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Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
Ever since I played ODST, I've been having a hard time believing that ODST soldiers can take that much punishment in their armor, and make it out. It's a bit absurd to say that a team of about one or two simple troopers (the most you have at one time for the majority of the game, who are actually "fighting") could take down a whole battalion of Covenant.
Sometimes, I even get the feeling that ODST is a parody of the Halo series, but of how seriously the characters don't take the Covenant, or the situation (by cracking jokes constantly, and being so superficial).
Compare ODST to Reach, and you can see how differently the two game are in terms of atmosphere. But that doesn't make much sense, because this is humanity's final stand at Earth, and for the characters to be treating it so simply is kind of an insult, to me at least.
What do you think?
It's a videogame, it's not a military simulation. That doesn't mean the feats are impossible, you can reskin ODSTs to a real life equivalent and Covenant to another and you'll see that impossible feats have been accomplished in our history in terms of combat.
It terms of jokes. You're species' entire existence in on the line. That -blam!- is heavy. You try not to crack under pressure. Go ahead and make jokes.