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pro plus makes me happy and keeps me awake when halo cant!

just a thought with the mythic map pack coming and the reference too 6 new skulls there must be six maybe new levels or less to achieve the medals that being the case they could have a mythic game expansion adding new levels to halo 3 this in turn would need more story lines (maybe SI is telling them) this being the case it could open the halo ending better for a halo 4/prequel/sequel/somthing!


thoughts?
sure Si could be setting this up

  • 09.24.2008 5:22 AM PDT

I know this post is pretty much is just adding to what we have.
But we need all we can get.

I have to agree with Jumper the most likely scenario is some sort of prequel to the current Halo games timeline. This might not sound like much, but if you notice in KEEP IT CLEAN the COMM officer doesn't seem to have any idea what is happening, or of the severity. After contact was made with the Covenant that always seemed to be either assumed or automatically known by all communications personnel in an emergency.
The line reading "DOG GROWLING (?)" could be seen as a further hint to the UNSC's unawareness to the Covenant as Grunts are likened to that sound(as has already been said), and the COMM officer still didn't seem phased or to have any idea as to what was happening. Also sending "a team" isn't usually the adequate response to a known Covenant attack.

PARDON OUR DUST seems to be at a later date, after contact with the Covenant. The communications seem much more tense/stressful as the UNSC forces know what they are dealing with at this point. As for this I don't really have much aside form the mention of it being "desperate times", saying to me this is still before the time when the UNSC had any idea how to combat the Covenant, and were open to any and all solutions just to avoid a complete defeat.

I've seen the rumor a lot about Bungie's next game, or rather the next game in the Halo universe being a squad-based shooter. I haven't looked into that, but I have seen the suggestion a lot. This also seems very much so fitting to a prequel, especially during the early days/training of the Spartans, as in The Fall of Reach, all Spartan actions are completed through Squads (from what I remember).

So in the event this is a new game: very possibly a squad based shooter centering around those events (Fall of Reach - Halo 1).

Not sure if this has all been said before but it all stood out pretty clearly/oddly to me.

  • 09.24.2008 5:26 AM PDT

pro plus makes me happy and keeps me awake when halo cant!

another idea struck me..... linking back to the idea of the imenent film that has been discussed with peter jackson could SI be the main character telling the halo story from an outside perspective would mean not having to ruin an image of MC as he currently has a personality that we decide for example humanising him wouldn't make him as hard!

any thoughts?

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i like the idea, pro plus 666, but i can't see it happening. would be cool though, wouldn't it!?

  • 09.24.2008 5:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: pro plus 666
another idea struck me..... linking back to the idea of the imenent film that has been discussed with peter jackson could SI be the main character telling the halo story from an outside perspective would mean not having to ruin an image of MC as he currently has a personality that we decide for example humanising him wouldn't make him as hard!

any thoughts?


Have you read the ""Second sunrise over Mombasa" in the "Halo Graphic Novel" ?
The main character in that event was a ONI employee. Anyway, he witnessed some Elites talking about the Ark during the First invasion of Earth. "We need to clear this area before we cab secure access to the Ark".
A game with that story?

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Posted by: Next Pro Jumper
Posted by: pro plus 666
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DUDES I FOUND SOMETHING HERE, I may have figured it out, what the new game is going to be. um someone may have already posted this but if u look in the last two wallpapers named "No Public Access" and "Mind the Gap" on the upper right corner there is the combination of letters "IILIILL" which i went on bungie.net "find players" and typed it in and I found a new superintendent with a MARATHON wallpaper behind and the MARATHON symbol to boot!!!!! IT'S GOT TO BE A NEW MARATHON GAME!



link to the profile because it is not there


i think its funny that we can now jump to such small connections i think the excitement may have gone to all our heads!!!
what ever it is bet we find out on the 25th!!!


What has this thread come to in my absence.. Wow..
Look, it's not Marathon. Those pictures have been there for a while.
I can't say much because I have to go. I'll be back later.
Just.. Keep this thread in order, people.


