Master Chief Watching His Friends Die For 18 Minutes Straight 

I feel bad for my lil marine childrem

Holy fuck

holy shit

Damn

*Big oof*

Shiiiit

I can't believe I never thought of that

Fuck man

They were potentially only one short pelican ride from Halsey, from saving Cortana as well...

And remember Johnson's last words "Don't ever let her go" 😪

i've heard about that as a theory but is that canonically how all those marines died

lol the mental image of that

Damn you for that mental clip 🤣

Yea the 3 key life changing moments in chiefs life was, killing those 3 ODST and losing his brother Sam when he was younger, and killing his fellow soldiers like a ping ball in the escape pod.

@Kristopher Prime cortana knew, she saw it all, it was probably the catalyst of her turning against the UNSC seeing what happens when life forms don't do what she tells them.

Chief really did feel tired during infinite's story. Tired of the death and misery that comes from the rings, even without them firing.

@@gregpasciuti2632 that’s one thing I love about infinites story

@@gregpasciuti2632 like when the weapon was asking him to delete her once she found out she was a copy of cortana, it makes me think that cheif was just tired of losing people.

YUUUP really needed this after finishing the game on legendary and being mad at the story route they took…gives me a new appreciation

reminds me of that one scene where he was really gentle with the corpse floating around during the intro scene

Yeah, he just failed to pritect the only Keyes family member alive.

@@dietzel8988 Halsey's daughter too.

@@JHS270694 Hilarious how insignificant her death was in the grand scheme of things. You could remove that cutscene from Halo 3 and nothing about the story would change other than a miraculously spawning pelican. XD

@@purpleemerald5299 Marty's fault. He pushed for her and Johnson to be killed off. Their deaths definitely carried emotional weight, but it kind of screwed the following games by not being able to include more established and well-liked characters.

@@jayyy996 Halo 3 was meant to be the last one

Lasky was his newest friend. Though oni didn’t know how much a risk his situation was from all those years of battle. His fore runner traits were dominant over human traits.

Echo 216 will die aswell in a future Halo I think

If lasky or anyone at blue team will die chief will probably lose it

@@debbiebernhardt5406 What do you mean?

@@DarioTheHut Yeah I get the feeling he is gonna end up pulling a Carter with pretty much doing a suicide run with his Pelican... really hope he doesn't go out like Foe Hammer did.

They tried to give him a retirement house after halo 4 and he refused it

Chief had a 6 year break between Halo 5 and Infinite

After Zeta Halo, and maybe one more ring, I hope the Chief’s story is finished, where he finally gets his rest.

@@Ari-ww3fv who knows. This is all he knows. Honestly who knows.

@@Ari-ww3fv no he’s a trained augmented super soldier he’s not going to retire

I don't think it would be enough to break a person once, but several times over

Its cus of hes enhancements makes spartan 2s not careless about there friends but move past it abot easier they don't get as emotional if I'm correct

@@Ironmoore234 the enhancements aren't quite the only thing, but lore the training and mental conditioning, they were taking from 6 years old, and since their minds were young they were more malleable, and we're shaped to have a stoic mindset of a soldier/warrior to an extent, the augmentations would only have limited hormonal effects that somewhat are released depending on stimulation, but for the most part it would be the mental conditioning Regardless, unless there is a way to make them completely numb to any emotion they still have feelings, and it would likely not be useful to make them completely out of touch otherwise controlling them could be more difficult and if they simply don't have any care whatsoever they won't have a reason or will to fight at all This would be one of the core emotions of a spartan, will to fight for their comrades as they all fight together to survive, so seeing those who you've grown up with in extreme circumstances die is especially hard

That line where he tells Fernando he won't fail him is an instant classic in my opinion. I loved how determined he seemed in infinite

And Fernando is his first real civilian friend. He's not even an actual soldier!

@@ZephyBlaze77 Wasn't he a volunteer?

@@tonyasa4658 yes, he stole the pelican and left anyone else behind because he said he was scared. Which is fair enough. Edit: which is why he is so against staying on zeta halo and just wanted to go home.

Chief killed a couple odst's in fall of reach and it says that he didn't think or care about it after. He also beats the crap out of a bunch of marines while testing his mark 5 armor.

