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Subject: how accurate should HALO: reach to the book? what do you think?

hello, im bebop i like playing halo almost as much as i love wanting to make games like halo. I want to be an animator for some one im in school every day getting closer and closer. I want bring games to life, to make grass sway in the wind to make charicters move to stretch and crush things them make what they crush move and wither under there force...I want to work for you bungie, so save me a spot, ok. PS im also going to school to learn how to spell to...ha catcha' online.

I think alot of main charicters from the book should be there or pass by such as (fred, kelly) those are two spartans who o would like to see. BUT PLEASE DONT TAKE OFF HELMETS PLEASE. I also think the destruction should be every where trees that burned and snaped like twigs after a pelecan fell from the sky. I also hope bungie can wander with story and create and world that a player wants to play bungie should be able to switch corse and make up some things that happen for good gameplay good story...and that about it please reply

thanks for reading!

  • 07.12.2009 1:37 PM PDT
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reading it was a chore due to bad grammar and misspellings. but I agree on one point : DONT TAKE THESE HELMETS OFF.

  • 07.12.2009 1:40 PM PDT
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I wouldn't really mind if the Spartans took off their helmets, but Master Chief is too epic to take off his, if he's in the game.

But that's just me...

  • 07.12.2009 1:42 PM PDT

hello, im bebop i like playing halo almost as much as i love wanting to make games like halo. I want to be an animator for some one im in school every day getting closer and closer. I want bring games to life, to make grass sway in the wind to make charicters move to stretch and crush things them make what they crush move and wither under there force...I want to work for you bungie, so save me a spot, ok. PS im also going to school to learn how to spell to...ha catcha' online.

sorry

  • 07.16.2009 12:36 PM PDT
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i think they should add more intresting parts and jazz it up but at the same time keep the halo story intact

  • 07.16.2009 12:39 PM PDT

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  • 07.16.2009 1:00 PM PDT

As accurate as possible without negatively affecting gameplay. It's all well and good sticking to the sotry, but you can't just copy and paste the story from a novel and use it in a video game without some editing. It would be impractical (Assuming Bungie has not invented a brand new story with new characters set during the Battle of Reach).

  • 07.16.2009 1:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
There's a Halo REACH book? Since when?

I'm gonna call sarcasm on this one...>.>

  • 07.16.2009 1:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
There's a Halo REACH book? Since when?

I'm gonna call sarcasm on this one...>.>
Nope. I don't remember any Spartan-259 from First Strike (the novel which depicts the battle of Reach).

  • 07.16.2009 1:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Manbearpig0
but you can't just copy and paste the story from a novel and use it in a video game without some editing.


Read Halo:The Flood and play Halo CE. That's how I cheated on a book report in 8th grade. ;) Why read when you can play and get 99% of the same information? :D

  • 07.16.2009 1:42 PM PDT

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but you can't just copy and paste the story from a novel and use it in a video game without some editing.


Read Halo:The Flood and play Halo CE. That's how I cheated on a book report in 8th grade. ;) Why read when you can play and get 99% of the same information? :D


Not sure what you're trying to say here... but Halo: The Flood was adapted from a video game, not the other way around. It's easier, because you can bulk up the story with stuff you just can't effectively put into a video game if adapting from a novel. I've had little experience in the matter, working mostly from what I know from book to film adaptions (Such as The Lord of the Rings - far too much stuff in the book to practically add to a film, so they had to edit it to work. I've figured long ago that the same applies to video games), so maybe I'm not putting it across very well. I'm sure if somebody who does know what I'm trying to say, with the ability to say it, can explain.

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Posted by: Manbearpig0
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Posted by: Manbearpig0
but you can't just copy and paste the story from a novel and use it in a video game without some editing.


Read Halo:The Flood and play Halo CE. That's how I cheated on a book report in 8th grade. ;) Why read when you can play and get 99% of the same information? :D


Not sure what you're trying to say here... but Halo: The Flood was adapted from a video game, not the other way around. It's easier, because you can bulk up the story with stuff you just can't effectively put into a video game if adapting from a novel. I've had little experience in the matter, working mostly from what I know from book to film adaptions (Such as The Lord of the Rings - far too much stuff in the book to practically add to a film, so they had to edit it to work. I've figured long ago that the same applies to video games), so maybe I'm not putting it across very well. I'm sure if somebody who does know what I'm trying to say, with the ability to say it, can explain.


basicly u cant fit every single detail in a game without more then one game example "chief crouches across the grass...

  • 07.16.2009 2:21 PM PDT

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It needs to be told from the view of someone running parallel to the novel storyline. What I mean is it needs to be a brand new story that retells the Fall of Reach, perhaps from the perspective of Spartans we've never heard of.

Sort of like Ender's Shadow to Ender's Game stylee. A great standalone story that nods to the original.

  • 07.16.2009 2:27 PM PDT

Am I the only one who doesn't want it to be based entirely off of the book? I wouldn't mind a few scenes from the book but playing as a marine or an ODST would be good too (Kinda like the Arby missions in Halo 2). But I'd love to see Fred lead that attack on that Covenant ship using those 3 Banshees.

  • 07.16.2009 2:32 PM PDT

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  • 07.16.2009 2:40 PM PDT

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There's a Halo REACH book? Since when?

Since HALO:CE came out.

  • 07.16.2009 2:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: Jonathan M Roeh

There's a Halo REACH book? Since when?

Since HALO:CE came out.
Who says the game will follow the perspective from the novel?

  • 07.16.2009 3:13 PM PDT

100% accurate.

  • 07.16.2009 3:14 PM PDT

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Actually, I find that I'm more invincible without pants, which is why I am not wearing any at the moment.

I would love it if it was an exact remake of the book, but I have my doubts if that'll happen.

  • 07.16.2009 3:37 PM PDT

I want it to be a different story...If we read the book, then we would already know how the story plays out. And that would suck.

  • 07.16.2009 4:37 PM PDT