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Posted by: Hydrilus
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Posted by: Hydrilus
I wouldn't mind it actually. ODST wasn't the best, but I did enjoy it, mainly because it was something different.
Halo Reach ODST could be interesting...but...Bungie would screw up the canon even more.
I'm going to point this out one last time: Bungie made the canon, 343 will make canon, and games > books.
Doesn't make it okay to piss on the books that most of us enjoyed.
The only reason the whole 'Bungie says game canon > book canon' argument exists in the first place is BECAUSE Bungie screwed it up. That's their excuse to put them in the clear for making the ridiculously unnecessary changes that they did.
When Halo CE and The Fall of Reach came out, I remember reading interviews with Bungie and they talked about how they worked with the authors of their books to make sure everything was consistent. They wanted to protect their story and make sure everything was done perfectly. There was no 'game story comes first, books are secondary' excuse, there was just HALO, one big connected universe.
You do know the whole "games>books" thing has been around for far longer than Halo: Reach has been right? That's been in place almost since the beginning. It was not instituted because of Reach.
Posted by: Spartan Mikey
I agree that game canon is not greater than book canon. Bungie went against canon in Reach significantly. However you have to realise Bungie had a lot to do quickly and had to compromise. I'm sure if they had more time they could come up with a better storyline (canon-wise). To me it is Reach that is canonically incorrect as FoR, FS and GoO books came first.
And I see so many people saying game canon> book canon. I mean until I see Bungie or 343i say that, it's probably just something someone came up with.
Voila, Bungie employee stating that games trump books in terms of canon. So it is TFoR that is in error if there are any unresolved conflicts between it and the game, and there really aren't any at all, nothing anywhere near as big or story ruining as everyone claims anyway. Ghosts of Onyx and First Strike have no conflicts with Reach at all.
[Edited on 08.24.2011 8:40 PM PDT]