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Bungie's Hiring And Here's How They'll Own You

Bungie producer Allen Murray won't say a word about how the studio's new project is going - but he will tell you how they're getting it done.

Murray first joined the team at the tail end of Halo 2's development. He described it as a "big disaster." Everyone who's ever worked in production knows that when morale is through the floor and the ship date's been pushed into the next year, it's usually the producer's fault.

"But," says Murray. "If you have a good crunch, everybody did it. It's a team effort."

This philosophy Bungie has adopted toward production post-Halo has seven main principles.

thebudgetgamer5510d ago (Edited 5510d ago )

hey a gamer can dream cant he.

:)

Vortigaunt5510d ago

Bungie is among the top 5 best developers of the decade. They are so awesome.

lord_of_balrogs5510d ago (Edited 5510d ago )

Probably not, they have a great working relationship with MS.

Edit: @Leon

Bethesda- buggy games
Insomniac - good but not top 5 good
Media Molecule - needs to prove itself with more than just one game
Valve - no disagree
Capcom - withholds content for a dlc release, see SF4 and RE5.

LeonSKennedy4Life5510d ago

Bethesda
Insomniac
Media Molecule
Valve
Capcom

What are you smoking?

LostCypher115510d ago

Leon allow the Devs you mentioned are all great Devs. I'd still say Bungie deserves a spot in that top 5 over Insomniac Media Molecule, i'd drop those 2 and throw up Bungie and Konami. But in all fairness i find it hard to narrow it down to just a top 5.

Xi5510d ago (Edited 5510d ago )

where's id, blizzard, bioware, bungie? All are older and have done more for their respected genre's then the the ones you listed, with the exception of capcom, who's a publisher. Valve is really the only one deserving of that list. I'd replace the rest with. I'd also add myamoto, but I don't consider nintendo a developer anymore, they seem to be more of a publisher.

id - quake, doom, wolfenstien, capture the flag.
blizzard - warcraft series, starcraft series, diablo series
bioware - neverwinter nights, kotor, baldurs gate, ME
bungie - marathon, myth (first RTT), halo, oddball/king of the hill.

LeonSKennedy4Life5510d ago

While those are all great developers...I don't consider them to be the "best".

Bungie made Marathon and then many of them left. Then, they came out with Halo. It was good...but nothing spectacular.

The only game they've done this generation is Halo 3. It was a pretty big disappointment. Yes, they've supported it well enough...but that doesn't mean it's GOOD! It sold well...but mainly because Halo introduced millions of people to the FPS...as mediocre as it was.

That's the same reason people think FFVII is the best. IT'S NOT! It just got people into RPG's!

Tony P5510d ago

I'm partial to Bethesda. Sure, they have bugs but then again they're best known for IMMENSE open-world games. When you think about how much can go wrong in a big project like that, it's actually a little embarrassing for other devs who make more linear games suffering the same amount of bugs (Obsidian's NWN2 springs to mind).

Bungie are cool. I can't say I've loved their games all that much (being somewhat indifferent to FPS), but I admire the support and energy these guys put into their fanbase. They're often a great example of how you should treat your customers.

Xi5510d ago

well, lets take a look at quality.

http://www.metacritic.com/g...
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those seem like respectable scores. And I'm not even going to start mentioning all the things that bungie did with marathon, it is probably the 3rd or 4th most important fps game ever made after doom and half life. Or the fact they created the real time tactics genre of games. Oni is probably their only real shame, but they didn't even get the chance to finish they game, and it still "broke new ground by blending third-person shooting with hand-to-hand combat" (wikipedia). And as much as you don't want to admit it, halo is an absolutely great game, the critics and the public would seem to agree.

bethesda
http://www.metacritic.com/s...

other than elder scrolls and fallout, which had the ground work set, they've made absolutely nothing of quality.

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Zeus Lee5510d ago

It's not a dream at all,they're independent now so if they wanted to make a new game and make it multi-platform nothing's stopping them(Last I heard they had no exclusive game deal with Microsoft aside from the Halo franchise).

XDF5510d ago (Edited 5510d ago )

But Bungie will only develop its future projects for Microsoft for the foreseeable future.

http://xbox360.ign.com/arti...

Vortigaunt5510d ago

Best studios of this decade:

Nintendo EAD Tokyo
Valve
Blizzard
Capcom
Bungie

LOL @ those poor kids thinking that "Insomniac" is top 5 material. That studio doesn't even qualify for top 20.

FantasyStar5510d ago

No matter what, Blizzard and Valve definitely deserve a spot in the Top 5 developers in the world. I have no idea about the other 3.

