I Was Wrong About Halo

I Was Wrong About Halo Anthony plays through the Halo trilogy for the the very first time in his life and then proceeds to talk about them in his longest video essay yet. I never really was interested in Master Chief or Halo or Xbox growing up because I figured it was just one of those things for teenagers only like premarital coitus and nicotine addictions, but fairly recently I was injected with Moderna and had a lot of free time, so I downloaded the Master Chief Collection and played the games and really loved them. If I had to rate the games, I would probably say Combat Evolved is my favorite. I know in the video I said Halo 2 was the worst in the trilogy, but when I replayed the game to get footage for this video, I started to like it a lot more. Halo 3 might be tied with 2. 3 was a little boring for me, but that's alright, I think I'm just nitpicking at this point. Didn't love Halo 4. I'm not sure why the Halo community hates sprint but loves the grappling hook in Infinite, I feel like they are conceptually the same thing, you just need to make the trade off thingy like that Chris Ray Gun guy talks about. The Forerunner enemies look like the boombox robot from the Transformers movies, and that is not a compliment. Videos with longer descriptions usually perform better, so I'm just gonna copy and paste my script now. (Kappa in motel) Growing up, I (chuckle) was always not playing Halo. In fact, some of my fondest childhood memories were of me not playing Halo. I was too young to be interested in the series, and my sisters didn’t care about video games, so the only Chief I grew up with was the (Cut to Spirit movie) one from that Matt Damon horse movie. Of course I knew about Halo though. (Cut to Halo launch day news footage) I mean, at this point in time, it was almost impossible not to. (Halo NFL Commercial Spot) Anyone who had an interest in football or (Throw Halo Mountain Dew on top) high fructose corn syrup would have seen the promos for it. But, I never ended up playing the games because I just wasn’t old enough to enjoy them. (Original XBOX fade in, turn red, screaming fade in.) And because the XBOX terrified me. (Kappa in motel) As a kid I was only scared of two things: (Cut to dark motel room OR black screen) the dark, and teenagers, (Cut to interior home kitchen) and while my childhood friend’s house did have an interior lighting system, (Blur down pan into scary teenager basement) it also had a 17 year old who lived in the basement [so the whole place was kinda neutral ground]. (Cut to Jackass 2 footage) This was like 2007, so in my mind, all teenagers acted like the guys from jackass, smoked cigarettes outside the gas station, and played XBOX. While I have no idea if any of that stuff was true about this guy, he did have an XBOX, so he fit the bill. (Cut to Kappa in basement doorway and do like a Kubrick pan) Whenever I was over, I could hear him down in the basement, yelling into his headset at his friends over XBOX Live, playing some game about aliens and infections and various small mammals. The man scared me, and so did Halo. I thought Halo was just an outdated game for people who drank Monster and wore tapout t-shirts. I was wrong. Thanks to Game Pass and the recommendations from everyone’s favorite internet nudist, I recently downloaded and played through Halo 1-4, and while I found myself very opinionated about the fourth game, I feel as though I can’t do the original trilogy justice if I spread myself so thin. Lucky for you, the internet already seems to have a lot of opinions on the fourth game, so, just do some digging. (Does Halo 4 Cortana give anyone else a boner?) Seriously, that was your take away from that game? (Start Halo 1 Truth and Reconciliation 2:55ish on second round of drum build up) (Halo Title Screen footage) The Halo franchise began the way all good things do. With a subtitle. (Combat footage rescuing marines, cut to The Silent Cartographer mission on “there”) Combat Evolved was probably my favorite experience in the Halo trilogy, there was just something so incredibly captivating about the game despite its (Cut to any cutscene with commander keyes or guilty spark honestly) less than thrilling story. (Footage from the first level) The game immediately does a fantastic job establishing its setting and atmosphere with its first level, and like nobody has ever said, (Cut to cutscene footage from the crash) things only get better after the crash (Show footage of the crash cutscene with sound to drown out Truth and Reconciliation). (Footage after crash looking at skybox behind mountain structures) (Play nothing but ambient background noise) The world you find yourself on looks kinda like Earth, but the lack of any life or sounds establishes this familiar and yet unsettling feeling. (Cut audio entirely) This is where the game really begins.