Halo 3: ODST Sells 2.5 Million in Two Weeks

this game actually looks decent unlike the rest of the halo games

Keep fucking that chicken, Bungee.

I beat the game in less than 2 hours on normal difficulty... in one sitting... and didn't think the game was over when I beat it. The multiplayer does not have any sort of matchmaking option.

Does that sound like a full price value game to you? Me either.

And I thought Left 4 Dead was short and hardly worth the cash. This game was a JOKE.

I don't like Halo. It's an uninspired milquetoast of a flooded genre that remains successful due to its existing market inertia from and an endless supply of advertising money.

BUT I BET I JUST GOT THAT OPINION BECAUSE I'M A PUPPET RIGHT?

Maybe I'd give more of a shit if wanting to play Halo 3 didn't mean I needed to go spend $300 on an XBOX 360.

Can someone explain to me why people keep complaining about the Halo franchise? First flame is that they are milking it, like suddenly it's not OK to make video game sequels. Are you people also bitching about metal gear solid, Katamari Damacy, hell, they recently made that mega man 9, and they didn't make it 3d or anything, JUST like the original games, I mean exactly like the old mega mans. George Lucas is definitely milking star wars for all it's worth, so does that suddenly make star wars bullshit? That stan lee, he's been making the same comic books for years, what an asshole, right?

Then theres the bitch that the sequels are just the same game. If you don't like the game, are you REALLY going to pay enough attention to it to SEE the differences? Fuck, ODST brings back the zooming pistol, gets rid of shields entirely, brings back the health meter, now has recoil, has a completely new co-op "horde" mode gametype. I could write a 2 page paper on the differences of each halo and how it affects gameplay, because it affects gameplay a whole lot. But for some reason, this ONE fanchise has to completely change everything to be legitimate? It's an FPS for fucks sake, what are they supposed to do? Hell, they already made a RTS (haven't played it, dont know if it sucks), is that somehow the exact same?

Is it because the good guys don't suddenly change? Oh wait, IT DOES because even the first one had one of the alien races change sides.

Anyone that makes the assertion that there is anything bad about Halo making sequels is a complete idiot and brainless tool. I don't even like halo 2 or 3, but thats because of how different they are from each other and halo 1 so I'm not some Halo fanatic. I was over it until my buddy convinced me to try ODST. But I have a brain, I use it, and I'm not so pathetic to think that anything I don't like sucks, like I'm somehow the great judger or all things. Thats how my 7 year old even grew out of that stupid mentality...

that reminds me, is it down to $20 yet on ebay? i think my 360 might be working again this weekend.

People are fucking stupid. Halo is a great franchise, I hope they milk the living shit out of it because they have proven great games. Everyone is going to like one over the other whether it's Halo 2, or Halo 3, ODST, etc.

I've been playing FPS for a long time, mainly PC (Counterstrike, Quake, etc) but when I play the xbox from time to time that is the title that allows anything to happen. COD4 is just as good.

i hate successful things

i wish we could all get along like naughty dog, infinity ward, and bungie already do:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17948405&postcount=5068

I returned it after 4 hours of gameplay. Back to gamefly with ya. I want a game where the COOP lobby supports matchmaking. ASSHOLES. Back to Left For Dead for me.

I love watching the halo haters and the halo fanboi's duke it out, you guys try SO hard to one up each other.. oh yea I didnt buy odst, not wasting my cash on halo crap :)

I still say this is the best Halo game thus far simply because there is NO FLOOD. I love the 1st half of all previous Halo games, and loathe the 2nd half. I'm speaking purely of the single player experience here, since the multiplayer has never interested me.

man I didn't think odst did that well, after all my friends list its pretty full w/ppl that play and I hardly see anyone playing the game

People who are dissing the Halo games with claims like "they are only good for a console shooter" or "not good at all" have no clue what makes a good game. As long as the core gameplay is good the game will succeed. I've played countless very promising platformers which sucked horribly because jumping just wasn't fun at all. The same with shooters. If shooting things in your game is boring why continue with the rest of the game?

Halo had incredible shooter mechanics from the start so even levels like the library couldn't make the game boring. Just throwing grenades in Halo is so fun people are making countless videos of themselves doing it.

I've played nearly every shooter on the PC and when I first played the original Halo coop with a friend on the original xbox I was blown away. The gameplay is so fun, so smooth, so balanced. It is above anything else in that aspect. It was also one of the first shooters where I felt the coop really fit the game.

Also, with Halo 2 the multiplayer was improved so much it was easily at the same level as juggernauts like Counter-Strike and Battlefield. I must have played 4-5000 online matches at least.

The Halo games feel like they're made by Blizzard in how polished and balanced everything is.

And the fact that the Halo games are almost sandbox like in how much freedom they offer and how much they let you do gives nearly endless replay value. Halo 3 introduced a lot of uneccesary invisible walls in the campaign and was in my mind a step in the wrong direction in that aspect.

Wow, the front pages are scary with arguing

Artistic directors have got to start relaxing on the bloom.... it's way overdone on those screenshots. Perhaps it isn't as bad when the game is in motion, but still, in general I think the lighting looks too intense on those screenshots.

<sigh> I got caught up in the marketing, shackhype and got all pumped up for the game and just HAD to have it at launch. I played it once and haven't touched it since.

I'm a sucker.

you keep makin em bungie, and i will keep buyin em. definately a developer who knows how to support a game ater its launched, have a brilianlty integrated website for the game and a generally awesome community.

i missed halo 1 + 2, but halo 3 and odst is a game me and my friends play together most. and some people will hate it, but i have had nothing but good times playing halo.

I swear they throw in random Pachter quotes simply for the comedic value.

This is why we can't have nice things.

right on, way to go bungie! proof that consistency can be rewarded. keep up the good work.

of course there will now be the calls of "MILKING" and "NOT INNOVATING" but there is something to be celebrated for keeping on point.

Moooooooooooooo!