Let's remember Halo ODST and how fucking amazing it was

Let's remember Halo ODST and how fucking amazing it was

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Almost 9 years now.

Probably honestly one of the most underrated games I've ever played. It makes me sad that I'll never be able to play this on a PC with good graphics.

Doing the vidmaster achievements is probably one of my favorite vidya memories ever. It's sad how such a simple game like this can't be done anymore. Everything has to be some epic journey.

>he doesn't know that Sup Forums hates ODST now thanks to the influx of Halo 3 babies

I wouldn't be suprised if we got a MCC port eventually, especially with MCC getting updated again now on xbone

I can dream at least, I forget how much I love this game

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>4:34
easily my favorite part of the franchise aside from the vehicle escape segments

Still one of the best trailers ever made
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>Rookie survives New Mombasa
>Gets killed off in a book

I seriously feel bad for any die-hard Halo fans. I only played 1,3,ODST and Reach. I could tell it would be shit after Bungie left.

>WAAAH HOW DARE THEY KILL OFF A CHARACTER I LIKE
>WHEN THE CHARACTER WASN'T BEING USED FOR ANYTHING ANYWAYS
>WHEN SAID CHARACTER'S DEATH DOESN'T ACTUALLY CLOSE OFF ANY WORTHWHILE NARRATIVE OPPORTUNITIES

343 is shit but the butthurt over this is just Sup Forums being bitching and moaning for the sake of it.

>be 3baby
>finally play ce and 2
>Iike them better than 3

...

Bungie made reach which was shit, so

Not even into the lore, but its obvious when characters are killed off for no reason other than to feign actual drauma. In ANY medium. It's fake storytelling because they can't do anything interesting with a character unless it involves around removing them entirely lol.

>DUDE HAN SOLO DIES
>DUDE LUKE SKYWALKER DIES
this is for nothing more than fake drama because there's nothing else interesting the writers could do (because they're hacks that entertain brainlets like you)

Actually instead of just shitposting let me actually explain why the butthurt over this is misplaced:

The Rookie's entire strength as a character is that he's just A Normal Dude, who manages to do badass stuff despite being A Normal Dude. As a resultt, his death doesn't actually change anything: Anything the Rookie could have done in the Halo universe is a role that any other character can fill. Even if he did live, he'd becoome an S4, like the rest of his squad did, which would ruin the one good thing he has going for him: he'd no longer be A Normal Dude doing badass things, he'd be a Spartan, the same as any other generic faceless S4 you see.

By killing him off, you allow him to show up one last time, save him from becoming an S4, and get SOME narrative utility off of him. Anything actually interesting you can do with the Rookie that could only be done with The Rookie can still be done, since it'd take place in the past anyways, and obviously if 343i wants they can just go back and make a book or spinoff game taking place when he was still alive.

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It's not that they can't thiink of anythin to do with the character, it's that there's legimately nothing unique about the rookie outside the context of ODST as a game to make doing anything

>Marty was fired by Bungie

How did it go so wrong?

Wasn't shit but I didn't love it either. Still enjoyed it a lot. Maybe I just hold it to a higher standard because its the last one. Definitely not "shit".

holy moly.....

Doesn't he get executed like a bitch though by his former squad mate turned ISIS wannabe?

>it's that there's legimately nothing unique about the rookie outside the context of ODST as a game to make doing anything
Right, so why go out of your way to make him a formal character in your novelized series? They legitimately can't tell a fucking separate story in the same universe without having to take pre-existing blank-slate characters and haphazardly force them into the story for the sake of fanservice?

All you're telling me is that they're bad writers, which is what I already told you. I don't need you to convince me they're bad writers. I know it already. lol.

Maybe just don't post at all. Nothing you've said is constructive.

the posts are right next to each other bro, they are one minute apart. you don't need to link me to a post that is literally right under mine.thanks dude

dream game, ive seen other pics like this. do you have them?

