Reacting To The Halo 5: Guardians Cutscenes For The First Time | Xbox Series X 

i would like to play some games with you guys sometime if your up for it

I agree with you *Gamerjoob* Halo 5 5 campaign was OK/ALRIGHT imo, there was ALOT MORE LOCK missions then chief missions tho, wished there was MORE CHIEF MISSIONS imo, I did like the WARDEN ETERNAL tho as a boss character, you did fight him like A "MILLION TIMES" tho ALSO FYI IF you was to play HALO 5 ON LEGENDARY there wouldve been one more cinema at the end. Was also wonderin could we play sometime, im on XBOX ONE X btw?

The part I don’t understand is why lock has something to do with the saviour of humanity ? I don’t like the design of the elites either while not explaining some background story of the new characters even the UNSC marines design looks very awkward even with the colours. But the story was ok with introducing the arbiter and blue team i 🥰.

This guy gets it 👏 👌 👊🏽🤍🖤💀💯

Very true, I often 😅 forget about the ramifications of cryosleep and FTL in the game, and for the lore. Crazy how from Halo 1's start to Halo 3's end is maybe... six months.

Yes but to me that’s all undermined cause even more people forget all of these characters are canonically dead but now are just chilling for some reason lol

I never thought about it like that, thank you for making me appreciate blue team even more 💙

@@markiacovelli5529 lmao what are you talking about

I would also say i am always happy to see Arbiter! even if he didnt have much of a story in it haha

I would have enjoyed Halo 5 significantly more if Buck were the lead over Locke.

The multiplayer slapper. Might have not been the most halo multiplayer but damn it was really fun

@@GamerJoobChannel They did Arbiter dirty in more ways than one, they gave him the 343 look when they clearly remade him in H2 remastered opening WITH the armor that he wore in Guardians

Halo 5 is a good game.

hahaha i was like please!

One of the biggest let downs ever, even more so that they put in a book instead😡

@@johnleeka3282 Along with the escape from Genesis. Was a good book, to be fair.

@@johnleeka3282 Books are fine; the problem with the Buck books is that they were Bill Dietz-grade. Absolute dogshit. Too many writers these days just played Duke Nukem ~25 years ago and assumed every FPS protagonist was the same way internally.

@@johnleeka3282 can I please have the book name 🙏🥺

Hahaha we had to do it!

same lol

I felt it so much that it was disrespectful towards all Spartan IVs. 😬

I agree that was pretty sad imo

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The moment when Chief was reaching out to Cortana, hurt.

@@OriginalPuro that's what I said

I think the chief was humoring him you can tell when he was fighting him and when he cracked his helmet it was clearly a one sided fight afterwards, he was buying time for blue team

I feel like the whole story behind the fight was Chief was going easy on him, buying time for Blue team to leave so he could disengage relatively peacefully. he didn't seam to want to fight, and didnt seem either to actually want to hurt locke. once locke broke his visor, he realised it just wasnt gonna be so straight forward and once the armour restraint came into play, he knew he was gonna have to actually get his hands dirty. Spartan 3's maybe physically stronger than 2's, but a 2 will always beat them, its about the will power and the drive to complete the mission. a spartan 4 being a literal budget spartan meant chief could take his time until the armour restraint (the fight changer) was revealed.

Uh hiyya. Locke absolutely could hold his own before ultimately losing. I mean Chief still absolutely wins, but its not gonna be an OHKO. While S2's are absolutely superior Augmentation wise, S4's bridge the gaps in their Augs with Highly Advanced, Cutting Edge Armor. S4's are physically weaker than S2 but their suits make them faster (Kelly still topping that chart though) Plus, Locke is in no way a pushover. He is a highly lethal ONI operative way before his Spartan Augmentation. Dude was supposed to assassinate Thel until the Great Schism.

@@raizenr2387 The Chief isn't using the Mk-II armor from Halo 2. His armor has been upgraded since theb, so to claim that Locke's armor give him that significant of an advantage simply doesn't work. Also, Locke may be highly trained, but the Chief has been raised and augmented specifically for use in high-risk combat scenarios and spent damn near literally his entire life at war to the point where he is designated as one of the two most lethal SPARTANs in the entire program, with SPARTAN B-312 (Noble 6) being the only one as dangerous.

@@theeternalshade2981 I'm pretty sure he's still in Mark VI but if that was clarified and I missed it please do let me know. I'm not saying he's as dangerous or skilled. I still said he loses in the end no question. He's just not the pushover I see some people try to paint him as

I had heard about that! A lot of people were saying that i should check out lore accurate videos on youtube!

I might do this now after reading your post. Never been a Halo lore guy, just go off the games but this game's story angered me so much, I figure its worth doing.

@@RU-vidCensors I'd you love the Halo universe I HIGHLY recommend getting Into it. I wasn't super into it either, and when Halo 5 first came out I was pumped when Chief beat Locke. But after learning so much about my favourite games universe, I can never look at Halo 5 the same

Totally agree 😊 They definitely took up such a hard job of continuing this franchise! I really liked 4 and cant wait for Infinite

I'd say it's a good direction (as much as I hate bringing cortana back) but with very poor execution. 5 could've had a great campaign, but it was mediocre at best.

