How Halo Lost Its Identity 

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Remember back in the day where people like Battlefield, CoD and Halo Fans would fight each other to argue which is the better game, now all of us just want the old games back

343 destroyed Halo, I thought it couldn’t get lower than 5, but infinite to this day still feels like a beta. Honestly pathetic for such a powerful rich company, no excuse will be good enough. No other company would treat their most important IP this way

Talking social features, one of the fondest Halo memories I have is from Halo 3. A friend and I were in the same party and matched to opposing teams. We decided to sabotage the match. I got behind the wheel of a Warthog, he manned the gun, and we basically kept the game at an even score, with one of us racing to get Splatter kills while the other went for turret kills. Neither team wanted to take us out as doing so would result in either side getting a teamkill. It was magical.

“I don’t expect any major updates to Halo Infinite until a decent way into 2023.” You really know how to pick ‘em ActMan

For a game that was so hyped, they didn’t even deliver what halo IS on launch let alone adding new things. Could have been so much more for infinite

I recall an interview with Marty O'Donnell (I believe the one between him and a few Halo RU-vidrs), where he discussed wanting to add things in Halo 3 like Theater and Forge, but he got pushback from Microsoft execs. They didn't see how those features would immediately increase profits, and Marty had to argue that they would foster a loyal community of players that would return day after day and bring friends who might not have otherwise wanted to play. Marty was 100% right. Modern Halo feels like what happens when the execs get 0 pushback from people with a vision like Marty, you just get a sterile game without the community. Every feature that made Halo 2, 3 and Reach "community" games is either neglected or completely absent in Infinite.

People never know they're experiencing a golden age until they eventually find themselves reminiscing about when things didn't suck. I miss when these franchises were at their best: Battlefield 3, MW2, Halo 3, Forza 4 I want to go back

Dude when I finally played a game in Infinite, loved my teammates and had a great time, and then we all decided to party up, I was stoked. It was to my absolute fucking horror I couldn't at all find how to befriend them and play again. I maybe played 2 hours after that and uninstalled. I can't even believe 343 is this stupid. My favorite most legendary fun gaming franchise of all time, just DEAD. Imagine failing this hard. Incredible incompetence.

I’m 32. I grew up with Halo and participated in LAN parties at my dad’s college. We would setup projector screens with 4 Xboxes and play til 4am. You NAILED what makes Halo so engaging. Having it as a social party game instead of a sweaty shooter made it nonstop fun… so fucking fun. It deeply hurts that everyone who makes it seems to have forgotten that :/

"Halo will never die, it's just missing in action." I never realized how perfectly that fits the series itself.

I remember going over to my cousins house one weekend when we were little and we played through the Halo Combat Evolved campaign for the first time. We were blown away by everything, the weekend went by so fast and we didn't even finish it - I begged to go over the next weekend again to finish it with him. that was the closest I'd been with my cousin and would love to have that experience again. But Halo just... wants me to be a drone at my computer not talking not even really playing, just buying items in the shop and staying logged in.

God damn man that quote from the creator hit me like a truck... Seriously sitting here thinking "Well I dunno Act Man... what IS the reason Halo was so popular? What was the identity?" And as soon as the creator dropped that... holy shit. That took me back to a row home in a small town with 3 floors and 4 consoles and 16 high schoolers set up having an absolute BLAST. 343 dropped the ball for sure but I don't think I realized till now just how far they dropped it.

I like how act man always finds a way to talk about halo every so often. You know he cares

For some reason, 343 can't grasp the idea that they have one of the most iconic video game IP's in the world, yet they decide to chase trends and strip Halo from it's true identity, it almost feels like they don't think Halo can make a stance on it's own without "modernizing" or opening to a "broader audience", it really is heartbreaking, but not surprising.

