I'd say his are the most Nylund-like among the rest of the series.
It's not the kind of thing they can just handwave away. I doubt they'll stick with it for long, but it is a major part of the story after the last game, so they kind of have to follow through on it at this point. But like I said, I'll be surprised if they drag it out past Infinite.They're really sticking with Cortana being the biggest bad guy of them all huh? 😑
They're really sticking with Cortana being the biggest bad guy of them all huh? 😑
I haven't but I'll definitely give them a try. Any specific book you recommend as the starting point? Are they all good?Have you read any of Denning's stuff? Definitely worth a read for a fan of Nylund's stuff if not. Last Light picks up some of the threads of Nylund's trilogy.
I haven't but I'll definitely give them a try. Any specific book you recommend as the starting point? Are they all good?
Nice, thanks! I loved Ghosts of Onyx and it's still somewhat fresh in my mind, but a re-read would be fine too.If you can still remember Ghosts of Onyx, give Last Light a try. A fair few of the characters in that come over from Onyx.
If you want something a bit more standalone, there's Silent Storm, which details one of the S-II's earliest engagements with the Covenant.
Both books also have direct sequels.
Nice, thanks! I loved Ghosts of Onyx and it's still somewhat fresh in my mind, but a re-read would be fine too.
Awesome username by the way!
I just seriously hope that they don't kill of Blue team or anything before Halo Infinite. I want Blue Team in Infinite as well, but that's beside the point.
Also, wasn't Cortana "born" on Reach? Maybe this group is defending something that may destroy her, and Blue Team is trying to get something that can help destroy her as well? I don't know though, I am not as big of a Halo guy as I was a few years ago
The cover looks very nice.
I will never ever understand the decisions they made with Halo 5's story post Halo 4. Maybe they could have made it work some other way, but man. Way to undo like what 2/3rds of your first game was about in such a damaging way
If they do human Cortana I'm breaking my diskIt's like him standing up from his Halo 2 cover pose, oh hey blue team.
Still going for lost Cortana or new Cortana eventually becoming human Cortana at some point so you have a sidekick who can do cool new stuff.
I'll definitely check this out.
343i have planned Halo 5's end point even before Halo 4 was finished. The events in Halo Legends and even Cortana's behaviour in Halo 4 fits.
They're really sticking with Cortana being the biggest bad guy of them all huh? 😑
And you know this how? Halo 5 never had us facing a galaxy under Cortana's control.
And you know this how? Halo 5 never had us facing a galaxy under Cortana's control.
Looks like the cover is referencing the original Fall of Reach cover.
It's art style choices in the game don't think about it too much.Just like how they justified chiefs armor in 4 as: "Nano machines, son." They'll likely say something like: "For Gen 3 MJOLNIR we decided to go back to an old school style, give people that hope they saw when a Spartan rushed in to save them from the Covenant" or something.
I don't think the story was bad, flawed but ok describes it for me. Even then that doesn't mean it can't work, it just needed better writing and more time to better flesh out.
Yeah. Their Halo books have been pretty great.
Will be picking this up day one!
Two opposing opinions. :) Coincidentally, I remember when my friend, a massive Star Wars fan, was complaining what a terrible writer Karen Traviss was. I fully understood him when reading Glasslands - it was so bad I haven't touched Halo's expanded universe since then (luckily I had finished Greg Bear's trilogy).Depends who you ask. He wrote plenty of genuine canon fodder for Star Wars as well, so I wouldn't exactly line up for a copy of this.
I hope not, ugh. Infinite needs a retcon of H5.They're really sticking with Cortana being the biggest bad guy of them all huh? 😑
I have a feeling this book and the opening part of Halo Infinite is gonna do just that. Based on the hidden audio from the E3 trailer that people discovered in the QR code:
I have a feeling this book and the opening part of Halo Infinite is gonna do just that. Based on the hidden audio from the E3 trailer that people discovered in the QR code:
I feel like at least part of Infinite will involve you collecting fragments of Cortana from when she divided into 16ish parts at the end of Halo 4, and combining them back into "Your Cortana" from the first four games. Whether that ends with you defeating the evil Halo 5 splinter Cortana, I dunno. Probably in some capacity?
