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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 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.[/quote] What do you mean, "not even close"? It's pretty clear that a number of distinct themes are taken directly from Clarke... The Golden Age of Man, as you already said, is a primary theme in both Childhood's End and clearly Destiny since it's set "in a Solar System littered with the ruins of man's Golden Age". The Traveler is perhaps to be the most important part of Destiny given how it's going to constantly dominate the scene of humanity's last city on Earth. Much the same way as the Overlords are the dominant image in Childhood's End - the front cover symbolically depicting their ship as a giant eye looking over Earth, the Traveler serving the exact same role as the Overlords in being humanity's protector. So far, these things are looking pretty damn similar - there's no "not even close about it"... [quote]If this is a ripoff of that, any apocalyptic sci-fy story that has aliens in it is a rip-off....[/quote] Well, not really since each genre has a framework of conventions, which is why we deem a book to be sci-fi, fantasy, Gothic (etc). But the concept of the story itself [i]is[/i] ripped off from a previous idea - Bungie stole from Niven what Niven stole from Dyson, and so on.

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