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12/6/2012 4:14:52 PM
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Bungie was first with the big orb concept
In a Sparkast in July 343 said they have been developing Halo 4 since 3-3.5 years so since sometime from January to July 2009. ODST was [url=http://www.destructoid.com/halo-3-odst-has-been-finished-since-may-148646.phtml]already finished in May 2009[/url] and as many of you know it contains a [url=http://misriahsolutions.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/destiny_awaits.jpg]hint[/url] at Destiny and the spherical alien ship (aka "the Traveller"). That means Bungie had propably thought of the Traveller before 343 came up with the Didact's Cryptum. BAM!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ArcGuard [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 You do realise that the Traveler (not to mention, the [i]entire story[/i] of Destiny judging by the leaked details) is directly ripped from Arthur C. Clarke's 'Childhood's End', right? So what if Bungie said "we want to have a giant orb in our game" before 343? Neither the Traveler nor the Cryptum are original concepts.[/quote] Yeeaaaah... from the plot summaries, synopsis and what people say about it, I'd have to say it's not even close. There are similarities ("The golden age of man" being mentioned a lot in both" and an alien species. That's about it). But we know far too little about Destiny to say anything else. If this is a ripoff of that, any apocalyptic sci-fy story that has aliens in it is a rip-off....[/quote] First of all Childhood's End is not like Destiny in that Childhood's End is about transcendence and a higher consciousness. Second of all Apocalypse Now is absolutely a movie adaptation of Heart of Darkness even though Heart of Darkness is placed in Africa and contains no war. Destiny could easily be a video game adaptation/major homage to Childhood's End, and looks like it might be shaping up to be such a game.
