Why Your Kids Should be Playing Halo 

I'll be honest, ever since I "blew up", I don't read the comments nearly as much as I used to, but scrolling through these and reading about all these childhood memories of these games just made my day :) Thanks for commenting ❤️

im glad that you actually addressed im not going to kill a green alien and then go out and kill some guy on the street lol

When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?

When I was little I loved to say “ we regret being alien bastards” whenever I was by myself.

In the words of Sgt Johnson, “When space aliens wanna visit, you’d best pay attention to how far they flew to get here.” He says it in Halo 2’s ending sequence if you beat it on legendary and t-bag Tartarus’ body 10 times before the cinematics play.

I'd definitely bless my child with the sweet saucy voice of sergeant Avery Johnson

Your dad sounds like a cool guy. Not dismissing your questions.

Why isn’t this video put as “education”

watching this actually makes me pretty sad. Knowing that halo will probably never be the same again and that I dont see any other game having the same impact on a generation as halo did in its prime

This is the most wholesome thing I've ever had to experience

Coming from a 30 something mom of a boy, thank you for this video! So well said. I’ve always been a gamer, and my son sure followed suit, being practically an expert at 8. You may as well have been describing him. I don’t think enough people really understand that games truly are a learning experience in every sense of the word. Awesome video.

“I didn’t even particularly like the kid” The kid grown up watching this today: 😢

Bro I think we had the same childhood. You're literally describing my exact journey with Halo and self discovery

i got halo 1 from my uncle when i was 5 and it has had a lasting effect on me my uncle sadly now has severe schizophrenia halo is what i have left of him and i dont regret the amount of time i've spent playing it

6:19 that is definitely the most hilarious lie ever.

You know how parents say if their kid listened to classical music as a baby, they’ll be smarter, my kids are listening to HALO music

I played HALO as a kid too and this is literally me.

You are seriously underrated

1:10 "You ever wonder why we're here?"

0:45 - "I had to tell my mom I didn't like video games because I was violent alien killer..." 1:45 - "It was about having fun by watching marines plummet to their deaths and shooting captain keyes in the face."

I’m going to get mcc pc on Christmas 2019 edit: 2 things, if you're reading this GET. MCC. they've made the game so much better, aside from some small things in halo 3, the replay value is so much and you can go back to the game and still have fun. 2. thank you all so much for the support on this comment, i didnt expect it at all and it means alot

Came along way from king of the hill RU-vid poops Also the I totally forgot about the halo song

Well my kids are going to grow up with a halo nerd for a father. So I’m definitely going to make them play it. Play my childhood

“Halo won’t turn me into a psychopath” “...like jumping out of the warthog at just the right time and watching some marines fall to their death”

1:09 Oh my god. OH MY GOD. I am proud to have understood that.

Jokes on you, I'm the kid seeing the video instead of the parent

I remember playing many racing game like forza motorsport when I was a kid. Then I played halo for the first time and saw the warthog. Anytime a saw one I tried my very best to get it through the mission with me even if it seemed impossible by fitting it through thin doorways or grenading it over walls. Halo has taught me that even if something tries to stop me there is a way around it.

When my little sister started to show interest in games, I started her off with Minecraft and then Halo. The two games teach alot about the "hidden language of video games" so to speak and created a good foundation to try other games. It's made me appreciate the games even more and while she has inevitably moved on to fortnite, I'm just glad I showed her the magic of Halo and other games and have someone to talk with about games now, something my lonely 11 year old self back then never had.

You see, the problem is that the MCC on PC does not support split screen.... Damn you 343

Halo was actually an outlet for my anger and aggression as a child, and I actually attribute games to helping me learn to control those emotions

I wanted to show my brother halo ce.... He said: EEEEEEEW IT'S SO OLD... I died inside

Hell yeah man. I'll be playing CE with my kids

halo 1 and 2 were both the funnest games i grew up with i have small memories playing 1 but 2 was the best

I just introduced my son to halo Reach last month. It makes me cry to see him play and react the same way I did when I first played Combat evolved way back in the day

yooo someone else who remembers Arby n Chief!!!!! MY ROFLCOPTER it goes SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI I'm right there with you, man. I was 11 when this game came out, and it in no small part helped influence my imagination that has never been the same.

