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Halo Reach-ing: Searching For Answers in Halo’s Scrambled Canon | GameCrashers.net

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.

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coolbeans5389d ago

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.

NewsForMe5388d ago (Edited 5388d ago )

Halo: Reach has some canon issues that need to be addressed, but this article has many more.

ZombieNinjaPanda5387d ago

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.

rogimusprime5387d ago (Edited 5387d ago )

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.

Spydiggity5387d ago

if a game wants to stand on it's story, then stuff like this is not excusable.

as much as i love reach, if I HAVE to choose between reach's story and nylund's, i'd definitely choose nylund's. the fall of reach was a great read.

hmmmm5387d ago

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.

mikeh09185387d ago

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.

rogimusprime5387d ago

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...

@hmmmm

I just meant it seemed like the forerunners built her. I know she was inside the tube.

m235386d ago

I didn't read the whole journal yet, I too am busy with the multiplayer. I guess there is some good info in the journal, should get to it.

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BorisTI5387d ago

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.

noxeven5387d ago

propaganda, thats how you explain, you fight a war you lie. everything is true or none of it, its up to you to decide.

dragonelite5387d ago

Quit a lot got explained in the journal like your not transporting cortana but a copy of her with the forerunner data core.

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Marathon Development Update

Marathon was slated to launch on Sept. 23, 2025 across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, but Bungie will share the new release date in the fall.

Jin_Sakai13d ago

Probably best just cancel it. The game has flop written all over it.

-Foxtrot13d ago

Yeah, you can delay it as much as you want but you ain’t gonna wash that stink off.

Killer2020UK13d ago

It will lessen though and possibly make all the difference if it launches in a state that rectified a lot of the issues people had with it. A LOT of ifs of course.

RaidenBlack13d ago

If you really gotta play ... play the better extraction shooter this year : ARC Raiders

ZeekQuattro13d ago

Delaying the inevitable. Bungie hoping the negative publicity will blow over. 🙄

darthv7213d ago

They can't cancel it until a themed controller has been released first... like concord.

ZeekQuattro13d ago

I anxiously wait for that and a Marathon Secret Level episode.

GamingManiac13d ago

$10 says it'll have the stolen artwork on it lolol

dveio13d ago

If they were absolutely certain about the quality of Marathon, then they had not delayed it just now.

So they've basically just confirmed what everyone, well, a lot of people saw: Marathon is not ready yet, still no soul to be seen.

Tacoboto13d ago

"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe"

They're doubling down on soul, thank goodness this feedback illuminated that for them...

RaidenBlack13d ago

and N4G was littered with comments like : Marathon looks really good, maybe you're a hater and the likes blah blah ... especially under articles which compared it with Arc Raiders ....

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"Everything Happening To Bungie Is Because of Greed" -ex-employees

Ex- employees Hope Studio Gets "Consolidated Into Sony"

Former Bungie employees speak out in a new report, blaming greed and leadership for the studio’s troubles, and say full Sony consolidation is the best way forward.

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dveio40d ago

Interesting article, even with some actual names of the people voicing their thoughts.

I think that we've had enough similiar situations at other studios and publishers already, hell even completely different businesses, to know that OF COURSE it's always about hostile environments at work and the search for rather effortless profits than causing excitment with great ideas.

All deflecting statements, wether from managements or other people in charge, have always, literally always been untruthful. Always.

And it's so silly.

Nothing of this crap causes a nuclear war.

But all the people in charge act like everything is top secret f'n CIA like intel, trying everything to not stand up for their mistakes.

I mean it's pathetic, it really is. In the brand scheme of it all it's truly pathetic.

robtion38d ago

Let me just fix this:

'Everything Bad Happening in 'The world' Is Because of Greed'

Bravo captain obvious.

Obscure_Observer39d ago

All of sudden consolidation is now a good thing.

Eonjay39d ago

Right I actually agree with you here. Something doesnt' seem right almost like Sony wants them to look bad because it is trying to takeover. I can't figure out Sony's intentions here but they are already wholely owned so full consolidation means that they can bring in their own management. And honestly this is probably NOT what Bungie wanted.

Obscure_Observer39d ago

"Well the obvious answer to that is that it kinda looks like Bungie is getting torn to shreds without Sony's help. And clearly there is no way Sony is going to spend all that money and not step in to help steady the ship at Bungie because that would be a huge wasted investment."

