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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  if i admit to doing crime, i still have to face the law about it. Does bungie?

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• pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The art director followed Antireal on Twitter.

  Stop the bullshit. They knew what they were doing

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• rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if i had a nickel for every time bungie stole art i could afford to pay for that art

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• Notserious@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • FuckFascism@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • carlossurf@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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  • Master167@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “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.

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    • magikmw@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But Prey was actually good.

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    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had the same reaction to Marathon as well as the new Black Hawk Down.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The best thing about Marathon is the shortfilm. Watch that. Then ignore the game.

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I watched people play the game and was wondering what the hype was all about. The game looked so dull and boring. The outside of the map looled like a game made by a single dev for his indie game. Only yesterday i watched the short film and was loke: oooooooh, i get it, because they lie.

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• spizzat2@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Does it even have Pfhor in it…?

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• MisterOwl@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Senator, I know Marathon. I served with Marathon. You are no Marathon.

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And I served a tour with Pathways Into Darkness.

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• Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  NGL, it seems really practical that it was intended to be placeholder concept art that someone forgot to go in and replace.

  That said, this artists they took so much inspiration from definitely deserves a place in the game’s credits at this point. Whether they actually use his art in game or not.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Placeholder doesn’t need to be anything more than basic featureless textures on cubes, and you should own them completely. If you made your placeholder to look like it fits, you’re asking for it to be forgotten and left in place. Which might not be too bad if it’s finally not too out of place and it’s yours.

    Especially in a professional studio, they should know better than using stuff they just “found” as placeholder. To me it’s either terrible incompetence… or worse, they thought nobody would care anyway.

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    • odelik@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is incompetence.

      I’ve been in and out of games for my entire career. Every place I’ve been has had strict policies on outside art assets. I’ve even seen every new art asset to require a monthly license review to prevent any chance of outside art having slipped in somehow, including any usage of Blender’s example model Suzanne.

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I will say, placeholder SHOULD be more than basic featureless textures on cubes so it can’t make it to a playtest without knowing about it. You know, like this. Placeholder kittens are always distinct, in my book. Plus if something subtly gets through, players will think it’s a hilarious easter egg

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    • Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Didn’t they get caught doing this with destiny as well? It makes me wonder if it’s a studio culture thing. You’re 200% right in what they should be doing, but I still am inclined to think this is more likely an incompetence thing than malice.

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• Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re doing it again! Bungie has fallen far, completely incompetent management.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it only the management though? You mean to tell me absolutely none of the artists knew about this, or that literally ONLY ONE “ex-employee” artist knew this was going on among the art team? Do Bungie only have one artist making art assets for textures across various objects, as well as assets they use on their website and in their trailers?

    “Ex-employee” is a scapegoat, but I guarantee you there was more than one artist, entirely unrelated to management, that knew this was going on and will happily blame the scapegoat to absolve themselves of their involvement.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s such a damn shame, too. Destiny 2 was some of the most fun I’ve had in gaming over the last decade. Absolutely jaw-dropping environments at times, clever encounter designs, the gunplay, so many things to love. And I have no doubt Marathon will be a hell of a thing from what I’ve seen. These people can design a game.

    But GODDAMN stop stealing art from people. Upper management has got to be atrocious with all the bullshit they’ve pulled over the years. And you know that bullshit starts at C-suite and rolls downhill.

    It’s a damn shame.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s surprising how few people at the top you need to change in order to change a company culture. One of the companies that I regularly work with has gone from being a nightmare because we could never get information out of them, to a nightmare because of how whiny and demanding they’ve become. That was the result of the CEO changing, that’s it one person and it results in a totally different corporate personality.

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When you have money and power then get caught doing something, ask for forgiveness and create a awful situation to pay the artist less and throw in that small tiny hint of “no more money later, no royalties, we own everything and you get small check….byeeeeeee” (aka the middle finger)

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• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  insane plagiarism in marathon

  Jake the Alright

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6QdnV-chZk

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