Halo 3: ODST sales reach 2.5 million News

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@ChthonicEcho

And this is bad because?

ODST wasn't a bad game just a bit more of the Halo 3 universe (which is what you'd expect from an expansion). The real downside for me is that Firefight is getting no play time at all due to the lack of match making.

I thinmk with Reach they really need to try and re-invent the franchise. A new graphics engine wouldn't go astray either:)

Fully deserved, awesome game.

off-topic: didn't mark you down, and I'm a Halo fan. Anti-Halo junkies are fairly common...

So the planet at the end of Halo3 is Onyx, then?

Cool.

I must admit I want the end of H3 resolved and would be irritated if we had another Shenmue :)

Must get hold of ODST, TBH I've not been that excited about it. Still Batman is going back this week so I might stick at the top of my Swapgame.

From the article: [O'Connor] says. "It will cover events in and around the planet Reach," where the invading Covenant first attacked humankind in the Halo story line.

What about Harvest? Surely that was first?

Frankie's a Halo noob :p

"Go ahead, mark me down, you Halo junkie. "

The only reason you get marked down is because your post is rubbish.

EDIT: There also is a reason why there are so many 'halo junkies'. It's because the halo games are incredibly high quality stuff

"it plays ok but the graphics/sound are average at best"

The sound/music is amazing. And it plays much better than ok. Most intuitive fps controls ever made. Even better than in Halo 3 actually. The handgun feels great.

"graphics/sound are average"

Sound? Sound of what? Guns? Because the OST is freaking awesome, praised even by ppl like Echo.

@ Xerx3s

+1

SIX YEAR PLAN?!? *Headshot*

Yeah, I'll echo what johnboy said! Why didn't they include matchmaking in Firefight? What was the point of that?

But what about the rest of the Halo franchise? Any sign of that movie?

Considering how good district 9 is I think they’ve burnt their bridges and fooked that one really. Could have been soo good :/

"I thinmk with Reach they really need to try and re-invent the franchise."

I think selling 2.5 million in 2 weeks conclusively proves they do not need to reinvent diddly squat.


"A new graphics engine wouldn't go astray either"

They already said that Reach is getting a brand new engine. Considering the technical tour-de-force that Halo 2 was on the original brick I'd say it has the potential to be quite special.


Really looking forward to Reach, but even moreso to the next MC/Cortana installment. I need that story concluded!

I'm really enjoying ODST, definitely a great Halo campaign. As for Firefight, it's very good fun, but takes a long time. Not sure why people keep going on about the lack of matchmaking in FF. Why on earth would you want to play with other Halo players rather than your friends? It's bad enough playing against them most of the time!

>"...which also reports the expansion pack..."

DON'T SAY THAT, otherwise you'll get negged. Apparently, you're not allowed to call it that, it's its own game in its own right, don't you know?
/awaits the markdown.

if you compare these figures to say KILLZONE2 you can see what true brand recognition msoft have this gen and why lots of publishers are drawn to the xbox360. Im guessing that haloodst had a fairly short development cycle/budget, so msoft must satisfied with these figures and with the new halo 360 package out for xmas, it will defo boost hardware figures.

6 years? This means it'll take it through to a new console launch.

Expect Halo 4 as a launch title for the next XBox.

I marked you down. But you shouldntbe that bothered as much as us marking you down as of the fact you are not a quality selfaware gamer. If it weren't for Halo FPS on consoles wouldnt be half as good as as they are now cause simply FPS genre wasnt even that accepted till there were people that loved Halo. Me for example. Id tell you I rather keep clicking on my mouse while I sleep than try to play FPS on a console. Well now I do know that if there had never been Halo then we would only have people like you being sutisfied from generic crap on his generic console...

@LeD

Never said it was universally bad. Consumers simply end up paying much more for the full experience that is divided into smaller pieces. It is simply more subtle and less noticeable, but is almost the same as Activision raising the price for MW2 (to 55 pounds, was it?). Remember the comments under that news article? Everyone went ape shit. On the other hand, Halo fans get more content. Identical content, but if they enjoy it - all the power to them, I say. I mean, I ate up HL2 episodes, and they're all identical.

