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Posted by: Juan Teran
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted By: Juan Teran
I mean, how hard can it be to make a game based in the fall of Reach? Deploying a group of Spartan III to the battlefield the same day Reach fell, kill lots of Covenant, destroy a base, I don't know, something relevant to the plot that is written in the Halo Story Bible AND the novel. Also, there was a lot of Covenant activity AFTER they glassed Reach, why not add Noble Team trying to survive?
Are you saying that Halo: Reach contradicts the Halo Story Bible here? Cause if you are, you are way wrong, and unless Bungie/343 publish the Halo Bible, none of us know what it contains. It is certain however that whatever material is put out for Halo, whether it be a novel, a game, a comic book, etc. it's in the HSB.
Most of Reach makes perfect sense, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that doesn't. Sure if you hyper-analyze stuff in Reach more of it won't make perfect sense, but that works for all the other games too, if I wanted to (which I never would) I'm sure I could probably find just as much stuff "wrong" with the Halo Trilogy, ODST, and Halo Wars.
Posted By: Juan Teran
Posted By: Ender Ghost
just because you didn't see the orbital stations doesn't mean they are there...
What the hell does that even mean?
I think he meant "just because you didn't see the orbital stations doesn't mean they aren't there".
Aka, you don't have to see something to know it's there.Eric Nylund was given for a short time the Halo Story Bible in order to write "Halo: The Fall of Reach", "Halo: First Strike", "Halo: Ghost of Onyx", etc.
In other words, he used the Halo Story Bible to write the novels, he didn't create the backstory out of nowhere. So yes, Halo: Reach contradicts all the story written in the Halo Story Bible.
It's even more annoying that the employees of Bungie wrote the damn thing, and yet, out of nowhere, they decide to contradict the whole backstory for no reason at all. We will never know what made them choose this over a well written and logical novel, which is sad :(
Every author gets a piece of the Halo Bible when writing their book, but it's only a piece, no one has ever gotten the whole thing, except maybe Nylund when he was writing TFoR, 'cause I doubt there was much in it at that point. I don't know where the quote is, but I have seen one from Nylund that says he had to stretch and change some things to make TFoR make sense.
The Halo Story Bible is essentially the author's notes of the Halo story, it's constantly evolving, changing, having content added and removed. It is certainly nowhere near the same as it was 10 or so years ago. And the games are written from the Halo Bible too, anything published that has to do with Halo canon has its basis within the Halo Bible.
That is so arrogant claiming that you know for a definite fact that Reach contradicts the Halo Bible, none of us have ever seen it, in fact very few at Bungie have either, we cannot know what it contains unless Bungie releases it to the public.