Poll: ODST: The Final Straw

[IncindiaryPickle]

I don't think we NEED it per say, but I certainly am excited over it's release.
As for going 'too far', I don't believe that either. There are series' that take it WAY further.
What I do need is to see what Bungie has planned after the Halo series.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Really, I don't thin anyone cared about the plot of Halo in the first place. You are a faceless, voiceless, armored badass who is the last hope of humanity. Now, go kill!

If anything, the new direction ODST is taking is for the better. From what I've heard, the plot looks halfway decent, but that could just be because Nathan Fillion is in it.

 

[Kermi]

Really, I don't thin anyone cared about the plot of Halo in the first place. You are a faceless, voiceless, armored badass who is the last hope of humanity. Now, go kill!

Yet another Halo detractor who has clearly never played the games, yet still takes time out of his busy schedule to contribute nothing of value on message boards. I don't know why the internet still surprises me.

 

[Pandalisk]

If you dont want to buy it dont buy it, Those that do and see it as a worth while buy will buy it.

I myself cannot wait for its release.

 

[xavierxenon]

You missed the option for "Bungie should stop making games".

 

[DirkGently]

Do we need ODST?
Shit, of course not. But does it look fun as a bunch a monkeys? Hell yes.
I of course will buy and play it when i get the chance, and I'll probably enjoy every minute of it. I'll play with my friends at college, and tell my friends here at home that Bungie is a corporate whore, and how dare they dilute halo with anything past the first one. blah blah blah.

But i do have one serious complaint. When did Bungie become so serious? and how did i miss it till now.?
I think it began half way through the third one. Cinematics started to feel like soap opera tid bits. An now with the trailer for ODST, you know, the one with all the men firing off rounds in memorium of some soldier, probably master chief, i don't really care, and they keep showing me this kids face, and he may cry.

Where is the gameplay? why are you showing me this scene? wheres the fun?

I swear I'm gonna play this one... but nothing past Halo Wars 2 expansion packs...

Did you forget all of the AWESOME live action action bits filled with explosions, gun fire and all the awesome WETA props left over from the Halo movie? If I've got to deal with screaming ina fake language, and seeing some teenage fuckstick about to cry for five fucking seconds to see all of that awesome gunfire and explosions bits then hell fucking yes for it.

Bungies always been a step or two away from serious. Seriously. And the things they do seriously take seriously are the fun Marathon connections and such things that really aren't serious at all.

ps you know that ms owns the IP for Halo right? You do realise it's probably more them than Bungie? it was also always intended to be a trilogy. H:CE just wasn't as structured in the same way that Star Wars wasn't. They didn't know if they'd be able to make any more afterwards.


ps it's probably the kids dad.

ps you mean how dare they dilute it by not including forerunner tank.

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

Really, I don't thin anyone cared about the plot of Halo in the first place. You are a faceless, voiceless, armored badass who is the last hope of humanity. Now, go kill!

If anything, the new direction ODST is taking is for the better. From what I've heard, the plot looks halfway decent, but that could just be because Nathan Fillion is in it.

First of all, Captain Mal is in this! Now I do need this game... Damn.

Second of all, not anyone cared about the plot? I care a lot. When I heard they had made books I thought it seemed stupid. Then I read some reviews, got the books, and learned that the story behind the games is made of pure win. The games are actually dumbed a lot down as far as the books go, IMO. I am glad that they will end the Halo franchise after Reach, but I am also glad we are getting ODST and Reach. Looks like ODST at least might feel more like the books.

And six games isn't that much. Especially when it is a continuing storyline.

 

[Valkyira]

I think you should grow up. If you don't think it's right to have another Halo game simply don't buy it. It's not up to you to judge how Bungie does business.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Really, I don't thin anyone cared about the plot of Halo in the first place. You are a faceless, voiceless, armored badass who is the last hope of humanity. Now, go kill!

Yet another Halo detractor who has clearly never played the games, yet still takes time out of his busy schedule to contribute nothing of value on message boards. I don't know why the internet still surprises me.

