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Subject: Why does Bungie like "7" so much?
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do u like ruining things for us?.................

  • 06.06.2004 11:24 AM PDT
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and to quote myself
"Everything is simple."
You can overthink it all you want, but it comes down to. Bungie likes the number 7, for whatever reason. They use the # 7, it might be because when they were all little their allowance was $7 dollars, it might be because its the perfect number, or might be because (20 + 18 - 14 - 3) 3 divided by 9 = 7. But the answer will alway be its 7 for whatever reason.

  • 06.06.2004 11:27 AM PDT
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DarthBud, you have much to learn.

  • 06.06.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Jjarro
Posted by: hangbrain
Posted by: D von
Fools! nothing with Bungie is simple, not even a shotgun reloading mechanism!

:D Aw man, that brought a grin to my face. If they only knew...


No kidding. My conclusion has always involved teleporters, but it's hard to say why you'd need to spin it if that was the case...


Well, I've always figured that it was our friend's magic Jjarro boxers that did the trick. Man, those things can do anything. But then again, our primitive minds probably won't ever be able to grasp its complex nature.

@ Recon Number 54:
Nice post. To bad the unbelievers seem to have built up quite a bit of wax in their ears...


[Edited on 6/6/2004 12:44:18 PM]

  • 06.06.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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if were talking about truth and secret things, im your man.






two words: WAKE UP.

  • 06.06.2004 1:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54

Nah, they're not all that bad. They just haven't read through years and years (and then some MORE years) of Hamish Sinclair. Ah the good old days, 3-eyed aliens, text based AI's, and storylines that had you questioning who YOU were! All discussed ad-nauseam on UseNet and this new-comer, the "Web".

No kidding. I'm _still_ trying to finish reading all of the story page..... Almost...... done.......eyes.....dried open....... *seizure* *dies* =P

but anyway, thank god for the Marathon Story Forum, eh?

@ Pelican Echo 419:
Not sure what you mean by that….BUT-
Sorry if we sounded “Elitist” or something… just old people talking about old things….

Yet, this does somehow seem familiar. Like a dream. Yes, an old dream.

  • 06.06.2004 2:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: D von
To quote myself: "Fools! With Bungie, nothing is simple! Not even a shotgun reloading mechanism!"

quite true, even the shotgun shells in Halo had detailed hippos on them, if u dont believe me, look at the easter eggs on HBO~

  • 06.06.2004 2:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
To consider that everything is simple is to pronounce that there are no mysteries, no unanswered questions, no mountains to climb, and that tomorrow is going to be a day like today. How sad a life that must be.

One thing is for certain, I've got to stop reading philosophy books!



Then can I have them.

  • 06.06.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Well at least one thing is for sure, I don´t think Bungie´s the freak here, it´s everyone of you replying to this ridiculous question, including myself:P

  • 06.06.2004 3:12 PM PDT
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Because their going to make 7 halos

  • 06.06.2004 3:27 PM PDT
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Cause Bungie needed 7 years to get halo 1 from the idea into what it is now

  • 06.06.2004 3:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54

Nah, they're not all that bad. They just haven't read through years and years (and then some MORE years) of Hamish Sinclair. Ah the good old days, 3-eyed aliens, text based AI's, and storylines that had you questioning who YOU were! All discussed ad-nauseam on UseNet and this new-comer, the "Web".

Halo's great, don't get me wrong, but Bungie left so much OUT of Marathon that there could be (and was) rampant speculation for nearly every topic. Having a small and rabid fan base (that all liked to "think different", to borrow a marketing phrase) really created the Bungie underground.


::drools::

i was kinda hoping that they'd go back to text based terminals . . . O:-)
Enkidu helped bring back - and even show a new generation- of how great those things were, and how much story could be hidden in text based deliver. (enkidu.bungie.org)

Do yourselves as favor, visit Sinclair. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
and buy the marathons. and play them. then you'll see what a real game is, with a real story.

[ by "you" i mean the unfortunate forum viewers who haven had the privelage of experiencing old school bungie]

halo had the story - but it was hidden behind cinematics and good graphics. It wasn't until i got onto HBO's story page did i really get to see all the nuances that were so blatant in bungie's other stories. (PiD anyone?)

Bungie isn't going to have the number 7 written over everything "because its there favorite n umber." They are better than that. Granted its frivilous to try and guess "why," but that's why we're bungie fans. Like realigious zealots, we search for the deeper evidence of a master design. PiD (pid.bungie.org) had horibel gameplay, by today's standards. but its the story that'd keep me playing it, even today.


