Halo 3 ODST: Does anyone actually care?

[TOO S0BER]

building the huge bunker near Voi in Halo 3, quote]

Well, they didn't BUILD the bunkder, they modified it by bringing in modern equipment. One of the marines when you're being escorted to the control room (or something like that, it's been a while since i played Halo 3.) that the bunker was make during one of the 20th century wars, (again, i'm not sure, I havn't played the game in a while). But it was something along those lines.

Now with everything else, i agree with you. I've often thought about writing a fanfic about how Johnson, 343 Guilty Spark, SpecOps Commander Half Jaw (Not his real name but it's my favorite nick name), and Miranda got their asses back to earth. IMO, it's one of the most annoying plot holes in the game as they NEVER mention EVER how they got the HELL back. As was how Johnson is still alive after the bajillion times he died in Halo 1. I know he was not a main character then, but still.

 

[TOO S0BER]

I got the impression it was basically Halo 3 but with a COD 4 health system. Campaign looked interesting though with all the time traveling shenanigans.

Time-traveling? Where did you pull that one? Been reading the Timeshift stuff? Halo: ODST isn't about time travel. It's a, hmm how to put this..., a Game where they thought "Hmmm what's going on over thar while chief is over hear..." Along those...very obscure line...

Timetravel would be a cool idea...as a Fanfic though.

 

[MSORPG pl4y3r]

Ppl who know my opinion might be suprised with what I'v got to say about ODST, I think its a decent idea and I dont mind as long as its not to expencive. To me Halo has run its course and should be left as a pop relic after ODST, Bungie should do somthing else, I heard they made an RPG once but i dnt know mutch about it. In the unliky event in whitch there are bungie employes reading this then take heed, Halo is over, make somthing else like an FPS-RPG or a hack an slash or somthing, just somthing else.

 

[TOO S0BER]

I care, all of bungies other games have been great. And this should be no exception.

I only know them for the Halo franchise and that's terrible.

Yeah, the number one sold video game in the U.S last year, was terrible.

Just because it sold well doesn't make it good.
It had a terribly short and bad campaign, a bad story, bad multiplayer and bad gameplay altogether.

Well I (kind of) disagree. Yes, the campaign was very short. Since I was syked since the game was announced, I immediately played it after the Midnight launch and I was done in about six hours...and very very tired.

As for story, I thought the story was pretty good. Not great, but fairly good.

Multiplayer, As of Now, meaning when I discovered COD 4, i don't feel anything of Halo 3's Multiplayer. One unrelated reason to COD 4 is that there are people that bought the game solely for the MP. And that stuff ticks me off. It shows people like that truly care nothing for the game. But I guess it's OK as everyone is entitled to their opinion. *grinds teeth*

I thought the gameplay could've been better. Switching some of the controls for one category of items kind of POed me, but anyone can get used to it given enough time.

All in all, I agree with people that it was Over hyped, but as with 3rd movie trilogies, it's the big finalie, the last chapter, the big conclusion that'll answer the questions. So YES it's gonna get HYPE. But i think people got, for the most part, sick of it after the first week. First day was like "HALO 3 RULES! FTW! RAWR! ZEALOUS DEFENSE!" And then it just kinda died down a bit after the first week or so. I was a little achievement crazy with H3 but, again, after discovering COD4 I was like "Halo what?"

 

[TOO S0BER]

It looks interesting. Since you're not a supersoldier anymore, you have to use stealth. I imagine lives will make a comeback too. Regenerating health is better for multiplayer though.

Well, I disagree with you there. I personally hate the lives system. Very bad experience with Crash games with lives. I think having few and far between checkpoints would be punishment enough for dieing.

 

[nathan-dts]

I care, all of bungies other games have been great. And this should be no exception.

I only know them for the Halo franchise and that's terrible.

Yeah, the number one sold video game in the U.S last year, was terrible.

Just because it sold well doesn't make it good.
It had a terribly short and bad campaign, a bad story, bad multiplayer and bad gameplay altogether.

