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Subject: How does Bungie justify an alien race speaking English?

these are my answers
A)translators
B)they studied humans for years and years
C)it is a video game and you should stop being thick

  • 11.15.2009 12:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: disruptor96
C)it is a video game and you should stop being thick


This, and only this.

  • 11.15.2009 12:25 AM PDT

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You mean aliens speaking english while only in the presence of other aliens? That is very interesting. Based on the sounds they made in the first game, I always thought their native language was based on worts and grunting noises, I guess they simply decided to present it translated, and skip making a fictional language.

[Edited on 11.15.2009 12:27 AM PST]

  • 11.15.2009 12:27 AM PDT

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Posted by: spreadin cheaks
Yet again Bungie FAILS with realism.

I stopped reading there.

  • 11.15.2009 12:39 AM PDT

Maybe elites won`t speak English until you will find the IWHBYD skull.

  • 11.15.2009 1:15 AM PDT

who the hell cares? i'd ratjer hear them speaking english then read captions, and did you ever hear in halo 1 the elites? where do you think "wort wort wort" comes from?

  • 11.15.2009 2:09 AM PDT
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They're Fast Learners? lol.

  • 11.15.2009 2:14 AM PDT
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Iam enjoying Halo Reach and revisiting some past Bungie games, iam a big fan of Bungie and their online community.

Translators, and who would care if there werent what about games like wolfenstien were germans speak english.

  • 11.15.2009 2:37 AM PDT
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Halo CE they didn't speek english. In Halo: Reach (set before Halo CE) they probely wont speek english.

  • 11.15.2009 2:48 AM PDT

IT'S TIME FOR A DICKING

I am going to reply to several posts. First I'm just going to say the thing about halo is, you have to figure things out for yourself untill the sequel/prequel/catfish. Then it tells you some stuff and leaves you with more to figure out for yourself.

When Johnson was speaking to the prophet in english, maybe it's because:
A. It would make perfect sense for the leaders of the covenant to speak english.
B. Johnson was part of the Spartan I project.
It might not be either though, because:
A. As I think someone said, their bones might be shaped so that they can't speak english.
B. Spartans were originally for combating terrorist threats and rebels, before they discovered the Covenant (although not that long before, as they had colonized planets such as Mars).

I believe that elites had learned english at some point though, maybe after the fall of Reach.

Halo Wars definitely has some truth in it, but it was not made by Bungie. Bungie supported it, but they didn't make it. For one thing, although I haven't read the fall of Reach, I don't think that there were any Brutes in that conflict. I think most of the things in the time-line is true, though I haven't read all of them (black boxes are sneaky).

The reason the arbiter speaks engish with his Covenant budies when your playing as him is obviously so you can understand what he's saying. Unnecessary subtitles can ruin movies, so it could possibly ruin games too.

Cheeks, although I admit that some replies to your topic haven't been very good, you are insulting people even if they make sense. Well, that's all I'm posting for now. Oh, I forgot to add that it's all just opinion, so don't hate someone for having a different opinion. Explain how they could be wrong if you think of something though.

[Edited on 11.15.2009 3:17 AM PST]

  • 11.15.2009 3:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: magog_rules
Posted by: ColeKiller
The spartans and the covenant both have translators, so they can understand each other...

Counter Proof:
Halo 3
Mission: The Covenant; 3nd to last cutscene
The Prophet of Truth and Johnson are BOTH talking to each other. Niether has a helmet. SO that means the Covenant know English.


3nd to last cutscene
Thirnd?
Third (3rd)


To the topic.
Read the books.
And if you feel like doing a whole new alien language, go ahead.

And it is Bungie's game, they can do what they want with it.
Go play Crysis on the higher difficulties if you want enemies that don't speak english.

  • 11.15.2009 3:17 AM PDT

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During Arbiter parts: Because we are the Arbiter and we must know language it has to be in english. Or should we learn a new language just for the game?

I like the current way, it is consistent.

However I'd also like the HaloCE way. The talk itself is gibberish, but Cortana or someone can understand Covenant messages.

  • 11.15.2009 3:36 AM PDT

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You guys are nit picking way too much.



No you are just simple minded.


Yeah, and plasma weapons should burn trough MJOLNIR armor in just a couple of shots in real world. Its a game. You shouldn't get bothered by such simple things.

  • 11.15.2009 3:40 AM PDT
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Spartans are from Venus and Elites are from Uranus

Like other users said, theres translation via the nice gadgets in your helmet. I recall also reading in the timeline menu via Halo Wars that many particular members of the covenant were required to learn the human language.

  • 11.15.2009 3:43 AM PDT
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Covenant knows English, its incoporated into books/Halo Wars timeline

Tranlators also.

  • 11.15.2009 3:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: Valiant91
Posted by: spreadin cheaks
Yet again Bungie FAILS with realism.

I stopped reading there.


ITS A GAME, it isn't supposed to be real.

  • 11.15.2009 3:55 AM PDT
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Wort, wort, wort!

But it's obvious! OPs mother teached them.

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I would rather have my cat actually tell me what he wants insted of him miawing and looking at me.
Its the same in games, Id rather have them speak english than read through piles of text, or just listen to alot of gibberish I wouldnt understand.

  • 11.15.2009 4:22 AM PDT

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From my knowledge, i do believe that the Covenant learned the Human Language when they first attacked them on Reach.

  • 11.15.2009 4:26 AM PDT