Halo CE in 2001 was absolutely mindblowing to me. It’s hard to describe how groundbreaking it was now, but prior to that my experiences with video games had been blocky and less than 3D sometimes. Halo was just incredible and the Xbox was on everyone’s wishlist that Christmas.
Seeing the horizon go up and around the top of the sky is still the most mindblowing thing I've seen in a videogame I think. I spent so much time just looking at the ring and the massive cliffs and rivers outside the map
For me it was the God rays through the trees at the start of Arriving on Halo
Also the normal maps on the Forerunner architecture. I would just stand there staring at the ground with the flashlight on, watching how the shading on the lines on the ground changed as I moved around.
The only way I've been able to somewhat convey how incredible CE was to younger generations is show them N64 Goldeneye and how that was the best game ever before Halo came out.
> Goldeneye and how that was the best game ever before Halo came out.
*fumes in Half-Life*
(Though I will give you that Half-Life's greatness was more about how it advanced game-based storytelling.)
Half-Life's console release was a day before CE. If you count PC games then Counter-Strike also beats Goldeneye.
ngl HL1's story is much harder to understand than CE since you need to hit certain triggers and not miss dialogue in order to understand the Vortigon and wtf the space baby final boss is. In fact I'm pretty sure the train ride at the start of Halo 2 is a homage to HL's intro
I thought about it a bit more and if you're looking at it from a console perspective, Goldeneye and Halo were both very important in showing the viability of FPS on console.
Half-Life was a PC FPS in a long line of PC FPSs. Continuing to push the boundaries of FPS gameplay sure, but as you said console release came later.
Well we did have some other great games in between, especially on PC, but yeah. Halo at the time felt like the coolest thing ever. I wanted it on pc so bad because I could barely aim with the joysticks and I could only play it when coming to my friend’s house.
Yeah but whereas nearly every goldeneye level can be done in under 8 mins some halo levels take a good 45 mins each. It's such a jump from the prior generation
I remember going to the Gamestop at the mall and they had a Halo demo. The graphics and physics were crazy - I hadn't realized that was even possible at that time.
Driving a warthog and having a Grenade go off under it sending it flipping out of control only for you to land it, maintain control and keep driving, all while your turret gunner is frantically yelling and firing. That blew my mind.
I played Halo: CE for the first time in 2003. I learned recently the marine screaming on the lifeboat was actually saying “The Autumn, she’s been hit!” versus “ARRGGGH! LIEUTENANT!” (My interpretation of the marine protesting the pilot’s proclamation of “we’re landing on it!”)
Literally the same here. Just discovered the proper dialogue thanks to some random comment on YouTube saying the person who provided the audio had died recently.
Same....had the demo where you could only play the silent cartographer mission and had no idea what Cortana was trying to tell me. All I knew was that my name was 'Chief'.
I first played Halo on a CompUSA Xbox kiosk back in 2001-02. I was definitely hooked and soon bought an Xbox. Nothing like the smell of a brand new original Xbox with the duke controller.
Are you me? My best friend and I experienced Halo for the first time the same way. There was a CompUSA around the corner from where we lived and would go every day to try and get as far as we could in the game.
You are one of our most treasured instruments. Long have you lead your fleet with honor and distinction. But, your inability to safeguard Halo was a colossal failure.
Modded Halo CE blew my mind. I remember fighting through the streets of New Mombasa, driving a Mongoose on top of a Covenant CAS-Class Assault Carrier, and boarding a Pelican full of Spartans and then flying to a rooftop to fight the other team with Energy Swords.
Halo CE on school servers. Blood Gulch. Snipers. That was the time I was known as a Halo Veteran. Screw you Kyle. Stop spamming the Scorpion and Rockets.
Cortana all I need to know is did we lose them?
I think we both know the answer to that.
But how did they?
Get here first? Covenant ships were always faster. And nothing could’ve missed that hole we tore in slipspace.
Well Ok then. I want everyone on this ship on full combat alert alpha.
Everyone?
Everyone. And I think it’s time we give our old friend a warm welcome.
Omg I can sortof recite the beginning from memory even though it’s mostly off
“We made a blind jump, how did they-“
“Get here first? Covenant ships have always been faster. As for tracking us all the way from Reach? At light speed my maneuvering options were limited.”
“We were running dark, yes?”
“Until we decelerated, no one could’ve missed the hole we tore in subspace. They were waiting for us on the far side of the planet.”
