Halo: Reach has one of the more polarizing Campaigns in the First-Person-Shooter Genre, and especially within the Halo fanbase. But why do so many people hate and love Bungie's final installment in the Halo franchise?
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I'm puzzled by your inability to think of other stories that focus more on the settings. Lots of stories do. Especially video games which mostly have silent protaganists that are plopped into a world without much explanation. The setting is all the game has. Silent Hill is a perfect example. Pretty much any haunted house movie. Lots of movies about virtual realities (Matrix, Tron). I would say even the original Halo was more about the setting. That was a heavy focus of the advertising. What the hell is this mysterious ringworld? That was the focus. A lot of historical dramas are focused on the setting. Jurassic Park has much less focus on characters and a lot more on how the park was built and why it is failing, specifically written/filmed as an example of how Chaos Theory works. Bioshock again is about the downfall of a great city. There is a great character element to it as well but I'd have to say the setting takes centre stage. Many Bethesda games are more about the world and lore. I can't even give a shit about the characters in most of their games and I don't think the writers do either lol. Just a few examples off the top of my head. Otherwise, good video as always dude!
Well I was certainly having a hard time thinking about it on the spot, either way that bit was to show just how rare those types of stories are. "Mostly unheard of" is how I put it :P
Half-Life is another great example. Honestly, besides the Nihilanth and Gonarch, I think Freeman is the only named character.
The Act Man the first halo game is another example of a setting-driven story.
What I like about Halo: Reach is that in order to win, you had to lose.
And what a beautiful loss we suffered along the inhabitants of Reach.
how ironic.
Losing the battle to win the war
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I feel Reach has a very similar story to FFVII: Crisis Core. Which is fine, because they are both great games.
I absolutely love that Noble 6 wears the custom armor you decide on in every cutscene and actually has the weapon that you were holding when the cutscene activates!
There are mid-mission cutscenes that show noble 6 :)
Except he only ever has an Assault Rifle and Magnum for those.
no he was talking about the weapon's and noble 6.
Mighty considering they say they’re gonna make halo games past MC’s story I hope they bring it back.
OMG Me too!!
"He gave his life thinking he just saved the planet, we should all be so lucky." That whole segment was gut wrenching. As soon as he died and you think things are looking up, a whole covenant fleet showed up. Sometimes you just don't win.
I actually slunk down in my chair like "Fuuuck... Really?" when playing through it for the first time yesterday, then Kat's death hit soon after like "Fuck, it's all falling apart, no, no no..."
@@zachsilby4569 how'd you go with the rest of the game/noble team?
@@GreenDinoRanger After Jorge was Kat, I was surprised she went next, but it didn't feel forced, as sometimes the enemy just gets the jump on you. Carter I gave a nod of respect to, after seeing the plasma injury at the beginning. Emile I grinned but also went "damnit, dude.."
Where does he say that? And about whom?
@@F1fan4eva Carter says that on the mission where you fly around New Alexandria when you just arrive after being picked up by the pelicans to regroup with Noble team, he's talking about Jorge thinking he saved Reach by blowing up the one cruiser, not knowing after he died, a whole armada showed up.
I love the detail that Reach begins with Noble 6 puting his helmet on and ends with him taking it off Edit: Thanks for 2.4k!
It begins with his helmet being on the ground, and ends with it in the same spot.
@@user-jw8yh6yq1p Untrue, that’s not it, they show the end when you start the campaign. The helmet you see is cracked meaning it couldn’t be before the events of the campaign.
@@Shtifu Yeah, that's what I meant. Ik the helmet is there after the events throughout the campaign and not before. I was talking about how it shows noble 6's helmet when the campaign starts and ends.
@@user-jw8yh6yq1p my mistake, have a good day
@@Shtifu wasn't the intro like in the future, where humanity terraformes reach to make it habitable again?
UNSC Command: " Excellent work Emile for defending the civilians" Emile: "We were defending?"
Lol 😂
I WAS GOING TO LIKE BUT YOU HAD THE HOLY NUMBER 117, SO I REFRAINED sorry ;)
Something Emile will totally say.
-The SpACTan: It's a good thing the psycho is on our side.
*[Emile two klicks away from the gate covered in blood and gore]* Emile: "defending?"
Imagine not liking Reach. Must be awful.
Agentcoolguy1 really lol usually they salty cause it’s the best one
@@maul5578 reach is the second to third best halo all time the people who hate reach love 4 and 5 and never played combat evolved
Meliodas nah reach is just overall better just all the others halos
@@maul5578 it isn't the best one but top 3
Meliodas dude yes it is the only ones that comes close is 2 and 3 but they still far away
"No, Gonna steal it back" I love the way the voice actor reads that line. It's very playful despite the seriousness of the situation.
Hahaha same bro. It’s a straight panty dropper
The way he said "back" got me
Emile was so iconic. Especially the way he went out. A straight G he was
@mskdxnightmare That was Jun who said "No, gonna steal it back." But I think all the Noble Team was awesome in their own right.
I love the realistic, grounded feel. In the sense that this feels like a war. It gives a sense for how bad the war with the Covenant was going, that despite all the heroics, sacrifices and effort we all put in, we're still losing. It made the universe more real to me
Most agreeable comment award. It’s very easy to lose sight of that when playing in the Chief games. Not so much for real Halo fans who have played them all for years, but it’s forces everyone, especially those not very familiar with the franchise (outside of Chief) to understand the gravity of how fucked humanity was the whole time. And whine Spartans and especially Chief are insane. There’s only so many of them to be thrown at the covenant.
