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Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)
Posted By: Mark LevinDate: 5/14/02 11:23 a.m.

In Response To: Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory) (zudo)

: It takes a greater mental leap to believe that Bungie scrapped the
: Halo/Marathon universe and started again (but left in Mjolnir V, THAT
: logo, etc. etc.) than it is to believe they shifted a few parameters to
: patially sever the ties.

Not necessarily... After all, it was an entirely new game and they had already done the same thing twice with Myth and Oni. And virtually all the direct Marathon references in Halo are in places where they don't really mean much (throwaway dialog, hidden images, coincidence of architecture...) and could easily have been inserted as a joke by someone who had Marathon on the brain anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if what happened was that Bungie originally conceived of Halo as a separate sci-fi universe, laid out the very basic story in a way that resembled Marathon, then completely forgot about that fact and made further changes and refinements without any thought to what that would do to the Marathon connections. During this process various "errors" crept in which broke the Marathon connections one by one and the final game bears little resemblance to Marathon because Bungie wasn't trying to connect to Marathon for several years.

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MARATHON = and != HALOpaolo 5/12/02 9:20 a.m.
     Interesting theory... very interesting... *NM*Boomer 5/12/02 10:03 a.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALORick Blaine 5/12/02 12:08 p.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALOTru7h 5/12/02 12:43 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALOGhôlsbane 5/12/02 1:20 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)zudo 5/12/02 2:35 p.m.
           oh no, the trousers of time theory! [nt]•M 5/12/02 3:28 p.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Rick Blaine 5/12/02 3:51 p.m.
                 Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/12/02 9:04 p.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/12/02 9:03 p.m.
                 Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)zudo 5/13/02 8:34 a.m.
                       Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/13/02 11:40 a.m.
                             Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)zudo 5/13/02 12:12 p.m.
                                   Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/13/02 3:37 p.m.
                                         Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)zudo 5/14/02 4:18 a.m.
                                               Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/14/02 11:23 a.m.
                                                     Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)zudo 5/15/02 3:40 a.m.
                                                           Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Mark Levin 5/15/02 11:26 a.m.
                                                                 Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Rick Blaine 5/16/02 5:54 p.m.
                                         Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Rick Blaine 5/14/02 9:57 p.m.
                       Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)Rick Blaine 5/13/02 1:24 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALOMark Levin 5/12/02 9:05 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALOarchon 5/12/02 10:14 p.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALORick Blaine 5/13/02 1:47 p.m.
                 Re: MARATHON = and != HALOarchon 5/16/02 5:33 p.m.
                       Re: MARATHON = and != HALORick Blaine 5/16/02 6:08 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALOVoltanix 5/22/02 2:16 a.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALOzudo 5/22/02 2:33 a.m.
                 Re: MARATHON = and != HALOTru7h 5/22/02 4:52 p.m.
                       Re: MARATHON = and != HALOInverted Sock Puppet 5/22/02 5:18 p.m.
                             Re: MARATHON = and != HALOBoomer 5/22/02 5:54 p.m.
                                   Re: MARATHON = and != HALOzudo 5/23/02 2:57 a.m.
                                         I LOVE CORTANA!!! ;-) *NM*paolo 5/23/02 12:02 p.m.
                             Re: MARATHON = and != HALOzudo 5/23/02 2:51 a.m.
                             Re: MARATHON = and != HALOTru7h 5/23/02 2:33 p.m.
                       Re: MARATHON = and != HALOzudo 5/23/02 2:49 a.m.
                             Re: MARATHON = and != HALOTru7h 5/23/02 2:39 p.m.
                                   Re: MARATHON = and != HALOzudo 5/23/02 2:55 p.m.
                                         Re: MARATHON = and != HALOTru7h 5/24/02 11:27 a.m.
     Re: MARATHON = and != HALOJohn Denton 5/23/02 5:07 p.m.
           Re: MARATHON = and != HALOInverted Sock Puppet 5/24/02 3:21 a.m.



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