Dear Humanity: we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth...

As someone who beat CEA for the first time last night, man, none of the other games even come close to achieving this level of atmosphere. It's a shame that the Remaster fucked the tone up so hard, I personally can't tell if it does the game justice at all, and I might as well recommend playing with the original graphics. The music is so wildly different from the rest of the series, and I can really see where a lot of inspiration from Alien came from. In fact, the Assault Rifle sounds near identical to the Pulse Rifle.

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Please tell me you're baiting

>When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-schmanzy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon—and we had to share the rock!

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retard. just, retard.
its literally only fags and dykes on twitter that cry to devs about muh toxic shit.

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More like if Johnson were created today he would exist to hate whitey and that would be the crux of his whole character, same as Miranda.

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>the out takes for Sgt Johnson’s voice acting
i cant find the video, i cracked up at it back in the day

>he'd be considered a played out and racist caricature these days

Citation needed.

responding with images instead of arguments.

Prove me wrong.

Nah, because a char similar to sgt johnson would be down for the cause. also I'm still trying to find these minority chars that actively hate white men in games.

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>AI in Halo 1 is still miles better than most of the shit we have to deal with nowadays

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>also I'm still trying to find these minority chars that actively hate white men in games.

Wolfenstein New Colossus

>Colossus
Isnt Wolfenstein about killing Nazi's though? Which means nobody gives a rip about said villains being actively shitted on, as they bought it on themselves.

So...... Not an Argument.

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Based and redpilled

Do you have proof or an actual example of a char like sgt johnson being classified as racist, character these days?

Thanks Alt-right/fragile white men for ruining video games with forced homogeneity.

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youtu.be/f5DgiJgByew
>that ass squeeze

go back to retardera, nigger

I want logic, empirical, and fact based counter arguments, not insults.

Stay thin skinned.

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Problem is the original graphics are the shitty PC port, same for Halo 2
Wish we got a proper HD upscale of the Xbox port

Halo 2AE with original soundtrack & fixed Ai would be nice too

That would be amazing. Maybe something like him rising through the ranks, then first meeting Master Chief.

What's the difference between PC and OG Xbox?

He had a relationship with that ONI lady. What if Infinite had his kid in it?

>If you beat Halo CE on Legendary, this is what you get as your reward

wasnt there a book about johnson?

Contact Harvest, I think? Been a while since I read the Halo books but they were pretty good.

PC version has worse graphics & sound, Gearbox half assed it

You have logical, empirical and factual evidence to support the existence of an alt-right movement being any size to even begin to drown out the far left - who make actual, reasonable leftists blush in shame?

I DON'T CARE IF ITS A GIANT HULA HOOP, OR GOD'S OWN ANTI-SON-OF-A-BITCH MACHINE, WE'RE NOT GONNA LET THOSE HINGEHEADS AND ANKLE BITTERS TAKE IT. ARE WE MARINES?

Oh, is that why the audio mixing is really fucking weird sometimes where characters are either too low or too loud? I feel like I could hardly even hear Keyes at times. Are there any comparisons for the graphics?

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>Been a while since I read the Halo books but they were pretty good.

Are they worth it if you want a quick and easy /m/ fix? Tie-in novels for games tend to be shit from my past experiences but I've been wanting more scifi military/power armor shenanigans to read.

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Why yes actually. The whole ok symbol being racist was a false flag created by the alt right to play themselves as victims.

Didn't white men flip there shit over the newest battle field since there was a woman in it? Or how about the one with a black man? Star wars has a female and black protagonist, and they lost their shit.

>would you like to know more?

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This. Spartan Locke was a better protagonist than John in just about every way, but of course thanks to the manbabies we're going back to the boring old Chief in Halo 6.

Forgot about Locke, dude was based as fuck.

This is it baby
Hold me

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Is Johnson a homo

I agree but for some reason they listen to them.

Master Chief is half the reason most people play Halo games. Reach and ODST were fine games, but its understandable why people reacted the way they did to them.

They are honestly more space opera than they are super /m/. But if you like that then hell yeah go for it.
If you're into weird and cool sci-fi then also check out the Forerunner saga - Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium.
Read Cryptum, and if you like it than read the other two. They're more for people that are lorefags though.

