Beginning and Ending a Decade with Halo Reach

[@mortman200]

For me it's not "There will be another time" that does it in. It's that final thank you letter from Bungie during the credits and I wish it was kept in the Master Chief Collection. Three words: See you starside.

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

I didn't realize that's where that saying came from... I have a friend who uses it to sign off.

[@jiffbombastic3694]

I was so sad to see the credits be edited out of MCC. Biggest L the collection still has to this day.

[@KobeJordanHakeem]

thats what hes talking about numbskull@@Oppen1945

[@LieutenantAlaki]

​@@ananonymousnerd.2179It actually dates all the way back to Marathon!

[@benpage5088]

The memories of this game’s mp cannot be surpassed

[@asdfjkl227]

I always feel the odd one out when my best halo memories are halo 3.

[@derpyVfoxoX6]

Ong i wish i could play it without getting 360 no scoped by a pc player from across the map

[@Alex-zp1ry]

@@asdfjkl227halo 3 was much better imo, but a lot of people only started with reach

[@ThunderPsyker]

So This is the first of a few videos I'd like to make, talking about some mixed topics from varying games that aren't necessarily Retrospectives. That being said, this one does reflect a lot on an older game and what it was like to play it for the first time and revisit it. I hope you enjoy it! I would've liked to have refined this a bit further in the editing/script department but I'm very happy with it overall. Honestly I love the Halo Games a lot, and this video isn't gonna go into that much overall about Reach, so maybe I could make a full Retrospective series on these games too? And as I've said at the end of the video, please keep an eye out on KZbin Community or my Twitter for any news on a future game night for Reach or the other Halos too. I know neither platform is used much though, so if you have any recommendations for other ways I can keep you notified of this stuff, I'd love to hear it! twitter.com/ThunderPsyker Check out my Second Channel if you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5eVhJp5lpqXsLc And If you'd like to throw some money towards the channel, please consider donating via the KZbin Thanks feature, or via my Kofi: ko-fi.com/thunderpsyker

[@Adumbshiba]

Yes please, most videos on halo are either lore or just reviews an retrospective of your style would be great

[@SivTheScribe]

Keep 'em coming, Kitten. I look forward to seeing what you have in store.

[@therickspears]

I loved this. Adored it. This is genuinely some of your best writing and presentation to date. Amazing job, dude. Please, keep it coming, all of it, whatever you want to write about.

[@neoluna1172]

I was never really a big multiplayer guy for reach, I much prefered halo 3 multi and still do to this day, but I cannont deny reach's campign or community quality. And as far down the hole as we are, things are maybe starting to look up for halo again. The management change at 343 is a chance for things to get better and so far they have been doing okay, hell infinite is starting to gain players again. Yes it has the normal greedy porblems free to play games have and yes it doesnt have enough community features, but it now has enough content for its really solid core gameplay to start to shine and the forge is BY FAR the best it has ever been, I have seen maps that have made my jaw drop in a way it not has in a long time. But the biggest thing is I just... had fun with halo again. A friend convined me to reinstall the game and give it another shot, and while I had very low expectations, I legit found myself having honest, relaxed fun in a way I hadnt with halo in years, and that desire to uninstall the game I expected to be there was nowhere to be found.

[@conmadben]

Man you almost made me cry. I remember 20 years ago loading Halo on PC for the first time. I was in my mid twenties, life was good. i think gaming wise between 1990 and 2010 was the best time.

[@jennymckenzie5304]

Halo Reach is the feeling of ennui turned into a story. It doesn't hurt, it just makes you feel empty, because you know it's over, and it'll never be the same again. Reach adds context to the rest of the Halo series that gives it the foundation of *reality* that so much other sci-fi lacks, reading Ghosts of Onyx and Blue Team sitting in the back of a Pelican as they speed over Carribean waves, there's still that sense of scale and time progression, because we *were* Noble Six when they died in the duststorm as Aszod was glassed, running a rifle dry into opponents that would never end.

[@Ksescel]

Just found this channel, (yeah, I might be 10 years late) can’t wait for more Also showing the Wii U while saying the Xbox was behind Its competitors is hilarious to me.

