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Re: Myth and PID related?
Posted By: SiliconDream (anton-mates.hip.berkeley.edu)
Date: 7/2/1999 at 11:16 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Myth and PID related? (Honkem)
Well, sure. It's not necessarily laziness; there's just a limited number of cool concepts and effects (S'pht and Warlocks both open themselves up to attack, F'lickta and Oozes both have nasty vertical mouths in their stomachs, etc.) The recurring chaos vs. order theme is probably due not to plot linkages between all the games but to
Bungie's awareness that, for people like me at least, beings that serve or embody chaos are about the scariest kind of evil there is.
Nevertheless, it's good mental exercise and just plain fun to try to combine all the games into one plotline and one universe. You could make the same argument about many authors, like Lovecraft or Tolkien; they were obviously more concerned with making each book or story an effective literary piece on its own than with eliminating trivial contradictions between the stories and explaining precisely how each story fit into their total fictional universe. But people still have loads of fun writing field guides and encyclopedias and whatnot about "the Cthulhu mythos" or the "world of Middle-Earth," putting their stories together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and trimming or extending a little when the pieces don't quite fit. To judge from their emails, the folks at Bungie certainly encourage (albeit a little tongue-in-cheek) our efforts. As long as we don't take ourselves too seriously, I don't think it hurts to speculate, even if we know the truth is probably far more mundane.
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