Halo 2 Original Soundtrack: Volume I - High Charity (Extended)

[@Zillennialll]

Levels and ambiences like this, is why Halo 2 Will forever be #1 in the Halo franchise.

[@OrbitalSnapshots2455]

Games claim to have "good graphics," but I have yet to see such beautiful style and pure art such as this backdrop and music in a video game now. Especially taking a look at Halo Reach's backdrops! It's not just about how fancy and realistic the lighting engine is. it's about this.

[@edwardwindsor2516]

Artistic direction and style trumps pure graphical quality

[@mikhailzavarov4958]

how did something so beautiful ever get composed for a 2000s shooter lol

[@daymenleo6895]

that's the holy journey my friend in of its owe mystery theirs always Halo wars .

[@blazedchiller8560]

There’s something that this song that completes the chief vs mercy moment for me. It’s Calm, serene, yet two enemies are exchanging dialogue. Mercy knows he was left behind but still believes in the great journey. Ironically chief shows mercy and stalls the infection so he can get information. Chief could’ve smacked mercy around interrogation style but I do love the irony of connecting with mercy through mercy.

[@Fallcooldude]

I freaking love Mercys final words as well. Just the sentence "Earth to finish what we started. And this time none of you will be left behind" gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it. He does not attempt to beg for his life or asked to be mercy killed. He simply lets chief know that with earth finally discovered, truth is setting his final plan in action and taking the fight to humanity's home world once and for all.

[@eviltimcurse9490]

Despite how fucked up the Covenant was. I can't help but pity them when they lose High Chairty too the Flood. It was basically their earth.

[@flippedoutcookie]

It was only "earth" for the prophets. On account they destroyed their real world. The other species didn't have the same tie to it.

[@bobREALOG]

@@flippedoutcookie more like a reach

[@viktorandniko5298]

This song always carried a feeling of loneliness

[@Forerunner2]

A sort of eeriness,or sadness.Music for a last stand in my opinion

[@jonmarsh7914]

or adventure

[@SoggyBandit223]

That's funny, for me it feels like a calm amongst the storm. A sense of peace despite being caught in the middle of the bloodiest civil war the covenant would ever know.

[@FreeCon01]

I think of it like -high charity is like any other city. there are innocents families and regular creatures misguided by the prophets down there It makes me feel sad for them knowing that it's only a matter of time before the flood consumes all.

[@conswan57]

@@FreeCon01 especially on the mission high charity you can see the pelicans flying down in the distance

[@ghoulcity117]

Fuck... Why did you have to leave us?.. Now we are stuck with the prometheans... Where is the old halo? The one we all miss and love?

[@SuperMrGodie]

343 don't make promises to fans... if you know you can't keep it

[@LilGrims20]

Yhep m2 dude mis halo classic ard

[@bornestellar6334]

I have dreams with this song in it, all of the time. I'm always floating in space, looking at the core of our galaxy. It's so serene.

[@raid89100]

The galaxy has a core?

[@OpticBeatz]

raid89100 basically

[@eikh1682]

@@OpticBeatz The core of the galaxy may as well be the sun.

[@OpticBeatz]

Eikh The Gamer core of our solar system, you could say that

[@yunada4277]

@@eikh1682 the core of our galaxy is a black hole

[@ReveredDead]

Halo will forever hold a special place in every gamers heart till we pass away.

[@abstract5249]

Future generations will make fun of Halo for lacking depth, at least on Chief's part. Seriously, Chief has no character development whatsoever in the original trilogy.

[@ReveredDead]

@@abstract5249 That's the point though. He's a cyborg. People like mystery and Chief has plenty of it.

[@abstract5249]

@@ReveredDead Come to think of it, that's actually one of the reasons I was so drawn to the original trilogy as a kid. The fact Chief's face was never shown and no backstory was ever explained made me want to explore and find clues that might reveal his background. Of course, that didn't work out because no such secrets existed to be found.

[@asada4L]

@@abstract5249 There never needed to be any “development” for Chief. All we need to know is that he’s a super soldier that gets shit done nothing more. He’s likeable for just being a capable badass in itself. He’s a video game icon.

[@abstract5249]

@@asada4L Icon or not, I don't think Chief's character is particularly interesting. He's just another Doomguy (the first one), or Clint Eastwood, or Bruce Lee. The strong and silent badass has been done to death.

[@paulmitchell3820]

This song often makes me cry. When I first heard it play for Captain Keys death,on anniversary... I cried my eyes out. ^^

[@FreeCon01]

high charity is like any other city. there are innocents families and regular creatures misguided by the prophets down there It makes me feel sad for them knowing that it's only a matter of time before the flood consumes all.