Otherwise, stick to Eric Nylund, Contact Harvest, and Cole Protocol.

>You.

See

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You were saying nigger? Show me on the map where your shitty kangz town was an hour ago.

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Just read Contact Harvest.

Why would you say that?

It's funny because Halo's human universe - or at least the UNSC as presented by the games - exists without prejudice.

The "alt right" is a reactionary movement, so they technically didn't start that shitshow. They're just an extension of it. I like to think you're wrong though and that happy people always win in the end, aka we will keep seeing good characters like Johnson.

Johnson was the best.
Only one who stood by MC to the end.
other than the Arbiter who is also an all state salesman

How did this thread about based Johnson turn into a thread about race and political shit?
Fuck off with that.

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This is Yea Forums
We're not allowed to talk about video games

this is why we can't have nice threads.

Libs and shitposters literally can't help themselves. Yea Forums is beyond fucked by political shit and genuinely autistic consolewar posters.

When can we report for "not videogames"?

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It astounds me that they weren't able to get Truth's voice actor to come back for H3. either that or they recasted him because he didn't sound evil enough.

Your tigjycuz it was libs who created 50 threads an hour about women in video games like battlefield is bad.

You can report for off-topic

>They are honestly more space opera than they are super /m/. But if you like that then hell yeah go for it.

I'm more than okay with that.

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Then I think you'll really like the ship combat parts.

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Why do libs hate women and PoC so much? They are constantly shitting up Yea Forums.

Because a swarm of newfag redditors immigrated here in 2016 to /pol/ but when they stopped getting replies in their hugbox they moved to other boards while spreading their retardation.

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So who would win in a fight? Sgt. Johnson or Tavish Degroot?

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I think it's a shame that we're never going to get a black character in a video game that wasn't designed to pander to the extreme left.

honestly the only thing that CEA missed the mark on was 343 Guilty spark. Otherwise i thought it was great.

What do you like about the Sangheili, Yea Forums?

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Based baiting retard

Fistfight? Johnson with his enhanced strength.
Gunfight? Tavish with sticky spamming

>Halo will never have fun characters again

Starship Troopers is a sublime read, but the power armor is incidental to how incredible it is.
If you want some good power armor sci-fi, read Armor by John Steakley. It has the same very general concept (humanity at war against alien bugs), but instead of revolving around the social element like ST does, it focuses more on the strain and stress of intensive combat, seen through the lens of someone who would be your average action flick protagonist in any other setting.

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They are basically space samurai.
In the end I always like that they were just a basic command-type enemy that was designed around that roll and then had story made around them.

Their throbbing fat cocks znd the way their beat and bob like a rave club since they have two hearts.

>Didn't white men flip there shit over the newest battle field since there was a woman in it? Or how about the one with a black man? Star wars has a female and black protagonist, and they lost their shit.
Theres a whole world outside of Yea Forums user.

so when is the MCC beta for PC supposed to be happening?

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They are actually based from the Norse.

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I've read Armor already and its pretty fantastic. Also I always found it funny how the movie adaptation of Starship Troopers felt much closer to Armor than to the actual ST novel.

The whole "muh womyn and niggers" side of the BFV shit was 75% shitposters trying to make the rest of the people complaining about the game look bad. Remember the reveal trailer with golden katanas and robot arms?

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>the movie adaptation of Starship Troopers felt much closer to Armor than to the actual ST novel
Suddenly I like the movie a whole lot more than I did before.

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No idea. An user from a thread last night mentioned that the only thing they're really having trouble with is UI at the moment or something like that.
Either that or they are waiting for enough people to sign up to do it. Who knows?

Friendly reminder that if you like Halo 4 or 5 you're not welcome in these threads.

Whqt do you mean? Halo 2's Truth sounded like the most evil british fuck they could get. He was unnaturally cool headed as he let Mercy die and giving sermons and lies as High Charity is being infected by the Flood, in Halo 3 he sounds like an old crazy man

Make better characters and people won't bitch. No one bitches about Lee from walking dead and he is literally a dindu who killed a senator.

