Can I Beat Halo 2 on Legendary in Under 3 Hours?

Hello beautiful people (and the rest of you too) for this video I did Halo 2 runs in an attempt to get the Monopolized achievement for beating all missions under 3 hours on Legendary. It was tough.
Footage of each level with no commentary/edits: • Halo 2 Monopolized Runs
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[@rileyscorner]

guys… im no expert but i think he’s a frog

[@Jacob-360]

What’s your source of information

[@CARNIFEX420]

I’m a frog Expert and I can confirm that is a frog

[@unappealingpig8592]

Could be Krogan???

[@zyncwargaming179]

mmm, you sure its not a toad?

[@j03r11]

No cap?

[@bobewellv.026]

The fact that nak3deli has been gone from the Halo community for almost a decade but still has his name mentioned here and there shows how iconic and influential he was in the speed running community

[@TheDeadricLordDagon]

I hope wherever he is, he at least still enjoys Halo

[@JonOPBR]

i’m new to the halo speed running community to be honest, is nak3deli like the halo runs jesus ?

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@JonOPBRHe is the reason why I managed to beat all campaigns on legendary initially. He even had an achievement named after him. I think he left because Microsoft since the 343 era started being very… eh. They wanted him to change his name because it had naked in it.

[@ZzPsych3dzZ]

@@Devin7Eleven But didn't they know? Though his name says "naked," he's a "mostly unclothed gamer." The keyword being, "mostly." 🤣

[@tomislavdatyrant]

@@JonOPBR Hes like the passage of "throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles us and run the race marked out for us. My presumption would be Eli was saved and met Jesus after his betrayal and exiting from Halo community

[@bengokey5342]

Halo 2 in under 3 hours??? Now you just gotta do Halo 3 and you're a certified trilogy runner lilbro. Banger vid, regret had me chuckling at all the jackals, nice job Frog.

[@TheMcK777]

Consider that hurdle hopped

[@daveyjones7391]

I see what you did there…

[@truvc]

every one of those levels takes me at least an hour

[@tobythedevil1874]

Pro tip for anyone wanting to get this acheivement; to make it easier everytime you die save and quit and reload from your last checkpoint because if you get a checkpoint at 6:45 and then die at 8:13 reloading the game will also reset the timer back to 6:45

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

Blew my mind when I figured this out after I had already gotten the achievements for Reach and ODST (not that the ODST one is hard)

[@mountain_watcher_8730]

You've got to be careful doing this though. One of the posts on TrueAchievements says that you can do this, but not in the last area of a level, otherwise the time won't count.

[@Nickoshot]

@@mountain_watcher_8730 I remember reading that on TA but I reset to my last checkpoint on Metropolis a few times and didn't add time, also I had a hard time with the Regret boss and it didn't add time so who knows

[@laminar2477]

@@mountain_watcher_8730 Yea, I'm not convinced this is still the case. I did Monopolized just two weeks ago and reset continuously on just about every checkpoint on every level, and it popped with no issue.

[@Jacob-360]

That Cat getting sniped jumpscare got me.

[@stylesrj]

After watching a lot of Slipspace Entertainment videos, it becomes kind of expected...

[@agentmaryland1239]

The answer to why the reinforcements on the escape the prison segment died is simple. If you sit in the back of the second level lifts (where it has a wall mold that sticks up a bit), for whatever reason, it deactivates the lift, causing everything coming down to hit the fall timer instantly.

[@stylesrj]

Is that a repeatable thing or is it one of those "I think that's why it did it in my playthrough" while others had their own little spot where it happened or it doesn't happen when they did exactly as you or someone else told them would do it. Because I have had the lift deactivate in some of my playthroughs but I dunno if there was a specific spot or trick.

[@stever7665]

It is repeatable. I always stand in the center of the 2nd floor lifts. It's also timing. You have to get there before Cortan tells you that reinforcements are coming. Wait a bit, or until you see weapons fall over the side and you're good.

[@danielhance3325]

"Now you speed by everything and hope you don't die" Frog: *makes it through with minimal damage.* Me: *immediately gets blown up.*

[@comrademonolith5421]

New speedy frog guy Halo video just dropped. Happy Sunday.

[@getampt22]

The gravemind trick (the enemies coming down the elevator dying from falling), all you have to do is go to the third level, trigger cortana saying "hostile reinforcements, coming down the lift" and before she finishes that sentence make sure you have already gone back down to the second level. Works every time.

