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Posted by: bagan bodies 2
Honestly, yes.
A lot of the big issues with canon would be solved.
However, the story, regardless of canon, had many significant issues regardless.
So, while people would have enjoyed the story more, the question is would people have truly enjoyed the story altogether?
I doubt that people would enjoy it more per say. As someone noted earlier if Halo had no books, it's more likely there would be less people invested in the story of Halo in the first place.
However, I also doubt that people would question the progression of the game either if one were to truly look at Reach without the existence of the books. It's a difficult task considering how ingrained most if not all concepts about Reach stem from the books from the SMACs, fleet strengths of both sides, etc, etc.
The only thing know about Reach based solely on the games and their manuals is that:
A) Was a military hub on Earth's relative doorstep
B) Was the source of the Spartan Super Soldier program
C) Was attacked by a Covenant fleet larger than the one initially attacking Earth
D) Was the place where all Spartans died save for the Chief
E) It fell
With that said, there would be no expectations of SMACs taking down Covenant vessels, no expectations of conflictions with dates such as when Blue teams mission occurred or how Halsey conducted the Red Flag briefing while the world burned around them, hell if no books existed no one would even think that Noble Team were IIIs or even know of the concept of it.
Instead we find ourselves in a long drawn out campaign more akin to ODST focused on spontaneous events as the planet slowly falls to the Covenant and how despite the visible efforts of one Spartan team and the overheard actions of other Spartans and UNSC forces elsewhere it ultimately does nothing to slow the advance of the Covenant. And after a month's worth of fighting the planet finally falls.
Storywise we'd still end up with no story much like ODST where events just happen as they are until the last two levels, but more likely than not more gamers would be likely to accept being a cog in the UNSC war machine on Reach witnessing a small chunk of what occurred on the planet from one spartan's point of view in limited areas when there's less things to question about what is/should be going on simultaneously elsewhere on the planet.