Multiplayer, As of Now, meaning when I discovered COD 4, i don't feel anything of Halo 3's Multiplayer. One unrelated reason to COD 4 is that there are people that bought the game solely for the MP. And that stuff ticks me off. It shows people like that truly care nothing for the game. But I guess it's OK as everyone is entitled to their opinion. *grinds teeth*

I also dislike CoD 4 and 5's (CoD 3 was ok) multiplayer as it's to easy to play and is popular because of that; Infinity Ward made it so

I think Bungie and Microsoft should stop beating around the bush and admit that Halos 4 to 67 are nearing completion and give the slavering masses what they really want and not bother with petty add-ons

BUNGIE
SPLIT
WITH
MICROSOFT
THEY MAKE THE HALO GAMES BECAUSE THEY WANT TO NOW, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE TOLD TO
SHUT
UP

First off, calm the fuck down.
Secondly, although Bungie split with Microsoft, Microsoft are still pressuring Bungie like hell to make more of this shit.

 

[TOO S0BER]

It looks interesting. Since you're not a supersoldier anymore, you have to use stealth. I imagine lives will make a comeback too. Regenerating health is better for multiplayer though.

Hate stealth in video games.The only time it was good was in Halo 1,on the first snow level.And you could just go in guns blazing with no penalties.Its how all stealth things should go in a FPS.Do it if you want,and don't have to care if you don't do it.

Stealth as in STEALTH not invisibility powerups.

Comon now, a little info b4 posting?

That's the thing,there where no invisibility powerups that far in the game.What you did in that level was kill sleeping grunts and elites before they saw you,and that is good stealth gameplay in my book.Is that info better?HMMMMMMMMM!(Did i grunt that out loud?)

Edit: And again,there are no invisibility power ups on the level i'm talking about.

There were a couple. One was in the little tower where you fought a Wraith, Banshee, and a couple ghosts with a Scorpion tank. I haven't played the game in a while but I do remember one there. Oh! It was the area where there were 4 hunters. 2 on the left side of the tower thing and when you approached the other side of the canyon Two more came out from behind the canyon wall. I think it's the are before you have to help the marines fight off a Spirit dropshop.

And theres one just before the next area with a big cache of weapons. After you fight a bit with the Marines and they abadon you to "guard the entrance".

 

[Gormers1]

I think from what they have told us, it sounds fun. And the smg with silencer is porn. I wonder what they are going to charge us for it though, IMO, it would be better as a downloadable title, considering the game will actually be shorter than halo 3s campaign (if I remember correctly).

 

[Sporky111]

ODST is not a bridge between Halo 2 and 3. It shows what is happening on Earth after the Covenant flattened New Mombasa, you know, after master chief said *they'll be fine* and left. I really would like to play it. If they do it right it would have a cover system instead of mowing everyone down in your invincible suit.

 

[TOO S0BER]

Will be epic fail imo. Should just let the halo franchise end. But that won't happen while MS is still around.

Um. In case you haven't noticed, Halo: ODST isn't about the Master Chief. Master Chief is on Delta Halo while Halo: ODST is going on.

 

[TOO S0BER]

Nothing gets the juices flowing like a mediocre expansion pack to an already mediocre first person shooter running at a mind-blowing 640p.

As Half Life: Blue Shift proved.

I know, that was completely overstepping the boundaries, I apologize.

I liked Half life:Blue Shift?It was just like new maps for the HL,oh,I see your point.

I personally don't really like the original Half Life that much, but I can see why Blue Shift served its purpose, as a small expansion pack, sorta like a side dish to snack on while waiting for the main course. This is essentially the same thing. Whats wrong is people are treating this like a major release, like Halo 4, when its most definitely not.

I agree with you there. A lot of faboys are treating this, just as you said, like Halo 4. This is more like Halo 2.5 or something like that.

 

[TOO S0BER]

In some ways I feel sorry for Bungie, the slaves of Microsoft, forced to make Halo games forever...someone should start a 'Free Bungie' campaign.

Bungie was divested. They're independent now and have been for almost a year now. They're also completely full of themselves and honestly stopped caring about the series' single-player campaign after the first game, believing Halo to be the ultimate game for the sole reason that they've logged more collective years of online multiplayer in Halo 3 between all its players than the human race has been alive.

That said, I didn't care about the events after the first Halo game, let alone the ones between Halo 2 and 3. The entire series was ruined for me the second The Flood showed up.

Have a hard time getting immersed in the story when MP is knocking at your door? The Flood, and the commentary on the Cinematics disc for Halo 3 Legendary even said this, was the big twist. If the flood wouldn't have been in the game it would've been a pland kill every alien series. It still its kind of a bland kill every alien game, but a 3 way FFA is always better than a 1v1 game.

