Which Halo Game Has The Best Intro?

[@cybercat3113]

He didn’t include Halo Wars 1 because he knew that intro cutscene is legendary.

[@Centrifewgi]

@@cybercat3113 that intro cinematic is pretty great, I'll give you that

[@jacobwhelan45]

It’s the level after the cinematic that makes it fall flat on its face

[@tommythesparta4912]

Hearing the Magnum be called"revolver" felt like a mental flash bang

[@Centrifewgi]

@tommythesparta4912 ngl I cringe every time I hear myself say it. Should have fixed it in post, but forgot all about it.

[@Static0Gaming]

stopped watching when I heard it tbh 💀

[@ASFCX]

I disagree with odst. I feel like it should be on beefy. Because of the music. Plus fighting the two hunters as buck, and then using the missle launchers, that was pretty badass, and the higheay mission. And the audios are just so good by themselves. In my opinion, of course. Great vid!

[@Centrifewgi]

@ASFCX that's fair! Thanks

[@TheSwiftFX]

Completely agree with the list (therefore great video) xd

[@Centrifewgi]

@@TheSwiftFX thanks

[@AbyssalGaming825]

Good. But what is the revolver

[@Centrifewgi]

That sentence is gaining more traction than I thought lol. Magnum

[@LordEmpyreal]

Halo Reach's biggest advantage on this list, was that it's first mission was based on the second mission of CE. It starts with a little exploration, then gets a combat section, then you get a vehicle and it opens up with multiple objectives you can tackle in any order. But then, after the point CE's second mission ends, there's two more action set pieces.

[@wyattsmoviehouse]

Loving this new content, guy

[@Centrifewgi]

@@wyattsmoviehouse thanks broski

[@ChristianMartinez-co1vb]

You ever go to the doctors office to get your eyes/liver looked at? Serious question man

[@Centrifewgi]

@ChristianMartinez-co1vb yes, I appreciate the concern. I have a condition that makes jaundice a permanent reality for me.

[@BigOldBagel]

He looks like the “Aliens” guy from the history channel

[@Centrifewgi]

@BigOldBagel THEY BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!

[@Josegtz1017]

Great video. Solid list

[@Centrifewgi]

@@Josegtz1017 thankya!

[@akymbos5088]

I’m glad to see Reach got the appreciation it deserves on this tier list. Halo 2 has always been one of the best of the halo games

[@dotch8774]

Could not disagree more

[@Centrifewgi]

@@dotch8774 that's fair! Tell me your ranking.

[@ECC_GEKKO]

One thing that you didn't consider was that Sergeant Johnson's dialogue does switch up depending on the difficulty you play in CE personally I would put it in slaps just not as hard

[@Centrifewgi]

@@ECC_GEKKO fair assessment

[@wearblackclothes]

You're wrong about odst and halo 3 and I'm blocking you

[@Centrifewgi]

@wearblackclothes not blocked! Nooooooo

[@Phillibetrus]

15:49 No it is time we all agree that Halo 4 was a mid game with a shitty story, even putting aside all the retcons and other changes. Between the A plot and the B plot the B-Plot with Chief and Cortona almost works and is saved by the acting (both in voice and Motion capture) and at least is thematically consistent. Not the direction I would have taken Halo in but at least it could have worked, and I can see if you can turn your brain off and just go off of the emotions conveyed why people like it. The A Plot with the Didact, Librarian, and Prometheans was just nonsense. Didact was introduced as a mustache twirling James Bond style villain who has you dead to rights and then tosses you aside because you are beneath him and then continues to monolog at you throughout the game as if you were nothing even though you prove yourself a threat firmly establishing him as a villain I cannot take seriously. To add insult to all of this he is defeated in a Deus Ex Machina quick time event. Then there is that Librarian Lore dump that takes place mid game where the last thread of my suspension of disbelief was cut. That explanation was barely coherent and turns chief in to a literal pre-destined Messiah figure when that was best left as figurative as it was in the OT. I can however agree with your positioning of the opening to H4. Story might have been stretched but didn't go off the rails quite yet.

[@switchboy2320]

Reach and halo 2 has openings that can rival big blockbuster movies

[@Centrifewgi]

@@switchboy2320 I agree. They are superb openings

[@koregamer1996]

I just want to know where the idea that Halo 2 is underrated/some people don’t like Halo 2 came from.

[@Black_Jazz]

Are we talking about intro cutscenes or the intro mission to every game?

[@Centrifewgi]

@@Black_Jazz both the cutscene and first mission.