[@rybazzz]

There will be... Retribution

[@3musketerantidbd174]

Ohhhh there will...

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

I'm not smart enough to get if there's a hidden meaning there, but we do get ONE personality trait out of Noble 6... At the start of the game, after you've rescued the marines and before embarking to the radio tower, 6 picks up a DMR. For the rest of the game, it will be his primary weapon, even after atmospheric re-entry he picks one up by the time the next mission ends... Yet, at the very end, he takes out his helmet... Reaches for an assault rifle, and puts up a valiant last stand with it in his hands, the weapon he enlisted to Noble team with...

[@ThunderPsyker]

That's a really good catch! Never noticed that

[@waspoptic]

Halo Reach is the most accurate “me and boys” moment… especially following Lone Wolf…

[@phoenixfire9176]

“A bit of a reach” I think I audibly groaned when I heard that lol The wordplay is too much I can’t take it😭

[@jcmchandsomeface2292]

The one thing I love about the atmosphere of Reach is despite the small victories if you know the lore you know it’s a desperate struggle against the inevitable

[@Comedymakesmelaugh7]

Halo conveying feelings is a great way to put it. And with Reach, I would say that the feeling is bittersweet, at least looking back. We may never, ever get to experience another era like Reach again. But in a sense, that's what truly makes it special.

[@tomcollins719]

I just had to explain to my missis why in tearing up while having dinner 😂 thank you for reminding me about all the good time. Keep it up🫡

[@Bucket_Buffoon]

Dammit Thunder you had to make me tear up at the Xbox Friends. Halo Reach will always be one of my all-time favorite games. So many memories shared with family, friends, and loved ones back in the day... only for it to literally rise again to say "Hey, you can still make those memories, champ." *AND I DID.* Getting to play my childhood comfort game with the woman that would become my WIFE thanks to the PC release was mind blowing for me. Just, holy crap man. Reach sent Halo out with a bang.

[@cameronmeade4200]

"There'll be another time" oh god that hurts. I lost one of my oldest friends to depression back in 2021 and it feels like every bit of nostalga has this cold tinge of grief now. Every time I think of the good times having her and the rest of my friends over for splitscreen I always end up remebering she vanished from my life without a note or even a goodbye.

[@DarthPlaugas]

I understand that, my best friend-my brother from another mother literally, died in 2022 new years and all those good memories of sleepovers and playing halo while still sweet, have a bitter tinge. I hope you are doing good though, despite how much it sucks to no have a friend around anymore

[@GGPlex_]

For me, Reach was the last official Halo game. It was the originals at Bungie giving it their all before trying something else. Something that would last, something that will be remembered. Nothing will every compare to Reach.

[@reecedignan8365]

