- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: paulmarv
I disagree with the overall way you look at game canon. It's not that Bungie follows what an author wrote in a book, it's that Halo: Reach is the manifestation of a certain part of Halo's story, which is independent of video games, book, authors, Bungie, etc.
Now, it's not all that straightforward, someone has to actually make a game out of it, and that's Bungie's job. But it's not like they can just do whatever they want. There is an existing story, and whatever Halo: Reach does it will tell it in more detail, elaborate on related aspects, tell a different story, or most likely a combination of all those.
So, excluding all the books, Bungie would be creating a videogame off Cortana's Halo 1 phrase "As for tracking us all the way from Reach, at light speed my maneuvering options were limited." That being the only time the planet Reach has ever been said.
I understand that Bungie isn't in charge of sticking to the books, but they do respect the book's content. The last thing they want is to make the game completely different from the book, they don't want to make the game's struggle for Reach a success story.
Surely you can agree with that.