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Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.
The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.
It has already happened if you ask me. If an IP is worked on that long; seen the amount of installmens and products as Halo has, sooner or later it will have explored aspects that not necesarily feel as something the original core group of producst did. Mostly due to it being developed by many different individuals, with different styles and preferences, beliefs, virtues and sins.
Now while I don't think that the product--in this case Halo 4--will become a bad game just because of a change of hands, not at all, I do think it might feel completely differnet. And that difference might not click with me, as Halo 1,2,3 did. And if they don't feel the same, why do they carry the same name? ...
I see time and time again that the game is being defended with the arguement that a lot of key individuals from Bungie went along with Halo to Microsoft, that there are a lot of tallented people working on the game, but just think of everyone who stayed: like Marty (the music won't be the same), Joseph (the script won't be the same), ect, etc.
If you can't genuinely create a game in a certain way, if you have to mimic someone else's style in order to produce a result; you're doing it wrong.
This is what I'm afraid of: when making a game becomes a job, and not a passion project. (Why I'm looking forward to see what Bungie's next game is, and not Halo 4).
EDIT:
Now when I come to think of it; there's a really good example of when Halo doesn't feel Halo, which 343i is responsible for, and that is 343 himself. The way he talks and what he says--even if he's voiced by the same guy--feels totally off. Mainly cause he talks way to much, but also cause he pronounces specifics with emotion, something the Staten and O'Donnell directed 343 never did. Just listen to them side by side and you'll hear.
[Edited on 02.14.2012 7:10 AM PST]