I think the thing that also helps make Reach sit well amongst Halo fans - especially those who grew up with the series - is that Bungie didn’t just make Reach as a farewell to Microsoft, it made it as a farewell to the fans who helped make Halo what it was. You can note it quite well in the Campaign with how Noble 6 is done. They aren’t given a deep character or background, they’re left extremely blank, but not completely blank either, cause very small change a player down to their armour came along with them into the campaign. You took a CQB helmet, next time you booted the reach campaign, 6 had a CQB helmet. You made yourself pink with a fiery helmet that had a spooky skeleton inside, so was Noble 6. And what did that do, it brought you into the universe and campaign as six. It brought your closer to Noble surprisingly cause you were apart of the team, not just tagging along. And better, you were the Spartan that have Hope to Humanity, from handing off Cortana, to giving the Autumn a chance to escape and for humanity setting chief on his story to stop the covenant and destroy Halo. And that’s why Reach usually hits player who play through the game release order differently than it hits those who play it chronologically. Cause while they get the ending of chief and 3, we got the ending of being the character who set the universe we loved into motion. And when you saw Bungie final goodbye message, it just hits you so hard, cause it wasn’t just a goodbye to fans, it was a goodbye to a community they forged, but also a goodbye to a community that also inspired them to go above and beyond for it. A community that was just as much a major part of Bungie as it’s employees. And it was in its way a goodbye to its friends, cause like you said when talking about that old friends list, many of those who helped forge Halo didn’t survive that jump to Destiny, many of those who helped make Halo itself didn’t survive Microsoft to see what it’s legacy would become and even Bungie itself somewhat didn’t survive as a company when it left and forged Destiny. Like you said, it’s like looking back at that old friends list and seeing the same list of names, but none of them there. But, like you also said, it’s also the memories we share playing that game, from Big Team Battle, to Infection (and even ranking in the top list of 100 player of infection for even a couple hours) and Invasion and the back and forth battles on the spire; but also to custom games; Speed Halo, Duck Hunt, Garbage Day, Rainbow Road, Kill Ball Run, battleships, dodgeball… so many memories; and on the rare but fun occasion, playing alongside a Bungie employee and actually being able to chat and banter with them, to even invite them to custom games and nights. Halo as a story is about humanity’s struggle, strength and will to SURVIVE against a enemy that had no compassion or mercy for them and sought only their destruction. Halo as a Game was created so that a bunch of friends could come together on LAN and play a competitive but fun shooter together. Halo as a series was created so that that group of friend could extend that enjoyment they had together out to a wider group of people, a fanbase and later a community of friends which they could write and create for. That’s Halos legacy and why it sits so strong in so many peoples hearts to this day. And it’s why 343 struggles to make much sway with the community, cause unlike Bungie, they forgot what Halo was about, it wasn’t about being the best shooter or story out there, it was about creating a game that a community could come together around and enjoy; From split screen play, to multiplayer campaign and LASO, to persistent lobbies and game votes, to progression that kind of meant something and to custom games where legends forged, friendships bonded, content creators filmed and memories… memories were created. Sadly 343 never seemed to learn that, maybe it’s to much cooperate oversight, maybe it’s too little connection between employee and player, maybe it’s cause it’s not “there” child of a series, or maybe it’s cause they don’t care to maintain that community anymore. All we can do, is enjoy the memories. And think that one day, 343 or whoever takes over halo next will remember that while Halo is a game, it’s heart was forged around a community that helped inspire it.

[@nickbooze9766]

Just a gorgeous video man, truly.

[@bradleyvacco9833]

One of those memories that will always stick with me is from Scouts: a group of guys all together in a massive bunkhouse playing video games in the middle of the woods, and at the center of it all is reach. Four player split screen, and every one of us ecstatic for our turns. Love this game.

[@AB-bg7os]

Reach has a very special place in my heart, because of the fact that the planet had a huge hungarian population. As a guy from hungary, this was probably the first time my people were represented.

[@khaimk4r4su]

He's a Thunder, he's a psyker. He's doing a review from something of yore which even though i did never play, because i was mostly a +30 year old liverbag, i did however saw how much 'the kids' (my youngest brother and his friends who are 13 years my jr) play around blasting up each other and doing silly stuff with the vehicles, yelling sh1t at each other occasionally or typing 'pwned' or 'me la pelas' (big props if you understand this piece of slang) things sure have gone far behind us

[@alfabusa]

THUNDERCHIEF

[@Grissbane]

It wasn't my favorite Halo but I played Reach with a friend now long gone. Thanks for those memories Joe

[@deadly_ss9866]

what happened to your friend?

[@HisMagnificence]

Mmmm. Yes. ThunderPsyker video. The day has been made good.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I played Reach in 2019 with MCC. I can't speak for multiplayer stuff (always been an SP gamer) but Reach was an incredible experience. It's a AAA passion project, made with absolute heart and soul. Campaign is unlike anything I've played even today. Everyone should played Reach and Halo games atleast once in their lifetimes.

[@SonOfExcess]

So happy you’re returning to KZbin mate. Your channel is top tier 😊

[@RampidWarthogStudios]

Best years of my life. It took me 6 years to hit max rank and I never got sick of the game. I’d still be playing it today if I could. MCC doesn’t hit the same as the OG game.

[@Guywiththetypewriter]

Raziel here, was a pleasure to do my little bit for this. Reach has this innate ability to bring everyone together from, literally in our case, all over the world and just chat s**t and get banged, and it was a treat to play with all of ya'll. #ThisIsntSwordBase

[@BeatmasterAC]

I don't even need Halo Reach / XBOX Live Friends list to experience sadness. Go even further back when Steam was new and a big thing. If I check my Friends list of the good old CS Source days: last online 11 years ago last online 10 years ago last online 15 years ago. ... i get nostalgic and emotional.

