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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 00:42
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It came out today. Or yesterday, if you're not in Australia.

Anyone got it yet? Is it good?
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Doesn't come out until tomorrow for me. I'm stoked for it though.

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I seriously have no plans of it, as I don't own a system besides a PC... But it does look quite promising.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 03:04
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I work at a game store now, so I've seen it. Looks good but I don't know if I could play it without Master Chief

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You know, I played Halo 3 and hated it, I do not know why, but I did, I loved the storyline but IMHO the gameplay sucked. Then again, I am use to CoD.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 04:04
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I picked up my copy today.

I've played single player for about an hour now, and it's definitely very good. It's going to take some getting used to finding health packs to get your health back though.

Also ammo seems to be in short supply so there's not going to be much firing in the general direction of the enemy hoping to get in hits.

I'm looking forward to trying out the firefight mode. Which I think is GoW2s horde mode Halofied...

One of my firends beat the solo campaign in under 5 hours on Insane. I don't think I'll be doing that, I'm having trouble on normal, but that's more to do with the fact that I'm aiming using a control pad and not the PC.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 04:05
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Gameplay is kinda too unrealistic. If Bungie added a sprint function and made jump height much lower it'd be a bit better.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 04:11
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The jump height is lower than Master Chief... No sprint is a bit of a pain, but no biggie.

You got this Toasty? What's your GT? Let's play now!

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 05:39
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what's ODST stand for?

I haven't been following Halo since 2 came out. Never played 3, only have seen 10 seconds of gameplay.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 05:46
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Quote: "You got this Toasty? What's your GT? Let's play now!"


Nah, I'm getting it tonight. GT is tOaStY fReSh.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 05:52
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Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, I think.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 05:53
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Quote: "what's ODST stand for?"

Orbital Drop Shock Trooper

I was going to get it at midnight tonight but decided I'm just going to get it tomorrow morning.

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Quote: "what's ODST stand for?"



Orbital Drop Shock Trooper

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Does it have multiplayer? I have'nt heard anything about it. If so, is it fun?

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It's got a 4 player co-op campaign.

4 player firefight mode. (GOW2 horde sort of)

It comes with a second disc with all Halo 3 multiplayer maps on it plus 3 new maps just for ODST.

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@toasty: is it out at eb yet? or is it sold out? if not , ill get it and play u on xbox live! gt: XSplashdownX


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But no slayer, no ctf. All well, I guess H3's is still good.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 06:22
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Splash Down: Yes, it's out today. You should probably go get it. Now.

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It comes with a second disc with all Halo 3 multiplayer maps on it plus 3 new maps just for ODST.
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Yeah, that's great for new people but I'm honestly not gonna touch Halo 3 MP for a looong time. It was great fun when it was released but all the old good maps rarely show up these days, like Valhalla or Sandtrap because of all the DLC. Kind of annoying, and I think I've lost my touch.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 06:31
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I just had a go in Firefight mode. Pure awesome. I think this is where I will be spending most of my multiplayer time with this game.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 06:47
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Yeah, definately. That's half the reason I want it.
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 09:32
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I tried Firefight online and the lag was unbearable. But it wasn't like the lag I have experienced in the past. I could aim perfectly, with no lag whatsoever, but the movement of myself, the other real player and the AI was in 3 second bursts. Move, freeze (but still able to aim), move, freeze (but still able to aim). It made it completely unplayable.

I've changed a few settings on my router in the vain hope that it will help, but I'm not sure as I've never had lag that bad even against people in different countries. The guy I was playing with was in Australia so I thought the lag would be minimal

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2009 11:49 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2009 11:50
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Wow. That is bad. That happened to me a bit in H3 but that was only with guys from america.

I am in progress of a solo firefight game right now (someone else is using the telly). As you said Thraxas, it is freaking AWESOME. I'm playing on easy (because I'm by myself) and have lasted about 22 mins and am on round two.

The campaign is also awesome. Seems that you need to do a lot more scavenging than in the other games.
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Thier currently securing more severs for the 400% more players than aniticapted. Well thats what a friend told me.

Talk about not preparing lol.

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Sounds like a good game (I've only watched people play it) but I need an Xbox 360 and the game before I can play lol and that's not happening too soon!

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Quote: "Talk about not preparing lol.
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Well not a lot of people were convinced that it wouldn't be a cash cow. The majority of forums threads and blogs and whatnot have been people whinging about what a rip it is.
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I suppose, still am ordering mine now after i drop some cash off, £35 anit that bad compared to other new realeses.


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There's a couple of bargains out there right now, this, and NFS Shift is only £25 - could it be that we are seeing a long awaited price slump for games?

As epic as ODST is, I am gonna leave it for now, probably get it pre-owned for a few quid in a month or three. I mean it looks cool and all, but it's no Scribblenauts.


