My favorite halo game of all time. Adds my favorite halo weapon ever, the silenced SMG, and my favorite game mode, firefight

i feel like ODST’s story does a great job a showing me a compelling story instead of telling me a compelling story

See that MW3. This is how you do Open-Combat Missions

Martin O'Donnell has said in an interview that the studio and himself didn't want pregenerated cutscenes because it disassociates the player from the game and is an uncomfortable distraction that seemingly goes unnoticed by most players, so they wanted all cutscenes to be generated in engine ensuring that once the cutscene starts you are in the same area and still have your situational awareness. That goes for all titles that bungie studios made. Although the pregenerated cutscenes in The Master Chief Collection look amazing and it's cool, I just wish that 343 would have honored the original concept of the way the game flows and plays. Oh and you do see the ship that the Master Chief is on during the drop following the covenant cruiser into slipspace. They kinda slipped that in there.

Just wandering around in the Open City checkpoint with famine and iron skulls on with a buddy was one of the best experiences I've had in Halo. Just two ODSTs wandering the streets surviving and resisting the covies. Though being in a building basically made you safe,outside of a few encounters , so that did kill part of the 'we are in danger feeling'. Could have used covies sweeping buildings every now and again, the threat of a surprise engagement inside a building would have made sneaking though buildings more tense.

ODST was definitely an underrated halo campaign

Remember this, one bolt of plasma to the chest can kill an ODST.

Bungie nailed it with ODST, and then gave us a bit more of that wow factor in Reach but still managed to make it feel like a struggle (not overpowered spartan). Absolutely spectacular games

Odst is a masterpiece. I always love getting lost in the night time open world playing as Rookie. The sniper mission when you're at the downed pelican has one of the best defend/survive moments with a great soundtrack at that moment. straight catJAM. The audio logs are always fun to go for. Genuingly I want another ODST game but hopefully longer and it captures all the vibes of this game

I loved ODST, alot of people didn't like it but I played through the story many times!

On your complaint about the emptiness of the city, New Mombasa is about to be glassed. The only people or Covenant left are the stragglers, preparing to leave. This is an important part of the story and adds to the loneliness. Learning about Sadie's story is especially touching because you know that the entire city is going to disappear soon.

the way this game makes you feel especially when difference for darkness plays is timeless, i’ll cherish this game forever, thank you for this and keep up the badass work!!

Fixes to odst imo: Covi awareness. If you decide to play stealthly, covis will send little to no reinforcements. If you play guns blazing theyll send in more/ heavy reinforcements. Increasing difficulty, as the game goes on and you kill more covis, the covis start to become generally more aware of your presence and start sending in more tougher reinforcements to cleared areas. Silencers actually acting silenced. So you can kill grunts and jackels silently and come up with strategies for brutes such as shooting the wall to lead them away until you can get passed... if you wanted to play stealthily. Visor mode having a CE flashlight style cool down or battery operation to it. Odst camera being lower to represent a normal human height. Normal halo 3 damage output from weapons but significantly reduced melee damage.. maybe only affect grunts and stun jackels but do nothing to brutes less they add a knife mechnic. Covi weapons would be amazing to kill brutes as they can strip shields but they should be more heavier, slowing the odst down as they made for bigger creatures and maybe have larger recoil, maybe even over heating a plasma pistol or rifle could damage the player etc.

Man… if we could have another ODST experience like this I’d play it so many times… it was so beautiful and it felt so surreal. I still play it over and over again. The feeling of being independent and having to sneak through a dead city covered in covenant with smooooth jazz and rain made it magical in a way that cannot be replicated in any other way. I feel like this was exactly as you said, an art piece. Beautiful and still fun and absolutely still halo. Unbelievable. I don’t think any company is capable of making something like this or better in our current time. If so I’d be truly taken aback. Modern game companies don’t have enough soul to make such an artistic game. I especially halo under 343. This is why I still replay this game over, and over, and over again. Even after I basically just am bored because I’ve done the run too many times and have mapped out this game to a T. The magic has left sadly but not in it’s entirety. The magic is still there it’s just so familiar to me now that it’s just like strolling through your old childhood home. Quite familiar but comfortable. The music and feeling of alone with sad rain coming down is beautiful to me to how I feel in the real world. Ugh. Bungie game is something that they never realized would be so impactful. If only Microsoft would just let creators actually create. We maybe able to see another beautiful experience like this. A man can dream…

Traumatized me when i was 11

I’ll never forget unlocking the Recon helmet with my friends, what an experience

Out of all the games I think odst and 3 are the two that I regularly revisit simply for the pure fun those campaigns provide for me.

