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Subject: The New Story

I'm xAssault12x, and I love the Halo Universe. Discussion please!

I know this is old news, but I also know that this is the best forum to discuss this topic and get solid answers.

So... Cortana is now a different creation than before and has some epically important and awesome information within her from an ancient relic on Reach that was left behind by the Forerunners that most likely has something to do with the whole "Mantle" thing talked about in the terminals on Halo 3 where Humans are the inheritors of the Forerunners knowledge and creations...

Is that right?

I'm confused as to why Bungie would basically throw out a lot of the first book and then rewrite it...

It is kinda cool and I like it, but I didn't see the necessity to change things.

Now Cortana has all this important Forerunner knowledge and the PoA was on the surface of Reach waiting to Launch when the attack came. I r confused...........

Oh well.

Any thoughts on what changes to th story we will see when the inevitable remake of Halo CE is made?

  • 12.14.2010 8:20 PM PDT

there had better be absolutely NO changes made to that storyline!!!!! If they change even one word of the script they might as well call it "Halo: Bungie's Original Version was Better"

  • 12.14.2010 8:23 PM PDT

I'm xAssault12x, and I love the Halo Universe. Discussion please!

Posted by: griffball3
there had better be absolutely NO changes made to that storyline!!!!! If they change even one word of the script they might as well call it "Halo: Bungie's Original Version was Better"


lol

I love your title!

I agree, but you know it will be different. They had better keep the general plot, but I would be ok with them mixing it up a little by adding more to it. Maybe some extra missions fighting the covy or escaping the flood. I would love to do some stuff with the marines on the Butte where they held out against covy attacks.

OH SNAP! What if they made the game from the perspective of a marine or an ODST?!

That would be awesome! You play as a marine or ODST and get to fight with MC and also see other parts of the story about the crew of the PoA that fought the covy on Halo while MC was kicking butt and takin names elsewhere.

  • 12.14.2010 8:27 PM PDT

I don't care. I really don't.

Wait, what? Nothing is changed. Cortana only recieved the location of Installation 04 from two places instead of one, and that's it. The only thing that changed was the dates Reach was attacked, and quite frankly I don't think that will change much besides some explainging 343 has to do in the near future and story majors are ripping their hair out, which has nothing to do to change the story.

I don't see why you think it would change just becuase Cortana knew where Alpha Halo was before they arrived.

  • 12.14.2010 8:58 PM PDT

"Peace, gentlemen...
Peace is the ultimate goal of the Traxus Project.
Peace not in our time but in the future.
Future generations will benefit from the work begun here today.
Gentlemen, I give you the Traxus Project"

I'm just irate, (or maybe just panicking) that they would change things such that events previously established would be drastically altered or rendered non-canon, such as the events of Ghosts of Onyx, which I've heard nothing about for quite some time now...(o.t. Which I'd hoped to have seen covered and resolved in-game by now, to be honest.)

Maybe it'll all make sense in time, but needless to say, I'm nervous.


I mean...if PoA is on the ground during most of the battle @ Reach, then what about all the Spartan II's formerly operating from it during the fight both on the ground and in orbit? I remember a particularly incredible bit in which Fred-104 had a particularly rough landing from an orbital insertion(I believe) from PoA that would be impossible in this new, altered canon. What happens to all of them, and why are none of them seen during Halo: Reach?

I don't know...maybe someone's already asked these things and been answered in some unsatisfactory fashion or another(or vice versa)..

It just doesn't feel right. Something feels out of place and I don't think I'm going to like it.

  • 12.14.2010 9:42 PM PDT

I'm xAssault12x, and I love the Halo Universe. Discussion please!

Posted by: Venator82
Wait, what? Nothing is changed. Cortana only recieved the location of Installation 04 from two places instead of one, and that's it. The only thing that changed was the dates Reach was attacked, and quite frankly I don't think that will change much besides some explainging 343 has to do in the near future and story majors are ripping their hair out, which has nothing to do to change the story.

I don't see why you think it would change just becuase Cortana knew where Alpha Halo was before they arrived.


Originally, Cortana managed to figure out the location because she put a couple different things together and made sense of them. She only did so because the Chief kept having these moments where he saw the strange symbols in the crystals and thought they looked familiar.

Also, the PoA was never on the ground during the battle of Reach. That was why so many Spartan IIs got left behind. The few Spartan IIs who survived ended up having the staring role in the book Ghosts of Onyx...

It just seems weird to me that Bungie would throw a wrench, even a small one, into a well oiled and well loved machine. We all loved the books and accepted them as law. Any changes, no matter how minor, will undermind the faith people place in the story writers and their general belief in the story. We all fall into the story because it is solid. The universe they created was based on the rock solid foundation of the first book and the first game...

That has changed. Maybe for worse or maybe for better, but the fact remains that it was changed.

  • 12.18.2010 10:00 PM PDT

Don't worry, you're still your mom's favorite Bnet member.

I'm pretty sure the only thing that Cortana got from the Forerunner artifact on Reach were the coordinates to Halo.

  • 12.19.2010 9:02 AM PDT