Contact harvest is a great story about Johnson then read Fall of Reach. You can continue from there if you want. Contact Harvest isn't necessary, but if you end up liking it, First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx are good reads. The Flood is good but you can just play Halo CE and get the same feel.

No I agree with you.
But they either didn't have the budget, or they listened to him giving the speech insides the Bunker in level 2 and thought it sounded lame.

I was amazed to learn he wasn't voiced by John Hurt

The only books not retconned by nu-lore are contact harvest and Cole protocol.

Then that's just shitty writing for Truth, his Halo 2 voice was perfect.

youtube.com/watch?v=UbwLYxYIavo

I don't think the budget was an issue because Microsoft was giving Bungie whatever thry wanted, the VA just didn't want to do it.

At this point you cant make better characters as the moment they are revealed they are immediately trashed, and called diversity character, instead of being given a chance.

The latest SW movies come to mind about this.

I wanted to believe this too, but the backlash and lack of sales BECAUSE of women prove you wrong.

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lel nobody gave a fuck about Locke, both he and the cunt from 4 were failed experiments to replace and belittle Chief

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The Flood is weird because it paints Chief in a somewhat out of character way doing things and saying things he'd probably never say.
That is unless these books came out before Halo 2 and if the author didn't read The Fall of Reach.

It unintentionally lines up if you think about it. Armor is about humanity throwing itself headfirst into a war against an innumerable and implacable enemy that results in a stalemate where they keep throwing more and more soldiers haphazardly at them. The movie version of Starship Troopers is about humanity throwing itself headfirst into a war against an innumerable and implacable enemy that results in a stalemate where they keep throwing more and more soldiers haphazardly at them. Meanwhile the original version of Starship Troopers was more of a thinkpiece about Heinlein's views on things like civil duty and responsibility, with the some action scenes thrown in. Even the MI is drastically different in the book, where a team of 20-30 soldiers can hold their own easily compared to their movie counterparts.

Oh boo hoo, maybe you should have chosen somebody better to champion diversity other than the most racist people on the planet.

>The latest SW movies come to mind about this.

Finn actually became accepted as a decent character. Even the most ardent haters wanted better for him since he was one of the few good things about TFA. Its Rey who became progressively worse and worse every time she was on-screen.

>Finn actually became accepted as a decent character.
People didn't hate him because he looked like a fucking gorilla from the jungle, people hated him because he can't act and the writing was shit.

In light of that, I'm going to go watch the movie again.
Makes me wish that Armor got some form of adaptation, it seems like the format could work very well as a miniseries sort of thing.

>the most racist people on the planet.

Whos that?

The far left.

the only thing i didn't like about Finn was that he acted like an american person from earth. his mannerisms just didn't fit with star wars.

Please elaborate this one for me, as they are just as racist as the far right, though the Far right has a much higher death toll.

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Where's the Halo at?

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That's called bad acting, people don't hate diverse characters because they're diverse. They hate them because they're shoehorned in to the detriment of the story. Nobody bats an eye a a well written AND ACTED black character. That's why it's funny when they complain black people don't win any awards, its because there's no black actors!

>the Far right has a much higher death toll.
You talking about the World Wars? Because the Germans weren't far right, they were far left.

Anything not a Spartan II is not a real spartan

The 3s are okay in Onyx.

>Because the Germans weren't far right, they were far left.

Didnt know racial supremacy, and ultra nationalism, and gun rights are hall marks of the left, and liberalism.

You learn something new everyday.

>its because there's no black actors!

Didnt know Denzel Washington was a bad actor.

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>Didnt know racial supremacy, and ultra nationalism, and gun rights are hall marks of the left, and liberalism.

Those things are not tied to binary left/right politics to begin with.

you know hardened black sergeant existed since the 80's right?

Sgt. Johnson was created in a time where characters were characters and not fucking political statements

Literally the character from Aliens and the guy from Predator, too.

user...

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For your destruction is the will of the Gods. And I? I am their instrument.

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wait, do the halo 2 outtakes mean that they were going to have difficulty based lines for delta halo as well as the tank?

