- DecepticonCobra
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Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.
Posted by: ninjakenzen
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: ninjakenzen
Have fun enjoying your watered down version of Reach and it's Courageous Noble Team. Clearly space battles aren't very important.
Okay, never said space battles weren't important, but at the very least Nylund could've shown some ground engagements in The Fall of Reach instead of waiting for First Strike. You guys take any negative opinion about The Fall of Reach way to personally.
Well at least it's in First Strike.
I think Eric Nylund did an amazing job with TFOR novel. How he covered aspects of Halo before he knew this series was gonna explode with the amount of intricacy that he did.
I mean he started with the whole beginning of the S-II projects and gave character and atmosphere to so many settings and characters and kept the ending faithful to the beginning of CE.
Do keep in mind this book came out before CE, had he known this game would explode in popularity I'm sure more time would have been given to him.
So for you to say he had a "terrible" ending because you were expecting the cover of TFOR and got space battles instead is just.
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I have said I enjoyed the parts of the book about The Spartan-II's origins and their missions prior to Reach. I apologize I found the ending to be a tad underwhelming. Each battle the UNSC fought had two fronts, ground and space. on the ground, the UNSC would wage a defiant campaign and hand the Covenant their asses. Of course it mattered little, space was the deciding factor.
However on reach, I expected more of a fight. I get all the symbolism and such you talk about, I do. I still think Reach falling is a breathtaking experience and one that really shapes the Halo lore. That said, I expected more of a fight on Reach of all places. There was the potential for a massive battle for this world. Instead we get -blam!- in space and -blam!- on the ground. Halo: Reach is criticized for failing to show Reach as a huge military superpower, but Reach barely felt like that in the books either.
I don't love everything about Reach, the timeline could've fit better, the characters could've been developed better, and the sense of scale could've been better. However, I see more in it than you do, and you see more in TFoR than I do.
It's frustrating that anyone who has a positive opinion about Halo: Reach is labeled many things, retards, idiots, and then their own fandom is called into question. I remember one time in the Reach Forum where folks were discussing The Fall of Reach. I mentioned how I thought the beginning and middle were good, but the ending fell flat for me. Some idiot then said, "I know that's your opinion, but..." as if I was wrong about my own opinion.
So yeah, sorry I DARE be disappointed with TFoR.