- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Blackmarch
I don't know how deep the story goes for Halo, but like stated earlier in another post, the Marathon story didn't take off until #s 2 and 3...
I am hoping that it will end up just as deep, with ties in the universe to the marathon universe (which I believe it has).
Actually... Marathons story was in full flight after the first game. By the end of the first Marathon you pretty much had a full picture of human history which led up to your being in the conflict, and then you had the current event which was the attack on Tau Ceti. I understand the books might fill in some of the history, but Halo itself does not give a good idea of what happened in the past.
This is also what made the Myth series such an incredible one, and truly the games with the greatest story line to date, period (on computer at least). If you take any of the great scifi/fantasy book series and read them, they all have a very well fleshed out and hinted at history, the greatest of which don't answer all the questions about the past but leave you hints to find about it so you can piece that history together for yourself.
I of course am not trying to say the Halo story is not good or not there. It IS good. I don't know if they feel like people can't take the time to be as interested in the story in a FPS as they used to be or what. But something I'd like to suggest is in addition to good game play, what made Halo take off is probably the mere presence of a story. What company other than Bungie even includes a good coherent story in their FPS games? If you ask me, that is the secret ingredient.
Alright, I definitely started to diverge there at the end.