He's a Marine.

Remember to report and ignore off-topic posts. Yea Forums must be cleansed and only you can help do it!

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>left wing, right wing
It's 2019. It's the current year. It's anti-white, and pro-white.

Can you please not attempt to bait, especially when we're posting off topic. Everybody knows the Germans were Socialists. And Denzel Washington has 39 total awards for acting, which begs the question why they're so butthurt about black people not winning awards.

SJWs have convinced people that everything is political and nothing can just be enjoyed as is.

They are just outtakes that Salvatori and Marty held on to and released on the Halo 2 Special Edition on a disc I think.
Think of them as movie bloopers.

>halo 4, I get a woman, guaranteed
that shouldn't have hit anywhere near as hard as it did.

>implying mods do anything but delete cunny threads every now and again

Remember when /pol/ didn't exist and every thread was like this? Good times.

>Those things are not tied to binary left/right politics to begin with.

By that logic Nations wouldn't exists, as Germans looked at the French, and Belgians and realized they were different, so different in fact they couldn't live in the same country as them, thus creating their own Nation. Rinse and repeat for all non-colonized nations.

It was the chinese own retardation when they killed most of the birds, and with no birds to eat the locust it lead to mass starvation when locust ate the crops.

>And Denzel Washington has 39 total awards for acting, which begs the question why they're so butthurt about black people not winning awards.

I agree with this one.

Also Pro family, anti abortion, pro nation, pro guns, pro race are all socialist positions. Then what the hell does socialism mean then.

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>I'm still trying to pretend to be retarded
Did you know there's economic politics and social politics?

Why are people even responding?
The idea that this person is at all sincere is fucking laughable.

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The flood is also weird on how it seems to imply chief was interested in Mckay for whatever reason

Think it's just the author being a shit desu.
What I really liked though was the stuff with Jenkins and Keyes being absorbed. Those were pretty good.

>The whole ok symbol being racist was a false flag created by the alt right to play themselves as victims.

If the SJW media didn't immediately start screaming that it was racist, nothing would have happened.
Can't blame the alt-right for the ctrl-left being gullible and easily triggered.

Because deep down you know I'm right. You know we arent going to see any more awesome non-white male characters in games due to the severe amount of backlash the game would receive. Everything else was logic, and reasonable arguments destroying lazy arguments.

Stop moving the goal post. I gave examples of classic right wing values.

Do you even know how false flag campaigns work?

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>the ctrl-left being gullible and easily triggered
That doesn't even begin to explain how utterly underdeveloped these twitter champions are, the only reason any of this is happening is because they have the social development of a 12 year old.

So much for a Halo thread. Janny if you're here can you glass this thread?

Social values aren't economic values, the Germans were socialists which is economically left wing, the russians were communists which was economically left, and the Chinese are communist. The scale is far weighted in the economic left's favor for death toll.

>using Johnson's voice in Reach Firefight

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>Do you even know how false flag campaigns work?

They involve pretending to be something you're not. Yea Forums and the rest of the trolls memeing "alt-right handsigns" very blatantly open about their goals.
Unless you're telling me that Buzzfeed, Vox, and the rest of clickbait nu-media are secretly being run by the alt-right, it's not a false flag.

And the blue checks too. Are they all secretly alt-rightists pretending to be braindead SJWs?

Why didn't Hood order the MAC cannons to fire at the boarding party ships instead of just doing nothing with them

YOU SECURE THAT SHIT JENKINS

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So yes

>Are they all secretly alt-rightists pretending to be braindead SJWs?
People start to believe the most irrational things if they're only surrounded by people who share their opinions. Most people don't even have a basic grasp on history anymore, just ask somebody what the know about WWII or the wars in the middle east and you will immediately know how retarded they are.

probably too small and fast, those MAC cannons are probably for capital ships

can someone give me a quick redpill on those topics :
>were the Floods on the ark defeated at the end of Halo Wars 2?
>I keep hearing "Flood" and "dog food" together. why?
>do we know the origins of the Flood?
>what happened to the
Precursors?
>were Prometheans forerunners? or a splinter faction?

