- RidiculousX
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I've been following this thread for a while and thinking about he whole thing. It may seem like this isn't the Bungie that we 'once knew'. It may seem like they are branching off too far. But there is so much we don't know.
It's really kind of strange because I showed the Halo Wars website to my friend the day it came out and we started having a discussion and eventually it led up to the idea that "what if they start pasting Halo on lunch boxes (something that was actually brought up many pages ago) and putting it in happy meals". The term "degrading" was used. It just didn't seem right. I mean, they have this wacky, third party Halo Portal or whatever for cell phones, and it just doesn't seem to live up to "the Bungie name". And I must admit, if it ever came to the point where Halo was pasted onto a lunch box by a third party, I would be pretty dissapointed.
I guess this recent turn of events has something about it that makes people doubt certain aspects of Bungie.
But there is so much we don't know. There is so much they are not telling us. And I think we're really jumping to conclusions here.
There was this video on Channel 9 (for those of you who don't know, Channel 9 is a community website where people from Microsoft and regular people can hang out. If Microsoft was the castle, and if we were the people in the town below, Channel 9 is the keyhole looking in. It's mind numbing (that said, I wouldn't encourage you to go over and sign up unless you're a technical type)). This video was an interview with Mat Naguchi (uber awesome Bungie tools programmer / unbounded rage) and he brought something up which I think can be applied to this whole situation (I'm going to paraphrase what he said, so don't choke me if it's off). It was along the lines of this:
"It's really easy to take something that you don't understand, and then take a small part that you do understand to explain the part that you don't understand."
Usually, it's ok to do something like that, because that's how we think and reason and draw conclusions. But in this case, there really isn't enough information.
And bringing this whole thing back into the light of "Losing faith in Bungie," just to let everyone know, I still trust them on this. I have high hopes for Halo 3 and the RTS and the Movie and Peter Jacksons interactive mind dropping (or whatever it is). I'm looking forward to it because it should be good. For sure Bungie made the decision to let Ensemble make a Halo based RTS long before the announcement, and so we've only learned about it now.
Anyway, I'm going to stop now before I say anything really stupid or wrong.
I hope I didn't take that quote out of context. I mean, yeah, Mat's from Bungie and stuff,and I honestly wasn't fishing around looking for a Bungie employee to quote, but it has significance. And I hope this doesn't end up feeding the frienzy. And I really don't think that I can add much to this whole debate because now there are so many different oppinions and I just offered yet another one, but that's the way it is.
I could post a link up to the video, but that would lead everyone to "the front door of Microsoft" (crud, I let the cat out of the bag, again). You can find a link to it on the Bungie Studios page at Wikipedia. It's around 19 minutes into the video (let me warn you, everything else in the video probably wouldn't be very interesting to most people);