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| Re: I'm getting worried *Small HGN Spoilers* | |
| Posted By: Ain Soph Aur | Date: 8/11/06 4:20 a.m. |
In Response To: I'm getting worried *Small HGN Spoilers* (Cody Miller) : Bungie has always been a great storyteller, but lately I'm getting worried
: I purchased the Halo graphic novel, in the hopes that I would be shown new
: "Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor" notwithstanding, for it came
: The most publicized story was Johnson's escape from the flood. This turned
: "Armor testing" shows us a completely irrelevant glimpse at the
: The same applies to "2nd sunrise over new mombassa". Nothing that
: What the graphic novel gave me was the start of 3 stories. I bought a book,
: Stretching the stories out over multiple games and movies seems to be common
: Halo 2 was money well spent, because the entertainment value resided beyond
: How many comics will I have to buy to finish the stories that were started? The comic series appears to be intended to be continuous for awhile, but I'm hoping it can accomplish more than just finishing up what the HGN started. I have my doubts, though. I only saw the HGN today. I walked into the local Hastings and found it, and started to scan through it. Before I knew it, I had finished the whole thing. I thought "Wow, that was fast." Then I turned it over and saw the price tag. It took me all of 2 seconds to put it back on the shelf and walk away. There was some good eye candy, but like you said, the stories are only fragments, and nowhere near as rewarding as novels. "Last Voyage" was the best one - not only do we get some background on the SpecOps commander, but we see a little bit of what happens behind the scenes within the Covenant (Spec Ops assaulting the Legate has some implications). Though I could swear I saw human Assault Rifles being carried by the Grunts. However, it still wasn't a complete story. When I got done with the part about Johnson's escape from the Flood, my reaction was "That's it? You've gotta be shitting me!". It had some good drawings (probably the best in the book), but there was no meat to it at all. It was a replay of 343 Guilty Spark with a different protagonist. Pointless. The one about New Mombasa got me hooked in the beginning. The ending was more of a blue-baller than Halo 2's, though. That had a lot of potential, and instead it amounted to nothing but the first 3 minutes of a 2-hour movie being sold as the complete picture. "Armor Testing" just seemed stupid to me. There's no way there could still be "Reserves" when times are so desperate. That a combat-capable Spartan could be "retired" makes no sense at all, especially when Spartan training and attitudes are considered (Also makes me think of "Conversations from the Universe", Cortana and the other AI talked about Spartans but didn't mention this). This seems to fly in the face of everything else we consider canon, and really offers no important information. It basically seems to have been made solely to sell ODST toys with pink splashes on them. All in all the HGN was very disappointing for me. Combine with what happened to Halo 2, and I'm growing much more cynical about the Haloverse. I see a lot of people on here saying "Well, I trust Bungie, they'll come through." I can't honestly say that. I only came to find out about Bungie as a result of Halo (and I would daresay that 95%+ of the people who are Halo fans are the same way), and that's the only familiarity I have with them. I don't know anything about their old Mac games, and I don't really care, to be honest. I'm only a Bungie fan by virtue of Halo, and it's the Haloverse I have to judge them by. What I'm seeing now does not provoke from me the same faith that I'm seeing others claim to have. I'm worried. | |
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