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Subject: ODST is a truly great game

tl;dr for some -blam!- reason: This game was great

Somebody stole my Reach disc, so I've been catching up on Halo 3. One day, I was completely pissed off that I could not play any of the playlists. So I bought ODST.
I bought this game on Ebay a couple days ago for 5 bucks, and it has been great so far. Let me tell you why.

Campaign

Positivies
-Explorations
-Visr Mode
-Cool Missions
-SMG, no retarded bloom means you can burst fire at jackals across the map and kill them. :)

Negatives
-Too short. I was done with Buck's mission just as I was getting warmed up. :( If this campaign would have been longer, this would have been perfect.



Firefight
A super cool mode. Lost Platoon is by far, the best Firefight map I have ever played. I love zooming around in the warthog, with my friend nailing grunts left and right. An extremely fun experience.

I remember, on Rally, I had 0 lives left. I had no stamina, and I was being pushed outside by hunters. I tossed a plasma, killed it, and then spun around to meet dozens of Drones. I died epicly. In Reach's firefight, I normally cruise around with unlimited jetpack and rockets. Not... as challenging.

Multiplayer
Same as Classic Halo 3. I hadn't used my money to buy the DLC, so the opened up world of DLC just blew me away. No longer did I have to play Pit Stop over and over and over again. I could play new maps, and explore new and cool places.

If I had already bought the DLC, ODST would not have been as good as it had been if I didn't buy the DLC.


So yeah. ODST is great. Really fun and exciting.

I have some ideas for ODST 2.

-Longer Campaign
-New, Splinter Cell teamwork type stealth multiplayer
-New Engine for larger Firefight modes + Allied Marines
-The open world campaign lets you engage in more missions and battles
-Let you go into space, and be able to drop into the world, that cutscene in the beginning of ODSt was super cool.
-Other worlds like Halo, Reach, Earth, and.. perhaps Onyx, where you can fight Forerunners.
-[other ideas]


And... thats it. Pretty cool game. Comment below on what you think/troll , and DON'T LET THIS THREAD DIE

EDIT- Wat?! No trolls yet?

[Edited on 06.13.2011 12:45 PM PDT]

  • 06.12.2011 6:30 PM PDT

bump/ [reserved] depending on the success of this thread.

  • 06.12.2011 6:32 PM PDT

ODST was a seemingly refreshing experience that you pretty much summed up above.

Too bad there's a better chance we'll have a Halo-Kinect exclusive than an ODST 2. :(

[Edited on 06.12.2011 8:22 PM PDT]

  • 06.12.2011 8:20 PM PDT
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"Shutup dude you're like 42 years old"

ODST was great. It had superb atmosphere, likeable characters, an engaging back story with the Audio Logs, an amazing horde game mode, and some really stunning visuals. Definitely one of the stronger Halos IMO.

  • 06.12.2011 9:29 PM PDT

yes odst is one of the best halos i wish bungie made odst with matchmaking but its still EPIC!

  • 06.13.2011 2:16 AM PDT
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See you on the bounce, trooper.

It was a little too easy but overall it's my second favorite title after CE.

  • 06.13.2011 2:27 AM PDT

This is a RETICULE, and that is a RETICLE. I'm using the latter to aim. And what are you using?

ODST is my favorite campaign for quite a lot of reasons:

1. You're not playing an augmented super soldier that "has become ridiculously powerful" (quote from Joseph Staten in an ODST vidoc) but basically a normal human being.

2. No Flood. The Flood are essential to the trilogy, and I really think they are a far more interesting and fascinating enemy than the Covenant. But it became rather boring having to fight them after you did so already in three games.

3. ODST finally succeeds at capturing the mood all Halo games ought to have. It's depressing, scary, dark and gloomy, and threatening. That's exactly the mood a game ought to have in which you're fighting a losing war against a technologically superior alliance of aliens hell-bent on wiping out mankind.