Halo: Reach had a real military feeling, you aren't saving the galaxy, you're a normal soldier just following orders and I think that military feeling fits all of halo perfectly.
For REAL i see reach lowkey as like a memorial like we would do. But yes i see it more as soliders than heros too and i think its way cooler
It did feel gritty and raw a halo reach elite on legendary is basically and another player, they shoot on the move, rush u when ur shields r down, they know some lethal ass karate, use armor abilities, dodge ur gernades, throw gernades when you are in venerable positions, but the reward for killing them is the other enemies fight less effectivly
Halo odst seems more like that than reach
@@vergilbaberuthofbaseball5983 it was definitly a more grounded and somber feel rather than being badass masterchief
Like carter was the perfect CO. took n gave orders like no tomorrow
Covenant: “Some of you Spartans are alright don’t come to reach tomorrow.”
I got Molested lol
Nathan Hewitt why are you laughing at me I got molested
Nathan Hewitt lol
*opens backpack shows energy sword* “yo dawg you cool, don’t show up to your pelican tomorrow”
@Forrest Mcgee break the energy sword over their head like a ruler
I kinda envy noble team. They had a reason to live, and a reason to die. They each died believing they did the best they could. I envy them having such a fulfilling sense of purpose.
If theres one thing I hope to do in my life, its pursue something with the dedication and focus that both Noble Team, and Bungie had for what they were doing.
"He died thinking he'd just saved the planet, we should all be so lucky"
Except Kat, who got fuckin cheap-shotted. I'd be pissed if I knew I'd go out like that.
@@limewater4074 "where does he get off calling a demolition op priority o-"
And more importantly they didn’t see how whack the universe got when 343 took over 😂
Bungie: tries to make a character driven story, ends up making a really good setting driven story "Task Failed Successfully"
Lmao
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Nobody cares lmao
@@hynre5894 that's how people feel about you irl
epic youtube comments section roast, i am so offended
"Six! That AI chose you. She made the right choice." I remember hearing that line for the first time, and it gave me chills. It pays homage to the relationship between Cortana and Chief. For example, at the beginning of Halo 3, Cortana made a reference about how she could've chosen any Spartan she wanted, but she chose John because he was the luckiest of them all; he's also the bravest and the best of the Spartans as well. Cortana made that same decision with Noble Six. He was simply the best of Noble Team. And as a player, you feel emboldened because the game puts you in the shoes of Six. You ARE Noble Six, the Spartan who passed the mantle of responsibility.
Holy sheet that comment makes me cry. Halo it's nothing about only the chief, but all the hummanity that help him to make his story much esier it could be. Halo means much more than that. That's why Halo Reach is my second favourite after Halo 2.
It’s crazy how much easier they Covenant would’ve been defeated if Six was able to get on the Pillar before that supercarrier caused him to stay. Him and Chief were the best Spartans to exist and only overwhelming odds stopped Six and Master Chief is still around. Too bad for 312
If six instead of jun was the one to get on Pillar the damn spartan IV project would have been unnecessary. 2 legendary badasses (and the arbiter I guess) would have been conflict over, war won, gg. Just remember: That pussy Jun retired (yeah whatever he supposedly was too depressed over the loss of his entire squad, but Chief lost way more comrades that he GREW UP WITH *cough* Spartan II program in a nutshell *cough* ) Six could have been just as good as Chief, I mean the dude was a solo headhunter in all likelihood before being shipped to Reach.
Halsey apparently stated that Noble 6 was the only Spartan III that was on-par with Master Chief...
But cortana didn't pick noble six right? Wasn't it dot? my lore knowledge is very rusty
I never knew why everyone hated reach it’s personally my favorite halo
Same
Everyone most definitely does *not* hate Reach...
@@thomasglitter9087 should see everyone coming back to it lol love that game
Devin Rogers Ikr dude
Same here dude.
Even though it was so sudden and quick, Kat’s death was the most brutal imo. You’re alive one moment and then, nothing. You’re gone, a memory. There’s no climax or build up to your death. It just happened and dying like that without a proper end to my story is scary.
It’s terrifying
the piano tune the plays when Emille is carrying Kat's body after the glassing is heartbreaking, it shows that Noble team is getting picked off one by one and theres a sense of hopelessness.
@@deadponic117 Carter was the one carrying her. But yes the piano there is one of the best pieces of music ever put into a video game
Honestly that was the one death that really annoyed me because she had her helmet on and shields up, but somehow after all the fighting THAT one jackal shot was enough to kill her instantly?? It's always bothered me. If they had made an excuse for her to not have her helmet, i could understand it, like it got damaged or she had to see something technical she was working on and took her helmet off to get a better look... but just instagibbed whilst fully armoured never sat right with me. They could have done it way better.
@@NateTheScot the radiation from the glassing fried their shields, same as plasma weapons do
Spot on. As a veteran, film and writing enthusiast and Halo fan, the way these Spartans interact and communicate with each other is brilliant. Those that received a different impression are maybe too young, or do not possess enough depth. The dialogue was very mature, adult and authentic. Totally real soldier talk.
KAT: Best female character...worst warthog driver
Which npc isn't you know what I mean. My mistake to allow a marine to drive as I took the turret. Drove us towards a wraith
Lmaooo worst person on the gun too
Normal marines are pretty decent on the gun... suprise
@@azelyia6638 Thats why I always drive unless co-op
I let her drive me through the mission: tip of the spear and she drove me off the map multiple tomes
Halo Reach ages like wine. The older I get, the more I appreciate it. And I CANNOT WAIT to play it on PC one more time. Remember Reach.