Fits the "open world" part also.I have a feeling this book and the opening part of Halo Infinite is gonna do just that. Based on the hidden audio from the E3 trailer that people discovered in the QR code:
I feel like at least part of Infinite will involve you collecting fragments of Cortana from when she divided into 16ish parts at the end of Halo 4, and combining them back into "Your Cortana" from the first four games. Whether that ends with you defeating the evil Halo 5 splinter Cortana, I dunno. Probably in some capacity?
I wouldn't quite say his style is particularly close to Nylund, and honestly if anything he has a really nice focus on how characters process emotions during situations that I like. When I say Fall-of-Reach-era I mostly mean that Denning's recent books take place only a short time after the initial outbreak of the war (which is my personal favorite point in the Halo timeline because it's so initially hopeless and humanity has to really think outside the box in their tactics)
I have a feeling this book and the opening part of Halo Infinite is gonna do just that. Based on the hidden audio from the E3 trailer that people discovered in the QR code:
I feel like at least part of Infinite will involve you collecting fragments of Cortana from when she divided into 16ish parts at the end of Halo 4, and combining them back into "Your Cortana" from the first four games. Whether that ends with you defeating the evil Halo 5 splinter Cortana, I dunno. Probably in some capacity?
I don't know why people are upset cortana is a villain
we knew she would be an enemy since before halo was even announced (the cortana letters)
I think you're spot on, and agree. In one of the Halo 5 behind the scenes videos, Frank mentions that they knew where they wanted to take Cortana in Halo 5 even before they made Halo 4, which I've never forgotten. It's less of a retcon and more just some misdirection, and maybe course correction.Is it really a retcon if it was planned all along? :P
Not saying that *is* the plan, but I've been assuming this whole time that...
5 Cortana is just a fragment (the one that disappears into the Didact's suit, presumably gets transported to the Composer's Forge alongside him, and either enters the Domain from there, or finds her way there after he's composed). I've also been thinking that this fragment carries some corruption from Cortana's time with the Gravemind, and is, perhaps unknowingly, acting as an agent of the Flood. Because they have to come back at some point, they're the ultimate antagonist in the galaxy.
This is why I said 5's plot gives me some "all this has happened before" feels - a super-intelligent AI turning on its masters and acting as an agent of the Flood mirrors the actions of Mendicant Bias during the Forerunner-Flood War, and I'm hoping that's where this is all pointing.
I have a feeling this book and the opening part of Halo Infinite is gonna do just that. Based on the hidden audio from the E3 trailer that people discovered in the QR code:
I could get behind this.
I feel like at least part of Infinite will involve you collecting fragments of Cortana from when she divided into 16ish parts at the end of Halo 4, and combining them back into "Your Cortana" from the first four games. Whether that ends with you defeating the evil Halo 5 splinter Cortana, I dunno. Probably in some capacity?
I think you're spot on, and agree. In one of the Halo 5 behind the scenes videos, Frank mentions that they knew where they wanted to take Cortana in Halo 5 even before they made Halo 4, which I've never forgotten. It's less of a retcon and more just some misdirection, and maybe course correction.
As someone whose favorite story within the Halo Universe is that of Mendicant Bias, I'm totally on board with that theory. Really excited to see where it all goes in Infinite.
wellFor me it's just like, why kill Cortana at all In the first place. Like maybe we have to do that to get to evil Cortana, but also maybe we didn't have to. Even some sort of post credit thing or any indication in Halo 4 at all that Cortana was alive would have been better, something like the Halo 2 post credit sequence.
Or even just include it in the Halo 5 marketing instead of that hunt the truth campaign. We learn about her in level 2 - did we really need to hide the fact that she was still alive for 3 years up until release?
I don't know why people are upset cortana is a villain
we knew she would be an enemy since before halo was even announced (the cortana letters)