Listening to Marty describe the party nature of Halo and I can certainly attest to that. Back in 01/02 my friends and I regularly played split screen or even made extensive LAN networks at my house, with people bringing goddamn TVs over and sitting in different areas of the house to make it work. It was bloody fantastic, and then transitioning onto proper PvP online for 2 & 3, it still retained that party element, especially when you split screened with your friend at the same time. Man those were the days. It was great.

it was sad watching this video as a halo veteran, it truly has lost its identity and everything that made it fun went with it

a decade later and all 343i has proven is that they’re incompetent when it comes to delivering a complete Halo game made for Halo fans.

the fact I couldn't just play slayer which is the mode I wanted, killed the game for me. I don't want to play oddball or CTF, I shouldn't just be playing through a grab bag of random modes. 343 is one of the most incompetent companies I have seen in quite a while.

Its really hard for me to describe all the problems I have had with Halo since Halo 4 without going into a directionless rant, but you seem to find a way to echo all of my thoughts on the franchise in an incredibly clear and concise way. Its actually incredibly cathartic. Even if 343i and Microsoft don't listen now, I really would appreciate it if you continue to make these videos on Halo in hopes that they one day may listen. Here's to hoping that forge might breathe some life back into the game. Even if it does, it still might not be enough.

I have so much memories of a friend and I split screen co-op playing the campaign and getting excited for the "dunebuggy" (warthog) when ever it showed up and spending time trying to get it into all the places we were not supposed to.

My favorite memory of Halo: I think was 10-12? My friend and I stayed up all night playing Halo 3. We were pretty tired, but we just beat the final mission in Halo 3 and the cutscene plays. A very serious action scene as Arbiter and Chief make it out by the skin of their teeth. Earth won, the UNSC won, the human race won. A funeral for all of the fallen soldiers and for master chief is held. My cat on the other side of the room meows and audibly diarrheas on the floor. As 10 year olds do, my friend and I busted out laughing. Such a serious and somber cutscene ruined by a cat with an upset stomach. My favorite memory with my childhood friend It’s just real sad to see the game that got me into gaming consoles and got me into online gaming begging to be put down

Honestly, the argument of the challenges being "Anti-Player" is spot on. I always get frustrated doing challenges in order to level up. I have more fun just playing the game.

I have not played Halo much, but I do remember playing Halo 3 splitscreen co-op with my brother a lot when we were teenagers. It was so much fun, and I'm sad that gaming seems to be going away from couch co-op, like not everyone can easily play online or what about when you just want to play in person with your friends or family? Or when you have no other friends but you do have siblings?

Soooo many good memories on Halo 3 and Reach with the boys, especially custom games. I've never had a game recapture that feeling of you and a few friends setting up a custom game lobby with a bunch of random people you recently played with. Not to mention the lobbies where EVERYONE would have a mic, it would be complete chaos but in the best way possible. I still get a warm feeling inside thinking back on it lol.

The Bungie Era of Halo seems like a parallel universe from where we are now with the franchise. That point in time feels like something we can never see again with MODERN gaming, but I am hopeful.

The very first things I noticed when playing Halo Infinite was after a match, there was no postgame lobby, no ability to squad up, and no map voting. You just get dumped to the playlist search screen. I honestly could not believe it. One of my favorite parts of past Halo titles was finding random people who you just happen to play well with for some reason. Like your play styles compliment each other, and then you're able to keep playing together and communicate with them. That's literally impossible now. Edit: One of the best memories I have playing Halo, was in Halo 3. I got matched with Elias Soriano, lead singer of the band Nonpoint. Really cool dude to chat with. We partied up after a really good first match. He didn't reveal who he was at first, but when talking about what we did, he mentioned he was in the band Nonpoint. I was really into the band at the time and could tell it was definitely him, his voice was the same. We played together for about 2 hours and I added him to my friend list. But after that day, I don't think I ever saw him sign on to Xbox Live ever again, which was kind of sad.

Act Man was pretty spot on about 343 misunderstanding Halo and its social aspects.. I remember clearly back in March 2011 when my cousin introduced me to Halo. I was young and barely into high school when he booted up his Xbox 360 and told me to play Halo Reach in a splitscreen game with him. We were mostly RTS gamers on PC and having been able to play with him on a splitscreen co-op in a shooter game was extremely fun for us. We spent days and days playing 1v1 on splitscreen and making our own Forge maps, at most we spent close to 1,000 hours on Reach alone until 2013 when we finally got Halo 4.

