released on Infinite as well as more content with the drop.
Once again you have proved that there is no one better than you when it comes to complete series documentaries. Great job, Nick, you are marvelous! MISSION PASSED! + RESPECT
I had a lot of fun watching the Brave New World documentary a few years back as an avid Bungie fan and this brought back a lot of those memories, well researched sir
Halo is without a doubt, one of gaming's most legendary, essential and influential franchises. Of course, nostalgia is a huge part of it. I remember playing Halo Combat Evolved for the very first time and being absolutely blown away by what I had experienced. There were many unforgettable memories along the way. The Halo theme song is so beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes even today. This video was obviously a labor of love and passion. A lot of hard work went into making it and clearly shows in the execution. Thanks once again for another wonderful video! Your continued hard work and dedication deserve to be commended! I really appreciate it!
Another great video from you. I follow several video game reviewers who each have their own style and approach. You cover the more technical aspects and background of the development. Others cover more of the gameplay and story perspective. Your videos are well structured and have their own energy. I watch a lot of lengthy reviews, retrospectives and documentaries, but in saying that it takes talent to sustain a video for that long. Although it has its flaws at times I love the Halo franchise and remember the impact that it had on me the first time i played it. I've played all the games, (except for Infinite). Love the lore, the weapons, the style, the music and the gameplay.
thanks for the tremendous work that youve done, is an amazing documentary. I like the mayority of halo games, is an amazing franchise. What i hope for the next entries is to 343 keep the way of Infinite's narrative, and give us a polished and amazing sequel. Cheers!
the main thing i love when watching these vids is not only seeing how the giving franchise evolves but how games evolve in general. i just feel overwhelming nostalgia seeing the old games for the 90s and 2000s and how far the tech has come. theyre is just some special charm to those gems from gamings golden era
It’s unfortunate where Infinite is right now. It was given a spoon fed win against the flopped COD Vanguard and BF 2042, to be huge, only to join them because of short term gains. Selling the color white for $20. What a joke. It’s better to just move to a different game than to continue to be upset about where the series is now, and be glad that we got the experience the Bungie Trilogy and Reach. Thank you for making such detailed documentary. This will be a great watch during lunch time trough the week.
Just wanted to say how much I love your content. It's hard to find RU-vidrs who match the old G4 documentaries, but you and Gvmers are nailing it. Anytime I want to go back to one of my classic video game series like Halo, Far Cry, or CoD, I always watch your retrospectives while they install. Always gets me perfectly hyped for the game just through appreciation for how much work has gone into the series and how much it's evolved over the years. Keep up the good work. Love your stuff.
As a hardcore fan of Halo since 2002, i enjoyed every minute of this huge compilation of videos and history of an amazing saga. Thank you so much for your effort putting this together. It's interesting the way that companies learn from their "mistakes" (which are probably for the unbelievable deadlines that CEO's thirsty for gains put into every project, even when those in charge are not even fans of the great storytelling that this series has to offer) Let's face it, with the enough amount of time developers/designers/script writters will have the opportunity to create a good piece of art, whether be Halo, Marvel movies, DC projects, you get the idea. It's all about time and listening to the fans, and 343 in this case did a good job at listening to us. Expecting more of Halo for the decades to come . Halo Forever.
Phenomenal work on this documentary overall. Found myself perplexed every 5 minutes or so as some detail, here or there, was strangely wrong, but doesn't detract from the overall quality of the work. Well done.
Well we couldnt get the sound working on Mac so we slapped together the most epic and iconic theme ever written for any video game up there with LOTR and Star Wars.
Man. Halo has been with gamers for such a long time. The series deserves respect for its cultural impact. Halo fans will forever cherish the great fun it's brought to them. Thank you for making this documentary.
