Blue Ninja
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Sounds like you hit the jackpot, good sir.
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Halo |OT4| Trust's a Tough Thing to Come by These Days
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Sounds like you hit the jackpot, good sir.
I love ODST but i don't consider it an full game. (Didn't pay full price for it either, but still a bit too much).
Dammit, now i feel like playing ODST again.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
been with her 3 years, she really likes buying me gaming related stuff, Large collection of figures/bobbleheads collectors editions and other related items. She bought me a Halo 3 spartan bobble head right of the bat, Smart lady
ElzarTheBam
Member
You should. Do it now.
It feels great when playing solo but i feel like i've done that too much. Would prefer playing it in co-op... it's great also and feels more like being a commando. You know, coordinated attacks and stuff.
ElzarTheBam
Member
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Ill play firefight? Play it now its so much fun.
Okay, i'll join ya, Firefight in ODST is really fun.
If there ain't too much input lag that is...
Gabotron ES
Member
If H4 gets a decent map editor and they get the gameplay right it might aswell be the best halo game to date, don't fuck it up 343!
Nah, if they get those things right we'll find something else to complain about.
^this, us Halo fans are never truly happy about our games haha
Hypertrooper
Member
SO HYPED. I have to get tickets for the first showing in Germany.
Bungie saw it as an expansion. Then Microsoft came along and said "hey, we can sell this as a 60$ game!". Then Bungie had to publicly act like the game is now a full game.
It's a 3-4 hours long campaign (of which the spend 25% of the time playing Firefight) with a survival mode that uses parts of the campaign. It's an expansion pack. It even says Halo 3 on the box!
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Ah, the evil Microsoft bully fable.
squidhands
Member
Not a good start with the Bugie/Activision marriage. Hope the game catches my interest; MMO's aren't my thing.
Seriously this. No clue whether or not it will play like MMO's out there now, but I have never purchased one and don't plan on it. Who knows though... could be something new and awesome we've never even heard about!
The Librarian
Banned
I don't get the whole "number of hours" argument to support the view that a game is worth sixty dollars or not. ODST took me about nine hours on my first run, and I have played the game from start to finish many times since. All in all, I think I've put in about 30 hours for the game since 2009.
Of course there are a lot of "ifs" and "buts" to what I'm saying, but for Halo games? For me, ODST was worth the price tag despite however long it may be. I've gotten so much enjoyment out if the campaign.
Of course there are a lot of "ifs" and "buts" to what I'm saying, but for Halo games? For me, ODST was worth the price tag despite however long it may be. I've gotten so much enjoyment out if the campaign.
Regardless of what happened it still shouldn't have sold at full retail price.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
2 more jump into ODST firefight with me and woolong now
says you Knowing what i do now id still pay the £40 i did for it, and so would many others. You get the entire Halo 3 multiplayer with your purchase and more features than halo 3 for co-op and sp.
says you Knowing what i do now id still pay the £40 i did for it, and so would many others. You get the entire Halo 3 multiplayer with your purchase and more features than halo 3 for co-op and sp.
Hydranockz
Member
This is news to me. Someone tell Kotaku!
ElzarTheBam
Member
Reminder.
At this moment in time, I wouldn't want to be your testicles.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
To note, the documents don't state MMO as you typically think of an MMO. It's peer to peer with a persistent world, meaning the world stays consistent between "games" or "matches."
It doesn't seem straight up like a WoW MMO with a FPS skin.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Heh. I agree. However the addition of the Halo 3 content made the price reasonable.
$40 for ODST
$20 for Halo 3's Full Multiplayer Experience
Very reasonable.
MMO-like was how it was described. It won't be a traditional MMO because the Xbox can't do MMO's.
Like some others, I'm assuming its more akin to a persistent world. Hopefully something along the lines of Chromehounds. Maybe even bigger in scale.
Imagine if its an always online game. An entire universe, but you can play one day, solve a problem, play again in 2 days and other major events have happened.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Weirdly enough, I didn't come across a uk website selling it for full retail price, everywhere I looked leading up to launch was 29.99, managed to get it for 26 pounds myself.
See I'm trying to put in my brain what this would be like. A few people gave some examples of what they "thought" this might be like but I'd never heard/seen them. I guess a better question would be; what is the benefit of having this persisitent world in an FPS? Is it sounding more like a ME3 style action shooter (but in FPS) or a true FPS like we see now with Matchmaking etc.. but with some persistent world around it? I'm just not sure what the benefit of the latter would be.
Btw, I'm not complaining or saying "well I don't get it so that's stupid!".. I'm just really trying to find something comparable.
Same, got in Holland for 25 plureos.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Yup. I got mine for £40 with a brand new ODST controller. I was well pleased at the price.
Neuros >
Heh - I don't really pay attention to either one, but I just looked up the various Halo games in both.
Gotta say... having a little trouble distinguishing between 'holistic' and 'bullshit'.
- Reach: GR - 91.71% | MC - 91
- Halo 3: GR - 93.53% | MC - 94
- Halo 3: ODST: GR - 84.92% | MC - 83
- Halo 2: GR - 94.56% | MC - 95
- Halo: GR - 95.58% | MC - 97
Totals are similar in those instances, but one is holistic and the other selective. As a longtime user of Gamerankings, I'll take the former over the latter, always. (Those are closer than I was expecting; searching a few random games I'm seeing 1-4% differences. Less than I recall, but still.) If you had a $2.5m studio bonus riding on the right score - which would you use? I don't think it's even a question.
Again, I'm not saying "I don't get it so it's stupid!"... I'm just trying to understand the benefit of something like this which is why I've asked those of you who have played similar games. Like Chromehounds, care to share more about it?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
1 more for ODST firefight sessions.
Be on or be square
Be on or be square
Gabotron ES
Member
See Frankie, you don't want that to happen!
squidhands
Member
I'll definitely listen to the sales pitch from Bungie, and will more than likely buy the game
used to give the finger to Activision, then buy a game's worth of merch at the Bungie Store, lol
So now I need to find out about Chromehounds. Fuck, it's already starting to get complicated. ;-)
Blue Ninja
Member
You still looking for people?
Tha Robbertster
Member
Only 25? It was 40 here in Belgium.
I think I paid 60 for the CE.
I payed 40 at release too. Still not full retail so that was nice. I actually think 40 euros was the standard price for ODST in whole Europe.
HigherLevel
Member
I still don't think it will be a traditional MMO. I think it will be something with Halo style competitive battles but in a persistent world with unlockables in probably places you can go to spend money on weapons, items, and armor without the fear of being engaged in combat. I'm not sure how it will work, but I've got faith in Bungie. They've given me five great games in 10 years I spent 1000+ hours playing, I'm sure this next thing will be great too.
Is that an FPS? Doesn't look like it..
third person. there is no reason why a system like that couldnt work as a fps. never played chromehounds, but its online system sounded pretty badass
StalkerUKCG
Banned
This
MMOs are possible on the xbox, otherwise we wouldn't have FFXI or PSU on the 360.
I agree though, this doesn't sound like a full fledge MMO where 1000+ people play on a server.
The dynamic nature of a persistent online mode like those seen in Chromehounds is amazingly addictive. Tawpgun does a great job explaining why Chromehounds was awesome, I just don't think Bungie would create such a mode after it's already been done in Mechassault 2, Chromehounds, and now Amored Core V. I would like to think their idea(s) would be a bit more original than that.