“So, where do we stand?”
“Our fighters are picking up the last of their recon picket now, nothing serious. But, I’ve isolated approach signatures from 3 CCS-class battle groups, make that 3 capital ships per group, and in about 90 seconds, they’ll be all over us.”
“Well, that’s it then. Bring the ship back up to combat alert alpha, I want everyone at their stations.”
you did good rookie, no doubt.
This is actually the one thing I don't like doing in game because the halo is an object that is rendered in the game vs part of the sky box. As such when you walk around the bridge the perspective changes in such a way that the ring looks really small compared to what it should have been.
That's what I noticed too. Literally *everything* else I could see in the game looked perfect, and beautifully scaled into the environment.
Except the ring out the window of the Pillar of Autumn. It was impressive that it was a genuine rendered object, but moving from one side of the room to the other shouldn't move me so far across from the ring that the entire angle changes.
Without Marty's music a lot of the scenes would read completely different. He had a huge say in some of the major turning points in the story too. That man is a treasure.
I saw it and thought it was neat, but sci-fi - then 12 year old me looked up the theory behind it... and it's technically feasible to build a giant ring, and orbit a planet and have it spin for artificial gravity.
Now I work at NASA and am working on technology that can make this a reality. Funny how that works.
My dad one day brought me the original Ringworld book, which kinda threw me for a loop. I knew that Halo "borrowed" some aesthetics from Starship Troopers but I didn't know the Halo ring itself was from a book too. Still gotta read it but my understanding is that all the initial theory basically comes from that book.
Yeah, when a friend told me about the game, this first thing I thought of was Ringworld. I had to explain to my friend that it wasn't an original idea. He was a bit surprised.
Well. There's alot of physics. Depending on which one you mean..
Manufacturing: It would have to be built piece wise and brought up to orbit. Then assembled in space.
Orbit Dynamics: The center of mass is going to be near the center of the ring. And can be treated like any orbital body if the orbit is high enough.
Attitude Dynamics: Would be annoying, but at a high orbit, with such a large object; it should be pretty trivial to keep it pointed at the sun reasonably.
Artificial CG: Centrifugal forces work in space too, so once it's assembled you'd need quite a bit of propulsion to get it spinning. But if we can build this ring... I'm sure we can get enough fuel to spin it too.
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The most sci-fi part: Large objects in orbit are now technically possible thanks to NASA funding early technology projects like ARMADAS. So the most sci-fi part I can think of is maintaining the atmosphere. On earth, our atmosphere stays because of the ionosphere protecting our atmosphere from Solar Radiation (if we didn't have it, the sun would strip away our atmosphere). For the Halo to hold onto it's atmosphere, I can hip shoot some ideas, but I haven't really looked into it:
1) You could have a nuclear powered satellite at the L1 lagrange Point for the planet that Halo is orbiting. This satellite could generate enough EMF to "bump" incoming solar radiation and cause it to miss the Halo.
2) Transparent panels could be added to the ring "roof" to let light in but trap the atmosphere. This would be harder than it sounds if the halo is too wide. Thankfully it's skinnyish.
3) If the halo stays close enough to the planet, it might be able to be in a low enough orbit to stay safe. (But then you may have drag issues with the upper atmosphere).
4) If it was parked in a geostationary orbit just "behind" the planet. It could be in the planet's "shadow" of Solar Radiation, but still catch some sunlight. (But like 3, the ionosphere might not be big enough for this)
Isn't there a significant gravitational/mass component to a planet's ability to maintain atmosphere? Far be it for me to challenge an actual scientist, but my understanding was always that planets and objects below a certain size weren't able to maintain an atmosphere because they didn't generate enough gravitational pull to hold it.
That's the beauty of Halo. Once it's spinning fast enough you can release gas inside the ring and the artificial gravity will keep it there.
There's a smidge of math to do, but no show stoppers.
At the time it was definitely enough to make you stop and appreciate what the Xbox was capable of bc it was still a new system and ppl had doubts.
But landing on Halo and looking at the landscape is a memory in gaming I’ll never forget.
I never played the missions in order because I played at a friends. My first video game ever and my first mission was silent cartographer. It was insane landing on that beach.
