I read every Halo novel and became the Master Chief of loneliness | Unraveled 

...why was this posted today?

@@dandischinosvarietyhour1655 ...circumstances.

Hit me up, i own them all, I love talking about them

HELL YES

@@dandischinosvarietyhour1655 they’re trying to get people to watch non-unraveled stuff so Brian leaving isn’t the death of polygon :þ

Perhaps he's trying to say something

It all started with him calculating his retirement x)

If making a video got him this job, then making more videos can get him *every other job*

@@vordjoncus 2020, video resumes are now the only way to apply for jobs

What a millennial.

he actually deserves to write for a show though

That doesn't seem to be helping him

@@funkuro he does!!!

@@Sam-on5jf :o for what?

He actually set his degree on fire in one of his videos so he can't use that anymore

I agree 100%.

Hindsight? We should’ve seen the trouble from a mile away lol

It would have been far better.

He probably likes the show because he doesn't give a damn about stupid things like wanting Master Chief's helmet on all the time.

@@mikecameron6667 he probably likes the show because the AI woman got cucked

No it would've been the exact same.

@@mikecameron6667 I’m about to start a full fledged immature rant on why this statement is wrong, if you play the games, you realize master chief is a stoic, silent, respectful individual, the show brutally assassinated his character, the show turned him into a rebellious, talkative, shouty moron. But more on your statement, the reason we hate to see him without his helmet is because not only does it disrespect the character and everything he’s been for the past two decades, its also utterly useless and the “emotion” they try to portray is just him being whiny or angry, it’s not master chief. You don’t even need to read the novels to understand who he is, halo doesn’t always need to revolve around him, Halo 3 ODST displayed this perfectly, it made the player enjoy the fresh take on the halo universe and find interest in character not known in the games. The show could have gone with that route, but we got a politically correct, utterly garbage, non canon joke of a show. I’m never going to see it as Halo, it’s a fan fiction set in the halo universe the show writers want, not what’s established, I’m no longer giving paramount my money or attention, that’s one way to destroy my interest.

Strong "baby shoes, never worn" energy

@@PlaySA cant flush no hands

“Would have been six”

@@revivvles6736 "It's me, your daughter"

thats all dnd is really

Everyone knows a degree in creative writing never gets you a job in the field

@@sycastells1212 Judging by what we know about the show's story, the writers probably would've liked Brian more if he only listed his creative writing degree and skipped out on the Halo lore

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I like how unlike his other episodes, this time he genuinely had me like "Yeah, i can actually see him getting that job"

now that the tv show is actually happening I'm wondering if he is in the writing room.

the answer seems to be "mass effect fans" originally, given that just by changing a few of the names and locations of the existing halo show you end up with pretty much the mass effect plot.

@@BiomechanicalBrick they completely butchered the characters so clearly not

@@BiomechanicalBrick in episode 8 master chief has sex. BDG EXPLICITLY STATES THAT THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, SINCE THE BIOIMPLANTS ESSENTIALLY CASTRATE HIM. In conclusion: do not dirty bdg’s good name over your fanboying over a show that doesn’t follow halo lore at all.

@@BiomechanicalBrick 10:17

@@CN-yb5gn that's just what the video says, that's partially incorrect. "Akin to". The augmentation process messes with their libidos but does not castrate them.

Why does the worked sucked have an optional plural?

@@Brent-jj6qi not sure if its still going or not.

literally the only thing the Halo community has ever unanimously agreed on

They're making another season

As someone who genuinely enjoys the show (present tense since it is, in fact, still going), even _I_ feel like it would have been better with BDG in the writing department It would have been _much_ better written by BDG Hands down Missed opportunity right there

"A lot has changed since I started this project" Oh boy has it

Uhoh john!

pishoopy i mean he no longer has a mustache

Hehehehe

One year of work...

i feel the same...

Same

Yep :(

Same. And Halo is that thing.

