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Subject: Just a thought...
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Didn't Gravemind in Halo 2 speak only in Iambic Pentameter? (I could be wrong, but I thought i heard that somewhere.)


One would assume if that's correct, that he would continue speaking as such...and none of "Cortana's" lines in the trailer are Iambic Pentameter, if I recall.



Disucss....

  • 06.15.2006 7:55 AM PDT
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Actually I think they said it was septameter (sp?) I don't know for sure, didn't do well in poetry back in high school.....

  • 06.15.2006 7:56 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

i'm pretty sure it was iambic heptameter (7 beats) but you have a point about the rhythms being the same...

  • 06.15.2006 7:57 AM PDT
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It was heptameter...Bungie's 7 obsession.

And that made me think...if he always spoke in heptameter...it's quite obvious he doesn't in the trailer...why?

  • 06.15.2006 6:48 PM PDT

Procrastination never ends...

Thanks to reading your post, I have to go play to the cut-scene again.

  • 06.15.2006 7:45 PM PDT

Procrastination never ends...

I finished off Quarantine Zone to get the Gravemind cut-scene, and he does in fact speak in heptameter. But what implications does this have for the H3 trailer? Is it still the Gravemind speaking, or is Cortana more powerful than even him?

edit: for the record heptameter is 7 sets of two beats known as a foot.

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  • 06.15.2006 9:03 PM PDT
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????Gravemind is speaking through Cortana, Why would Cortana say this is the way the world ends.......it's gravemind. You don't have to play the game to watch the cutscenes just go to Halo.Bungie.Org and look for cutscenes

  • 06.15.2006 9:06 PM PDT

Procrastination never ends...

That'll make cutscenes quicker to watch. Still, the Gravemind doesn't speak in the same manner as Cortana/Gravemind in the trailer.

  • 06.15.2006 9:08 PM PDT