>3babys hate ODST
are you retarded?
It's literally a part of Halo 3. If the game got remastered it should be bundled with H3.
2009 was a fucking amazing year for Halo. ODST, Vidmaster, Halo Wars, etc.

Wasted oppurtunity, could have killed him off in a game instead of a book no one is going to read. Would have had a bigger impact too.

>Right, so why go out of your way to make him a formal character in your novelized series? They legitimately can't tell a fucking separate story in the same universe without having to take pre-existing blank-slate characters and haphazardly force them into the story for the sake of fanservice?

Because said novel is about not just the rookie, but the squad from ODST as a whole, particularly buck, and by virtue of that the Rookie is a character involved?

That dooesn't make a difference

Why make a novel about the story of a squad that's already been told in a game?

Because they're hacks, you don't understand me. They can't make something original. Why couldn't they come up with a different team? Why did it have to be THAT specific ODST team?

F A N S E R V I C E
B A D W R I T I N G

I honestly gave up on Old Bungie ever returning when they fired Marty. Marty gave bungie's games the soul that they had. I 100% stand by the belief that Halo would not be the franchise it is today if they had someone else do the music. It would just be another random generic FPS of the era.

ODST is for teenage edgelords trying to be deep
everyone should know the true kino was
Halo: Reach

What's deep about it? It's just the rookie trying to get back to his squad.

Stop acting like Reach was good.

bait

bait

actually not bait, I enjoyed ODST firefight a tonne, it has never been replicated and probably never will be. but the campaign is grossly overrated and for some reason the legions of people praising it think it's underground.

everything from the marketing and soundtrack to the plot are designed to make the player(mostly the rookie parts) feel like a deep, mysterious badass.

I Just think Halo: Reach told a more interesting story and a better put together campaign.

That's just my opinion though

This. The only problem I see is that it would have a similar ending to reach.

Reach is the worst Halo game in the series.

book reader spotted

Bungie can suck a dick, 2010 gets no say and what's canon any more, what those faggots did to Destiny's Grimoires should be a wake-up call for you Reach niggers. Only Halo 1-3 an ODST are canon from Bungie since they were worked on by Joe even if he didn't have as much involvement in Halo 3. Reach is the only noncanon Halo game.

*2010 Bungie

I fucking put too many hours into 3 and ODST was good, but flawed.
The highlight of the game absolutely was exploring New Mombasa in between the actual levels. It captures such a fucking perfect cyberpunk aesthetic, the ambiance and music does wonders to set the tone, and roaming around narrowly avoiding aliens while playing detective with scraps of previously fought battles is so fucking neat.
The weak link is everything else. (Except Firefight, of course.)
It just felt like a modpack for 3 and you'd think the missions overall would be heavily more stealth-oriented and high stakes since you're no longer this hulking badass of a man.
If someone ripped off the New Mombasa part of ODST and fleshed it out into it's own stealth-heavy Metroidvania type deal and just caked it in atmosphere that'd probably land in my top 5.

you faggots are such drama queens. there's nothing wrong with the fucking game.

It works, its not broken, its not unbalanced, its not unplayable. Its a fucking game. Just because you don't like the story or characters doesn't make it a bad game.

so fucking one sided with you people. its either good or bad, nothing inbetween right?

Reach was good. Not as good as 1-3, but not as bad as any of the shit 343 puts out. Best aspects absolutely were the armor abilities and improved Forge.

good gameplay
great forge
okay firefight
best customization to date
solid playlist variety
new and fun enemy types
good story

> BuT tHe STorY In ThE BoOk WaS diFFErent

don't know why you can't just enjoy both, good book, good game. reminds me of all the nerd caring about what's canon in star wars now. who gives a fuck if the company said in this fictional universe these events did or didn't officially happen. why can't you just like things without needing them to be 'real in the fictional universe' or whatever

Best aspect was the fucking armor customization dude

The only FPS game where I cared about my appearance, assassinations were satisfying as fuck.