Its getting released on the Third of December bro so happy shooting
It’s terrible now
No splitscreen. :(
@@utisti4976 you said what?
@@spaceshipearth481 Halo PC doesn't have splitscreen. That was the one thing I wanted them to keep in the game.
The way Reach is told, the emotion and the setting is amazing. Never has a game made me feel the level of hope, the loss of hope and sadness that is involved in the story. Its a masterpiece.
Amen to this 🙏 Amazing game.
The thing I loved most about Reach was the raw grit you felt with everything. The weapons felt worn down, your surroundings felts washed out and dying, and the combat feels sharp in the best way possible. This will always be my favorite Halo game of all time
Reach campaign was heart breaking
Bros of NP but that's what made it great
Ikr especially carters r.i.p.
Emiles death
They all died well. And you felt each freakin one of em.
Reach is my personal favorite. If there's one go-to thing I quote from halo it's this: Remember Reach. God knows I will!
I'll admit, when Kat got shot through the head I actually short circuited for a minute. It was so sudden and unexpected that there was no way to subconsciously prepare for it. And that is how you know it was so well done. Because in war, a lot of the time death is just around the corner and completely unexpected. One moment you could be thinking about your loved ones back home and the next you could be showered in the brain matter of your comrade who'd just been shot by an enemy sniper. I really think Reach added a tangible sense of reality to the true nature of war.
Is it bad that I laughed the first time I saw that?
@@randomizerteleviewage307 Maybe a little. But I wont hold it against you.
Michael Dude this was the first halo game I’ve ever played as a kid and to this day, I still have the disk but it’s badly scratched I tried some methods to clean it but it’s too late. I’m glad I get to play as emile or kat in gears 5. I would sell bo4 for reach but sadly no refunds, I’ll make sure to buy it again in the future
Insidious Marine Well Halo Reach is coming soon to PC and Xbox One at 60fps in 1080p or 4K in the Master Chief Collection with a new overhauled progression system. The multiplayer is free and the campaign can be purchased as a DLC for like $5 to 10$. Halo 3 ODST was $5 as well.
Herobrine Notch well thanks for saving me money
Me finding my old copy of Halo: Reach under my bed after 10 years: *You're as beautiful as the day I lost you.*
Lol
Frr
I can't even begin to imagine how dirty that place must be if you found it after 10 years lol.
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I actually think reach has the best campaign in the entire series. I played it for the first time yesterday and I was blown away by it. When each marine, and each Spartans dies I felt something, played it on legendary and took me 11 hours to complete
I couldn't agree more with the whole "not every soldier gets remembered for their sacrifices, but war shouldn't be glorified either" theme of Halo: Reach. Take Jorge's death. Jorge made a heroic sacrifice. He took out the Covenant command ship. He did everything that was necessary, in the situation at hand, to defend his home. He achieved his objective successfully. And yet, immediately after he died, his sacrifice was nullified.
Yeah I love Reach for what the story is. The whole team is so bad ass and you get to experience all their roles in the missions and get to know them and how invincible Spartans seem to be. Yet it also shows how brutal and down to eart Halo's world can be even though Noble Team seems like it could mop every floor. It also makes Master Chief seem even stronger for those who like him, he's truly special after seeing how Noble Team fell, they did everything near perfectly, yet the force of the world outshadows even the best Spartans.
I also like how the deaths sometimes happen so fast, symbolizing that in war, death can come so quickly, without notice.
@@oneshot8913 This! Sudden and tragic, not like the movies
That's why his death hit me the most. His sacrifice did nothing, but only made things worse. His sacrifice was in vain.
In war, the enemy gets a vote
My favorite part about Reach is that instead of playing in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (cause that's really cliche nowadays), you get to play through the entire apocalypse start to finish, each level showing the planet falling into more and more chaos. It's genius.
facts bro. the start mission when ur running alongside those emu things to encountering the covenant shortly after to then progressing into more and more hectic scenarios and watching the planet going to ruin in the background sceneries of the missions. reach is probably my most least played halo campaign behind 4 and 5 but its always stuck out to me as unique and beautiful storytelling
You know, Halo Reach had a Dark Souls-esque level of story telling. Each map had a redder and redder sky, and you can see the world fall apart.
Noble team is like that person you had an interaction with and could tell they’re really cool, but never got their number and think about from time to time. Bungie said “heres noble team, you’re gonna adore them, and you’re never going to see them again.” such is life
Lol this funny as hell, well said
I started getting emotional when the nobles are starting to die until I'm the only one left, and that last mission is really good, makes you feel like you're in a movie, Halo : Reach is my first Halo game, I'm not one of those people who played Halo in their childhood and I'm glad I played it
Emile loves killing the covenant because they killed his brother (who sacrificed himself for Emile) and they glassed his home planet (not Reach). His goal is to see their downfall and avenge his brother more than anything else. The closest we get to a story about noble team was the live action trailer where the original Noble six died and Kat lost her arm Also, imagine Noble Six made it onto the autumn. 1 UNSC ship. 1 Halo ring. One covenant fleet. 2 hyper lethal Spartans.
Gives me chills thinking about Noble 6 and Master Chief killing covenant together
Imagine the feeling of closeness and "BRO" that you get from Army of Two, but in Halo CE.
