He was never with 343 to my awareness. He stayed with Bungie as they left Microsoft (343 was what remained there). He was fired by Bungie just as Destiny was going out the door in part because they wanted to claim that Paul McCartney was the primary composer of that game (of course, a bald-faced lie).
He was a company founder and partial owner, and had to be stripped of his voting power and title in order to get to firing him. Something they managed to do in a span of hours. It was very shady and almost certainly illegal. He sued them for it, and won big.
He was a company founder and partial owner, and had to be stripped of his voting power and title in order to get to firing him. Something they managed to do in a span of hours. It was very shady and almost certainly illegal. He sued them for it, and won big.
What the hell. Rank sociopathy. At least the good guy won in the end.
Reminds me of some id software exec blatantly lying about Mick Gordon on reddit over the Doom Eternal soundtrack. I'm not sure how that ended up, but almost everything he tried to pin on Mick for delaying the project was knowingly false. And the Eternal soundtrack still isn't officially out, so I can't add The Only One They Fear Is You to any playlists.
I never heard Salvatori presented as anything by Bungie but a jobber. He had been the lesser composer (working underneath Martin) at Bungie for years before Destiny, and stayed with the company during the Microsoft exodus. It boggles my mind that Bungie would suddenly want or try to present him as anything else because I reckon they never actually treated him that well.
No, it was Paul McCartney (of Beatles / Wings fame). Activision likely pushed for them to have a 'big' name associated with the game, and the new-guard at Bungie seemed gaga over the idea as well. Given the music that made it into the game, it is very obvious to my ear O'Donnell was the primary composer. The beef as I understood it then was that Bungie was pushing for giving McCartney top billing despite all of his contributions being vague and without direct attribution song to song. I still have no clue what music or musical themes are supposed to have been his, though I admit I stopped caring about Bungie during the early phases of Destiny so if they've revealed that information since, very well.
The music sounds like O'Donnell music, you can draw a straight line from Halo (especially ODST) to Destiny very easily. They have to convince me it was otherwise and I certainly didn't see it at the time.
343 had/has an unofficial rule of not hiring ex-bungie guys. My guess is they know they are shit at making games and they don’t want ex-bungie guys coming back and taking over.
He was never with 343 to my awareness. He stayed with Bungie as they left Microsoft (343 was what remained there). He was fired by Bungie just as Destiny was going out the door in part because they wanted to claim that Paul McCartney was the primary composer of that game (of course, a bald-faced lie).
He was a company founder and partial owner, and had to be stripped of his voting power and title in order to get to firing him. Something they managed to do in a span of hours. It was very shady and almost certainly illegal. He sued them for it, and won big.
What the hell. Rank sociopathy. At least the good guy won in the end.
Reminds me of some id software exec blatantly lying about Mick Gordon on reddit over the Doom Eternal soundtrack. I'm not sure how that ended up, but almost everything he tried to pin on Mick for delaying the project was knowingly false. And the Eternal soundtrack still isn't officially out, so I can't add The Only One They Fear Is You to any playlists.
I thought it was Michael Salvatori
I never heard Salvatori presented as anything by Bungie but a jobber. He had been the lesser composer (working underneath Martin) at Bungie for years before Destiny, and stayed with the company during the Microsoft exodus. It boggles my mind that Bungie would suddenly want or try to present him as anything else because I reckon they never actually treated him that well.
No, it was Paul McCartney (of Beatles / Wings fame). Activision likely pushed for them to have a 'big' name associated with the game, and the new-guard at Bungie seemed gaga over the idea as well. Given the music that made it into the game, it is very obvious to my ear O'Donnell was the primary composer. The beef as I understood it then was that Bungie was pushing for giving McCartney top billing despite all of his contributions being vague and without direct attribution song to song. I still have no clue what music or musical themes are supposed to have been his, though I admit I stopped caring about Bungie during the early phases of Destiny so if they've revealed that information since, very well.
The music sounds like O'Donnell music, you can draw a straight line from Halo (especially ODST) to Destiny very easily. They have to convince me it was otherwise and I certainly didn't see it at the time.
343 had/has an unofficial rule of not hiring ex-bungie guys. My guess is they know they are shit at making games and they don’t want ex-bungie guys coming back and taking over.
343 deserves all the hate they get.