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{{Title|Bungie ViDoc: ''O Brave New World''}}

The '''Bungie ViDoc: ''O Brave New World''''' is the last ''[[Halo]]''-related and longest [[ViDoc]] made by [[Bungie]]. It was released on [[Wikipedia:YouTube|YouTube]] on August 3, [[2011]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtG6--4r_qk '''YouTube''': ''O Brave New World'']</ref> It runs for 55:08, and summarizes Bungie's history and future, as well as ''Halo''<nowiki/>'s creation. Though mostly new footage, it also contains parts from other ViDocs, as well as videos recorded during the early days of Bungie.

*'''[[Wikipedia:Adam Sessler|Adam Sessler]]''': "What I really like about this whole Bungie relationship with [[Wikipedia:Activision|Activision]] is that I never saw it coming."

*'''[[Eric Osborne]]''': "In a lot of ways, we're starting over."

*'''Alexander Seropian''': "Then came ''[[Marathon]]'', which was a real big hit for us."

*'''[[Claude Errera]]''': "''Marathon'' was the first shooter which had verticality to it."

*'''Lorraine McLees''': "You use the terrain to your advantage. Which isn't something that a lot of games did at the time."

*'''Jason Jones''': "We had the advantage twenty years ago of being really stupid. I mean young, but young is stupid. In that mind set, like, anything is possible. So you just get started and figure out what is hard on the way."

*'''Dave Dunn''': "A big moment in Bungie, I think one that stands out to me, more than anything elses, is the ''[[Wikipedia:Myth II: Soulblighter|Myth II]]'' installer bug."

*'''Mike Krahulik''': "'We're taking your machine!'"

===So Our Game Is Called Halo...===

*'''[[Marcus R. Lehto]]''': "It started off with just three of us. We were at that time making what we thought was gonna turn out to be a ''Myth''-type clone, with a Sci-Fi skin on it."

*'''Marcus Lehto''': "It was pretty generic Sci-Fi. You had your typical military forces, tanks, jeeps, that kind of things and some armored guys."

*'''Shi Kai Wang''': *We want a Sci-Fi character, a guy in a suit who can go from Earth to space and we don't have to worry about him changing clothes. And we just needed him to look like a Space marine."

*'''Marcus Lehto''': "Oh god, what do we call him? Something like the super soldier."

*'''Marcus Lehto''': "What if we put ourselves in this character, what if we became that character?"  

*'''Eric Osborne''': "Those are the ideas and decisions which really change the course of the game and the company."

*'''Alexander Seropian''': "Which really went over, big."

*'''Ed Fries''': "This was a group that while I respected their talent because I had seen their previous games. I mean, I probably would have been interested in them just for the team. But that fact that they had this ''Halo'' thing that they were trying to figure out was a plus."

*'''Joseph Staten''': "Greed, fair and simple. Cashed it in, sold our souls, came out here. I mean if you're going to sell your souls, Seattle's a pretty nice place to do it."

*'''Jordan Weisman''': "I remember Ed complaining that even he didn't have a key to get into the Bungie area."

*'''Jerry Holkins''': "On a controller..."

*'''Mike Krahulik''': "Different!"

*'''Chris Butcher''': "When I joined, the AI for ''Halo'' was about three source files and the big block comments at the top that were just Jason's log of him frantically trying to get something, anything, up and running. [[Jaime Griesemer]] and myself, we just sat and worked on two signature encounters, one was the beach on ''[[The Silent Cartographer]]'', which was the classic kind of wave advancing encounter and the other one was the classic defensive encounter. We really only had one shot at it because we weren't going to have time to go back and scrap the AI system. So we just knew we had to get it right."

*'''Marcus R. Lehto''': "We had a lot of content to build, gameplay experience to create. So all of these grand ideas we had of this huge open world experience quickly dissipated."   

*'''[[Pete Parsons]]''': "I think there were a small group of people who felt like ''Halo'' would be the defining game of the Xbox."

*'''Shi Kai Wang''': "I think they put a lot of bets on this game called [[Wikipedia: Azurik: Rise of Perathia|Azurik]]. I'm not sure if anybody remembers that."

*'''Jordan Weisman''': "It wasn't pre-ordained that it was going to be Halo. Halo earned that right, you know, by being one of the best titles in development at the time."  

