Behold Halo 3 looking its best. Now people who didn't spend $400 on an Xbox One and The Masterchief Collection Beta can watch these cinematics in all their glory. Enjoy.
"We must go, the brutes have our scent." "We must go, the brutes have our scent." "We must go, the brutes have our scent." "WE MUST GO, THE BRUTES HAVE OUR SCENT." "WE MUST GO, THE BRUTES HAVE OUR SCENT!" "WE MUST GO, THE BRUTES HAVE OUR SCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
@@velvetwatermelon2647 I think he was making a reference to that one vine from CalebCity where he snaps his ankles and falls down the stairs. While falling he says "aAAhh NiGgaa". But yeah, the profanity wasn't really needed.
"ma'am the squad leaders are requesting a rally point; where should they go?" "to war." "ma'am that is not a rally point, I have no idea what you want me to tell them. Please don't walk away. Ma'am? fuck, why is she always so dramatic."
Makes me sad that all my friends and I will never again come back to playing custom games on Halo 3. Never again will we get a massive party together of 16 people to play fat kid or duck hunt. Never again will we play monster trucks or jenga, nor will we play infection. Never again will any of this happen after school on weekends. Makes me so sad...
Bobby Boucher Trust me, there are so many of us that feel the exact same way. I would love to go back to Halo 3 and play custom games for old times sake. All it takes is for those people to get up and organise a gathering to do so.
Halo 3 is an absolute beauty of a game, now that i’m older i realise how good it actually was at that time. The storyline, epic characters and the beautiful music makes this one of the best games i have ever played.
i want a mini-series of the marines and elites together on the Shadow of Intent just showing each other their weaponry at a firing range and talking about their lives and culture
It would be hard one, the Elites were divided with humanity. Originally during the early days of the war when UNSC managed to stale mate the Covenant (and yes that did happen at one point), the Elites wanted Humanity to be brought into the Covenant since that was the standard MO of the Covenant, the Prophets continued to reject the Elites demand for this so the Elite ended up being divided on their views on humanity, on one hand, you have a species that use technology that is equal to the Brutes who are unworthy while on the other, respect is given since they make excellent warriors who are very motivated and worthy enemies. Elites refuse to use human weapons, they find them disrespectful for war. So I can't image any conversation between Elites and human military personal.
@@yaz2928 as Caesar Seriona said: "Originally during the early days of the war when UNSC managed to stale mate the Covenant...the Elites wanted Humanity to be brought into the Covenant since that was the standard MO of the Covenant, the Prophets continued to reject the Elites demand for this so the Elites ended up being divided on their views on humanity, on one hand, you have a species that use technology that is equal to the Brutes who are unworthy while on the other, respect is given since they make excellent warriors who are very motivated and worthy enemies."
It’s pretty sad but I feel like the arbiters “Tartarus, the prophets have betrayed us” is pretty strong as the arbiter comes to terms that everything he knows, has fought for and lived for was an absolute lie and meaningless.
@@BigTylt damn, this is the first time I heard about they skull, and I played through Halo 3, reach, odst, and 4 campaign. I missed out big time not turning it on.
7:29 "YOU ARE... ALL OF YOU... _VIRGINS..."_ That's what I heard the first time I saw this cut-scene. And I was too young to even know what a virgin was (I was seven when this game came out). Now I can't help but think that the UNSC is just Virgin Squad fighting the Chad covenant for domination of the universe. Halo takes on a much more humerous tone that way. (PS: The edit was because I fucked up the time stamp)
As a kid I never really payed attention to the actual characters storylines or who they were. After playing the first two and seeing Arbiters character arc is probably the best storytelling I’ve ever seen. From being the most ruthless and cunning shipmaster during the human covenant war to his eventual redemption by being at the memorial for all the humans killed at the end of Halo 3 brings tears to my eyes. It sounds cringe as hell but holy shit, Arbiters story is amazing.
I feel like the Arbiter was the most developed character in the Halo franchise. I'd even say he was the protagonist of Halo 2, rather than Master Chief.
Arbiter had no redemption arc imo. All he cared about was personal revenge against the prophets, while ignoring his own evil past and how making up for that should be his primary motivation to fight alongside Humanity. And of course it didn't help that he was reduced to Chief's sidekick. The drop-off in character development and story depth from Halo 2 to 3 was really disappointing.
@@redaug4212 he did get a redemption arc tho, from the betrayal of the covenant and alliance with humanity, when the war ended he regretted the actions he had made against the humans, the millions of lives he took because of the prophets lies, he made the swords of sanghelios to stop something like the covenant to ever happen again, halo 4 and 5 are shit but i kinda like what they did with arbirter even if it is a minor bit of development
@@What-.-. He really didn't. Arbiter fought with the UNSC to stop the covenant from nuking the galaxy and to get revenge on the last prophet for betraying him. He didn't do it to redeem his own actions, and not once in any of the games does he show regret for having killed billions. It's not even implied. In order to have a redemption arc, the character has to actually want redemption. We're never shown that with Arbiter. Ideally, Bungie should have given Arbiter his own story in Halo 3 instead of having him tag along with Master Chief for only half the game. That way he could have the same depth he had in 2.
