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Another name for this video can be "John shitting on Halo:Anniversary for 33 minutes and 18 seconds".
I might be wrong, but I am getting a vibe that maybe John didn’t like the anniversary remaster 😅
If the video is too quiet (apologies for that, did not seem so in editing) - try enabling 'stable volume' in the YouTube settings and it'll be much louder.
Unreal engine when done right looks downright gorgeous.
The water on the beach looks gorgeous.
05:14 IIRC he was big Halo fan who unfortunately passed away due to terminal illness and 343i decided to add him to the game to remember him. Update: I just played the game. They put that kid inside the control center, you can see him before they cut to Master Chief's pod opening. Happy that he is still in the game.
You can always tell right away it’s a John vid, love them
Please be consistent with the order of videos from oldest to newer in split screens.
John keeps saying "Evolved" as the differentiator in name as if both games did not have Evolved in their name. Should have emphasized "Campaign" vs "Combat" instead.
I love how you chose the only word that appears in the subtitle of all 3 versions as the name by which to differentiate this new version.
Im going to spend hours looking into every crevice with my flashlight like I did with the first halo.
Marty ost still bangs 20+ years later
Don't know why but Halo 1's original art style just has this darker, almost more mysterious quality too it. Reminds me in many ways of the Alien quadrilogy.
Love how John refers to the new one as "Evolved", when all of them have that word in the title. :P Love you John
7:12 that double roll was clean tho
Whew those shadows are NOISY
It’s a nitpick but it’s funny John continually emphasized the word evolved to differentiate the new game when that is literally the only word shared by all 3 games…
31:10 Holy Unreal pop-in, Batman!
I still miss the beefy brutalist architecture style and color palette of the original, but I’m genuinely impressed by the execution on display so far. I’m not a huge fan of some of the UI choices in the new release, particularly the little vertical lines coming out of weapons on the ground. Very messy and distracting looking. Some of the ragdoll deaths on enemies makes them look like styrofoam cutouts getting tipped over in a GameStop store rather than 7 foot tall elites falling over from being shot to death.
the dollar store Michael keaton was based on a real child who was a fan of Halo who passed away. His likeness was used for the starting tech guy to forever memorialise him