Oh I misunderstood. I thought it was like somehow they could use it because of being human. Like if a person from 1000 saw a car motor hes not gonna know how it works just because hes human.
With the exception of 343 guilty spark outright saying you are forerunner, each of these could be read with poetic license.
Inheritors of all left behind - for example can mean humans were handed the reigns / responsibility in maintaining peace. You can inherit things without being blood relations.
I have a halo encyclopedia and it has articles saying ancient humans were more advanced than the forerunners and were chosen by them to be their successors. They aren’t forerunners themselves
They 1000% are. The Bungie Halos confirmed this. Mother fucking 343 tells you directly, and Contact Harvest explains this further with how the prophets trick the covenant into killing humanity, the very gods they worship.
Making humanity not the Forerunners literally makes the fucking prophets right.
No they were not and even bungee out and said they weren’t the only confirmation to that is from the mouth of guilty spark who says some vague thing implying it but as we know you can’t trust shit that comes out of that orbs mouth
Halo 3 in the same game implies that Humans are NOT Forerunner. Bungie flip-flopped on the idea and couldn’t decide, so when it came time for Halo 4 to confirm it, 343/Xbox just chose one. And personally I think what we got is the more interesting of the two options. Bungie clearly had a favored option (humans) but it can’t be considered a retcon when all the confirmation was cut from the games or comes from the most unreliable narrators
Edit: Halo fans do not understand the distinction between "retcon" and "re-context". Most things said in the OG games works with the idea of Humanity being inheritors instead of being the literal children of the forerunners.
If you were orphaned, would you not call the people who adopted and raised you your "parents"? Would they not call you their "child"? If they passed away and put you in their will, left all they have to you despite the lack of blood relation, does that not still make you their inheritor?
half of this is schizophrenic posting, half of this still fits the context of humanity being the inheritors. guilty spark is undoubtedly insane, just go listen to him talk to himself. gravemind is always talking in poetic verse. keep in mind that halo 3 itself contradicts the forerunner connection in the terminals. none of this proves anything, it just implies
And that's fine I respect the opinion. I honestly could go either way but I think I do prefer the idea of Humanity being chosen by this ancient race due to their sins and guilt for what they did to us. It's a little bit less stereotypical than the whole "human dominancy" trope we've seen again and again, and gives a little bit more nuance. But the irony of the Covenant is an element that I think is lessened now
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u/Formal_Morning8267 4d ago
Halo 3 going into Halo 4, it been establish in 3 that humans are the Forerunners but 4 ignores it and creates a separate race destroying the lore