So I've Never Played Halo 2 Before...

[@indeimaus]

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[@MJ-mu3kb]

I cant believe you've never played Halo 2..one of the best single player FPS ever!

[@seanquek3231]

yes finally

[@hotpotato9558]

i just wanna say that i love your art

[@jiffbombastic3694]

As pretty as H2A is, the flashiness of the weapons can get in the way of visual clarity :/

[@MJ-mu3kb]

they added a weapon offset option to all the games in MCC so you can move them out of the way :)@@jiffbombastic3694

[@sirsage3311]

Alexa, set an alarm for Heroic Halo 3 for 5 years.

[@SkimoFiend]

I set mine for after GTA 7

[@Americanbadashh]

Gotta do ODST first

[@LordoftheDice]

I set mine for after Silksong comes out.

[@Dave_Chrome]

Alexa, wake me... when you need me.

[@wastrelperv]

​@@Dave_Chrome Funny reference but don't expect any wake-up call. 😂

[@Mariopwnzu]

"I tried to kill Johnson for his sniper" He says, while the prompt to trade for his sniper is on screen

[@AgentSmith-oh7sb]

I love that Indei's reaction to the ending was identical to all of those who were there originally. The feeling of just pure confusion, "that's.... that's the end?"

[@EnolaGay15]

doesn't matter how great the journey is if it ends by driving into a brick wall.

[@JustRaury]

That cliffhanger though

[@TheSchnieder6]

35:17 "Apparently the Flood are invincible" Ah yes, now you see the issue

[@theonlyzanny]

Fun fact: This is the best of the classic Halo games

[@DarkheartTheFox]

It's good to know one of my youtubers has good taste.

[@Ken-zp5qp]

Zanny

[@brunokieszkowski347]

Nah zanny ce the goat

[@efaypee]

man of culture... i can only hope to see a collab even if it wont happen

[@SuperLumianaire]

It's my second favorite out of all the ones I've played. Reach was my favorite over all.

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4464]

The song at 20:17 is called Follow in Flight and was composed by Misha Mansoor, a guitarist for Periphery.

[@TheDerpp]

as soon as i heard it in game i knew who it was. such a distinctive sound. what an incredible choice for a guitarist from the devs.

[@VeritabIlIti]

Didn't realize they added new music for the remaster, woah!

[@chaoslord8918]

You mean Misha "The Electric Lightbulb" Mansoor? I thought this music had a Periphery sound to it. It is a genre of music from the future, after all. This may be blasphemy, but I still prefer the original Follow.

[@kyotra]

@@VeritabIlIti Well yeah, unfortunately a remaster doesn't have the same budget to pay the RIAA scrooges for Breaking Benjamin and Incubus.

[@megadeth8592]

@@kyotra boo hoo

[@dragonnight2796]

Those first 30sec scared me so badly thinking you first experienced this masterpiece on Legendary of all things, thank god Zanny intervened

[@TheFranssiBrother]

On first halo Act Man told to only play on legendary if indei grows lot of chest hair

[@cesly87]

Zanny doing God's work.

[@dmonitize9011]

Nah, that was incredibly lame. Just shows he's a wuss. Going against the 70% of who voted on the poll, why even have a poll in the first place?

[@daBears06]

I'm not watching no more

[@chozochiefxiii3298]

Legendary has always been for achievements and masochists. Heroic is the intended way to play Halo. It says so in the games menus and the sanbox, and enemies are set baseline to heroic. Then they're scaled down for normal and easy, and scaled up for Legendary. The only game Legendary worked without any hiccups was ce. It's been a few years since I've done it so I'm going through the original trilogy on mcc on legendary again. Just to have it completed. Unless you play a specific way they're not too fun on legendary, because a lot of the sanbox becomes worthless.

[@epoch151]

Your guns take up the whole screen because Halo 2, 3, ODST and Reach were made with lowered crosshairs in mind, 343 made centered crosshair the default in MCC and it moves the viewmodel offset up and blocks the screen. You can switch it to lowered in the settings

[@Kazeromaru]

Halo made me dislike any shooter where the guns are so low on the screen you can't see them, I also absolutely hate games that make you turn the gun to the side and hold it to your chest when not in play... Halo ruined me.