@Xerx3s, particularly The only reason you get marked down is because your post is rubbish.

Good guess, but no. I was marked down because I spoke lowly of a game in a crowd comprised of said game's fans. It's like saying it's not okay to be homosexual in a gay bar.

@ ChthonicEcho

It's good that you use the analogy of saying it's not ok to be gay in a gaybar, because that statement would be false no matter where you said it, just like your comments about Halo, it doesn't matter where you say it, it's still wrong.

" The real downside for me is that Firefight is getting no play time at all due to the lack of match making. " Agree totally, i have yet to even play firefight for this reason alone. How hard would it have been for bungie to include matchmaking, every other high profile release with a "horde mode" includes this and as its a big selling point of halo odst MP its a major black mark against the game. anyway been playing the wonderful uncharted2 "horde mode" which does have matchmaking, thank god.

ChthonicEcho

No, you did get marked down because your post was rubbish.

Firstly, the idea of milking is bullshit. Four halo games in 8 years is not milking. A six year plan is not milking. You want to see milking? Have a look at mario, that fucker is everywhere.

As for separate key components, ODST is short, no denying that, but it doesn't feel like a component of anything. It feels like a fully fledged, but short, game able to stand on its own two feet. Its certainly the best shooter i have played this year, and playing it on the higher difficulties is amazing. You try facing down two hunters with 6 grenades and 64 rounds in a assault rifle if you think its incomplete.

I love that people still make comments they know are utter tosh..

..and then post 'go on, mark me down, see if i care'

it just proves you know we think you're a twat, and want to continue to be a twat regardless.....that's not a positive, you're not a member of some honerable resistance, you're just being marked down for being a gimp.

>Why on earth would you want to play with other Halo players rather than your friends? It's bad enough playing against them most of the time!"

Probably because most of their friends haven't got it yet.
Its the main barrier preventing me from getting it (yet), I still play gears 2 hoard only with friends (as in, real life friends) and will do so for ODST, but strangely enough, no one on my list has it (or play it atleast).

@The Bodybuilder : You'll find plenty of friendly EG'ers on the ODST Matchmaking Forum Thread:

http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_po...

@ ChthonicEcho:

How exactly is the release of 3 full campaign games (Halo's 1-3), 1 expansion plus additional content (Halo 3: ODST) and 1 spin-off of a completely different genre (Halo Wars) over the period of 8 full years (remember Halo: Combat Evolved was released on November 15, 2001) and 2 separate game consoles is "successfully milking money"? Seriously, that averages to just 1 game per 2 years for the main FPS game...

/has not marked anyone down...

EDIT: I somehow missed anomagnus' post...

-4 or no, as a HUGE fan of the series I'm pretty peeved it's gonna take 6 years to resolve. That's a trilogy I reckon...

The negative tone is what set people of, not the words.

Err... the term "junkie" was offensive enough, imo.

The longer it goes on the better in my opinion. It's a brilliant universe.

Err... the term "junkie" was offensive enough, imo.

People will look for anything to be offended about. Much harsher words are spoken in jest and laughed off.

@ChthonicEcho

I marked you down because this sentence:
"Separate key components and charge money for them, so that if players want to get the full experience, they have to buy most if not all of those."
is rubbish.
ODST is a 'component'? Of what? What do I have to buy to complete the experience? Playing the ODST campaign and matchmaking is only part of the experience you say. What completes it?

HALO 4 EVA

Anthony_Daniels: Halo is one of the least milked IP's out there but considering the intellectual level of the post, I highly doubt you are capable of comparing the numbers.

ChthonicEcho: No, people are tired of reading such rubbish posts. As stated above, the Halo franchise is one of the least milked big name IP's and it goes from strength to strength with each new version. Saying that it's milked is just rubbish.

Excellent. Can't wait.

