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Subject: $60 price tag: will it affect your decision to buy ODST?

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Posted by: smash iz EPiC
Posted by: RepCom1138
Even without the maps, your getting 1: The game 2: 3 NEW maps 3: Recon Armor.
Name 1 game that has more than that.


For one, I won't be wearing recon. So that's one less thing (not to mention i don't think paying for an armor perm is logical, it's like buying clothes for a GI Joe or something, I'm not 8). 1 game that has more than that?...I can do you better:

Gears of War 2
COD 4 and WaW
GTA
L4D
R6V
Fallout 3 (b/c of the enormous size of the campaign, unlike ODST's projected 4 hour campaign)

Edit: Like I said, I'm mostly just saying that, while this is a cool title with it's own features, I don't think it should qualify as a stand-alone $60 title (it is called Halo 3: ODST)


Ok, so you wont wear Recon. The fact that Bungie is throwing that in is just a bonus, and Left 4 Dead has just the campaign and multiplayer...Not as much as ODST that has a 5-7 hour campaign, Firefight, and Halo Reach beta.
Once again, what more do you expect? Is there something Bungie should throw in to win your approvel? Most games just have campaign and MAYBE some sort of multiplayer, ODST offers way more.

  • 07.27.2009 12:43 PM PDT
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i already put down 100 dollars on collecters edition and its really no big deal and anyway every new game is 60 dollars so what the big deal seriously? and its halo so its prettymuch automaticly worth it

  • 07.27.2009 12:55 PM PDT

Its a great deal idk why ppl are complaining. New campain,firefight mode,all 24 maps for download,new weapons,new (Recon) armor, and new characters. Btw microsoft sets the price.
$60's is what games cost today. Deal with it.

  • 07.27.2009 12:58 PM PDT

Posted by: BLUEelite52
Its a great deal idk why ppl are complaining. New campain,firefight mode,all 24 maps for download,new weapons,new (Recon) armor, and new characters. Btw microsoft sets the price.
$60's is what games cost today. Deal with it.


P.S Everything i just stated that will be in ODST was in gears 2. (Except for recon of course) Gears of war 2 had a short campaign, and horde and it was $60. Why wouldnt ODST be?


P.P.S ODST HAZ REACH BETA!!!!!

[Edited on 07.27.2009 1:04 PM PDT]

  • 07.27.2009 1:02 PM PDT
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I'd pay $100 just for the Campaign.

Seriously, it's Halo. Halo is -blam!- amazing. There's no excuse not to buy it.

  • 07.27.2009 1:04 PM PDT

I love this- I'd pay $70.

  • 07.27.2009 1:05 PM PDT

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it £35 pounds in the uk so i pre-ordered it.

  • 07.27.2009 1:07 PM PDT

Yo.

You guys are looking at this the wrong way. Think if you did not have halo 3 at all. This would be amazing. Plus, no one told you to buy new maps. I personally think this was more of a game for new players of the Halo francise.

  • 07.27.2009 1:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: blizzy
You guys are looking at this the wrong way. Think if you did not have halo 3 at all. This would be amazing. Plus, no one told you to buy new maps. I personally think this was more of a game for new players of the Halo francise.


Or hardcore fans who need all Halo games...

  • 07.27.2009 4:15 PM PDT

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So with that said I don't fault you. I mean your only human, good or bad.

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same here

[Edited on 07.27.2009 4:22 PM PDT]

  • 07.27.2009 4:22 PM PDT

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I already have it reserved and paid for. I expected to pay full price when I reserved it too, so I don't really care. All I had to do was help my friend move, and we had about 10 other guys helping us, so the $60 he paid me was easy money for ODST.

  • 07.27.2009 4:24 PM PDT

I would buy it just for reach beta.

  • 07.27.2009 4:32 PM PDT
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Nope, 60 dollars seems pretty fair.

  • 07.27.2009 4:43 PM PDT
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well for the countless hours im gonna spend on it with my friends i think its worth the 60 bucks :P
the campagn:
even if its only 4 hours appearently i kno im gonna spend so much more time than that lookin for all the easter eggs and such lol..
firefight:
probably gonna spend lots of time there too
recon:
well its just armor and wont b so special when everyone has it but still u kno :P
i hope they come out wit new armor soon though lol

  • 08.01.2009 9:59 AM PDT

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The game itself has expanded enough to be a Full Game.