@@redaug4212 very true, i never think about HIS story in H3 too much as opposed to H2. Could’ve been handled differently but still pretty amazing what they did do. He had his poetic end with Truth and much else is left up to imagination. Halo 3 is where the story ends. 4 and 5 are cash grabs, should’nt be official canon, but i digress
@@ajxx9987 Given the line he's responding to is "I still can't believe he's dead," it might be more like "Yeah, I can't get over it either, he was a real one."
I miss how everything felt so high stake back then. Yes, you can say that the story is predictable that the good guys will always win, but the build up and the atmosphere was just 10/10.
"I AM TRUTH! THE VOICE OF THE COVENANT!" "and so...you must be silenced." man i remember the first time i played this on release i did the victory yell with the arbiter. It was so satisfying seeing truth get stabbed.
Cortana: "I'll drop a beacon, but it'll be a while until anyone finds us...years even...I'll miss you.." Chief: "Wake me, when you need me." ^^Me whenever I start up games 1-3
19:45 You can see Installation 04B highlighted in purple on the holo display. That is the exact moment Spark realises his beloved ring has returned, and explains why his following dialogue options have him so heavily supporting finding Cortana's solution when before he was ambivalent at best.
Pill Cosby hell yeah, these two missions have everything. Sniping, stealth, light vehicles, air vehicles, and tanks. There are a surplus of marines and elites backing you up. Most of the weapons and all of the grenades and equipment are in the level. You fight all of the enemies, covenant, flood, scarabs, with the exclusion of sentinels and also pure forms for some reason. The settings are beautiful and the level design is perfect. The encounters are masterfully crafted and the pacing is breakneck. My only gripe is at the end of the covenant, it revolves into only flood, in a really shitty arena for fighting flood, and just isn’t fun.
Man I just want a halo 3 remastered so badly. Seeing as how halo 2's cutscenes and art in gameplay looked amazing and I just want to see that same amazing art come to halo 3's cutscenes and art.
TrueGamerOpinion halo 4 wasn’t bad it was like a 7/10 story wise but halo 5. Oh man that was a mess, nothing redeemable about that story for sure who knows what can possible be done to fix that
TrueGamerOpinion well gameplay wise there is no comparison halo 1-3 are way better then halo 4. But halo 4 does some good character work with John and Cortona which helps elevate the story just enough for the story alone to be average. It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great either it was average a 7/10. But halo 5, oh man that was just a torture to witness
Andr3asTheNorwegian I knew a few mid-level combat arms officers who had that sort of sense of humor and would absolutely do that kind of thing. They were more likely to name rally points and phase-lines after their favorite strip joints, though.
At 16:08 you see the marines jump out of the way while the ODSTs stand tall without even flinching. This little detail to me just shows the difference between your average marine and your super disciplined elite Helljumpers
I think the marine stood up because the elites stood up kinda aggressively, almost like they were going to attack Johnson, so the marine was getting ready to jump up in action. Meanwhile the ODSTs are, as you said, more disciplined, so they would only act if the elites actually did something
"Yeah... umm... Sorry ma'am... I couldn't seem to find "war" ON MY FUCKING MAP!" Just a joke, but yeah, I totally get what you mean. It's an awkward line.
15:53 is my favorite cutscene in the game. There's just something about elites and humanity finally and visually working together. And Johnson and Arby being the ones that set their differences first for the marines and other elites to follow.
"They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research. Watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong, swift, and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess?" "Plot armor."
Who gives a fuck most of the old games made history. The kids that say that are just kids who only judge the game by its graphics and shit when a game is supposed to be made for fun
PnoykidJaven 559 woah bro chill out god damn.... im just saying most people will notice the graphics and be like "woah things were so different back then"
They already say that, my brother is 10, looks at PS1 games and hate it SMH. Back then it was never about graphics it was about the story and setting it told.
Gameplay> graphics and this game looks better then anything on Xbox one. Sure xbone is more detailed and expensive but this does more with less. Great art style.
How did the Chief know pressing that big button in the middle of the console wouldn't activate the rings? Cause it sure looked like the "activate the rings" button.
The Forerunners intended for humanity to be able to use their technology after they activated the Halo array so the Librarian imprinted certain geas (basically an idea or knowledge that sits within your subconscious mind that kind of guides you down a certain path) on humanity either before or after (I can’t remember) the Forerunners fired the array so that humans would be familiar(ish) with Forerunner technology. It’s the same reason Chief knew which button to press in the second mission of Halo CE to activate that first light bridge they came across in the tunnel.
Damn I remember playing this for the first time and thinking how realistic faces looked, how lush the scenery was, and now it looks like an N64 game compared to to new gen. I really hope they make an anniversary version for this in a couple years, I'd love to see what it could look like re-done like Halo 2
tskwared667 They won't make an anniversary version of Halo 3. The graphics will be good for at least another 10 years. Not to mention the fact that they already made the MCC. It's not like they're going to make a MCC2 next year unless they want to have a one way ticket to being named the worst company.
