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Posted by: raganok99
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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
One day. Look, whether you follow the game or the book we know one thing: The Covenant obliterated Reach. Either way Reach is going to hell, and honestly you've got to look at it from more of a story telling perspective than a logical perspective (slip space travel won't happen, so let's disregard Halo as realistic for the sake of argument). Halo is more like one of Homer's Epic Tragedies than a video game plot line. And Greek Epics have no room for short of epicness. One day just fits the mood of the story better - Humanity's one hope, destroyed in ONE MEASLY DAY!?
I agree. I guess they were going for a slow painful death kind of feel, but I didn't really feel like the fall of Reach was any different then any other game I've played.
It would have been more impactful to see Reach get obliterated the first half the game in one day--humanity's only hope erased in a single day--and then desperately trying to survive or escape the last half of the game, all the while constantly reminded of the death of a planet.
Bombarded cities, forests envoloped by fire, dead in the streets, hundreds of Covie ships in the sky, crashed and burned UNSC ships to cement the sense that we lost, maybe we see a random person killed in cold blood by an Elite or even a pack of Grunts, followed by you trying to save him/her, but being to late, etc.
The game is rated M for a reason. Bungie never takes advantage of that fact. Personally, I feel they've gone soft and lost their touch if Reach is any indication.
And most importantly: it would have stayed consistent with canon.
I agree. That is why this Halo: Reach that I refuse to see it as canon because there's SO MANY reasons- such as SPARTAN-IIIs aren't supposed to be at Reach, a month? bull-blam!-. We prefer 1 day because it gives off more grimace feeling for us readers. Besides, it may fell in a day would make UNSC weak but not really. UNSC needed 3:1 kill ratio to beat the Covenants in space and they don't have that. 150 warships and 20 ODPs fiercely defended reach in a day, taking 2/3rd of FOJ's fleet with them. Does it not count for them doing something?!
Like it or not buddy, Reach is canon, and if you're saying it isn't then you're very much in the wrong on the issue. Now you can dislike it all you want, I really don't care, and you can list inconsistencies all you want (I likewise don't care), but making baseless claims such as Reach is not canon, or you refuse to accept it as canon, it just makes you look dumb :/
Ok, first of all. Why the heck do you think SIIIs being on Reach is a problem? Any Spartan or Spartan Team, whether II or III, is deployed wherever the UNSC thought they were needed. Whether that be Earth, Pluto, Reach, Harvest, or whatever other planet you can think of, if the UNSC think they're needed there then you'll find Spartans there, no matter what class they are.
Yeah, a couple hours gives a grimace to me, but not because it's shocking for it to fall in that length of time (it is but for a completely different reason than yours). Reach completely falling in a couple hours is just completely ridiculous. It makes the UNSC forces look like a bunch bumbling and utter simpletons. The Covenant had about a 2:1 advantage over the UNSC ship wise, UNSC basically had half the Covenant's numbers, but the UNSC had the 20+ SMACs and the hundreds of ODPs around Reach. That brings the odds up to about even maybe swinging slightly in favor of the UNSC. Plus Humanity had all of its greatest minds at the Battle, such as Keyes, guys who could pull off victories against the Covenant even with inferior odds.
So really Reach falling in a couple hours is pretty ludicrous.