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Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?
Posted By: TDSpiral <brennagar@gmail.com>	Date: 5/3/12 3:14 a.m.
In Response To: Who's the writer for Halo 4? (Archilen) : I've been wondering this for a while. Usually they don't announce the writers : in advance, but it's still going to be interesting to see whether it's : someone previously familiar with the universe or someone completely new. My impression was that the writing for Halo 4 is a collective effort of a bunch of different people. Like how they talked about Greg Bear getting a look at the game, and it seemed like he's sort of directing the Forerunner aspects of the game. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there is just one or two big writers on the game. : Now that Staten is out of the question, the next best thing to me would be : Eric Nylund. He's intimately familiar with the expanded universe and the : characters, since he created most of it. Now that 343i is bringing more EU : elements in the games, he'd be right at home. Nylund's blog has been : awfully quiet for a while so it's a possibility at least. I'm probably gonna get shit for this and the next thing I'm going to say, but I don't actually really like Nylund's Halo novels. Sure, they're the originals, and there's good parts in there, but there's something about them that just don't do it for me. It might just be because I read them MUCH later on, and by that time they felt dated. Although I usually end up liking all of the Halo novels that most people hate, so my tastes in fiction are probably just messed up. Like Cole Protocol- I could actually picture it taking place in the Halo Universe. It didn't really take any risks, and the story didn't really lead into anything important, but I still liked it. : Whoever it is, I sure hope it's not Karen Traviss. If this was the case, I : wouldn't be surprised if the Chief was turned into a tormented wreck of a : person and Cortana would suddenly start bashing him for all the people : he's killed. The planet they're heading to would turn out to not matter at : all, besides having a garage and some fold-out furniture. After : meaninglessly bickering with Cortana for a while, the Chief would be : arrested by a group of previously-unseen but suddenly important characters : (the new protagonists) for "stealing" the Forward Unto Dawn and : Cortana. Again, probably gonna get flak for this, but I thought Glasslands was probably the best piece of Halo fiction to date. There were some annoying parts with Halsey (Traviss overdid the war-criminal thing), and the book can be pretty slow, but I loved the characters.

Message Index

Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Archilen	5/3/12 1:58 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	bryan newman	5/3/12 2:33 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Hawki	5/3/12 2:51 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Archilen	5/3/12 2:58 a.m.
I didn't mind glass lands....	Bryan Newman	5/3/12 7:02 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leisandir	5/3/12 7:08 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Archilen	5/3/12 1:53 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Frankie	5/3/12 11:27 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Avateur	5/3/12 8:08 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	padraig08	5/3/12 9:22 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Avateur	5/4/12 10:05 a.m.
Nylund's Preoccupations	The Lionheart	5/3/12 10:00 p.m.
Re: Nylund's Preoccupations	KP	5/3/12 10:42 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	General Vagueness	5/5/12 3:16 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	SalientOne	5/5/12 3:50 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Dani	5/5/12 4:14 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	General Vagueness	5/5/12 4:25 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	5/5/12 6:14 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Louis Wu	5/5/12 6:43 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	SalientOne	5/6/12 2:47 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	General Vagueness	5/6/12 4:34 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	uberfoop	5/6/12 3:02 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Metalingus627	5/5/12 7:53 p.m.
Thank you very much, Salient One!	The Lionheart	5/5/12 11:57 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	TDSpiral	5/3/12 3:14 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Joony Joon	5/3/12 5:47 a.m.
YES. A THOUSAND TIMES YES.	Bones	5/3/12 5:46 a.m.
Re: YES. A THOUSAND TIMES YES.	davidfuchs	5/3/12 8:25 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	dogcom	5/3/12 10:28 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Cody Miller	5/3/12 1:14 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Phoenix_9286	5/3/12 2:58 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/3/12 3:07 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Cody Miller	5/3/12 3:09 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/3/12 3:14 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Cody Miller	5/3/12 6:51 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/3/12 8:13 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Cody Miller	5/3/12 9:07 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Kermit	5/3/12 9:11 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/3/12 9:36 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Cody Miller	5/3/12 10:03 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/3/12 10:14 p.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	RC Master	5/4/12 4:11 a.m.
Re: Who's the writer for Halo 4?	Leviathan	5/4/12 5:21 a.m.
54 PAGES!?!?!	Gravemind	5/3/12 10:59 p.m.