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Posted by; ghostvirus
This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option. ----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.
Posted by: JaketheSnake 76
RLY? I couldn't figure out that a campaign expansion is shorter than the game it is expanding upon. Thanks OP!
You don't have to be such a J-A. They have just recently confirmed ODST to be shorter than Halo 3.
Beyond that, both Bungie and Microsoft have stated they no longer consider Halo 3: ODST an expansion. Because the scope of the game had grown. When they came out and said that, I was hoping the game would be longer than initially expected.
Ofcourse any reasonable person can see, it is still an expansion. Even before this revelation. But with how hard the PR team tryed to push the idea it was more than expansion, I anyways had hope it would be a longer game. Especially considering firefight lacks MM, and ODST lacks a unique multiplayer mode.
At the end of the day, no one is ever modest when they are doing PR. Which is why the expected play times of previous Halo games, have always been overstated. If Joseph Staten says, Halo 3: ODST is, 'probably" shorter than Halo 3. That means its shorter than Halo 3. If he would of said, "Its probably a little longer than Halo 3", that would of meant its shorter than Halo 3, seven times out of ten. If they said, "Its substantially longer than Halo 3", that means its 10 mintues longer 80% of the time.
Look, the game has been tested start to finish, to death by now. Bungie has been playing it start to finish for the better part of half a year. And they have been playing it in its finished state, for probably a few months. They know how long the game takes on average to beat. And if he says its probably shorter than Halo 3, the overwelming majority of people will have a shorter play time than Halo 3. So much so he would feel like a crook, if he dodged the question completely, and didn't indicate the game was shorter. He clearly didn't even want to state an expected play time. Because even if he told us how long the slowest 5% took to play the game, it would look better for the game, to leave it to the imagination. Even if your imagination is constructed with the knowledge, that it is shorter than Halo 3.
[Edited on 07.25.2009 12:42 PM PDT]