Bungie split?

Website · Post by **iron** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:37 pm

Perhaps this will help?

Archer · Post by **Archer** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:16 pm

It would help more if it had been updated since April '06, but thanks for the link.

~J

Khadrelt · Post by **Khadrelt** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:00 am

Well, it's official:

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx ... &cid=12835

Tireces · Post by **Tireces** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:11 am

OFMG

I didnt belive it till the very end. I guess it may mean something ( or completly nothing

) for us - now Bungie for sure has enough founds to (re)buy Myth, but ist there enough ppl in company who remeber it ? Sequel to Oni could be also nice.

Khadrelt · Post by **Khadrelt** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:47 am

Jason Jones is still there!

Tireces · Post by **Tireces** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:04 pm

Maybe its proper time to write petition and send in to Bungie ?

Baron LeDant · Post by **Baron LeDant** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:58 pm

So even on the extremely slim chance that Bungie were to buy back the myth rights, why would that even help?

Perenold · Post by **Perenold** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:29 pm

Because if they got the rights back that would mean they plan to make another Myth.

AblitERateOR · Post by **AblitERateOR** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:11 pm

I think the hope of that is for too much wishful thinking. Myth as a series is over, as is marathon. If they do anything related to myth, its more likely to be in the development of a new series, only related in the same kinda way halo was related to marathon. I really cant see them digging up a 10 year old game to make a sequel for us...

Hervard · Post by **Hervard** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:04 pm

Let's hope it's an RTS at least.

Industry · Post by **Industry** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:56 pm

What exactly would you be looking for in a sequel to Myth anyway?
A better engine? Another story? More players?

Archer · Post by **Archer** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:15 pm

Hervard wrote:Let's hope it's an RTS at least.

Eww, RTSâ€¦ best would be a PiD-style game, but RTT comes next. RTS is somewhere down past MMOfoo on the list.

As for what I, at least, would look for in a sequel: more story, richer unit variance, more complex physical simulation, more interesting interactions with the environment, wider variety of objectives, and the renewed public interest a sequel would generate.

The last one's pretty big. I wouldn't be exactly happy, but it'd be a good thing even if they basically made Myth or Myth II again without fundamental gameplay changesâ€”it'd still mean a new product out there bringing people's attention to the game.

~J

Website · Post by **iron** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:31 pm

I'd settle for them buying the rights to the Myth series, then releasing TFL & M2 as freeware as they did with Marathon.

Baron LeDant · Post by **Baron LeDant** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:41 pm

How old was marathon when they made it freeware?

Website · Post by **iron** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:14 pm

um, about 10 years old I think, give or take. As there's 3 games its not a clear cut answer

But Myth's certainly in the same age range now.

Its very unlikely that Bungie will buy Myth back. I've heard they already tried that a few years ago after the Myth 3 trainwreck, and Take 2 knocked them back. There's no reason why Bungie would try again now, or if they did, why T2 would be any more willing to sell it to them.

Also, like it or not, Bungie will most likely keep producing for the Xbox. After making games for that hardware for so long, thats where all their development expertise will be now.

The Tain

Bungie split?