Amph We make our own Luck: The Halo Universe Discussion

The Halo universe is most known for it eight video games (with more on the way) but even before the 2001 release of Combat Evolved Halo had it a novel named, The Fall of Reach, as a prequel to the first game. Now the universe include eight games (as mentioned before), twelve novels, twenty or so short stories, a webseires, a TV series (with a second one on the way) and numerous comics.

This thread is to discuss the Halo Expanded Universe and the the games.

 

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I've never dug too deep into the EU for Halo, but I did really enjoy The Fall Of Reach. I was sad that Reach (the game) didn't find a way to tie into the book. There were a couple nods but I had been hoping for more.

I was really impressed by Forward Unto Dawn as well. I thought I'd just be waiting for Chief the whole time but the characters were done really well. I actually kind of felt an attachment to Lasky come Halo 4.

 

I was happy to see Lasky in Halo 4 and then I remembered what happened the last time we saw him.

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R.I.P. Chyler Silva.

 

Really, all the characters in FUD were better than Noble Team. I just didn't give a hoot about any of them.

 

I agree Noble Team was bland. Still Reach is my favorite Halo.

Also I you liked the Fall of Reach you should read The Flood too.

 

Yeah I've always meant to get around to it.

I haven't gone through Halo 4's campaign again since I first beat it. I knew about Cortana's rampancy from Halo Legends but aside from what was going on with her, I could not tell you what the actual story was for the life of me.

 

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The rampancy took over but she used it to kill the Didact and sacrifice her life for John .

 

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Yeah, see I don't even know what the Didact really was.

 

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He was an ancient Forerunner "general".

 

Playstation! Playstation! Playstation!

 

And what does that have to do with Halo?

 

We the Sony community have hijacked this thread...

 

Jedi-Anakin-Solo You watched Halo Legends? How did you think it was and what was your favorite episode?

 

We have a lot to discuss about this matter.

 

The Package by far. It was action-packed and full of classic Halo dialogue. Loved the space stuff (which we don't see enough of in the games), and the action in the ship, with them even going to first person view at times to mimic the HUD.

Loved the way the Sangheili commander ordered parts of the hull to be detached, such an overkill and desperate move to try and stop the Spartans from reaching Halsey.

Only minor problems: Halsey was portrayed as way too young.

 

The creative liberties taken by the animators is one of the many things that don't allow me to fully enjoy Legends. But despite that The Package is one of the best stories there. My favorite is the one with the ancient Arbiter, even despite the feudal Japan imagery and manga tropes.

Considering how very difficult it is to discuss Halo EU without talking about the games themselves, shouldn't this thread be in the Games forum?

 

Well we talk about the Star Wars in Lit and bring up the movies when needed so what's the matter with a discussion of the Halo EU with some talk of the games when needed?

 

I find the ancient human empire interesting and just found this today. So I am happy.

 

I have two complaints about the gameplay. Lack of choice. Older games had mission trees, why these games could not do the same is beyond me. Also, at times I wondered if I was going in the right direction. The little circle was no help.

I have no indulged in awhile but I did like the lore of the game. AI and rampancy was a favorite. And it was cool to have a megastructure to play around on. The views and technology were well done. My favorite way of playing was camo-field and energy sword; a hi tech ninja.

There is just about enough material in our asteroid belt to equal the mass of a Halo structure. I am not sure thos ematerials are strong enough to simply build and take the stress without gathering it all in one spot and using a bubbleworld technique which only exists on paper.

 

VadersLaMent So you like AIs and rampancy... What do you think about the theories that Mindicant Bias is going to be John's new AI?

 

Cool, it's nice to see a Halo thread.

I liked Noble Team. I thought they all had pretty clear personalities.

Oh, and they inspired A Fistful of Arrows, which is my favorite fanon story in anything ever.

Ghosts of Onyx was the best book IMO. Kurt was a million different kinds of awesome.

 

The_Forgotten_Jedi I liked the Nobles and even mourned their deaths (except for Kat, she drove me off a mountain one to many times). It is that I think that they were not written well, which made them bland.

 

I also liked some of the Nobles, particularly Jorge and, obviously, Emile. The others were...eh. Had Reach's campaign been a bit longer, and we had been paired up with the whole team on more missions, hearing their chatter and letting some characterization shine through, then it would've made for a more satisfying story. Unfortunately, Bungie was never very good at characterization throughout their Halo games.

Halo 4 may be a mixed bag, but it speaks volumes that John had more lines of dialogue throughout that one game than in all previous installments put together, and with a personality more in line with Nylund's version of the character. And it was certainly satisfying that at the very end, John himself questions that very personality and wonders if he could be more than a man-shaped killing machine.

 

Was it just me or was Carter in Fall of Reach too?