[@fang_xianfu]

I had that experience of looking at the offline friends list... but recently quite a few of them have been logging in again! I've chatted to some people recently who I haven't talked to since 2005.

[@mikelagranite3609]

Just finished a race, and see that Thunder Psyker uploaded, today is going great.

[@Dieselkraftwerk]

While i havent played halo yet, this video deeply resonates with me. We all have those games that we made a ton of memories with friends and stragners, some of them well never meet again. For me those games are CSS, COD4, BF3 and then the DayZ mod. Well over a decade later, i still think of those games and the memories fondly. A simpler time, where only school grades mattered and life wasnt really that complicated. Life has moved on, i dont have that much time to game anymore, and neither do my friends. This video made me reallly nostalgic, and While its sad those times are over, im glad i was part of it. When i find the time, ill play the mastee chief collection. Its already installed on my pc. 😃 Thank you for the trip down memory lane, even though you were tallking about a different game, Mr. ThunderPsyker

[@klutzspecter3470]

I fully expected 343 bashing all the way through considering the trend of all Halotubers solely rely on negativity to get those views. Even though I'm a disgusting fan of Halo Infinite, even after the mediocracity of the launch. I appreciate your level of tameness as always. I might've not grown up with Reach, which is why I feel indifferent, but it's a good to see an honest review from someone who cherishes Reach. Feel free to do a retrospective on the other games, (yes, including 343 series) I fully expect you to be honest and still have a level-headed approach moreso than other have tried in the past, I don't expect you to like the new series because to many they are a drastic change to from the Bungie games, but when you look at it closer shows they followed precisely followed some of the things Bungie changed in Reach. Anyway, this video deserves far more appraisal than most others.

[@callusklaus2413]

Thank you so much for writing this. It's interesting how much art can change through time, cerebral even. I think Reach was absolutely saying farewell when it came out, it's pretty clear, but it's interesting how it became us saying farewell to Xbox Live, to childhood and high school, and eventually to each other. There will be another time.

[@mar_sh4617]

Finally got around to watching this, been looking at it since you released it. Great video, thank you for posting it. I spent a great deal of time playing reach as well, and look back fondly on the friends i had made at the time. We have since grown apart almost entirely, and all thats left is the memories. Memories of reach, its custom games, campaign, and even of firefight. I look back on all of them and smile. Thanks mate, appreciate this.

[@aamacan]

This was an incredibly touching video that really tugs at the nostalgia for Bungie Halo and the Xbox 360 era. Like you said in the video Bungie knew that a lot of people had strong emotional connections to their games and the stories that they tell so its always nice to see a video like this to come out and remind how special Halo really is.

[@StevenSantanaF]

Have always loved Reach. I came to it late in 2012 but still have only good memories of the many hours spent playing it and will still dip in via MCC. Thanks for the video!

[@cobrakommando533]

You know that feeling? That feeling from 10 years ago, when you had just got done with classes or you just got back from school You run to your XBox, you pop open Reach and instantly go to your friends list. You wanna see who’s online. You get a party going, and from there you just game the night away I’ve known this game as a way for college friends to connect, schoolyard friendships to bloom, and for so many great memories to be made I think Bungie made the tag line for a reason Because you never forget Reach

[@NoReasonToAnwser]

I do not comment on videos particularly often, but this one has to be my favourite work from you. It feels authentic and ends up being more than just a presentation about an excellent game. I appreciate it a lot.

[@Le-cp9tr]

I remember this game coming out when I was in elementary school and it being this feeling of a game that you simply must play as a Halo fan. Unfortunately I didn’t own a 360 so I have vivid memories of playing it whenever I could at Friend’s houses and the like

[@OJ9992]

The “There’ll be another time” chapter name at the beginning of Lone Wolf is such a gut punch for two reason. 1) Another time, that none of Noble Team live to see. 2) Another time that we, the player, have already had. The glory days and peak of Halo is already behind us with some of our childhoods along with it, never to be seen again.

