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John117 is Galactus
Galactus is God
Posted by: Placid Platypus
Posted by: Monitor117
I just told you!! Dude 343 has ex-Bungie employees! Freddie is a prime example of these conspiracy! For all you know Bungie and Microsoft have been planning together.
All of the former-Bungie employees at 343 were not involved with the Marathon series. Hell, by the time Halo 2 was released, the number of people at Bungie who had worked on the Marathon trilogy could be counted on one hand. Bungie has also stated multiple times that they are done with the Marathon and Halo universes and are working on an entirely new IP. Microsoft, by their own comments and as seen recently, is only concerned with the Halo property (not to mention that the rights to Marathon are retained by Bungie, and any Halo cross-over would require the purchase or contracting of those rights).
Additionally, to address the point you made earlier, the Marathon trilogy has been freeware for several years now. It isn't a recent occurrence. Furthermore, it has always been painfully obvious that the majority of Halo fans who have played the Marathon games, as well as the gaming pundits who comment of them, only understand the trilogy's plot on a rudimentary and entirely simplistic level.
While there are some cursory similarities between the two titles, they are at best only coincidental. Any devoted research of the Marathon canon will reveal a plethora of differences that make any tie-in with Halo absurd and wholly out-of-the-question. Even a simple search of these forums will give you several threads in which these differences are enumerated and discussed.
So no, the two universes aren't connected. There is ample evidence supporting this and any arguments to the counter only exist in ignorance of this.
It shouldn't matter whether they had anything to do with marathon or not. Freddie wasn't there for CE yet he's basically in control of the next Halo trilogy. Who's to say they are Bungie Ninjas. Spies!
But seriously.. bungie says, hey you're the president of this, just make sure this and that (just like the american government lmao) you can say they have the rights to this and they have the rights to that but they probably cooperate with each other on a level you don't even know about (aka ONI?)
It isn't like any of you work for Bungie.
That's really all I have to say. I'm not here to argue but to speculate and gain info from what you guys speculate. Every once in a while ill get some awesome troll like Wazooty (forgive me if you take offense to the "troll" comment) who will shed light on shadows and open your eyes.