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Subject: Master Chief: Walking Dead
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forget casual gamers, we are the TRUE fans!!!!!!!!

  • 06.26.2006 6:34 PM PDT
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I am getting annoyed with these threads Just shut up and find out.

  • 06.26.2006 7:08 PM PDT
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"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't"
Posted by: Ikwa
Lets Speak French!!!

lets not and say we did

Posted by: Fr4gNiNj4
(note to self: join Apple's team always, as he is a god)

Great idea, and it would be so cool except for one problem. I don't really think its possible for the MC to die. Unless he just got tired and didn't care but cmon... like CMON! nothing cam kill him.

  • 06.26.2006 7:19 PM PDT
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As others have said, you are a genius

But Chief cannot be killed by another person, or else he is not the best soldier. In the books, they say he isn't the strongest or the smartest(or something of the sort) but he is the bravest. If Chief needs to indeed die, than he needs to die not heroicly, like others say, but legendary. He should have to fight against impossible odds, like the real actual Spartans at the battle of Thermopalye, when 300 Spartans fought 250 000 enemies. Or Cortana says something about how "if this is the end, im glad i was with you" and then Chief just says, "Me too.....Are you ready?" n she says, "ready when you are" n Chief just goes in and gives the final blow and goes in.

But if Chief lives, and the Covenant, n the Flood, and Halo, etc are all finished and peace is made throughout the universe, than Chief cant stay. Him and Cortana need to leave and become loners because Chief is a pure bred warrior, and people dont look at him the same, so he needs to leave and go somewhere else. They could end the games kind of how they ended Halo 1 CE, Cortana and Chief flying through space.


That was long, but still, ideas need to be said.

[Edited on 6/26/2006]

  • 06.26.2006 8:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: SpartanCom
Lone Heretic, did that come from an existing fan-fic, or did you just type that now? 'Cause it's actually almost workable. o.o And long. :)

captain stab, I don't know if Bungie's ever made an effort to preserve story continuity into the confines of multiplayer. If so, it'd be interesting to read that plot outline.

I agree, Elite Rican, though I would tend to lean toward the former possibility.

And yeah, tank1178, I cannot imagine a thematic purpose for the MC's existence after the events of Halo 3. However, realize this: Bungie could easily introduce radical new elements to the story that could make John 117's life afterward possible. We know that in Halo 3 we will "Finish the Fight," and according to Frankie, all of the fights started in the first game. That doesn't mean Bungie can't start a new one.

Oh, and realize I may not be as versed in the Halo mythos as some of you. I'm trying to discuss core themes, the themes and elements borrowed from classic and ancient literature that gives the franchise its epic feel. The whole sci-fi backdrop to the story arc is really just window dressing. The divisions of characters into Flood, Covenant, and Human groups are irrelevant to the core human story. I am just putting forward that, for the epic, human drama that's at the center of the franchise, the MC's death is the best way for full closure. And again, a sort of transcendance thing going on might alleviate some of the grief. It may sound cheesy or cliche, but realize that most of the stories and literature you have been exposed to have borrowed from some of the same themes as Halo has.

If implemented properly, the MC's death will be the best thing that's ever happened to the franchise.
I typed it up myself, from my own ideas. Took me about an hour, I'd say. Why? I have always had talent in story fabrication. I'm surprised that after that I didn't get a group invite for fanfic lore.

  • 06.26.2006 10:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hoplite A2
Wow/..... Don't know what to say......... If MC dies I will cry...... And I don't cry.
I hope they find a way to surprise all of us. They're pretty good at that. : )

Lone heretic - Awesome ideas bro! Im not quite sure I like Mr. Monster flood though.
The rest too cool. Except arbiter kiling chief = sucks. Chief is our hero, not some outcast elite. sure hes coo and good, but he's not what the game was built off of.

Chief must have an excellent, stellar, bragadocious ending if it's gonna turn out right.
But, I have fai7h in bungie they will do fine. }-)
The "Monster Flood," was actually something that was supposed to make an appearance in Halo 2, but Bungie locked it out. Arbiter killing Cheif? Not likely. Them fighting side by side? Will be allies, but will not fight side by side. The "Arbiter," didn't kill Cheif, what was left of him did. I agree Arbiter is teh pwn, and I also agree he won't be the "main," hero, but should have some part in saving everything.

  • 06.26.2006 10:45 PM PDT
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Yeah, I doubt the Arbiter will deal the killing blow. Something tells me the MC will walk purposefully into a situation knowing that he'll end up kicking it.

  • 06.27.2006 8:04 AM PDT
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Think about how bad this would suck..... You've worked your little tails (some not so little) off keeping chief alive and then in a cutscene you can't control - Chief dies.

the screen would fade, there would probably be another cutscene - Credits roll-


Just try to imagine it...

  • 06.27.2006 9:15 AM PDT
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Well, the Master Chief isn't fighting to save himself, but rather all of humanity. So if he dies to save another, it'll be good.

*imagines*

  • 06.27.2006 9:47 AM PDT
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I don't believe the chief goal of the gamer (excuse the pun) would be to keep the MC alive. "Finish the Fight" says nothing as to the aftermath of such a finalization. While the conflict will be resolved, totally and completely, with everything concerning the Halos to be fini-ed, we don't know that the MC will live.

And the personal story at the core of this epic, I believe, dictates that John 117 must die completing his duty.

  • 06.27.2006 1:54 PM PDT
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I've got it!!!

The Prophet of Truth is a Vampire, and the only thing that can kill him is a werewolf. So, seeing as there is inadiquate time to tell the Master Chief what he must do, The Arbiter allows himself to be bitten by a werewolf so he can kill Truth. So, the Arbiter becomes a werewolf, kills the Prophet or Truth, but the Master Chief was fighting with Truth at the same time and he gets killed by The Arbiter accidentally. Then, The Arbiter and 343 Guilty Spark stand around a fire on a cliff as Johnson paddles away on a little raft since the Flood finally took him over and he looks like a freak. Then, the Arbiter looks up and sees the Master Chief's face in the clouds. The Arbiter starts to cry and says "I'm such a frickin -blam!-."

-The End-


LOL I love it!!!!!!

(my bad, forgot to quote)


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  • 06.27.2006 2:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: xp3r7k1LL3r
LOL I love it!!!!!!
Excuse my ignorance, but what?

  • 06.27.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: SpartanCom
I don't believe the chief goal of the gamer (excuse the pun) would be to keep the MC alive. "Finish the Fight" says nothing as to the aftermath of such a finalization. While the conflict will be resolved, totally and completely, with everything concerning the Halos to be fini-ed, we don't know that the MC will live.

And the personal story at the core of this epic, I believe, dictates that John 117 must die completing his duty.


I dont beleive the Chief is a martyr. The Arbiter mabey, but not the Chief.

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  • 06.27.2006 2:14 PM PDT
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A martyr is someone who dies for his beliefs and/or idealogy. The Chief, in my opinion, will die saving another, or possibly, all of humanity.

  • 06.27.2006 2:53 PM PDT
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Besides . . . if, after fighting all the way through Halos 1-3, the MC suddenly decides to sacrifice his life in some way, I believe it makes it all the more meaningful. The Arbiter killing him? It might be surprising, but again, it takes away the element of purposeful sacrifice, which I believe would be essential in concluding/continuing the story.

  • 06.28.2006 7:06 AM PDT

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