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The Official Halo 3: ODST Thread

Dani said:
Easy way to change your mind.

Voila!

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What kind of weird looking AR is that?
 
Although Halo 3 is an absolutely fantastic multiplayer game, I really don't feel compelled to finish ODST. I probably will, as the shooting is so solid that it carries the game, but I feel everything surrounding ODST from graphics to story, voice work, and AI are kind of underwhelming.

Please don't flame me, just my two cents.
 
ACE 1991 said:
Although Halo 3 is an absolutely fantastic multiplayer game, I really don't feel compelled to finish ODST. I probably will, as the shooting is so solid that it carries the game, but I feel everything surrounding ODST from graphics to story, voice work, and AI are kind of underwhelming.

Please don't flame me, just my two cents.

How dare you not like ODST??1?

But yeah, I agree, I found ODST to be a bit underwhelming.
 
Ugh, after reading The Fall of Reach and going back over details on First Strike, I am so pumped to hear more about Halo: Reach. When will we know more about it?!?! I also can't stop watching the Halo: Reach teaser now. Who the hell could Sierra 259 be?!
 
Trasher said:
Ugh, after reading The Fall of Reach and going back over details on First Strike, I am so pumped to hear more about Halo: Reach. When will we know more about it?!?! I also can't stop watching the Halo: Reach teaser now. Who the hell could Sierra 259 be?!

I am guessing that they are new spartans but I don't care. I am ready for Spartan Badassery!

Edit: On second thought I thought it is pretty clear.
(2*5)-9 = 1, (2*5)-9 = 1, (9+5)/2 = 7.

MC is back baby!
 
Trasher said:
Ugh, after reading The Fall of Reach and going back over details on First Strike, I am so pumped to hear more about Halo: Reach. When will we know more about it?!?! I also can't stop watching the Halo: Reach teaser now. Who the hell could Sierra 259 be?!
Sketch/Brian from Bungie hinted at hearing something before Christmas, but we'll see.
You know who 259 couldn't be? Fred. :'-(

Perhaps I should build a shrine to Blue Team in my room.
Internet petitions work all the time, don't they?
 
Captain Blood said:
I am guessing that they are new spartans but I don't care. I am ready for Spartan Badassery!
New Spartans as in like Spartan III's? They can't be Spartan II's because their call signs only go up to 150 I believe. I'm curious to see what kind of loopholes they made to spawn more Spartans into the Halo lore haha.
 
Trasher said:
New Spartans as in like Spartan III's? They can't be Spartan II's because their call signs only go up to 150 I believe. I'm curious to see what kind of loopholes they made to spawn more Spartans into the Halo lore haha.

Is that not explained in the books? I´m pretty sure it is
 
Gui_PT said:
Is that not explained in the books? I´m pretty sure it is
There are Spartan III's in Ghosts of Onyx: nearly have the book is about their origin and development. Given the timeline, it's entirely possible that there were a couple of Spartan III's on Reach, though they wouldn't be that old. (My memory is a bit fuzzy on the details of the book, too).

Edit -
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Spartan-III

Seems that if there are Spartan III's on Reach, they'd be from Gamma Company.
 
Dax01 said:
There are Spartan III's in Ghosts of Onyx: nearly have the book is about their origin and development. Given the timeline, it's entirely possible that there were a couple of Spartan III's on Reach, though they wouldn't be that old. (My memory is a bit fuzzy on the details of the book, too).

Edit -
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Spartan-III

Seems that if there are Spartan III's on Reach, they'd be from Gamma Company.
Spartan III's would be 19 years old during the events of Reach in 2552. Spartan II's were in their 30's at that time I think.

Edit: Spartan II's would be 41 years old during that time.
 
Trasher said:
Ugh, after reading The Fall of Reach and going back over details on First Strike, I am so pumped to hear more about Halo: Reach. When will we know more about it?!?! I also can't stop watching the Halo: Reach teaser now. Who the hell could Sierra 259 be?!

Shh, it's a sin to want to see anything of Halo: Reach.

And I haven't finished reading the Fall of Reach, but I'm going to guess the group of Spartans that we play as will be a Spartan Group that Bungie makes up and suddenly becomes canon. :P

C'mon Blue Team!
 
