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| Harsh | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 5/26/06 1:41 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: bungie burnout (Rade) : He's right. Microsoft is a business. They have to make money. If Bungie
The E3 2000 demo was not impressive? Are you kidding me? There are even some people who weren't impressed with Halo 3's demo because it didn't include gameplay. What the heck anybody expects to see at this stage, gameplay-wise, I can't imagine. Think Halo and Halo 2, but shinier, and you've probably got a good idea. I feel fairly confident that when halo 3 ships, it will have some gameplay, some AI, and a lot of stuff that the H3 trailer does not show. So whether or not an E3 demo impresses is not, I think, a good indication of whether or not Halo would have been successful or not. Some games, I'm sure, have impressed at the show and flopped, as well as vice-versa. As a Mac/PC game perhaps less ambitious than what Bungie shipped for the Xbox, I've little doubt that had it managed to ship, it would have been a successful title. Just a different title. Who knows, with online multiplayer out of the box-- no reason to think it wouldn't have, being a PC title and not for a Live-less Xbox-- it might have had a vibrant PC community right off the bat, instead of the lukewarm (at best) reception that HPC and HCE eventually got. Because of Microsoft, the game
Being an independent developer/publisher, I'll warrant, was in many ways harsher than anything Microsoft can impose on Bungie, and didn't come with the kind of resources that MS has available to give Bungie. | |
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