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"Arby why did you fall 😢"
Arby: "YOU RAN ME OFF THE BRIDGE YOU MAD MAN"
1:24:09 Here,for the first time you get a true taste of why the Flood is so dangerous.Even willing to form temporary alliances only to betray them later,this fact insinuates an intelligence at work that one would think almost uncharacteristic of the Flood.I won't say anymore because I'd like you to figure the rest out yourself via enjoying the extended lore.
On another note,on to the last few missions.Marty really outdid himself with the musical score on the last mission.
Still unclear to me, how many scarabs?
I love the fact that Meg actually did the duel, it took me like 10 years to realize that was what I'm supposed to do in that room (I just went guns blazing against all the brutes every single time lol)
1:37:03 this moment never fails to give me chills.
Luv you and your content! 🎉
Is Meg the Gamer Girl version of Brett Cooper?
Oh man I love this mission. Gameplay, music, story is all perfect here. Fun fact about the flood music as you escape from them at the end: there a backwards message in it from the gravemind if you play the song in reverse. It’s some creepy stuff!
I couldn't bear to watch her fight the scarabs 😂
What I've just now realized as to why not only Meg but many modern gamers are so bad at games like Halo 3 and games from the 2000s to mid-2010s is because in these times we all got a head start in figuring out how the game works thanks to instruction manuals in the game box we get as well as gaming magazines to Strategy Guides. Modern gamers, nowadays throw themselves fresh into a new game and gets distracted by their twitch chats too much to focus on what the game is telling them to do next. It's why these streams sometimes are so unwatchable, as you think you're reliving the days when a modern gamer is playing a game from our days fresh, but back of your mind you feel something is off.
This is PEAK halo
Ah that brief moment where you team up with the Flood to defeat the Covenant… no one saw that coming. This was the best mission because it just throws everything at you. ground combat, vehicle combat with tanks and warthogs, areal battles, ground battles, 2 scarabs, repeat 2 scarabs, you fight the Flood, you fight alongside the Flood, and Arbiter finally puts his sword through the lying Prophet of Truth.
i always feel like Miranda hesitated because she already lost her Father and Johnson was someone her dad trusted and seen as a friend. Killing Johnson would almost be killing an uncle.
I cant believe the shotgun ODST was riding shotgun.
Flawless writing
Whoever did the brute voicelines did an amazing job, they sound exactly how you'd imagine a brutish angry bunch of aliens would sound.
Love the bomb emojis in chat to try to hint at the hornet missile attacks.
BTW the spartan laser shoots five lasers in a rapid succession. It’s not just one big pew pew. If you hold it on a target, they receive all five lasers for full damage. But you can also spread the damage like a sentinel beam but it’s a SUPER short period.
@ 1:38:10 I always see this: When a content creator is playing a game for the first time, and they will just be obviously thinking out loud to themselves, and then a viewer will take that as an invitation for them to answer their question. "Is he going to sacrifice himself?" Then someone tells her, "nope."
Can you just let a first time player be in suspense and wonder, just like we had the luxury of back in the day? She will find out naturally.
I get it about hunters. I like them but feel the same about drones as you with hunters. “Huh. That’s an interesting sci-fi race. That I want nothing to do with. Because worms/bugs.”
One of my most favorite (and often unoticed) details in Halo 3 is how the game builds tension through its music. Throughout the action of the game, you'll hear stripped-down and bare instrumentals. The songs never really seem to "resolve" either. It's because you aren't actually hearing the full song, and thematically, you haven't "resolved" the fight with the convenant. As you play, these different layers get added together and you slowly get to hear more and more of the full thing, it sounds more large and epic as the stakes and tensions rise. At the pivotal moments in these final missions, especially the double scarab fight, you hear the musical culmination that the game has been building to all along. All the layers get added together for Truth's last stand against humanity. Knowing this on a replay adds even more to the payoff of that double scarab fight and that awesome song.
The reason Johnson wanted Miranda wanted her to kill him and then herself was so Truth couldn't use them to activate the rings, as only reclaimers have that ability to.
Edit: she just found that out, nevermind lol
45:25 i don’t remember whether you mentioned it was enabled, but did the Brute just say “he was my lover!” without IWHBYD?
Well, that was certainly a…different…way of going about the duel Scarab encounter 😅
41:36 maybe the greatest grenade throw of all time
Nobody told her the hornet has missiles in the initial fight. Dang.
Nothing is more annoying than people in the chat thinking they’re being subtle while giving away major spoilers. Sheesh. Just let her experience the game and stop hinting at stuff.
Chat just casually spoiling everything
Truth ‘technically’ believed in the Great Journey. Contact Harvest goes into more detail.
The short answer: Truth was the only Prophet that knew the full story, but he clouded the details from others to get what he wanted most: power.
From his perspective, the Forerunners ‘Great Journey’ of killing all life and reseeding it with the Halo array and the Ark is kind of like as sending into Godhood.
So in a way if he does the same, with none of his enemies left behind, and a clean universe to repopulate as he pleases, Truth will become what many think of as a god.
What kind of weapons we like against the flood? That’s a tricky question meg, specially since the og trilogy has its own sandbox, in halo ce, i would say the best combo actually is the shotty for big flood infected forms and the ar for the flood spore swarm. In halo 2 the best combo against the flood would be energy sword (or the brute shot blade) and frag nades and in halo 3 the best combo and most effective i would say plasma rifle and melee
I've played through halo 3 dozens of times. I did not know you could have an honor duel with that brute chieftain and the other brutes just watch
I ship Meg and the arbiter
Cortina stating “im a thief but I keep what I steal” is referring to the fact that she stole the activation index in halo 1 so if chief finds her he can trigger the ring with her index
1:22:48 humans are the only ones who can activate forerunner technology (the reason why 343 GS needed chief for the index, tartarus needed miranda in H2) so Johnson asking her to kill each other was to stop Truth from firing thr Ark.
After all these years, I learned that the hornets will come back for you 😅
"How could I have known the parasite would follow?" – He's talking about those spoilery people in chat….
Honestly, should've just kept 'em on emote only smh
The Miranda Keyes death is one of my least favorite parts of 3. It really doesnt make sense, why did she go alone with no Marine back up, why did she go in with nothing heavier than a shotgun, why did she go at all when she's supposed to be commanding a ship? It felt odd, like Bungie just wanted to kill off a bunch of characters just for the drama.
That smile that creeps on your face at 15:18 and 58:38 when the first piano keys play is the most relatable thing ever. Every time I hear those first piano keys, a flood of memories and nostalgia just flow into my mind of all of my childhood memories of playing the halo trilogy. with my father during halo 1 and 2. And racing to get home from school back in 2007 to play with my friends for halo 3. Gets me teary eyed every time I hear those piano keys, was truly a magical time to be playing these games as a child❤
The body of Christ?
Meg be like: “no one kills my marines except me”
will you also play halo 4? @megmage
life is strange 2 when?
The way your chat tried to tell you Hornets can fire rockets with the emojis only 🤣
Marine gets infected by the Flood: "This is so sad!"
Brute gets infected by the Flood: "This is so cool!" 🤣
Master Chief Petty Officer is his rank. He’s a soldier, but the highest rank you can be before becoming an officer. He’s happy to take orders from officers but he’s a leader of other marines and lower ranking Spartans. The books flesh out his leadership skills a lot more
Cant wait 'till you play Halo 3 : ODST a fantastic experience.