[@eviel7833]

I met my friend on halo reach, he was a bit older than me but we had our 2 years of fun. Then he got married, and didnt log in for almost a decade. Then he did, we swiched over to PC and we completed reach one more time, this time with his twin sons. Friday is the best day of the week, from 7pm to 10pm, we play, sometimes only 2 of us, sometimes 4, sometimes one of the sons is replaced with the wife when that happens its time for heroes of might and magic 3. I am fortunate that most of my friend list is still online.

[@potatolord8444]

Fantastic as always Thunder. I'm going to be honest. It's crazy see 2 videos from you so quickly on this channel. Won't lie this video hit me hard. As everyone I knew back in the day is pretty much gone. Only my best friend remains. So tho sad this video brought a smile to my face. Keep it up. Can't wait for the DoW Retribution recap.

[@CcXxTt750]

This hits hard. I've got so many good memories from Reach, from the countless repeats of the campaign to the addictive community via multiplayer to the goofy clans that might as well have been RPers at the time. I still tell stories of those times to this day. And you can bet when MCC came to pc starting with Reach I jumped head first into it. I was in the same boat of having a list of newer online pals that'd never touched Reach or even a Halo title. I probably bought the game for 8 different people, just so I could see them experience the campaign or for them all to experience a Warthog flying at them at mac 10 during Speed Halo or Jump Rope. Nothing has ever filled that hole Reach and the stories we made left.

[@faithkerns1626]

I remember Reach, and there will be another time.

[@Vikingman132]

Thank you for expressing how I felt about this game and how much it meant to me thank you

[@wren7195]

Goodness, this video is a masterpiece. THANK YOU for taking the time to make this. Presentation, content all on point. And painfully so.

[@dominicscreativefilms]

Despite it not being 100% perfect, Reach was everything I loved about gaming and the franchise. The grime and immersive universe, the emotions it got out of me from laughter, excitement sadness, etc, the huge variety of ways to play alone or with friends, the community, the ways you could get creative, the ways you could express yourself, and all the memories and friends that I've made just from one product. Even games I've enjoyed today usually just feel temporary and I'll eventually move on to something else in a month or 2. But Reach has stuck with me for the last decade. 1-3 might be considered more the peak of the franchise, but Reach will always be my favorite and the culmination of everything Bungie built.

[@aleverettes2789]

Heyyy it's my favorite youtuber, Thunder "Raycevick" Kitten!

[@Yormolch]

Not a halo fan, never played anything from the series, but I still very much enjoyed the video. Thank you for sharing your experience with Reach and its community, it was very heartwarming. :3

[@clydecraft5642]

im glad i started watching the video, hearing literally just the captain general from tts explaining lore is very cathartic

[@StellarTemptation]

Thunder please stop making me feel so old thanks xoxo

[@lucastark1784]

Reach has impeccable feelz

[@TheSaltiestPnut]

2 minutes in and the puns are already off the charts.

[@EndThusIAm]

Reach was my Halo. While the majority of my machinima making history was on 3, Reach was everything I ever wanted. The time I spent playing with friends, the maps I made, the hours into new machinima, and above all the story. There's people who apparently hated the game, but I never can fully understand why. It was my Halo game through and through.

[@highxvision]

I have a very sad memory with Reach. I was so hyped for its release and I preordered it with a group of friends, I was 15 at the time and had grown up with Halo obsessively. Come release day me and my mates pick up our copies and we go home, soon into the evening we start CO-OP and into the second mission me and my dad got into an argument and he snapped my Reach disk infront of me (which broke my heart). I ask my friends to wait on the CO-OP and do Multi and we will continue tomorrow. Next day I log on and my mates are all snickering. It dawns on me that they finished the campaign on legendary and didnt wait. This annoyed me and I log off. The weeks role on and we casually play on and off and no one wants to redo campaign. Eventually I finish it all by myself. During my absence, one of my friends brings his friends from another school into the crew. These 2 guys are kind of douches and were the trash talk instigators and I didnt gel with this behaviour. One night my mum yells out I love you bubby and this tees me up for an evening roast but these other 2 guys dont stop and it is almost an instant abuse fest and targetting of me every night online. My 2 friends stay silent or ignore but dont stick up for me where as my mate who invited them joins in and the tirade ensues im mocked more and log off. I shelf Reach and due to other personal issues and the breakdown of friendships I literally missed out on the experience that was 2010 and bungies last Halo. I eventually returned to reach due to the MCC collab and I found a new love and revive for a game that honestly I wish I had the chance to live the glory days in. This video honestly touched me and reminded me of a pretty shitty time (there was more issues in my life outside of reach but I just wanted to highlight the significance of the story based upon bonds and the bitter sweetness that was bungies last Halo) Great work and i loved how you structured the video and it is overall great content.