Speaking of the Halo books; I haven't had the chance to read them all, and I only own one : Ghosts of Onyx

Which of the books would you say are good and suggest for reading?
 
They could be from the second wave of Spartan II's that Halsey was planning after the graduation of the first. But I'm not sure if that ever got passed the planning stages.

It would be cool if they turned out to be Spartan III's though.
 
Gui_PT said:
Speaking of the Halo books; I haven't had the chance to read them all, and I only own one : Ghosts of Onyx

Which of the books would you say are good and suggest for reading?

Fall of Reach and First Strike are my favourite.
 
Gui_PT said:
Speaking of the Halo books; I haven't had the chance to read them all, and I only own one : Ghosts of Onyx

Ghosts of Onyx is my favorite I think. I just finished re-reading it. It's like the third or fourth time I've read it but the first time in quite a while. I still think the ending could come into play in future Halo games.

Just took a little bit to update my File Share with almost all current stuff for the first time in quite a while. Put my 22-0 Perfection game in there, and a nasty stick on Midship. I mean...Heretic. Got my 5 Hammer Kills on Assembly achievement just now too.:D
 
Domino Theory said:
Shh, it's a sin to want to see anything of Halo: Reach.

And I haven't finished reading the Fall of Reach, but I'm going to guess the group of Spartans that we play as will be a Spartan Group that Bungie makes up and suddenly becomes canon. :P

C'mon Blue Team!
I believe the Spartans on Reach are Red Team.

I was kind of surprised when reading The Fall of Reach. I was expecting it to include battles down on Reach's surface, but sadly it did not. It has been like 5 years since I read First Strike, so I guess I had forgotten that that book covered Fred and Kelly with the other Spartans down on Reach and some of their actions. So anyways, if anyone is curious as to what actually happens with Spartans battling on Reach, then you will want to read First Strike.

After finishing The Fall of Reach, I have this urge to play Halo: CE now haha.
 
Zeouterlimits said:
Yes, actually, all of them. Jen Taylor does a voice of one of the AI in Contact Harvest.

Wow, I had no idea.

I'd still prefer to read the books. Even though I'll have to move my eyes a lot =\
 
So these are the Spartans that fight on Reach (taken from Halo Wiki):

Frederic-104, commander of the Spartans, split the remains of Red Team into four groups: Team Alpha (Frederic-104, Kelly-087, and Joshua-029), which was tasked with eliminating an encampment of 10,000 Covenant and their hovering cruiser (without doing anything that could damage the Orbital Defense Generators), Team Beta, tasked with defense of the Orbital Defense Generators, Team Gamma (Li-008, Anton-044, and Grace-093), ordered to retrieve Whitcomb, and Team Delta (the Charlie Company marines and six wounded Spartans which included William-043, Isaac-039, and Vinh-030), ordered to secure the Spartans' fallback point at CASTLE Base.

Except it doesn't name all of the Spartans that are actually there. They are all Spartan II's though, and I guess that means we won't be playing as any of these Spartans.
 
Tashi0106 said:
Contact Harvest is the recent one Joe Staten did right? I want that one
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Avery tore off his duty cap and pulled his fatigue shirt over his head. He didn't bother with the buttons, and by the time his head popped free of his collar,
Jilan
was already on her second boot. Avery kneeled to unlace his own as she ran the zipper of her coveralls, from neck to navel. He'd barely gotten both feet free before
Jilan
was stepping toward him, wearing nothing but a determined stare.

She put her hands on Avery's shoulders and pushed him onto his back. Sitting astride his ankles,
Jilan
helped him with his pants. Then she crept upward, planted her hands on either side of Avery's head, and began to move.

Avery was instantly entranced by the back-and-forth sway of her bosom.....
Now excuse me I have some pressing business to finish off.
 
GhaleonEB said:
An exclusive excerpt, appropriately amended:

Avery felt his heart hammering in his chest. For an instant he wondered if she'd changed her mind. Then
Jilan
reached for the pins that kept her hair coiled and shook it loose. She had already tossed the pins to the floor and leaned over to start on her boots before Avery realized he'd been left in the blocks of a race where winning meant finishing at the same time. He did his best to catch up.

