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Subject: Couldn't there just be a deviation from Halo:Book canon?

93% of statistics are lies. Formerly Xfire Grunt. Unfortunately, you can't change the WLID for your BNET account, so I had to create an alternate account. My other WLID was spam city (and it was my e-mail account too).

I understand that Bungie considers the Halo books to be "canon". However who isn't to say there aren't slight deviations of canon in Halo:Reach? To improve gameplay and so on? And to make a better story? For example we can look at the "Health" bar and Halo 2. The way I look at it, Halo:CE was really the first game to put out rechargeable health back in 2001. So obviously it would be a good idea to have a health bar, because that was an experiment. By 2009 most game companies realize that for multi-player games Health packs are bad for game play (hence why 0 of the Top ten XBL multi-player titles have health).

Thats just one example. Other examples are the fact that we have Spartan150 + mentioned which is impossible according to the Book canon. Another thing is that the covenant aren't supposed to be making slip space jumps before Halo: First Strike. They had the capability, but their AI's weren't smart enough to actually do that until Cortana figured that out. Then a covenant AI broadcasted it to everything. The reason for this is that all of the Covenant AI's are "dumb" AI's and have no initiative (the Covenant basically just copied all of the forerunner technology rather then developing their own).

So what I think is there is some deviation from the Book canon. And I think there is one way to explain it, without disregarding the books (you don't even have to really do that, because these are just minor details, in my opinion, they aren't general plot points just tiny page by page details mentioned by the authors and so on). That is ONI. ONI is very secretive (and not very nice, Colonel Ackerson tries to have the MC killed). So ONI could easily be keeping secrets from Cortan, Master Chief, and Doctor Hasley. That is a fairly simple explanation. This can explain some plot points, like why on earth did humanity develop armor that costs a gazillion dollars for one Spartan...when they could have had an entire new battleship for that kind of money. Hence there could be other Spartans on Reach that were killed, (and wearing prototype armor of Mark VI), going up to the 300+ mentioned here.

The other explanation is there are just some slight deviations in canon, just to make the game better.

  • 06.08.2009 9:50 AM PDT