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Bungie's Doing Things That They Or No One Has Done Before

Gameguru.in "...Bungie are going to do things we have not done before nor has anyone else."

GWAVE6086d ago

Bungie is a great dev, but it's sad when people hail them as some sort of revolutionary think-tank.

Bungie takes proven ideas and improves upon them. That's a fact. There's nothing wrong with being an "improver". Most of the best devs in the industry are simply really talented "improvers", but let's not give credit where it isn't due.

822119866086d ago

system is their idea...I wonder how they'll add to multiplayer...

The Lazy One6086d ago

They've pretty much pioneered both the FPS standard on dual analogue controllers as well as the way almost all of us experience multiplayer games.

They were also one of the first to bring level editing and sharing to the consoles.

Rofflecopter6086d ago

First of all, they really didn't create health regeneration in games, they just made it come into the mainstream. Even after Halo, Call of Duty was really the series that made the old health systems fade away.
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Second, Halo's multiplayer was great, but Killzone 2, Call of Duty [series], Socom, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress [1&2] all kept my attention longer.

Don't get me wrong, Bungie makes some amazing games, but I really think that people put Halo up on this unreachable pedestal which many games have actually surpassed.

Reibooi6086d ago

@The Lazy One

I'm pretty sure Timesplitters did level editing LONG before the Halo series ever did. So Bungie doesn't really get the credit for that.

The Lazy One6086d ago

"They were also one of the first to bring level EDITING AND SHARING to the consoles."

read please.

xenogamer6086d ago

actually gwave what makes bungie so good, is their programers, and what they do in the back end of the web site and their games, no other game EVER, tracks stats like halo does, no other game in history. Halo 2 and 3 records every death, and where you died, and can even make heat maps of the most killings accur, plus forge, plus theater, plus the integration with the website, and you can watch videos of your self on the website now, and there matchmaking is unparralel, they even have a patent for it. Thats what makes them top of the top. Oh and their lighting system lol its really good.

DSI6086d ago (Edited 6086d ago )

Jealousy in a really dangerous emotion.

Xi6086d ago

In the game series Marathon they...
1. created the first instance of ambient AI, ie, ai that is neither enemy nor friend.
2. created the first mission based objectives in a shooter, where you'd look at a terminal, find out what you had to do then did it. Prior to which all shooters had the minimal requirement of killing everything in a zone to pass.
3. First game to dual wield (arguable).
4. First instance of environmental effects, where you had to search out oxygen to stay alive.
5. first game to feature a built in level editor
6. first game to have levels with a varying height geometry

they also created the real time tactics genre with myth1/2, and games such as warcraft were heavily inspired by the games.

And this was well before halo.

beans6086d ago

Also the 1st game to ever put detailed focus on your legs unlike breakdown, riddick and cross hair games found on pc,

Reibooi6086d ago

@The Lazy One

Just because Timesplitters wasn't online didn't mean you could not share you maps. You could pop those suckers on a memory card and bring them with you wherever you went. That count's as sharing so they still don't get credit sorry.

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IaMs126086d ago

Well i sure hope they do something that is awesome. The more and more we find out about Reach the more its becoming as big. I hope they do not over hype this game but of course you know they will lol.

ShabzS6086d ago (Edited 6086d ago )

well it looks like bungie is still going after the quest of world domination... well more power to them ... now i really wanna see what they are doing with reach...

Agent Smith6086d ago

Charging 60 bucks for an expansion?

ps3sux6086d ago

they charge 60 bucks for an expansion while ya mom charges only 10 for a bj.

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