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[edit] Putting Bungie Mythos into own article?
Just thinking aloud, really. There's lots of information that I could add, but would prolly be off topic for an article about Bungie itself. What say The Wiki? Scumbag 03:06, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
I made some changes as far as where I'd like to see the article go.
Things I'd like to see mentioned: Weekend Warrior, Minotaur (First Online only rpg???), Oni, The Black Eye of Myth III...
Also I'd like to see credit for current 3rd party sites and developers Also link the games that have articles into their page. -B2A
I'd love to see a full 'Bungie mythos' page. I'll scrounge up some wiki ideas and see what I can come up with. Maybe make a stub, see where it goes, and if it winds up seeing a VfD, we can get an official word. Details as they emerge. (NOTE: This project would also save many other pages, Pimps at Sea for example, which remain non-noteworthy stubs on their own, but which would combine to make a great single page). Gspawn 19:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
- Well, if anyone wants to help, Just do It (tm). The site needs both quantity and quality at the moment to keep it from seeing a quick deletion. Gspawn 20:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Loaded language
The paragraph beginning "Due to this, it's speculated by some..." really ought to be rewritten. It is nowhere near impartial and gets key facts wrong.
There was no "original source code for the Macintosh version." The build of Halo that Bungie debuted at the MacWorld Expo was a port of the Windows version. Halo's development began on Windows and stayed there until roughly two weeks before the MacWorld Expo in question because Apple's OpenGL was not up to snuff until then. Mac zealots don't like to hear this, but it's true: Halo was PC-only for the first year of its existence.
You can hear the sneer in the author's voice when he writes about "when it suited MS to 'allow' a Mac version...." Rather un-encyclopedic if you ask me. Apart from that, his implicit complaint doesn't make much sense. Why would Bungie NOT port the final Xbox version to Mac and PC?
Claiming Halo was "fairly easy" to port from Xbox to PC is a bold assertion indeed. Whoever said it was probably not involved in the porting process.
The line "The adverse effects of this entire episode was felt somewhat in the Bungie Studios however, when many of the key employees walked," apart from being poorly written, is basically fiction. A quick check of the credits between Halo and Halo 2 will show that many of the key employees did not flee en masse but in fact stuck around to work on the sequel. Only seven ex-Bungie people ended up at Wideload. I'm one of them, so I can hardly claim impartiality, but I can say with some authority that none of us left because we were upset about Mac Halo.
Certain people want to see Bungie get their comeuppance for the perceived transgression of being bought by Microsoft. I think it's possible to acknowledge that in the article without actually making that the viewpoint from which the article is written.
Nightstick 18:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
A Bungie employee? Here? *jaw slackens in awe*
~Helwer7
[edit] Reminder
This is Wikipedia, not a Classifieds section, advertisements for your personal group will be reverted as being advertising/vandalism, and if they are repeated, your username/IP will be referred to the appropriate admins for your transgressions. Just because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone doesn't mean you can put whatever you want here. GameJunkieJim 21:37, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 'Bungie numbers'
I know very little about Bungie, but after reading the article I *still* know very little about the Bungie numbers, which is a problem.
There's enough info about '7' in the mythos to be informative. The portion I commented out: "Apart from seven, there are some other digits that appear very frequently in Bungie's games: 3 and 10 (and the lesser known 4). (Note how 7 + 3 = 10, 10 - 3 = 7, and 7 - 3 = 4.) These four digits are collectively called "Bungie Numbers" by the fans." is completely without source, doesn't include any actual references to in-game usage, and read as a grade 1 math class.Dirtyharry2 04:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bungie *Game* Studios?
When I look at Bungie's official site bungie.net, I don't find any source, that the name has been changed from "Bungie Studios" to "Bungie Game Studios". Also when I search "BGS" per Google I find overwhelming (*rolleyes*) 133 results... searching "Bungie Studios" says "about 351,000". So I don't think the name has ever been changed to "BGS". –jello ¿? 14:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- I was about to make a comment on this exact same thing. It's called Bungie Studios, not Bungie Game Studios. I'd edit it, but I'm not sure how to change the title. Interrupt_feed 22:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Moved it back to Bungie Studios. –jello ¿? 09:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
