An Ancient Evil Awakens (First Strike Series Part 10)

[@thegladnick]

I really enjoy the lore on Keyes. Most people can't keep their mouths shut with a few beers in their system. Keyes out-brained and defeated a near omniscient hivemind while in agonizing pain for days on end. Can't unlock Earth's location without the Keyes. 😎

[@azzythechristianfurry]

Well, it might have been a day or two at most. Still impressive.

[@TheHaloChronicle]

Keyes is just an all around Badass and half of his exploits aren’t covered in the games. He has been selected to be in my next character profile video so stay tuned for that. We will get to talk about even more of his experiences.

[@MatthewSP117]

343 Guilty Spark level introduces the Flood in the most awesome and horrific way as it starts out creepy and then boom the ancient horror emerges after being cleansed by the Halo's prior during the aftermath Forerunner-flood war and while Keyes kept the flood at bay from finding out about Earth he was sadly apart of the Proto-Gravemind. Johnson despite being immune wouldn't notice the flood infection form leaving a parting gift within our Bada$$ sergent.

[@TheHaloChronicle]

I love how Bungie introduced The Flood. It’s on of the best surprises in gaming. Sgt. Johnson’s immunity to The Flood will be expanded on in a later episode for sure. Thanks for watching.

[@shreksnow1918]

The Flood reveal is probably one of my favorite moments in Halo. The mission 343 Guilty Spark isn’t scary in the slightest, but it does do a phenomenal of of setting up an ominous atmosphere where you can just tell that something’s horribly wrong. Too bad the Anniversary graphics ruin it by reducing the amount of blood, being too bright, and over designing the Forerunner interiors. If the CE remake is real I’d want them to be more true to the original art style (even if they get the art style perfect there’s still a laundry list of ways it could go wrong). One of my favorite details on the mission is the environmental storytelling where some marines and Jackals are died on top of a barricade implying the Flood was so bad they fought together. The parts of Halo the Flood where Keyes and Jenkins were infected are so amazing. Most people who get infected by the Flood end up having a better experience because it ends them quickly. They don’t persist in agony in a I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream type scenario (you can listen to that short story on KZbin. It’s pretty good. There’s also a point and click adventure game, but I haven’t played it). On an unrelated note Valve is currently having a sale for the Steam Deck 64GB and 512GB LCD models that ends Sep 26. They’re trying to clear inventory since they’re phasing out those two models. Rounding to the nearest 10 the 64GB is $300, and the 512GB is $340. I have the 64GB version and it’s been serving me well. You can plug in a microsd card to expand the storage. The Deck is basically a handheld gaming pc that runs on Linux. There’s first and third party docks that allow you to plug in a keyboard and mouse (important for rts games and the desktop mode), and hook it up to a tv/computer monitor. There’s this comparability layer called ProtonOS that allows it to play most Windows games. It unfortunately doesn’t work with certain multiplayer games that have anticheat (you can switch it to Windows and have them work, but it will be click y and you’ll have to clear the Windows bloatware). You can get emulators for the thing. Unfortunately, the tutorial I used was out of date. Fortunately we were able to get the emulator working on my gaming laptop. I’ve been playing various PS3 games and they’re a lot of fun. Too bad Sony abandoned so many of their old IPs. There’s also other alternative handhelds like the ROG Ally X, and others.

[@TheHaloChronicle]

The Flood reveal is one of the best surprises in gaming history. I agree about the Anniversary graphics. Some levels look better, but too many elements were changed in some others. This is why I really wanted to do 343 Guilty Spark in the original graphics.

[@shreksnow1918]

I forgot to mention that there’s some cut content that would’ve made the Flood reveal cooler. For the crazed marine when you’d leave the room you were supposed to hear a loud bang, and when you went back he’d be laying dead on the ground implying that he took his own life (in this script for a cancelled Halo CE movie Chief would hand the marine a pistol then he’d put it in his own mouth and pull the trigger). In the storyboards when a marine pulls an infection form of his friend’s chest it would’ve ripped his friend open, and there’s a cut marine model that has a gaping hole in his chest. Also, you’d see Infection Forms through the glass on the floor where they first appear, but this was removed because it messed with the mission’s scripting. All of those things would’ve greatly enhanced the atmosphere of the mission. Too bad Bungie weren’t able to implement those. Yeah, I agree with that. The anniversary graphics for the outdoor sections are truly beautiful. It’s too bad that a lot of the Reach/H3 assets don’t fit the original art style, and oftentimes don’t match up with the original models’ selections (Hunters, Jackals, and Elites all look weird because their models have different skeletons in Reach). Two improvements the Anniversary graphics made to the game are putting arrows on the ground in The Library so you don’t get lost, and making the destruction on The Maw more noticeable.

[@slyrooster1241]

Do this for the first 5 books plus contact harvest, good video .

[@TheHaloChronicle]

The First Strike Series will cover the first 3 books. I’ve already decided Contact Harvest at some point (probably my next series). Ghost of onyx is an interesting story and definitely gives way more context to the Spartan IIIs so I will definitely cover that. I actually haven’t read The Cole Protocol yet, so that one might take awhile for me to get to, but I am sure I will get there. Thanks for watching and I am glad you are enjoying the channel.

[@slyrooster1241]

@@TheHaloChronicle Don't stop posting. This is good content, refine and improve you're gonna get more subs man, excellent work

[@JohnSnee-o3x]

Nice work

[@TheHaloChronicle]

Thanks for the Feedback. Glad you enjoyed the Video.

[@spartanjohn149]

9:14 where I can find this draw? It’s so cool that I like it

[@TheHaloChronicle]

I pulled it up in Google when searching for 343 Guilty Spark mission art. It looks like it’s a deviant art piece.

[@OnyxWyverVuEnt]

I came here for the Goth Chicks

[@jaxonvela5437]

🤝

[@TheHaloChronicle]

Thanks for checking the video.

[@shreksnow1918]

Do you think you’ll ever do videos on different franchises, or is this going to be a primary Halo focused channel?

[@TheHaloChronicle]

@@shreksnow1918 i’m honestly not sure. I thought about it. Some of my buddies want me to do a Game of Thrones channel. I’m also a really big Fable fan. But as for whether or not, it would be on this channel or another, not quite sure yet

[@shreksnow1918]

@TheHaloChronicle Even though I have no interest in either of those I hope that you’ll be able to find some success if you make content on those franchises. What you should do is have multiple channels that are shown in the “channels” section of your KZbin channel since KZbin algorithm doesn’t like varied content, and people come here for Halo content.

[@TheHaloChronicle]

@@shreksnow1918 if I ever do branch out, it will probably involve a new channel. Another couple of Franchises I have interests in are Ark Survival Evolved/Ascended and maybe even Diablo, but I am not to that point yet. I have plenty of Halo Content to Cover.

[@TheHaloChronicle]

@@shreksnow1918 To that end, I have also made a decision on the what the next Halo series will cover. Stay tuned. It will be announced in the coming weeks