: Sounds interesting (and spoilerific), I'm sure it will all make sense and be
: epic when I finally get around to playing the sequels (It looks like a
: halo 3 port to PCs doesn't exist yet, so I might be boned).
There's always the older pre-Marathon ASE podcasts, or an emulator. I have a Mac Maverick one for Pathways into Darkness, and I was considering getting an emulator to play Conker's bad fur day.
I've recently got and started playing the Xbox port and I have to say that the N64 version is superior which is a first for a Nintendo console.
Half the stuff I mentioned was in the Halo books, but it made their way into the game's canon eventually, although 343 paid way more attention to the other Halo media than Bungie from what I've seen, and the older books were reprinted to tie up at least some of the plotholes between the books and the games.