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[wsoxfan1214]

What a fucking stupid move by Bungie.

 

[heckfu]

Is 434 like bizarro 343?

434 was the original Bungie building until they moved to their current site.

It's NOW home to 343i.

 

[Van Owen]

lol I like how some of you are like "oh he was fired for his political beliefs no big deal".

 

[UrbanRats]

It was over a year ago, maybe even two years. He and I argued about it on Twitter for a little bit. I can almost 100% say that it wasn't what got him fired. I mean really, there's no way it was. I only mentioned it cause it's the one (important) blemish on my otherwise unwavering love for the man.

Oh i see, i thought he was being relentless with it or something.
Well then i am curious to know why would they fire a talent like him.


Then again, Ubisoft didn't pick up Jesper Kyd for AC3 (which not surprisingly had a bland OST), so anything can happen in this industry.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Marty doesn't want to work on Halo anymore. That's not going to happen.

how you know?

 

[Tzeentch]

Bungie had to know this was going to be high profile. Interesting times ...

 

[kahboomkin]

I can't even believe this...
His music was half the reason I loved Halo so much

 

[SwiftDeath]

Well that's surprising to learn. Wonder why Bungie wanted him out

 

[Vire]

No fucking way!

Really stunned to hear this.

 

[kittens]

Two years ago?

You made it sound like it was last week.

No offense, but if you're going to post something like that in this thread, why don't you tell us it was years ago? You essentially threw a hand grenade in this thread that's led to a lot of speculation already when he apparently has done nothing like that recently.

My bad. I just meant to add in a personal nitpick rather than spark a bunch of unbased speculation. I'll edit the post, but it's been quoted a million times already, so the damage is done I suppose.

 

[clav]

Whoa.

Someone knows something.

 

[D23]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

 

[Bornstellar]

WTF.

 

[Tablo]

WTF
Microsoft/343 needs to snap him up ASAP O:

 

[Draconian]

They could have just let him go then. Termination is a punitive move. You're putting a black mark on someone's record and telling them to fuck off.

I guess I'm going to have to go back and edit that post, because I was being sarcastic. Of all the reasons that have been suggested in this thread, I'd put the quality of his work at the very bottom of the possibilities as to why he was fired.

 

[Man_Flannel]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

Omg this would make me so happy.

 

[kittens]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

I'm not even a Mass Effect fan, but this makes a lot of sense.

 

[Kajiba]

I'm really surprised by this. What the hell happen?

 

[dark10x]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

Actually, I'd like to see Marty and Jack Wall collaborate on Mass Effect 4. Could be amazing.

 

[everyday math]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

I could get behind that.

I don't really see him going back to Halo.

 

[markot]

Trying to extrapolate from 140 characters and one side of the story. Sounds like the internets.

 

[Flame Lord]

Wait, really? Was this recent?

I'm pretty sure that happened a long ass time ago, like 2 or 3 years. I doubt that's it.

 

[Random17]

My first reaction is "all of my whats", but I'm guessing that there must be some really good reason to fire 30% of the Halo franchise just like that.

I'm still in shock.

 

[MattKeil]

Too much freaking Halo talk in here, his Myth scores were godlike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTgvNsqb9Y

Marty arguably is the soul of Halo, but yeah, his Myth work is some of his absolute best. Set the tone of that game from the first second.

 

[catmario]

Bungie suiside itself.

This means that Bungie's one of the big icon has disappeared.

You'll regret that bungie.

Now 343 must take him back!

 

[TAJ]

434 was the original Bungie building until they moved to their current site.

It's NOW home to 343i.

lolwut
They were originally in Chicago.

 

[doemaaan]

Bioware should hire him so he can compose mass effect 4

Needed more quoting.

 

[kittens]

Trying to extrapolate from 140 characters and one side of the story. Sounds like the internets.

Dude, this news is huge. There's no way people aren't going to talk about it. All we can do is speculate until more info is released.

 

[Doodis]

What the hell? Head am assplode! I was seriously looking forward to his work with Paul McCartney on Destiny. What in the world are they going to do now? Use all his music up-to-date? Hire someone to quickly rewrite the entire score in a few short months? This is madness!

 

[freenudemacusers]

Bungie suiside itself.

This means that Bungie's one of the big icon has disappeared.

You'll regret that bungie.

Now 343 must take him back!

Bungie just shot themselves in the foot...

 

[Oemenia]

Wow he must've done something real bad to get fired like that.

 

[Squire]

I guess I'm going to have to go back and edit that post, because I was being sarcastic. Of all the reasons that have been suggested in this thread, I'd put the quality of his work at the very bottom of the possibilities as to why he was fired.

Oh, haha, yeah.

There's definitely a reason for this. Bungie's BOD didn't turn into a pack of morons and/or just start hating Marty over night. They have a reason for this and I have to imagine it's a good one. The dude is an asset.

 

[SpudBud]

This is pretty crazy. I wonder what must of happened.

 

[Piggus]

Fuck you Bungie.

 

[EchoChamber]

Wtf

 

[G.Newell]

Damn WTF

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Quite shocking, honestly.

I'm really curious as to what the reasoning for this was now.

 

[soxinthebox]

My bad. I just meant to add in a personal nitpick rather than spark a bunch of unbased speculation. I'll edit the post, but it's been quoted a million times already, so the damage is done I suppose.

Of course it was going to be taken that way

 

[HTupolev]

Bungie just shot themselves in the foot...

I was thinking about making that post, but it feels too real.

For over a decade, Marty O'Donnell is an actual massive part of the appeal of Bungie games in and of themselves. It's more than a peripheral oddity, like with FFXIII's multiplat situation.

 

[Matt Attack]

This is so sad, I love his music. I'd really like to know what happened.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Wild. It's a bummer for both parties I'm sure.

 

[Sheroking]

Yeah, I'm sure this is by far the most likely scenario.

EDIT: I'm being sarcastic.

Just posing alternative theories that have as much evidence behind them as the assumptive one.

 

[RoKKeR]

This is pretty crazy. I wonder what must of happened.

Argggggghhhh I don't want to go to bed pissed. Some serious shit must have gone done for them to fire somebody as important as Marty.

Fuck this!

 

[CMojicaAce]

they must've felt his destiny was elsewhere

Spoiler

hope he finds a job

Okay, this made me laugh.


Hope he finds another job soon.

 

[firehawk12]

I wonder if we'll get the full story on this.

 

[everyday math]

How am I supposed to go to bed now? Too shocked.

 

[Frologic]

Woah, can't wait to hear the details on this. Hopefully he stays with game industry. Wherever he goes, I can at least know that the next game he works on will have a good soundtrack/343plz.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

 

[KarmaCow]

I don't know, it seems kinda weird that he would just announce getting fired, 4 days after the fact, on twitter. Sounds like he wanted to leave and is just drumming up twitter noise because he knows how dumb it can be.

edit: Though if he was just doing to laugh at the nonsense, he would have to expect fan backlash against Bungie in some way. Dunno, this is all weird. Going to wait for the follow up.

 

[Verachi]

Whoa.

You got Staten back, all you need is Marty now.