Noble 6 never gets credit. He wasn't just a Spartan. He was an ONI black ops assassin who worked a lone against the insurrection. He could make entire terrorist organizations disappear. His commander called him "his Own personal grim reaper" master chief is 1 of only 2 Spartans to have the rating "highly lethal vector" the highest rating a Spartan can get. The other highly lethal vector Spartan? Noble 6. B312. He was supposed to go through this entire story next to chief but he did what he had to do on reach.

0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Halo Reach 10:30 - Halo Wars 18:40 - Halo:CE 27:05 - Halo 2 39:53 - Halo 3 ODST 49:09 - Halo 3 1:00:34 - Halo 4 1:12:24 - Halo 5 1:26:03 - Halo Wars 2

Reach was bungies last stand just as it was noble teams that being the ultimate Easter egg… god this was such an Amazing story still gives me chills 10 years later..😢😭

I grew up playing this the Halo games. I was to young to understand the story line but watching this brings it all back. What a fantastic series Halo is. Thank you for the awesome break down.

I remember being blown away by Halo when it came out. The story, gameplay dynamics, multiplayer, co-op and graphics were so impressive that it gives me a huge dose of nostalgia.

ODST will always hold a special place in my heart. The music and atmosphere were just perfect. First Halo i beat on legendary solo. Such a great experience back in simpler times...

30:10 "The master chief is successful in mounting a successful assault". Great success!

My favourite game was reach and that’s because the story was awesome and the fact that you could customize you own spartan for the story mode made it 100x better

“Orbital Deep Shock Trooper” 41:59 No. they are called orbital drop shock troopers

343 Studio really should have just put Cortana to rest with Halo 4's ending, which is emotional, impactful and well constructed. I have very few complaints against Halo 4 except the death of the Didact. His intro is epic as heck, but the way Master Chief defeated him is so anticlimactic and unceremonious. If only their battle could be a multi-stage epic boss battle in which the Chief strips the Didact's powers one by one.

Thank you, excellent recap. Much more condensed from the 60+ hour replay required.

Only halo games I’ve ever remembered being released was 4,5 and Infinite I was born in 06. The series has always been one of my favorite glad I’m finally playing through all the main games

I really wanted to play the prior games before I played Halo Infinite. I had them all downloaded for a while but I never got around to playing them 😞 But Halo Infinite Campaign releases tomorrow so now I am here watching this video.

Best explanation of HALO ever !!! I started with HALO 2 {PC} back in the day and just recently got a 360 with 3 different episodes. Playing REACH currently. I'm an old guy and love this so much !!! Gives me purpose to live, HA!!!

Anyone else love the History/Lore of Halo, Skyrim, Bioshock, and Fallout??

you did a really good job of laying things out in a sensible way and more importantly, keeping the focus on the most important parts of the story. exceptional video, thank you for making this.

My little brother and I have been playing Halo since the first Xbox came out. We've been halo fans for years and grew up playing it. Halo 3 was our favorite game to play, and b4 there was Xbox live, we would play Halo 3 campaign. And when we had the first Xbox, we would always just kill each other and it was fun. Those were good times. Halo 4 was our next favorite. I remember trying to beat it on hard mode but I failed miserably, though I did get father than I realized. Halo CE anniversary was also another one of our favorites. Campaign, again, was our fav thing to do. Now Halo 3 multiplayer was beast. We were so good at Halo 3 campaign and did 1v1 to get better at it. Halo 5, I barely played it. I didn't like Halo 5 much in my opinion. We didn't know anything about lore growing up but watching this now, I understand more about the backstory of those beautiful game. I don't play Halo at all anymore now but it will always have a special place in my heart.❤️❤️🥰🥰

Thank you for this clear cut, neat and very useful recap :) Watching this now before beginning Halo Infinite campaign :)

Just finished halo infinite and I’ve never played a halo game before so I had no clue what was happening thanks for this video infinite now makes a lot more since 🤙

I’m about to rewatch this right after watching it cause it’s such a cool story line, and I never got to play the games except Reach. The halo show just came out and got me very interested in what the actual story for halo was and this told me exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you.