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>alt-righters
>disliking shitty pandering makes you alt right
hello resetera

Field gay isn't gay.

>whites = nazis hur dur
ok now you're being to obvious

>Most people don't even have a basic grasp on history anymore

People have traditionally never had a basic grasp of history, but they have a better grasp of history now than 95% of the people did 100+ years ago thanks to mass literacy.

Don't worry about anything post bungie because even if you do learn what the current lore is it WILL be retconned almost entirely by the next book or comic that comes out.

Ok then, most people don't know a god damned thing about what happened 5 years ago, let alone 100.

ignore all 343 writing and just pretend chief is still floating around in space

>People start to believe the most irrational things if they're only surrounded by people who share their opinions.

That's true, and why the tumblr blue checks have become so insidious, they've created their own vast echo chamber.

>just ask somebody what the know about WWII

People do seem to have a basic grasp of this, since it's taught in every history class.

>or the wars in the middle east and you will immediately know how retarded they are.

This on the other hand, everywhere from twitter to Yea Forums most people seem to have no idea what's actually going on.

>People do seem to have a basic grasp of this, since it's taught in every history class.
Not if you ask them "why".

>People do seem to have a basic grasp of this, since it's taught in every history class.
it's mostly just NAZIS BAD though, the role of the west in the creation of the war is often forgotten, same for the horrific realities of communism

Do you think the MCC Will have a good modding scene?

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>tfw alien bastards will never come to Earth

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Exactly, bring up the economic factors in the events leading up to WWI and WWII and most people will call you a racist, or worse, a Nazi.

Most people know about the Treaty of Versailles and the great depression as a bare minimum. And the more proximate causes of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland and France.

I'm pretty sure if you asked someone about some events from 5 years ago they would give you something that happened 5 years ago thats relevant to them.

Why did WW2 start? If it wasnt because of Germany invading poland, then what did?

Yes NAZI's are bad, just like the confederacy is bad because they lost! Remember history is written by the victors.!

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The flood are on the Ark at the end of Halo Wars 2 inside of High Charity, which was detained with a forerunner shield by sentinals.
In the Halo 2 Campeign DLC "Rise of Nightmares" where you play as the Banished, two Brute brothers who are tasked with looting stuff from AROUND High Charity and were explicitly told not to go in High Charity do just that and unleash the Flood onto the Ark once more. By the end they recontain it.

The Flood was essentially a dust that some races thought of as a delicacy or something for pets I think.
It's kinda fucking dumb, but they fed it to their pets, and the pets began to mutate and it began to effect others as well.

Origin of the flood I believe in the 343-verse is of the Precursors.
Something about revenge on the forerunners and the other races they created or something like that. It's kinda dumb so i kinda ignore it until it will become a plot point in the next games or something.

Prometheans are the Warrior race of the forerunners.
In the Cryptum book, it's stated that Forerunners are borne into a caste system and that their life is in cycles of transformation. The caste system is made of of lots of occupations and shit that basically determine your job in the Forerunner society. For reference; the Librarian is a Lifebuilder, the Didact is a real Promethean, and ones called the Builders made the rings and the shield worlds.
At the end of specific parts of their life, forerunners get injections of chemicals to transform them into the next phase of their caste, which give them different physical appearances.

>invading poland
>invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland and France
Congratulations, you already know more than the average human.

>Yes NAZI's are bad, just like the confederacy is bad because they lost! Remember history is written by the victors.!
user why must you bait it's too fucking obvious, just give us your real opinion im sure you've got something to say

Obligatory

youtube.com/watch?v=EHVtZsCZ1TA

thanks for the rundown user.

But the Nazi's were bad. And history is indeed written by the victors. What did I miss? Please elaborate?

The Awoken are space elves and they look weird. They also have weird hair colors because space elves. There really isn't much in Destiny that's super gay, but I guess you could find it if you looked hard enough.

See you're not allowed to say there are no "good sides" in war anymore. There has to be clear winners and good guys or else the narrative falls apart.

>But the Nazi's were bad. And history is indeed written by the victors. What did I miss? Please elaborate?
yes yes user you can keep trying but i wont take the bait

This

Kill yourselves and increase the trans suicide rate.

