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Subject: Halo Novels influence
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Poll: Read my Post  [closed]
The Novels will influence the game's outcome:  35%
(11 Votes)
Bungie influenced the novels:  45%
(14 Votes)
The Novels have no relationship with Bungie:  6%
(2 Votes)
All of these theorys are crazy!:  13%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 31

Well, I've been reading all of the theory's, and while some are pretty far-fetched, I thing some are pretty interesting. I've also noticed that the biggest influence on all of the theorys are the Halo Novels. Now comes the question: Do you think that the novels will influence the outcome of the game (like the plot and the multiple Spartans and stuff) or do you think that Bungie influenced the novels so that they would be accurate with the Halo games/universe? Or maybe the novels don't have anything to do with the game, and all (or at least most)of the theorys will be completely wrong. Post your ideas, but please, not flaming.

  • 05.29.2006 5:59 PM PDT
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i think that the books influence a person then the person influences a group and then a groups influences Bungie. So i believe the books will be part of Halo 3

  • 05.29.2006 6:16 PM PDT
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The novels were written from the Halo Story Bible. Bungie worked closely with the Authors of the books. Joe Staten said that he tried to take the novels into account when he was writing the story for Halo 2. The novels provide back story, and things may appear in the novels before we find out about them in game. Examples are ODSTs, Truth, Tartarus, Brutes, MAC platforms, and Lord Hood.

The games do not reference anything that happened in the Novels. The novels reference stuff from the games.

  • 05.29.2006 6:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: opogjijijp
The novels were written from the Halo Story Bible. Bungie worked closely with the Authors of the books. Joe Staten said that he tried to take the novels into account when he was writing the story for Halo 2. The novels provide back story, and things may appear in the novels before we find out about them in game. Examples are ODSTs, Truth, Tartarus, Brutes, MAC platforms, and Lord Hood.

The games do not reference anything that happened in the Novels. The novels reference stuff from the games.


Thanks for your feedback opogijijip. Anybody thinks anything else?

  • 05.29.2006 6:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: opogjijijp
The novels were written from the Halo Story Bible. Bungie worked closely with the Authors of the books. Joe Staten said that he tried to take the novels into account when he was writing the story for Halo 2. The novels provide back story, and things may appear in the novels before we find out about them in game. Examples are ODSTs, Truth, Tartarus, Brutes, MAC platforms, and Lord Hood.

The games do not reference anything that happened in the Novels. The novels reference stuff from the games.


Thanks for your feedback opogijijip. Anybody thinks anything else?


the stories DO reference things that happen....thats what "the flood" was all about, it was written to fill in the gaps of haloCE and thats great. also the battle rifle and magnum came from "the first strike". in the books it says "based upon the game halo" and eric nylund worked with bungie, with some poetic liscence, and created the books before haloCE and between HaloCE and Halo2. the flood wasnt really well written in my opinion.

ERIC NYLUND RULZ HALO BOOKS

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  • 05.29.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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Here are a few quotes about the Halo novels

GameSpy: When you were writing the game's script, did you want to tie the whole universe together, including stuff that was in the two books?


Joe Staten: The books are full of wonderful, complex elements that would be hugely problematic if we included them in Halo 2 in any meaningful way (e.g. the existence of other Spartans). That being said, I did my best to be take the books into account as I wrote, and there are definitely common themes and characters. The opposite is true as well; Eric Nylund and I spoke often as he gathered is thoughts for the third Halo novel, "First Strike."


How Stuff Works: Was the "Halo" story fully realized and segmented into different games, or did you take the story as far as "Halo 1" and when it came time for a sequel, build the story from the ground up?


Pete Parsons: The "Halo" universe has an overarching story that is well thought out and was well thought out before "Halo 2." We have roughly 600 years worth of "Halo" fiction, and we know what happens inside of that universe at any given time. The ["Halo 2"] story itself only existed as notes and was really fleshed out. We know ultimately, at least in the "Halo" universe, where humanity came from, where it's going to, at what point in time it comes in contact with The Covenant [the villains in "Halo"] and what happens well beyond that.


How Stuff Works: The novelization of a video game is, well ... novel. Where does Eric Nyland <sic> get the background for his books?


Pete Parsons: We work closely with him on all the stories. So what we do is we have these story arcs of the "Halo" universe, and Eric goes in and says, "Well that's a really good piece to take and here is in a microcosm what I think that story will look like."


EGM: You mention Reach; have you read all of the Halo books?


Pete Parsons: Yeah, obviously the Halo fiction. The overarching Halo universe is crafted here, and then guys like...particularly [Halo book author Eric Nylund] has the job of really fleshing out the bones of that particular story arc.


EGM: So somewhere there's a Halo bible that has the basic storyline, including what goes on after Halo 2?


Pete Parsons: Yes, from the present day to the future.


HBO: As the Halo storyline has evolved, have you made changes to Halo: The Fall of Reach, or have you kept it going in the direction you started?


Eric Nylund: By the time writing began, the storyline of the Halo game was more or less finalized.[/color] [color=red]An outline for the novel was approved by Bungie before I began writing-only very minor changes were made to the novel.[/color]
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HBO: Have there been changes to the GAME (that you know of) due to the book, or due to research instigated by its writing?


Eric Nylund: Not that I'm aware of, no.[/color] [color=red]I relied on the Story Bible quite extensively. The whole idea behind a Story Bible is that if you create a document that accurately describes the universe in which a game takes place, you can use it as a guide for writing a novel (for example) without needing to constantly check the developing novel against a developing game.


  • 05.29.2006 7:10 PM PDT

I'm not quite following your poll, as a few of them are true. Halo CE influenced the creation of the first book. I belive the some of the aspects that followed may have influenced alittle of Halo 2. With that, I believe Halo 3 will be influenced by what has come of the games and the books, and future books will be influenced by Halo 3.

  • 05.29.2006 7:14 PM PDT
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I think, in the book they find Linda the spartan who was an awsome sniper, she was still alive, i think she will come back and help out the master cheif.

  • 05.29.2006 7:34 PM PDT
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for the person who said the flood wasnt written well, it wasnt written by Nyland

  • 05.29.2006 7:36 PM PDT
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I think that MC will succeed, and will get to the mountain, and throw the ring into the fire from which it was made!! Oh wait.......

  • 05.29.2006 7:41 PM PDT