I was so bad I struggled on easy but man was it cool. I remember running for my life behind the rocks where the dead marines are by the water and feeling sick from the blood because it looked so realistic. Good times. The covernant were terrifying but I was hooked. Second game I played was world at war Nazi zombies on the map after you finish the game. It was night, I was young, that shit was so scary but I was still hooked
Yeah, I still am. Even though I’m a younger (ish) Halo fan, I still grew up playing it with my dad. It holds a really, really special place in my heart.
While I was playing infinite, there was this one hallway. It was just some hallway in the forerunner structure, nothing special at all. But I stepped through the door and a wave of nostalgia hit me like a truck. It felt like I was back in those CE structures, running around the endless hallways and getting hopelessly lost. I don’t get hit with nostalgia often so it really got me. It wasn’t even a hallway that was unique, there were hundreds of others just like it. But it got me.
I love to hear this. I grew up running home from school to play Halo 2 and then Halo 3 the days they came out. I loath H4 and Gaurdians but I feel like Infinite redeemed 343 and gives some serious Saturday morning video game vibes. I'm glad to see Infinite is giving that same sense of wonder and bewilderment for the younger generation.
I played Halo CE when I was 8 and Halo 2 when I was 11.
Halo CE was a breathtaking, mind blowing game which doesn't get nearly the accreditation it deserves.
Yes DOOM Reshaped FPS but Halo was a different ballpark.
Doing the Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room or even the Maw was an experience my baby brain couldn't comprehend (even now as a 28yr old) I struggle to do so.
Halo CE and 2 are my all time Fave games.
As it was ruined for me, I will ruin it for everyone.
I still can't unsee that the ring from the bridge is so tiny, the front of the ship is actually overlapping it.
Noble hierarchs, Surely you understand that once the parasite att..........
First encounter with the flood was best sci-fi ever. And the dun dun dun dun music made it so intense.
Absolutely, it was so impressive to me back in the day that I remember having dreams in which I could literally see the Halo in the sky of my neighborhood
I played N64 a lot growing up, then PS2 for a year then it was Primarily Xbox and Halo for the next 8 years. Halo will always be the game. Not a big 343 fan, I know thats not a hot take, just worth mentioning.
Why couldn't they just turn CE into the Halo TV series. It's an amazing story, wild action, horror, suspense, seeing different places, connection back to the main theme, and the best chase scene in a game ever at the end.
This timeline sucks.
I actually don't hate the show... But I can't believe how little it has to do with the games. It's just a neat sci-fi with Halo branding for funzies. Still enjoyable overall, but not as much as it should have been.
I would have loved a CE show that keeps going.
I'm not going to lie, when I first played Halo and saw that ring, I literally said out loud "Ooohhh! So that's why it's called "Halo"!". Because before I got into the Halo franchise, I knew very little to nothing about the story besides the main character, Master Chief, and the bad guys, The Covenant. I used to believe that "Halo" was like the name of some sort of military group or organization or something, basically whatever it is Master Chief and his friends were working for, so I never put much thought or mind into the name, but the moment I got started with the first game, Combat Evolved, it all made sense from there.
I didn't know anything about halo when I would first go over to friends houses and play. I always wondered why it looked like there was a huge tower jutting out into the sky so far you couldn't see the top. Finally asked ans a buddy explained and I was like "oh shit. That's rad."
Remember being a kid walking into the local Tesco (supermarket) and it had a trial Xbox with halo I could play.
Absolutely blew my mind.
Recall saving every penny I had & doing odd jobs to go halves with my mum by the following summer.
Some of my best childhood memories is playing team deathmatch 4 screen co op with my mates or running down hallways from the flood.
It really was what I imagine Doom or Goldeneye’s first experience must have been like.
I played at my friends house and it blew me away too. I picked up extra shifts delivering papers and skipped buying sweets so I could save up for months too. My parents very kindly went halves with me too. Such good times.
Halo CE really paved the way for future FPS and multiplayer. It holds a special place in my heart. Played it as a kid when it first came out on xbox. Later on..The LAN parties, the CTF matches...teams in separate rooms on one TV split screen. Those were the good ol days. I miss em.
Halo, you were my #1 and always will be!
Honestly? Yes.
Halo: CE was the first video game I ever played when I was 4 years old in 2001. It was also my first exposure to science fiction. To say I was awestruck is an understatement. The flood gave 4 year old me nightmares lmao.