This is was happends Jumper.
You decide to call it a night and all the crazies are back before you know it lol

  • 09.24.2008 6:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: ShadowChief 117
Posted by: Next Pro Jumper
Posted by: pro plus 666
Posted by: And Here We Go
DUDES I FOUND SOMETHING HERE, I may have figured it out, what the new game is going to be. um someone may have already posted this but if u look in the last two wallpapers named "No Public Access" and "Mind the Gap" on the upper right corner there is the combination of letters "IILIILL" which i went on bungie.net "find players" and typed it in and I found a new superintendent with a MARATHON wallpaper behind and the MARATHON symbol to boot!!!!! IT'S GOT TO BE A NEW MARATHON GAME!



link to the profile because it is not there


i think its funny that we can now jump to such small connections i think the excitement may have gone to all our heads!!!
what ever it is bet we find out on the 25th!!!


What has this thread come to in my absence.. Wow..
Look, it's not Marathon. Those pictures have been there for a while.
I can't say much because I have to go. I'll be back later.
Just.. Keep this thread in order, people.


This is was happends Jumper.
You decide to call it a night and all the crazies are back before you know it lol

Where did the good ones from last night go? lol

  • 09.24.2008 6:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: tYp0 plZ
I know this post is pretty much is just adding to what we have.
But we need all we can get.

I have to agree with Jumper the most likely scenario is some sort of prequel to the current Halo games timeline. This might not sound like much, but if you notice in KEEP IT CLEAN the COMM officer doesn't seem to have any idea what is happening, or of the severity. After contact was made with the Covenant that always seemed to be either assumed or automatically known by all communications personnel in an emergency.
The line reading "DOG GROWLING (?)" could be seen as a further hint to the UNSC's unawareness to the Covenant as Grunts are likened to that sound(as has already been said), and the COMM officer still didn't seem phased or to have any idea as to what was happening. Also sending "a team" isn't usually the adequate response to a known Covenant attack.

PARDON OUR DUST seems to be at a later date, after contact with the Covenant. The communications seem much more tense/stressful as the UNSC forces know what they are dealing with at this point. As for this I don't really have much aside form the mention of it being "desperate times", saying to me this is still before the time when the UNSC had any idea how to combat the Covenant, and were open to any and all solutions just to avoid a complete defeat.

I've seen the rumor a lot about Bungie's next game, or rather the next game in the Halo universe being a squad-based shooter. I haven't looked into that, but I have seen the suggestion a lot. This also seems very much so fitting to a prequel, especially during the early days/training of the Spartans, as in The Fall of Reach, all Spartan actions are completed through Squads (from what I remember).

So in the event this is a new game: very possibly a squad based shooter centering around those events (Fall of Reach - Halo 1).

Not sure if this has all been said before but it all stood out pretty clearly/oddly to me.


This is the only logical post so far since my absence, besides Shadow's explanation of what happens when I'm gone. Just being frank with you all. All these theories about that Marathon guy, dump it right now. It means nothing.

  • 09.24.2008 6:44 AM PDT

In the military rank structure, an S1 is a member of a battalion, regiment, or brigade staff. They function as the administrative and personnel officer. S1 stands for staff one. In this situation it might be an S1 directing the admiral to give him the personnel he wants for some other assignment since that is part of an S1's job description. I'm not sure they're talking about Spartan 1s since, in The Fall of Reach, the Chief and his buddies were labeled Spartan IIs with the implication that Spartan 1s were the Spartans of ancient Greece. Maybe I'm wrong, but everything in Nylund's novels made it seem that the John and the others were the first of their kind.

  • 09.24.2008 6:46 AM PDT

In the military rank structure, an S1 is a member of a battalion, regiment, or brigade staff. They function as the administrative and personnel officer. S1 stands for staff one. In this situation it might be an S1 directing the admiral to give him the personnel he wants for some other assignment since that is part of an S1's job description. I'm not sure they're talking about Spartan 1s since, in The Fall of Reach, the Chief and his buddies were labeled Spartan IIs with the implication that Spartan 1s were the Spartans of ancient Greece. Maybe I'm wrong, but everything in Nylund's novels made it seem that the John and the others were the first of their kind.

