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Here's my take on Bungie's possible plans for Halo 2 XBL.
I'm certain Microsoft wouldn't let the storyline of it's flagship game be determined by someone other than themselves/Bungie. What I'm thinking is, certain territories or events within the storyline of the next installment of Halo (HALO 3) could be determined by the Halo online community through xbox live. Let me elaborate, if this holds your interest. If in fact Halo 2 has the option to play as the Covenant (Elites) in MP, which has been confirmed by several sources(GI & OXM), then it would be likely that a Covenant clan system would exist. These Covenant clans would eventually lead to an online community dedicated solely to the Covenant... the Covenant in MP that is. Just like any clan system, there would be alliances and enemies made between the different clans and so on... it's really a whole other subject that could be discussed on its own. The Covenant online community could hold tournaments through xbox live to decide who is the best of the best within their community, and vise vera would happen with the Human/Spartan clans. After each side has picked their best warriors, so to speak, the two sides would then go to battle on a downloadable level/map, each side being represented by their best players... Elites vs. Spartans. This whole situation would be set up by Bungie, of course, so technically they would still have controll of the storyline. It would be like the Ninja Gaiden Ninja tournament, except, and this is the whole point of this discussion, the outcome of the battle/event would determine part of the Halo (HALO 3) storyline. For example, if the battle takes place in Covenant controlled space and the humans win, then the humans will be in controll of that area in the Halo 3 storyline, and so on. I don't know if I'm getting across what I'm thinking, but I think that would be off the meat rack. Would you guys like this? Do ya'll have any thoughts as to what Bungie is planning for online?
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I probably didn't do a good job at let you guys invision what I have in mind, which has alot to do with the points some of ya'll (Mister Ninja) are making. I'm going to assume that there are two realistic endings to Halo 2.
1st -The humans figure out a way to get the Covenant to leave Earth, through a weapon or what ever means, and all the remaining human forces go after the Covenant Homeworld.
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2nd - The Covenant continue to wipe out humaninty, including earth, and the Master Chief goes on some sort of suicide mission to the Covenant homeworld.
I think that the 2nd conclusion is most likely to happen considering the way Bungie usually tells stories...You are humanities last hope etc. The way this ending to Halo 2 fits into what I'm talking about is, all these mini battles, skirmishes, or what ever you want to call them would take place on a planet, base, spaceship, on the way to the Covenant homeworld/s. These skirmishes would also take place on the first level of Halo 3... keep reading, I'll explain. The outcome of these events on xbox live would dictate certain things within the first level of Halo 3. For instance, lets say that the first level, as well as these skirmishes I keep talking about, are on a Covenant controlled planet. You, the Master Chief, are flown by pelican to your drop point, just like every Halo mission. While flying to the drop piont, you would pass over the territories that were taken over by the humans in Halo 2 on xbox live. As soon as you are dropped off, you walk up to the Human command post. You meet a captian with a name tag that says, for all intsive purposes, Captian B. Miller... this is my name:) He or I, depending on how you look at it, gives you a layout of the situation. On his/my sleve would be his/my clan moto, custom clan pic., and my xbox live account name. How would I, just a fan, get to be so exclusively included in the script of the game? Well, I wouldn't be exclusive. All the people who were finalist in the Halo 2 the tournaments, and got to be apart of the skirmishes/battels/events that I talk about in the begining of this topic would be all through out the first level. It wouldn't really be that many people if Bungie made it special event that was only held every 5-6... 50-75 characters... the next generation xbox should be able to handle way more in game characters than this. We, the fans who got to be included in the game, wouldn't be writting the script. We would just get are names and such put on the characters in the script. So, I could be in the middle of battle in this first level of Halo 3, and look beside me and see a tag that has your XBL tag, Mister Ninja, and you would have your clan name and such written on a patch on your arm. While in battle I might pass a dead Elite's body, you know how all through out Halo you pass up dead bodies, and the Elite might have Tiny written on a patch with his Covenant clan name and so on. If you were good enough at Halo 2 MP, and you got to be in multiple of these skirmishes/battles/events that Bungie would be holding on xbox live, then you might get your name put on an important character in the storyline. Now do you guys understand what I'm talking about. We wouldn't really be changing the storyline of Halo 3. We would be given a chance, an illusion at that, to be included in the storyline/game. I probably should have put a different subject title... maybe that has something to do with me not getting my point across???
[Edited on 5/6/2004 10:44:17 AM]
[Edited on 7/3/2004 3:46:23 PM]