- Juan Teran
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Having little time to reply at this post, I'm sorry for ignoring the rest of the people who has already posted. I will only focus in the OP.
Posted by: C Mothc040
But, I was a little mistified by the apparent hate that was directed at ODST (the price of the game not-withstanding). It wasn't DLC, it was still a good 4 or 5 hours of gameplay, slightly more if you were thorough.The hate towards ODST is reasonable, as the game started as an expansion for Halo 3, and it sure as hell remained as one. So paying $60 bucks (back when the game was released) was pretty expensive for a 5 - 6 hour campaign.
"Oh no", insisted Microsoft, "you are also paying for every single Multiplayer Map Pack Bungie has released, and three new awesome maps!". Sure, that would be an intelligent argument, if it wasn't for the fact that almost everyone already owned the DLC. And Firefight? Well, I won't deny it was fun, but what if someone lacks of XBox Live, or hell, can't get any Friends to play those maps, what is he gonna do? Firefight isn't enjoyable if you lack of people to play with, so you know, why not complete the game?
Also, there is people that tell me that the Campaign was "excellent", that it surpassed in every way the Halo 3 campaign. What? Most of the Rookie segments are to look for some stuff in that big ass boring city. Seriously, I was excited to explore New Mombasa after being abandoned, but only Bungie found the way to make this place extremely boring and uninteresting. What about the other missions? Just walk from point A to point B, survive a firefight wave, and that's it.
So yeah, I didn't really enjoy my experience playing Halo 3: ODST. And none of you guys tell me to play it in Heroic to make my experience better, my first run in the original Halo trilogy was in Normal difficulty, and it was enjoyable.
Posted by: C Mothc040
The character development was still excellent and the story was actually better than some of the previous titles.HOW WAS THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT EXCELLENT?!? It wasn't even decent if you ask me.
So you are the new guy in the squad, you can clearly see that these guys already know each other, and that Buck and Dare used to have a relationship, but thanks to her duties, there is no more love in the air.
The problem is that you are separated from the rest of the squad, so there is no way your character can develop a friendship or bond with any of these characters. Seriously, even in the missions where you are using Buck, Romeo, Dutch and Mickey, I never saw any of these characters evolve or do anything interesting.
And don't even get me started in the scene where Dare kisses Buck, couldn't help but roll my eyes.
So yeah, please enlighten me about why the character development in Halo 3 ODST is excellent.