>>717665329 (OP)
I remember the week Machinima died like it was yesterday. 2009 had plenty of Halo 3 content to go around like Matchmaking and Spriggs, and people were beginning to expand into other games to stand out. Inside Gaming WHERE THE FUCK IS SODAGOD was the channel's flagship series that drew in tens of thousands every week, which was quite good at the time. Happy content, happy fans, more Halo 3 content and Reach was announced. Things are looking bright. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything changed in November with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Less than a week after the game's release, it became abundantly clear to everyone that machinima based videos were dead in favor of easily mass produced, low effort commentary. Why spend weeks on editing and voice acting when you could instead record a game of yourself clowning on some noobs and talk into a mic like you just rolled out of bed? By the time the containment channel, MachinimaRespawn, was created to prevent the main channel from being flooded, the damage was already done. Only titans like Arby 'n the Chief remained.
>But what about Master Chief War?
That came later. It was the only Master Chief video that Lyle would ever upload to Machinima.