[@LaserStorm117]

Took me a minute to figure out my dyslexia was not acting up for ODST.

[@larsen8059]

@@Kazeromaru lol same

[@triforce_tri]

20:14 well you're close. They actually got Misha Mansoor of Periphery to compose this track. iirc, the original game had Incubus for this sequence

[@A1CDante]

I thought it was Breaking Benjamin originally. Dope that they got Misha to record the new track tho

[@triforce_tri]

@@A1CDante I knew Breaking Benjamin was also in it, but I couldn't remember where Blow Me Away plays. It was probably them

[@Mr..Malice]

@@A1CDante Incubus plays during the banshee sequence. Breaking Benjamin comes later, during one of the covenant civil war levels. I dont recall which one exactly off the top of my head.

[@RandomBeefTaste]

​@@Mr..Malice Breaking Benjamin is at the end of Gravemind at the Mausoleum of the Arbiter where the Elites and Hunters fight the Brutes

[@Helikopterrrn]

@@Mr..Malice It appears at the end of the level "Gravemind", towards the end of the game (3rd last level afaik)

[@no0bw1th4gun]

Watching the bit where Maus was playing as the Arbiter for the first time reminded me of the first time I played Halo 2 back in middle school where I had no idea that I could go invisible and beat the whole game without it. Felt like such an idiot when I was complaining about one of the sections in campaign with a friend afterwards and he was just like "why didn't you just stealth past them?"

[@meteor22]

I bet a lot of ppl had the same xp.

[@KaleidosXXI]

@@meteor22 I really doubt that, the game flat out tells you how to stealth.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

@@KaleidosXXI A lot of people can't seem to read road signs either.

[@donovanfaust3227]

​@@KaleidosXXIyeah unfortunately plenty of people would've probably had the same experience. Part of play testing isn't just for finding bugs but also to make sure players don't get lost, confused, or miss a tutorial. Unfortunately developers can only do so much and there will still be a percentage of people who play a game and just miss stuff that should be obvious. One of the usual challenges a developer might face is how to direct a players' attention upwards, something that doesn't seem like it would be too difficult but can take quite a few iterations on a level's design to help facilitate that simple action. Gamers just aren't good at noticing stuff sometimes, especially when they're younger. I imagine a good amount of people were kids playing this game when it came out, I know I was only 10 when I first played. The game sold 4 million copies in '04, so even if you say only 1% of people had a similar experience, that's still 40,000 people. I don't know about you but that's a lot of people in my mind.

[@Heretic_real]

Glad you completed Halo 2 in a short three years Maus.

[@TrippyDrippy07]

I have been waiting so long for this to hit the feed

[@spehizle]

I'll enjoy watching a Halo Reach playthrough projected against a beached supertanker while the ocean burns in 2066. It'll be a nice distraction in between fighting off Loyalty and Safety Drones from the Amazon Peace Core.

[@wastrelperv]

I'm erect.

[@InspirationalBacon]

Fuck the corpos

[@MrJesus4132]

The marine falling with his grenade and then getting stuck on the side of the elevator broke me for about 15 minutes

[@IamSP3NCE]

That reaction to the cliff-hanger at the end is the pain the entire Halo community felt in 2004. What a banger of a game.

[@dearcastiel4667]

9:02 nah everybody agrees that the remastered graphics for Halo 2 are wonderful and very faithful to the original, everything Halo CE Anniversary was not. The cutscenes are also dope as hell, while the CE:A cutscenes usualy butcher the cinematography the originals had going on.

[@itsawoodchuck4330]

Halo 2 Anniversary did butcher some of the cutscenes however. They didn’t understand the intent or opted for flashy pretty graphics instead of substance in some instances. Such as when Chief gives the Covenant back their bomb, as he’s flying towards the carrier it fires a beam at him and misses, then as it adjusts it’s shot and is about to fire a UNSC cruiser flies into the way and sacrifices itself for 117 to make it by. In the new graphics the Covenant ship immediately fires at the UNSC cruiser and destroys it, then they show an extended and pretty but Micheal Bay style explosion and Chief simply slips by to the Carrier unnoticed.

