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Posted by: burritosenior
Why? Why should you not have to read the entire story for it to make sense? It's like you're saying if you read books 1-8 of a series, skip 9-13, and go to 14 you shouldn't have the read those four books to understand what is going on. It just doesn't make sense. If you're going to judge based on background knowledge you have then fine, but judging based off something everybody knows is incomplete just seems pretty ridiculous.
In the same way I shouldn't have to read any of the Robots series or Empire series of Issac Asimov's to know what is going on in the Foundation novels. They are all within the same canon, yet each is self-contained and you are not disadvantaged if you don't read one particular series. They compliment each other.
Likewise, if the third novel is supposed to be important to the story in the game, it should've released before it, not after it. Still, it was delayed to incorporate elements of Halo 4 in it, so I doubt anything groundbreaking will be revealed. The Terminals gave us a glimpse of what to expect, yet they did diddly.
Because you don't have 1/3rd of the story. Seems sort of like a common sense deal that you should wait for the ending to a trilogy before saying something you skipped ahead and saw doesn't make sense...
It is not my responsibility to read something in the future in order for 343i to tell the story. They should HELP me along, but I ultimately should not have to wait about 4 months after the game is released for everything to make sense. As of now, the Didact was not a good antagonist in Halo 4. Maybe things will change in Silentium? Perhaps, but reading the book will not make up for the vagueness and poor storytelling in Halo 4.