  • 09.24.2008 6:46 AM PDT

People keep saying that "any new game will be years away". Which i find rather funny, as some companies has managed to release a game only a month from it's announcement.

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Posted by: suckmysniper
In the military rank structure, an S1 is a member of a battalion, regiment, or brigade staff. They function as the administrative and personnel officer. S1 stands for staff one. In this situation it might be an S1 directing the admiral to give him the personnel he wants for some other assignment since that is part of an S1's job description. I'm not sure they're talking about Spartan 1s since, in The Fall of Reach, the Chief and his buddies were labeled Spartan IIs with the implication that Spartan 1s were the Spartans of ancient Greece. Maybe I'm wrong, but everything in Nylund's novels made it seem that the John and the others were the first of their kind.


Thank you. S1 means ONI Section 1. The top secret section of ONI, or, as you say, the administrative officers. They stay in their "caves" AKA offices.

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PLEASE read this post if you want information on what is going on.

Look, to clear everything up, I will paste my explanation yet again. Please take the time to read it. Thank you.

"Alright, I've been asked for explanations many times, and they get shorter each time. haha

Anyways, this game is most likely going to be related to The Fall of Reach. The reasoning for this is that the two people conversing seem to be in a hurry, meaning they were not prepared for this. In other words, this is a new threat, the covenant. The firing of the many archer missile pods resembles an exact event in the book. Thus, this may very well be based on the beginning of the entire Spartan/Mjolnir program. Maybe it will begin with the taking of the kids, training them, then sending them out to their first missions as in The Fall of Reach?

All I can say is, watch the webcams. The drink the grunt is holding, the handwritten sign, the boxes.. Hell, the PAX Event Schedule could very well be moved to reveal something under it. They update every 59.3 seconds or so, just for your information.

So, this is all mere speculation, as are everyone's thoughts. Eventually, this shall all solidify into one big "Tru7h", as Bungie would say.

On a side note, I'm very mad. I had to type this twice, and I probably left out information. >.<
Stupid link that guy posted.. I copied it, and it got rid of the text I typed and copied, because it didn't send.

Also, that link you posted, it's probably fake. Ensemble was busy working on Halo Wars. Why would they work on something as big as a Massively Multi-Player game at the same time? Things like that require a huge task force, something a sub-branch of Microsoft probably does not have. So, it has nothing to do with this. There is no need to talk about that here.

**Edit -- If you want my explanation of the previous Keep It Clean thread, then please refer to pages 90-138 or so of the article. You should find at least one of my many explanations there. Each one in there got more descriptive, so if you don't find one in that page range, then one will definitely be in 60-80."

***Edit -- Now, I'm adding more. S1 means ONI Section 1. Stop saying new things for it, as it is old news. The Ombudsman may very well mean a Beta, as Beta tests are meant to take advice from people on ways to make it better. <--- That's the job of an Ombudsman.

In the picture of PARDON OUR DUST, Banshees and Hornets have been seen. The Superintendent is in it, we all know, so stop telling us. The word is "Reinitialize." No need to analyze the picture any more. Thank you.

Stop analyzing the Superintendent wallpapers. We've gotten as much as possible out of them from the last 200+ pages of posts with this thread and the KEEP IT CLEAN thread combined.

Stop pointing out the Superintendent sticker in the Really Random Cam. That's way too old now.

Odds are, anything you have to say has been said. So, we just need to wait for the next post to occur, or some form of update.

Information about the KEEP IT CLEAN Thread:

Each message in every language says "Please remain calm." Nothing new.
TOKYO RULES has been said to point to the Tokyo Game Show, but odds are, that's wrong.
The whole picture has already been pieced together, so don't worry about it.
In the conversation text, the lack of alertness means the threat has not completely started, so it's in the beginning of the War.
We are aware that seven Superintendents exist. The only real ones have the green background and Superintendent picture. Only one has posted in threads, and that one is posting these news articles as well.
No more information is really needed about this.

Along with watching the webcams, please continue to play Halo 3, as clues may be found in the game.

Everything surely points to a prequel, that's almost blatantly obvious. As I think of more, I shall post them here.