[@Golden-Zealot]

@@FreeCon01 same. poor races that were manipulated by the 1 race that started it all, the san'shyuum. it shows how dangerous they were, able to manipulate even the most strongest of warriors.

[@murloc_rampage3856]

There are those who said this day would never come... what are they to say now?

[@tobiaslewis8285]

Saved to "Meditation" Playlist...✨

[@slowlynow9]

I remember dramatically sitting in my car before work getting lost in this song and the environment. I was in a bummed out alleyway and then right afterwards quitting my first job as a Busboy. I did it in the most serene off the cuff way my manager was probably like “bro this kids shroooomed out” hahaha fuck man good times.

[@justinpatton1091]

May the beauty of this song untie our disparate yet equally entertaining stories.

[@Andy-dh2sv]

Anthem of Nostalgia. Good times..

[@calebfunk366]

"I, forgot something... What did I- My name. I forgot... Oh! Uh... Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK."

[@OpticBeatz]

Caleb Funk saddest thing ever in the books so far besides the failed Spartans and reach falling from the fall of reach book

[@brandonnaughton73]

:'( this makes me every time because halo 2 was my favourite halo out of them all and it's sad how it ends :( when cheif leaves cortana in high charity

[@brandonnaughton73]

makes me cry every

[@leeroy6637]

You know what just clicked in my head, we never found out how regret got captured by the gravemind.

[@TJDoom04]

Lee Roy the gravemind must have retrieved his body on delta halo

[@mr.mediocre9830]

Regret did get killed by chief and then immediately after the place got glassed having chief jump in the water to get captured by the gravemind and sent to high charity, is it reasonable to think that the glassing destroyed the building Regrets body was in causing him to fall into the water?

[@channelinvalidclicktolearn9418]

@@mr.mediocre9830 yeah, seems like it would've incinerated his corpse though. But maybe the Gravemind grabbed him before...?

[@chino7316]

@Kyle Billie That's a really good point

[@voices4dayz469]

I was sitting here thinking about how much I was feeling while doing a few crunches and situps, finally noticed what was playing. The amount of emotion in the early series of this game with such an ambiguous nature is all I need to refocus on why I'm here. I feel like it's the perfect slow burn song to remind us of the cause, what ever it may be in the moment, to seek and expand that innate calling for something. Lost but not out, a lot of us are just missing in action. I love the thought of the return, it's so powerful. Chief is a symbol of characters and the embodiment of what we strive for inside, I know that each of us has a unique style, strategy and personality that works in conformity to such a great scale that goes far beyond what we feel in a day and night cycle in normal life. The ethereal plane is a strong and intense one and overflows within us all at times. Here's to you chief and all of us that played as the avatar we know and love. Cheers to a beautiful game and soundtrack of the ages.

[@tyriekcorbett3395]

If thete was going to be a halo 2 annivesary this photo would be it.

[@GlassStatus]

Tyriek Corbett ay you called it man

[@raid89100]

Have I got news for you.

[@seahawksrule975]

Great news.

[@theonlythingihavetosayis9333]

Lol

[@Edotawae]

Lmao

[@viktorandniko5298]

I forgot to add but the city is around 318Km in diameter crazy man

[@ghoulcity117]

Well, it's the floods food now

[@Golden-Zealot]

actually 348 km i think

[@fishbone493]

@@Golden-Zealot 343 if you know what i mean :) ( guilty spark)

[@coffeelink943]

The art work so fucking beautiful

[@brandonnaughton73]

and while I listen to this song I'm just thinking of what happens to all of the city in high charity

[@Golden-Zealot]

a war between brothers and brothers, sisters and sisters, and in the center of it, the parasite that took the advantage of there dividence and consumed nearly all of them.

[@rogue00]

Flashback

[@MitchCyan]

It's home to the most destructive empire in the galaxy, but it ain't half beautiful.

[@brandonnaughton73]

but still u got yourself another subscriber keep up the good work man :)

[@ELITES1171]

I like your photo(:

[@mannyoommen2768]

Will always have Paris.

[@Golden-Zealot]

i'sent high charitys city based of paris?

[@gordysutton6979]

The holy city the city that reach the stars.

[@Railroader_]

Needs a quality upgrade. Sounds very watered down at 480p

[@daymenleo6895]

Fear not no one has defeated the might of the covenant the flood to shell fail!!

[@ARMYPOLICE88]

Halo is owned by bungie. Halos 1-reach. 343 took over for the Anniversaries of halos

[@Golden-Zealot]

cant lie they kinda did good with the remasters but i will always love classic