Chief at the end be like: me and my big mouth

But he still keeps going because 'it's all he knows' there's nothing left & no one waiting for him to come home.

Maybe in a dlc????

I could've sworn i heard it though?

@@wes4465 Maybe he did, but he probably means that they should’ve have made that quote more significant like including it in a cutscene or something

I think that's just a error, the characters shake a lot in infinite and halo 5 -Trout

@@trout6724 but it looks like he's crying under that helmet

My game had no shaking, its all done with the in-game engine. he was very. very. still

@@masterproductions1179 he isn't though, that's a render issue.

@@CadillacDeVilledElegance in my game chief, the pilot, and the weapon were all shaky. it also happens in the engine rendered halo 5 cutscenes

Yeah maybe that could have been handled with a bit more compassion. But I assume being consumed by the flood would be a horrible experience, so chief put him out of his misery.

tbf that's still compassion considering he was becoming the gravemind

They had minimum time to remorse tbh, and Cortana likely showed him that his life signs were already gone. At that point it's a military drilled response, "complete the mission." He didnt know the guy as well as he did others too, so I mean

Well if he hadn't given him a unloaded gun maybe Master Chief would have been nicer to him.

Master chief ensures his mission is complete. He cannot let his emotions get in the way. That has never been a problem for him

Especially the final 3 pages of the book

@@code037ch.7 ewwww sex scene

@@romeoramirez4980 fully interactive quick time event

@@code037ch.7 Wait, there’s a sex scene? BETWEEN WHO!?

@@purpleemerald5299 Johnson and Miss random marine commander I forgot the name of and never appears again. But yea that was uncomfortable

To be real, he couldnt save anyone who he did know. Only the people of earth. Millions of unkown people, but non of his friends.

@@dietzel8988 Don't forget he saved the entire population of the galaxy several times.

Those who have to live with seeing them die.. the guilt of thinking you could have saved them.. as Chief blames himself for Cortana and Samuel’s death in Infinite (Cortana was mentioned as his “failure”, Samuel was referenced)

Probably every single person who got assimilated by the Flood

The one who lives and has to live with the memories of hundreds of deaths. Why? Because Survivors Guilt is a thing, and because it's pretty common in war, I wouldn't be surprised that Chief has it too.

@@avis21X I’d rather be guilty of surviving then end up as brain matter for the Flood tbh

@@rustybeskar4664 You do know what a fate worst than death means right? Keyes was turned into a proto-gravemind, which you might as well be dead if a parasite that has the capability to wipe out the human race and destroy Earth has literally invaded your mind to harvest every last bit of information you can give it until the transformation is complete. Your not dead, but you wish you were.

Chief really needed one

Chief needs 100 life times of hugs. He's been through so fucking much, no human today could handle all of that, and be mentally okay

Brohammer giving a brohug.

@@excalzgo6601 thousands of people alive handle much worse my friend

@@excalzgo6601 No-one ever could handle this. And it's not like Chief is actually all that "ok" he's not what we'd call a happy and content individual.

What did you expect? For him to breakdown in tears? He never shows his feelings when focused on his mission.

How would you know he didn't bat an eye when we can't see his facial expressions?

well he doesn’t at that point understand what happens when one is assimilated by the flood. For all we know no one in universe actually does outside of maybe ONI.

they're going to release a book about it next year, "Rubicon Protocol." i think it was called

