- sTEALtooth
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- Exalted Heroic Member
People, stop trying to rationalize/ explain things in ODST. Bungie's official answer to any inconsistency is "it's a -!BLAM!- game". They ( or M$) are just milking the Halo cash cow, so they're not concerned about whether or not things make sense in relation to the other games.
That's the whole point of the second disc: Bungie never intended ODST to be a full game. It was only going to be an expansion and then M$ was like, [speculation] "-!BLAM!- that! This is a Halo game! It's guaranteed to sell a million copies, we can't charge just $20 or $30! I don't care how short the game is: it's going to be $60!"
So Bungie threw in H3 multiplayer to try and justify the full game price. Oh and a spoonful of sugar called the Reach Beta. [again, speculation]
So buy the game, don't buy the game, whatever. Just don't waste your time trying to make sense of the (many) flaws and inconsistencies.