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xTopGunx
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 30
[QUESTION] anyone believe Halo isn't involved? Is there anyone on this site who doesn't believe that Halo is involved in some way?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:48 am
Lutzie
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Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 137
OK, weather enayone likes it or not, this story/game IS SET IN THE UNIVERSE OF HALO.
The end result come Aug 24th may or may not be Halo related, but this game IS. End of. If you think otherwise I'd first get your head checked, and THEN provide evidence as to what it is that proves everything else wrong.
/end rant
and indeed:
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:03 am
xTopGunx
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 30
Don't get me wrong, I think it's part of Halo too, I'm just wondering if anybody doen't think so.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:23 am
Lutzie
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Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 137
xTopGunx wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think it's part of Halo too, I'm just wondering if anybody doen't think so.
That's fine then!
There was someone else who didn't think so, but given the overwehalming evidence I'd say you'd have to fairly daft not to think so...
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:35 am
keybsnbits
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Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 121
Lutzie wrote:
OK, weather enayone likes it or not, this story/game IS SET IN THE UNIVERSE OF HALO.
The end result come Aug 24th may or may not be Halo related, but this game IS. End of. If you think otherwise I'd first get your head checked, and THEN provide evidence as to what it is that proves everything else wrong.
/end rant
and indeed:
Who are you to say whether or not a thread should get locked. You need to chill out... let people have their opinions. Remember: the majority isn't always right (even though I am with the majority on this one).
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:45 am
illuminati_dk
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Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Denmark
It could be like metacortex everybody thought it was matrix related and SUPRISE it was'nt
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:06 am
Lutzie
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Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 137
keybsnbits wrote:
Who are you to say whether or not a thread should get locked.
*Ahem* did you not just follow that with:
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let people have their opinions.
As I'm not a mod I have no right to say if a thread should be locked, however I have plenty of reason to state an opinion that I think it should be.
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You need to chill out...
Indeed. However after the last "arguement" with someone about this very subject that person couldn't back up their own arguements and was virtually refusing what was staring them in the face. It's rather frustrating when people say "This isn't Halo related" and have sweet FA as to why they think that. Although this chappie here didn't do that, I was just (wrongly) pre-empting that.
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Remember: the majority isn't always right (even though I am with the majority on this one).
I know it isn't, but until a decent alternative is offered what's the point of denouncing it? I don't believe in God/Christianity etc, but I don't denounce it as flase simple because I there's no proof to that the Bible (etc) is correct. It's the general accepted "theory" and thus it stands, until replaced by something else or proven true.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:11 am
yanka
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 1214 Location: undesirable
illuminati_dk wrote:
It could be like metacortex everybody thought it was matrix related and SUPRISE it was'nt
?
I'm not sure what you mean... It was set in the matrix universe, so it was "related". Since it was not made by people who made The Matrix, it couldn't have given away any "official" storylines - but this is quite a different situation here.
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:12 am
Killer-of-Lawyers
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Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 56 Location: Anahuac, TX
Obviously the story snipets take place in some ancheint greek lands. See, little did we know that when the persians inaded, they were called the covinant, and that the Athenian mariners, aka marines, were advanced in the ways of dental technology and electormagnetic propulsion. And obviously the crashed ship is a shipwrecked trireme.
And... uhh... the operator is Posideons long lost daughter....
so
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:18 pm
Ke3PeR
Greenhorn
Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 7
Heh, there is nothing to do with the majority here.
It IS set in the halo universe. Fact.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:18 pm
Giskard
Sassypants
Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 2066 Location: Chicago
Ke3PeR wrote:
It IS set in the halo universe. Fact.
I have some sort of natural aversion against people ending their sentences like that. I saw a lot of people doing it during previous ARG's who were later on proved wrong, just because the beauty of a great mysterious storyline is that nothing is what it seems... there's nothing wrong with speculating about other possibilities.
Imho, it's not very hard to make anything look HALO-related with a little effort... in fact, if the URL in the HALO trailer would have been metacortechs.com , a LOT of people would be utterly convinced of that being part of the HALO-universe right now, as it has a lot of thematic stuff in common...
I'm not saying I think it isn't related, but I am saying that I'm glad that there are people questioning what others take for granted...
Lutzie wrote:
and indeed:
I am certainly not going to lock a thread because someone is trying to be open minded about something...
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:11 pm
Grout
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about this. Yes, I KNOW that this game is a promotion for the Halo 2 video game. And yes, it is probably set in the same or similar universe as Halo. HOWEVER... that does not mean we can abandon all rational thought and speculate: OMG TEH QUEEN IS PROBABLY CORTANA!! AND FARNSWORTH IS MASTER CHIEF!!!11
I think it is reasonable to expect that we will get our plot from mostly in game sources. No need to dig through the Halo books and desperately try to fit the events of this game into their plots. The Beast was set in the AI universe, but knowing the plot of the AI movie was unneccessary, in fact... it only ruined things.
THAT is what I mean when I plead with people to forget everything they know about Halo for a minute.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:26 pm
KiLLyourTV
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Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 12
I believe that yes, the game does indeed have some LINK to the Halo world, but not correlating directly with what we know.
Bungie is absolutely infamous for its story telling skills, and I believe both Marathon and Halo "universes" are involved somehow. Why I posted here? I don't wanna trout the rest of the place. (Even though this most likely is.
For now though, think like this.
ilovebees story = information ONLY recieved from ilovebees.com
Bungie Universe Story = What you know plus what was recieved from ilovebees AFTER the game is over (is it a game yet?..?..?)
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:50 am
illuminati_dk
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Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Denmark
Sorry yanka. Thats what i meant that people thougt it was the brothers that was behind *MY BAD*
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:31 am
floorneyne
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Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 89
Grout wrote:
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about this. Yes, I KNOW that this game is a promotion for the Halo 2 video game. And yes, it is probably set in the same or similar universe as Halo. HOWEVER... that does not mean we can abandon all rational thought and speculate: OMG TEH QUEEN IS PROBABLY CORTANA!! AND FARNSWORTH IS MASTER CHIEF!!!11
I think it is reasonable to expect that we will get our plot from mostly in game sources. No need to dig through the Halo books and desperately try to fit the events of this game into their plots. The Beast was set in the AI universe, but knowing the plot of the AI movie was unneccessary, in fact... it only ruined things.
THAT is what I mean when I plead with people to forget everything they know about Halo for a minute.
Okay... there is no "probably set in" or "similar" universe. It is the Halo universe. There are references to specific charcters from the books and the slip-stream drive creators. If it weren't, Bungie would be suing the people who created the site, not giving us a direct message to go to it!
Because we know the game is in the Halo universe, that puts all relative Halo universe material in-game. Does this mean there are messages on the Bungie website? No. It's not in the Halo universe. Does this mean that referencing text from the book can be relevant to solving a puzzle? OF COURSE!
I see your point, but disregarding the Halo universe is basically throwing away the biggest clue we have. You certainly don't need any prior info about the Halo universe to help solve the puzzles (I've played the hell out of the game, but never read any of the books), but I think it is a valuable resource from those who have an intimate knowledge of the Halo universe.
That's my 2 cents on this thread, since I'm desperately bored and sick of trying to figure out what the freaking "truth" is.
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:02 am
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