@@navb0tactual They should definitely have Blue Team and some appearance of Buck and other members of Osiris with more character development. But Halo Infinite is definitely Chief-centric. More Arbiter plz!

@@navb0tactual I heard they rewrote the campaign hastily before release. Hence why non of the ads match the actual story

@@QueenTheCossackTongued Right, I remember hearing something like that. I'ma see if I can dig more info up.

Thank you so much!

Glad you enjoy 😊

It was supposed to have a sequel story to Spartan Ops centering around Thomas Thorne, but they cut him last minute.

You know what... this is probably the most accurate thing said about the campaign. It DOES feel like it wanted to basically be Spartan Ops' sequel/continuation, and they tacked on MC and Co into the story to sell more. I would have been fine with that if that was the direction they went. And of course, the advertising for this game was all over the place. That did NOT help matters.

@Paul Thomas add to the fact that most of the cutscenes either cut out at weird parts, and some of the 'levels' were just 'walking tours' as I like to call them, this game was just a hot mess from start to finish. This is still the only Halo campaign I refuse to replay more than the two times I've already done with it. And THAT was because of the infuriating AI partners you had to deal with if you wanted to play solo.

My favorite thing from Halo 5 is the forge system. You can just abt build anything and make a flyable pelican

I enjoyed the game even if i was not as into the story! I am always down to see more Arbiter 😊

I enjoyed it but the story was kinda meh and elites were too bulky. They're supposed to be lean and mean but they were thick and brute-ish

hahaha it had to be done!

I've also theorized that as well

While that is true, from a story perspective it’s still kind of bad in my opinion. It really killed the emotional ending from the last game, and it feels so soon and unwarranted. It feels so weird that so many people just know she’s alive somehow.

@@InformerMaz Yeah, they should have gone with the route they look to be taking with infinity, where a new Cortana is made, but to chief it's not the same one he went through hell with. She doesn't have the same quirks and the personality is just off. That way they get to bring back one of their signature characters, without doing a terminator cliché, and without it feeling cheap.

While technically true that her current self stems from "rampant" fragments, we still don't fully understand the extent of her cloning ability. As far as theory goes, all of her clones retain her "conscience" (memories/experience), and they're simply fragments of her ability/functionality (lore only ever mentions Cortana's clones possessing fragments of her abilities/functionality, not memories and experience). Note that personality is a functionality, so some clones have different personalities. Rampancy is simply an AIs conscience lacking the space to continue developing, they can't have any more memories or experience, so errors start compounding and indefinitely ruin the AI's functionality (it's even possible that memories are starting to overwrite functionalities). Rampant AI are just AI with full memory, so technically the rampant fragments the current Cortana is made of is still the true Cortana. At most, she lacks memories from her absolute last interactions with Chief before she linked to the Domain (the domain didn't cure cortana, it just gave her access to unlimited space for her to grow). Cortana does mention that her loyalty to humanity was programmed (her functionality), but she still shares sympathy for humanity outside of the programming (her conscience). The rampant fragments the current Cortana stems from were 100% conscience and 0% functionality (hence the rampancy), meaning that programmed loyalty is gone, but she's still the same Cortana. This is why she's still attached to Chief. Halsey is Cortana's programmed loyalty to humanity, Chief is Cortana's sympathy for humanity. Halo Infinite might be their way of contrasting the new "Halsey Clone Cortana" (the weapon) with the original but now independant "Chief Cortana". As of right now, Cortana is as human as an AI can get, meanwhile her replacement is just another programmed machine. Maybe Chief finally gets to understand who truly is the machine, and will have to pick between programmed loyalty and human sympathy.

@@brandonchapman4532 Another thing I've theorized, that Infinite may disprove, is that this Cortana is doing a lot of what she does here from a twisted belief of keeping the Chief 'safe' - including by bringing enforced peace, so there'll be no more war for him to be caught up in. Given rampancy and separate fragments can lead to monomania.

Its not a theory, listen to her lines "when i last saw john i was pulled into slip space" that is one of her fragments that didnt die because it found the domain, it never even touched john at the end of halo 4. It was a rampant fragment made of rage and emotion, and honestly it worked well but they did such a shit job showing that, that nobody figured it out on the 1st playthru. Should've had a flashback like halo 4 did with the librarian. That would've fixed the confusion

I do think that the story did feel quite stuffed with other lore from extended media! Like i think it can be enjoyed with just playing the games but it is definitely lore heavy and probably confusing for general audiences! I was very glad that i had background knowledge of blue team and some of the extended lore!

And even then it just breaks so much lore and comes across as too cliché.

