| chocoloco said: Since you didn't like Halo 3 did you buy Halo: ODST by any chance. I'm curious because I love Halo since the original, but skipped out on buying ODST because I thought it was a ripoff for $60. Since I'm now buying REACH for sure I wonder how many people bought Halo 3, skipped ODST, and came batch for the REACH hype. The campaign will be short I've read, but at least firefight can still be single player coop so you might get your moneys worth. |
You know, I was going to, getting all caught up in the hype of the MS marketing machine once again, getting into the whole novelty of being a Recon grunt rather than a Spartan super soldier, but I think I ended up hearing from enough people/reviewers that it wasn't really a "full" Halo game, and not really worth my $60. Didn't help that the game was originally being pumped as a Halo 3 expansion. By the time the game was being heavily discounted, I had pretty much forgotten about it.
So I'm probably in the same exact category as you, which was more or less responsible for ODST selling significantly less than both Halo 3 and Reach (just based on pre-sales projections).
I'm not terribly concerned about "getting my money's worth" for Halo Reach. The game would have to be a complete trainwreck for that to even be an issue and all the early reviews pretty much confirm it's a hit on all levels. I just want a satisfying campaign, short or not (by my standards 5-6 hours being too short) that leaves me feeling satisfied when it's over.
Halo 3 fell short for the "conclusion" of an epic trilogy. And yes, I'll say that after finishing CE, I did find myself thinking "THAT'S how they ended the game?!" Let's just say I pretty much hate anything involving the use of the Warthog.
