From Concept to Classic: The Untold Evolution of Halo Reach

[@highstakes9696]

Reach's home screen was another reality as a child. Such an awesome game.

[@Jakomelo]

6:27 I remember getting accepted into this beta when testing the new xbox dashboard before release. They sent me a reach beta disc in the mail and I felt so cool being able to play this before any of my friends. Back then, I had no idea what an NDA was lol

[@yosiyyahu.bar.stephen]

I remember having it on XBL. My buddies and I all we’re chomping at the bit for it to drop. One of my homies even stayed home the first day it was released. It was incredibly fun.

[@TrapToise]

I will never forget all those memories I had on the original 360 servers back in the day, I no lifed the hell out the multiplayer back when I was a teenager and not a single bit of it do I regret. This is my all time favorite game period and always will be, glad to be a Halo Reach veteran. Remember Reach.

[@Jayven45]

Fun fact at 0:56 the third Spartan in the gray armor is actually wearing Mk.V with a Mk.IV Helmet and shoulder armor. This image actually does make it into the final game on the "Team scoring tab" Originally Mk.V and Mk.IV are supposed to look identical the only differences are Mk.V has a more angular helmet, different shoulder armor, and shield emitters. Isaac Hannaford has more images of this design on his artstation as well as a redesigned SPI as well.

[@bladedcarpet]

The WIP reach soundtrack is so awesome- If there was a way to somehow extract the files for that… I’ve been trying to look for the music ever since watching this.

[@PounderMcNasty]

Here's the track from another creator kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3WyiWWOqqdjac0

[@jimbean583]

Holy cow that music was so raw sounds incredible. I'm glad you pointed that out.

[@ReachTea]

Some seriously cool things I've never seen, love to see Reach stuff

[@elytheodst]

Back when game devs were allowed to have fun.

[@tromar5758]

POV you have no idea how game development works. The 90 hour work weeks bungie did while crunching these games sound soooooooooo fun dude

[@elytheodst]

@ true. But at least they weren’t contractors and could make what they wanted for Halo.

[@TheRedMenaceProductions]

man, the old halo UIs were so awesome. It's such a shame they got rid of them in MCC. cool vid

[@Rafi_Poc]

The best Halo ever made

[@x1ev]

man i love halo reach.

[@ThatTallBrendan]

Downloaded this in case it gets nuked. Multiple Guardian Forest videos have been taken down and I'm not making that mistake again. Considering I haven't seen these mockups or concept art anywhere else... I appreciate you taking one for the team in the event this gets nailed. (Unless this is readily available stuff already, I guess I wouldn't know)

[@yes-mf2sw]

Halo was always a special game series. I love these documentary style videos. Subscribed man, would love to see more in the future.

[@PounderMcNasty]

More to come!

[@switchboy2320]

Halo Reach was my very first game and holy shit it turns 15 this year

[@fleckvii2403]

really well put together video. Was shocked when I saw you only had 390+ views on this, deserves a lot more. Keep up the grind

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

I was looking for a vid about it but couldn’t find it til this was just recommended to me.

[@shnorglebop1798]

Honestly a lot of those early UI elements remind me of what we ended up seeing in Destiny.

[@Stitch_666]

The drone was a continuation of the drones we see in the start of uplift reserve that fly over Dutch, so I don't think it was an early prototype of the sabre

[@Kijiko_]

Microsoft really should consider letting Halo do another spinoff standalone game like Reach.

[@menaceofnorthmemphis]

Nah they really need something loke odst this tome an actaul marine or touch on the books.

[@ehhhwhatever202]

Thank you for uploading this brings back tons of memories of the golden age

[@bloodmoonangel8925]

This will always be the best Halo game ever made. Bungie's magnum opus

[@mattuiop]

The menu music was in the public beta. Variations of the lone wolf theme

[@DeviousD216]

Good content bro. Thsnk you.

[@BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHH]

Remember reach and remember us when you'll have thousands of subs

[@Moldovanhoodclips]

This game made my childhood

[@Hal0isfun117]

This game defined me and I’m surprised at all the stuff in the pre-release compared to what we finally got, especially the soundtrack holy! But still definitely liked how it turned out. Best Halo game imo

[@tijera1234]

Funfact: lets be glad the rights for the ost are with bungie. Which is more concerning with the leaks since what happened with "the Marty dilema"

[@Sahlan_Ahamed]

That's a pretty cool soundtrack from very early build!

[@patrlim]

your audio mixing could use some work, but youre on a very good track

[@PounderMcNasty]

Agreed! The next video will have much better mixing 🤘

[@georgethekid5692]

Peak 🥹

[@alwayslast8900]

We need those reach tracks

[@CharlieDompler-r9v]

I've forgotten how good Reach's menu art was

[@monolith4653]

Isn't the drone plane visible in ODST? And on the Carrier outside of Longshore

[@metta116]

Bungie had a toggleable skill based matchmaking

[@hoomanperson236]

And it was still loose and sheet, beautifully perfect sbmm

[@The-Information-age]

I thought this was the other mcnasty I was so confused😭

[@MasterJohnHaloChief117]

That apc looks like the aliens apc

[@xGljtchx.]

was this also stuff from the 100gb data leak from halo or was it something ellse

[@TheThrashed]

Since when was there a released halo reach alpha? I don’t remember that ever being released

[@Moldovanhoodclips]

How were u able to run these builds?

[@R0ZEN7]

How much of this is from the leak besides those 2 screenshots?

[@vigilantbingo8985]

Mcc messed up the customization

[@BlatantThrowAway]

M$ copyright strike imminent.

[@BlatantThrowAway]

MATHMAIN

[@Nado_89]

People say videos are underrated a lot on KZbin now but like actually what the fuck KZbin algorithm like bro also for true engagement comment:Halo Halo_studios Reach Halo_reach cool awesome enjoyable engaging epic halo video cool halo documentary

[@Rafi_Poc]

This hud looks so much better than the final one

[@FiShDiShFilms]

yooo remember when we used to play halo 5?

[@NickArcade]

Please learn how to mix your voice and video audio

[@whatsup4885]

☠️🙏🤫

[@suntzu6122]

Sorry.. classic? Reach was the worst halo ever made. Unless youre talking single player only

[@darthtard4657]

I couldnt really hear the commentary in the intro, turn up your voice! love the video!