- ROBERTO jh
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Like I said in the thread just beneath us, 343i seems to be focusing more on the emotions and behaviors of the characters rather then just the events like Bungie.
I mean, just read the Return, or Human Weakness, or the fact that Karen Traviss, the queen of gritty, and emotionally driven military stories, is writing the post war Halo Novel Trilogy.
This is what I've always wanted to see in Halo. After Halo 3 got the basics done and wrapped up the fundementals of the overarching plot of the universe, I wanted to see more emotionally drawing Halo stories that still advanced the overarching plot, but focused on the characters. From reading the books, I knew the potential was there. A lot of the characters are bursting with moral and ethical dilemas, and frusturated with their own line of work (EG: Halsey).
You know, to be frank, I don't think Bungie can really write a good emotional game-story. I know they can write an emotional character story (Contact Harvest), but in a game, they simply can't bring the emotion and tradgedy of the Haloverse to life.
But 343 does that brilliantly from what we've seen. They ask the audience questions, puting the audience in the shoes of the characters and that really makes us feel for them, makes us feel we are there experiancing the same thing the character is, and feeling the same way.
Human Weakness and Return were -blam!- ing incredible. They're amongst my favorite short stories of all time, and not just because they're Halo, but because of how amazing the writing was.
Same with Cryptum: you got the sense Born was growing up, leaving behind childhood (as he directly states) and only scratching the surface of the events to come. Something about how he had no idea what was going as his world and beliefs literally crumbled around him allowed us to feel a connection with him as a person (despite being non-human), because WE had no idea what was going on. We felt there with him as he explored the Precursor worlds with Didact, asking the same questions he was: how did they destroy the Precursor planet? What can do that? What's going to happen to me (him)? Why does no one seem concerned about the Flood? Was the deevolution of humanity justified?
Making Born and all manipulars look almost exactly like a human child was frankly a stroke of genious. It kept us from struggling to relate to a weird alien guy, and we have all been as young as he was, as young and adventurous, filled with wonder. We might have cared less if he looked non-human.
In fact, Cryptum itself was a stroke of genious.
So here's to an apparently more character driven Haloverse from here on out!