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Bungie's announcement canceled, confirming once again that E3 sucks
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gnarkill bill
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You play as Hurley in Halo 4??? wtf??omg rite said:
Proelite said:
That hopelessness in the first game probably stems a lot from the isolation, in the last few levels being the only survivor of a single human ship in the middle of nowhere against an enemy you knew next to nothing about. "Humanizing" the Covenant in H2 really killed their menace, and the Flood's threat really seemed to be downplayed, probably because of the way the characters didn't really react to them in a very fearful way.
BakedPigeon
Banned
Karma Kramer said:
Yep, MS gave them the fucking stick.
Proelite
Member
UltimaPooh said:
Where was the urgency to get to the top of the building? In COD4, you had to overcome a well prepared superior force in a set amount of time before several nukes goes off and kills several hundred million people. Granted the stakes were probably lower in COD4 than in Halo but they made sure that this was some urgent shit.
In contrast, Halo 3: Btw, we need to fire the halo to kill the bugs. Take your time.
BakedPigeon said:
I'm still having a really hard time believing that MSoft waited until twelve hours before Bungie was going to make their announcement to pull the plug. They would have known months in advance about this announcement, so why wait until now. This is the only thing I'm having a problem wrapping my head around.
FightyF said:
Maybe Nintendo took a bunch of the steam out of their announcement. It would be plausible that it sent them back to the drawing board to find another way to "one-up" Nintendo at their own game.
Anyhow, I'll drop it for now. I'm linking this thread later if I'm right, though.
riskVSreward
Member
Was it really canceled? This seems like something Bungie would do...
crestfallen
Member
Could the real reason that the announcement wasn't made be because MS wanted to wait and see how the other conferences went? Originally it was supposed to be announced on Monday, then it was delayed until after the press events. Knowing that neither Nintendo or Sony had megaton announcements, it would be ridiculous to announce something huge that would steal no one's thunder but their own.
Yeah, I was curious about the Bungie announcement and looking forward to it too, but it seems to me like a simple business move.
Yeah, I was curious about the Bungie announcement and looking forward to it too, but it seems to me like a simple business move.
BakedPigeon
Banned
jacobs34 said:
At Bungie.net there is a page that says their "publisher" was the one to pull the plug. Bungie would have revealed something without a doubt, they seemed pretty excited about it.
UltimaPooh
Member
Proelite said:
Well you could remedy that with a time I suppose, but that's just a cheap and easy way to make you feel urgency. I guess what I am trying to describe here isn't really urgency but whether or not you the character felt like you were going to make, and when I started that mission with just the Arbiter at my side... I didn't know. (Obviously I knew I would eventually get it, because I could just continue where I left off) They got that through with the presentation.
your_fat_uncle
Neo Member
So I guess we'll have to wait to hear confirmation that Peter Jackson is making Pimps at Sea.
crestfallen said:
This is plausible except for one thing that bothers me. Cancelling the announcement in the way they did is going to damage their reputation and upset fans. It might not have an impact on the games future sales, but it will dampen the effects of the announcement when it comes at a later date. They're stealing the thunder from their own game by doing this.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Because ditching the iconic player character in favor of the disgraced commander you defeated in the first game resurrected as the servant of an alien political machine only for the both of you to become the pawns of a deranged plant that speaks in a rhyming meter is the definition of cliched.Proelite said:
Halo 2 was inspired. Halo 3, eh.
MMaRsu said:
Since when is GEB not a Bungie employee?
gnarkill bill
Member
Its the ultimate "ARG"............
ha.
ha.
I woke up about an hour ago and just sifted through everything that's happened. I know we'll find out soon enough and all, but this is incredibly disappointing.
Oh well.
That's actually very interesting. I don't see why that would be changed.
I don't think this is a joke at all, but there are so many signs that without Luke's outright confirmation I would have believed.
I'd like to think we'll hear something more official from either Bungie or Microsoft tomorrow regarding the cancellation but I'm not holding my breath.
Oh well.
SecretDestroyer said:
That's actually very interesting. I don't see why that would be changed.
I don't think this is a joke at all, but there are so many signs that without Luke's outright confirmation I would have believed.
I'd like to think we'll hear something more official from either Bungie or Microsoft tomorrow regarding the cancellation but I'm not holding my breath.
gnarkill bill
Member
Edit:NVM
Monocle
Member
I agree to a point. At times the dialogue and pacing in the last two titles aren't all they could be, but I think the stronger parts are good enough to pick up the slack. Both games certainly have their moments. Halo 1 was a product of serendipity that works in ways and for reasons even Bungie hasn't fully reproduced and isolated. However, while the trilogy has its share of flaws, Bungie's strength of vision and unrivaled attention to detail is apparent in each title. The results make it difficult to hold their oversights against them. All of the games' campaigns are highly replayable, and as far as lore is concerned, I think only Bethesda could give Bungie a run for its money.Proelite said:
Edit:
Thing is, the literary underpinnings never impose themselves. Halo's esoteric facets don't drag it down at all. As you know, it's a franchise with enormous mass-market appeal. Those who couldn't care less about the deep stuff gloss right over it. Those who do have a universe of staggering complexity to explore.Proelite said:
artredis1980
Banned
I am actually Happy Microsoft delayed this. halo was released in November, Bungie started work on this project at that time, its just way too early to show something
StormyTheRabbit
Member
artredis1980 said:
*September
And just no.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Bullshit. I am pretty sure EA is the publisher now.
Well, i dont care if the announcement is cancled or not, im still waking up at 7 to see what happens to the site, because if this announcement was posted at the exact same time that the countdown clock hit 12 hours left and now the countdown clock is still on 12 hours, im hoping that the page will be updated at 7:00am-7:07am PST
SecretDestroyer
Banned
Eric WK said:
Because it's a coded message.
Arbitrarily changing something in the background with reversed text is just begging for people to investigate what the text means.
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Son of Godzilla
Banned
MMaRsu said:
It was a joke :/
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
EA style rite?LukeSmith said:
Any publisher that pulls this shit doesn't respect the fans. If this is Microsoft then I am sorry to say it, but they will be losing credibility with me. If this is the act of any other publisher, is a sign of things to come.Proelite said:
Eric WK said:
Well there you have it. I really was just bad timing and bad decision making. I'm content that they actually gave an explanation. Its a typical business move and it makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is why they had to string people along until the last minute. If they had any nagging doubts that they were going to pull it, they should have done so as early as possible.
Marty O'Donnell has chimed in.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=23508986&viewreplies=true#end
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=23508986&viewreplies=true#end
APZonerunner
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Proelite said:
This is Matrix syndrome. The first movie was just the one ship and a small crew so you cared, and you even cared about Zion from the loving description given by the crew.
The second and third movies brought in the whole of zion and the machine city and all that stuff to up the ante, but it just made everything feel more distant.
Rand al Thor 19
Junior Member
For some reason I think the announcement will be made on the last day of E3 and it's not because they are joking around with us. It will be because Microsoft will need to stem all of the Bungie fanboy's rage that this cancellation is obviously causing. Every question that Microsoft will ge from here on out will be about why they did this to Bungie and their fans instead of focusing on what they are showing at E3. In short, this cancellation will overshadow everything they have done and are going to do at E3. This is why I think Microsoft will let Bungie unveil the game on the last day so at least they can get some positive press out of the situation.