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Subject: Halo 3: ODST value: Is it worth it?
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Posted by: GrnDragn
I swear to god if someone says that a Beta is worth money again, I will slap someone. Betas are supposed to be for FREE. Halo 3's beta was for free when it came with Crackdown, and a six hour campaign is not worth 40 dollars. I swear, the best deal in video game history was the Orange Box. 5 games in one box for the price of ONE. Also, if you did by the other games, at least Valve made the ones that people didn't buy available for individual purchase. Why can't Bungie/Microsoft do this? Greed.

No, they aren't. Some are and aren't. But the thing about betas is that they aren't generally open to the general public. With ODST you are garenteed a place i nthe beta. And the fact that most people had to buy Crackdown in order to play the Halo 3 beta means it wasn't free. In fact, it meant you had to pay sixty dollars to get in.

And the orange box was a good deal, but it wasnt that good a deal. All the games in the Orange Box were about twenty dollars each at release. You saved only fourty dollars and most of them wouldnt be considered full games by your own definition. Portal was only like an hour and a half long. Team Fortress two only came with like three multiplayer modes and five maps. And Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2 were only around three to four hours long each. The only game in the package that came any where near close to a "full game" was Half-Life 2 which didn't even include any sort of multiplayer like ODST does.

And if you're going to bring the Orange Box into this then by comparison ODST really isn't so bad. Half the Orange Box was games that had already been released. So complaining about Bungie repackaging Halo 3's multiplayer in ODST is a moot in that light.

[Edited on 08.15.2009 10:14 AM PDT]

  • 08.15.2009 9:56 AM PDT

well if u look it like this way halo 3 now is about 40 bucks lets just say plus 5 bucks cus the campain in odst is longer and another 5 to firefight so thats 50 $ and the new mthic maps would be 800 mp thats 10 bucks so that equals out and if 3 maps are for only 10 bucks the campain and firefight would be more that i estamated so i think its a good deal and if u havent bought halo 3 yets its a steel also if u would like to u could see your halo 3 u would get 15 20$ mabey u just would have to live with out h3s campain and achivments but if your like me i have all h3s achivments right now so ya

[Edited on 08.15.2009 10:03 AM PDT]

  • 08.15.2009 10:01 AM PDT

I don't like how they include a second disc, the halo 3 multiplayer, which they say is only to provide the new maps, but instead they should just provide one download code that allows you to download all the maps, so when you put that code in, it downloads the maps you don't have on. That second disc is there to raise up the price to $60, but we already have the multiplayer, so it's only a good deal for those who don't have halo 3, but hardly anyone has an xbox and doesn't have halo 3.

ODST will be awesome. So thats why I'll buy it.

  • 08.15.2009 10:11 AM PDT

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