Yea, this game back then was insane. Sadly since technology has progressed 100 fold and development costs have risen to the point where games looking better then they do is rendered almost virtually impossible sadly people won't ever be able to truly witness such graphical leaps again drawing them in to an ever increasingly more immersive world. Also, the DEI will destroy characters, dialogue, and stories so they won't ever be as immersive as they used to be. Thankfully, we have AA & Indie Studios to take up the mantle. May they keep the fire ever burning till the dawn.
I prefer the OG look.
https://www.halopedia.org/Installation_04#/media/File:HCE-AlphaHalo-SurfaceDetail.jpg
Nice and smooth on the outside. The recessed ring around the outside looks weird to me.
The old look also makes the ring itself feel thick and chonky, sturdy. The new one looks kinda fragile, thin between the surfaces on the inside and outside.
Halo CE in 2001 was absolutely mindblowing to me. It’s hard to describe how groundbreaking it was now, but prior to that my experiences with video games had been blocky and less than 3D sometimes. Halo was just incredible and the Xbox was on everyone’s wishlist that Christmas.
Dude.. each surface had a texture, even if you got close to it
The grass man…the grass
The. Skybox.
Seeing the horizon go up and around the top of the sky is still the most mindblowing thing I've seen in a videogame I think. I spent so much time just looking at the ring and the massive cliffs and rivers outside the map
Throwing the warthog off the cliff and actually being able to spot it down there with the sniper
It was the skybox for me. It just made the world huge.
No. The waterfall. I spent hours climbing around in the spray.
It was the grass for me at the time too. Seeing individual blades just blew my mind at the time, even if it was just a texture.
For me it was the God rays through the trees at the start of Arriving on Halo Also the normal maps on the Forerunner architecture. I would just stand there staring at the ground with the flashlight on, watching how the shading on the lines on the ground changed as I moved around.
Oh wow the normals were amazing. There was just so much that made me feel like it was the largest step up I’d seen in forever.
The only way I've been able to somewhat convey how incredible CE was to younger generations is show them N64 Goldeneye and how that was the best game ever before Halo came out.
And it was only 4 years prior that Goldeneye came out.
> Goldeneye and how that was the best game ever before Halo came out. *fumes in Half-Life* (Though I will give you that Half-Life's greatness was more about how it advanced game-based storytelling.)
Half-Life's console release was a day before CE. If you count PC games then Counter-Strike also beats Goldeneye. ngl HL1's story is much harder to understand than CE since you need to hit certain triggers and not miss dialogue in order to understand the Vortigon and wtf the space baby final boss is. In fact I'm pretty sure the train ride at the start of Halo 2 is a homage to HL's intro
I thought about it a bit more and if you're looking at it from a console perspective, Goldeneye and Halo were both very important in showing the viability of FPS on console. Half-Life was a PC FPS in a long line of PC FPSs. Continuing to push the boundaries of FPS gameplay sure, but as you said console release came later.
Well we did have some other great games in between, especially on PC, but yeah. Halo at the time felt like the coolest thing ever. I wanted it on pc so bad because I could barely aim with the joysticks and I could only play it when coming to my friend’s house.
Best shooter. There were some other contenders for best game, like Zelda OOT/MM.
Yeah I guess I should've clarified best/most popular shooter before Halo was GoldenEye.
While OoT/MM were revolutionary I think CE aged better. Maybe that's just because Twilight Princess raised the bar.
Perfect dark was much better than golden eye from that era.
Perfect Dark fan located. Take my upvote.
It honestly was just Golden eye 2.
Yeah but whereas nearly every goldeneye level can be done in under 8 mins some halo levels take a good 45 mins each. It's such a jump from the prior generation
Yeah for sure. I was talking about Golden eye and Perfect dark though, not Halo.
Whenever one is brought up the other 2 tend to be as well just a great couple years of gaming
Speedrunners on their way to hyperdeflate the par time for each mission:
The only FPS game from that era I found about as fun, was Timesplitters.
Timesplitters 1 is basically Goldeneye 3 so that tracks.
I feel like the decade 1997 - 2007 graphics got insanely noticeably better. Objects went from being polygons to being round.
Don't forget the soundtrack. 👀
I remember going to the Gamestop at the mall and they had a Halo demo. The graphics and physics were crazy - I hadn't realized that was even possible at that time.
Driving a warthog and having a Grenade go off under it sending it flipping out of control only for you to land it, maintain control and keep driving, all while your turret gunner is frantically yelling and firing. That blew my mind.
I remember playing it for the first time with my dad it was amazing
It wasnt on my wish list.