*'''Luke Timmins''': "They brought me in. So here's a proto-type Xbox, here's a proto-type controller and here's this game called ''Halo''. And he said 'You know Bungie?', and I'm like 'Who, Mac gaming are you fucking joking?'. He gives it to me and I'm like 'Oh wow, this is fucking amazing!' and all it was, was the B30, running around on the beach and just shoot stuff. I was like 'This is fantastic!'."

*'''Dave Dunn''': "At that time, there was three teams. The ''Halo'' team, still the ''Phoenix'' team and then there was the ''[[Wikipedia:Oni (video game)|Oni]]'' team."

Oni ''gameplay is presented.''

===What Does Not Kill Me===

''The timeline appears at 2004, with a clip from the [[Halo 2 announcement trailer]]. It is followed by the rest of the announcement trailer. The ''[[Halo 2]]'' logo is then presented.''

*'''Geoff Keighly''': "It's something you really don't see very often in [[Electronic Entertainment Expo|E3]] in the middle of the demo, you will just like, 'Fuck yea, that's awesome'."

*'''Martin O'Donnell''': "We were showing something at E3 that was going to be in the game. It's not in the game."

*'''Geoff Keighley''': "Bungie has done an amazing job, I think, y'know, speaking to its community on an ongoing basis."

*'''[[Wikipedia:Geoff Ramsey|Geoff Ramsey]]''': "Absolutely."

*'''Geoff Ramsey''': "'Let's move to Mexico'!"

*''''Chris Butcher''': "Where we are today with the community, you could capture it all, and bumble it up, and say, 'This is what we are all experiencing together.' Developers and players."

*'''Eric Osborne''': "[[Randall Glass]]' ''Warthog Jump'' video really resonate with the community because he was doing something really cool inside the game with the physics engine, and the Warthog. And people were inspired by that."

===Third Time's the Charm===

''The timeline appears at 2007, with a clip of the [[Halo 3 Announcement Trailer]]. The Halo 3 logo is then presented.''

===It's Not You It's Me===

*'''Eric Osborne''': "It's such an important cultural ideal here that the studio owns what it creates."

*'''CJ Cowan''': "Harold had promised Microsoft we had two more ''Halo'' games, and ''Reach'' was only one of them. What can we do in one year with the engine we've already built, not a whole lot of engineers, just a handful of artists. What can we do in a year to get a game out the door? Harold looked at us and said, 'Make it happen.'"

*'''Curtis Creamer''': "''ODST'' was a lot of fun, because it was a smaller team. It got back to, you know feeling a little bit like what that Halo 1 experience was."

===Once More, With Feeling===

''The timeline appears at 2010, with a clip of various gamplay snippets and cutscenes from [[Halo: Reach]]'s campaign. The ''Halo: Reach'' logo is then presented.''

*'''Marcus Lehto''': "Mo-cap became integral into all of our gameplay animation systems. If you look back on the whole series, our animation system actually had pretty much been the same. We hit this point where we just said to ourselves, 'I think it's time now to take animation into that next generational leap.'"

*'''Marcus Lehto''': "We wanted to pull the helmets off all the Spartans, and we wanted to get to know each one of those Spartans up close and personal. It needed to be human."

*'''Geoff Keighly''': "I think anyone that played ''Reach'' and was a fan of ''Halo'', I think felt a sense of completion. I look at that final sequence with you know the helmet sitting there shattered and the world around it. It reminded of that first moment when I saw ''Halo'' at E3."

*'''Joseph Staten''': "With ''ODST'', with ''Reach'', in ways that we haven't revealed yet, we absolutely learned important things from all of those games."

*'''Martin O'Donnell''':"If it's not scary, then it's not gonna be good."

*'''Shi Kai Wang''': "We have other ideas. We have other, y'know, worlds we want to create."

''The sun sets on a snowy landscape, and it changes into a symbol. A space aura fades in, and a message from Bungie appears:''

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Daniel Barbour

Bruce Chianese

[[Claude Errera]]

Geoff Levin

'''[[Wikipedia:Penny Arcade (webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'''

Burnie Burns

Nico Andy-Rowland

[[Michael Salvatori]]

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==Gallery==

File:Pathways into Darkness.jpg|''[[Wikipedia:Pathways into Darkness|Pathways into Darkness]]''

File:Marathons.jpg|''[[Marathon]]''

File:Myth The fallen Lords.jpg|''[[Wikipedia:Myth (series)|Myth: The Fallen Lords]]''

File:Myth II Soulblighter.jpg|''[[Wikipedia:Myth II: Soulblighter|Myth II: Soulblighter]]''

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