What a bummer. (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, June 01, 2017, 17:49 (2822 days ago) @ Kermit

There may be a little self-aggrandizing in that article, but I see a lot of humility, too. Bungie devs have tended to be their most severe critics, and I think that’s apparent here, too. Despite it all, Bungie has made many things they can be proud of in a tough, competitive business. We got the games. We enjoyed them. We still can. I won’t tell you how to feel, but go play your favorite Halo level. Maybe that’ll help.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Whatever Bungie's doing is obviously working--they haven't failed to deliver yet. I guess I'd just like to see the other side a bit, too. We got a little bit of it there, but not much. I wanna hear the guy that loved going in to work everyday, loved working on Halo, loves working on Destiny. Most of those quotes were all about the bad. That's fine--I think it's good to get that stuff out there. I think it's important for people to understand just how absolutely batshit insane and hard making video games is. Maybe those are all just painful memories of bad times, but I would have expected a bit more enthusiasm and excitement about what they accomplished.

I don't feel like they owe me anything or owe Halo or Microsoft anything, but they just come of as bitter about the whole thing. Maybe some of them are--I'm sure being bought by a giant corporation and having that corporation try to mess with your culture is difficult and probably sucks. But they seem so combative about it, and that comes of as at least a little shitty.

I dunno. Like I said, it's not really my place to judge. The games they make are among the best, so clearly it's working for them. It just seems like its an absolute miracle that they shipped anything at all, much less anything good.