OK, this has gotten a little confusing. Ivory Snake - Of course Dr. Halsey is still young , because marathon takes place about 200 years after halo. She's still pretty old in the Halo books, though. But what Brute captain is saying is that she probably wont make another appearance in the plot to the halo books, because of her age,
I stumbled across Marathon Infinity way back in the day. I had no clue it was made by Bungie, so it was no surprise when I started seeing parallels between the two games. I think it would be cool if they managed to tie the two series together. I don't know if they'll directly link the two characters as one, or just include parts of marathon into the Halo universe. Either way I think it'd be fun.
from what i've seen of marathon and what i know about halo it would be possible to tie them together, it will just leave a few unanswered questions...
Ok first of all the assumptions in this topic are ridiculous. Marathon took place "chronoligically" after Halo. Humans where equipped with technology worse than those in Halo. Don't you think if Humanity had made contact with another alien species and made "peace" (sanghelli) that there might be some technology influence? I would like a link to the article where "Bungie" confirms the main chracter in Marathon being the Master Chief. I believe that is complete crap. And the only word I've heard from Bungie about the planetoid at the end of Halo 3 Legendary is that there is something to be seen in the lights, not "oh my god that's the marathon." I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I don't believe it would happen. Most likely because tying the two stories directly together would be stupid (I have played both) And we're talking plot holes galore. If you want an explanation to the Legendary ending give it time and I'm sure something will surface. Although it's most likely tied to GoO, or a flood homeworld, hidden forerunner construct.
To my knowledge they have actually repeatedly claimed they are completely separate,ill search bungie for the article for this but i dont promise anything
That is what you might think Ty, but you obviously haven't delved deep enough into the Halo universe yet to understand completely what is going on. The Master Chief and the main character in Marathon are one, I'll see if I can find the page long Game Informer article that showed what evidence their was connecting the story lines. Otherwise, these "assumptions" really aren't ridiculous, just more than what most people might understand as far as the Halo universe goes.
IMO, Bungie either put the legendary ending on to mess with our minds or to leave a very obvious hint about future stuff. Either way, I will wait and see what happens. If Bungie does remake marathon, and it is a sequel to Halo, the I will be VERY excited and happy.
ummm I'm pretty sure i've "delved" deep enough into the Halo universe. I've played all the Marathon games, all the Halo games, read all the books. Anything else is not canon it's just fan fiction and assumption. Until you show me a Bungie.net article where you read this crap, you're full of it. Seeing as how your 14 you wouldn't quite understand the literary catastrophe that would result in an attempt to tie the two games together. Maybe if there was some freakish interdimensional portal, but that would just be retarded. MC is not the same as the marine in Marathon, pure and simple.
Please stop flaming immediately, Loyals are not supposed to have forum conduct like this. My brother is on of the biggest Halo fans I know, he's older than me and know far more than you do. Even he deep down knows they are going to remake Marathon. There is far more to suggest that Marathon will be remade then threre is that it won't. You will not continue to flame me in my own post, take your own flawed opinions somewhere else but here. Thank you.
I don't understand where and how you can make wild assumptions like this. But ok, you win, have fun with the speculation.
No there isn't,until bungie literally says "halo 4 will be marathon" im not buying it. Ive read a good few of these theories and i guaranteee you,by the end of it you think "omigosh they're right!!" but thats only becuase youv been reading their opinion for the last half an hour cuz these guys right for day on these things. After awhile you remember bits and realise its utter hogwash. THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY PLOT HOLES TO DO IT AND BUNGIE HAVE SAID THEY ARE UNRELATED GAMES IN COMPLETELY SEPARATE UNIVERSES And brute if i may say so myself that was the most pig headed comment ive seen all day. My brothers odler than me so he knows more than you!!!!! And get this,we are fully entitled to question your opinion,this is a forum,its about sharing opinions. This "flaming" you speak of is debate,deal with it Altho ty's comment about you not knowing what your talking about becuase your 14 was equally ignorant. Im turning 15 soon and i consider myself a very indept thinker when it suites me. But there are bigger holes in the halo storyline that would definately have to be wrapped up before they could do anything as unlikely as linking it to marathon... Lets review Halo installation 04 had flood biried in it. In halo 2 we learn blowing halo didnt stop those flood(they got onto the heretics base and the surrounding planet) We also learned that ther was flood on delta halo Also cortana never detonated in ambder clan,therefore the rampant flood on delta halo are still there .............. From this we can assume there is preserved flood on eahc installation... there are 25 installations leaving a considerable amount of flood lieing around,waiting to be unleashed. Also in halo 1 we learn flood can repair covy ships(the reason the covies sent in the strike force towards the end) There must have been ships or ship aprts left on delta halo. So we have at least one group of flood ready to go and and spread. The flod also came to earth,spewing out flood spores as they went. Theres no chance all of those spores could have been eliminated by human weapons as bullets do not destroy the matter that allow flood bodies to be re used. Then again the sentinels "special mission" may have been to save earth but it is never explained. Not to mention there are the rebel humans to sort out and the remains of the old covenant and the elites and humans are so different culturaly that there ar bound to be problems.(just look at the argument about glassing africa) Dont assume marathon is the only thing bungie could throw at us,more than likely they hinted at this stuff to throw us off guard so they can get us with the curveball. The problem is the more determined you get into a theory the more "evidence" you see,what may have simply been tributes to myth,marathon and otehrs become "proof" that marathon is next. There is a lot to still happen in the halo universe yet make no mistake.
Maybe they will remake Marathon, maybe they won't. I Agree with Supa Midget, that I wont believe Halo 4 is Marathon unless i see it myself. However, I believe that if they do remake Marathon, It will be a "vanilla" Remake. They wont attempt to Make Master Chief the main character, because they already have one. And even if they did, where would Cortana go? They already have 3 AI in that game, Leela, Durandal and Tycho. I doubt they would kill her off, she was so vital to MC. I respect your opinion, However, I ask that you please post some solid evidence of this.
Well by his theory its 250 years later so cortana being a smart AI would have died of old age(explained in fall of reach i believe...possibly in The flood i read those two right after ech otehr so they kinda gell in my mind) BUT And this kind of blows brute captains theory out of the water im afraid. The ship was severed blowing all the conduits and circuits to hooey. The only reall power availible would have been form auxilary storage and the cryo tubes internal power. Keep in mind MC is not an engineer and cortana has not physical presence therefore it is nigh impossible they could have repaired the ships power,considering MC's suit only comtains something in the area of 3 days of air supply. THE IS NO WAY IN HELL THAT WOULD LAST 250 YEARS ALONG WITH A POWERFUL ENOUGH DISTRESS BEACON TO ATTRACT HUMAN SHIPS/THE MARATHON
Wait, MY theory? are you talking to me, or to Brute, because that really confused me. And I seem to remember reading somewhere that they "Think" themselves to death, and that only happened when they were around intelligible beings, or some kind of computer database. The part about thinking themselves to death is in one of the books. The other part, i don't remember where I saw that, so i wont bother looking