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Subject: Little did you know, you all just played through an epic poem, hah!

so bungie has to jack old books to make a game for millions

  • 05.03.2010 9:43 PM PDT

the seventh collumn shall prevail the tru7h the whole tru7h and nothing but the tru7h

this is exactly the type of stuff i love bungie for

  • 05.05.2010 5:58 PM PDT

NO SOUP FOR YOU

Oh TEH NOES! I AM ASPLODE

  • 05.06.2010 2:52 PM PDT
Subject: Little did you know, you all just played through a classic novel, hah!

You could compare this to a lot of poems with the way you put it. Still, nice work.

  • 05.06.2010 7:00 PM PDT
Subject: Little did you know, you all just played through an epic poem, hah!

Like I told my last wife, I said "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see and besides...it's all in the reflexes."

Posted by: WTFWHERESURHEAD
you know... bungie probably didnt even intend it to be this way its probably a random happening that you just found to match up with the game... for some reason each halo game has to have some religious crap evolving around it... then again... i did hear mickey (in kizingo blvd.) when i got a head shot on a grunt "praise jah! jah is short for jehovah, jehovah = jehovahs witnesses... oh god this game is fricken religious... D=


To think that Bungie didn't intend for this game to be a parallell of Dante's Divine Comedy is just flawed, sir. Bungie has a long history of well thought out, obscure references and underlying themes in their games, even before the Halo series. Perhaps you just never dug deep enough to notice it in the Halo series before now.

That said, when Mickey says "Praise Jah!", he is most likely not using a shortened version of Jehovah, but referencing Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, who the Rastafari consider to be the earthly incarnate of God. That is the most common usage nowadays, so I'd bank that they were making a reference to that. Personally I like the idea of Mickey being a Rastafari.

[Edited on 05.08.2010 9:11 PM PDT]

  • 05.08.2010 9:11 PM PDT
Subject: Little did you know, you all just played through a classic novel, hah!

Damn you 353 guilty spark! You killed the greatest stereotypical african american gun toting sergeant ever to tread upon a fictional futuristic setting!

I applaude you for this. Very nice analysis.

  • 05.10.2010 8:08 PM PDT

We'll bury our burdens in blood...

Excellent research on this allegory. Some other more visual evidence to this claim is the graffiti on the walls. "Hell on Earth," and "Abandon all hope" and such. Many game and movie writers use allegory for story idea. For instance O' Brother Where Art Thou is the Odyssey, and The Lion King is actually Hamlet. You dudes probably knew that, but its food for thought.

  • 05.20.2010 11:36 AM PDT

Although my gamertag may be Blu Soldier, I am not in the military, I just thought the name sounded cool at the time.

I think the three faces that chew on the heretics are the three prophets.

  • 05.20.2010 7:20 PM PDT

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Posted by: Vengeful Donkey
I played a book?

GET IT OFF ME!!!


You played a POEM.

  • 05.23.2010 7:47 AM PDT