You hit the nail right on the head with these points! Really hope they have a team that takes this sort of feedback in, because I’m truly worried for the franchise at the minute. Yes we’re getting forge which I think will be brilliant, but we’re 100% missing a lot more social aspects that need addressing. You listed them all to be honest. Let’s hope they follow your guidance 😎

Speaking of good memories. My favorite memory is.... When I was playing reach. Some dude was on voice chat. One person voted for bone yard. He then said "oh no please not bone yard" everyone in lobby including myself all voted bone yard IMMEDIATELY. It was the funniest synced troll I had ever seen. After everyone voted he's like "fuck you guys..." it was fantastic. I almost started crying I was laughing so hard

That hurt seeing Act Man lose touch with a friend he made in game. An occurrence too common nowadays with Infinite. Gaming used to almost be entirely about that. Forging friendships with like minded people just trying to have fun like you. Really hope 343 gets it right soon and gives the Halo community the experience we’ve longed for since the days of Reach and Halo 3.

Love the little image that was slid into the video of the elite armor choice. Appreciate it, I'm skeptical but I do believe the franchise can steer back into its roots we all loved it for. I don't want to feel compelled to focus on challenges or run certain weapons just because the game is headstrong on pulling me into that direction. I miss playing firefight and some regular pvp where me and some friends would just talk some trash to each other and get competitive with each other until the match is over and we have fun fond memories of the game that compels us to come back to the game to make more even after years of it being out. i.e; games like Left 4 Dead, Halo classics, the Souls series, etc. We still come back to these games and it's still a blast to play! On a separate note, great video Act Man.

The Act Man always gets me right in the feels when it comes to halo. I miss it man, i miss it soooooo much.

Old school Halo had it down with the “30 seconds of Fun” concept. Whether you were playing campaign or multiplayer. You have that 30 seconds of planning, searching, hiding, sneaking, engaging, retreating, re-engaging, winning or losing and repeating over and over. On simple map designs that had easy navigation and simple effective covert when in the open. Not the overly complex maps that must be memorized to give you a advantage. That have crappy vehicle navigation. Halo today? Just doesn’t feel the same.

I’ve never seen a company fumble and fail so much and so consistently at creating and developing a proper video game. It’s honestly saddening to see one of my favorite franchises continuously in the dirt like this

Totally agree, my best years of gaming were playing HALO 3 with my friends on a sofa, drinking beer, eating pizza and saying rude things to each other,,, everything after a long day of work, it was our therapy, we left tired but happy, all of us mature men with responsibilities, families, we played Halo and had fun like children, happy times.

This video made me realize I had forgotten all the fun moments of playing Halo together with my friends in front of the same TV, something hardly anyone does nowadays. We kept coming back to Halo every time we hung out exactly because it was so much fun, and it was just plug and play. I never quite saw Halo for what it was, but now that it's shown to me, it all makes so much sense now... Where did it all go wrong, not just for Halo, but for entertainment in general? What caused this?

One thing that could help is just making sure the game is pure fun before it’s released, like the old Bungie days, but that would make too much sense.

I'll never forget the Halo feature that allowed you to see if you were in another player's screenshots. One of my favorite features in any video game ever!

Every so often I get this insatiable itch to run through Halo 1, 2, and 3 again like re-reading an old series of classic books. I almost have the campaigns of the first three games memorized level by level. I played Infinite's campaign. I liked Infinite's campaign. I have had zero desire to replay Infinite's campaign.

Halo was great in the sense it revolutionized online gaming with archievments that unlocked armor ans back then having a flaming skull and Hayabusa meant something beyond the extra cosmetics, now it's just means you're spoiled, halo 3 especially the armor was a medal of honor it meant you did something in the game that is impressive.