Leadhead, thanks for posting this video. From watching the video, I think we are about the same age, and went through similar experiences as a kid, to a teen, playing Halo. Thank you for sharing, and truthfully showing how Halo had impacted so many of us younger gamers for the better. Glad to see that nostalgia and that someone else out there felt the same way about this incredible game series.

"if you can imagine it, it probably exists" Me: TENACLE HENTAI

When I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was play halo with my dad

1:10 "Hey" "Yeah?" "You ever wonder why we're here?"

Bro, I feel this, I spent countless nights with my older brother playing halo non-stop. It was amazing, after a long week at school, coming home to stay up late all Friday night and play Halo with my brother, honestly just thinking about this makes me glad to be alive and experience the world, even as cheesy as that sounds.

Once again, you need more views man. Great content. Edit: A fellow Ross Scott watcher! Edit 2: If you could make a video on any of the Unreal Tournament games, it would be amazing!

"Some say under his helmet, is another smaller helmet." Master Chief is The Stig confirmed.

I used my brain more playing halo than I ever did at school

Love that this got recommended to me on Father’s Day.

You're content shines as usual

Halo played a huge part in developing my social life as a kid, i was home-schooled so i didnt have many friends, and i kinda liked it that way, i was a happy loner, but i started school in grade 6 so i could actually get into high school, Halo 3 was popular and everyone was playing it. Through Halo it was easy for socially awkward me to make friends and be less socially awkward. Playing with my friends taught me alot about teamwork and working together and the value of CLEAR COMMUNICATION, something the world is seriously lacking right now.... I literally credit Halo 1-3 specifically for breaking me out of my shell to become more of a leader and team-player in life.

I have fond memories of playing halo lan parties in middleschool

The game that did this for me, was Ratchet and Clank. I know those games like the back of my hand. Picking at the game's design and watching videos on how to break it. I always infatuated with every aspect of games. So far to even become a game developer myself. It wasn't until Reach in 2010 when I actually got into the series and it was the game I credit for getting me into the FPS genre.

feels like i’m reliving my first memories of halo. awesome vid and thanks for the nostalgia have a good day

Wow. Whenever I talked about videogames in school I got beat up and mocked. This video makes me really happy for you

I've never played Halo, it was a little before my time, but seeing this put a smile on my face. It's great to look back at our formative years and analyze the media that made us the way we are today.

You explained it perfectly. It gets you interested in games seriously, I played Halo 2 in 2nd/3rd grade and it had a profound effect on me. The depth of the world, the soundtrack, the level design... damn it was a truly special trilogy man

my 7 year old daughter loves halo ce and now falls asleep to the theme on a 10 hour loop at night (:

Bro you need way more views and subscribers! This is some gourmet content!

I’ve always thought about what games I would make my kids play and it was always always halo and this video just confirms everything that made it special for me and will make it special for my kids.

This is a wonderful video. Thanks so much for making this! It has hard to put into words how much halo has done for me

I remember my mom getting mad at me for playing Halo. No matter what she said I still played it. I with out a doubt I wouldn’t be the person I am without Halo.

Awesome dude great content as usual keep it up

This reminds me of the 2nd game I ever played Halo Reach and me, my brothers and father making racing, fighting, etc on forge when I was like 6 and the pure joy and emotion I felt returning to it and understanding the campaign after I had played it so many times as a kid and trying to get my friends to play it with me now as I wish to make more happy memories with Halo. Reach will always be remembered by me. -Thank you for bringing back good memories.

Me and my cousin also walked out into the sea as far as you could in the first halo game, good memories

Thanks to you my dad let me install halo last year

I didn’t really see any of my friends play halo, but Minecraft was definitely the ultimate friendship maker

I love the trying to zoom in on the sniper level and throwing a grenade, since they put all the etc keys on their name like z for zoom and l for light, but the only one that's stuck around forever is r for reload because its actually ergonomic

Thank you for this. Back with the XBox we did a lot of sleepovers with LAN Parties with 4-8 people, later in Halo 2 with 16 aww that was awesome. I'm still getting goosebumps when I hear the soundtrack you put in the background. My son is getting 6 in september and I'm looking forward to show him the worlds that are out there in games and rl.

my dad walked in exactly as he said, "and my dad"

great video man!

bro halo for me grew me so much as a person in the same way as u, i literally thought u were describing me after i discovered halo:) thanks for sharing that cause that brought back so many awesome memories for me

I also played HALO as a kid and it had my Imagination going wild and the HALO games will always be my favorite game series ever thanks to the beautiful level design the game modes the story the characters and the Imagination and I will say Bungie and 343 you have changed my entire life forever.