I did not have a good first time with the campaign or firefight in ODST. I didn't enjoy it as a kid, so i stuck to the MP and played nothing but customs. I like the campaign a lot more now as an adult. But I'll never forget why I didn't like it at first, it was because it was too lonely for me. I already was a lonely kid. My Xbox and games was an escape for me. ODST only accentuated that feeling of loneliness I was trying to escape from, so I really didn't like it at all.

I JUST read the wiki: Fillion, Tudyk and Baldwin...It's a Firefly reunion.

This is my favorite video game of all time. Thank you for giving it the coverage it deserves

Bro, video is not even 10 mins old and the porn bots are already commenting WTF youtube? They actually beat humans to the first comment

I would actually love to hear you talk on Halo more. Always loved zombies and I've been playing since World at War but when you guys cover Halo I love it so much. When Milo had his Halo Journey with JC and Luke it was truly something special to watch and I made sure I tuned in every time and I messaged JC afterwards. It's just the same that infinite didn't launch in the state that we all wanted it to be

Marty O’Donnell will find this video and comment. Calling it now, just give him time to find it.

you should definitely do a video on halo reach. i know objectively it’s not the best halo but for me its the one i have the best memories on and for that it will always be the best for me

I’m cut on the visr thing, yea it’s a little cheap and makes it easier to see enemies and having it all the time is a little op, but it looks absolutely beautiful and is a key aspect of odsts visuals imo. Maybe if it had a battery life, and when it runs out, it switches to a flashlight? Or if it was limited ability/pick up like in spv3, there could be some night time missions where you don’t have access to it. I do agree it’s really great atmospherically but trying to make stuff out in the dark especially over long periods of time puts a bad strain on your eyes. Maybe when you first drop yours is broken from the fall but you find another odst helmet and use theirs or something along those lines, so for the first mission you’re forced to get used to the dark. It seems like the enemies at night time have a harder time seeing you which makes stealth a real option.

First of all, great video, I felt the same feelings as you. Second of all, one of the most refreshing campaigns and multiplayers I have play in the last few years was from Titanfall 2, because it is concise, fantastic, and detailed game. I would heavily recommend playing the game. PS. right now it is on sale and only 5 dollars Unrelated note: Outside of the fps genre, the best game I have probably played is Hollow knight. My favorite indie game of all time.

Anyone else put on ODST Rain soundtracks to fall asleep? That tune is fire.

I miss when games were something you could choose to dedicate as much time as you wanted into without missing out on anything. Halo was always like that before. 5-8 hour campaigns split into 10-30 minutes missions you could play either altogether or just whatever bits you felt like at the time. A multiplayer that was always there, with all its content at any point in time. Unlockables that didn't require you to be there on a specific day or week. Exp/Current you earned every single match, so you didn't have a certain quota to meet each week. Play what you want, when you want, at your own pace. Never get left behind, never miss out. Nowadays games are a 30+ hour campaign investment. Seasons, rotating shops, and weekly xp/currency limits prevent you from just playing a lot while you're into it, and taking breaks whenever you want for as long as you want. Playlists come and go on a rotator. Your competitive rank resets frequently. And heaven forbid you want to play another game because it'll probably demand all the same from you.

Halo 3 ODST was an awesome game I love playing as rookie and makes you throw you into a different character before present time

I didnt love odst when i first played it but when i came back to it after a few years I absolutely loved it just for the atmosphere and music alone. The odst characters are so awesome and I wish we saw them (other than buck even though I love him) in some other games

You forgot to add that the ODST do significantly less melee damage

That's why I wear the armor with pride. Not only it was the second Halo game I've played since my existence as a human being. 😎 But it was also the one game I actually conceptually grasped at age 14. Halo 2 was my first halo game I played at age 5 but ODST was my second and best halo game that actually made me the way I am today, a 21 year old with insecurities and trust issues, but with a steady mind and heart to look for real answers to solve contemporary problems that are set before me. Any ways.. 👀 When I was 14, I didn't really had a close bondage with the Master Chief. To me it was The Rookie from ODST. I actually sat there played the whole entire campaign on a stormy school night. I lived in Las Vegas at the time I asked dad who bought ODST for me on 360 at a Arcade game store. 😄 The story on how The Rookie survived a covenant infested urban environment gave me a sense of loneliness, like missing a key part of my objective. Like missing the squad member's. 😅 Anywho.. 😑 Took a lot of convincing my Dad to buy it but once I played it, it changed me as a human being. 😔 After ODST I played the rest of the Halo games when MCC came out. Which made me a pure halo fan even though I was since age 5. Halo 2 experience with my Dad. 😅 But to me ODST was a top tier Halo game hand's down! 💯 I just sad to see modern gaming turn the way it is. But ODST will always be a reminder to me that good game's did existed at one point. 😌 Edit: Oh and we all heard the OST for ODST, it not only sad sometimes but also BANGERs, It makes me happy to this day people listen to ODST's Original Sound Tracks for Halo content vid's and in-game fire fights. Not only that it can be perfect to play in rainy weather game scenarios/reality. But that's my opinion about the OST for ODST. 😅 _Respect to ALL my fellow ODST Trooper's that also wear they're Armour's till this day. Good on You!_ 😎

The soundtrack of this game is so good I still think about it randomly every once in awhile

On the same token budget restrictions prompted Remedy to use the comic book panel storytelling device in Max Payne 2 much to the games credit and long lasting appeal. Even today it feels fresh and badass. Games really were better in that generation and earlier. A different time.