I do like Blue Team! i wish we got more from them in this game! But they are still cool

Yeah it had some cool stuff, but the problem with Halo 5 was how many things it tried to fit them all into one game. And that's what killed the campaign because the pacing was awful and rushed.

well their character stuff isn’t great and the art style sucks ass, the gameplay and music is good but isn’t really halo, doesn’t really fit in the series

@@sentientmilkshake6059 the gameplay and music are very Halo IMO

We can blame the screenwriters for that. Ahem, Brian Reed

Yeah, H2A's opening Cinematic was purely promotion for Halo 5

It is pretty confusing haha! But yea i think it was just to get people excited for 5!

bull shit! they are NOT a better antagonist the Prometheans are!

It breaks my heart because I kinda love the elite design for halo 4, they’re so fucking massive and imposing yet they can still kick ass…And here they’re pointless

Although they are a bit too slow in this, it's worth noting that humanities technology has been propelled massively ahead of the ex covenant species. It was explained in the books that the covenant as a whole never really understood the fore runner tech, they just adapted it for their use and relied heavily on the engineers to keep it all working. Humanity on the other hand had an easier time understanding it, and took the time to understand it and better tune it towards working with their technology.

I enjoyed the gameplay of 5 and had fun playing it! But i was definitely disappointed by the story unfortunately 😢

I am very excited for Infinite!

@@GamerJoobChannel agreed

Oh awesome!

Hope you enjoy 😊

@@jgstudios117 True. Plus I like how Arbiter and Buck came back but as it’s been said. Of the few good things 5 gave us it brought a load of problems with it. I just hope 343 doesn’t kill fan favorites like Arbiter or Buck. Can’t say much for other characters. Will say that the new Spartan commander from Infinite Multiplayer cinematic I like more than Palmer.

It's not a weak story, it's just poorly told. The OT is a weak story that is really well told. (There is a massive, logic breaking plot hole between 2 and 3 that basically turns the story and books into a joke), it still one of my favourite stories of all time

I definitely was my least favourite story! I am very excited for Infinite and hope it turns out great 😊

@@thesenate3728 I mean, the story is basically just the cliché "ai realises oppression is the best form of protection" with a little story about how chief was naughty and disobeyed an order. They didn't establish a new enemy. The threat that was established just felt out of our grasp, and the way they brought back Cortana was just cheap.

@@MrEsphoenix it's a little more nuanced than that, and requires one to have read the books... hence why it's poorly told 🤦‍♂️

Yes 😊

Ya I completely agree what you said about Cortana and why she going this route, but I can give a bit more of a lore reason as to why she like this in 5. So at the end of halo 4 she split up her rampant personality to help chief, well the original personality died during the ending of the game when she saves John from the explosion. But one of the fragments of her got into the domain and cured that fragment of rampancy and that the Cortana we see in halo 5. She not the one we lost in 4 but there sill a part of he run that fragment that want to protect John at any cost

Good words, bad actions. This Cortana doesn't want good things really...

They do have a history of killing off major characters in the books lol

I did actually 😊

Thank you so much 😊

You too!

Thank you so much 😊

Glad you enjoy them!

The issue is it's such a cliché with the AI realising that oppression is the best way to protect life. It was cool when terminator came out, it was ok when iRobot came out, nowadays it's just overdone to hell and felt like a cheap excuse to bring back a signature character.

The Prometheans.. THEYRE HUMAN!

Glad you enjoy it 😊

Yes another Halo game 😊

I actually have a full Tier List video in which i give my thoughts on each Halo game if youd like to check it out 😊

@@GamerJoobChannel I got you 😅

Most people didn't really dislike them, just the fact they seemed to be phasing out chief for Locke, who just came out of nowhere and had no history in the series.

The gameplay is fun! I think playing any halo is a good thing haha!

It just doesn't fit the lore is the issue. It's been established from the start that the S2's don't pull their punches if something is a threat to their mission. He has decades more experience than Locke both as a spartan and just fighting in general.

@@MrEsphoenix bullshit, its fitting to canon!!!!!!!!!!!!

We will edit up and post the CE cutscenes 😊

@@GamerJoobChannel Awesome! can't wait for the Halo Infinite playthrough 😀

@@GamerJoobChannel will you guys ever react to the halo one terminals?

"They'll pair you with another AI. Maybe even another Cortana model, if Halsey lets them. It won't be me." ;_;

The cutscenes! I am sure we will upload them 😊

I dont know much about those games to be honest! I dont know if they would really be my kind of experience

But i am always open to trying new games 😊

@@GamerJoobChannel I see, the game is slighty risque to be sincer, mostly because of some uncomfortable scenes derivated from the life in the metro of the characters, despite of that, I think it's an excellent trilogy, maybe you can play it for yourself or if it convinces you, play it on gamerjoob :)

¡No! ¡Todavía disfruto del juego! No es mi favorito y no me gustaron algunas cosas, pero igual me divertí mucho

¡Tampoco odié a Locke! ¡Creo que se enfocaron demasiado en él y realmente no tuvo mucho desarrollo!

Also even in ODST they say if Buck was any better, he'd be a Spartan. And then boom.

It fits. The spartan 2's are much more professional than the 4's, and so when on the job refer to him by rank.

​@@MrEsphoenix Chief hasn't been the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer forever, and i just think it makes more sense for the people he literally grew up with to be on a first name basis with him