  • 08.01.2009 10:01 AM PDT

aren't expansions normally the same price as the game?

look at this and this

hmmmmm....

no, the price is not affecting my decision

  • 08.01.2009 10:07 AM PDT

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only $100 in Australia its $100 for the normal verson of ODST the collectors bundle is $170 pre-order

  • 08.02.2009 9:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tibetz
they are charging this much because they know not everybody who buys the game has Halo 3, Or Xbox Live.

if a person buying ODST doesn`t have Halo 3 or XBOX live, that`s nearly a $90 value of a game coming in at $60.


This is one of the biggest reasons why it's 60 dollars.

  • 08.02.2009 9:52 PM PDT
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IMHO
Halo 3 expansion=about $10/800 MSpoints (Fallout 3's expansions are that much)
3 more maps=It wouldn't be ridiculous to say 800 MSpoints
Firefight=a reasonable $10
Halo: Reach beta=I'd pay $5 to blindly test out a new game
Recon=Free

The expansion itself and Firefight seem the most fun to me. The new maps and recon I dont care for at all, and videos of H:R will be up the day after odst is released. Will I be picking up my copy of ODST anytime soon? Nope.

  • 08.02.2009 10:30 PM PDT

Salsa

welll if u think about it


All maps = 30$
Beta reach=10$
campaign=10$
firefight= 10$
Total of : 60 $
honestly by the looks it might be worth a lil more than it is but
i dont really care wat the price is
theres plenty of content and it satisfies me
so stop freaking caring about the price

  • 08.02.2009 10:35 PM PDT

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seems fair to me lol i dont really care im a big halo fan, the only reason i wont buy the collocters edition is because i recently bought a new controller!

  • 08.03.2009 2:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Preliator
( and thanks for realizing is MS and not Bungie who is making the game cost 60) is that there are many "full" games that have much less content compared to ODST but yet they are priced at 60.


That's why I dont buy those games.

  • 08.03.2009 2:47 AM PDT

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yeah...
anyhow Im just going to buy this game at the Microsoft store, because it's obviously cheaper there, so i guess none of the above?

[Edited on 08.03.2009 3:09 AM PDT]

  • 08.03.2009 3:08 AM PDT
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Sensitive elite.
Falls in love with Unggoy priest.
Laughter killed The Chief.

Yes, I realize there have been many threads like this, that simply indicates that there are many people who feel strongly about this. The only reason people are up in arms about the price is because they expected (and not without cause) that the game would be cheaper.

This is just one of those things that you're going to have to look at after the fact and decide for yourself if you paid more than you should have. All the talk about the campaign length is purely speculation. Open world games can take people wildly different amounts of time to finish. I'll be interested in the core content of the game.

Come on, anyone putting monetary value on Recon armor needs to have their head examined. It's an unlockable in Halo 3! Not ODST. People use it in that game not this one. Also access to betas are free because you are helping them make it better. It's a great incentive but that's about it.
(this is longer than i wanted)

If you're still reading this I'll wager that you already have all the available maps... and that you paid $30 for them. Maybe you can get your buddy who doesn't have H3 to spot you $20 and you can hand over you map disc when you pick up your game because you only need three of the maps that are on that thing.

So my question is: Are the campaign and firefight worth $50? It doesn't matter coz that's what it costs.
Start savin'.

[Edited on 08.03.2009 3:17 AM PDT]

  • 08.03.2009 3:15 AM PDT

Posted by: smash iz EPiC
Posted by: RepCom1138
Even without the maps, your getting 1: The game 2: 3 NEW maps 3: Recon Armor.
Name 1 game that has more than that.


For one, I won't be wearing recon. So that's one less thing (not to mention i don't think paying for an armor perm is logical, it's like buying clothes for a GI Joe or something, I'm not 8). 1 game that has more than that?...I can do you better:

Gears of War 2
COD 4 and WaW
GTA
L4D
R6V
Fallout 3 (b/c of the enormous size of the campaign, unlike ODST's projected 4 hour campaign)

Edit: Like I said, I'm mostly just saying that, while this is a cool title with it's own features, I don't think it should qualify as a stand-alone $60 title (it is called Halo 3: ODST)


Your joking right?
L4D? That has a maximum of 4 hours gameplay!
GOW 2 may have more new features, but you can hardly even use the multiplayer.
COD 4 had an extremely short story (W@W was slightly longer)
I may agree with you about the other 3, but remember that Bungie has confirmed the main campaign will now be around 6-7 hours and it is also free-roam.
And that's not counting Firefight with its unlimited hours will last longer than Fallout 3 and about the same as GTA.

P.S. Do you own L4D? Because if you did you woud not put that on there. It is one of the shortest games on the 360 and I just traded mine in towards Assasin's Creed 2 Black Edition.

  • 08.03.2009 3:24 AM PDT

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