[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] anton1792 Your hands must be getting sore from scraping that barrel of yours. You haven't considered the issue of what it was that even defined Halo so soon it's life. It's a pretty big consideration and makes the current situation in no way comparable to the situation that we have now. Even back then, the point could be raised that these morons who wrote Halo2sucks.com committed the mistake of thinking that they knew the creators minds better than the creators did themselves, even before they had finished the damn foundational story. Unlike now however as 343i are not the creators, and the foundations have already been well laid and have been that way for half a decade. Comparing 1 game and 3 books to 6 games and god knows how much ancillary material; 3 years to 11 years of franchise life time? All those issues you raised fail on account that they could not have been aspects of the series, because it wasn't as series back then; the story wasn't even complete and defined by the creators themselves. It is also under the assumption that these things were intended and then altered intentionally or not, which is also false and I can probably dig up ancient sources to prove it. If they had an extra year on CE, the Covenant story from Halo 2 would have been started off in CE right off the bat. So don't be absurd and say that they changed Halo all the way back then. You didn't even know what it was supposed to look like back then; could not have known.[/quote] I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.