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| I tend to think of it this way. | |
| Posted By: Saint | Date: 9/29/06 3:28 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Halo Wars Q and A interview (Narcogen) Like Star Wars... there are two "grades" of canon. 1) The Movie canon (in Halo's case, the games produced by Bungie themselves). 2) The "expanded universe", which is everything outside of the movies, yet was created still some official capacity. This excludes fan fiction unless it is officially recognized by the creators of the IP to be embraced as "expanded canon" material. I don't know of many instances of this actually happening, with any IP. The way I see how this applies to Halo is that you have: 1) The "Halo" games, which take supreme precedence of canon. 2) The novels, Halo Graphic novel, and CftU booklet, which are on the next rung of the hierarchy of canon. 3) ILB and "other sources", like the Halo timeline that was on Xbox.com so many years ago. And now we have a new thing to consider: games in the Haloverse not create by Bungie. Where do these fit into the hierarchy of canon? Are they less official than the current Halo games or equally so? If they are not as equal, are they higher or lower than the books and other printed Halo story media? You can adopt the idea that the only "true" canon are the three "Halo" games produced by Bungie, and that nothing else counts at all, but I find that view narrow. The only thing it seems to do is corral a potentially massive universe that has so much more to offer. | |
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