In this article at GameCrashers.net, BurningStickMan reveals the inconsistencies between the official Eric Nylund / Bungie collaborative Halo novel "Halo: The Fall of Reach" and the newly released Halo Reach.
Those are quite noteworthy issues. Hopefully Bungie can get the official story stamped out. It's tough not to find continuity issues when it comes to blockbusters in their repective mediums (Star Wars, Trek, etc.). There's definatly some questions to be raised if you look at the checklist.
Not really, if they can convince the masses that a SEASON of 24 occurs in real time, a day isn't that bad. Dead rising tried it as well. I'm sure there are others.
Your point is correct though. It's a damn video game. Who cares if the cannon doesn't line up. All of Nylunds books are great - first strike, ghost of onyx, and the fall of reach. Bungies games are great too.
I had plenty of "huh?" moments. especially with cortana being a forerunner construct that they just met, but seems pretty acquainted with keys at the start of halo 1 (yes i know she learns fast). What about the 8 mile warthog chase on the top of the autumn in CE? the ship didn't look THAT big in reach. Or what about the NUKES??? They've been at war for HOW long and their nukes are conveniently unavailable on their most prized colony?
The point is...just play your damn games and read your books and be happy.
Cortana isn't a forerunner construct. If you play the level again you'll see that she is inside the hollow tube studying the sphere like object, which is the forerunner AI.
Don't worry, thats exactly what i was thinking first time i played through until i watched that cutscene again.
is only a piece of cortana, she was split into two. Part is with chief, the other part is there. Explained in halseys journal that was written by nylund.
mikeh0918 for clearing that up. I have the limited edition but i haven't had time to read any of halseys notes...to busy fragging in firefight. I'll have to read up on the split cortana stuff. I remember her being able to "clone" herself in First Strike though...
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I just meant it seemed like the forerunners built her. I know she was inside the tube.
I've never liked the argument that "it's a video game". Great stories can be told in games. The fact they chose to abandon preconceived for the sake of making new games is separate from the fact it's a game.
Those are quite noteworthy issues. Hopefully Bungie can get the official story stamped out. It's tough not to find continuity issues when it comes to blockbusters in their repective mediums (Star Wars, Trek, etc.). There's definatly some questions to be raised if you look at the checklist.
Halo: Reach has some canon issues that need to be addressed, but this article has many more.
I think it has these issues just because of the fact that it's a video game. A game that spanned one single day would be awkward to work out.
propaganda, thats how you explain, you fight a war you lie. everything is true or none of it, its up to you to decide.
Quit a lot got explained in the journal like your not transporting cortana but a copy of her with the forerunner data core.