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Subject: Game Canon & Book Canon

Ok, so by this time we all know that Bungie are the ones who forged the Halo Universe that we love. Basically, they're the original. Don't you find it weird how people are pissed off about how the games are not like the books? I mean, we all originally fell in love with the game not the books. What's going on now is that we fell in love with third party stories made up by other writers.

Just sayin.' Personally, I think it's those guys like Eric Nylund or the guys at Marvel who messed up the canon. Because, THEY'RE the ones who are making fanfics. In a way, Bungie made Halo CE and they ask famous authors to go make a fanfic out of it. Then that fanfic is published. Just my opinion. I originally fell in love with the game, not the books.

[Edited on 06.25.2011 7:08 AM PDT]

  • 06.25.2011 7:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

What the hell?

staten wrote contact harvest and bungie has always overseen the development of the books and given "the halo bible" to the authors.

not to mention that TFoR came out two weeks before halo CE

  • 06.25.2011 7:13 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

This is moronic.

The first ever piece of canon material in Halo was the novel TFOR, a month before CE came out. By the end of 2001 we knew the story of Reach and how it coincided with CE, Bungie called it canon and asked Nylund and various other writers to create stories that would also be canon.

The lore was nicely slotted in with very few minor retcons, it was like that for almost 9 years... Then Reach came out.

  • 06.25.2011 7:15 AM PDT

Well... that's why I didn't list down Contact Harvest 'cause I know Staten wrote that. You probably think this thread pretty fail by now so...

  • 06.25.2011 7:16 AM PDT

Many dark and insidious matters reside in my mind. Only a few leak into the conscious realm.

A tormented soul, like you.

The books were written as an expansion to the Halo Universe that we know and love. If Bungie wouldn't be so proud of themselves, they would have incorporated just a little bit of canon into their games.

  • 06.25.2011 7:18 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: BlackKnightKanos
Well... that's why I didn't list down Contact Harvest 'cause I know Staten wrote that. You probably think this thread pretty fail by now so...


Because you knew that citing CH would completely derail your argument, as Staten has had a primary involvement in the story of Halo 2, 3 and ODST and has constantly supported the novels as canonical sources - even writing one himself.

So yes, this thread is pretty fail.

  • 06.25.2011 7:18 AM PDT
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I've been adamant for a while that Nylund's books have so many internal inconsistencies that they can't be used as a trial-by-fire for other canon's (*cough*, Reach) integrity.

...wow, that sentence made me sound like a pretentious twat, but I still don't think that TFoR is infinitely greater than Halo: Reach (which is the big throw-around for Forum Topics, it seems).

Granted, it's a nice story that it tells, but it's all over the place in the dates department and comes across with a "meh" writing style.

Posted by: ajw34307
This is moronic.

The first ever piece of canon material in Halo was the novel TFOR, a month before CE came out. By the end of 2001 we knew the story of Reach and how it coincided with CE, Bungie called it canon and asked Nylund and various other writers to create stories that would also be canon.

The lore was nicely slotted in with very few minor retcons, it was like that for almost 9 years... Then Reach came out.
Mind if I point out that it slots nicely because, as pointed out, it was the first published media for Halo? It's kind of hard to clash with, well, nothing.

I've said all I can, so I'm going to let this post get dissolved by you blokes while I sleep... enjoy.

  • 06.25.2011 7:21 AM PDT