[@omegaentertainment01]

@@itsawoodchuck4330 to be fair, Chief _is_ extremely tiny compared to the size of a UNSC Heavy Cruiser like a Marathon, even with the bomb, so the new graphics version where it _doesn't_ try to waste two beams on him and instead goes for the kill on an actual ship is...understandable.

[@jordanclark4635]

@@omegaentertainment01yeah, the covenant firing a glassing beam at chief wouldn’t even make sense given they probably wouldn’t even be able to pick him up

[@HollowedKnight66]

The whole permission to leave the ship and bomb ride sequence is a classic Halo moment

[@mitchboland9591]

Halo 2 is my personal favorite halo. I think it’s easily got the best story in the series.

[@cameron818]

FYI you can give a Squad member a gun like a Rocket Launcher and as long as they are with you they will never run out of ammo. So if you have a guy riding passenger in the warthog trade a Rocket Launcher to him and he will have infinite Rockets to shoot at enemies. This works in all Halos

[@TheGamingShadowCat]

Not CE tho since that feature wasn’t a concept until Halo 2

[@damaged_good7666]

Man, I remember my legendary run on the original game. I remember having to memorize the locations of all the snipers in one area before I could progress because as soon as you stepped out they would head shot you. You made the right decision to do Heroic lol!

[@BaerTaffy]

29:57 BARS

[@isaacclarke8420]

Heroic Halo is one of my favorite videos of yours. I never thought you were going to get around to the other Halo games, I’m so glad you’re checking them out!

[@jaffathegoon4831]

love the MSpaint animation style

[@kabob0077]

12:59 This speech, like the one at the start of CE, it different depending on the difficulty. Honestly, the Heroic one is the best IMO.

[@starsilverinfinity]

You saved Keyes from becoming the giant spaghetti elder god in Halo CE

[@jaker259]

Halo 2 with sprinkles mod, literally just adds more npcs and vehicles to fights and really makes a lot of these fights even more fun than they already are

[@Slashersah]

"How squishy was your tank in legendary? Give it to me straight." The thing was about as strong as the Master Chief on legendary, which is to say, a particularly light breeze would kill you. As a side note, on Halo 2 legendary, you are only tougher than one thing, the flood infection forms (the small crawly things) which you literally are able to instant kill.

[@RaydenDad]

I don't know if you read the comments but your videos are so dynamic and entertaining. The editing (particularly the intros) are fantastic. Anyone can tell how much effort you put into your videos for us, and man! Incredible! Keep up the great work!

[@Haggysack2k8]

Video: "Chapter 2: The Jackals" Me: *Laughs like a maniac* "This is where the fun begins!"

[@fishanonymous5353]

I just rewatched the halo 1 episode yesterday so goated that this one came out today. Please don’t make us wait so long for halo 3 one of the best in the series

[@solaire3271]

Saw geoffplaysguitar in the intro credits and knew what banger was coming. Thank you for this amazing video of my personal favourite of the series

[@Did_No_Wrong]

I'm really loving the 1,000 yard stare meme that lethal company started.

[@Tenkster]

ITS FINALLY HERE! By sheer freak coincedence, i rewatched Heroic Halo yesterday and was wondering if/when this was coming!

[@nesbittracing1081]

That opening had me do a double take like "is this if the Halo theme was done in doom eternal?" So then when I back the video up and see it's composed by GoeffPlayeGuitar I can't help but give out a HELL YEAH! 😂

[@foxerbox]

There is no one person I'm more excited to see a video from than Indeimaus. A wonderful time as always. Just lovely.

[@gabrieljensen4032]

Such a nice surprise when you started singing out of nowhere. Now I'll never listen to Overcompensate the same way. Do the full song!

