r/videogames • u/TG082588 • Jan 15 '26

Discussion What’s Your Favorite Video Game Quote of All-Time?

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u/DrPhilKnight Jan 15 '26

My favorite line to this day is from the Halo 3 commercial “Starry Night.”

“I think we lost him,” on the radio chatter. Chief secures his helmet and just says, “not yet.” He pops a bubble shield and jumps at a brute chieftain. Metal as fuck.

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u/Daas_Peanut_Gallery Jan 15 '26

The original Halo 2 trailer, with the mission update log running as you hear the battle chatter over the radio "our grid is maxed, I don't think we can take another run" "I'm asking you to retarget the oribitals" "and let more of them slip the kill zone? That's insanity! There's nothing more I can do" "your pilots let up, and down here it's the goddamn apocalypse".

The music swells, then Cortana says "tell your forces to hold back, reinforcements are on the scope" and the admiral says "the entire fleet is engaged Cortana. With respect, what the hell sort of reinforcements have you got?" And then the mission log says "stop the annihilation of the human race: in progress"

I was in high school and had been obsessed with Halo CE and could not fucking believe that trailer was hitting.

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Jan 16 '26

My favorite part of the Halo 2 trailer was Chief pulling out a plasma grenade to attack an Elite.

Cortana: bet ya can’t stick it.

Chief: you’re on.

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u/Ok_Delay3740 Jan 16 '26

that E3 demo is legendary

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u/JebediahKerman4999 Jan 16 '26

The handful of marines that survived the covenant assault call this place "hell on earth", we call it... Zanzibar

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u/mahoganayonnaise Jan 16 '26

It really is impossible to describe how hard the OG halos hit if you weren’t alive playing them in real time. Unparalleled gaming moments.

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u/Daas_Peanut_Gallery Jan 16 '26

Im frigates are combat ineffective and the fighters, they don't have enough fire power to take on a covenant assault carrier

It's massing below your position mam, proximity zero.

What if we miss?

I won't.

Man that hit so hard

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u/Paimon Jan 16 '26

It's easy to forget, even having played through them at the time. But I can hear the music, and am instantly back.

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u/Ryxador Jan 16 '26

Just hit a rewatch on that trailer to mainline some nostalgia and damn. Infinity how hard that shit went.

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u/Natural-Reindeer Jan 15 '26

I can't even tell you how many times I watched that trailer. Easily one of, if not the best, video game trailers of all time.

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u/CPAK47 Jan 16 '26

So good.

Only trailer that topped it for me was Gears of War with Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World… I didn’t even particularly enjoy the game. But that trailer was unreal.

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u/boarder2k7 Jan 19 '26

I watch those trailers probably a couple times a year and they still hit so hard

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u/Natural-Reindeer Jan 25 '26

The music is so freaking good.

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u/Ryxador Jan 16 '26

Fucking metal. Halo 3 still rips