- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Alright well since everyone is conversing, I want to add my two cents. It will probably be more like fifty bucks because of the length that I plan for this to be and some of that fifty bucks might be taken right from your pocket considering I might repeat what a lot of people have said. Now that thats out of the way I want to clearly stay where I lay opinion-wise. If you don't agree I still ask that you read through this as it is not intended to bash anyone, just to persuade. Again, I am restating that I do not wish to bash anyone of your opinions or posts and I will refrain from doing so. Finally, after all that mumbo jumbo, I will go on to my opinion and hopefully my logical reasoning behind that opinion.
I agree with Master Fox's opinion of the Halo storyline in its entirety but I also agree with Wiltron’s opinion of the “Halo: Combat Evolved”’s(H:CE) story. As for Caer Bannog’s opinion, I want to respect the idea about Johnson being a clone as that would seem like a possibility considering the books cover a lot of that subject in detail. However, you dismiss the books as being fan-fiction so therefore that could not possible help in supporting your theory. As for not knowing what an easter egg is I will provide you a link form Wikipedia on this subject as Wikipedia is good when it comes to cultural or internet terminology. I know I could have simple edited this information in as it is Wikipedia but I hope that you will trust me enough to think I wouldn’t do such a thing. So with out further ado, the link to Wikipedia’s definition of easter egg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28virtual%29 Alright now since that is out of the way, lets go on to discuss more about why Johnson is shown in what I believe to be an easter egg death of an elite and Johnson, along with Johnson’s deaths in other parts of the game.
I believe that most of the reasoning behind the death of Johnson throughout H:CE is due to poor planning or more likely the inability or insufficient time frame that would be required to program it so that Johnson would be invincible throughout the game. As you can see, Bungie learned from this mistake in Halo 2(H2) since Johnson can now be drenched in bullet and plasma fire and be able to survive. I also believe limited amount of resources such as character models and audio files required the Bungie team to put Johnson into levels of the game in which he was not put in the book, even if you do not see the books as canon. Bannog you seemed to be confused on what canon is so I will provide another WIkipedia link for you. Once again, I hope you can trust me enough to believe that I didn’t just edit information into Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29 Alright, there is one other occurrence of Johnson’s death that I want to discuss however it is hard to back this up for you Bannog as you do not seem to believe that the books or the upcoming graphic novel are considered canon. Maybe people wonder how Johnson survived the encounter with the Flood but no one really knows except for Bungie until the Halo Graphic Novel (HGN) is released in July. I was also planning to persuade the non-believers into think that the books and the HGN were canon by using the fact that Johnson is in H2 however Bannog’s idea that Johnson is a clone stops me from doing such a thing. Since surprisingly enough the very books that he does not consider to be canon can actually help support his theory. Therefore, I can not persuade him even if the HGN describes how he survived the Flood and how he got off Halo because he could simply deny that the HGN is cannon. So I will respect your opinion on Johnson being a clone however I do not believe he is one and the death of Johnson and an elite being an easter egg leads me to believe he is not a clone.