[@DrWhite]

Heeees back and he's ten times as slick. Great stuff dude, well done.

[@DrWhite]

So - ODST next? :3c

[@ThunderPsyker]

God I'd love to talk about ODST, what an atmosphere

[@Snakedude4life]

Remember Reach. 🎩

[@molochhorridus3611]

Even though the mainline story may be in what most would consider to be an unsalvageable state. There can still be hope found in the expanded lore and spin-offs

[@josevictorribeirolisboa7576]

Or they just retcon the stupid garbage. Like pretend halo 5 and 4 didnt happen and were golden.

[@1x1boop28]

​@@josevictorribeirolisboa7576they just swept 5 under the rug and said "and then all of the conflicts were resolved and forgotten"

[@RAD1111able]

​@@josevictorribeirolisboa7576So we're gonna act like Bungie Halos were storytelling masterpieces?

[@Funko777]

​@@RAD1111ablecompared to literally any single word written by 343 they were god damn Shakespeare. I dont think theres a single other IP in video game history that was given to a more out of touch and incompetent team who turned what shouldve been an easy cash cow for them into the dumbest most needlessly complex and just plain bad sci-fi story. I say this knowing damn well how crazy Bungie's own writing was in Marathon too.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

14:09 the DMR was the one gun we all tossed aside when first playing reach in 2010, but in 2011, we all realized how powerful and important that gun was.

[@pandorum7443]

I watched ur Dow vids like 10x it's good to see u again

[@Numtalegau]

Well done, Thunder. A trip down memory lane!

[@18Krieger]

Great video. As you get older, the more you understand certain things.

[@spacesatan5840]

this must be a dream this channel is six feet under

[@KOTYAR0]

I hope you many good friendships in the years ahead

[@GenralG7]

I didn't have friends growing up, and reach was one of the few places I regularly joined custom game lobbies and got to play with people.

[@Catman2030]

Still upset I had to miss out on gameing on this with you, but still am excessively glad at the turnout on this video Thunder. Great work!

[@tiobridge841]

Thank you for making this, I think it was important. Remember Reach!

[@ScarletNovus]

Damn good video, Psyker. I think you've found a great format to add to your repertoire. Looking forward to more stuff like this in the future!

[@SireDoge]

beautifully spoken, thank you!

[@martinford4553]

Halo reach. Not just my favourite halo game but one of my favourite games. There are a few games that compete with it in my personal opinion. Hours on infection, forge and firefight. Absolutely sucking with the lads at griefball. Going on a run in Team Deathmatch and Swat until one team brought you back to earth in style. Ahhhhh good times.

[@martinford4553]

Oh and how can I forget big team battle, the close battles, the annoying bastard in the scorpions and wraiths. Being that annoying bastard too. Ah now I wanna get the boys and turn it back on.

[@giambattistaroberto213]

man, the part about friends hit me in heart pretty bad, i remember playing reach and other halo games with some friends at my house, but now, i dont even know what happen to them.

[@ogre7699]

One thing with the MCC inclusion of Reach however, that I cannot understand for the life of me, is that 343 has somehow fucked the space section of Long Night of Solace entirely. It is way more difficult than it should be. Oh, and the elevators. That gets me more than it really should do. These have never been fixed, outside of mods. Christ, 343. I love Reach still. I prefer 3 for MP personally, but Reach will always have a special place for me. It really is a damn shame that Halo shows little sign that it'll be anything close to how great 3 and Reach was and still is. Halo truly deserved better than what it got. But at the very least, we'll have the memories. *We remember.*

[@kabob0077]

16:48 You're right, it never gets any easier seeing those friends who have been offline for years... But we'll always cherish the memories, I hope one day I see them again though.