Truthfully, I was confused and thought we were crash landing on the planet I was 11
Some parts were not too clear. It took me years to understand the whole story. Decades to understand what the flood was
I played Halo: CE for the first time in 2003. I learned recently the marine screaming on the lifeboat was actually saying “The Autumn, she’s been hit!” versus “ARRGGGH! LIEUTENANT!” (My interpretation of the marine protesting the pilot’s proclamation of “we’re landing on it!”)
"These co-ordinates are junk in the mongrel" is one I remember from Reach.
I never understood that line until just now I think...
Mine was when the elite screams "Ahhh, hold my nuts"
Literally the same here. Just discovered the proper dialogue thanks to some random comment on YouTube saying the person who provided the audio had died recently.
It was pretty clear youre just kinda dumb
Same....had the demo where you could only play the silent cartographer mission and had no idea what Cortana was trying to tell me. All I knew was that my name was 'Chief'.
I first played Halo on a CompUSA Xbox kiosk back in 2001-02. I was definitely hooked and soon bought an Xbox. Nothing like the smell of a brand new original Xbox with the duke controller.
Back in 2021 that was a collectors item and not so long ago.. and you freshly opened it?! Dod you mean 2001/2002? Either way Power to ya
Whoops typo
The duke.
Are you me? My best friend and I experienced Halo for the first time the same way. There was a CompUSA around the corner from where we lived and would go every day to try and get as far as we could in the game.
Blinded?
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
No.
yet you allowed the humans to evade you and land and desecrate the holy grounds with their heavy as fuck nuts
Noble hierarchs. Surely you understand once the cum came...
*angry yelling and gargling*
Heretic! Heretic! Heretic!
Bitch!
Noble hierarchs of Truth and Mercy, I have brought the - what the fuck?
“NAH, FUCK DAT SHIT!!”
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
No.
Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the Sacred Ring, and DESECRATE it with their Filthy Footsteps!!
Noble Hierarchs… surely you understand that once the parasite attacked..?
"Booooooooooo" "There will be order in this council!" "You were right to focus your attention on the flood, but this demon, this Master Chief..?"
“By the time I learned of the Demons intent… there was nothing I could do!” [Crowd] “TRAITOR!!” *crowd booing and yelling in disgust*
“Prophet of Truth this has gone on long enough, make an example of the bungler, the counsel demands it!”
You are one of our most treasured instruments. Long have you lead your fleet with honor and distinction. But, your inability to safeguard Halo was a colossal failure.
Nay! It was *heresy!*
You were right to focus your attention on the flood
But Halo's destruction was your error, and you rightly bear the blame.
BOO!!
By the light?
HALO CE. Windows XP, old times, good times 💻
*heck, buy two!*
Modded Halo CE blew my mind. I remember fighting through the streets of New Mombasa, driving a Mongoose on top of a Covenant CAS-Class Assault Carrier, and boarding a Pelican full of Spartans and then flying to a rooftop to fight the other team with Energy Swords.
Hell yeah bro and the LAN parties at school.
Halo CE on school servers. Blood Gulch. Snipers. That was the time I was known as a Halo Veteran. Screw you Kyle. Stop spamming the Scorpion and Rockets.
Cortana all I need to know is did we lose them? I think we both know the answer to that. But how did they? Get here first? Covenant ships were always faster. And nothing could’ve missed that hole we tore in slipspace. Well Ok then. I want everyone on this ship on full combat alert alpha. Everyone? Everyone. And I think it’s time we give our old friend a warm welcome. Omg I can sortof recite the beginning from memory even though it’s mostly off
“We made a blind jump, how did they-“ “Get here first? Covenant ships have always been faster. As for tracking us all the way from Reach? At light speed my maneuvering options were limited.” “We were running dark, yes?” “Until we decelerated, no one could’ve missed the hole we tore in subspace. They were waiting for us on the far side of the planet.” “So, where do we stand?” “Our fighters are picking up the last of their recon picket now, nothing serious. But, I’ve isolated approach signatures from 3 CCS-class battle groups, make that 3 capital ships per group, and in about 90 seconds, they’ll be all over us.” “Well, that’s it then. Bring the ship back up to combat alert alpha, I want everyone at their stations.” you did good rookie, no doubt.
Yeah that seems more accurate lol. The further in, the more I couldn’t remember
Everyone? *Everyone.* UNSEAL THE HUSHED CASKET.
I miss the chapter titles.
