I miss this side of gaming. God, the 2000's were the best years to be a gamer.

@TheArbiterOfTruth

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. So many awesome titles between the Xbox/PS2/GameCube and 360/PS3/Wii

@A-halover2000

3 жыл бұрын

I remember playing games like Need for speed underground, Burnout, Super smash bros melee, and I would even watch big bro play some Metal gear Solid, and when the time came Halo 3 came out and I watched both brother and sister play that game

@BooBanana

2 жыл бұрын

@@R0ZEN7 I think gaming is pretty damn amazing today. The internet on the other hand…. I def miss those years.

@BooBanana

2 жыл бұрын

@@R0ZEN7 I’m sorry you feel that way. But as a single player gamer who plays the majority Of notable games on all the consoles I really have no complaints, micro transactions are nonexistent aside from Ubisoft games. And outside of cyberpunk I can’t think of one game that came out unfinished in the past few years. This year alone with games like it takes two, ratchet and clank, deathloop, psychonauts 2, returnal, guardians of the galaxy, fist, kena, resident evil village, chorus, hitman 3, lost judgment, shin megami tensei V, solar ash and halo infinite. Hell even that Hot Wheels Unleashed Game was awesome! I could go on but I think you see my point. Oh, and no micro transactions and they’re finished. Again, not including multiplayer modes.

@BooBanana

2 жыл бұрын

@@R0ZEN7 this is why I miss the golden age internet

Miss those days, halo 2 was the best.

@travissaldana8647

10 ай бұрын

Yes sir I still play it

@JDX_117

10 ай бұрын

Same, on MCC and project cartographer lol@@travissaldana8647

@riner9

14 күн бұрын

The clan system alone, and it was before party chat so everyone talked. H2>H3

God I miss those days. Halo3 hype was the last big one imo.

@TheArbiterOfTruth

3 жыл бұрын

It was. We just don’t have stuff to get excited about anymore lol

@vinylsquad7776

3 жыл бұрын

Halo reach was last last best one.

@TheArbiterOfTruth

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinylsquad7776 while I do like Reach, it just doesn’t hold the same feeling for me as 2 and 3

@jumpman2326

3 жыл бұрын

After that halo was never the same

@mclarengaming5434

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinylsquad7776 Reach wasn't hyped up that much.

2004 was an insane year for gaming. WoW, Halo 2, Doom 3, Fable.. All games I grew up playing the hell out of.

@vgmaster9

7 ай бұрын

Half-Life 2, GTA San Andreas, Doom 3, UT 2004.

@jumpman2326

6 ай бұрын

@@vgmaster9NFL Street 2 December of 2004.

@ArceeStarFan

12 күн бұрын

Especially Metroid Prime 2, Pikmin 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and SpongeBob SquarePants movie game, Custom Robo.. Especially games for ps2 and GC and Gameboy.

@travisharnedmusic

7 күн бұрын

@@ArceeStarFan bro the spongebob movie game was fire

I know this isn't quite the right game, but when I was 10 years old, I was in the car with my family at a packed highway intersection. As we waited at the lights, completely by chance some friends of ours pull up in the lane next to us, and we have like a 5 minute conversation through open windows. It's father and son and they're on their way to pick up Halo 3. I didn't know what Halo was at the time, but for some reason it's one of my distinct childhood memories.

It's unsurprising to see that Jimmy was unfunny back then like he is now.

@GenScinmore

3 жыл бұрын

10/10

@animephase9165

3 жыл бұрын

100/10

@coldbews5458

3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy's a p.o.s

@scabash

3 жыл бұрын

0:14 yeah like shut up dude...

@sentientmilkshake6059

3 жыл бұрын

i hate that guy

Crazy thing is it lived up to the hype.

@afanoflafear

Ай бұрын

Best Halo game until today in my opinion.

2004 was such a great year for games. We got GTA San Andreas, Metal gear solid 3 and Halo 2

@ArceeStarFan

5 ай бұрын

Also Nintendo GameCube had good games especially Pikmin 2.

