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The Official Halo 3: ODST Thread

Well if you did get that info from the bonus round which is where it was brought back up this week he also gives some of the thought process behind the development schedule, and the marketing shcedule behind it.
 
SuperÑ said:
I've read Bungie has the game finished since May and that they haven't touched it since. How is that even possible? :/
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Because Bungie doesn't really get to release it whenever they want.
 
SuperÑ said:
Sorry then. This is new to me.
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Bungie has hinted and in some cases said this was the case, but never as publicly as they had at the PAX Bonus Round panel. So you would have to be really following ODST closely to know that. (For instance, the three new maps were done before PAX - last year.)
 
Neverender said:
yawn
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Glad you removed that picture.

Nutter said:
I am joining Ram in the newly married club soon, so we shall see how much game time I get :p
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Congrats, man. :)

And I'm not sure it isn't accurate to say that "Bungie finished the game in May and hasn't touched it since." No doubt they've spent some time (even if only a little) really polishing the game.

Edit - looks like I was wrong.
 
I don't believe that Bungie just sat around once the game was finished. The game looks like they polished the hell out of it.
 
Frenck said:
I don't believe that Bungie just sat around once the game was finished. The game looks like they polished the hell out of it.
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No, they didn't just sit around. They have Halo: Reach to keep them occupied. It was revealed recently that Halo 3: ODST was made because Peter Jackson's Halo Project collapsed. They had scheduled things differently so they decided to make ODST. They had scheduled it would be ready by Spring/Summer, and so it was. Now they are concentrating on Reach and The New IP Experience.

EDIT: To be clear: They were developing ODST and Reach simultaneously. When ODST was finished, the ODST team maybe took a little time off until they joined the Reach team and started pounding it big time.

EDIT2: Coco has it.
 
Frenck said:
I don't believe that Bungie just sat around once the game was finished. The game looks like they polished the hell out of it.
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It would be nice if this was the way it worked, but unfortunately it isn't. "Polishing" isn't as simple as it sounds, and once the game is bug-free - or as close as it is going to get - you can't change things without possibly introducing new problems. So when the game is done, the team moves on to the other things that they're scheduled to do and the completed product isn't touched.
 
Dax01 said:
And I'm not sure it isn't accurate to say that Bungie finished the game in May and hasn't touched it since.
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This line was tough to follow for my primitive mammailian brain.

And congrats to Nutter for exponentially lowering the amount of time he has for Xbox through the arbitrary process of placing a ring on his finger. ;-)
 
Nutter said:
Alright guys this will be my last post in the thread for a little while(flying out tomorrow). I wont be here for the ODST launch and wont be able to play it.

Enjoy your ODST's, Keep it clean and keep the seat warm for me when I get back.

I am joining Ram in the newly married club soon, so we shall see how much game time I get :p
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... and there goes the last one.

Lost Ram to the ring
Lost Trasher to the RROD/laziness
Lost Blood to WoW

Oh well, guess it's time to move on. I still won't be able to help shed some tears everytime you guys do your monthly videogame session and brag about how you guys hit a lvl 25 in Reach.

Congratulations dude. Remember marriage is about respect. Gotta keep Beyonce in her place and when she acts up, you remind her who brings home the bacon/iPhones.

Mr Vociferous said:
This line was tough to follow for my primitive mammailian brain.
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Try this one on for size:
I've yet to have doubted that it wouldn't be inaccurate to stop from saying the improbability that Bungie would not actually completely finished altering the game long ago yet never touch it since May. I mean May's a really long time!
 
EazyB said:
... and there goes the last one.

Lost Ram to the ring
Lost Trasher to the RROD/laziness
Lost Blood to Netflix
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fix'd
 
Hmm...somehow missed out entirely on the OST bits currently out til now.

Holy shit, amazing stuff.

edit: btw, does anyone know of a full version of the background song on the live action trailer ? Havent' been able to find it yet, not sure if it exists or not.
 
Mr Vociferous said:
This line was tough to follow for my primitive mammailian brain.

And congrats to Nutter for exponentially lowering the amount of time he has for Xbox through the arbitrary process of placing a ring on his finger. ;-)
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:lol I think my brain just kinda auto-corrected, but reading it again gave me a headache.


And grats, Nutter. :)!
 
EazyB said:
... and there goes the last one.

Lost Ram to the ring
Lost Trasher to the RROD/laziness
Lost Blood to WoW

Oh well, guess it's time to move on. I still won't be able to help shed some tears everytime you guys do your monthly videogame session and brag about how you guys hit a lvl 25 in Reach.
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Just wait until I get that +str BR enchant dude, I will be clowning kids :p
 
Saw on Giantbomb that Jeff's already gotten and finished his review copy (looking forward to what he has to hear, enjoy his thought-process and how he expresses himself).
Ordered mah wireless broadband (turns out cable was a no go, one-way arial on the roof), but not sure I'll have it by the 22nd, hopefully for customs that weekend though.
Their ODST page looks quite well actually.
 
Zeouterlimits said:
Saw on Giantbomb that Jeff's already gotten and finished his review copy (looking forward to what he has to hear, enjoy his thought-process and how he expresses himself).
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Nobody gets review copies of Bungie games any more - he played it at one of the media events last week.

Looking forward to his review too. ;)
 
Louis Wu said:
Nobody gets review copies of Bungie games any more - he played it at one of the media events last week.

Looking forward to his review too. ;)
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You sure he didn't get sent a retail copy? Because the achievements side of Giantbomb would suggest he's played it on his own gamertag.
I probably completely wrong, if anyone in the community would know about this it would you.
Oh and yes, I too forgot to give props to Numbers, very well done. :lol
 
Congrats Nutter! I'm joining the recently married club here pretty soon. But the wifey-to-be is understanding of the whole video game entertainment aspect and plays with me.

