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Posted by: Gargantuan
Has Bungie betrayed its fans? Not all of them. Has Bungie betrayed its old school fans? Absolutely. Bungie betrayed them back when they announced Halo 3, and the announcement of two more Halo games is only adding insult to injury for them.
How is Bungie insulting oldschool fans by making more games? Are you saying that when Bungie made Marathon 2 they also insulted the then oldschool gamers who had played Myth or Oni?
Bungie has done no such insult, they have their current game universe, and they want to share it, and thus far they have given us one awsome game, one awsome multiplayer experience (with a great but not awsome single player), and are going to be comming out with three more awsome games based in that universe, only one of which they will be making and as such they can move onto another project in good time.
Or do you mean it's insulting that instead of paying this kind of attention to, say Myth, and doing it for Halo, that they are insulting those players who wanted more Myth games? (good ones).
Maybe the Bungie guys got tired of Myth, think of that?
But for the majority of its fans, Bungie has given them what they want. The majority of people want more Halo, and that's what they'll get. Will these be the last two Halo games ever made? Probably not. Halo makes too much money for no one to make another game, whether it be Bungie or another company contracted to work on it like Ensemble. Personally if Bungie made Halo games forever I would be happy.
When has Bungie ever done anything for the money as first priority? If they wanted to do that, they could have kept making Marathon games and whiped Doom's arse by putting them on the PC. Or kept making Myth games. They didn't know Halo would be as big as it was, they didn't know Halo 2 would be as big as it was (when they started). In fact, they had been thinking about all they had left out of the Halo story with only doing Halo 1 and a bunch of them decided to wright up possible stories for a second Halo game, propose them, and that started the ball rolling on Halo 2/3. Halo wasn't that popular in terms of video game history, it just did well on the xBox, and did ok when it finally got ported to PC.
Still hasn't outdone Quake. Halo 2 was the groundbreaker in terms of popularity, and if it wasn't for Microsoft's massive marketing department, that wouldn't have happened either, or at least, not as fast.
I have to agree with EastBeast though, Bungie tells the truth the majority of the time, but has been known to mislead their fans and hold back the whole truth at times.
As the other man said, Evidence please. The only thing I have seen is missfollowing by people who make assumptions. They have never said that something would be in the game and then it ended up not being in the game, without telling us that it did not make the final cut. They never said that something would not be in the game, and then was in the game. They used the "no comment" derivatives a lot. That means any dissapointment is due to someone making a wrong assumption.
With the release of Halo 3 pending, information is bound to be leaked, and Bungie will try to suppress the truth by whatever means necessary to protect their product, even if it means telling a lie or two.
The first script for the Halo Movie was leaked, they didn't lie about it, they just simply ignored it, knowing that if they said anything, people would use it to say the script was real or not real, when the fact is, that script was scrapped a while ago, but not before the leak as far as we know, so at the time it was the real script, but now it is just garbage.
True they never talked of this, but is that lieing? Bungie isn't responsible for what people interpret or assume, and trying to make them responsible is just foolish.
So is Bungie losing some of its support? Yes, but the majority of people are pleased with this move made by Bungie to commission two new Halo games to outside developers. However, should these games not meet expectations, the guys at Bungie will be the ones to blame, because they gave permission to work on these products in the first place.
They will be the one's to blame for letting Halo into the wrong hands. Is this a problem? I expect them to take responsibility if any of these projects are not up to Bungie and Halo par. They admit responsibility for these projects by telling us how involved they are in their development to ensure continuity of story and tech.
Yep, Bungie has had a couple slips, but then again, is Bungie responsible for those people who abuse said slips to ruin the game for others? No, their not. In terms of graphical performance on the XBox for Halo 2, they pushed farther than they should have, but aside from the loading issues, is the game not fun? And is it Bungie's fault for overestimating what the generic XBox could handle, or the XBox's fault for not being good enough? Bungie's fault obviously, but meh, still looks better than most other xBox games.