[@Black_Jazz]

@@Centrifewgi cool, thanks for clarifying

[@jacobwhelan45]

I respect the Halo 4 opinion but man it was just bad imo. The Didact was interesting but they didn’t do much with him, the story sucked with the only redeeming part of the story being Chief and Cortana’s individual story arcs, the art design was bad, the elites being randomly bad again was confusing at first and really jarring, less than half of the missions were actually fun and memorable with the only redeeming quality there being the sandbox, and the multiplayer was imo the literal worst of any other halo game. Just my take though

[@Centrifewgi]

@jacobwhelan45 the multiplayer I agree with. I honestly didn't mind the story. Some of the missions were admittedly less desirable, and the didact was underutilized for how cool he looked.

[@jacobwhelan45]

@@Centrifewgi I also felt Halo 3 built him up so much with the terminals only for him to have 3 in game appearances and have little relevance to the series as a whole

[@GH0STCCC-vu5rz]

Halo 4 is definitely controversial. Imo, It's a bit of a "perhaps I treated you too harshly" game. At least with the other stuff 343 has put out, 4 ain't that bad now. It's still far from perfect, but games like 5 and Infinite stop me from saying it's the worst Halo. Solid list either way, You've earned a sub.... #ODSTisUnderated

[@Centrifewgi]

@@GH0STCCC-vu5rz much appreciated!

[@ZetaofCE]

I feel like all of the intros are great, but I guess some are dragged down from the fact they don't feel "Halo"

[@Thecoolspartan]

Halo 5

[@cloudgamer178]

"a-boat"

[@BurntSofa]

i like the take on h4. to me halo will always be a trilogy

[@kellinwinslow1988]

I was 32 when Halo first came out so I had already played plenty of FPS games like Doom,Duke Nukem,Half Life,Turok 2,Quake ECT. Even still Halo was a very good game when it came out and I was glad I got an Xbox. I also got it for the Sega games but that's another story. So having played every Halo game up to this point except Infinite,and going back thru the Master Chief collection and Halo 5,I agree with your placement. The first game is still good but the gameplay is a bit clunky and some of the level design wasn't good then and it's not now. A lot of copy and paste elements and a lot of sameness after awhile. The Library is still not a fun level. The second game is however still great. Especially the enhanced version with the amazing cutscenes. The story is well told and the characters are enjoyable. The third game is good but I always felt it wasn't that great. If felt a bit recycled especially the terrible driving section at the end which was just as bad as 1s driving section. Still it was fun enough. ODST is fine. It's not bad but it's not really good. Playing as a normal human is a good idea but it never felt like that. The characters were boring and the gameplay was pretty rote at this point. Reach is a great game. Great storytelling and a good lead in to the first game. You really feel the tragedy as they fight a losing battle. Just getting the Pillar of Autumn off the planet at the end is the best they can do. This game should have been the entire first season of the garbage Halo show. How cool would that have been to be with these characters thru the whole show just to have them sacrifice themselves at the end. Then you could introduce the Master Chief as it leads into the first game being the second season. God that show was so bad it makes Halo 5 look almost good. Halo 4 I think is representative of 343s problems. It starts off good. It looks good. It plays good. But they never understood Halo at all. They make the MC to be far too much of a superhero and they keep retconning and rebooting their own stories. Halo 4 and 5 really don't feel connected very well and making Halsy a bad guy and the UNSC kind of shady doesn't work. It feels very much like modern Kurtzman Star Trek and that's a big turn off. Lets just have the good guys be good and the villains be villains. Halo 5 and Infinite both have issues. Especially with the story. It's like everything that they set up at the end of 5 just gets tossed out the window and taken care of off screen by Infinite. What was the point? It's like there was a whole game that went missing. It's like they wanted to reboot Halo for new players but also wanted the old players and neither really cared. Infinite is so dead now it's like the show. Now Halo is a damaged franchise and I really don't know if they even know what to do with it. Much like Gears of War I don't trust the teams making the games. Too much DEI infested garbage has been slowly eating away at these companies and the end result is mediocre products that are forgotten about by the time a new game comes out.

[@Centrifewgi]

@kellinwinslow1988 I am in agreement with a lot of what you are saying. But I do happen to love the final warthog run at the end of CE and 3. If the S1 had of been about Reach, everyone would have loved it, but it is somehow worse than Halo 5, because at least Halo 5 is enjoyable to play.

[@kellinwinslow1988]

That I agree with. Maybe it's because I played all the Halo games back to back on the MCC collection and by the time I got to 3 I was a bit sick of the Warthog. Lol. But on its own it's a fine scene. But yes the show was so miserable and mishandled that I can't believe it got made. But 343 was on board with it so that tells you something right there.I like both Gears and Halo but maybe they both need to take a rest much like Star Wars and other longtime franchises that have been milked for too long.

[@Centrifewgi]

@kellinwinslow1988 I personally think Gears of War is one of the few franchises Microsoft has left that has consistently had good games. I like Kate's story, although it has lost a lot of its more grimey and dark tone. I absolutely do not agree with the insane amount of microtransactions however.