When reach came to mcc, me and a couple of buddies did a full legendary runthrough coop, grabbing all the datapads. Almost a decade onwards, coop brought us all together and created new memories. The proof is plain to see

I still remember when my friends and I would make plans to get together and play Halo. Who would bring what and we'd also barbecue outside. But when things got dark, we all stayed inside and played online with other friends who couldn't make it. We all stayed up real late that night and it was blast. Definitely a great way to end our high-school senior year right before we all graduated and went our separate ways.

pov you’re watching this after they canceled co op and made halo an exclusively competitive shooter

I loved the progression system on reach and looking at the service record of others to compare

That “make your own BR map and mode” idea you had is absolutely brilliant, and proof 343 should have trusted that appealing to halo players would have been successful. It would have been been awesome at launch to have the vital forge and custom games for popularity and the game would have been awesome with a full content complete release to revive the game. Then once you had a good core of players then add BR and that crap, then halo would have been extremely unique with forge and BR mixing in a unique competitive way against other BRs.

You see act man, the REAL reason 343 gimped the social features in halo was actually because they wanted you to *feel* the authentic socially-stunted child soldier experience, as is accurate to the lore of the spartan program. You really feel the loneliness that master chief has felt since halo 4.

god, i loved the vidmaster challanges. doing in game stuff to get specific rewards that you could see, helmets and stuff, and you KNEW what it ment was such a cool motivating thing. especially in 3 and reach.

When Halo Reach came out i never felt it was betraying or abandoning the core "identity" of Halo. I felt like it was a different but still fun and unique twist on the classic halo formula. Its different enough from the original games to avoid feeling stale but is still similar enough to be enjoyed as a classic Halo experience all the same.

When you brought up how everyone’s best halo memories are with someone else it immediately made me think of being 8 with my best friend and doing the halo 3 warthog run for the first time. Now I’m in my 20s and we had a falling out years ago but I’m glad that this series was able to give me a memory like this, of the good times.

It's "we need to make all of the money or none of it" mentality. A publisher sees what's popular, then they try to capitalize on it by changing their established franchises into something they're not, thinking this will attract a wider audience. What it really does is it risks alienating their old audience in an attempt to appeal to a new one, which it might not. This is what happened to Dead Space. The first game was straight horror, and horror fans loved it. But then EA decided to gamble Dead Space's popularity by cranking up the action shooter elements in the sequels, resulting in a game which was sort of half horror/half action shooter. And that's exactly what it was. It was _half_ horror, and _half_ action shooter, making it _half_ as appealing to fans of either genre. Thus, it lost its old audience and failed to attract a new one. Now what was the lesson EA took from this? That they shouldn't try to add mass appeal to niche franchises? That they shouldn't change what works in favor of what's trendy? No, they decided that people just didn't want Dead Space games anymore, and killed off the franchise entirely. All because they couldn't make _all_ the money.

The halo 3 video you made back in 2016 or 17 made me cry. The way you talk about games that you love moves me. Thank you so much for making videos explaining exactly how a lot of us felt and feel. Watching your channel is like going back in time. Fucking wonderful!

I remember when I first played the halo infinite insider and remember thinking “they really did it this time, halo is really back!” Then the game released and after a few months I stopped playing. My older brother who played halo since the release of CE and introduced me to the franchise recently bought an Xbox and tried Infinite. He hasn’t touched Infinite since and now we play Apex together.

Something I really loved about Bungie era Halo was the glitches and easter eggs in the campaign. I remember trying to get to the naked man on the last level of halo 3 for hours, failing my grenade jumps with my friends. Or trying to find ways to escape the playable areas. Those are some of my fondest memories with halo and it added serious charm. 343 washed that charm down the drain.

Really well said. To this day fondest memories of Halo are playing locally with my friends and family, I even still play MCC almost every day because I can just get together with someone and replay the campaign missions or fool around in multiplayer. Infinite is lacking so much of the core experience.

your point on voice chat applies to other games too. it's a trend i've noticed with the few modern PvP games i've heard about: They keep stripping out social feature, and i *really* hate that trend of modern gaming. the indie games i play either don't have the problem (cuz no multiplayer), or they have text + voice chat (or at least text chat). hell, i met basically all of my online friends through Deep Rock Galactic. the auto-queue feature sounds great too, and it's one reason i kept playing Splitgate for as long a i did. Being able to just hang out with people (even if they weren't super talkative) was still super cool.

