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ultraslick said:
nightsurge said:
ultraslick said:
The following is sarcasm;

When Im not playing Halo 3 online, I play Halo Wars, I will be buying Halo 3 ODST for $60 to continue playing online, and will take a break every once in a while by playing the beta for another FPS; Halo Reach.

It is really enough to make you sick.

... I just hope I can buy Halo slurpies and mountain due when Halo 3 ODST comes out, so the power of sugar and caffeine combined with the marketing power of Halo will be there to nurse me back to health.

with that being said, I am sure ODST will be a .. game, but at $60 that takes me out of the buying equation, but I am the exception.

There is no doubt that this "not an expansion anymore game" will sell millions and millions.

Why do you come off as so upset over this game and it's popularity?

Since you asked.

And keep in mind, this is just my opinion here;

I am not SO upset. But it is infact an expansion of Halo 3, there are tons of Halo spinoffs nowadays with more coming, and to me, it seems like the blind acceptance of anything with the name Halo on it just perpetuates a bad cycle that developers will continue to follow through with.

You ask; why am I upset with the popularity of ODST?

are you kidding me, the game hasn't been released yet, and all of you people are just handing over your money already without considering what it is that you are actually buying. People need to wake up. Just because there is a lack of anything better to purchase, does not mean that this "halo game" needs to be purchased.

Where is the compassion, where is the uniqueness of something new. See things for what they are- and this is just something for Microsoft to make money, and to fill the void.

You ask; why am I upset with the "popularity" of ODST

I ask; Why would I not be?

 The way I understand your reason for being upset about ODST is like this: Something is wrong with people being excited about and being willing to pay $60 for a game that hasn't been released yet, as if it's so hard to believe. Yet you judge the game in a negative way....without it being released yet. "Just because there is a lack of anything better to purchase" ????????????? And how do you know what the quality of this Halo game will be? Do you know enough to be able to compare it to other games that may or may not be available for purchase at the time of it's release? I'm sure that ODST won't be the next big leap in gaming but if it's enough for fans to have some new maps with new weapons and see a different story from the Halo realm then so what.

I know, I know, I saw the disclaimer about it only being your opinion....and I respect that.  Halo ODST really shouldn't be something that upsets you though.



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I think it's a little early to say MS is milking the Halo franchise. We got H3 in 2007, Halo Wars in 2008, and now ODST in 2009 with Reach coming in 2010.

Given that one is an expansion, one is an RTS, and Reach is the first brand-new game since H3, I'm not going to get too upset over it.

It makes sense to expand the franchise a bit and if they do a game related to the franchise once a year, I think that's keeping things within reason.




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Halo 3 still charted in top 20 NPD this month so it would be stupid for MS not to make ODST a full price game.



rocketpig said:
I think it's a little early to say MS is milking the Halo franchise. We got H3 in 2007, Halo Wars in 2008, and now ODST in 2009 with Reach coming in 2010.

Given that one is an expansion, one is an RTS, and Reach is the first brand-new game since H3, I'm not going to get too upset over it.

It makes sense to expand the franchise a bit and if they do a game related to the franchise once a year, I think that's keeping things within reason.

Right on man!  I definitely don't mind having a new Halo game every year!  I'd much prefer it that way over once every 3 years....



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CaptDS9E said:
Grahamhsu said:
wait so which map packs does it come with, just the free one or the new ones as well?

It has all the map packs

ok thanks EASY Day 1 buy for me now, I really enjoy Halo 3 multiplayer and have been eyeballing those mappacks far a long time. This way I can convince my friends to get ODST for the maps as well. They're part of the reason I haven't paid for any mappacks yet ><




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I love when people talk about MS milking halo, but not complaining about the dozen mario games for the next two years



It does seem like they're trying to milk everyone for everything they're worth... however, if it is a 10 hour game, you're getting the same as you do with every other retail game so it's not THAT bad...



Ill be buying it for firefight and reach beta.