Wow, this is the best Halo "catch up" video out there! Thanks!

I already know basically the entire timeline of the Halo story, but I just came here to appreciate you helping people understand the endless rabbit hole of the Halo universe. Keep it up👍

Well done, y'all. You nailed this. Can't WAIT for the Infinite campaign.

This is a really great explanation of everything! I also love how you actually exclude spoilers for certain games until it actually gets mentioned in that game. Like how you mentioned the flood in halo wars but didnt go into it until Halo CE

Loved it. Thanks so much for the recap. Growing up playing halo ., I was very young to fully understand the massive story. This makes so much sense. Thank you

Didn’t have time for a full series replay, but I’ve 100% completed every game. So excited to hop into infinite but I needed a little brushing up on what happened to get here. Thank you for this fantastic video!

i was too young to understand the arrangement of the series, but with this video i now i understand everything. thankyou!

I only played H4 and reach when i was younger so i had no idea wtf was happening to cortana let alone anything having to do with the forerunners. Thanks for this explanation, gonna play the infinite campaign rn

THANKS for dropping this at the beginning of the work day :)

This is the best version of lore. Thanks for video. I always watch, read spoilers of anything before i buy any media.

Succinct and informative summary of the saga so far. Thank you for all the hard work that went into this

Great recap of the whole Halo story, very much appreciated for the upload 👍🏻

This is a very nice bite size video for anyone trying to jump in, it def doesn't go into details like the primordia's, mendicant bias, and how all alien races are subjected under the covenant as well as lore from the book and yes there is indeed a particular reason as to why the covenant doesn't like us, but for the most part a very good job.

Exactly what I was needing to get back into halo. Thank you kindly for the uploading this

I love the lore but videos like this that refresh what you know is great. Thank you for the time and effort

Idk why this doesn't have more likes. Pure gold. Ty for this recap :3

I love the halo series it’s really awesome and tons of fun and master chief and Cortana story is really sweet and adorable.

Thank you for an excellent recap! I've played them all, but some I never replayed and I was quite young when I did. My memory wasn't far off. however this clarified much confusion I had. Now im diving into the infinite campaign. I haven't been this excited about a campaign in general for a long time. Long Live Halo.

Excellent, recapping everything. Halo is the BEST storytelling out there, period. It's CRIMINAL HOW it's not known to everyone.

This was the best Halo recap video I could find that didn’t leave out too many details but also didn’t drag things out either, I would say the only room for improvement would be a better back story on the precursors/forerunner conflict that gave rise to the flood, human/forerunner war + didact imprisonment and also a proper chronological order of events. 1. Forerunners vs. Precursors + birth of flood & Precursor abilities/life creators 2. Human/Forerunner War + Didact use of composer and his imprisonment 3. Halo Wars 4. Halo Reach 5. Halo CE 6. Halo 2 7. Halo 3 ODST 8. Halo 3 9. Halo 4 10. Halo 5 11. Halo Wars 2

PERFECTO! It really shows that you guys do put in so much work. May you channel blow up like crazy in 2022!

By far the best and easiest to follow Halo recap. Well done and thank you.

This was a great breakdown. I appreciate your time and probably study time it took you.

I started the Halo franchise when 3 was released and I managed to the play 1 an 2 but couldn't understand the story as I was a little young. Thank you for filling in the gaps as I've never player halo wars 1 or 2.

Thanks for putting this together! Funny how much I had missed in the actual story while playing thru every game )except the 2 wars and odst.)

Halo 2 will forever be the best halo installment imo. So much story and character development. Halo 4 and especially halo 5 were just bad. Yes graphics were great. However, when I played them I never felt it did justice to the halo franchise. Crazy how this might have all been different if Bungie would have stayed.

