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Subject: HBO's Founding Father

Claude Errera, founder and leader of Halo.Bungie.Org was kind enough to sit down with Bungie.net and discuss his role in the biggest Bungie fansite on Earth, and his thoughts on Halo 2, now that he's had a chance to digest it. Claude has some surprising answers...

  • 03.11.2005 12:53 PM PDT
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I liked the story. It was interesting.

  • 03.11.2005 12:59 PM PDT
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good scoop frankie , The Article was very interesting

  • 03.11.2005 1:03 PM PDT

This post provided by Halo Babies.

Good stuff, the evil dog was a shocker.

  • 03.11.2005 1:06 PM PDT
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I don't know what to make of that character. But c'mon, they've got to stop calling themselves HBO; that names been taken for some time.

  • 03.11.2005 1:07 PM PDT
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Wow, it thought this was dlc for a second.... -blam!-

  • 03.11.2005 1:22 PM PDT
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Frankie, you will be usurped!

Claude's been getting a lot of interviews recently. Who's to say that's a bad thing? He's always an interesting character as this interview proved. Thanks Frankie.

  • 03.11.2005 1:41 PM PDT
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Very interesting.... and so nice to see level minded Halo vs Halo 2 comments! Bungie's not afraid of putting them selves up to scrutiny.
My only problem is that this will create a flood of spec. "Bungie's making a RPG!" "Bungie's going to add in fall damage!" Sigh.

  • 03.11.2005 1:48 PM PDT
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Really nice. Made me look differently on HBO (and yes, in a better way).

  • 03.11.2005 1:59 PM PDT
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lol WTF would make an awesome liscense plate, either that or noob. but really interesting info. Frankie, thx for making the interview. It's cool to see the opinions of a great fan of Bungie in general, it sometimes aggravates me that i wasen'rt older so i could be more into Bungie earlier.

  • 03.11.2005 2:04 PM PDT
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anyone who's played more than you has no life

anyone who's played less than you is a noob

thank you so much.

i liked claude before, but after his comment about fall damage, i think i love him.

  • 03.11.2005 2:24 PM PDT
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lol, interesting interveiw.

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Awesome! Louis Wu is getting so famous. He really is a good guy, and in my experience, helpful to everyone.

although I have to say, I love the no fall damage...jumping down from the top of waterworks when my sniper runs out is always so fun, especially if it has a grand finale of a melee to the back of the enemy's head : )

  • 03.11.2005 2:49 PM PDT
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Gotta give it up for Louis! (I don't know how anybody could not like him.)

  • 03.11.2005 2:50 PM PDT
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Nice interview, glad to see some balanced point of views on Halo and Halo 2

  • 03.11.2005 3:07 PM PDT
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Thanks Frankie for posting this interview of Louis Wu. I always enjoy reading, and usually respect what he has to say.

  • 03.11.2005 3:15 PM PDT
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Everyone here's read the Claude Errera interview correct? Well for those of you who looked at the picture of his dog linked to at the bottom, I'm the one Frankie so carefully scribed WTF? across. So my picture has been put on Bungie now (although without my face). How many people can claim that? I like that. I'm sure other attendees to the event (even Shishka) can clarify I was indeed the only one wearing gray t-shirt with one of the stickers Shishka passed out on my chest.

  • 03.11.2005 3:31 PM PDT
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Great read. But I disagree about the Fall Damage part...Leave it out!

  • 03.11.2005 3:54 PM PDT
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yea uhm not to be off topic but uhh wheres the weekly update?

  • 03.11.2005 5:21 PM PDT
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Frankie, nice interview. I completely agree that the lack of medals when completing a campaign level on a new difficulty leaves a feeling of a lack of accomplishment. I worked hard for a long time getting all the medals in Halo 1. Can that be added in your downloadable updates? Can you answer this question in the 'Weekly What's Update'?

And bummer about removing sword flying. Did you find a lot of people using it for evil?

Not having fall damage was a good move, but then how do you justify me 'falling to my death' on some of the levels when i've only fallen a short distance (and I die because it's an area of a map that's inaccessable). Maybe you should change it to 'you tripped to your death and broke a hip'.

  • 03.11.2005 6:46 PM PDT

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Cool interview. Like the way he deals with each of the players and agreement in some disapointments without the unsuttle greevences. Just to clarify things I don't feel that HBO leavs us out. When I had some questions the people of HBO were happy to answer.

  • 03.12.2005 10:18 AM PDT
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Frankie, that was a good interview, and I am glad that Bungie allowed it to be posted. Mr. Errera did not praise H2 as much as Bungie or MS probably wanted him to. I know people that do not like H2 as much as H1 ( myself included ) because it is so different than what we would expect a sequel to be like. I, like Mr. Errera, envisioned a game like Halo 1 with better graphics, duel-wielding, vehicle boarding, Xbox Live, 16- box connect with voice chat/ proximity voice, and an improved version of the H1 physics engine ( not the heavy and stiff feeling Havock engine; an engine used by games that are inferior to Halo 1 ). I know that technically, Havock may be "better" than the H1 engine to software guys, but I think that if Mr. Seropian and the other physics guy worked on the H1 engine, it would have been superior to Havock. But alas... I digress. I think Mr. Errera is an even bigger fan than I am ( and I LOVE Halo ). He says H2 may someday be his favorite game, but if he is like me, I doubt it. I like H2 and I love all the cool things it has that H1 does not, but it is still not as fun as H1 and has way too many glitches and gameplay/ balance issues to ever be as great ( though I am sure many new H2 players would dissagree ). I, unlike some of his friends that initially did not like H2 because it was so different, will probably never come around to liking this game as much as Halo. I just can't shake the rough "beta" feel of H2, and I can't stand the Ureal feel of H2; it does not even feel like Halo. It seems like Bungie ( i.e. Microsoft ) made this game to attract new people, not to make fans like me happy. I can't blame them; I am a hardcore capitalist and they wanted to make as much money as possible, but I dissagree with thier methods. They took the "New Star Wars Trilogy" approach, as Renegade117 pointed out last week. If anyone reading this was an original Star Wars fan, you know what I am talking about. The new Star Wars was marketed towards the biggest market possible: kids ( if you don't belive me, just look at Jar- Jar Binks! ). It was not made with Star Wars fans in mind at all. In fact, some of the biggist critics of these new movies were die- hard Star Wars fans! These movies were made for the kiddies; too hell with the people that got Lucas where he is today! See any parallels between H1 and H2 here? I think the new Star Wars and H2 would have been more "epic" if they were made the way thier predecesor's were; with vision and enjoyment in mind, not just bank. I belive the beauty of H1 will live on long after the new H2 players have jumped on to the next big thing in games.
P.S. Bungie, you have already made so much money from the new H2 hordes, plaese reward your true and loyal fans with an Xbox Live version or upgrade of H1 ( if it had duel- wielding, boarding, voice chat, and 16- box connect, that would be even more than i could ask for! ).

  • 03.12.2005 12:27 PM PDT