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Subject: I think might have found where they got the name "halo" from
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  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

A while back in one of the weekly updates bungie listed a bunch of different books and movies that they got ideas for halo from. One of the books they listed was called "Ringworld". I'm reading the book right now and on page 99 (first page of the chapter called Ringworld) second paragraph it says:

"But this sun wore a barely visible halo."

Ha! Absolute proof!

Yeah, I know its probably just a coincidence. But it's not that hard to imagine someone from Bungie reading the book trying to come up with Ideas and thinking "Halo, that would be a cool name."

  • 12.10.2006 10:16 AM PDT

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Well, despite that line that contains the exact title of the game, I'd think that the book "Ringworld", as a whole, probably inspired the title. However, most likely designed alot of the game, with some inspirations from that book, and when they decided to finally give their project a name, they decided to name it that. I mean... there's not THAT many synonyms for "ring" out there.

  • 12.10.2006 10:25 AM PDT