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Subject: Ayarrrr....Bungie Has Lost It's Sense of Hum0rrrrr
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ARrrrrgggh...(read fully before posting, please, and mods, this can stay here if the other bungie rant can)

Those of you who know me, know that I am definitely a Bungie Fanboi. But, I'm not the kind that things Bungie is perfect, all-knowing, and/or omnipotent. There is something that has been on my mind about this Developer for a long while now. I've finally decided to put it into words, and say(post) them.

I remember a time. A time that seems so long ago to me. I had bought an XBox, and of course Halo. I beat the Maw on Legendary, and discovered the hilarious bonus clip that we all know about. lol. Elites and butts! ROFL!

It was not long after that I started reading the WWU on b.net(but I hadn't joined it yet, mind you). It was spring 04. The New Hotness was very new. We got our Weekly What's Update, which had lots of questions answered, and of course, a Mister Chief. This was a time when I laughed OUT LOUD, throught out the ENTIRE updates! Hilarity!

Then, Halo 2 came. Easily the greatest multiplayer experience of all time. XBox Live subscriptions doubled overnight! It was so amazing! But....it had a problem.....it was so serious.....so hardcore(relative to Halo 1).....As hard as I tried, I could find no Bonus Clip. No elites grabbing butts. None. There was NOTHING funny about Halo 2. At all! Not even killing Marines was fun anymore! The only humor one finds in Halo 2 is when you play some funny guy on Live. Really. I kid you not.

And my sweet, sweet, WWU is gone. It is now just the "Update." And, even our beloved friend Frankie, one of the most hilarious men on Earth, has lost his touch. Now, when reading an update, I crack a few smiles here and there. Not constantly. And DEFINITELY not laughing out loud.

Then Bungie comes out with the Podcast which I have been waiting for for so long. It was supposed to be hilarious, just based on who was a part of it. The theme song was funny. The resulting Cowbell discussions were funny(btw, MORE COWBELL!). But, other than that, it was boring! Never in my life would I have guessed that a Bungie Podcast would be boring!

Bungie becomes less humorous every day! Look at the Graphic Novel! NOTHING funny in there! Not even the Mister Chief was funny(tho it was pretty cool). A comic book has a lot of opportunity for humor. But it wasn't there.

Now Halo 3 is comin out. Said to be a darker tale. Sure to be more hardcore than ever. This is very bad. There will be no humor. And Hardcore-ness is very bad for the series. You want to expand your fanbase, right? Well, a hardcore game is NOT the way to do it. Casual gamers don't play hardcore games. I look at Halo 1, and it seems casual to me, in comparison with Halo 2. Cartoony, even. But, I love cartoons, so that's actually a good thing.

My plea to Bungie. Lighten up. Live a little. Have some fun. Grab some Marine(or Noguchi) butt! Don't become soul-less! Please!

  • 10.03.2006 2:23 PM PDT
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You my friend are forgetting one key variable, growing up. I bet if you go back through the history of bungie a few years back, you will find that what you "laughed out loud" about was merely odd and stupid but great and fun when you were younger.
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Games are getting more serious because games are starting to head towards more hardcore gamers, gamers that could spend day in and day out on one game. And besides, people were pushing halo 2 out, I would keep hearing,"COME ON BUNGIE WE WANT H2!!!" or "HURRY THE HELL UP WITH THAT GAME WILL YOU IT HAS BEEN YEARS!!". Not to mention halo 2 was only a stepping stone for halo 3.

  • 10.03.2006 2:31 PM PDT
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Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

I think its a mixture of the two, M3.

As much as you are growing up, though, Bungie seems to be a little less on the fun side. Granted they have that right, but I love the sarcastic, ,cruel, and ruthless humor of Frankie's updates, myths about Shishka and Noguchi, etc. Look at that video tour of the new office I laughed through that, but now it seems to be a lot more serious.

oh, and Skiska am hawt

  • 10.03.2006 2:36 PM PDT

Bungie's humor is the hot sauce on my burrito which is whatever Bungie game I am playing. Let's keep our eye on the prize.

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But, you're hot sauce has turned to mere Mild Soss. Don't you want your mouth afire once again?

And, I suppose growing up does affect it, but not too much. I still have a very, shall we say, childish sense of humor.

  • 10.03.2006 2:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Kilroy
Look at the Graphic Novel! NOTHING funny in there! Not even the Mister Chief was funny(tho it was pretty cool). A comic book has a lot of opportunity for humor. But it wasn't there.

What about the mad etch-a-sketch skillz?


cool, not funny....

dang, double post. sorrry....

[Edited on 10/3/2006]

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Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Posted by: impurity
Grunts are funny.


NO they aren't!!!!!! I hate this whole "grunts are funny" thing. Joe Staten, you created a short, five-foot monster that makes little kids annoy me.