If it weren't for my dad letting me play his copy of the crappy Gearbox Software PC port of Halo:CE back when I was young, I'd be on a much different road

The only real friends I had when I was a kid were made through Halo

Yup, I've played Halo since I was 5, a year after Halo 2 was released. Halo 2 was also the first game I ever played and it'll always have a special place in my heart. I'm definitely letting my Future kids play Halo at a young age :)

Dude, you nailed it on the head... That feeling you got after playing Halo and looking up at the cosmos and wondering what else exists... I had that same feeling back then, I actually got chills at the beginning of the video after you mentioned that😁.

1:47 it just shows that never gets old haha 😂 did it on halo 5 yesterday

This video gave me chills throwing me back to my halo childhood man those were some good times and memories I still play the game all the time but you know it’s a problem when u skip school just to play it just sayin 🤷‍♀️😂😂

Such a great and inspiring video. I for one played Halo for the first time ever last year on my phone through xCloud, and being able to play such a Legendary game, on my phone and through the Internet was just amazing as it showed how great Classics can be expanded to many platforms and give more people the chance to experience the great work that pushed the industry and a whole new console forward into a great future. Here's to many more great experiences with Halo Infinite and the Xbox Series X|S.

Fantastic video I have similar memories from the halo series especially after I just changed schools there were 2 kids talking about halo and a total out of character move from me I ended up speaking to them about the game turns out one of the guys would end up becoming my best friend and we were in the same class for the entirety of middle school, high school and college we played so many countless hours and looking up videos very good memories

8:54: Shows Johnson grabbing the elite's ass. LeadHead: this game's made me curious.

Great insight and advice. Here's my short story. Now together, everybody say *_"OKAY BOOMER"_* I haven't thought about _Halo_ in a long time. I do love their haunting intro music and I thought the Wart Hog was the best weapon in the game. My awakening really started when I began reading science fiction novels in the sixth grade. Then, in the seventh grade I really got a passion for learning electronics. I read everything i could get my hands on about that subject ... and every science fiction book in the school library. I was especially inspire by some stories about two kids, Carl and Jerry, in Popular Electronics. (You can read a short post about my adventure making a robot based on one of these stories, *_The Firefly,_* here. www.shavers.page/post/inspiration-to-become-an-engineer ) I didn't play any computer games until college. Personal computers had not been invented yet but we played text games like Star Trek and Adventure on teletypes hooked to mainframe computers we could only see through the glass into the computer room. Those were exciting times for me but we wasted lots of paper from the teletypes. My first job out of college was with an arcade video game manufacturer, *_Cinematronics._* I was the the designer of the first game they actually designed themselves. I designed it, drew the schematics, built the prototype by hand, wrote the software, designed the production test fixtures and stayed on for a while as the bench tech to get the games working. They were crazy to trust a brand new engineer, still wet behind the ear, with the future of the company. It took me nine months from start to shipping the first unit shipped. They almost went under. ( www.arcade-history.com/?n=embargo&page=detail&id=751 ) Now that I'm retired I'm looking for something to do between now and when I die. I took all the things I'm really passionate about, stories, movies, electronics and making things, and have decided to make a video series on RU-vid about two kids living in Austin, TX, Carlos & Geri, who make gadgets and have adventures. My plan is to shoot it in the summer of 2021 and release it toward the end of the year. I'll have an announcement on shavers.page when I get the preproduction rolling. I want to chronicle the process, win or lose. It should be as interesting as the series itself. *_SUBSCRIBED_*

Silent Cartographer is level 4! Great video man. It’s cool to know someone else experienced the same childhood I did with Halo being a landmark moment in my life playing with my dad at the young age of 7. I’m 22 now and will love these games for the rest of my life

This is a beautiful work, man, keep it up.

