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My Construction contains the Instruction for my Self-Destruction through the World's Corruption
Posted by: playr4lyf
I'd just like to express my opinion on the last ViDoc Bungie recently released. It was beautiful! It really showed the truly epic company Bungie is. I love you guys! :D
Really? It showed me that they had mediocre successes with Marathon and Myst, they didn't even cover the perceived flop of Oni,amongst others, and their mishaps with Myst II's coding put them into a dangerous spiral towards self-destruction.
But in order to survive; as they said, they sold their soul to "The Man". They heard the Big Client was needing a major hit to push the market forward for a entirely new console, one that a PC developer is loathe to stoop to in order to develop for, especially with such a gross and cumbersome controller. But just like a prostitute on their last wad of cash, they'd do anything to get money to back up their dying company. And so it began.
Little by little, they began to change a property/license they had and by chance they happened onto developing a game that people loved to play, and even then barely got in multiplayer coding (again by chance) that would also start a firestorm of its own.
Now that they had one success under their belt, they had no idea how to really run with it and barely made the grade to ship the second one, all the while having to cut out certain parts of the game because they never even intended to make another sequel/trilogy out of it.
Clearly this wasn't acceptable to "The Man", and like a monumental freight train that had the momentum of an entirely new universe behind it, they were forced to "Finish the Fight". Finally, they appeared to learn from their mistakes and went full force with finishing the story and truly adding revolutionary features such as Forge and Replay that would forever once again change console gaming.
And now that they grew fat and successful on a chance product thanks to their overlords funding over the years, they no longer needed the big brother who originally saved them from oblivion and they had no problems giving up the license that got them there anyways since clearly now they're such a well developed successful company and they could do this on their own (never mind their sordid past).
But alas, they're contract stipulated they had to give two more games within the license, but at least now they were finally free, so they were doing all their fans a favor by "wanting" to develop two more games within the Licensed framework. But they were going to do it their way. And it appears to show by how creative and original they got with the last two stories and how they were fleshed out, yet the fans themselves scorned them for these last two games for straying too far from past formulas further showing they truly had no idea what the hell the fans really wanted and what made the first game so successful, nor really caring about the juggernaut that had already been started with the License and it's previous stories being branched out into books and other media. But finally in any case, it was done.
Now free from "the Man", the ones that saved them from the abyss, they relish their independence only to sign another contract with yet another "the Man". And so the wheel of time continues to turn...
In all seriousness though, it's been a helluva run for them, and they've become a force to be reckoned with-in game development. Now that they evidently have financial success (Depending on how much "The Man" took of it's own cut) and are well established and have a fully functioning and well developed creative force and the freedom to use it, there's no telling what they're going to be able to do with it next....and they won't have to worry about packaging their own games and re-shipping due to a PC killer bug....we hope.
[Edited on 08.13.2011 7:18 AM PDT]