Halo 3 ODST

When Bungie said "30 seconds of fun" they literally meant that for ODST.

Speak for yourself; I thought that campaign was incredible. Firefight on ODST was so much more immersive than Reach's version as well.

Quote from: Cheat on October 08, 2014, 10:44:50 PM

Quote from: Jono on October 08, 2014, 10:35:37 PM

Halo 3 ODST

When Bungie said "30 seconds of fun" they literally meant that for ODST.

Speak for yourself; I thought that campaign was incredible. Firefight on ODST was so much more immersive than Reach's version as well.

If you think ODST's campaign was "incredible" you don't know what good campaigns are.

- The game tried to tell a story that was nonexistent.
- The Mombassa Streets level is copy/pasted in all directions. Its like a big symmetrical multiplayer map with the same streets, alleys, and buildings in nearly every corner of the map. There also is nothing interesting to look for other than audio logs and that's it. You can only go in a small amount of buildings to look for stuff but they're all the same.
- Unforgettable characters other than Buck but that's not saying much. All the characters suffer from cheesy and awful dialogue as well.

I will admit that ODST's soundtrack is amazing and the atmosphere for the game is awesome but other than that the game suffers from what I posted above.

Firefight was fun but I got tired of it easily, even when playing with friends. I just wish it was bigger and had more stuff going on in it.

Nonexistent story... What? No.

The story wasn't complex, I'll give you that, but I could just as easily say Master Chief getting dropped into a situation and having to collect an item/ride/person/thing in order to escape and save the day would count as a non-existent story.

ODST was small-scale and it never tried to be some grand space opera like the other Halos. The streets of New Mombasa level in-between the various character missions was slower and the action wasn't as intense, but that was how it was supposed to be. I do partially agree with you on the level design; the streets were more restricting than I would have liked, but it was still way more open and explore-able than anything in Halo 3.

I can't disagree with you more on the characters. They seemed genuine and the dialogue (with the exception of Dare on occasion) flowed smoothly.

Firefight in ODST didn't last long, you're right, but I'm convinced a matchmaking system of any kind would have saved the game from fizzling out of the LIVE population. That version of firefight was downright fun when it wasn't immeasurably irritating and stressful, especially when the high-level skulls turned on.