Ok it's not too late for me to jump in. Thank heavens that time is on my side... kinda. Spoilers: So, ya know how people are rootin' for Jaga? How his body goes invisible and we never really see him 'dead'? Well I pose the same for Griffen. And 343 could easily bring him back (aside from the books or a dlc). Judging by the audio logs, he sustained major injuries from his encounter with Echurem (God I hope I spelled that right), but they didn't kill him. Yes, he was tortured but that should have killed him whilst he was in the machine. Unless he knew Chief was coming (I'm gonna place my bet that he didn't), it was either the machine, will or the fact that his injuries were more minor then what we know/thought. Now, I'm no medical expert, but I do know that he could have eternal bleeding (no evidence, but who gives a rats' ass?), and/or a an open wound (once again we only see that he was bleeding from the nose and mouth(?), so I'm gonna say ta,e ya pick.). But here's the kicker that gives me hope. He could have just passed out. From what I remember, it's the nural link that gives the Spartans' vitals. And that is located in the actual armor. But Griffen was stripped of that (unsure of the armor being the original source of the link. Like I said, I'm running off memory lol). So, running back to the point, he may have just been passed out. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that his body disappears at some stage. I like to think of as going two ways: 1. Something got to him and well, as nature loves to work, 'disposed of the body', we'll say. 2. He woke up and found a way out. Both can go in a matter of other directions. Now, I'm torn between it being set in stone that he's dead, or not. Like 6, his death meant something. It was a spark off revenge. Something to drive us (the players, Chief), on. That said, he's an extremely interesting character. And his 'death' (I say/wrote that as such because it's a multiple way street) means something. I mean,the moment I saw it, let alone played through that mission gave me a feeling I've missed since Reach. A feeling of dread... and revenge. You want to get back at the split-lips for killing a Spartan. No, multiple. You want to rescue some. You want to get that adrenalin rush! And this mission... boy does it draw me to Keys and The Covenant from CE and 3. It sets ya up with hope. You think you can get there in time, you can save Keys, that you can save Miranda. But you can't. They're scripted to die. And it's this enviable feeling that drives you for and throughout the rest of the game. It was such a nice callback to what Bungi use to do. And it's great to see 343 taking notes. Another thing I like is that Griffen (and basically every other character you meet) didn't feel like a waste of space. I was talking to my brother about the Spartans, ending up on the 4's. And as I said to him, Griffen sells 'em to ya like 343 sells Infinite. Beautifully. The idea of 4's, at first, didn't bother me. But then they were written like a pizza with no cheese. Come to HW2 and finally, 343 has the art of writing Spartans down. At first, when I saw the leaks, I was skeptical. Was this gonna be a shit-show? Was i gonna wanna yeet the disc at a kid down the street? No. The moment you grab an audio log, the moment you hear about these Spartans, you might mistake them for 3's or maybe even a 2. And his V.A was amazing. I can't give the guy enough credit for making Griffen come alive. So for me, my opinion is biased lol. Griffen sits as one of my favourite Spartans, and that's a hard title to earn. He isn't the best, but you can tell he embodies the ideal Spartan 4 formula. A veteran soldier become legendary hero. Hopefully we see more of him in depth. So, what about Griffen's fate? Did he die? Did he survive? Well, like I said, it's a multiple way street. YOU can say he survived, or he died. You can also say that Jaga survived or died. There's proof for both, and it's not just what I covered. For me, I like to say that he made it out. Endured as Spartans do. I guess, like what the fate of many characters is, we'll never really know, but we can always hope. Stay safe, sorry for the rant.

@@AQG_Arts I have to say that you may have a point, since the same could be said with the Infinity, but I feel that 343 is saving the revive card for Locke. And as much as I like the idea that Griffin survived, I think his death could be more useful in the case of finding some other surviving Spartan, taking into account that infinity had more than 400. Also, if you play in cotrol with the vibration activated you can feel its heartbeat weaken to a stop.

@@ChrisSpartan-157 True. I'm gonna be honest with ya, I'm a big sucker for the whole 'sacrifice yourself for ...' as it makes a story worth it. That said, time to cover Locke: We know from audio logs he survived, we also know from game pieces that he met the Banished. But deep down I pray he died. Man, I felt more for Griffen and the other Spartans we see then what I ever felt with Locke... That aside, back to the main focus, humans are known for a very unique ability (not really but hear me out). There are true documentations (i say this because a shit ton are fake) that state that a person can be dead, but also alive. If I had more time I'd dive into it and give you links ect, but unfortunately I live in Aus, and time right now is against me lol. I feel like this is, as I mention, a multiple way valley. He can be dead or alive or whatever. There is lore for all scenarios! That could mean that if enough people want to see more of this character they could. Once again, I'd love to dive into this, but time is a bitch. Stay safe and thanks for actually taking the time to read my stupid attempts at tying things in and up...

