- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: SS_Zag1
Posted by: xTr1GGeR HaPPYx
I wish people wouldn't make such a fuss about it. The games aren't made by Bungie and probably don't affect the story of the Master Chief, Cortana and the Ark, so if you don't want to play them, don't buy them.
Exactly... They're most likely going to just expand on the Halo universe, which is a dose of something I think we all need. Halo is bigger than "Master Chief, Cortana, The Arbiter, and The Ark". I'm loving the fact that they're letting you play through the encounters of the first Human-Covenant battles.
But Harvest? Why not another colony? Why Harvest? Exactly what transpired on first contact with the Covenant was one of the mysteries I wanted to stay a mystery. Knowing the exact reasons why so and so attacked so and so, particularly with a foe like the Covenant, would (and usually does) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Explaining every big mystery in a plot is just plain poor yarn weaving. With a movie, H3, GoO, at least two more books, Halo Wars, Peter Jackson's game, a monthly comic, and whatever hasn't even yet been announced, Halo is really starting to look like a raging storyling bull, and more like a Microsoft Heifer.
Who knows. Maybe HW will rock, and I'm sure GoO will. In fact, I'll go out on a limb, and say that the Halo series will be better than without GoO, as I'm guessing it will expain what happened with the missing SPARTANs. However, with so many things bearing the Halo name, and doubtlessly more than what we have heard, I'm beginning worrying that Halo will either become Metroid or Mario-storylines more and more bizarre until they descend into stupidity and plot devices that exist solely as an excuse to add new "powers," or something like Marvel, where there is just so much stuff that something contradicits another peice of canon in every panel, and even stuff like the origins of characters being recycled and reformed, countless times, until the reader can just pick whichever one they like best as "official," which dilutes all of them.
I really hope Bungie doesn't go down this path.
"Don't draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy...she'll beat you, if she's able. You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet..."
[Edited on 9/28/2006]