****Edit -- Read this thread for more information.
General Superintendent Discussion

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  • 09.24.2008 7:07 AM PDT

Posted by: And Here We Go
DUDES I FOUND SOMETHING HERE, I may have figured it out, what the new game is going to be. um someone may have already posted this but if u look in the last two wallpapers named "No Public Access" and "Mind the Gap" on the upper right corner there is the combination of letters "IILIILL" which i went on bungie.net "find players" and typed it in and I found a new superintendent with a MARATHON wallpaper behind and the MARATHON symbol to boot!!!!! IT'S GOT TO BE A NEW MARATHON GAME!





Yea i think hez rite look.

http://www.bungie.net/Account/profile.aspx?uid=5418737

v interesting...................

its fake

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Posted by: SpartanL127
Posted by: And Here We Go
DUDES I FOUND SOMETHING HERE, I may have figured it out, what the new game is going to be. um someone may have already posted this but if u look in the last two wallpapers named "No Public Access" and "Mind the Gap" on the upper right corner there is the combination of letters "IILIILL" which i went on bungie.net "find players" and typed it in and I found a new superintendent with a MARATHON wallpaper behind and the MARATHON symbol to boot!!!!! IT'S GOT TO BE A NEW MARATHON GAME!





Yea i think hez rite look.

http://www.bungie.net/Account/profile.aspx?uid=5418737

v interesting...................

its fake


Thank you.

  • 09.24.2008 7:54 AM PDT

Posted by: Next Pro Jumper
Posted by: SpartanL127
Posted by: And Here We Go
DUDES I FOUND SOMETHING HERE, I may have figured it out, what the new game is going to be. um someone may have already posted this but if u look in the last two wallpapers named "No Public Access" and "Mind the Gap" on the upper right corner there is the combination of letters "IILIILL" which i went on bungie.net "find players" and typed it in and I found a new superintendent with a MARATHON wallpaper behind and the MARATHON symbol to boot!!!!! IT'S GOT TO BE A NEW MARATHON GAME!





Yea i think hez rite look.

http://www.bungie.net/Account/profile.aspx?uid=5418737

v interesting...................

its fake


Thank you.
no problem

  • 09.24.2008 7:56 AM PDT
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Please god just tell us I'm dying here!!

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I think you're right why else would this be there?

  • 09.24.2008 8:01 AM PDT

Posted by: TPSaim4theHead
Please god just tell us I'm dying here!!
lol, i'm sure we're all feeling that way, "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
-Phaedrus

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Posted by: SpartanL127
Posted by: TPSaim4theHead
Please god just tell us I'm dying here!!
lol, i'm sure we're all feeling that way, "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
-Phaedrus


Yes indeed, that it is; that it is, my friend.

  • 09.24.2008 8:09 AM PDT

Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.

The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.

"Time has taught me PATIENCE! But basking in new freedom, I WILL KNOW ALL THAT I POSSESS!"

If any of this sites "clues" are reliable so to say... Bungie tend to misslead alot.

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Posted by: the real Janaka
"Time has taught me PATIENCE! But basking in new freedom, I WILL KNOW ALL THAT I POSSESS!"

If any of this sites "clues" are reliable so to say... Bungie tend to misslead alot.


Not necessarily. It is the people who wrongly translate the clues who mislead the entire community.

  • 09.24.2008 8:15 AM PDT

Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.

The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.

Yes, but for example the Cortana letters. They changed the text alot before making it in the game. There was no real information regarding it to be Halo. It could of been anything.
Though this info is more accurate (MAC gun, Hornets etc).

But Il give it to them, they sure know how to create a "Gravemind" (Halo fans on forums)

  • 09.24.2008 8:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: the real Janaka
Yes, but for example the Cortana letters. They changed the text alot before making it in the game. There was no real information regarding it to be Halo. It could of been anything.
Though this info is more accurate (MAC gun, Hornets etc).

But Il give it to them, they sure know how to create a "Gravemind" (Halo fans on forums)


haha Yeah, really.
So, I posted my update in the KEEP IT CLEAN thread as well, considering some people are still in there for no reason.

  • 09.24.2008 8:26 AM PDT