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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 3 points 34 minutes ago

They need to go bankrupt, honestly.

Behaviour like this should end your company.

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 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...

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour 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.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] FunkyElectro@pawb.social 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They're just stripping copper from the walls.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Fucking spot on analogy

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Does it even have Pfhor in it...?

[–] Notserious@lemmy.ca 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] spizzat2@lemm.ee 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.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 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.

[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 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

[–] Master167@lemmy.world 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.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But Prey was actually good.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prey was sooo good.

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

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

prey 2 was going to be nothing like prey. I'm glad it didn't happen tbh.

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 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.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Believe it was 'Neuroshock'

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

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

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 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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