[@jesterjay420]

I earned the Goat Roped achievement using the save and quit trick for deathless runs on solo, some optimized co-op runs, and flood-bumping and the banshee drop on Keyes and AOTCR. That being said, my first and only time completing Halo 2 on Legendary was over 8 hours and I refuse to commit to the self-harm of going for Monopolized.

[@browe091]

It’s really just regret and Gravemind that reallllly blow. I saved those two for last and used like 50 minutes of my 3 hours just on those two levels 🤣.

[@jesterjay420]

@@browe091 regardless, I’d rather drag myself through LASO CE than touch Halo 2 Legendary again.

[@tobythedevil1874]

The save and quit trick works for halo 2 aswell. Pretty easy after that

[@JA-kr1lz]

@@jesterjay420 you’d really love halo 2 laso. Hours and hours of ‘fun’

[@jesterjay420]

@@tobythedevil1874 noted, but where I’d average 5-10 deaths on a CE run, I’m not going to use that exploit 50-100 times just to rage through Regret again

[@onyxcideYT]

Major respect. This isn’t an easy feat.

[@alexanderedwards4617]

I think this video perfectly captures just how hard this achievement is to get. With how great you play and all the routes you take and how fast the levels seemed to go and when all was said and done you cleared it with less than twenty minutes to spare. I think getting the LASO campaign achievements for ODST, Halo 3, and Halo 4 were all easier than Monopolized.

[@NexusSomnia]

In my recent run, I found that hiding under the shades at the end of Outskirts and weaving between them when your shields are up makes running with a ghost much more survivable.

[@sethcurtis7167]

Flood scared me as a child. Now it's those damn sniper jackals.

[@muji5875]

Welcome to the club, frog. H2 best speedgame. Learn cancels, they're free. It takes literally 5 minutes. Flies hard, Cancels free. Also, general tips: Cairo: You can just sword lunge the first two jetpack elites. No need for sticking with nades or anything like that. Metro: The moonjump strat for boarding scarab is easier and more consistent, and saves a nade. The antenna can get knocked down by wraith shots, which is what happened to you. It is also possible to deload the scarab after you board it if you go too fast. You probably weren't going that fast but there's a 6 second window where you're kinda doomed if you early-board the scarab. If you really were going fast its possible the antenna falling saved you from this. Arbiter: After you clear the hangar, 3 grunts will spawn with FRGs. A few seconds after they are cleared, a checkpoint will pop and the far door will open. So as soon as you spawn the grunts, take a couple out, grab a FRG and run for the door. Don't hang around or you'll have to deal with all the other spawns too. There's also an easy way to safely get through the room beneath the hangar, go up the ramp, headclip the box until you get camo then jump across the rafters next to you. Always bring a fuel rod gun from the grunts in the hangar. You'll want it to clear out one nasty hallway of grunts with needlers. Oracle: You can headclip to be safe for the whole elevator ride. When you hear the second lot of sentinels spawn in the death barrier goes away and it becomes possible to jump down to the lower platform early. Also, the lab fight is on a timer after you kill the initial flood, the heretics who enter, then 4 more flood. Flood will stop infinite spawning after 60 seconds. You can just chill for that time, then take out the remaining flood, and the door will open to let you continue. Regret: At the beginning there are fairly easy skips on MCC, it isn't too hard to learn something called the God Despawn. For some reason everyone uses a nade jump to cross the gap but its waaaaaaaay easier to just use a slidejump bouncing off the left railing. Also a lot of "guides" dont seem to mention that once you're on the gondola you have to delay the checkpoint until the phantom spawns in or the full trick won't work, so once youre on the gondola melee constantly until you hear the phantom fly over. But honestly the whole level is a cluster. lol you should see how bad it is on Classic. There are only a few IL submissions because the start is so awful - So enjoy MCC regret because it is the easy version. QZ: in the first room where flood are fighting sentinels, don't drive down the ramps, just boost the ghost straight towards the exit door. Fly off the ledge, its much faster and just as safe. Press jump to lift the nose of the ghost a bit to clear the "lip" on the ledge. Also yes you clipped a spawn trigger. There are a couple triggers that are crucial and a couple that are optional. If the FIRST room in the crashed sentinel factory is empty, you skipped a crucial one. If the wraith as you exit the sentinel factory isn't there, you skipped a crucial one. The skip you got in the middle is fine. GM: Good job making it through as fast as you did, but prison skip isn't *that* hard to learn. I would consider prison skip easier to learn than learning to do prison fast. Uprising: If you fly through that room you can sometimes skip a trigger that loads the enemies in the next few rooms. It is a few seconds slower for speedrunners since you have nobody to cancel on. But it is safe so thats cool. HC: Don't feel bad, that one room is hard for everyone - but you went in with a carbine+sword. In the second dark "garden room" there's a flood with a rocket launcher. Grab that RL for the best chance to get through the room fastish. Also - when you're going up the elevator, melee or swing a sword until the elevator is near the top. That'll delay a checkpoint until just before you get to the top, so if you need to reset it will be a quick reset not a long elevator ride. Great Journey: If you leave the starting spectre among the trees on the left, it becomes near 100% consistent but loses a few seconds. Where you left it is usually safe but you can get unlucky. Listen for explosions as you ghost away. Consider resetting if you hear something that could be your spectre blowing up. Often halfjaw will boost his wraith through it and wreck it. Sometimes an elite or brute can jump in it and drive it off, and it'll despawn that way too. At the very end you jumped into the load zone. Since you were there with a banshee you could fly the banshee into the load zone and the banshee would come into the monkey fight with you. Even if you dont wanna use the banshee you could load on the first possible frame since you can just hover in the load trigger. Anyway GG. Also running CE is for skrubs.