FantasyStar5510d ago

That's funny. I've read that 7 list, but I feel that Halo 3 doesn't seem to reflect that list very accurately when it comes to the integrity of Bungie. Everytime I think of Halo 3, I think of pop-tart gun and Halo 2 HD. Not that it's a bad thing, but I definitely expected more of Bungie. Maybe I expected too much from a developer that single-handed set graphical benchmarks with Halo 2 and defined what a multiplayer-based game needs and doesn't need.

The graphics whore in me cries a bit over this, but Halo Wars definitely reignited my lust for some ODST action. This time, I just won't expect mind-blowing graphics the first 2 Halos did.

IQUITN4G5509d ago

Insomniac - don't be out of your mind.It's not like their games are bad but we can all live without them.Also they have very polished products but never excell at gameplay to the point the best games do

Nintendo
Bungie
Valve
Bioware

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Telltale shares new images from The Wolf Among Us 2, release 2024

The long-awaited sequel to the 2013 narrative adventure is currently expected out sometime in 2024.

BlackOni5d ago

Oh hell yeah! I feel like this was one hell of an underrated game, and I'm glad to see that a part 2 is coming.

jznrpg5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

This was my favorite Telltale game. I’m definitely going to play this. Hopefully it has less jank than the Telltale games had. I didn’t think it would happen but I’m happy it’s coming

gold_drake4d ago

right? it was sooo good, cant wait for part 2

BlackCountryBob4d ago

Great, loved the first game and happy a sequel is coming but after such a lengthy development, are Telltale gonna be releasing it episodic with non specific time delays between episodes? If it is episodic, they need to have a full set of dates laid out for every episode so we know what we are getting & when like Resident Evil Revelations 2 did, buying episode 1 and not knowing when the rest will come is just unacceptable in 2024.

CobraKai4d ago

I always loved Telltale games. They were like those old choose your own adventures books.

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Gamers seek legal win that would stop devs from rendering online games unplayable

The organizer of "Stop Killing Games" hopes to get France and other governments to examine the legality of live service shutdowns. Scott has launched a new website, Stop Killing Games, to rally opposition to the games industry's "assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media," as he puts it.

-Foxtrot19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Should probably get them to implement offline mode when it comes to games you can play single player

It's shitty playing something solo and having to be connect despite being offline within the game.

It's worse when you get the games which can't be paused, I remember the doorbell going during a huge fight in Monster Hunter World, it took me ages but realised you couldn't pause. I ended up getting slaughtered after spending so long almost killing it.

Yi-Long17d ago

Driveclub is one of my favourite games of all-time, but once Sony killed it, it's barely playable in offline; Leaderboards are obviously gone so one of the things I liked to do most in the game, Time-attack, is now pretty pointless, and every race you start there's a red text on thr screen telling you you're offline.

There honestky was no need to keep the offline so integrated with the online stuff, and it's made me wary of other games which are now 'always online'.

purple10118d ago

should do what gran truismo on ps54 did, after severs shut, they unlock everything in the campaign to be played offline

there's no need for anti-cheat 'always online' which was always their excuse, thats and updating gamer progression

neutralgamer199218d ago

I didn’t know that. That’s awesome

Jingsing18d ago

and put out a physical version at the end, it is extra money for them at the end of the day.

blacktiger18d ago

Ppl get confused about this lawsuit, this guy has a point, if you don't want to pay for server cause no one is playing that's fine, at least make it PVP, that isn't hard and people paid for the game. So there for it shouldn't be unplayable. Offline is not what he's fighting for but that would be single player. He just fighting for PVP as to dedicated if you going to take it down.

I agree with this one! I hope he wins!

SimpleSlave18d ago

"Offline is not what he's fighting for but that would be single player. "

Always Online does include fully fledged Single Player Campaigns as well. And that's why I think The Crew is being used; The Precedent that covers it all.

Games like The Division 1 and 2 also have Single Player Campaigns, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a fully fledged Single Player game but always Online. Which mean that unless uBeSawft patches them they will all cease to exist once uBeSawft pulls the plug.

Again, I think this is why The Crew is being used as the precedent, because it covers all the Online Only bases; Not just the usual Multiplayer PvE and PvP like an MMO or Shooters and their Servers, but also actual Single Player Campaigns that are sadly always online.

Inverno18d ago

Should pin this to let it be on top for a while. This sort of stuff should get some good amount of attention, could actually make some good change in the industry.

HyperMoused18d ago

SP games yes, MP games, its a question of whos maintaing the servers etc and keeing them online.

blackblades18d ago

PvP games it should work. I remember playing black ops offline with AI opponents but of course its funner with real and AI bots. I know some games are server base but I imagine if hard work put in to it that, it can work offline.

