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[Wolf-bane]

Halo 3: ODST appeared on my carpet 2 days ago, just completed it today and I can say if you've got an Xbox, buy this game - even if you didn't enjoy the other Halo's.

It's pretty sick, and 1-shotting Grunts with the scoped pistol is well worth the cost of the game.

/end transmission

[jaZ]

My friends are nagging at me to get it for the 'hoard mode', which I've heard is much like the nazi zombie mode of COD WaW but with guns. I'll probably grab it, because I actually bought cod5 just for the zombies. And bayonets... <3 bayonets.

[dos]

played it, liked it. I my opinion its a good game, very different from playing the master chief. Staying alive is alot hard as you actually have a health bar, not the crazy regen sheild. New weapons are pretty nice and yer scoped pistol is pretty sick. I'd say the vision thing is abit ott. If anything the story maybe too short but nevermind

[ZammY]

I'm really a halo fan, and i loved it

Bought the game when it came out and finished it the same day

Dos: Yeah, the story was too short

[Hawk]

Firefight is the only part of the game I like. My friend got it 4 days before the release so we had plenty of offline hours logged They beat the main story in about 4-6 hours and said it was very lack-luster. Disappointing imo.

[dos]

It's hard to judge it, it's living of the back of the halo series, possibly one of the best stories in gaming, and some very solid gameplay. It nice to see them try something new, and judging it on its own its good, some great set pieces but incomparison to the whole halo experiance it isn't as good. Music isn't as epic sounding, main character's as aposs to the master cheif and the coveranate character, gameplay the battles aren't as big.

It's just not what you expect from the franchise

[Alex]

Unfortunately for bungie everything they do will be held up against Halo:CE (and halo 2 in some respects). They need to make a big break away from the Halo mechanics for a while, currently they just seem to be spewing out lacklustre attempts at games. I guess they're just trying to milk the series for all they can.

[Wolf-bane]

Alex, on 24 September 2009 - 04:09 PM, said:

I guess they're just trying to milk the series for all they can.

And they're not doing it too badly, Halo 3 sold crap loads of copies, maybe even more than Halo 2 and Halo: Combat Evolved.
Halo 3 is also one of the most played Online games, still, after 2-3 years of release and has many MLG tournaments still running.
I'm loving the whole series so far, not just the first 2.

@Dos, i've got to agree with you, ODST was far too short and the whole walking around as the rookie between levels was pretty lame. Walking 900 meters on foot FTL.
Other than that, I loved it, and will probably be doing some online Firefight soon

[Dynamic]

dos, on 24 September 2009 - 04:00 PM, said:

It's hard to judge it, it's living of the back of the halo series, possibly one of the best stories in gaming, and some very solid gameplay.

too be fair, the entire halo idea is a complete rip off from the book Ringworld by Larry Niven. But of course, the combination of the Master Chief, The flood, covenant and forerunner backstory really make the story. But the setting is definitelly inspired (heh) by the Ringworld, which is a huge structure harnessing a stars power. Much like a dyson sphere.
Personally I think Bungie should move on for the moment and leave it for a while. But they're obviously trying to milk as much as they can from it.

[dos]

What would they do next if they could. I dont see them going RTS/MMO/RPG, they've made themself's one of the best FPS studio's, creating not just a game but a universe thats made them alot of fans, and they'll be expecting the same standard of game in their next prodject, and if they fail to deliver, bye bye studio.

[Hawk]

LONG LIVE HALF-LIFE

[ZammY]

Add me for Firefight!

GT: zammy14

[Alex]

Dynamic, on 24 September 2009 - 05:47 PM, said:

dos, on 24 September 2009 - 04:00 PM, said:

It's hard to judge it, it's living of the back of the halo series, possibly one of the best stories in gaming, and some very solid gameplay.

too be fair, the entire halo idea is a complete rip off from the book Ringworld by Larry Niven. But of course, the combination of the Master Chief, The flood, covenant and forerunner backstory really make the story. But the setting is definitelly inspired (heh) by the Ringworld, which is a huge structure harnessing a stars power. Much like a dyson sphere.
Personally I think Bungie should move on for the moment and leave it for a while. But they're obviously trying to milk as much as they can from it.