Avery tore off his duty cap and pulled his fatigue shirt over his head. He didn't bother with the buttons, and by the time his head popped free of his collar,
Jilan
was already on her second boot. Avery kneeled to unlace his own as she ran the zipper of her coveralls, from neck to navel. He'd barely gotten both feet free before
Jilan
was stepping toward him, wearing nothing but a determined stare.

She put her hands on Avery's shoulders and pushed him onto his back. Sitting astride his ankles,
Jilan
helped him with his pants. Then she crept upward, planted her hands on either side of Avery's head, and began to move.

Avery was instantly entranced by the back-and-forth sway of her bosom.....
Now excuse me I have some pressing business to finish off.
Ho-ly Shit. :lol
 
GhaleonEB said:
Avery felt his heart hammering in his chest. For an instant he wondered if she'd changed her mind. Then
Jilan
reached for the pins that kept her hair coiled and shook it loose. She had already tossed the pins to the floor and leaned over to start on her boots before Avery realized he'd been left in the blocks of a race where winning meant finishing at the same time. He did his best to catch up.

Avery tore off his duty cap and pulled his fatigue shirt over his head. He didn't bother with the buttons, and by the time his head popped free of his collar,
Jilan
was already on her second boot. Avery kneeled to unlace his own as she ran the zipper of her coveralls, from neck to navel. He'd barely gotten both feet free before
Jilan
was stepping toward him, wearing nothing but a determined stare.

She put her hands on Avery's shoulders and pushed him onto his back. Sitting astride his ankles,
Jilan
helped him with his pants. Then she crept upward, planted her hands on either side of Avery's head, and began to move.

Avery was instantly entranced by the back-and-forth sway of her bosom.....

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GhaleonEB said:
An exclusive excerpt, appropriately amended:

Avery felt his heart hammering in his chest. For an instant he wondered if she'd changed her mind. Then
Jilan
reached for the pins that kept her hair coiled and shook it loose. She had already tossed the pins to the floor and leaned over to start on her boots before Avery realized he'd been left in the blocks of a race where winning meant finishing at the same time. He did his best to catch up.

Avery tore off his duty cap and pulled his fatigue shirt over his head. He didn't bother with the buttons, and by the time his head popped free of his collar,
Jilan
was already on her second boot. Avery kneeled to unlace his own as she ran the zipper of her coveralls, from neck to navel. He'd barely gotten both feet free before
Jilan
was stepping toward him, wearing nothing but a determined stare.

She put her hands on Avery's shoulders and pushed him onto his back. Sitting astride his ankles,
Jilan
helped him with his pants. Then she crept upward, planted her hands on either side of Avery's head, and began to move.

Avery was instantly entranced by the back-and-forth sway of her bosom.....
Now excuse me I have some pressing business to finish off.
"I know what the ladies like."

Mr Vociferous said:
I have the urge to play that practically every single day.
We know. :)
 
GhaleonEB said:
An exclusive excerpt, appropriately amended:

Avery felt his heart hammering in his chest. For an instant he wondered if she'd changed her mind. Then
Jilan
reached for the pins that kept her hair coiled and shook it loose. She had already tossed the pins to the floor and leaned over to start on her boots before Avery realized he'd been left in the blocks of a race where winning meant finishing at the same time. He did his best to catch up.

Avery tore off his duty cap and pulled his fatigue shirt over his head. He didn't bother with the buttons, and by the time his head popped free of his collar,
Jilan
was already on her second boot. Avery kneeled to unlace his own as she ran the zipper of her coveralls, from neck to navel. He'd barely gotten both feet free before
Jilan
was stepping toward him, wearing nothing but a determined stare.

She put her hands on Avery's shoulders and pushed him onto his back. Sitting astride his ankles,
Jilan
helped him with his pants. Then she crept upward, planted her hands on either side of Avery's head, and began to move.

Avery was instantly entranced by the back-and-forth sway of her bosom.....
Now excuse me I have some pressing business to finish off.
Maybe I should get this book.
 
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