Halo 4

Xander Vos

I know, I've read all the books that have been released - did not care for The Cole Protocol one bit, terrible piece of work - and I checked for the movie, but they really need to push it along. Nothing gains credibility until it's up on the big screen. Otherwise it'll just be that video game that had a few books about it.

Yeah it'll be awesome having all the Spartans still around.

I recall when I read Fall of Reach making a comment that a multiplayer map should cover one of the early battles in it - with a huge wave of Spartans going up against a huge wave of Elites - so maybe this will have something like that.

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Dakoth

I didn't hate Cole Protocol, but it was definitely not the best.

I'm betting we'll see Spartan Firefight in Reach, it just fits with that massively outnumbered theme. Its been speculated that you might go through the Spartan training camp in the game, and bungie peeps have said things about it being able to work with Project Natal. I really hope they don't go in that direction though, just give me my controller, some aliens and a right trigger, if I want to hop around like an idiot i'll plug the wii in.
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Xander Vos

Compared to the previous book, Contact Harvest, I thought there was a huge drop off in quality.

I'm glad they're sticking very close to each other's work though in terms of Continuity. Only problem with Halo, and it's the thing I've observed a number of times that makes SW so successful, is with the Halo franchise, they can't have an unlimited number of stories because they're limited in how far they can go back and how far they can go forward (not much they could do after Halo 3 you'd think).
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Dakoth

I suppose thats whats happens when you burn pretty much everything but earth. Its a real shame too, because halo really does have a fascinating world behind it, far more so than the games can do justice to.
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Xander Vos

The way it should be done:

Three Movies:

Halo

Halo 2: Return

Halo 3: Defence of Earth

Halo would cover the events of the Spartan project, the Fall of Reach, and the Halo mission.

Halo 2: Return would cover the events of the book First Strike, John's return to Earth, and the events of Halo 2.

Halo 3: Defence of Earth would cover Halo 3, because I think the plot of the 3rd can maintain a movie, or if they release more books surrounding it they could do that too.

Three movies would take about 10-12 years to come out, and in that time they could just keep releasing books - at the moment they have SW author Greg Keyes writing a series based around the Forerunner, so they have plenty of 'time' to cover in between and more books based around the movies (we have no novelisations of Halo 2 or 3 despite The Flood being a great book).

After the movies are done, THEN they return to considering more video games.
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Dakoth

So you don't want to see a Halo game for a decade? Microsoft needs to move xboxes some how >.>
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Xander Vos

I'm just saying they can't cram the market like they have. Having had Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach within about 8 years, is almost a game a year.
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Dakoth

Well lets be fair, the wait between halo 1 and 2 was enormous. As was the jump from halo 2 to halo 3. (2001-Nov 9 2004) (Nov 9 2004-Sept 25 2007) Thats 3 years a pop. Then we come to 2009, which is the odd year. This year we got halo wars and halo: ODST. Neither of these can be said to be true "Halos" Halo Wars was made by an entirely different company, and was of an entirely different genre. Halo: ODST was an expansion for Halo 3, using the same engine more akin to Starcraft: Brood War than Starcraft II. Halo Reach is scheduled for Fall 2010, so thats another 3 year gap between what I consider "Legitimate" Halos released. Thats a pretty good cyle to me, provided 2009 just happened to be an oddball year.
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Xander Vos

Which would still mean they should leave it for another three years at least before the next game.
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Dakoth

Except in my blatent fanboyism I don't accept Halo ODST and Halo Wars as true games. I demand more! I dare them to just try and sate my halo appetite! Try I say! Try as you might!
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Xander Vos

Oh if only I had Xbox Live and my 360 working, I haven't done anything Halo-related since I dusted off Halo 2 and tried it again a few months ago.
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Dakoth

Remember whatever you do, don't try that quick and easy trick i told you not to do. That would be wrong!
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Xander Vos

What quick and easy trick was that?
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Dakoth

Xander Vos

I don't have proof of purchase. Plus the store won't refund me as I bought it about three years ago.

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