The one with the news anchor playing Halo CE is my favorite.

Rip Toys-R-Us

@nintendozilla9843

4 жыл бұрын

T_T

I want this much hype and launch for halo infinite. Everyone waiting in line for halo infinite at retailers. None of this digital stuff. Edit: So uh... the leaks and rumours regarding Halo Infinite multiplayer launching tomorrow (11/15/2021). Seeing the hype, mostly on Reddit. Must admit this is going to be a memorable moment.

@AnakinSkywakka

5 жыл бұрын

I'm for sure gonna pick up a physical copy.

@josh223

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex The Awsome correction. theres no hype for the new halos, the MCC and reach is coming to pc and theres massive hype around that (though unfortunately i highly doubt there will be physical copies)

@Toniez0

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly Halo will never be that good/popular again imo😥

@madlad66

4 жыл бұрын

Lets do this oldschool style....the way Halo was always launched back in the early 2000s

@masterofdisaster26

4 жыл бұрын

Gamer Rodz you know unfortunately will not be like that like you said because you don’t get that vibe like halo 2 days back in the day no other halo game will top this one too bro

Ok I’m not a console war kind of guy but PlayStation had nothing on halo 2 launch

@SkyNinja759

3 жыл бұрын

Nor did the PlayStation have anything on the Halo 3 launch years later. Halo was a juggernaut back then. 344i wish they had the hype and loyalty of the fanbase Bungie had. Nowadays games release digitally and half finished (surgically cut for future DLCs). Although there is still estatic fans, they're no where near the scale of the older generations' releases.

@danielkoontz6732

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkyNinja759 Unless it's Nintendo. I went to the Switch/BotW midnight release at my local gamestop. It was nice. The Best Buy down the street had a wrap around line. The gamestop I was at was like... 50ish people. Maybe 80. It was cool man. Looking forward to BotW2 release.

@SkyNinja759

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielkoontz6732 Console releases will always be packed. No one cares about games alone though, since the majority of people buy them digitally. You are right about BotW though, one of the last bastions of hyped up franchises. Pokemon used to be like that too, until the last two gens. It's still the largest franchise to date, it just doesn't have the old spark it used to (games are really watered down now).

@Therealmoseslupai

2 жыл бұрын

@@SkyNinja759 Preach!

@SamSquids

5 ай бұрын

Halo 2 was a big deal

0:14 thanks Jimmy...

@dougdapug1235

4 жыл бұрын

retrosashia nah kimmel is just a jerk

@Yugi3344

3 жыл бұрын

@@tgirltouhou Yeah no, Kimmel is a complete ass towards gamers even today. Dude pisses me off.

@justanotherperson7774

3 жыл бұрын

Ew Jimmy

@fissilepear7805

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yugi3344 Jimmy Kimmel is an absolute asshole about everything now a days. He makes a living off of insulting others.

@5446isnotmynumber

3 жыл бұрын

@@fissilepear7805 liberals love hate

The hype was real in 2004

@drcoomer3345

3 жыл бұрын

The nostalgia good thing that I have the steelcase of the Halo 2 classic because the price is going up nowadays especially PS2 games I miss those times I remember back then the first Halo action figure company back in 2003 was joyride it was better than McFarland and Mattel the good thing about joyride studios with Halo 2 figures the magazines can be removable in the Halo 2 multiplayer Spartan visors are chrome gold good old times I have the blue one

Back when being called a noob was one of the worst insults

1:15 My boy Phil Spenser has been there forever and now is the head of xbox. Congrats to him.

The greatest moment in history right there

came from Act Man

@-Violent_Chicken_Man-

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@InjusticeJosh

4 жыл бұрын

空Null Sektor Same

@Uknown76

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@IonicHyperspace

4 жыл бұрын

I came from the Halo 2 Anniversary Documentary via Halo Channel

@DigimonVids

3 жыл бұрын

No one cares

Master Chief waiting to play his own game 0:15

I remember in elementary school when I was in 4th grade alot of kids were talking about Halo 2 coming out it was so crazy.

