What do you view as canon in Halo?

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:09:23 PM

Seeing how we have one for Star Wars, I'd figured there should be one for Halo.

I view the first 3 games and ODST as canon. The book The Fall of Reach and First Strike along with Contact harvest as canon.

Halo 4 to me is like a bad fan-fiction story, and Halo: Reach destroyed the real beginning of Halo 1.

And if anyone here has actually read first strike which is between the end of Halo 1 and the beginning of Halo 2, it explains how Chief made it back to earth, befriended Sgt Johnson, Needed a suit upgrade, and even introduced the engineers way before ODST. Oh and spoilers....

Spoiler

They had to kill the engineer because it knew intel about Cheif's Mark V and they didn't want The Covenant to know about this, hence they killed it. At least from what I remember when I last read the book.

Isara · October 02, 2014, 03:09:47 PM

Vien's artwork.

More Than Mortal · October 02, 2014, 03:09:56 PM

Gaming, please.

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:10:07 PM

Quote from: Isara on October 02, 2014, 03:09:47 PM

Vien's artwork.

Oh god.... You can't be serious.

Juuzou · October 02, 2014, 03:10:12 PM

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🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:11:27 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on October 02, 2014, 03:10:12 PM

All of the games and that is it.

lol at any Halo fanboys who try to say that Halo could beat Star Wars because they misinterpret the books.

Ummm. I respect both works of art and I'm not a fanboy.

And what's wrong with the books?

Juuzou · October 02, 2014, 03:12:19 PM

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Magos Domina · October 02, 2014, 03:12:20 PM

Halo 2, 3 and 4.

Halo 1 is up for interpretation and ODST and Reach were just shit, you cant have a Halo game without Arbiter and Chief.

I'm glad 343 will fix what Bungie broke.

Juuzou · October 02, 2014, 03:12:43 PM

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🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:16:29 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on October 02, 2014, 03:12:20 PM

Halo 2, 3 and 4.

Halo 1 is up for interpretation and ODST and Reach were just shit, you cant have a Halo game without Arbiter and Chief.

I'm glad 343 will fix what Bungie broke.

Ummmmmm Ohhhhkay?

True Turquoise · October 02, 2014, 03:19:04 PM

All of them..?

The books are great too.. I found The Fall of Reach a good story.

Comet · October 02, 2014, 03:19:06 PM

Halo 1-3, ODST, Reach.
game>book, in terms of canon.

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:22:23 PM

Quote from: Comet on October 02, 2014, 03:19:06 PM

Halo 1-3, ODST, Reach.
game>book, in terms of canon.

Hey I thought The Fall of Reach was a pretty accurate prequel for Halo 1, and this was written way before Halo: Reach was even out.

ಠ_ಠ · October 02, 2014, 03:22:50 PM

I agree with you, actually. Especially as someone who read all the books (minus some of the new ones)

Magos Domina · October 02, 2014, 03:25:56 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on October 02, 2014, 03:12:43 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on October 02, 2014, 03:12:20 PM
Halo 2, 3 and 4.

Halo 1 is up for interpretation and ODST and Reach were just shit, you cant have a Halo game without Arbiter and Chief.

I'm glad 343 will fix what Bungie broke.
Reach and ODST are amazing.

I was trolling, ODST is my second fave Halo game.

Still didn't like Reach, it just didn't feel like a Halo game and the story wasn't dark or gritty enough, I didn't feel like I was fighting a loosing battle and the story was kinda.... bleh. Then again Joe Staten didn't work on it so that's probably why.

As for the whole canon thing, 343 fixed that (probably one of the few good hings they've done).

i am karjala takaisin · October 02, 2014, 03:27:52 PM

all of them

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:30:54 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on October 02, 2014, 03:25:56 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on October 02, 2014, 03:12:43 PM
Quote from: Kiyohime on October 02, 2014, 03:12:20 PM
Halo 2, 3 and 4.

