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Subject: Halo, and Bungie, needed to release a bad game. Why?

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When a hockey team makes the playoffs for 14 years in a row it means they're a good team. But what happens when they have 4 consecutive first round knock outs? Obviously the team isnt good anymore, but they are finding a way to win in the regular season, which is a feat in itself. But, when a team is as consitant as that, they dont try and improve.

All it takes is for a team to miss the play offs once, and they try and rebuild. It hits the coaches in the face, it kicks the managers in the ass. "We need to get better". In the off season the teams trades most of their old players for young guns and hopes to develop them into talent. While much of the core remains, many players are gone, for the sake of the team.

What does this have to do with Halo and Bungie?

Well Halo and Bungie have made the playoffs since the first marathon game, so to speak. And they havnt missed the post season. So, they arnt trying to get those new players that they need. They arnt shiping out the dust. Sure, Bungie is a dynasty, but they havnt gone deep in the playoffs since Halo 2.

But now, Halo Reach, good or bad, is as good as missing the playoffs.

Halo will take this, and maybe realize that they need to go in a new direction. They will trade away their oldest player, the master cheif, and pick up some young players to help boost the team. They even fired their manager and coach, Bungie.

While they have a rookie coach, halo has picked up some new young talent, and is ready to move in a new direction, and hopfully win that champianship.

As for bungie? They got rid of that Halo guy, got nothing but draft picks. But in the draft, they got to pick whoever they wanted. Halo was a superstar, but couldnt deliver anymore. So they drafted this new kid out of Aerospace. He's got potential, but who knows how he will pan out. But bungie has moved in a new direction, a direction towards that cup.

  • 03.21.2011 11:24 PM PDT

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I don't think I can agree with you. I think that Reach is not an improvement for Bungie. I do like Halo Reach but I was let down with Reach. I think that they need to put more time into the story and less focus on the multiplayer.

  • 03.21.2011 11:45 PM PDT

The connection between sports and a game development company, while clear in your mind, doesn't translate to the real world.

I'd start listing the differences but... come on, really? Do I need to?

  • 03.21.2011 11:49 PM PDT
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No company that uses terms like, head-to-head, man-on-man, action-sack, and mancannon is homophobic.
I supposed that teabagging is.... what, a representation of a new form of colonoscopy?

I think you went a little too far with that metaphor, lol. Anyways, I do agree with you that it was time for Bungie to move on. Personally, I think they should have stopped after Halo 3, but at least they have now moved on to bigger and better things.

From what I've seen, 343i has a lot of passion for Halo and I hope they will do well with the franchise. However, I'm afraid that M$ is going to milk the cow to death, as they've already began to do with Halo Wars and Legends.

  • 03.21.2011 11:55 PM PDT

Um Bungie wasn't fired or anything at all like that, they wanted to be an independent publisher, and they couldn't take Halo with them, so the analogy of "head coach" or however you put it "being fired" doesn't work at all.

And sports and video games are totally different, so the analogy doesn't really work anyway :/

  • 03.22.2011 4:11 PM PDT