Hang on. What did 343i do to Halo 3: ODST beyond these two things:
Remove the Destiny references before the PC port happened.
There isn’t a number two. What are you talking about?
The issue with the nameplates was about 1 piece of cosmetic content that 343i added for an insider build but then pulled before final release. I saw and watched the whole thing and read every public response 343i put out during that time. One dude on Twitter made one tweet (basically amounted to: “lol does 343i watch the news?”) and 343i suddenly started talking about how they were removing it and had internal feedback too. The entire backlash stemmed from how now 343i suddenly implied they had a political stance on this specific issue and were willing to remove content they made themselves to fit it.
Edit: It is worth saying that this nameplate drama worked in tandem with other political implications from previous nameplates. The Reach gender option change had not happened yet.
Edit2: I said all this stuff about the nameplate because that was the only thing 343i did. Halo 3: ODST is basically unchanged except for the removal of a handful of Destinty references. It’s okay to be wrong. There was a lot of confusion and misinformation that went up during that time. People forget things as time goes by. I just want to correct the record here. I’m not mad, sorry if I’m coming across too strongly.
Oh noes, no more police lights! The game is ruined! /s
If BiC is one of the regular sources of gaming news that you use, and not just the first link that showed up on a search, then I feel sad for you. Really excited to read what your hot takes will be on any Pride emblems they decide to add in June…
Well, they also removed Marty O’Donnel’s easter egg in ODST and replaced it with Frank O’Connor mopping.
But that was because of other reasons alltogether.
Naw, that music is still in the game. Looks like it’s the same except for the texture itself. (I don’t really want to go into overthinking the joke, but when you see a music composer dancing you can kind of get it. He’s making a silly face too. When you see a lead developer sweeping… it leaves me wondering why he’s sweeping. It’s either an in-joke or a statement by way of an animated gif.)
There was some opening text in ODST that was apparently cut. I still am so bummed that 343i scraped the credits off of the games. Was a real bad move. For some reason I thought the Reach tribute room was removed in MCC until just recently. I finally went and saw it myself again.
The game just isn’t the same without the credits. It’s like when they broadcast a movie on TV. Sometimes they shrink the credits down and play an ad over the ending soundtrack. I’m more annoyed about Halo 2 and Halo 3 tbh.
I even had a time where I was annoyed with 343 because of a glitch that occoured in my first playthrough of Halo 3 on MCC.
Frank O’Connor Ret-Conned it so that the Forerunners were no longer ancient humans. And then when I played through Halo 3 at the point where we were about to fight 343 Guilty Spark, he as supposed to say
“You are the child of my makers, inheritors of all they left behind. You ARE Forerunner, but this ring is mine.”
The audio broke and left out the “You ARE Forerunner” part.
Ha! Yeah, I can see why that would have been maddening. The MCC’s original launch was why I completely gave up on Halo as a series. Coming back to it now because of the PC release of MCC… it looks like 343i is still floundering.
The updates certainly made it actually playable on console. Dunno how the PC experience is, but if Halo Infinite is anything to go by; I am guessing it was poorly optimized and hardly functions without a nexus mod or something?
CE also had that eerie scene after the credits where 343 Guilty Spark is seen wandering through space after the destruction of Halo, I was kinda disappointed that that scene isn’t in MCC…
It is tho… you just have to get the bonus terminal to see the extended version of the scene where he arrives at Threshold’s Methane Mine and triggers the events of Arbiter’s missions in Halo 2.
same, part of the reason why I even bothered pointing that out was more or less just to highlight that it was a change made for marketing appeal, and not some big huge crazy conspiracy to change it just to change it.
do I think it’s dumb? heck yes, especially since using the Beat Down medal to track it would have made it more consistent with previous titles, and come across less like a “hello fellow children” moment.