[@Spumoon]

I don't recall why I'm subbed to you, but welcome to one of the most important games of my childhood. I can't begin to impart how cool it was to get on Xbox Live for the first time and hear everyone around you in a match chattering in proximity voice. Halo 3 was great, but Halo 2 will always be king for me. It was a game so big they had to cut it short, and it was still absolutely massive in terms of content. Had so many little things like the Clan friends list, playable Elites.. Definitely the best Halo multiplayer maps for me, from Headlong to Containment. Halo 3's Sandtrap is close behind in the running though. And I don't care what anyone says, unintended weapon combos like the BXR, BXB, double and quad shot were a neat feature with potential to change the genre from and fps to a fighting game. I remember going to 'BXR training on Lockout' with my clan, telling middle school me I was going to be an MLG gamer 🤣

[@kabob0077]

10:26 Yeah, they're in that little area on your left at this encounter, the spot before the alleyway basically right there where you died basically the direction of Chief's legs if they weren't curled up. They spawn there on Heroic and Legendary

[@1.0xY.m0r0n]

I beat legendary with my buddy on coop in high school, and it was BRUTAL. It's easily one of the hardest things I've completed in a game. It's been like 15 years, and gravemind still gives me ptsd lol.

[@TheBloodySycthe]

The music for the beginning cinematic 👌🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

[@vanguardv1nce12]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Finally we've made a sequel. I hope you get to the next game before I end up in the old-age home.

[@caytheknight]

Thanks for uploading indei was having an episode and this helped alot

[@Tamed_Delirium]

this video is so good wtf, you might've played halo 2 on heroic, but hot damn you captured the vibe and did the game a service

[@Mandasai12]

I'm glad you went with heroic for your first playthrough! can't wait for Heroic Halo 3!

[@kabob0077]

8:00 What you're on is part of the Super MAC's assembly, anytime it fires that part recoils down.

[@walternelson2687]

Yeah good thing you went with Heroic for this one. *experiences Jackal Sniper PTSD*

[@BudgiePanic]

20:00 There is a video setting that makes the weapons take up less of the screen In the original xbox version the weapons were lowered, and they moved them up in the PC release, you can toggle back to the original position in the video settings The same is true for Halo 3 if you ever decide to play it

[@Spumoon]

13:34 as long as Chief's suit has shields, his vehicle cannot die in Halo 2. Once your shields are down the vehicle hull can take damage. Wish Halo: Infinite had this feature, because the Banshee there feels like a paper airplane.

[@Kimchi_97]

This is the best Halo in my opinion. It absolutely slaps. And, Misha Mansoor, the inventor of djent worked on the soundtrack! I think 3-2 songs. Highly recommend checking out the band Periphery for anyone who's into the more metal heavy tracks in Halo 2, Misha is their lead guitarist and his riffs are unmatched.

[@thenoob2021]

I wish I could play this game for the first time once more as well. For anyone it's a blessing to have this chance which in your case you spent only a few days ago, and it's still a blessing that you have more Halo games to play

[@DylanRiley2011]

27:17 - looks like we're goin' down, baby. Top 5 Indeimaus moment right there

[@jps_musics]

20:12 RAHHH DEVIN TOWNSEND MENTION!!! I noticed it first time playing Halo 2A as well. And it’s actually Misha Mansoor from Periphery!

[@langaming9956]

25:42 - Did that Jackal just said. "What the fuck?! Oh my god!"

[@poogles2866]

Long time viewer always happy to see a new upload! your vids are a highlight of any week you upload.

[@janfloresrodrigues624]

My best friend in highschool had never played a Halo game since he grew up in a PlayStation household, he stayed over one week during summer and i had the MC Collection so we started playing , he was impressed by the new graphics of halo 1 and then we started Halo 2 on classic graphics, when i pressed the button to switch graphics he was stunned and loved it, to this day we actually never finished it since we got sidetracked with other games we also wanted to try together

[@joebenjamin7465]

New iron pineapple and indiemaus on the same day? Must be my birthday or something

[@mussahemed1153]

I can finally sleep in peace knowing this video is out. Love you man

[@HedgehogY2K]

13:54 Yes, YEs, YES! DO IT! I do it lots of times.

[@townbug]

that bit you had about the cannibal named hannibal is defined as nominative determanism. its this funny theory that people do stuff alligned with their names. like terror billy being a supervillain or john halo being master chief

[@jacoboking36]

14:03 you can fit the tank. If you get the left tracks over first, the rest will follow pretty easily.

