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Subject: Who should write the book about Halo 2 (poll)?
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Poll: Who should write the book about Halo 2?  [closed]
Eric Nylund:  83%
(35 Votes)
William C. Dietz:  17%
(7 Votes)
Total Votes: 42

This is just an opinion thing,...as to which is the better writer.

  • 06.11.2004 10:57 AM PDT
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Uhm... neither...

  • 06.11.2004 10:59 AM PDT
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I don't really like the way Nylund writes... he seems to over powers a certain enemy. (eg. An elite almost killed MC in fall of reach but in the game the MC schools elites and then, the brutes are almost the same as the elites...) And they both fail to understand somthing, cloaked elites don't have freaking shielding!

  • 06.11.2004 11:02 AM PDT
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Yeah I know what you're talking about^ He over powers the weapons too.

Like when they get shot once, it completely takes out their sheilds, and they sometimes get wounded, I'm mean they're freaking Spartans!!! how did one plasma bolt hurt them?.

  • 06.11.2004 11:44 AM PDT
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In their defense, a certain level of dramatic license is to be expected. I just didn't like their writing styles. The descriptions were vague and lackluster.

  • 06.11.2004 11:46 AM PDT
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DEFINATELY Nyland IMHO :-)

  • 06.11.2004 11:46 AM PDT
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Eric Nylund all the way. The Fall of Reach was so awsome and so were all the books but his were the best (1 and 3).

  • 06.11.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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both of them suck at writing. There should not be another book.

  • 06.11.2004 11:51 AM PDT
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I believe Nyuland is the better author, though not to completely say Dietz was horrible. I enjoyed Dietz for his perspective from the Covenant and his side stories of the marines and ODST's (especially the last part w/ the Truth and Reconciliation). Dietz is a bit lackluster though, as stated before, and for some reason I think on more then one occasion he loses sight of gender and states "he" instead of "she".

As for Arguments towards Nyuland and overpowering - well you have to imagine, when you first encounter a new alien, as Master Chief did in Fall of Reach to the Elites, and in First Strike to the Brutes, you don't know it's powers, fighting prowess, intelligence, tactics, etc. You're going on complete whim. You're taking on an unknown opponent that may be near invincible. So of course his first encounters with Elites and Brutes are near death; they're both strong as hell (though Brutes are even stronger), and intelligent. After that first fight, he has some perspective on how they fight, which is why it becomes much easier for him to kill them from then on.

As for when getting hit by plasma it hurts like hell; Yea well, it would. Sure they had their shields, but think how fast your shields go down when you're under a barrage of plasma during legendary mode or of the sort. Of course it's also the Disposition that you need to make it more interesting, a novel. How interesting is it if he really is invincible and never suffers some pain? It isn't. Not really, not to most people.

Anyway, so I'd like Nyuland to do the Halo 2 book though for some reason I have a feeling they might let Dietz, who knows.

  • 06.11.2004 11:56 AM PDT
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Orson Scott Card would get my vote. Not because of similiarities in upbringing of John-117 and Ender. I think he is one of the best authors of our time.

Or maybe David Drake.

  • 06.11.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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im pretty sure it will be dietz because i think he might work better with a structured enviroment if you follow me and eric is best with his own ideas
atleast i think thats the case

  • 06.11.2004 2:35 PM PDT
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First Strike and Fall of Reach were the best!So I say Nylund!

  • 06.11.2004 2:38 PM PDT
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To correct everyone, the flood was boring compared to the other two, i might also point out that this is written ABOVE LEGENDARY! so you al know how hard it is to take out elites on legendary, make it harder and there u have it. If anything, he underpowers weapons, notice how it takes sometimes an entire clip to take out four grunts, he is also a very good descriptor, creates good dialog, he also has in depth knowledge of the halo storyline, so hes the natural choice for halo 2 book

  • 06.11.2004 2:41 PM PDT
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Eric Nylund is the better writer i think because he wrote about halo with only Halo:CE to go by and he wrote about before halo while Dietz wrote about the game.... But i think Dietz will write Halo 2 book

  • 06.11.2004 3:34 PM PDT
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Hmm, I must say I actually enjoyed the flood as it had the additional subplots and was easier to follow than Nylund's books, which always annoyed me for some reason. However neither of them described the characters, vehicles or weapons well-My dad read 'em all and while enjoying them had no idea what any of the things in the book looked like until he saw the game, this is annoying as I still have no idea for example what a Seraph fighter looks like.

  • 06.11.2004 4:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: Elite_117
im pretty sure it will be dietz because i think he might work better with a structured enviroment if you follow me and eric is best with his own ideas
atleast i think thats the case


I think Elite_117 is most likely correct.

  • 06.11.2004 6:00 PM PDT
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Eric Nylund is the man-diggity-dawg.

  • 06.11.2004 6:04 PM PDT
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i dunno who should, cuz im still on page 135 of Fall of Reach. hes a pretty cool writer..i like the part where they go into that room and the elite is standing there, and sam gets shot and then john shoots the shots into the elites mouth. i wish you could do that in the game.

  • 06.11.2004 6:04 PM PDT
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I like dietz's books better, just much funner to read. Plus, i loved his other book, DeathDay(Not halo related, but very interesting)

  • 06.11.2004 6:08 PM PDT
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I'd go with Nylund, I just flat out liked his books better can't really explain why.

BTW I like how the elites are equally matched w/ Spartans. When I'm up against a black elite on Legendary I get freaked out and have battles w/ it not kill it in one shot.

  • 06.11.2004 6:28 PM PDT
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i like the part where they go into that room and the elite is standing there, and sam gets shot and then john shoots the shots into the elites mouth

Just a little FYI, that was a jackal.

Anywhoo I voted W.C.D simply because I liked the flood better than the other two. (well, I did like fall of reach, but I really didn't like First Stirke so much)

  • 06.11.2004 6:34 PM PDT
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Get Neil Gaimen. He can write anything, and VERY well. SHow him the game, show him the story, and let him lose.

  • 06.11.2004 6:36 PM PDT