This is the only mainline FPS game in the series I have never finished.

Always love ur vids. Especially halo n gears shit. N zombies duh but like this video just gets me thinking what odst 2 could’ve been. Just imagine the first mission we drop in with one other m8 with snipers in complete stealth. Ahhhh ODST❤

Dude you are such a beast for posting an ODST video

one of the top creators of odst had confirmed we havent found one of its secrets

20:06 sure you're a rookie, but a rookie from what unit? Remember you're not a rank and file UNSC Marine, you're an ODST man

This video IS PEAK ❤❤❤

I play odst like that , human weapons only sometimes with my visor off and play on heroic difficulty . Makes me play more conservative with ammo and stealthy . Almost playing gurrila style combat

A story like ODST with modern movement/controls/mechanics etc is what the halo community have been asking 343 for since they first took over the franchise and they're completely sleeping on it, they're practically in hibernation.

Of course this video came out right after I broke my phone

I love these videos

Instant watch🫡

Problem: "I feel too powerful as an ODST" Solution: Legendary or Heroic

I know i get hate but odst is my favorite halo game. I love the story and open world feel in a city felt like a war hitting you. I love how the plot thickened with its mechanics. It made me love ODST soilder with spartans now in plenty they should up gear their armours with stealth. That way they can go behind enemy lines. Special units for special missions. If we can specialized our armours ODST would be the second best next to spartans.

I dont know what diffuculty you played but bungies cannon diff is heroic and when played on that diff more of the power inbalance shows between ODST vs Spartans as ODSTs dont have shields, cant jump as high, do less melee damage and grenade toss is much shorter compared to Spartans But good video overall. ODST was and still is in my top 3 Halo games. Got it launch day back in the day and still play it from time to time

Oh wow. He did a Halo video

I played this game when I was younger but I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do and ended up walking around for like 20 minutes and then never played the game again lol

Can anyone please tell me where I can find the wallpaper of that beautiful thumbnail?

20:18 I feel like they should of limited the player useable sandbox. So pretty much being able to use whatever your ai teamate ODST could use in Halo 3. So pretty much no turret, grav hammer, and brute shot. Otherwise every other weapon would work fine. I think also having the enemies be strong could have helped making it feel like your an ODST. Or maybe you having reduced health. I useally like to replay ODST on Heroic with Mythic and Thunderstorm on. Enemies are very spongy so headshots weapons are a must. But when you do take out a Brute pack it feels good

I disagree with feeling too overpowered because in heroic how it’s supposed to be played is quite a challenge especially the heavy vehicles

W vid!

One of the most underrated games ever

I love ODST and it is one of my favorite Halo campaigns, but I have never understood the idea that video essayists tend to push that the game makes you feel weaker. The ODSTs in this game pretty much just feel like Spartans. They even have shield gauges and everything.

Dude has it out for master chief

Saying ODSTs are "not quite Spartan level" is like saying "Little Leaguers are not quite MLB level" 😂 Good vid, man. 👍👍

Halo ODST was the first Open world halo☺️

Five minutes in, the core thesis has not yet been presented, you're looping back around to what inspired you to make the video *again* after already establishing it, the second social media notification pops up, and I have lost my patience. I'd encouragr you to either edit down your waffling or stick closer to your notes, because this is way too meandering

Ah yes. Back when Halo was good.

This Game Is Childhood.

343 should take a break from chief and make "stories from the front" type games where they can practice writing story with a group of UNSC marines or something similar, i also disagree the visor STAYS solely because its cool :^)

W video

Phenomenal game. Bungie's first four Halos were masterpieces: 1 - 9.7 2 - 9.8 3 - 9.9 ODST - 9.9 (Favorite)

beating ODST on legendary is gonna suck but i still gotta beat halo 2 first which is so much worse

I love ODST.

ODST👌

I only play old stuff. It is actually creative and well made. The games are also COMPLETE.

I guess the ODST game is the most favorite game its because we play as humans ..more realistic ..We are human after all .not enhanced beings...

The real question is... Why do you share the name of a war crime loving droid?

your audio is too low

covid gamer at it's finest. 🤷‍♂💀 *I CAN'T SEE REPLIES JAJAJAJA*

Odst overrated asl

and this game was the only game that I got the weird version with the box and booklets

this and mw3 were the only games i ever pre ordered