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[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

Imagine all the plagiarism that hasn't been found.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

They need to go bankrupt, honestly.

Behaviour like this should end your company.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They just keep doing it. I haven't played any of their post-halo games and it seems like it's going to stay that way. Feels like controversy after controversy. Removing content from Destiny 2. Stealing art. Stealing art. Stealing art. Stealing art...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I really wanted to like Destiny 2, but then they started releasing expansion packs faster than I could feasibly buy or play them. Then I learned that most of those expansions had no content anymore anyway because they think removing content is a good idea, so I just gave up.

Sadly it seems like they really would have been better off as a Halo-Making Machine like Microsoft wanted them to be.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This is fourth time a confirmed plagiarism occurred at Bungie in recent years. There is also an ongoing lawsuit over accusation of Red War story theft. This isn't some lone rogue employee issue. It's a company culture issue originating from the top. I think Sony needs to step in and clean house to address the systemic problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Sony exec: I have a fever and the only antidote is more micro transactions

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

If i do crime and get caught or admit it, I still have to face the law about it. Does bungie?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

Like they did so the past few times which still led to this happening again?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Nobody has been able to explain to me how this new game has fucking anything to do with Marathon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They're just stripping copper from the walls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Fucking spot on analogy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is just parading a corpse around. Glad I never got into Destiny.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I did. Luckily there were points where it was shit enough to be able to leave without looking back.

I beat The Black Heart, Atheon, Crota, Oryx, Siva, Xol, Ghaul, Calus, Riven, Nezerac, Savathun, and The Witness, plus AlakHul, Atraks, Sepiks, Taniks, the Forsaken Baron, a bunch of Vex Gatelords and Overminds... I rediscovered 3 Dark Subclasses plus a fourth Light one and then merged them, I became an Iron Lord, a Dregden and went to Osiris' Lighthouse in D1 and D2, healed the Traveller (twice), I witnessed my own funeral in the Corridors of Time, bringing back Saint 14, I saved and killed Rasputin and Prince/Crow, became Taken and beat Sword Logic, Vex Simulations, and Nightmares themselves: including the real world that's four entire realities I conquered and I communed with The Long Boi In The Soup. I saw the whole story through. Anything that happens now is of lesser concern, so I can leave.

For me the big mistake started with the Dreaming City: when the world first raid changed the game for other players- I wasn't the main character any more and canonically all the raids and boss fights after that were done by other players, and mine (canonically even!) just fantasized about it pretending I was there. Even in the very last fight against the Witness, canonically, I was just one of hundreds of thousands in a faceless army that defeated it together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Does it even have Pfhor in it...?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I remember when Bungie made cool stuff like Myth the fallen lords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

And then they made Myth II, which they had to recall (that almost bankrupted their company) because trying to uninstall it could delete your system folder and brick your PC.

At least with Myth II, Bungie actually made the right call and did the right thing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Halo too, Bungie is honestly just a totally different studio than it used to be.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

I can't see the company name without thinking about this scene from Red VS Blue

Tucker: "Bungle..."

Church: "That's an i, you idiot!"

Tucker: "Oh, right! Bingle..."

Church: "BUNGIE!"

It does often seem that Tucker had it right the first time.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

TIL that Bungie is releasing a new game.

Although judging by this news and the first sentence on their Steam page being "...Bungie’s team-based extraction shooter.", maybe it's a good thing I can't play their games.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

Im so tried of all these multiplayer games, make a goddamn single player campaign, fuck it add in splitscreen or the ability to play the campaign with friends if you have too

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Bungie is making a new game based on Marathon"

Great, I'm in.

"It's a multi-player extraction shooter"

Nope, I'm out. This smells like a "Prey" situation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But Prey was actually good.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prey was sooo good.

Sucks for the people who wanted a continuation of the original tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It was really good. I just wanted more indigenous themes if they were going to use the Prey name. It was such a disappointment in that respect.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For real, immersive sim fans that haven't played it are missing out. It probably should've had a different name though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It did at one point, but I think they were forced to change it to Prey at some point in development. It had a “Shock” title to put it in line with System Shock and Bioshock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Believe it was 'Neuroshock'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That rings a bell now that you mention it. A shock title is so much more fitting!

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago (10 children)

The art director followed Antireal on Twitter.

Stop the bullshit. They knew what they were doing

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