Why Halo 2's Cliffhanger Ending was AWESOME!! 

yeah i just remember it as a badass line. i dont get the critisism either. also it set up halo 2 as the middle of a triology. if it didnt end as a cliff hanger the start of halo 3 wouldnt be a direct connection to halo 2

@@Peron1-MC ...So? Why does it have to be directly connected? Halo 1 didn't end on a cliff hanger, because they had no idea whether it was going to be a huge success or not. That didn't hurt Halo 2.

@@OpenMawProductions it doesnt but i think its better. atleast now. maybe it sucked when halo 3 didnt come out for a couple of years. but also i guess you cant just end all games with him just escaping. my sister and i watched all the alien movies in a row and they have that problem. they all end the same XD but also to they point that in halo ce it didnt end in a cliffhanger. they probebly realised that halo 2 would be big enough of a hit that they where going to make 3 in the future. and i think they really made it work in halo 3. the intro was awesome :)

I played them out of order: 1, 3 and then 2. Then again, I was like 6 when Halo 2 came out, so... And being introduced to Halo 2's full campaign after 3 had released, I could understand how people were pissed by being made to wait. Thankfully I never had to go through that, but I will also never be ablw ti relate to the relief of anticipation since I didn't have to wait to play Halo 3 like everyone else back then. But in reality, I still can't see any other way it could have been made better. The hype SHOULD be the biggest and most full of anticipation at the end of a trilogy's 2nd entry. Amd since the fans were mad just because Halo 2's story really is THAT good, it simply contributes to and makes Halo 3 *_that much more rewarding_* when it did finally release.

But poor old you had to buy a 400 dollars console to play that ending

@@smoker5989 don't care that was my parents problem 🤣

@@smoker5989 exactly, i never continued halo due to this, 2 was the last I played. I never got the newer generation consoles as Im mostly a pc gamer and dont game as much anymore as I got older. Still when I think back I think it was fucking dirty to have such cliffhanger and the continuation is on next gen console.

This!

Same, ever since 07. Still waiting...

halo 6 will come on pc

+Eliazer Nikola no one wants a 343bola " halo game "

sorry. we can't do that because xbox sales.

well halo wars 1 and 2 is coming to PC

FullMetal Bat same here

I only found that now, in this video...

I have to come out as one of those, who not only disliked the campaign, but who also was terribly disappointed by the cliffhanger ending. I do see the worth of it now, as an adult, who sees the cinematic value and the potential for building up the hype, but i really felt let down as a teenager, when i played the campaign for the first time. But why did i dislike it so much? First, i hated to play as the arbiter. I thought that he looked stupid, and he was the enemy, and i didn't want to play as the enemy. When i had to play as him, i didn't enjoy the missions. I kinda acted like:"let's get this over with", and i more or less blanked those missions out. And then i got excited, when i could play as master chief, and got really pissed, when it switched to arbiter again. I didn't feel like the game was giving me a new viewpoint, but more like i was robbing me of nearly 50% of enjoyable playtime. It also ripped me out of immersion, every time it switched characters. And i think that's also why i was so disappointed by the ending, because when i saw the cutscene, i thought something like: "hell yeah, finally finished with this lame ass side quest, now I'm going to FINISH THE FIGHT as the master chief, and play the all out battle, the finale of the game....." And then i slowly realised, that there was no finish, there was no epic battle, no glory. I felt betrayed. That's what all this hype was about? six Arbiter missions i couldn't care less about, and seven Spartan missions that lead to a miniboss fight? And now i have to wait AGAIN??? The Halo 2 campaign was the one, i played the least of all the halo games. And i only played it as long as i didn't have xbox live. After that, i only played multiplayer. And i f* loved it. When Halo 3 came out, the first thing i did, was play multiplayer for about two weeks, before the completionist in me took over and i played the campaign. And i liked it a lot. It was just, that the disappointment of Halo 2 had somehow diminished my interest in the story and i sort of didn't care about it anymore. Part of me probably didn't also want to be disappointed again. So that were my reasons for it. Have a good day

@@davidantinori4778 This makes me sad...

@@RosheenQuynh Don't be, i still had a blast playing the multiplayer. It is a big part of my teenage memories. And i played the campaign in coop sometimes with friends, and we always had fun, even if i didn't like the story as much.

Idk about the best story but it is the most fun to play

Daragh m I think Halo 3 had the best campaign, and Reach had the saddest

@@elprincipeamarillo386 I agree

Halo 3 also had the most amount of fun missions

Best story not best game that goes to ce or halo 3

Vincent Morano I know right? Often times, the second act in a trilogy ends in a cliffhanger to create major hype for the next game it's not a thing only Halo ever does to us

Finish The Fight.

