: I interpreted the end of M2 to put closure on the conflict with the pfhor and
: lead into a new story with durandal and the s'pht, probably with some new
: aliens. But they went and dragged the pfhor back in, even though they made
: entirely new graphics, because..... ? Well, Doom 64 did that and it turned
: out great, and so did Marathon 2, but it seems like the only reason bungie
: went that far was because of the one clown nose comment
Yeah, I remember being disappointed to see that we were dealing with the Pfhor again when Infinity came out. And still on Lh'owon, no less.
Didn't something come out a while ago that explained that the reason for the "what if" scenario was that initially Double Aught was working under the assumption that they wouldn't have the budget for any new graphics, and by the time they did have new wall textures, the story had already been locked in?