Bungie boss "laughed" when MS pulled Halo from E3 briefing - Mattrick

boodybandit - 519 days 22 hours ago

for Final Fantasy was extremely last minute and they decided to save Bungie for shows later in the year. Then again you would think it would have had to of been last minute or someone would have leaked the information on the net.

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outlawlife - 519 days 22 hours ago

microsoft is said to have cut a lot from its conference in interest of having a more compact straight to the point kinda thing

i guess having the bungie thing in their pocket gives them some ammo in the future, anytime things look bad they can go "oh look what we have"

especially considering the online component of halo3, one can only imagine what they will improve and add

i'll be the first to say that i'm not a halo fan but the fact is it has one of the best, if not the best online systems and community of any console game

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Xi - 519 days 21 hours ago

that there was a chance that the announcement would be pulled.

If you followed the SI arg he said stuff like
expect delays
please remain calm

MS wanted to focus on the new xbox features and games releasing this year, I'm sure MS will announce a bunch of new info on upcoming 2009 releases soon.

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carnagecam - 519 days 21 hours ago

He probably was on the phone to sony trying to flog his dead hourse and wife.

I can see it now

halo on ps3

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Chubear - 519 days 20 hours ago

"We didn't feel we needed to show Halo to have a great show, to pay homage to our core audience, to have a lot of news, so it was an embarrassment of riches and we couldn't fit it in. How great is that? I think that's awesome."

SO you're telling me that instead of showing an exclusive IP like Halo's next adventure they preferred showing off two multiplatform games instead?

So you're telling me they'd rather show of games that the competition's fanbase can benefit from having a look at games that will be on the PS3 to instead of your flagship in-house franchise?

BS! They didnt have anything tangible to show for Halo at E3. That's the only reason they didn't include any halo news cause had they just done some teaser trailer, a la GoWIII, the industry would have seen that as a very sad move indeed so they didn't bother.

I just don't get how people keep falling for MS's BS.

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munish23 - 519 days 20 hours ago

That's be cool I guess to have an event just for Halo. They can show off Halo Wars again, I think that's out next year. They can show Peter Jackson's Project, and Bungie's Halo game as well.

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Kratos Spartan - 519 days 20 hours ago

But i agree, Bungie is sure to announce something soon, and Microsoft better have something up their sleeve, cuz they showed nothing at E3

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Shroomy - 519 days 19 hours ago

If what Bungie was going to show, would "blow away" the competition as some people have said, they now have more time to polish that, and they could make it even better!

Patience, if you can wait for Xmas you can wait for Bungie's announcement, it will come in time! :D

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Kratos Spartan - 519 days 19 hours ago

i wasn't implying that MAG would be good or not, but 256 players! You can't tell me that was not a shocker, at least for a console

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kapedkrusader - 519 days 18 hours ago

...MS presented one day before Sony. So thats just BS.

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Kratos Spartan - 519 days 18 hours ago

i can push anything i please. I want Microsoft to give me a war that i won't believe, don't you? Oh, and let what go?

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FPS nut - 519 days 18 hours ago

MS now has an ace up their sleeve and I'm sure they will pull it this holiday to boost sales and hype the 360 even more. IMO if MS would have dropped the Halo bomb after the FF13 bomb, it could have hurt the industry because Sony would in no way could have matched it, they couldn't even match the FF13 bomb. Last year Sony did fairly well but this year (Sorry PS3 fanboys) Sony got ownd. First MS boasted about Live and game sales being number one on thier platform, which is true, then they wen't right to the games and didn't let up. I would have loved to see what's next for Halo but it seems I won't have to wait that long.

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JUSTICEFORALL - 519 days 17 hours ago

man i was looking forward to bungies conference

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The Kingslayer - 519 days 17 hours ago

Bungie is a proven success, so I'm pretty sure whatever they have is going to be worth the wait. What is more interesting to me is what have they done with the hardware of the 360. They must have learned alot working on Halo3, seeing what Epic is doing with Gears series. I'm intrigued, so perhaps the best thing they did was not show anything. X08 here we come!

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SolidSnake93 - 519 days 17 hours ago

They will probably give some Halo Wars stuff and then announce Halo 4.

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Halochampian - 519 days 16 hours ago

that Bungie have a sense of humor and didn't get all pissed off.

PAX better be good!!!

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LostChild - 519 days 16 hours ago

I see Bungie is still crying over this as usual. They are acting like MS canceled the whole game. So what you didn't get a chance to make an announcement at E3 about an up in coming game that isn't even coming out this YEAR anyway. This doesn't change people's decision on buying the game when it comes out. I mean really, they work in the game industry, they know things change at the last minute. Bungie should just get back to work, stop acting like little 5yr olds and put this to rest already. Halo1-3, Plus the PC version was/is great an all but what else have you done over the years besides that to deserve so much sympathy over other devs.

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Allowen - 519 days 15 hours ago

I belive MS did not let Bungie to do their presentention because it is not good.

The point is,for those that LOVE Halo series it does not matter much if the graphics are high end or the same as the previous Halo game. I bet that a "spy" from MS managed to see how uber was the graphics on MAG/,Socom,R2 and KillZone2 for the PS3 and MS resolved that Bungie should restart from ground zero the new Halo,using a better engine.

Graphics does not matter as much as a fun gameplay but when your competitor shows games that make yours to look like game cube games some thing got to be made ASAP!

/cough* MS bought FF13 because of it,they had nothing graphicaly better to show on the E3(including GoW2).They could not allow Sony to build more ground.

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uckitsayitchbay - 519 days 14 hours ago

NO its because they never had one to begin with.. now they have time to slap one together for there next conf. pathetic attempt M$ trying to stay in the game.. pathetic

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devilhunterx - 519 days 10 hours ago

Was it an evil laugh or whinny weaping laugh?

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