I want a qt spartan gf!

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Fall of Reach and First Strike are the direct prequel/sequel respectively to Halo CE. Puts a lot of perspective onto the setting that was portrayed more in the background in the original game but might leave you feeling cheated at the direction 343 took things. The Flood is just a novelization of the events of Halo CE but includes a lot more of what went on between the missions as well as telling character driven subplots from the perspectives of covenant soldiers and human survivors, great read if you loved the game. Try to find the original versions of the original novel trilogy as 343 edited and retconned the new editions of them when they took over the franchise. I haven't read the new editions so I can't say just how badly they fucked them up and from what I've read of their new books I have no intention to.

Contact Harvest is a great introduction to the human-covenant war and gives the largest view of normal life on the side of both the UNSC and Covenant Empire, but was tied in to the halo 3 release hypetrain so a few things feel crammed in for marketing. Cole Protocol explores the fringes of the conflict and mostly follows a band of Covenant pirate-smugglers and UNSC deep ops, a great exploration of originality and what can be done with the setting. Ghosts of Onyx is likewise exploring the sidelines of the main conflict and to me will always be the canonical end of the Halo series alongside Halo 3. Great read on its own as well but be prepared to despair again at all the potential 343 wasted.
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The simple act of replying means are you are taking the bait, though.

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Back to resetera with you, I know your worthless website isn't popular anymore so stop coming here trying to turn 4channel into you.

The Forerunner saga is a decent read on their own but be warned it radically alters and retconns the setting's foundations, most notably by stripping away any mystery of the Forerunners and directly contradicting Halo 3's terminal AI ARG. The changes themselves aren't necessarily bad initially but I'd be a lot more forgiving if they didn't end up leading directly into Halo 4 and its laughable ancient evil awakens cartoon villian antagonist. I don't remember if it was presented later in this series or ruined by some other piece published later, but an origin for the flood is implied and then thoroughly wasted by a handwaive of hate powered magic space dust. More wasted potential but a decent enough read on its own.

Avoid the Traviss trilogy (Glasslands, Thursday War, Mortal Dictata). The first book is a decent premise spoiled by some mary sue interjections and a complete disregard for existing lore and fundamental lack of care or understanding for the setting that only gets worse as the trilogy goes on. A mediocre read at best with horribly cliche yet somehow simultaneously utterly unbelievable characters driven by motivations that are straight out of a questionable fanfiction at best.
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Friendly reminder the forerunner saga has been retconned so there's no reason to read it.

Halo: Evolutions is a collection of short stories by various authors and this is where the shit is at. Headhunters, The Mona Lisa, Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian, Pariah, The Return, every story here is a gripping and thought-provoking exploration into the setting and each a love letter in their own right. Covenant and Human societies get the most behind the scenes exploration here. Surprisingly Traviss's story Human Weakness isn't awful, but is fairly mediocre and again you can see her imprinting herself over Cortana's character to soapbox her personal (mis)interpretations of the setting. The real exception here is Palace Hotel, and given that it was written by a longtime Bungie artist I can only assume it was included as some kind of inside joke. The story is a literal fanfiction of a level from Halo 2 with one of the unnamed marines magically recognizing the Master Chief as his childhood friend from before he was kidnapped for the SPARTAN program. The story is meaningless, poorly written, goes nowhere, and serves no purpose. The rest of these stories contain the best written works of the setting.
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Retconned how? Also I'd still say to read it just because they are good Sci-fi stories, but even then.

nu-uh that'd take actually debating your meme arguments, im just trying to understand why you do it

Broken Circle is a mixed bag. On the one hand its an interesting peek into Covenant Society, specifically the Sangheili and thank God there's finally some of that beyond the literal space spaghetti of Traviss's novels. On the other hand it opens fairly weak with a rather bland interpretation of a mix between the newer but deeper covenant lore established in Halo 3 and the absolute horrid mess of 343 canon that was to come. Overall it's a great novel focusing entirely on Covenant society in the immediate post-war, if you can get through the comical dehumanization and stripping away of any character from the prophets and brutes and bland lore retconn spoondfeeding that it opens with. If Contact Harvest gave hope for sympathetic or well-written antagonists within the Covenant then this was the nail in the coffin that cemented 343's nu-canon. The author does tell a compelling conflict among the factions of Sangheili so I strongly suspect the weak opening was specifically requested and he tried the best he could with it. I definitely consider this the weakest of the Halo novels but I do consider it a Halo novel rather than 343 fanfiction because it left me with a glimmer of hope for the franchise that was subsequently snuffed out completely by-
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Calling my facts bait means you have no argument.

