Halo ODST in 5 Seconds

That was my point though Juan. You’re missing the point. That’s not what the site started for. That’s not anything unique. It’s not giving the fans anything we couldn’t get anywhere else. That should be Spoony’s ultimate point with any video he creates. To be different and give us something we couldn’t get anywhere else. This video just wasn’t that. If we wanted to see Halo flame, there are a million other places we could go. We don’t come to the Spoony Experiment for that. We come here for things like “Let’s Play Phantasmagoria”, “Let’s riff on Ripper”, etc. Things that are uniquely Spoony. Not things that are just typical bitchy reviews. Spoony has been awesome since he started for that exact reason. He’s not doing the same thing everyone else is doing. And whenever he does it’s not a good thing. Not for the site, and not for the fans.

shouldn’t Spoony’s ultimate point when makign a video is having fun andmakign somethign funny?
and “That’s not what the site started for” it started with text reviews of old and mdoern movies,and how “unique” is reviewing only old things? doign only old thigns wouldn’t be “Unique” as it is what the internet is made of, reviews about old things, sticking to old shit would just land on the fields of boring and repetitive, SPoony doesn’t have any kind of obligation with this site, he can do whatever the fuck he wants is his site and its free entertaiment don’t get all snob with this.

I’ve never understood what attracts the hordes of mindless testosterone filled idiots to play games like HALO, I don’t mind FFP, I just can’t grasp the concept of HALO

From AcacianLeaves:

“Automatically regenerating health bars
The lack of realistic violence, as in “ragdoll” physics replacing actual wounds
“low impact” guns (pew pew), guns that look like plastic squirt toys
Criminally short single player campaigns
No boss battles! :(”

While I somewhat agree with regenerating health bars being a negative in the FPS genre, I like it for Halo since its supposed to be character specific. The ODST don’t regenerate the same way Master Chief does.

Considering Master Chief in encased in a suit of armor, I wouldn’t expect to see many wounds rendered onto his skin.

Each gun has its own use, and if you don’t know their uses their effectiveness downgrades. Every FPS has guns that are better or worse in certain situations.

Halo hasn’t been about single player action for a long time. If you buy a Halo game, you better be planing to play it online. The campaign is really nothing more but a tool in which the story is conveyed, not where your gameplay hours are going to be spent.

Ummm, Scarabs? They make for pretty interesting boss battles. I know I always enjoy taking them on.

Oh and your list is also wrong. Heres the one I have.

1. Wii Play (Wii – 22.98 million)
2. Nintendogs (DS – 22.27 million, all five versions combined)
3. Wii Fit (Wii – 21.82 million)
4. Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy – 20.08 million approximately: 10.23 million in Japan, 9.85 million in US)
5. New Super Mario Bros. (DS – 18.45 million)
6. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES – 18 million)
7. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS – 17.41 million)
8. Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 17.39 million)
9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 – 17.33 million)
10. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (DS – 16.81 million)
11. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2 – 14.89 million shipped)
12. Mario Kart DS (DS – 14.61 million)
13. Pokémon Gold and Silver (Game Boy Color – 14.51 million approximately: 7.6 million in US, 6.91 million in Japan)
14. Super Mario Land (Game Boy – 14 million)
15. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! (DS – 13.71 million)
16. Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (GBA – 13 million)
17. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (GBA – 11.82 million)
18. Super Mario 64 (N64 – 11 million)
19. Gran Turismo (PS1 – 10.85 million)
20. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS – 10.79 million)

If you’ll notice, Pokemon appears on the list the most, and if anything they’re the ones who know how to repackage an old game and sell it again to the masses. Halo doesn’t even make this list.

Halo 3 has only sold 10.18 million. Thats not even enough for last place on the top 20. Even if you aren’t including Handhelds, your list is missing a lot of games that sold better than any Halo. Its obviously not that bit a monster in the gaming industry.

somedrewpickles wrote: “Deus Ex is the same as Halo, then? System Shock 2? Pathologic? Rainbow Six? Half-Life? ALL the same as Halo? Don’t get me wrong, I like Halo, but objectively speaking, it SUCKS. HARD.”

Oh you like Halo? Well you must be in league with the “stupidest group of people around”. Also, you’re misquoting me. I said FPShooters are generally the same except when it comes to guns and gameplay. Some games like Halo will let you Rambo your way through, while others like CoD require a more reserved style of play.

