: Well, kinda...just in that it's less likely to have a
: complex and satisfying story. But mainly, because the
: other two games were made by one group of people, and
: Myth 3 will be made by a different group.
Well, technicly speaking any Myth game produced by Bungie studios after the buyout would not have been made by the exact same group of people as the other two games because some of the staff did not make the move with everyone else. But I am not going to say that because there are to many holes in that argument to do so;)
: They could start by spelling common units' names
: correctly. :-)
We all misspeel things sometimes;)
: Certainly, but plenty of stories have failed at that
: point. There's lots of games (like the Unreal series)
: that easily produced reams and reams of "In the
: year X, A fought B and then declared a
: truce"--style information. But they didn't put it
: together into a story worth uncovering, and they
: didn't make uncovering it into a challenged.
We just have to hope the new owners care about their craft and this new god send they have just aquired to make it that way...
: As I said, we can analyze it as much as we want--but we
: should remember that it's different from the earlier
: games.
Soulblighter was different from TFL simply because it was a different game. Different games are different from eachother because they are different...ummmm yeah.
: Think about what the Asylum is for. Why do we analyze the
: story? Why do we construct theories and then argue
: them? Are we just making theories that sound good?
: Then this is simply a forum for fan fiction--and
: there's nothing wrong with that, although I wouldn't
: be too interested in it--but I don't think it's the
: case.
Yes you are right. The entire reason I visit the Asylem is because I enjoy taking an indepth look at a fasinating story. Not to make additions were ever I please. That is why we call some of our more widely accepted ideas "theorys" because they are not directly supported by Bungie.
: The Asylum has a criterion for "truth," even if
: it's not one we attain much of the time; and that's
: whether our theories match what the developers had in
: their heads. What determines whether the Deceiver
: really did survive his battle with Shiver? Well, if we
: talked to, say, Rob Mclees, and he said, "Yeah,
: Myrdred died then," the argument would be over.
: It would be "fact" that Myrdred was dead.
: Now, this is the root of the difference between the first
: two Myths and the third. The world created by the
: first two Myths and by the comic (and by GURPS if you
: believe it) is a world created by a single group of
: people. Every fact in it was created (or validated, in
: GURPS' case) by this group, and therefore we can
: believe that there's an overarching "true"
: Myth reality, the sum of these facts. Bungie imagined
: this reality as a whole, and made it pretty much
: consistent, and we can try to view as much of it as
: possible through our research and theories.
: But add in Myth 3, and suddenly we have part of the world
: which we *know* was created by someone else. And
: unless Take Two checks with Bungie to make sure
: everything they write is consistent with what Bungie
: imagined--and judging by their performance so far,
: they're probably not--this part of the Mythworld is
: going to be inconsistent in various ways with the
: rest. In which case, what standard of truth are our
: theories aimed at?
As I said above, we just have to hope that Take Two looks at everything Bungie created (which I assume they reseaved upon getting the rights to the Myth tital) and uses it for their base.
: Again again, analyzing Myth 3 is very worthwhile, though
: I suspect the story quality will be closer to Chimera
: than to the earlier Myths. But when you try to combine
: all the Myths, and create theories that fit them all,
: there's no criterion of truth you can use. Because a
: combined Mythworld from all three games doesn't exist
: in *anybody's* head or notebook. Because different
: people made the different games.
Again, differnent people would have made a new myth no matter what happend. Just because differnent people write star wars novels does not invalidate their storys. It just means a different prespective was used.
: And speculating without hoping to find this truth isn't
: much fun for me.
Kind of kills the hope doesent it;)
: --SiliconDream
Drunken Ghol