>It works, its not broken
No, it's just shit

Books aren't canon. Stop reading tie-in fiction you absolute fucking PLEB.

explain

>I DONT LIKE IT
>IT SUCKS
>I HATE IT

good for you user if you dont have anything to say just dont fucking post. give an actual argument to why it sucks

inb4 he complains about Armour lock

This book is you useless faggot.

Reach is unironically the best Halo with the most polish and content. And I've played Halo since the beginning.

Fuck you whiny losers.

Yes and of course its the sub human who betrays them. Its pretty awful but supposably his death is what inspired the SIV program. How exactly? No idea.

Mother fucker look it up, people post most of it like 2000 fucking times, if you think Reach is anywhere near the best or even a good Halo game you might as well praise the shit out of Destiny because the faggots that made that garbage series are the same faggots that made Halo Reach not the people that made Halo CE-3 and ODST. Reach is what happens when you have a bunch of shitheads make a game when they don't care about making a good game to begin with.

Tie-in fiction is never canon to the mainline series. Get fuked.

bait

or you're fucking tasteless, because reach's story can come even close to holding master chiefs jockstrap

cant*

>they didn't want to make a good game
>accidentally make second most successful game of franchise to date

Go fuck off to Destiny you baiting faggot.

>Master Chief story
>Good

I bet you love the fucking Flood too, don't you? Fucking faggot. Don't ever reply to me or my post ever again, scum.

>look it up
I tried this is all I can find

>second most successful game
That's Halo 4

But I hate Destiny you fucking faggot.

Troll. You'd name good things about Reach if you could. It doesnt come close to 1-3 and that is an objective fact.

I bet Reach was your first Halo

>Halo 3 babies hate Halo 3 DLC

weird someone most have made this chart wrong then?

I mean yah they're close but halo 4 isn't really being compared right now

>that guitar
It will forever get my dick hard

ODST is not great.
It had a great overworld and OST, but that actually missions were fucking terrible.
Reach is also the worst mainline Halo game. Halo 4 is Reach done right.

Why the fuck are you even playing Halo?

Reach baby leave

not him but uhm lemme think

vastly improved forge and custom game options

9 customizable armor pieces

needle rifle and dmr
grenade launcher
falcon
revenant
concussion rifle
plasma launcher

huge playlist variety

added firefight fully customizable.

I could go on.

>Reach done right.
>existing

>VGChartz

>Troll. You'd name good things about Reach if you could

Best campaign, Reach is genuinely an interesting story and it focuses on the war between UNSC and Covenant, no bullshit boring Flood sections for filler.

Best iteration of Firefight with metric fucktons of options for customization

Best character customization

Best depiction of the Covenant. Character models are polished as fuck and for once the aliens speak an alien language instead of fucking English.

DMR SWAT matches were fun as fuck, fuck you.

The only reason you fucking babies hate it so much is because of the fucking multiplayer abilities you fucking boob.

not him but new content =/= good content

this is why when you add to much new stuff to an established gameplay concept it can get hectic

This

Samefag here, lemme expand
>you're a citizen in a city that got absolutely shitfaced from an alien assault. everyone you know is dead and all your worldly possessions are gone. all you have is your emergency pistol with a couple rounds and could either off yourself right there or explore aimlessly
>basically plays like a survival horror with the map of a metroidvania/soulslike. you find scraps of what others had/torn up weapons or equipment soldiers had, each with small vague bits of lore that is largely open to interpretation/filling in the blanks
>as you go on you gradually find shortcuts and optimize your routes, and by late game you get a massive power spike in the form of a fallen soldier's armor
>there's a huge-ass spaceship hovering the city that you can board at any point, but if you go before getting the armor you're basically asking to get your asshole plundered unless you are a legitimate european extreme god and can get a clean shot at the final boss' neck
>soundtrack mainly comprised of strings, piano and synth

