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Posted by: grey101
The thing is frog and coma that frankie himself clearly said "you won't need to play the old trilogy to get the new one" remember that alright?
I respect you both but everything you have been saying is going off the notion of the old games, if any scrap of covenant or UNSC were to be in that would confuse the newcomers (which i put at 6-7) that will be playing the game for the first time.
Now more than ever is a time where reading the books and paying attention to the lore because important, because 30 years from now there aren't going to be forerunners,flood,covenant,UNSC,precursors, in a game to ease the new story with new enemies.
Everything i said is going off of what frankie and the current timeline has said, i am not trying to half-ass this or make up fan fiction.
Here's a part of what I posted in Joshua's thread on this issue:
"Carrying over characters/consequences and the like from an earlier trilogy or event does not at all mean that newcomers won't get it at all, like in the series of novels I'm writing, I have two trilogies, and one could quite easily pick up the second without having read the first and get it completely, even though all the old characters remain present and it is essentially cleaning up the consequences from the first trilogy as well as combating the current threat. What makes you think the same is impossible with Halo?"
Just because information pertaining to the Original Halo Trilogy have the possibility of cropping up in Halo 4's Trilogy does not mean they would be completely incomprehensible to newcomers, it's actually just like the Star Wars movies really, you don't need the other trilogy to understand what's going on in the other, but knowing one of them only adds to your knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the other.
You shouldn't have to read the books to understand the universe, the games have always been the primary source for Halo's knowledge because Halo is a game series. Now that does not mean the books are worthless, it just means that they are not the primary source and are merely supplementary, while still valuable sources for information, they should not be the only thing laying all the primary groundwork for new information.