shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, Bungie's fall truly is sad. There was a time when they were my favorite game developer, I wanted to work there myself after getting a degree in Game Design. But then they made the stupid decision to sign on with Activision of all companies, while Activision was in the middle of suing West and Zampella. Then they stabbed their Xbox fans in the back by allowing Activision to make a deal with Sony for timed beta access. And now firing Marty, who is one of the top 5 game composers on just about anyone's list. I have to wonder if they have a pack of monkeys running the board of Directors at Bungie nowadays. Bungie's not even among my top 5 favorite game developers anymore, quite a fall from #1.
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Actually this was first done when Reach contradicted some pretty heavy Halo lore.
- Brutes and drones were part of the invasion force. Brutes were still at the time a supressed race and never were allowed the glory of such missions until the great schism.
- The invading covenant fleet warped below the Reach MAC cannons. They did not learn their ships could even do that until the novel Halo: First Strike, which took place after Halo 1
- The covenant in the game sent scouts to see if the planet had any forerunner artifacts before they glassed the planet. The covenant should have never got any ship past orbital defenses, especially not a 30+ km ship.
-The novel showed the Covenant taking the UNSC by surprise and taking Reach within days, showing how powerful the Covenant war machine was. The game took place over 2 months....when the covenant invade, they commit everything, not one ship and more coming later
-They knew about the Spartan 2's being deployed to defend the canon generators during the game. Spartan 2's were deployed after the Piller of Autum left Reach's atmosphere
Last but certainly not least:
- Spartan 3's were supposed to be top secret that only higherups at ONI knew about. They were never supposed to be with any Spartan 2's or interact with any non S3 personnel, even not communicate with UNSC navy/army generals. If the game was about Spartan 3's only and they answered to Paragosky or even Kurt, then the canon would have remained in tact