Bungie's "Studio Video Tour" - Funny as hell!

**Shred0r** · 02-19-2006

Bungie Weekly Update: Video Tour Special!!!

This week's update is special. In fact, it's soooo special that it has to wear a helmet and ride a short bus to school. It's the long-awaited, phantasmagorical, scrum-diddly-umptious video tour of the new Bungie Studios.

Thanks to the elite video and directing skills of our very own auteur, Brian "Sketch" Jarrard (although he points out that he's a noob at this, and the quality may not reach the standards of other Bungie efforts), and the sweet new video suite we got for Bungie.net, we're finally able to bring you the ultimate tour de force, in the form of a tour de farce.

The new office is a really fun space. It's full of toys, practical features and an environment conducive to making excellent games. There's a lot of office area that we can't show you – including really cool things like storyboards, level designs, logos, graphics and audio stuff. TVs and monitors in this place are often blaring evocative sounds as well as images.

We spent the better part of a day scrubbing the video of anything too revelatory. If you see something on a screen that you think looks like a clue, we've seen it too, and for whatever reason, decided it wasn't letting any cats out of bags. When you DO decide you've spotted something, as you invariably will, remember we are the home of Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 2 for Windows Vista, and that Guitar Hero setup is for fun, not for research. Or is it!!!?

Anyhoo, every word, thought, image and object has been vetted enough so that even if you come to a conclusion, it's probably wrong. That's not to say the video is boring. You might not like it, but boring it ain't. SO! INSTRUCTIONS TIME KIDS! This is a QuickTime movie, so make sure you got yourself some recent version of QuickTime. Now right click the image below and choose "SAVE TARGET AS" because this file is large, and it will smash your machine if you try to stream it.

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory....tour&p=6206773
Direct link: movie

Download and enjoy! This guys know humour....

**Pink** · 02-19-2006

The best part was at the end when they were warming their hands with the 360's power supply. Also that place is really nice, it looks like they treat their employees very well who work there.

**Hex** · 02-19-2006

That was good, quite funny. Wow, they have a lot of 360 dev kits. I want to work at Bungie.

**Mael Duin** · 02-20-2006

I watched Bungies studio video tour when Halo 2 was coming. I don't remember alot about it but I did like it. I'm going to download this too :]

**Fordgasm** · 02-20-2006

Haha that dude was an egg, he was a funny egg but still an egg!
I like the power brick skit and messing with the music dude.
What was up with the belts though!

**Shred0r** · 02-20-2006

I guess they got the belts from some king of G4tv contest where the bald guy won his belt for Best Multiplayer Gamer (if i got it right) and the other one he met on his way to the studios was telling something about "Best Boss Fight"...

Oh, as many people are going to see this video i only hope this belt thingy will not become a habit of fashionable clothing ^^

But it would be cool to walk around with such a big belt with the title on it: PS3 OWNZ!

**Fordgasm** · 02-21-2006

Originally Posted by Shred0r

I guess they got the belts from some king of G4tv contest where the bald guy won his belt for Best Multiplayer Gamer (if i got it right) and the other one he met on his way to the studios was telling something about "Best Boss Fight"...

Oh, as many people are going to see this video i only hope this belt thingy will not become a habit of fashionable clothing ^^

But it would be cool to walk around with such a big belt with the title on it: PS3 OWNZ!

Yeah but when you saw Master Chief wearing one in the lobby that was a bit much!

Aleman · 02-21-2006

I thought they were trying a little to hard to be funny. He came up with some funny stuff seemingly by accident though and I laughed a few times.

The most interesting thing is the HUGE air conditioning system they have to cool down their rendering farms.