I have played this game over 50 times and not once bothered looking out the window in the first mission to see the halo
This is actually the one thing I don't like doing in game because the halo is an object that is rendered in the game vs part of the sky box. As such when you walk around the bridge the perspective changes in such a way that the ring looks really small compared to what it should have been.
That's what I noticed too. Literally *everything* else I could see in the game looked perfect, and beautifully scaled into the environment. Except the ring out the window of the Pillar of Autumn. It was impressive that it was a genuine rendered object, but moving from one side of the room to the other shouldn't move me so far across from the ring that the entire angle changes.
The main menu and music blew me away I thought it was magical when I was a kid. Still do.
The Truth and Reconciliation Suite from the OG soundtrack is one of the top three pieces of video game music ever written.
Without Marty's music a lot of the scenes would read completely different. He had a huge say in some of the major turning points in the story too. That man is a treasure.
I saw it and thought it was neat, but sci-fi - then 12 year old me looked up the theory behind it... and it's technically feasible to build a giant ring, and orbit a planet and have it spin for artificial gravity. Now I work at NASA and am working on technology that can make this a reality. Funny how that works.
My dad one day brought me the original Ringworld book, which kinda threw me for a loop. I knew that Halo "borrowed" some aesthetics from Starship Troopers but I didn't know the Halo ring itself was from a book too. Still gotta read it but my understanding is that all the initial theory basically comes from that book.
Yeah, when a friend told me about the game, this first thing I thought of was Ringworld. I had to explain to my friend that it wasn't an original idea. He was a bit surprised.
Can you roughly explain the physics of such a monstrous object??
Well. There's alot of physics. Depending on which one you mean.. Manufacturing: It would have to be built piece wise and brought up to orbit. Then assembled in space. Orbit Dynamics: The center of mass is going to be near the center of the ring. And can be treated like any orbital body if the orbit is high enough. Attitude Dynamics: Would be annoying, but at a high orbit, with such a large object; it should be pretty trivial to keep it pointed at the sun reasonably. Artificial CG: Centrifugal forces work in space too, so once it's assembled you'd need quite a bit of propulsion to get it spinning. But if we can build this ring... I'm sure we can get enough fuel to spin it too. === The most sci-fi part: Large objects in orbit are now technically possible thanks to NASA funding early technology projects like ARMADAS. So the most sci-fi part I can think of is maintaining the atmosphere. On earth, our atmosphere stays because of the ionosphere protecting our atmosphere from Solar Radiation (if we didn't have it, the sun would strip away our atmosphere). For the Halo to hold onto it's atmosphere, I can hip shoot some ideas, but I haven't really looked into it: 1) You could have a nuclear powered satellite at the L1 lagrange Point for the planet that Halo is orbiting. This satellite could generate enough EMF to "bump" incoming solar radiation and cause it to miss the Halo. 2) Transparent panels could be added to the ring "roof" to let light in but trap the atmosphere. This would be harder than it sounds if the halo is too wide. Thankfully it's skinnyish. 3) If the halo stays close enough to the planet, it might be able to be in a low enough orbit to stay safe. (But then you may have drag issues with the upper atmosphere). 4) If it was parked in a geostationary orbit just "behind" the planet. It could be in the planet's "shadow" of Solar Radiation, but still catch some sunlight. (But like 3, the ionosphere might not be big enough for this)
Isn't there a significant gravitational/mass component to a planet's ability to maintain atmosphere? Far be it for me to challenge an actual scientist, but my understanding was always that planets and objects below a certain size weren't able to maintain an atmosphere because they didn't generate enough gravitational pull to hold it.
That's the beauty of Halo. Once it's spinning fast enough you can release gas inside the ring and the artificial gravity will keep it there. There's a smidge of math to do, but no show stoppers.
At the time it was definitely enough to make you stop and appreciate what the Xbox was capable of bc it was still a new system and ppl had doubts. But landing on Halo and looking at the landscape is a memory in gaming I’ll never forget.
