: I don't think that the save runes are actually a major part of PiD's story
: since the player, realistically speaking, didn't have the option of
: literally saving his progress and go back whenever he died. The runes are
: just the way that we, the audience, can save our progress. I guess that
: this was Bungie's alternative to enabling us to save whenever we want to
: and put in a scenery object that doesn't play a real part in the
: story-line, it is just meant to mark where we can save.
I guess your right. But Bungie, during the time when they made PiD and Marathon, tried to be realistic and tried to keep everything within the story. In the Marathon trilogy, the save points are pattern buffers, and as such they are acknoledged by the AI and are part of the canon. Why wouldn't they do the same with PiD?