Seriously, grunts are not funny. I am going to explode if someone else tells me how funny grunts are.

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I thought the weekly update devoted to Pimps at Sea, complete with screen shots, was funny.

  • 10.03.2006 2:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rainman89
Posted by: impurity
Grunts are funny.


NO they aren't!!!!!! I hate this whole "grunts are funny" thing. Joe Staten, you created a short, five-foot monster that makes little kids annoy me.

Seriously, grunts are not funny. I am going to explode if someone else tells me how funny grunts are.

But....grunts are funny. *stares intently* Seriously though, why get so worked up over impys comment? Their just grunts, no harm comes from grunts. Not even soldier grunts.

  • 10.03.2006 2:58 PM PDT
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Seriously, grunts are not funny. I am going to explode if someone else tells me how funny grunts are.


Soooo funny...

Is the design of Bungie to be funny, or fun? But some might think those are one and the same, or at least closely related. Think of the Marine on Outskirts who says "Thank God it's you!" I've heard stories of Marathoners who shot the guy in a crazed frenzy thinking that he would run up them and explode. Isn't that funny? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, Bungie had foreseen that some members might have had that reaction? How about the Grunts' Birthday Party skull? Isn't it great to watch those enemies launched into the air when you combine it with the Sputnik skull?

Maybe Bungie is just as funny as it was before, but now the humor is in another form...

  • 10.03.2006 3:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Rainman89
Posted by: impurity
Grunts are funny.


NO they aren't!!!!!! I hate this whole "grunts are funny" thing. Joe Staten, you created a short, five-foot monster that makes little kids annoy me.

Seriously, grunts are not funny. I am going to explode if someone else tells me how funny grunts are.

How can you watch them run away, arms in the air, shouting "little people first!" and not laugh? Especially when you catch up to them and crush their skull with the butt of your rifle.

It's like "little bunny foo foo" with aliens.

Ingenious way to think about it. I love it, although it is even better when they have a sticky on them, run to the elites, then shouts "little people first!". Then you hear the elites scream, the grunts scream, and then a grunt body comes flying past your head. But yes, grunts are hilarious at times.
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I wonder if they would ever put Little bunny foo foo on the arcade? : o

  • 10.03.2006 3:06 PM PDT
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Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Rainman89
Posted by: impurity
Grunts are funny.


NO they aren't!!!!!! I hate this whole "grunts are funny" thing. Joe Staten, you created a short, five-foot monster that makes little kids annoy me.

Seriously, grunts are not funny. I am going to explode if someone else tells me how funny grunts are.

How can you watch them run away, arms in the air, shouting "little people first!" and not laugh? Especially when you catch up to them and crush their skull with the butt of your rifle.

It's like "little bunny foo foo" with aliens.


Because I cry whenever I have to kill anything :( I'm so EMOTIONAL!!!!

I'll be in the bathroom crying.

  • 10.03.2006 3:07 PM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
It's like "little bunny foo foo" with aliens.


Now I know you're really old...

  • 10.03.2006 3:28 PM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Posted by: Mabian
Think of the Marine on Outskirts who says "Thank God it's you!" I've heard stories of Marathoners who shot the guy in a crazed frenzy thinking that he would run up them and explode. Isn't that funny? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, Bungie had foreseen that some members might have had that reaction?

Yeah, but "Frog blast the VENT CORE!!" was funnier.

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Posted by: Zee JollyRoger
Posted by: Recon Number 54
It's like "little bunny foo foo" with aliens.


Now I know you're really old...

I even know and love that game. : o

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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Posted by: Zee JollyRoger
Posted by: Recon Number 54
It's like "little bunny foo foo" with aliens.


Now I know you're really old...

I even know and love that game. : o

You what, I don't want to know. I'm not even going to google that. Some things are best left unknown.


Anyway, I think Bungie still is t3h funny, they just don't do t3h funny that much anymore.

  • 10.03.2006 3:36 PM PDT
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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, so I will just say it anyway. How could you never have heard of Little Bunny foo foo!?!?

  • 10.03.2006 3:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: M3 Roki7
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, so I will just say it anyway. How could you never have heard of Little Bunny foo foo!?!?

Nope. I never have, till this thread. In fact, till someone mentioned it again, I thought Recon was just posting random words.
Still, I'm quite familiar with Nijntje. No idea if it's the same thing.

  • 10.03.2006 3:48 PM PDT

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(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

I never realized the human race being wiped from existance was suppose to be funny..
Guess i was wrong.

  • 10.03.2006 3:51 PM PDT

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I thought it was funny when Kilroy was new around here and used to confuse SketchFactor and Frankie. ;)

I still get a lot of laughs from Bungie but then again, I've got a goofy sense of humor.

  • 10.03.2006 3:54 PM PDT

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