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Subject: What was made first the halo CE or the halo books

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Poll: What was made first the halo CE or the halo books  [closed]
halo CE:  84%
(31 Votes)
halo books:  16%
(6 Votes)
Total Votes: 37

some idiot claimed that halo CE was based on a book

PS. There isn't a general forum

[Edited on 07.31.2009 1:35 PM PDT]

  • 07.31.2009 11:12 AM PDT

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I don't know so can you reply and tell me

  • 07.31.2009 11:13 AM PDT
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well if you dont know how can you call the guy an idiot??

but im not sure either tbh

edit: looked up the publish dates, the game came first, the books were a response to people wanting to know more.

[Edited on 07.31.2009 11:16 AM PDT]

  • 07.31.2009 11:14 AM PDT
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The Halo Books came first.

  • 07.31.2009 11:17 AM PDT

First off, this shouldn't be in this forum.

However, I will elaborate. Halo: CE came before anything else. The halo books were written in-between Halo 1 and Halo 2 (or after, depending).

  • 07.31.2009 11:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: Xemnex
well if you dont know how can you call the guy an idiot??

but im not sure either tbh

edit: looked up the publish dates, the game came first, the books were a response to people wanting to know more.
they said halo CE wasn't originally called halo and the books have halo in the name

  • 07.31.2009 11:31 AM PDT

Halo=The best game series EVER!
Bungie=Bungie's so awesome I have no words
Finished Halo: Reach campaign legendary solo!

one book, the fall of reach, then halo ce then the rest of the books.

  • 07.31.2009 11:35 AM PDT

Attention whores piss me off.

Halo CE came first. Then the books were written after that. Halo: TFOR was a prequel to HCE.

  • 07.31.2009 11:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: THUNDERPENGUIN6
Posted by: Xemnex
well if you dont know how can you call the guy an idiot??

but im not sure either tbh

edit: looked up the publish dates, the game came first, the books were a response to people wanting to know more.
they said halo CE wasn't originally called halo and the books have halo in the name


Ok, but Eric Nylund watched the game being developed before even putting pen to paper.

although, i hadnt found the exact pub date for the first book, it did publish before the game.

Fall of Reach pub date: Oct 30 2001
Combat Evolved pub date: Nov 15 2001


Books came first, but the books were written as a basis from the game. so the "idiot" was and idiot. even though the books came first, Eric got to see BUNGIES Halo Story Bible, meaning the books were based off the games.

  • 07.31.2009 11:42 AM PDT

The game came first before anything else. It was probably being developed at least two years before its release in 2001. Then when it hit the Xbox it gained massive success for "reinventing a genre it didn't know needed reinventing", worldwide fame, and as a result The Fall of Reach was written, the first in a trilogy of novels leading up to Halo 2.

  • 07.31.2009 12:29 PM PDT

WTF! If you look on the first Halo book, it will say: based off of Halo VIDEO GAME! I can't even believe there is a thread on this!

  • 07.31.2009 12:33 PM PDT
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No dude, check the dates. FoR WAS published first, even though it was based off the game it came out 15 days prior to the games launch, so people would have the Reach backstory when they first played the game.

and also, GrnDrgn the dude who posted this obviously doesnt read much or doesnt read the halo books at lease. its not his fault he doesnt own them, and he probably (from the way he said it) didnt even know there WERE halo books.

[Edited on 07.31.2009 12:35 PM PDT]

  • 07.31.2009 12:34 PM PDT

Posted by: Xemnex
No dude, check the dates. FoR WAS published first, even though it was based off the game it came out 15 days prior to the games launch, so people would have the Reach backstory when they first played the game.

and also, GrnDrgn the dude who posted this obviously doesnt read much or doesnt read the halo books at lease. its not his fault he doesnt own them, and he probably (from the way he said it) didnt even know there WERE halo books.


I know, but the book was a early response to the game, was it not?

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  • 07.31.2009 12:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xemnex
No dude, check the dates. FoR WAS published first, even though it was based off the game it came out 15 days prior to the games launch, so people would have the Reach backstory when they first played the game.

and also, GrnDrgn the dude who posted this obviously doesnt read much or doesnt read the halo books at lease. its not his fault he doesnt own them, and he probably (from the way he said it) didnt even know there WERE halo books.
It's funny I didn't know there was halo books until a week after i got halo 3 because I never got halo CE or halo 2

  • 07.31.2009 12:40 PM PDT
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the book was an idea that Eric Nylund brought up IN DIRECT RESPONSE to Halo. He wanted to do a HALO BASED novel. so yeah, the novel is based off of the game, but it was also published first

  • 07.31.2009 12:42 PM PDT

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They didn't tell us what it was it could have been anything. Frankie gets scared easy incase you didn't know.

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Been here 6 years, been blacklisted 6 times, that's why I'm not Mythic.

Halo: The Flood, the first Halo book, was based off of the game, very clearly. It's the most poorly written of all of the Halo books. So to answer your question, no, Halo CE was not based off of a book, rather the other way around.

  • 07.31.2009 12:43 PM PDT
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The Flood was the SECOND Halo book....but your argument is sound.

  • 07.31.2009 12:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: b00m_headshot
They didn't tell us what it was it could have been anything. Frankie gets scared easy incase you didn't know.

-BH-

Been here 6 years, been blacklisted 6 times, that's why I'm not Mythic.

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  • 07.31.2009 12:46 PM PDT

J-H

Combat Evolved...Wow...

  • 07.31.2009 12:50 PM PDT