Purple indicates "read" (which only stores a few [50? 100? 200?] posts).

I'm betting on a Vita price drop soon, though.

You'd probably enjoy the work of Craig Mullins. This piece is very much in his style.

Heh. Just saw your comment. See mine above.

Amazing. These guys have as much character as Elites or even more. Loving the concept artwork. I wonder if the game will heavily feature the animated concept pieces. I hope so.

Actually, they remind me a lot of Craig Mullins' chapter screens from Marathon.

In a nutshell "you were right -- I was wrong"

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And huh. I'm interested to hear what I was right about. It doesn't happen often. Maybe I'll pop by the IRC.

Fun fact:

PS2 and Xbox came out at the same time.

Bungie released a game for the PS2, which was Oni.

Bungie was an exclusive developer to Microsoft for an entire decade.

.. they still will have released games for three consecutive Sony consoles (PS2, PS3, PS4).

Technically they've never been Microsoft exclusive :P

Well... that's a stretch. Technically the PS2 version of Oni was a port by Rockstar.

If you consider the release history, Bungie basically went from being a Mac-only developer to an Xbox-only developer, with a few intervening anomalies:

Marathon 2 on Windows 95;

Myth 1 & 2 on Windows;

Oni on PC and PlayStation.

Halo 1 port to PC and Mac;

Halo 2 port to Windows Vista.

That's a grand total of six games.

Bungie's total output was:

Gnop, Operation Desert Storm, Minotaur, Pathways Into Darkness, Marathon 1, Marathon 2, Myth 1, Myth 2, Oni, Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo:Reach

So that's 14 games. Of those, five were Macintosh only (Gnop through Marathon 1), one was Mac-first (Marathon 2) three are still Xbox exclusives (Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach) and the othes were Xbox-first (Halo 1, 2).

The true cross-platform releases (as in day and date, simultaneous) were Myth 1, Myth 2, and Oni. (Although I think the PS2 version was late compared to the Mac/PC versions). In other words, the last 3 games they released before MS bought them.

I think Bungie has always really wanted to be a true cross-platform developer, making games for as many platforms as they can. I think early on, the opportunities were in the Macintosh market, and the principals were familiar with it. Later, circumstances conspired to lead them into the MS exclusive camp, from which they have only recently emerged, because although they became independent in 2007 they had to make two more Halo games to fulfil contractual obligations.

In a way, we're only seeing now what Bungie has always wanted to be, and a lot of what I see described as being part of Destiny sounds like things that were planned for Halo and dropped, or never made it off the drawing board.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Not quite exact, I figure the one in the snow is a good bit bigger, but maybe these guys like drones in general?

I'll believe when I actually see a PS4. I mean seriously, who reveals a console without revealing a console? Were they that stung by the 360 jumping them last cycle that they absolutely had to get out in front, even if that meant showing basically nothing?

By the way, are you the same stan that used to come to IBO? If so, I had something I've been meaning to tell you since you left whenever that was. In a nutshell "you were right -- I was wrong"

We're on irc.adelais.net now

I love Bungie's style. I don't have any artistic knowledge on why, but when I see all these concept pictures and the gameplay clips I automatically love it. I guess it's because it's new but at the same time has a familiar feel to it. It's like when you meet a person for the first time but you instantly know you're going to be best friends. This artwork gives me that wonderful feeling.

You'd probably enjoy the work of Craig Mullins. This piece is very much in his style.

https://twitter.com/GameTrailers/status/304402276158685184

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