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Posted by: Kilroy
Posted by: Pimp at Sea
Posted by: Kilroy
The simplest solution is just to have Bungie announce their next project(which was supposed to happen before the end of October).
Show me where they said it will be announced before October please.
Well, it was sort of unofficial. It was in either the last, or second to last update in August. Frankie said that they would announce the next project "within the next couple of months." Couple=2. 2 months later=October.
2nd Last WU in August 2005
Last WU of August 2005
Neither of those mentions anything about announcing their next game. The closest it comes is in the August 19 update when Frankie says "What about our new project? Well, it's coming along swimmingly. I see cool things every day. More on that much later." Which tells you nothing really.
Try not to drink so much of the radioactive yellow liquid next time Kilroy.
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As for "saving" the underground, a couple of things. The Underground is primarily a Bungie general forum. The whole "Underground=oldschool only" thing seems to have arisen mostly because of the growth, over the last year and a half or so, of the pervasive idea that if you play old-school Bungie games, you're better than other people, and therefore you own the Underground and wouldn't the world be a better place if all the people who want Halo 3 were to be locked in a cage made of cheese. Or stainless steel.
Anyway, the point is, the Underground isn't an old-school forum. It never was. Back before the new hotness it was the only non-7th column discussion forum around, so people posted Halo topics, Halo 2 speculation, and yes, even Halo 3 speculation for some reason. Now and then someone would mention Oni, and since it wasn't cool to be remotely old-school back then (even taking into account that during the time I'm talking about, like, 2002, Oni had only been out for a year or so), they would be ignored and regarded as slightly dangerous.
What should be done, most likely, is either one of two things.
* Create a dedicated old-school Bungie forum. Call it the Pyramid or something, or the Labyrinth, or heck, why not Iraq (though that might be misinterpreted in the current geopolitical climate).
* Create a "Halo general" forum, which would be a kind of limited version of the Underground, where you can talk about anything Halo-related which isn't specifically about Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 2 multiplayer, or matchmaking playlists. I'm talking books, big galaxy-spanning whacko theories, and yes, speculation regarding possible future Halo games.
That, or we could all wait until Bungie announces their next game. Just don't expect them to do it last October.
[Edited on 12/6/2005]