Iam not... NOT NOT NOT Gonna watch it!

disappointing, hopefully what comes before it is better

What a terrible ending. Thanks for saving me $60.

Can I get the cliff's notes? That video is horrible quality, and I don't feel like waiting 6 minutes to find out what it is. I want to start posting it to Halo fan boards immediately.

Lol VGWTI.. I don't care what game it is. An ending isn't going to define if a game is worth buying or not. :P

Honestly, after 2 I didn't expect an amazing ending. I think their writers have issues with closing stories / wrapping it up. I mean it's pretty hard to make out the video but at the sametime I think the "important" tidbits were clear.

I thought people played only played teh Halos to scream obscenities at 12 year olds on Xbox Live...Shittacular ending

That was incredibly disappointing - and that's coming from someone who wasn't expecting much to begin with.

Of course, the clip above is totally devoid of context, so there's probably more to the ending than just that final cutscene. Too bad I'll never play Halo 3 to find out!

How'd I miss that? Sorry Nex, give me the asshole of the day award.

This actually affects me very little since I enjoy the journey as much as the ending, and this vid provides almost no context (for me at least). I'm hoping that the actual game answers a lot more questions than the ending did (I'm sure it will).

Anyone care to enlighten me as to what they were doing a close up on during the last shot before the credits start to roll? The quality on the vid I could get to play was not so good. I saw the "in memory of those fallen..." but couldn't make out what the camera was focusing in on.

So what -most Halo players play it for the endless multiplayer and could care less.

I don't care about spoiling it...so after watching it I will say, I look forward to the flood of angry posts on September 26th when people start seeing the ending for themselves. That to me is way more entertaining than any ending could ever be.

Ummmm, weak IMO

Says the guy with a Halo3 Avatar! :D Note we are comenting on the story, or rather the end of it, which everyone agrees is crap. The game could still be great though, and the things that happen in it (story-wise) as well, its jsut the conclusion thats a lame cop-out.

Wow, I'm very suprised that this got leaked. Unless a) this is an elaborate dummy by bungie (they did have the money for that utterly ludicrous diorama nonsense) or b)this is a discarded first attempt at an ending and they've since re-rendered and scripted something new, then the story is finished for people like myself too curious to wait around. One comfort I take from this though is that in the first Halo the plot unfolded as you play in a very powerful and brilliant way. Half Life 2 is possibly the best example of this but Halo drew me whilst keeping the cut-scenes to a minimum. A pleasure to play. I hope Halo 3 will be the same in that tidbits are fed to the player as he smashes alien skulls with a B button.
Halo 2? I have no idea what was going on there. I just shot at things and occaisonally saw pre-rendered footage of the chief kicking a bomb in space, clutching an earth-bound shuttle in space. By the end I knew I'd won, but I wasn't sure what.
I think endings in videogames rarely if ever satisfy. Unlike other means of story telling, we bring so much of our own input to the story, that what the game makers decide is the end of game rarely live up to our unique expectations. Even if it's only pulling off a paticularly satisfying combo or using a strategy that annihilates the A.I competition, thanks to advances in the technology (and the ever-overactive human imagination) we can find pathos and plot in our actions more than the design team have the scope to depict.
Ocarina of time, for example, was a perfect journey, a wonderful videogame experience, but I felt the ending was lengthy, tedious and in general sucked eggs. Wind Waker's ending, on the other hand, was brilliant. The plot was explained to you as you battled through. By the time you'd stuck your sword into Ganon's forehead there was little else to say apart from "flood Hyrule".
I hope Halo 3 is the shiznit. I sincerely hope that the ending (whatever it turns out to be) is definitive and that the master chief horse is not flogged for whatever cash can be made (TIME TO MOVE ON, bungie). Inspite of all the bollocks, this is a solid, enjoyable first person shooter. For me though the inspirational moments were never the story, but using the limited resources to out-think and out-flank a bunch of elites.
One day there will be a really worthwhile ending to a videogame. Maybe there is and I haven't seen it. Please tell me if so...

At least you didnt spoil the end of Charlie the Unicorn and the Candy Mountain Adventure like those pricks at kotaku.

Real or not, it appears Halo broke the internet again...

hahahhaha necros that is hilarious

Merh, I don't care.

Zero.. Spoiler: you didn't need to watch it :D

bloodylip... Spoiler: I didn't watch it, jerk-off-sicles in the comments gave away the ending, and if Dtoid didn't feel it necessary to put it on the front page, I wouldn't have had it ruined, as I have been avoiding the internet like a plague.

The commenter's ruining the plot probably don't even own a 360 but have some complex where they feel better about being fat friendless slobs by spoiling games they have no intention playing, anonymously. Awesome! Now go eat one of your siblings.

reality check from a 27 year old to a guy with a picture of his cat for an avatar:

Teachers, Parents, and McDonalds ARE alot worse then they used to be.

@ Zero

No, you are.

@Zero

My cat rlz ;)

Really smart with the youtube link, no spilers, what-so-ever, are appreciated you know.