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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Hired Gun was like 6 Microsoft employees. They (M$) invented "Hired Gun" out of thin air. And just as quickly as they were created, they were absorbed back into Microsoft when the -blam!- hit the fan with the failure of H2v.Eh, pretty much. I checked out the credits in the H2V HEK, and there were only about 10 "Hired Gun" employees listed. There were only like 5 engineers.
Microsoft is to blame, but so is Bungie. After Bungie sold Halo to Microsoft back around 2000 for Xbox development, Bungie as many of us knew it ceased to exist. As far as I'm concerned modern Bungie will always be Microsoft. The two are interchangable. Microsoft ruined Halo PC to a certain extent, but at least Gearbox was independent and had real talent. They played the hand they were dealt pretty well.
The lag was M$'s fault (required 56k support) but the gameplay was still well done as far as ports go. H2v is another story. Hired Gun was fairly incompetent and it shows. You just can't compare Gearbox to Hired Gun. Hired Gun does not even exist anymore. Gearbox continues to make great games.
So yeah to sum up my rant, Microsoft is to blame, everything they touch becomes mediocre. Just look at what Bungie has become. All they can do is rehash Halo over and over and make it more "user friendly" for the console kids. When you look at any company that grows huge, their products almost always suffer as they branch out and spread themselves too thin. They lose focus.What do you mean that? Bungie has always been Bungie - that'll never change. While Microsoft did sorta taint the development process (ie, the release date that forced them to ship when they weren't ready), and tried to absorb them in to the collective will of Microsoft (they tried to move Bungie Studios in to some generic division of Microsoft - Bungie stayed put), Bungie still has, and will always have a soul. No other company I've seen in my entire life can have the sheer <3 that Bungie has for their games, and for their community.
Oh and btw, this poll has been done a few times before, not that I mind at all. :) I was not aware of this, sowwy.
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Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be no trace of Halo 2 Vista anywhere on Bungie.net? It's nowhere in the Project pages--not in the Halo 2 section, and not in the Halo PC section, either--and nowhere in the Games/News sections? I just did a search for "Halo 2 Vista" and "Halo 2 PC", and I haven't found a single thing. It's like it just vanished. Methinks Bungie doesn't want to have any association with H2V... =]