[@11natey]

I was like "this sounds a lot like overcompensate instrumental" and then the singing started lol

[@reapinglegend6644]

IM SO HAPPY you know zanny. 2 of my favorite legends

[@AndreSilva-oi5ug]

My favorite part is when jhon halo gets on the halomobil and "ta ta ta TAM, taa ta ta TAAM" all over the bad aliens

[@kabob0077]

10:41 The ones in Reach also hit like a train in melee, except that here they don't kick and roundhouse kick.

[@kingsleycy3450]

Zanny is a real one for saving your sanity

[@willem8820]

Chips Dubbo is an Aussie marine and a legend in the Halo universe

[@becomeunreasonable7508]

Been waiting three years for that sick track and title cards again, never disappoints

[@FreckleMcMur]

13:50 you can fit it through there and on the end of the other door too, you just didn't try hard enough.

[@Grevane16]

Always a treat to hear more music from GeoffPlaysGuitar, even better in a Maus collab!

[@tazerface4twny9]

The doomXhalo song was perfect, btw your the best content creator alive, till next time outstanding job on the video and we will see you soon

[@EnzoHyz]

I’ve spent my entire indeimaus career waiting for this moment. I’ll let heroic slide!

[@heccmcgee4352]

The original trilogy is downright such a good story paired with intense gameplay

[@adamcairos6206]

Love the intro maus, 20:15 the soundtrack was such a banger 🔥🔥🔥

[@lorddanielthesecond73]

The Return of the King

[@mateogajardo2196]

Sally finally woke him up from the 3 year halobernation

[@kabob0077]

8:12 The guys at Bungie legit call the bomb the Space Pickle.

[@doctorcoke5072]

6:53 idk man, I think if the corpse was of an alien in the first stages of invading Earth I think I might be in the same headspace too tbh.

[@personnelproton]

12:23 That is a perfect Lazy Masquerade impression lmao

[@aarongariepy2539]

22:30 I should know this song, but I'm just having the absolute smoothest brain moment trying to remember what it is.

[@Djent_Djenerator]

Around the 20:20 mark the take flight song in the soundtrack was written by Misha Mansoor of Periphery I believe!

[@TheWarleader]

It's finally come!!

[@Caluben]

Ya know, if your next Halo video takes another 3 years, it'll be just like 2004 all over again having to wait 3 years to wrap up that crazy cliffhanger.

[@jamesmcdonald9313]

He had the legit 2004 Halo experience when completing the campaign. "Alright lets gooooo! Wait, that's it?"

[@thehumanstunlock7588]

the way you crunched "follow in flight" was sick honestly

[@kabob0077]

4:21 Honestly, if we got the lighting engine the E3 demo used then Halo 2 would be one of those games people would say is still extremely beautiful to this day. Shame the actual console couldn't handle it outside of dev kits.

[@carcinogenical4389]

The pumping bridge section is sick. If you look up you see its part of the mac cannons reloading

[@carterremm]

Its such a treat to watch you enjoy one of my childhood games, love ya maus!!! ❤❤

[@amo.mp4]

I’ve never watched you play a game that I had already played. Exciting!

[@manbro1746]

29:05 you can shoot those buttons with a plasma rifle and they will open in like 2 seconds.

[@tonypajamas7773]

I don't mean to diminish your skills or the base level of entertainment you give but I really live for those home alone edits lmfao

[@KryselITG]

Legendary Jackal: "Next time. . ."

[@anonimus370]

god damn, you got Geoff to do the music! That's so cool.

[@colintudor66]

Finally a video that isnt for a game i was currently playing or about to play. Been waiting for this one for a while!

[@mjay6245]

7:58 Bro thats the MAC cannon firing and cycling lol.

[@brofenix]

Lol the Indeimaus humor is great as ever :DDD

[@soulminiatures7387]

I played Halo as a child and i never noticed what Kind of comedyshow this Game is at Times. Good stuff.

[@Tamed_Delirium]

That use of the pit people soundtrack got me so happy

[@Bobbyfishnugget]

The banshee section on the first Arbiter level also had a sick original soundtrack. The remaster changed some of the song choices so I'd recommend checking out the original song as well, it's a bit of a different vibe but still great

[@Mr..Malice]

The wait was worth it!!! Great stuff, Maus! Keep the series going!

[@ndro_gyny]

I watched the first one two weeks ago and I'm over the moon that this has happened now.