@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer wanna chat about Halo? Cause I could use someone to talk to

Well,you could also track down newer halo fans interested in the lore

@@AdamDj-ic3kr Becoming a wise old sage on the mountaintop that aspiring catechumens must climb in an arduous test of mental and physical fortitude for me to tell them “Master Chief’s suit jerks him off”

@@captaincapitalism9535 wait is that true?

Trust me, just find an autistic halo fan (As in the actual thing autism not any kind of insult), they will be HAPPY to hear you ramble about lore for hours on end even if they already know what you're talking about

​@@AdamDj-ic3krnah, just an in-joke

Last?

@@evincollins5198 yea last before covid

@@normalyo5571 christ that's awful

@@normalyo5571 I mean, we're back to normal this summer in most of the US at least...

@@mechanicalmonk2020 ^^^

At least we know what a degree in creative writing qualifies you for: Eternal toil at the indenture of an unforgiving muse, gaming

Cassun *currently studying creative writing in uni* _oh no_

@@kayundae4411 Don't fret! You could just write slash fiction for a living. It doesn't have to be gaming

@@kayundae4411 there's only two job options for creative writing: fanfiction or gaming. /s

lmaooo

Been doing so myself, to close up some loose ends from the Forerunner/Flood war, and the, cough, um, Logic Plague...

Write for rvb😝

chris sonofpear1 link? 👀

@@expressnumber-5049 Sure: www.fanfiction.net/u/7240238/CaptChris42

chris sonofpear1 thabks

Honestly, the plot was fine in 1, 2, and 3. 4 was good writing, even if it was simple, and helped develop master chief and his relationship with cortina, then 5 drove a bus straight through everything and caused a nuclear catastrophe, that infinite is trying to kinda sorta maybe fix but not really

@@Brent-jj6qi Don't forget the massive retcon that halo reach is.

@@shawno8253Yeah, that game is weird to me. On the one hand, I love the artistic style and gameplay, as well as Noble Team and some of the things they do on Reach. But the massive contradictions to previously established lore are rather… distasteful. Especially when you consider how people who’d read the books probably felt when nothing was known about the game, versus when they learned. Overall, I love it, but I wish it stayed faithful

​@@double1777TBF, Bungie was against the books from the beginning. They didn't even want fall of reach to be published in the first place, but daddy Microsoft has other ideas.

He does actually have a degree in creative writing so 🥲

@@papercutsrock2403 lol it definitely shows. Still makes me sad that they gave this beloved IP to writers who openly admit to never reading the source material or looking at any of the games for inspiration.

@@Hamppdurhoping the fallout show turns out different, the people behind it are actually fans and care about the games and accuracy

​@@Hamppdur Are you serious?! What the actual crap?? I just started the show, I'm literally on the second episode right now... are you telling me it's going to suck?

@@katherinebrown5720Big suck unfortunately.

I actually want that fr

I really want him to release it. i would watch it. I also want to see his reaction to RVB

I really need this

Ok genuinely I'd love to hear some of his thoughts on the individual books because uh...I really don't want to read the books but the way he dives into some of them here makes me really interested in hearing a longer analysis

@@cass1115 If youre a decent fan of the games I'd say they are worth a shot. The original bungie novels are all pretty solid but the ones he highlighted as good are actually really good

God, can you imagine a collaboration between Brian Gilbert and Jon Bois? They would probably talk for seven hours about the most trivial topic possible and it would be the most interesting thing you have ever watched.

Hell, I watched an over 2 hour video about how The Lion King didn't rip off Simba The White Lion. Two hours of this would be *nothing* .

I would have loved that honestly

If Jenny Nicholson can produce a 2 hour video on a terrible conservative novel or a bootleg published Star Wars fanfiction and have people begging for more then BDG could produce a 5 hour Halo novel analysis and no one would bat an eye

Dude he could’ve gone for 16 hours and I’d be cool with it

I think it aged great. He was right in that he should have been writing for the show. Though he was wrong in thinking they cared about the lore.

@@Flaris they kicked the lore in the balls so hard, the brain got flattened inside that skull

@@Gamma_249 How so? Examples?

