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"On the seventh day, god did not rest, but rather he created 64 player multiplayer!"
Posted by: OrderedComa
But what you can't argue with me is that the book was way more epic than the game. AND it made more sense.
HAHAHAHA XD Oh that's rich, don't make me laugh, OP. TFoR is a good story, but it was certainly not more epic than the game, both are epic in their own ways, but TFoR's account of the battle is definitely! Not! More! Epic!
I'd have to disagree with you here. I didn't feel anything "epic" about the Halo: Reach story or gameplay. It was fun, but not "epic." Bungie seems to think that if you make a large scale level, that it makes it "epic" automatically, which is not the case... Doesn't really matter though, you do realize we're arguing with OPINIONS, right? To each their own...
Posted by: OrderedComa
And it makes more sense than the game's account? *snicker* I'm sorry, but Reach, Humanity's strongest world next to Earth falling in a grand total of TWO hours is just plain laughable for reasons both DaeFaron and RKOSnake listed. Given what TFoR itself told about the UNSC defenses at Reach and everything else, the battle for Reach would have lasted a great deal longer than two hours. Taking two weeks to fall to the Covenant makes infinitely more sense
Yet another opinion, but, actually, this one is incorrect.
See, TFoR depicts the Covenant as VASTLY more powerful, aggressive, and brutal, than humans. Not only that, but this depiction is the more REALISTIC approach... Remember, we're fighting an enemy that has adopted tech from the most advanced race in the universe. Read the Halo manual some time...what are the descriptions on the weapons like? "It's a weapon...not sure about how to replenish the ammo...not sure about how it works...not sure about..." etc etc... The Covenant have superior tech to humans. They've been traveling the galaxy for a much longer time, whereas humans are just getting started.
In the book, when a Marine gets hit with a single plasma shot, he's pretty much done for. It sears away the weak armor they wear and then eats away their flesh. THAT is realistic...BUT, of course in the game this wouldn't work...it wouldn't be very much fun to have marines that die in one shot... Even games like Call of Duty that take a more realistic approach to warfare won't let you die in one shot. You can take hit after hit in a game and keep on going.
So, when Reach falls in a matter of hours...YES, IT'S BELIEVABLE. The Covenant arrive with a huge fleet of superior ships, vs humans, who, in order to take out ONE Covie ship, must sacrifice 3 or 4 of their own...yeah, you're gonna get raped hard.
NOTHING about a 2-week battle campaign makes sense, when you're dealing with a superior enemy that ONLY cares to destroy your race. If they were there to beat humans down, take them as slaves, take their resources, etc...then yeah, okay, 2 weeks is fine, but they're there to exterminate them, not be friends.
If the U.S. didn't give a crap about Iraq, Afghanistan, oil or what anyone in the world thought of us, you think we'd really spend 10+ years fighting there? Hell no. All that's left is revenge for 9/11 - we would have bombed the place to hell and been done by the end of a the day.