These cutscenes cost $1 million per minute to make...

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Heretic
04:31 - Cairo (Opening)
08:16 - Cairo (Closing)
11:10 - Outskirts
12:22 - Metropolis (Opening/Legendary)
13:30 - Metropolis (Closing)
14:51 - Arbiter (Opening)
20:29 - Oracle (Opening)
20:52 - Oracle (Save from storm)
21:21 - Oracle (Banshee grab)
21:44 - Oracle (Banshee crash)
22:03 - Oracle (Boss)
23:11 - Oracle (Closing)
23:41 - Delta Halo (Opening/Legendary)
26:06 - Regret (Opening)
27:00 - Regret (Platform)
27:23 - Regret (Closing)
28:11 - Sacred Icon (Opening)
31:52 - Quarantine zone (Opening)
32:25 - Quarantine zone (Gondola)
33:24 - Quarantine zone (Closing)
35:34 - Gravemind (Opening)
40:11 - Gravemind (Closing)
41:14 - Uprising (Opening)
41:41 - Uprising (Closing)
42:36 - High Charity (Opening)
43:53 - High Charity (Closing)
44:35 - Great Journey (Opening)
45:00 - Great Journey (Scarab)
45:26 - Great Journey (Tartarus)
47:31 - Ending
50:32 - Day at the beach! (BONUS)
53:45 - Halo 5 propaganda BS
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[@opulenthalo]

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[@RCP4]

Hi Opulent, where did you get the 1,000,000 per minute figure?

[@opulenthalo]

@@RCP4 reddit, the home of facts

[@TrueSpartan079]

Honestly, these cutscenes are just incredible. One can only imagine the same treatment for Halo 3…

[@kingpepper5014]

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING

[@IslandBoi808-zy7gy]

I wish they gave the same treatment to infinite. Hopefully they go back to making quality cut scenes in the next game and anniversaries

[@heroicdairy]

Don't be ridiculous, 343 are deathly allergic to giving the fans what they want

[@lifewithhonordiewithglory1835]

I like the ingame cutscenes in infinite. It's so good looking with the different weapons u can choose from

[@robertxxd1175]

​@lifewithhonordiewithglory1835 Yeah, that is a nice detail, but the graphics and animations look horrible,

[@nickkoch6740]

A million and a half on that completely unneeded Locke and Arbiter scene lmao sheesh

[@Intensepath16]

Wasn’t that scene from halo 4? Or am I wrong because I just played halo 2 and I never saw it

[@poinced7096]

@@Intensepath16 halo 5

[@nickkoch6740]

@@Intensepath16 I’m pretty sure it was added with Halo 2 Anniversary when they remastered all the cutscenes

[@brandonhogsett7346]

@@nickkoch6740this is correct

[@ShyNomad]

The best part that scene isn't even cannon anymore. XD

[@OpenBorders4isengard]

So you’re telling me a 2hr movie would cost 120million? That doesn’t seem right.

[@reesespuffs207]

that's what the budget of most movies is

[@PrestonJ17]

Halo infinite costs over a billion dollars so yeah it makes sense.

[@Jbeckjs]

Actually that sounds totally realistic

[@iRunfastXC]

That’s like a low budget big box office movie, why don’t they make it already?

[@PrestonJ17]

@@iRunfastXC you’ve seen what they do with the halo tv show, plus you can put way more into a game.

[@spc1481]

Why, just why Paramount's "Halo" show wasn't like this? Any of these Halo 2 game cutscenes is infinitely better than the entire show in any and every aspect!

[@HawaiianForgeStudios]

Probably cheaper too.

[@nickkoch6740]

Show director’s hubris

[@ramennight]

Actually, yes. 90-200 million for the show. To be fair, these cinematics already had voice acting and the story made. They where just remaking things. So to make stuff like this from scratch would cost more than 1 million per minute.

[@samspeaks2016]

The clip at 0:00 - 54:37 really stood out to me

[@brokenleftearbuglord9106]

Yeah that very last second just didn’t stand out to me like the rest of the video.

[@luislol1221]

No wonder they are not making a halo 3 remastered

[@LeroyJenkins781]

Even though LITERALLY EVERYONE is asking for it

[@inductivegrunt94]

$54 million. Money well spent with how beautiful the cutscenes are. Except, 31:13, yeah... That. Little woops there.

[@quote6013]

What am I looking at?

[@quote6013]

Wait no I see it lmao how'd that make it in

[@TrueSpartan079]

@@quote6013They accidentally animated the Phantom flying away so they just reversed the shot to save time and money

[@nickkoch6740]

Hahah nice catch

[@mowbrizzle922]

Yeea they thought we wouldn't notice. Honestly a shame they didn't fix it before they released it... But I think the only reason why it's so overlooked is because Halo 2 is a fantastic game anyway so it's really no biggie. Just look at it as a top notch phantom pilot showing off their reverse piloting skill 😂

[@clonecommandermike332]

It costs 500k dollars to play this cutscene, for 30 seconds.