Hey, i don't hate Halo. If anything, saying it has a bad story is a compliment, as the team could focus more on making the gameplay fun (which it is).

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Because shock troopers tend to be front line troops that do not engage in behind-enemy-lines guerrilla war. The are the front-line epic power troops, not the stealthy.

ODST *seems* to be much more green beret than marine, which makes me wonder why shock is in the name at all. Tanya was not a shock trooper-- shes a commando.

You're meant to be deployed straight into combat, but about two minutes into the game it all goes tits up. As you are seperated from the rest of your unit you are forced to resort to guerilla combat to survive and try to regroup.

 

[baseracer]

At least it isn't like fucking guitar hero. Activision needs to take a brake with all those games.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Because shock troopers tend to be front line troops that do not engage in behind-enemy-lines guerrilla war. The are the front-line epic power troops, not the stealthy.

ODST *seems* to be much more green beret than marine, which makes me wonder why shock is in the name at all. Tanya was not a shock trooper-- shes a commando.

You're meant to be deployed straight into combat, but about two minutes into the game it all goes tits up. As you are seperated from the rest of your unit you are forced to resort to guerilla combat to survive and try to regroup.

There's ample historical precedent for this happening, too. Air drops in WW2 had stragglers all the time, and many troopers had to basically conduct guerilla operations to rejoin their units. "Overlord" and "Market Garden" are the two biggest examples... and Crete on the German side, though they had less of a grind as it was early days for parachute warfare and the defenders didn't have a good grasp of how to defeat attacks by airborne infantry.

-- Steve

 

[General Recluse]

that is why you dont buy it if you dont need it.

 

[thiosk]

Because shock troopers tend to be front line troops that do not engage in behind-enemy-lines guerrilla war. The are the front-line epic power troops, not the stealthy.

ODST *seems* to be much more green beret than marine, which makes me wonder why shock is in the name at all. Tanya was not a shock trooper-- shes a commando.

You're meant to be deployed straight into combat, but about two minutes into the game it all goes tits up. As you are seperated from the rest of your unit you are forced to resort to guerilla combat to survive and try to regroup.

I therefore request a name change.

Halo: ABEL
Accidentally Behind Enemy Lines

or maybe

Halo: TUB
Tits Up and in the Butt

yeah, ill go with abel

 

[BentNeatly]

It seems like a good move to me - they're appealing to their slavering fan base, introducing a human element to a power-armoured uber-alien dominated series, and adding some new gameply elements. All seems like a good way to make money out of the fanbase and you might even get a decent game out of it.

Yea, but at that point why not make a game thats similar but without the halo name on it?

 

[BentNeatly]

You realize that after "Reach," Bungie will start working on non-Halo games. They announce that "Reach" is the last Halo game they'll make. They're just going out with a bang

Im gonna go out on a limb and wager that HALO: REACH, while already way to much, willnot be the end of the line. We'll see two, maybe three games from Bungie before they return to Halo. You all feel it, you all know it to be true.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

What do you mean by "give it a break for a while?" They spend most of their time on a break it seems.

 

[BentNeatly]

I don't think we NEED it per say, but I certainly am excited over it's release.
As for going 'too far', I don't believe that either. There are series' that take it WAY further.
What I do need is to see what Bungie has planned after the Halo series.

when i say need, and every one take note here, i mean it in this way:

Need, in a way that will push the world it will enter into forward.

Will ODST break any Ground? Will it carry games in a new direction? Will it bring something new and exciting to the table? do we need it in the necessary line of gaming evolution?

No. The answer is no. It will not be our matrix, or our godfather, or our Gone With the Wind. It will not be the best of a genre, it will not be "Needed" in any way, Because it will not move us forward, it will not advance the technology and innovation of shooters. It will only be very fun cereal, distinguishable from frosted flakes only by the big brand name on the box.

The word need is very hard to fathom when referring to video games, but it is possible to catch the gist of what im saying.