THank you for this!!! I dont have time to go back and play the games and this cleared up allllllllll my questions!

My fiance loves Halo more than almost anything. I can say with confidence he has one of the most impressive Halo collections to exist. It's something I love about him. I'm a computer science major who makes games in my free time, and I've grown up loving games. Playing video games with people is honestly my love language, and I love bonding with him while playing Halo together. All this said, I never looked into the series despite knowing it's powerful impact on the industry. So thank you for making videos like this, which are easy to digest and gives me a great start in knowing more about the game, both for helping my future career, and making my love happy :)

Can we appreciate the fact that the average set of Mk5 shielded armor weighed well over a ton. Jorge straight picked that up with one arm.

42:00 here is a big mistake! ODST means Orbital Drop Shock Trooper not a Orbital Deep Shock Trooper.

I remember Halo being one of the first games I ever got and I was too young to understand it so I tried returning it but the guy at game stop plugged in my xbox and showed me how to play. Long story short been a gamer for almost 20 years now thanks to tht guy wanting his commission haha

Kat dying by a single sniper shot to the head is so believable in Legendary difficulty

Looked up the voice cast because 1. I’ve never played ODST or 5, and 2. Edward looks just like Nathan Fillion. And it’s him! He alone is a reason for me to play these games as I’m a fan of everything he does lol.

-Covenant Sabre? Its a UNSC Sabre. -The Pillar of Autumn was crumbling around them, not the ring itself. -Orbital DROP shock trooper, not DEEP.

You did really good on everything explaining and all thank you

Thanks for not forgetting about Halo Wars ❤

Amazing job on this very detailed looking forward to playing Infinite with my family.

I still remember when HALO 1st launched. It was Microsoft's baby for their new X-box console. Which joined forces with SONY to throw Nintendo into the back seat. It was a massively successful game that (imo) topped the 1st person shooter franchise overnight. From jumping 20 feet, the super suit with shield, the Loosey goosey warthog, Sticky plasma grenades, the game had it all! But the thing that got me the most. Was when the story changed, and the game got real. Suddenly you went from being superman to the flood showing up and you're on your heels trying to survive. Especially if you tossed it on hardcore!

I needed this. Thank you!✌🏽

Thank you for putting this together. I’ve beaten every halo game except halo wars two and halo infinite but I barely remembered a lot of it. So this was a great revisit 😂

19:30 Master Chief isn't they only spartan on the Pillar of Autumn. Spartan 058 Linda is also on the ship but was thrown into a cryopod due to taking plasma burst and shots to the back and to the head. John froze her in the cryopod and after blowing up installation 04 he found her pod floating in space and rescued her. She was later revived.

Thank you for this. I guess I shouldnt have skipped all those cut scenes.

I didn't remember he convoluted the 4th and 5th games were. Thanks for putting this together.

Halo reach still my fav. From the campaign, to the multiplayer and the ost. I felt in love with that game the moment i heard the title screen music for the first time.

So many childhood memories. Just collected all 12 skulls in Infinite and about to play the campaign on Legendary with all of them active. Had to watch this before just to bring it all back. Thank you for the great video

Halo CE is still my favorite..I love the mystique aspect of it

Great job well done enjoyed it keep it up.

After finishing Halo Infinite, I am wanting to understand the Halo story with more cohesion. Glad I found this!

I just started playing halo infinite I completed the first mission and was like “ok I need to watch a re cap video”

Dammit man, I shouldn't have watched this. Now I have to start at reach and play through halo 5 again, for the 100th time. Well played.

Reach was the best imo such a classic, amazing story to set it off.

Great video weaving together the entire lore of the games series! To this day I believe Halo is a game that is primarily dedicated to its campaign mode. The story is rich and captivating! It’s sad that all we have really gotten so far is the paramount plus halo tv show. Really could make one hell of a movie series out of this.

