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Subject: Bungie and Purple?
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We all know Bungie has a thing for the number 7... but i've always wondered why make all of the covie's stuff purple... anyone whos played previous Bungie games tell me if there is as much purple in those games? i just thought maybe purple had some significance to Bungie like the number 7...

  • 09.20.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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Coz the artists at bungie are colorblind.

  • 09.20.2004 5:21 PM PDT
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stosh... youre gonna get blamed for somethin now that you said that.

  • 09.20.2004 5:30 PM PDT

Posted by: stosh
Coz the artists at bungie are colorblind.


And thus stosh speakith, and the minions of the Bungie.Net, in their gulibility, did beleiveith.

;-)

  • 09.20.2004 5:33 PM PDT
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I dunno, it is a little wierd. The pfhor ships in Marathon had alot of purple, too...

  • 09.20.2004 5:41 PM PDT
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Yeah... it is kinda weird that the vehicles are purple. Granted, they look cool in purple.... so maybe the artists figured that they vehicles would look rather awkward in other colors such as lime green, bright orange, or even plavender (mixture of plad and lavender). :-P. Plus, purple is a cool metallic color.

  • 09.20.2004 6:01 PM PDT
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Because purple rawx. ^_^

  • 09.20.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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Because Cortana is purple. and she rules us all. Why did I say that? Oh well. No Cortana! Don't hurt meeeeeeeeeee!

Yeah purple is just the Covie's military colour, like the UNSC's is just brown/green.

  • 09.20.2004 7:19 PM PDT
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In Marathon there were also purple S'pht and purple fighters. I think the more powerful enforcers as well as the alien weapon were purple. Can't remember the name of the aliens with the grenade launcher/smg combo, but i think the powerful version of them were purple as well. Hunters? It's been a while.

  • 09.20.2004 8:21 PM PDT
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Konoko has Purple hair.

  • 09.20.2004 8:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Corltan
In Marathon there were also purple S'pht and purple fighters. I think the more powerful enforcers as well as the alien weapon were purple. Can't remember the name of the aliens with the grenade launcher/smg combo, but i think the powerful version of them were purple as well. Hunters? It's been a while.


The Troopers? Yeah, there were purple Troopers as well as purple Pfhor fighters, S'pht, and I think enforcers. The alien weapon was purple too.

-Baerdog7

[Edited on 9/20/2004 9:26:23 PM]

  • 09.20.2004 9:25 PM PDT

-S

Purples and blues are colors often associated with royalty.

  • 09.20.2004 10:39 PM PDT
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Purple is just so pimp...ish..

  • 09.20.2004 11:04 PM PDT

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Purple is the color of their home planet, and greenish is the color of ours. Purple costumes must just be default camoflauge uniforms as we use green for ours.
I'm pretty sure they'd tink wierd stuff about our planet too.

[Edited on 9/21/2004 12:11:10 AM]

  • 09.21.2004 12:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: MJOLNIRdragoon
We all know Bungie has a thing for the number 7... but i've always wondered why make all of the covie's stuff purple... anyone whos played previous Bungie games tell me if there is as much purple in those games? i just thought maybe purple had some significance to Bungie like the number 7...


Now that you mention it...

The Hulk From Marathon 1 (had purple clothes)
The Alien Weapons
The Major Phor Fighter
The Major Spht Compiler
The Hunters in Marathon1 were somewhere netween purple and maroon, grayed down a bit
Konoko and Muro in Oni had purple hair, and red to maroon highlights (konoko doesn't have any until she gets rid of her TCTF outfit)

I wouldn't say it was an overriding color scheme with any one side though...


  • 09.22.2004 7:36 AM PDT
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I've noticed the color similarities between the Pfhor ships and
the Covenant too, but what really gets me is that green goo that
runs through the ship in Marathon. I haven't checked the terminals
yet, so does anyone know what that green goo is for?
In Halo the T&R leaks a bluish green fluid, but it doesn't hurt you
like it did in Marathon. I believe Cortana also calls it coolant.
Anyone else think about this, or am I just crazy?

  • 09.22.2004 12:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Purples and blues are colors often associated with royalty.


thats a good point to... never thought of that...

  • 09.22.2004 2:59 PM PDT
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Purple seems to be the kind of color associated with aliens. I mean, purple is perfect for depicting that crazy technology that can turn our brains to Ready-Whip. I mean, lots of games with aliens use purple. Take for example the EV series. The Polaris were die-hard purple. :)

  • 09.22.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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Green is a good all round "Alien color" you see green you'll probably associate with alga, slime, aliens or monsters, all weirdstuff.

The Phor ships have a lot of red as well in them, which is near purple on the color wheel. they also have Bright pink liquid pools as well..

I like the post about the Purples and Blues being royalty colors (they are, along with red) Because the aliens certainly have plenty of those three colors (purple, blue, and red)

  • 09.23.2004 6:14 AM PDT
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what's purple, blue and red all over?

dead covenant

or an injured human...

seriously, though, purple makes anything look better.

  • 09.23.2004 6:31 AM PDT