Sometimes when I play coop for halo ce I like to imagine the 2nd player as noble 6 if he survived.
That wasn't six actually that was the first six the noble six you see in campaign is the 2nd noble six in the trailer she loses her arm but in the campaign she then has the robot arm, the campaign took after the events if the trailer
Gravy Playz yeah that’s what he said...
Kats driving didn’t stop at the warthogs, she ran me over with a revenant
Nugget OOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Amateurs! The lot of you! I had the stones to let her drive a WRAITH!
Ok nugget
@big bigfoot the only mistake was you misspelled ‘vehicles’, other than that it’s pretty good
I always wanted to man the turret but Im too scared too
Halo reach had one of the best video game campaigns ever. It told an actual story in my opinion. Edit: holy shit this amount of nostalgia could kill a man
I’m still a hardcore believer that Reach was the most emotionally moving and visually pleasing game. Loved the MP. Totally get why other players don’t like it though
When I first played Halo reach I was expecting it to be a generic war story where they win and they all go home heros and are happy but then they started to die and that caught me really off guard.
If you only heard of the book The Fall of Reach you would've known it wasn't gonna be a happy ending.
@@eazyelof4283 plus it has been mention before. Beginning of CE and beginning of halo 3 i believe. There was also that booklet in halo 3 case that mentions reach.
The literal first thing the campaign shows is Noble 6's destroyed helmet with the planet glassed behind it...
I didn’t even know what Halo was. I got invested immediately
Reach was in my eyes THE perfect Halo. You got to be your own Spartan thats all I needed.
I remember mine somewhat vividly. Female, HP/ Parafoil (r) to to simulateKat's prosthetic arm, Mk. V pads and the CQB UA/HUL helmet. Had to go and look up the names xD I Honestly miss Reach, in my eyes it had the best Halo multiplayer, story and definitely the best halo customisation.
I agree I love it
my spartan was bumblebee from transformers.
I made mine Master Chief from Halo CE, complete with the gold visor. Mark V is so aesthetic.
Edward Buck thats it
When I first played Reach 10 years ago it never connected with me, I played it on a difficulty too easy and just ran through it. Now 10 years later I played it on legendary and felt it suited the game much better. The struggle and sense your fighting in a losing battle really hit home.
I can’t even count how many times me and my brother played through that mission with 2 hunters in a large room and died constantly. Loved that game on legendary, it really gives it justice
Always felt like Reach was like playing through one of those History Channel documentaries about specific battles that follow a specific squad except in the future and you're a part of it. very strange almost dream like. Edit: Also one of my favorite touches of the scene where your character says "Sorry I came alone" is it's after 2 of the longest missions in the game and being separated from the rest of the squad. It takes so long before you or Nobel 6 can even really process the death of George.
I never seem to get chills in my favorite game's cutscenes. But when noble 6 says "negative, I have the gun" refusing to leave and ensuring that the Pillar of Autumn can get away safely, I just can't help myself. I dunno about you but I looked at Noble six as myself, I was him, I wasn't simply playing as him I kinda forgot that other people had the same character. For the first time in a Halo game I felt like I was there, everything was on my shoulders and I had a duty. I felt like I was going to die with six when he made that choice, and when he died I felt like I lost a part of myself along with him. Sorry, I hate being feely but I dunno how else to get my point across for this game.
Griffin Long Negative Infinity, I don't like it.
Griffin Long this is why I felt so bad when emile and george died, I loved those guys so much and they're just dead, I feel like I was actually there and could have done something but I couldn't
Agreed ;-;
Griffin Long That's what Bungie's games try to do. They try to immerse you in the character's shoes. With Chief, there was a bit of immersion, but in Reach, you customize Noble 6 to change what his armour looks like, to what YOU like. He pretty much never talks so that you can respond to the characters in your mind as if you were Noble 6. That's why Reach is great, because your spartan is shaped to seem like YOU were caught in this conflict as hyper lethal spartan. It makes you feel just as special as Chief.
Griffin Long, yeah, many of the moments in the game really struck me. They were pretty depressing.
Jun: "You know this stuff is stolen right?" Insurgent: "What, you gonna arrest me?" Jun: "No, Im gonna steal it back." Hands down one of his better lines in the whole game :')
I mean Emile yelling at the 2 Elites and managing to take them down with a knife "IM READY, HOW ABOUT YOU!?".Really badass
Jun was pretty badass. I wish he got more screentime. He is alive though so halo infinite maybe?
@@killerkitten7534 I mean, its stated he got off world with Halsey in one of the books
HellWalker yeah he got off the world and went on to start the spartan 4 program so he’s still alive to my knowledge
My favourite line in the series
Kat had a rlly subtle moment in the elevator before her exit where she slams the elevator button twice implying her nervousness in the situation it's moments like that that humanized the team and grounded them as soldiers a part of a battle way bigger than them
"No, going to steal it back" fuck the voice acting is so good!
I know we're losing. I want to know if we've lost.
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We lost bungie
She got sniped... It was hard
Basically the UNSC Covenant War summed up in two sentences.
“Reach is where it all started “ Harvest: Am I a joke to you
Agent Active harvest isn’t the setting of Reach...
@@megahunterkiller He means the start of Halo.
I think Act Man meant that it was where the story of Halo CE through 3 really started.