4. On the same note, at least the looks of New Mombasa also captured that mood perfectly. You're running (or sneaking) through a dark, abandoned city occupied by Covenant forces where you can and have to pick your fights, and not waltzing through bright and colorful environments, killing Covies left and right like you did for the most part in H:CE, H2, and H3.

5. The transitions from playing the Rookie to another squad member and back again are done quite smoothly. Far more smoothly than the transitions from Master Chief to the Arbiter and back again in H2. Playing as multiple characters also added a lot to the fun of ODST.

6. You can finally do some exploring (even though only in New Mombasa) and actually get something that's worthwhile. Not only do you get to experience another person's fate that has nothing to do with the UNSC, i.e. Sadie's, but you also unlock weapon/supply caches that way.

7. ODST manages to provide more character development - and for multiple characters, no less - than the whole trilogy provided for Master Chief.

8. Unlike in Reach, your NPC allies actually are useful. For example, give Mickey a rocket launcher when playing through the ONI level and he'll single-handedly kill more Covies during that one level than Carter, Kat, Emile, Jun, and Jorge combined during the whole Reach campaign.

9. The final stand-off in ODST at the end of the highway felt more epic than the battle at the landing pads in Reach, even though you it was easier and you had to fight far less enemies.

It's really not hard to see why ODST's campaign truly is the best of the whole Halo series.

  • 06.13.2011 4:17 AM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

I like Halo 3/ODST's campaigns the best.

  • 06.13.2011 5:57 AM PDT

Boba772

2nd Favourate Halo game after Halo 2. I love it. I want ODST two, to where they may kill off a character or two, just hopefully not Rookie, cause Rookie, and Mickey are the only ones that never got a back story. I like it that way. : ) At least with Rookie.

  • 06.13.2011 7:06 AM PDT

There'll be Another Time......

I really enjoyed ODST especially the last mission on the highway with all the Covenant cruisers arriving then the assualt carrier arriving I honestly felt like I was helpless. Plus ODST really established the fact that humanity was losing instead of charging around as an unstoppable super soldier. It was a refreshing change for the Halo series considering the fact I have played Halo since Halo:CE was released.

  • 06.13.2011 9:17 AM PDT


Posted by: HaloWolf111
yes odst is one of the best halos i wish bungie made odst with matchmaking but its still EPIC!


I won't go as far as to say best but it was still great.

  • 06.13.2011 12:44 PM PDT

i am myself

debatable

  • 06.14.2011 9:31 AM PDT


Posted by: space cadet1998
debatable


I did. Did U?

  • 06.14.2011 2:51 PM PDT

7. ODST manages to provide more character development - and for multiple characters, no less - than the whole trilogy provided for Master Chief.

Character development? The only backstory was the relationship between Buck and Dare, and that wasn't elaborated on at all.

And the reason you think ODST's campaign is the best is because it takes place over a single game. The main Halo trilogy is just that, a trilogy. You can't judge a single game's campaign, you'd be looking at only a third of the plot, which doesn't do it justice.

[Edited on 06.14.2011 3:10 PM PDT]

  • 06.14.2011 3:09 PM PDT

You are all constructs of my solipsist mind.

I really liked ODST. It just needed more replay draw. They shoulda put in Firefight matchmaking.

BUT I certainly got my money's worth out of Disc 2, the access to the Reach beta was fun, and for a filler between Halo 3 and Reach it was amazing.

  • 06.14.2011 3:11 PM PDT

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Agreed... Halo 3: ODST was a great game. The only people that didn't like it were probably the kids that just bought it to get Recon armor and not actually play the game for the entertainment value that it had.

  • 06.14.2011 3:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: yoohooU54
7. ODST manages to provide more character development - and for multiple characters, no less - than the whole trilogy provided for Master Chief.

Character development? The only backstory was the relationship between Buck and Dare, and that wasn't elaborated on at all.


You do know what "character development" is, right?

  • 06.14.2011 7:57 PM PDT

"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"

"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."

- "Cross of Iron"

Glad you enjoyed it OP. I enjoyed it as well.

  • 06.14.2011 9:37 PM PDT

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  • 06.16.2011 2:15 PM PDT