Captain Kegs what about halo hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Not only racist but a Nazi as well hahaha. JK

My neck no longer works because I was nodding to much.

Halopro895 Unless you got a neck like a Prophet

nice

I played it in 2021, the ending still felt great tho, i went “FUCK YEAH IM EXCITED AS FUCK”

Imagine playing it back in the days on the old xbox and you need a new console as well to see how it continues.

Well in the case of halo 5 it was like. " I think they didn't give me the full game"

It makes me annoyed to sit there and wait for the next one to come put.

Cliffhangers are good if they're done right. If they just throw in a lazy cliffhanger because they were too lazy to finish the story, then it sucks. Halo 2's cliffhanger ending is a good example of a good cliffhanger ending

Except the cliff hanger of doctor who and Sherlock

Exactly!

Glad you share mine as well!

Also man, I feel that you should not create a 2nd channel for non-Halo gaming content. It is really hard to grow a channel just on ONE game franchise. I feel that there is only so much material to cover before you will have to create videos on mostly speculation and rumors about the Halo games. RU-vid algorithms can also affect what comes of for "The Act Man" if you use that in your second channels name. If you're going to put EFFORT into your videos, just post them on the main channel. Save a 2nd channel for "lower quality" videos, like the unedited scripts you mentioned. In the end, this is YOUR channel. You can put whatever you want on here. So long as it's an Act Man video I can't see people not liking it.

Harbringer231 Haha the 2nd channel would be like gameplay, skits, vlogs, it would be a channel for EASY content. I got so many ideas and some of them take a LONG time to put together, others I could make in a day. I don't want to cloud the videos on this channel with easy-effort videos. So that's what the 2nd channel would be. It's going to be called, "Act Man TV" so it might affect search results but overall I think it'll be great :)

Sounds good man, just don't be afraid to go outside of Halo on this channel. I would love to see you make quality videos analyzing other games as well!

Harbringer231 I dream of that one day! Trust me man, I've got a lot of video ideas

teddybeddy123 so does pretty much every franchise

@@thissmexyboialdc4503 There is so much truth in that statement.

I say go for it, another channel about other games would be awesome. If you decide to do a patreon, I might be able to help you out :) Love the Halo 2 cliffhanger for the same reasons you do, so glad I'm not the only one

The Act Man great video man keep up the good work !!!

+The Act Man Halo 2 is my favorite game ever! It's cliffhanger ending is as good as The Empire Strikes Back. I appreciate your thoughts on this aspect of Halo. If only Halo 5 was as good as 2. Keep up the good content. And congrats on 10,000 subscribers.

Loved it! When I started playing halo, Halo reach was already out and I had just gotten my first 360, but I started with halo 1 and played my way through all of them in their correct order and I think I can understand the hype just as much as someone who played halo 1 or 2 when there wasn't a halo to play next. I had to save an buy each of the next ones so that was my hype building time.

I hated it when it first came out, but now it doesn't bother me

halo ce-R needs to be rebooted to be more accurate to the lore. as bungie never cared about the lore of halo.

+TheBiddofslayer58 Bungie made the game

wrong, microsoft made halo what it is, bungie just wanted to make one game to make money, a blockbuster, microsoft made a franchise/universe. sure bungie may have made the game, but they neglected the lore of the franchise.

+TheBiddofslayer58 Microsoft made them make more games but bungie still made the lore.

but they then ignored it. constantly not to mention eric nylund made most of the halo bible.

We need Joseph Staten to write the story again, he was so good!

343bola oh god, snapchat dog filter I can feel the cancer tumours growing

That's essentially a cliffhanger yet I've never heard of anyone complain about it lol

RoseOfTheNight4444 it’s not really much of a cliffhanger as it is foreshadowing, since the direct conflict is resolved

@@yoshi1017 Yeah, I suppose you're right

i like it but its so clichê

@@minecraftmovieman1 Back in 2001 it wasn't bro

nope

Maybe they should, and get into the nitty gritty with the problems of Halo 5's story, and see if he understands all the terrible things he did wrong. We don't want to make a Matt Ward out of him.

Reed shutdown his Twitter account, due to backlash and harassment. Reed will be writing a story in the Halo:Fractures compilations, since he not the lead writer for Halo Wars 2, I don't think he will be lead writer for Halo 6. Both Reed and Frank seem to refuse to talk about Halo 5 story, since they missed it up so bad.

+MrReyno Tanks It's funny, cause their doing the exact same thing George Lucas did with Obi-Wan in Return of the Jedi; "....from a certain point of view". The problem is where that was used in Star Wars to excuse what BECAME a plothole in an earlier conversation due to ret-conning (and it is pretty bad writing, instead of giving Obi-Wan a reason to lie), Reed and Frank are using it to excuse a characters having no motivation in its "no-question-about-it-immoral" actions.

