[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mister Rollback The biggest complaint I have about the bungie forums nowadays is how everyone picks apart the fiction portrayed in the games and says "it wouldn't be like this because of teh books!1!1!" In the grand scheme of things canonically games>movies(forward unto dawn)>books>fan fiction Please realize this and stop posting threads like this.[/quote] Er... The books, and all other media, has always been essential to the games, and have been the primary method of developing this particular universe. You do realise the order of precedence only comes into it when there's a DISCREPANCY, right? That's it, that's all there is to it - and it has been practically done away with in the Reclaimer Trilogy because everything is connected. The novels always have and always will be essential to the full understanding of the games. And don't anyone start talking about needing to read novels to understand the game. Without citing Contact Harvest, tell me Truth's motivation for wanting to destroy humanity. Without citing Uprising, tell me about what happened between Halo 2 and 3 that led to Johnson, Thel and the Chief ending up on Earth. Without citing Ghosts of Onyx, tell me why it was necessary for the Elites to join with humanity after Halo 2. Without citing The Fall of Reach, tell me what happened before Halo CE before Wars and Reach were released 8/9 years later. Without citing First Strike, tell me how Johnson survived, how John made it back to Earth, and how the Covenant discovered its location and arrived with so few ships. [Edited on 01.05.2013 12:07 PM PST]