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Re: Hey Frankie, re: the 6 year plan....
Posted By: scarab	Date: 10/9/09 5:14 p.m.
: Wherever possible, could 343 try and patch up a few of the plothole issues : regarding the Halo canon over the next few years? Halo is getting a little : creaky at the seams. : I'm talking about the nitty-gritty details like whether Halo rings kill stuff : in slipspace. Because if so, how do people in shield worlds (aka slipspace : bubbles) survive? If slipspace = immunity, what would happen if Flood : ships were in slipspace when the array fired? Containment breach, in : short. : Plus how did Johnson make it back to Earth before the Chief? : But the big question is how HOW THE HECK did the Flood survive the : activation? If Halo was designed to "starve them to death" then : how are they still alive on Halo 04, 05 and the random Halo Wars planet? : Unless the Halo rings are fundamentally ineffective then the Flood should : be long eradicated, just like the Terminals indicate when the array : activates and ALL organic-piloted ships go dead. : Personally, I actually have great confidence in 343 Industries. I think the : places you are taking the universe promise to be quite exciting; : Evolutions in particular has me very much interested. : But it's the smallest things which ruin it - the unanswered questions which : fast become plotholes unless explanations are provided - which hasn't : happened so far. None of the above questions deserve a full book, game or : animation short to explain them - of course not - because all it would : take is a line or two of simple dialogue in whatever format you choose to : answer any of these questions. : If you've read this far, thanks, and good luck with the future projects. I don't think that those questions can be answered. And that isn't Frankie's fault. Its Bungie's! I'd say that Bungie hasn't given the Halo story the respect that it should have had. Maybe another developer would take it more seriously. Or maybe the story can't be taken seriously, that boat sailed in the original game when we first heard the, "it doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food" 'explanation' from Bungie. What standard should we hold Frankie to? Do we let him get away with sloppy handling of time? Must all future stories make sense? Must things never completely change between the end of one game and the start of the next? What is it about Halo that can't be compromised?

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