This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… (Destiny)
Been thinking about this:
“But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.
A man long dead, grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You follow
the path, fitting into an infinite pattern.Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.
Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all
become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.I know who you are.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You are Destiny.”
Well, it's not like anything regarding Marathon was mentioned in a leaked Bungie - Activation contract...Oh wait. (search for Marathon...)
Actual contract text here:
(ii) no more than the greater of five percent of Key Members and one (1) Key
Member, and no more than the greater of five percent of other empioyees and one (1) other
employee, to staff, fund and operate a prototype team for a future Licensor action-shooter interactive
entertainment software product tentativeiy known as "l\/larathon" ("iVlarathon"), no more than ten
percent of the Key Member resources and no more than ten percent of all other
employees after the achievement of at least Three Hundred Seventy Five Million Dollars ($375,000,000)
in cumulative Operating Income to continue to staff, fund and operate a prototype team for Marathon
What if, instead of Marathon just being a classic game Bungie wouldn't mind revisiting and uprezing, it is actually important to Destiny's story? This leaked contract is old and we don't know that the above still exist within what was actually signed, but it's curious. Additionally, one has to be very careful when trying to connect Bungie universes. Many of them have common themes or even wordings but they've never actually fit together. Still, "a thousand times dead" and " You are Destiny" is pretty powerful. :)
Dem tropes, doe.
Some of the Hive Wizard concept art evokes S'pht way too much to be a coincidence.
What are the Cabal but a more evolved conception of the Drinol?
We could easily build a list of other things that Bungie has done before that Destiny evokes. I don't think it's any secret that there is a cache of ideas they are fond of, and we continually see iterations on those ideas.
Sure, I think there is (very) little ground for claiming direct connections between universes, but the tropes persist.
Not that I'm complaining. ;)
~m
Complete thread:
- Grimoire -
Xenos,
2014-06-12, 23:35
- Grimoire - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 01:01
- Grimoire -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 04:55
- That's To Be Expected -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 05:55
- That's To Be Expected - TTL Demag0gue, 2014-06-13, 06:04
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 06:18
- Grimoire -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 06:22
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 06:54
- Grimoire - TTL Demag0gue, 2014-06-13, 06:59
- This is actually pretty good speculation. I like it - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 08:05
- The Eternal Caveat - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 08:22
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 08:25
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:52
- Grimoire - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 12:00
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 13:34
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-14, 14:45
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-14, 15:40
- Hah! This is one of the exact images I've had in mind. - Malagate, 2014-06-16, 05:44
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-14, 15:56
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:40
- Grimoire — 2 Pics — Hive -
DaDerga,
2014-06-16, 05:51
- Grimoire — 2 Pics — Hive - INSANEdrive, 2014-06-16, 07:27
- Grimoire — 2 Pics — Hive -
DaDerga,
2014-06-16, 05:51
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:40
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-14, 15:40
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-14, 14:45
- Grimoire -
Cody Miller,
2014-06-14, 10:22
- Grimoire - DaDerga, 2014-06-14, 10:34
- Grimoire -
petetheduck,
2014-06-14, 11:34
- Not in the Alpha - RC, 2014-06-14, 12:56
- There's a story mission!?! -
scarab,
2014-06-15, 01:58
- There's a story mission!?! -
Xenos,
2014-06-15, 02:07
- Ah, that one - scarab, 2014-06-15, 12:29
- There's a story mission!?! -
Xenos,
2014-06-15, 02:07
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:52