Halo 1 is up for interpretation and ODST and Reach were just shit, you cant have a Halo game without Arbiter and Chief.

I'm glad 343 will fix what Bungie broke.
Reach and ODST are amazing.

I was trolling, ODST is my second fave Halo game.

Still didn't like Reach, it just didn't feel like a Halo game and the story wasn't dark or gritty enough, I didn't feel like I was fighting a loosing battle and the story was kinda.... bleh. Then again Joe Staten didn't work on it so that's probably why.

As for the whole canon thing, 343 fixed that (probably one of the few good hings they've done).

I agree with ODST being my second favorite as well. As for 343.... No. Sorry. I don't see it that way.

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:32:04 PM

Quote from: Nuka on October 02, 2014, 03:22:50 PM

I agree with you, actually. Especially as someone who read all the books (minus some of the new ones)

Yeah, I didn't read any of the new ones, especially since it had the 343 logo on it. They actually made a reprint of Halo: The Fall of Reach with the ending changed to the ending in Halo: Reach. How stupid is that?

w/e · October 02, 2014, 03:33:07 PM

Why is this not in #gaming?

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:34:16 PM

Quote from: DigitalIZesty on October 02, 2014, 03:33:07 PM

Why is this not in #gaming?

Because I'm talking about the story and the books.

If the thread was even about the gameplay, it would be in gaming.

BaconShelf · October 02, 2014, 03:40:18 PM

Everything apart from the gameplay.

And certain parts of Kilo-5 and Reach.

Comet · October 02, 2014, 03:40:18 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on October 02, 2014, 03:22:23 PM

Quote from: Comet on October 02, 2014, 03:19:06 PM
Halo 1-3, ODST, Reach.
game>book, in terms of canon.

Hey I thought The Fall of Reach was a pretty accurate prequel for Halo 1, and this was written way before Halo: Reach was even out.

eh. i just think that the original media holds the canon, i think a lot of the books are cool and they enhance the game lore. but i dont think any of the game plot should defer to the book plot lines.

🂿 · October 02, 2014, 03:41:45 PM

Quote from: Comet on October 02, 2014, 03:40:18 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on October 02, 2014, 03:22:23 PM
Quote from: Comet on October 02, 2014, 03:19:06 PM
Halo 1-3, ODST, Reach.
game>book, in terms of canon.

Hey I thought The Fall of Reach was a pretty accurate prequel for Halo 1, and this was written way before Halo: Reach was even out.
eh. i just think that the original media holds the canon, i think a lot of the books are cool and they enhance the game lore. but i dont think any of the game plot should defer to the book plot lines.

You don't have much of an active imagination left do you?

月 · October 02, 2014, 03:44:23 PM

After reading some of the trash the Karen Travis put out I really don't care about the franchise story anymore. Too much black an white characters created. There is no blurring of lines, it's just become a trope filled universe.

Scorch · October 02, 2014, 03:45:57 PM

The master chief fan fiction I wrote

big dog · October 02, 2014, 03:46:53 PM

Everything that Bungie and 343i have declared canon.

Death · October 02, 2014, 03:47:59 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on October 02, 2014, 03:12:43 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on October 02, 2014, 03:12:20 PM
Halo 2, 3 and 4.

Halo 1 is up for interpretation and ODST and Reach were just shit, you cant have a Halo game without Arbiter and Chief.

I'm glad 343 will fix what Bungie broke.
Reach and ODST are amazing.

I concur.

月 · October 02, 2014, 03:49:24 PM

Quote from: True Turquoise on October 02, 2014, 03:19:04 PM

All of them..?

The books are great too.. I found The Fall of Reach a good story.

The first half of Fall of Reach was just a blatantly plagiarized Ender's Game.

BasedLove · October 02, 2014, 03:51:27 PM

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velox · October 02, 2014, 03:51:55 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on October 02, 2014, 03:09:56 PM

Gaming, please.

This is about the Halo lore, including the books, not just the game series.