Comments on: Thoughts: Halo ODST. https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 By: Thoughts: Halo Reach | The Scientific Gamer https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-59123 Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:01:04 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-59123 […] on the Halo series post-Halo 3, when I played through ODST, Reach and Halo 4 in quick succession. I didn’t like ODST much, though I will admit it is infinitely better than the staggeringly awful Halo 41. I did quite like […]

]]> By: Hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15861 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:47:19 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15861 Yeah, that was also a huge problem which the map did not really fix. It’s odd that for all the shouting people do about linear FPSes, the one time they actually make it somewhat open it turns out to be a confusing maze that turns people off of the concept.

]]> By: Everblue https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15860 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:29:56 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15860 I tried to play ODST in split screen multiplayer once. Kept getting lost in the city getting to the missions. Never bothered again.

]]> By: Gap Gen https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15857 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:29:14 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15857 It’s amazing how unimportant narrative is to big studios compared to how much money they throw at everything else, given that competent writers who need money are not that hard to find. The production values of AAA games are never short of amazing, and 99% of them are as dumb as a box of Tea Partiers.

]]> By: Gap Gen https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15856 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:27:20 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15856 Yeah, advertising the actual features of your game is slightly important. I’d probably trade my family’s kidneys for a screenshot of a new SMAC social engineering window.

]]> By: Darren https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15855 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:20:45 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15855 You’ve never seen Arrested Development? For shame!

]]> By: Josh https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15854 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:59:54 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15854 Dude the Freedom tree has it’s own UU do you not understand that, PLAYSTYLE DEPENDENT UUs

Gamechanger

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15850 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:56:28 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15850 You are very very wrong. That is all.

(The story was actually pretty good, and it threaded everything together rather neatly. Apart from the warthog sections, it was pretty damn fun all the way through I though. I am disappoint you couldn’t follow the story – it’s not like it was super-complicated. Just a little different.)

]]> By: Hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15849 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:23:08 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15849 It is funny how many publicity shots don’t actually show people playing the game, I assume because intelligent use of cover and flanking isn’t sufficiently XXTREME enough. By contrast Brave New World is getting the sizeable chunk of PC owners who play Civ V excited with a simple blurry shot of the new Social Policy trees.

]]> By: Hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-halo-odst/#comment-15848 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:07:00 +0000 http://scientificgamer.com/?p=3550#comment-15848 I did like the the piano music during the night bits. That’s about it, though.

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