[@kodan7879]

I had no idea what the video was about, and still as I'm writing I don't care. I saw the profile pic, on the notif. and clicked instantly

[@ashscott5298]

Well, your videos have made me laugh and made me think, but this one? Brought a little tear to my eye! Really fantastic work, I can't wait for Halo 4 twice.

[@gsthomas187]

My reach clan still plays on MCC, the community is going strong and I couldn't be happier.

[@erns_t]

Thanks!

[@KaguroDraven]

2:20 notices he made the Spirit joke, doesn't notice he made the Forerunner joke.

[@ThunderPsyker]

So that bit wasn't written in the script or anything, that was my live reaction to realizing I had said that. I think the Forerunner bit was intentional so it's why I didn't draw attention to it? But to be honest that segment was written at 2am or something so I don't remember my intentions there

[@alurkingislander]

Dude. Thank you. This was incredible.

[@joshsmith6995]

I love the fact that the ring as seen during Reach's end credits is the same exact ring model from Halo CE.

[@RiksGamingChannel]

Man this video hits me where I live, I've had so many fond memories of Reach when it first came out and I was so happy that it was revived on the PC. There were many reasons why I chose this game to be the first Let's Play series on my own channel; a big reason being that it was the first game I ever had on my own Xbox 360 (I got the Reach Xbox in Christmas of 2010) and my friends and I would spend hours doing firefight and wacky custom games. And I'm glad that most of those IRL friends I played Reach with all those years ago get to play it with me and some new ones I've made through my own gaming channel. Reach has also been good to me, and I'm glad everyone's returning the favor by celebrating it with emotional and wholesome videos like this. PS: also I was wondering why you sounded familiar and I remembered you were the main Custodes character in TTS, it's cool that you're still doing content here on KZbin, keep up the good work man 🙏

[@tobsmonster2]

As a Halo Campaign Enjoyer, one of the most unsung (but highly appreciated by ME) community features of Reach was Campaign matchmaking. I've been with Halo since the beginning, but being able to just jump in with a full team (without having to wait for friends to get on or search in online groups) made Halo Reach my most re-played campaign of them all. Still wishing they'd add the feature to MCC (or add campaigns to custom game browser).

[@PackHunter117]

Reach and 3 are my favourite multiplayers. Halo 2 and Reach are my favorite Campaigns followed by ODST and 3

[@vaniellys]

I loved this video. Amazing writing, amazing editing, lots of feels.

[@littleshep5502]

16:40 . Felt this. I met my friends here, on reach, just pissing about. Now, ten years later, I cant remember the last time I spoke to any of them. They all moved on, or went into groups I later fell out of. Now, the only group I play with hardly talk, and I can go months without playing with them

[@TonyRedgrave]

It's surprisingly painful, to look at a friends list and see "Last online: 7 years ago."

[@adamgardner3768]

As a sweaty book fan of Halo I was a little disappointed back in the day, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to really appreciate Reach’s Story 👏 loved that game, we’ll never see another Halo like it.

[@GumshoeClassic]

I've been hit with a very similar kind of nostalgia as of late. To me it feels like many multiplayer games have become... less personal as time went on. And funnily enough I think it's pretty much exactly *because* things were inconvenient back then. Finagling your way through the in-game chat, searching for lobbies you'd spend hours in playing with a select group of people, sharing knowledge and tricks, the list goes on. I feel like I barely do it anymore. Join, play, leave. A lobby feels less like a get-together and more like sitting on a train. Strangers come and go before they get a chance to really make an impression. It's of course very convenient, picking up a game and starting to play is fast and easy, but I do find myself wishing I could go back for a bit. To begin an evening by beating a small group of random people, and going to bed thinking about them and their antics. Just one last time.