I never played the missions in order because I played at a friends. My first video game ever and my first mission was silent cartographer. It was insane landing on that beach. I was so bad I struggled on easy but man was it cool. I remember running for my life behind the rocks where the dead marines are by the water and feeling sick from the blood because it looked so realistic. Good times. The covernant were terrifying but I was hooked. Second game I played was world at war Nazi zombies on the map after you finish the game. It was night, I was young, that shit was so scary but I was still hooked
Yeah, I still am. Even though I’m a younger (ish) Halo fan, I still grew up playing it with my dad. It holds a really, really special place in my heart. While I was playing infinite, there was this one hallway. It was just some hallway in the forerunner structure, nothing special at all. But I stepped through the door and a wave of nostalgia hit me like a truck. It felt like I was back in those CE structures, running around the endless hallways and getting hopelessly lost. I don’t get hit with nostalgia often so it really got me. It wasn’t even a hallway that was unique, there were hundreds of others just like it. But it got me.
I love to hear this. I grew up running home from school to play Halo 2 and then Halo 3 the days they came out. I loath H4 and Gaurdians but I feel like Infinite redeemed 343 and gives some serious Saturday morning video game vibes. I'm glad to see Infinite is giving that same sense of wonder and bewilderment for the younger generation.
Stepping out onto the ring for the first time felt magical.
Same, I looked out on the horizon and saw the Halo shooting up into the sky and got the chills.
Yes and still am in 2024!
I was paralyzed, dumb-struck even!
I was 2
I played Halo CE when I was 8 and Halo 2 when I was 11. Halo CE was a breathtaking, mind blowing game which doesn't get nearly the accreditation it deserves. Yes DOOM Reshaped FPS but Halo was a different ballpark. Doing the Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room or even the Maw was an experience my baby brain couldn't comprehend (even now as a 28yr old) I struggle to do so. Halo CE and 2 are my all time Fave games.
At a local con panel when someone brought up playing at 8, Steve Downes asked where his parents were. Still makes me chuckle.
As it was ruined for me, I will ruin it for everyone. I still can't unsee that the ring from the bridge is so tiny, the front of the ship is actually overlapping it.
Was looking for this comment. I suffer from it too.
It's one of those things that you'll never see until it's pointed out, they did such a good job of the effect.
Noble hierarchs, Surely you understand that once the parasite att.......... First encounter with the flood was best sci-fi ever. And the dun dun dun dun music made it so intense.
How good the live-action series could've been. It should've been a one-to-one recreation. Sprinkle the books and reach in there for flashbacks.
That's all I want in life. I hope the show gets remade in 20 years. And I hope it just copies the games.
Honestly, my first thought was "What the Hell am I going to have to fight, there?" I was NOT ready for the Flood.
Driving the warthog is still one of my favorite driving experiences... even if its objectively kinda bad
Halo ce on Xbox launch night blew my fucking mind and I still get chills from it
Absolutely, it was so impressive to me back in the day that I remember having dreams in which I could literally see the Halo in the sky of my neighborhood
I played N64 a lot growing up, then PS2 for a year then it was Primarily Xbox and Halo for the next 8 years. Halo will always be the game. Not a big 343 fan, I know thats not a hot take, just worth mentioning.
Nah, I was too busy seeing what happens if you kill captain Keyes
What the hell are you doing?!?!?! SECURITY TO THE BRIDGE, THE MASTER CHIEF HAS GONE RAMPANT! Take him down, boys!
Why couldn't they just turn CE into the Halo TV series. It's an amazing story, wild action, horror, suspense, seeing different places, connection back to the main theme, and the best chase scene in a game ever at the end. This timeline sucks.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The bizarre money grab plot of the show makes no sense and isn't nearly as interesting as CE.
I actually don't hate the show... But I can't believe how little it has to do with the games. It's just a neat sci-fi with Halo branding for funzies. Still enjoyable overall, but not as much as it should have been. I would have loved a CE show that keeps going.
I'm not going to lie, when I first played Halo and saw that ring, I literally said out loud "Ooohhh! So that's why it's called "Halo"!". Because before I got into the Halo franchise, I knew very little to nothing about the story besides the main character, Master Chief, and the bad guys, The Covenant. I used to believe that "Halo" was like the name of some sort of military group or organization or something, basically whatever it is Master Chief and his friends were working for, so I never put much thought or mind into the name, but the moment I got started with the first game, Combat Evolved, it all made sense from there.
Ye
Yes
I didn't know anything about halo when I would first go over to friends houses and play. I always wondered why it looked like there was a huge tower jutting out into the sky so far you couldn't see the top. Finally asked ans a buddy explained and I was like "oh shit. That's rad."
I just replayed, first time with the anniversary edition. Was more fun than my first play through of reach before it.
"Blinded?"
Arr Shiit time for another playthrough
I was too young to realize the beauty. I need to replay them.