I like how act man always finds a way to talk about halo

Something I have always ALWAYS missed is the Bungie Favorites from Halo 3. Logging in every day to see what cool screenshots people took, goofy clips, cool custom games you could download...was so great! It gave you such a strong feeling of community.

9 months late, but I ll share my favorite halo story. It was when Halo Reach was new. I was in high school and had a girlfriend who loved video games. We bonded by making our own map designs in forge mode and play testing them asking if the pace was good, how could we make it more chaotic, and final test get our friends bring their xbox to my house and do an online game together on the couch testing it. During those play tests well admittedly the game wasn't the only thing being played with if you catch my drift. It was a good time for me as reach, which I love like a child and just the customization options I earned through my time, not my wallet. We are no longer together, sure, but playing reach on the mcc was a nice dopamine burst of nostalgia and what I consider halo. Intense gun fights with a variety map side, multiple lanes and ways to play maps, an epic story showing the stoic yet human nature of these literal humanoid war machines, and the social factor. Halo 4 looks great but it fails everywhere else and was disrespectful to the series , 5 my question is did they even try, and infinite made me want to yell stop getting your ideas from ubisoft and ea with your unfinished open world game that is as dead as Abraham Lincoln which a bullet to the head is a good analogy to what 343 did to the series.

He’s so right! My favorite memories of Halo are playing CE in my friends basement, 4 of us splitting 1 tv screen. We were in high school, and his parents went out of town once so he threw a party and like 100 people came, but we were down in his basement playing 4 player free for all the entire night like it was any other. Such great memories

I agree almost entirely. When the game first launched and I played it with my buddies, we all felt that it was way more stale than the halo we remembered, but we couldn't put our fingers on exactly *why* that was the case. The lack of playlist content, the dry progression system, the borderline inability to gain cosmetics outside of a battlepass or purchase and others are definitely big reasons why Infinite turned us off after only about a week of play.

I'd love for someone at 343 to explain why they made these decisions. I just can't wrap my head around them.

This is an amazing analysis of Halo, and as an extention, a great look into player retention and social interaction! 💚

Goddamn I almost started to cry. People don’t realize HOW BEAUTIFUL HALO REALLY WAS

This honestly made me so sad. I absolutely love Halo.. Nothing has compared to the magic of H3 & Reach even though I enjoyed H5 competitive gameplay. You're right on everything Act Man. Halo Infinite has the bones of a great Halo, but they sold us a product with no meat. Halo should be like Thanksgiving dinner, bringing people together from a vast amount of different communities to enjoy a flavorful delicious meal. Instead every year we all keep choosing to eat dinner at 343's house and its the same dry bland turkey with Bob Evans mashed potatoes. No soul of the original food....

I played infinite for a solid day before I was already over it. It just felt like I was playing with the bones of an old dead friend... Nothing but dust and echoes.

My favourite social part of halo was on halo reach when you was in the in game lobby and you could see everyone else’s armours scrolling down the lobby, really gave the game a sense of a social community with everyone having their own personal Spartan due to the extensive (and free) armour customisation

I absolutely love listening to another fan of halo, their own unique view points and ones I've already had myself. I love the fact you can look at it in a certain point of view and talk about improvements that could be made or otherwise obvious. I remember my uncle got me onto halo (and even his dad) and when I finished halo 3 I remember talking with him about it and he said it's probably the last one. It killed me but I thought I knew how to make halo 4, crazy ideas of well maybe he's just lost not dead and the arbiter could find some forerunner tech to help him find the chief because he knows there is no way he's gone that easy, and I even had an idea of an ai like guilty spark getting a mech suit or something for it to be a better threat and i was blown away when they had something similar to my child imagination come into infinite

We recently got into the original Halo games and everything about these games just encourage the best kinds of chaos. Whether it was the campaign or different multiplayer modes. That’s what makes Halo great.

19:45 this is 100% what happens to me, even though it doesn't take much to hit play it was that little brake from the game that made me think "maybe ill grab some food quick" and then I don't end up getting back on so I felt this part in particular rang a bell.

- ActMan: I hope you get it now 343i, Halo needs more social interaction. - 343i: Loud and clear, Halo needs to be a METAVERSE -ActMan: Shitballs ...