@@mikecameron6667 they didnt wven play the games so that they could do their own thing

@@Flaris See, but he wasn't though. That moment was talking about fandom entitlement, getting to the core of the social isolation that can happen when someone is so obsessed with a singular franchise.

Yeah, he was NOT kidding on that one.

How amazing would that actually be though

We all know al ready that bdg left polygon becouse he had been hired by nintendo to be the voice of Samus in Metroid 4

@@javierminguez3420 Odd, I thought he'd been hired by nintendo for the role of Waluigi in a FMV game and DEFINITELY not also Luigi.

@@groofay Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that he found out a way to be his own boss.

I've heard it's a musical.

Seriously, can we start like a GoFundMe to pay Brian what he's worth?

What do you mean they gave him like 300 dollars in free Halo books

mixmastermind yeah I’d love to have all of these books even if I’d take a long time to read them I just want them for collection

Agreed.

Actually VOX is paying him more than anyone else on the team, there is a huge pay disparity. If you like their content you should support them and look more into supporting the VOX union

The show actually only abandoned things that had no substance whatsoever, like chief having his helmet in inappropriate situations and chief having stockholm syndrome about being kidnapped and brainwashed. The cool and important stuff is in the show such as Soren

@@BiomechanicalBrick You re a clown

@@BiomechanicalBrick the thing is that the helmet and extended suit are like a second skin, they’re even more basic to him then the clothes you wear, so of course he doesn’t take it off. Also, it pays off in Halo 2, because the covenant attacked during a ceremony where SGT Johnson told him to wear something nice. Also, of course he has weird Stockholm syndrome over the whole situation, he is one of the main reasons that the humans didn’t lose the war against the covenant, which would’ve spelled death for all sentient life in the entire fucking galaxy. If you were in that situation, you would probably excuse the horrible treatment because you would’ve been dead before retirement age anyways, along with everyone you know and love.

@@BiomechanicalBrick You forgot to mention how he takes his helmet off every episode, and has sex with a prisoner of war.

Considering he loves the garbage mess that is the KT trilogy and the cave man guilty spark nonsense maybe it would have somehow been even worse.

No definitely not. He liked the Karen Travis trilogy. I feel like the people who liked that wrote the show.

I felt that

Samesies 😆

I timeskipped back like 3 or 4 times because I thought HE READ EVERY NOVEL IN A SINGLE DAY?!......... IT TOOK A YEAR?!

Oh good, that explains the mustache continuity error

Sooooooooo not a weeb

wow, just as i was reading that comment it was at the part where brian david gilbert said that, was trippyXD

James Acaster fan?

In the fall of reach Cortana even says that Chief is hot

_it do be like that sometimes_

the GOAT

@@Liaison_Verequiem get GOATed

Dude same, the audiobooks have been fantastic!

You are a braver person than I! I refuse to get into them for fears that the new games will butcher the canon.

Yes that would be so good

That would be absolutely horrible... I love it!

HiddenXperia would like to have a word

I want to see his 30 minute gut reactions to each book

We need it

+

Respect the avatar miboi

It all started with Waluigi. Waluigi broke him, though he is still wonderfully amazing.

I believe this is called character development

@@AlicedeTerre yeah bdg's character arc is really investing, can't wait to see where it goes

He would same the same thing today tbh. The show only halo book nerds can understand.

@@BiomechanicalBrickyea where book nerds could see how they butchered the lore, they follow nothing in the books. They literally just pick and choose characters, locations, and programs and butcher them.

