The saving grace of Halo tie-in fiction is that they can just steal everything from Ender's Game and then move on.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
hmm, i need to figure out how to ask for more help without getting my big project taken away. i should be all like fuck this shit but that is no longer in my makeup.
A man who loves to read but never has time or peace and quiet is in a bank vault when nuclear war breaks out and destroys civilisation as we know it. He stumbles from the ruins, alone in a world with all the time he could want and no other humans anywhere. He despairs and contemplates suicide, but then sees a public library and realises he can do what he's always wanted: read, for as long as he can, in total peace and quiet. He enters the library, only to find all the books that aren't Star Wars EU tie-in fiction have been vaporised.
He immediately takes off his glasses and stamps on them.
Well, for the GoW books, the writers of GoW actually put together a binder filled with stuff about the setting just to help her with the book. She sent it back without looking at it.
It's not that she just has trouble with research, she actually has it as her policy that she'll only look up what characters did and when, nothing about their motivations or characterization. Thus, most of her books involve a whole lot of character assassination and a general misunderstanding of complex moral issues.
From what I remember of the characters in GoW the characters were a succession of bull-necked slabs of meat in power armour with one, perhaps two, personality traits. What character was there to assassinate?
Note: I have not read, and am exceedingly unlikely to read, any GoW or Halo tie-in fiction. Same goes for Star Wars.
Gears of War had a much bigger and better backstory than was conveyed through conversations with the largely generic characters, to be honest.
Gears, in the singleplayer, was more about the feeling than the script. They did a great job building these once-beautiful places and ruining them through years of war and neglect and entropy. It's a terrible world, made worse through the actions of bad people.
It's not inspiring by any stretch, but it did its job.
I will say that if Gears had anything going for it, it was absolutely the environmental art.
It had an unfortunate tendency of blending into the brown-grey blur of action, but there was some really fantastic stuff done with the architecture and the whole "beautiful decay" motif.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
The saving grace of Halo tie-in fiction is that they can just steal everything from Ender's Game and then move on.
There are some strong similarities in some of the plot points (training children to become humanities hope against an invading force), but how those plot points are handled are (in my opinion) much more horrifying in Halo canon, and there are a wealth of other stories that make the Halo cocktail that have no analog with Ender.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
Halo: The Videogame series had a subpar plot on its own.
The first Halo novel made the entirety of the first two games much more enjoyable, as you know who all these people are and why they matter. They just kind of drop you in to shoot stuff with occasional conversations in the videogame, and never address the issues of who/what Cortana is, what rampancy is, Commander Keyes... all of it.
I Love Bees also might be my favorite radio drama / audiobook ever made, and it was a fucking ad/ARG for Halo 2. Seriously, if you never play any Halo game whatsoever and never read any of the books, it still has a shitload of value and is an amazingly interesting and "human" story about what it would be like to live through the events of what was going on from the eyes of the non-military.
Then shit gets nuts.
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A man who loves to read but never has time or peace and quiet is in a bank vault when nuclear war breaks out and destroys civilisation as we know it. He stumbles from the ruins, alone in a world with all the time he could want and no other humans anywhere. He despairs and contemplates suicide, but then sees a public library and realises he can do what he's always wanted: read, for as long as he can, in total peace and quiet. He enters the library, only to find all the books that aren't Star Wars EU tie-in fiction have been vaporised.
He immediately takes off his glasses and stamps on them.
The End.
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I will say that if Gears had anything going for it, it was absolutely the environmental art.
It had an unfortunate tendency of blending into the brown-grey blur of action, but there was some really fantastic stuff done with the architecture and the whole "beautiful decay" motif.
There isn't much homo-eroticism in Halo though...
When I was your age, this was an accurate summation of existing Halo tie-in fiction.
There are some strong similarities in some of the plot points (training children to become humanities hope against an invading force), but how those plot points are handled are (in my opinion) much more horrifying in Halo canon, and there are a wealth of other stories that make the Halo cocktail that have no analog with Ender.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
As things go so very often.
More than you'd think.
i played gears 3 and all i can remember is some dude had a skinny waifu
Are you saying that straight couples can't do butt stuff?
I'm disappointed. So heteronormative.
Wouldn't that be homonormative of me?
No, because you are enforcing stereotypes of behavior, and are straight.
str8 ppl dont have butts cinders..
Don't jump to conclusions.
@BEAST! is too self-aware and hairless to be a suitably devoted and completely dependent companion
NNID: Hakkekage
But Nikki has a butt, and shes str8
Get into classic scifi instead.
*taps nose*
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I have a completely unprotected colon dangling out of a disorganized bundle of organs and intestines
o wait i'm mixing it up
NNID: Hakkekage
there's also a video
good ending: guy shot looks like he's gonna be ok
Mmm, Ursula Le Guin
The first Halo novel made the entirety of the first two games much more enjoyable, as you know who all these people are and why they matter. They just kind of drop you in to shoot stuff with occasional conversations in the videogame, and never address the issues of who/what Cortana is, what rampancy is, Commander Keyes... all of it.
I Love Bees also might be my favorite radio drama / audiobook ever made, and it was a fucking ad/ARG for Halo 2. Seriously, if you never play any Halo game whatsoever and never read any of the books, it still has a shitload of value and is an amazingly interesting and "human" story about what it would be like to live through the events of what was going on from the eyes of the non-military.
Then shit gets nuts.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I am quite hairy and rarely pee on the rug
How much does this gig pay
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
this is exactly the type of self awareness I don't want in my pet
NNID: Hakkekage
the cheaper you got it for the better it tastes
What the hell?
And then read the Culture books.
And then read Borges just because.
cB you are making a hueg mistake
but I don't blame you you're a teen
soak up all your mediocre, lowest common denominator stories while they still hold charm for you
you have your 20s and 30s for reading heavy shit and boosting your pretension score
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But don't diss Le Guin. Read some Earthsea, you would probably really dig it.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...