Zak Ras Brian Reed in an interview was smiling and saying 'Cortana wasn't evil', yet what she did in Halo clearly was. Reed, doesn't appear to know how to write morally ambiguous characters or grey characters. Reed writing choice made no sense, there already was a morally grey character to use as a antagonist, Halsey. I personally don't believe Cortana was brought back because of the app, and I don't believe Latenight's leak, since a former 343i employee (Haytred) called him out indirectly. I think Brian Reed just used a cliche, since he is at his core a mediocre comic writer.

But at the time it annoyed me alot lol

Nice to hear from you! I bet the midnight release was something truly spectacular to be a part of!

Seven Stop my rankings of campaigns 2 Ce Reach 3 Odst And Mp Reach 3 2 Ce

Halo CE WAS MY GAME BACK WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD

Is this a reference?

NONE OF YOU KNOW THE SECRET! (special guest is actually your mom)

+The Act Man LateNightGaming?

PLOT TWIST! RYTHAZE IS THE GUEST

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u focking wot m8

How the fuck have you not played it yet?

ODST Brooks I know right

+ODST Brooks my time line with halo is fucked. My first encounter with halo was halo 3 at my friends house. I got the game and loved it and bought every halo game that came after it. But i didnt get the masterchief collection, i honestly dont remember why. Now that its really cheap i will probably pick it up.

Jake The Titan Halo TMCC was great its a must buy if you have an xbox one

I wish. Now we waiting for Infinite, it'd better be better than 5's campaign.

Yea man those are a lot of good ideas for my 2nd channel! Thanks for this comment! Lot of good stuff you said :)

Idiot

I really do disagree with you, but it's okay, I can see why.

If not 343 Microsoft would of had someone else do it

Not really, Halo 3's Legendary Ending clearly showed Chief nearing Requiem

Barely any microtransactions on halo 4, and halo 4's story was great. Or okay at least.

Despite what people say, Halo 4 was a good game. The story was good just because it concentrates more on a Master Chief and Cortana as living beings and their feelings, wishes and fears. The story was good, not good as previous games, but still good. The gunplay was awesome, best in the series, i can say. The graphics are amazing, combat was good and had new enemies who were funny to fight.

It's treason then...

It's treason then...

Your Armour suits you, but these are my elites. Their lives matter to me, yours does not.

you can say about halo 5 whatever you want. halo 5 has so many flaws. that doesn't make the ending worse. And yes. I played halo 2. It was the game that get me hooked. And yes it probably is better than halo 5. Halo 5's ending still is awesome.

I wouldn't quite say it's equally as good... Honestly, the execution of the line "Finish the Fight" is a big part of what makes it so good in my opinion. However, thanks fore reminding me of that. That's actually probably one of the best quotes from 5.

***** Eh, that's kind of just a ripoff quote more than anything.

Stefan S could've been awesome at the end of any story except halo 5. halo 5 needed more quotes like that and less exposition

Stefan S I felt super unsatisfied after my first playthrough like they spent the game hyping up the gaurdians then we see one attack earth and nothing happens the most powerful ship we've seen just runs

5. and 6. are what I feel the story would have been if this story of 5 didn't happened.

The question is why did they hate it? I never disliked the ending, I thought it was awesome and never understood the hate for it. Did you hate it?

+The Act Man i liked it

The Act Man personally man, I have mixed feelings on the matter

Yay I am not the only person who loved halo 2's ending. I was seven years old and my family was on vacation at the California coast and I begged my mom to let me bring my xbox 360 over and she finally let in. I had been stuck on the level sacred icon because I used to really suck at halo but I finally came through and made it all the way to the end of the game and I was so pumped that I actually got farther through the game since I had spent days trying to beat sacred icon. So when I finally beat Tartarus as my favorite halo character and I finally beat the game I was so happy And I thought halo 2 had the best ending ever. This was back in 2009 ish so halo 3 had been out for a while and my stepdad had halo 3 at the firehouse so after a few weeks he finally brought halo 3 over and I basically drooled over the entire game.

+The Eternal Chronicler What are these mixed feelings you have?

Haha thank you! Been a wild and fun ride so far, and I'm glad you're sticking along and enjoying the videos :)

Haha yea Halo content for sure! I have a video idea in mind that is very close to what you're saying ;)

thank you!

Oh and this is the feeling so many people had, that 343 was utterly incapable of grasping with Halo 5 (4's campaign was okay-ish, the ending was awesome). This is what I've been craving to be recaptured in a Halo campaign.

Good luck on Halo 2. It is a nightmare.