[@fromthegrave69]

Frog is so good at the game he can despawn enemies multiple times without even meaning too 🫡

[@MythicTyrant]

Your Jackal Sniper remarks and reactions had me rolling 😅

[@Lilac_005]

I have no idea how you do this on legendary. It's really impressive to me. Great stuff Frog!

[@ZachAttack11231]

Yo, Frogarchist! I saw you in my Halo Reach multiplayer lobby! That's really cool, that this happened! I love your videos and the sheer coincedence that you popped up in my Reach lobby is cool!

[@tunics3946]

The fact u mentioned NakedEli is crazy to me, I watched him when I was younger n always was curious why he quit, same with RCVGS

[@JonesHS]

Killer video. Can’t wait to see more of Halo 2!

[@xxchickenjoe]

frogida forg frog

[@bengonzalez1598]

The "HI, I'm a frog" keeps me coming back.

[@tomdr93x]

Incredible, and to think it was a frog playing all along.

[@CyberKnight1]

Monopolized is probably the achievement I'm most proud of, not just from the MCC but across all of Xbox. It was a lot of work, especially since I'm not great. I can't remember what my total time was (and Waypoint is having issues when I try to look it up), but suffice it to say I had very little time to spare.

[@ComaToast712]

I wonder if there’s a Cody Miller CE speedrun equivalent for Halo 2 that you could cover. I adore that video, we could use more like it.

[@jhinabloomingflower807]

Liked and Respect for showing the Original Art and Beauty of the Original Graphics of Halo 2 ❤

[@dndgeek4112]

I was expecting another sniper death before Regret, then Kat caught me off guard 😂

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

I appreciate the "let's hop in" at the start of every video

[@ferretthegod]

HELLO FROG! I enjoyed watching this video at 12:31 pm on Super Bowl Sunday!! Congrats on getting the Monopolized achievement!!

[@adepressedgamer7786]

I know the pain you went through to complete this. As I too am part of that 0.03% that have monopolised. For those curious here where my final times: Cairo Station: 11:39 Outskirts: 6:05 Metropolis: 11:41 The Arbiter: 12:39 The Oracle: 19:35 Delta Halo: 6:31 Regret: 30:31 Sacred Icon: 11:32 Quarantine Zone: 08:37 Gravemind: 37:17 Uprising: 1:53 High Charity: 6:26 The Great Journey: 15:04 I decided I would improve my times on every level except regret and gravemind in the hopes of not having to do them again, which it worked out well for me, as I had 38 seconds to spare.

[@Costilicious3]

6:29 the sentinel death there was so clean 😂

[@S0meguy889]

This is why frogs are my favourite amphibian

[@matthewmccorkle3039]

Dude the jumpcut to cat getting sniped gets me every time

[@manfromhamaslume]

8:56 thanks for the jumpscare 🤣

[@TwiceTheBitsGames]

Imagine this. A Halo channel where someone actually makes content about playing Halo. Incredible. Fantastic edit as always Frog

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Pretty solid run, not really any mistakes that one wouldn't encounter casually from what I can tell other than silly speedrun shenanigans.

[@JacobT-1]

This was a fun watch. I liked the fast pace and your effort in editing. Would still be happy with slower/longer videos too (not criticizing or suggesting, just saying). Congratulations in getting this achievement and for the KC win.

