- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Namiko Spartan
Shiska: The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike are official books. Yes, Bungie had say in their writing Yes, the writers did some of their own work nothing was published without first receiving Bungie's approval.
However, what you fail to realize is that the books act as flavor for the hardcore. Guess what? Out of the millions that have bought and played the second Halo, only a tiny handful have actually READ these books. As such, it'd be unwise to reference the books directly in the game, as the reference would be obscure and misunderstood by the majority of players
The books enhance the games, not the other way around.
The mistake in your thinking is that Halo 1 doesn't "reference" anything that happened in The Flood. It's the other way around. And, Halo 1 didn't reference anything that happened during Fall of Reach, just as Halo 2 didn't reference anything that happened in First Strike.
Shiska: Something I must point out, now that this thread has grown...
The Cortana letters are not canon. They're a relic of a time when the first Halo wasn't even a first person shooter, yet. I suggest you do not read too deeply into them to find secrets about the games- there's nothing there to find
Halo Story Page: Would the books make the cut?
Joseph Staten: The books are, for better or worse, part of the canon. In the future we may choose to revise or flat-out ignore some of the less appealing ideas (Johnson's biological immunity to the Flood, for example), but folks should treat them as defining elements of the Halo universe. No one is going to listen, its called stubborness. What they fail to realise is that having more Spartans equal to the Cheif's power would dilute his image, and that is unacceptable. These people, ironically enough, are usually the ones that hate the Arbiter because he stole spotlight from MC. Think my post here through, it will either confuse you or it will make you see thing differently. You hate the Arbiter because he stole spotlight, yet you want four MORE Spartans?