I would like to give some words of caution in regards to halo 2. I play halo 2 a lot and the honorable and religious depiction of the elites somehow gave me the desire to be a religious warlord tyrant with cool armor. Although.. in the end, the game did expose their religion to be a false lie, i'd still say the way they depicted it is as cool af. Lol

I did the exact things you did as a kid in halo

This video brings back tons of memory’s from the good old days. Halo was the first ever Xbox FPS I ever played, and is still my favourite to this day❤️ Videos like this bring a tear to my eye, great job 👍

My brother Alex introduced me to Halo CE when I was around 5. Years later, I bought Halo Reach, and as soon as I put the disc in, we jumped into Forge and had fun hijacking each other's banshees. Sometimes, I wish I could wipe away my memory just so I can re-experience the majesty and wonder of Halo all over again. Can't wait for Halo Infinite

"i had to explain halo wouldnt make me a psychopatch" then 1:46 comes. lol ok.... lmao jk great video, i feel the same way about halo. it was and is still something special to me xD

All the dislikes are the kids who were shown to play Call of Duty first

i really loved this explanation. you had so many relatable points!

Oh man you're a young one. I was 12 when Halo 1 came out, but I still messed around with the mechanics like you mentioned. This game was just something I had never seen before, I was hooked.

its a shame this generation will experience fucking fortnite

I wasn't alive when the first halo came out but it was the first game I ever played and I get huge waves of nostalgia whenever I play halo one.

I grew up as my little brother's backseat gamer. The 2 consoles we owned we got for X-mas as a gift for both of us but he rarely let me play because I am female and rather timid, but as long as I got to give him directions when he was stuck I was rather content with that situation. And then one day there was Halo, it was a true delight to watch and to talk about after we had to turn the console off and at one point my brother asked our mom for a second controller so we could play co-op. Never before and never after did he actually want me as his player two but with Halo we had both fun. I was his second in command, even when I was the one with the ideas he decided the timing and gave the orders, and together we played the game more than I can count today. Halo was what turned me from a backseat gamer and advisor into someone who was eager and confident enough to shoot stuff, explore, and... well, play. I will never forget Halo.

I love this video. It brings back so many memories and literally everything said ive done or can relate to.

I absolutely have never resonated with a youtube video like this. I remember my grandpa buying me halo 1 on pc when I was like 8, or 9. And that was my first ever gaming experience, the online. The campaign, that game has most definitely developed some of my inspiration, and a bit of who I am today. Thank you for this

My grandparents had an original Xbox and my brothers and my grandpa and I would either play all together on blood gulch or just my brother and I in co-op. I didn't have any fantastical thoughts about like you did in this video but this game holds a very special place in my heart and I still play it to this day. Hopefully I can give myown kids or grandkids this experience later on in my life.

I relate to this video a lot. I used to play halo religiously 10 years ago and have extremely fond memories of it. It’s where I actively chose to play with people I’ve never met in real life and became friends with them for years playing nothing but campaign, multiplayer, and custom games. Fast forward 11 years later and I’m in university for art school, going into game design and 3d artwork post grad. You never mentioned if you ended up going into game dev but I wanted to share that Halo was definitely the start of it all for me.

the intro to this video gave me goosebumps and completely caught my attention, thank you

I was 5 when I started playing halo. My first was halo CE and your gameplay is almost exactly how I played the game. I did a bunch of random stuff and I learned more about how games work and why this does that. I relate very well lol

Hello there Mr. Leadhead, I simply wanted to say that I love your vids. I want to eventually make at least one game in my lifetime and by watching your vids it's helped me learn alot. I hope to continue seeing more content from ya on any topic and I do hope you are doing well and have an Awesomesauce day!!!

You and me had almost the same experience with Halo! I love to think how lucky all of us were of playing these games in the perfect time of our lifes.

Yo this video hit different. I'm so grateful that my parents brought me my Xbox original limited edition (RIP 2004 - 2019) and games as a kid. No doubt that Halo CE and 2 formed a huge part of my childhood