*attempted amusement

@@djcwittz3012 SUCCESSFUL AMUSEMENT

@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 no... No only attempted

DJ Cwittz wdym, this stuff is great

@@barrsido7070 maybe for you

Brian: no the suit doesn’t jack him off Someone: that’s not what I asked

Brian: *goes off on a tangent*

"Can't tell you. I'm saving it for a video."

dude that last sentence was so fucking funny & so fucking inspiring.... currently googling my way to purchasing a copy as i am the same type of person as you lol

BDG left Polygon years ago

the one time i'm sad i have adblockers on, is because of beautiful moments like this

Mine was an ad for beer, which I feel was a bit of a self destructive suggestion in that moment

These r the things you miss when you download an adfree browser😞

Capital one for me, not sure what the connection is there

Hes a big ol Jarth-head

I'm a mega jarth-head

I’m a fookin jarthhead

JARTH YOU DID IT AGAIN!

This one's for you Jarth!

*2019

I'm almost disappointed that noone gets the unraveled reference.

@@schippai3308 2020 is correct as it reflect the state after the books are read

*cashmere blanket of ignorance

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Melody Pond yes I would love that

I'd read it

tags: Halo, comedy, tragedy, philosophy, suit-jacking

God fuck that would be a trip

I don't care about Halo at all, but I would read it

Those books change a man

The star wars expanded Universe for me

saaaaame

Same

Same

wait he didnt post those somewhere? thats what i was going to look for next.

You think they'll actually do this is like an in depth version

Dude same

Vanessa what a difference a year makes

Sameee

Oh Brian. Oh David. Oh Gilbert, what have you Done?

That's what happened to when h3 came out and after Reach they all moved on. This was 10 years ago.

Hu Huu felt- I just now got into kingdom hearts years after its release and no one I know cares about it anymore and it’s all I want to discuss

I have autism so I hyperfixate to everything and this has been basically my whole social life

Kingdom Hearts has already taken my soul. And my wallet.

Me, knowing nothing about Broadway and just now getting into Hamilton because of D+

petition for bdg to do a several hour halo analysis

♡♡♡♡♡

@@AlbinoKiwi47 Have mercy to the man, he had already gone through enough. Have you no sympathy?!

@@PauaP no We do not

I watched a 2 and a half hour video on RWBY, a show I haven’t even watched before. I’m absolutely down to watch Brian talking about Halo for at least that long.

EVERY. SINGLE. DETAIL.

MORE, WE NEED MORE!

hey, one of my friends got into a half-hour/hour long debate during a D&D session about why it is the more ethical choice to use orphans, if you're going to sacrifice children

@@8-bitsarda747 i guess its a quantitative measurement more than anything. "Instead of violating the human rights of a father and his son/daughter, you will only be violating the human rights of his son/daughter!"

The only universe? * Laughs in Warhammer 40k lore *

"Well, I didn't use ALL of it!"

@@8-bitsarda747 to be fair its kids that have been orphaned by the covenant so they get a chance to fight the covenant. since the covenants spread was so wide that they needed spartans to fight the covenant and taking the orphans of the covenants conflicts it means you can have soldiers that have a personal stake in the conflict. still definitely ethically icky butfar better than taking children from their family lives into a conflict they have no stake in.

Exactly my thoughts

This is why I love him so much

I thought to myself, "Brian...are you alright?"

Keep in mind that all the unraveleds for the past year were done on top of this

You've underestimated the powers of theatre kids

dude its been crazy to see people who weren't previously fans get into it after watching this. it made my heart so full to read that! if you play video games (just not FPS) and have an itch to actually grab the controls of a halo game for once, Halo Wars is such a strange, unique little experiment that works surprisingly well. if you've played Age of Empires, you'll be able to figure it out. funnily enough, i believe the first Halo Wars can without a doubt be credited as the first real-time strategy game exclusively made for consoles - and made VERY well! totally shocked the industry that an RTS could work at all. anyways sorry for rambling, HALO IS FUN! hope you're well mate (:

The books in skyrim aren’t full books, they’re only a few pages each so they don’t really count

@@MerkhVision if he counts them all in one, then he could count at least 1

It was more than a year ago...

@@MerkhVision Short stories are still books, dude

that graphic was for how many non-Halo books he read for that year, it's not how many books he reads on average per year

ok obama

Aizen Sama?

