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| Re: Lol you're funny | |
| Posted By: Avateur <avateur@gmail.com> | Date: 10/29/09 5:25 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Lol you're funny (Bry) : A certain sense of denial and blind loyalty I suppose. : Harsh, but the fact of the matter is that Bungie hardly had the whole story : canon set out in stone right from the start and they themselves are : especially guilty of many inconsistencies. By their own admission of all : things. : If someone wants to be so strict about exactly what Bungie's vision was, then : for one thing right off the bat, you're going to have to burn all your : Halo novels, with the exception of Contact Harvest. : And even then, that won't have any relevance to Bungie's original story. : After all, Johnson was nothing more than "sniper sergeant". It : was only because they really liked Sully's acting that he was turned into : a story critical cinematic character in the development of Halo 2. : While I would gladly see large sections of Fall of Reach, Ghosts of Onyx, The
All true, but irrelevant. We're at where we are now regardless of what was or wasn't planned out or set in stone. The fact of the matter is that it was Bungie screwing up, correcting, and setting in stone whatever they wanted whenever they wanted at whatever pace it occurred. As for the novels, there was direct work with Bungie and approval by Bungie, unlike many of what's to come under Microsoft that will have, most likely, practically no input or extremely little input from Bungie. Oh, and when I'm referring to the novels I'm only referring to TFoR, TF, FS, GoO, and CH. Haven't read Cole Protocol yet so whatever there. It's not like Microsoft popped in and said, "Yo, Eric, go write us some novels for those Bungie guys. Don't worry about working with them or anything like that. Just write and we'll approve." I'm not arguing about what Bungie's vision was, but about what it has become and about where it's going and has gone when Bungie hasn't been involved (or has barely been involved, such as in Halo Wars). And maybe the novels do need to be discounted. Who knows. Maybe that's what this new Reach game is for, to show the way it really happened and to discount practically everything from the novel. Or maybe this is something else entirely. Either way, it's Bungie's Universe until they're done with it, and so they're at the reigns, canon inconsistencies, screw ups, and time warping crystals (ugh) and all!
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