I remember listening to this before it became a meme

**sigh**

There isn't a better trinity of games than Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3. All masterpieces in their own right. So sad that it's over. I'd do anything to go back to 2005 and play some halo with my buddies again.

The haunting bittersweet chants from 3:57. It feels like an ode to simpler games, simpler times.

2:00 🥹🥹🫡

It was fun it was a good run I’m sorry for destroying everyone repeatedly in team slayer back in the day but the fight is finished

Never forget

Its nice to get done with my Job and sit just listen to this and other Halo music. Its relaxing.

I miss gaylo

It's way faster than I remember

Back when bungie actually give a shit!

Played as boys. Remembered as men.

😭

Just one more time…one more session with the boys playing custom games 😢

Goodbye old friend.

Looking back, I expected video games to soar higher and greater every year. We may never see another like this again.

I spent hour on this screen

This song will be played in my weeding in November 30th. Halo has been an important experience in my life, so it has to be present in my special days.

I’ll never forget it was 2009 Christmas my family was poor and my parents got divorced me and my brother got this game from our uncle for Christmas and hearing and seeing this menu helped with a lot of the pain we were going through. Halo 3 will always have a soft spot in my heart and I truly think no game will ever be as special to me and I feel like many others can say the same. I know the old days are what they are old days but when I see this menu and the music I feel safe and warm. Thank you Bungie and everyone that worked on this game you all helped two boys go through some really tough times.

Just blasted this in the basement with tall speakers, sub woofer, receiver and still gives me chills, especially with the background noises when the music slows down. <3

We paid tribute to halo 3 and our fellow spartans around the world

This changed my life 20 years ago

When life gets hard I sit back and listen to this

I think this music at 0:47 ending in 2:55 is the best one, specially since that all of us back in the early days few years ago where most things in life were perfectly fine. Until the political and economic problems, the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine cause by Russia. It's sad though that some or many of the things we love don't last forever. But we stay strong for as long as possible at whatever is thrown at us, much like the Spartans in the Halo universe.

Chills…. We were really living in legendary times and didn’t even know it

Goddamn take me back

What I hope floating up to heaven sounds like.

Perhaps it was a separate timeline. Where we played for hours. When things were simple. Nothing topped buying the limited edition to go play campaign co-op with your stoner friends.

Hoooraaahh my old Spartan brothers out their

Enough to make a grown man cry 🥲

2024 🫡🫡

Rip to all my brothers and sister. Friends and foe. We came. We gamed. We loved. We laughed..and now we're gone.. now nothing but memories of what was..what once..was..and what will never be.. God bless you all.

My best friend Randy was the biggest Halo 2 fan you'll never know. Even when Halo 3 was on top of the world he was playing Halo 2 on the original Xbox. He died of diabetes in 2012 and hearing this just makes me miss him more than words can share. But you belong to Reach. Your body your armor all burned and turned to glass except your courage. That you gave to us and with it we can rebuild! Rest in Peace brother I'm glad you never saw what 343 and Microsoft did to Bungie and Halo.

Take me back

Turning 33 in a week from today (August 2024) I just sometimes come here to remember what we once had. Like Andrew Bernard once told us.. “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” These were the good old days, this was where most of us peaked with daily gaming, and fun.

2024 🎉😢

Never Forget The laughter, the raging, the friends we made through this beloved arch in all our lives The happiness in our souls, the pain of school or work leaving our souls for hours on end We are older now, but with all us older spartans remembering forevermore Never Forget Halo 3

born in the early 2000s this game mw2 bo1 and halo reach made my fucking childhood when everything else sucked a time when games wasnt cash grab pay for dlcs and battlepasses when you bought a game it was the FULL GAME nothing like it is now fallout new vagas only had 9 months to be made and was one of the greatest games to be made of the series i really want people to go up and look at the games that cameout from 2006-2013 then look at the games that cameout from 2020-present its a day n night on the game quality from dead space to gears from halo to battlefield from cod to metal of honor the games had love put into them the makers actually played the games them selves in our time they didnt nerf guns in cod they left it as is and made a new one they had all the guns broke asf so they could be used from the intervention to the acr from the mp5 to the model 1887 our time has passed we will never see the prime of left for dead or dead rising or even dead island cod lost its way battlefield lost its way gears also lost its way and halo has been torn apart from the roots up how they ruined a game that had 13 books and 5 games already made is beyond me but halo infinite really shows us how much they cared

Srill here in 2024. RIP Halo 3. Always loved and never forgotten.

Bungie now is far far from what they were at this time. This will always be Halo, not 343

it's nice to go back to a time where it was all fun and games. no responsebillities,

There should be a day where once a week all the OG halo 3 players can join at once and just run games all day all night but on the MCC. We can create a halo 3 community and link up

90 second add for a short video. For fuck sakes KZbin, I don't care lol

Send us out with a bang

Yeah. This is nice.

Am I the only one who used to find this absolutely terrifying as a child?

I notice the comment section is filled with us OG players talking about the good old days of playing this in it's prime...props to us for respecting the times and not talking about how we are still playing and we did indeed grow up

Main Menu music had no business going this hard on the nostalgia and NOT putting it in to the actual game!

It hurts so bad... All the memories, my god, I miss the good old days playing Halo. This song, this menu, it really hits home. It's sad, and at same time I'm glad o it happened. We are all Spartans

I used to play this game with my older brothers and it was a beautiful part of my childhood,one of those brothers of mine fell into drugs and got lost because of that and the other one can't survive alone,he has a disability and thinking about it makes me want to cry,I ask God to help me heal and take care of my brothers with whom I spent incredible times playing and laughing,if you have someone you love get out of the way Do everything possible to save that person,Christ is the solution and the one who can help you with that and I know that he will help me with this problem,God bless you.