@ChthonicEcho

"And as they release countless Halo games you were so kind to list"

5 games is countless to you? Damn you must be bad at counting!

donnie: if you compare these figures to say KILLZONE2 you can see what true brand recognition msoft have this gen and why lots of publishers are drawn to the xbox360.

all it shows is
(1) that there are plenty of FPS fans on 360 - also look at the MW preorders
(2) that Halo is a big name
(3) that PS3 owners do not necessarily buy FPS's

it has nothing to do with brand recognition PS3 vs 360. it has to do with brand recognition "Halo".

"Why on earth would you want to play with other Halo players rather than your friends? It's bad enough playing against them most of the time!"
I wiped my friends list just before ODST came out because i was sick of having 40 friends i no longer play with and them "popping up" when im online. Now it seems i am totally excluded from FIREFIGHT/coop modes, it seems only a HALO game could get away with something as disgraceful as this

I don't really understand the bit about the spoilered thing that someone above appears to have given away anyway. What mysteries were left at the end of Halo 3 other than MC's fate and Cortana's fate? I've played it but the end sort of washed over me as it a bit 'meh' so I must have missed something.

I've never followed any of the other Halo media though, comics, books etc, so perhaps that's why I missed something.

@MEBRAINS "that there are plenty of FPS fans on 360 - also look at the MW preorders
(2) that Halo is a big name
(3) that PS3 owners do not necessarily buy FPS's " rubbish, fps is the most popular genre on both systems, its just that the 360 has the best and most popular franchises and if you combine this with the superior xboxLIVE you can see why 360 fps sell the most. RESISTANCE1/2,KILLZONE2/SOCOM/WARHAWK etc.. are all sony exclusive shooters but because their sales have been so lackluste people forget how many shooters the ps3 has. also i might add the biggest ever Mplatform seller on ps3 is cod4 and codWAW.

Disappointing,6+ billion people live on earth,2.5 million sold in two weeks,Bungie better step up its game.

Halo Kart,oh yes,please make it.

haha. i get negged and donnie upped with this.

donnie: rubbish, fps is the most popular genre on both systems, its just that the 360 has the best and most popular franchises and if you combine this with the superior xboxLIVE you can see why 360 fps sell the most. RESISTANCE1/2,KILLZONE2/SOCOM/WARHAWK etc.. are all sony exclusive shooters but because their sales have been so lackluste people forget how many shooters the ps3 has. also i might add the biggest ever Mplatform seller on ps3 is cod4 and codWAW.

fps is by far more popular on 360 than on PS3. Reason of it mainly is that FPS's are extremely popular in the US compared to other regions and we both know (I suppose) that 360 is only doing _very_ well in the US. In Japan it is not holding its own at all. In Europe it is not performing as well as the PS3, but doing ok.

Remember the US's love for FPS's and read this:
360's top-10 all time sellers: 5 FPS's vs PS3's 3 FPS's.
360's top-20 all time selelrs: 8 FPS's vs PS3's 5.

With your mentioning of Warhawk and Socom, you further prove my point. FPS's just are not as popular on PS3! Never mind Live! You are also mistaking that the biggest mplatform seller on PS3 is COD. It is not, it is GTA4.

Oh good, I see that this has descended into THE SAME OLD FUCKING ARGUMENTS that will never ever EVER be resolved, about which FPS game is best, which genre is best, whether Halo is shit, yadda yadda FUCKING yadda.

Have you people nothing better to do than say the same stuff again and again and a-fucking-gain in every single goddamned motherfucking Halo/Bungie news story that ever gets posted? I mean does it reward or nourish you in any way? Does it do anyone any good? Does anyone ever come away from it feeling enriched or educated? All you do is fucking snap at each other and disagree with each other and NOBODY CARES.

Just ignore the Halo stories if you don't like Halo. No fan of Halo will EVER care if you don't like it and will NEVER see or understand your points. And those that take the bait, Why? They're not going to care about your defence of the game, genre, company or your own opinion. Just fucking ignore it.

And instead answer my question above about the spoilered bits. :)

"What mysteries were left at the end of Halo 3 other than MC's fate and Cortana's fate?"

They landet on a mysterious planet. Thats all.

Mysteries: What is this place? How do they get out of there? Are there evil beings on this planet? Etc.