UNSC Infinity.
Infinity
So what is the point you are trying to prove?
No point. It’s just another cool reference to Marathon.
A lot of people think that Infinity is a nod to Bungies Marathon game of the same name… but that doesn’t really make any sense if you think about it. Marathon has nothing to do with Halo or 343i, it was only referenced so much because Bungie love it. For instance 343i have scrubbed the name SPNKR off the Rocket Launcher, they clearly don’t (or are not allowed to) want to be associated with Marathon. Security helmet is not in H4 either.
If it is a bizarre easter egg nod to Bungie and Marathon then its especially strange, the idea of nodding to Bungie but simultaneously changing so much stuff in the Halo universe nonsensically. It paints a really strange mentality on 343is part.
Personally I just think they liked the name Infinity.
> A lot of people think that Infinity is a nod to Bungies Marathon game of the same name… but that doesn’t really make any sense if you think about it. Marathon has nothing to do with Halo or 343i, it was only referenced so much because Bungie love it. For instance 343i have scrubbed the name SPNKR off the Rocket Launcher, they clearly don’t (or are not allowed to) want to be associated with Marathon. Security helmet is not in H4 either.
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> If it is a bizarre easter egg nod to Bungie and Marathon then its especially strange, the idea of nodding to Bungie but simultaneously changing so much stuff in the Halo universe nonsensically. It paints a really strange mentality on 343is part.
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> Personally I just think they liked the name Infinity.
I agree, I think that the Infinity was named as such due to it being the biggest and most advanced starship that the UNSC has ever made.
What amazes me is how many people still don’t realize that alot of good talent from Bungie came to 343i when it was made. Frankie is just one of the examples. On top of that, 343i hired over a dozen of Pandemic devs, the guys behind games like Full Spectrum Warrior, Battlefront 1 and 2, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans! 2, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and The Saboteur.
All of these were awesome games and the only reason why Pandemic isn’t still around is because EA sank it’s talons into them and bled them dry.
I also love the fact that alot of Halo “fans” who bash CoD and praise Bungie, completely gloss over the fact that Bungie signed on with Activision, the same people making Call of Duty. Ironic, isn’t it?
I think 343 said in an old Sparkcast that the multiplayer beta name was called infinity because of it’s infinite possibilities (something along those lines), when the concept of Multiplayer being on a ship came up they ended up calling the ship infinity instead.
I’m not 100% sure though.
Infinity is also a reference to God. So what?
I honestly think that in some strange way that the events throughout the Halo story lead up to the Marathon story.
> No point. It’s just another cool reference to Marathon.
Totally worth its own thread
Thank’s for that
> What amazes me is how many people still don’t realize that <mark>alot of good talent from Bungie</mark> came to 343i when it was made. Frankie is just one of the examples. On top of that, 343i hired over a dozen of Pandemic devs, the guys behind games like Full Spectrum Warrior, Battlefront 1 and 2, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans! 2, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and The Saboteur.
Not true. There are less than 10 ex-Bungie staff on the 343i payroll last time I checked.
And yes, they’ve got folks on board from Kojima Studios (MGS), Guerilla Games (Killzone), EA, Pandemic, iD Software (Doom, Quake, Rage), Gearbox (Borderlands) and Treyarch (CoD:WaW) just to name a few. And yes, those are people who’ve worked on BIG titles before, so the talent is there and we shouldn’t worry at all.
But saying A LOT of ex-Bungie staff is over at 343i is not true. I’m counting about 5 right now.
> All of these were awesome games and the only reason why Pandemic isn’t still around is because EA sank it’s talons into them and bled them dry.
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> I also love the fact that alot of Halo “fans” who bash CoD and praise Bungie, completely gloss over the fact that Bungie signed on with Activision, the same people making Call of Duty. Ironic, isn’t it?
EA has a habit of destroying creative companies remembers Oddworld Inhabitants.
And no, the Bungie-Activision deal wasn’t met with a lot of applause from the Bungie community.
Thing is: Bungie has been in the dark for well over a year now, so they’re off the radar for people. And since the internet gave us an attention-span of about 24 hours, and we’re focussed on H4, people merely forgot about that deal.
It’s interesting to note (not to mention surprising that no one has mentioned this) that Infinity is also a Halo PC multiplayer map.
> It’s interesting to note (not to mention surprising that no one has mentioned this) that Infinity is also a Halo PC multiplayer map.
And one of the rumoured codenames of the next Xbox.
> > It’s interesting to note (not to mention surprising that no one has mentioned this) that Infinity is also a Halo PC multiplayer map.
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> And one of the rumoured codenames of the next Xbox.
Yup.
Oh… ? See I though it was a clever way to create a ship that would be named like the rumoured “XBOX 8 / Infinity”
Could also be a reference to the really bad Stargate: Infinity.
> I honestly think that in some strange way that the events throughout the Halo story lead up to the Marathon story.
I think alot of fans have thought that ever since Halo 1. I still haven’t gotten around to playing through Marathon, though. It’s funny, if they released Marathon on PCs instead of MACs, I bet you anything that we’d be seeing Marathon 9 coming out Nov 6 instead of Halo 4. Marathon was clearly better then Doom, but due to being stuck on the Mac, it couldn’t reach the audience Doom did.
Infinity represents a potential for humanity. A journey.
And at maximum there were 11 people from Bungie at 343industries.
I think it’s more of a reference of humanity’s infinite possibilities.
> > It’s interesting to note (not to mention surprising that no one has mentioned this) that Infinity is also a Halo PC multiplayer map.
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> And one of the rumoured codenames of the next Xbox.
Oh yea!
> I also love the fact that alot of Halo “fans” who bash CoD and praise Bungie, completely gloss over the fact that Bungie signed on with Activision, the same people making Call of Duty. Ironic, isn’t it?
I think it have to do with Bungie wanting to do multi-platform games and I also heard that they’d be given full IP-rights to ther new games. Do you seriously think that Bungie will make a new CoD just cause the’re with Activison? Their game will still be a sci-fi fps trilogy(possibly 4 games) that’s going to be relesed every second year starting fall 2013.
(I’m no game designer, nor am I wery good with computers but full IP rights sounds like a good thing to have anyway)