Hehe, I know, I was just teasing . Though it has to be said, Halo did a really awful job at introducing itself. I remember the first time I read through Claw Marks, and found myself hugely impressed by the game's depth. WC1 itself had a rather generic storyline as you point out - but the manual did a fantastic job hiding this from the player. Halo didn't do this at all - the way Halo's manual described the Covenant is nothing short of cringe-worthy. That was probably the reason I never bothered playing further than that bit where you drive that buggy through a tunnel - the manual, the intro, and the game up until that point gave me no reason whatsoever to expect anything interesting later.Dundradal said:Are we not all fans of another game where a pilot of uncanny skill survives more than a decade fighting a generic race that decides the human race must be eliminated?
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Quarto said:Hehe, I know, I was just teasing . Though it has to be said, Halo did a really awful job at introducing itself. I remember the first time I read through Claw Marks, and found myself hugely impressed by the game's depth. WC1 itself had a rather generic storyline as you point out - but the manual did a fantastic job hiding this from the player. Halo didn't do this at all - the way Halo's manual described the Covenant is nothing short of cringe-worthy. That was probably the reason I never bothered playing further than that bit where you drive that buggy through a tunnel - the manual, the intro, and the game up until that point gave me no reason whatsoever to expect anything interesting later.
Well, is the book based on the game, or the game based on the book? This cross-media stuff is really getting increasingly annoying - one of the great things about the WC novels was that you didn't have to read any of them to understand the games. They were a bonus, not required reading.Dundradal said:Hehe. Yeah the manual was pretty lacking and just starting out as the POA jumps to Halo with little about what had just happened (The Fall of Reach). Until I read the novels I shared some of your thoughts.
Quarto said:Well, is the book based on the game, or the game based on the book? This cross-media stuff is really getting increasingly annoying - one of the great things about the WC novels was that you didn't have to read any of them to understand the games. They were a bonus, not required reading.
Right, but you had mentioned in your previous post that until you read the novels, you agreed with some of what I said about Halo's storyline, which, IMO, implies that you do in fact need the novels to enjoy Halo, because without them, the first game is just another boring FPS.Dundradal said:The book ends right at the beginning of the game. You do not need to read the novels to understand the games.
a few years ago my roommate (a big football player and a massive nerd) showed me his halo novels and told me to read them and I guess I said no too many times because one time I came back to my room and he had disassembled my bedYoungblood said:I must admit i didnt know there were any novels