Seeing Harvest in a Halo game would be awesome
Bad Beard Bill hell yeah
Imagine if Noble 6 lived, Six and Master Chief would be a dynamic duo
Reach was perfect. My favorite Halo. I understood each member of Noble Team. You dont always need alot of screen time to understand and get to know each character. Less is sometimes more. Reach did that beautifully.
"Spartans never die They are just missing in action"
Cringefest
Nah they hella dead. (This is a joke.)
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21:37 The former Noble 6 that our character replaces is seen in the "Deliver Hope" trailer, it also shows how Kat loses her arm. Think his name was Tom.
Deliver hope makes me cry every time I watch it. The music, the cinematography, the actors WITH THEIR HELMETS ON (looks at halo series by paramount+). So beautiful.
It should be noted that Emile’s death wasn’t just representative of his love of large knives. But as ACT man stated, Emile was the one who loved a good fight the most. He even had a shotgun. He liked to be quite literally face-to-face with the enemy and ran towards the battle. Only to die from being stabbed in the back. If there were a member of Noble Team you would expect to look his killer in the eyes, it would be Emile
I never really saw the events of Reach as the beginning. I always saw it as the beginning of the end. CE starts off as the Autumn running from Reach; Buck compared the glassing of New Mombasa to Reach; Lord Hood compares Regret’s fleet to Thel’s at Reach. The events of Reach always feel like the seminal event that sealed humanity’s fate.
Ya reach isn't the beginning. The beginning would be harvest with sgt. johnson. This is what sets into motion the master chief to save humanity and find the rings.
thats a really good point about how every one always points back to reach. it was the beginning og the end for humanity. we just pulled one out of our asses honestly
"You know this stuff is stolen?" "You gonna arrest me?" "No, I'm going to steal it back." LOL.
That line right there, made Jun one of my favorites from Reach
XD
I ignord that line but looking at it now its Funny xD
@@JustThatOneStreamer Amuses me everytime.
God. This guy right here, complete legend. He's helped me wrap my head around a lot of Halo's story ever since I started getting into the community about two months ago now. I've binged almost all his Halo videos because of how well they are written, and some others on valve titles since I love those games as well. Thank you Act Man, You've given me a gateway to in depth love for video games that I looked over in the past.
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The dialogue between the spartans is genuinely great. And i love that they tell you stuff about them without being beat over the head with it. Examples include Kat's arm, Jorge speaking Hungarian to the farmers, etc.
"Listen Reach has been good to me time has come to return the favor, don't deny me this." -052, Jorge
"Tell 'em to make it count."
Oh my god... The feels...
Thinking he destroyed the cruiser, he thought the war would be over soon... Sadly that was not the case...
"So much black ink. 6 made whole militia groups disappear. Curious. Hyper lethal. There's only one other Spartan that has that rating."
Sean O wait I thought kurt, chief and six had that rating no? There was a female spartan that had it as well I can't remember...
@@krombopulosmicheal2436 I think he meant at the time reach takes place only one other spartan had that rating
@V-Rex It was Master Chief
@V-Rex Master Chief
Both of them don't have a chance Vs chipps dubbo
A nice little touch I noticed with Kat and Carter’s “relationship” was during Winter Contingency. When the Zealot charges and attacks, Carter pushes Kat out of the way keeping her from being harmed. Probably is nothing but I think it’s a nice subtle touch between the two of them.
Reach is so amazing, it always confused me when people said they didn't like it
It treated the Spartans like they were the Halo-verse's version of Delta Force. The newer games make them out to be power rangers. No thank you 343.
well, Spartans are supposed to be lethal supersoldiers with augmentations that make them superhuman, and a way bigger threat to the sangheili or the jiralhanae than regular UNSC marines
d4unit True, but that doesn’t mean that they are immortal due to ridiculous plot armor. Which is why I am appreciative of Reach despite hoping that more of them could’ve survived, it seems more realistic. Especially considering how the more recent games portray Spartans.
They make them lore accurate They’re not Superman They’re super human
@@MyLonewolf25 did i say they were superman?
@@dylanj950 i dont think he was talking to you?
"Can you name a setting driven story?" Um. Halo
I was thinking the same thing... lol
Serious answer: isnt there will come soft rains a setting based story?
I'd have answered Silent Hill.
I love the story and characters of Halo Reach. Nobel team felt like actual professionals, with aspects of their personalities poking out here and there without distracting us from the gravitas of Reach’s fall. I wish the more recent Halo games were able to tell their stories this competently.
Reach’s presentation imo is so beautiful, particularly how the music and visuals compliment each other
I hope I never have to play as Locke ever again
Locke could have been a good character if they didn't try to shoehorn him into Master Chief's story. There's a lot of interesting stories that could or still can be told with him and his background, it just blows my mind that they stuck him where they did. Complete waste of a character.
I'd buy Halo 6 if it was just his whole squad dying
Y Tho apart from buck. Gunny’s the best!
what a nightmare...
Mr Nightwood It was, well the original Halo 5 story was gonna be cool.
June's face tattoo references the saying, "One arrow easily snaps under pressure, a quiver of arrows bend but do not snap."
Source?
@@ericheng9790 shut the fuck up
The original saying is something like, a single stick breaks, a bundle bends but doesn’t not break, I think it was a quote from Julius Ceaser
Big Brain Time no u
also, if i remember correctly the UNSC or the Spartan program logo has an eagle clutching an olive branch in one claw and a couple of arrows in another claw.
