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Re: *smiling*
Posted By: fatboy18 <jerrywong@shaw.ca>Date: 9/2/01 11:51 p.m.

In Response To: *smiling* (Jester)

Think about it this way. What was the game with the greatest story? Marathon 1 + 2 + I
Were you allowed to go everywhere? Nope.
Did it still rule? Hell yes.
Did it follow a level-by-level and fairly linear design? Oh yeah.
Did other excellent games, like Max Payne, do the same? Yep.
Is Bungie going to make another Planetside? Er, I don't think so.

Conclusion: You do not need a seamless 10,000 km wide world to have fun, and have a good plot.

Besides, I never heard Bungie making that promise. The problem these days is that developers fear to speak out for fear that their casual ideas may be taken as a hardcore promise by overzealous fans.
Example:

"The team and I are thinking of a cool waypoint feature for the units..."

And the fans read it as "We promise there will be a kickass, revolutionary, never-seen-before waypoint feature for the units."

Or rather, in this case, something along the lines of:

"The Halo is a huge world, over 10,000km in diameter."

The fans read: "The Halo is a huge world, over 10,000km in diameter, and you get to tread of every square foot of it."

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     Re: Any word on Transports?Matt 8/31/01 1:11 p.m.
           Re: Any word on Transports?Picky 8/31/01 8:22 p.m.
                 Re: Any word on Transports?Cunbelin The Godlike Wisdom Dispensing Machine 9/1/01 2:58 a.m.
                       Re: Any word on Transports?Picky 9/1/01 5:16 a.m.
                             Re: Any word on Transports?Cunbelin The Godlike Wisdom Dispensing Machine 9/1/01 5:37 a.m.
                                   Re: Any word on Transports?Hethal 9/1/01 5:28 p.m.
                                         Re: Any word on Transports?Cunbelin@Work 9/4/01 12:31 p.m.
           Re: Damn itHethal 8/31/01 9:54 p.m.
           Re: Darn.=NAV=Shadow 8/31/01 10:29 p.m.
                 Pessimism ... don't read this ...Jester 9/1/01 1:14 a.m.
                       Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Funky J 9/1/01 2:52 a.m.
                             Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Funky J 9/2/01 12:27 a.m.
                                   Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Ape Man 9/2/01 12:43 a.m.
                                         Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Jester 9/2/01 1:27 a.m.
                       Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Cunbelin The Godlike Wisdom Dispensing Machine 9/1/01 3:58 a.m.
                       Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...John Denton 9/1/01 2:34 p.m.
                             Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Jester 9/1/01 9:22 p.m.
                       Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...vector40 9/1/01 4:30 p.m.
                             Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...Jester 9/1/01 9:02 p.m.
                             Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...DeAdLy_cOoKiE 9/4/01 7:21 a.m.
                                   Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...vector40 9/4/01 7:12 p.m.
                       Re: smacking down bit by bitHethal 9/1/01 5:59 p.m.
                             :Pvector40 9/1/01 8:06 p.m.
                                   Re: :PHethal 9/2/01 12:23 p.m.
                             Re: smacking down (apache02 bitch slaps em')apache02 9/1/01 9:06 p.m.
                             *smiling*Jester 9/1/01 9:23 p.m.
                                   Re: *smiling*vector40 9/1/01 10:48 p.m.
                                   Re: *smiling*Hethal 9/2/01 12:19 p.m.
                                   Re: *smiling*fatboy18 9/2/01 11:51 p.m.
                                   Re: *smiling*Cunbelin@Work 9/4/01 7:51 p.m.
                       Re: Pessimism ... don't read this ...*Ar-Isildur of *WP* 9/1/01 9:30 p.m.



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