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Re: MARATHON = and != HALO (best guess theory)
Posted By: zudoDate: 5/15/02 3:40 a.m.

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

: 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.

So what would the point of Nathan's "after the launch, beofre the return" post?
Choosing to believe that the story was TOTALLY changed after this point and completely disreguarding a signed-and-sealed official Bungie post is surely more of a leap than believeing the story was partially changed and maintaining the validity of Nathan's post?

: 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.

So you're saying that they were the same to begin with by accident and then became gradually different by accident in the complete opposite direction? And that's an easier proposition to believe?

Now my brain really hurts. ;p

[z]

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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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