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Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory) | ||
Posted By: Rick Blaine | Date: 5/12/02 3:51 p.m. | |
In Response To: Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory) (zudo) : The Great Theory of Paolo got me thinking (it was mostly the word
: And I've come up with the Best Guess Theory :D : I don't know where to chack the dates -- was Nathan working for Bungie while
We only need 2 facts involving dates. 1) Nathan B. knows that Halo is a ring. The puts him at the story conference table late in the development cycle, around the time when the storyline got locked-down. 2) Nathan didn't leave just after the first Cortana Letter. Give the well-known Bungie paranoia wrt leaks, this means his work was approved by top management. If they _hadn't_ approved, he would have been fired on the spot. Reductio ad absurdem. Fact 2 tells us _nothing_ about the reason(s) for his departure, but we can guess that the original shipdate was supposed to be about 6-9 months from the end of Cortana letters. Of course, the Cortana Letters might only have been the opening salvo in a larger 'buzz' barrage. This is only a guess. : My thinking is this... at one time, Halo DID take place in the Marathon
: This covers the allusions to the Big Bungie Story (chaos vs. order mixed with
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