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Quote: "Well not a lot of people were convinced that it wouldn't be a cash cow."


And those people are ignorant -- this is Halo They could make a Halo kart racing game and sell 5 million copies minimum.

If anyone remembers Halo 3's launch, MS was also unprepared for that, and XBL had some downtime.


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Matt I'm getting the game today so we'll definitely be playing together.

I was gonna go get it at midnight but somehow I managed to fall asleep at 8pm. Which is really stupid because when you go to bed so early you wake up ridiculously early. Game Stop doesn't open for another 2 hours!!! I'm tired of waiting! Haha.

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My step son sold games to buy this one. He has it and he loves it! He should know, he lives on XBOX Live!

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My Good friend 8-bit Chris did a reveiw for this game on YouTube, not sure if it helps you decide but he seems to like it:

ODST Review by 8-bit Chris

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Beat the game in just over 4 hours. It's way too short. But it's damn fun still.

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I haven't played it yet, but what I saw, it looked very promising. And it has the best trailer ever!


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Quote: "Beat the game in just over 4 hours. It's way too short. But it's damn fun still."


I was hoping not to hear that, as I beat Halo 3 in roughly the same time. A housemate says he's going to buy this today, so I might get a chance to see what it's like, but like VanB, I'm probably going to wait before buying it. Besides, I'm still playing Halo 3 against friends.

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Quote: "Beat the game in just over 4 hours. It's way too short. But it's damn fun still.
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Heh. At H3's release I was really eager to play it and did that in roughly 3.

Just tried to start the campaign on Legendary (quite foolishly) on my own to try and get Dare for firefight. What a bad decision. I couldn;t get past the first four sets of enemies without dying
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I got my copy yesterday. I love firefight and the missions arent bad either. Good game

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Argghhh I'm waiting for my gift certificates from work to come in the mail so I can get this, Uncharted 2, and the Williams Pinball Collection for 360. At least I'll get them for free, but the wait is... argh..


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@SOTD: Yes, Firefight is pretty awesome but I don't like how you can;t turn off skulls. It basically makes enemies bulletproof when you get tilt on.

ATM I've finished the campaign, now am just looking for all the recording thingies and supply caches. I really love the freeroaming aspect of the game at the end.
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looks awesome, im gettin it this weekend so ill let y'all kno later

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I just love the darkness of the game like where it makes the characters seem more vulnerable and also have personalities where Master Cheif is a person you knew would always be the invincible and had a badass personality.



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right, mc gave u sense of "im a complete and total badass and i can just charge em and not even lose shield" but from wat ive seen the new game makes u take tactical planned action rather than just scream "CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!"

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Agh i cant play firefight, Am not sure if its meant to set out this way but i cant search for matchs/obviously not runnning ones/ like you would say on matchmaking on the halo 3 disc...#

Or is it a whole invite only like the Halo 3 cutom matchs?

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i think its like custom matches

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dam

Am waiting on ppl i iknow to play -_-

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This is my new favorite game. Halo 3 was my favorite game, and this game combines Halo 3's multiplayer with ODST's campaign and firefight.

Firefight is so sick. It's like every Halo game you've ever played, except on an unrelenting epic scale. It's such fun to get four people together and just destroy wave after wave of covenant.

"HAMMER GUY!" was probably the most yelled phrase while playing.

Just the first part of the single player campaign made it for me. Play the game, and your head will explode. What an excellent introduction. And the music is great of course.

I give it a:
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Quote: ""HAMMER GUY!" was probably the most yelled phrase while playing."

Definitely the most yelled phrase in every firefight game I've played so far lol.

Quote: "And the music is great of course."

I have been reading that people are loving the music and the music in this game is what has greatly disappointed me. It just didn't feel like halo music to me.

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i cant wait to get it

btw how does firefight rank against horde from Gears of War 2 and Nazi Zombieas from COD: WAW?

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The more I play, the more I'm enjoying it. I'm getting slightly better. In my last game I even managed to get some headshots

Playing with a controller doesn't agree with me. I wish I could plug my mouse/keyboard into my xbox and play like that.

I've seen you online Inspire, I'm waiting to have a game with you.

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Yeah, I'll invite you sometime. I'm currently going after those Vidmaster achievements.

Quote: "I have been reading that people are loving the music and the music in this game is what has greatly disappointed me. It just didn't feel like halo music to me."


It doesn't at first, though it still sounds great. But if you listen to the music during cutscenes, combat, or the ending credits (and I think the main menu), the music crescendos back into the classic Halo going-to-punch-someone-soon awesome music.

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Quote: "btw how does firefight rank against horde from Gears of War 2 and Nazi Zombieas from COD: WAW?"


I've tried NZ but not horde. NZ is completely different. In that it's more like you are fighting to your certain doom, but in Firefight you're more like 'I AM A GOD AND I BLOODY KNEW IT!'. Somehow.
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