@@AQG_Arts Hate to break it to you but Griffin is dead. I only learned after I played through the campaign fully myself, but because I played on XBONE I found out afterwards that the controller was vibrating in tune with Griffin’s heartbeat, and after Chief says “Consider it done.” the controller stops vibrating.

Intense pong

Lucky me, no lucky friends

@Brother Kotello Suckin all the luck out of everyone like the queen sucks the life force out

I mean they did survive every other fight they were in, that's something to be proud of

Late but, I agree, it feels like Griffin would’ve been an awesome spartan to play as from his little dialogue and scene in infinite

I have a feeling we might play as Griffin in DLC or something.

Back when i first played halo 2, i always tried to save that one soldier who helps in the tutorial part of cairo station

Fun Fact: Originally the plan was to have the player start off with that squad of marines in that mission, but the AI’s path finding and hit detection made it impossible for them all to squeeze out of the pod, so they decided it would be easier and more fitting to just have them all dead at the start.

@@purpleemerald5299 Really? I thought making the Master Chief the sole survivor of that crash supported the idea that he was a singularly exceptional soldier on which the outcome of the entire war depended. The manuals say as much about him. The end of the game also casts him as the sole survivor of the first Halo's destruction.

No it's not😭

Maybe it's just a game.but to me,this is LIFE❤

He has Blue Team, Halsey and kinda Lasky

Keyes still got it the worst of all, I think.

@@OverLorD768 ya he did, the flood were actually digging into his head and searching threw his memories and so he had to forget about chief, cortana, his daughter and Halsey, and his whole memory besides his serial number, rank and name

@@OverLorD768 i said terrifying not “who got it the worst”

@@Axtreq he was pushing down the memories and using that as an anchor to not think about the location of earth

@@turtlemasteralpha3320 The dude was devoured, assimilated, flayed, mind probed, along with a whole crap-ton of other stuff that was straight out of the Alien movies. I'd say that was a lot more terrifying then getting vaporized in 5 seconds.

Cortana blew that place to hell (well Sydney), but ye I hope

About that...

Australia? Nah... How about New Phoenix

Dustin echoes is being referenced in halo infinite. Finaly some love for the OG charactets

I live in Australia....

The second I felt it… I knew… it made me tear up.

For me it’s the way he died, given that he’s an augmented super soldier, it doesn’t make sense to me.

@@kaijenkins4513 they Likely had Griffin under Torture for Weeks, if not months, not to Mention Spartan IVs have less augmentation than Spartan IIs to allow for fully developed adults to be augmented.

@@Boom__6678 I understand what you’re saying and that’s true that there nothing like the IIs and IIIs but they’re still Spartans, they have things like artificial lungs and just being able to wear mjolnir alone says a lot. Honestly this is just a gripe and isn’t anywhere near as bad as Halsey surviving a punch to the face by Lucy or anything Brian Reed wrote outside of the FOR comic and Spartan Ops.

Wish it remained that way.

Keys's death was straight out of the Alien movies

Yeah it kinda lacked set pieces

Yeah, The Road should have felt more epic. Halo always has at least one good massive battle of epic proportions, and I think based on how many fobs you had, that's could have determined how much marine backup you got. They should have had everything they had ready to stop you, instead it felt like half the banished weren't home.

@@Battlemaster952 yeah would have been cool for sure, also would have loved saving at least some of the Spartans and making them guard the fobs

Oh no. 😭

@@ZeroOhNine unfortunately

1. They have made the armor hundreds of times by this point in the story, it’s only issued to spartans however. 2. Costs, the reason it’s only available for spartans is due to the rarity and tech of the materials used. It’s said to be worth more than a frigate if I remember correctly

@@odsttrooper3724 3. Augmentation is required to wear the armor, or it'll crush one's bones

Spartan armour costs as much as a frigate plus you need the spartan body modifications to wear it or it would crush you

Good reasons that more expensive then I thought.

I'd prefer if Thorne was still alive somewhere on Zeta Halo for us to find.

@@RaRmAn Ig he could have like a legendary ending for his character

Except for the armor lock, magnetic locking, so on. Totally not because he just over weighted the pod and the pilot panicked