That was a good read all around. (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 01:53 (2823 days ago) @ Blackt1g3r

There was a ton of insight into Bungie and Halo that I've never read before.

Just have to remember that it takes time for this stuff to surface but it does surface eventually.

One of the things that really struck me is just the recurring pattern of Bungie biting off more than it could chew with each new game, with the exception of ODST and parts of Reach.

Logically, it makes sense that those two entries would be the most polished because (as Kermit has said before) they had the hindsight of Halo 3 and a narrow scope to make ODST shine and Reach was just a culmination of lessons learned from H1-H3.

I guess it was surprising to me to read about how unprepared, or ambitious they were for each game and how they were humbled essentially every time.

I knew the stuff about Hoberman's Halo 2 saga. I DIDN'T know that Jones was MIA for much of Halo 3. I didn't know that Staten and O'Donnell were the driving forces for ODST. Which is odd, because Korny hates Staten's writing but ODST is his favorite :P . Go figure! Many other things I didn't know, but no point in listing them all.

You know, we put these guys on pedestals but at the end of the day they are just normal guys... with normal problems and quibbles that we all have in our day to day.

When they mentioned they were doing this stuff at age 20-30 I look at myself and think "What was I doing at 25.....Oh right, PLAYING Halo!" Shit.

It was also neat hearing about the Steve Jobs and Microsoft back story, as well as their acquisition and eventual independence from MS (and being burned out on Halo as a whole, that feeling that we all get when you do something you love and then it becomes work, and you don't love it anymore).

THAT SAID, You'd think that with all they learned about making Halo over the years that the whole starting-over-Destiny-mid-cycle thing wouldn't have happened.... I mean, c'mon. You guys have done this before..... did you not learn from the mistakes? And then I pause to realize that many of those folks left Bungie before that anyway. Hmmm....

Additionally, at times I can't help but wonder if Activison is to them now what MS was for them during Halo. Just a feeling I have sometimes.

I hope to see more stuff like this surface in the future. Especially the Marty\Bungie saga. It just takes time....