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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Pipboy 3050
Posted by: ajw34307
Er... The difference is that Reach is based of TFOR and FS, events established in the canon for a decade. Halo 3 was an independant story, nothing was canonically "wrong" with it; ODST and Wars are also independent events which had little to no explanation.
Also, Wars has no canon errors.
Define what you mean by "Based of" because Halo:reach had completely different locations and characters to TFOR with the exception of Keyes.
heck, even caboose said he did a section on ODST canon errors.
I also agree wars did not have any canon errors, but many of fans disagreed with this.
The problem with Reach is that Bungie is dragging the story out over a month when we have several novels dedicated to telling us what happened. It was a simple story that reflected Titanic's ironic reputation of being unsinkable and followed the story of Red/Blue Team defending the planet to it's downfall. We needed this crap about Noble Team about as much as we needed the SW prequels, there's just no point to a story which doesn't need to be told.
Bungie would have been better off making Halo 4, but they couldn't be bothered with making a decent story because of the "baggage". Well I'm sorry, Bungie, why did you include the Legendary Ending in Halo 3 if you say you don't like leaving doors open?
Then you should include quite a bit of the Halo lore in your "useless crap that doesn't need to be told", like the Cole Protocol or Halo 3: ODST, or Halo Evolutions. Every story told in the Halo Universe has some purpose behind it, none of it is meaningless or useless or "doesn't need to be told", at least to me.
I think Bungie said part of the reason they weren't going to do a Halo 4 was because they felt it would have to start up a new trilogy or something of the sort and they didn't feel right starting a long project they couldn't and wouldn't be able to finish.
What? We knew almost nothing about what happened on Earth after In Amber Clad followed Regret until ODST, Reach had already had 2 novels dedicated to the story of how it fell. How did you drag Evolutions into this too?
Ok, I'll drop the ODST one :P haha. What I meant by bringing Evolutions into this is that most of the stories in there don't really fit what you made it sound like you wanted, with a few minor exceptions none of them were stories that needed to be told.
Ignoring the conflicts between TFoR and Reach I think it was a story that needed to be told and did a good job with what it was supposed to be, we knew nothing about what was going on ground side other than what was going on the generators, Reach answered those questions.