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Subject: Bungie's next game NOT being an MMO

You. Me. Now.
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Poll: Bungie's next game NOT being an MMO  [closed]
Yay! i want more massive multiplayer games :  62%
(8 Votes)
Boo! i want more massively multiplayer games:  8%
(1 Votes)
Meh. I want more games.:  31%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 13

...A good thing, too. The next game from Bungie will be a massive multiplayer game, only not massively multiplayer. For a decade, Bungie has thrived on making multiplayer action games. They have evolved and pushed how online games, specifically on console, are done.

Up until now, they have aquired great skill and knowledge in fundamental areas like networking, physics, understanding of play space, easily available and in-depth information, online lobby systems and game design scaleable for several characters.

Sure, someone want them to make something different, but why? Do you see the next transformers movie with the hope that it will be a noir murder mystery? Would you really want to see michael bay directing something like the black swan?

When you want other types of games, you get them from other developers. You are not obliged in any way to buy all your games from Bungie, and chances are: you haven't.

Try rather to think of this: Red vs Blue, a concept of easily identifying your opponents, came because of the halo series. Online lobbies where you can bring friends in between matches, also arguably came because of the halo series. Forge, online movie and game sharing on console, host-controlled game mechanics and mmorpg-like customisation of your player characters visuals on an online console shooter all came from or was impacted on by the halo series.

Bungie didn't have this information when they first made Halo.

Some of these features came despite the fact that the Halo world had been designed without this in mind.

Now, a decade later, Bungie is in the place where they can not only create a world where all these features are integrated from the get-go, but it also allows them to create something where they more easily can attempt to evolutionize or even revolutionize what we know and expect from those kinds of games.

Personally, if a game has local AND online co-op, that's a selling point for me.
If a game has character customisation, that's a selling point for me.
If a game has video recording, video editing, map creation, multiplayer etc, those are selling points for me.

Based on the information that Bungie has said it's next game will be a massive... multiplayer online action game, and not a massively multiplayer online action game, based on their previous work and on their current and previous job listings...
How much are you willing to bet that their next game will have all that, and more?

I'm willing to bet whatever their next game costs.

-What do you think?

  • 03.05.2011 7:56 AM PDT

Alright, guys, place your bets. I'm thinkin' that it's gonna be a Fallout 3 MMO edition with better gameplay mechanics in the FPS category.

[Edited on 03.05.2011 7:59 AM PST]

  • 03.05.2011 7:59 AM PDT

You. Me. Now.
Speider@gmail.com

A nice idea, and one that o'd be interested in buying, surely.
BUT.. when it comes to an open-world exploring game, do you think Bungie would decide that they could do a game like that better than for instance Bethesda?

In the past, it seems that Bungie games have been designed around cool playspaces, and moving the story through those.

To compromise on that with giving everyone the opportunity to go everywhere seems a bit too risky for a 10-year publishing deal, in my humble opinion.

  • 03.05.2011 8:16 AM PDT