There's my autistic cyberpunk survival horror metroidvania ODST-ripoff idea. Feel free to blast me.

not the argument I expected but almost every weapon I mentioned was a variant/improvement of a previous gun. Doesn't really apply to anything else I don't think. I suppose you could mean Armour abilities but I didn't mention them and they were toggelable with playlists dedicated to not having them

>Best campaign, Reach is genuinely an interesting story and it focuses on the war between UNSC and Covenant, no bullshit boring Flood sections for filler.
I just don't get this, but to each their own

Halo 4 took most of Reach's flaws and fixed them.
>Fixed spartan abilities
>Had a more emotional campaign
>fixed the awful bloom for the DMR
>Better maps
>Better weapons
Best thing I could say about Reach is the Elites are actually threatening in this game

>a Reach baby calling anyone babies

I'd play it 10/10
how you feel about finding or unlocking components as you go along to modify your characters armour and weapons.

I know not sounding much like halo anymore but adding silencers, scopes, grips, bigger armor pieces actually protecting you more but making you slightly less mobile and prone to being spotted. could be cool. and maybe a useable knife?

This

jesus fuck
the fact that there are people who unironically think stuff like this is depressing

calling halo 4's campaign emotional
liking a complete character murder of the core protagonist established over three games to be a quintessential badass by making him a babyman despite his whole life being military training and chemical enhancements, suddenly after half a century of fighting he has PTSD and cares about being human

lol the weeb likes reach, go figure

These fucking Halo 4 apologists are ridiculous.

>suddenly after half a century of fighting he has PTSD and cares about being human
>I never played Halo 3

I don't even like Halo 4, but its better than Reach

I was born in 1991 friendo, Halo CE was blew my fucking mind when it came out and I spent metric fucktons of time on Halo 2/3 multiplayer both online and with friends at LAN parties.

Reach was the last good Halo, I won't touch those 343 abortions with their robot faggotry and Teen rating and beat a dead horse with a stick.

But I bet you fucking ADORE Nu Halo, don't you faggot?

He's not wrong

What's your argument on why Reach is better than?

I was born in 1989 and Reach was dogshit and my first Halo was CE and I loved Halo CE, 2, and 3.

Nah, singleplayer wise, 2 is the worst.

Is there the thread where we pretend ODST's overworld wasn't a horrible idea and that hunting for level triggers wasn't fucking awful for couch coop?

As disappointing Halo 2's campaign was, it was still better than Reach.

The overworld is the best thing about the game.
Game would have been a lot better if every mission took place there.

lol no one likes the nu halo's

he is though
>Fixed spartan abilities
Yeah, adding a wallhack spartan ability was ten times worse than armor lock was.
>Had a more emotional campaign
lol
>fixed the awful bloom for the DMR
The bloom is fine on it, and if you thought otherwise you weren't timing your shots properly.
>Better maps
no
>Better weapons
>rocket launcher that explodes multiple times
>snipers are broken due to wallhack spartan ability
>fully customizable loadouts
>no reason not to always use the br

The problems with Reach are:

1) The story was lame and most of the cast was awful outside of standouts like Jorge
2) The campaign kinda falls apart into dull tedium around 2/3's in (the last level in particular is fucking awful)
3) A bunch of the base multiplayer maps used that ugly Forge texture shit so many of the maps looked terrible.

Otherwise it was a great game. I had more fun with the campaign than 3, and I definitely dropped a ton of time into it (enough to get that goofy thundercloud thing) but I think 2 is still my favorite.

No, you're wrong and I need you to realize just how dogshit your taste is.

He is though, The Spartan Abilities were still shit but they didn't slow the gameplay down as much due to players being able to move while using them, the campaign overall was better than Reach's mess of a campaign, bloom was shit get over it, and Reach had the worst maps in the series.

Spent a lot of late nights playing Firefight with one of my bros, was great shit.