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 06:54
- Grimoire -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 06:22
- Grimoire -
Mr Daax,
2014-06-13, 06:43
- Grimoire - Xenos, 2014-06-13, 06:45
- Grimoire -
petetheduck,
2014-06-13, 06:46
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 06:52
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 07:01
- Grimoire -
MrPadraig08,
2014-06-13, 07:18
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 07:29
- Grimoire - bluerunner, 2014-06-13, 08:15
- Valhalla Emptied - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 08:33
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 07:29
- Grimoire - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 08:06
- Damn Good Call - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 08:27
- Grimoire -
MrPadraig08,
2014-06-13, 07:18
- Grimoire -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 07:01
- I don't buy it. -
Kermit,
2014-06-13, 10:58
- Agreed -
ZackDark,
2014-06-13, 11:05
- Agreed -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:26
- Agreed - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 11:32
- Agreed -
Kermit,
2014-06-13, 11:34
- Agreed -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:50
- I liked that - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 12:03
- Agreed - Kermit, 2014-06-13, 12:15
- Agreed -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:50
- Agreed -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-13, 11:38
- Only life important. - Malagate, 2014-06-13, 11:57
- Agreed -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:26
- Agreed -
ZackDark,
2014-06-13, 11:05
- Grimoire -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 06:52
- Grimoire - narcogen, 2014-06-14, 03:39
- That's To Be Expected -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 05:55
- Take A Lookee Here -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 06:46
- Nice find! -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 07:02
- Nice find! - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 07:13
- Take A Lookee Here -
MrPadraig08,
2014-06-13, 07:20
- Take A Lookee Here - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 08:47
- YOLO? More like WABDB -
petetheduck,
2014-06-13, 08:46
- That Is Now A Thing -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 08:48
- Agreed. :) - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 08:50
- Should be DBO's motto -
ZackDark,
2014-06-13, 09:02
- Made it our Motto on the Alpha site. :) -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 09:54
- Nice! - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 10:13
- Made it our Motto on the Alpha site. :) -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 09:54
- Add that to the Randomised DBO title! - INSANEdrive, 2014-06-13, 16:51
- That Is Now A Thing -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 08:48
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 10:26
- Oh, aye. -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 10:44
- Goosebumps. -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 10:52
- Goosebumps. -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:16
- Goosebumps. - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 11:20
- Goosebumps. -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 11:16
- Goosebumps. -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 10:52
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… -
Kermit,
2014-06-13, 11:30
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… - Malagate, 2014-06-13, 11:34
- Indeed. - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 11:40
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-13, 11:34
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 12:10
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… - Beorn, 2014-06-13, 12:23
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… - Cody Miller, 2014-06-14, 10:28
- This is familiar to me, as if it were from an old dream… -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 12:10
- Yes! - Stephen Laughlin, 2014-06-15, 05:10
- Oh, aye. -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 10:44
- Nice find! -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 07:02
- Grimoire - INSANEdrive, 2014-06-13, 07:37
- Familiars -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 08:02
- +1 - Malagate, 2014-06-13, 08:05
- Familiars -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 09:52
- Familiars -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 10:13
