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Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>Date: 7/18/08 3:37 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed? (gspawn)


: This is a hard issue, and I know that this is a bad thing to say at the
: moment, but it *is* a good thing that Microsoft can have an e3 without
: Halo.

It would be if they could, but frankly I think this year's show proved they still can't. If MS won it was by default since nobody else was showing anything major, either.

It wasn't a great e3 conference by any standard (aside from OMG
: FF13MEGATON) , but then again Sony and especially Nintendo didn't do any
: better. Microsoft thinking they had it in the bag and needed to save Halo
: for a later date was, after looking at the conferences, not that bad of a
: decision IMHO. It also demonstrates that Bungie is truly a third-party
: company (or second-party, sort of) and subject to the same rules as
: everyone else.

I wouldn't say that they are. I would say that the act of postponing their announcement (twice now) is a way of trying to demonstrate to them that those rules apply. Whether they really do or not I think has yet to be seen. The move certainly hasn't generated any good will for MS.

: But letting Bungie push forward with the announcement, getting everyone's
: hopes up and all, then letting that bite them in the ass was *not* a
: correct decision. FF13 isn't coming out this year (for either console), so
: claiming Bungie was next year doesn't fly either.

: Maybe if Microsoft had gone into this thing telling Bungie they were on the
: second-string following the casual focus and FF13 announcement, and that
: Bungie should stay quiet so Microsoft could show it still had legs, then I
: could possibly understand that. Maybe that even happened- I don't have
: that information.

Perhaps it did, but the timing would still be questionable. If MS is leaving such major strategy decisions down to the last minute, then something is wrong. If they aren't, then they deliberately misled Bungie in order to embarrass them.

: I also just want to throw this out- aside from the screwing up here, and
: assuming Bungie really is working on new Halo... damn.

I think that's already confirmed by MS.

: I mean DEEEEAAAAAMMMMNNN!!!!

: -Gears of War 2
: -Fable 2
: -Too Human (the demo wasn't too bad- the combat starts to hit its stride
: right at the end)

Meh.

: -A crapton of family titles
: -The new dash that includes the old one

Yuck and unconfirmed.

: -Tons of really neat new dash features, like party chat and Netflix

Good, meh.

: -Final Fantasy 13

Stratgically a coup but doesn't affect me much.

: -Tons of other JRPGs, from The Last Remnant to Tales of Vesperia
: -We know there are more western RPGs to come, like Mass Effect

Where's Mass Effect 2?

: -Forza 3 will probably start going public pretty soon
: -After all of that, Microsoft still might have a Halo announcement to throw
: on the pile.

: That's just off the top of my head. Being a gigantic Bungie fanboy, I still
: want to see Bungie as Microsoft's crown jewel, but this really is a
: console where even the almighty Halo can be just another (amazing,
: awesome, totally rad) part of the console.

No, not really. In terms of sales, it still rules the roost. Nothing else MS publishes for the platform comes close, franchise-wise.

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Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Avateur 7/16/08 3:22 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Jordan117 7/16/08 3:27 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?yoshiary 7/16/08 3:30 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?UNSC_Trooper 7/16/08 3:31 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Hunt3r 7/16/08 4:27 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?vlad3163 7/16/08 5:39 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 5:23 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 5:54 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Kroll GB 7/16/08 6:01 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 6:05 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Stuntmutt 7/16/08 6:16 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Razorback 7/16/08 6:49 a.m.
                             Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 6:53 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 7:10 a.m.
                             Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?DHalo 7/16/08 9:02 a.m.
                                   Yes...stan 7/16/08 11:07 a.m.
                                         Re: Yes...DrDoctor 7/16/08 11:14 a.m.
     Hmmm.kapowaz 7/16/08 6:45 a.m.
           Re: Hmmm.Ross Mills 7/16/08 7:09 a.m.
                 Re: Hmmm.kapowaz 7/16/08 12:36 p.m.
                       Re: Hmmm.Ross Mills 7/16/08 1:25 p.m.
           Re: Hmmm.Avateur 7/16/08 11:12 a.m.
                 Re: Hmmm.kapowaz 7/16/08 12:37 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Sep7imus [subnova] 7/16/08 7:16 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?SG Noodles 7/16/08 7:28 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Louis Wu 7/16/08 8:47 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Sep7imus [subnova] 7/16/08 9:05 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Louis Wu 7/16/08 9:13 a.m.
                             Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?pooberry 7/16/08 9:23 a.m.
                                   Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 9:27 a.m.
                                         Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?DHalo 7/16/08 9:31 a.m.
                                               yes thispooberry 7/16/08 9:41 a.m.
                                                     Re: yes thisRoss Mills 7/16/08 10:00 a.m.
                                                     Re: yes thisLouis Wu 7/16/08 10:05 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 9:29 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Cthulhu117 7/16/08 9:59 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Ross Mills 7/16/08 10:01 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?gspawn 7/16/08 3:34 p.m.
                             Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Narcogen 7/18/08 3:37 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Narcogen 7/18/08 3:33 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Developing new Halo game confirmed?Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 7/18/08 10:52 a.m.



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