Metacritic: Halo: ODST ( Updated )

[Solid_Raiden]

Zizzla_Rachet said:

Solid_Raiden said:

disolitude said:

heruamon said:

ph4nt said:
Looks like people aren't happy that ODST has not received the metacritic AAA status award.

I can't say that I really expected it to achieve AAA...it is built off the same Halo 3 engine.  I don't want to call it an expansion, but i still think M$ should have launched this title for $49.99.  They might have sold better, and would have likely resulted in a better perception about the game.  Even if M$ didn't want to set a price-precedence, they could have offered gamers a discount like Toys R Us is doing. 

- 6-7 hour long campaign that is one of the best single player campaigns of the year and that you will play multiple times
- New multiplayer mode that is extremely fun and which I only played twice and wasted 40 min combined
- All of Halo 3's maps, including 12 maps not in halo 3. These maps alone will cost 2200 pts (27 dollars)
-Halo Reach beta invite

How is this not worth full price? I agree that 49.99 would have been nice, I like cheap stuff too... but yeah, lets be realistic.

Like as a 360 user, you can spend that money elsewhere and buy something like wolfenstien or FEAR 2 or some other FPS that came out this year...but would you really? And is ODST and what it offers really worh less thn those games?

I don't understand why it hurts you guys so much to hear someone say that it doesn't have enough value to warrant a $60 price. These people aren't saying it's a bad game, or attacking the game or anything, not most of them anyway. And it's not like people are pulling this out of a hat, practically every review mentions this same thing wether the review was positive or not. It's all about percieved value, and what you might see as value other people don't. I mean, I loved Heavenly sword, and I also loved L4D but after buying and loving both games, I felt ripped off because the value just wasn't there for me. And this is another title like that. 6-7 hour campaign is not very long, this is the same thing that 360 fans were screaming foul against games like Heavenly sword for, but now it's acceptable? Why? Because you can play it over and over again? And you can't play every game over and over again? Yea, that's great that you can play the campaign co-op but that's not really a big feature to me and many others, I never played the first one co-op. I play most campeigns once and then I find replayability in online multiplayer or other modes. I'd much prefer a seperate co-op mode, which thank god this does have. In addition, the only real multiplayer mode in this game is firefight, which looks amazing fun, but ONE online mode is rediculous when asking full price. Should Gears 2 have been $120? Going by the price of this title, it seems like that price would have been not only acceptable, but a bargain. A longer single player experiance, co-op both online and off, horde mode, and competitive multiplayer with multiple modes. In comparison, a 6 hour campaign and 1 game mode  and 3 maps just does not cut it, and that is all the new content that you will find here. Saying that you get Halo 3's online isn't even a issue, I payed for that game 2 years ago, had what fun I could with it and I'm done with it, and even if I wasn't I'd be damned if I'm paying for it AGAIN! That's nuts. But I've moved on since 07, and there have been so many great online experiances since then and so many more coming for me to just give bungie more money for packaging in the same game I already bought.

Ok...let's play the example game...

Ex. 1

Halo ODST..

5+ hour Single player mode

Multiplayer CoOp mode

Fully updated Halo3 MP mode with new maps....

Reach beta Invite

Full Retail Price

DLC Possible as stated by Bungie

Ex.2

Heavenly Sword

5-7 Hour single Player mode

No MP...

No DLC...

Released at full Price (Last I checked in March the game was being sold at full price this year..At Virgin...Can't say it is full price new everywhere)

What do you think?

Awesome. So your saying if a game is a better value then at least one other rip off it's value is attained? Let's do that same comparison but with a game like MW2, U2, Borderlands, Forza 3, and all the games it's actually competing against. Or even Gears 2, like I did above. And it's not a "fully updated" halo 3 online. It's the EXACT halo 3 online copied onto a disc with 3 new maps. And what does possible DLC have to do with making the game have value? You mean I have to spend MORE to get what should have already been on the disc seeing as how I'm paying $60. And I wouldn't feel better about buying a game for a free beta code, lol. Those are free giveaways with multiple titles and hold no value. I admit that it's great though. I wish I could get into it too. But not for that price.

Now, if you guys can see value in this title that's not the problem. In fact that's great. I wish I could feel good about buying it myself. But what is rediculous is when you go crazy when someone says the game looks great but isn't worth the cost, like their opinion is wrong. They don't try and force their opinion on you guys but you guys just can't stand it if someone doesn't share your view that this game is worth all the money in the world. That's the only problem here.