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Subject: Halo Reach vs. Halo: The Fall of Reach

Has anyone ever noticed how the book and the game don't agree with each other? In the game, Captain Keys is on the Pillar of Autumn when Cortana is delivered. In the book however, Cortana is already on the ship when Keys first boards it.

  • 07.27.2012 1:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Waltanator7
Has anyone ever noticed how the book and the game don't agree with each other?
You're just under three years late mate.

In the game, Captain Keys is on the Pillar of Autumn when Cortana is delivered. In the book however, Cortana is already on the ship when Keys first boards it.What you're delivering isn't Cortana. It's a fragment of her she left behind to collect Halsey's data which would lead her to the Halo.

  • 07.27.2012 1:15 PM PDT
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Your opinion is invalid.

Bungie found a way to make this new game fit into the previous fiction pretty well, but in my opinion it takes away from it. Everything may fit chronologically, but I just don't like it. It doesn't feel right.

  • 07.27.2012 1:21 PM PDT


Posted by: burritosenior


The game came out in 2010, BS. Count again.

  • 07.27.2012 1:21 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: burritosenior
What you're delivering isn't Cortana. It's a fragment of her she left behind to collect Halsey's data which would lead her to the Halo.
Well this make sense now.

  • 07.27.2012 1:24 PM PDT


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Posted by: burritosenior
What you're delivering isn't Cortana. It's a fragment of her she left behind to collect Halsey's data which would lead her to the Halo.
Well this make sense now.

Yes that does make sense, thanks you.

  • 07.27.2012 1:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Actually, I find that I'm more invincible without pants, which is why I am not wearing any at the moment.

I still kinda wish the game was directly based off the book, Fall of Reach was by far my favorite Halo book.

  • 07.27.2012 5:36 PM PDT

Yeah, one is god-awfully written, and the other is pretty well done.

5 USD to whoever can figure out which is which.

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  • 07.27.2012 6:59 PM PDT

One does not simply trolololol into Mordor.

I find the books version 1 million times better than the game.

  • 07.27.2012 8:38 PM PDT

The fall of reach is my favorite, then ghosts of onyx. And just recently, Glasslands was added to that list. But then again, I like them all.

  • 07.27.2012 8:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Waltanator7

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Posted by: burritosenior
What you're delivering isn't Cortana. It's a fragment of her she left behind to collect Halsey's data which would lead her to the Halo.
Well this make sense now.

Yes that does make sense, thanks you.


Except Cortana already had the coordinates to Halo (altho she didn't know that they were at the time) from the Sigma Octanus encounter or something. The whole Forerunner ruin thing was unnecessary and not well-explained at all.

I still don't know what it was for.

  • 07.27.2012 9:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Waltanator7

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: burritosenior
What you're delivering isn't Cortana. It's a fragment of her she left behind to collect Halsey's data which would lead her to the Halo.
Well this make sense now.

Yes that does make sense, thanks you.


Except Cortana already had the coordinates to Halo (altho she didn't know that they were at the time) from the Sigma Octanus encounter or something. The whole Forerunner ruin thing was unnecessary and not well-explained at all.

I still don't know what it was for.


This.

We are never told what this "gamechanger/latchkey" artefact was beyond a convenient plot device to shoehorn in nostalgic imagery surrounding the Forerunners, Cortana and Keyes/Pillar of Autumn designed to make the battle of Reach more important than it actually was.

  • 07.28.2012 4:35 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
We are never told what this "gamechanger/latchkey" artefact was beyond a convenient plot device to shoehorn in nostalgic imagery surrounding the Forerunners, Cortana and Keyes/Pillar of Autumn designed to make the battle of Reach more important than it actually was.
It wasn't explained perfectly well in the game, but Halsey's Journal clarifies a lot of things.

  • 07.28.2012 7:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: burritosenior

Posted by: ajw34307
We are never told what this "gamechanger/latchkey" artefact was beyond a convenient plot device to shoehorn in nostalgic imagery surrounding the Forerunners, Cortana and Keyes/Pillar of Autumn designed to make the battle of Reach more important than it actually was.
It wasn't explained perfectly well in the game, but Halsey's Journal clarifies a lot of things.


Nothing about the Latchkey Artefact beyond a vague mention or two. The journal ends before Noble Team reaches her under SWORD Base - at which point the data is still being decrypted, so we still don't know what it is or what it does.

  • 07.28.2012 9:24 AM PDT

Posted by: ajw34307
Nothing about the Latchkey Artefact beyond a vague mention or two.
Are you sure? Because I swear that's where I read it. Maybe I read it on the forums then and need to go dig out the journal again. Aw.

  • 07.28.2012 9:32 AM PDT