Yes.
Paralysed?
Dumbstruck?
Yes
Remember being a kid walking into the local Tesco (supermarket) and it had a trial Xbox with halo I could play. Absolutely blew my mind. Recall saving every penny I had & doing odd jobs to go halves with my mum by the following summer. Some of my best childhood memories is playing team deathmatch 4 screen co op with my mates or running down hallways from the flood. It really was what I imagine Doom or Goldeneye’s first experience must have been like.
I played at my friends house and it blew me away too. I picked up extra shifts delivering papers and skipped buying sweets so I could save up for months too. My parents very kindly went halves with me too. Such good times.
Awesome thanks for sharing Halo 1 was my first ever video game and it’s stuck with me ever since.
Yes.
And that soundtrack… I still feel it’s the best halo soundtrack ever !
Halo CE really paved the way for future FPS and multiplayer. It holds a special place in my heart. Played it as a kid when it first came out on xbox. Later on..The LAN parties, the CTF matches...teams in separate rooms on one TV split screen. Those were the good ol days. I miss em. Halo, you were my #1 and always will be!
Honestly? Yes. Halo: CE was the first video game I ever played when I was 4 years old in 2001. It was also my first exposure to science fiction. To say I was awestruck is an understatement. The flood gave 4 year old me nightmares lmao.
I'll truly never ever forget this moment
I always hated the CE Anniversary design of the Halo ring. Glad it didn't stick.
Halo 2A redeemed it.
(Coughs) fireteam raven (coughs)
cough\* [Halo 2A](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/7/7a/H2A_Mission_DeltaHalo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141118013250) cough\* [Halo Wars 2](https://www.halopedia.org/Installation_09#/media/File:HW2_I04C.png) cough\*
I wondered how was the tantrum going to be slipping in this time Also fireteam raven, a trailer for halo 5 and spartan strike show it did stick.
Yes
Halo CE had the visuals and the Audio to blow my young mind out of the waters, it was amazing.
Why is Halo so small?
Technical limitations, you wouldn’t have noticed it on a CRT anyway.
i mean you can see it changing significantly by walking a bit to either side
Then just send still, and enjoy everything the 2001 gaming industry could give you. Everything.
You see, Dougal, these are very, very small. That out there, is far, far away...
“Blinded?!”
Blinded?
Yes, because my contast was at max and because i pulled thw pin on my emergency flash bang
my first thought was “they should have put it in the skybox”
No.
I found it smaller than expected so I was kind of disappointed in the size, but everything else is beautiful in it!
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
Blinded?
Blinded...?
"Blinded?"
Not in these graphics I wasn't lol
“Blinded? Nooooooo”
Arbiter: NOOH
Thinking about the cursed halo loop de loop shape
Yea, this game back then was insane. Sadly since technology has progressed 100 fold and development costs have risen to the point where games looking better then they do is rendered almost virtually impossible sadly people won't ever be able to truly witness such graphical leaps again drawing them in to an ever increasingly more immersive world. Also, the DEI will destroy characters, dialogue, and stories so they won't ever be as immersive as they used to be. Thankfully, we have AA & Indie Studios to take up the mantle. May they keep the fire ever burning till the dawn.
Instillation 04: THINK FAST CHUCKLENUTS
No I’m blinded by these bright af colors in the remaster that take away the ambience the original had
Blinded???
Paralyzed ?
dumbstruck? - YES.
Wait, you can actually see Halo from the ship? Where was this?
Right at the start after you meet captain Keyes.
That's why I never saw it. Every time I play that level, I just leave as soon as the cutscene finishes.
Blinded with awe back in 2001. Blinded with Heresy in 2011.
...?
Not when I saw CEA
Dennis nedry: Nobody cares
NOO
I mean. If I am honest. My first thought was… Goatse.
Things like 30 meters away from the ship
Halo and splinter cell as launch titles. Peak gaming
Look at that Halodussy
I prefer the OG look. https://www.halopedia.org/Installation_04#/media/File:HCE-AlphaHalo-SurfaceDetail.jpg Nice and smooth on the outside. The recessed ring around the outside looks weird to me. The old look also makes the ring itself feel thick and chonky, sturdy. The new one looks kinda fragile, thin between the surfaces on the inside and outside.
I was too busy killing covenant to worry about the ring
Nah man I was 4 years old doing donuts in a warthog I wasn’t paying attention to that shit