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Thread: "Your way of stopping an asteroid the size of Texas from hitting Earth."
Posted by: AvengerTam1010
launch texas at the asteroid
Posted by: Lord Snakie
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Did Microsoft ever care about the story?
Yet you bought the Bungie games for years because Bungie cared, even though Microsoft was the publisher.
I'm sure Greg Bear also cares about the story. So what if 343 are the instigators of it?
This is a good point, but I've thought this through. Bear was likely contracted by 343i to do the story, and potentially had no real interest in it beforehand. Perhaps has no real interest in it now--maybe he's just throwing things together that sound cool and fit with the lore, I dunno. I don't know the guy personally and I'm not going to make assumptions about him.
But I haven't bought any 343i material since Legends. So what if I buy Cryptum? It's just going to be that I fund 343 a little longer and stay on top of the lore for a little while more until 343i's work starts up again and I'm forced to ignore it. Sticking by my principals, I'd wind up knowing half the new lore and being totally separated from half of it.
Best to just leave it as a clean cut.
I understand what you're saying, and I'm not trying to invalidate what you're saying, but you PERSONALLY buying the book probably isn't going to make much difference beyond a few dollars of profit for 343i.
That said, I am concerned about whether Bear actually gives a damn what he's writing. He's done a great job on Cryptum by the sounds of things, but he's got the possibility of two more books to screw the canon into oblivion. I worry a little.
Personally, I'd like to see Eric Nyulund writing again. Okay, so he's not as creative as Bear maybe, and makes silly canon errors occasionally. But at least we know he likes writing about the Halo universe. Plus he wrote my two favourite Halo novels to date (First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx).