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Subject: Bungie should hire some good writers...

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyám-

Oh ye of little faith...

BUNGiE is well-known for it's story driven games and I, for one, believe that BUNGiE writes better stories than Bethesda, BioWare, or Epic Games. Look at the Marathon franchise or Myth Franchise. Halo was a turning point in re-writing what you could and couldn't do in FPS. Before Halo you had an infinite "bag of holding" which you could carry an unlimited amount of guns. Halo's story was rich, heck I played BioShock, and Mass Effect but I am not into RPG style shooters, I rather play a good FPS any day.

My avatar finds your lack of faith in BUNGiE disturbing.

  • 03.24.2012 7:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Victor Sullivan

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Are you implying that Halo had bad story?

For a video game, it had an amazing story.



However the characters were bland and underdeveloped, in fact everyone in the Halo games except the Arbiter are kind of bland.

Jacob and Miranda Keyes?
Prophet of Truth? (hardly bland, IMO)
Guilty Spark?
Cortana?
Johnson?

You get the point. (Or not and the books have biased my opinion... whatever). Halo is pretty damn good for a video game.

  • 03.24.2012 7:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: cortana 5
Video games had great writing until the Mass Effect 3 ending. >_>

But, seriously, writing isn't just dialogue or scrips in games. When you write for games, you're not writing for an audience. The trick is to write a character that the play will give enough of a damn about in order to keep playing. You're writing an experience, not just a story. Hell, people write environments, in a sense. In a game, we've got a unique opportunity to tell the story through an interactive setting, where other mediums rely on dialogue or written narrative.

It's so damn difficult to get good game writers. You can have an excellent writer who will fall face-flat in game development. It's not like game studios have a "only hire the good writers" button. It's not that black and white.

I think that Destiny will provide them with a new opportunity of new-found freedom to go wherever the hell they want with their game, instead of being bogged down by Microsoft over changing things up too much.


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  • 03.24.2012 8:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: LnP DeLpHiuS
I would love to write for Bungie. Please hire me.

I will captivate your audiences for decades.

I'd apply except that I have no means of getting to Seattle.


And, seriously, no experience writing for games or TV. Just my own novels.


And happy Bnet birthdayings, Cortana. :D

[Edited on 03.25.2012 3:29 AM PDT]

  • 03.25.2012 3:24 AM PDT

I miss Halo. Maybe Halo 4 will change that.

Edit: Lol nope

The Mass Effect ending was pretty damn clever considering they had to rewrite it after the leak. Indoctrination is always fun! The only problem I have is that the choices made during the campaign did nothing at the end, but you still had some choice.

I hope we see something of the FPS style from Bungie, but a campaign more along the lines of RPG games. I'd love to play 30 hours under a character made by Bungie, which could be further sculpted by myself.

[Edited on 03.25.2012 8:24 AM PDT]

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