Played a little ODST today... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Saturday, October 11, 2014, 20:09 (3939 days ago) @ Fuertisimo

Interesting to contrast, but isn't comparing Destiny and ODST a little unfair to ODST? I mean primarily because ODST was an 18 month development cycle with a smaller team.

Yes and no.

I suspect some of ODST flaws are a result of the smaller team and shorter dev cycle. Some things like the poor quality of the face textures and maybe some of the poor cutscene animations might have been smoothed out by more dev time. On the other hand a lot of my complaints leveled at ODST, like the worse combat animations, would fully apply to Halo 3 as well since the two games share the exact same enemy units. Also, both games cost the same $60 when new. Maybe ODST shouldn't have cost so much, there was certainly enough behind the scenes politics spilling into public view (the aborted E3 countdown for instance), but ultimately it cost what it cost.

To be clear, I'm not saying Halo 3 or ODST are bad, just that in some areas Bungie has advanced so far that looking back makes you appreciate where things have advanced to. I'm not here to slag ODST unfairly. Bungie did a surprisingly good job with it on all fronts. It doesn't feel like a side project which is pretty amazing. I picked it mainly because I wanted to compare the size of New Mombasa to the worlds of Destiny.