Halo Composer Sues Bungie After He Was Fired "Without Cause"

I still cannot believe this horrendous decision. The guy is a total genius. I'm an animation professor and we listen to Halo tracks each week while drawing. That's how much he changed the genre of gaming music from novelty to something to be respected. Just insane still.

First track, first Halo, rolling blue across the load screen. That is when I fell in love with Mr. Marty O.

I own all of the soundtracks to Halo and I own the soundtracks to literally nothing else. All are great. ODST is probably my overall favorite, but all have fantastic songs.

Go to 343 Marty!

If this is true.. not cool Bungie. Don't treat your creative talent poorly or they will abandon you.

Publicity! Hooray!

I loved that Song from Halo reach ! right at the beginning of the game !

343 should hire Marty he is in my opinion the best in the industry when it comes to music in video games, I would love to hear music like the original Halo games in the new Halo 5 again.

So they fired him, didn't say why, and didn't even give him his goodbye cheque? Bungie is an A hole. I guess they fit in perfectly with Activision.

They do have to pay him for the vacation, but now we're going to find out the REAL reason they fired him, and I'm betting it's not going to be so flattering.

Take a fat check on another project. Hell GO WORK ON GEARS OF WAR. You have the resume to walk into ANY PROJECT.

Great composer

His work was already done, so he was redundant until the next game. They can rehire him on contractual basis. But no point paying salaries for a guy who's music is already finished. What is he going to do each week towards Destiny?

He should move on and use his talent on good things instead, see, Halo games have gone down hill and dropped like a sack of s*^t since Halo 2 for me. I stopped playing them after 3 it was so cheese, full of cliches. The soundtracks though have stayed brilliant though so his talent is wasted on these new pieces of crap they milk called Halo.

Unless Marty's done something beyond egregious to have been fired Bungie would have been far better off taking the high road and just pay him for those items. He can't be owed that much and Bungie would come off looking like an honorable party in the public mindset.

I agree completely that we don't have anywhere near enough information on what transpired and what is or is not owed. However, regardless of the facts, Bungie's reputation is going to take a ding for taking the "we don't owe him 'nuthin" stance. Public good will is hard to garner and harder to keep and this isn't going to help. It probably won't seriously impede them, but they don't need that when they're pushing a new IP like Destiny.

jmo

@deadpen If you have a job and your employer fired you and you ask why... They say "case we want to", I don't think you would take it so well. I know I wouldn't.

Not Cool, Bungie. Not...cool.

I heard the Destiny "theme" played at a video-games symphony recently as a sort of "surprise appearance".

Apparently it was created, in part, by Sir Paul McCartney. The other part being O'Donnell.

...it was bad. It was dull, drab and not and instant classic like O'Donnell's old work, at all. It was very generic. Could have been on one of those royalty-free soundtracks that certain companies sell, for all I know.

They shoved this brilliant man to the side so that they could slap Paul's big name on their project. And how much did that cost them? Whatever it was, I can tell you already it probably wasn't worth it.

This is messed up. Him getting fired in the first place. "We're done with you. See ya. Oh, what? No, you can't have this money." The other guy leaving as well wasn't a great start either.

I know this has nothing to do with the Article but... IMO I think Bungie should of partnered with EA for their new game Destiny. why ? because they would of used the Frostbite 3 engine and it would of made Destiny look even better because right now, the graphics in Destiny don't look that amazing. and yes I know graphics doesn't make a game great but I mean still

because what he did for halo can't be undone. as in making 1 hell of a kick ass theme.

GET A JOB LOSER!

lol sorry its just I never got the chance to say that.

That's the Activision influence.

...which would have been my only response, but right at the end of the article, I see he has a stake in Bungie. And that alone would be enough to tick off Kotick. That's exactly why West and Zamp were fired (they had negotiated way too favourable an agreement with Activision). Activision doesn't want anyone not directly controlled by a simple contract to have access to Destiny's potential revenue.

his music forever shall live in my memory

i can't believe they fired him and replaced halo music with wub wub wub

a$$holes, they deserve to die.

I have a bad feeling that whatever issue caused Marty to be fired will be revealed soon...and many will be shocked at the reason. Awesome composer though.

He should set his former bungie ceo's house on fire. That'll teach him.

NO MARTY!!!! His beats will always be fresh!

Stick it to em Marty. Bungie deserves a hole in their pockets for making eleventy billion Halo games but not a single Oni sequel.