[@dracogaming13]

While the OG trilogy will have a special placenin my heart i will never forget the first time i saw the final objective "Survive"

[@Spoot401]

Beautifully made video, man. Some of your best work right here. Reach contains so many vivid memories for me and my older brother, and we ironically played through it for the first time together in the September of 2015. So this video comes with some added nostalgia.

[@Andy-dh2sv]

You have a gift for analysis videos. Nostalgia hit from childhood 😭

[@archmagosno9902]

I remember when reach released. This was the Halo game I played. It was great.

[@kabob0077]

20:43 This hits hard, but it's true, Reach and War for Cybertron hold a place in my heart and memories that I'll always remember. They're where I made my first XBL friends, where I really got to play multiplayer games, had fun and made memories. I will remember Reach, just as I'm sure everyone else here will...

[@crimsonquill4255]

My first experience playing video games besides Kung Fu Panda on the xbox 360 was picking up Halo 4 in 2017, so I missed all of the multiplayer shenanigans of the 2000s, and even the 2010s. But playing Halo multiplayer and chilling in the voice chat on that game night you hosted was some of the most fun I've ever experienced with videogames. You've made me nostalgic for an era of which I was never a part-a time not really experienced. I like to think that that game night was that joy during the best of those days. Especially poignant in this video is your drawing attention to "There'll be another time." There's a game I adore, called Outer Wilds, in which time is a major component, and it really captures the idea of that time never coming around-either through cruel circumstance, the long drift away of relationships or plain, cruel passing of time. There are people I have had such fun with in video games for a single night or even a few, who I've laughed with and pranked and then, afterwards, we never meet again. It's...very well captured in the Xbox lobby bar segment. I also love your focus on the atmosphere of Reach as a social game, while also acknowledging its story flaws-for me, Halo is best experienced with another by your side to join in the battle. Facing the end together and all that, Reach being Reach... (On a side note, the bleakness of Reach...really is done well. This sort of situation was the Norm, not the exception, in the war...outgunned, outnumbered, and bulldozed battle by battle, war by war...setback after setback, loss after loss. There's a beautiful poetry to the Spartans, their being seen as weapons, but still, showing that humanity through their small actions-their futures stolen from them, and forced into war for all of their lives... But that's enough of me rambling. Your video is, as your other essays have been, excellent and wonderful. And hey, hopefully, next time you announce a custom night, I'll be up for a second round. P.S. Holy Shit how the Hell was I not already subscribed? This crime must be amended now! With incandescent vigour and copius quantities of sulfuric omlette! Regards-CrimsonQuill086

[@sorrisal1100]

This video reminded me of why i love halo and, specially minecraft, so much. Growing as an ADHD and Autistic child in a country where most of the pople don't have that sorta acess to mental health (at the time, wich i believe was around 2010's), i always struggled with stuff such as social interactions, relationships, etc; And, more often than not, i'd have easier times on the videogame world than the real world. That's when i started using youtube, and by extension, found out about minecraft and halo, and for christmas i got an XBOX 360. Sadly, it was ¨unlocked¨ (sorry, i don't know how it is called when an console is able to read pirate games) so that meant no xbox live, even then i still tried to play. I remember hoping to find halo discs, only to never find it in the local pirate game store i used to go to, but i fondly remember watching halo videos and machinimas (even tough i didn't understand english at the time) and re-watching the halo 3 trailer multiple times For me both halo and minecraft are so special because they were my true ¨friends¨ in times i didn't have ones, they were there for me when nobody called me to parties or to hang out, and i genuinely had fun just playing those games all night long. Seeing MCC on the steam store was a dream come true, and for the first time, i was able to experience halo as it was truly meant to be experienced. I have been following your channel for around two or three years, but i think this is one of my favorite videos, hands down. Sorry for bad english, not my native language.

[@ReaverSenpai]

"there'll be another time." was a promise fulfilled

[@danielhollick1708]

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[@slb797]

“Memory is the key”

[@hiruharii]

i may have only started playing at halo 4 on ps4, but i had so much fun playing Reach on PC when it came out even before that i played MW3 on the WII of all things, and playing Black Ops 1 on my friends ps3... so long ago...

[@HS_Rick]

The amount of SWAT and Infection played on Reach... Yeah i miss that 🥲