Fall 2004 and all the way up into late Summer 2005 was filled to the brim with amazing memories of playing this online with friends and random people who became my friends and still are to this day. Online games don’t have that same spark like back then, in my opinion.

@codycigar6542

4 жыл бұрын

The truth man. I met some excellent people in Halo 2 multiplayer (and OG Xbox Live in general) I lost touch with all of them, but they were fantastic times that were very different from today's gaming. I miss it so much. The last games I had this much fun with were Halo 3 and MW2. You just don't get the same sense of community as it was when XBL first released.

@A-halover2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@codycigar6542 if only it was possible we could be reunited with those types of people we met on Xbox Live irl.

@KurseReload

10 ай бұрын

OG Xbox live was the shit. And halo 2 multiplayer was way way ahead of its time. Plus the community was so friendly and fun. Plus we got rooster tooth funny videos because of the halo series.

I wish I wasn't a baby during 2004

@experiment18-a41

3 жыл бұрын

Same

I remember one of my older cousins waiting in line for this. I was 4 and didn’t know why he was so hyped. A few years later I introduced myself to halo 3 and then played CE and halo 2 wondering how this whole series started. This is when I knew halo would be the game I would play growing up. A little over a decade later I’m glad to say that even if I stray away from halo for a bit, I always end up coming back

Digital releases RUINED the fun of launch day. It use to be so fun waiting at game Stop

@armaansandhu3206

5 жыл бұрын

We used to meet new people. Ah good times

@johnrose1342

5 жыл бұрын

So so true, these vids move me honestly. Such a great time in gaming. Destiny had a big physical launch, last big one i really remember, was fun, latest COD still has hype, but nothing like this. Truly a thing of the past now. Call me sad and geeky, whatever, gamers know. Those were magic times.

@madlad66

4 жыл бұрын

II really wish i could have experienced this. Your words are wise.

@Fullmetalseagul

4 жыл бұрын

Waiting at midnight launches kind of became annoying once I became an adult. I think the last midnight launch I was at was skyrim and it was pretty cringe. One dude pulled up in his PT cruiser was blasting skrillex. I just don't have the time to wait around at a retail store to buy a game anymore, and neither do any of my friends.

@BalancingEternity

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fullmetalseagul You must be fun at parties.

People who weren't there probably don't understand that this was a seminal moment for online gaming on consoles. You couldn't play Halo CE on Xbox Live so this was it. This was Day One for online Halo multi-player. It was also a big day for console gaming in general as almost all other online multi-player console games to that point were downright clunky compared to Halo 2. Halo 2 brought online console gaming to the mainstream.

I wish I could’ve experienced this… I have nostalgia yet I wasn’t there. I was born in 2002 so I was 2 years old when it came out… Grew up with Halo: Reach and the late days of Halo 3, MW3, Minecraft, WaW, Black Ops 1… but it doesn’t feel the same… It’s a shame the gaming industry has come to this.. I just recently turned 21 in June… to think we took these days for granted..

I think the last midnight launch I went to was Fallout 4 back in 2015. The GameStop pulled out all the stops; a vault boy statue, drinks and refreshments... the energy wasn't quite "Halo 2 levels", but everyone was still pretty excited. Well, I guess I _did_ end up going to Black Ops 3's (2015) and Star Wars Battlefront II's (2018) midnight launches too, but they didn't capture the magic of Fallout 4's midnight launch. I never really got a chance to go to midnight launches when I was growing up, but I always heard stories from my friends, and my older brother's friends, regarding Halo and even Call of Duty: Black Ops. They sounded wild.

I was in high school when Halo 2 came, but I didn't have an Xbox (I have the PS2) at the time. I remember the morning when Halo 2 came out and I was at school, one of my old school friends came to with pure (and genuine) excitement about the game. I will never forget that reaction. Now that I have the game, it's truly one of very few FPS games I enjoy.