Just admit it you have no argument that holds up to a basic google search.

Also in what world are the actions of the Nazi's seen as a good thing?

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Hunters in the Dark is absolutely horrid, below bad fanfiction tier. It again ignores or retconns the existing material, features characters as lively and likable as wet cardboard (who may as well have been written on such), and centers around an asinine plot that doesn't belong anywhere near the setting that is ultimately overcome by the power of love (not joking). I swear this one must have been a piece of fanfiction for star trek ds9 at some point. I had actually already ordered Last Light but after reading Hunters in the Dark I never bothered to open it and stopped following anything Halo. For me this book and the subsequent release of Halo 4 and 5 killed Halo. It was no longer what it was and any chance of anything I viewed as 'good' coming from its new handlers was gone. Even if you're a diehard 343 fanboy I strongly doubt you'll get any enjoyment out of this book.
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The entire origin story has already been rewritten by 343 again, somebody posted it last night. In essence everything pre-halo 1 has been recombobulated again.

wasn't truth's halo 2 va busy working on something else (I think it may have been oblivion) at the time?

>By the end they recontain it
No, they didn't.

Thanks for the reading list user!

As far as suggested reading order goes:
Fall of Reach -> The Flood (optional) -> First Strike -> Ghosts of Onyx -> Cole Protocol -> Contact Harvest -> Halo: Evolutions -> Broken Circle -> Forerunner Trilogy (optional)
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>in what world are the actions of the Nazi's seen as a good thing
In the world where the nazis won

>The whole ok symbol being racist was a false flag created by the alt right to play themselves as victims.
hahahahaha. no. The entire purpose of that was to just fuck with the media. And it wasn't created by the alt-right. The ok hand being racist was a product of kekistan, purely for the lulz.

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gb2/pol/

user idk why you're so dead set on causing arguments or anger in other people but you're definitely a sociopath if you derive pleasure from sowing chaos

Thanks! I'm glad to see people are still enjoying Halo, my time for it may have moved on but I'll point out the gems I found for anyone coming into it!

Which books should I read if I want to read something interesting about the post-war?
Also isn't there a story about Vadum that takes place after Halo 3? Shadow of Intent or something? It's not a book apparently.

Better than spics

Nothing, because everything after Halo 3 isn't canon

I watched it last night. don't they sic the sentinals on them to recontain it or do they just kill a big one?\

That's not what I asked.

Fun fact, white people don't complain.

Alt-Right is just a bogeyman word the left uses to blameshift from themselves.
Niggers, Faggots and Whores are the only ones ever kicking up a shitfit over this kind of stuff. EA had to go out of their way to invent a smear campaign against BFV.

The only reason non-whites don't deserve appeal is because they already had it and abused it by being pricks and cunts with a invented delusion of grandeur in self-worth manifesting as a victim complex.

And there really is no such thing as bait. People like you are actually and literally just that retarded.

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Agreed. Because history is indeed written by the victors.

Thanks

>EA had to go out of their way to invent a smear campaign against BFV

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>Also isn't there a story about Vadum that takes place after Halo 3? Shadow of Intent or something? It's not a book apparently.
Shadow of Intent, yeah. It's a novella, and got included later in in the short story collection of Halo Fractures.

Anyway, I thought a good post-war book (besides the aforementioned SoI) was Last Light.

Why don’t you shoot the mosquito that’s about to land on your rifle?

Broken Circle and a few shorts from Evolutions (specifically The Return, which never got a follow up to my knowledge) is the best you've got sadly. The Traviss trilogy is set in the immediate post war as well but be warned, I can promise you will thoroughly wish you hadn't read it and may become depressed knowing that this was the foundation for the direction 343 took Halo.

