- Alf stewert
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Posted by: NoblesSacrafice
You know Bioware never intended ME to be that big right? It was originally supposed to just be something to hold fans over until a different game. Lord knows how it got so big. [/quote]Bioware planned for ME to be a trilogy right from the start. Why would they want to make a trilogy for a game that was "just something to hold fans over"?
Also, the reason why it was so awesome was because Bioware knows how to craft a great story, universe, and characters, unlike Bungie.[/quote]
Um...Are you serious? Have you not seen the HUGE EXPANSIVE universe of Halo?! Like seven Halo books have been written! How many mass effect books have been written? And by great characters you mean some dweeb that nobody cares about, an alien, and some slut? [/quote]
Halo has a VERY small universe. We know major details about 4 different planets. Earth, Harvest, Onyx and Reach. Terrible, stock characters make up the majority of its books' cast.
The Halo Universe has the potential to be deep, but the Mass Effect Codex ALONE has more detail than the entire Halo series.
Mass Effect has great characters, which you've obviously never played properly. All the characters have more than one aspect to them, rather than "generic marine 1239874" in Halo.[/quote]
There are dozens of planets in halo, and a 100,000+ year storyline. While the games don't have a ton of character depth, the books certainly elaborate on them. For example, the books changed captain Keyes from a generic spaceship captain into one of the most epic scifi characters ever.[/quote]
Look, I love bungie but all of your arguments in this thread are fundamentally flawed.
BUNGIE DID NOT WRITE THE BOOKS, AND THOSE BOOKS WERE NOT PART OF THE GAME.
Is that clear enough for you?
Biowares codex and information on dozens of species, planets and both human and alien history were created by their team and present in the games they released.
You are arguing about the strengths of the respective studios, and using your logic Bioware would still come out on top, as Mass Effect has many novels. (Most written by the writer of Mass Effect itself, Drew Karpyshyn without hired help).
Do your research, and think clearly about what you are actually trying to argue.
mate do YOUR reasearch contact harvest was made by a bungie employee, halo 2 would only make sense (the start) to those who read the books. The books bungie helped create without first strike and FOR The prophets and johnson surviving woudnt make sense
[Edited on 12.12.2010 11:07 PM PST]