I've played ODST.

And I love the ghosts new skins models... they are so damn super shiny.

its not just sound. it would take me far too long to type up my feelings about this game, but it suffices to say that i was wholly unsatisfied by halo 3, and odst has more than made up for it, especially with all of the stuff that comes with it

meh. halo 3's multiplayer was good. The problem was the campaign just was a complete letdown. However, once again, the music in the end made it SEEM epic, though it really wasn't.

thats what im saying. im referring only to the single player aspect (especially since odst doesnt HAVE a multiplayer). i understand what youre saying with the music. epic can be epic, but very very few games have ever used music combined with atmosphere and lighting and whatnot to make me feel like im really there in the game. i felt like i was in a box when i was playing odst's single player. the music when youre alone in the street combined with the darkness and the emptiness conveys a ridiculous amount of emotion. i cannot even think of another game that has done that to me.

now make SP!!!
Edited by sleepy1212 on Sep 29, 2009 at 01:15 AM

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ODST's campaign is fun, but what i like the most, is playing the on the streets, 2 player legendary co-op. The music fits ODST's really well, like some of the metal-like tracks, totally fit the badass character of the ODST's.

Its only the lighting.

Donut, I feel that ODST has very little replat value compared to Halo 3, if we are not talking about multiplayer or firefight. It did take me longer to beat ODST, but I just don't feel the need to replay ODST but Halo 3 I love to go back and play that every once in a while.

You have Mission 10: Mombassa Streets, which is free roam. And a hub connected to every other mission.

mombasa streets = audio files (epic side story) and achievements like OMFG MY CLOTHES!!!

Not to mention all the cool supply caches you unlock. it has alot of replay value.

I went :O when I unlocked a supply cache with two mongooses in it.
Edited by CorruptedHalo on Sep 30, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Oh crap I didn't know about Mission 10, I beat the game and didn't mess around with it much afterwards since I've been messing around with the Unreal Engine

very few people i have talked to said that they liked halo 3's campaign more than halo 1 or 2. ill still go back and play it now and then, but i wont sit down and play through the whole thing at once again. iv played odst's campaign through 3 times now with different friends, and im still loving every second of it.
E: its probably because halo 3's campaign had a lot of those moments like entire levels of vehicle combat that makes the game tedious. odst has varied environments and gameplay, both of which add to the replay quality.
halo 3's campaign feels like it borrowed all of the elements from halo 1 except re playability. the way the elements were implemented made the game obnoxious to play through at some parts, and just boring in other parts.
my major complaint about ODST is WHY ARE THERE NO ELITES TO FIGHT? their dead bodies are in there, some of which have scenery around them which implies they were killed by brutes. why is that? excuse me if ihave this wrong, but the covenant carrier that jumped and blows all of your drop pods up at the beginning is the same carrier that jumps right after you destroy the scarab in halo 2, right? if thats the case, the prophet of regret hasnt been killed yet, therefore the elites are still the main guards of the prophets. the covenant civil war hadnt started yet, so why are there team killed elites, and why arnt there any elites for me to fight? they were still enemies then

also flood. there isnt any ridiculously long level with nothing but wave after wave of flood.

E: oh and for those of you complaining about price, it comes with $20 worth of DLC for halo 3. $30 if you count the people who bought the heroic map pack before they made it free.
Edited by Donut on Sep 30, 2009 at 05:05 PM

there are quite a few good reasons why the elites are already dead but I'm too lazy to explain them.(I spent a while pondering it when I played the campaign through)

why did you even bother posting then? im not concerned with them being dead as much as i am that i didnt ever once see a live one. not even in firefight

By the way Donut, if you like the slow-sorta pace in the H3:ODST OST, check out the Halo Wars OST. Has alot of them, and there pretty good/enjoyable.

I got my moneys worth out of ODST. Thats all im saying.

I want firefight DLC. I only like a few of the included FF maps.

There dead because thats when Truth decided to replace all elites in a few fleets with brutes, when Regret was killed by the Chief on Delta Halo.

bo, really? read my post. odst happened before the prophet was killed

No, ODST started as Regret's carrier jumped to Delta Halo. And happened as Masterchief was on Delta Halo.
Edited by Advancebo on Oct 1, 2009 at 04:39 PM

can you confirm that? since a long while before it was released i was under the impression that the carrier you see jumping in halo 3 odst is the same carrier that miranda keyes flys into in halo 2, right after you kill the scarab. EVEN at that, the brute civil war didnt start until a while after the events of delta halo
E: and that doesnt excuse the fact that there were NO ELITES IN ODST AT ALL. NOT EVEN IN FIREFIGHT
Edited by Donut on Oct 1, 2009 at 04:53 PM

Actually, slipspace can take WEEKS or months depending on where your going. I don't really get why you didn't even fight elites when you were playing as Buck. Didn't make a whole lot of sense with the halo time line AT ALL. Also, Donut is correct. The civil war didn't start a while after the even'ts of Delta halo. And by the way, don't get the timeline of the arbiter or MC mixed up, becuase both sides were happening at the same time.

according to bungie all the elites got back on the ship and went to go play halo 2.

lol I get it.

So the few who were left behind had a pretty family fued with the bigfoots?

Well not firefight, But i saw dead elite bodies in ODST Campaign...

I think the reason why they didn't add the elites were because they didn't fully develope their ai in halo 3 and disn't want to spend time going back making them really fun and all to fight.

Actually I think they were trying to push the tension that was happening before Halo 2, for those of you who played the game you will find many bodies of Elites lying next to the dead UNSC soldiers. I found quite a few in dead-ends which leads me to believe both the Humans and Elites in New Mombasa were being executed by the Brutes.

As far as Halo music goes I really can't say I like ODST soundtrack too much, it sounded too mush like the music of the Silent Hill games (when you are in the city at night). Personally I think Halo 2 had the best music because it was different but still had iconic sounds from the first game, and was not as repetitive as the third soundtrack.

Bungie likes Canon.
Bungie was too lazy to include the Elites.
Bungie was too lazy to inlude Flood.

This is why.
But if you want a story , the Elites were having a massive party seeing who could piss further while the flood watched. This left the Brutes to do the work.

best explanation yet^.

i think bungie should have put both the brutes and elites durrign the day and only brutes and dead elites at night

I don't.