I mean neither did BDG

my asset definitely becomes the biggest when he uploads

heheh ass et

mega props to the rest of the video team on these videos though - BDG subjects himself to all sorts of personal hells, but the story crafting and editing is what makes it all worthwhile.

David Edwards I’m pretty sure Brian does the majority of his own editing. But, the cameramen make the video a thousand times more alive too

His back must hurt from carrying the channel

I got seriously worried about him for a second! No one can read all those books in a day and live!

I first wondered cause he was in the studio, and he shouldn't be cause corona. So I had to rewind it.

Malin Almqvist according to my calculations that's 455 pages an hour

@\f_a/ they clearly didn’t read or play any of the games because they fucking admitted to the latter and butchered everything

Master Cheeks would be an insult of Brian's commitment to this project.

He looks so weird with it

I get Waluigi Brian PTSD

Was it ever truly gone?

The mustache is powerful and good

@@JoesMusicandMemes Don't worry, his mustache is shaped like a friend.

@@owenshirrell1150 apologies for the deception

@@statementofjoespooky1660 there's so much going in this one comment

Age like milk

Technically his first home was Eridanus II so double yikes.

@@dustindubbo2892 *Uh oh John*

'' Dom, he is not a comic book vilain. Do you think he would explain his master-plan if you had the slightest chance to stop it? He did it 12 months ago'' Ozymandias.

I laughed along with him at that line. Then I realized that I had laughed. I then swore loudly.

We are all in the same boat, everyone grab a drink.

Eesh. I truly am sad.

I think that fact that it made sense to all of us is the sadder part.

Facts

Poor guy…

Nothing else

Absolutely nothing else

Nope, completely fine here, nothing changed

zero. nada. zilch. nothing at all has happened

everything is completely normal except for those 2 things

Previously, he has willingly chosen to cover topics destined for him to cover, but when Brian tries to change the threads of fate, the universe must dip its hand in to intervene.

Brian David Gilbert Unravels Why the Universe Torments Him So

This man is clearly not the God Emperor, you heretic! I'm calling the Inquisition!

God. I would love to see this one happen.

Oh dear god. Everything not written by Dan Abnett is trash though

Honestly not sure if it would be possible to fit them into one lifetime... And that thought is darker than many of the events that take place in 40k 💀

Featuring several (SEVERAL) videos discussing what is canon and what isn't.

@Fluffle Truflle ruh roh raggy

That joke is so simple, but it _killed me_ .

Whenever I see blatant foreshadowing, I will respond with a huge UH OH!

Ikr like what degree do you need for this job? Journalism? Media?

@@chrischin_94 yes

His industry is having three first names and no last name

Chaos

You just gotta watch his video about how to make 20,000 a month by being your own boss

But if all sentient life is destroyed, who will sing the Pokerap?

@@kilo3989 Guilty Spark 2

Three hour

Bees ? Even better

i s2g ive never played a single Castlevania game but i would watch all 3 hours with undivided attention

jinxthedestroyr hard same lol

honestly please tho

Considering how intense those songs can be that could actually work very well, however I think unraveled is just for games

Mr. Stuff Doer but I mean technically it’s about games if he talked about songs from the Project Diva games

...or the Hello Kitty game

On one hand I feel like there's too much data in Vocaloid lore for him to properly cover (over 200 separate voicebanks released since 2004, not to mention an almost infinite amount of songs). On the other hand, I now have a fantasy episode of Unraveled in my head where Brian figures out how to make a UTAU voicebank and falls down the rabbit hole of vocal synths...

unraveled about the deep hidden lore in the project diva games

I cannot fucking describe how much I would be on board with this

Worst case scenario: Make it a drinking game. Tonnes of fun either way.

Right? I don't care if it's 4 hours long, just give me all those juicy deets

proud to upvote this petition to the weed number

Is that a Hollow Knight mixed with Lego Star Wars profile pic?

@@zeng6042 definitely.

Cortana = Hatsune Miku

Honestly the love story between John and Cortana is one of the purest ever told. Until 343 turned it into really bad erotic fan fiction.