Bungie Day 09 – My Thoughts
Bungie day was yesterday and we got a few new things. However, what was my take on the event?
First of all, lets start off with the “Bungie vs The World” playlist. This playlist introduced us to a load of community created maps, many of which I enjoyed. Here’s hoping that some of them get in to the regular Matchmaking playlists in August.
That said, the main selling point for the Bungie vs The World playlist was the chance to play against Bungie employees, kick their collective arses, and earn yourself Recon armour. That said, the total playlist population was often at about 170,000+ players at any one time. Finding a team of four people in that is unlikely. Bungie should have put more teams out there. They could have even got RoosterTeeth or HBO to join the playlist to dish out Recon as well.
Next up there were screenshots of the next map pack. Screenshots are nice, but I feel rather disappointed at what’s there. Heretic is a remake of Midship, which was an okay map in Halo 2 (Would have much preferred to see other maps remade though). Citadel looks… dull and boring, and the same goes for Longshore. That said, Longshore looks like some kind of re-imagining of Headlong from Halo 2, so hopefully it should be a fun map.
Bungies Render-to-Video service also went live, which allows you to render your film clips from Halo 3 in to video files so that you can play them on your computer, edit them, or upload them to websites like YouTube. This is something fans have been after since Halo 3 was launched, so it’s good to see Bungie deliver something that fans wanted.
Finally, Bungie also released a Podcast on Bungie Day. The podcast contained a snippet of music from Halo 3: ODST, and also Nathan Fillion appeared as a guest. Nathan Fillion does the voice acting for Reynolds in Halo 3, and he also voices Buck in Halo 3: ODST.
Overall? This Bungie Day wasn’t bad. Last years was certainly better though, when we got a free map to play with. It also would have been nice to get some Gamerpictures like we usually do. That said, everything that we got here was free, so I guess we can’t really complain. Still would have been nice to have more Bungie employees in the Bungie vs The World playlist though.
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