Halo: Reach 2.0

there are other explanations they can sue


"its a prototype" is about the laziest thing a science fiction writer can do



I am working on writing a science fiction game pitch right now with some colleagues... if anyone in our group started pulling shit like the writers at bungie have been doing for the last couple games they would get laughed out of the group.


and we aren't even being paid! ... people are getting paid, making money, to come up with some of this garbage. 2 years and I will be out of college and in the industry... hopefully one day I can help end this cycle of lazy storytelling for more money

i agree with Krazy

i actually heard MS forced Bungie to do Reach

atlest the true workers at Bungie remain and money grubbers went to 343

Yes because 343 made a game so we already know the quality of their work

no but they 1. Made Legends, 2. are Re-Writing the books (BTW: Battle of Reach is now in 2542 because of this, FU 343),3. have a fetish for Mk.IV Armor, 4. Called Halo Wars canon

wait... WHAT?!

how the fuck can they push back the battle of reach by 10 god damn years?

but they have not made a GAME yet and if they make a bad game i will dislike them.

Halo Wars defiantly was not canon we all know that so why do you continue to care about that

reach is not 2542


everything I can find still says it takes place in 2552

i know, EVERYONE knows that, exept 343 aparently

no, I mean looking at stuff for the game, it still says 2552

they havn't changed it

343 made Halo Legends right? Maybe they gave the thumbs up on the shield power up generators.

i know Krazy, but in 343's reprint every page for Reach says 2542, making there typo's worst the Nylunds, ITS A DOWNGRADE!

Have you ever thought that maybe it's still a good story regardless

Ya. Then I woke up and realized how fucking shitty it was.

Yes because you know what happens in the story..........because you played the game

Avenged wrote:Yes because you know what happens in the story..........because you played the game

and that's an excuse for shitty story writing?
Is Lord of the Rings any worse because you watched the movie first?

I am saying how can you judge a story that you have not seen beginning to end

I watched some spoilers.

Again. The GAME IS RUINED! (story wise)

i've never bought a game just for the scenery and multiplayer... but literally.. .thats all i'm getting reach for

KrAzY wrote:oh, so their armor is a prototype now too?
but seriously... what in the fucking halo universe is not a god damn prototype?

The MA5C.

And yeah, I have to agree with KrAzY. I can easily write a Halo Legends episode, a Halo Evolutions short story, or a Halo novel without including prototypes.

I really hate the Prototype explanation, because it's a lame excuse to haul out a Deus Ex Machina or a bit of flash, without having to work too hard to integrate it into the existing backstory. And it always eclipses the storytelling or the characters, which is what I read a story for.

Hell, in Isolation, I'm making FUN of the Prototype Trope. A Protoype HMD used by one of the characters is only so good because the company building it LOADED it with lots of Awesome Yet Practical Yet Expensive features, because they were bidding to lose. It all has something to do with tax brackets and government grants, so that the company would get money from the government to buy out the winning bidders and buy more production facilities.

Vtrooper wrote:2. are Re-Writing the books (BTW: Battle of Reach is now in 2542 because of this, FU

They didn't.
The re-release is rife with typos because of a mis-communication between 343 and Tor. IIRC, 2542 is the date given in the ORIGINAL tFoR, which had typo issues of it's own.

It's still 2552.

Vtrooper wrote:i know Krazy, but in 343's reprint every page for Reach says 2542, making there typo's worst the Nylunds, ITS A DOWNGRADE!

Actually my original copy of FoR says it was 2542. It's a well known mistake that Nylund himself admitted too.

It just shows how lazy these reprints are, they couldn't even be bothered to fix the mistakes already there.

I'm only buying Reach for multiplayer, which hopefully they didn't screw up since the beta.

well Reach has some impressive visuals in it... the landscapes in it are also top of the line... I find it the most interesting part of some games... and since environmental modeling is what I am looking to do as a job once I am out of college I like to buy games just to look at how nice the settings are

Vigil wrote:

Vtrooper wrote:i know Krazy, but in 343's reprint every page for Reach says 2542, making there typo's worst the Nylunds, ITS A DOWNGRADE!

Actually my original copy of FoR says it was 2542. It's a well known mistake that Nylund himself admitted too.

It just shows how lazy these reprints are, they couln't even be bothered to fix the mistakes already there.

No, they fixed the mistakes, then put them back in.

It has good visuals, but some things are out of place.

dude, have you guys seen the video of the helmet option to remove the faceplate and have a skull?

thats worth the purchase price on its own!!!