VGA 2009: Bungie explains lack of Halo 3: ODST DLC

by Kevin Kelly on Dec 17th 2009 11:15PM

This past Saturday brought us the Spike TV Video Game Awards and – before experiencing the litany of world exclusives that awaited us inside – we spent some time outside cruising the red carpet and talking (briefly!) to many of the game developers and talent. We squeezed them for information as fast as we could while simultaneously wishing them holiday cheer and good tidings. Yes, it was as awkward as it sounds. HHere's what we learned from Bungie's Curtis Creamer about Halo 3: ODST.

Was there a decision made to have no DLC for Halo 3: ODST?

Well, that was something that we didn't really think we could do for ODST because traditionally all of our DLC has been about competitive multiplayer. That's something that we had the systems in place for. But, since Firefight is more based on the co-operative campaign mode, that was a technology that we hadn't built up to a point where we could add DLC to the game. It would have been too much of an investment to make that happen.

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Reader Comments (104)

It's because reach is in production and they don't have resources to spend on dlc. They would rather make $60 on a game sooner than push it to make $5-$10 dlcs for ODST.

Odd, I'm usually the guy who thinks a game was crap. Yet, I actually like ODST. More so that Halo2 or 3. Much more so than MW2. I like a game that lets me forget about stress and have fun playing without worrying about too much realism.

There are a few things I don't like though. I don't like the long time inbetween saves. Being able to rejoin the campain only a chapter starts is crap. I should be able to rejoin at my last checkpoint and not have to spend an hour just to get back where I left off.

Nor do I like the fact that the save system is totally screwed and I keep getting bounced back to prior missions. There's more "save" problems too.

Seriously, I don't get a lot of time to play. Only a few hours a week, so the fact that I've been bumped back to the second chapter more than 15 times is total BS.