Bungie Studios LiveText

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 December, 2007

Jonty Barnes and Frank O'Connor transcript.

Bungie Studios LiveText

by Mugwum Mugwum

07/12/07 12:00

Jonty Barnes and Frank O'Connor transcript.

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Comments (44) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • woodnotes #1 4 years ago

    No doubt there will be loads of questions about their split from MS. Personally I'm hoping someone asks when we'll hear more about their next project.

  • afghan_jones #2 4 years ago

    Warthog Rocket Race please!

  • morriss #3 4 years ago

    Ok. I'm not going to be here for this unfortunately, but as President of the EG Halo-fanboy Club and Halo Appreciation Group Admin, I feel I have the God given right to get a question answered!!

    Which is, incidentally, "Will we at any point in time see a Halo Box Set with all three games and Halo's 1 and 2 are online co-op enabled? If you say yes I'm likely to splurge Halo-gunk all over the screen. In fact, if you say no, I'm likely to do the same thing!"

    Thanks in advance, Tom!

  • GamesConnoisseur #4 4 years ago

    Buggery!

    Forgive my language but I ll be offline whole of the duration at work and will only be able to read this afterward.

    Last week I was unable to read beyond the first post and gave up, before the comptatibility problem with Vista's version of Internet Explorer got fixed. Just hoping for benefit of everyone this will not happen again.

    Would love to be here but have fun!

  • Madder-Max #5 4 years ago

    I'd be interested in his opinion on how well suited a narrow first person view is in an open game world as opposed to corridor based shooters and are they exploring 3rd person perspective for any future projects. if not they should be.

  • RANGERSBYOY #6 4 years ago

    someone ask about clan support?

  • Uncle_Fishboy #7 4 years ago

    What about important questions like what sort of tits they like best?

  • L42yB #8 4 years ago

    @morriss - I reckon there is 0% chance of that happenning... Halo 1 will never support online as the libraries are missing (infact, Xbox Live didn't even exist when Halo 1 came out).

    As far as Halo 2 goes, they tried their utmost to get co-op working on it, but there were too many bugs. I remember testing the Pre-cert for halo 2 and it had online co-op, but it was *very* broken and crashed all the time. Eventually they had to pull it...

    I think it would be awsome tho... just isn't really plausable.

  • CJF #9 4 years ago

    This is the question I would like answered:

    Do you feel the funds that Microsoft brought to the project when they purchased Bungie enabled Halo to be as successful as possible in the direction that the two of you wanted the franchise to take, or do you feel that by selling to Microsoft, and compromising largely complete Mac and PC versions (developed with moderate input from the Mac community if I recall correctly), was too big a price to pay when accounting for the added sophistication of Mac/PC shooters as regards the interface, and the prevalence of the modification scene on those platforms?

    That's a pretty long sentence :/.

  • Uncle_Fishboy #10 4 years ago

    CJF - that is a long sentence. It's also a load of boring old bollocks

  • daveaka #11 4 years ago

    Whats your favourite colour and or cheese???

  • JonFE #12 4 years ago

    My question would be: "Is Bungie willing to experiment with the Wii or the PS3 (or portable consoles for that matter) or they will concentrate solely on the x360 and its successor?"
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 14:32

  • Batman2100 #13 4 years ago

    Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of workstations and infinite time, could monkeys have made Halo?

  • CJF #14 4 years ago

    @Fishboy

    Dude, it's something I've been interested in ever since Microsoft bought the company. I think it was a great move by MS, but I've always been somewhat frustrated by the fact that PC gamers had to make do with a port of the Xbox version when a PC and Mac copy were almost finished when Bungie was snapped up.

    Sure, Halo has done incredibly well on the xbox as a machine, but it may have been "the better game" had it been released on the PC first (particularly within the context of the mod crowds). If a bunch of people can mod HL2 and come up with a game released in its own right, think what a bunch of people could have done with an engine that operated as well as a racing game as is did as an FPS.

  • shinyshirthero #15 4 years ago

    I have a couple of questions
    Firstly is there likely to be any additional gamerscore added to halo 3 in the future - ala oblivion or crackdown
    and Secondly - the legendary cut scene right at the end of the game... that was high charity right?
    Thirdly - are there plans to bring back some of the old multiplayer maps from previous games - personally i would love to see hang em high again

    Just wanted to say brilliant game guys - cannot stop playing it - i must have played campaign 10 times at least now and the multiplayer is brilliant looking forward to the new maps

    However taking out the lock on ability on the rocket launchers was criminal and it would have been nice if you had bought the pistol back with a zoom.

  • mattigan #16 4 years ago

    Has Forge been the success you hoped it would be? As most Halo 3 player I know consider it to be a bit pointless, considering it's "non ranked" nature. Are there any plans to introduce a Forge hopper into Matchmaking so people can host their creations?

  • Lea #17 4 years ago

    We have no plans to work on any other platforms beyond 360 at this time.

    bah :/ Wii-Halo please!!! :)
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 15:08

  • miiiguel #18 4 years ago

    I quote the entire shinyshirthero text, if that helps getting those answers. And I also address the compliments.

    No so sure about the pistol thingy though...

  • BadBoyBonner #19 4 years ago

    L42yB

    @morriss - I reckon there is 0% chance of that happening... Halo 1 will never support online as the libraries are missing (in fact, Xbox Live didn't even exist when Halo 1 came out).

