Bungie vs. HipHopGamer
Some time ago some video-games vlogger (video blogger, for those not in the know) decided to post some deflamatory remarks about Bungie, developers of Halo. He made two such videos saying Bungie had wrecked Halo essentially and were inspired by Sony in their methods of development. This is where the problems arise. According to HHG, Bungie confirmed that they used Sony’s development methods to work on Reach – which is false. The further issue arises that Bungie are no longer going to work on Halo officially, nor are they part of Microsoft studios, so they need to tread on careful ground when discussing this kind of thing.
He said:
Bungie finally admits that they had to up the ante on the Halo franchise instead of using just the Halo brand name to sell game copies.
Former 1up staffer and now Bungie community manager Lukems left a follow-up comment on HipHopGamers’ second post:
I’m just posting to inform you that nowhere ever has Bungie said anything that is alleged in this video. Obviously as a developer you keep your eye on what’s going on around you; after all, we’re all gamers ourselves.
The ‘news’ tagline of this story however is: ‘Bungie finally admits that they had to up the ante on the Halo franchise instead of using just the Halo brand name to sell game copies.’
You then go on to say ‘this is incredible news’. Your title also claims ‘Sony inspired bungie’s Halo Reach Development.’
To reiterate, we always look at other games almost on a subconscious level. We’re always playing the latest releases, just like any other gamers are. So in that way we’re naturally inspired simply by the everyday progress of the industry itself. Nowhere did we say we have been specifically ‘inspired’ by anything however.
Frankly, HipHopGamer, if it were up to me i’d have you sued for making up nonsense like this and presenting it as news, but unfortunatley i doubt the brass at Bungie care enough to even bother.
- Luke
In a new video, though, the venerable “internet journalist” has gone out with a video playing the cool cat that he is. He’s so dreamy and non-chalant about the whole thing…
There is more insight on this podcast from thebitbag (skip to 1:20).
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