[@briansardinha5396]

Halo 2 is my fave and I'd love to see more Halo 2 speedrun content. I liked all the Halo CE speedrun content, too.

[@anguscrawford381]

new subscriber! absolutely love the content! PLZ keep it up!!!

[@MintBlitz]

NEW FROG VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@charlief.]

Congratulations Frog! Looking forward to more Halo 2 speedrunning!

[@slightlyoddsalad7024]

6:28 a beautiful moment watching a sentinel get slammed

[@jesuschrist7833]

I’m subscribing for the Title and the title alone.

[@I_enjoy_some_things]

It’s incredible how well the Halo games hold up. It’s so easy to see why they revolutionized FPS games.

[@mattchooblink]

Good job, frog. I really liked that you did this while not sword flying because~~[gets sniped by jackal]………

[@defaultgraycat]

This is my favorite Halo channel

[@rollypolly.1]

Nice. I had to take a break of a couple months when i did this achievement. I kept gravemind for the last mission. It was worth it, im glad im part of the 0.03%. good job on this one

[@prongs8488]

I'm sure someone else has brought it up, but the long elevator at the beginning of the oracle is on a simple timer; you can head-glitch into a spot on the upper structure of the elevator, wait till the kill-barrier is dismissed, and then drop down to the doorway safely. No fighting necessary Edit: also the sick guitar is the amazing Steve Vai, a lot of it was improvised in studio, there's some videos floating around on here of the OG session, and it's crazy to watch everyone realize they're listening to pure gold

[@DanielCornwall519]

I love Halo 2 so much so thank you for showing a video of the Monopolize achievement and proving to me that you don’t need to do Every modern Speed run trick. Please do more Halo 2 content, but I’m happy with your current content as well lol.

[@Ionthepro]

Definition of halo 2: dual wield....jackal sniper....gondela.....epic one-liners.

[@marcooliveira7909]

Quality videos man!

[@sumomanify]

One day frog will go for the laso achievement 🤞

[@zanzibarcraig1174]

I will definitely shout-out this walk through when doing my Solo run for the channel 👏 new subscriber

[@TackyPaladin]

Very good job Mr frog! Well done

[@TheEGrievous]

damn nice, I still have to do this.

[@legofilmsable]

Hey Frog! Someone who's gotten all 700 achievements on here, Monopolized was by far one of the hardest, honestly in some regards harder than the LASO. Good job getting it!

[@BraedenDuvalll]

Good job frog

[@cip7742]

Awesome vid bro.

[@The_Array117]

I love your videos!

[@Grimpy970]

On 'the oracle', during that slow elevator ride down, you can do several jumps and load glitches that will bring you to the bottom of that shaft in like 1 minute flat. I could never get it right, myself, but if you know the loading zones, you can at least drop yourself to the bottom near the end of the elevator, and you don't even need to glitch a death barrier or shuffle around in the way speedrunners do. My cheap method only saves like a minute or so, but it's better than nothing! I personally just can't seem to figure out all of the load glitches, only the final one.

[@captaintophat6815]

Good job, like the progress of all the games.

[@hydry6317]

I was about to write a joke where I said "Halo 2 on Legendary is like playing as Kat from that scene at the end of New Alexandria" but you beat me to it damn

[@robwrone]

Not bad at all considering you don't main this game. Good stuff, Frog

[@andrews3554]

I’m excited to see you learn sword flying. Very fun thing to watch and the payoff is insane.

[@muji5875]

For speed at least, the payoff isn't that big. It saves like 2 minutes in the run. Cancels are the most important trick to learn.

[@Halo64]

Halo 2 best halo

[@NarratorInSkylands]

..imo, No. 😭

[@quixquire1761]

Halo 2 definitely had the richest story and additions to lore, but in terms of enjoyment and emotional payoff at the end, Halo 3 comes out as my favorite.

[@kokomart_in]

Honestly, Halo 2 is pretty boring for me. Everytime I play it I feel like I'm wasting my time with it, something that I never feel while playing any other Halo game, especially it's predecessor (Halo CE my beloved). The story is probably the best in the franchise, but I can just watch that on youtube.

[@Outcastsage9033]

4:17 "Wait what the fuc-"

[@Rhylum]

12:26 pretty rude of those speedrunners tbh, I'd NEVER ask such a question

[@kylerbryant3772]

Good job! I personally know what it’s like playing legendary but never under 3 hours.