PRIMORDUS18d ago

At least on the PC side I say if a company doesn't want to support a game anymore just give it to the fans. They will keep it alive for years and years. Like UT2004 for example you can still play it today, or BF1942. For any SP games I just torrent and keep it forever if they pull the plug. 😊

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Square Enix Already "Hard At Work" On Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3

Development on the next game in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy might be further ahead than we thought. In a video discussing the series, the project leads say they are "hard at work" on the finale, right after launching Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

This comment was made by Remake and Rebirth director Tetsuya Nomura, who says that he and the scenario writer Kazushige Nojima are already working on the next game. Better yet, composer Nobuo Uematsu says that he'd be "honoured" to return for the finale, despite previously fearing that he doesn't have the "strength" for another game.

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just_looken24d ago

So i take it they won't be fixing there last game with the visual/movement problems.
https://youtu.be/B2rHUbqauU...

Just keep tossing them out

Barlos23d ago

Nothing worse than a grammar nazi

_Decadent_Descent23d ago

@Barlos

Nothing worse than those that let others keep on making a fool of themselves and say nothing to correct them. That's why they continue to keep making those mistakes.

Pyrofire9523d ago

I appreciate that many more people are agreeing with the grammar correction and disagreeing with Barlos.

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garos8223d ago

yikes talk about nit picking and strawmanning

roadkillers23d ago

This is something most crtics bring up... but they still gave the game 9+ score. As big of a deal as you are making it, a VAST majority of players were just fine with the graphics compared to waht they got with Rebirth

DarXyde23d ago

Dude complains about everything.

I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm having a blast.

Just negative for the sake of being negative.

dumahim23d ago

While I'd guess they're probably not going to do much else about it at this point, just because they're working on the sequel doesn't mean they can't have someone working on the visual issues for Rebirth. Likewise, it also doesn't mean they're not working on a DLC for it either.
Either way, I'd put money on it that they'll update the game for PS5 Pro.

Exvalos23d ago

Keep up the hatred fanboy, and we will keep playing great games

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GoodGuy0924d ago

Sweet....and hopefully can actually answer all the wtfs rather than giving us more questions that has been happening in these games lol. And I hope they just end the game properly instead of trying to milk VII even more. I'd very much like to see remakes of other FF titles on the same level.

-Foxtrot24d ago

God I hope this is it for VII

They’ve milked it far too much over the years, I mean Wikipedia has its own VII specific page because there’s so much media for it

It’s time for other FF games to get some love

gold_drake23d ago

im all for it, remake and rebirth were fantastic, especially rebirth, my god wat a brilliant game.

i mean, we had 16 and 14 still be a thing.
and 9 is getting a remake too, apparently

FinalFantasyFanatic23d ago

As much as I love FF7, they have really milked it to death, 2 compilations of FF7 which includes novels, games, mobile games, movies and animation...

They really need to put more effort into newer FF games.

-Foxtrot23d ago

@FinalFantasyFanatic

Yeah I mean look at it man, why does anyone want it milked even more when other FF games are starving for attention.

https://i.ibb.co/3mT2TRc/12...

Furesis24d ago

Well when you have Tetsuya Nomura hands on something, that is what you get. Whether you like it or not that's another thing.
I don't think they should make remakes like this anymore, and they won't that's what they said also. It takes too long and it just fragments the game too much for my taste. And i'd prefer a more 1 to 1 remake with maybe a slightly smaller budget so that it would actually be made in a reasonable time rather than these 10+ year projects.

gold_drake23d ago

nomura doesnt ely that much of a role in the trilogy, its Nojima u need to blame ha.

as for the og, there are mods u can use for that.

we'll never get an updated og game. it would take them years to finish it, even if its 1:1

fr0sty23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

nobody will buy a 1:1 remake, they already know what is going to happen exactly... and you can't properly remake a 20+ year old game 1:1 anyway, so much needs to be done to bring it to modern standards, that you have to change some things.

Michiel198923d ago

@frosty that's the same thing the execs at blizzard said about WoW classic and here we are. You think you do, but you don't

dumahim23d ago

They did a Remaster for Crisis Core, which seemed near impossible due to a licensing issue not too long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same for Dirge of Cerberus before part 3.

I do worry what they'll do with part 3 though. They're not just going to abandon the nonsense. Rebirth was like 98% fantastic, but those whispers moments and their take on what is one of the most iconic scenes in video games ever just upsets me.

Hofstaderman23d ago

80 hours into rebirth and loving it. Bring it on Square.

gold_drake23d ago

i had 118h at the end. with everything done minues the queens blood stuff. and i absolutely loved every minute of it

Hofstaderman23d ago

I just want to say bugger mog house level 6. Will return to that later

Shiro17323d ago

Only one thing I hated it and it was the relic hunt for the sand spot next to the flying saucer. I hated that mini game for the relic. Killing those cactus with Aerith was annoying.

fr0sty23d ago

I like the remakes better than the original that I grew up playing back in the 90s... they are doing it right. And that soundtrack... I still jam the Gongaga theme all the time.

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