I spent so much time on Reach's fireteam. Having Grunt birthday party on and hearing all those cheers is timeless
“Are you taking notes, commander boring?” I loled
Something I've noticed with Reach after playing it over and over is that almost every single frame of the cutscenes and gameplay seem to be filmed from a camera. It helps to think of Reach like a TV show.
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Nathan McKenzie Yup. It pretty much was, I think they used like a virtual camera rig typically used for cg scenes in movies.
Nathan McKenzie especially on nightfall at the beginning where it feels like a camera man following you and jun
The Legendary Edition of Reach comes with a note that calls the game an "interactive documentary", Halsey's journal was declassified from the ONI and the statue was a memorial replica. It's really neat from an in universe perspective.
did you see that? kzhead.info/sun/gbuCktiDj4F9ops/bejne.html the guy has a destiny cap in the developement of reach!
The best moment for me was when I saw the name of the last mission, Lone Wolf. Then I remembered when Carter told Six to leave the 'Lone Wolf' stuff behind when joining the team. So perfect.
This was the halo we didn’t know we needed
Somethings to note are the live action trailer that was prior and showed how much pain Kat is in and dealing with a swiftly replaced ally(which also gives us a glimpse of the prior 6). Or the very interesting dialogue from Carter where he mentions reading 6's file, even the black marked just so he could really get a picture of 6's addition. Then being a good leader, advises 6 to focus on the team, no lone wolves.
"You're on your own noble... Carter out"
"Hit em hard boss...."
“ I’ve got the mass “
When you think about it. That was bungie taking to all of us halo players.
Kat's death legit impacted me. It hurt. The suddenness of it was jarring.
I thought you were this guy at 6:50
I was so happy when she died, me and the bois started cheering and wanted to take the sniper out for a drink ngl.
I was happy me and my friends were sick of getting ran over with a 2 ton warthog
Idk it was a bit too sudden for me. It kinda felt like they just needed a reason to off her.
Just like real lif ewar pretty realistic scneario
Damn, I never noticed about the way they die. It hits with more impact now.
Act Man, I’ve been following you for a few years now. And I just want to say it bro - you’re awesome. Your delivery, humor, and respect for the classics. You’re the best. Love brother ❤️ H
I think Halo Reach and Rogue one have a lot in common with each other. They have similar themes of the night being darkest just before the dawn. We see the lowest point of the Rebellion and UNSC, and the need for hope in their respective universes. Where Rogue One sets the stage for Luke Skywalker to save the galaxy, Reach sets it up for the Master Chief.
My thoughts exactly. I often refer to Rogue One as "The 'Halo: Reach' of Star Wars" when talking about it with people familiar with the game.
They also both retconned the original lore too. XD
TotallyRealistic it wasn't retconned completely. I'll have to find it but they actually fit Reaches story with the book Fall of Reach. It's not perfect but it does work. Personally I Follow the books and I just think of Reach as a game and just a game. Btw idk how anyone else felt when they first read Fall of Reach but it's what got me hooked on Halo and I was 13 or so and I been a fan and reading the books ever since. I wish they would have left the Forerunners more mysterious and I wish they never appeared in the games. I also love the Black ops of ONI in the books. I wish we had a game that was about the insurrection while playing as a Helljumper squad. Kinda like Halo Odst but I wanna feel more human. I felt like you could play like a Spartan still in that game. I shouldn't be able to melee a Brute as just a normal guy. A game based around more tactics and strategy rather than run and gun. Being able to call in air strikes, having squads where every member had a specific duty (heavy weapons, sniper, medic etc.) And always feeling like you are hopelessly outmatched when coming across a group of brutes or elites. Until the SAW came in Halo 4 I never understood why the UNSC never had a light machine gun. So in this dream game of mine the soldiers would have one for the heavy weapons soldier. Sorry for rambling,kinda stoned and just talking bout halo and the what ifs.
Difference being I actually like Reach. Both have amazing visuals, great music, and cool action, but I think Reach has better characters and it has amazing gameplay to fall back on. Rogue one doesn’t have that
Except the entire plot of rogue one is made by stupid decisions
I remember when I first got into Halo, Reach was my first game I played and was always wondering who this “Master Chief” guy was
I thought it was Six until I finished the game.
I always saw his voice as an option for the firefight announcer and was so confused. Thought it was an easter egg from some other random franchise till H4 came out
Jesus Christ y’all are stupid lmao.
@@underground5682 lol someone doesn't have many friends. Imagine finding a random internet conversation and interjecting yourself for the sole purpose of being rude
I had no clue what the halo series was or about so when I went over to my cousins house for her birthday and she had a Xbox 360 I saw some other people on the couch playing and eventually I got my turn. Shit was amazing, the game felt so good. I ended up begging my cousin to give me the game and happily walked out the door with it in hand.
When I first played reach years ago with my friend I remember saying “Emile Is pretty cool I hope he doesn’t die” in the mission before he died 😂
Just finished another play through of Reach. Amazing game. I ended up holding off until wraiths showed up during the epilogue lol. Also, whatever helmet you have on cosmetic wise is the one that ends up in the cutscene when Cortona is talking at the end. Last level has some awesome details, the marines holding out in small rooms against the enemies, some areas boarded up w stuff put in the way of the doors to keep the covenant out. The entire game has an amazing back against the wall feeling. It feels like a real world with a real struggle against an overwhelming enemy force.
"What's another game whose plot is driven by setting?" *Erm... Bioshock?*
EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT , WOW ily
R S I was so surprised he completely glossed over it... like it’s an FPS, it was a light-Xbox exclusive for a while and is easily one of the most famous games of all time.