    Memory is a little hazy, but wasn't there some kind of software on the PC that tricked the original Xbox into thinking it was on a LAN so you could play over the net? Clearly it wasn't over live - or maybe I dreamed it!

  • BadBoyBonner #20 4 years ago

    Owen-B

    Sounds like you have answered your own question ;-)

  • mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #21 4 years ago

    It doesn't work on Safari at the moment Owen, sorry. Please fire up Firefox if you can.

  • L42yB #22 4 years ago

    @BadBoyBonner - Yes, there is a program called XBConnect that allows you to play System Link games over the internet.

    However, there was no system link co-op in Halo 1 or 2... only split screen.

  • Orange #23 4 years ago

    Apart from Halo, which games impressed them the most in 2007?

  • agparrot #24 4 years ago

    Thanks for the answer, and thanks for the time you have given over answering all the questions - this and the Molyneux thing last week are really much appreciated. Thanks, and thanks EG.

  • SeanLB #25 4 years ago

    Ditto; really appreciate the time you guys and Peter have put aside for this and for providing thorough and interesting responses.

  • Orange #26 4 years ago

    Nice Q+A.

  • Nobuo #27 4 years ago

    None of these fucking people will tell me if they prefer Sonic or Mario.

  • SeanLB #28 4 years ago

    Better than Molyneux? (Trademarked to me that one)

  • BadBoyBonner #29 4 years ago

    I’m really looking forward to being grilled by Eurogamer readers on Friday - wrote Bungie

    My Questions

    15:21:57 PM With Bungie informing anyone with a tinfoil hat, that rendering without anti-aliasing at lower resolutions allows for better lighting - will Bungie be continuing their precedent with their next 360 games running at 480p upscaled to 720p but with even better lighting?


    16:07:50 PM How much do Bungie receive per Xbox original sold?


    Answers - nil.

    Anyone else have questions unanswered?

  • afghan_jones #30 4 years ago

    @shinyshirthero


    You idiot. xxx

  • Eighthours #31 4 years ago

    Anyone else have questions unanswered?

    I had two.

    "Level 8: why?"

    And one about whether they'd promise to only let Ellie review their next game.

  • gizmo #32 4 years ago

    I asked about the 'anus' level - why?

  • BadDevotions #33 4 years ago

    @badboyrunner
    yep

    why isn't the "party up" lobby system not used more often in other 360 multiplayer games? do you own the copyright on it?

  • BadDevotions #34 4 years ago

    "I asked about the 'anus' level - why? "

    shits and giggles

  • Madder-Max #35 4 years ago

    The answer to PEEJ's question on FPS saturation point was not really an answer. More of a Tony Blair avoidance response. What bullcrap!

    /watches Halo 3 deserved rapid chart fall....
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 16:42

  • Shinji #36 4 years ago

    The answer to PEEJ's question on FPS saturation point was not really an answer. More of a Tony Blair avoidance response. What bullcrap!

    It seemed like a perfectly solid answer to me. I have no idea why people talk in terms of FPS "saturation", when there's such variety within the genre - there's never an equivalent discussion of third-person perspective "saturation", and people seem to intuitively understand that Tomb Raider, God of War and Mass Effect are different types of game. Why doesn't that reasoning get properly applied to FPS games?

  • Anthony_UK #37 4 years ago

    Yeah I asked about the Bum level too and the flood in general (May of been to late though)

    I wanted to ask why continue to include the flood when so many people clearly don't like them in the game? And in doing so, was they purely from a story point of view, and that we are all forced to fight them so Bungie can tell there own story how they want regardless? or are we all wrong and just missing the point of them?

  • gizmo #38 4 years ago

    The Flood are terribly boring to the point I simply race through any level they are on. They near killed Halo1, and they should have stayed there. The only good bit with the flood was when the AI was in combat with them. They should have been a side show, nothing more.

    It was a boooooooooooring and sloooooooow Q&A IMHO.

    Plus, they never answered my question :(

    /cracks Halo3 disc (before 360 does it for me)

  • Nallen #39 4 years ago

    My questions must be gash, I've asked 7 in two sessions and not a sausage.

  • pinchofsalt #40 4 years ago

    I dont remember a bum level, must be a Freudian thing.

  • Feanor #41 4 years ago

    It's a shame no one asked if 720 > 600.

  • dog2_99 #42 4 years ago

    i am really enjoying this new Eurogamer feature of getting developers in...who is next!?!?

    and yay my questions was answered!

  • fightman2 #43 4 years ago

    bungie are nothing but a bunch of cunts. even their fucking name is a combination of the words.

    CBUNgieT. QED.

    bungie, try making a decent game next time you fucking numbskulls.


    oh, forgot to add - they're motherfuckers too.
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/07 @ 23:16

  • mkreku #44 4 years ago

    Hmm. These guys weren't very open, were they? Very PR trained answers. No problems afterwards for them, no fun to read for us. Bah.

    Next time bring in someone who actually wants to talk to the community. No point otherwise.

  • raasafa #45 3 years ago

    I have a question for Bungie Studios or anyone else. On Halo 3, I finally got the IWHBYD skull after hours of work, and all the other skulls on two files, and i"m still not getting the Hayabusa head piece. Anyone know why?