I remember when halo first came out, I remember the releases of all the games all up to Reach. And in my opinion, Reach was the best game in the franchise. In terms of gaming with buddies, we would always start in Firefight to warm up and wait for everyone to show up, when all were present we would jump over to Team Swat or Slayer, or even forge and make our own maps to play on, whether that be a gunfire map or race or obstacle courses, and then the grind for armor. Don't even get me started. My cousin and I found a glitch in the campaign for infinite xp, I had friends in clans I was in and others were in. The amount of gaming with buddies in the early days of Halo, unbeatable. Unforgettable. The golden years of gaming with friends.

100% agree about social interaction being the core of Halo, me and my brother played halo 3, reach and 4 religiously for years using split screen, the second halo 5 dropped without that feature we both abandoned the franchise for the most part. Halo is 1000% more fun with friends and family.

It’s so depressing how it really seemed like this was 343’s redemption story. They were gonna turn Halo around and make it one of the greats again. Only for all of that to come crumbling down only a few short months after release. It’s bewildering that even with a giant like Microsoft backing them, they couldn’t give the fans what they wanted.

16:11 dude, I’ll never forget when my friends and I turned 17 and started working in 2011, halo reach dropped and we bought the game and wanted to get a lan party going almost every winter/spring break. Even though Xbox live was already a thing we brought 4 360’s together and had an unbelievable time with halo even though my parents electric bill sky rocketed 😂😂 something about bungie’s halo was just so amazing to have lan parties together. It was incredible. Always a moment in my lifetime I wish I could repeat

Great video bro... Seriously great... I was preparing a video that says the exact same... But I stopped after I seen this... You took the words right out of my mouth... Been playing halo for 20 years

It's quite simple: They made it like every other shooter. Take away the Chief, take away the design and what is left? A few odd weapons and that is it. Halo was loved for it's vehicles, it's unique difference in how everything work and the amazing story. Instead, they started using the generic shooter tropes. ADS, faster pace, less focus on large and cool maps instead favouring small tdm-like maps. All of this is to fit the business model of "Get the same game as everyone else out, then we'll just make it work because fan loyalty". Edit: And to this day, I will have and never will understand why 343 changed anything from Reach.

Damn man, you hit the nail on the head with literally EVERYTHING... Props to you Dude. So glad you're still on the platform, you always come with total facts and tell it how it is!

i remember a couple years ago. when i was being discharged from the Air Force. we had to stay in a transfer unit. no Cell Phones or contact. nothing entertaining except a TV in the Day room and each other and we were allowed to have an Xbox with us in that day room. and i remember sitting down with everyone and taking turns on MCC and doing co-op campaigns and talkin about life before and after we left the military. its probably my biggest memory with the halo series and the fact that they dont have it in Infinite is absolutely rediculous

I miss the days of halo 3 multiplayer... was the peak for me enjoying the halo franchise... I remember playing combat evolved when I was 7 and the flood scared the shit out of me haha, but I was hooked from thay point on. Also fully agree with you depiction of things... I miss the social features and couch co-op....

Act Man, you actually nailed it, my introduction to Halo was through my best friend in middle school, we played through most of Halo 3's campaign in split screen co op on a CRT. After that I got into Halo 1 and 2 on PC, then I fixed a red ringed 360 to play Reach which was fresh out at the time and my mind was blown.

Ive been a life-long halo fan since CE. Played lan parties on one and two, live on 3 and reach, and even enjoyed 4 customs with my friends. MCC really dropped the ball on launch, but that got better around the time of the match composer and now its the game I play the most with friends thanks to Saber doing the grunt work to make it a better experience. 5 really left a bitter taste in my mouth when it had an awful launch again, and infinite was the nail in the Halo coffin. I played through Season 1 just because I was so excited after playing in the test flights, but when season 2 launched and had progression tied behind a solo que playlist, in a mode I hate, I uninstalled the game and never turned back. As long as the leadership at 343 have the reings, I am not playing a new Halo again.

We are having a 16 people Halo: CE Lan Party this month on the og xboxs. Fun fact: I don't even own a xbox since X360 and Halo Reach.

