MC'S THOUGHTS ON BUNGIE
by MC Madman

 

I'd like to let you know that I am not a true Bungie fan and I never was. The first time I tried Pathways, I kind of liked the game, but it did not hit me big time, you see there was something wrong with the touch. Then when Marathon came out, I tried to play the game, I didn't like the feel of the game at all. The viewpoint was too cramped in my opinion, meaning that the controls combined with the perspective and such, did not work. The feeling of the game was really weird, so I did not finish the game.

After a time came out Durandal and Infinity. When Infinity was released I thought, "Oh what the fuck I gotta play these games 'coz they are made on Macs for Macs." I liked the story very much in the Marathon universe, but the controls and the viewpoint got me again. It looked as if the player had some sort of helmet on blocking the sides of view, I would have wanted to see more, the game was too cramped. Anyway, I finished the games and I got so excited by the storyline that I named my macs Tycho, Durandal, Marathon and so on...

When Myth : TFL came out, my friends were going on about how great the game will be and how good it will look and how they hoped that it won't be just another C&C type "Collect resources and beat the shit out of others with shear overpower". Which it fortunately was not, the latter I mean. I even got excited to hype about it to the PC users. So I tried this game also, but could not get the feeling of it, I could not get into the mystical Bungie world. I could not get the feeling of the game. The same dilemma faced me with this game as with the Marathon trilogy. Even the farthest zoom out was not showing everything I wanted to see. The view was too cramped. I did not play the game after that test.

Myth II Soulblighter was released. I happened to come across the game in one store while visiting Helsinki. So I phoned one of my friend's who is (could say he was) a Bungie/Myth fan and said I got the game in my hand and asked if he wanted to buy it. So I got the game for him. I tried the game but I still faced the same problem as with Myth : TFL. Many months passed, my friends were having LAN parties and they played Myth II there all the time. Getting new maps from the Mill every now and then. That is when I got just a bit interested in the game. I even had a feeling I needed to play the game with my friends, after all the multiplayer games were so much fun, but the feeling died soon after.

The thought of Bungie making Oni was strange. I could never think that they would be making a game like that. I don't even like that genre and the whole story/setting of the game does not get me interested in the game.

When I saw Halo, my mouth dropped wide open, as propably so many others'. This time I started to think that this could be the game that would do it for me. Ignite the Bungie spark inside me and make me a Bungie evangelist. Then the hammer dropped. I read that Microsoft bought Bungie. I could not believe my eyes. The company that started to make their games for Mac and gave out the impression that they were a bunch of Macintosh enthusiasts who would stay with us to the end and fight room for the Macintosh as a gaming platform, had defected... Teamed up with the worst possible alternative, Microsoft, what almost every Mac user hates.

I was very angry at this time, feeling like that when you hear your girlfriend has fucked with your best friend. Alone... Raped... Suicidal... Not knowing what to do, how and if you will make it thru it. So here we stand today, uncertain of our future, remembering the past. Feeling as if the very backbone of why we are still using the Mac has been taken away from us. I cannot say more. Only time will tell if these wounds can be healed.

 

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