- But it talks to us as a separate person -
ZackDark,
2014-06-13, 10:32
- But it talks to us as a separate person - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 13:53
- Yep. This. - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 12:05
- But it talks to us as a separate person -
ZackDark,
2014-06-13, 10:32
- Familiars -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 10:13
- My guardian's name shall be Eric Draven -
stabbim,
2014-06-13, 11:38
- Already a Crow in the cast, no? -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 12:27
- Already a Crow in the cast, no? -
DaDerga,
2014-06-15, 03:46
- Yep, Emo Kid extraordinaire. - Malagate, 2014-06-16, 05:46
- Already a Crow in the cast, no? -
DaDerga,
2014-06-15, 03:46
- Already a Crow in the cast, no? -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 12:27
- So we're zombies? -
RC,
2014-06-13, 09:03
- So we're zombies? -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 09:09
- So we're zombies? -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 09:28
- So we're zombies? - DaDerga, 2014-06-13, 09:30
- So we're zombies? -
TTL Demag0gue,
2014-06-13, 09:28
- So we're zombies? -
Malagate,
2014-06-13, 09:22
- +1 - ZackDark, 2014-06-13, 09:27
- So we're zombies? -
DaDerga,
2014-06-13, 09:09
- Grimoire -
stabbim,
2014-06-13, 11:26
- Grimoire -
Xenos,
2014-06-13, 11:50
- Grimoire - MrPadraig08, 2014-06-13, 12:34
- Embargo for Alpha Site? -
Beorn,
2014-06-13, 13:21
- Embargo for Alpha Site? -
Xenos,
2014-06-13, 13:26
- Embargo for Alpha Site? - Beorn, 2014-06-13, 13:37
- Embargo for Alpha Site? -
Xenos,
2014-06-13, 13:26
- Grimoire -
Xenos,
2014-06-13, 11:50
- Grimoire -
MrPadraig08,
2014-06-13, 12:57
- Total Codex, is that you? - Ragashingo, 2014-06-13, 12:59
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Stephen Laughlin,
2014-06-15, 04:47
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
DaDerga,
2014-06-15, 05:30
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Kermit,
2014-06-15, 06:59
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:52
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age - Kermit, 2014-06-16, 09:19
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:52
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Kermit,
2014-06-15, 06:59
- Execellent. -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-15, 07:46
- Bam! - DaDerga, 2014-06-15, 09:18
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
stabbim,
2014-06-15, 10:13
- Yep. Good quote from a good source. :) - Ragashingo, 2014-06-15, 10:21
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
Xenos,
2014-06-15, 17:15
- Can't Wait - DaDerga, 2014-06-15, 17:17
- Ghost Fragment: Darkness -
Xenos,
2014-06-15, 18:30
- What was that? -
ZackDark,
2014-06-15, 18:38
- What was that? -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-15, 18:42
- What was that? -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:59
- What was that? - DaDerga, 2014-06-16, 06:18
- What was that? -
Malagate,
2014-06-16, 05:59
- What was that? -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-15, 18:42
- /Sekhmet/ isn't going to like this. - INSANEdrive, 2014-06-15, 18:41
- Ghost Fragment: Darkness Highlights -
INSANEdrive,
2014-06-15, 19:08
- Quick critic - ZackDark, 2014-06-15, 19:24
- Here We Go Again - DaDerga, 2014-06-16, 06:13
- What was that? -
ZackDark,
2014-06-15, 18:38
- Ghost Fragment: The Dark Age -
DaDerga,
2014-06-15, 05:30
- NPC dialogue confirmation -
Stephen Laughlin,
2014-06-15, 22:16
- NPC dialogue confirmation - Kermit, 2014-06-15, 22:31
- Woah. Thanks, mate - ZackDark, 2014-06-15, 22:47
- NPC dialogue confirmation -
HavokBlue,
2014-06-15, 23:03
- NPC dialogue confirmation -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-15, 23:06
- NPC dialogue confirmation - Zero, 2014-06-15, 23:15
- NPC dialogue confirmation -
HavokBlue,
2014-06-15, 23:38
- So you're saying FWC are Destiny's Preppers? - Malagate, 2014-06-16, 06:03
- NPC dialogue confirmation -
Ragashingo,
2014-06-15, 23:06
- I heard the gunsmith say this... -
MrPadraig08,
2014-06-16, 07:35
- Exo Warlock for me confirmed -
ZackDark,
2014-06-16, 09:19
- Yes! The Robo-Gandalfs shall take over! -
Mr Daax,
2014-06-16, 12:28
- Yes! The Robo-Gandalfs shall take over! -
Durandal,
2014-07-06, 14:18
- *Bump* - INSANEdrive, 2014-07-06, 14:28
- Yes! The Robo-Gandalfs shall take over! -
Durandal,
2014-07-06, 14:18
- Yes! The Robo-Gandalfs shall take over! -
Mr Daax,
2014-06-16, 12:28
- Exo Warlock for me confirmed -
ZackDark,
2014-06-16, 09:19
- Ghost Fragment: Fallen - Yapok, 2014-07-23, 17:52