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The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.
Alright, just to warn you, this thread contains complaints and issues concerning Halo 4 so if you're severely annoyed with the recent surge of Halo 4 threads going around and the utter retardation of their authors than by all means, you can go now... If you're still reading this, I would like to let you know that I've been very confused as to why Bungie is "Jumping around the plot" with the games. I mean, ODST, sure, whatever it's an expansion, many companies do that. Then this game is announced. Now I'd be okay with it if they just didn't flat out say that "Recon is the last Halo game in our Halo package folks".
BAM! Halo Reach is announced, my reaction, dumbfounded, happy, but frustrated and angry that Bungie would lie. Now I'm not 100% sure that Bungie lied, maybe they just added another project onto their belt recently. The only ordeal in that is, how do you make a fully playable multiplayer portion of the game in 5 months. ODST was fully playable in campaign after a period of about a year and a third or so. Anyhow, I doubt that Bungie just randomly added another game onto their belt in any recent amount of time and have a fully playable multiplayer game. Why would they lie to the community?
So, either Halo 4 is in development now, or Bungie's gotta have some sort of trick going on up their sleeve. Maybe Frankie wasn't assigned to Chronicles, maybe Frankie was assigned to Halo 4 but it was codenamed chronicles to hide the true purposed of the game. Like how Halo 3 was just going to be called "Forerunners" in early speculation. It wasn't supposed to be Halo 3 at all, it was just going to be some game about the Forerunners. Although Bungie didn't "Seriously" approve of that rumor, they did nod to it, just acknowledging it. Joe did confirm though that it's codenamed chronicles. Not codenamed Halo 4.
Now, since Bungie's already lied to us once, I think they might have lied also about there not being a Halo 4. Trust me, I was among most of the community in full belief that Halo 4 will never happen. To this day, this moment, I still even think that Halo 4 can't and won't be made in a video game form. But this recent lie has lead me to think otherwise. I doubt that Frankie was sent to Microsoft to help as a rep from Bungie to work cooperatively to attempt to build a Halo game for NATAL but Frankie was sent at around the time NATAL was being put to the test for the first time ever and ONLY Frankie, the guy involved with Halo 3's story.
Maybe Frankie was sent to see a quick demo from an engine developed by an internal MSGS team for Halo 4 for NATAL. But then, why was Peter Jackson involved? He did mention that this game would "Blur the line between games and movies" which is what NATAL is trying to do in sorts. Now that Bungie has announced they've got 3 projects in the works and they originally said that ODST was the last in the halo package but then they announced Reach, this leads me to believe that tests have gone well with Halo 4. Wether or not it's going to be for NATAL is not in question, the question is, is Bungie developing Halo 4 behind hidden lines? Did Microsoft give them a quick boost by giving them a proposed engine for the new game and Frankie and Pete just helped build on that engine with new ideas for gameplay and story? Is Bungie making Halo 4?
I'm telling you, for the longest time, I thought Halo 4 would never happen... But Bungie's recent lie has somewhat disrupted my trust in their words. Not that I don't love you guys anymore, I still do, it's just that my trust has been shaken, and I have an appropriate right to question unless there is full blown proof of what's really going on. Which, I doubt, we will ever get to see for another few years.
EDIT: I found the enter key.
[Edited on 07.16.2009 9:07 AM PDT]