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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] fez479 [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.[/quote] Just as Guild Wars is an homage to World of Warcraft? Just because things share (remotely) similar themes (honestly, it's a giiiiiant stretch at this point - aliens cause Apocalypse in one, aliens prevent it in another), doesn't mean they're related in anything other than Theme. They may share common themes. They might have even been inspired by that story (not a stretch to say that, but they could have been inspired by a lot of things - Is it a rip off of star wars because there's a big floating death orb?), but that doesn't mean the stories are even remotely related, let alone a complete story rip-off as the other guy said it was. We have nothing yet to suggest it's a rip off in any way, as the events aren't even in the same order as they were in that book (So already, it's not a direct rip off). Aliens and an apocalypse do not a copied story make. [Edited on 12.07.2012 6:02 AM PST]
