[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Arbiter 739 Destiny is a completely new IP. There will probably be refrences to past games and future plans hidden in it though. [/quote]This really just sums it up perfectly. Bungie has never shied away from respecting their past franchises in the new ones, but there is no reason to think they would make their new debut with a continuation of a story they've already concluded.

It's not, isn't Destiny just a code name for the game? Also isn't 5% of Bungie working on a new Marathon?

The reason Marathon Infinity ends with those words is not to foreshadow a game that wouldn't be out for another 15 + Years. Marathon Infinity ends with those words because at that point in the story, the character you play is able to travel to any point in time (past, present or future) and shape events as he sees fit. He isn't limited by time and space anymore (Thus the title [i]Infinity[/i]). Durandal (one of the main A.I. in the game) is speaking these words in his last moments as he reflects on his existence and the player's while the universe collapses in upon itself (in other words existence is coming to an end while he's talking). [quote][i]We've watched while stars burned out, and creation played in reverse. The universe freezing in half light. Once I thought to escape. To end the end a master, step out of the path of collapse. Escape would make us God. Yet I cannot help remember one enigma. A hybrid. elusive destroyer. This is the only mystery I have not solved. The only Element unaccounted for. Even S'bhth is no more. He saved his entire race, but in the end, frozen by despair, he joined the chaos he sought to evade. [b]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 an infinite pattern. Yours to manipulate, to destroy, and rebuild.[/b] 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.[/i][/quote] I'm all for wild and crazy theories, but please, at least play the games and get a basic working knowledge of them before just picking random words and trying to connect them to unrelated things. I only say this because I'm passionate about this stuff, I don't mean to belittle you as a person. It just frustrates me because you haven't played the Marathon games (or at the very least Infinity) so you have no context to understand the meaning of the thing you are quoting and speculating about. As Bungie fans, Marathon is part of our shared history, so you should really make the effort to play it. The entire [url=http://marathon.sourceforge.net/]Marathon Trilogy is 100% Free[/url] now too. It runs on PC, Mac, and even Linux. If playing the game is too hard, or you don't enjoy it, you can read every terminal along with over 15 years of analysis and speculation on the meaning of just about everything in the game over at [url=http://marathon.bungie.org/story/]The Marathon Story Page[/url]. Put in the effort to educate yourself man, because your are really missing out. Don't feel bad either, I said things in the same spirit back when we were all waiting for Halo 2 to come out. [Edited on 12.05.2012 8:39 PM PST]

Nope. Its in an entirely new universe.

No.

Highly doubt it

It may be considered a spiritual succesor by bungie but other than that I highly doubt it.

Immediately face palmed at the sight of this. OP: I doubt it. There may be references and non-canon coincidences, but I think that's the end of it.

Probably not. PS: it tells you how to hyperlink in the [b]Text Formatting Legend[/b] which you can see any time you edit or post a post. Just look below the text box.

I bet it'll certainly have similarities to Marathon and Halo, there's a few subtle recurring elements in those games.

That's be pretty cool. But I'm sure its a new story all together.

If I remember correctly there were supposed rumours of a new Marathon game in the works at Bungie. Destiny, however, is a completely new IP (as stated above).

Destiny is a completely new IP. There will probably be refrences to past games and future plans hidden in it though.