#269 | Halo 3

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

If you're an older player of video games, you know that 2007 was an historically-insane year for the medium. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Super Mario Galaxy, BioShock, The Orange Box, God of War II, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Mass Effect -- amongst others -- all launched within 9 months of each other. And then there was Halo 3, arguably the king of them all. Halo 3 is the Xbox brand's single best-selling game by a mile, and it's an emblem of Microsoft's most successful era both commercially and critically, when it was a completely dominant force with its boot on its competitor's neck. Short and sweet at only eight hours (or so) long, Halo 3 is a thrill to play, though it does lack its predecessor's emphasis on story and lore, which is a bit of a bummer. And it of course thrived via online play via Xbox Live, which isn't at all what our podcast is about. Instead, we focus on its action movie-like campaign, which we both had a blast with. And we reminisce about a time when Microsoft nearly won the so-called Console War, before it somewhat befuddingly dropped the ball and gave the crown away. 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.
0:15.5	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback. My name is Colin Moriardy.
0:19.0	I'm joined as always by my brother, Dagen Moriardy.
0:22.0	117, Dagen. Thank you for joining me today. How are you, my friend?
0:26.4	Here's my Pensive. I don't know why I'm doing Pensive double-fisted Pensive.
0:30.6	Double-fisted Pensive? That's almost like your four-learn. Yeah, that's no good. Let's just do one.
0:36.8	Hello, hello. That's so nice to see you, dude. Oh, shit. You know what I forgot?
0:41.6	Listen, oh, for you, all you ASMR fans out there, you might like this.
0:46.4	Now it's going to explode all over me. Should we do it on like? Yeah, do it, do it.
0:49.6	Okay. Oh, that's a good sound. That was perfect. That's a good sound.
0:54.8	You should be a sound engineer. You know what? I'll give you guys a little peek behind
0:57.9	the podcast and curtain. I usually try. I'm usually drinking like a Pellegrino periae,
1:02.9	something like that for the pods, right? But I try to open it like an hour before because I don't
1:08.8	want to be gassy. I don't want it to be too bubbly, right? When I'm talking, we're having a
1:14.3	conversation. But I totally forgot. So all good, my friend. It's good to be here with you. It's
1:20.8	good to see you. Is that a day lost soul? Is dead shirt? What is that? I can't see it. This is
1:26.0	first one, three feet high. Three feet. Yeah. Can't see it. Maybe if I pull it back a little bit.
1:30.5	Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Love it. You want to see the gun show? Yeah. Are you working
1:34.8	out? No. No, but I think about it every day. I'm like, how do I? Because I, you know, I go for my
1:40.3	walks 45 minutes, 50 minutes, something like that, about three miles, three and a half miles.
1:45.2	And that's good. And my legs are in good shape, but my upper body, dude. I'm just, you know,
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