Looks like your not the only one who reached this conclusion, Spoony:

http://soulpunch.co.uk/2009/10/02/halo-odst-more-of-the-fucking-same/

Honestly I think you could do this as a review of pretty much all the Halo games. each one is basically the previous ones with a couple more (mostly unnoticed or unneccessary) bells and whistles. I have made my peace with Halo and have even grown to enjoy it over the years (mostly due to the deathmatches with friends) but really, they are all pretty much the same. I think they are overrated. not to say they are bad, exactly. not at all. but they are so not “THE GREATEST GAMES OF AAAAALLLLL TIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!!!!” that so many people make them out to be. I think the super hyping hurt it with me more than helped, i was already sick of hearing the world “halo” by the time i put the disc in for the very first time. and I don’t really see why the chief has been added to the pantheon of greatest VG characters of all time. yeah he’s been in four games (maybe five i haven’t played this or the strategy game one, but i think he is…could be an idiot, feel free to correct me), a shitload of novels and comics and now an animated (and maybe a live action) film, but at the end of the day he’s just a clone of solid snake in a cool hat, gravelly voice and all. in a lot of ways he reminds me of boba fett. his popularity seems a little undeserved. it’s nothing he’s done himself that makes me dislike him as a character, actually he’s pretty cool, i just don’t understand all the wierdos who write reams of fan fiction about him wearing their special addition halo3 plastic helmet that literally will engage in flame wars (or even physical ones) on a more epic scale than the ACTUAL war with the covenant if you even suggest chief is not “teh shiznit”…kinda scary.

all in all, halo is good, but it never has been or will be ‘the best” and i really doubt the series has much new ground to tread from here. but then, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are still pretty popular (and tasty) so that’s not always a bad thing. there is something to be said for the old “if it ain’t broke’ saying. basically i guess, fans of halo will always be happy with the formula, but i think the time of attracting scores of new players has passed, at least until they branch out successfully into other media like film, animation, or tv. which i think they are trying to do, so we’ll find out soon enough i guess

Thank you Zack Dolan.
Halo is overarted, but not bad. Also, you can’t wear the “Special addition” Halo helmet (Ranked #3 on my worst Purchases of all time list). I really don’t understand the hate; I don’t like sports games, but I don’t hate thoes who play them or enjoy them. Halo isn’t even the Best Xbox360 FPS I’ve played, beaten out by the likes of BioShock and Half-Life2.
Honestly, though, stop the hate! Say what you want about the Halo fanatics (Who seem to be absent form this comment thread for the most part) at least they love something. At lot of the haters here sond like bitter misanthropes. That’s not to say that people for whom Halo is the second coming aren’t annoying as fuck too, but I haven’t read many comments like that on this thread.
Bottom line: Halo is not for everybody, just like any game. Play it if you like it (just don’t gush about how great it is), if you don’t, don’t play it. Simple.

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You know, typing this up I’m trying to make it sound as retarded and annoying as you’d expecting from a Halo fanboi, but you know I still don’t think it measures up to the real thing….what do you think?

lol

Halo’s a pretty good series, I mean, sure, It suffers from “Modern Xbox FPS Syndrome” in which it focuses way too much on the multiplayer. Sure they fucked up the matchmaking in Halo 2. sure, It’s multiplayer is repetitive, bland and filled with 11 year olds screaming Racial Slurs into the microphone to act “cool”. sure, it may seem that they dont change anything in all four of the games, But if it aint broke why fix it, eh? Or, As Bungie might put it, If it aint broke, why not just add loads of bloom, advance the plot that no one cares about, dump loads of product placement onto every product you can find (Anyone remember Halo 3 Gatorade?) Give it retarded new features that no one uses (See: The Forge) and then, in your third game, Give it a theatre system for 11 year olds to make Machinima even worse than the ones on the site itself.

BTW, When I heard about Halo 3 selling over 1 billion copies worldwide, I died a little inside.

Now that’s not very fair.

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the Firefight gametype is very different, quite enjoyable, and I’ve gotten hours and hours of enjoyment out of it.

i was so pissed off at odst like i went in and bought it knowing nothing i thought there world be new weapons and things like that but i was let down not worth my money and i am an angry gomer over that

I think a real Halo fanboy is worse.

im gonna use that joke. thank you spoony one.

A real Halo fanboy would have more words spelled wrong.

Yea,ODST wasnt great…at all,I guess you could say the beta was part of the 60 bucks,but again thats a poor excuse like the second disc containing the same multiplayer.I will say this though,had ODST been a full campaign,it would have been better than Halo 3's campaign bye far,it also needed was a competative multiplayer,not just firefight.

I didnt think that much of ODST either, the one argument that came out of it that i thought was really retarted was the who would win in a fight, the spartan, or ODST? uh, who the fuck cares, and to answer your question the fucking Spartan! It takes a squad of ODST's to fight the covanant, but the Chief can take down an entire armada! end of argument.
i beat this game in one sitting too, that cant be good for a $60 dollar game either.

I guess you the fuck cares.