I’m pretty sure he meant halo game
jackson wesley Nah he specifically said any other game
welp he now made an epic gamer review about it-
10:02 “Are you threatening me, Master Spartan?” “The Spartan program will decide your fate.” “I. Am. The Program!” “Not. Yet.”
**Pulls out energy sword** It's treason, then **AUTHISTIC SCREECHING**
Jorge: YOU CAN'T! SHE MUST STAND TRIAL
She’s to dangerous to be keeper alive
I just finished Reach... Man, manly tears have been shed, this was too good. I can't belive I actually missed out on this cuz obviously I never owned an XBOX and the only experience I had with Halo was on PC (Combat Evolved) and even back then I desperately wanted to go through the story myself. Reach was realy well done in my opinion, literally had hours long streams because I was so invested in the Story.
i realize this vid is 4 years old but the speech about war really hit home watching it after i expierenced it first hand, and act man you are correct in that speech. very very well said
I liked the dark realistic look. Not the plastic shit of halo 5. I like how the character all died instead of ALWAYS winning. If you look at the halo MIA roster for spartan II and IIIs all of them are dead save a couple. This shows the sacrifice spartans made to save humanity.
I've always said Halo Reach looks the most realistic. Hated how Halo 4 and Halo 5 looked cartoony and fake. From the second I saw the first Halo 4 promo my heart sank. No idea why they didn't keep with the reach/ Halo 3 textures but oh well.
@@jordanquaresma6016 do you like cod with realistic visual
@@filfa8420 cod is in present day or past wars we have seen what happens when they make it in the future I liked the customization between the Spartans and the dirt and grime
Halo 5 characters and such all look cartoony on purpose. They're SUPPOSED to stand out from the environment because halo esports are taken more seriously now by 343i
Ad Revenue that is a terrible excuse. Artstlye is supposed to immerse you
Infinity comms > every other character in existence
LOL!!! Jesus dude I need to make more Infinity Comms jokes
The Act Man always
Infinity comms > Every aspect of Locke
*multiple overlapping distress signals*
My favorite little detail about Reach is the mission where you get Cortana, where Jun is telling Carter about going AI free on this mission, then the corridor rumbles, all of Noble Team reacts and gets into action, but 6 gets into action a second after them.
Halo Reach was the last game I bought that actually felt like it was worth the $60 and didn't feel like an unfinished mess.
I've always thought of reach as the story of Noble 6's death, but dying with the planet, Noble 6 goes from standard soldier, to secret pilot, to chosen one, to fallen hero, Noble 6's destiny was reach
Markus Kraköwski so he was Achilles....his destiny was to die.
man wasn't a standard soldier though his story before reach is mostly covered in black ink by ONI but it's known that he made entire militia groups dissappear completely his previous commander named him his personal angel of death and he was tagged as hyper-lethal, and there is only ONE other spartan with that same tag and that's chief so he was by no means a standard soldier😂 but i feel you bro his destiny was to die with reach
Not gonna lie, Jorge was my personal favorite of Noble Team. He seems the deepest lf them, especially if you know the backstory of the SPARTAN-II's
Melon Tart VA stfu
Not gonna lie I kind a cry when Jorge died
@@megahunterkiller wow you sure showed him lol
Jorge was the only one I shed a tear for. Besides Noble Six of course.
When he said ‘mom’ to Halsey made me stop when I first played, then I learned more about the lore and she is basically the mother of all Spartan II’s.
I finally beat Halo Reach for the first time, man once I got to those last few missions I could not put it down. And that last mission hit me in the feels, I felt like I was fighting for my life on Heroic difficulty
My favourite quote ever from the vid is “negative, I have the gun, good luck.”
REACH IS COMING TO PC BOYS
*SWEET VICTORY INTENSIFIES*
I can't fucking wait
What about console?
@@ibrokemyownheart4953 Yes, on console.
Let's fuckin go
Dunkirk. Dunkirk is a setting based story. It may be more so about the battle, but in the end, the film by Christopher Nolan is more so the events that took place in Dunkirk, and the movie for SURE doesnt pay much attention to its characters, as there really arent any named characters. Dunkirk is a setting based story, BAM
Dunkirk also came out way after Halo: Reach, so...
Same with Rogue One And in some ways Saving Private Ryan
I absolutely loathed that movie, I couldn't get emotionally invested at all because of the lack of characters.
Fortis one to Fortis leader
And it came out well after this video was made...
Jun always interested me. He’s this cool sniper wearing green armor, and with a helmet that kinda looks like Chief’s, but his personality was so different and had an interesting twist on what we knew about the Spartan IIIs. He has this one line, which doesn’t come from the campaign but instead his firefight voice: “I kill the enemy, but do not hate them.” To me that said so much about him compared to his brethren. The Spartan IIIs were war orphans who joined up to fight the Covenant after their families died in the war, and most were ultimately disposable heroes out for revenge, yet here was this guy who presumably had been around for years given his appearance without his helmet who had tons of covvie kills under his belt yet bore no animosity towards them. I always though that was pretty cool, definitely got me thinking as a kid when I first played the game.
