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Posted by: Seventeenth
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Seventeenth
Personally I think it waters down the story and chief's significance having other spartans remaining.
I hope the games continue to ignore the interjections of authors and follow their own story, as it should be. Halo is a game story and shouldn't be dictated by outside sources that undermine the real story taking place.
What a foolish statement.
The novels are as much a part of the story as the games, without the novels there would be so many things left dangling in the games (like how John got back to Earth after Halo CE).
I guess you're going to be pretty mad when you see how Primordium links into Halo 4...
It's not foolish, I just find much of it detracts from the main story. Unnecessary things like the time bending Forerunner crystal just make things worse.
Just like with Reach.. what happens in the game is what happened, because when it's all said and done, the books are filler information in many respects.
And I have no problem with Primordium leading into Halo 4, just so long as it keeps to what the game will be and doesn't try to add extra elements that detract from the game's story.
Reach was a game that did not need to be done. 10 years ago we got TFOR, a few years after we got First Strike. That was the battle of Reach, that was set-in-stone canon. They were not filler information, they were critical to understanding:
- The Spartan-IIs
- How the Autumn got to where it did in Halo CE
- The development of the main protagonists from Halo CE
- How John managed to return to Earth after Halo CE
Without those novels, we have a significant gap in the story. It's not filler information in the sense it's just there out of convenience, it tells a critical part of the larger story.
Now Bungie has had the community bend over backwards trying to connect the two like pieces of lego, rather than just sticking to the story they accepted in the first place.