Bungie to Step Back From Halo Series 49
Thanks to the BBC for their articles on the near future of Bungie. With Halo 2 ready to ship, it appears the company is stepping back from the Halo series for the moment. While they have over 100 years of plot fleshed out for the gameworld, plans for the future are in flux. For now, "Most people will take a week or two, some up to a month, but almost everyone will be back here in time for the game launch, to witness it first hand."
Re:plot? (Score:2)
Save Earth? Probably. Save the galaxy? Maybe, but maybe he'll 'let' the Monitor activate the Halo in the Covenant's part of the galaxy and blow them away ending the war.
Re:plot? (Score:2)
Oh, and Earth too...
Halo world story (Score:1, Interesting)
Just like Tribes takes place in the Starsiege/Earthsiege universe.
So, shouldn't it already have a lot of backstory?
Re:Halo world story (Score:2)
Re:Halo world story (Score:1)
* - As do those long lost bonuses in the game box like cloth maps.
Re:Halo world story (Score:2)
www.ilovebees.com
timetravel, flash-clones, retired Spartan 1's, rampant AI's, Naval Intelligence coverups, illegal refugess; its really good stuff actually
for those too lazy to really get into the storyline, just go to http://ilovebees.com/humptydumpty.html [ilovebees.com] to hear the story so far
Re:Halo world story (Score:1)
Gee...how long did it take to make it to the Mac? I was so looking foward to it also.
But as I said, this was many years ago.
Re:Halo world story (Score:2, Insightful)
Yet, somehow, someone brings up the Mac/Bungie thing on even the flimsiest of pretext every time Halo is mentioned.
Re:Halo world story (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't see the submission queue. but I'll bet some variation on "Micro$oft is teh evil for buying Bungie" gets submitted at least once a month.
History of Halo (Score:4, Informative)
But that was when it was a Myth/scifi hybrid. It was much more of a RTS game, not any sort of first-person game.
Bungie posted a history of Halo a few months ago...
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=pr
And of course they're pretty upfront about their history too.
http://www.bungie.net/Inside/CustomPage.aspx?sect
Just wanted to get some tru7h out there...
Cheers,
-Geoff
Re:History of Halo (Score:2)
And yeah, in reality, who cares?
Re:History of Halo (Score:2)
I too thought that first Myth/Halo thing seemed really cool. I remember thinking about 64-player battles and that sort of thing.
Fun.
-Geoff
(waiting for Halo 2 goodness... hope I have the free time...
Re:Halo world story (Score:1)
*SPOILER*
Marathon Infinity ends with the AI which you interact with for the majority of the series, merging into an alien AI and surviving to the end of the universe. Where it finially realizes that you were Destinty Incarnate.
Whatever the next game is... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A series? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A series? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A series? (Score:2)
Guess we need a "-1 Wrong" mod for my original comment!
Re:A series? (Score:2)
Re:A series? (Score:2)
Re:A series? (Score:2)
Old news... (Score:1)
If it makes enough money there'll be a third one (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:4, Interesting)
Minotaur.
Pathways into Darkness.
Marathon Trilogy (the third, IIRC, wasn't quite done in-house even).
Myth.
Oni.
Halo.
Now call me naive (STA7IC YOU NAIVE FOOL), but there isn't an entirely straight line here. The Marathon Trilogy won awards in the Mac community and developed a cult following (even if the Windows M2 port didn't go very far), but when asked about a sequel, they responded that they'd be beating a dead horse for money. They finished the story that they wanted to tell, and were moving on.
Myth was a great piece of work. They left the door ajar for Myth 2, and took that, but pretty much wrapped the story up at the end... unless you want to go backwards or forwards some 1000 years or so in the storyline. Take Two exploited this option when they put together Myth 3, which is pretty much ignored now.
Oni was a one-shot storyline and great fun. We're not expecting to see any sequels, prequels, or addons here, unless Take Two is *really* after money. Bungie packaged that game up nicely.
From the day it shipped, everyone knew that Halo 2 was in the works -- they *had* to keep it up, tell more about what that damn blue glowbug is up to. Visiting Earth will be a trip. From the day XBox Live was announced, everyone knew that Halo 2 was necessary for the continued good of XBox Live. I'd be interested in seeing the relationship between XBL subscriptions and Halo 2 shipping.
But from here... who knows. Hopefully Bungie will surprise us with a new universe to romp through, whether it be scifi or fantasy. Or something set between 1900-1915 or 1950-2100. Postmodernism and historical fiction are both underdeveloped catagories in the gaming department if you don't have a war involved. Whatever they do, keep an eye on Bungie in a couple years, and ignore all the shiny weapons, vehicles, and maps they're sure to bring in over time as downloadable content. It's just another division of the Office of Bungie Mind Control that keeps me
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:1)
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:3, Interesting)
The little details, while often overlooked are what make the difference in the long run. The Marathon series is good proof of that. You don't need to read all the stuff in every console to get your objectives and complete the game, but they add a lot of depth to the game universe.
Now, I waiting for Halo 2 just to find out if Cortana DID go rampant... (Theres some good circumstantial evidence of this)
Well, one thing has changed since Halo though.. (Score:1)
Now, don't jump ahead of me here, i'm not taking the bandwagon stance of "omgz they're with M$ so now they're just a mindless arm of M$ omgz".
It's more of a Microsoft has a little more influence now on 'em, so if they wave a few more bucks at them combined with whatever the massive sales will be (and they WILL be massive), there could be a 3rd game in the series, or perhaps an offshot of it, something other than a pure FPS, who knows.
All I know is that the IP(intellectual
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:2)
Nobody outside Bungie really knows what sort of game it was, but according to Matt Soell, "the game formerly known as Phoenix has indeed been shelved. The consensus was that we could finish the game but we would not be happy with the result. If the team didn't think they'd enjoy the game as designed, they could not seriously expect others to enjoy it."
Who knows how many other game ideas they've been h
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:2)
How can you forget Pimps at Sea [bungie.org]? (You'll have to wait until next April to see the full site.)
Re:If it makes enough money there'll be a third on (Score:2)
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Perfect timing for a price drop... (Score:2)
Naw (Score:1, Insightful)
Then do a price dropped bundle of xbox + halo 2 for 129.99, and xbox, halo, halo 2 for 149.99. And then do a Halo 2 edition xbox with halo 2 + patches and whatever for 199.99 with shinier plastic, master chief action figure and ghost/warthog vehical by McFarlane toys.
Marathon! (Score:2)
Re:Marathon! (Score:2)
Re:Marathon! (Score:1)
Re:Marathon! (Score:1)
Right, because Microsoft didn't let them port Halo to PC (via Gearbox).
Unlike Halo 1, which started as a Mac project, then moved to PC and finally XBox, Halo 2 has always been XBox-based, and Bungie has never said a word about it being on any other platform. Why, then, do you a
Re:Marathon! (Score:1)
people posting here aren't insightful (Score:1)
Re:people posting here aren't insightful (Score:1)
This is not news. (Score:2)
Uh, surprise surprise - they finished their part of a major software project - when ELSE will a product team finally be *allowed* to take some vacation guilt-free (believe me, trying to squeeze it in at some "lull" in a project schedule rarely works out as planned)? If I was upper management at Bungie (yes, they're part of MS, but I'm sure they still have their own internal reporting structure), I'd definitely g
Death March. (Score:2)
So, I guess there won't be many bugs in the final product then, right?