- ghostvirus
- |
- Exalted Mythic Member
Posted by; A random forum poster
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: dangerbyrnes
disk 1 is worth $60 by itself .
Not from the standpoint of someone that judges the value of something, by how much work or resources went into making it. Perhaps in the perspective of someone thats blindly loyal, even to their dieing breath. Perhaps you can see value in it from a personal perspective, but from the broader perspective its not.
The game had a year and a half production cycle, half of Halo 3s. With a team that was significantly smaller than Halo 3s. It was viewed from the very begining as an expansion, not a fullfledged game. Because it was an interm project, while Halo: Reach was gaining steam.
The reality is, the games engines are all reused from Halo 3. Most of the A.I is recycled. Most of the games sandbox (weapons, vehicles, enemies, etc) are all carbon copied from Halo 3.
The game has no unique competitive multiplayer experience to it. And the cooperative mode it does have, has no MM to it. That would all be fine, it is afterall an expansion. I would be disapointed, but not upset if Firefight couldn't have MM support because Halo 3s campaign didn't, if Microsoft was honest with themselves with their PR, and the pricing of the game. But if the game is, "so much more than an expansion", why the hell couldn't they so much as give campaign MM support, just because the Halo 3 engine didn't support it as it was.
--------------
The reality is, the only comprehendable way, I can imagine someone can think ODST is worth it from a broad perspective, is if they are incapable of thinking broadly. Most of the assests are reused from Halo 3. If you take out all of the assests that were striped from Halo 3, the game would easily be two years away from release. And even after noting that fact, the game is shorter than Halo 3.
The reality is, much of the 60$ price goes towards content you have already purchased.
That all being said, I enjoy Halo enough, and am a big enough fan its worth it to me, from a personal perspective. But that doesn't mean im so near sighted, that I can't step outside myself, and realize to most people it won't be.
In any event, I predict either Halo 3: ODST, or Halo: Reach will suffer greatly because of ODSTs price.Either only die hard fans will pick it up. Or a lot of ignorant people are going to pick it up, and be upset when they see how closely it resembles Halo 3, and that it doesn't have its own competitive multiplayer. Despite the price of a fullfledged game. And in that disapointment they will be possibly detered from buying Halo games in the future.
I already have two people on my friends list, who think I am an idiot. Because I told them ODST won't have clan support, because it doesn't even have a unique multiplayer experience.
---------------------------------
I just wish there was a second version of ODST. That included Disk 1, and a code card to download the exclusive maps.
[Edited on 08.06.2009 1:28 PM PDT]