The Secret Sad History of Halo’s WORST LEVEL

Halo 3: Anniversary could do so much with this level...

It's so weird to see the original Halo 2 graphics and cutscenes. Makes me appreciate the Remaster even more

I only hate this level on Legendary. Otherwise I'm just happy to use The Flamethrower again!

You got it!! It will be done. It will even go further

Put these codes in gematria and convert the numbers using chaldean decoder youbwill get what it is associated with

Halo 3 remake that has all the cut content would go so hard

I have known this for a long time. Should be 2 level instead of 1

I swear if they remake halo 3 if this isn't a part of it then fuck game developers

It wasn't so bad, but I did wonder all the things you brought up in the video, oh well maybe a remake will do it justice.....if done correctly

Okay i have a legitimate question. Every video documentary ive watched they said they spent 1 year in pre production and im confused on how it still ended up getting rushed because of a lack of time. I dont understand game production but none of the videos ive watched have covered wbat exactly caused that. Like i understand halo 2 crunch they went into good detail on the fact they spent so much time making a demo. But no noe talks about this. Can anyone explain to me what happened please I've been looking eveywhere.

You do actually go onto the crashed ship. that is where they find the holo projection of cortana and then you go to high charity to retrieve her.

I knew about the cut flood ship level but I had no idea about the High Charity level. I played through Halo 3 with a friend recently, we were on the Cortana level and I do remember thinking it resembled more of a Covenant Corvette than High Charity. I rationalized it in my head that it was probably because we were on the outskirts or were in a lower more industrial part of the city. Also I guess i'm in the minority in that I don't hate Cortana, I don't like it all that much because it's very meandering, but I don't hate it.

If it came down to Cortana or The Library, I'd take Cortana in a heartbeat. Library mission is trash. Anyone can speed run Cortana

Cover those extra levels please

MythicJaqui brought the Flarbiters back!

Halos worst level is quarantine zone if you're talking about the series as a whole😅

Is there any franchise that has had more stuff gutted out of it?

Halo CE lost most of its levels, 2/3 of its weapons, several vehicles, ambient wildlife.

Halo 2 lost its entire lighting engine that the games visuals were designed around, had to have the entire campaign scrapped. We lost the moon level, the forerunner tank level, a bunch of chief levels, the destructible environments,, sprinting, melee combos, cooking grenades, a bunch of AI behaviours, a fight with the arbiter, the Sharqoi boss fight. The flood juggernaut boss fight. Infected jackals. The covenant ship level.

The whole "forerunners are secretly humans" subplot is gone. As is the final warthog run.

Halo 3...well we just saw it.

Halo 4 was forced to release a whole year ahead of shcedule because Don Mattrick wanted it on the 360 instead as an xbox one launch title (as if he didn't fuck up that system enough). There was also a bunch of cut dialogue tying it in with the plot of 5.

5 was supposed to get a brand new engine instead of the modified Halo 2 engine the series had been using. It never got it. It also had to run at 1080p/60 because this was the height of resolution gate.

Infinite cut a huge amount of land mass and extra biomes as well as having to finish development during covid.


Honestly, I feel like Halo should get the resident evil remake treatment. Redo the previous games adding back the missing elements.

I liked the level Cortana oddly enough. Would just vibe and explore

realistically there wasn’t anything wrong with this level. it was a classic smash and grab and you got to fight the hell out of the flood and use flame throwers. it was confusing with the high charity stuff, but then again it technically could’ve been rearranged by the flood. regardless the worst level in the entire Halo franchise is Reclaimer from Halo 4 where the level is just one giant glitch, and really showcases the lack of skill in npc and level checkpoint development provided by 343

Classic overscope issue. Happens all the time in the industry. I didn’t mind Cortana at the time, but it’d be cool to at least have the option to play a redone version of the level that reached the original ambition. Then again, they didn’t really incorporate cut content into Halo 2 Anniversary, so I’d be surprised if they made an exception for Cortana in Halo 3.

I always liked cortana. Sucked playing the level, but loved seeing how the flood over-run the ship. It's level design makes so much more sense now, I always thought I was on a continent cruiser docked inside high charity because the art style was nothing like halo 2's high charity.

I hated Cortana when I was a kid, it’s mellowed with me over time it’s fun to play with a friend who’s new to halo cause it’s pretty damn tough even on normal

Anyone feel like we need a horror game called “high charity” where you try to survive the flood invasion on high charity as a convanent soldier

I’ve always loved the level Cortana. This version would’ve been awesome!

Honestly, wandering around a broken scarab shooting things in a timed wave mission sounds like the worst possible designs they could ever have thought up. Sounds so much cooler in text than it would have in practice.

A modder shou ld try to partially remake High Charity

I want a halo 3 remake of the "canon" version but another version that's called "extended lore" or something like that where they recreate these levels that got cut, heck I'd take a game of every cut halo level ever in just a bundle

I want this version of Halo 3. 3 felt like a disappointment to highschool me after the greatness of H2

Wouldn't most of the dead Arbiters just be...bones?

I love the Cortana campaign

Halo CE is two betrayals, Halo 2 is quarantine zone, and Halo 3 is Cortana. These missions aren't terrible, but they're not great either.

"It's kind of a half-baked mission that needed to be there for the story, so we sort of threw it together, but I would've preferred not to do that" - Halo community on every level in Halo 5

wish i was a billionaire during development so i could have funded their vision but i was in high school

I always knew this game was to short

Given how sequels were handled, I'd much rather see remakes with modern day technology and executing the original visions of the trilogy.. a man can dream

so I wasn't the only one who liked all halo 3 missions except cortana

Imagine how epic it would be if when they make Halo 3 anniversary they would include EVERYTHING that was excluded from the game previously.

Just working on calculations, and what are the odds I need to use "117mm" for something just as I'm listening to this in the background...

CORTANA: I'M THE WORST LEVEL
THE LIBRARY: OLD MY BEER

I can see why this was cut but holy shit that would have been epic!

Even though halo 3 is my favorite, i feel halo 3 could have been a little longer.

What?!?!? Flood infected arbiters?!?!? 😳

I don’t hate Cortana.. I dread it, but it has its moments. I like fighting the flood. I like the library..

I always felt neutral towards it. It wasn't a good level in terms of gameplay design, but it was absolutely necessary in terms of storytelling.

Nah, there’s this level in the first one that I absolutely despise… I don’t recall it’s name offhand, but I think it was the Library or something.

Honestly hope I don’t seem crazy Cortana was my favorite level

What're your sources on this?

Damn. We were actually gonna get a proper Gravemind boss fight?