#207 | Halo: Combat Evolved

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

There's just no denying it: The gaming series Halo and the Xbox console are intrinsically linked, and will be forever. Indeed, Microsoft went and bought Halo mid-development to become its maiden console's killer app, and... well... it worked... because Xbox was unlikely to survive without it. Two decades-plus later, Halo remains one of the most important console franchises in the world, and yet, it all began innocuously enough with a 2001 product subtitled Combat Evolved. While far from the first FPS on console, there's no doubt that Halo -- through control, story, LAN, and more -- set the precedent for the next more-than 20 years of console-based shooting, which, as we well know, is now big, big business. We may just have the esteemed Halo to thank for that, and so, we welcome a conversation all about it here on KnockBack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast, is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:13.8	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Knockback.
0:16.1	My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother,
0:18.7	Dagen343 guilty spark Moriarty. Dagen, thank you for joining me today. How are you, my friend?
0:24.9	I'm doing okay, man. One of this, you know, sometimes the universe seems to be
0:30.7	conspiring against you. Maybe it's the covenant. Maybe it could be the covenant.
0:35.2	I don't want to do the show. They didn't, their polytheistic ways wouldn't,
0:40.1	didn't want us to. Actually, I have really no idea what's going on in the game,
0:44.7	but I'm looking at myself in the camera. Yeah, I'm so pale today. Why is that?
0:49.9	Peek it. Oh my goodness. I can't tell, though, but for me, the resolution is two.
0:55.4	Yeah, our resolution, we use ncaster for people out there, though,
0:58.0	which is like a pretty cool program where you just go to a website and you record
1:03.3	it's in super high quality audio video or whatever, basically whatever you have on your computer.
1:07.6	And it takes that and it prioritizes that over everything else. So it prioritizes getting
1:12.5	the highest quality. And so it just ruins your own quality of video. But that's not the way,
1:17.6	but that doesn't, that's not the way it looks at the end. So you could look fine right now to me.
1:22.6	I don't know. How do you feel? I feel fine. You know, I had a, I had a decent night's sleep and
1:29.9	woke up had a big poop. Oh, yeah. So maybe that took the life out of me. I don't know.
1:34.6	I literally just took the, it took, it took, it tat me out a little bit. I feel a little flush.
1:40.7	That's the exact opposite. I guess the exact opposite of flush. Anyway, Dave,
1:45.2	talk to me. How's life going? We're about to talk about the 2001 Xbox launch game. Hey,
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