I love this game the first one I ever played seriously & honestly it's my favorite for a lot of reasons first you are the protagonist it's unique as you are the main character along with your comrades but it's not a character-based story but it doesn't need to be it's more of a mix between the tragedy of war the characters who fought it & where they fought it & why they fought it the best example of why it doesn't need to be a character-based story is myself when Noble team dies one by one it was like watching your comrades die as you fought alongside them as a team & this is the element that was needed in a Halo game a game that has you on a team that you care about overtime people who hated Reach may not have realized it but you slowly start to care about the characters to the point where it might not be noticeable to them it's setting based because it's a story that emphasizes what your fighting for not who your fighting for that's why it feels like your team is shrouded in mystery you don't know their backstory their motivations why they are the way they are because it's not truly about them it's about the planet they're defending, you also can't forget that this game is about the time before Master Chief & how Cortana was created in the first place & why they were even there in the first place the lore fanatics of Halo hate this game because there's next to no lore behind it because the lore is solved in a way that's not satisfying to them because it talks about the one's before Master Chief & the origins of Cortana & why the battle between the humanity & the Covenant is fought & solves almost all the lore behind Halo, it's also important to note that you are Master Chief before Master Chief except for a different personality & different goals, the ending is also heartfelt & very bittersweet because you die alone it's not satisfying to die alone you feel empty as you watch yourself as the Lone Wolf die alone it kinda sums up how Bungie left alone as a studio that was told to leave alone it's not a game meant to make you feel happy or satisfied but more upset & paranoid when the Campaign's all over & done with because you wonder why you fought at all if you were gonna die & there seems to be no real purpose in the haters eyes because when they finish the game they ask themselves why they even did it at all the haters of this game that finished it feel like the whole thing was a big waste of their time, & the idea of strategizing in this war & watching the tragedy of normal soldiers doesn't feel as traumatizing as watching your team die because you didn't care for them but you still knew that they died with purpose just like your team the reason people hate this game is because they failed to realized that they died with purpose & that this game was never a character-based story I feel like this represents a common problem with videogames & it's that everyone expects a character-based story that's incredible & with a whole ton of purpose but everyone seems to forget that there is hidden meanings behind the way that you die & why it's written like Reach but it's just so weird to me as to why people piss all over games like Reach but I don't know.
Reach was the first halo game i ever played and this video gave me so much nostalgia that i had to immediately go back and play the entire thing.
I want it so bad
My hype for the upcoming PC version cannot be understated, playing this game again and leveraging the full power of my PC makes me very happy
Beckham Toovey I have the disk and it’s badly scratched in definitely going to buy it digitally
Same I bought it cause halo 3 ran out at my gamestop. This is the one I replayed the most and damn went through the campaign multiple times. I enjoyed seeing an alien invasion unfold from start to finish
Reach is my favourite halo game of all time, I grew up with that game and this video was an awesome nostalgia trip, thank you for the awesome video :)
hello its tk : *SAME* reach, still play it everyday.
then halo 5 came along and fuck it
landen scott Halo 4 killed halo, halo 5 buried it
Tartarus did 9/11 yep halo 4 story was ok, but halo 5 came along and fucked it
hello its tk Yeah, it was my first Halo game, so I will always be loyal to it.
Reach was the first proper halo game that I played on my own console, halo holds a special place in my heart and gaming life. I was never allowed to play any of the Halos when I was younger and being born in 2001, I am the same age as the halo franchise, these games were all my friends talked about in primary school (elementary for anyone who isn't from Aus), I felt so left out. After years of hype and anticipation, my friends bragged to me how they just got Halo 3 on the new Xbox 360. That night my mother said I could play Reach, I was 10 or 11 so it had just come out. That's when it all started, and I'll never forget it, I was absolute dog shit at the game but I still had the best time. I could finally contribute to the hype and anticipation. I was invited to halo LAN parties and sleepovers. It was a bit of a prime time and I'll never forget it. Unfortunately, that would be short-lived as my mates all got into the CoD hype, never been a big CoD fan, at all really. I was once again left to my own devices. "Halo, it's finished." But for me? "No, I think we're just getting started" My love for Halo lives on to this day as one of my favourite game franchises of all time. Remember Reach
I know I'm 3 years later but the lines between Jun and Jorge about: "Who's your money in this time?" "Her." "You always pick her!" "She's always had him dialed in." ALSO eludes to something they never say in-game, that Kat and Carter are the 2 remaining members of the original Noble Team. Before them, it was Nobles 1, 2 and 6 (the player being 6's replacement).
Reach Character In Summary Carter : The by the book captain Kat: The big brain Jun : The sarcastic archer Emile : The psycopath Jeorge : The Iron Giant Noble 6 : The lone wolf i rewatch this vid to get excited for Halo Reach in MCC
charter huh?
henlo: ronch starring kate june charter and george
The people just killed you in the replys
@@acey6991 da won rool to englesh is dat ther is non.
Dunkirk is another example of setting-driven story, and I think that Reach and that movie are very similar in this way.
Oh yes nice comparison
It is, but I’d say there’s a difference in that Dunkirk is based off real war. It’s a very easy story to pick up, because there’s nothing a director needs to add to make it more about what it is. Dunkirk was about Dunkirk, and the people in it were all so important, yet unimportant. Again, Dunkirk is definitely setting driven, but I feel like the comparison is too easy! :)
Jurassic Park?
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I hate it when people bash the movie when they don’t understand the nature of it
Issa movie
I've watched this video over a dozen times over these last 6 years. I love it every time! You said you'd like to know what happened to lat noble six, Bungie released it on a halo reach trailer. In the same trailer they show why Kat lost her arm.
Reach is my favourite game of all time I literally just played lone wolf and realized you can see where the pillar of autumn was docked