I just want to highlight a couple of extremely stupid things said in this thread...
Posted by: Hydrilus
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.
Basically, what is said here is that because one book says something, it beats EVERY SINGLE HALO GAME. Halo: CE, 2, 3, Reach, ODST... in all of those, it takes multiple Covie shots to kill a Marine. You say that because the book says it should take one, it takes one. I mean, come on. Games beat books for canon every time. One book can't override EVERY GAME.
Posted by: Hydrilus
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.
Reach could not be glassed in less than 2 hours, no ship can move that fast.
Posted by: Hydrilus
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.
Bombed AN ENTIRE COUNTRY in a day? Are you stupid? I get your point, but the US could not bomb an entire country in a day any more than the Covenant could glass an entire planet in 2 hours. NEITHER is even remotely possible. Before anyone says anything about atomic bombs, grow a brain, because we're talking upwards of 500000 square miles, combining Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: abelsinh
Sorry.
Games Canon > Any other Canon.
not true what soever seeing how they games have to have things implemented so people will by them, catering, gameplay elements, etc.
What the -blam!- did that even MEAN???
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: jack0fhearts
It's assumed that canonically the Marines die.
This is the clear issue with Games>books, can you tell me what happens canonically to the civilians in nightfall? becuase i don't think bungie said anything about them, what about the zealot on TotS?
this is the flaw with that logic.
When it is obvious to the plot that the marines die (HINT: THEY'RE NOT THERE IN THE CUTSCENE - GO FIGURE), then they die. Anyone with an ounce of a brain can figure out when it's relevant to the plot and when it's not. This thread is basically people like you whining about small inconsistencies that can be resolved with small assumptions, but those would require half a brain, which is very rare on this forum.
[Edited on 06.23.2011 1:22 PM PDT]