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Subject: Is ODST worth buying???
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Poll: Is ODST worth buying???  [closed]
YEAH!?! ALLL HALOZZ ARE MAD L33Tz:  33%
(14 Votes)
yes:  40%
(17 Votes)
Nope:  23%
(10 Votes)
already sold it:  5%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 43

I personally think that ODST was a a waste of money. Obviously lacking matchmaking, i got bored of firefight very quickly after beating campaign over night.... Big let down, and im hoping for Halo reach to pull me out of CoD 6.

  • 02.09.2010 5:04 PM PDT
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See this thread. This is a duplicate. I don't think we needed YET ANOTHER thread complaining about its price.

Enough is enough.

This will be my only post here.

  • 02.09.2010 5:10 PM PDT
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I like Pandas

I voted yes but I think they could of did better like have a matchmaking as you mentioned. Overall I think the game is okay and worth getting.

  • 02.09.2010 5:10 PM PDT

Winning or losing doesn't really matter much to me. I play for fun, and nothing you can say will change that. Sure, I have a low K/D, sure, I have a low rank in Halo 3, but I really don't care. It's not like it actually means anything. It's a number. And for the record, opinion and fact are two completely different things.

Blah, Blah, no matchmaking in firefight, boo hoo. The game was made by a very small team at Bungie in less than a year, I think they did remarkable well with what they had.

  • 02.09.2010 6:19 PM PDT

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guys, ODST isnt just the first disk! the second disk (with matchmaking!!!) is part of Halo 3: ODST yes it was worth the price that Microsoft gave it
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Posted by: Verroq
Blah, Blah, no matchmaking in firefight, boo hoo. The game was made by a very small team at Bungie in less than a year, I think they did remarkable well with what they had.


[Edited on 02.09.2010 6:40 PM PST]

  • 02.09.2010 6:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Verroq
Blah, Blah, no matchmaking in firefight, boo hoo. The game was made by a very small team at Bungie in less than a year, I think they did remarkable well with what they had.

  • 02.09.2010 6:40 PM PDT
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Honestly it is. With the time bungie designed this game it is amazing. The campaign was ok and firefight is a blast if you get a group of friends. Also, it gives you free map packs for halo 3. So i don't see why it isn't worth buying.

  • 02.09.2010 7:00 PM PDT

I intend to live forever, or die trying,

so far, so good.

I hear alot of people complaining about ODST with no Matchmaking. I would not like to play FireFight, with people I didn't know. But do see your point, when trying to get the Vidmasters.

I do not think it was a waste of money, Firefight is awesome, but can get a bit boring sometimes.

And you get Beta Access to REACH. You had to buy a crappy full price game for the Halo 3 Beta.

But I have been playing alot of the game that can't be mentioned.

Still prefere Halo.

And the Campaign was heaps of fun, and the las tlevel on the Highway is one of the best Halo levels of all time.

[Edited on 02.09.2010 7:24 PM PST]

  • 02.09.2010 7:22 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

i feel so. if you compare it to a game that doesnt have live its amazing. i love how when it doesnt have tonz of xbl people think its trash.

  • 02.09.2010 7:29 PM PDT

Not for $60.
If it's still $60 in your stores, wait for it to drop down a little.
I guarantee that you won't find yourself on ODST too often after you get the things you want out of it.

  • 02.09.2010 8:55 PM PDT
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I'm watching you Bungie.

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If you have friends that still play it, buy it. Cause if you don't you are going to get bored very, very fast.

  • 02.10.2010 2:33 AM PDT

There comes a time in every mans life... and that time is not now.

Yes. Thats just my opinion, do whatever you want.

Matchmaking in ODST would be pointless. The idea of it sounds appealing, but thea actual concept that most people are thinking of would be horrible. Trust me. There are so many reasons why ODST shouldn't have matchmaking, plus it isnt possible now so quit complaining about it.

  • 02.10.2010 2:43 AM PDT
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When getting into weather ODST is worth it's price things get complicated.

Most people will dismiss it simply for not having as much content as Halo 3 or a few other favorite games among the community. But going back before alot of advances in games, alot of games just didn't have much content. For example, old school platformers like Sonic the Hedgehog were really only a few hours long. The only reason people got so much from them was their extreme difficulty.

The fighting game genre is a prime example of this. They usually only have a campaign that goes for a couple hours. After that there nothing left but the player vs player matches.

There are still alot of games like this, but gamers generally only hear of the huge high quality games. There are some games like Halo 3 and Call Duty 4 that while they may not have a very long campaign alot of people find justification in the price through the competitive multiplayer.

I'll just go right out and say that ODST does not justify it's price as well as any previous entry in the Halo series(including Halo Wars) and in this regard it's easy to understand why people are disappointed with ODST.

Still, if you judge ODST on it's own merits I think it's a good game and regardless of weather it's over priced or not it's better to have a fun game thats skimpy on the content rather than bad game with a full feature set.

ODST includes the gameplay that has made the Halo series so lauded, it comes with a fresh new cast of characters in a city full of atmosphere and is complemented by one of the game industries' most memorable soundtracks.

Halo 3 I think has spoiled the fans. ODST returns with the theater and file sharing options and I think fans really don't appreciate that. Their great features that most games still don't support. On top of this players can team up in 4-player co-op in campaign or take on waves of covenant in the new fire fight mode. The package is rounded out with the Halo 3 Mythic disc containing Halo 3's competitive multiplayer along with all maps ever released for it.

ODST isn't without it's faults. No matchmaking for fire fight is a bummer, the Rookie's night time segments could have been better executed, the campaign could have been longer and with the second disc alot of hard core fans are paying up for content they likely already have.

But no game is perfect and compared to most games ODST's flaws are minor. It's still a fun game and even with the lack of alot of new content, with some friends you can definitely sink in more hours than you would in more substantial games.

It's a game, I think, was best for the more casual Halo fans who didn't bother getting maps, the hardest of the hardcore who care about the lore and the newcomers. It wasn't for the competitive multiplayer guys, but I would have thought that was obvious from the outset.

[Edited on 02.10.2010 4:30 AM PST]

  • 02.10.2010 4:18 AM PDT
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It wasn't worth buying at all

  • 02.10.2010 4:28 AM PDT

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Meh. I probably would have just rented it had I known more about it.

  • 02.10.2010 6:27 AM PDT

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Yeah i loved it. As good as the other Halo games if not better.

  • 02.10.2010 6:34 AM PDT

for the reach beta yes, longshore is pretty cool.

The rest of the game sucks though. Online Matchmaking is laggy as crap. Even playing with a kid who lives nearby it lagged a ton.

  • 02.10.2010 9:00 AM PDT

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for the reach beta yes, longshore is pretty cool.

The rest of the game sucks though. Online Matchmaking is laggy as crap. Even playing with a kid who lives nearby it lagged a ton.


The lag is a big issue and it's the game breaker for me. The game is good though and worth buying.

  • 02.10.2010 9:13 AM PDT

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it's for fans of the game who want to know everything not for gamers who just play games

  • 02.10.2010 10:10 AM PDT