23:30 All this time after playing Halo 3 for the 1st time, and learning the lore behind the Covenant religion, the meaning behind that line, is so much more disturbing.
@@jackharvey5613 It's that Truth realises that the Covenant was built on a lie, but rather than watch the Covenant collapse he'd rather drag everyone kicking and screaming into the void by lighting the rings.
@Juan Martinez the irony is actually in the actions they take as ministers; Truth withholds the truth from the Covenant, Regret is impulsive and brash and regrets nothing, and Mercy is always clamoring for punishment and shows no mercy.
Another easily missed one is that the entire exploding course you race through on your warthog is actually the Silent Cartographer island from Halo CE, minus the sand, plants, and sea.
17:49 Can I just point out how much I love the little detail they put on this part? I love Jonhson's (and to a lesser extent, the pilot's) shifts in his seat while they move. When they drop, both spring upwards due to the freefall, and when they start the engines to begin the nosedive, they shift to their seats again. And better yet, as they pitch down, they both move their legs and body to hold themselves onto the seat. It's just a little detail (that may not even be that outstanding) that makes me just like that cutscene even more
29:15 when I first played I literally got chills and this over sensationalized feeling Now, all these years later. I get tears because of the memories and knowing where, when, and how these times were. I dont think we will ever get that feeling that the 360, Wii, and PS3 generation of gaming was able to give to us. RIP 360, PS3, and even the Wii era ❤
15:53 I love this scene. No dialogue, no monologue, nothing. Just a simple exchange. Like they're saying "Yeah I know we still have some shit we need to work out, but damn it we're allies. We work together anyway we can."
16:04 I love how the Marines are carrying Covenant weapons, the Arbiter's carrying a rocket launcher, and everyone's still a bit befuddled about these new arrangements. Former enemies are now allies, and everyone just has to get used to it.
All my best memories are from playing Halo 3: I remember getting Halo 3 back in 2007 when I was only 8 years old. I loved Halo 3 even before I got my xbox live gold profile in 2008. I used to bring friends home and we played all day. Halo 3 was different from every other game and I got a special feeling from playing it. I play Halo 3 today and I wish I could relieve the lovely memories but I cant. Halo 3 custom games was the best thing ever existed. I remember playing the awesome campaign and collecting all the skulls to unlock new multiplayer armour. I bet no one will ever feel what I feel and what I felt. I wish that time could last forever.
Thats almost exactly what i did except the flood freaked me the F*** out. I just played Halo 3 without playing the others and my young self had no idea what was happening. Now looking back at all the Halo's i get a feeling of sadness and nostalgia from all the good moments and how everyone basically dies in the Halo universe. Probably why its popular, bc its realistic and not everyone lives.
same here almost exactly except halo 4 was shitty in my opinion why did they take out dialogue for the covenant thats what made halo awesome and none of the marines has any awesome quotes
No. That's not how this series ended. Chief died at the end of Halo 3. His entering the Cryotube was a metaphor. Chief paid the ultimate price for saving humanity: Giving his life as so many others did. It also plays as a subtle irony. SPARTANS never die, they just go Missing in Action. The Master Chief, the last living SPARTAN, who is MIA, drifting through the howling dark never to return, is the first and only SPARTAN to be listed KIA. That ending made me cry so much the first time I understood what it meant. Halo is a story about war, duty, heroism, and sacrifice. It's about soldiers and what a soldier should be, and Chief embodies all of those themes to a T. But on a bigger, grander level, it was a message that war was trivial and that our petty conflicts can be overcome by working together to conquer the mysteries of life. And 343 had to fucking ruin it.
But then again he didn't see himself as a hero. He just wanted to do what needed to be done to save humanity, as a soldier. And, as we can clearly see in the Halo 5 trailers, there were entire statues of chief built.
"They out number us three to one'" Ship Master Rtas Vadumee': "Then it is an even fight. All cruisers fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!!" One of the best lines in the franchise.
In my eyes, the planet they fell towards at the ending of Halo 3 was Onyx being reconstructed by the sentinels, and in no time at all he'd be reunited with Blue Team and they all lived happily ever after
"Wake me when you need me." Is such a good final line. Chief was essentially created to win the human/covenant war and the war is now over. After years of nigh constant battle, his mission is finally complete. He doesn't even care that he's stuck adrift in the middle of intergalactic space. He just wants to sleep.
17:57 is incredible. The buildup in the song & the hissing of the Pelican engine firing up is tense. Then the scene where all the ships are flying down and one of them is shot down in flames! The timing of the sound design and video is phenomenal 10/10. Bring back Blur studios for the remaster hell yes!
You can see Master Chief move a bit when the Elite says he would’ve glasses the whole planet, Chief was ready to smack him up If he was getting hostile at that moment 😂
29:15 is one of my favorite moments in the entire game. You stand there, next to Arby, as you see a new ring rising from the clouds and Guilty Spark just chillin' in the background. Hate him or not, in that moment, he had such a relaxing voice. That pink-ish atmosphere in the background was amazing as well. It doesn't get more Halo than that moment.