[@BuckeyeNut123]

very well done. also, nice achievement

[@thunderslug1066]

Just a tip for Gravemind, you can fire the needler as fast as you can pull the trigger, so you can get supercombines much faster

[@joshwatterson7841]

Another banger video

[@JDDupe]

Love ur vids

[@graveheart9878]

WOOOOOOOO!!!! FROG DOIN' A HALO 2 VID YEEEAAAAAA!!!!!!

[@TonyC2328]

Dude as a kid on Outskirts I used to jump on the Pelican that picks up the Marines later, then go onto the buildings. Until I watched speedrunners a couple years ago, I didn't know you could go so much earlier haha There's an energy sword up above in the Sniper Alley, was never mentioned in the guide book.

[@hostlitd112]

9:35 lol just like me, i was really scared to go through the hallway full of green fog that endlessly spawns flood, and this was my limit in a childhood

[@Marauders5]

Ah, i remember. Did all the games 3h achievement back in 2014. It was fun and challenging. Also did most LASO achievements. Just Halo 3 LASO left, but i'm stuck atm.

[@woodsyjones]

Frog is goat

[@abbe9641]

OMG IT'Z THE SPEDRUN FORG!!!!4444

[@ihateallthethings2683]

I remember countless sleep overs in middle school with me and all my boys trying so hard to beat this game on legendary 😂

[@Robxn0]

Kat out here catching strays.

[@ryanv3841]

8:51 now that was just uncalled for

[@HomelanderXVI]

i remember my first halo was cea, i loved the series ever since

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

OMG, 20 years, and I had no idea there was a Warthog in the back of the bridge 🤯😱

[@gabriellong4375]

The real achievement is the friends we made along the way.

[@jackgaebler1170]

“Gravemind is my favorite level in the whole franchise” you ok man?

[@BobsUrUncleWasTaken]

If you have sticky nades you can stick one inside of regrets shield to do a lotta damage. You just have to time the button press as you board. And occasionally it will stick to you and kill you if you don’t time it right but it makes it so you only have to board him 3/4 times.

[@Anonymous-nl1lt]

I wanna see a meme category where all enemies get replaced with jackal snipers

[@Howtoeatrocks]

For fun you should try the mermaid marine glitch, when going on the under water elevator slam the door on a marine so they levitate outside. For some reason they don’t die while under water and depending on the angle they stick on they’ll swim super fast laps around the elevator in their idle position

[@MrDoggson]

Would not have this cheevo if it wasnt for Bean, top speedrun carry.

[@asder2036]

On a side note, I think I may know some ''speed run trick'' that apparently others don't (based on this video, no idea about the rest). In the infamous super long final gondola of Quarantine Zone, if right at the beginning you enter the channel at the bottom center of the gondola (some flood spawn there early if you don't), then you will not be seen for the rest of the ride. It's a lot easier than the jumping around frogarchist did and just as effective.

[@muji5875]

Jumping up there is absolutely free, there's no way to mess it up. You jump onto the "handrail" bit, then jump onto the pillar. That's all the jumping needed. But its also slightly faster casually because you can run out THROUGH the front wall of it directly into the library as the gondola arrives, rather than having to leave a hidey-hole and run to the edge. But either way it is much faster for serious speedruns as once we're up there we can manipulate the position of some flood and do a funky sliding swordfly to make it all the way to the human's gondola entrance, which saves like 10 seconds.

[@asder2036]

@@muji5875 makes sense, thanks

[@ujingamer]

I just got monopolized yesterday and i am slightly pissed causr i learned some of the speedrun tricks and some of your times were still better than mine. Oh well i had some great times in there too.

[@AmazingCrimsonDragon]

For anybody wanting to go for this achievement, if doesn’t make it entirely clear, but it does NOT need to be one consecutive run. It uses the best time you have from each mission to calculate the total.

[@calvinsharlow1440]

Genuine question what do you think about Halo MCC mods and do you intend on playing them for some video just wondering

[@theadministrator4765]

Library 2, electric boogaloo got me dying... lol

[@SchwiftyFeet]

Watching the Super Bowl👎 Watching Frogarchist 👍

[@IINC0RRECT]

Yesterday I got the Nagato Makes Moving Easy achievement for beating Halo 3 ODST in under 3 hours, seems like they only take the best par time you get on every level and add them up for a total so yea beat halo 2 in collectively under 180 minutes in total which I'm pretty sure I used half of in metropolis

[@bazukawars9354]

5:41 longest elevator ride of your life…so far

[@TheMartin1427]

When a I grow up I wanna be like you (I'm 24 lol), the under 3 hrs achievements are the only ones that I have missing in MCC