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Subject: With Reach, Bungie will TRY to raise the bar a bit...

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  • 11.14.2009 10:17 AM PDT

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Hmmm. That's very interesting, but I'm not sure that I agree with your reasoning. I have no doubts that you are correct insofar as that they will want this, the last Bungie-made Halo, to be the best of all. However, as to reasons two and three, I'm afraid I disagree. If Bungie truly loved their IP (which they absolutely do), then they would want it to be successful no matter the Developer. It's also important to remember that they are ready to move on from Halo, it isn't being forced upon then (therefore there won't be any animosity to the new developer, at least as far as I can imagine). As for the future success of Bungie, I think they have great odds of being very successful. While you raise a valid point about the fact that it's hard to beat Halo, I don't think success will be hard to reach for Bungie. Think of it this way: if Infinity Ward was to start a new IP, everybody in the world would buy it simply because it's from the makers of CoD. Assuming that the above is true, I would take it one step farther by saying that Bungie's fan base is much more dedicated than IW's, and therefore there will always be a major market for a Bungie game. It may not become the household name that Halo has, but I think any Bungie game will break 1 million in it's opening weekend, no matter what it is.

And by the way, Halo was always at the top of the pack in gameplay. Even two full years after its launch, Halo 3 was still at the top of the charts for number of players.If that doesn't say something about the quality behind the name, then I don't know what does.

[Edited on 11.14.2009 10:31 AM PST]

  • 11.14.2009 10:27 AM PDT

Bro whats wrong with you? The Halo series is the golden standard on what a shooter or even a game should be. Also, Halo has led that "pack" for over half a decade from Halo CE and Halo 2, the top 2 orginal xbox shooter. Only reason why Halo 3 has somewhat faultered (but was still the leading xbox 360 game for over 2 years) is because everyones been playing Halo for so long because its so fun.

The Halo series has one over 200 awards likely more and is the among the leading factors on why online games are so popular. I'm sure Bungie will improve their aging "Halo Formula" in Halo Reach.

  • 11.14.2009 10:51 AM PDT

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You're right in that Halo has never been the best game graphically, but it's never tried to be. Photorealism or super-duper graphics have always taken a backseat to gameplay, which is fine by me. I would bet my life that their next game will be a shooter though. Bungie is free from MS once Halo is done, and they need a big number of sales for their next game so they can have the money to move on. In my opinion they will stick to what they know at first before trying something a little more bold.

  • 11.14.2009 11:01 AM PDT

I wish they would allow signatures at the end of someones post... Would be fun.

Too long. Make shorter. DO NOT WANT!

Jk.

Anyways. No crud Bungie is going to 'raise the bar'. They always do. And thats what people usually expect on a new game. I dont really understand the point of this post in the first place. It is common sense.

  • 11.14.2009 11:45 AM PDT