[@kellinwinslow1988]

​​@@CentrifewgiThat is True. Although it's much like Halo. The fourth game was a good start. A good set up for something new. Sadly I think both 5th games kind of pissed away the potential they had set up. Marcus's son could have been a good main character. His friends were fine but Kate I found to be extremely annoying. She was a good side character but that's it. as soon as the focus shifted to her I could smell the DEI coming off the writers. Especially when they started talking about how they wanted to change the fact that it was always a dude bro shooter and make it more "accessible". That was a red flag. Trying to appeal to an audience that just isn't there. But when they constantly put Marcus's son down and made him look like an idiot and then prop up Kate and have Marcus confirm how good she is and then give you a choice as to who to let die at the end of the game. No. That was just bad. It's so bad. And sales reflected that as well as how quick it fell off in multiplayer. You can tell they knew how bad it was because the next game goes back to being a prequel instead of being Gears 6. It's a lot like Halo with their constant course corrections. Now both Gears and Halo are hurting and I don't think Microsoft can make people care anymore.

[@racenturtlez]

you gotta get into Halo Wars man, you'll go from halo fan to halo super fan

[@Centrifewgi]

@racenturtlez I played halo wars back in the day, but never got the second one.

[@racenturtlez]

@@Centrifewgi Halo Wars 2 was so cool that Halo Infinite's team looked to it's design and story for ways to rescue the franchise after the Halo 5 dumpster fire. It was a hail mary and it worked, can't recommend Halo Wars 2 strongly enough Also, i'm currently replaying all the campaigns on legendary and your tier list is perfect except maybe put Halo 5 even lower somehow ❤️

[@Centrifewgi]

@racenturtlez yeah? Guess I'll have to give it the old college try! Also, you're right. Halo 5 shoulda just been put in the trash lol.

[@Randomgui220]

Good vidio 👍

[@Centrifewgi]

​@Randomgui220 why thank you!

[@saricubra2867]

Halo 2, Halo 3 and Reach are god tier.

[@jabreo]

I personally found Halo 2's mission worse than CE's, but definitely a better cinematic. Definitely don't think 2's should've been in top tier but it do not matter!!!

[@Centrifewgi]

@@jabreo which one would you put in the top?

[@jabreo]

@@Centrifewgi Reach, i agree with that wholeheartedly

[@Centrifewgi]

@@jabreo right? Soo gooood.

[@ThePilleroflightning]

@@jabreoReach is so mid though. ODST is so much better. Better atmosphere

[@jabreo]

@@ThePilleroflightning You cannot be real rn lol Reach has an excellent atmosphere as well. ODST does have a better atmosphere for the setting and theme it provides but not gameplay or story and to call reach mid in comparison is just wild my guy

[@Drygun01]

Halo 2 Halo 3 Halo CE Reach ODST Halo 4 Halo 5

[@Centrifewgi]

@@Drygun01 lol lost it with Halo 5 being 30 spaces down. I'm surprised to see Reach so low. Solid list tho, glad to see the love for Halo 2.

[@Drygun01]

@@Centrifewgi I respect your point of view. You're a bit younger than I so I get it. I don't think giving back the covenant there 💣 was weighted enough in your vid. That was the 💩 back in my day and the anniversary remake cinematic?!? Chef's kiss!

[@Centrifewgi]

@Drygun01 that and the "for a brick, he flew pretty good!" God the dialogue is so good in these games.

[@cloudgamer178]

Halo 3: ODST has one of the bwst intros, wth

[@Centrifewgi]

@cloudgamer178 It's all subjective. I'm curious: What about that intro makes it one of the best for you?

[@elytheodst]

Halo Combat Devolved clearly wins here

[@A_man_called_EZ]

I respect your opinion on odst but it is flat out wrong

[@logangray4437]

Halo reach W

[@iateyourlizard3497]

Not against you but this list is kinda Dookey. I may make my own list

[@Centrifewgi]

@@iateyourlizard3497 by all means. I have no problem with people disagreeing

[@Hellobaseddepartment]

Revolver?

[@Centrifewgi]

@Hellobaseddepartment ik ik. Came out and I never corrected it. Rest assured I know it's the magnum.

[@aidenheck2944]

Glad I wasn’t the only one lol

[@onikai7055]

Halo 5s intro cinematic is terrible all it does is appeal to the teen super hero power fantasy which makes sense because halo 5 is rated for teens. I just like the idea that Spartans are too powerful to stop and there’s no real risk involved it’s like no one can actually challenge a spartan even tho we know in the lore that’s far from the truth.

[@SpaceNavy90]

Some of the worst takes I've ever heard

[@Centrifewgi]

@@SpaceNavy90 that's what I'm here for.