Props for sticking it to the man Bungie, but when the man is Shigeru Miyamoto... I dunno. I don't predict good things.

Anyway, will be interesting to see what Bungie come up with. Unless it was one of their infamous sarcastic jokes and they're not actually making a 2D game. But then, they can't exactly make another Halo.

My mind's going all over the place this morning. I blame assignments. And lack of coffee. Even though I don't drink coffee.

It's a shame that even a development studio, like Bungie, could fail to understand that Miyamoto's statement was garbled in translation; his statement was concerning that he could have made a game like Halo/2/3/etc, but he prefers to try to come up with new ideas rather than be a "me too" kind of designer.

i dont think he meant it in an insulting way, but merely to point out that an all-american gungho scifi fps blockbuster is, creatively and business-wise, the easy/safe option. which it is

has anyone of note actually disputed his ability to make halo?

Miyamoto is and always will be WAY more influential than Bungie and any one of the Bungie team, in videogames. I didn't take his comments as a direct attack on Bungie ... he used Halo as an example of the genre. And I'm sorry ... Halo is stale. It's not offering ANYTHING above 90% of other shooters out there ... so he was right.... I'm not saying that Zelda is offering anything new at the moment ... except that Halo will never be as interactive as Zelda on Wii ... that's fact. I dunno ... I think Bungie is attacking to try and look cool ... and all they're doing is looking like little kids in a playground, hitting back at the parent or teacher. Who did it long before they did.

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