So I honestly never liked any of the Halo games until Infinite on the Series X. I gave it a shot and have absolutely loved it. This had encouraged me to go back and play all of the previous games and learn more about the lore and what not. Overall I can’t believe I ever ignored these games, they’re so amazing!

Solid video, but at about 5:26 you call Sabres covenant ships… just a heads up! Seraphs are the covenant fighters, sabres were pioneered by the UNSC. Edit: shoot, found another one at 42:00 where ODST’s are misidentified, the D in ODST stands for drop, not deep!

Amazing recap thank you for freshing my brain on halo 😊!

Thank you for this. Learning the game

A great multiplayer mode for halo would be to use the conquest mode in battlefield but with the halo twist and you can choose to become a marine, odst or any other regiments as well as other teams like the covenant would be cool

That's what I damn need right now. All the hype about halo infinite campaign is killing me.

Great story recap, thank you.

Dutch’s mission in odst is my favorite mission in any halo game.

I'm completely open to a conversation about the topic because I must think very differently from everyone else, because I really cannot find an issue with Halo 4 and Halo 5's narrative. If anything, they both dive even deeper into the lore of the Halo universe and carry on the story even further. The events of Halo 4 are really rather astounding and deep. I can understand the gameplay itself of Halo 5 being a little bit annoying because of the Warden popping up what felt like every 5 minutes, but again the story of it all carrying on from Halo 4 is incredibly expansive and to me, rather compelling. Is it because there's this seemingly newfound "illness" that Cortana has to deal with, or is there an issue new "beings" being introduced that weren't before mentioned, like the Guardians or the Didact? Or that all along Master Chief has been this chosen one who was meant to be the savior of everything? To me all of that drives the narrative even further with how much it expands the story, even if it does come out of nowhere. I really fail to see the problem with it all.

Man I wish I understood the story when I played it as a kid, I always thought chief died after the end of halo 3 literally cried once😂😂😂 glad to know I felt like that for nothing

Just getting chills watching this. God I miss og halo

Thanks for making this storyline!

Currently on my lunch break watching this

8:05 Loved Reach. The only thing I didn't like about it was that everyone, even Halsey, walked with the exact same overexaggerated swagger. Seems like a small thing but it always stuck out to to me.

I was born in 03 so I didn't understand halo being only 4 when halo 3 came out but this helped me understand it better👍🏻

I’ve been playing since halo 3 when I was 5, I really didn’t keep up story wise but this video helped a lot

"for a brick, he flew pretty good."

I never knew the tech storyline honestly. That’s pretty fucking sick

35:43 Penitent Tangent wasn't corrupted by the flood, he just procrastinated at his job and let them overrun his forces.

One day in the summer of 2008 my boyfriend was playing Halo and was telling me the story of the game and I started playing, it wasn't long until I pushed him out of his chair and made my place. I was a solid warrior for years but eventually, I had to go to college, get a job, and have a bunch of kids. Anyway, Halo has been pulling at me to rejoin the cause, and I am ready. After watching your video (which I feel was spectacular) you reminded me of just how intense and exciting Halo is, so I am returning to the fight and ready to kick some serious butt. Oh, and I'm bringing the kids with me. By the way, I never watch videos especially long ones like yours however, you presented it perfectly and I watched every second of it, thank you.

I’m just going to point out, whatever narrative weaknesses it might have, Halo 4’s Cortana is clearly the hottest.

I always though Kat's death was pretty... MIND BLOWING

Perfect, infinite is my first halo game soooo i needed this. Thank you.

love the video! just a quick correction, during your halo reach recap, you stated that Jorge and 6 commandeered a “covenant sabre”, but sabres were UNSC, not covenant. also, by the time keys leaves 6 to get back to the pillar of autumn, Emile is already dead, and that is why 6 has to stay behind. :)

Orbital. DROP. Shock. Trooper. Not orbital deep shock trooper. But otherwise great video. Really informative

I feel like bungie did an excellent job with the story.

I love you for this, fam!

Thank you so much for this!