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Subject: There will be no SPARTANS in Halo 3 besides the Cheif.
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A. The game needs to sell well

And to sell well, casual gamers need to understand it. These people never read the books, and they don't research the Halo universe. The casual gamers are lead to believe that there is one SPARTAN left, the cheif. This is shown on the back of the Halo CE case.

You are the last of your kind, bred for combat...

Now Bungie is a company, companies aim for money, not for their fans. No matter how humble they seem, they would disappoint their fans for a few million bucks anyday. They can make it appeal to about 10% of their fanbase(The "hardcore" gamers), or they can make it appeal to 90% of their fanbase(Casual gamers). 90% of the fans will spend more than 10% on the games, so if bungie wants to make the most profit, they will go for the casual audience. And as Bungie said, there is 0 reference to the books in the game. Just because they are both named Halo and both have the same plot does not mean the two will affect each other.

B. It wouldn't make any sense to add them in now.
Do you want bungie to put a cutscene in the middle of the game with sgt. Johnson saying, "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, there are more SPARTANS." That is an important piece of infomation that the MC and the player should know.

C. The game is about the MC, not linda, not kelly. The fanbase was extremley disapointed when the Arbitor had as big of a role as the MC in Halo 2. But now if there are 3 playable characters in H3, how angry would most of the fans be?

Simply put, other SPARTANS are best left to another game in the Halo universe, such as a Fall of Reach game, or maybe the other 3 surviving SPARTANS will have their own game following their secret mission, but they will not be in H3.

  • 06.16.2006 9:52 PM PDT

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someguy just said this like 10 minutes ago

  • 06.16.2006 9:53 PM PDT
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someguy just said this like 10 minutes ago
I have been typing this for more than 10 mins.

  • 06.16.2006 9:55 PM PDT

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And it was well worth typing. :) The one said "10 minutes ago" was some guy yelling "THEIR R NO MORE SPARTUNS SO SHUDDAP!!!" [sic]

  • 06.16.2006 9:57 PM PDT
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You are the last of your kind, bred for combat...

yeah this is a really stupid thing that proves nothing at all. AT the time (right after the fall of reach) it was belived that all the other spartans died. If you read the books instead of relying on something 5 years old then you would know that there are more then one spartan remaining. They will hopefully show up in some form in the game and it will be good.

DUDE! READ THE DAMN BOOKS! Master Chief already knows there are other spartans left! some were too far out to call back to save reach, and fred, and kelly are still alaive.

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  • 06.16.2006 9:58 PM PDT
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I can see Bungie puting in other SPARTANS now just to spite me.

  • 06.16.2006 9:58 PM PDT
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good. ANd they will run out of copies of halo 3 right before you reach the counter... just liky my unlucky friend.

  • 06.16.2006 10:01 PM PDT
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good. ANd they will run out of copies of halo 3 right before you reach the counter... just liky my unlucky friend.
And chances are, they will also hire a hitman to go after me and my family....


But oh well....

  • 06.16.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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A. What did you do when you first saw the Arbiter?

OMGZORZ, liek I doon't knoez who theez gui iz!!!!!1111

B. That's what storytelling is for and it is the PERFECT time to add them in now that the final battle is at hand.

C. They don't have to be playable, they could be just fighting alongside you.

D. You have no evidence to back up your claims other than a crackpot dream.

E. Earth will need all the help she can get. Every man, woman, and Spartan will be fighting the final battle.

F. "There are only two things that are infinite - The Universe and Bungie.net stupidity, and I am not so sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

  • 06.16.2006 10:16 PM PDT

Posted by: Ada Astra
gruntfarmer is a cheeseburger.

Eight out of every six people are Chinese.

whered you get those statistics!?

  • 06.16.2006 10:19 PM PDT
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ummmm

im pretty sure that its 90% game0r and 10% people who read teh books.

cuz i doubt too many people here read books.

you could always find out that one of the other spartans were in hiding, secret.
but i doubt it.

and the whole thing about the covvys and the humans allying up is crap.

if they were all allied, then why does the master chief get stuck WALKING in the desert instead of just riding in a banshee. and why does it happen to be that oh, look at that theres a buhzillion of those ships floating around. Faith blinded zealots. they prolly are just after that damn structure, too busy to go for the chief? maybe.

thats prolly crap right there.

  • 06.16.2006 11:48 PM PDT