- DonVinzone1
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No. Not at all.
The longer Halo ran as a series, the more detached and soulless is felt. And looking back at things, it is pretty apparant Bungie grew tired of Halo, working under Microsoft and the pressure of delivering what the 50+ factions of the community demanded.
I know this isn't shared by a large part of the community, but you could tell things going wrong with H3. It already was as if they weren't completely invested in the story with their hearts and souls. Some great talent on the multiplayer side also left, leaving us with mediocre maps.
ODST was better, but Reach (although still a great game) was a tell tale of how a developer growing tired of their series can't recapture the magic that once made it great.
I'm not going to say Bungie didn't/doesn't care about Halo anymore. That wouldn't be fair, nor the truth I guess. But I am willing to say that the Bungie that gave us CE and H2 wasn't the same Bungie that gave us the last 3 games.
So what would've become of Halo if Bungie had stayed? I bet nothing good actually. After all: if you have to work on something you don't want to work on anymore; you either quit the company, or work on it with great resentment.
Its best for Bungie to work on something new their entirely passionate about. Because that is the only way they can recapture their old quality.
And it was certainly best for Halo to go to 343i. Its not a perfect game. But 343i has the ambition Bungie was lacking with Halo. 343i has put more heart and soul into Halo than Bungie has done in their last years. And 343i dares taking risks with Halo (like Bungie did with CE and H2) that Bungie didn't take in years, preventing the series from growing stale and irrelevant.
[Edited on 12.06.2012 1:11 AM PST]