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Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 10/21/09 4:15 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon? (Leviathan) : You ended in a wonderful statement IMO: I feel like the entirety of Halo : canon is not and possibly never was, except at its primary inception : (since you probably shouldn't make a game that contradicts itself, but : after that, the suspension of disbelief can probably be stretched a bit : more) meant to be concrete and specific. : It's more vague than a true reality, especially now, with different mediums, : and a vastly growing cast of different creators and talents. I think you : have to view all of Halo cannon through a slightly blurry lens where : each entry attempts to give something new to us, and though it may seem to : not perfectly line up with everything else, its because its just one lens, : one specific perspective... Just like two people at different spots in a : room sees the same object in a different way. Well, yes, that happens when you give a privileged place to the initial game. However, I'd suggest that in an ideal world, changes would always be retroactive. So when Halo 2 added vehicle boarding, which has the canon value of "Spartans can survive enough damage to board vehicles", Halo 1 would get a patch that would enable this. Of course this is not cost-effective or practical to actually do, but that's really separate from the question of "Can Spartans board vehicles" to which Halo 1 answers "no" and Halo 2 and everything after answers "yes". Admittedly, this is not a particularly revealing point, but there are plenty of details about the Halo universe and how it works that are not in the cutscenes or the novels. Rather than go without them entirely, or be stuck with Bungie's first vision, which also does not include a lot of things, I think giving precedence to the latest-released version makes sense. You just have to imagine the retcons.

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Message Index

Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Riceatron	10/20/09 10:29 p.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	General Vagueness	10/20/09 11:11 p.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	General Vagueness	10/20/09 11:21 p.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Narcogen	10/20/09 11:24 p.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Leviathan	10/21/09 12:26 a.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Narcogen	10/21/09 4:15 a.m.
Re: Turrets	JonnyOThan	10/21/09 12:41 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Gilver	10/21/09 1:08 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	10/21/09 1:19 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Gilver	10/21/09 1:42 p.m.
Re: Turrets	SonofMacPhisto	10/21/09 2:13 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	10/21/09 2:23 p.m.
Re: Turrets	SonofMacPhisto	10/21/09 3:28 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Gilver	10/21/09 4:56 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/21/09 4:11 p.m.
Re: Turrets	FyreWulff	10/21/09 5:52 p.m.
Re: Turrets	SonofMacPhisto	10/21/09 6:09 p.m.
Re: Turrets	Narcogen	10/22/09 2:40 a.m.
Re: Turrets	Avateur	10/22/09 2:59 a.m.
Re: Turrets	Narcogen	10/22/09 8:30 a.m.
Sure.	serpx	10/20/09 11:52 p.m.
Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 12:46 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Narcogen	10/21/09 4:16 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 4:29 a.m.
Agreed	yakaman	10/21/09 7:58 a.m.
Amen. *NM*	SonofMacPhisto	10/21/09 8:15 a.m.
Re: Agreed	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/21/09 8:29 a.m.
Re: Agreed	Jillybean	10/21/09 8:50 a.m.
Re: Agreed	Avateur	10/21/09 12:01 p.m.
Without reading the thread fully...	sharpsniper99	10/21/09 6:03 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	10/21/09 11:49 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	The BS Police	10/21/09 11:16 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	General Vagueness	10/21/09 11:45 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	The BS Police	10/21/09 11:58 a.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 12:04 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Riceatron	10/21/09 1:44 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Hikaru-119	10/21/09 2:42 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 7:08 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Riceatron	10/21/09 10:10 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Gravemind	10/21/09 4:24 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	General Vagueness	10/21/09 6:53 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 7:11 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Gravemind	10/21/09 8:24 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Avateur	10/21/09 8:28 p.m.
Re: Nothing should be considered canon	Gravemind	10/21/09 8:22 p.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Cody Miller	10/21/09 1:56 a.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Avateur	10/21/09 2:30 a.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Narcogen	10/21/09 4:17 a.m.
Gameplay is never canon *SP*	Metalingus627	10/21/09 3:45 a.m.
Re: Should Gameplay be considered Canon?	Archilen	10/21/09 4:24 a.m.
Question...	stan	10/21/09 9:07 a.m.
Follow up...	stan	10/21/09 9:09 a.m.
Fully agree *NM* *NM*	Avateur	10/21/09 12:06 p.m.