Absolutely above and beyond in terms of the work and effort on this again. Really well done. I’d have to say the online experience brought on with Halo 2 was truly unbelievable. It was a brand new frontier of gaming for myself and so many others at the time. However, with that said, when I think back to my favorite memories with Halo, it has to be Halo 1 and the system link. My older brother who was a senior in high school while I was a freshman at the time, would invite me to his friend’s houses on a Friday night after school. We’d pick up a few kids down the street who were even younger than I was by a few years to have enough players and another Xbox and TV. Nothing was cooler than hanging out with the big kids, having pizza delivered connecting up all the Xboxs, finding out another friend could come last minute and bring his Xbox and some more friends, hearing each other yelling or cheering from other parts of the house and then all reconvening in the kitchen to eat more pizza and talk about what just happened, then make new teams and head back for more. Truly some of, if not my favorite memories.
Great video, thank you for putting this together. I have so much love for this game. I can say I have the best memories playing Halo 2 because of the multiplayer aspect, I never had a PC growing up, so playing online was all new to me. It was such a blast playing with friends. It’s crazy to see how much of a package was halo 3 and Halo reach. 343 are doing a great job, I love halo infinite and think all of us just wants to see more content for it, really looking forward to playing campaign again in co-op.
Is there a history of DMC yet? Jesus nick! Go give yourself a break. This channel is an absolute goldmine. I don't even play 60% of these games but now I'm playing splinter cell, halo and the RE thank you nick!
Beautifully made. Honestly, after all these years. Along with the tv series, each Halo brought us something new. As well as removed something old. A couple of years ago I had opinions on which games I liked. But today, I have none. I like all of them. Each for their own special experience they gave. I haven't dared LASO on any of the games - but I've done Legendary solo on all of them. And each time, I've learned something new. Lorewise, it's all immersive and beautiful. Multiplayer wise, each Halo had something interesting. And yet they all shared the foundation somehow. Bringing this comment to an end, I personally feel done with gaming. It's been a journey. I just can't take it anymore with things like disappointment, dissatisfaction and other misogyny. Not because of the games. Nor the tremendous stress on the developers. But because the sum of all these things leaving us fans always complain about everything. And because the big corporations in the end just don't care. So, I thank Halo. For have been what it is. For have given so much to us. I still Love Halo and will forever Love Halo. Especially lore-accurate Halo (which I know many of you know what I'm talking about). In the end, I guess it is legitimately the experience that has crossed our hearts. And forever brought us together, in the gaming community as a whole
Bungie Era was amazing, one of the best parts of gaming history, the 343 games are decent, but Halo was more than decent so to me they are just fan-fics made by people with "average" talent, i hope Microsoft one day will somehow revitalize this brand, they acquired so many stuff recently and their main IP cant be like this forever, it deserves far better than this.
@@jasperfox6821 c'mon Infinte was acceptable at best and the less bad Halo game that they have made, if you think that the campaign was awesome and well written you have just low standards, Bungie games were not perfect but they were groundbreaking and exciting to play, this is just mediocre and "ok" stuff, maybe they will improve and Infinte was just the first step, who knows, well see what they do with the next one
@@Spillow-C listen to yourself. You play infinite and you tell me, its not fun as hecc. Because it is. The reason I keep playing the multiplayer, is because its F U N, and that's what games are all about in the end. But yes, apparently I have low standards when it comes to games. But that's not a bad thing. I can tell if a game if bad. I don't care for 343 anymore, but I am upset about what is happening with infinite at the moment, the game has potential to be amazing. Maybe better than reach.... maybe. As for the campaign. Yes it has some flaws, don't all games. But I thought the story was good. Not poor and over the top like halo 5, not boring like halo 4. It was simple, 3 main characters, just them on the ring, the story had time to focus on them, and show a bit of chiefs human side. And I liked that. Escharum will not as memorable as say, truth, or 343 guilty spark. He's definitely better than that cardboard cutout of a villan from halo 4. The open world while a bit bland, it was different enough to enjoy exploring it. There you have it. That's why I personally really enjoy halo infinite as a halo game. And yes, I was there when halo began, back I the OG xbox days.