Nah I'd say the setting stems more from the Orbitals in Culture. So your claim of rip off is just about the ring? Or are there other similarities I've missed?

[Dynamic]

Haha, I knew you'd bring up Culture. The first culture book was published about a decade after Ringworld, so I'd say ringworld definitely had the first major claim to have influenced Halo, directly or indirectly. It is far more likely, the creator of the Culture series knew about Larry Niven's ringworlds, and then miniturised the structure. Hence, the Orbitals can be considered variations of the Ringworld.
Secondly, you obviously haven't read Ringworld, the story is set in the future, with the Human race (alothough there are other races.) far in the future, and they decide to go further than they have before, they recieve sightings of a megastructure far beyond known space, they then find out it is a massive ring structure, made by an ancient civilisation. Then they decide to check it out, being incredibly cautious because whoever built it was more advanced than them, incredibly so. Anyway, the story is about a team who crash land on the ring after getting shot down by the rings defence system, and has to work his way along the massive structure and try and find a way off. and the structure is surrounded by MASSIVE wall, which holds in the atmosphere. And basically they have to work out a way off. Throughout the story, the team wonder what civilisation built the structure and the incredible power they must've had
Thirdly, Larry Niven ws a scientist and mathemetician of sorts, and he actually worked out how to theoretically create the Ring structure, the energy it would gain, how it would retain the atmosphere using massive walls, also that it would spin. He worked out the science behind the rings. And just because Cultures rings are smaller, Larry Niven worked out how it could work, and how it would be especially easy to make considering the resources. Apparantly only requiring an amount of metal, equal to mass of, about, 2-3 Jupiters.

[dos]

Dynamic your really into sci-fi books then i take it. Im starting to get into Iain M. Banks books, the algebraist and matter. Wondered what you think of them, if you've read them and would you reccommend Larry Niven's writings and anyother authors.

[Dynamic]

Oh yeah, certainly, Banks' books are brilliant. I have read matter, and the idea of mentoring is brilliant, and the ending is pretty gripping. The Culture the series isn't massive, only seven books, and a few more short stories, so it's pretty easy to get a foothold into the series.
I haven't read the Algebraist, but its meant to be really good, and Ill probably buy it when I spot it in any of the book stores.
But yeah, I would certainly recommend reading Ringworld, it is really really good. And the rest of his books, obviously aren't as amazing as ringworld, but doesn't mean that they aren't good too, Protector, by niven is also very good IMO. So next time you see Ringworld, buy it for a couple of quid.

[Alex]

Dynamic, on 26 September 2009 - 01:05 PM, said:

Thirdly, Larry Niven ws a scientist and mathemetician of sorts, and he actually worked out how to theoretically create the Ring structure

Yeah....he worked out how to take a dyson sphere, cut it into bits, and make a ring, what a genius

The scientific and mathematical genius who is well known for claiming that if you travel east around the world, the time will get earlier.....

[Apolloz]

Hawk, on 26 September 2009 - 01:16 AM, said:

LONG LIVE HALF-LIFE

I love you now.

Halo is overrated!

[dos]

ok, why do you say its overrated? obviously half life is the better series, inivative weapons, excellent story, great score. It advanced pc gamming as an experiance by miles. And halo did something similar for the xbox. It took a console with little chance again the might of playstation and released it on a high. Just looking back on the first one it was a pretty epic game and holds up well today. The series biulds on this. I would never say it better than half life but its one of those games when you say think of an xbox game it a first responce and its earned its place.

[hnQ]

HL = GOAT

[TheJester?]

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[Jack]

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[Chriskow]

The game is okay, but overpriced when looking at the actual details.

The campaign can be short or long depending on how you play it. (3-8 hours)

Firefight is the gold of the game, but becomes very repetitive after the first month.

And the multiplayer maps are only worth it if you either play online or if you haven't purchased any of the older map packs.