Who says Halo doesn't have a story??

[tholly]

http://etoychest.org/news.php?extend.1261


wow....read into that a little bit....Bungie is apparently a Very interesting company....

[suppafly]

what is some seriously weird shit!

[Griking]

Interesting. If it turns out to be an advertising campaign its MUCH more effective then lame popups and banners.

[Nez]

Wow I acutally have some interest in halo now. And oddly enough bees. :eek 2:

[MegaDrive20XX]

Speaking of Halo, it's $19.99 at Best Buy this week

[Tank]

Oh man...that is so cool! :)

[The_EniGma]

wtf is that black box it scared me

[Jasoco]

BTW

What movies does this play before?

[Spartacus]

Wow, thanks for the link tholly! Took me a couple of hrs of reading time to follow thru most of it, but I thought it was well worth my time. I think I'll definitely order those Halo books and pray the release date is indeed November, giving me time enough to finish them. If the early release for the pre-orders is true, I'll be very jealous. Though I've had some bad experiences with pre-orders and don't buy games that way anymore, I'll admit that while reading thru everything I did give some thought to re-examining my position. LOL, maybe that was what this was all about! If so, Bungie did a pretty good job of hyping me. Much more to this Marathon/Halo story than I ever thought. But as someone said, even if you don't understand anything about the story, Halo is still fun to play. Well, I can certainly attest to that!
Thanks again for the link.

[Jasoco]

...and pray the release date is indeed November...

http://jasoco.no-ip.com/files/images/halo2nov9.jpg

[Castelak]

I love these totally bizzare mysteries.

I remember my friend loved these games called "Marathon" and how they were some of the best he ever played (we were in 8th grade). I never played them cause they sounded lame. But after I read this if I see them at GW or something I'd pick them up instantly! O_O

I read through some of that then stopped cause it would take me a few hours... I didn't even know there were Halo books!

Darn good publicity, reminds me of that ESPN Football thing. ^^;

[tholly]

Wow, thanks for the link tholly! Took me a couple of hrs of reading time to follow thru most of it, but I thought it was well worth my time. I think I'll definitely order those Halo books and pray the release date is indeed November, giving me time enough to finish them. If the early release for the pre-orders is true, I'll be very jealous. Though I've had some bad experiences with pre-orders and don't buy games that way anymore, I'll admit that while reading thru everything I did give some thought to re-examining my position. LOL, maybe that was what this was all about! If so, Bungie did a pretty good job of hyping me. Much more to this Marathon/Halo story than I ever thought. But as someone said, even if you don't understand anything about the story, Halo is still fun to play. Well, I can certainly attest to that!
Thanks again for the link.


hey, i dont feel like doing all that reading...so i mean, once you get done with the books and everything can you give us a quick summary of the stories...thanks

[ubersaurus]

Halo.bungie.org has whole sections dedicated to trying to figure out the idiosyncranies(sp) of halo, and they always end up with more questions, such as Bungie's obsession with the number 7, the dialogue of Guilty Spark, Cortana's strange behavior post-control room and how that relates to the cortana letters, how the covenant seemed as though they had contingencies for the flood, even lesser stuff how doors seemed to be of many different sizes on the ring itself.

Halo has a VERY indepth story, and if you take the time to read into it, it gives you a whole new dimension of looking at the game.

[AJay17]

I've already read the first two books, and i am now in the middle of the third one.

[Dahne]

Those Marathon games sound interesting. How would one go about playing old computer games, besides getting an old computer? Bah, this is why I prefer consoles. It's easier to tell what everything'll work on.

[Dahne]

Also, view the source of the main www.ilovebees.com page. It's hilarious.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>I love bees</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="My site about bees">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping,
hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is
going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium,
messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game,
survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated,
thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall,
re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees">

And her cat's named Farnsworth, like the professor in Futurama, which had a strange and disturbing episode in which bees played a major part...okay, that one's a coincidence. :)

[ubersaurus]

Those Marathon games sound interesting. How would one go about playing old computer games, besides getting an old computer? Bah, this is why I prefer consoles. It's easier to tell what everything'll work on.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=261195

How to run Marathon on modern PCs.

[Dahne]

Thank you. :) That helps a lot.

Another unlikely observation:

"That is the law and the whole of the law" recalls a line from Terry Pratchett's books, "It is the thing and the whole of the thnig." If Bungie is composed of Pratchett fans, I may have to develop more interest in Halo. :)

[ubersaurus]

*Spoiler fun*

Digging around in the Marathon story on H.B.O., has made me wonder about alot of the things in Halo. We know that the Covenant are imitative-they don't come up with their own tech, but rather, copied the tech of ancient beings they called "Forerunner". Guilty Spark himself seems to mistake the Master Chief's Mk V MJOLNIR armor as being along the same vein of an armor type that the last visitors to the ring wore(recall the cyborg in Marathon was a Mk IV, and GS mentions a Mk XII being the the minimum recommended armor for fighting flood). Something mentioned in marathon struck a chord with me though, a race of creatures that as far as I know, you don't encounter, but hear in passing, Creatures that can survive damn near anything, who spread like wildfire, and destroy entire races..sound familiar?

