[360] Halo 3: ODST - Regular Niggas: The Game

Well it's here folks. Dropped on 9/22/09, no more pesky Master Chief, you can now play as a bunch of regular ass space marines for the low low price of $60! Well alright, the ODST are actually better than the regular UNSC marines, but lets conveniently ignore that.



The game bridges the gap between Halo 2 and 3, focusing on the events that happen on Earth while the Chief is busy dicking around somewhere else and not saving the Earth. This is where you, the Rookie, and your squad of five other regular niggas come in. You drop in from space to save the day, only some shit happens and you kinda miss the party and have to go around exploring the city to find out what happened to everyone else while you were dicking around not doing anything, Master Chief style.

The gameplay is pretty neat, for the most part. I spent most of the game running around at night with the Pistol/Carbine/Sniper and fought everything from afar, since up close combat will get you fucked up pretty quick without Spartan armor/shields. It honestly felt more like a mix between Call of Duty and Halo 1 than Halo 3, which is a pretty good thing.

The actual "missions" were all varied enough and full of "fuck yeah!" moments to make it feel worthwhile, even if the campaign was kinda short.

I know a few of you bums went out and got this too, so sound off already. What'd you think of the campaign and so on? Is Dutch not the best regular nigga ever? Has Skills already 1000'd it because he has no life?

Also, you bastards need to get on Firefight more. I looked at the leaderboards and saw that nobody has yet to top the benchmark that was set by The Greatest Team™:



(funny pictures of Daravon being lit on fire by invis Brutes/getting betrayed about five times by Tails to come later)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Really? I think most of the impressions I've heard around here have been positive.

Yeah it's kinda short (7+ hours or so if you run straight through and don't bother to do any exploration and such) but the H3 engine still holds up rather nicely and the graphics look just fine. Music is also on the plus side as well.

I didn't mind the price tag since it comes with Firefight and all of the MP Halo 3 shit, which is perfect because my old H3 disc was unreadable.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No, it's not Halo 3 without the overshields. It plays much differently, for starters. You play from the perspective of the Rookie, alone wandering the city at night, and a lot of firefights will be fought from a distance or using hit and run tactics since the enemy is very capable of surrounding you (especially in big plazas) and doing you in quickly. The other half of the game is played from the perspective of your teammates in large, open firefight-esque situations.

Essentially it is a Halo game, but it plays out much differently then the 3 main titles.

As for Firefight mode, it's Horde but with major improvements. The areas are much larger (and the maps don't suck), the enemies are greater in number, and the the skull modifications mix things up quite a bit. That and this one feels like an actual challenge. Horde mode boiled down to finding the best corner, mowing down through 8 or so waves until the Bloodmounts came, then shielding yourself up in a corner and killing those until the waves reset.

Firefight gets progressively harder unlike Horde, and I can see it having longer playability.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by russ

I ordered mine and should get it Tuesday, then I can teach you nerds how to get shot cheat properly.

(Really though? Awesome. I haven't played a game with you in fucking forever man.)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Good to hear people are actually going to be picking this up.

Any of you bitches down for some Heroic/Legendary bullshit this Monday? I'll be off Mon/Wed this week and should have plenty of time from the afternoon on to get some shit going.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Professor Tea and Crumpets or something

Skills and I were talking about doing Legendary campaign stuff Monday (your) afternoon. This relies on Skills actually being around, but if so, you down?

Yes to both you and Bigblah. I'll be in #xblive for sure, and Skills has my phone, just have him ring me if I'm not there.

Also I heard there's been reports of lag during play in Firefight between people from different countries, is this true? It seems odd considering we didn't really have that issue when playing Halo 3, what's the deal?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Taco, you are completely insane about the difficulty; ODST is by far the easiest of the Halo campaigns on higher difficulties, you're actually the first person I've seen who hasn't specifically agreed on this. As a direct comparison, I was never able to finish Halo 3 on Legendary solo (got stuck on the next to last level). ODST I beat on solo Legendary the day after it came out in about 6 hours. There were single LEVELS on Halo 3 that took me that long on solo Legendary.

To be fair, I don't think Taco plays a whole lot of Halo (or FPS in general outside of TF2 maybe?) so his experience would largely differ with someone like yourself who has lived on Halo since the first on came out.

How ya doing, buddy?

Basically I said you play too much Halo. I BEAT IT ON LEGENDARY LIKE A TRUE NIGGA BY MYSELF I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ITS HARD. You're failing to account for level of experience (ie, amount of time played, like I kind of mentioned in my post).

(which is entirely true based upon facts stated and number of games played)

How ya doing, buddy?

I am down for this. We'd still need one more though since russ probably won't be home for another few hours.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Alright you bitches, now that I've finished helping Skills and Omagnus get what they need, we need to have one more go at this (plus Prime still needs Endure/FF:Lost Platoon) since I'm the only on without Deja Vu.

Skills, Prime, and Daravon, when can we do this shit this week?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Ernge Juice

Overall I haven't played it long enough to say that I enjoyed the single player. I was disappointed that there wasn't a feature to put random people together in a firefight game (or am I to dense to find it?).

Nope, there is no random Firefight matchmaking. I wouldn't be disappointed if I were you, since history (and Halo 3) have proven that matching random people together for serious team based affairs is a terrible, terrible idea that never ends well.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.