I'm finding that a lot of people on my friends list will be either too busy with work or school, or just plain not in town to play ODST on launch night. Myself, I'm in North Carolina for business until the 24th...
 
I ordered from Newegg on Sunday, and my order status is "Charged". I called customer service and they said that they are generating a shipping number and sending it off soon, I am hoping they dont't catch my shipment.....
 
Zeouterlimits said:
You sure he didn't get sent a retail copy? Because the achievements side of Giantbomb would suggest he's played it on his own gamertag.
I probably completely wrong, if anyone in the community would know about this it would you.
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I played it on my own gamertag, too. If you look Louis Wu up on Xbox.com, you'll see I have 24 of 47 achievements for ODST already (though you can't see which ones).

Anyone who brought a memory unit with them to the event could play on their own gamertag.
 
Louis Wu said:
I played it on my own gamertag, too. If you look Louis Wu up on Xbox.com, you'll see I have 24 of 47 achievements for ODST already (though you can't see which ones).

Anyone who brought a memory unit with them to the event could play on their own gamertag.
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Ah, well there I have it.
Thanks Wu :)
 
Louis Wu said:
I played it on my own gamertag, too. If you look Louis Wu up on Xbox.com, you'll see I have 24 of 47 achievements for ODST already (though you can't see which ones).

Anyone who brought a memory unit with them to the event could play on their own gamertag.
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Louis Wu is an achievement hacker: Confirmed!

I'm looking forward to this next press embargo being up. I've tried to avoid most of the pre-release stuff...but in a moment of weakness...I broke down and watched some French Grunts in FireFight.

I'm hoping that Bungie introduces a skull that changes all Grunt dialogue to French in the future.

~B.B.
 
BerserkerBarage said:
Louis Wu is an achievement hacker: Confirmed!
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Dude - I asked like 5 times whether these showing up on my gamertag would get me banned from LIVE. I didn't believe the answer the first few times. :lol :lol
 
Nutter said:
Alright guys this will be my last post in the thread for a little while(flying out tomorrow). I wont be here for the ODST launch and wont be able to play it.

Enjoy your ODST's, Keep it clean and keep the seat warm for me when I get back.

I am joining Ram in the newly married club soon, so we shall see how much game time I get :p
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Happy birthday man! wait... no, that's not right.
Congrats, Nutter! :D


EazyB said:
Try this one on for size:
I've yet to have doubted that it wouldn't be inaccurate to stop from saying the improbability that Bungie would not actually completely finished altering the game long ago yet never touch it since May. I mean May's a really long time!
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Ok, Eazy wins. :P
 
Just a little over a week left. Thank God for school and other junk that's keeping me busy. The days are flying by.

Dani, if you're reading the thread, where are you and your 360? We gotta play some Squad Battle.
 
Has there been any details of the ODST launch party up in Seattle? I've seen the few mentions Bungie has made, and I'm debating going up for it. But I'd like to know what's going down before I do...
 
Not sure anyone who ordered from Newegg will get it early. I swear when Halo 3 came out it shipped out early too but it had a delivery schedule for the release date. I think UPS will be sitting on your copies until Tuesday
 
GhaleonEB said:
Has there been any details of the ODST launch party up in Seattle? I've seen the few mentions Bungie has made, and I'm debating going up for it. But I'd like to know what's going down before I do...
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Everyone who shows up gets a gold-plated Xbox360 with the ONI logo inscribed on it.

(If this turns out not to be true, blame urk.)

nah, really, I'm waiting for info too. It's really unlikely I'll be able to go, but if the shindig sounds cool enough, who knows?
 
Been looking around the great internet and I've read that some people are starting to get their NewEgg ODST orders.

Now I wish I would of ordered through them but I needed a controller bad, my H3 one is on its last legs.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Thanks Wu. The Xbox will be worth the drive.

On that note, I just took the 22nd off as a vacation day.
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Nice. I got two tests on Tuesday so I'll only get to play on and off. I'm off nearly all of Wednesday, though, so it works out pretty well for me.
 
Cocopjojo said:
It would be nice if this was the way it worked, but unfortunately it isn't. "Polishing" isn't as simple as it sounds, and once the game is bug-free - or as close as it is going to get - you can't change things without possibly introducing new problems. So when the game is done, the team moves on to the other things that they're scheduled to do and the completed product isn't touched.
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Are you sure that's how it works? Are you sure they don't just get out the polish and rub the disc until it gets better?
 
JPBrowncoat said:
Not sure anyone who ordered from Newegg will get it early. I swear when Halo 3 came out it shipped out early too but it had a delivery schedule for the release date. I think UPS will be sitting on your copies until Tuesday
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UPS doesn't "sit" on packages...
 
LAUGHTREY said:
Are you sure that's how it works? Are you sure they don't just get out the polish and rub the disc until it gets better?
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You know they don't do that.

If they did, a genie might come out. That never ends well.
 
Oh man! I forgot how much fun Halo 3 was. :lol

anyways, which # do y'all prefer on sensitivity? Because 3 (default) seems a bit to fast for me.
 
ZROCOOL said:
Oh man! I forgot how much fun Halo 3 was. :lol

anyways, which # do y'all prefer on sensitivity? Because 3 (default) seems a bit to fast for me.
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Wow, 3 is too fast for you? I think it's way too slow for me. I play at 6 sensitivity. Seems about right, and I can turn around fast if I need to.
 
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