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The Ultimate Halo: Reach Critique

312K views · Jul 8, 2023 · Gaming

Ben Plays Games

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@TheMartyODonnell · 3 years ago · pinned
Always love and appreciate your analysis. Btw, we intended infinite spawning of Covenant on the beach in Long Night of Solace. Something or someone changed it.
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@venator-yv1gw · 3 years ago
To this day “Slipspace Rupture Detected” is the most blood chilling moment for me
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@joeljohnston3390 · 3 years ago
Man could you imagine if you didn’t face any enemy’s until the elites ambush you at the end of winter contingency
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@WCHMN3 · 3 years ago (edited)
Being a Hungarian i remember when I first played Reach and I heard the civilians speak my language. That some places are named after Hungarian cities I giggled and laughed so much in joy. Later I learned that Reach was originally first settled by Hungarians made me love Reach even more, not to mention that Jorge is from Reach which means he could be of Hungarian descent made me love him a lot more and now he is one of my all time favourite Halo characters. So let me translate some of the Hungarian in the game and help with pronunciations a bit. The farmers: "Mi nem csináltunk semmit" ( we didn't do anything) "Nem akartok meghalni?" ( you don't wanna die) (akartok is you but in it's prulal form) Jorge: "Mit keresetek itt?!" (what are you doing here?!) quite obvious because Carter asked him to say that. "Tegnap este a barátomat és a családját, se költözés." ( last night my friend and his family no moving ( as in moving house ) let me note that this is said with a pretty bad grammar plus I cant make out what he is saying after "se költözés" Jorge: 'Azt mondtam befelé, gyerünk!" ( I said get inside, now!") It's funny that the farmer did not say that his friend and his family was kidnapped or killed or he might have but the voice actor swallowed all his words after the "se költözés" part. The girl named Sára: "Ne, menjen innen! Ne, hagyon békén! Kérem ne! Jaj ne!" (No, go away! No leave me alone! Please no! Oh no!) the "Oh no" makes me laugh with that thick and fake slavic accent, which makes no sense to have, but for some reason they always portray us with a weird slavic accent. "Még.....itt vannak." ( They.....are still here.) After she is rescued Jorge: "Engem Jorgenak hívnak." (My name is Jorge) ( A more literal translation would be: They call me Jorge) Sára: "Sára." (of course) Jorge: "Sára? Szép, határozott név." (Sára? A nice and firm name) ( unfortunately "határozott" can be translated into a lot of words in English so I chose what sounded the best for me) The part after this is funny because Sára says "Tengeri" when she should be saying Hungary though the country on Reach might actually be called Tengeri, which is once again funny because "Tengeri" means some like "Of the sea" or "From the sea" as in something that lives or comes from the sea. So now for some pronounciations. The "S" in Hungarian is pronounced as the English "Sh" as in Shovel. The "G" in Hungarian is pronounced as the "g" in garden. The "Á" is simply just say Ah. The "E" is pronounced as the "e" in elevator Hope that helps a little with Visegrád and Sopron There is also Farkas lake which means Wolf lake. Lake in Hungarian is called Tó which is pronounced as Tow. Those are the things I could remember that are in the game, I hope I helped a little and sorry for any grammatical errors, I'm sure there are a lot of them. And of course thank you for the great video.
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@kythekaalyn3541 · 3 years ago
With Kats death, I always thought of it as not everyone gets a 'good' death, this is war, not everyone who dies has a heroic death like Jorge, sometimes it's unfair.  in a blink they're gone and that no-one, not even a spartan with all the training and state of the art armour can prevent that. Just cut down in the middle of a sentence. Another point is to show just how ruthless the Covenant are, they were pulling out all their units, about to glass the city, but a phantom spotted some Spartans retreating and decided to stop just to shoot them in the back, the city was about to get glassed, the covenant had no idea there was a bunker there, so it would be safe to assume they would die in the glassing, however the elite wanted to get that shot in.
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@tobiasGR3Y · 3 years ago (edited)
I can elaborate on the "Latchkey" discovery a bit as it's something you may really need to delve into if you want to get the full story. Rather it's a fan theory supported with supporting lore from the Fall of Reach novel and the game that honestly ties the two up together quite nicely. In the novel Reach is the strongest military outpost Humanity has left. The original plan to end the war is to use Reach as a staging ground for Operation: Red Flag in which the UNSC would use hundreds of Spartans and specially modified ship to capturing a Covenant-Hierarch and bring the Covenant to the negotiating table. That of course is stopped by the Covenants discovery of Reach, after a space battle and the Long-Night-of-Solace Battlegroup searching for Forerunner tech. When Reach starts to get hot, the UNSC hopes that they can destroy the Super-Carrier without Reach being compromised. After its destruction with the Fleet of Particular Justice and the soon to be Arbiter arriving, they hope Red Flag has just arrived on their door step and commit most of the forces to the battle. When it's clear Reach and everyone there are simply being annihilated, they switch to retreating and evacuation all the resources of Red Flag that haven't been destroyed. Including the experimental-ship and her Captain. The Latchkey the Halsey and Cortana found from that Forerunner ship thanks to the scientist the was probably coordinates, and little did they know or perhaps they even did, that on the other side of it was going to be Halo. So why not send an the remains of Red Flag which were trying to escape anyway, to try and salvage victory from a back-breaking defeat.: Experimental Ship and Good Captain - Keyes and the Autumn AI with critical knowledge about the Forerunners - Cortana and why she's so important Hundreds of Spartans - John-117 considering he's all that's left/aboard the Autumn (not entirely true but I digress). If you don't believe me consider this. Both in the books and games, Cortana is patterned off of Halsey's mind. Both show traits and characteristics of acting without others authority for doing what is right, in almost all of the games. Would Halsey, someone who interferes with military operations twice in the game and more than a few times in the lore, simply allow an opportunity for humanity to regain a fighting advantage simply slip by? Finding Halo wasn't an accident. Bringing the Covenant along for the discovery was.
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@cjschaff317 · 3 years ago
I’m kinda glad the Exodus fly by is a chain gun and not a grenade launcher falcon. You barely get to kill anything with the chain gun as you witness the sheer chaos. Which just pushes the metaphor of hopelessly helping
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@mitwhitgaming7722 · 3 years ago
"It's good," alright everyone, pack it up, let's go home. 😜
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@sicKlown86 · 3 years ago
Finally playing Reach when it came out on the PC, it made me sad for what we could have had if Bungie had remained a game developer instead of a live-service provider.  When compared to the mainline trilogy, it showed that they were capable of more than just a campy sci-fi shooter with some real emotional depth.
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@BasicallyIIINobody · 1 year ago
I never noticed the little things leading up to kats death, missing the button, tripping, every little delay put her right in the scope of that zealot
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@BlazingLee0610 · 3 years ago
Love Halo Reach! First played it with my Stepbrother Alex when it first released. RIP Alex. Still miss you bro.
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@basicalllyyy6245 · 2 years ago
I like the subtle nod to Marty O Donnell at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn9FaJyHi1Q&t=5272">1:27:52</a> as one of your marines is Lt. O Donnell and their little callsign is MRTY
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