[@kodykj2112]

While I do still think it is ridiculous, you've gotta think of all the moving pieces in a movie or cutscene of this quality. There are writers, editors, dialog, voice actors, composers, musicians, audio engineers, travel expenses, motion capture, set assistants, hardware for motion capture/editing/audio/video, directors, plus the immense amount of time it takes to go through each second of the video to fix errors and add detail (and that probably takes multiple people), plus probably dozens of other things I haven't mentioned. You could make the argument that not all of that is necessary but I don't know anything about cinematography or editing.

[@guitarmaniac2012]

I can't even Imagine the rendering time these shots took. Even on a beefy computer, I am sure these took several hours, if not days, to actually render

[@adamdahlstrom2095]

54M is nothing for a company like Microsoft. This could be the standard

[@rascal016]

Every time i see these cutscenes, i remember what a Halo movie or the Halo tv show COULD have been. And god damn do i wish it would have been like this. Expensive, but certainly not impossible with their budget. Besides that, they put far more time and money into the game, if they would have given the same love to the show, we would be set. As it stanslds, each episode (roughly 40-60 minutes per episode) costs $10M, bump that up to $40M, cut the episode count in half, stick to the existing Canon and we could have a show like this within the budget. It saddens me that, in an alternate universe, we do have that.

[@playjonas2]

These cutscenes are turning 10 years old this year, 2024.

[@deckercs2188]

a movie like that would be insane

[@Arachisage]

money well spent

[@Rijah14.]

Here to stop the bots from saying first

[@darkspark5854]

He’s the hero we need but don’t deserve

[@idotclaves]

least npc'ish comment:

[@cody3504]

First

[@Rijah14.]

@@cody3504 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@cody3504]

@@Rijah14. 😂

[@MacPanama]

Was the backwards phantom scene free?

[@Harrison.DuRant]

While these cuts enes are indeed insane (almost perfect IMO), I just dont know about them costing as much as the title says they do. No proof, it just seems a bit high. H2A is an absolute masterpiece in my book. The best story in all of Halo.

[@arbiterrr1179]

It’s crazy how good these cutscenes are even in 2024

[@eliflores9819]

My favorite part: 0:00 to 54:37

[@nickkoch6740]

My favorite part: 1:34 to 54:38

[@MakutaOfficial]

Idk why they ever thought the cutscene between locke and the arbiter was a good idea, lol. Yeah for the time it was a marketing strategy for Halo 5 but after the game dropped it literally serves no other purpose.

[@nickkoch6740]

Not only is it dumb and bad, but it actually spoils the ending of Halo 2 (human and elite alliance) for first-time players. Bizarre choice to have that made at all.

[@Jimmy_Rings]

Source? You can’t just make a claim that these cutscenes cost a million a min and not cite a source or quote or something. I can believe that remastering these cutscenes was an expensive endeavor but 1 million a min? Come on

[@EddieFreak]

It’s true this has been common knowledge for awhile

[@mikekosh4436]

I wish 343 would just produce the halo show or movies like this it matches the art style perfectly something live action would not be able to capture.

[@qualityesports7802]

Worth every penny.

[@goodsir1004]

Worth every cent

[@onelongwordable]

I do not believe the title

[@logangoulet7522]

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[@imir_]

Yeah it is clickbait

[@InfiniteNaos]

I’ve always wondered why the jaw designs of the elites were changed when they had them correct in the promotional trailer between Arbiter and Locke.

[@FireChicken747]

Worth it

[@WEAVERMACH]

I hate to be that guy, but you didn't factor in the alternate dialog animation for the different difficulties for the beginning of Metropolis.

[@opulenthalo]

That is very true

[@thepogoplayer4938]

It’s crazy that this stuff requires an unnecessary amount of money

[@masternoremac3738]

I pretty much lived at high charity, all i played growing up HALO 2

[@MYyGUN]

Whoa, whuly does this feel so good again

[@BARACKOBMNANA]

The halo show we could have got

[@peytonlutz1]

Family: Wow! Such a nice $310,000 4 bed 2 bath home! Microsoft: 21:44

[@cyronader]

And this is why we only got one.....just one in Halo Infinite starting mission. You can't call "in-game monologues" as cut-scenes.

[@DogCat21280]

That’s insane 1:52

[@chuck6668]

No way!

[@AlexHristo]

If only CE got a remaster like this…

[@SuperDecimator]

Well, I definitely recommend skipping the first million so that you aren't confused lol

[@StarKnight619]

that one person who does animation on their own time- Yeah I do this shit for free or views

[@waffalter1131]

I don't know why they don't make these cutscenes as Animated Movie, and use a normal or not so expensive Cutscenes

[@dr.wallacebreen3859]

Blur also made the cutscenes for Infinite Warfare. Can you do a video on how much that should have costed too?

