- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I'm sure a lot of you have heard the mumblings about the supposed Halo 3 Script leak. Strangely enough I received quite a few PM's asking me various questions about it, which I thought was strange seeing as how it wasn't me that made this abhorred thing.
Anyways, at this time it's already been debunked by HBO, though I really can't see why anyone would believe it. Aside from the numerous spelling errors and glaring mistakes (Guilty Spark having a red light instead of blue), the thing just reaks of fanfiction.
A giant Halo Installation burrowed into the Earth? WTF? ONI somehow keeping it a secret for 500 years? The Office of Naval Intelligence is laughingly small these days. They have about as much intelligence power as CSIS (Canada's version of the CIA).
Wouldn't it be plausible to think that in some of the incredibly deep oceanic floors that persist on our planet, that the ring world would be jutting out just a tad? Plus how incredibly difficult and unstable the thing would be after 100,000 years, wherein the fact that the tectonic plates of Earth shift periodically, which would either cause cataclysmic earthquakes that would rip the surface of the planet apart, or at least destroy the Halo Installation.
That's not to mention the weird things the characters are saying.
The Master Chief talking about his Prophet-ass-kicking abilities?
The Arbiter telling people to 'Bring it' like he's some prepubescent infant trying to prove he's a badass?
Ugh, and since when did Gravemind become a simple poet? Sure the guy likes to use a rhyming scheme sometimes, but the weird stuff he says makes no sense. Its like he's an 18th century poet that says assinine idiocies.
Did anyone else that read it seem to wonder why the Prophet of Mercy was still alive? I seem to recall a point in the game where Gravemind announces over High Charity's intercom thing that Mercy was already taken, in direct contradiction to what the Prophet of Truth said earlier.
The garbage about the Forerunners just made me ill, because a lot of it made absolutely no sense, and for the average person playing the game, it'd just confuse the hell out of them. Bungie likes to stress that such in-depth looks into Halo are saved for the fans that care enough to go searching. They don't throw that kind of stuff in your face. There would have been more telling examples of the truth behind the Forerunners (which seem to be as mindless and stupid as the Covenant once were, making them dry and static characters) throughout the series, instead of just popping them in right at the final game of the trilogy,
The time-travel stuff made no sense, and wasn't fleshed out, especially with the re-emergence of the Forerunner ship near the end which I couldn't understand why it was in the same shape it was in 117,000 years ago or however long ago that first scene took place. The dual purpose of the Halo's made no sense. If they wanted to live forever, why not just continuously activate the Installations? Why the need of cultivating the Flood and and breeding them so that they survive? That just complicates things and makes it likely that they'll be killed before they can activate the Halo's again.
Probably the most telling reason why this thing is fake, is that the detailed 'cut scenes' would last for over ten minutes at certain times. Bungie has said plenty of times that they don't like long cut scenes, as they take the player out of the action for too long. This isn't Metal Gear Solid people, we don't need hour long cut scenes.
So, to answer some of your questions, particularily if anything in this faked script matches anything I'm planning, I'll answer with a heartily "NO!". I'd say my obvious disgust with the thing from above is enough indication to portray my view on the plotline.
Rest assured, I'm not introducing lame boring time-travel weird nonsense into this story.
Edit: It's alright Bromster, I bought a copy through ebgames website a week or so ago. I've just gotta wait for the darn thing to pass through Canadian Customs. That's very generous of you though.
[Edited on 10/4/2005]