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#Fiction

11/8/2012 6:47:11 PM
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Old Unknown VS. New Known *Minor Book and Halo 4 Spoilers*

So while mulling over the "new" universe a bit today, I came to the conclusion that I much preferred the pre-343i universe and story to the new one 343i has created. What I mean by that is that the universe/canon of Halo was in a pretty good place with Halo 3. It was coherent and followed a sensible story line and chain of events and was firmly in the realm of science fiction. We knew just enough to keep us satisfied, but with enough mystery to keep us interested. But then with the Forerunner books and new trilogy, 343i not has taken a lot of that mystery away, but answered and warped it in silly ways and pushed the series fairly close to the realm of "science fantasy". The Flood [i]used[/i] to be this terrifying enemy with no remorse, no purpose and no reason for existing other than to consume. It was a "natural" organism that existed to consume other organic life. It was terrifying for precisely the fact that it had no goals. It just ate things. Now? Now its some kind of engineered organism designed to "test" humanity and the Forerunners for some kind of divine purpose. The horror of it consuming without purpose is lost when you know now it actually HAS a purpose.....and the purpose is kind of cheesy and lame to boot. And Humanity? Oh, well, we just kind of have existed for 100's of thousands of years and fought a war with the Forerunners and fought them to a standstill until the Flood overwhelmed us with their genetically programmed divine "purpose". Oh, and the Forerunners? Instead of being this just highly technology advanced race that tried to save all the undeveloped species from the horrors of the Flood at the expense of their civilization, instead they're self-centered asshats who think they're basically gods and lord over the lesser species, and only saved them because the one Forerunner who [i]wasn't[/i] an ass was the wife of the most powerful Forerunner and made them save the lesser species. And they weren't just technologically advanced - they were apparently capable of MAGIC as well, genetically reprogramming species on the spot, putting pre-determined fates and "guides" into species and just generally doing magical space hocus-pocus rather than the at least somewhat grounded sci-fi species they originally were up to by Halo 3. I think that last part is what cheeses me off most about the new universe; how the Librarian basically goes and says "Yeah, everything that you and humanity has accomplished and ever done was because I instructed you to through magic genetic manipulation. You're welcome". Because that is how you make the player and the characters feel good about themselves. That everything was "destiny".

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] JetpackRaccoon [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Paragon Fury ...they were apparently capable of MAGIC as well, genetically reprogramming species on the spot...[/quote] have you ever seen what a [url=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4_oTAxX4Onc/RtQ7PKcFWdI/AAAAAAAAAmo/BuvQ_foMP4s/s400/796px-Inside_a_wild-type_banana.jpg]natural banana[/url] looks like, op? BURN THE WITCH!! >:O[/quote]That hardly counts as "on the spot"...

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