[@fragban5994]

A million a minute means if they can get Hollywood to approve, they would have the budget to do this for a full 2 hour film. Especially seeing that the average Hollywood budget nowadays is in the 100 million range.

[@Major_Zephyr]

People really don't appreciate how expensive and difficult it is to make videogames

[@ilu9170]

so you just randomely say it cots that much or is there a source of your claim?

[@HRHooChicken]

I highly doubt they spent $54m on this. Use your common sense.

[@HaloVFX]

Where are you getting these values from?

[@opulenthalo]

Reddit lol

[@opulenthalo]

The source of all facts

[@user-kq9mq8jj5g]

i truly dont understand why its so expensive to do this

[@ChefandTheArbistor]

How much was the budget for H2A? Goddamn! The Halo TV Series was around $90-$200 million, making this into a full 10 episode long season would be around $541 million. I say its worth the extra cash. With a couple of changes, this would be perfect.

[@TheTransformer333]

Looks great but why does it cost 1 million for each minute?

[@FastGeheimable]

Better then the entire TV crap show.

[@badvideoeditor]

Source?

[@RuthlessSpartanB320]

My source is that I made it the f*ck up

[@imslimey779]

Trust me bro

[@OGslays]

Thats alot for something regular people can make for 4 grand a minute

[@MacBamboocha]

"Halo 5 Propaganda BS" It's a simple joke, sure, but that made me laugh. Hard!

[@WhitestManAlive303]

Get taxed

[@OrionPax1303]

imagine nearly billion spent on a fucking shit show of a reality tv show, when could have had more of this for a fraction of the cost

[@Rugarus]

Give me a break lmao, these cutscenes don't cost 1 million$ per minute. That's actually hilarious. The entirety of all these cutscenes was probably done for around $2-5 million. You have no idea how much it costs to hire these animators, artists and designers. A freaking episode of game of thrones doesn't even come close to the total budget you have in your video xD

[@Headloser]

I heard it took Bungie to create Destiny 2 over 10 years and the cost of 1 billion dollars. This video above is cheap.

[@varentou5993]

Sucks for them because people could make this in their basement now lol maybe not as easily the sound engineering but visually speaking

[@ratoz8127]

I thought a minute costs 250k?

[@Mrsuperspartanman]

1 million per minute? Nah somebody lying, but yeah cool story bro

[@everybodysfavoritenobody]

Why are they soo expensive?

[@AidanHDok]

Blur studios had to make the models, texture, animate, and render. That all takes many many hours and equipment that probably costs millions

[@everybodysfavoritenobody]

@@AidanHDok but millions is something I'd expect someone to spend on an entire army or city, not a game. DAMN!

[@AidanHDok]

@@everybodysfavoritenobody dude I wish maybe then I could afford a house

[@adamdahlstrom2095]

You are aware that the standard movie budget now a days is around 150-200M. With higher budgets reaching 200-300M? A that does not take into account the ad campaigns etc. for eg. Avatar: Way of the water had to generate 1B to not be a flop. So yeah money is flying all over the entertainment industry

[@Rocco049]

⁠@@everybodysfavoritenobody dude multiple games cost hundreds of millions to make. RDR2 cost over $170 million and Star Citizen cost over 400 million to make. Video game development is really expensive

[@i_woke_up_in_a_new_buggati]

Why does it cost 1 million dollars a minute to make???? What takes up that budget?

[@SuperAaron55555]

I just don’t get it. I believe it cost this much, but why? Why?

[@ReventiX_Gaming]

Tell me the price is insanely stupid without telling me that the price is insanely stupid. ))))))

[@kuda9464]

I can't understand why it would cost that much. Maybe the voice acting?

[@clonecommandermike332]

I guess animation of this quality is expensive

[@nize2beme]

I expect none better from blur studios... Seriously look up what projects they've done. They aren't new, or small

[@Taylor_Lifts666]

Locke’s voice sounds out of place.

[@samspeaks2016]

343 was about as good to Halo as Disney was to Star Wars, but they did contract these cutscenes.. We all miss the Bungie Halo, but man I love these cutscenes. Masterpiece.

[@elitetrooper119]

There is no way that these cutscenes cost that much. What in the world would make it so expensive? A guy down my street with no college diploma can do this and does for a living for like $200 😂😂😂 I don’t understand where the expenses are. The audio files are all just copy and pasted from the OG game. The only ones that weren’t are the Locke and Arbiter scenes. Was that how much the VAs wanted? Cause I dunno what the fuck they’re talking about bro. Someone please explain

[@deathsinger1192]

animation, high quality at least, is HELLA expensive

[@ericcuellar404]

The halo 2 cut scenes have been spiced up by thatspearheadguy so i remember those

[@Aceofspedes]

No they don’t cost that much and you’re a liar

[@idotclaves]

this... is worth every single penny

[@masterchief9743]

Ai will reduce the cost to 10 dollars an hour