-Jäger

"Sometimes I have the most horrible dreams.
Or maybe they are real. Do dead men dream?"
-PiD

  • 06.06.2004 3:59 PM PDT
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If I could help, I would so help.

  • 06.06.2004 6:56 PM PDT
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Funny how they mentioned John 117 and completely missed the biblical reference being:


17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ


And even more "coincidentally" John is, in the bible,

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.


Must mean something if he was 'sent to see the light'. Forerunner prelude? I'll let you decide :)

I hereby am not advocating religion or a discussion of religion in any form, the use of the bible was purely for reference of a Bungie related topic. Please, keep it factual if you reply

[Edited on 6/6/2004 7:21:35 PM]

  • 06.06.2004 7:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54

Now that there's the HEK, and plenty of reviving interest in the PID-Marathon-Halo storylines, what do you think the likelihood of a group of old-schoolers and new-skewlers getting together and doing PID-Marathon1-Marathon2-MarathonInfinity storyline using the Halo engine?
. . .
It would be interesting to have the story told with Leela, Durandal, Tycho and Thoth able to "whisper in your ear" like Cortana does.....
. . .
I'd buy it, but then again, I spend money on things that even my gf can't understand!


::eyes widen::

If they had given the Macintosh users the ability to make there own mods, i would singlehandedly set out to do this. Actually, i remember setting out to make Goldeneye MP mod for Marathon. I had The Stack made *perfectly*, that is, until i ran into an engine limitation (you couldn't make ledges, which is essential for Stack). As for the first level of Goldeneye, Marathon couldn't handle the # of polygons I had to have at one go (the egnine preferes claustrophoic environments). So went that conversion.

I was actually entertaining the idea of begging some ppl with the capability of porting some of the MP maps from marathon: "Flight of the TOolator", "all roads lead to Sol", "Thunderdome". Now if only the Halo engine could do "5D space" . . . that is the best MP map i have EVER seen. I can't even begin to describe the brilliance of that map. To tantalize the uniniatiated, it involved multiply dimensions, i.e., two ppl could stand in the same place, and actually be in different places. Make sense? didn't think so.

And i too would pay FULL PRICE (50$) for a trueful remake of PiD and marathon. it'd be better than any of the other games on the market right now.

maybe i'll check out Alpeh One again . . . .

-jäger

  • 06.06.2004 8:06 PM PDT
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Ever notice that the people that think the use of the number 7 repeatedly is "just because" have a very recent membership date? You new pplz have a lot to learn about bungie. (ignore my date plz, late joiner to bungie.net but i still know bungie well)

  • 06.06.2004 10:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Now that there's the HEK, and plenty of reviving interest in the PID-Marathon-Halo storylines, what do you think the likelihood of a group of old-schoolers and new-skewlers getting together and doing PID-Marathon1-Marathon2-MarathonInfinity storyline using the Halo engine? So what if the shotgun went from a double-barreled, sawed of, lever action model to a pump action.... I could suspend some disbelief for the storyline! It would be interesting to have the story told with Leela, Durandal, Tycho and Thoth able to "whisper in your ear" like Cortana does.....

Well, I just now roped up enough money to upgrade my rig, and as soon as I magically turn un-lazy, I'll get around to ordering my brand-spanken new Raedon 9600. And then I'll have to find some way to pay for HaloPC. And then download the HEK and HaloCE.

But anyway, after I do all that, yeah. HELL yeah. Get a dedicated group of bugie fans together to work on it, and I'll devote every last minuet of my free time to it.

  • 06.07.2004 12:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Greavus
Because their going to make 7 halos


::laughs:: Apparently Bungie *really* likes to use the number seven, so I would not be surprised if there were in fact, you guessed it, seven ring-world, life-killing, forerunner stations accross the galaxy (they all need not have the galactically tiny range of 25,000 light years.)

Posted by: ShinomoriX2
Ever notice that the people that think the use of the number 7 repeatedly is "just because" have a very recent membership date? You new pplz have a lot to learn about bungie. (ignore my date plz, late joiner to bungie.net but i still know bungie well)


Friend, I was purely being comical. It is questions like these that gnaw at my curiosity and drive me mad. However, it is also questions like these that will probably, for my entire life, remain unanswered.

  • 06.07.2004 5:27 AM PDT
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holy shnikies you guys are a bunch a dumbasses, who really gives a -blam!- why bungie likes the number 7, why do u keep argueing over something so stupid save ur energy for halo 2 instead of on the forums, if bungie wanted us to kno why they use 7 so much they wuld tell us instead of trying to make us guess, so stop debating the number 7

  • 06.07.2004 6:35 AM PDT