- Will 043
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When he was younger, he was the one who always had the jokes and riddles that would keep the spirits of the Spartans high. Over the years however, his lifetime of combat had hardened him, as it had all of the Spartans. Within Will, John thought, something special had been lost.
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Posted by: Big Black Bear
Posted by: Will 043
M$ is a business, nothing more. Don't know where your fanboyism comes from, but they can do nothing good for this series but beat it into the ground. They are a corporate machine without a creative vision or respect for said works. (there is a vidoc about this linky) They don't care about Halo or doing it right they just want to make as much money as possible. Hence, the "M$" reference, and need we go into their business practice in the market place. Hmm, let's sell like four different version of our operating system or let's sell three different versions of sub-par gaming hardware, and charge up the but for storage. They make the version that should be their standard at which all versions up from there should be better than. Except that that standard is the "premium" choice, and it ranges from that downward to crap. For them it's not about delivering the best product it's about making the most money. It shows in just about everything they do.
Seriously watch that vidoc please. I may be a Bungie fanboy, but it's not for no reason. They have earned some serious respect from me over the last several years of my life. It's not right to see the Halo universe used like this.And what is Bungie? A charity organization?
What makes them any more suited to do well by the Halo franchise than Microsoft?
What are you even getting at? They donate to charity, yay.. that's never been something that's made the conscious list, honestly. I'm talking about a studio actually giving a damn about their franchise, and wanting it to be the absolute best that it can be. The simple fact of milking it to death is contrary to that. M$ in house development doesn't have the creative vision to do great things like this or to come up with something original or groundbreaking. Maybe I'm passing judgment early on 343, but everything I've seen so far makes me cringe. It's the same thing with the kind of music I like. If I'm really into a group it's because they don't settle into the genre and get comfortable. They take risks, they have ambition to break molds and introduce new things. The level of quality and sheer polish that goes into the things they make, the depth and level of detail. They push themselves as far as they can go, and then turn around and do it better next time.
Good enough is never good enough. That's what I like best about them. They don't settle for mediocrity, they set trends.