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Subject: ODST totally disappointed me.

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All the trailers I saw for it before it came out made it look so epic. Firefight also sounded more fun than it ended up being. To me, the only reason I'd buy it is for vidmasters. (Which I already have.)

  • 05.11.2011 6:00 PM PDT

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Then I think you weren't fully engaged in the story. Do you know about Sadie's Story? Did you listen to the audio files? Did you hear the superb music? The list goes on...

  • 05.11.2011 6:40 PM PDT

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I do know about sadie's story, but my best friend IRL did the audiophile achievement without me, so I never got to that.

  • 05.11.2011 6:52 PM PDT
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Do it on your own for the fun of hearing the story and finding all the audio logs?

  • 05.11.2011 8:26 PM PDT

I really liked ODST as a matter of fact.

  • 05.11.2011 9:05 PM PDT

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I thought it was pretty good.

  • 05.11.2011 9:22 PM PDT


Posted by: YUTTER BOMB
I do know about sadie's story, but my best friend IRL did the audiophile achievement without me, so I never got to that.

This is a Bungie game with a fairly complex storytelling structure, and inspired by Dante's Inferno.

The Rookie's story in Reach provides a barebones plot structure and some atmosphere. Sadie's story provides sideplot to explain what's actually happening and to flesh out what New Mombasa once was, to juxtapose with what is seen in game. And the additional consideration of Inferno helps to thematically tie everything together.

If the achievement was the only value you saw in collecting the Sadie's Story logs, it's not surprising that you didn't get much out of the game.

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Granted, I'll acknowledge that Bungie made the storytelling in ODST obnoxiously innaccessable in some ways.

  • 05.11.2011 10:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tupolev
If the achievement was the only value you saw in collecting the Sadie's Story logs, it's not surprising that you didn't get much out of the game.
That's the best way to put it. ODST requires a lot of character and story engagement for it to really be fleshed out, and only a few can get that feeling from a video game.

  • 05.12.2011 5:54 AM PDT

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I agree with the Firefight part. It was really good, but people didnt seem to be that enthralled by it

  • 05.12.2011 6:22 AM PDT

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Posted by: Tupolev
Granted, I'll acknowledge that Bungie made the storytelling in ODST obnoxiously innaccessable in some ways.

Yeah, it would've made it a lot easier if we didn't have to aquire them in one shot, either. People, like me, can't spend long amounts of time at once on Xbox so it makes it extremely difficult to locate and listen to all the audio logs. They should have made it a little more accessable. Other then that it's still great.

  • 05.12.2011 12:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
Posted by: Tupolev
If the achievement was the only value you saw in collecting the Sadie's Story logs, it's not surprising that you didn't get much out of the game.
That's the best way to put it. ODST requires a lot of character and story engagement for it to really be fleshed out, and only a few can get that feeling from a video game.


A thousand times, this.

ODST is (storywise) the best game Bungie has produced, the fact the OP has said it's just the VidMasters that entice him to play shows a lack of regard to the phenominal story.

  • 05.12.2011 12:29 PM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...

Really wish I didn't trade it back in after I finished it. I mean, I kept the Halo 3 MM disc obviously, and they were none the wiser, but I get the urge to play it still quite often.

  • 05.12.2011 1:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: CornetoGospel
I agree with the Firefight part. It was really good, but people didnt seem to be that enthralled by it


I didn't like FF at all in ODST, but after playing Reach's i can see how fun it could have been. My friend has my copy atm sadly, i might give it another go sometime.

  • 05.12.2011 1:31 PM PDT