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| Re: Hokey stories and ancient religions. | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 1/27/08 10:44 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Hokey stories and ancient religions. (scarab) : How did Regret find earth? You're not listening to me. I wrote: : If you want to understand what has happened and why, then most of the crucial
The answer to the question of HOW Regret found Earth really isn't relevant here. It's a detail. The games don't address it at all because it doesn't need addressing. The FACT that he found it is important. The reason WHY he looked for it is important. The mechanism by which he found it simply isn't important. Knowing it reveals nothing. Again this is the confusion of "understanding of" with "complete factual knowledge of". The information provided in game in Halo 3
You're exaggerating "just prior". There was sufficient time to locate the world, index humanity, and construct the portal. Possibly that took considerable time. : From log5_transcript.txt: The anomalous world is in a perilous location
: Not something that you'd want to signpost. : The Flood was released within the Halo story arc. One of the main thrusts of
: Its not clear that we have stopped the Flood. I didn't end the game feeling
That is by design. Simply because the characters within the narrative believe themselves to be safe does not make it so. You are right to be unconvinced. : It has been a Halo story staple that Flood escape from containment. That the
: There is Flood on all(?) the remaining Halo installations and maybe on other
: There is still a GM on Delta Halo. : At the end of Halo 3 I thought, 'I suppose I'm to believe that the Flood
: I think that they didn't want to lumber the game with too much exposition and
: I can understand why they didn't want to do that. : OTOH, nobody forced them to make all those problems in the first place. It
: I think that the Halo story has been a learning experience for the Bungie
That sounds a bit presumptuous. Might you enlighten the audience as to your personal experience which lends credence to your ability to pronounce judgment on what constitutes a learning experience and why, after making heavily story-based games for a decade and a half, they are in need of one? : If they wrote Star trek then they would have hundreds of episodes to write.
: But maybe that's another reason that game developers should hire a seasoned
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