[SPOILER] Halo 3: how do you interpret the ending?

[weeman0313]

first of all this is for those who have completed legendary and have seen the second bonus ending after the credits.

Ok to some it up the first bonus video tells us that master chief is alive and is just stranded with cortana due to the portal closing on the frigate and spliting it in two. Cortana and the Chief talk brefiely as she explains the situation and then master chief enters into the sleep chamber and then the video ends.
Then the next clip starts revealing the frigate floating aimlessly in deepspace but then it gets caught in what seems to be a gravitational field of a super planet thats pure technology or something possibly made by the forerunners? It was stated that halo 4 was in the planning stages but it wasnt revealed that it was going to be the prequel based of the books called Halo: Fall of reach or maybe a sequel which this ending might indicate.

So all in all if anyone knows the facts please clear this up or if there were no statements made just voice your opinion of what this ending might mean.

[ghostcat]

i know! Master Chief is starring in Freelancer 2!

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[Shagohad]

LOL! I'm sorry bud, but the war is over. There have been videos with old guys who talk of the Chief. He won't come back. To put in better, yet confusing, terms: It's like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssy. It took me four years to make SOME sense of that crazy-@$$ ending.

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[Exile]

Halo, the fall of reach is allready out as a book.
If you do the first mission as a human on halo 2, you will hear lord hood say upon the arrival of the covvenant fleet : "The fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size"

Soo.....
Reach is allready destroyed!


Btw.. cant wait till i get my xbox 360, i want halo :lol:

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[weeman0313]

yes but one of the lead developers at bungie stated why let something thats going for us die at its peak? theres certainly going to be another one! so if its not going to be a sequel its deffintly going to be the prequel of just a game remake of the book. Theres alot of backstory in the book Fall of reach that could be turned into a game. For one instance theyd probably let us see the chief unarmored since he rarely wore his armor in the beggining (he developed sort of a phobia once the covanent started wiping out the colonies) Then there was the matter of rebellion that almost took place that the spartans quelled one by one. also you could work along side the other spartans, find out where they came from and most importantly why the chief is the onlyone left.

[Shadow_killer05]

Halo, the fall of reach is allready out as a book.
If you do the first mission as a human on halo 2, you will hear lord hood say upon the arrival of the covvenant fleet : "The fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size"

Soo.....
Reach is allready destroyed!
Btw.. cant wait till i get my xbox 360, i want halo :lol:

Hes talking about a prequel, BEFORE Reach was destroyed.

:)

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[Magoo!]

Well... It certainly screamed sequel... But they also said 3 was the last one. Humm biddy.

[exlibrismortis]

Ok here comes the two bits from a person that plays games alot just for storylines...

Halo 3 ending was all too left open. Yes it screamed sequel and yes... Master chief is still alive. A member of bungie said, now i forget the link, that the Halo trilogy, note that I've I said trilogy, was over. This was the end of what is known as the Halo series. Now if you look at a game in Bungie's past, namely one named "Marathon" you will start to see connections between the end of Halo 3 and the beggining of Marathon. One very obvious connection is that in Marathon, you crash land on a planet in a cyro-stasis/capsule device... hint hint. Also if you notice throughout the Halo series the Marathon symbol was everywhere, even Guilty Sparks light on his face was the Marathon symbol. Obivously Bungie still has strong ties with its original game.

Now, this does no say anything about Microsoft. Microsoft for a fact will Milk the Halo series until its as dry as the Sahara desert. Books, graphic novels, merchandise, arcade games, memorbilia will continually be produced and produced unto the likeness of Star Wars. We know that Halo wars is coming out so there is another thing that milking this Series.

About the Fall of the Reach statement. Actuall, when the director is done with Hellboy2, the name of the Halo movie is "Halo: Fall of the Reach". This will be based solely on the events prior to Halo: Combat Evolved and will give some insight on Master Chief kicking covenant booty. Honestly, I don't know about this movie, it may become one of those ideas gone really bad for hollywood mainly because this is going to be a Live Action film... they better get John's voice right.

So IMO Bungie is going back and making Marathon once more. Re-doing it, making it cool, and having fun. This will be nice as I liked marathon and hope to play the new one if and when it comes out.

ExLibrisMortis "[SA]-Gideon_Ravenor"
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[Shadow_killer05]

The thing i find interesting is that those trailers with the old men are set in the early 27th century around 40-50 years after the events on the games, the cheif himself is also around 40 in the games and therfore would be quite old(around 100). This means that the trailers of the old men are of little significance, other than telling us that after 40-50 years he still hasnt returned to earth. Bear in mind also that we have no idea what the average human lifespan would be in the 26th-27th century, it might be longer but bungie hasnt said anything on that at all so for now im assuming that its roughly the same as nowadays.



This dosent mean that there wont be another halo game, the ending gives the impression that whatevers next has something to do with that planet, which in my opinion makes perfect sense as the story of the Human-Covenant war is over.

Just remember, its a big ole Galaxy with plenty of things bungie could make up for another story arc, and still involving the cheif.:D

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[Lohingren]

supposedly master chief gets sucked into a bomb shelter made to warp people stationed on the halo ring in the event that it gets activated, there there is other spartan's etc. or so i heard anyway.

where was it that i read that im sure it was semi official i know halo 3 aint gonna be the last almost positive of it, reason they scored his name into the monument was to make you go OMFG HE GOT KILLED. but we are talking about microsoft here cummon boy's if they can get a quick buck out of you they will do it

and isnt that halo RTS (cant remember the name) all about the spartan/covenant war?

oh and dont forget the mastermind behind it all (that octopus thing from 2 that takes the aribiter and chief down into that hole thing, and the thing that attacks you in 3 AINT dead, well not that was specified anyway

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