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The Official Halo 3: ODST Thread
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Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Wait, so the Breaking In article has serious spoilers for ODST?
The Librarian
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Louis Wu said:
The Librarian
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Guess I'll miss their campaign footage, then. I'll watch Firefight though. Thanks.Kibbles said:
Kibbles
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G4 also put up a 16min extended interview with Lars about Firefight. http://g4tv.com/videos/41302/Halo-3-ODST-Firefight-Interview-With-Lars-Bakken/
Oh good. Lost Platoon and Windward are the other two maps I played at Bungie. The NPD expired today.Kibbles said:
Both are fuck-awesome. Eazy saved my ass so many times on Lost Platoon. He was truckin' around the Chopper, I was on foot. I lost track of how many times I had to call, "Help me EazyB, you're my only hope!" There would be a roar, a bunch of dust, and some dead Covenant a few moments later.
More than anything, I want to play on Lost Platoon again. It was freakin' awesome.
RebornYeti
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GhaleonEB said:
It looks awesome! I love vehicle-based gameplay in Halo, so Lost Platoon is already looking to be one of my favorites for Firefight.
For those who care...MLG vs The World is going on right now. They take 2 MLG employees and 2 MLG Pros and team them up and throw them in matchmaking. Nexy is streaming the whole thing right now. There are 3 teams in matchmaking currently.
http://www.justin.tv/nexy
http://www.justin.tv/nexy
The Librarian
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I can't believe I didn't suspect anything. I guess that was because I completely forgot you got to play at Bungie.GhaleonEB said:
Can you describe your experiences on Windward?
squidhands
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It's a modded gametype. Play with some guys that play a lot of MLG , I'm sure at least one of them has it. It really changes the dynamics of Bungie's spawning system when you play it out of the dome (or so I've heard *clears throat*).enzo_gt said:
The Librarian
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You're not the only one.enzo_gt said:So at this point I believe I'm the only one at HaloGAF that hasn't been kidnapped by Bungie to play ODST.
RebornYeti
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enzo_gt said:So at this point I believe I'm the only one at HaloGAF that hasn't been kidnapped by Bungie to play ODST.
You're not alone. The closest I've been to a Bungie event was by playing the Bungie vs. The World playlist. Even then I didn't even play against Bungie.
CrazedArabMan
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Dax01 said:
Yeah, but didn't your dad touch Bungie's knob?
Door knob that is...
RebornYeti
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Kibbles said:
I've been thinking about it a lot lately since I'll be moving out pretty soon.
Not because of Bungie, but because my trip to Seattle in 2006 really made me want to live there.
Digital-Hero
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MNC said:
Wow you didn't know that. They explained that long time ago. :lol
The sad thing is, the city has been redesigned and doesn't resemble the New Mombasa from Halo 2. Also, the city was utterly destroyed by Truth ship and the slip-space rupture, but yet a lot of the city in ODST is immaculate. Talk about continuity. Heh.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17467194&postcount=6143Kibbles said:
EazyB said:
It was good to see you again.Nutter said:
Gonna check out the new articles/interviews and then I'll update the OP.
Kibbles
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Ah yes. I didn't realize he was talking about himself in that tidbit :lol . Nutter too? Damn, it's like I missed a GAF reunion party. :lol Did Devin go as well? Haven't seen him post.GhaleonEB said:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17467194&postcount=6143
It was good to see you again.
Gonna check out the new articles/interviews and then I'll update the OP.
Digital-Hero
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Sir Fragula said:
Really? The city is devasted in my opinion which is why you see pieces of the Space Tether all over the Savanah in Halo 3 "Tsavo Highway".
Slipspace Rupture in the City Center
Obviously, it's just a game but the continuity is a little messed up here.
Yeah, but the space elevator is hundreds of kilometres high, so when the base fell of course it'd be stretched.Digital-Hero said:
And again the last thing we see of New Mombasa [before ODST] is a bright white light and buses being thrown about. We don't see a crater afterward or the ruins. Halo 2 may have implied that all was destroyed, but we now know that to not be the case. Not a ret-con as such, but an elaboration on what was previously an unknown.
Edit: :lol
Some guy I banned on Bungie.net is trying to claim that when he wrote "n*ga" he actually meant the North American Grappling Association. And now I'm being told I'm restricting his free speech. A laugh a day! :lol
RebornYeti
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EazyB said:
How is Beatles: Rock Band, by the way? I assume you have it, or you're about to pick it up?
Yup it was good to see everyone again.GhaleonEB said:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17467194&postcount=6143
It was good to see you again.
Gonna check out the new articles/interviews and then I'll update the OP.
The Librarian
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I as well felt that the custscene implied that the city was destroyed when the ship made a slipspace jump. Good thing the cutscene didn't show the aftermath.Sir Fragula said:
Apparently the city wasn't completely destroyed. I'm glad for it because otherwise we wouldn't be getting ODST. Ghal: Can you give us your impressions of Windward? Is it is fun as it looks?
Digital-Hero
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Sir Fragula said:
You do see the ruins beyond the Ark crater in Halo 3 and there isn't much standing.
Bungie can do whatever they want with the lore, noticing continuity is just a personal idiosyncrasy of mine. Thanks for replying.
Dax01 said:I as well felt that the custscene implied that the city was destroyed when the ship made a slipspace jump. Good thing the cutscene didn't show the aftermath.
I guess I'm not alone.
Very fun. You spawn with a sniper rifle, which in the maps I played (we didn't play on all of them - just the ones Bungie/G4 have talked about) was unique.Dax01 said:
From spawn room you can go left or right, out into an open area. Or, head downstairs out the center. (The level wraps around the outside.) Along the edges of those two sides are where Covenant get dropped off, and that's where a Banshee or two is prowling. (There's a missile pod and rockets available to take them out with.)
It's a challenging map, partly because there's three ways into the central spawn room. This means you can be on one side of the map and have guys get dropped off, and when you're trying to fall back you have Covenant flowing through the central rooms, so you're cut off. The sniper is good for keeping the heavy Brute rounds at bay a bit, but in every game I played on it we got over run, even in the spawn room - too many ways in.
It was more challenging than the other maps I played on, partly because you could get over run and there's no really safe areas. Even the spawn room, with three ways in, is tough to defend from. Very fun, very challenging map.
Digital-Hero
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Kibbles said:
The time period from which the Chief came back to Earth from High Charity was not long. If you notice at the end of Halo 2 when Lord Hood says, "Master Chief can you tell me what you are doing on that ship?" The battle around the defense platforms was still happening. Unless Master Chief was on Truth's ship for weeks when it plummeted to earth, there really isn't much to explain away the time difference. The ODST's are probably still in the City as the Chief is going through the events of Halo 3.
I'm nerding out here, forgive me.
yankeehater
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There were are a bunch of spoilers in the G4 thing tonight, I am kind of sorry that I watched it.