 

[TOO S0BER]

Ppl who know my opinion might be suprised with what I'v got to say about ODST, I think its a decent idea and I dont mind as long as its not to expencive. To me Halo has run its course and should be left as a pop relic after ODST, Bungie should do somthing else, I heard they made an RPG once but i dnt know mutch about it. In the unliky event in whitch there are bungie employes reading this then take heed, Halo is over, make somthing else like an FPS-RPG or a hack an slash or somthing, just somthing else.

Well, as far as Expense goes, it'll be the same as all other games. $60. Which isn't TOO bad...They might have a specialty "collectors" set for $10 or $15 extra but no one's making you buy the collectors right? I think $60 is reasonable.

 

[TOO S0BER]

I'm a little bit syked for it. After reading the HGN (Halo Graphic Novel) I've wanted to know how the fighting was in New Mombasa as you only got a short glimpse in Halo 2.

I hope the game is not another run-'n'-gun like the other Halos. Stealth, like in Fallout 3, but not skill level dependant. My lvl 20 in FO3 has such high stealth I can stand in front of a Raider in plain sight with clunky T-51b power armor and not get noticed. One thing I Hope Bungie doesn't do is Squad control. I played Star Wars: Republic Commando and I just didn't like the whole squad control concept. I played halfway through the game before I got sick of it.

I like that you're gonna play as someone OTHER than the raep-everything Master Chief. Invincible Human walking tank with practically one hit kill God mode powers.

As for the quality of Campaign and Multiplayer...we'll just have to see. It wouldn't be right to compare Halo: ODST with Halo 2 and 3 because the game is going to have to switched around completely since we have a new character without godliness. One thing I'm hoping for is they don't have vehicles. Playing COD: WaW is soooooo irritating getting blown to bits by Tiger and T-34 tanks...makes me FFFFFFFFF. Same in Halo. Get some guy that loves sniping in a scorpion and it's like MP gode mode.

But yes, I will likely be there on launch day.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I got the impression it was basically Halo 3 but with a COD 4 health system. Campaign looked interesting though with all the time traveling shenanigans.

Time-traveling? Where did you pull that one? Been reading the Timeshift stuff? Halo: ODST isn't about time travel. It's a, hmm how to put this..., a Game where they thought "Hmmm what's going on over thar while chief is over hear..." Along those...very obscure line...

Timetravel would be a cool idea...as a Fanfic though.

No no, I read this in GameInformer. The campaign is setup like Memento. Sometimes you're the stranded ODST, sometimes you're other people in the squad 8 hour in the future looking back on something. The two plotlines come together in some wacky "Ohhhhh" kind of moment.

 

[TOO S0BER]

I got the impression it was basically Halo 3 but with a COD 4 health system. Campaign looked interesting though with all the time traveling shenanigans.

Time-traveling? Where did you pull that one? Been reading the Timeshift stuff? Halo: ODST isn't about time travel. It's a, hmm how to put this..., a Game where they thought "Hmmm what's going on over thar while chief is over hear..." Along those...very obscure line...

Timetravel would be a cool idea...as a Fanfic though.

No no, I read this in GameInformer. The campaign is setup like Memento. Sometimes you're the stranded ODST, sometimes you're other people in the squad 8 hour in the future looking back on something. The two plotlines come together in some wacky "Ohhhhh" kind of moment.

Oh really? Care to provide a link? Not being sarcastic or dragging for proof, sounds interesting.

 

[coffin]

its less of caring and more curious as to how it will go and i personally dont trust any other human being so i'll have to take a look myself

 

[DeusFps]

Will be epic fail imo. Should just let the halo franchise end. But that won't happen while MS is still around.

Um. In case you haven't noticed, Halo: ODST isn't about the Master Chief. Master Chief is on Delta Halo while Halo: ODST is going on.

So whats your point exactly?

 

[Simalacrum]

In some ways I feel sorry for Bungie, the slaves of Microsoft, forced to make Halo games forever...someone should start a 'Free Bungie' campaign.

apparently someone did, cause Bungie went freelance a while back. their still servants to-be-payed-later (aka never) of Microsoft though.

 

[TOO S0BER]

Will be epic fail imo. Should just let the halo franchise end. But that won't happen while MS is still around.

Um. In case you haven't noticed, Halo: ODST isn't about the Master Chief. Master Chief is on Delta Halo while Halo: ODST is going on.

So whats your point exactly?

That the game isnt about Master Chief. A different arc in the story. Halo can go on with different stuff. It just depends on what it is. Halo Wars is just after the battle of harvest and stuff. I guess my point is that bungie is trying something new (not entirely new but new nonetheless).