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Subject: Idea: Flashbacks to John's childhood?
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We all know that Halo is really the story of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. So the question is: Should Halo 3 add little sequences that explain things from the books? Example (for the beginning of the game):

A First Person Flashback to John playing King of the Hill in first person and ending with Dr. Halsey giving him the eagle coin.

Another of John training as a Spartan-II (firing weapons).

And so on down the line.

If they did this on the Forerunner ship, I think it could serve as a good story element and a reasonable tutorial.

Feel free to discuss.

  • 06.13.2006 2:19 PM PDT
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Yeah that would be sweet! Like at the beggining of the game you land on earth with that foreunner ship and crash but get knocked out, so it takes you into like a hazy kinda turtorial from when you train as a kid on reach and you learn how to do more than learn controls but you also learn how to flank the enemy and other stuff like they were gunna do in halo 2.

  • 06.13.2006 2:24 PM PDT
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The books cary the same theme as the game, but are not an extension. They are entirely different. That is why Bunige won't add more spartans to the game, because they arn't mentioned in any of the two games, on the books, which have no meaning in the two games.

So, if you start adding elements of the boods to the game, it starts to mess things up. People who have only played the games wont understand as much, and even if they do just credit it as flashbacks from his childhood etc, how does it advance the plot at all, and why would it be relevant?

The focus of the game is MC trying to save Earth from the Covenant, stop the universe from being brutally destroyed by the halos, etc etc + more epic crap.

How does flashbacks move the plot towards that goal/ have any revelance. Why have them?

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  • 06.13.2006 2:25 PM PDT
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How would any of this be relevant to the Halo 3 story? It wouldn't advance the plot, all it would do was explain Johns childhood. I for one want this story arc done with, because I'm checking the Bungie website like every hour seeing if there is any Halo 3 news....SUCH.....A.....NERD.....I.....AM!!!!

  • 06.13.2006 2:27 PM PDT
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i do like that and also i think there needs to be flashbacks to forerunner time throughout the game to better explain exactly what was going on with the flood and what it was like back then.

  • 06.13.2006 2:28 PM PDT
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Sorry, but the books are canonized material. They are an extension of the game and a big part of the story of Halo. Joseph Staten and Jason Jones have said in interviews that they have worked very closely with Eric Nylund and William Dietz and have kept their writing in mind while writing the story for Halo 2.

As for the story line, it would help humanize the Master Chief even more. Show him what he has been through (a sort of gathering of thoughts before the final battle).

  • 06.13.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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Hate to tell you....this game ISN'T about chief we just see it through his/arbiter's eyes. The game is about the survival/destruction of sentient life in the galaxy and I, want to see this complete without pointless side story's in THIS Halo set of games. After 'The Trilogy' is complete, I could care less if Bungie made some sort of game where you start as a early spartan, but the whole flashbacks thing would just take away from THIS story arc.

  • 06.13.2006 2:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Gunshark 360
We all know that Halo is really the story of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. So the question is: Should Halo 3 add little sequences that explain things from the books? Example (for the beginning of the game):

A First Person Flashback to John playing King of the Hill in first person and ending with Dr. Halsey giving him the eagle coin.

Another of John training as a Spartan-II (firing weapons).

And so on down the line.

If they did this on the Forerunner ship, I think it could serve as a good story element and a reasonable tutorial.

Feel free to discuss.
This is not bad bungie make a note out of this also make playable GRUNTS

  • 06.13.2006 2:36 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

'Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?'
'Sir. Finishing this fight'
*Chief trips over step and hits head on Forerunner beam*
*Opening titles*

:)

  • 06.13.2006 2:37 PM PDT
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ghey/10

  • 06.13.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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Lame.

  • 06.13.2006 2:46 PM PDT
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You are right, it would make no sense to have him be knocked out. But there are other ways to do it.

  • 06.13.2006 2:48 PM PDT