Bungie Bids Halo Farewell with Touching Infographic

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Bungie Bids Halo Farewell with Touching Infographic

As a planet, we've spent 235,000 years playing Halo online since 2004. Go us?

Everybody knows how they like their Halo (I take mine with a nice red and some mindless dance music, thanks for asking). As a franchise, it still stands as one of the biggest and most recognisable staples of games to appear in the past ten years. Development studio Bungie oversaw both the single- and multi-player aspects of the games until very recently, when 343 Industries took over the franchise [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/trailers/5439-Halo-4-Spring-Showcase-Trailer] and Bungie began the process of winding down its involvement in the games' online functions.

Now, the time has come for Bungie to stop tracking online data gathered during the hundreds of millions of Halo games people play every week. To send its online committment off in style at the same time as thanking fans for spending so much time with the games, Bungie released the (massive) infographic lurking at the bottom of this page as a little thank-you for all the years of terrible driving and failed coup attempts its developers have witnessed online in Halo.

Kill counts, as seen below, are in the tens of billions in most cases; as a collective, Halo players have logged hundreds of thousands of hours online together.

A note at the bottom of the infographic reads: "According to our Bungie.net data, in the collective time you've spent playing Halo you could have travelled across the expanse of the Milky Way at light speed...and back."

"Thank you for being the brightest stars in our galaxy. Thank you for making Bungie.net your community home these many years. See you starside," concludes the note.

C'mon, all together now: Awwwwww! Such sweetness at the end of a note describing the literal billions of in-game deaths, lacerations, explosions, and all-too-sudden sneaky energy sword insta-kills many of us know all too well. Touching, really.





Source: CVG [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=280533]



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DeepComet5581

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Holy Shit.

These infographs never fail to surprise me. I'd quite like to see an Elder scrolls one. Imagine the figures for a game franchise that's 18 years old!

Well, I guess it's a fitting end to one hell of a bloody series, and just think of how those 235,000 could have been put to better use... FOR SCIENCE!!
 

darksakul

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And nothing of value is lost.

Seriously I was never a fan of the Halo series and I felt Bungie's best work was before they joined up with Microsoft(Marathon for example, despite I am not a fan of macs ether).
 

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It's the setting sun that probably got to me. Still, I'm looking forward to what Bungie's got up their sleeve. If it surpasses Halo by miles, I'll be impressed.
 

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Thanks Bungie, for all the work you put into making some of the most engaging games I have ever played.

I can't wait to see what their next project will be.
 

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And I bid you farewell Bungie. I'm still having fun on Reach and even CE and I will keep having fun!
 

Rad Party God

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Even as a PC gamer, I always admired the Halo series and I do still respect it, even if it's not one of my favorites.

Besides always having some of the very best soundtracks I've ever heard in any game (and always making it to my iPod), I admire what it did for games in general, for good or ill, it pretty much estabilished how we play FPS games today and how console games (and, sadly, some PC games) are played online.

It was always a great pleasure to play multiplayer in my cousin / friends house and it was pretty fun when I still had the 360. I think I'm one of the few who liked the campaing of all the 3 games and I'm not saying this with nostalgia glasses, those were some seriously epic and entertaining campaigns, even if the story itself didn't make much sense or some levels were a wee bit repetitive (see, Library).

I have a huge respect for Bungie for being awesome with their community and I just wish the best for their future endeavors. Also, I hope the series don't decline in quality (grain of salt needed) at the hands of 343 Industries.
 

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buy teh haloz said:
It's the setting sun that probably got to me. Still, I'm looking forward to what Bungie's got up their sleeve. If it surpasses Halo by miles, I'll be impressed.
Hell, if it breaks even with Halo and what it did for shooters and the xbox, I'll be hella impressed.

The setting sun got me too, this whole thing brought a tear to my eye =')
 

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This makes the high schooler in me cry. The days of Halo 2 multiplayer feel like they ended just yesterday.
 

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I feel like Bungie is saying goodbye with a gentle kiss to the forehead, I'm sad to see them go but I will always remember the gifts that they gave me.
 

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Fappy said:
This makes the high schooler in me cry. The days of Halo 2 multiplayer feel like they ended just yesterday.
Too true. How long has it been since halo 2 multiplayer went down btw?
 

thenumberthirteen

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Wow. That's a lot of kills. In an attempt to say something original I'm surprised that that infographic is of a fairly low resolution. I can't read the weapon kill breakdowns.
 

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They brought some amazing innovation to the FPS market. There's not many console games where the developers essentially created the staple-mark multiplayer we all play so much of today, then hand over the multiplayer tools to the fans to create more of it again. It was an amazing series (even if Reach's multiplayer never took my fancy) and I hope 343i continue it in their own excellent way. Lets hope Bungie's new game is as refreshing and fun as Halo CE was.

I was playing Reach Customs not 10 minutes ago on community-made casual game maps. Demolition derby with warthogs and such.
 

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thenumberthirteen said:
Wow. That's a lot of kills. In an attempt to say something original I'm surprised that that infographic is of a fairly low resolution. I can't read the weapon kill breakdowns.
Super resolution size: http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline12/Sunset/halo_mulitplayer_stats.jpg
 

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WNxSajuukCor said:
thenumberthirteen said:
Wow. That's a lot of kills. In an attempt to say something original I'm surprised that that infographic is of a fairly low resolution. I can't read the weapon kill breakdowns.
Super resolution size: http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline12/Sunset/halo_mulitplayer_stats.jpg
Actually that's lower resolution than the one in the article.
 

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necromanzer52 said:
Fappy said:
This makes the high schooler in me cry. The days of Halo 2 multiplayer feel like they ended just yesterday.
Too true. How long has it been since halo 2 multiplayer went down btw?
Like 5 or 6 months at least.
 

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Fappy said:
necromanzer52 said:
Fappy said:
This makes the high schooler in me cry. The days of Halo 2 multiplayer feel like they ended just yesterday.
Too true. How long has it been since halo 2 multiplayer went down btw?
Like 5 or 6 months at least.
I hate to break it to you, but I think it's more like 2 years.