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Subject: Discussion on Bungie's next game

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Bugnie's next game is either going to be a FPS or RTS. That's what I got from the ViDoc. I have some experience making games myself through the Unity game engine and I know how hard it is to start over and make a completely different type of game.

(there is a TL/DR version in the last paragraph)

I mean since the beginning Bungie had been creating FPS games. And they did have a successful RTS game Myth, but after perfecting the game we know and love Halo, why not make it better? I mean if they made another amazing and unique FPS game, I would go buy that instead of another Halo title, because I know how Halo is, I know how it is going to play out, so I might as well rent it return it, and buy the next Bungie game.

Bungie already knows through experience, how to make a FPS. They made the best damned AI I've seen, and they let you Co-Op everything! Coding for a single player experience compared to coding for an entirely cooperative/multiplayer experience is much harder because you have to be able to send EVERYTHING going on your screen to EVERYONE else's screens too! The thing is Bungie (IMO) is the master of the FPS genre, why not top themselves, top Halo, and be at the top of the food chain once more!

If Bungie does decide to go the RTS genre, which they have been successful in with Myth, they will have to compete with the likes of Starcraft! If they can defeat Blizzard's game in sales, that would have to take a miracle if you ask me. It would have to literally be a game changer in the right direction. I really don't know much about Myth, or hell anything in the RTS genre because I don't even play it much if ever. So this is why I highly doubt Bungie will make an RTS (not because I don't play those games, because of the LARGE fanbase of Starcraft).

If Bungie goes down the route of an action RPG, the game would have to be something groundbreaking. It would have to either be a shooter or a something like Shadowrun. You would be able to play your character from Campaign mode and be able to fully customize their looks, fighting style (shooter, melee, magic?), and equipment. That way it would be a mix of something like Diablo, where through the campaign you get VERY different types of armors and weapons and level yourself up the way you see fit, and Mass Effect or Halo for the level of action and epicness.

(TL/DR below)

This is what I guess the game will be. I mean they always seem to like to say "See you starside" and Bungie's story as a company has always been the guys who started from the basement and worked themselves up to the stars. I mean who will forget Bungie! Maybe our great-great grandkids lol, but hey they built themselves up from the basement up! Why can't we do the same in their next game? That's why the RPG may seem plausible. But if Bungie wants to compete with Microsoft and shake their fist to the man, they'll make an FPS game. And if Bungie wants to TRULY suprise us, they'll make a RTS that will be a gamechanger.

So what do you guys think? Any criticism on my opinions? Discuss!



[Edited on 08.05.2011 3:39 AM PDT]

  • 08.05.2011 3:32 AM PDT

I want her...

The impression i got from the vidoc was that its going to be a dating sim


I hope I'm not wrong

  • 08.05.2011 3:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: irishfreak
The impression i got from the vidoc was that its going to be a dating sim


I hope I'm not wrong


I'll remember this, if this ends up being it, I will send you 1,000 US dollars.

  • 08.05.2011 3:44 AM PDT

I am flatterd that you botherd to look at my signature.

When bungie said new, I personaly felt that the meant brand spanking new..

  • 08.05.2011 3:44 AM PDT

I hope it isn't an RTS. A developer can say, "This is an RTS designed specifically with consoles in mind!" all they want, but that won't change the fact that RTS games feel weird on a console. To me, at least.

  • 08.05.2011 5:28 AM PDT

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  • 08.05.2011 5:37 AM PDT
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It will not be an RTS. Activision isn't going to have two of its big name companies go up against each other. Also, people would only buy the PC version because RTSs on a console blows.

  • 08.05.2011 5:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: CagedObscurity
I hope it isn't an RTS. A developer can say, "This is an RTS designed specifically with consoles in mind!" all they want, but that won't change the fact that RTS games feel weird on a console. To me, at least.

This. Halo Wars was the best RTS game on a console, and Halo Wars sucks...and I am a HUGE RTS fans.

I personally think it will be a space-based RPG of some sort, with different factions and planets and everything. A little like a space-based Fallout 3...or a RPG based in the Firefly universe (crosses fingers)

[Edited on 08.05.2011 5:52 AM PDT]

  • 08.05.2011 5:51 AM PDT

The game huxley was trying to do something similar (FPSMMO for PC and Xbox360). It looked pretty sweet, but ended up dying from what i can tell. If bungie is going to be doing an FPSMMO i bet it will be done right. I cant wait to hear what they are going to do.

  • 08.05.2011 6:10 AM PDT
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As someone pointed out before, there was some text at the top of a screen the development team was looking at some time during the video. The text ended like this "Gameplay between landmarks". Also, you have the demonstration of the star, to whatever planet that is, rising/setting which points out to me that the game will have a time lapse function to it. All of these things wouldn't make sense unless you were in some sort of open world. The video with the windmills and how the one guy was placing down mountains all seems as though it is in an open world.

From all of that, I'd say this game will be, just as Joe Staten put it, "always there for you". Could be a sort of MMO or an open world RPG (Oblivion, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Borderlands, etc.)

[Edited on 08.05.2011 6:20 AM PDT]

  • 08.05.2011 6:18 AM PDT

Just enjoy the damn game!
Who cares about BR vs AR

To be honest, whatever game Bungie makes I'll buy. Bungie know that many other people will do the same so they could literally do anything. I'm not going to try and guess what it is.

  • 08.05.2011 6:31 AM PDT

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[urk]http://misriahsolutions.com/articles/waiting-for-destiny /[/url]

its called Destiny, check this link out, i found it months ago

  • 08.05.2011 6:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: txgrim4z
http://misriahsolutions.com/articles/waiting-for-destiny/

its called Destiny, check this link out, i found it months ago
Fix'd. You had "Urk" instead of "URL" :P

  • 08.05.2011 6:54 AM PDT

Im txgrim4 (Grim, Grimmy, Grimsta), i have been playing xboxlive for 9 years, evr since day 1 of Halo:CE til now. I love H2, that and Halo 1 are my favs. Im a Halologist when it comes to the Bungie/Halo Universe. Ive also played Marathon Series, ONI, and Myth Series. I live in Texas, Play Football, and cant wait for Halo 4!


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Posted by: txgrim4z
http://misriahsolutions.com/articles/waiting-for-destiny/

its called Destiny, check this link out, i found it months ago
Fix'd. You had "Urk" instead of "URL" :P


Oh, lol sorry

  • 08.05.2011 7:00 AM PDT
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honestly, I don't think the RTS will work. Considering they're making it multiplatform (and probably main focus on consoles), an RTS on consoles will not work.

  • 08.05.2011 7:06 AM PDT

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Clearly they are making a "lego halo."

  • 08.05.2011 7:11 AM PDT