I was born during this age of video games but nowadays people dont line up for really hyped games or stay their all night to wait for it. I REALLY wish those days were back, even though i never got to experience it. If stuff like this still happened then I would have finally known what it would have been like to sleep next to the game store

@seraphendipity

3 жыл бұрын

Why. Go sleep with homeless people on release then XD I dont get how people are so wrapped up in nolstagia that theyd wish that all of society uses less effective, less efficient, more expensive, more dangerous, less environmentally friendly, less sustainable, more troublesome and irritating methods to obtain something.

@seraphendipity

3 жыл бұрын

Bearded IBMOR far from it, chewin on beef jerkey rn XD Im just secure enough in myself that I dont need to get off by forcing other people to appreciate things the way I did or insulting them. Remember kids: it’s not manly to be an insecure nagging hound like the above^^

@OfficialFedHater

3 жыл бұрын

@@seraphendipity Man you're really salty about midnight releases. You get beat up at one, or do you just have sour grapes at never being able to experience it?

@seraphendipity

3 жыл бұрын

@@OfficialFedHater youre real salty about people being able to spend money on game quality instead of promotion and their time where they want it, as well as being inclusive to people who physically cannot attend such events. You get beatup by a disabled person or just salty about other people being able to play games without being in a cult over it?

@OfficialFedHater

3 жыл бұрын

@@seraphendipity Disabled people can stay at home and download the game, and you can sit at home and be big mad about people being outside having fun. Some people fight against poverty, others fight against racism, but you're out here fighting to real fight against... video game midnight releases. lmao

Watchin this before H2A on PC releases

@mkevz

4 жыл бұрын

rip

saddest thing is that those times will never come back

Aw man, I really wish I was here for Halo 2’s launch! I was only here for Halo 3 and Reach’s launch. Waiting for Halo 2 would’ve been the coolest thing ever, and I wish I knew about Halo back in the early 2000s. I started with Halo 3 by playing at my friend’s house on split-screen, and he helped introduced me into Halo. I’m glad I was at least here waiting for Bungie’s last two masterpieces! :)

@gabrielpoupou1479

3 жыл бұрын

In here we've seen each release starting with Halo CE :) My childhood was dope

@S113Productions

3 жыл бұрын

​@@gabrielpoupou1479 You're so lucky!!!!!! If only I expanded more in my video game career at the time before 2004, I would've gotten into Halo as early as Halo 2's release date. :(

i miss physical releases. cant get this excited anymore

“Was this your home?” *Halo Infinite background* “It was and it was beautiful..” *Switches back to Halo 3, ODST and reach*

I miss when games did this, it just made the launch so fun and exciting and something to look back on

I miss when people were as hyped as this for a new video game.

Halo 2&3 along with codmw2&3 were the peak of video game launches/hype.

I miss the old days when halo was literally the face of gaming

Shame that kids won't know what this is like anymore. Waiting in line for a game, with a bunch of other people who are incredibly hype. Now you just wait for your download to finish.

@5446isnotmynumber

3 жыл бұрын

Those libtards and there progress iveness

Watching this while waiting for the launch of halo 2 anniversary for the PC

0:09 halo 2 above a toys'r'us BRO. How times have fucking changed. Having a nostalgia cry cause i honestly miss that time. man. I remember coming home from elementary school my brother's in the basement playing halo 2. that was the best. Video games just haven't felt the same. since. 4 came out. it just lost it spark. Man to go back to those days. Just for a little bit. As an adult. Thatd be fuckin real nice. But nahhh its 2024 , its just memories now. Just had to fucking be there. Back when shit was. Simplier.

I still have my H2 Midnight Release shirt. These were fantastic times.

Halo is what made videogames widely popular. it used to be that older people complained about how bad and violent games were, the funny thing is that gamers have like 100 times better reaction time than the people complaining >D

Man you had to be there to feel the anticipation! I was 17 around this time. The good ol' days.

I miss my childhood days of Halo 2. Epic times. Still have my original halo 2 copy and xbox :D

I ordered a copy online so I can experience the original in it's entirety. Thank God it's backwards compatible on the 360.