Exactly!

Phil allowed Pete Hines to run the show at Bethesda and we got Redfall as result. Now that he´s gone and Bethesda reports directly to Matt Booty at XGS, things are definitely getting better!

It´s past time to Sony to take over Bungie and fire that POS Pete Parsons.

-Foxtrot39d ago

Sony has literally given these guys chance after chance, they gave them an extra BILLION to try and keep talent along with telling them to sort their s**t out

What else can they do here? They gave them free reign, extra money and they've spat in their faces.

If they took full control when they bought them they might have been able to salvage them.

TheColbertinator39d ago (Edited 39d ago )

Bungie will be torn to shreds with Sony in full control. Another addition to the cemetery like Zipper or Sony Liverpool

Eonjay39d ago

Well the obvious answer to that is that it kinda looks like Bungie is getting torn to shreds without Sony's help. And clearly there is no way Sony is going to spend all that money and not step in to help steady the ship at Bungie because that would be a huge wasted investment.

MrBeatdown39d ago

Whatever mental gymnastics you just went through must be exhausting.

It sounds like you have some baggage from Microsoft's acquisition spree.

SimpleDad39d ago

Bungie was indie, so they depended on in game monetization. Sony makes money from other sources: music, movies, psn, ps hardware...

...so devs are hoping by full Sony consolidation they will cut down the monetization part, and make things easier for them...

...but keep in mind, Sony bought them because of their monetization and live service model and design, so much so they tried to make every Sony IP into a live service spinoff.

So I don't see much change in anything, for us consumers, if Sony takes full control.

Michiel198939d ago

i don't think you know what the word Indie means. Bungie has be under the hood of MS for a long time and basically were under the actiblizz hood while they were making Destiny. They are one of the biggest AAA studios, the polar opposite of indie. Technically they weren't owned, but they made deals with Acti like they were. Indie refers to smaller independent studios and don't need in game monetization at all to work. Hades for example has 0 ingame purchase options yet made a lot of money.

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It’s Just Over For ‘Marathon’

Marathon has always been teetered on the edge of future failure, but now that seems set in stone after recent events.

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CrashMania42d ago

Paul Tassi is a known xbox/MS stooge.

Saying that, Marathon looks so meh to me, absolutely no interest at all.

JEECE42d ago

Once he wrote an article characterizing Horizon Forbidden West, which came out over a year after the PS5 released, as a PS5 "launch game." Assuming this was just a mistake, I pointed out to him that "launch games" for a console are widely understood to be the games that come out on the day of a console's launch or in the immediate window thereafter. He responded and told me that he understood "launch game" to mean a game that launches, which would mean that every game that releases on a console is a "launch game" for that console.

I've basically ignored everything he has said since then. But I don't care about Marathon either way; playing Hunt: Showdown turned me off this genre pretty much.

Killer2020UK42d ago

He sounds like a stubborn moron

babadivad41d ago

It's releasing on Xbox...

Notellin41d ago

He's a Sony and Destiny fanboy. Has been forever. He plays Destiny 2 on PS5, what are you even talking about?

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neutralgamer199242d ago

If I was running Sony why would I not try to have bungie reboot Killzone and have it as their Halo. Honestly I don't know how Sony could justify that 3.6 billion purchase price. Insomniac games at 256 million has been their greatest acquisition in Playstation history for what they have already delivered and what's the pipeline

Profchaos42d ago

The smart money would have given them killzone but they brought them to be a pillar of their live services investment and seeming have no interest in allowing them near a single player story driven game again.

Lightning7742d ago

The bigger mistake imo is not having them do any SP projects. Just all LS stuff.

Also want to clear up some misinformation on my part about Marathon. It wasn't due to creative differences as to why Jade left it was due to early internal Play tests were reportedly not received very well. Which probably prompted her to leave. My fault on that.

Ghostwood42d ago

It does look like ass shit.

Would pulling the plug now make any difference or is Bungie thoroughly cooked regardless?

peppeaccardo42d ago

Since when Forbes is relevant for the gaming community?

Profchaos42d ago

Have a read and you can't say they are not wrong.

S2Killinit41d ago

I had a read and it was pure hyperbole

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