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| Posted By: Celegur <celegur@gmail.com> | Date: 5/16/04 6:10 p.m. |
In Response To: Enkidu flames and kudos HERE, please. (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)) Well, people always say that you shouldn't critisice unless you could do better ... but, I think most people will agree that no one could have done a better job ... Anyway, comments of praise first, followed by one small suggestion, and then a few questions (aka: the suggestion being what I would have liked to see) First off, let me be one of the many to say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every one of the terminals (okay, okay, the only one that I didn't read in its entirety was the one 're-read of a classic' ... you can shame me). In fact, nearer to the begining of the whole thing, I would occasionally drop notes to my brother about how the pre-release stuff for Halo2 has started, just like it did with Halo:CE (Cortana Letters, which I wasn't around for). Then, just a few days ago, I realized what it was with Bungie and their games that makes it /so/ cool. It's the backstory, with the occasional references to it in game. Suffice it to say that I was in the car, reading, when I came to this conclusion, in an odd way. I was reading the Letter's of J.R.R. Tolkien (I forget which one) and read about how Tolkien was writing to someone (I think it was a fan) about how the appendices for Vol. III were be horribly inadequate, and wouldn't satisfy anyone. Why was this? Because, on one hand, it would just be an overview, and people would always, always want more information -- the linguists would want more detailed languages, the botanists descriptions of plants, others would want better maps, others information on the social structure ... -- and then there were those, on the other hand, who would skip them! Why? Because they read it differently, and saw the backstory, and how that simply added to it (I think the term he used was that they read it for the romance [which really isn't there, if you look at it ;)]) It was then that I read the letter to the driver (brother), and commented about how that was the reason Tolkien succeeded: he would elude to other things that were there. In fact, one of his biggest peeves was what helped him, in that he never got to publish the Silmarillion and the Lord of the Rings at the same time. Now, of course, this relates to you in that I commented that Bungie (I was thinking directly about the Enkidu Terminals, I thought they were Bungie done, kinda like the Cortana letters [you'll note that those could also have appeared to be a fan sent in thing, cryptic, aye, but still possible] and their games succeeded in /that/. I even went so far as to equate the two (Tolkien and Bungie: with the Terminals, in mind) So, what you accomplished, in my eyes, is something exceedingly great :) Now ... just two questions, which are the two things that I actually went so far as to post (I read, mostly). Did you purposefully only sign three of the terminals with 'E', as a reference to E3?
One final thing, of course, as I mentioned some comment on what I would have liked to see :) More time! Much as it's cool to have an average of an Enkidu terminal every day, there's still six months till Halo2 comes out -- plenty of time for a staggering in the time-slots when a new terminal came out. Considering that you based your idea off the Cortana letters, when I was reading through them and the informatin surrounding it, I noticed that there were mentions of 'last month, we received a cryptic message form a person called Cortana'. /Last Month!/ They took a while, which allowed people to digest them. Anyway, that's just something that I thought would have been neat -- you probably have enough terminals to have done one a week, or every two weeks. Ah well, I couldn't have done better :) Congratulations on a job well done.
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