@MondySpartan

2 жыл бұрын

There’s also Halo MCC which you can play on Xbox One+ and PC.

If we ever get the chance to time travel, I would go back to 2004 to see what the hype was like, and I'd probably go to when the other bungie games released too.

@samirbedahoudi963

3 жыл бұрын

As a person that grew up in the early/mid 2000s I can say that the hype for halo 2 was mind blowing

@TheArbiterOfTruth

3 жыл бұрын

To be a teen in the 00’s was awesome man. I was born in 1991, so when Halo 2 came out I was 13. System Link parties and splitscreen 👌🏾

@A-halover2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArbiterOfTruth lucky for you I didn't get that opportunity, because I was born in 2000 and of course wasn't able to experience the hype on Halo 2

I wish I was older to have been able to experience d that I didn't get into gaming untill I was around 5 so right before Halo 3 came out but I still played the shit out of both of the first games I remember hooking up the wired controllers to the og xbox and playing split screen campaign over and over and over again on Halo CE and 2 with my friends if I could go back to anytime in my life it would be then I miss it

*nostalgia*

Halo 2 BAYBEEEEEEE

@poopymcsnoopy

3 жыл бұрын

PELICANNNNNN EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH

Don’t be sad cause it’s over, be happy cause it happened

Ahhhhh, my favorite halo game. This hype was unreal and I’m happy to be a halo fan

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t even funny in 2004

@grandmasteryoda3594

3 жыл бұрын

He's still not funny

@eyeman0154

3 жыл бұрын

He never was

@Therealmoseslupai

Жыл бұрын

Facts bro.

@jordand5555

Жыл бұрын

The only thing remotely funny he did was throw snowballs at his employees

@SubterrelProspector

9 ай бұрын

Early 2000s was still very anti-nerd culture.

The rain tasted like mountain dew back then, and a green day album could be heard in the distance at any given moment

We could have the world from Ready Player One and I'd still say Halo 2 LAN parties were the pinnacle of social gaming.

I kinda wish that a game would be announced and be received very well only to say announce they will only sell physical copy’s. It would be a fun experiment to see how the people would react, how it would effect sales, and if there would even be a line.

I was so fucking hyped for Halo 2, there was no other game that did this to me. Okay Halo 3 was great, too and has been hyped similiar. But damn my best christmas gift in my life was Halo 2!!

Damn... I really miss this era! Where video games were appreciated on launch, and the games were NOT broken! We were living the peak of gaming!

I look at the Steam chart numbers for Infinite and then look at this and wonder wtf happened to this franchise...

“Grown men” As if that’s a bad thing??? The game is rated 17+

Holy hell the game literally sold 2.4 billion units in 24 hours. Goddamn that game was probably the hypest game of all time

@SGNRyan

3 жыл бұрын

*million

@Therealmoseslupai

3 жыл бұрын

*Million my boy

I'm cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!

1:01 this is incredible HAHA

@MarioLuigiBros-64-DS

8 ай бұрын

I Know! Where Those This Clip Come From!?

Despite GTA V being the "biggest" entertainment product of all time or the most profitable video game, GTA V's release was NOT as hype as this right here! That's honestly what shocks me.

@troybailey9524

Жыл бұрын

Because people just downloaded GTA V at home. Same with Netflix movies being some of the most watched. No hype there either.

@The-Black-Death

Жыл бұрын

@@troybailey9524 Are you kidding? The vast majority of people went out and bought physical copies of GTA V, there's even footage online of people going out and lining up to buy it IRL.

Big middle finger to Jimmy Kimmel for that comment.

gaming is no longer a niche hobby. being a mainstream revenue source means it's been turned into a monetization scheme designed to squeeze cash from people. forget a game lasting years, now you're lucky if a game can be played for a couple weeks before people move on. unless your game updates constantly there's no hope. No more replay value, micro transactions, faster turn out rate for game development means games are disposal entertainment.

Halo 2 was peak online gaming. Halo 1 for LAN parties (15 friends in the same house, four xbox). Vanilla WoW around the same time....

