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Subject: Its impossible for ODST to be canon

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

People say that having ODSTs being able to do things they shouldnt be (melee killing brutes, carry turrets, gravity hammers, flip warthogs) is to make gameplay more fun

But think about it. The story in ODST was told with these changes, the story had all of these things in it. Which means that the story cant be canon because it has ODSTS ding these things despite it just being for gameplay

If it were to be canon, it should've been made with out these changes.

  • 10.23.2011 1:48 PM PDT

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  • 10.24.2011 10:51 AM PDT
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ODST's are the best of the best. I can see how they could do most of the things.

  • 10.24.2011 10:39 PM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.


Posted by: Duardo
ODST's are the best of the best. I can see how they could do most of the things.


Yes, but if they could, why didn't they do it in Halo 3 campaign? If they really did have 4 times the health of master chief, and the ability to beat brutes to death and rio off turrets and flip warthogs then in all previous games ODSTS and marines could have just run around pawning everything and being vastly superior to MC. But they didn't, did they? Which is why the fact that suddenly their better than a Spartan super soldier in ODST makes no canonical sense whatsoever and the game should be declared non canon

  • 10.25.2011 1:55 PM PDT

They DID do those things in the campagin, its just you dont get many oppotunities to see it. ODSTs are the best of the best, if you picked a fight between an unaugumented spartan and an ODST you could not guess the outcome, and since when did they have 4 times as much health? where the hell are you gettin this from?

  • 10.25.2011 2:12 PM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

From the fact that Master chief has much less health than an ODST

Plus ODSTS lack the strength to remove a machine gun turret from it's stand, that's only for Spartans. Plus, since when could they take up to 3 fuel rods in the face without dying and kill a brute with just one punch to the back? In ODST they are so overpowered that if you have a fist fight with a war chieftain square on you will win every time. Against a massive, strong powerful brute war chieftain? Yeah right.

  • 10.25.2011 2:53 PM PDT

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Certain gameplay elements aren't canon.

  • 10.25.2011 7:51 PM PDT
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SInce when does Halo have to be realistic to today's physics? First off, ODST's are very well trained, kept fit with advanced calisthenics and strength training, and even if they weren't that doesn't mean that Bungie should have taken out 7 gameplay features because of it. "I'm playin ODST right now and.... damn, my hog flipped. Now since I can't flip it, I'll just hike halfway across the highway through brick and mortar. GUESS THE JOKE'S ON ME!"

  • 10.25.2011 8:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: hadlermaster
Certain gameplay elements aren't canon.


Precisely. If we were to use the OP's judgement, the whole halo series shouldn't even be canon. Spartans losing the ability to dual wield between periods of time, having no falling damage for one time and then falling damage in another, blah blah blah.

Let's keep the definition of canon restricted to events and story basis rather than gameplay elements.

  • 10.26.2011 12:11 AM PDT