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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact
Sci-fi and fantasy are incredibly similar, and Halo has NOTHING on Tolkien.
I'm still waiting for your explantion
Halo's got a decent story, but it's not as deep as it should be.
It's deep enough
Don't get me wrong, I -blam!- love Halo, but there are better sci-fi universes out there. Star Wars has infinitely more depth than Halo. Marathon and Halo are only connected in that they were developed by the same company, so Halo has 10 years on it. Star Wars has 30. That's 20 more years of time to add and expand to the Universe.
Listen kid or man,there is a huge difference between story depth and quantity,what you are saying about Star Wars is mostly quantitiy because it has hundreds of books,comics,games,far more then any franchise out there.
Learn the difference between the two before saying something like that
Halo Quality>Star Wars quality
Star Wars has more canon errors then Halo ever had.An example: gizor delso was killed by Anakain in the third movie,yet he appears again the battlefront II,clone wars contradicted alot of things in starwars(not even worth mentioning them),...i can go on.
Now other franchises like Halo have errors too,but Halo has nothing more then small necessary retcons like Elites were first encountered at Reach BS,but then we had the game Reach that changed alot but luckily it mostly just expanded the battle,Red and Blue team missions are intact and so on.
Bungie created the Halo story bible which contains all background information of the Halo verse,why else do you think that things that appeared in Cryptum were already hinted at years before it's release.
Also, the stuff Halo does with this 3 factions stuff which you seem to just gobble up isn't ONLY in Halo. Mass Effect has done it as well. Various TV series like Star Trek/Gate do it.
And?You imply as if i said Halo has a unique story(my apoligies if i understood you wrong).
But you just slapped yourselfs..Tolkien stuff had been done alot of times too.
Franchises always borrow ideas from eachother,that's how they grow and there is nothing unique out there.So please don't put Halo in a single categorie while others fit in it too.
Halo isn't a unique, super deep story. It's a great one with potential to expand, but it isn't the best gosh durn story ever.
I agree with unique but that goes for ALL other franchises out there, but it's one of the deepest i have seen. If you trully w-want to understand the story then you should read the books and actually think about what you read,like the theorists on this forum who make theorys based on hints from the books .
And again i bet you can't see the difference between depth and quantity .Best story ever doesn't exist,perfect story doesn't exist either.We all know that.
Also, you're CLEARLY a fanboy who really doesn't read other's posts or really think about them.
Ad Hominem
I do,you -blam!- claimed Tolkien's story is better then Halo,i asked to prove it but you still failed at doing it except the subject about the differences between the two genres.
And another thing. When you use commas,you put a space in between the commas. Also, if you use the letter i it should be capitalized,trust me man,but go ahead,i'm listening...
Ironiqally how the sentence you just typed barely has any space between the commas as well.
You didn't captitalized some "i" in your post either.
Do i sense an appeal to emotion or am i just tired in the middle of night?
I'm pretty sure that's why I said Halo (as in the whole canon) is generic science fiction, instead of singling out a particular game or book. I'm also fairly certain, by golly, that most people already understand that and don't need the brain-trust at 343 to dole that information out like it's some grand secret.
Which is why people who only play the game barely know anything,how many times did i encountered someone who thinks the Covies built the rings.
Going into it a little deep gives you even more info
Subtlety. Depth. Not devolving into science-fiction stereotyping. Marathon is a unique science-fiction universe which stands apart from all other games in the genre. Hell, the fact that Halo borrowed from it in many places should highlight that fact. Little in the Marathon games had been done before, whereas the Halo series is often little more than a smattering of motifs seen in other properties.
And Halo isn't?
I agree that Halo isn't unique and has some stereotypes like Johnson but Marathon isn't unique either.I'm pretty sure Bungie looked at other sciencefiction series before,that's how newcomers to genre start at it,they first look at previous works.
[Edited on 07.25.2011 4:49 PM PDT]