Man... it's crazy that Bungie let this property go.

@GronGrinder

4 ай бұрын

It would've been worth it to be independant, except they threw that away and did a 10 year contract with Activision.

The hype was real halo 2 was a masterpiece I wish my memory of playing it was erased so I can play it all over again

You never know you're in the good ole days until you leave them.

I wasn’t even born yet when halo 2 released, but I wish I was there to be a part of the hype

Remember when games were hyped up like this, and actually lived up to the hype?

I really missed those days man.

These were some good days man

@TheArbiterOfTruth

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed they were.

I feel too young now... halo infinite needs to step it up ngl cuz we gotta hype it up if we want a new golden age so bad :)

It's funny how even in the Halo 2 days news outlets were getting gamers completely wrong.

i rememeber my mom took my brother and i to toys r us to get some clothes. we had a gift card. we saw halo 2 and were in awe just looking at the case. we got that instead of clothes. never forget

343 tried but they failed embarrassingly

Miss old days

I miss the good old times at least I have the steel case of Halo 2 the price is going up nowadays especially PS2 games I remember back then 2003 first Halo action figure company called joyride studios that made Halo 2 and Halo CE figures at the time it was better than McFarland and Mattel and the magazines can be removable of the gun and the Halo 2 multiplier Spartans have gold chrome advisors I have one few years back each of which the chrome visor didn't flake off

Imagine if it launched in 2024 Gta 6 would be crying in corner That craze in fans is insane

I still have my copy of halo 2 for windows vista man I miss playing it simple times

you dont see launches like this anymore

@captain-chair

4 жыл бұрын

Carlo Carugati Well there is still some things that you console gamers can hope for, because the Next-Gen may lead to some good, because the current gen tech was outdated on release, which has lead to a bottleneck of the AAA industry. But you have too remember that after a certain amount of time you will get diminishing returns. Have you heard of mores law, basically the computer chip parts get smaller meaning they can cram more power in, but we have gotten to a point where the newest chips can't get any smaller because if we do, it would be so small that it causes electrons too jump, which will cause errors, so once we got as far as possible in the miniaturization department we have too start making each part more powerful, meaning we increase the power massively. I know very little on the subject (so take with a grain of salt), but this could lead to amazing leaps, so best is too look for the generation after the next-gen.

@seraphendipity

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIJhx82Fkavfpaw.html

Back when games weren't for corporate profit.

Hype like this still exists, it's just that with the existence of digital games, people aren't lining up waiting for hours to buy the game. But stuff like online stores and servers crashing exists due to the hype

@HonkeyKong54

Жыл бұрын

Lmao not even close

I used to play Halo 2 and CE back when I was younger but it's hard to think that almost 2 decades had passed since then.

2.4 billion copies in 24 hours made me bust out fucking laughing never again will be experience a gaming franchise this good

this hype was unheard of back then

Peril just hits different

This gave me chills. Being on line waiting was something else. I miss these times.

This is why chief should’ve been in smash.

And now it’s on Steam along with CEA, Reach, will be along with 3 and 4 later and it looks the best it ever has. Hell yeah

@idrinkdiesel8451

4 жыл бұрын

Halo 3's flight is out now

@idrinkdiesel8451

4 жыл бұрын

@pyropulse really? Because as far as I and many others can tell, at worst it's exactly like the original games which isn't bad at all. The only way these games were considered bad in terms of looks is the MCC UI and if you have a pc that can't run halo Reach... A game that came out on the 360

@HonkeyKong54

Жыл бұрын

Ur so cool

crazy the game came out in 2004 but the story is really well written than any most of recent video games

Digital purchasing is a good and bad thing It’s good because you can buy games at home It’s bad because you’ll never relive moments like this

Man, Halo 2 is my slightly older brother

The best era of gaming , 2001-2012

Really wishing this is what news outlets were playing now instead of everything else.

I get why we don't do this anymore but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this until about a year ago

RIP Toys-r-Us

great video