I have sooooo many fond memories hosting lan parties for CE. Me and 20 of my best high school friends in my house, my mama making beer runs for us, gosh. Some of the best moments of my life

The main reason I bought the HMCC was to play the campaign with a friend. Barly touched the multiplayer but still have 305h on steam. To launch Infinite without campaign coop was mind boggling to me.

Seeing Halo's downfall really emotionally hurts me. I was so attached to Bungie's Halo trilogy (1-3) and even Halo: Reach and I remember a whole month where I was playing Martin O'Donnell's soundtracks on loops, it was a beautiful, nostalgic time. Halo 4 was the last Halo game I played and I will never play 5 or infinite.

I remember spending hours on forge in halo reach with my buddy next to me. I know it’s not the best game but I really miss that crap. Until he spoiled Kat’s death like 5 seconds before it happened, I was devastated 😢

One of my favorite memories was in custom game in halo 3 i would play a bunch of regular games and then look back through recent players for ppl playing custom games and then message them and ask if i could join them (most ppl would say yes) i have so many found memories doing this we would do anything from cops and robbers to custom infection games where u would be chased through a obstacle course or and having gladiatorial style sword matches where every one else would spectate to me these were the glory days of halo i feel we have lost also really miss lan parties

There are few interactions in the history of gaming that have made me as happy as: “…The Act Man??” “Yeah, it’s ya boi!” “HOLY SHIT! :D”

The LASO Challenge for Halo 2 goes to show how much love and care went into them that they can bring communities together even 18 years later. The same will not be said about 343i’s Halo games...

OMG! you really know what community is looking for. I remember the days playing with my brothers and cousins. Why MCC doesn't have Splitscreen on Pc? is jus stupid. I wanna play halo with my brother like old times. I wanna play with my bother multiplayer on splitscreen and working in strategies. I wanna play the campaing in coop and looking for some easter eggs. And 343 industries don't allow me to do that. Thanks to the nucleuscoop community now I am able to do it! Thanks Internet! Playing halo with my brother like old times was pretty fun. Thanks! Nucleuscoop. Great video!

@The Act Man with recent release of their roadmap. Now is the time more then ever to voice your opinion on the studio and how they handle it.

Act Man you're the voice for the voiceless, and to 343 that might but surely had ignored your feedback and others that have been a Veteran Halo Fan that knows what their talking about, has been disappointing and heart breaking to know that this company is hurting this game to the core of certain important aspects that made the game to be that we all loved back then. Hopefully they listened to this video. 🙏

Also Infinites XP system actively discourages you from playing longer. Think about it. The more matches you play, the less XP you get. Your per match XP drops down to 50 and if you've already done all your challenges, then theres no more XP from that aswell. So leveling up will take forever if you play for more than an hour. The challenge system also feels like I'm going into every match with a stack of homework, it just sucks the fun out of it. Why is there no performance based xp.

I'm really not all that much of a multiplayer gamer (I'm weird), _BUT_ a lot of my _Halo_ memories were of playing co-op with friends. I was always a PC gamer, so I never played _CE_ or _Halo 2_ until MCC, so I always played _Halo 3_ whenever I was at a friend's house. A few friends at university had a 360, and _Halo 3_ was one of our favourite games to play, despite (at this point) it being nearly a decade later. When _Infinite_ was coming out, me and a friend of mine were getting super excited at the idea of playing co-op. In fact, most of my gaming memories are of playing with friends, even if we were just taking it in turns.

I used to play halo reach with my dad. Its really sad to think that my child and I will never be able to have that experience as long as splitscreen is gone

It’s really incredible how much 343 has failed to grasp any of this. It seems so obvious to me. Halo never was a hyper competitive shooter with a steep learning curve, it never tried to be, and no one wanted it to be.

Act Man actually hitting the nail on the head in a way that I hadn't thought about before. I've had all the same complaints but never connected the dots like this.

I get the whole party game aspect, but I never thought it should be only that. The lore of the game makes me want so much more from it, like multiplayer matches but with halo wars vehicles and battlefield mechanics

Great video. As someone who has played halo since 2003, this was spot on.