Remember that GS mentions that Halo was fired before, and that he apprently thinks humans are the same people who visited last time. He also expresses relief that "some of them survived to reproduce", surviving the flood or the firing of Halo, never was specified, but I assume its both.

I submit to you, that the last time Halo was fired was in the Marathon era, which wiped out most of humanity, though a few lived to eventually rebuild society. According to the Cortana letters, humans had been found on other planets, living there prior to Earth's ability for intersteller life. If Halo was fired in the Marathon era, that means those humans could have gotten to those worlds, survived the firing, and eventually remade contact with each other. In Marathon, of course, there are colony ships going to other planets (slowly), and that the covenant apparently have found Forerunner tech on many planets(it's speculated earth has forerunner tech on it as well, which is why the covenant aren't just glassing the planet in Halo 2).

Suppose the forerunner are Marathon era humans. They branched out onto many colony worlds, most of which were wiped out in the Halo firing, leaving their technology and ruins behind. Thousands of years later, human civilization rebuilds, starts to leave, and runs across this group of fanatical creatures that worship these ancient artifacts and their makers. They recognize humans as forerunner, but seeing their low-tech, assume that they are fallen remnants, not worthy of living, and proceed to try and destroy them all.

This, eerily enough, makes sense to me...

[ubersaurus]

One year after the first "I Love Bees" payphone axons went hot, and the community of players are still quite close to each other. Playing Halo 2 on live, to talking in livejournal and forums, to, naturally, phoning each other.

Someone realized that the Voicemail commandeered by Melissa at the beginning of the game is still up and running, and thought it'd be a good day for players and followers to leave a message for the "axonversary" for the creators to hear, thanking them for the game and the community it spawned.

I know some of the people on here followed the story or interacted in some way, and so, here's one more chance to do so :)

[PDorr3]

says page not found for me :(

[PapaStu]

Thats because this thread was started a year ago. Just read Uber's last 2 posts and it should cover things.

[Joker T]

Well it already had enough of a story for 3 novels LOL

[Damion]

DAMN WHOEVER FOR RAISING THE DEAD! not really :P though I should start looking at the Dates to know if it's a dead thread or not.

[EDIT EDIT]


*Spoiler fun*

Digging around in the Marathon story on H.B.O., has made me wonder about alot of the things in Halo. We know that the Covenant are imitative-they don't come up with their own tech, but rather, copied the tech of ancient beings they called "Forerunner". Guilty Spark himself seems to mistake the Master Chief's Mk V MJOLNIR armor as being along the same vein of an armor type that the last visitors to the ring wore(recall the cyborg in Marathon was a Mk IV, and GS mentions a Mk XII being the the minimum recommended armor for fighting flood). Something mentioned in marathon struck a chord with me though, a race of creatures that as far as I know, you don't encounter, but hear in passing, Creatures that can survive damn near anything, who spread like wildfire, and destroy entire races..sound familiar?

Remember that GS mentions that Halo was fired before, and that he apprently thinks humans are the same people who visited last time. He also expresses relief that "some of them survived to reproduce", surviving the flood or the firing of Halo, never was specified, but I assume its both.

I submit to you, that the last time Halo was fired was in the Marathon era, which wiped out most of humanity, though a few lived to eventually rebuild society. According to the Cortana letters, humans had been found on other planets, living there prior to Earth's ability for intersteller life. If Halo was fired in the Marathon era, that means those humans could have gotten to those worlds, survived the firing, and eventually remade contact with each other. In Marathon, of course, there are colony ships going to other planets (slowly), and that the covenant apparently have found Forerunner tech on many planets(it's speculated earth has forerunner tech on it as well, which is why the covenant aren't just glassing the planet in Halo 2).

Suppose the forerunner are Marathon era humans. They branched out onto many colony worlds, most of which were wiped out in the Halo firing, leaving their technology and ruins behind. Thousands of years later, human civilization rebuilds, starts to leave, and runs across this group of fanatical creatures that worship these ancient artifacts and their makers. They recognize humans as forerunner, but seeing their low-tech, assume that they are fallen remnants, not worthy of living, and proceed to try and destroy them all.

This, eerily enough, makes sense to me...

you know what now that I've read your post I take back what I said. It was very interesting to read that. I think I'll be looking up the books and D/L marathon very soon.[/EDIT EDIT]

[President Shinron]

hey if anybody wants marathon 2 durandal i cant pick up new copies from a store in queens for 5 dollars each anyone interested?