They just kill a big one, it's spreading all over the Ark.
youtube.com/watch?v=4WfToGjk2_A

Actually Cole Protocol might be up your alley. It takes place during the war but does explore how the fringe elements of the UNSC and Covenant Empire not directly involved in the war would have interacted. A good read either way.

>outright political statement on Yea Forums, left leaning
>one (1) mention of /pol/
hmmmmm something tells me Yea Forums is full of sniveling partisans

I can take a little bit of solace knowing they kinda backtracked on a few things from that trilogy.

>Fun fact, white people don't complain.

Yup, Operation Iraqi Freedom wasnt the result of white people complaining.

The 100 years war wasnt a result of white people complaining.

The Irish Republican Army wasnt a result of white people complaining.

The Korean war wasnt a result of white people complaining.

Jesus your statement, and mentality that comes with it is half the reason why the world is in such chaos, and why every race is turning on us.

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>that pic
but why

Why do people talk about european history like it effected anybody except white people?

Tank beats Ghost
Tank beats Hunter
Tank beats EVERYTHING
Halo had some of the best banter.

Please share this information with me to alleviate my crushed soul. Did they still drag Halsey from obscurity to spotlight just so that they could throw her under the bus for no reason just because the fucking head of ONI, amid all the questionable and outright heinous shit they did for the sake of preserving the human race, personally objected to replacing the children kidnapped for the SPARTAN program with clones BECAUSE IT WOULD HURT THE PARENTS FEELINGS WHEN THEY DIED? Typing that just made me remember how fucking brainlet and cringewrothy that Hunt the Truth radio drama was. A complete lack of understanding for the setting or basic human behavior is what happens when you hire fanfiction writers with no education I suppose.

>Why do people talk about european history like it effected anybody except white people?

The statement made was *white people dont complain* and that user gave examples of major conflicts and events that were directly caused by white people complaining.

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>t. Nonwhite
Woah hold it, not so fast.
Get out.

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There aren't any characters to that 'hate whitey', plus you can't be racist to people in power.

shouldn't have tried to make niggers appearance forced instead of natural in other games faggot.

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Regarding Halsey, sorta? In Halo 5, things were mostly neutral to her, besides only one character saying the SII situation was creepy.

The main thing I was thinking of was that whole "Sangheili cannot build anything and can't do anything". In the trilogy, it talked about how they can't build or repair ships anymore (for some reason), and then later on in other media it was stated Sangheili have a thriving manufacturing process and repair and even upgrade countless ships, weapons, and armor on the regular.

Yep. And his whole backstory would be about his struggles to overcome racism and islamaphobia.

I don't remember anybody saying that we should invade Iraq.

At least they unraped some of the Covenant society bits but I suppose it was too much to ask that the core plot have any semblance of reason or logic driving it. Please tell me they at least didn't stick with mary sue spartan II self insert whose daddy became a rebel leader after her "death" takes over as head of ONI.

No she did it because she WAS one of those children.
The new head of ONI is literally one of the Spartan IIs that didn't make the augmentation process, or more or less failed it without fucking dying. which is hilarious because the ones in Fall of Reach that survived were serverly crippled, but went on to work at ONI.

The Kilo-5 trilogy was the only we've seen her so far.

>I don't remember anybody saying that we should invade Iraq.

Whelp you just proved your under 18 or not american, because if you were you'd remember the MSN and both left and right was spamming Sadam bad, and anyone who disagreed was deemed American.

>Veteran who fought in both OIF, OEF, and the global war on terror..

>The media is where I get all my information
CNN barely gets a million views anymore, I'm talking about actual people.

As far as I've seen we've not seen that ONI chick outside of the comics, or possibly Spartan OPs maybe?
The only thing related to her anymore is Palmer, who's much less of a cunt in H5 because she only shows up like twice.

Good thing almost everything from Halo 4 has been retconned, hopefully Osman never returns.

honestly all of Karen Traviss' books need to be retconned. Also New Blood.